It is only natural that Trump is back-slapping Mark Levin and Sean Hannity. Glenn Beck is no doubt feeling left out.
Levn and Hannity – and Beck – are of course regime apologists. In between trying to “tell you about” Rough Greens and such. They represent Conservatism, Inc. The well-oiled grift that long-ago co-opted what was the grassroots conservative movement of Taft and Buchanan, which was nationalist and populist; i.e., it was America (not Israel) first.
That had to be stopped, of course.
Nationalism and populism are dangerous things from the point-of-view of international bankers and international corporations – so they bought puppets to control the nationalist-populist movement. Trump is their man. There has been no other man so adept at telling the sore-beset conservative rank-and-file just exactly what they need to hear. He plays them like a Stradivarius.
Levin and Hannity – and Beck – providing the orchestral accompaniment, to the strains of Lee Greenwood.
It pays very well. These guys are multi-millionaires because they are sponsored by billionaires, the corporate interests that bankroll their shows. This is how the corporate interests control the show.
The irony of the thing is that the McRight is considered an alternative to the McLeft when the fact is both are owned by the same interests.
Years ago, I had the opportunity to interview Ross Perot when he was a candidate for president. Some will recall that ancient contest. Perot was a nationalist and a populist. That is why he was squeezed out by the McRight – represented by The Chimp’s sire – and the McLeft, represented by Bubba Clinton. The latter excelled at presenting himself as just that; a good ol’ boy from Arkansas rather than what he actually was, which was Slick Willie and wholly employed by the same interests that George Bush, Sr. represented.
Perot – along with Pat Buchanan – were the last actual conservatives who attempted to secure the Republican nomination for president. If either had actually secured the nomination, no doubt there would have been another Zapruder film to study. Such men are not allowed anywhere near the seat of power. The last who got there was JFK and everyone knows what happened to him. His brother got close and look what happened to him.
Perot was both brilliant and naive in that he was actually serious about wanting to make America Great Again – as if such a thing were possible in the age of corporate-owned America. It isn’t because the corporate interests own everything, us included. If Ross Perot – a billionaire, remember – could not stand up to their power, do you think we can?
Trump is also a billionaire – but of a different sort. Perot was a businessman, in the honorable sense. Trump is a businessman in a different sense. Perot wanted to make money. But he also wanted Americans to make money. Trump wants corporations to make money. It is a distinction of some difference.
Perot got almost 20 percent of the vote in ’92. Trump appealed to these same voters and got even more of them in 2024. What they got was something they hadn’t voted for, though. They are never going to get it, either – because that would not serve the corporate/banking interests that run this country and put on a show for us every four years – so that we can pretend to ourselves that this time it’ll be different. And if it isn’t there’s always next time!
The role of corporate shills such as Levin and Hannity and Beck is to keep such hope alive – they are artful at this task. They know just which buttons to push. Yes, of course, the McLeft has its own amen chorus, but the point is that it’s an amen chorus all around. Goy slop here, goy slop there – only the seasonings differ.
But we are not forced to consume the slop and for that reason ought to stop doing so. These people do not speak for us much less represent us – though they want very much to be perceived as speaking for us and representing us, for if they can conjure that perception they can conjure legitimacy.
Turn the dial. Or just turn off the radio. For the same reason it’s crucial to understand that Voting Harder Next Time is only going to lead to the same thing again, next time.
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For me personally, turning them off worked wonders. I shut the internet off for a month and realized that I have an awful lot of problems of my own which need attention. A log in my own eye.
The narcissists in charge don’t just love attention, they need it for their spells/bullshittery to stick to the wall. They’ve got it now where they can update us by the very second. Power. Also,
when you surf the internet you help flesh out your avatar for their data banks. Hours a day, every day, within weeks they know you better than you do..
“It doesn’t matter who you vote for, you always get John McCain.” (Tom Woods)
Hi Augustine,
I would say that saying applies to Barack Obama as well, as many Democrat and liberal voters fell for the “Hope and Change!” & “No more endless wars!” rhetoric from his 2008 campaign. Upon becoming president however, we got MORE wars under Obama than from W, in addition to a bailout of big banks and automobile manufacturers.
I stopped taking Mark Levin seriously after: 1) looking into his ConCon proposal; 2) his misdiagnosis of the housing market in the late 2000s-early 2010s. Prior to that, I’d listen to him on the way home from work, since he was going on the air literally as I was pulling out from my workplace.
His Convention of States ideas sounded good-too good, actually. I had nagging doubts about it because you know what they say about things that sound too good to be true.
As for the housing market, he said it was all Obama’s fault; he said that the increasing volumes of homes on the market failing to move was all Obama’s fault. While Obama and his policies were bad for the economy, the story wasn’t that simple; having bought my house in 2010 and been in the housing market, I knew that the story was a bit more nuanced than that. One factor was there were a number of foreclosures on the market, which complicated the picture.
How did I know? I’d put in two bids on a small 2BR ranch house in my area, both of which were unsuccessful. The second time, the seller was playing games with the home inspection; they were making it difficult to get the utilities turned on, so all the home’s systems could be properly tested. When a house is a foreclosure, they turn everything off, so you have to get everything turned on. To make a long story short, because of the games, I walked away.
Before I ultimately bought my house, my realtor gave me a list of 10 properties; seven were foreclosures. After what we’d gone through with the 2BR ranch, he asked me if I wanted to look at the foreclosures; he rhetorically asked me if I wanted to go through that again. I said no. I suspected that many other home buyers were making a similar decision back then. The fact that Mark Levin totally overlooked that meant that he wasn’t worth taking seriously.
A young Jared Kushner with Ghislaine Maxwell:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDD1TasaMAIivAG.jpg
just a cohencidence Goyim
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-elon-musk-000000156.html
what are the chances the king of grift is with the queen of child sex trafficking
just wait a few sec until you see Elon with young girl
https://www.tiktok.com/@cruelworld321/video/7604374366549331222
That looks like Bloomberg, would be easier to tell if there were a face
An article about all of whom have lost my respect years ago.
Hannity-Terry Schaivo. Hey dumbass, the parents gave away their daughter at the wedding. The husband is superior by law and God. GTFO you pretend Christian.
Beck-You have to come to my website for the full information and by the way, do you feed your dog Rough Greens?
Levin, he did not lose me because he never had me. “Get off the phone you big dope”. Just a total assclown.
It seems to me that whatever Trump Midas says, turns the left into total shit. Badmouth MTG, it will probably get her elected to the senate next election. Badmouth Massie, I bet Massie wins in a landslide. I have already seen it, many times over, a Trump endorsement may not mean squat, and it is played that way many times before. Trump will never admit his endorsements lost, instead he will praise CommieDami as a great guy.
If you were a lightening rod to pissing people off, what would you do?
Then there is this total BS in the same manner as I just described: “. But he also wanted Americans to make money. Trump wants corporations to make money. It is a distinction of some difference.”
Total ass clown statement. Do your research or dye your hair blue. Get a septum piercing and shitty tattoos. Die your hair an unnatural color. That will fix the world right? Just unadulterated hatred will change hearts and minds right?
I am in an ultra-hate haters mode right now. If all you are is just a negative assholes, you are turned off. Even though you hate me, I do not hate you. But I am not listening to you. Today is the day I became a crusader against the haters.
Please hate against me. I am Trump Trolling you now. Call me a bootlicker. I can handle it. Call me out.
I can handle it, Eric cannot. I suspect Eric caters to his base. Make Eric Great Again.
Hi J,
Stating truths is just stating truths. I would have much preferred to state truths such as: Trump told Netanyahu to pound sand; America is not going to war for you. Or: Trump has ordered the DOJ to pursue Fauci (and Bourla, et al) criminally. Or: Trump followed through on his promise to rebate every American $5k via the cutting of federal spending via DOGE. Or that he is doing something to legalize the sale of vehicles such as the Toyota HiLux in this country.
Instead, the truth is he is betraying every major campaign promise and wrecking the mAGA movement, all but assuring we end up with a literal Communist as president in a few years.
I almost wonder if he was ̶e̶l̶e̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ installed for that very purpose. He’s betrayed every campaign promise and has become a dreadful ogre to those who were once loyal to him.
I never understood how the Orange Man was always kissing up to his mortal enemies while stabbing his loyalists in the back.
I believe voting is irrelevant and the only way to fight the system is to delegitimize it by staying home on “election day.” The great Chris Zander, better known as Zman, always said that if enough of the electorate stayed home, it would remove consent for the actions of the uniparty junta that rules this country. It would expose our government as tools of globalist oligarchs who hate our guts.
I have a septum piercing. And tattoos (which are not even slightly shitty, they were done by an accomplished artist who also does tattoos, but if you’d like to critique them I can put you in contact). And my hair is currently dyed as subtle shade of purple. I’m pretty sure I didn’t do that out of any desire to change the world, or out of sheer unadulterated hatred. But please, continue being bilious.
Reading your responses, I am not surprised. But I never gave you crap did I? I am libertine. I generally live and let live until I get static.
However, Publius, your response is not static. It is a response that you are offended that it might be possible that I do not go for the way you look. I judge people by their personalities and their stances. I do not care your appearance. My generation was taught correctly, “content of character” because some minority man had a dream about that.
But I also realize that the demographic I described most likely was “educated” into their indoctrination. And there is this thing called “aging”. Someday, someday very soon, you will wake up to the generations below you blaming you for the world’s ills. They will not see your appearance being a rebel, only the problem because “you should have known better”.
But umm, thank you for permission to continue being bilious. Actually, no joke, I appreciate a new term being added to my lexicon. I had to look it up. I used to be bilious but I cut out processed and fast food and life has never been better.
Jesting aside, i do not need your permission for jack schitt! Just as you do not need my permission to mark your body up for AI and facial recognition cameras. Hmm, that fad seems to have been for a reason afterall. Who would have thunk it? Buck the system right? Nah, you got in line for the worst clot shot(s) ever. Let me guess, you have bumper stickers too.
However, if it is cultural for your people to tattoo, then by all means, not stepping on culture. But that does not sound like you.
And at the end of the day, keep the hair, the tats, the piercings except one, the septum piercing. Do you know why bulls and swine are septum pierced? If you do, then you would know why I have a constanst desire to hook my dog leash to all the fools whom probably have no idea about Orwell.
But hey, I do not wish you ill. I hope your day is good today. If you think I insulted you, I did not. If you feel bad, by what I said, sorry but not sorry.
“If either had actually secured the nomination, no doubt there would have been another Zapruder film to study.”
You got that right!!
Welly, welly, welly, well. Hillary is now praising Trump’s actions.
And why wouldn’t she? She was always all about things like that, really into it on a Zen level.
In 2011, when she was Glowbama’s Secretary of State, she was cackling and tee-hee-heeing about Gaddafi getting a big bayonet enema and Libya becoming an open air slave market.
In 2016 she was jumping up and down with pom-poms in both hands cheerleading for MOAR WOAR with, well, whomever, the Russians, you name it. Anyone who we didn’t agree with about something.
At the time — and until recently — Trump was the only one saying anything different. That was the main reason a lot of us voted for him.
Now, it seems he has gone over to the dark side.
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/2031512239337861562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2031512239337861562%7Ctwgr%5E3b96a99dc48e156acb0cf75c0d8d1e8f756d2d92%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.steynonline.com%2F16091%2Fup-the-escalator
Quote of the
dayyear — by commentator Allen at Moon of Alabama:”Voting is the adult equivalent of writing a letter to Santa Claus.”
*sigh*
They promised me a pony … 🙁
HAHAHAHA, GOOD ONE! I’m going to borrow that line, if you don’t mind… 🙂
Love it! Says more than everything I’ve ever written or said on the subject, combined!
Oh goodness gracious, Eric. Let it go. All this boils down to is the POTUS literally telling his supporters what to think. That’s all. They ARE stupid after all.
What makes me sick is how Mark Levin calls himself “Mr. Liberty”, but believes pot users should go to prison for a mandatory minimum sentence. Apparently he’s never read the Constitution and the 8th Amendment. One minute in jail or a fine of one cent is cruel and usual punishment and an excessive fine for pot use and possession. And most conservatives who listen to this zionist stooge including Hannity and Beck don’t care about the Constitution and Bill of Rights or the liberties and freedoms it’s supposed to protect. They are no better than the commies in the so-called liberal media. Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right.
I just saw some star college basketball player for Alabama (with legit chances to win the tourney) is facing two felony charges for ‘first-degree possession of marijuana-not for personal use, which is a Class C felony, and failure to affix a tax stamp, also a felony’.
Both of which charges most of those Trump Foxnewsers will strongly agree are baaaaad, but harm absolutely no one, with the exception of the pockets of **THEM**. And I guess it’s possible the weed has been laced with legit bad things, so there iiiis that. But unless they can prove that unlikely scenario, it still isn’t a crime.
Morning, Andrew!
My “bust” at age 19 was a major awakening moment for me. I found myself in a jail cell – facing the possibility of prison – because I got caught growing some plants. Who had I harmed, I wondered? The answer was very clearly no one. It made clear to me the viciousness of legalism; this idea that it can be a “crime” to affront some law, as opposed to causing harm to someone else. We now live in a legalistic – Talmudic – system that parses “the law” but takes no notice of whether any harm has been caused.
That’s the way the entire system works. It’s not “liberal” or “enlightened” as our Founders envisioned — it’s Talmudic parsing so they can say “Gotcha, sucka!!!”
And it gets a LOT worse than what they did to you. Why did an FBI sniper blow Vicki Weaver’s head off as she was holding a baby? Because Randy Weaver was accused (not convicted) of having a shotgun with a 17 3/4″ barrel instead of 18″ — with which he harmed or threatened no one. And because the court fucked up the date he was supposed to appear.
But now that he was a “criminal,” you see, the government cops could shoot his wife’s had off with impunity and get paid overtime to do it!
It’s sick, really.
“We now live in a legalistic – Talmudic – system that parses “the law” but takes no notice of whether any harm has been caused.”
That’s essentially what Christ spoke of in Luke 11;
46 And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs. 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute; 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. 52 Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
From what I’ve heard from Levin – which isn’t much because I can’t stand his voice – is that he’s a low IQ repeater of talking points who relies on his audience to be just as low IQ to believe his drivel.
I’ve learned two things from him:
1. Send in your money and vote harder.
2. Bow to your Israeli masters.
And don’t forget to give, give, give to the Internat’l Fellowship of Cucks & Jews!
Eric – here is a son of a billionaire which describes how the political system actual works
https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/2033545998488736034
every political candidate is a billionaire’s bitch
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2026/03/16/daughter-of-israeli-govt-minister-shoshana-strook-murdered-after-confirming-epstein-alive-in-israel/
IMO Nutjobyahoo is dead, some of the reasons are here:
https://infostormer.com/another-suspicious-video-of-netanyahu-posted/
Not admitting the death is exactly what Israel did when Ariel Sharon went into a coma. Years past, they never admitted his death. I questioned if he was even in a coma.
Now that Trump is free of Netanyahu and his threats, what will Trump do? Continue?
https://x.com/mhtruthultra/status/2033516773375365150
Here’s a hilarious 47-second take on Netanyahu’s “proof of life” videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_FpYQ2rXJ4
At the end, they show us what really happened! 🙂
Bahahaha, I knew it!
In 1992 I voted for Andre Marrou (and Dr. Nancy Lord). I felt perssonally betrayed by Bush. _Not_ over his “Read my lips: no new taxes!” pledge he reneged on. But because almost his first official act upon taking office in 1989 was an executive order banning the importation of the 40 or so best so-called “assault rifles.”
That right there tore it for me. I was very much a single issue voter then and gun control in any degree or form was that issue. Anathema to me.
I knew way too much about Slick Willie, thiugh I could see right off he was probably going to win just on “charisma.”
I could not get behind Ross Perot at the time for the same reason: gun control.
I submit the following in evidence.
‘Ross Perot, during his 1990s presidential campaigns, generally supported moderate or “modest” gun control measures. As a centrist, his platform often aimed to bridge partisan divides, including favoring some restrictions while pitching to a broad electorate. He was not typically a firebrand on the issue,
choosing instead to focus on fiscal issues.
The Economist reports that Perot supported “modest gun control” as part of his independent platform.
His approach was generally considered a moderate or “heterodox” view at the time.
In the 1996 campaign context, The New York Times highlights that
some supporters of gun rights were concerned about the direction of candidates like Perot,
though he was not _as_ aligned with gun control groups as some of his rivals.
His positions were generally consistent with a “common sense” approach to reducing crime, often supported by swing voters.’
See, words like “moderate,” “modest,” or “common sense” were not and are not what I wanted to hear on the topic. I am emphatically NOT a “centrist” about it
What is “common sense” when it comes to infringing on the 2nd Amendment? Well, how long is a _piece_ of string?
Whenever I hear the words “modest,” “moderate,” and “common sense” — in this context — I reach for my Kevlar athletic cup.
The article says he “chose instead to focus on fiscal issues.”
I _think_ that means things like NAFTA and some trade deals, which to be blunt I just did not give two pieces of feces about at the time. I was not focused on things like at all.
I tell ya. I wish more people could string together words like you did there.
…I think, that’s The Big Problem, most, cannot.
Not even, a little bit.
Most have the attention span of a starving animal.
“The role of corporate shills …” is to also minimize the horrific deeds of the military industrial complex and the psycho mass murdering political elite. For instance, in a recent interview Dr. Mearsheimer said the USA has killed 30 million people since WW2 ended. You probably didn’t know the deaths the empire produces is that high. The corporate shills are skilled at making the victims of MIC aggression their fault. In order to liberate the village, we had to kill them all.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/my-enemies-are-not-in-iran
Orange MIGAturd hates Thomas Massie and loves Mark Levin, he even says Israeli first Levin is a great patriot. Apparently, selling out Amerika to Israel is what makes a great patriot.
Trump also said Iran fired a Tomahawk missile into their own girls school which killed 170+ kids.
I did not know Iran had Tomahawk cruise missiles.
I am glad I do not listen to orange con man any longer. Hopefully some Israeli firster, realizing it was Trump and Levin who totally destroyed Israel, will add some lead to their brains.
Patriot Trump was sold to Amurika like a bag of potato chips
https://i.imgur.com/pbU7Vbm.jpeg
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/dear-trump-you-senile-old-pedophile/#comment-7543571
Dear Trump, You Senile Old Pedophile
An open letter to the president
Kevin Barrett • March 15, 2026
He is surrounded by Scofield dispensationalists and straight zionists.
He has no in depth knowledge of any subject, instead relying on gut feeling.
Ego is as frail as a 90 year old woman’s bones.
He superficially bonds with those who praise him.
Because of all that, he is incredibly easy to influence so long as your argument is below an 8th grade level.
He envisions himself as the idea guy.
Everyone else’s job is to make it work.
Upon success, he prides himself on his great vision and leadership.
Upon failure, the worthless drones have failed him.
He has no real idea of why he attacked Iran or how it’s going.
He likes it that way and so do those who are trying to expand the jewish ethnostate.
He is oddly on the pulse of Joe America but is quickly moved to new positions.
The US is led by a narcissistic schizophrenic with ADHD.
Hi Dan,
This is very well-said, sir. I am saving it for future reference!
Nice insight. I took your post and had AI interpret it into a song. Not perfect, but set to music it might be hit. 🙂
Verse 1
He’s surrounded by voices that tell him he’s right,
Black and white thinking, no need for insight.
No deep understanding, just trust in gut feel,
If it sounds good now, then it must be real.
Pre-Chorus
His ego is fragile, it needs constant praise,
He sticks with the ones who keep feeding the haze.
Say what he likes and you’ll stay in his song,
Tell him he’s right and you’ll never go wrong.
Chorus
It’s easy to move him, just keep it loud,
Tell him what he wants, play to the crowd.
Keep it simple, keep it light,
If it feels good, he says it’s right.
Verse 2
He calls himself the one with the plan,
While others just do whatever they can.
If it works, it’s his vision, his name in the light,
If it fails, someone else didn’t do it right.
Pre-Chorus
No clear reason for moves that he makes,
Just gut decisions with high-level stakes.
He’d rather not question, just let it all flow,
No need to think deep, no need to know.
Chorus
It’s easy to move him, just keep it loud,
Tell him what he wants, play to the crowd.
Keep it simple, keep it light,
If it feels good, he says it’s right.
Verse 3
He connects with the people, but it fades fast,
Each new idea replaces the last.
Shifting like wind, never staying the same,
Every new moment resets the game.
Pre-Chorus
The story keeps turning, it won’t stand still,
Built on instinct instead of will.
And the louder the cheers, the less he can see,
What real leadership’s meant to be.
Final Chorus
It’s easy to move him, just keep it loud,
Tell him what he wants, play to the crowd.
Keep it simple, keep it light,
If it feels good, he says it’s right.
‘The role of corporate shills … is to keep hope alive.’ — eric
This is just for fun, y’all. The late market analyst Martin Zweig developed a breadth thrust indicator, based on daily advances and declines on the New York Stock Exchange. After the daily data is smoothed by an exponential moving average, a decline below 40% creates a setup. If the smoothed A/D line then rises to over 61.5% in the next ten trading sessions, it sends a ‘breadth thrust’ signal, indicating strong buying.
As shown in this chart, the last one occurred on 4/24/2025 (red triangle in chart). It worked nicely: as of today, the S&P 500 is up 22% since then, despite recent declines. Today, the past two weeks of dismal market action have cued up another below-40% setup. Will the smoothed A/D line pop back above 61.5% by Monday, March 30? Will Trump TACO? We shall see.
https://ibb.co/VppwjyQC
I don’t listen to either because a) that yankee nasal accent is annoying and b) got tired of their cheerleading of zionazis years ago.
“it’s crucial to understand that Voting Harder Next Time is only going to lead to the same thing again, next time.”
There’s only one way out. We all know it. But no one is willing to put their head up and get it blown off, understandably.
I recently had the opportunity to listen to a few minutes of Mark Levin. The man exudes rage, hate, and the will to violence.
Not sure Buchanan is a good guy.
Reform Party/Perot began because Perot who is from TX like Bush hated Bush Sr. When Bush Jr. ran in 2000, they were fearful that Perot would run against him also. Reform Party actually cost Bush the 1992 election and Dole 1996 election. [Cohn WFB Stone used Anderson 3rd party to good effect in 1980 to elect Reagan.]
In 2000, Roger Stone encouraged Buchanan to “leave” the Republican Party and run as Reform Party candidate. [Buchanan, Stone et al got their start through WFB/Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) in college and many things they do are directed by deep state.] Stone also encouraged Trump to run who called Buchanan a ‘nazi.” WFB/Nat’l Review (Bush’s oil-yale-cia BFF cooked up not only Reagan but the Bush VP in 1980) also came out calling Buchanan an anti-semite. White nat’lists started supporting Buchanan. His nomination split the Reform Party. Then there was a scandal about an illegtimate child Buchanan had fathered at Georgetown that Stone ‘knew’ about that was used.
Anyhoo: “Rather than run Warren Beatty, the Reform Party in 2000 would run Pat Buchanan, a move that would be their doomsday. Stone would openly take credit for this, and be explicit that the reason he wanted the Reform Party destroyed was because they were splitting the conservative vote. He would say all this publicly in a Reason TV conference and interview from 2007:”Well, as one who, I think, either helped kill, or killed, the Reform Party, because I believe they helped cost us the White House in both 1992 and 1996,”
Meanwhile Buchanan got $10 million: “Whenever Buchanan did well, the illegitimate baby story would get pushed. The nasty fight within the Reform Party eliminated the possibility that Perot would run for the ticket, which was always a worry for Bush during the 2000 election. Buchanan would purge the Reform Party of Perot loyalists. This would further intensify strife within the party, and cause Perot to endorse Bush. Buchanan’s ten million dollars in matching funds were used entirely in a near unnoticed media buy in Texas. After the election, Buchanan would say “I’m glad we didn’t take Bush down with us.””
https://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/roger-stone-pretty-reckless-is-going-straight-to-hell-part-eight/
WFB was a sodomite (probably abused as a child at Jesuit boarding school in England) had many older man/young man “mentor mentee” relationships. Sort of tipped his hand when he wanted AIDS carriers tattooed on their wrists and buttocks (though everyone pretended not to notice). Douglas Caddy (look him up if unfamiliar), Buchanan, Stone (“tri/y-sexual”), Manafort, Tony Dolan (his bro Terry Dolan much more famous at the time in Republican circles died of AIDs). Also big in VA with Opus Dei Bozell Jr/III (WFB’s BFF Yale-married WFB’s sister/nephew) Media Research Center, Regnery, American Spectator (with whom leftist sodomite Media Matters David Brock got his start). Ex-priest McLaughlin (Buchanan met him at Nixon WH and got WFB to give him a job on Nat’l Review; long time fixture on Mc Group) was sexual predator of women. Roy Cohn, Allard Lowenstein (liberal “conservative” WFB endorsed killed by one of his “children” according to WFB eulogy, (a “mentee”), Marvin Leibman, Arthur “Finkelstein’s Protégés Are His Best Revenge” (Stone, Manafort…), Wm. Casey, David Gregg (CIA, Bush, Franklin/Boys Town Omah NE (‘Bozel (Sr) WorldWide’ Omaha NE)).
“William F. Buckley and Marvin Liebman met Douglas Caddy and David Franke, both of whom attended as representatives of Youth for Goldwater for Vice President. Together, these four men would turn their disappointment in Goldwater’s loss [at the 1960 GOP convention in Chicago that nominated Nixon] into a national conservative youth movement. Impressed by the passion of Caddy and Franke and their attempts to organize conservative youth in the past, including the creation of the Student Committee for the Loyalty Oath in 1958, Buckley and Liebman decided to mentor them.”
That is certainly some interesting history I was only partially aware of some of it. The whole “conservative” media ecosystem always seemed rather incestuous and artificial, formed with the intention of herding those who leaned to erstwhile “right” into establishment sheep pens.
Murray Rothbard said it best about YAF as he referred to it as “Young Americans for Fascism”. Warmongering and bootlicking R US! Interestingly, my parents actually met at YAF (rolls eyes).
WIKI. “Robert Bauman. A Roman Catholic, he was married to Carol Dawson, a co-founder of Young Americans for Freedom,[1] with whom he had four children. Bauman was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in an August 1973 special election. He replaced William O. Mills, who had died by suicide* the previous May. On October 3, 1980, while he was running for re-election, Bauman was charged for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute. ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman
*When Maryland Representative William O. Mills joined his congressional colleagues for a formal picture-taking session last week he seemed not at all troubled. Those who sat near him that day said he laughed and joked, much as he usually did. The next day, however, Mills was found sprawled in the doorway of a barn about a mile from his home in Easton. A 12-gauge shotgun lay on the floor near by. Mills had been shot once in the chest, an apparent suicide at the age of 48. The death came only five days after the General Accounting Office disclosed that Mills had received a 1971 contribution of $25,000 from the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. (WFB v. involved w/Watergate through E Howard Hunt connection.)
Matt Schlapp is married w/five daughters. Opus Dei. “Republicans are mostly ignoring a $9.4 million (sodomite) sexual assault lawsuit against the Trump-aligned head of CPAC. That’s despite Schlapp being the subject of a $9.4 million lawsuit: a man who worked as a mid-level staffer on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has accused Schlapp of sexually assaulting him after a night of drinking in October, as first reported by The Daily Beast.”
WIKI: “Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference was founded in 1974 by the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom as a small gathering of dedicated conservatives.”
Which is similar to and founded by the same people, but not the same as (WIKI) “NCPAC was founded in 1975 by conservative[clarification needed] activists Terry Dolan, Charles Black and Roger Stone, with help from Richard Viguerie and Thomas F. Ellis. The group got its start through direct mail solicitations. “The shriller you are, the better it is to raise money,” explained co-founder Terry Dolan.[2]…L. Brent Bozell succeeded Dolan as the group’s head after Dolan’s death (of AIDS) in December 1986, but resigned at the end of the following August over disagreement with the board on future direction of the group.[13] The organization faded away a few years later.”
Whittaker Chambers also gave up his sodomy to marry under WFB’s influence.
James Jesus Angleton. May have been another compromised CIA sodomite (whole English ring may have been sodomites/sex addicts). “Did the CIA’s chief James Angleton fall for British traitor Kim Philby?” 1st published in the Telegraph 12/1/17: “Did traitor Kim Philby have a gay affair with former director of the CIA?” (angleton wasn’t director; WFB did a book about JJA search for 5th man which was probably angleton himself).
Epstein may have had sodomite affair w/Wexner who many say is sodomite and also owned Abercrombie and Fitch which had a big sodomite model scandal. Wexner gifted Epstein with houses much money. I believe Trump who thinks it’s fun to bomb things and seems very into domination/bullying (his father verbally abused him and very good looking/vain (won’t take off his hat because of his harir)/sex addict)) may be a closet sodomite friends with Roy Cohn, Roger Stone as well as Epstein.
Interesting history. There has never been anything that could be confused for “morality” among the political class.
There is a book called “DC – The Dark City” anonymously written by an “In Umbris” which is supposedly written about real people/places/events. In the book there are the girl oriented pedos (controlled by an Epstein like figure) and the boy oriented pedos, who gathered under the cover of the “Hamilton Society” (Federalist Society?). Children of the bottom rung of society are trafficked (some by elimination of a parent) and groomed to the preference of the political figure whose decision needs to be controlled.
It is a very difficult read, but lays bare how nearly EVERYONE in the District of Criminals was/is compromised on some level. I wonder if Yukon Jack is familiar with it and some of its implications.
Half of that smells like establishment bullshit, especially the story about the illegitimate child.
Buchanan was the only choice that would have been tenable in 92, 96, 0r 00. The rest are zionist pigs.
Those stories about Pat being some kind of anti semite are straw man arguments. They hated him because primarily he despised “free trade.” Throw free trade in a landfill, I say.
IDK whether Buchanan was in on it from the get go w/Stone, WFB etc. but had to know he would never win anyway and end result would be Gore presidency. In 1992 RP got 19%. In 1996-8%. Buchanan got less than .5% (Perot endorsed Bush). Gore had 266 electoral (won popular vote); Bush 271 by winning FL by 537 votes.
W/or w/out illegtimate story, this is what Buchanan did to the reform party:
“Buchanan launched a state-by-state delegate war, purging the Perot leadership “to make sure Perot didn’t come in.” Bay Buchanan agrees, saying an unusual party rule would’ve permitted a last-minute convention switch to Perot. The bloody battle led to a convention walkout, legal challenges that cost Buchanan ballot status in states like Michigan, and a Perot endorsement of Bush. Buchanan says he just “played out the hand” after that. He raised $7.1 million before his nomination and less than half a million afterward. He handpicked a John Birch Society vice-presidential candidate who’d claimed workers compensation for a mental disorder. He dumped $10 million of his matching funds into an invisible media buy by a Texas company that did mattress commercials. In the final week he spent two days in Alaska. He went from blasting Bush as “the Prince of Wales,” unequipped for the presidency, to declaring after the election: “I’m glad we didn’t take Bush down with us.” He assured the Voice that he did in fact vote for himself, adding: “It didn’t make any difference in Virginia.”
https://www.villagevoice.com/the-sex-scandal-that-put-bush-in-the-white-house/
Re: the illegitimate child (from the same article):
“Buchanan says that when he ran for president in 1992, 1996, and 2000, he was dogged by “an unsubstantiated rumor” that he had an illegitimate child while a Georgetown undergrad between 1957 and 1961. “I don’t know who ginned it up,” says Buchanan. “Do I have suspicions? Sure. Reporters realized these people were doing something to damage me and decided not to write it. The same kind of thing was used against McCain.” But in the 2000 campaign, a new allegation was added to the tale that made it more damaging and more likely to see print. Ex-aides were telling reporters that Buchanan had made payments to the mother to kill the story. One reputed 1992 money trail, albeit perfectly legal, involved an intricate chain of personal checks—from Buchanan to his sister to an aide, who then delivered cashier checks to a Washington lawyer. Asked about the child and these payments, Pat Buchanan told the Voice: “I’m not going to go into that. I don’t know the details of anything. It deals with a private matter. We did nothing wrong.”
“Bay Buchanan, who goes further than her brother and calls the baby allegation “false,” concedes that in fact she DID “MAKE SOME PAYMENTS,” delivered by an aide, to the lawyer “because Pat was out of town campaigning for 10 weeks” in New Hampshire and elsewhere in early 1992. She says Pat either prepaid or “reimbursed” her and that she “thinks” the lawyer had “done some legal work for Pat.” SHE CONFIRMED THAT THE LAWYER WAS ONCE MARRIED TO A GIRL PAT HAD DATED DURING HIS GEORGETOWN YEARS. Saying that “our opponents were pushing” the story “every time we did well,” Bay Buchanan said she HAD NOT HEARD STONE’s NAME ASSOCIATED WITH IT, but knew “PEOPLE CLOSE TO ROGER” were. Stone minced no words when asked about the charges: “There’s no doubt this illegitimate child story is true. My understanding is that Buchanan supported the child and made educational payments. It would be honorable.”
“But Stone also cited “a controversy about hush money,” contending that a top Buchanan aide, Scott Mackenzie, “quit because of it.” Reporters in fact contacted Mackenzie in 1999 shortly after Stone discussed the Buchanan issues with him. “I have no specific memory of being one of the people who suggested this story to reporters,” insists Stone now, “but this is widely known information and it’s not inconceivable that someone did.” Stone recalled that the story was “heavily peddled in 1996 by Phil Gramm’s people,” referring to the former Texas senator who was running against Buchanan that February. Stone’s longtime partner Charles Black was running Gramm’s campaign and concedes it “did come up,” though he says he told the staff not to answer press questions about it. John Weaver, however, another top Gramm aide, says he “got reports that phone calls were being made” by the campaign. Black also concedes that he “heard about it in 1992,” when he was running the Bush I campaign, but says he got it from a reporter whose name he could not recall, and that he “shut down” the Bush staff “from discussing it.” Black says he doesn’t “remember discussing it with Roger,” but “wouldn’t be surprised” if Stone was circulating it.”
Regardless if Stone was circulating that. Stone got Buchanan into the election and then also got Trump into it (whom Stone managed) and then had Trump run around the country calling Buchanan a nazi: same source: “Choate now says the Trump/Stone operation was “a Republican dirty trick,” designed “to disgust people and drive them away from the Reform Party. They were doing everything in their power to make a mess. You had Ventura leaving and Trump all over TV saying that Buchanan loved Hitler, ignorant statements.” Bay Buchanan, who stopped talking to Stone during the campaign, says she still “doesn’t understand why he would want us in the Reform Party in the first place” and then assail Buchanan as a Nazi.”
But it seems to me that Buchanan/Choate was also a Republican dirty trick by the same people (Bay may not have been aware, but can’t imagine that Pat wasn’t (?)).
Just mention one other thing. Leonard Leo [Opus Dei credited with packing Supreme Court to overturn Roe V Wade (send back to the states-Federalist Society takes no position on abortion & has heavy Jewish membership (over 80% pro abortion) but “promotes debate”); actual purpose of society is to play state and federal law against each other to benefit corporations. Scalia another Opus Dei member was great friends w/pro-abort Ruth Bader Ginsburg and his Law School at George Mason U initially funded by Charles Koch Foundation] is now working w/sodomite Peter Thiel on Teneo Network.
ProPublica.org. 3.9.23.”Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance. Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture….The records show Teneo’s members have included a host of prominent names from the conservative vanguard, including such elected officials as U.S. Sens. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Missouri’s Josh Hawley, a co-founder of the group. Other members have included Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, now the fourth-ranking House Republican, as well as Nebraska’s attorney general and Virginia’s solicitor general. Three senior aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, are members. Another is the federal judge who struck down a Biden administration mask mandate. The heads of the Republican Attorneys General Association, Republican State Leadership Committee and Turning Point USA — all key cogs in the world of national conservative politics — have been listed as Teneo members.
Conservative media figures like Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, several pro athletes and dozens of executives and senior figures in the worlds of finance, energy and beyond have also been members.
Leo joined Teneo’s board of directors as chairman in 2021 and has since become a driving force.”
JD Vance (Yale Law School, Catholic convert, most likely Opus Dei, no idea if sodomite) was funded by Thiel. Also (AI): “Thiel donated to Ron DeSantis, specifically contributing $10 million in 2023 to an outside group supporting the Florida Governor’s 2024 presidential bid”
Anyhoo this week Peter Thiel is in Rome giving closed door lectures on the anti-Christ. He gave them in San Fran last fall.
Peter Thiel
Vincenzo Gioberti Cultural Association
Rome
Opus Dei
2026
https://x.com/Nadja72638243/status/2033111304337047937
11.9.18 Crisis Magazine. Austin Ruse. The Final Conversations of a Dying Priest. “Father Arne graduated from Harvard where he discovered Opus Dei, and took a doctorate in theology at the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain. He wrote his thesis, hundreds of pages, on John Henry Newman and divine providence. And how providential was his life! I never knew until after he passed that he was close friends with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel. Father Arne befriended Thiel when Thiel was an undergraduate at Stanford and Father Arne ran the Opus Dei house. God knows the other notables who ducked into his office regularly.”
PBS.Org 3.13.26. “Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican’s doorstep. Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, the data-mining company that has been assisting the Trump administration’s migrant deportation crackdown. An early donor to the political career of Vice President JD Vance, Thiel is also deeply interested in the apocalyptic concept of the Antichrist and has written and lectured on it before.”
Opus Dei ‘catholic’ Leo also rec’d a huge donation from Jew (AI): “Barre Seid, a 90-year-old electronics manufacturing tycoon and conservative donor, gave $1.6 billion to the Marble Freedom Trust, a nonprofit run by conservative activist Leonard Leo in 2022. This contribution is considered one of the largest single donations to a U.S. political pressure group.”
That blithering, illiterate idiot has sunk to randomly capitalizing adjectives now. Before his stage 27 dementia kicked in, Trump limited his mid-sentence capitalizing to nouns that he wanted to emphasize. And there is some precedent for capitalizing weighty nouns, as English is a Germanic language, and such was accepted only two hundred years ago. But adjectives? Next, he’ll be capitalizing all occurrences of Me, Myself, My, and Mine. (“I” is a gimme; I’m sure he’s thankful for that.)
Look out, look out now, here it comes:
‘Some Republicans are looking ahead to an expected supplemental budget request from the Trump administration to cover the costs of the war. That request, however, is likely weeks away and faces a difficult path through Congress.’
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-congress-trump-democrats-hearings-a42ec470eb35bc341249d602114ef856
Y’all remember the $95 billion supplemental appropriation in April 2024? It included $26.4 billion for little Shitrahell. Much of it was spent on hundreds of shipments of 500-lb and 2,000-lb bombs, to physically destroy Gaza as tens of thousands were genocided.
Now it’s all happening again, under Orange BLOTUS instead of ‘Joe Biden.’ Maybe we should have voted harder! /sarcosaurus rex
Ol’ H Ross Perot graduated from the same high school I did … a generation earlier, thankfully, so I didn’t have to compete with him. From Wikipedia:
‘Perot served as a junior officer on a destroyer, and later, an aircraft carrier from 1953 to 1957. Perot, who had only ever owned one pair of shoes at a time, was shocked to find that he was issued multiple pairs of shoes in the navy, which he would later point to as “possibly my first example of government waste.”‘
Guess he wasn’t into sneakers. 🙁
What would H Ross Perot have thought, in his navy days, of getting shipped off to attack Iran on behalf of a shitty little apartheid colony that’s taken over Clowngress?
We can guess. Perot made clear in his 1992 campaign his utter disgust for the Bush family, whom he regarded as dirty mafia thugs and gangsters. He vigorously opposed US involvement in Poppy Bush’s 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War. After unsuccessfully urging Senators to vote against the war resolution, he began to consider a presidential run.
Thus, one can confidently assert that H Ross Perot would loathe Orange BLOTUS even more than he did the Bush crime family. Wish Perot were here to take down Bibi’s Clown from office. But now that obligation falls to us.
SCREW THE STINKING WAR.
There was also John Anderson, I forget what year it was but he started out as a Repug but when they sidelined him he ran as an independent. I voted for him and he got around fifteen percent of the total vote, sadly not enough to break the grip of the D’s and R’s on the system.
That was in 1980.
Anderson was a very liberal Republican who might have well be a Democrat. He advocated a 50 cent tax on gasoline which would have raised gas to $1.50 a gallon. Being another CFR and Trilateral commission member, he was pretty awful
Traficant demonized and killed. A true American. Hannity? Can’t say anything good about him.
Meant as a reply to swamprats post below…..
Thanks, Hannity is a cesspool of political bile
We brought it on ourselves,,, each in their own way,,, each with their own excuses. Listen to CAF. She tells the ‘ rest of the story’ of what we can expect assuming we continue on our merry, care less, give a damn ways. Personally I don’t think there is a chance in our created hell common sense will make a come back.
It gets worse…
One of the biggest cock sucking shills for jews, israel and the “deep state” is Sean Hannity. On Hannity’s radio show, a caller asked him about the deliberate israeli attack on the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) on 8 June 1967. Hannity abruptly cut off the caller and declared that “israel is our “friend” and never would have done such a thing”. I damned near fell out of my chair when I heard THAT.
On another front, 8 June 2017 was the fiftieth anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty (AGTR-5). Normally, the fiftieth anniversary of any event rates at least a mention in the mainstream media. Not so for the USS Liberty (AGTR-5). There was not a peep from the so-called “mainstream media” about this “act of war” by our “friend and ally”, israel.
This is merely more proof of who owns the “mainstream media”. Hint: It isn’t gentiles…
Hannity and Levin practically make me sick. I was a HUGE consumer of “conservative” talk radio from the 1980s through the mid-2000s until it became co-opted by the Zionist Lobby and the establishment Republicans.
I can still remember the first time I heard Limbaugh in 1988, it was jaw-dropping how subversive and edgy he was — ripping on Ted Kennedy, feminism, and abortion. By the end of his career he was just a water-carrier for the neocons and the Establishment
Hannity, it should be noted, got his start as a fill-in for Limbaugh. He has since become an unrepentant Zionist shill.
Watch this sickening video (and it’s from quite a few years ago) in which he tells a former member of Congress, James Traficant, that he is an “anti-Semite” and a “kook” for plainly stating that he saw Israel controlling Congress with his own eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xMzb-SvWcE
Traficant was the only honest member of congress in the last 3 generations.
I never forgave Rush Limbaugh for spending the night in the George H Bush (pedophile sodomite) white house back in 1992. A week later, he had Pat Buchanan on to his program to interview him. Instead of asking Buchanan what he meant by America First, etc, he lead with “how do you respond to charges that you are a bigot, a homophobe and an anti-semite?” I despised that fat POS afterwards. Limbaugh was a neocon free trader, though he mellowed towards the 2016 campaign and started to see why Trump the candidate appealed to a lot of people, myself included.
What has happened since September 2017 (when Trump got rid of Steve Bannon) is nothing short of a betrayal. Fuck Trump and Fuck Rush.
My “favorite” smear of Pat Buchanan of that time is someone pearl clutching, “One of his aides has a bumper sticker of Hitler doing the nazi salute!”
True. Pat’s aide did have a bumper sticker with Hitler doing a nazi salute. A clear example of a factual statement actually being a lie. The bumper sticker was made by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a Jewish libertarian group that makes the NRA look like VA governor Karen. The sticker says “All in favor of gun control raise your right hand.” You can still get it here.
BTW, Aaron Zelman was a great man. No parentheses for him.
In their book The State vs. The People, Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman differentiate “traditional” and “totalitarian” police states from a third type which they call the “modern authoritarian police state.”
This third type is defined by an increasingly powerful executive branch, and by increasing power of government as a whole. The power to make and enforce law is shifted into the hands of executive branch bureaucracies which are not accountable to the people, but function as de facto legislatures.
The police state grows organically, feeding on fears and transforming those fears into incremental, concrete measures that, over time, become tyranny. Fear of crime is exploited and turned into “gun control” measures [as in this week’s imminent Spanbergering]. Fear of terrorism is exploited and turned into demands for identification schemes.* Fear of drugs is exploited and turned into “war” [as in Hegseth’s ongoing “fentanyl boats” assassinations].
https://www.hazlitt.org/bookofthemonth/tsvtp.html
*Such an identification scheme — paperwork to prove you’re a citizen, under the SAVE Act — will be voted on in the Senate this week. Ever hear of ‘the camel’s nose under the tent’?
Steve Bannon is part of the swamp too.
Epstein advised Bannon to move from government into a media position in order to avail himself to the additional protection under the 1st Amendment: “Congress shall make no law. . .abridging the freedom of. . .the press. . .” Epstein advised him to use a right, populist persona.
Bannon’s a shill.
I’m coming to find that out. He must have spent time in a country club jail then.
Rush Limbaugh was always a conman, he just told “conservatives” at the time what they wanted to hear. It was not “edgy” to anyone who did not already share the same beliefs. I remember his presumptuous, pompous, more-right-than thou voice blaring out of car radios in the 90s and it always made my skin crawl. Then again, I had a lifetime of being subjected to the rantings of “conservatives” and their you-know-we’re right-if-don’t agree-you’re-un-American so I did not buy it as some kind of rebellion.
Pat Buchanan could have had a better chance had he not been such a “culture warrior”, there was common ground to be found in opposing NAFTA and the drawing back from foreign involvement. Fortunately, there are some on the right now who realize that mistake and concentrate on foreign policy and civil liberties issues, and that “government” really shouldn’t be a social enforcer either.
Amen, MQ –
I especially disliked his pimping for the “war” on some drugs (as someone who got arrested and charged with a felony as a 19-year-old kid for growing pot plants) and his hypocrisy, given he turned out to be a “druggie” himself.
The GOP has always been the party of omnipotent government. It has its origins, remember, in Lincoln’s war upon self-government. It tries to present itself as being the part of “small” government, which is a whopper so large it always astounds me how may swallow it whole.
Pat Buchanan was relevant BECAUSE he was a culture warrior. He understood that both parties were socially progressive and globalist. Pat called out the Republican Party of GHWB as fundamentally no different than the Democrat Party of Bill Clinton. NAFTA proved him right. Pat stood for immigration restriction, Christianity, the Constitution, and called out Zionist influence and the neocons. He stood against feminism and abortion. He stood for a republic, not an empire. He and called bullshit on the lie that World War II was a “necessary” war. He argued that the British and Churchill especially wanted war with Germany. He stood up for John Demjanjuk when he was railroaded by the Holocaust lobby… and when Demjanjuk was put on trial in Israel, the conviction was so bogus that even the Israeli Supreme Court threw it out.
Pat was the last true American conservative. He put America first and American culture first.
I agree, X –
I know Pat a little from my DC days. He’s a great guy. Not just a smart guy.
Pat Buchanan on NAFTA (as direct a quote as I can recall):
“With NAFTA, Mexico got America’s jobs, but the only thing the US got from NAFTA was marijuana and Mexicans.”
The culture war stuff loses as many as it gains. I would disagree that was what made him great. The problem with the whole “social conservative” outlook is that it wants to use the strong arm of government to impose Christianity, including one particular form of Christianity’s view on abortion, gays, even birth control. NO THANKS. As someone who opposes the hardcore anti-abortion position and is not personally a Christian this is a definite negative. That does not mean he should refrain from stating his own views on these matters but when you make it a focus that’s an issue.
I agree that Pat was generally well intentioned and that accusations of racism at the time were untrue.
Last comment I read tonight, “As someone who opposes the hardcore anti-abortion position”
So, you’re a baby killer?
‘Er, you are in favor of killing babies?
Or, are you an evictionist? Oftentimes, another word for, baby killer?
…Just wondering.
Anyway, goodnight.
“Assumptions that I had grown up with – about how a society should properly be orgnanised, and the principles that it should uphold – were not bred of antiquity, still less of ‘human nature,’ but very distinctively of that civilisation’s Christian past.” …
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/10/bionic-mosquito/our-christian-culture/