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One of the amusing sideshows since Trump has taken power is the pearl clutching from the usual suspects about the law and process. The people who sat silent as lawfare was waged against Americans for the crime of holding unapproved opinions are now suddenly concerned with the rule of law. The people who took money from tech companies to remain silent about tech censorship are now carrying on as if they are dissidents because they no longer control the discourse.

Hypocrisy is a feature of man, and it has always had a central role in American politics because America is a nation of moralizers. The one thing we have always overproduced is preachers ready to wag their bony fingers at the people as they lecture them about their many moral failings. The United States is a giant outdoor revival tent where preachers take turns performing for the crowd. When not lecturing the locals, our preachers travel the world to lecture foreigners.

Preachers need to believe they are special, perhaps even called or chosen to lead the sinners out of sin into the land of salvation. You cannot think you are a wretch and at the same time be a preacher. You can be a wretch and confess your wretchedness to the people in the pews as part of your redemption. You can testify about your former wretchedness and how you rejoined the mass of ordinary sinners. You cannot preach unless you are sure you are something special.

After all, the point of preaching is to inform. The preacher not only knows the nature of sin, but he also claims to know the nature of grace. He claims to know the road that leads from sin to salvation and grace. If everyone had this knowledge, then there would be no need for the preacher. Everyone would be free to decide if they want to take the path to salvation or take some other path. This is why every preacher is sure he has been called to lead the sinner down the righteous path.

This is why the fallen preacher is a stock character in our morality tales. In a land full of preachers, we have a superabundance of preachers who turned out to be worse sinners than the people in the pews. Given that democratic politics is just a long running morality play, it is no surprise that our politics features the hypocrite, and the endless cries of hypocrisy are the Greek chorus of our politics. Democracy is a viper’s den of preachers and hypocrites hissing about hypocrisy.

This has been a defining feature of the Trump era. His every utterance seems to draw out the preacher-hypocrite. Here is Jonah Goldberg hilariously claiming he is what stands between the mean orange man and the sacred Constitution. He and his fellow cult members were chanting about the “unitary executive” back in the Bush years, when they intended that phrase to mean, “Ignore the laws.” After all, they preached, the righteous cause of forever war was too important for due process.

Goldberg is typical of the modern preacher. He is a mediocrity’s mediocrity who spends his days smearing people opposed to his cult. In the Bush years, he would preach about the need to rally to a clown like George Bush out of party loyalty. Those questioning this were disloyal deviationists or secretly in league with Old Scratch. When it was his turn to return the favor with Trump, he slanderously claimed Trump and David Duke were buddies in the secret KKK.

The most egregious example of the modern preacher is David French. This chinless weirdo is what not-for-profit politics produces. He imagines himself to be a blend of James Bond, Clarence Darrow, and Jesus Christ. His Twitter feed is dripping with sanctimony as he lectures the world about sin, but it is mostly about the righteousness of David French. It is no surprise that this ridiculous mediocrity is at the New York Times. It is the main chapel of our media.

These two festering lumps of mediocrity are famous examples, but the public square is littered with people who dream of one day standing in front of the masses, lecturing them about their failings. The Covid Karens of a few years ago made clear that behind the pleasant looking face of every stranger could lie the pursed lips of a vinegar drinking scold ready to pounce at your moment of weakness. We are sinners in the hands of an angry God named Karen from Human Resources.

The preacher plays a vital role in human society, but he must be locked up in his church where we can visit him for inspiration. The preacher provides inspiration when inspiration is needed to continue the task of living. In modern America, the preachers have been let out of their churches to run wild in our lives, making sure no one can enjoy the simple act of living. They nose about looking for sin and when none can be found they create chaos that can lead to sin.

The task before the country, if it is to escape this hell of proselytizing, is to herd the preachers back into their churches. Living is about trade-offs, the choice between practical benefits and equally practical costs. For a people to live, they must embrace living, not sit quietly while preached to about the sins of living. That is what we are seeing with the Trump administration. It is the long overdue effort to round up the preachers and put them back in their rightful place.

The price for this freedom will be the endless hypocrisy from the pearl clutchers and bony fingered ministers, now suddenly concerned about law and order. They were silent when the law was ignored but now pretend to care when the law must be ignored to restore order, the only ground in which the law can flourish. That means sidelining the preachers until the coast is clear. Then they can be let loose to preach the gospel of republican virtue to whoever will listen.

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Hokkoda #453477 April 21, 2025 82
I know I’ve commented this before, but it bears repeating. What we are watching is not hypocrisy, defined as “The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.”What we have today are two completely separate sets of rule books. Lacking a better construct, I call them the Team Blue Rulebook and the Team Red Rulebook. John Roberts can send messages to Trump that “for over 200 years” the appellate process is how we settle disputes last month. Yet on Friday SCOTUS issued an emergency stay on a case that had not been decided by the appellate court, and did not all the Trump DOJ even an opportunity to respond.That is how the two rule books work. To advance Team Blue objectives, you can cite the criticality of precedent, and then abandon precedent when precedent is no longer convenient. That is classic Team Blue Rulebook action.Team Red Rulebook is that you get to have your communities flooded with terrorist criminal aliens by the millions. They’re allowed in, unvetted, by the millions in waves. To throw them out? You must give each one full due process and go “one at a time”. And of course the Team Red Rulebook contains all manner of made up crimes for which you can be prosecuted, most of which never existed until the need to put you in prison arose.Anyway, it’s not hypocrisy. It’s two completely different sets of rules. The SCOTUS “stay” on Friday was likely the final decloaking of lizard people we long suspected of having forked tongues.They’ve run out of ways to conceal the existence of the two books.
NoName #453485 April 21, 2025 52
The perfidy of the Trump 45 justices – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett – their perfidy is simply breathtaking. Who the hell are these zombies?
PrimiPilus #453529 April 21, 2025 17
I’m starting to think the three + Roberts are solid evidence of a deep strike operation against the Supreme Court & Constitution — the people, or whatever one wants to call it.”Grow in office?” Maybe not.At the one extreme, one could say that they were chosen for a certain ideological “set”, and husbanded through a career. This pool of potentials would contain those who, while espousing one perspective, would be standing by to put into effect it’s opposite.at the proper moment, they could be tapped to assume the final role for which they were groomed.Paranoia?Or, conversely they might just be the usual ideological and political opportunists we find in the Republican ranks — whatever stance is needed to get elected or selected. But you never then support whatever it is the traditional Americans (or Republicans … but I choke on that word) want.it just seems too much for coincidence.
Jeffrey Zoar #453556 April 21, 2025 12
It’s a lot easier to see a conspiracy of some kind than it is to see what principles or laws they might honestly be trying to uphold. Making the latter case seems a lot more difficult. I couldn’t say whether or not they are being coerced, or they honestly just hate heritage americans and want to see them replaced, or they are vested in clown world somehow, but all of those things appear a lot more probable than them making an honest interpretation of the law.
jo blo #453632 April 21, 2025 9
We all know how nasty leftists are in ordinary interactions, where the stakes are very small.Think of how they are OK with using violence and intimidation when they don’t get their way.As we have seen with the DOGE revelations, there is good money to be had being a leftist – this is highly motivating to useless people, who will get very nasty at the idea of having to do honest work.Now think about how they would interact with someone who has actual power. They have a way of ganging up, of infiltrating and subverting every normal societal function. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the leftists “terrorize ” to get their way.
redbeard #453532 April 21, 2025 10
Our pastor this Easter called them “walking dead” during his sermon.
Steve #453604 April 21, 2025 0
And that’s why you got to get the hell out of that place, @redbeard
A Bad Man #453617 April 21, 2025 1
Ah, interesting, ours, Homily, mentioned “Zombies” wandering in the dark.
Dutchboy #453552 April 21, 2025 5
Somebody at VDare was ecstatic about Gorsuch because he had an English surname. This should have been a warning “forGod is no respecter of persons but in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by him.”
Pozymandias #453613 April 21, 2025 8
Somebody needs to learn that nowadays, an English name just means your ancestors were some kind of wretched Anglicans who were probably gung-ho for the Yankee side in the War of Northern Aggression. Give me a mobbed-up Italian or solid Nazi Austrian any day over that.
Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD #453564 April 21, 2025 32
I knew Amy Comey Barrett was going to be dreadful when I found out she had Haitian pet ethnics that she “raised” as her adopted children.The problem is the partisan vs. objectivist. The conservatives see the Supreme Court as a real court of law that interprets the law and settles disputes.The Left sees the court as a supralegislature with lifetime terms.The GOP says they appoint “constitutional conservative” justices who interpret the law.The Democrats just appoint left-wing cranks who always rule the way the progressive psychopaths want. I call them “Blue Team” judges. You ALWAYS know which way they’ll vote in any decision. It’s so predictable and it’s a shock when they’re allowed by the Blob to break ranks.If there is another vacancy, Trump needs to appoint a “Red Team” judge who doesn’t consider the facts, but simply votes the right way. The constitution is not worth the paper it’s written upon.We need to deport these people. Trump should (but won’t) pull an Andrew Jackson and say to the Supreme Court “I hear you, but enforce your order if you will.”
A Bad Man #453618 April 21, 2025 6
Or think of Stalin, “how many divisions does the Pope have…?”
Stephanie #453641 April 22, 2025 1
They probably just know the “six ways from Sunday” isn’t hyperbole and they don’t have the fortitude, the dumb luck, and/or the favor that Trump has. But who does?! It really is amazing.
Ride-By Shooter #453487 April 21, 2025 24
Those two sets of rules look like two chapters of a single rulebook. Team Blue Rule Chapter is a favorite part of the go fast team. Team Red Rule Chapter is the favorite part of the go slow team. They’re running out of ways to fool us into believing that they are reading from different Bibles. It’s all in one Bible.
Mycale #453510 April 21, 2025 61
This needs to be understood. People might be looking at this deportation thing and be furious the GOP does not have Trump’s back. Trump is arguing the facts here, that it’s basically impossible to get rid of these people even though it’s so easy to let them in. Well, that is because the GOP wanted the 8+ million illegals in this country as much as the Democrats did. They don’t want these people gone. Their “bipartisan border bill” was designed to permanently keep the border open for millions of illegals a year. If anything it took power away from the President to close it.What we have in this country is a foreign ruling elite that hates us and wants us dead. Even if they are notliterallyforeign as they increasingly are, they are loyal to foreign nations (or should I say, a foreign nation), or consider themselves to be “global citizens” part of some cosmopolitan transnational identity. But this is what happens when foreigners rule over a people they despise. And it’s all of them.
Ride-By Shooter #453518 April 21, 2025 -16
Everyone needs to admit that the USA is a great mistake, maybe eventheGreat Mistake, one worse than Luther’s rebellion against his priesthood of thirsty cryptosecularists. (Faith in a god is no evidence that one rejects secularism.) The experiment, as some like to call it, is an abomination, and thisbecauseof its hideous, intrinsic, foundational defects.So today’s today’s situation and the Columbians’ one party system is not an aberration contrary to the founding principles but a milestone on the way to the annihilation entailed by the founders’ crazy merchants’ morality. So, like the Phonecians among us, American conservatards are mortal enemies of all that is good, beautiful, and true. They help tobl stabililize what the D faction would quickly wreck, thereby ridding us of a great cancer. Yet the Z man remains mentally corrupted with their conservatard fantasies and agitprop. This is why he can write with a straight face that the GAE began after Lincoln. It did not. It began politically during the 1770’s and as an ideal before that.
Jack Dodson #453490 April 21, 2025 39
Agree totally. What precious little legitimacy the Supreme Court retained was set on fire. It joined basically every American institution on the ash heap of lost respectability. Where are the preachers to give us eulogies? That’s right, pretending the dead are alive, no resurrection necessary. Arguing About fairness and hypocrisy with the delusional is pointless.
Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD #453491 April 21, 2025 23
Team Blue rides the bus of “democracy,” the “rule of law” and “free speech” until it isn’t convenient. Then it’s time for them to squelch dissent, the reasoning being that we can’t even tolerate a shred of evil, lest it cast people into sin.I used to think the opposition was just stupid, but I came to realize that they were nothing of the sort and just playing their part as the “principled opposition” in the great Kabuki theater of politics in the U.S.Boil it down even further and it’s the old saw of “heads, we win, tails we win.”Goldberg and French are just awful human beings. I pity those poor wretches who operate without a moral underpinning that they’ll have to answer for in the next life. I just wish they weren’t supported by evil, megawealthy patrons who want their errors spread.
Carl B. #453493 April 21, 2025 24
It’s beginning to look like Trump 2nd Verse same as the 1st. He cannot, or is unwilling, to take on the Deep State/Judicial Leviathan.
pyrrhus #453513 April 21, 2025 27
Yes, every pundit has been opining on how strongman Trump is going to destroy our system of government and “democracy”…whatever that might be with millions of fake mail-in ballots…The reality seems to be that he’s quite the opposite, weak and unwilling to take on our fake legal system, and nominations like Amy are a big part of the problem…Presidents Jackson, Lincoln, and even Clinton ignored SCOTUS decisions when inconvenient, and Washington would likely have had judges like Boasburg shot, which is why we didn’t have such judges…
A Bad Man #453620 April 21, 2025 -1
Right. Can we ever get enough of ‘Ivanka’ and her surgically altered self being ‘real’ on a surfboard?
Hokkoda #453588 April 21, 2025 9
Or, he is, but the system has become “self aware” and knows how to combat reform. Notice how DOGE seems to have peaked in March, and the government is talking about “when” not “if” the hiring freeze gets lifted.
A Bad Man #453619 April 21, 2025 3
Trump is a realtor. Not a warrior. He is an entertainer, not a Sicilian hell bent on VENDETTA.
Steve #453623 April 21, 2025 2
So how many Sicilians are standing up, hell bent on VENDETTA?
Captain Willard #453496 April 21, 2025 23
In fairness, it’s been “Who/Whom” from the beginning. The great Yankee Moralizer John Adams set the tone. He defended the British in the Boston Massacre (“muh due process”, admittedly pre-Revolution but it shows his mindset) and then passed the Alien and Sedition Acts (“I decide who stays or goes”). Here we are many years later retracing the same well-worn trail of the Founders.
The Greek #453501 April 21, 2025 37
It’s simpler than that. It’s partisan politics, and the left is much better at it than the right. They will do whatever moves their side forward. If the truth helps them, they tell the truth. If lies help them, they lie. It’s the old quote about lawyers, “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”Team blue understands this. They don’t care about the errant calls of the other side calling them hypocrites. It’s about the cause. The republicans are terrified of doing things procedurally wrong or being called a hypocrite, so they rarely adhere to this, which is a big reason why our trophy case is so empty.
Steve #453580 April 21, 2025 5
Yep. ‘cept the truth never helps Team Blue. It’s why Team Blue goes with whatever falsehood most closely aligns. They prefer to appeal to the Marshall Court, since that was the rubber stamp that was applied to any federal excesses, but they often have to appeal to Globalism, as not even Marshall was that pro-tyranny.
pyrrhus #453505 April 21, 2025 28
There are a whole lot of “preachers” in this choir…Sci-fi great Roger Zelazny wrote that 70% of the public are “trimmers”, whose beliefs change with every change in the wind….,.
Jeffrey Zoar #453511 April 21, 2025 26
Close to the same number who took the jab. The 80/20 rule shows up everywhere
NoName #453523 April 21, 2025 7
Lately I’ve taken to wondering whether Vilfredo Pareto’s 80/20 distributions amount to some sort of an abstract sociological Egregore; a phenomenon so powerful that it almost kinda sorta becomes sentient in its own right. And it gets truly horrifying if its sentience has a distinctively feminine quality to it… [NO OFFENSE INTENDED TO 3G4ME]
3g4me #453540 April 21, 2025 4
I first came across that picture in college more than 45 years ago. It’s how I’ve always visualized a nightmare since.
A Bad Man #453622 April 21, 2025 6
In terms of worrying about insulting female persons, I met my bride when she was just out of her teens, swinging hammers with her blue collar dad, while brothers were too busy. Decades later, same girl was out fertilizing the lawn while I was away on business. We dig fence post holes together.It does not get better. Much older now, her face is a smile, laughter every day.Am I supposed to think she is even the same species as ‘Instragram/Onlyfanz’ woman?Did I err teaching my daughters how to change their own oil? Of course not …. but the gulf between them and ‘peers’ is enormous.
Tars Tarkas #453516 April 21, 2025 31
The law is whatever they say the law is. Shockingly, they almost always find the law supports whatever it is they want to do. The problem is that there has been no accountability for anyone in the managerial class for a very long time. Official accountability is entirely off the table….we need an unofficial accountability or they will keep doing it. Few people will stop doing what they want to do by appealing to their alleged principles. They need to face consequences like prison or being ruined financially.
NoName #453527 April 21, 2025 11
Tars Tarkas:“we need an unofficial accountability or they will keep doing it“Classically, about once every century, the Peasants would stage a revolt, replete with scythes & axes & pitchforks & torches, and the Landed Gentry would flee in terror.Our fundamental sociological problemat the momentis that the peasants are far too satisfied.Their bellies are too full.Their houses are too warm in the winter.Their infant mortality rates are too low.And the SSRIs certainly aren’t helping matters.It’s very difficult to stage a proper rebellion if you’re narked up on SSRIs.Which, come to think of it, is probably why “they” invented SSRIs in the first place: Precisely so as to quell the peasant revolts.
Steve #453581 April 21, 2025 4
Popular refrain, but not a lot of empirical evidence to support it. If anything, the opposite. It’s when people are suffering that the demogogues strike, not only by stressing that the current population are the only ones in history who could have pulled through such hard times, but pointing out a convenient scapegoat for their troubles. Sorry, but history itself is a pretty strong indicator that the demogogues cause the suffering, and use it to create a more unified populace, one supporting the current Dear Leader.
Tars Tarkas #453615 April 21, 2025 2
Still, they are not going to change because we ask them to change or vote for them to change or appeal to their supposed principles or an appeal to a dusty old piece of paper safely locked away in a museum. The only way they will change is if that change is forced upon them. Ordinarily, this used be done by either social pressure or enforcing the laws and norms or some other formal mechanism. These no longer work.Furthermore, they are aping the old process and using it as a rationalization for them doing what they want to do. Like some fool in a dress holds what appears to be “court” in a room with everyone playing dress up and doing things people do in a court room. But unlike long ago (probably not even entirely real then), the outcome is a foregone conclusion before the play being put on even starts.
Steve #453621 April 21, 2025 1
Agreed. Not sure how you are disagreeing here. Are you saying that they do not create and use times of hardship for their ends, like WWII rationing?
Tars Tarkas #453631 April 21, 2025 2
I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just pointing out that however the masses are used or manipulated or taken advantage of, nothing is going to change until it is forced upon the managerial class/elite.
george 1 #453525 April 21, 2025 21
Yes. In the meantime The Chinese Communist Party, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the UN are still preparing to destroy America by invasion. The camps in Panama are still there though the volume of invaders is currently way down. This happened for a time during COVID as well. HIAS is still manning their offices in the area. Mayorkas himself actually visited these camps.Note that the CCP and HIAS work together for similar interests. If the Trump administration was serious about stopping the invasion he would destroy these camps. He would also require employers to use the real ID system for perspective employees. He could also start prosecuting people who facilitated the invasion by using 8 USC 1324 and it’s subsections. UN employees, DHS employees and many others could be held to account. Mayorkas, for instance, could easily be given a life sentence.Every employer and even people who rent houses to illegals could be prosecuted for this offense. So we are all being played and the administrations’ enforcement activities are just a superficial charade.
Gideon #453541 April 21, 2025 7
Good points in general. But the CCP is almost exclusively an instrument of internal control and repression. Unlike the HIAS with its tribal fear of Europeans, the CCP looks inwardly for its preservation (something Zionism laid claim to but has never quite achieved). To China, America is just a source of technology and consumers for manufactured goods. They would likely prefer to maintain the status quo of a hollowed-out U.S. empire pretending to run the rest of the world were it not for the determination of the anti-China hawks in successive U.S. administrations to challenge them directly.
george 1 #453561 April 21, 2025 7
Nevertheless, numerous Chinese nationals, most of which are military age males, have been delivered to and have used the same staging camps that are administered by HIAS and the UN. After departure from the camps the invaders, Chinese among them, are delivered to the U.S. Border and then taken to America. We always look at the U.S., Mexico Border, however in the last few years the Canadian Border is producing larger and larger numbers of illegal entries as well. That Border will become a huge problem in a short few years.
Gideon #453565 April 21, 2025 2
The CCP isn’t behind this. The Chinese nationals in question are as likely as not to becomeanti-CCP (oranti-White) with the encouragement of the usual suspects. DRs need to be able to distinguish between such golem and our actual sworn enemies. The CCPisn’tour friend, but that doesn’t mean we should be anti-China—which could be suicidal—just because our enemies say “Sick!”
3g4me #453578 April 21, 2025 5
Already a problem and has been for at least a decade, just not reported on. As Trudeau opened Canada’s borders, he also began a cascade of subcon aliens coming south to AINO in search of more money to fleece from foolish Whites. Over 150k from dozens of countries apprehended since 2021 alone.
Steve #453583 April 21, 2025 9
Don’t let organizations like Red Cross, World Council of Churches, Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities USA skate. It’s way too commonplace to finger some convenient Big Bad Evil Guy (BBEG), and completely ignore the fact that we are surrounded by BBEGs .They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away now! Call it a target-rich environment.
george 1 #453628 April 21, 2025 -1
Yes. If Trump was serious about addressing the problem he would start prosecuting these organizations. The main point is, like most things Trump, it is all just a talking point and misdirection. Their will be no prosecutions or mass deportations and Trump knew that all along. The Supreme Court just officially sealed our fate and without mass deportations this country is done. You could completely seal the Borders and it is still too late. The invaders will out breed us easily. So it will come down to the cartridge box or oblivion. I would bet against the cartridge box.
Steve #453737 April 22, 2025 0
“…he would start prosecuting these organizations.” Not my downvote, but what would you suggest they be prosecuted for? Accepting a legitimate government contract and fulfilling it? We can certainly hate them for being the immoral or amoral bastards at the sharp end of the spear, which they are, but so long as Congress and the Deep State keep letting those contracts, at best you have a game of musical chairs with new players joining all the time to get some of that sweet, sweet graft.
MysteriousOrca #453480 April 21, 2025 35
To be precise, Jonah Goldberg is more “rabbi” than “preacher” …
3g4me #453508 April 21, 2025 33
My, how inconvenient for the faithful. We’ve got to vote harder because . . . trust in the process because . . . the system will work because . . . The Court. Just pick the correct magic lawyers and voila! We are saved! How many years have I heard that refrain? How many even here waxed rhapsodic about this or that court pick? We had a bunch of preachers here the other day warning us that if we didn’t toe the line, the left would do unto us when it was their turn again. Seems I saw JamieRaskin warning just what sort of payback he had in mind. So come, great preachers! We all await your wisdom.
ray #453575 April 21, 2025 11
Brett’s a chick-name, no? :O)Brett-of-the-daughters. Brett the girls’ soccer coach, Brett with the gaggle of female law clerks ever around him. Not sure what exactly folks expected from this overgrown boy.Ah yes Brett. He wept bitterly when the Mean Girls in Congress ganged up on him, and showed the nation — and world — how easy it is for some random skank somewhere to take down a man. Jam him up. Get him fired. Jailed. Even an appeals court justice is not off-limits.When expressing my disgust with this human cheese puff on ‘conservative’ sites, I was met with an avalanche of rage and offense. They rushed to little Brett’s defense and assured me he would kick majorly ass on the Left once his nomination passed. Eeets . . . a head-shaker. Lord come and get me.Problem is, most righty men are like Brett. This is what masculinity in the West has become, and nowhere is it more apparent than in Amerika.
3g4me #453579 April 21, 2025 10
Same goes for all of them “This one” is a ‘constitutionalist.’ “That one” is a devout ‘x’ and will stop abortion. “The other one” will get us back on track. Election after election – vote because of the court picks. Because we all know the courts were always intended to be the final arbiter of ‘our democracy.’
Steve #453595 April 21, 2025 2
Sadly, since the demise of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, this is true. Those interpretations were soundly defeated. I don’t know what it would take to unseat this doctrine, but from that moment (1798, and arguably before) GAE was set in stone.
Xman #453484 April 21, 2025 31
“We are sinners in the hands of an angry God named Karen from Human Resources.” Brilliant, Z. That line’s a classic…
lavrov #453514 April 21, 2025 3
I wonder how AI reacted to that line by Zman 🙂
Ostei Kozelskii #453547 April 21, 2025 6
I imagine a spring shot out of his personal computer and a plume of black smoke issued from his monitor.
lavrov #453542 April 21, 2025 3
Here is what chatgpt did to zman’s text –“These two festering lumps of mediocrity are well-known examples, but the public square is crowded with aspirants—people who dream of one day ascending the soapbox to lecture the masses on their moral failings. The Covid Karens of recent memory made one thing clear: behind the smiling facade of any stranger might lurk the sour-mouthed scold, lips puckered from a lifetime of sipping vinegar, just waiting for a moment of weakness to strike. We are all sinners now, dangling in the grip of an angry god named Karen from Human Resources.The preacher has long held a sacred role in human society—but only when confined to his pulpit, where we might seek him out for guidance or inspiration. He serves his purpose best when called upon, a beacon in moments of doubt. But in modern America, the preachers have broken free of their sanctuaries and now roam unchecked through our daily lives, enforcing their gospel with fervor and suspicion. They sniff out sin with zeal, and when they find none, they manufacture crises to justify their sermons. What should be the quiet work of living becomes a theater of moral panic, and no joy is left unpoliced.”
Ostei Kozelskii #453546 April 21, 2025 2
Except that it should be goddess rather than god.
SamlAdams #453478 April 21, 2025 29
Isn’t Goldberg still mad that Trump walloped Jeb! and prevented his wife from getting a sinecure in a 3rd Bush administration?Had the pleasure of living across an alley from the national HQ of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (yes they still exist) for three years in college. These people all remind me of the weaned-on-a-pickle types you saw shuffling in and out of there every day. Also meant the town was still “dry” despite being the immediate north suburb of Chicago. Our revenge was going out on the fire escape at 2am and hurling empty Hamms bottles onto the WCTU roof. I urge the equivalent for these charlatans.
Captain Willard #453489 April 21, 2025 43
Yes, Goldberg’s still butt-hurt over Jeb! That said, we owe a big debt to Jeb! He really sent me across the divide and I’m guessing I’m not alone in this regard. He spoke during lunch at a big financial conference I attended during the first campaign. We hadn’t finished dessert yet and he was already at war with three countries. It was an epiphany for me and I never took the GOP seriously after. My buddy asked me what I thought about Jeb! and I said: “he’s Hillary, but with bigger t*ts”.
Dr_Mantis_Tobbogan_MD #453494 April 21, 2025 5
Definitely not any Catholics in that organization LOL
Ride-By Shooter #453509 April 21, 2025 5
The cucks and scolds of Evanston installedan idol to worshipat the corner of Church and Orrington.It’s supposed to be Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable even though there’s no drawing or portrait of him which was made during his lifetime. The alleged founder of Chicago left the area in 1800, aged a little more than 50 years.
mmack #453568 April 21, 2025 3
Well it’s Evanston, which could give Oak Park, IL a run for it’s money as a “Town run completely by Leftist Loons”.
Ostei Kozelskii #453571 April 21, 2025 3
And I’m sure that has absolutely nothing to do with the presence of Northwestern University.
SamlAdams #453642 April 22, 2025 1
Didn’t use to be, but then became infested, originally by the types that vote like Trotsky but want to live like a KKK member. And Northwestern, was still the “normal” school in that tier–went there on the advice of my uncle who’d gotten his BA & PhD there but taught at one of the Ivies which had all gone to sh*t much earlier. Now it’s no different. Stopped giving them money years ago.
Jeffrey Zoar #453576 April 21, 2025 2
Seems like some extra artistic license was taken with the hair. Why would people who are celebrating a negro put in that kind of effort to make him look more white? There aren’t any innocent answers.
SamlAdams #453640 April 22, 2025 1
That thing is an abomination. Lived right across from the Orrington…until the university took the dorm and converted it to luxury housing for Kellogg students.
zfan #453520 April 21, 2025 5
Thank you, Sir!My Yankee-descended grandmother was a member or that organization, as well as descendant of Republican party founders in Wisconsin. She was also, God bless her, a suffragette who moved to Mississippi to teach black elementary children for a number of years and later traveled to Los Angeles to connect with the religious nuts of the era. She idolized Cary Nation who demolished taverns throughout my home state. Several times as a child I, with my siblings, had to publicly recite at her church the “Temperance Pledge” to never drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. If there had been an Evangelical equivalent of monasteries and convents, I am sure we would have had to also take those vows at age nine to ten.I guess that is the gist of why when the Navy sent me to Italy I went native. I’m not too fond of the GOP, either.
Tom K #453534 April 21, 2025 15
I’m sure that stayed with those little black children, those enduring lessons about the ebils of Colt 45 and Cool cigarettes, plus it had the added cachet of coming out of the sainted lips of an old white lady from Wisconsin.
zfan #453544 April 21, 2025 4
Well, it didn’t work on me. I do wonder how the movement got the name “Temperance” when it really advocated Prohibition. I was definitely primed for the explanation by Zman and others that the modern American left traces its beginnings to the Puritans and other Northern low church religious types.
Ostei Kozelskii #453545 April 21, 2025 2
Bratwurst grease on her frock, Cheddar on her breath.
mmack #453569 April 21, 2025 2
“Aw cri-mo-ny, ya don’t wanna smoke and drink kiddos.”
ray #453567 April 21, 2025 8
‘She was also, God bless her, a suffragette’ God does not bless rebels against Him. And organized rebels? A double curse. The Women’s Temperance Movement slingshotted the Feminist Movement that rules over your nation today.
zfan #453589 April 21, 2025 2
I appreciate your fervor, but I’ll stick by invoking God’s blessing on my grandmother. It’s a Catholic thing, you wouldn’t understand.
Steve #453596 April 21, 2025 3
It’s not just Catholic.
ray #453597 April 21, 2025 0
‘She was also, God bless her, a suffragette who moved to Mississippi….’ These are your words. The ‘bless’ is right there next to ‘suffragette’ and you are quite proud. Well, offended now that you’ve been called on it. God does not bless feminists, especially proto-feminists. No, not even YOUR feminist.
Steve #453600 April 21, 2025 0
I don’t know whether that’s true. Certainly ancient Hebrews believed that, but you (mostly) reject the OT. Paul, the “reformed” Pharisee (or whomever impersonated Paul) believed it. Is it True? Did He ever say anything to that effect?
ray #453624 April 21, 2025 0
I mostly reject the OT? Where is that said?
Steve #453635 April 21, 2025 0
To be fair, I don’t really remember who said what. As a general rule, I’m one of the handful who object when the OT is referred to as some jewish (or proto-jewish) propaganda. If I missed your comment in support, I apologize. It’s just that while there was widespread agreement that, for example, Genesis was correct when talking about separating the races after the Tower of Babel, there was a whole lot less about current day Israel being given over to Abraham and his decendants. It’s almost like it’s true if we want it to be true…
Zfan #453610 April 21, 2025 6
Is being gracious prohibited somewhere in the Bible? Or, do you just like throwing elbows/ insults at people on your side? Tone it down a bit, brother
Steve #453614 April 21, 2025 2
Truth. I know lots of Catholics who preach we should be gracious towards Francis. We do not have to be in agreement to wish that those who disagree with us might be forgiven. Indeed, that’s the whole point of forgiveness. It’s nonsensical to pray for those who are right for having been right, particularly when it’s a consequence of your circumstances…
ray #453625 April 21, 2025 -3
Look, you bless your suffragette whatever, and I told you God does not look fondly on suffragettes. You didn’t like that. I will speak as I wish in pointing out the truth, including the truth about suffragettes. Brother.
ray #453626 April 21, 2025 -2
Look, you blessed your suffragette whatever, and I told you God does not look fondly on suffragettes. Period. Not debatable before any actual Christian. You didn’t like that and got cranky. Now you want to churchscold me and tell me what tone to take. I will speak as I wish in pointing out the truth, including the truth about suffragettes. Brother.
Zfan #453633 April 21, 2025 2
This transcends Christianity and definitely denominations: Don’t speak harshly about others’ family members. One can tell a story about a family member’s faults in the company of friends, but it’s very rude to come back with an amplification of that. The “brother” was meant sincerely and as an olive branch because I appreciate this company and you specifically at times whatever our differences. Enough. Have a joyous Easter week
Mycale #453500 April 21, 2025 22
I remember people making fun of Jonah Goldberg twenty years ago, for being an idiot chickenhawk coward who got to where he was because of his shyster mother. I mean, this has been going on for a LONG time. But he has served his masters well and has been rewarded with earthly riches for it. He’s never had to be right and never been accountable for anything he has said in his career. Yet, these people don’t control the narrative anymore… and they know it. Look at how Douglas Murray got laughed off the Joe Rogan show and then he immediately retreated to Sam Harris’ show and the New York Post where he can snipe at people from a safe distance. The neocons have constructed their own parallel media network where they are free from scrutiny and criticism, almost like BlueSky is for the pinkhairs and xirs.
Jeffrey Zoar #453506 April 21, 2025 9
Somehow they have managed to keep George Will on life support. I’m not sure which is more comical, that people actually bought his books, or that people actually didn’t.
Mycale #453517 April 21, 2025 21
Like Z once said on a podcast, more or less, these guys are making $500,000 a year when they aren’t qualified to sell cars in their hometown. It’s a great gig if you have neither principles, skills, nor talents, but this also makes you intensely loyal to the system that is enriching you for no real reason other than to defend it.
Barney Rubble #453559 April 21, 2025 4
George Will. Speaking of Con, Inc creatures I hadn’t thought of in years… If the GOP ever did anything (by accident, obviously) that actually benefitted normal Americans, George Will and his ilk would be righteously indignant. BTW, he should ditch the wig and shave his head. It works for Rogan.
Hemid #453553 April 21, 2025 10
Goldberg did important missionary work for the religion of antifascism, habituating American conservatives and Republican partisans—people who, the story goes, would become fascists (actual) if the possibility were made available to them—to attach “fascist” to whatever and whomever they don’t like, to hate it and yell it atallthe other guys, from antifa to us.The weakness of on-the-ground MAGA/Trumpism, normal voters’ misunderstanding of what they’re up against, may be more Goldberg’s responsibility than any other living person’s. Every “They callusfascists, but…” from a confused patriot is at least partly his work.Yeah, he’s some dumb schlub, mockable from every angle, an intellectual non-entity and physical joke, jeering out from under his mother’s dress, etc.He was given the job and did it.
Captain Willard #453486 April 21, 2025 22
Despite the historical failings of Roman Catholicism, at least it had very few religious Entrepreneurs. The ones who did feature took huge risks – Savanarola, Luther – and even in post-Henry VIII England, plenty got roasted or exiled. America has grown them like corn, to the point where we have post-Jesus types like Joel Osteen. And now in post-God America, we have the political Entrepreneur. He or she worships the State and talks about “due process” and “norms” like Cardinals used to talk about doctrine. The J6ers committed modern blasphemy, hence the reaction. Trump is a convenient Lucifer.
Jack Dodson #453495 April 21, 2025 6
Post-America deserves it.
NoName #453521 April 21, 2025 4
John Knox died penniless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox
BigJimSportCamper #453590 April 21, 2025 5
I love a happy ending.
ray #453526 April 21, 2025 8
Righto. The J6ers transgressed a religious shrine, not kidding, can go into detail if necessary but yep, the Capitol Building is a temple, cloaked with the trappings of modern secularism and statism.Just one example: the Capitol is topped, or presided over, by a female figure decked out for combat, variously identified as goddess Libertas, Columbia, Minerva, Athena et al. It ain’t Jesus, put it like that.The Capitol Shrine was installed in 1863. Think of the character of the nation since that time. Is it not a feminist nation of extraordinary warlike nature?An Empowered Shrew of a Nation? I mean shed a few pounds, that could be Vicky Nuland up on top of that House of Nasty Congress. The phrase ‘hiding in plain sight’ applies.The J6ers committed rape, and nothing short of that. Therefore due process did not apply to them — because their offense was religious and not secular.
zfan #453548 April 21, 2025 7
Vicky Nuland statue atop the Capitol– great visual. Even this papist will gladly join you in toppling that statue.
Steve #453591 April 21, 2025 5
“Vicky Nuland statue atop the Capitol– great visual.” You just want to be able to look up her dress.
Ostei Kozelskii #453605 April 21, 2025 4
Not such a great visual…
bunions #453551 April 21, 2025 -1
The majority of brave and penniless “heretics” who were killed in England were Protestant… Regarding profiting from religion you might want to read about Indulgences,Simony,Nepotism and how that degrading process led to Protestantism in the more advanced parts of Europe.
Captain Willard #453563 April 21, 2025 2
Why don’t you re-read my post FFS? I made your first point and obviously I wouldn’t know about Savanarola without understanding your second point.
TomA #453502 April 21, 2025 21
The worst side effect of prolonged affluence is the growth of deadweight in society. These are people with no motivation to be productive, so they must find another means of sustenance and typically migrate toward busybody occupations. Their stock in trade is talk, but in reality they are lazy. In a perfect world, they would be cast into the void in search of motivation and the imperative to be truly productive. Methinks free-riding is about to become much harder to get away with the coming recession. A necessary cure.
Mycale #453504 April 21, 2025 5
I remember people making fun of Goldberg for being lazy, too. This was years ago when he was writing “Liberal Fascism.” This guy really just says what he is told to say and rakes in the money. Compare him to Ben Shapiro, who got started around the same time, is younger than Goldberg, also said what he was told to say, and started writing at roughly the same time, and is younger. Look how much farther Ben has gotten, just because unlike Jonah he has a work ethic.
LineInTheSand #453519 April 21, 2025 7
“motivation and the imperative to be truly productive” Tom, do you grant that there a significant number of people who, due to their poor genetics or old age, will never be truly productive, no matter how hard they try? This problem will become increasingly pressing as automation makes the labor of many unnecessary. These people will be willing to sell their labor but no one will want to buy it. In your vision, what becomes of them?
TomA #453572 April 21, 2025 8
Visit Germany sometime and you will see the elderly out sweeping public walks on Saturday morning. This is the spirit of those who would do good no matter their age or disability or employment status. Serving the community is productive, even when the contribution is minor. Its the mindset that counts.
Steve #453587 April 21, 2025 1
“These people will be willing to sell their labor but no one will want to buy it.”So far, that’s never happened and I see no reason to think it will any time soon. It’s not just Boomers that have lawn services. In fact, it’s mostly not Boomers anymore. And if you wake up and the neighbor’s poop is in your shower, you just want the poop gone and some kind of a guarantee it won’t happen again. Look at the number of young’uns who can’t or won’t change the oil on their own car, or won’t even pull up a Youtube if the hot water stops.
Jeffrey Zoar #453599 April 21, 2025 1
In the era of fake jobs and free money that is all true, but that era won’t last forever, and someday (near or far) people will either have to do it themselves or hire on to do it for others, because they won’t be able to afford to have it done. And the negros who will swamp the world are not trainable.
Steve #453607 April 21, 2025 2
“someday (near or far) people will either have to do it themselves or hire on to do it for others…” Oh, man, from your lips… I’m not a huge fan of the fact I’ve had to teach my daughter how to do home and car repairs, but I’m a friggin’ realist — NO ONE (for almost all values of “NO”) has taught their sons do do it. How is it possible that almost everyone takes their car to the Rapid Oil Change, where they are subject to whatever ROC does to them?
Barney Rubble #453498 April 21, 2025 21
Respectable conservatives are guided by a set of high-minded principles. The fact that the Left doesn’t adhere to those principles or that they result in Leftist outcomes 99.9999% of the time will not cause them to waver.Ben Sasse 2028!
Barney Rubble #453499 April 21, 2025 24
Oh, I should add that the fact that Conservative Principles just always happen to align with the donor agenda — pure coincidence.
ray #453530 April 21, 2025 3
Surely it is a miracle.
Steve #453585 April 21, 2025 1
How could it not? With the extant incentive structure, what other outcome is possible? Rather than just “noticing”, or even changing small things at the margin, unless the incentive structure is radically reconsidered, nothing changes.
Grumpy #453482 April 21, 2025 20
Herding preachers/hypocrites is like herding cats.The one thing preachers/hypocrites can’t stand and will send them scurrying back to cover is ridicule. Make fun of them at every turn. Ask them the right questions to their face and sit back and watch them cover up like a cat covering poo in the litter box. It’s worth the price of listening to them in the first place.I just have to make sure I check the mirror every morning to make sure I haven’t also put on the robes of preacher/hypo!I give you Letitia James!
Ketchup-stained Griller #453492 April 21, 2025 15
Back in my UMC-going days the Praise Band played The StonesCan’t get No Satisfactionso preacher could riff a sermon off it. On the way out I just asked if he was going to coverBrown Sugarnext week. At least he grinned a little.
Steve #453637 April 21, 2025 0
Pretty sure UMC is a lost cause. Maybe since Wesley started the whole “social justice” thing, but definitely by ’65 when the UMC decided it applies to people who didn’t want to rent to nogs because of their credit records…
Jeffrey Zoar #453497 April 21, 2025 18
Will the op-ed pages survive the passing of the boomers and the end of USAID? (if it stays ended). Does anyone under 50 read them? What will become of the preachers then? Preachers who are reduced to making tweets on Bluesky don’t carry quite the same gravitas that they did on the editorial page in the pre internet world.
G Lordon Giddy #453507 April 21, 2025 17
The Trump Administration this time around has done a decent job of having back up plans. I wonder what the back up plan could be for a hostile Supreme Court and Federal Reserve?Perhaps a papal type visit by JD Vance?
Compsci #453512 April 21, 2025 20
One can hope, but my suspicion was from the get go that Trump is betting the farm on the SCOTUS. His executive orders and the ignoring of the lower courts is a major gamble to (re)establish Executive authority, which is the only possible way to right the ship of state—Congress proven to be a hopeless recourse in the past. Could it really be that the Constitution really is a “mutual death pact”?
Ride-By Shooter #453524 April 21, 2025 -4
“Could it really be that the Constitution really is a ‘mutual death pact’?”The Z man remains unconvinced, which is sad. (He’s also still confusing nation and union, as in paragraph 2 above.) It’s stunningly obvious that the preamble is a big lie, one of the most influential in human history. It points the way to absurd developments, too.Why, for instance, do some crazies want children to vote? How could anyone hold so moronic an idea? Read the Columbians’ preamble. We have to admit that children are “People”, and thetext claims a unanimity which was not and could never have been. Still, having accepted this much, the implication about children (and other) unfit people having authority follows immediately. Their Con says in effect thatall people, whatever their age and ability, have authority to be their own rulers, to choose their political system, and to impose their foolishness by force. Is this not the practical political ideal of the “Enlightenment”?So why are the people being dragged to destruction? It’s not just the fault of the dirty, rotten Phonecians and their torahs, although the Phonecians do love the USA for what she makes possible. American conservatards are doing it, and the Z man is a man of their millieu.
Jeffrey Zoar #453537 April 21, 2025 3
It could have made sense, in theory, since he picked the judges
Hemid #453555 April 21, 2025 3
He did it without the wisdom that doing favors for non-friends makes them hate you.
Mycale #453562 April 21, 2025 4
Yes, I always thought that was the plan, and he felt like he had a solid enough majority and reasonableness and the plain language of Article II would carry the day. It wasn’t a bad bet, but we can see that #theresistance is spinning up again and Roberts, Comey-Barrett, and even Gorsuch are squishes. It was predictable, I suppose, but I also don’t know what other options Trump had. If the SCOTUS can’t wrangle in the deep state, then we truly have no hope.
ray #453577 April 21, 2025 4
It was that liberal feminist, Donald J. Trump, who nominated Coney-Barrett under the absurd supposition that she is, wait for it now, a conservative. Donald also was under pressure to nominate a female, the apparent plan being put a chick in it and watch it bank Leftwards into hell. This is the same president who sells Make America Great tickets.
Compsci #453598 April 21, 2025 5
Interesting observation Ray. Yep, since the first female Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, has any of them—Dem or Rep—proved to be conservative in the likeness of some of the greats like Scalia? Not to mention the current three Dem (all women) picks sitting on the SCOTUS. Well, no. So the question arises, why the hell does any Rep president consider a women at all—if he truly wants the best chance of picking a conservative justice?
Steve #453603 April 21, 2025 1
“why the hell does any Rep president consider a women at all?” They can’t all suck. In fact, from what I hear, most don’t…
Ostei Kozelskii #453606 April 21, 2025 2
From a common-sense standpoint, it’s a good question, but I think you know the answer to it.
ray #453627 April 21, 2025 2
Socio-political and familial pressure. The GOP and Right are feminists and egalitarians too. Women have dragged the nation ever Leftward since even BEFORE the Nineteenth Amendment. Presidents (and others) ignore that because even they can’t speak the truth about the ruinous nature of collective female power. It is a feminist nation, and even ‘conservative’ presidents operate under that rubric. Not outside of it, where the cold winds of the void blow.
Daniel Bernard Respecter #453602 April 21, 2025 3
Well a backup plan might be to continue the summary deportations under one of the many other applicable laws, most passed in the post 9/11 hysteria, and thereby force a restart of the judicial process. Tom Holman can quote these chapter and verse. Most just need the Sec of States OK and Rubio has been one of the pleasant surprises.Also: the Constitution need not be a suicide pact. That position is rather new. It came, big surprise, from William O. Douglas in one of his first forays into judicial idiocy, Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 1949. The lengthy and learned dissent by Jackson ended with the famous declaration: “[I]f the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”I hope Trump quotes this if he decides to get spicy.
Hi-ya #453481 April 21, 2025 17
Leonard Downie, thePost’sexecutive editor, has killed several of Mr. Hart’s cartoons (the cartoon “B.C.”)because, he says, “We don’t promote individual religions anywhere in the paper. We let people discuss religion as an issue, but we don’t advocate a particular religion.”Well now, that’s swell, isn’t it? “We”—thePost, the other papers, the Anti-Defamation League, and everybody else apparently except the millions of American newspaper readers who actually do advocate particular religions—decide what gets promoted and what doesn’t. Religion, for them, is in the same category—maybe even in a somewhat more taboo category—as outright obscenity and explicit racial epithets. Advocating a specific religious position is forbidden—except, of course, the intensely religious position of secularism…What the elite media deny is not that right in the abstract but any concrete opportunity for Mr. Hart to exercise it. It’s fine to thump your chest about how committed you are to freedom of expression. But when you insinuate that someone is “anti-Semitic” and effectively deny him a place in your newspaper explicitly because of his religious beliefs, your “commitment to free expression” is meaningless.Mr. Hart’s importance does not lie in the truthfulness of his beliefs or even in the clever ways he expresses them. Rather, it lies in the fact that simply by expressing them he helps expose the Big Lies of “tolerance,” “diversity,” and “freedom” that the media chieftains are always yapping about. There is tolerance, diversity, and freedom for those views of which the elite media approve. For those views they don’t like and don’t want to publish—and explicit Christian commitments are among them—the media send a very clear exclusionary messageSam Francis
NoName #453474 April 21, 2025 16
“Jonah Goldberg” Wow, now that’s a trip down Memory Lane. It’s been well over a decade since I’ve seen that name, “Jonah Goldberg”.
NoName #453475 April 21, 2025 22
It brings back the memories of the existential treason of William F Buckley, and his worthless son, Christopher. Boy I would love to see the true flow chart of the income into the Buckley family, to include the true origins of that income.
Dutchboy #453533 April 21, 2025 12
I have no problem with those who preach against actual sin but I have no patience for the DEI preachers.
Ride-By Shooter #453557 April 21, 2025 -6
It’s interesting that both churches preach some doctrine of original sin. Your problem is a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. You want vanilla ice cream, not chocolate. Wine, not beer. Roasted corn on a cob, not creamed corn out of a can.
Steve #453594 April 21, 2025 3
This bit about original sin is true. And probably True. Since Easter is recently passed, it’s worth considering His words in Gethsemane — not that they were flawed humans, tainted by Original Sin, rather that the spirit was willing but the flesh weak. Not the worthless pathetic sinners that many denominations preach, but rather that they were inherently weak, and in need of help.
Stephanie #454042 April 23, 2025 0
They had their first round pick, #1 champion of DEI ‘preachers’ scold Trump and Melania. Another poorly thought-out scheme, or else they fell into a trap, because it was a bad look. That old lesbian scold using the Church as a skinsuit. Getting paid for it too, with tax payers money to boot.
Namely #453503 April 21, 2025 12
I noticed that for a few months before and after the election zman blog used to come at the top in Google search. Now itis pushed back by the algo to 7th place again. Does that mean the tech compao are back to max censorship again?
Hemid #453558 April 21, 2025 1
Google never changed much.Everyone who was banned in the great purge still is.Ben Shapiro just got a video suppressed for talking about British tranny news in it. Sam Hyde’s editor still has to bleep out “covid” to dodge the censorship bot (one of the many censorship bots, one that’s permanently attached to him). A wave of demonetization recently hit thousands of the marginally “based,” from Carl Benjamin to Japanese cartoon girls, for, the accusations say, fraud.Whatfraud? No response. The electronic jeet (“AI”) has no idea. It knows to say you did it.Also, 4chan is kill—finally, truly—and not only 4chan but almost all of its obscure replacements. A hell of a thing just happened.Elon and Zuck project an illusion that the internet isrewilding. That illusion is thinner than 2D.
Ostei Kozelskii #453573 April 21, 2025 5
May have something to do with AI. I’ve noticed that, since the AI explosion, whenever I do a search on DuckDuckGo, the first three pages (at minimum) are chock-a-block full of corporate links. I mean, the same dam’ corporations over and over. Prior to AI, smaller fry routinely populated the first page of the search results. Now to find those results, I have to cycle through page after page.
KGB #453629 April 21, 2025 1
I think that change occured several years before the AI deouge. Your Google results in 2017 bore no resemblance to what you would have had in, say, 2006.
Ostei Kozelskii #453636 April 21, 2025 1
I don’t know anything about Google. Haven’t used them in a coon’s age. But I do know there’s been a clear change with DDG, and it’s happened within the last year, two years max.
Shotgun Messenger #453630 April 21, 2025 0
Search engine “optimization” predates AI by a bit and isn’t directly related. That was just the next step in pay to play and executive censorship the capital ‘N’ Net Neutrality folks were all worried about in 2010 and then pretended wasn’t happening in 2015 when it was people they liked doing it in spite of the rules they wanted being in force. All pretense was dropped after that got repealed, and the AI component was grafted on later, after which what workarounds I’d discovered stopped working pretty rapidly.
Tarl Cabot #453528 April 21, 2025 9
The Americas were conquered by pirates and preachers. It has always been a yin and yang between the two. At the moment, we need more of the former. Roll up your sleeves, raise the black flag…you know the rest.
Ostei Kozelskii #453574 April 21, 2025 2
Pro tip: when spitting on one’s hands, make sure not to hack up a loogie…
Steve #453592 April 21, 2025 1
Bootleggers and Baptists. Yandle, IIRC. Any time I end up thinking something that one of my foes thinks, I go back and check my math. Occasionally there is a true common cause, but mostly, it’s that it’s simply a common direction, and they intend to stab me in the back before we get where I want to be.
Severian #453483 April 21, 2025 8
I love the idea of locking preachers up in their churches. They used to do that in the Middle Ages — it worked ok for someone like Julian of Norwich. Make Anchoresses Great Again!
ray #453535 April 21, 2025 6
Let us also take a moment to pay tribute to the inestimable Earl of Sandwich. Mama was lazy so this man took ACTION. Without this great white male heh the world would never have had sammiches. We’d look at the bread and the meat, the bread and the meat, but never put them together. Props.
Filthie #453543 April 21, 2025 7
It’s the damnedest thing, isn’t it?A couple years back we had this guest speecher from down in the States visit our little chapel out in the country and he was to do the honors one Sunday. Cool, I thought, our regular elders do a good job of preaching and it might be interesting to listen to a new voice.Well this little prick gets up there, starts waving his fat little fists around, shouting admonishments and accusations at us and lecturing us like we were all disobedient 9 year olds. Within 5 minutes I was gritting my teeth, listening to this sanctimonious goof – and at ten minutes in I just stood up on my hind feet and walked out! I’d heard enough.I got reamed right out by the Elders the next week, for being extremely rude. I asked them why they took it? Our people were really good folks, and that guy had no business talking to them like that. I asked them what they were thinking by even inviting him to speak? But… I was the only one that took it that way. They patiently explained to me that there were different styles of evangelism and that was just how this guy did things.People WANT preachers and scolds. They’ll pay through the nose and hang on their every word. They’ll line up ten deep for the chance to jump through Jonah Goldberg’s hoops, or fetch the stick for David Fwench.I think the only way to end the scourge of these guys is as proposed by some of the old NRx crowd. Round them up, lock them into the churches and chain the doors shut – and then set it on fire and shoot any that manage to climb out trying to avoid the flames.Salting the earth on the ground after they burn down is probably a good idea too.
Ride-By Shooter #453554 April 21, 2025 -7
“People WANT…scolds.” No, abusers and masochists want scolds, though surely for different reasons. You showed up for service that day to be scolded, same as any pious, orthodox triadolater ever has. You rebelled bc the denigration was stronger than you prefer. It was a matter of flavor intensity, or you were put off by the sweetness or sourness of the beverage served. The Elders had you and your religion figured out better than you understand.
Filthie #453566 April 21, 2025 15
Really. I don’t think you have any idea of what a real preacher is or why a Christian would listen to them. I’ll chalk that up to the fact that you are obviously a product of a world that is fake and gay.
Vizzini #453638 April 21, 2025 4
That was a more polite response than I could have managed.
WCiv911 #453570 April 21, 2025 3
Stories like this, Filthie make me feel so fortunate that we have found a good Christian, Bible based church led by a wise Pastor with his head on straight. Praise the Lord!
Epaminondas #453515 April 21, 2025 7
I see “preachers” as children who have stayed up too late and need to be sent to bed. Some need to be sent to bed without their supper.
RealityRules #453536 April 21, 2025 6
I do not thing that what we are dealing with are neo Great Awakening cult leaders out in the middle of nowhere taking advantage of near total geographic isolation absent of most civilizational, (Old World), amenities herding people into their quackery.On the one hand we have a bunch of Friar Savonarolas in pink hair and draped in foreign flags. On the other we have people like Goldberg who isn’t a preacher. He is a liar. He is paid to say anything, no matter how untrue, to get the empire to do the bidding of those who pay him to lie.Between all of them they are creating massive amounts of mayhem. I am in a foul mood after spending a bunch of time tumbling down the rabbit hole of looking at the extent of our dispossession. Were it that the imperialists ran us to standard ruin that we could suffer under and then rise again that would be one thing. But, when you look at the scale of the crime of giving everything we had away and then willfully conditioning us to accept it, and to even accept genocide and to forgive remorseless murderers who can kill us with impunity, it is just something that makes you want to explode.I think these reforms are going to fail. The numbers of people and numbers of rackets are just too great in number and the diffusion of the dispossessors and patrons is way too wide and far to reform. Well, it could happen, but you need a reformer whose primary goal isn’t running a business but saving a civilization.In the end, 180 million people forsaken and whose country was and still is handed away to foreigners both at the bottom and at the top are going to wake up and realize the full scale of the crime. A day is coming when 90 million White men will realize that everything was taken from them and that they have nothing left to lose.
TempoNick #453539 April 21, 2025 5
Erick Erickson another one of those creatures on the cuck right. Don’t forget to single him out as one of the more annoying of that breed.
Mike #453549 April 21, 2025 2
Is Glen Beck still a thing now? I never see anything from him or about him and don’t look either.
Barney Rubble #453560 April 21, 2025 9
There is a video clip floating around of Beck claiming his personal allegiance to Our Greatest Ally in terms that are so over the top that you’d think Julius Streicher wrote it as a spoof. Surreal.
Ride-By Shooter #453550 April 21, 2025 5
“on the cuck right” Is there any other right in the USA? Afaik, there are no so-called dissidents hiding out in the legislatures, keeping their heads down, subverting the Great Mistake and its fake “supreme Law”. If you have no representation in their evil system, you’re not even on the pitifully narrow, one-dimensional axis labeled left, right, and center. Instead, you’re another one of the losers being deleted, like that kid who was beaten recently near Frisco, Texas.
Steve #453593 April 21, 2025 1
“subverting the Great Mistake and its fake “supreme Law”.” Thing is, they don’t need to, nor would it be to their advantage. Doing so would at least turn them into “Common Causers” Democrats. Who won’t reward them with cash and prizes for siding with them. There is just no reason for them to stick their heads up to get chopped off. I doubt you are offering them a comfortable sinecure if they stink up the Capitol, are you?
usNthem #453601 April 21, 2025 4
It seems like the Trump administration needs to basically ignore the law – or at the very least, these jackoff judges, many of whom aren’t even real Americans. Further, the proselytizing and hypocritical preachers need to be rounded up and sent someplace worse than their “churches”.
Steve #453611 April 21, 2025 0
Agreed. How?
redbeard #453531 April 21, 2025 4
Ah come on Z, the Protestants aren’t that bad! ….well maybe they are actually.
My Comment #453586 April 21, 2025 2
Very astute observation: We are sinners in the hands of an angry God named Karen from Human Resources.
Templar #453639 April 21, 2025 1
…behind the pleasant looking face of every stranger could lie the pursed lips of a vinegar drinking scold… Have you ever tried drinking shots of white vinegar? It produces an intriguing sensation, akin to stabbing a syringe loaded with ice water into the middle of one’s forehead.
Vizzini #453634 April 21, 2025 1
In a land full of preachers, we have a superabundance of preachers who turned out to be worse sinners than the people in the pews. Is that actually true, or is it just what TV and film have taught us?
Templar #453728 April 22, 2025 0
Is that actually true, or is it just what Hollywood Jews would have us believe? FTFY.
karl von hungus #453488 April 21, 2025 1
surprised you didn’t anchor things to the Salem Witch Trials episode.
Vxxc #453844 April 22, 2025 0
Boudica?That is extremely unfair to the real lifeBoudica.


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