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July 20, 2018
Finding Fellowship in Innocent Sufferings
In the providential wisdom of God we are punished by, not for, our sins. The core sin of American conservatives–and above all American conservative, “prolife” Christianists–is Pride. They cannot accept the fact that they were simply flat-out wrong. They have told themselves for twenty years that they are the *Real* Christians, the *Real* Americans, the […]
July 19, 2018
Useful Idiots
Long ago, the Commies used to speak of suckers in the west as “useful idiots”. In the 20s, there was Anna Louise Strong, who was well described by Malcolm Muggeridge as “an enormous woman with a very red face, a lot of white hair, and an expression of stupidity so overwhelming that it amounted to […]
July 18, 2018
The Standard Trump Pattern
Whenever Trump does something so disgusting even his most devoted liars in his base are temporarily silenced while they think up a new lie to defend him, and have to play for time by expressing a bit of fake outrage at him until they can regroup and press on, he will offer a phony “clarification”–and […]
Toldja
“He kept us out of war!” is the new agreed-upon lie of the Lie Machine: Three important notes: The last person who made this a slogan was Woodrow Wilson. A month after his inauguration, he led us into World War I. With Trump, accusation is *always* a form of confession. Do the math. Nobody is […]
In which a reader seeks my Seattle expertise and is sorely disappointed
He writes I hope you and your family are doing well. I’m a long-time reader of your books and blog. In fact, your book BY WHAT AUTHORITY? was one of the final pushes to my own crossing the Tiber. J Thanks be to God! Anyway, I was hoping you might have a few moments to […]
July 17, 2018
Trump to America
“I didn’t mean to punch you so many times, baby. It’s just that you make me so mad sometimes. Come on. You know I love you, dollface. Now let me back in or so help me you’ll get worse next time. Hey! I’m *just kidding*! Now let me in, you stupid sow!” America is on […]
This will be the emerging narrative
On #Cavuto, Senator @RandPaul said that he saw the summit between President @realDonaldTrump and Russian President Putin as "renewing engagement and renewing open lines of conversation." pic.twitter.com/GY5UqknMVL — Fox News (@FoxNews) July 17, 2018 When Trump shocks the Right Wing Lie Machine with the latest indefensibility, it typically takes them about 24 hours or so […]
CatholicVote rejects being Prolife
So a week or two ago, I was talking about how the “prolife” movement had long ago abandoned being prolife in favor of using the unborn as human shields for all the anti-life stuff it actually cares about: I am actually old enough to remember the genesis of the Prolife Movement and how it settled […]
July 16, 2018
The normal GOP sound and fury has been sounded
McCain has registered his genuine disgust with Trump’s traitorous suckupery to Putin and his spittle directed at our intelligence and law enforcement communities. McConnell has pretended to care. So has Ryan. Other GOP accomplices have made the proper noises. Even FOX could not dig down deep inside and find the lies necessary to excuse Trump’s […]
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