Notice

 Much like Art, I will not be checking the blog regularly over the next few days.   Don't get impatient, don't get your panties wadded, and chill out, if I don't approve or respond to your comments as quickly as you'd like.  

BoT, Fraud, Venezuela Hypocrisy, RoP, Incoherence, And More

 https://x.com/i/status/2002767292782760347

 https://x.com/laralogan/status/1999926620103254425?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/charliek_news/status/1999483215417922003?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

More fraud fun

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2002033335510741371?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Our very own human feces map.   

  https://x.com/govtstheproblem/status/1999536820296511624?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

More DFL leaders advocating for more criminals running free. 

 https://x.com/gunthereagleman/status/2000976782925693125?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/lancegooden/status/1999546593230442725?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/1999198852717424957?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

What could possibly have changed?

  https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1999553320311026066?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This whole narrative that the Epstein files was going to sink Trump looks stupider and stupider every day.   

 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1999256337419555044?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

The whole BLM movement was a massive fraud which did nothing except enrich a few black women. 

  https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1999121027675099213?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I might have posted this, but am not sure.  But more legal justification for Trump's actions around Venezuela.   

https://x.com/radiogenoa/status/2000119306403664092?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/2000206483913400742?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/1999997819009286539?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/repfine/status/1999844546818232440?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/rubinreport/status/1999504803706097843?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/1999496902266478881?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/trobinsonnewera/status/1999278085003444335?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 The very simple reality is that the policies supported by the politicians that people just like (and including) Dan are to blame for all of the above.   The rapes, the attacks, the shootings, the kidnappings, the mass killings, the attempts to impose Sharia,  that have been visited upon Western countries should be laid squarely at the feet of Dan and his fellow progressives.  They advocated for unlimited immigration, a revolving door judicial, and supported those who pushed it through.  Now we have billions in fraud, attempts to have actual insurrections, and crimes going (mostly) unpunished.  If you supported Biden's immigration policies, this is on you.  

More CS

 “I must, of course, admit that the actual state of affairs may sometimes be so bad that a man is tempted to risk change even by revolutionary methods; to say that desperate diseases require desperate remedies and that necessity knows no law. But to yield to this temptation is, I think, fatal. It is under that pretext that every abomination enters. Hitler, the Machiavellian Prince, the Inquisition, the Witch Doctor, all claimed to be necessary.  The first tendency is the growing exaltation of the collective and the growing indifference to persons. The philosophical sources are probably in Rousseau and Hegel, but the general character of modern life with its huge impersonal organisations may be more potent than any philosophy. Secondly, we have the emergence of ‘the Party’ in the modern sense – the Fascists, Nazis, or Communists. What distinguishes this from the political parties of the nineteenth century is the belief of its members that they are not merely trying to carry out a programme, but are obeying an impersonal force: that Nature, or Evolution, or the Dialectic, or the Race, is carrying them on. This tends to be accompanied by two beliefs which cannot, so far as I can see, be reconciled in logic but which blend very easily on the emotional level: the belief that the process which the Party embodies is inevitable, and the belief that the forwarding of this process is the supreme duty and abrogates all ordinary moral laws. In this state of mind men can become devil-worshippers in the sense that they can now honour, as well as obey, their own vices. All men at times obey their vices: but it is when cruelty, envy, and lust of power appear as commands of a great super-personal force that they can be exercised with self-approval.”"

 

 

"Another excerpt: “I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others. And the higher the pretensions of such power, the more dangerous I think it both to the rulers and to the subjects. Hence Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. A metaphysic, held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign. It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In a word, it forbids wholesome doubt. A political programme can never in reality be more than probably right. We never know all the facts about the present and we can only guess the future. To attach to any party program – whose highest real claim is to reasonable prudence – the sort of assent which we should reserve for demonstrable theorems, is a kind of intoxication.”"

C.S. Lewis Has A Point

 "I’m reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I came across a fascinating idea I’ve never heard presented before. Lewis doesn’t state it directly—only its implication—but for his conclusion to hold, it must be inferred. It appears in the chapter “The Cardinal Virtues,” on the final two pages. Lewis distinguishes between performing a just or temperate act and actually being a just or temperate person. A poor tennis player might hit a great shot occasionally, but that doesn’t make him a good player. We all agree on that. Therefore, isolated acts of obedience don’t make one virtuous, character is revealed in consistency. From there, Lewis argues that God wants more than mere obedience. Obedience matters, but God cares far more about our character. He wants us to become people who naturally produce obedient behavior. Then comes the part I've been contemplating for the last few days. Lewis notes that we might assume virtues are needed only for this life, because in heaven there will be nothing to quarrel about (so no need for justice) and no danger (so no need for courage). But he adds that while God won’t refuse entry to heaven for lacking certain qualities, heaven offers no further opportunity to develop them. As a result, we will never attain the “deep, strong, unshakable kind of happiness” God intends. The inference that struck me is this: we may have only our time on earth to become the people God intends us to be. This life forms our capacity for joy, virtue, and glory. Heaven fulfills it but does not expand it through suffering. In heaven there are no trials to forge bravery, self-control, patience, humility, resilience, integrity, gratitude, or joy in the midst of hardship. Those qualities are shaped here, not there. So here's the unsettling question: once we die and enter eternity, is our development finished? Is this life our only chance to become the best version of ourselves? If so, it’s sobering. All the time wasted scrolling Instagram reels or behaving poorly without seeking growth would carry eternal consequences. I should live each day with urgency, taking massive strides toward becoming the man God intends. The day I die, the work ends. My capacity for joy and virtue can no longer grow. I’m not sure if this idea is theologically sound. Maybe it's not. I’d love some insight from theologians who could explain why it might not hold. But if this life truly is our only training ground, delay is far more dangerous than I ever realized. That thought alone makes me want to live with far greater urgency than yesterday."

That Thing That Never Happens, Happened Again

 https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/fulton-county-we-dont-dispute-315000-votes-lacking-poll-workers-signatures-were-counted-in-2020/

 

Well, one more "conspiracy theory" that falls victim to reality.  

 

We were told this never happens...

We were told that even if it did happen, that it wasn't enough to make a difference.   

When A DFL Senator Is Convinced

 https://x.com/overton_news/status/2001114723190735162?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Interesting position from a democrat.   

A Good Laugh

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2000604264209527213?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This is absolutely hilarious.