THE POINT OF NO RETURN?

      There was a story circulating in the European news today wherein the EU leadership has become concerned about illiteracy levels within the Bloc. Specifically Austria produced some less-than-stellar numbers in a recent survey. This came as something of a surprise because a century ago, Austria was one of the cultural hubs of Europe. The country suffered a huge wave of anti-intellectual sentiment after the Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918; and like a lot of other EU nations has more recently been the target of American Exceptionalism spreading its toxic influence. 

      For us Americans, however, therein lies the story that we should all note. According to the article, "a total of 29.0% or around 2.6 million people have a low level of literacy...The number of those who have problems with reading increased by 11.9% between 2012 and 2023.The average literacy level among Austrians aged 16 to 65 stands at 254 points, which is significantly below the average of 260 points set by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)."

    While these numbers are alarming, if the US had the same levels of literacy it would actually be an improvement. Even more importantly, our literacy rates have shown a consistent level of decline over a longer period of time. However, the numbers in Austria showed a hopeful trend:

   "People from 16 to 24 performed above the OECD average, while older people appear to have significantly lower reading skills than the expected level, the agency said." This is decidedly not the case in the US.

     In the recent controversies surrounding Harvard University and student visas, it was revealed that around 27% the attendees at America's nominally top-rated academic institutions were educated outside the United States. This led our Department of Education---which itself has been headed by a collection of complete morons for a very long time to scapegoat international students rather than focus on our own longstanding and very institutionalized decline.

    That the American Public Education System is hopelessly corrupt can hardly be denied; though most of the American Public itself generally does. Compared to Austria (and most countries in the world) American parents and local authorities actually have a great degree of control over public education. In spite of this greater freedom, Americans mostly have remained wholly apathetic towards---and even supportive of---the increasingly worsening Status Quo. 

   The underlying reason for this is that we, as a society, do not value children or young people generally. We live in a culture that is deeply Narcissistic and completely focused on the present. We have both contempt for the past (as is reflected in our treatment of the elderly) and little to no concern for the future (as is reflected in our treatment of our youth). This trend has been going on for several years, and, like the rampant dumbing-down of our society, is by design. We have allowed ourselves to outsource our thinking and put our future generations in the hands of Mass Media, Mass Schooling, and Big Tech and the result has been predictable. 

    For this reason, the 'solutions' proposed by the Left Wing of the Uniparty (i.e. throwing more money at the problem and trusting self-styled 'experts' to use it responsibly) or those proposed by the Right Wing of the Uniparty (i.e. outsource more of it to Corporate Robber-Barons and Megachurches and trusting grifters to exercise accountability) won't work. We have to face the fact that the problem begins at home. While it maybe so that, to some extent, it does take a village to raise a child---in the sense that the community should be supportive of raising and training children---handing over the youth to the community and hoping for the best hasn't worked out well and never can. Austrians are figuring this out. Maybe instead of looking down our noses at the Europeans we could learn something from them. 

    

IS THIS THE DOWNFALL OF ELON MUSK?

       It has been a little under four months since the White House announced the illegal creation of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and, in turn, illegally appointed the Globalist Tech Lord, drug-addict, and Neo-Nazi Elon Musk to lead it. Musk was allegedly supposed to ferret out trillions of dollars in 'waste, fraud, and abuse,' although his own position as a major Government Contractor and the fact that he was under investigation by several of the agencies that he targeted wasn't questioned any more than Musk's shady background or his legal authority to do such things was. Being a top Republican donor, having a personal social-media platform, and a Cult of Celebrity among the self-styled Alpha Red Pills almost as large as Trump's was all that mattered.

      The Tech Lord promptly unleashed a small battery of broccoli-haired, goat-bearded Millennials and Zoomers armed with Hookah Pipes and Grok-Chat AI Apps upon all of the sensitive data possessed by the U.S. Federal Government. This group managed to exceed in its arrogance the already well-deserved stereotype of the heavy-handed government bureaucrat: arbitrarily firing people with no reasons given, imposing bullying demands, cancelling contracts on a whim, slashing services, etc.

       In the months of ensuing chaos, most of DOGE's crimes have been overturned by Federal Courts. The amount of taxpayer money alleged saved has fallen far short of Musk's promises and despite all of the claims of waste, fraud, and abuse no criminal charges have been brought against any of the alleged wasters, fraudsters, and abusers. Musk did succeed, however, in engineering a massive wealth-transfer for his Wall Street cronies as well as data-mining personal information to feed to the Tech Lords for a price.

     Despite his massive machinery for self-promotion and fanatically loyal fan-base, Musk's popularity---even among the largely apathetic American public---has sunk to near Dick Cheney-levels of approval. Fearing the backlash in the upcoming 2026 Elections, the RNC has pressured the White House to rein Musk in, leading to speculation from many media outlets that Musk is finished. That would be great news if true, but we feel that the mass celebrating might be a little premature.

    Musk's profile has diminished in the Deep State considerably, but he's still lurking behind the scenes. Only two weeks ago, Musk led a delegation of Globalist plutocrats on a Middle Eastern tour, ostensibly headed by Donald Trump. Despite his falling stock prices, his decision to 'step down' led to a rally (pumped up no doubt by his pals in the WEF); and he managed to score a number of Government contracts in the BUBBA Act 'Big Beautiful Budget Bill' now being debated by the Rump Congress. Musk was also behind the disgraceful treatment of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House last week. 

   He doesn't seem to be cleaning out his offices at the White House or Mar-a-Lago. In short, this is all for public consumption, giving Musk time to do damage-control, rallying his fan-base, and strategizing for 2026 and beyond. 

   The phony allegations of disputes between Trump and Musk are of the same stripe. We saw the same tactic employed during the campaign: several top former Bush officials endorsed Kamala Harris to fool skeptical voters into believing that the Neocons didn't support Trump. Of course, immediately after the election, Bush Machine stalwart Susie Wiles was appointed White House Chief-of-Staff, along with other Bush Machine toadies like Marco Rubio, Pam Bondi, Rick Grenell, etc., being elevated to high positions.

    Musk is a key figure in both popularizing and advancing the Techno-Fascist agenda behind the Great Reset. The larger goal of the Globalist interests transcends national politics and we need to bear that in mind. Also, we need to expose (while we still can) the character and objectives of the sick minds behind that agenda.

 

THE UNIPARTY AND THE NEW MEDIA

      One of the most common myths in Postmodern America is the belief that the Mainstream Media and the Controlled Opposition (i.e. 'Alternative') Media represents two fundamentally different worldviews. This is no more true than the equally potent myth that the two parties are somehow different and don't serve the same interests. The Corporate Oligarchs---who own both the Media and the Government---rely upon the propagation and continuance of these myths to keep up the illusion that America is a vibrant, participatory Democracy. 

      As we enter the Accelerationist Phase of the Great Reset, led by figures like Elon Musk who himself is both a media mogul and WEF operative, we are witnessing today a second revolutionary phase in Media Consolidation. The first occurred mostly from the mid-1990s to the 2010s when Government stripped away legal safeguards against media consolidation and encroached heavily on the symbiotic relationship between itself and the so-called 'free press.' The repeals, contrary to what many believe, were joint-efforts led by both factions of the Uniparty. 

    Through a combination of Lawfare and intimidation, a coordinated assault has been launched against the Mainstream branch of the Corporate Media. Now, if an actual Conservative approach were being taken: i.e. breaking up monopolies, ending Regulatory Capture, and closing things like the Revolving-Door, and reinstating Anti-Propaganda Laws, positive steps would be taken to restore some semblance to a First Amendment again. However, this is not the approach that the Administration is taking.

     In perfect harmony with the blueprint outlined in Mein Kampf Project 2025, the objectives of the Great Reset, and the vision of the Dark Enlightment, the Tech Lords and other interested parties running the current Administration do not seek to terminate media monopolies and restore free-market competition: they seek to take over the Mass-Media and unite it under one aegis. In other words, the Mainstream Media has served its purpose to the Oligarchs and has become expendable. 

       Most of the True Believers choose to remain in blissful ignorance of the fact that the 'news sources' they trust so completely are themselves deeply embedded with the Uniparty and heavily influenced by foreign ideologues, including many dangerous religious cults. 

       Fox News Network, owned by WEF member Rupert Murdoch, has contributed nearly two dozen of its operatives to key positions in the Trump 47 Administration. Murdoch's enterprises are heavily funded by the same autocratic Gulf State regimes visited by Trump and his Corporate entourage last week. 

     The aforementioned Elon Musk, likewise, is heavily indebted the Saudi Monarchy, including a fat payout for a big share in the Twitter hostile takeover. One of Musk's first acts upon this takeover was to appoint more of his and the Saudi royal family's WEF pals to key leadership positions at X. 

     Yet, this is what we're supposed to believe is draining the swamp and restoring press freedom. The fact is that this Administration has merely shifted the labels and is enforcing speech codes and setting up its own disinformation outlets just as aggressively as the previous one did. There has been almost no resistance from Mainstream 'journalists' of course. They long ago sold out any principles that they might have had once and have realistically adjusted themselves to the New Normal. Most Americans likely will do the same. The Patriot Act first and the Scamdemic secondly, demonstrated that Americans are unwilling to fight for anything as arcane as the First Amendment. Still, they'll keep the First Amendment around in spite of its being a dead letter, while the Oligarchs and their paid parrots keep up the Official Narrative of Protecting our Freedoms.

     

NATIONAL PANIC ATTACK ENSUES OVER COMEY'S BEACHCOMBING

      The American Public---always agog for something sufficiently scandalous to distract attention from minor issues like threats from Neo-Nazis in the White House to declare Martial Law---is aggressively debating the meaning of some seashells that someone arranged on a Caribbean beach which were photographed and shared by former FBI Director James Comey. This otherwise meaningless photo of arranged seashells---left by nobody knows whom for reasons nobody knows why has drawn down rage from the Highest Levels from those convinced that they infallibly know the import of such cryptic messages. 

       "James Comey just issued a call to action to murder the President of the United States!" WEF Young Global Leader and former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard thundered on Musk's media outlet, "As a former FBI Director and someone who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, he knew exactly what he was doing and must be held accountable under the full force of the law! We fully support the Secret Service investigation into Comey’s threat on President Trump’s life!"

One would assume that, after the January 6 inquisition, we'd have had enough of these stretches of the imagination to invoke National Security excuses to conduct assizes against political opponents, but I guess not. Just as a reminder: as Conservatives, we're supposed to be against such things as weaponizing the Legal System, and not behaving like Democrats do.

To believe the Official Neocon Narrative, we have to assume the following: a retired Government official, whom the day before shared photos of himself lounging on the beach drinking cocktails spent the afternoon collecting seashells to spell out a coded message that hardly anyone understood in an attempt to overthrow the Trump Administration. Numbers like these have been used before in political contexts, but it isn't really much more threatening than potheads leaving '420' symbols all over the place assuming that nobody over the age of 30 knows what it means.

Even if Comey did all of this deliberately, or was just too drunk or affected by a sunstroke to realize what he was doing, sharing this photo is (for now, at least) still Constitutionally-protected Free Speech and so is all of the other dirt that the Controlled Opposition is trying to dig up on him.

To quote a Biblical proverb here, the Conservative-Industrial Complex is straining at a gnat to swallow a camel. Our Constitutional System of Self-Government has been eroding steadily for the last three decades, and has gone into hyper-drive since the Scamdemic. We've entered the Accelerationist Phase of the Great Reset, whether MAGA True Believers want to admit it or not, and we're far closer to losing our Republic altogether than we are to Making America Great Again. Conservatives need to get over this obsession with owning the Libtards and start worrying about taking back ownership of our country from the Uniparty and their Globalist Overlords.

QATARI JETS AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS

       The Mass-Distraction of the Week in our nominally free press has been a raging controversy over President Trump receiving a gift of a luxury airliner from the thugs running the Qatari Government. The President and his entourage of WEF linchpins are in that country today, of which the royal-owned Qatar Investment Authority is a WEF Strategic Partner. That, and the $1.2 trillion investment deal signed by the Oligarchs, however, is not the big story as far as the Left is concerned: the new airliner is.

      Anyone who has the patience to read Democrat-leaning sites will get bored rather quickly. Basically, all of them are recycled rhetoric from Kamala Harris' Campaign: identity politics, January 6th, Trump is working with Russia, etc.,etc. Not a peep out of them about the wholesale sell-off of the Federal Government to WEF/Wall Street plutocrats (they don't want to offend the same billionaires who also donate to them). Nor is there any criticism of the blatant shredding of the Constitution under the pretext of a 'National Emergency.' The Democrats hope to regain power in 2028 and want to use these themselves; much as Obama merely extended Bush Jr.'s powers after 2008 or Biden latched onto the Scamdemic after 2020. 

    Some, especially in light of today's trade deals, may consider the Qatari gift a bribe: which is really laughable considering the outright electoral bribery conducted by the Plutocracy on behalf of both nominal 'political parties.' 

     Among the Corporate luminaries on this Whirlwind Tour of the Middle East, we find the CEO of BlackRock who famously boasted that he didn't care who won the Election since he had operatives in both parties. LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman, Kamala Harris' top Corporate donor, is also on the trip. So are 'former' Democrat donors like Elon Musk and Sam Altman. All of them are there representing the Great Reset Agenda of the World Economic Forum. 

      Maybe we should all be a little more concerned about things like Corporate Hostile Takeovers of the US Government than we are about politicians giving expensive presents to one another. Or, if we're concerned about gifts, we can talk about Foreign Lobbying of both parties in our Congress (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates rank 5th, 7th, and 8th respectively on the list of Foreign Lobbying Registrants. Israel, of course, tops all of them, but they are exempt from reporting under FARA). Since the Foreign Agents Registration Act became law in 2000, nearly 100 ex-Congressmen have gone through the Revolving Door and worked as foreign lobbyists. Saudi Arabia has an uniquely bipartisan group of lobbyists in its own corner which has done effective work for them in the past. 

     But focusing on things like the Qatari jetliner provides a useful distraction from such things. This way, we can all pretend that we don't really have a Uniparty working in the interests of an authoritarian Plutocracy; that the American Dream is real; and that we really are superior and exceptional after all. 

      

TECHNO-FASCISTS RALLY IN RIYADH

      So today, de facto President Elon Musk was in Saudi Arabia along with several other of his WEF cronies including BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Google CIO Ruth Porat, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey, and LinkedIn executive chairman Reid Hoffman. The Saudi Monarchy is a major player at the World Economic Forum, and the state-owned Saudi Basic Industries combine is a Top 100 Strategic Partner there. The actual President, Donald Trump, was also along to sign some papers and take some photos for the Press. 

    According to reports, the Oligarchs cemented a $600 billion bilateral trade deal, which mostly centered on expanding high-tech and AI development. No word on whether the public information that Musk and his bandits illegally datamined from the US Government will be shared with the Saudi Tech Lords, but we can assume probably so, since part of the deal was Saudi participation in Altman's Stargate Project. Of course, we can trust the upstanding characters that Musk employs not to abuse personal data in any way; and besides, it's like that great Freedom Fighter George Bush Jr. said: "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear." 

    

     Last week, the Uniparty formally imposed Bush's long-standing program of imposing Travel Permits Digital ID, the last attempt at Vaxx Passports not having worked out so well. The Scamdemic, though, proved a useful exercise for the Oligarchs: it proved beyond any doubt that Americans could be herded like sheep into any usurpation that that authoritarian-minded, would-be overlords choose to impose upon them. 

    In the bigger picture of Globalism, however, the Saudi deal is the precursor for another long-standing goal: the Smart City. Saudi Arabia has been one of the pioneers in that field, along with their confederates, the United Arab Emirates. After ethnically cleansing a few Bedouins in the area, the Saudis inaugurated Neom, the City of the Future, is described by one of its promoters as "one of the leading areas in the world–by adopting future technologies to enhance security, improve the efficiency of services and enhance the quality of life for residents. All services and processes in NEOM will be 100% fully automated and be implemented in all activities such as government and legal procedures, investment services, transportation and more.NEOM is seeking to incorporate robotics and AI seamlessly into every aspect of their residents’ lives... the city will be a car-free zone and it will be designed to incorporate environmentally friendly, pedestrianised areas. The line will be designed so that residents will have easy access to all of their daily necessities and amenities. All supermarkets, healthcare facilities, leisure centres and more will be within walking distance for all residents."

    

      That description does sound suspiciously similar to the video released by the White House last February about future plans for Gaza. Turning Gaza into another Neom would be atrocious enough; but we have to ask ourselves quite seriously whether or not Smart Cities may be on our own horizon? Such programs have been in the works now for nearly two years. Trump's comments today in Riyadh ought to give us another moment's pause.

    “It is crucial for the wider world to note, this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists flying in with lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs,” Trump said. “The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neo-cons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies in your own way.”

    Actually, they were not chosen by the Arab people themselves, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Dubai were imposed by two of the most autocratic Police States on the planet. Dubai is one of the leading cities in the world for imposing unexampled Police-State suppression with the most advanced technologies supplied to it by Big Tech. Riyadh is not that far behind, and the same Tech Lords visiting them today have supplied them with the means for years now.

    In fact, the Governmental systems in Saudi Arabia and the UAE have no shortage of admirers among the Tech Lords either. Elon Musk, in February, spoke to the World Government's Summit held in Dubai and stated that in his future, "humanoid robots and AI will make money irrelevant and we'll have a perfect society." 

    Unfortunately, all of this will be ignored, denied, or deflected by American  Conservatives. We know this because they collectively have been doing exactly that for the past two years. Just like their video simulations, the Tech Lords have an unlimited supply of NPCs to work with. That, however, doesn't change the Reality; and Americans had better start facing Reality soon; or our future will look about like Saudi Arabia's present. 

     

   

POPE LEO ADDRESSES CORPORATE ABUSES: NEW RIGHT FURIOUS

       Pope Leo XIV addressed the College of Cardinals this weekend outlining several challenges that the new Papacy will face in the future. Much of it is a continuation of Francis' policies. Despite the Media spin against Francis, the new Pope emphasized that Francis built on the legacy of his predecessors Benedict and John Paul, specifically outlining  "the missionary conversion of the entire Christian community; growth in collegiality and synodality; loving care for the least and the rejected; courageous and trusting dialogue with the contemporary world in its various components and realities." The Pope added that, "These are evangelical principles that have always inspired and guided the life and activity of God’s Family. In these values, the merciful face of the Father has been revealed and continues to be revealed in his incarnate Son, the ultimate hope of all who sincerely seek truth, justice, peace and fraternity (cf. Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi, 2; Francis, Spes Non Confundit, 3)."

      One would logically assume that Christians would not see anything especially controversial in any of this. However, mainstream Christianity and American Churchianity are two remarkably different things. Religion---like everything else in Postmodern America---is largely a business, and a highly politicized one at that. Leo's three immediate predecessors were routinely attacked throughout American pulpits and press; either by the Churchian Left who see God as President of the Universe whose policies are determined by Opinion Polls and Social Media Status; or the Churchian Right who see God as the CEO of the Universe obsessed with Power and Profit. Both are in conflict with the opening words of Leo's Address which proclaimed that the fundamental basis of his policy is "the return to the primacy of Christ in proclamation." 

     Placing Christ's teachings over American Political narrative was bound to be met with contempt; but Leo's concluding words have sent the New Right Punditocracy into paroxysms of rage. Leo stated: "Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor."

     Pope Leo XIII's encyclical was published in 1869 and warned of the dehumanizing trends of both Godless Communism and Godless Capitalism. The New Right has no issue with critiques of the first, but critiques of the second amount to sheer blasphemy in their eyes. Artificial Intelligence is, of course, the basis of Neocon Scientism and is seen by Techno-Fascists like JD Vance and Elon Musk as the foundation of a New World Order. Likewise, any appeal to things like upholding human dignity, social justice, and the rights of labor so obviously counters the entire New Right narrative that any such defense is bound to be spun as a political attack.

      To this end, one of the Neocon toady sites, American Greatness featured an article by a self-described Pentagon operative and Corporate Trial Lawyer writing under the appropriate pseudonym of Cynical Publius. The author fumes that Leo is following too closely in the footsteps of Francis by not being sufficiently obsequious to the New Right's Agenda and succumbing to quaint ideals like mercy. 

       "It is not an exaggeration to say that Pope Francis showed great antipathy towards the USA, Donald Trump, and conservative American Catholics," he snorts, and after hypocritically citing the New Testament teachings on actual mercy says, "These Biblical quotes and other Scripture from the Old and New Testaments have given rise to a belief in many Catholic circles that President Trump’s policies on illegal immigration are incompatible with Jesus’ teachings on mercy. So, what is a MAGA Catholic to do? Well, my answer is this: rest easy, your faith and your patriotism are not in conflict; it just seems that way thanks to a mainstream media overtly eager to wrest all Christians away from support for President Trump and his MAGA agenda."

     Which is simply a roundabout way of saying that we should ignore Christ's teachings on the subject and put our faith in the Neocon Agenda instead. While he tries to pad his argument with a few platitudes in the sense of 'sure there may be a few immigrants who don't deserve to be treated as subhumans,' it is very clear from Cynical Publius' tone that those deserving of mercy are very, very few in number. Statements like "Moreover, it is unmerciful to encourage illegal immigration merely so Democrats can pay sub-minimum wage to their nannies and lawn guys. Illegal immigration is unmerciful to the illegal immigrants as well as American citizens. President Trump’s policies are enacting a degree of mercy that your predecessor refused to acknowledge. Does Heaven open its borders to Hell?" show where his priorities lie. Obviously, he's quite satisfied with based and Red-Pilled immigrants like Musk and Thiel, but the rest can go to Hell as far as he's concerned. 

    The Corporate Trial Lawyer further asserts that: "In fact, and as I said above, I believe this is a false dilemma created by an unethical, lying American mass media that seeks to chase Catholics and other Christians away from support for our president. After all, even Pope Francis said, 'one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival.' Did you already know he said that? The American media did not want you to!"

    On the contrary: it was Controlled Opposition media sites that kept Francis' actual words in the background and promoted the fake narrative that the late Pope favored Open Borders. In fact, the entire hoax of an immigrant invasion poisoning our blood was based on the lie that Biden's Government had an Open Borders policy which has been debunked fairly regularly but promoted by Neo-Nazis, of which this Administration has no shortage.

    If the Neocon New Order is incompatible with the Traditions of the Church; that is the fault of the Political Class, not the Church Hierarchy. The Vatican is under no obligation to sacrifice the Gospel for the Dark Enlightenment. Maybe the people who call themselves Conservative Christians are the ones who need to examine their values. We need to begin asking ourselves if the dehumanized Techno-Fascist utopia envisioned by self-appointed 'elites' is the kind of world that we prefer to one premised on the ideals of the Gospel.

    

IS MAGA A CULT?

       There have been a lot of accusations by many that the 2024 incarnation of the MAGA movement has devolved into what is essentially a cult. I've always been somewhat skeptical of going that far, although there is certainly no shortage of fanatics who've gravitated into the movement. 

      However, reading reactions from the Controlled Opposition objecting to the Election of Pope Leo XIV is starting to sow some doubts in mind that MAGA isn't taking on the aspects of a religious cult. These objections are primarily coming from the United States, from the fringe-elements and certainly don't reflect the views of mainstream Catholics (or Christians generally) worldwide. 

     As Cardinal, the new Pope had the temerity to question some of the policies of the New Right and their appointed gurus, specifically JD Vance who seems to be the nominally Catholic counter-weight to the nominally Protestant Paula White in turning the Red Pilled Neocon ideology into a more-or-less official State Religion. Before too many Catholics get caught up in the online hysteria generated by such holy media moguls as Musk and Murdoch, we should point out a few basic facts:

    1. The Pope is Christ's Vicar on Earth: not Donald Trump's vicar. 

    2. Unlike the American Uniparty: a Cardinal doesn't need the approval of the RNC and Wall Street billionaire donors to be elected Pope.

    3. JD Vance doesn't speak for American Catholics, he speaks for WEF operatives like Peter Thiel. 

   4. Opposing the agenda of the New Right: specifically things like smashing down church doors and carting refugees off to concentration camps; as well as supporting genocidal anti-Christian regimes doesn't make one a servant of Satan.

   5. Likewise, opposing the ethos of the New Right which makes things like empathy and justice equivalent to Heresy, happens to be in accordance with the New Testament. The Church relies on nearly 2,000 years of tradition; not the New Normals promoted by the likes of Andrew Tate and Ben Shapiro. 

   We need to bear these things in mind as the flurry of interest-group backed trolls begin flooding the American Media Establishment. However, the question of the modern MAGA movement turning into a cult is still open. The Administration, it must be admitted, has done nothing to curb these dangerous tendencies---in fact, they seem to be encouraging them. 

  

   

    

THE CATHOLIC REACTION TO THE TRUMP-AS-POPE MEME

        Those Americans who rely on Controlled Opposition 'news' sites for their information have heard during the last few days slobbering apologies from token Catholics over a disgusting post from the White House depicting Dear Leader as Pope. This occurred a little under two weeks after the passing of Pope Francis, who had a photo-op foisted on his deathbed by J.D. Vance---who, by many accounts, had another of his epic meltdowns in the Pope's presence. 

       Catholicism in the United States is currently undergoing an unwholesome transformation unlike its presence in other countries. The same sort of politicization of Christianity that swept into American Protestantism a few decades ago is gaining a foothold in the Catholic Church as well. We've mentioned here before what has happened with formerly staunchly Catholic website Life Site News as an example. As of this writing, LSN hasn't even commented on the White House post, which probably shouldn't be surprising, although they currently have several posts up praising Trump and a few pro-Administration pundits for some superficial moves that are allegedly pro-Christian. Since Inauguration Day, LSN has become known among many Catholics as Lick-Spittle News for its shameless servility to the New Right. Most of the American criticism of the White House post has come from the Catholic hierarchy, which increasingly is being ignored by the more vocal brigades.

      Whereas the co-opting of American Protestantism focuses heavily upon apocalyptic scenarios and fusions of Old Testament Phariseeism superimposed on Reformed Theology, the attempts to co-opt Catholicism focuses upon a romanticized version of 'Catholic tradition' which holds up the social system of Mediaeval Europe as some sort of ideal. JD Vance, a pretended convert to Catholicism, is the ideal figurehead for this movement. Essentially, the Protestant New Right would see us go back to the 16th Century; the Catholic New Right prefers that we return to the 6th. The difference is really immaterial: the New Right's ultimate agenda---in line with that of the Great Reset---is rolling back the sociopolitical progress that humanity has made since the 18th Century. 

     Many of the Catholic New Right had an undisguised hatred of the late Pope Francis. Many of the Laity who follow these charlatans ought to reflect that, whatever Francis' shortcomings, they pale in comparison to what the Reactionary Catholics hope to impose. It's much like the Neocons of the 2024 Campaign blaming every social, economic, and political problem facing America on Biden while keeping their own intentions discreetly out of sight.

     The Middle Ages were not exactly a Golden Age by any standard; and those who criticize Francis as the worst Pope in history ought to survey the collection of blackguards who dominated the Vatican for those centuries. The blatant corruption and sycophancy to vested interests in that era caused two major schisms in the Church: the Orthodox Church grew out of one and the Protestant Churches grew out of the other. In fact, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment could almost be considered secular schisms. 

     If anyone disbelieves this, let us read a contemporary's account relayed to him of a friend's pilgrimage to Rome during the 14th Century and what he saw of the Papal Curia:

     "He found all, from the highest to the lowest, most shamefully given to the sin of lust, and that not only by the way of Nature but of the Sodomitical fashion, without any remorse or shame, insomuch as the interests of courtesans and catamites was of no small avail there of obtaining any considerable thing. Moreover, he manifestly perceived them to be universally gluttons, winebibbers, drunkards, and slaves to their bellies, brute-beast fashion, more than aught else after lust. 

    "Looking further, he found them all covetous and greedy after money, insomuch as human, nay even Christian blood, no less than things sacred, whatsoever they might be, whether pertaining to the sacrifices of the altar or to the benefices of the Church, they sold and bought indifferently for a price, making more traffic and having more brokers thereof than folk at Paris trading in silks and stuff and what else. Manifest simony they called 'procuration' and gluttony 'sustentation' as if God apprehended not the intentions of depraved minds and would suffer Himself after the fashion of men to be duped by the mere names of things."

    Which depiction, despite being nearly 800 years old, sounds uneasily like what one might note of the Washington Beltway, or Wall Street, or Hollywood, or (regrettably) Mar-a-Lago in our day. It is, however, the sort of social milieu that people that many in this Administration would find appealing.

    

        It's really a sad commentary on the state of American Culture that Catholics across North America have allowed themselves to be taken in by these impostors---who, by the way, are hostile to traditional Christians in general and Catholics in particular. The Uniparty wants no allegiance to any but itself; and subverting religion to authoritarian ends has a long history dating back to Ancient Mesopotamia and probably even earlier. The fact that the human instinct to turn to God and recognize Him as the Ultimate Authority keeps reasserting itself through these dark periods of corruption is testimony to its strength. 

     That is where our hope as a people lies, and why, ultimately the Techno-Fascists promoting the Great Reset will fail. The grim and dark days we are now entering will (I predict) not exist by the 22nd Century and historians among our descendants will look upon these grand schemes---along with the failed utopian schemes of the 19th and 20th centuries---with the same mixture of sympathy and contempt that we now look upon the Dark Ages. 

       

       

WOKE GOP MOVES TO DEFEND HOLLYWOOD

       With a Media-driven Government, it was probably only a matter of time before this happened. "Trump said he had directed agencies, including the Commerce Department, to begin immediately imposing a 100% tariff on all foreign-produced films entering the US...The US president also framed foreign film productions as a national security threat, asserting that other countries were using cinema as a vehicle for messaging and propaganda.'WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!' he declared. Trump’s post came after weekend meetings at his Mar-a-Lago Club with actor Jon Voight and his manager, Steven Paul. They reportedly presented the president with their plans for more federal tax incentives for US film and TV production. In January, Trump appointed Voight, along with actors Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone, as special ambassadors to Hollywood to help promote US job growth in the entertainment sector."

       There really are times when one doesn't know what to say any more. The True Believers have plenty to say, though. Protecting Hollywood's stakeholders is based and Red-Pilled these days. Just look at the high-class production values that Government-By-Social-Media wants to return to the US:

             

        Likewise, it's no doubt only a coincidence that Howard Lutnick, whose Commerce Department is charged with enforcing these tariffs, was CEO of a brokerage firm heavily invested in Hollywood; or that several studios like NBC Universal are connected to the WEF. Thanks to Lutnick's fellow-Oligarch Elon Musk, there is no internal oversight left at the Commerce Department to look into Conflicts-of-Interest anyway. 

       This is what happens when our side runs up the White Flag on cultural issues. Debased institutions like our Media don't get competition: they get encouragement. An actual Conservative position would be to break up these media monopolists and Free Trade would help a lot. But that wouldn't answer the financial interests of Globalists like Lutnick and Musk. Nor would it work in the interests of authoritarians who want to control the narrative. Hence, we have no Conservative Party in Washington, but another wing of the Uniparty working for both Oligarchs and Authoritarians. 

       

       

TRASH CULTURE CONSERVATISM REACHES NEW DEPTHS

       One of the striking innovations that the Conservative-Industrial Complex has foisted upon the American Public has been its wholehearted promotion of Trash Culture. Trump 45 distanced itself from such creatures, but Trump 47 is a figurehead firmly in the hands of Big Tech. Almost unanimously, these Big Tech figures are Globalists enamored with the ideals of the Great Reset. Many are supporters of the Red Pill Movement and especially of the Dark Enlightenment and its philosophical ideals.  

     A major component of Great Reset ideology is dumbing-down and pacifying of the masses through effective propaganda. Their cultural ideal is that of what more traditional historians referred to as the Dark Ages. Through an autocratic governmental structure which held nearly 100% of national resources and a corrupt clergy which held a monopoly on education and information, our forefathers languished in ignorance, poverty, and subjection for nearly a 1000 years before the Light of Reason and Human Dignity began breaking through again.

    With the advent of Mass-Media, our culture has seen a slow erosion of free sources of information and a gradual concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands. Mass-Media itself isn't the problem; mass-media is simply another technological advance which can be used for good or evil purposes. After seeing first-hand the potential abuses of Mass-Media, post-WW2 politicians crafted sensible legislation to safeguard us against such things. However, these laws were slashed from the 1990s onward. Social Media---at first through talk-radio and then through the Internet---is also not an inherently bad thing: but when the same moneyed ideological interests control the flow of information and opinion, we find ourselves in a situation not materially different than cultures under the domination of a State-Controlled Media.

     The New Right has embraced the Red Pill tactic of controlling the narrative which is only Newspeak for disseminating propaganda. Technology has even made the process more efficient. The Tech Lords in charge of the New Order have launched assaults on what's left of anything like traditional media, not only through Lawfare and intimidation of journalists, but freezing out systematically any and all media outlets even potentially unsympathetic to the Uniparty. This week, White House spokesxhe launched the first-ever exclusive Press Briefing for Social Media influencers (i.e., online toadies of the Administration). 

      Holding press briefings appealing to these types is bad enough. One would have assumed that part of Making America Great Again would be encouraging traditional journalistic norms and ethics and holding our already-degenerate Media to some kind of higher standards. Instead, we get pandering to everything wrong with our Media culture. Of course, it's sold to us by the Marketing shylocks as Populism, when in reality, even so-called 'conservative' social media outlets are deeply in the back-pockets of globalist interests.

     The White House itself has made extensive use of social media accounts, producing such uplifting messages as videos of debauched billionaires turning the Gaza hecatomb into a private playground and celebrating the Gestapo-like ICE raids like MTV productions, the Tech-Bro swine in the White House Press Office lowered the bar even further this week. As millions are mourning Pope Francis and the Vatican meets to choose his successor, we have this:

       Trump, of course, doesn't do these posts himself any more than he makes any other actual decisions. The character responsible for these atrocious articles is White House Deputy Press Director Kaelan Dorr. One look at Dorr's own photo almost explains everything:

        As we might expect, Dorr is one of Vance's bosom-buddies with considerable experience as an Internet troll and a Revolving-Door Beltway parasite. Dorr is involved with the shady NGO, the America First Policy Institute, which discreetly doesn't report who funds its operations. One of his main Revolving-Door former positions was with Sinclair Broadcasting, which hosts a number of 'Conservative' media figures; but surely they aren't part of the Deep State. Oh, wait...

      Isn't interesting how these political controversies---Left or Right---always seem to lead back to the same people? 

      But try explaining any of this to the True Believers, and you get buried under a either a torrent of abuse or denial, or halfhearted excuses. There really is no excuse at this point, however; the information is (at least for now) out there for all to see. Those who refuse to see simply don't want to.