2/28/25 – If Zelensky is going to try to repair the relationship, which is going to be very hard, watch the video in the Oval Office first and try not to do things that clearly upset them. You could hear their voices go up. When people do that in these kinds of contexts, you usually have to go quieter. That’s the way to bring the temperature down. And don’t interrupt.
After Vance did his flattery of a certain person, ending with, “that’s [diplomacy] what President Trump is doing,” Zelensky contradicted their approach publicly. Again, his points were correct. It was just an unwise thing to do, especially publicly.
That’s their view. They do not think Ukraine should have fought back, but should have found a “diplomatic solution.” If Zelensky wants a peace deal, he has to say things along the lines of, “We want a peace deal though diplomacy.” The words “peace” and “diplomacy” have to be in the phrasing. So, three things: 1. Apologize profusely 2. Express copious gratitude 3. Use the critical words, such as “peace” and “diplomacy.”
IN PRIVATE, work out the details, such as a security guarantee, etc., things that aren’t actually about peace or diplomacy. Do not try to negotiate anything in public. They are very conscious of their public image. Everything that happens in front of the camera needs to be about optics and making them look good, e.g., magnanimous and generous. Be shrewd! This is about Ukraine’s survival….
2/28/25 – This is a good opportunity to promote centering prayer. It helps so much with difficult situations. If you watch how a certain person received Zelensky outside of the White House, he did try to extend goodwill as much as he could (even though he doesn’t like him and doesn’t want to help Ukraine). He still gave him a positive reception, or more accurately, gave an impression of a positive reception. He deserves credit for that.
So, a certain person is sitting there in front of or next to you, saying patently absurd and unfair things. You’re in the Oval Office. There are cameras and reporters everywhere. What do you do? You pray and meditate. Seriously. You say to yourself, I am sitting next to a child of God, and I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and see the best in him. God loves me in spite of all of my sins, and I am going to try to love this man in spite of his. Try as best as you can to find a place of peace, kindness and generosity of heart. Let the God of love guide your heart, mind and soul. Peace be with you.
PS It won’t work every time. You’ll likely routinely fail. But it will work some or even much of the time, which is definitely better than nothing.
2/28/25 – So, are we, as a country, going to have any friends left after this period?
2/28/25 – Our sympathies are with the Ukrainian people. We understand the gross injustices, in the plural, that they are experiencing. The good people of the world stand with them. Ukrainians, hold strong. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Lean on your faith. It will carry you through the darkness.
Zelensky is not to blame, but we were concerned that three years of war have taken its toll. His points were fair, but they were unwise in dealing with a certain person. It was also that it was done publicly. It is what it is.
Much of the aid the US gave were grants, from the American people out of love, not loans. Perhaps the best option is to make a deal or deals with other countries, such as France or elsewhere. The US isn’t really dependable right now…unfortunately. The other option is to just be very apologetic and grateful. He likes flattery and such. At this point though, his personal dislike might be quite strong….
Regardless, we will stand with the Ukrainian people until the end. They are the victims, and we are on their side. Slava Ukraini!
An Ugly Oval Office Spat
2/27/25 – If the ladies are looking for the men who are looking for a relationship, they seem to be in churches. You can go to bars, clubs, and such, but often liberal men aren’t really marriage material. Many of them are just looking to hook up and are immature. If you’re looking for a good Christian man, it’s best to find your spiritual center first, discern and go from there. Go to church. Find the Lord, and the rest will fall in place, one way or another.
2/27/25 – On seeing and being: Seeing is an art. If you’ve ever tried to draw something well, you will likely realize that you generally don’t see. You think you see, but you’re actually just looking. Seeing is fundamentally about light, without which we couldn’t see anything. So, start with seeing, really seeing, the light. Then, try to be the light.
2/27/25 – Some pieces that are thought-provoking and also highlight liberals’ hypocrisy. NIMBY is particularly obnoxious and harmful.
We Can Achieve Great Things
Americans Are Stuck. Who’s to Blame?
2/26/25 – Are the Democrats planning on, you know, winning elections at any point in the future? Right now, it doesn’t seem like it. Maybe all the red wasn’t the way to go, but instead immigration, which we are definitely in favor of, should be orderly and controlled. Maybe trans in female sports isn’t fair to half of the world’s population, you know, females, who are biologically different from boys and men. It’s a fact. Maybe screwing Asians, who face their own disadvantages, out of hard-earned academic success isn’t DEI but discrimination for them. Maybe posturing about how much you care about humanity while hating religions, particularly Judaism and Christianity, and religious people who make up the vast percentage of the human population makes you a disgusting, hateful, hypocritical bigot. Maybe liberals and the left are just as much a—holes as the right, but just in different ways. Maybe the left is just better at self-righteousness. Maybe all of these things and some others cost them the election. Just maybe.
2/26/25 – Oh, and there’s this.
Democrats Need Their Own DEI Purge
2/26/25 – It isn’t just about the WHCA’s leadership. It’s the blatant hypocrisy. For four years, the liberal media let the selfish, incompetent dotard, Biden, get away with very little press scrutiny. In some cases, such as the WaPo’s opinion team, they were actively promoting him and his administration, like they were an extension of it. Now, they are going to complain about not having (as much) access. Why didn’t they complain before? Because it was the Democratic Party. That’s why. They think the American people are stupid. It’s insulting.
White House Power Play over Press Pool Was Years in the Making
2/26/25 – The Associated Propaganda. Christianity-hating bigots who preach their no-values values. Anything goes. The liberals are getting exactly what they’ve been promoting. It’s just not playing out the way they expected….
2/25/25 – Why are the people, right and left, who go to Ivy League schools so stupid? Aren’t they supposed to be the smart ones? Why are they so dumb?
2/25/25 – Please pray for our 70 brothers and sisters in Christ who were slaughtered with machetes or hammers for their faith in the DRC.
70 Christians Murdered in DRC
2/25/25 – Is the AP happy? Got what it wanted, right? What did it want again? Something about trans. It’s all about trans. They are the only people who matter. PS Where was its follow-up article about the trans person who was tortured and murdered…by LGBTQ+ people or about the racist, bigot and trans Karla Sofía Gascón? Editorial choices. The world is so liberal and anti-religious when all you can see is yourselves and your self-righteousness.
2/24/25 – Question of the day: Is he more stupid or more crazy? He’s definitely both, but which is worse?
2/24/25 – To our fellow Americans of all political parties: Please let us know when you’re ready to give a certain person, who we used to call the evil one, his administration, the white South African, and the rest of the f—ked up pluts the middle finger. It’s MAGA’s mess to clean up, but we’re all in on giving his royal highness the only salute he’ll ever get from us.
2/24/25 – Three years later, Ukraine is still fighting. Ukraine = brave. Respect. We are in awe of our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. Keep fighting. Keep inspiring the righteous in the world. Freedom is worth the fight. Give us liberty or give us death.
Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
2/24/25 – In fairness to MAGA, they didn’t vote for this. “2/6/25 – It has been a long time coming, but other democratic countries need to step up and lead. We can’t have a situation where a rogue, authoritarian president comes to power, on a marginal popular vote, and acts like he has been elected to be king of the world, against the wishes and the vote of half of the country. Also, it was bait and switch. He did not run on ‘owning’ Gaza or making Canada the 51st state. No American voted for that platform. No American, not even MAGA, voted for imperialism. Democratic countries around the world, north and south, need to start leading.”
2/23/25 – We are praying for Pope Francis.
2/23/25 – Might makes right is the antithesis of Christianity. It is the exact opposite value of Jesus Christ and Christians around the world.
2/23/25 – The people and things the rich sociopaths break. “Here’s what the program’s shutdown means: I spoke with an Afghan special-forces captain who served alongside Americans—when Kabul was about to fall in 2021, he prevented armed Taliban at the airport from seizing U.S. weaponry, but he was left behind during the evacuation. Arrested by the new regime, the captain was imprisoned for seven months and suffered regular and severe torture, including the amputation of a testicle. He managed to escape with his family to Pakistan in 2023 and was near the end of being processed as a refugee when Trump took office. He had heard Trump criticize the Biden administration for leaving military equipment behind in Afghanistan. Because he had worked to prevent that from happening, he told me, ‘that gave me a hope that the new administration would value my work and look at me as a valuable person, a person who is aligned with all the administration is hoping to achieve, and that would give a chance for my kids and family to be moved out safely.’ Biden’s ineptitude stranded the captain once; Trump’s coldheartedness is doing it again.”
The Trump World Order
2/23/25 – The “evangelical Christians,” who have done tremendous damage to the country and to the faith, became intoxicated with worldly power. They fell for the dark siren calls of an evil man, and it has cost them their soul.
Trump Has One Idea
2/23/25 – This will be periodically reposted until we are rid of the plague upon our nation.
“11/2/24 – Fascism
Turning and turning in the widening chasm
Americans cannot hear Americans
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold
Mere fascism is loosed upon the world
The flood of lies is loosed, and everywhere
The integrity of truth is drowned
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
2/22/25 – The three-year anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked war, one to enrich their kleptocrats, on Ukraine is two days away, Monday, February 24, and we want our beloved Ukrainians to know that most Americans, the ones who are still actually Americans, still stand with you. We pushed hard for you to get more support and faster, but that didn’t happen under Biden, the selfish, incompetent dotard. We encourage Ukrainians and your leaders to tell a certain person, who we used to call the evil one, to go f—k himself in English…and in Ukrainian. He seems to think he’s our king because he won an election, maybe even king of the world. He is not our king. He will never be our king. He is a sad little wannabe dictator, and we will fight him until the bitter end. Slava Ukraini. God bless America. Give us liberty or give us death.
2/22/25 – They are trying to create a coalition of far-right, sociopathic autocrats, with their degenerate genes, across the globe: here; Russia, putin; China, xi; India, modi, and whatever they can get in Europe, Africa and Latin America. The current admin seems to want to get Canada, Greenland and Panama by force. These kinds of plans have a way of ending in violence and not well for the power-seekers, but they don’t know history. They don’t know much of anything….
2/22/25 – A certain person, who we used to call the evil one, wants to use the military against the American people. This is part of his plan to stay in power even after his last and final term ends.
2/22/25 – In fairness to MAGA, the Biden Harris administration (still unclear who was running that s–tshow) was one of the most incompetent administrations in recent history. It seemed to think that it could defy physics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Something we said way back when: “8/19/23 – Remember for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It applies to societies also, not just to physics. If you’re wondering why the far-right is getting more extreme, it’s because the far-left is getting more extreme.” That said, the administration we have now is many orders of magnitude worse.
2/22/25 – MAGA might protest with, but a certain person (and the white South African) didn’t campaign on raiding federal agencies, invading and compromising our databases, our national security and our privacy. (What they really mean is that we thought they would hurt other people, not us, see here: “11/2/24 – Some supposedly widely cited meme from 2015: ‘“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.’ Krugman says, ‘It’s hard to explain why this is perfect, but it is.’ It is perfect, but it’s not hard to explain. It’s obvious. You just have to use your eyes, your ears and the thing that sits in your skull.”) (Flashbacks might become a regular feature…quite apropos.)
They didn’t use those exact words (did you expect them to?), but they did signal it. When a billionaire and his billionaire friends pour that kind of money into another billionaire, who’s also the presidential candidate, if one has a working brain cell and a functioning survival instinct, a little alarm should have gone off in their head – danger! And don’t kid yourself, as a country and a people, we are in serious danger. Now, what might prevent said superior race of white people, who claim to be exceptionally evolved, from having a well-functioning survival mechanism? Might it be their self-destructive ego? Does their white skin that can blind others with its sunlit brilliance also prevent their brain from working properly? The pluts used the cultural wars, particularly race, to pander to MAGA’s insatiable ego, and they fell for it. Now, the entire country is f—ked.
2/22/25 – Our national security and our individual privacy have been existentially compromised. This is part of what MAGA needs to fix. We wish them well in this endeavor. Please give us updates.
DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data
2/21/25 – G.K. Chesterton said that “America is a nation with the soul of a church.” To our fellow Americans, understand what that means. It’s is an honor and a responsibility.
2/21/25 – Making a deal with Ukraine to gain access to their mineral wealth is reasonable. In fact, Zelensky suggested it. The demand put forth by this despicable administration is an embarrassment to our country. We are not a perfect nation by any stretch, but we don’t do imperialism and tribute. That’s not how we’ve operated in our entire history. We have not done so not because it did not occur to anyone to do so. We have not done so because it would have betrayed our values as a country. We are unique among global superpowers in having not done so. The demand was shameful and yet another humiliation for our great country.
2/21/25 – Zelensky is obviously not a dictator. Only morons consistently make moronic statements such as these. However, the United States has never suspended elections, even during our Civil War and other wars. Doing so comes with risks for Ukraine.
2/21/25 – Daily mass is a blessing. It’s quiet and peaceful. We love the Lord and worshipping him.
2/21/25 – We hear MAGA is unhappy. Flashback Friday: “10/17/24 – MAGA, you can bounce around from one billionaire to another, hoping that they will save you out of pity. (FYI: Your odds would be better buying lottery tickets.) Or you could try a strategy that actually works: Find solidarity with your fellow Americans, including liberals, who, like you, actually have to work to make a living. Just an idea.”
An excerpt from another post on the same day: “It is an interesting strategy to pour money into a certain person’s campaign, find and support a scion, but ultimately decide only you can serve your own goals. It’s a very Muskian approach: The only plan is to change the plan. Many of these plutocrats or their progeny would enter politics to control the wheels of power. What better way to dominate markets but to dominate the law and to tailor it to serve oneself?” But there is something else we’re looking for, something very important; what was that? Oh yes, this: “11/7/24 – Make a plan. Resistance is relocating. We warned them. They made their decision. They need to lie or die in the bed they made. Personal accountability is very important, or people don’t learn anything.” We don’t owe MAGA anything. They made this mess. It’s on them to clean it up. We wish them well.
2/20/25 – Let’s have a moment of silence and prayer for the Bibas family.
2/20/25 – Two-state solution.
2/20/25 – Russia and Russia alone was the aggressor. That’s the truth, the obvious and objective truth.
2/20/25 – Do the sociopaths in power like stalking people? The Stasi is here and coming.
2/20/25 – We would like to tell all of the people who have “buyer’s remorse” over a certain person, it’s too late. This is why we said, protect democracy, we’ll fix the rest later. See, unlike liberals, MAGA, and others, we’re actually able to do priority lists, and we don’t play politics. We just tell people the truth. When you lose democracy, you can have “buyer’s remorse,” but you can’t change anything. He was always about himself and plutocracy. See our numerous previous posts telling people this obvious and objective truth. There will be more who have “buyer’s remorse,” but it will remain too late because he is not planning on leaving the office. He intends to consolidate power and destroy our democracy to the maximum extent possible. As the sun rises and sets, we can guarantee that he will not leave the office of the presidency, which he now views as a kingship, of his own volition.
The Trump Backers Who Have Buyer’s Remorse
2/20/25 – The press is having these ridiculous fights about names and other posturing while the person occupying the White House, who will soon officially become a squatter, has already deemed himself a monarch. That’s the disconnect. It’s not small. So, we’ll read your articles, pretending they are saying something, but you know….
2/20/25 – You know that he’s not going to leave, right? He thinks he’s a king. He thinks we have a tsar now….
2/19/25 – On a different note, separation from external events can be spiritually healthy. Separation from God is not. We can’t prioritize anything in the external world over God. Our relationship with God must always come first.
2/19/25 – This period is not going to end well for our country, and it might not end well for the world.
2/19/25 – Ukraine can’t go forever without having elections and now seems like a good time to do so. As the National Review noted, it’s personal for a certain person. It would also just be good to have new leadership. War is grueling for anybody. Zelensky did what he could for his country.
2/19/25 – If it hasn’t been obvious, a certain person wants our country to be more like Russia. We understand that “conservatives” have elaborate justification schemes for their support of this horrible person, but it’s simply denial and delusion.
2/18/25 – National Review: But the white South African did the same thing at Twitter, which wasn’t unionized. His managerial style sucks. He is unlikable, arrogant and incompetent…and in this context, he has ulterior motives.
Why DOGE Functions So Awkwardly
2/18/25 – It’s been a year’s worth of news in a month. We are going to live our lives and go at our pace. This project is a labor of love, which is what it will remain until the end. We will never owe anything to anyone, and we will always tell our readers the truth as we see it.
2/16/25 – Dei created the world in divine diversity. Amen.
Holy Eucharist and Annual HBCU Welcome Sunday
2/16/25 – The National Review kicked us off, but as a nation, we need to have a serious and respectful discussion about morality. What do we find moral or immoral? These judgments often end up translated as policies.
2/15/25 – The Europeans are lazy, entitled free-riders who think their white skin gives them privileges and rights to things it does not. They continue to take advantage of post-colonial countries, which they have exploited and have yet to make whole. They have not done justice to them by righting past wrongs. Instead, they persist in wrongs and seemingly have nothing to offer the world. After having stolen other people’s and country’s wealth to become developed countries, European countries still get more from the world than they give it. They are white supremacy at its most hidden and hypocritical. It is remarkable and revealing that liberals have an affinity for one of the most exploitative and entitled parts of the world.
We have agreed with this for a long time: “The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress—and in the American body politic writ large—to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense—nations apparently willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.
Indeed, if current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not halted and reversed, future U.S. political leaders … may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.”
The hard reality is that the deal on the table now is the unfortunate outcome of the terrible decisions the Biden administration made to inadequately support Ukraine. He was a weak man with poor judgment and so egoistical and selfish that he has put our country’s democracy in peril. Access to Ukraine’s minerals was crassly presented because this administration specializes in crass (and cruelty, incompetence, corruption and lawlessness), but it is not unfair, which is ultimately more important. In the future, Ukraine might be able to regain lost territory. However, Europeans need to lead that mission. For the first time in their entire history, Europeans might actually try to positively contribute to the world instead of profiting from it.
Listen Closely to What Hegseth Is Saying
2/15/25 – It’s not Associated Partisan. It’s Associated Propaganda. It’s all propaganda, right and left. It’s just a matter of degree. They aren’t stating facts. They’re all telling you what to think because the press asserts that “we have the freedom to make editorial choices” and think they are really smart and better than the American people. The public is well aware of the news media’s high opinion of itself and of its freedom to make “editorial choices.” It is the main reason the public has such a low opinion of said news media. The question isn’t about whether it has this freedom or can exercise it. It’s about its judgment and the use of it. The public is clearly of the opinion that it has abused this freedom. Ultimately, that’s the hill the press is dying on, literally and figuratively.
2/14/25 – On a different note: Listen to Billy Graham (Flashback Friday) and Arthur Brooks, then John Coltrane on love.
2/14/25 – This is how to read the news. You read a conservative paper and a liberal paper. Sometimes, they are so far apart, it’s like you’re reading about two different stories. Accurate reporting lies somewhere in between the two. This is where we’re at as a country.
2/14/25 – Democrats don’t know how to prioritize or weigh competing interests in a way that is responsive to the broader American electorate. They allow themselves to get captured by “advocacy” groups with narrow interests that are often at odds with the American people. They are virtue signaling pros. This is not governance. Phonies to the left.
This administration cares only about real estate deals. The whole world is a real estate deal. It has no moral compass. Republicans’ position on abortion is nothing but cover for their greed and a moral token to allow their phony Christians to support them on theological grounds. Phonies to the right.
2/13/25 – Christians serve a higher power. We often end up the last line of defense because of this. We are unwilling to compromise on the central tenets of our faith. Expect a battle until the bitter end. We will not break. “First, we can urge church leadership to stand up for religious freedom. This week more than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations and ecumenical groups joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rescission of the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘sensitive locations’ policy.”
Faith groups sued the Trump administration for its immigration policies. Church leaders should support them.
2/13/25 – The AP is clearly picking its battles. Maybe its trans trolls who like to spam accounts because we’re all supposed to give in to their bullying, their white cultural hegemony, are helping it exercise this particular brand of “judgment.”
2/13/25 – Some valuable information.
The Tesla Revolt
2/13/25 – When we link to anything, it’s simply the independent exercise of our First Amendment rights. Nothing more should be read into it than that.
2/13/25 – Investors can individually choose to short Tesla stock if they can tolerate the financial risk – again, if they can tolerate the risk.
2/13/25 – Foreign countries can choose to ban Teslas from being sold in their markets.
2/13/25 – We need a campaign to encourage people to stop buying Teslas. Much of the white South African’s wealth is tied to its stock price.
2/13/25 – Christianity, our Constitution and our country and…capitalism are all under assault. We have to protect all of it. Well-regulated capitalism works. It’s being undermined by the kleptocrats. We must protect it.
2/12/25 – Are conservatives deranged by their racism? Somehow they searched on a website that has practically never mentioned “Obama,” “obama savior” because they are so fixated on their pink-tinged, paper-colored skin and their jealousy of a black man holding the presidency that they can’t see or think straight. They do this while hypocritically worshipping an orange-painted genetically inferior man who thinks of himself as a god.
2/12/25 – Is the National Review drunk on greed and power? Conservatism implies temperance. Apparently, conservatives are so ridden with avarice, worshipping their golden calf, that they’ve lost their morality and their values. Their “religiosity” is merely a façade intended to cover up their immorality.
2/11/25 – Is the white South African going to use the vast quantity of data he has illegally gotten access to, in violation of Americans’ and others’ privacy rights, to better train his AI models and potentially put his competitors at a disadvantage?
2/11/25 – The most dangerous people in the world are the people who either lack a conscience or who don’t have a healthy relationship with it and, therefore, with God.
2/11/25 – The criminals Macdonald pardoned, who he calls “patriots”: “NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.”
Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence
2/11/25 – If only Macbeth had right-wing propaganda, the pardon power, and loyalty tests, he might have been able to wash the blood stains from his hands. Then again….
2/11/25 – When you’ve done something wrong, such as inciting an insurrection, which is a mortal sin, the thing to do is repent. Instead….
2/10/25 – We need the international community to issue arrest warrants and arrest the criminals. Civil lawsuits need to be filed where there are any damages. Move fast.
2/9/25 – This has been the most incompetent start for an administration in recent American history. It has been TechNuts “moving fast and breaking things,” and it has harmed our nation. The rollout of their policy changes has been indiscriminate, careless and wholly lacking in thoughtful consideration of its ramifications. It’s been an embarrassment for them…and, unfortunately, for our country. It has done long-lasting reputational and material damage to us as a nation. We need to do better, America.
2/9/25 – The goal for any truly practicing Christian is to be as guided by the Holy Spirit as one can be. It often involves being willing to sacrifice everything. Vance is not guided by the Spirit. He isn’t trying to balance the tenets of the Catholic faith with the demands and hard choices involved in the governance of a nation as large and complicated as ours. Going to church once a week is not enough. It is the minimum. One has to spend time truly transforming and orienting oneself to God. He has a lot of work to do. Some of it is theological, but much of it is personal and spiritual.
This is Catholicism. We practice good works. While the secular virtue-signalers virtue signal, we do our work quietly and discretely. He cast aspersions on the Catholic bishops, in his own self-declared religion, without understanding their financial realities or the fact that much of the work we do is ultimately funded or supported by the laity. We tithe and volunteer. We do all of this out of love for God and for each other. An ordered list of loves is likely indicative of a disordered love for oneself and God. If the first item on the list is oneself or one’s family (as the secularists have), nothing compels a person to go beyond it. One could give everything and do everything for oneself or one’s family. Yet, as Christians, we are expected to sacrifice for others, with “sacrifice” literally meaning giving something up, such as what one would give to the first item on the list. If doing good works isn’t his cup of tea, this isn’t the right denomination for him. There are other denominations that do not have these theological and spiritual demands and proud heritage. He’s free to leave at any time, whether it’s Catholicism or Christianity. However, neither Catholicism nor Christianity, a faith that belongs to millions of people around the world, will be changing for him or for anyone else.
They won’t be able to reshape Christianity to their political misinterpretations. A certain person is the 47th president. A pope’s term is on average much longer, and Pope Francis is the 266th successor to St. Peter. The papacy will continue long after this debased political moment and movement passes. More importantly, Christianity will continue, continually reorienting itself to Christ. It has waxed and waned, parts of the Body of Christ have become diseased and later cured, for 2,000 years. Christianity will endure. The question is: Will our country endure given its present trajectory, a republic if we can keep it?
‘A Very Christian Concept’
JD Vance got a lot wrong about St. Augustine’s ordering of loves
2/9/25 – God created all people equal. Let’s reflect this divine equality in our world. Happy Sunday!
2/9/25 – Justice is not pandering to white fragility and white people’s fictional grievances. It is rectifying past wrongs done to indigenous people and minorities. Move forward bravely and boldly with righteousness.
2/9/25 – Normally, property rights ought to be respected. In South Africa’s case, however, the white people, who call themselves Afrikaners, are colonizers who stole black South Africans’ land. Afrikaners aren’t owed anything. They are exploitative invaders on the ancestral lands of a people with whom they have no genetic, ethnic, historical or cultural connection. The South African government would be entirely in its right to reappropriate the stolen land and make the white people stateless. It is choosing not to do so out of a sense of restraint and reconciliation.
However, if South Africa wanted to deliver justice to its native people and to catapult itself economically as a nation, it could do land redistribution. Take the land and divide it equally between its citizens who want land, accounting for the current ownership and the condition of the land. This one act would make the quality of South Africans’ lives immeasurably better. South Africans, meaning its black people, deserve that, and it would be long overdue justice.
2/9/25 – The latest bogeyman for the superior white race is DEI. In reality, it hasn’t really done much for minorities, especially relative to the gross disadvantages inflicted upon them by said superior white race. DEI does something else though. It is a convenient excuse for the superior white race to use to explain why their own status is in decline. See working-class white men.
The playing field is still considerably tilted in white people’s favor, and they still try to prevent more qualified and capable minorities from entering their white-dominated professions because they are clearly so confident in their white abilities. Yet, even after all of this effort to maintain the status quo that favors them, they are still becoming less competitive within our country and around the world.
There is a good reason for this. White people’s sense of superiority was always a fiction, and as this reality becomes more obvious to everyone, they have created all kinds of new fictions, such as DEI, as a carapace for their fragile egos. What minor benefits DEI conferred upon minorities is not worth the lie that white people can then use to bandage their wounded self-love. DEI is now gone. Let’s see what other creative lies the superior white race will come up with next to protect themselves in the real world and in the imaginary one that exists only in their mind?
2/9/25 – The white South African who fancies himself a genius is an imposter. The reforms our institutions need require the diplomacy of a statesman and the cost-cutting skills of a surgeon. He has neither. He blusters on X and wields a sledgehammer of servile adolescents with no knowledge of the systems or the institutions they are infiltrating. Instead of increasing efficiency, they are compromising our cyber and national security. This is what happens when an unrestrained white ego is indulged and not told the truth about the limits of his knowledge and his ability. He mistakes himself for a god and puts a nation at risk. Sound familiar? It’s a match made in hell.
2/9/25 – The current trend of white nationalism is in part a response to the legitimate problems in western governance and in part a convulsion of white people’s wounded self-love.
2/8/25 – Everything I have, God gave to me. In the truest understanding of reality, I earned nothing. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. When I go to my maker, may it be in perfect love and humility. May I have lived a life worth living. May my ancestors say, “We are proud of you, child. You honored us and God, not by power, money or fame, but by your decency.”
2/8/25 – Many, with some notable exceptions, of the world’s plutocrats have become global parasites. The cited period in the article, the Renaissance, is notorious for the corruption of the church and the city-states. That said, it does say something about the Christian faith that even at a moment and in a place where it was being practiced quite terribly, the religion still had a corrective influence on the baser and insatiable appetites of men.
It is practically incontestable that our secular society has no corrective influence, and the outcome of the “humanistic tradition,” whatever it is, is moral decline. The grotesque extravagance and narcissism of the plutocrats is a mark of their moral, intellectual and personal degradation. They don’t love God, country, our planet or their fellow human beings. They love themselves. Having incinerated everything of value, everything that makes life worth living, with their insatiable greed, their souls have become blackened by its ash. They might win people’s envy, but they don’t earn people’s respect. All they have is stuff. Maybe it can redeem their souls at the Final Judgment.
The Rise of the Selfish Plutocrats
2/8/25 – When you adopt a new country as your home, you have certain rights…and certain responsibilities. In the United States of America, it is to honor our Constitution and to defend it from all threats, internal and external. Whether our ancestors are buried on this soil or not, we will keep sacred the sacrifices of the countless patriots that came before us. We swore our allegiance before God and our fellow compatriots. We have a divine obligation to them and to our country, and we will honor it and our oath, no matter the cost. God bless America.
2/8/25 – It is probably not something most Americans have spent time thinking about, but it is rather remarkable that almost all Americans speak English, even if as a second language. When you look at older parts of the world, India and Europe being good examples, they speak many different languages. Even though they are more homogenous (yet still heterogenous) than us in other respects, racially, ethnically, religiously, etc., they are more heterogenous in their languages. This is because they are older and developed differently. The Roman Empire clearly left a linguistic imprint on Europe, yet it wasn’t one of a single language.
In the United States, however, the various English dialects blended into one English dialect, and subsequent waves of immigrants, whether from Europe or elsewhere, ended up adopting the dominant English language, perhaps while retaining their native language in more limited settings. (Note: The many French words in English were from the Norman conquest in the 11th century, predating the American colonies.) The dominance of English might make us less linguistically rich, but as stated earlier, it is a structural advantage, particularly in terms of labor mobility.
It is an interesting area of scholarship. What are the specific features of human history, such as migration and conquests, that made India and Europe linguistically heterogenous and the United States relatively homogenous?
2/8/25 – Remember: God loves us. We are never alone. He walks with us through it all. Don’t be afraid. Pray and keep the faith.
2/8/25 – Democrats need to get it together and lead. They need to clean their house and make it more appealing to the broader electorate. Stop with the policies that the American people have told you time and again that they don’t want. We are a democracy. Live up to it. They also have to end the influence of interest groups. There are three main parts to the Republicans: TechNuts (libertarians), MAGA (nationalists), and conservatives. The easiest to peel off are economically disillusioned MAGA and principled conservatives. Elected Democrats and the conservatives who left the Republican Party need to start working with our international partners. Render the person and the people they don’t want to work with in the current administration for obvious reasons as irrelevant as possible. Help other democratic countries rise to this moment. Help them help themselves, us and the world. We rise and fall together. Blue state governors need to liberate themselves from the federal government and make themselves more prominent on the world stage. They need to insulate the blue states by making them practically independent governing bodies and beef up their National Guard. All of these groups need to prepare for a suspension of elections on some bogus pretext, such as a national security emergency. The lawyers need to be ready. This is not a complete list….
2/7/25 – We will always tell you the truth.
2/7/25 – Flashback Friday continued: “11/6/24 – To the brilliant people saying the Harris Walz campaign shouldn’t have told voters that a certain evil person is a fascist. Campaign strategy is not our thing. We are in the business of telling the truth as we see it, and that is the truth. We have a moral obligation to warn people of where things are heading. We care about all of our fellow Americans, and we are not going to withhold highly important information for some cynical political calculation.”
An excerpt from “11/9/24 – This time around it’s even worse as Elon Musk is going to be inaugurated in a few months. We seem to be living through a bizarre period in American history where there is some front man who wins the presidential elections, but it’s not really the same person who’s governing. Instead, it’s some carnival of God knows who and why.”
2/7/25 – Flashback Friday: “10/17/24 – If you aren’t one of them, you are what we call a laborer. Know what that means. Know what it has meant in our country’s history. It has meant that your life can be treated like it’s worthless. It has meant that you and your family can be subjected to state-sanctioned terror and oppression. MAGA wants to go back in time. That’s where they’re going to take us.
Plutocracy”
An excerpt from “8/18/24 –The Republicans are disgustingly selfish and greedy when it comes to taxes. Their approach is designed as a winner-take-all system. It’s effectively a lottery that impoverishes the rest of the country and turns our economy into a plutocracy and a kleptocracy. Nobody is so smart, talented, or hardworking that they can justify this inequality. Those people need to stop lying to themselves. It’s unbridled greed. It’s an addiction and a moral weakness.”
2/7/25 – Or is the white South African with bad genes the ultimate malicious plutocrat? Or maybe both.
2/7/25 – Christians already have a savior, Jesus Christ. We don’t need any other savior.
2/7/25 – Is the white South African with bad genes the ultimate white savior?
2/7/25 – One of the greatest advantages the United States has over Europe (the eurozone), which does not have automatic fiscal transfers, or India is that we all speak the same language, so we have greater labor mobility. Well-governed blue states can profit from this structural advantage.
2/7/25 – Let’s make the federal government practically irrelevant.
2/7/25 – Blue state governors should expand all of their business relationships in foreign countries and build trade agreements with them directly.
2/7/25 – “U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, a Democrat representing portions of southern Minnesota farmland, slammed the attacks on USAID, saying the move ‘hurts the rural economy and damages the proud heritage of American farmers feeding the world.’” In addition to other countries, blue states with larger agricultural industries could step in and purchase the US farmers’, who provide this aid, surplus crops. For the state of MN, it’s approximately $70 million. For MN, “From the American people in the state of Minnesota.”
Shuttering of USAID could mean the end of millions in income for Midwest farm operations
2/7/25 – We want the stories and the images of the effects of the dismantling of USAID to be shared with the world and for the world to know who did this to them – MAGA, the South African, and the current administration.
2/7/25 – It is well-documented that before the election we said that a certain person is a fascist and that Elon Musk would be president. Some people in the legacy media called it hyperbole. It was an accurate forecast. It didn’t take a crystal ball. It just took a brain.
2/6/25 – One way or another, America as it was originally conceived will be preserved even if we have to endure a rupture in the process. The American people are too tough and love liberty too much to ever succumb to tyrants.
2/6/25 – Perhaps the most practical protection against tyranny is states’ rights and independence, and our citizens’ free mobility between them, which is also labor mobility.
2/6/25 – American hegemony has been declining for years, and the current administration is the nail in the coffin. Before it, Biden’s foreign policy can be characterized as weak and full of blunders. MAGA wants America “first.” They might get it, but it won’t be what they think it will be. It will be America less influential in the world. The other paradox is that the current administration and the conservative movement in general has been wanting to diminish the role of the federal government. As it is, after this chaos, states will reassess the degree to which they want to be dependent on the federal government, particularly to fund critical services. If MAGA and the conservatives get what they want, the federal government, and therefore, the presidency and Congress, also lose influence. If blue states, which are generally richer, get sick of the situation and, as a thought experiment, refuse to pay federal taxes because the Constitution has been so violated, would the federal government even continue to exist? Also, without fiscal transfers, red states would fall into decline and would be less able to compensate for the loss of blue state revenue. If the federal government does continue to exist, it would be in significantly diminished form. And so, if he tries to make himself a king, he might end up one not of a country but of a country’s federal government that would no longer exist. With a federal government laid waste and a country rendered irrelevant, it would be an epic Pyrrhic victory.
2/6/25 – It has been a long time coming, but other democratic countries need to step up and lead. We can’t have a situation where a rogue, authoritarian president comes to power, on a marginal popular vote, and acts like he has been elected to be king of the world, against the wishes and the vote of half of the country. Also, it was bait and switch. He did not run on “owning” Gaza or making Canada the 51st state. No American voted for that platform. No American, not even MAGA, voted for imperialism. Democratic countries around the world, north and south, need to start leading.
2/6/25 – Is the conservative party the party of lawlessness?
2/6/25 – From now until the day he dies, the South African should face a criminal or a civil lawsuit. Perhaps we should even sue his progeny. We need to take this approach with every aspiring kleptocrat. We are not going to protest in the streets, but we are happy to crowdfund the lawsuits, one kleptocrat at a time, starting with the South African. They might be billionaires, but even if all Americans contributed were small amounts, in the collective, we could raise trillions. We will put a stop to this lawlessness.
2/6/25 – If the South African cannot follow American laws, he and his concubines and his illegitimate children are free to leave. He can relocate his harem to South Africa…if it will have him. Our country needs to get rid of this unAmerican menace.
2/6/25 – If the federal government doesn’t send the money to the states that they are legally owed, then the states and its residents shouldn’t send the money to the federal government that it is legally owed.
2/6/25 – The European Union would also be wise to take aggressive and swift legal action against the South African for any and every violation of their laws. Let us hold the rich people who break things responsible for the things they break.
2/6/25 – If the United States cannot use its power responsibly, then other countries need to fill this vacuum and use their power responsibly. We will not have a world that falls into chaos.
2/6/25 – The European Union would be wise to use this moment to bring itself to relevance. Where the United States has pulled out of supplying the Global South with necessary aid, supply it with this aid. It can have on the bags of food and other supplies that it delivers, “From the European Union’s people.”
2/6/25 – We need neutral countries, such as India and Switzerland, to broker a two-state solution – now. October 7, 2023 wasn’t an opportunity for Israel. It was a tragedy. All parties will respect the two-state solution, and the consequences of not doing so must be detailed and enforced.
2/6/25 – We need numerous – civil cases – the American people against the South African for violating our privacy rights and disrupting and damaging the government that our taxes pay for. Multiple civil cases. Let’s hold the rich people who break things accountable for the things they break.
2/5/25 – “‘The gift of God is absolutely gratuitous,’ he said. ‘It’s not something you earn. It’s something that’s there. It’s something you just have to accept. This is the gift that has been given. There’s no place to go to get it. There’s no place you can go to avoid it. It just is. It’s part of our very existence. And so the purpose of all the great religions is to bring us into this relationship with reality that is so intimate that no words can possibly describe it.’”
Thomas Keating, pioneer in centering prayer, interfaith dialogue, dies at 95
2/5/25 – Imagine the whole world with nobody saying anything. Just for a little while, we all just went silent and sat with our maker quietly.
2/5/25 – From Thomas Keating’s Open Mind, Open Heart: “The root of prayer is interior silence.” Blessed silence. No words from anyone, anywhere. Just love for God and God’s love for me. Silence is divine union.
2/5/25 – To be clear, beyond the DNA and the linguistics, one should also look at the history of the region or country, such as migration, invasions, trade, religion, etc. In my case, all of it is consistent. All of it makes sense and fits given everything I know. There will be more findings, and some might be contradictory. It hasn’t been yet though, which is kind of remarkable.
2/5/25 – This finding is consistent with my own and my family’s DNA. We belong to one ethnic group (meaning not recently mixed genetically in the way many people are), but the ancient DNA connection is to the Caucasus/Steppes. This stuff is so fascinating! Putting together the pieces of the puzzle of human history.
Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language
2/5/25 – The international relations and economics, topics near and dear to us, is so bad. You don’t treat people or other countries like this. The US did need to take a tougher approach with allies (to a lesser degree) and foes about some things, but this is not how you do it. The implementation is terrible. It is so disrespectful, belligerent and irrational. “Owning” Gaza…. What is that? It gets worse every day. We need to take a break. We’re going to read the Bible, some fiction, etc. We’ll be back after a break to talk about other things because this is just too depressing.
2/5/25 – We hope everybody’s read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, from St. Paul, MN. Bloomberg makes a keen reference to it. The problem with rich people who break things is that they don’t end up paying the price for the damage they inflict. Therefore, they don’t learn anything. The rest of us are left paying the price and cleaning up the mess.
Trump and Musk Are Vandalizing the World
2/4/25 – Liberals are too generous and permissive. Conservatives are too stingy and heavy-handed. It’s like Goldilocks with governance. Can we just have a balanced and thoughtful approach to governance?
2/4/25 – MAGA might enjoy mistreating people and countries, in other words, making enemies, but it is a foolish approach. We’re one country. Our enemies, many of whom might have once been our friends, can team up against us, and we won’t be able to defeat them. Setting aside how unwise this approach is in terms of national security, it’s also just not how a great country becomes greater. You can get what you want with firm diplomacy and honest dialogue about what we find unfair. Continue like this, and we’re basically inviting an attack. And it would all have been completely unnecessary.
2/4/25 – Once we’ve lost our friends and trading partners, our government is destroyed and our country is poorer and less secure, then what do we do? This is definitely not going well, not that anybody who didn’t vote for him expected it to go well. It’s a matter of exactly how much damage will be done and if it can even be repaired.
2/4/25 – The temptation is to let the current administration get everything it wants and not say anything. Let them and their voters learn a good lesson. The problem is that this would be immoral….
2/4/25 – Canada is a great neighbor and friend, and any talk of making it the 51st state is deeply disrespectful and goes contrary to American values and international law. We respect and truly appreciate our Canadian friends. (We also love their maple syrup.) The American people have no interest in violating Canada’s sovereignty, and our leaders need to stop with these belligerent messages. We also do not understand the tariffs for Canada. Does anybody understand the goal with any of this? If there is personal animus towards Justin Trudeau, that’s a personal problem. Don’t make it the American people’s problem. Americans didn’t elect people to office to enact their personal vendettas. Our representatives need to serve the American people and our interests.
2/4/25 – There are many times non-white people might feel furious at white people for all of the unnecessary suffering they have brought on others. We might not always be charitable, and that is understandable. However, we need to remember that most of the people who suffered under white people were other white people. We need to remember that the vast majority of the people who fought in the Union Army in our bloodiest war, the Civil War, during which an estimated three-quarters of a million souls were lost in total, were white people. The same race that oppressed helped liberate. Not only can this fact help us moderate our justified anger, but it gives us hope.
2/4/25 – We, no matter our race or ethnicity, including white people, rise and fall together, all of us as a nation and as a world. We have to stand up for each other in the face of injustice, or evil will win. Let’s have healthy, respectful competition and cooperation between nations. Let’s have healthy, respectful competition and cooperation between individuals. Yes, we often want to win, but ultimately, the goal is to bring out the best in each other.
2/4/25 – An excerpt from Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and a quote from one of the most intelligent men in human history, Albert Einstein, “‘The separation of the races is not a disease of the colored people,’ Einstein told the graduates at commencement [at the historically black college], ‘but a disease of the white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.’ He became a passionate ally of the people consigned to the bottom. ‘He hates race prejudice,’ W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, ‘because as a Jew he knows what it is.’”
2/4/25 – The Republican Party seems to work from the assumption that public school teachers and principals are inferior to private school teachers and principals. Our public schools have award-winning teachers and principals who are able to teach a diverse student body with a variety of needs beyond academics. These schools often educate poor students facing a host of challenges. It is simply more challenging…but also more rewarding. It’s easier to teach students who are coming from economically stable, supportive families. It’s much harder to teach to a whole person who needs a lot of additional care and support. If we lose the talent that many of our public school teachers and principals bring to the classroom, it will make the country less competitive.
2/3/25 – The new administration should continue with Biden’s approach of using industrial policy to develop the industries of the future in the USA. This is decidedly not a neoconservative economic approach, but it will help make our country more competitive.
2/3/25 – The thing to know about David Frum is that he is consistently an arrogant a—hole. He has a lot of sympathy for the Jewish people, his own people, but he doesn’t give a s—t about the injustices other people have faced. F—k him.
2/3/25 – Maybe The Atlantic’s David Frum can keep his asinine, ignorant criticisms of India to himself. He wasn’t involved in the liberation of a country from approximately 200 years of British barbarism and exploitation (almost as long as we’ve existed as a nation), knows absolutely nothing of the country’s cultural, economic or political history, and has no knowledge of the many problems the country had to deal with post-colonialization, including the decimation of the economy by the British. Frum has also been indoctrinated by western neoconservative economic views and is simply regurgitating them in a vitriolic manner because that’s what he does.
2/3/25 – To Russia: There have been many “great” empires: Greek, Roman, Golden Horde, British, etc. Where are they now? The world does not do imperialism anymore for a good reason. In the long-run, it fails. The country loses materially and morally. Only fools use failed methods. If you want to dominate, you have to be willing to compete with the current rules of engagement: Be the country that can contribute the best and the most to the world.
2/3/25 – There is a difference between asserting American power and simply disrespecting other nations. Remember: Some of these countries, such as India and China, are proud ancient civilizations. They have been on the world stage for thousands of years. We have been on it for a few hundred years. This is a big difference. Naturally, these other countries do not take kindly to disrespect. Also, in the case of India and China, although they have had much friction over millennia, they are both Asian countries and share many cultural values. So, one would be wise to be careful about the relationships they are burning and to consider the consequences they may have with respect to the new alliances those countries might make.
2/3/25 – We know that many people are scared, but this is actually an exciting time to be alive. Never before has international interactions been so robust. America has gotten complacent and decadent. We can’t have this. We can’t have the most diverse group of people ever assembled become content with mediocrity. We need to be excellent. To be our best, we need great opponents, and we have them. India and China are worthy competitors. They are filled with ambitious people hungry for the prize. Africa is on its way. We respect all of our competitors. We intend to play and win fairly. We are Americans, after all. We have this question for American Gen Z and younger parents: Are your kids going to be able to compete? Maybe you should send them to school…. Let the games begin.
2/3/25 – In general, the diversification of trading partners, agreements and blocs is good for the world and international trade. From the perspective of any one nation, this might not seem beneficial. A country might want to “freeze” international trade when it dominates it, but this is not only impossible but ultimately brittle for it and for other nations. The pandemic taught the world some hard lessons, and it seems to have learned that it needs to diversify its economic relationships. This is good for all of us.
2/3/25 – Even after reading numerous articles on this topic, we’re not clear on what the new administration’s logic is regarding tariffs. That said, it might be that they would like to substitute internal revenue, taxes, which is a progressive tax system, with external revenue, tariffs, which would be a regressive form of revenue. The main difference between taxes and tariffs in this respect is that the residents of a nation are required to comply with its tax laws. Sovereign nations are not required to comply with tariffs. They can simply walk away from those trading relationships. They have this right and will exercise it to find the best trading deals that they can. Therefore, not only will exporters and consumers be hurt by tariffs, but the revenue base, both internal and external, will also shrink. As we said before, in economics and in life, there is no free lunch. Where everyone tends to make mistakes as it relates to designing policy is that they do not account for all of the ramifications of their policies, especially ones that they are predisposed to not seeing because of their biases, which we all have.
2/3/25 – India: Get the reparations. The Indian people deserve the reparations. They deserve justice.
2/3/25 – The reason India has been an economic powerhouse for all of human civilization (with the exception of British exploitation, which wasn’t India’s fault – see the reparations demanded below) is because of…(drumroll) trade. No other country in the world has this proud legacy. While Europeans were living in caves or whatnot, the Indus Valley Civilization (India) had elaborate, relatively egalitarian cities with plumbing and public baths and was exporting various goods to Mesopotamia and the ancient world. With the stated exception, India has had strong relationships with its trading partners. If a country loses its relationships with its trading partners, it will become less rich. There is no doubt about this. Although there are certainly benefits to autarky, and it should always be a consideration, one of the most important things a country can do is build mutually beneficial and respectful relationships with other countries. So, think long and hard. We’d like the American people, especially our farmers, manufacturers, and other exporters, to have a voice in where we go as a country. They deserve that. What do you think, America?
2/2/25 – Let’s speak of JUSTICE on this Sunday, shall we. Of the three great contemporaneous ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization (India), the former two having been historical trading partners with India, the only one that has remained an economic and cultural force throughout civilization is India. Egypt still exists but not as it once did.
If it hadn’t been for the British’s unprecedented exploitation of the country, it is entirely possible that India would have the most dominant economy in the world. Even after this extreme exploitation, India still has a powerful economy.
The genetic degenerates pretending to have some privileged lineage, the British monarchy, aka the inbred sociopaths, needs to be dissolved, and India needs to be repaid the estimated 43 TRILLION dollars in wealth that was stolen from her.
The Unmaking of India: How the British Impoverished the World’s Richest Country
2/2/25 – Indians: Instead of fighting about who’s more Indian, a total waste of time and energy, focus on getting well-deserved and long overdue reparations.
2/2/25 – From the New York Times, a voter says, “A lot of the time, he said, Republicans seem to support policies that hurt people. When Democrats have bad ideas, as he sees it, ‘They’re not trying to hurt people, they’re just stupid.’” The American people are so smart. From Mark Twain, the cruelty of I didn’t think. Happy Sunday!
2/2/25 – Let’s keep having the debate. A review of some other tensions: freedom/innovation and law/order (see below); and from some time back: free will (prochoice) and justice (death penalty) and sanctity of life (prolife and anti-death penalty). We generally honor sanctity of life but make some exceptions to allow for both abortion and the death penalty. We almost never take an all or nothing position, and immigration is no different. We don’t care if we are disappointing everyone. We are not here to be your friend. We are here to tell you the truth.
As it relates to mercy for migrants “versus” rule of law (it’s actually not either/or), mercy and compassion for migrants is not sinful. It is incorrect to describe it as such. However, mercy can be sinful. The Catholic Church and other Christian institutions should have taken a much tougher stance with child sex abuse. Their “mercifulness” was sinful because the acts were extremely sinful. Whether mercy is sinful or not depends on the context. It is not sinful in the context of migrants because they naturally want to flee their home countries for many good reasons. Fleeing one’s country, even when breaking the laws of another country, by definition is not sinful because it is not immoral. Their actions are motivated by fear and a survival instinct, and that’s understandable. Sinfulness isn’t determined by laws. It’s determined by morality, which may or may not overlap with laws.
However, the Biden administration did not adequately prioritize the rule of law for our own country. The open border policy was terrible governance. It created all kinds of problems: practical ones for our nation and moral ones. Our own country’s safety, stability and economics are always important. How do we house that many people coming in that fast? We couldn’t, and one could literally see it, even in northern states. Equity for migrants is also important. We can’t take in the whole world, so we need to have a system that is fair. Venezuelans making up 60% or Latin Americans making up 80% of TPS recipients is not fair to TPS seekers of other nations. What we see is that Latin Americans have too much advocacy and others do not have enough. It needs to be more balanced.
What would Jesus say? We don’t know, but we know what he said. He said all of the things people quote him on about mercy and compassion, but he also said “Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s,” meaning follow our worldly laws. (We expect Republicans to follow the law and pay their taxes.) As we said before, we can’t cherry-pick which laws we follow. That is a surefire way to destroy our country. If you don’t like a law, you can try to get Congress – and Congress alone – to change it, but the law is the law. All people, including and especially the current administration, are expected to follow the law. As it relates to migrants, we provided what we think is a balanced approach before. (See below.) We need to continue to accept immigrants and migrants, such as refugees and asylum seekers, but the system needs an overhaul. We need comprehensive immigration reform. We need to properly absorb them at a quantity and pace that is manageable for our country, while maintaining our enviable assimilation process and taking an equitable approach. We also need to do soft power: helping their home countries strengthen their law enforcement capabilities and more Peace Corps. (Again, see below.)
Empathy for immigrants sounds like Christianity 101. Here’s why some say it’s a sin.
2/1/25 – To start Black History Month, let’s say this. If anybody thinks black people are inferior, they are out of their mind. They are an incredibly beautiful, talented, smart and viable group of people. Africa is rising.
2/1/25 – Skin color is arguably the worst indication of a person’s “race.” (Hint: Most people are mixed.) In any case, skin color is highly deceptive. One of the strange things about many white people is that they can get extremely brown, as tan or tanner than many naturally brown people. Many fair brown people are genetically less “white” than darker people if you analyze their DNA. You have to look at a variety of factors: indigenous groups, migratory patterns, wars and conquests, anthropology, religion, culture, linguistics, DNA and biological features (hair type, facial features, etc.) You’re putting together a puzzle of human migration and growth, which involves many factors. So, everyone can stop with their skin color obsession, whether lighter or darker. It’s practically meaningless.
2/1/25 – The British were primarily Anglo Saxon, white people, not Caucasians. (See below for the distinction.) The Aryans (Iranians) were not Anglo Saxon, so rest easy, not related to the colonizers. The Aryans were also not Arabs, Turks or Mongols (Genghis Khan). Mughals were Turks/Mongols. The Aryans were Iranians (Persian), a different ethnic group from Arabs, Turks and Mongols, and the Persians’ language is Farsi, which is still spoken in South Asia today. Farsi is not a Semitic language. It’s an Indo-European, specifically Indo-Iranian language. The Aryan/Dravidian “divide” is manmade. It is possible that South Indians might be more “original to the land” to some degree; however, Indians, north and south, have varying genetic markers of the Aryan migration, which occurred several thousand (about 4,000) years ago. Almost all Indians are mixed with it. Many Indians also likely have genetic markers of the Mughals. Stop having ridiculous blood and soil debates. You’re not winning anything, and you’re losing social cohesion.
2/1/25 – The Republican Party would be wise to be the Party of Lincoln. Racism and hatred of other ethnicities will do long-term damage to a party that has a venerable origin.
2/1/25 – Were the American people deceived by the Biden administration and the liberal legacy media for the past four years?
2/1/25 – Did the liberal legacy media deceive the American people not only about Biden’s infirmity but also on the scale, scope and composition of his administration’s open border policy? The American people deserve answers.
2/1/25 – Among many other answers, the American people deserve answers from the Biden administration as to 1) who was actually running the country because Biden seemed too infirm to do much quality decision-making and 2) who made the decision to give almost 2/3 (60%) of TPS (based on the list below) to Venezuelans. Remember: this is the same administration that had a disastrous pull out from Afghanistan. Why not the Afghanis who helped us? With a world on fire, why not more distributed across the many regions in the world that had people with legitimate claims for TPS?
2/1/25 – There were over 711,000 Venezuelans who received Temporary Protected Status (TPS) between 2021 and 2023. That is an extremely high amount. It is more than all of the other countries on the list combined. The American people deserve to get an answer from the previous administration as to why Venezuelans got preferential treatment. Was it because of a special interest group?
How Temporary Protected Status has expanded under the Biden administration