Ron DeSantis, you are making a huge mistake
I have watched Governor DeSantis for a few years now, and he has done an excellent job in Florida. So much so that many are relocating there, where they feel they will be free and protected from the woke Left. Everyone knew he had the oval office in his sights, the only question was when he would go for it.
This is not the time for him to go for it.
There are things I dislike about Donald Trump. He has a very big mouth that he ought to rein in in certain ways. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be bold, but he should sound like he graduated high school.
Trump’s first term’s fatal flaw was personnel. He went through staff by the score, and many of them proved to be disloyal. In the case of the Attorney General slot, it cost him the reelection. Ditto Mike Pence, the traitor. In fact, Pence was probably behind many of the disloyal appointments. Trump mistakenly relied on him for insider political savvy.
But despite all that, the first term was a rousing success. Much was accomplished, domestically and internationally.
What’s more, no one has done more to get Republicans elected, to rouse and unify the base, than Donald Trump.
I do not exaggerate when I say that Donald Trump has earned the nomination this year.
We also have something to prove. Despite the prevailing narrative, the 2020 election was stolen from us. This must be corrected, or we have no nation. Trump has something to prove, and so do we. We must not let the lawless take over the nation, as they have done. They must be stopped.
It’s a sign of the times that I wonder if the preceding paragraph will get me kicked off of WP. If so, I welcome it. You’re not the only game in town anymore. We don’t need you.
Ron DeSantis is going to destroy a lot of the good will he had built up. It was for him to stand down for four more years and support Donald Trump. Then he would have been a hero going into 2028. But now his career is about to get fed into the shredder.
Pray for this nation. This is about good vs. evil.
May God have mercy on us. Amen.
Lockdowns for nothing
It’s been said that history doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme with itself. It’s ironic that the states in our nation can be divided up into “free” and “slave” once again. But this time it is the more industrialized and densely populated states, which tend to be in the North and on the coasts, that are the “slave” states with regard to Democrat lockdowns and other Covid restrictions, while “flyover country” tends to have the “free” states.
This handy chart shows the folly of it all. Those “free” states that had no lockdowns are very evenly interspersed among the “slave” lockdown states. There was little to no advantage either way. Toward the middle you’ll see the average for all free and for all lockdown states, and there’s hardly any difference in fatality rate between them.
All that pain for nothing. All the businesses gone under, educations interrupted or canceled, people isolated from friends and family. For nothing, that is, unless you count trashing Trump’s roaring economy for political purposes, and conditioning the population for even further social engineering attempts by the globalist political elite running much of the country as worthy goals. Apparently some who fancy themselves Americans do so.
Trump’s CPAC Speech
People forget that this was a speech crafted for public consumption. Trump was not going to broach a military option, or even keep hopes alive about correcting the 2020 election in the courts. His stated focus, time and again, was on four years from now.
Trump has said many times that only a fool lets his enemy know his real plans. The purpose of this appearance was to let everyone know he’s still in the game, and to rally the troops, who have been badly hurting. If you accept it on that level, it was a strong success.
Trump knows full well that there are a couple of court cases still drawing breath, and some vote forensics pending. He mentioned neither. The last time he tried to stir up the troops, on Jan. 6th, the enemy took advantage of it and turned it on him. He’s not going to make that mistake again. Publicly, at least, the 2020 election is in the rear-view mirror.
We are left where we were before the speech. We must be faithful in our resistance to the Democrat destruction of the nation, and to their consolidation of power, as much as possible. Beyond that we must rely on God, because only He can pull this nation out of this deep pit at this point. It was Bill Barr’s malfeasant inaction toward Big Tech and vote fraud that got us into this mess. So much for any human plan.
FWIW, the prophets of the Lord that I listen to have not abandoned their call that Trump will prevail. They are looking for some massive occurrence that will change everything. If it does happen, I expect it will be in a completely unanticipated way. It is for us to watch and pray, to do what we can, and to keep hope alive.
True Perspective on Biden’s Inauguration
This short video gives true perspective on the inauguration. It was carefully control, all for TV. A real crowd would have booed Biden off the stage.
These people are ripping the soul of America out of her chest, all in order to cover for a fraudulent candidate, campaign, and election. They will stop at NOTHING to gain and keep power.
Since WE are now the media, we have to make sure people see things like this. Americans once awakened will not be denied justice. Pray and act. Amen.
Looking forward, do not abandon hope
I will reiterate what I have said before. My trust is ultimately in the Lord, not in any man. Not in Q, not in President Trump.
President Trump is not perfect. But he did an astonishing amount of good in his four years, especially considering the unprecedented and unprincipled opposition he had. He should be forever honored for what he did and tried to do.
As I have said, I am in broad agreement with the goal of the Q movement to clean up government and society, but I don’t buy into its more radical aspects. One should abandon common sense only with utmost caution. In particular, Sessions and Barr were utter failures. Barr always was a swamp creature, all the way back to Ruby Ridge, though he talked a very good game.
I believe that the Lord is not done with this story, despite its horrendous appearances. At John 11 the two sisters brokenheartedly cry that their brother, Lazarus, would not have died had Jesus been there. But Jesus had intentionally delayed His arrival, because He had a greater miracle in mind than just another healing. Yes, the sisters and Lazarus had to go through a lot for it to happen this way, but when Lazarus was raised from the dead all the pain was forgotten.
God has greater plans for us – “more than we can ask or think” – but He very often does things His own way, and it is required of us that we have faith if we want to cooperate. We often do not understand what He’s doing, which is why we must “walk by faith, not by sight”.
Keep believing, and keep praying. Pray for President Trump and his family, that they would be comforted and protected, and that through this experience they will meet the Lord in a new and deeper way. Pray that the evil will be exposed, and that through this the nation will unite in repulsion and with a single purpose to remove the evildoers, even if they have already been installed in office.
God promises to work all things for good for those who love Him. May the peace of God, which passes understanding, and the comfort of the Holy Spirit be will all who love God and love this nation He has given us.
For the record, I will be referring to Biden as Biden, and to President Trump as President Trump. As it should be, because that is the truth. Thieves should not be honored. Amen.
Some freedom-friendly tech alternatives
Big Tech has been dramatically increasing censorship against conservatives since the election. They don’t want anyone hearing about it having been stolen. The censorship had been going on for several years, since Trump won the 2016 election. That was something the progressives in tech and big business never thought possible, and they resolved that it would not happen again. Apparently they have been successful.
With Trump having been banned from Twitter and Facebook, I finally decided I had had enough. How long are we supposed to tolerate the abuse Dorsey and Zuckerberg were throwing at us daily? I deleted my Twitter accounts yesterday. My Facebook account has been deactivated from many years back and never gets used.
It is time to realize we are in a war, one we did not ask for or want, and it is time to begin fighting back. With that in mind, here are some thoughts for people concerned about the power these plutocrats wield and who want to stop supporting them and get out from under their shadow.
There are several Twitter replacements. The best, IMO, is gab.com. It is good and getting better. They just started a video hosting site and they have a smartphone in development. Gab is good because you can start Groups, to separate feeds by subject. This is the closest thing to Twitter’s Tweetdeck interface, though you can’t as yet run multiple columns at once.
Most conservatives seem to have gravitated to Parler rather than Gab. I think that’s a shame, because I can’t make heads or tails of its interface. And it has some terms of service that are concerning.
A new kid on the block in Clouthub.com. It’s in its infancy and could use a lot of work, but it is up and running.
A good facebook replacement is MeWe.com. It’s interface is quite developed. Like the others, it has had a massive influx of users over the past couple of weeks.
Another is usa.life.
Search
Google is one of the most dangerous companies on earth. It decidedly is NOT your friend, contrary to what everyone used to say about it. Google wants to know everything about you, and wants you to know only what they want you to know.
I used DuckDuckGo for years, but I found it censoring a “biden gropes girls” image search in the USA region – the very region where it mattered – during the campaign season about four months back. I approached them on it through two avenues, and they did not respond. They’ve corrected it now, after the election, but I’ve switched to:
Qwant.Com. Very clean searches, nice features and interface, no tracking, etc.
At this point I still have a gmail account, but I’m weaning off it. For personal use I’ve gone to the free webmail at vivaldi.net. Very nice service, and it even has an easy to set up implementation of end-to-end encryption.
Browser
I don’t trust google’s Chrome. A far better browser is Vivaldi. It is feature-loaded, and is still developing. It is built on a Chrome base, but the folks at Vivaldi cut out the tracking and what-not. They have a long history of respecting privacy, going all the way back to the original Opera browser.
E-commerce
Amazon is unconscionably huge, and constitutes a threat to the economic wellbeing of our nation. And now it has gotten very serious about censoring conservatives as well, by kicking them off its massive web server structure.
I’m giving some biz to Walmart. It’s not great but better than Az. I use Az as a research tool and then go out on the web to find where to purchase. Vitacost is pretty good for supplements.
*Just today Walmart announced it would not donate to any politician who supported President Trump’s challenge of the electoral results.
Youtube
Youtube is owned by Google, and has become extremely censorious of conservatives. They started by demonitization, now they’re deplatforming. Some alternatives are Bitchute, Brighteon, and Rumble. Rumble is a nice platform, but it requires your mobile phone number if you want to leave comments
Operating system
I’ve also been on Linux for a few years now. It’s a better OS than Windows, and its built by folks that like privacy as much as you. Tons of free software are available, to suit most peoples’ needs. There are many good flavors of Linux, but the one I recommend is MX Linux. They do a fantastic job developing and supporting the OS. Most machines take to Linux very nicely.
If you have any favorites, leave a note in the comments.
UPDATE: Supreme Court REFUSES to Consider GOP Post-Election Fraud Cases Before Biden Inauguration
The Supreme Court has been an utter disgrace. I find it hard to believe Trump’s appointees could be this bad; Roberts must have an iron grip on the calendar.
This effectively puts an end to any attempt to stop the inauguration, unless Guiliani has something up his sleeve.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected motions to fast-track eight GOP-led lawsuits Monday that challenged President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, including lawsuits led by President Donald Trump and former Trump legal advisor Sidney Powell, effectively killing the post-election litigation by ensuring it won’t be heard before Biden takes office and likely renders the cases moot. . .
Amazon Deplatforms Parler
Yesterday Amazon deplatformed Parler from its S3 servers. Parler is a free-speech Twitter alternative that many conservatives have flocked to. The S3 servers are massive and carry much of the Internet’s commerce and data storage, even including much of the government’s data. This gives one man – Jeff Bezos – enormous power. The other Big Tech plutarchs, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Cooke, the Google guy, etc, aren’t too far behind. Among them they wield unprecedented power over a very centralized world. They also own much of Congress.
When the establishment fights back this hard you can be sure that it is protecting something very important to them. For some reason they are deathly afraid of free speech and the current populism. This is antithetical to American values, including, simply, fair play.
Last night I cancelled all pending Amazon subscriptions for the month, and went to Walmart and Vitacost instead. WM is not great either (China), but they are less dangerous than Bezos. It’s time to stop funding the destruction of our nation. I plan to use Amazon as a research tool, then source the products elsewhere when possible.
It’s also time for conservative investors to step up and start alternatives to Amazon. This has begun for social platforms, but it must happen now for commerce as well. This is freedom’s new frontier, replete with both danger and opportunity. We need to take this seriously.
Where are we after Wednesday’s Capitol Hill disaster?
Wednesday saw a riot at and inside the Capitol Building, followed by strong condemnation of President Trump by Democrats and media. Many Republicans abandoned support for his contesting the electoral vote count, and the President soon after seemed to put a halt to his own efforts. Many of us felt speechless, not knowing how to make any sense of it.
So let me take a stab at it. The far Left infiltrated the crowd and instigated the storming of the Capitol Building. The Capitol Police leadership was in on it, having refused federal help and then sending some men home earlier in the morning, despite knowing that the demonstration would be headed there a bit later, with the police then actually removing barricades and escorting the crowd in. Frustrated unthinking patriots were drawn into the heat of the moment. It was a perfect setup to create a scandal to pin on the President, and yes, his “Wild” rhetoric played right into it.
The Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), swung right into action, and even most Republicans folded like an accordion. It was an orchestrated hit job, and it worked spectacularly.
Where does this leave us? Pretty much at the end of human ability. The President apparently has resigned himself to a transfer of power. (To be sure, that is distinct from conceding losing the election, which he did not do. This is a critical point legally and spiritually, and we need to keep it in mind.)
It leaves us totally dependent upon the Lord, and upon our prayers, a la 2Chr 7.14. We are at a Lazarus moment: “Lord, if You were here my brother would not have died”. The sisters thought that Jesus had shown up too late. But God never shows up late; He is always on time.
The prophets I listen to all say that Trump won and that he will still prevail. One even looks for a turnaround to come as late as March. For better or worse, I believe them. I don’t understand the details, but I know this battle is worth fighting, and the costs of losing it are unthinkable.
I commend everyone to the “Give Him 15” daily prayer series by Dutch Sheets, on Youtube and some Christian TV networks. It has been excellent.
God bless and be well.
Big Tech shuts out conservatives
- Today Twitter suspended President Trump’s account again, reportedly permanently.
- They did the same to Sidney Powell and General Mike Flynn today.
- Apple warned Parler that it is in danger of its app being removed.
- Facebook deleted the #Walkaway campaign’s page and banned its principals.
- Gab is under another DDoS attack and cannot be accessed.
- WordPress.com banned Conservative Treehouse.
- And much more.
This amounts to an unprecedented attack on free speech in America by the regressive progressives.
The Land of the Free must now prove itself to also be the Home of the Brave. It is going to take decisive, concerted action to reclaim our civil rights.
The Left will not stop at this. The ravening of the Tolerance crowd will not be sated until all dissent is suppressed, and they will seek to do that by any means necessary.
Conservatism is essentially the political expression of the family and the church, the two bedrock institutions upon which all others are founded. The attack on them continues unabated as well.
The prophets I’ve been listening to are all saying that this isn’t over; that God has some surprises coming for His faithful, even with regard to the election. I believe them.
But at the same time there is no doubt the going is going to get rough. Get prepped – both in food and necessities, and with regard to 2nd Amendment supplies and training if you are so inclined.
Stay informed. I’ve been tuning in to the Victory Channel, the FlashPoint show in particular.
Ween yourself off of Big Tech and find alternatives. Bitchute and Rumble for videos. Gab and Parler for Twitter. MeWe for Facebook. I’m using Vivaldi.net for email now. All are free.
The dominant culture is now opening hostile to us, and isn’t even pretending anymore. We are now a guerrilla operation. Stay safe, stay smart, stay effective
Most of all stay prayed up. It is the prayers of the saints that are going to turn this thing around. The prayer of faith is a powerful thing, and it also will be a protection for your mind.
Christian Nationalism, the new bogeyman
Because the Left controls the media, it is very adept at misusing words to attack its enemies. Thus it came up with ‘alt-right’ to label extreme fringe white supremacists and separatists and the like – whose numbers are extremely small – and then proceeded to apply it as a very effective smear to anyone on the right that didn’t go along with their narrative.
Now it’s Christian Nationalism’s turn. This is the Left’s response to the populist movement led by President Trump, a movement that is supremely dangerous in their eyes. Nationalism has been in disfavor since the European nations with their alliances failed to exercise self-restraint and fell into what became World War I. Christianity joined in the disfavor when it failed to keep those same nations from repeating their mistakes, in WWII. Desperate, the European intelligentsia looked elsewhere for salvation. Thus the rise of globalism and Marxism and the decline of nationalism and Christianity. It was quite consciously planned and done.
What’s sad today is to see the number of Christians in America who have been deceived by this strategy. I was around years back to see Beth Moore when she first started out on James Robison’s TV show. She was a talented Bible teacher with a close relationship with God; a breath of fresh air. Now she seems to have lost her mind. And similar is true of many once-respected Christian thought leaders.
The core question all need to be asking is: what is God doing? Is He still behind the nation-state? If so, we should be too. Scripture is quite clear that a one-world system is coming, which will persecute the Church mercilessly, and that “He that restrains” is the only thing holding it back at this time. But “He that restrains” – the Holy Spirit – works within the church, and as God’s ambassadors we ought to be aware of what’s going on and we ought to work to oppose the coming godless new world order.
Yet many Christians have in effect aligned themselves with that order, against the very purposes of God. Instead of being beacons of truth they lead many astray.
Why? Because some of Trump’s tweets are unseemly? Because he doesn’t fit the choir boy mold and has had a carnal past? Get a grip. God has always chosen unlikely instruments, and we need to get some perspective as to what’s important. Were Trump not as bold as he is, he never would have gotten as far as he has, nor achieved what he has for the nation.
It’s not over
Just want to say that God can pull out a winning court case at any time. Lin Wood’s case in GA, for instance, just got docketed at SCOTUS.
And SCOTUS’ rejection of the Texas case was strictly on the ground of “no standing”. That means they think TX had no right to bring the case. It doesn’t mean the case had no merit. THEREFORE, other actors with proper standing can bring the same case and it should be heard. Those other actors would be from within the contested states. We still should be praying for the court cases.
Today was a large “Jericho” rally in DC. They marched seven times around Congress and SCOTUS. We need to join in spirit with rallies like this.
Pray also for the president’s health, vision, courage, and wisdom. And for Melania.
I’ve been led lately to pray more for the nation as a whole, because the depth of the manifest corruption has become unbelievably deep and wide.
If the Democrats take the White House it’s hard to see the USA not being over, because they will consolidate one-party rule in many ways. This is not a time to stop praying.
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