Monthly Archives: November 2022

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Daily Broadside | Brandon’s Genderfluid, Non-Binary, Cross-Dressing Official Charged With Stealing a Fabulous Travel Bag

Daily Verse | 2 Corinthians 7:1
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Wednesday’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 10-13

Wednesday and the last day of November. One more month in 2022.

I wrote earlier this year about Sam Brinton, the man who dresses as a woman while playing perverted puppy games with other sexual deviants, but is nonetheless Biden’s official in charge of disposing of nuclear materials. Apparently, Sam has been on leave for a month but only now is that becoming known, along with the reason for his absence.

Law enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport were alerted to a missing suitcase in the baggage claim area on Sept. 16. The adult female victim said she flew into MSP on a Delta flight from New Orleans and went to retrieve her checked bag at carousel seven.

Airport records confirmed the navy blue Vera Bradley roller bag arrived at 4:40 p.m. but was missing from the carousel. So law enforcement reviewed video surveillance footage from the baggage claim area and observed Brinton removing a navy blue roller bag from carousel seven, according to a criminal complaint.

The complaint says Brinton removed a luggage tag from the bag, placed it into a handbag he was carrying, and “then left the area at a quick pace.” Brinton arrived at MSP Airport around 4:27 p.m. on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., but did not check a bag, meaning he had no reason to visit baggage claim, according to the complaint.

I’ll take fabulous bags for $2,300, Alex. No, really.

After reviewing several surveillance videos she identified the bag as hers adding that the total value of items in the allegedly stolen bag was roughly $2,325.

Brinton is charged with a felony, meaning he could face five years in jail, a $10,000 fine, or both. The White House hasn’t said “boo” about it.

What do you think the chances are of him being prosecuted and being punished like any other normal American? Zero to none, I’d wager. He’s a protected class; not only a Democrat government official, but an oppressed minority whose only crime is being totally himself!

We can all sleep better at night knowing that Brandon is making awesome choices about who’s in charge of the more important federal roles in keeping us safe.

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Daily Broadside | Happy Birthday, Sparky!

Daily Verse | 2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

Tuesday’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 6-9

A bit lighter fare this morning. Always good to break from the overbearing presence of politics and find something to make you smile.

One of my favorite comics of all time is “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz, featuring Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and iconic moments in broadcast TV like A Charlie Brown Christmas or It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

This is the first Peanuts strip from October 2, 1950.

Charles Monroe Schulz, nicknamed “Sparky” by an uncle, was born November 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally called Lil’Folks, his comic strip was eventually picked up by United Feature Syndicate, who insisted it be called Peanuts.

In honor of his 100th birthday, over 90 syndicated cartoonists across the country paid tribute to Shulz in their own comic strips published November 26. As the Charles M. Shulz Museum proudly says, “Schulz is the only cartoonist ever to receive this honor—a fitting tribute for a man who devoted his entire life to cartooning.”

You can see all of the comics honoring Schulz at the museum link, but I pulled a few from some of the more popular strips you might recognize.

Enjoy!

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Daily Broadside | Depraved Luxury Brand Sells Sex with Children

Daily Verse | 1 Corinthians 15:46
The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that, the spiritual.

Monday’s Reading: 2 Corinthians 1-5

Happy Monday and thanks for joining me. Our Thanksgiving guests are safely on their way back to their current homes and the Christmas lights are up at mine.

Black Friday has been extended through the weekend and today is Cyber Monday, the first volley of a non-stop effort to part you from your money from now until Christmas.

Hopefully you’ll avoid super luxury brand Balenciaga.

High-fashion brand Balenciaga is facing backlash for an ad campaign that features photos of child models holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear; the brand also used an image of a Supreme Court opinion in a child pornography case as a prop promoting a handbag.

Backlash was swift and loud.

Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, a conservative women’s rights group, called the images “exploitive propaganda.”

“This is not about them being provocative and getting attention,” Nance said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “The entire campaign sexualizes children, period. It is child exploitation, period. And it feeds and normalizes a culture that is dark and depraved.”

That’s true. Not only does it feed a culture that is dark and depraved, it pushes that hunger for depravity further. There is a concerted effort to normalize the sexual exploitation of children, especially for pederasts.

There were two concurrent campaigns for Balenciaga’s products and each drew heavy condemnation. The first involved a partially-covered document from a Supreme Court decision about the sale of child pornography, while the second involved images of children holding teddy bears that were “dressed” in bondage gear.

One child stood on a couch while holding a purple teddy bear which was dressed in a bondage outfit, including leather straps wrapped around its neck connected to ruffled thigh straps, according to online screenshots. In another photo, a different child stood in front of a table of Balenciaga merchandise holding another bondage teddy bear; this stuffed animal wore a mesh shirt, had leather straps tied around its ankles and wrists along with a choker around its neck with a metal padlock attached. This bear also appeared to have dyed fur like that of a black eye.

Kim Kardashian, certainly no role model, condemned the images and left her future association with the brand in doubt.

“I have been quiet for the past few days, not because I haven’t been disgusted and outraged by the recent Balenciaga campaigns, but because I wanted an opportunity to speak to their team to understand for myself how this could have happened,” she shared across her social media platforms.

“As a mother of four, I have been shaken by the disturbing images. The safety of children must be held with the highest regard and any attempts to normalize child abuse of any kind should have no place in our society — period.”

Last year’s Super Bowl MVP and follower of Jesus, Cooper Kupp, also spoke out against the disgusting ad campaign.

Balenciaga apologized for the depraved content and deleted the brand’s Instagram posts.

“We apologize for displaying unsettling documents in our campaign. We take this matter very seriously and are taking legal action against the parties responsible for creating the set and including unapproved items for our Spring 23 campaign photoshoot,” a brand statement published on Instagram read. “We strongly condemn abuse of children in any form. We stand for children safety and well-being.”

In United States v. Williams, the Supreme Court ruled that it was not a violation of the First Amendment to prosecute individuals pandering the sale of child pornography without actually possessing such material.

But it was also a partial win because the court ruled that ruled that “virtual child pornography,” which does not use actual children in its production, could not be criminalized. So you could have a child pornographer using created images to peddle their filth and they couldn’t be prosecuted for it.

The other part of their apology was regarding the images of children with the bondage bears.

Balenciaga simultaneously apologized for a separate but concurrent ad campaign that featured photos of child models holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear.

“We sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused. Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms,” read a separate post from Balenciaga. 

Sort of a soft apology considering the “crime.” They apologize “for any offense” their ads “may have caused”? I read that as, “we didn’t mean to offend anyone and are really surprised that people were offended.”

Seriously?

I would’ve expected them to denounce the ads in the strongest possible terms, apologized profusely for allowing such garbage to slip by their marketing department, and announced that several employees in the marketing and PR departments had been dismissed from the company immediately. Not to mention the photographer.

We live in a morally depraved society and it’s now the family that is on the defensive, not the marketers or the companies peddling this $#!+.

Remember, these companies live and die on their earnings. Starve them of revenue and profit and they’ll go out of business.

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Daily Broadside | Learning from Those Who Have Gone Before Us

Daily Verse | 1 Corinthians 11:26
“For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Friday’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 12-14
Saturday’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 15-16

I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday and were as full of thanksgiving to God as you were of turkey and pumpkin pie. I took my own advice and read George Washington’s thanksgiving day Proclamation of 1789 as we sat down at our table. When I was finished it was silent for a beat or two as the realization of how far removed we are from our founding values and reliance on God sunk in. No one could imagine the same proclamation being made today by any modern president.

We’re so far from the humility and dependence on that “beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be,” certain new books are raising the alarm. One in particular is Eric Metaxas’ book, Letter to the American Church. The description tells us the “author of a bestselling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas reveals the haunting similarities between today’s American Church and the German Church of the 1930s. Echoing the German martyr’s prophetic call, he exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil.”

I haven’t read it yet, but I’m more interested now having just watched an interview Metaxas did with the found of The Stream, James Robison.

In the interview, which I encourage you to listen to, Metaxas says that “there’s no hyperbole in what I am saying.” He continues,

The thesis of this book, the reason I know the Lord made me write this short book, is because the silence of the church in Germany that led to the satanic evil of the Nazis and the Holocaust, is exactly the same as the silence of the church in America today, which will, without question, lead us to horrors unimaginable, unless we repent, unless we cease being silent. I cannot think of a more urgent message. I beg people, I beg people, to take what I’m saying in this book seriously, because it’s not me talking.”

I have no doubt that there are parallels between the failure of the church in Germany to speak up when it needed to and the failure of the church in contemporary America to speak up now. The question is, what are we to be speaking up about? From the description again: “God calls us to defend the unborn, to confront the lies of cultural Marxism, and to battle the globalist tyranny that crushes human freedom.”

One of the challenges I see to this call is a divided church. We have church fellowships that have not only refrained from standing up to abortion, cultural Marxism and globalist tyranny, but have embraced those ideological practices. When Metaxas refers to “the Church,” he (hopefully) means those conservative, bible-believing, evangelically-minded fellowships that retain some semblance of godliness and righteousness, not the woke liberal fellowships that have been consumed by the rising tide of secular culture.

Because I’m sensitive to practical ideas of what we can do in response to the corruption all around us, I’m wondering what Metaxas has to say to the Church at large and in what ways he thinks we should speak up. For instance, how does one “confront the lies of cultural Marxism” as “the church”?

If anyone reading this blog has read his book, I’d love to hear what you think.

Have a great weekend.

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Daily Broadside | The Obvious Big Missing Object of Thanksgiving Today

Daily Verse | 1 Corinthians 8:9
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

Thursday’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 9-11

Thanksgiving has deep roots in the history of the United States. We all know the story of the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag people sharing an autumn harvest feast in 1621 that is known as the first Thanksgiving. Michael Hollan shares a brief history of Thanksgiving becoming a formal holiday.

Before it became an official holiday, President George Washington issued a proclamation that Thursday, November 26, 1789, would be a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer,” according to the Unites States Office of the Historian. It wasn’t until 1863, however, that President Abraham Lincoln said that Americans should recognize the last Thursday of every November as a day of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving became an official national holiday in 1870, along with Christmas, New Year’s Day and Independence Day, the government website states. At that time, it was decided that the president would decide the date of Thanksgiving. Most followed Lincoln’s lead and chose the last Thursday of November, according to the Office of the Historian.

This continued until President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved it to the third Thursday of November, according to the Office of the Historian. At the time, the country was still reeling from the Great Depression, and Roosevelt hoped to help businesses by extending the holiday season.

The move was controversial, however, and the House passed a bill in October of 1941 that made the last Thursday of November the official date for Thanksgiving. 

Some 80 years later, we continue to celebrate Thanksgiving as one of our major national observances and as a lead-in to “the holiday season.” But the spirit of the day in our current era is a far cry from what the original intent of the celebration was.

In many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends.

No kidding. Here’s how George Washington described the day:

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

Here’s how Abraham Lincoln described the day:

No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged,

In our secular world, the idea of thanksgiving has been boiled down to having a huge meal with family or friends and watching a football game while we enjoy a day off of work. If we’re trying to inject something meaningful into our observance, we might share what we’re thankful for: family, friends, financial security, good weather, safe travels, the new job, baby, house or car.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with those things, but we seem to be missing the implied object of our thanks. The word is thanks-GIVING. To whom are we giving thanks?

The Pilgrims, Washington and Lincoln all had it right. Our thanks is to be directed to God, “that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be,” and “to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.”

“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.”

1 Chronicles 29:14

Today, as you observe Thanksgiving, remember that all that we have comes from the hand of the Lord. Celebrate appropriately.

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Daily Broadside | If at First You Don’t Succeed, Investigate Trump Again and Again and Again …

Daily Verse | Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.

Tuesday’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 1-4

I don’t know what you think of president-in-exile Donald J. Trump and I’m not sure I care. Don’t take it personally; I’m not sure what I think of him anymore, either.

On the one hand, I admire the man who obviously loves this nation and accomplished in four years what our ruling class couldn’t do in dozens of years over several administrations. Things like helping the Arabs and Jews take more steps towards a lasting peace with the Abraham Accords, bringing business back to America, lowering taxes for ordinary Americans, restoring a sense of pride in the American experiment, and exposing the Deep State in all its depredatory evil for all to see.

On the other hand, I got tired of his obnoxious self-centeredness, the constant drama, the off-the-cuff comments that became self-inflicted wounds, and his absolute naïveté about the level of corruption that exists in the government. He trusted too many of the wrong people, many of whom sabotaged his presidency and created a sense of instability in his administration.

Of course, the thing that I loved most about him was the same thing Abraham Lincoln loved about Ulysses S. Grant: he fights. He could give as good as he got, and he took it to the arrogant and sophisticated elite while doing what he could to put America first.

But no matter what I or you think of Trump, there is absolutely no excuse for Merrick Garland to have appointed another special counsel to “investigate” Trump.

The special counsel, Garland said, will take over the investigation of Trump’s purported mishandling of presidential records and probe whether Trump can be held criminally liable for the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. The former is a desperate follow-up to the latter after the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 emerged empty-handed from an 18-month investigation.

Hey, didn’t I just read in the Washington Post that “investigators have ‘not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession,’ nor did anything recovered ‘point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets.'”

Oh, and isn’t it true that as the chief executive, no one can exceed Trump’s authority?

When government drones “classify” documents, they do so only because their authority comes from the president. They can neither challenge nor exceed the president’s authority. Neither can Congress for that matter.

This isn’t me saying that. This is the Supreme Court of the United States in an unchallenged decision that relies on a long-standing (as in, back to 1788) assignment of power to the executive. Presidents can voluntarily respect a national security law, but they do not have to abide by it.

That’s because the president—and only the president—has plenary power when it comes to national security matters. Plenary power means “a power that has been granted to a body or person in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations upon the exercise of that power.”

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Note that there are no procedural rules the president must follow to exercise his authority. Again, that’s because neither Congress nor the bureaucracy (which reports to the president) has the power to impose rules on him.

Because Trump was still the President of the United States, at the very moment when he transferred those documents from the White House to his private residence, they were automatically and instantly declassified. After that, nothing in his possession was either “sensitive” or “classified,” and neither the current nor the past Attorney General can change that fact.

In other words, Garland’s appointment of a special counsel is just another Deep State bid to further harass Trump because, although there’s nothing there, the process itself is the punishment.

The motivating factor? Trump has announced another bid for the White House, and they can’t allow that.

I suspect that Michael Anton is right: They can’t let him back in because Trump’s attack on the regulatory “deep state” with all its globalist affiliations would bring their elitist party to an abrupt end. “The people who really run the United States of America,” Anton wrote, “have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.” 

Garland isn’t even pretending that it’s anything different.

“It is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution based on recent developments, including [Trump’s] announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well,” Garland told reporters at an afternoon press conference.

From now on, expect that any challenger to the current president will be prosecuted by the AG. It’s also striking that Garland is not appointing a special counsel to investigate either Hunter Biden or his father, Brandon, even though there is ample evidence that they are compromised by the Chinese communist government.

This is a political persecution designed to derail Donald Trump, the most investigated president in our history.

The Russia hoax failed. The impeachment over a fabricated scandal in Ukraine failed. Prosecution over the Emoluments Clause failed, and the Jan. 6 Committee failed to serve the long-sought indictment that’s become the top item on the Democrats’ policy agenda for six years.

You don’t have to like or approve of Donald J. Trump to see that this is an abuse of political power visited on a man whose only crime was opposing the agenda of those who run America. We live under a fascist regime, and Merrick Garland is one of its architects.

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Daily Broadside | The Ugly Truth About Speaker Pelosi

Daily Verse | Romans 11:25-26
Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

Monday’s Reading: Romans 12-16

Last week Nancy Pelosi announced that she will not seek re-election to leadership among the Democrat caucus. She’s led the Dems since 2003 and was the first female Speaker in U.S. history. She held the gavel from 2007-2011 and then again from 2019 until now.

“And with great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress,” she said. “For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect, and I’m grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome responsibility.”

While she’s achieved some historic accomplishments, I say “good riddance.” The defining moment of her “leadership” for me came during Trump’s 2020 State of the Union speech, when she methodically ripped up her copy of his speech while still on the podium after Trump had concluded his speech.

In that moment she disgraced her position of power and allowed whatever personal animus she had toward Trump to express itself publicly. Instead of the decorum the office deserved, she used the occasion to deliver a moment of ugly disrespect to both Trump and the millions of Americans who supported him.

It was childish, boorish and beneath the dignity of her office. It was also par for the course. She led two highly politicized efforts to oust him via impeachment, both of which failed. Her intent to smear him was evident when she said, “He just got impeached. He’ll be impeached for ever. No matter what the Senate does. He’s impeached for ever because he violated our constitution.”

Whatever personal vendetta she had, she had no right to use the political power she was entrusted with to persecute Trump.

Lots of people praise Pelosi for her tenure as speaker. I don’t. She was and is a disgraceful partisan hack who did more damage to the American political institution than any speaker before her.

She deserved to be gone long before now.

Good riddance.

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Daily Broadside | The New Kids on the Block Have a New Way to Vote

Daily Verse | Romans 5:6
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

Friday’s Reading: Romans 6-8
Saturday’s Reading: Romans 9-11

Happy Friday my friends.

Still smarting from the mess that was the midterms, I’ve continued to process and look for answers. In my research and reading, I’ve come across two factors that likely played significant roles in Democrats performing above expectations last week.

These do not undercut some of the other factors at play, particularly Mitch McConnell’s intrapartisan choices to cut off financial support for certain Senate races.

McConnell worked throughout the 2022 midterms to sabotage several battleground-state GOP Senate candidates who had pledged not to support him for leadership if they were elected to the upper chamber. In Arizona, McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund cut $18 million in ad spending from Republican Blake Masters, while the group simultaneously slashed $5.6 million in New Hampshire that was intended for Don Bolduc.

McConnell’s money prioritized allies, not a majority. He wanted to retain his leadership position as Minority Leader rather than lose his perch with a majority in the Senate. That was a huge factor in where we are today.

Back to the major factors, the first being demographics.

One of the exit poll numbers that has been making the most rounds on social media since Tuesday is this staggering statistic from CNN, depicting the political preferences of the various age groups. This year, voters aged 65 and older voted GOP by 13 points, while voters between the ages of 45 and 64 went Republican by 11 points. By contrast, voters between the ages of 30 and 44—the oldest of Millennials—supported Democrats by just 2 percentage points.

But, saving the worst for last, the very bottom of the data reveals the number that is the most catastrophic for the Republican Party and for the country: Voters ages 18 to 29—the Millennials and Generation Z, also known as “Zoomers”—voted for Democrats by a landslide margin of 28 points.

Not only was the youth turnout this year the highest for a midterm election cycle in 30 years, but this particular generation turned out to vote exactly the way they had been told to do. Behold, the seeds of decades of indoctrination in education, pop culture, and social media have finally sprouted now that these kids are all of legal voting age. Sprinkle on the finishing touch that is Biden’s unconstitutional student loan forgiveness plan, and these loyal voters were ready to swarm the polls to reward Democrats.

The generation that believes global warming is real, embraces sexual degeneracy and mental illness as “pride,” and is willing to live and die before the altar of “multiculturalism” and “diversity,” is now prepared to express these delusional beliefs at the ballot box. Republicans may very well have been targeting the parents of these brainwashed kids, who are justifiably angry at what their children have been put through for years; but they did not count on those very same brainwashed kids turning out to vote themselves.

You reap what you sow, as the saying goes, and we allowed the educators to sow lies. The minds and hearts of children in the progressive playpen of public schools were molded after cultural Marxists, and now they are voting their beliefs. Barring some intervention or painful reality check, they have dozens of years ahead to vote their values while the opposition party loses their constituency.

The second factor is the rise of the “Democrat Vote Machine.”

In a nutshell, Democrats throughout the institutions work together to use their various spheres of influence, infrastructure, and financing to turn out urban — aka Democrat — votes. Under the guise of righting a wrong (historical systemic racism social justice gobbledygook), they bring all their power to bear to sow and reap victim-class votes while studiously omitting redder areas.

Remember “Zuckerbucks” in the 2020 election? Mark Zuckerberg and other wealthy progressives spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create the Center for Technology and Civic Life. PJ Media’s J. Christian Adams described what happened thusly: “The Center for Technology and Civic Life and allied groups are responsible for building an urban get-out-the-vote-machine of the sort that Democrats could only dream up on a bender fueled by jugs of Merlot and all the legalized pot they could smoke.”

What these grants did was build structural bias into the 2020 election where structural bias matters most – in densely populated urban cores. It converted election offices in key jurisdictions with deep reservoirs of Biden votes into Formula One turnout machines. The hundreds of millions of dollars built systems, hired employees from activist groups, bought equipment and radio advertisements. It did everything that street activists could ever dream up to turn out Biden votes if only they had unlimited funding.

This is also what Molly Ball reported in Time magazine in February 2021.

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.

The Democrats and their allies in all of our major institutions have developed a system of getting out the vote … not rigging but “fortifying” the election.

So not only do we have a demographic shift underway that will see conservative voters decline as a percentage of the population, but the Democrats have built a voting machine that favors them and to which Republicans have little or no access.

None of this bodes well for the future. In fact, Steve McCann at American Thinker writes:

There is a generational shift underway as the younger, woefully indoctrinated generations will evolve into increasingly dominant segments of the voting populace.  Post 2024, blue America will grant citizenship to 30-40+ million illegal immigrants and millions more through unfettered chain migration.  Further, they intend to permanently embed voter fraud and manipulation through federal legislation.  If they are not soundly defeated in 2024, this demographic change and these legislative initiatives will assure that blue America never loses a national election.

This explains why we got the results we got last week. I’m not going to say the Dems won through cheating, although I wouldn’t put it past them and there’s plenty of evidence that they do. But the truth is that Republicans are woefully unprepared to fight fire with fire.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Nothing is Going to Change Just Because the GOP Won the House

Daily Verse | Romans 3:22
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

Thursday’s Reading: Romans 4-5

Thursday. Exactly one week until Thanksgiving.

One of the things I know but have to be reminded of is that our political leaders won’t save us. By “save us” I mean that they can’t or, more likely, won’t, restore our civic society to something resembling the early years of the republic. The reason for that is that so many of them have become detached from reality, while a mob of others are only trying to secure their current positions of power and income.

Author Doug Wilson, pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, had an interesting take on this the other day.

What is the basic lesson that close observers of politics need to learn? Besides the lesson that summons you to stop being such a close observer of politics? You do know that this would help with that throbbing in your temples, right?

There are two such lessons, and when they are both held together, they result in wisdom. Just one of them taken alone, by which I mean either of them taken alone, creates a lopsided and gimpy approach to civic virtue. And the last thing we need right now is a gimpy approach to any kind of virtue.

The first lesson is that we must not put our trust in princes. The arm of the flesh will fail us. Do not hope in man, who breathes through his nose.

“It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.”

Psalm 118:9 (KJV)

“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.”

Psalm 146:3 (KJV)

But the other thing we have to remember is the fact that when the wicked are in positions of authority, the people really do groan under it. The consequences are real; the misery is a thing.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: But when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.”

Proverbs 29:2 (KJV)

So if you put these two truths together, you come to the realization that bad rulers can do an awful lot of damage, and it is a joy to the people when the righteous are in authority. At the very same time, it is hazardous to look to princes as the ones who are supposed to put the righteous in authority, or throw down the wicked from their seats. Put another way, good rulers can be God’s instrument of blessing, but they are never the source of any blessing. We must pray to God for them, and not pray to them for God.

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Politics is no savior, but politics does need to get saved. Actually, it would be more to the point to say that our detoxing politics needs to spend about three weeks eating soup at the rescue mission, listening to all the testimonies, and then getting saved.

This is relevant because the Republicans have clinched control of the House, by a slim margin, meaning that Kevin McCarthy could be the next speaker. Mitch McConnell will win Minority Leader in the Senate.

Here’s the thing: the midterms were disastrous, and McCarthy and McConnell are responsible for that failure. They’re the leaders of the GOP in Washington. Why should they be allowed to retain their current positions?

This needs to get sorted.

Forget about the Trump versus DeSantis question for a minute. Right now, the far more important and pressing task at hand is to hold Sen. Mitch McConnell, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, and other GOP leaders like Rep. Tom Emmer, the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, accountable for their massive failures this election cycle. 

Any time wasted speculating on the 2024 primary is time not spent talking about McConnell’s dereliction of duty as the leader of the GOP — not just his horrible funding decisions during the midterms but also the past two years of facilitating President Biden’s agenda. 

Yes.

Here’s my prediction: the House will undertake investigations of the FBI, the Hunter Biden laptop, shut down the January 6 committee, and perhaps address some other issues. There will be direct questions and strongly worded letters, but in the end, NO ONE WILL GO TO JAIL OR LOSE THEIR JOB.

It will all come to nothing. For the next two years.

Mark my words. The GOPe doesn’t have the stomach for it because they’re part of the Uniparty, playing the role of irritated but loyal housewife.

So, it’s good to be reminded not to get my expectations up too high, because I will be disappointed.

Instead I have to learn to live with the tension of watching my country be destroyed without being able to do much about it.

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Daily Broadside | Meet the New Boss; Same As the Old Boss

Daily Verse | Acts 27:37
Altogether there were 276 of us on board.

Wednesday’s Reading: Romans 1-3

Welcome to Wednesday and mid-week. The days just clip by, don’t they?

A few things of note happening amid the fallout of the midterm elections. First, RINO leaders Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell have both been elected to lead in their respective chambers, McCarthy in the House as speaker and McConnell in the Senate as minority leader. I wish I had more confidence that they will get things done and clean up the mess that is Washington, D.C., but they won’t.

More precisely, they won’t be able to in the Senate, because Republicans won’t have the votes after the midterms. Best they can do is a 50-50 split, advantage Democrats with Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote.

Some U.S. senators realize that there needs to be change. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) plans to challenge McConnell for the leadership post, and he’s supported by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Hawley even tweeted: “The old party is dead. Time to bury it. Build something new.” But McConnell says he has the votes and will win the post.

Republicans have won back the House with at least 218 seats. Some project that the GOP will wind up with 222. McCarthy was challenged (briefly) by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) for the speaker’s gavel, but has won the nomination with a vote of 188-31. The 31 votes will make it hard for McCarthy to get to 218 votes on the floor vote come January, so there may yet be some horse-trading.

The second thing to note is that Donald J. Trump has announced that he’s running for president again in 2024.

“In order to make America great and glorious again. I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said to a crowd of devoted supporters outside of his Mar-a-lago home in Florida.

“But just as I promised in 2016, I am your voice. I am your voice. The Washington establishment wants to silence us, but we will not let them do that. What we have built together over the past six years is the greatest movement in history because it is not about politics. It’s about our love for this great country, America, and we’re not going to let it fail,” he added.

I’ll save my comments for now. There will be plenty of time to discuss Trump.

The one thing I will say is that there is bad blood developing between the Trump and DeSantis camps. I’ve been reading some concerning reports on DeSantis being heavily wooed by the GOPe. That would be a disaster if he ever succumbed to their overtures.

Big League Politics has reported about the RINO globalist mega donors currying favor with DeSantis, cajoling him to run for president in 2024 to upend the America First movement and divert grassroots energies into supporting traditional Republican politics:

“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is quickly becoming the favorite of the globalist RINO mega donors who want to “move on” from Donald Trump.

Major RINO weenie Paul Ryan is also big on DeSantis. Paul Ryan frittered away a House majority and couldn’t get Obamacare overturned while we had the House, Senate and presidency. He’s not a true conservative.

Finally, there are a lot of bloggers and others who openly fret that our elections are fraudulent and it may not be possible to fix them. Here’s one sample:

In fact, for the past twenty years you could have made a lot of money betting on the Democrat in any election where the vote tally was either delayed or disputed (requiring a recount). Since Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota in 2008, when late in the recount enough Franken votes in Democratic Party strongholds were suddenly found to put Franken over the top, the pattern has been repeated over and over again. If the vote is close, suddenly a lot of questionable Democrat ballots are “discovered” and always counted. Or if the vote is close the counting process suddenly slows, or even stops, so that more time is gained to “find” more Democratic Party votes.

And in between elections the Democratic Party has aggressively resisted any reforms that would stop such abuse, with the Republicans only weakly fighting them. Thus, nothing gets fixed, and the abuse becomes more blatant and obvious from election to election, so that we have now reached a point where the Democrats always win these disputed elections. Always. Statistically, this is impossible. The results should go both ways in recounts. They haven’t now for two decades.

In other words, the evidence points to Democratic Party malfeasance that is more and more in control of our government

We’re running out of time to get the system fixed. Can we do it with the new boss being the old boss?