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Daily Broadside | Biden Lies And Says He Didn’t Proclaim “Trans Day of Visibility” to be on Easter

When asked about Speaker Johnson’s claim that Brandon proclaimed Easter Sunday to be the “Trans Day of Visibility,” the mentally incompetent bozo simply lied and said he didn’t do it. But the Internet is forever:

I mean, it sure sounds like he proclaimed it because he uses words like “therefore I … do hereby proclaim.” Yet he says that Speaker Johnson “thoroughly uninformed.”

Yes, it’s bad that Brandon proclaimed such a day in direct conflict with the holiest day on the Christian calendar. But there could be more than meets the eye here, and probably is. James Lindsay, whom I’ve quoted before, is someone who understands the mechanics of a cultural revolution, like the one we’re in the middle of right now.

This isn’t just an insult to the Christian faith, and indeed an intolerable one that proclaims a form of embodied Gnostic theosophy that misleads and destroys kids. It is entirely consistent with Woke Theosophy, as I’ve discussed elsewhere and may attach here as a thread, but it is more than that. It is also a deliberate provocation against Christians that must be understood.

A key principle of Woke activism is “your target’s reaction is your real action.” That derives from Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals and has been codified in the updated activism manual called Beautiful Trouble. They do these provocations intentionally, as I have discussed at length in the past, as a means of stoking a reaction they can use to their advantage.

On the reactionary side at present, it must be indicated that there are multiple overlapping active measures to drag faithful Christians into reactionary stances. One is the prevailing “Operation Christian Nationalism,” which this same administration is framing as one of the most dangerous threats to “democracy” in the world today. Another is the more local and specific radicalization attempt during Holy Week that follows the Christian rhetoric of “Christ is King,” which has been successfully tied to an antisemitic trope and active measure meant to drive a wedge between Christians and Jews and Christians and Christians. I have taken tremendous heat for exposing this active measure, as have many others, which is a testament to its status as an active measure.

This provocation, published yesterday, is overwhelmingly likely aiming to feed into those prevailing active measures (“ops”) meant to drag Christians into a positions of fruitful reaction that the Regime can use to clamp down on them. Again, Christian reaction is their real action, and we know for certain that Christian circles are deeply infiltrated with a chest-beating and growing radicalism that is being baited toward and associated with a growing antisemitism. The responses to this post will almost certainly prove this out, btw. Your evil government wants this to happen. They are baiting you into it.

It’s hard to internalize that our government may be deliberately trying to entrap us, but it is (at the very least) possible, and looking more probable as time goes on. So what should we do?

You should cleave to your faith with wisdom and discernment. You should celebrate your Christianity as loudly and publicly as you want, and you should do so aware that a reaction is being solicited from you. Pray for those caught up in the trans cult. Make your prayers visible. Welcome them to healing and communion, even if they’re not ready to take it. Likewise, pray for these evil “leaders” that they repent of this wickedness. Pray also for those professing Christianity but not practicing it, seeking to lead Christians into error from within, that they repent and find forgiveness, peace, strength, and ultimately faith.

More than that, celebrate your faith openly and on terms that avoid the desired reaction of these enemies of both the church and our nations. Proclaim “He is risen” and celebrate your salvation through Him. Do not be afraid, but do not take the evil path that is being offered to you. I advise reading Matthew 10 in its entirety in this dangerous time in which your religion is targeted and in which you are being targeted and identified for this persecution, which is being set up through these provocations. It contains wisdom and guidance for times precisely like these.

Happy Easter, everyone, and may the Good News of your faith overpower the evil being done against it, not through chest-beating reaction and temptations to evil, but through the power of peace, repentance, and forgiveness that is at the heart of it, for all the people in all the nations of the world. Let not this weapon that has been forged against you prevail. Keep your faith, and keep your head. These are trying times.

It’s hard to ignore such a deliberate offense, and as I’ve cautioned before (following Doug Wilson here and here), we must not take the bait. I don’t know if James Lindsay is a professing Christian, but we need men like him helping us see what is really going on behind the bizarre cultural deformities being pushed by the authorities.

Keep your faith, and keep your head.

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Daily Broadside | Speak Up Now

I’ve occasionally been asked, in light of the woke threat that we face, “what do we do?” I’ve attempted to give some guidance here, here, here, here, and here. Lately I’ve been feeling more urgency about being more vocal because it’s not getting any easier. True, conservatives have had an impact on Bud Lite and Fox News in recent weeks (let’s call them “Fox Lite”), but those are minor victories and they aren’t by themselves diverting the flow of the cultural revolution we’re currently facing. More will be needed, and it is needed now.

I’ve referenced James Lindsay before here, and in that post I encouraged all of us to adopt a “you’re not the boss of me” attitude toward our woke superiors. For many of us, that may mean we risk losing our job, which Lindsay acknowledges is one of the most common responses he gets from people who are wondering what they can do to resist the cultural revolution.

He has a newer podcast out which I encourage you to listen to, and he also suggests that now is the time to speak up. He claims the fight against Marxism is not going to get easier and uses the Maoist take over in China as an example. As I’ve also covered, following Doug Wilson (here and here) Lindsay tells us not to take the bait. We need to “resist without over-reacting.”

Here’s the podcast, and below I’ve pulled a couple of quotes that I think are important for this moment.

The way that a cultural revolution unfolds is that it gets worse the longer you wait. The longer you wait to resist, the harder it gets. The things you’re afraid of now, in a year, are going to look like no big deal.

This is where urgency comes in. Time is of the essence, because it won’t get any easier to take a stand and, while we wait, the Left continues to set up the surveillance state and put in place the mechanisms for controlling the people. If we wait too long, it becomes too late and even more dangerous and risky to speak up.

You actually have two choices right now. You can either listen and start to speak up, or you can live through it and hope you can speak up. Those are your only two choices. What’s happening is a cultural revolution. Therefore you can either listen to people who are telling you, “now is the time to get involved, now is the time to start educating people, now is the time to start sharing ideas, now is the time to resist, now is the time to say you won’t go along with it.” Or, you can live through it and maybe if you’re lucky, you can do something. You’re not really going to have very many places to run.

That quote follows from a conversation he had with two Chinese women who lived through the Maoist revolution but were able to flee to America. Many of us notice what is going on, but feel a little insecure about whether we’re the only ones who are seeing it. If we’re to take a stand, we may have to do it on our own, and that feels more risky than standing with a group. But whether you are alone or with a group doesn’t change your two choices.

People want to know what to do. There are lots of things that are going to involve lawsuits … depending on whether you’ve been wronged, there are lots of things that may involve legislation, there are lots of things that are going to involve taking back, especially, local institutions, getting on county boards, county commissions, getting elected, getting appointed, filling out prosecutor roles, depending on if you’re an attorney … running for office, helping political campaigns, all the things that we think are going to be the solution. But there’s also a lot of stuff that you need to be doing, much more simply and much more close to home, which is educating yourself and educating others on this so that the base of people who understand the problem, recognize what it means, and are willing to stand up, increases and increases rapidly. The more people that stand up the easier it gets for everybody to stand up. The fewer people that stand up, the harder it is for everybody to stand up. The more people who are aware of the problem, the more people who are going to weigh out the risks and decide it’s worth standing up.

Standing up takes courage. Not to make an example of myself, but I’m out here taking a stand on the world wide web under my own name. I know it’s a risk. As I’ve taught my kids, the internet is forever.

But if not me, who? If not now, when? I couldn’t not say anything anymore, so I bought myself space on the internet and have been adding my opinion to the voices out there for the last three years, trying to educate and encourage readers to recognize what’s happening in our country, and to do so through the lens of Christian faith.

Standing up for your family, making sure you have a connection to your family. Getting to know your kids again, really well. Getting to know your kids’ friends. Spending intentional time with your children and their friends. Helping them understand the world and the values. Helping them understand communism … Nourishing what’s at home is a big way to stand up. They have to break the family. They’re doing a great job of damaging families. That’s something that you can do.

If we survive this cultural revolution, the next generation needs to know what happened and be prepared to guard against it happening again.

You may remember this oft-quoted confession of Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

The time for speaking up is now. As Carl Trueman said about protecting women and children,

The time for evangelical leaders and institutions to speak is now. The moment to use the platforms we have to protect women and children has come. If J.K. Rowling has the courage to stand for the truth and to call for the protection of children and women, then so should we. Silence in the face of this evil is culpable and, make no mistake, will be noted by future generations.

The same is true for all of us on the side of truth.