The Grammys’ Embrace of LGBT Politics and Satanism Isn’t Just Gross, It’s Boring

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Hollywood’s not-so-secret LGBT agenda was on full display at the Grammys last night. From the eyesore that was Harry Styles’ “clowncore” jumpsuit; to Beyonce dedicating her win to her guncle and the “queer community” (of which she is not a part); to Kim Petras narcissistically crowning himself the first transgender “woman” to win in the Best Pop Duo/Group category, the only way viewers could escape the gay was if they turned off their TVs.

For those who powered through the ceremony, they would have also been subjected to the unsightly and openly satanic performance of “Unholy” by Petras and Sam Smith, who calls himself “nonbinary.” While Petras danced around in a cage surrounded by she-devils (or they-devils?), a latex and high heel-clad Smith led a group of witchy women in a dance clearly intended to mimic devil worship. That Madonna — a woman who looks less human and more diabolic than ever thanks to some gnarly plastic surgery — introduced the performance is fitting.

In her introduction, Madonna smugly alluded to the “controversy” that would soon occur on stage. Though the performance was certainly as depraved, tasteless, and oversexed as the lyrics to the sinful “Unholy” might call for, my main complaint is not that Smith, a gay man, and Petras, a man who purports to be a woman, were flaunting Satanism and anti-family values on live television.

My main complaint is just how boring, unoriginal, and self-congratulatory the performance was.

These days, full-fledged embrace of Satanism and sado-masochism is nothing new or out of the ordinary for Hollywood. Anything that was going to come after Lil Nas X’s “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” music video, featuring a lap dance with the devil, and accompanying Satan shoes would be hard to top. Even so, Hollywood’s pop and hip-hop darlings continue to seize on satanic imagery for their lyrics, performances, and promotional materials as often as they adopt new gender identities or advocate to normalize transgenderism. (Read more from “The Grammys’ Embrace of LGBT Politics and Satanism Isn’t Just Gross, It’s Boring” HERE)

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Slowly Boiled Frogs – Have Americans Lost Their Capacity for Rage?

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Although a minority are content living in a Stalinist dystopia, most aware Americans seem to have lost their sense of outrage as they have quietly accepted the gradual dismantling of our constitutional republic, the impoverishment of our Middle Class and the degradation of our history and culture by a corrupt and perverted political aristocracy, who have now abandoned even the illusion of democracy to implement a globalist one-party authoritarian state.

A virus created in a Chinese laboratory caused a three-year pandemic under which unnecessary, destructive and draconian policies were implemented that eroded civil liberties, damaged public health, undermined trust in science, sabotaged election integrity and destroyed the economy.​

​Yet, not only has no one been held accountable, many of those complicit in the demolition of the country have been rewarded.
We learned this past week that Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company responsible for an arguably unsafe and ineffective COVID-19 vaccine, in order to sustain profits, has been engaging in viral “gain of function” research, the very activity that caused the pandemic, thus potentially exposing the world to even more dangerous pathogens.

Yet, there is no outrage.

The current situation in the country was predictable, if not inevitable.

On October 26, 2016, prior to Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the presidential election, I wrote an article in The Hill entitled “There is no place for me in Hillary’s America.”

What I described in that 2016 article, some of which is quoted below, was simply delayed by Trump’s Presidency.

I consider myself a patriot, someone who believes in the Constitution, the rule of law and representative government.

Under a President Hillary Clinton, none of those will any longer exist.

Electing Hillary will mean, quite literally, the end of the United States as it was originally designed.

The Constitution will be de facto obsolete; the rule of law will be arbitrarily applied dependent upon one’s financial status or political clout; and we will have a government driven by crony capitalism and political expediency, benefitting only the rich and powerful, and one conspicuous for corruption, fraudulent elections and pseudo-representation.

Under Hillary’s open borders policy, the United States of America will be neither United nor America. It will not be a melting pot, a nation guided by the notion of E Pluribus Unum, but a collection of simultaneous arguments, where the only thing we have in common is our differences.

It will mean a president, who is, without any doubt, hopelessly corrupt and a pathological liar.

It will mean that the organs of government will not be used to enforce the law, but to enforce the political whims of Hillary Clinton, courtesy of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service.

Because, when blatant and outrageous lies are no longer sufficient to soothe the electorate into complacency, such a government must begin to curtail freedom and oppress the people in order to pursue its policies and remain in power.

For me, one who traveled in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, Hillary’s approach to government has a familiar ring.

I​n “Mountain of Crumbs”, a memoir of childhood in the 1960s and 1970s propaganda-soaked Soviet Union, Elena Gorokhova explains the meaning of “vranyo”, the Russian word for “a white lie or half-truth:”

“In Russia we played the ‘vranyo’ game on a daily basis. The government lied to us, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew they were lying, but they kept lying anyway and we pretended to believe them.”

“In practice vranyo provided a coping mechanism for both unbearable tragedies and petty annoyances. Can’t feed your starving children? Tear up a piece of bread to make a mountain of crumbs and declare it an abundance of food.”

​There is no outrage because, like the Soviet Union, Americans have been conditioned to accept unaccountability, in which lying and incompetence are expected behavior of the leadership class.​

​Without justifiable rage, we are all simply slouching towards tyranny.

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Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. Dr. Sellin is the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution. His email address is [email protected].

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Will the IRS Lose Its $80 Billion Appropriation?

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In what is certainly the shortest bill regarding federal revenue that I’ve ever seen come out of the House of Representatives, the House voted to rescind much of the $80 billion funding granted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The bill, H.R. 9092, known as the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act (Taxpayer Protection Act), consists of just one sentence that provides that certain elements of the funding granted to the IRS by the Inflation Reduction Act “are rescinded.”

Please note that the Taxpayer Protection Act does not seek to rescind the entire $80 billion appropriation. The elements to be cut include $45.6 billion specifically intended for tax-law enforcement and $25.3 billion for the support of law-enforcement activities.

The Taxpayer Protection Act would leave in place the funding targeted at taxpayer services, including pre-filing assistance and education, filing and account services, taxpayer-advocacy services, and other related services. The level of funding pointed at those programs — $3.18 billion of the $80 billion was earmarked for taxpayer services and education — betrays the thinking of much of Washington’s elite. Barely 4 percent of the windfall the IRS is to receive will directly help taxpayers comply with the law, compared with 96 percent that is intended to be used for, one way or another, enforcement.

This is why I opposed the funding bill in the first place. I have argued for decades that the vast majority of the problems people have with IRS compliance are not driven by tax cheating; they are the results of ignorance that is itself the result of our having a tax code that consists of more than 4 million words that have been changed more than 6,000 times just since 2001.

This is also why I challenged the current nominee for IRS commissioner, Danny Werfel, to rebuild the IRS’s pre-filing education programs, along with its outreach functions to citizens and private-sector tax professionals. Of all the government agencies in the United States, only the IRS touches every citizen, regardless of his age or his social, economic, or cultural background. This is why outreach and education must be a major priority for the agency, and not just an afterthought.

The question now on everybody’s mind is: What’s next for the IRS in light of the Taxpayer Protection Act’s funding cut? Given the circumstances in Washington, I believe the act is merely symbolic. While it passed the Republican-controlled House, it will not pass the Senate, and thus, it will never find its way to the White House to be signed by President Biden.

The IRS will still get its money, and my challenge to the new commissioner remains the same: Will you meaningfully work to assist taxpayers in complying with a law that is “so voluminous that it cannot be read, and so incoherent that it cannot be understood,” or will you simply turn up the heat on those hapless taxpayers who find themselves unable to comply?

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The Conservative Case for The Great Replacement?

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Another Exposé on Controlled Opposition Within the Conservative Movement

Yesterday, the editor of the Babylon Bee, Joel Berry, posted on social media his plan for saving America, import tens of millions of people from third-world, socialist, narco-states and just “assimilate them.”

This statement is so monumentally wrong it has to be taken apart line by line.

“Unpopular take“

To begin with, this is not an unpopular take, and it is the foundational position of both political parties on the immigration question. The set-in-stone position of the GOP is in favor of mass migration, and it has been this way for our entire lives until 2015 when one billionaire said true-but-unmentionable things about mass migration from the Third World. Reagan famously amnestied illegal aliens while president and presided over the seismic shift of post-1965 demographics in California while governor. The Bushes made mass migration part of their political agenda as well. They may have paid lip service to “border control,” but mass migration was the goal. Even though Berry is partially correct that importing tens of millions of third-world, narco-state peoples is unpopular with the median GOP voter, it is incredibly popular for the people who actually matter, the donors.

“mass immigration could save this country”

What is a country but its people? What is it about this country that makes it need saving, exactly? I think Joel would probably agree that it is “leftism dominating all of life, destroying the social fabric of the nation, consuming its hard-earned wealth, and destroying all that is good, true, and beautiful. How exactly is importing tens of millions of people from a place far worse than the lib dystopia we now have? If the people in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala could save America, why do Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala look the way they do? Right now, America has millions of dead babies and tens of thousands of mutilated children because of the Leftist war against the truth, and Mexico has regular headless bodies hung from overpasses and public squares filled with chainsawed body parts. If they are capable of saving a country, they would remain where they are and save their own!

“These are hard-working, mostly Christian/Catholic people coming in.”

It is true that some illegals come here to work very hard. However, “people working hard” is not a sufficient reason to import them into your country. Furthermore, if the millions of people streaming across our borders were as remarkably industrious as claimed, why are their own nations not beacons of prosperity and wealth? As for the “mostly Christian/Catholic” thing, this is also not true.

To start with, and this cannot be stressed enough: Christians do not leave their country to plunder the wealth of their fellow Christians in other countries. Christians work to disciple their own nations, evangelize their own countrymen, and only leave when there is no possibility of survival. And wherever they go, they work with their own hands and do not expect to consume the wealth of others. Those who do are under no definition faithful Christians.

Secondly, the Mexican Revolution was quite literally a war on the church and its role in Mexican society. It resulted in the secularization of Mexico, removing the church from its central role in Mexican society. In other words, Mexico had at least a generation’s head start over the United States in leftism, stripping Christianity from any societal role. The Mexicans coming into the United States today are as nominally Catholic as you would expect under such conditions. What is worse, Hispanic Catholicism is thoroughly intertwined with communist liberation theology on the one hand and syncretism with tribal religion on the other. This is not the Catholicism your typical devout American Roman Catholic. They do not share the same values as the typical American Roman Catholic, and it is a total flight from reality to suggest they do.

“The Democrats want to immediately hook them on welfare and turn them into a permanent underclass voting bloc.”

Yes, that is entirely the point. That is why the overwhelming majority of them are coming here. Everyone knows this—except clueless conservatives. That is the arrangement: you support the political part of limitless infanticide, child genital mutilation, racial grievance politics, and the dismantling of Western Civilization, and in exchange, you get a mountain of free stuff. That is the reason they leave their homeland, to begin with. The thought that “I could become an American” plays exactly zero role in the calculus. They share the exact same belief about America as the ruling elite: America is not a people and place; it is an economic zone I can loot.

“We could prevent that by assimilating them”

This is easily the most ludicrous phrase in an entire paragraph of absurdities. Buddy, if you are an average evangelical, statistically, you cannot even assimilate the children under your own roof! How on earth do you plan to “assimilate” tens of millions of people who have illegally entered our country in order to get stolen loot? How did the assimilation efforts fare in California after the Immigration Act of 1965? How did the assimilation efforts of the first wave of mass migration through Ellis Island turn out? Oh, they helped set up massive urban political machines, which helped usher in the New Deal, which tore up the U.S. Constitution and radically, irreparably altered our nation? I’m sure nothing like that will happen again. We can just sprinkle magical assimilation dust on them as they cross the border, and America will be saved.

What Berry’s ideas about mass migration reveal is the desperation of the normie conservative to find a way forward without engaging in a serious confrontation. When the Mongols had an enemy nearly surrounded, they would leave a narrow channel for their opponent to retreat through. The disciplined Mongols knew that if they completely surrounded their enemy, he would believe he had no option but to fight to the death. So instead, they left this passageway open, and as soon as their enemy fled, the Mongols would pounce and kill every last man.

Just like the enemies of the Mongols, mainstream conservatives, like Berry, are desperate for any possible way to wage cultural war without libs calling them “racist.” They flee to obvious deathtraps like “here’s how we can use The Great Replacement to save America.” And the golden globalist horde swarms and consumes them alive.

Mass Migration and Christian Nationalism

After observing Berry’s folly, the popular poaster, Zero H.P. Lovecraft made the following observation:

In one sense, it is hard not to sympathize with the point he is making. As it is currently comprised in America, Evangelicalism has as one of its core tenets, “Jesus was a refugee.” Many evangelicals, led by clergy who are either confused or cowardly or both, believe living in America is a human right for all 8 billion inhabitants of the planet. They are entirely on board with the project of globalist liberal democracy and its distinct moral code, namely “‘racism’ is the only sin,” and what exactly is “racism?” Whiteness.

It isn’t just radical leftist professors spouting ideas like this. There are prominent, ostensibly conservative evangelical leaders who promote such things. Follow Gab user @wokepreacherclips, and you will see how much “conservative” evangelicals ape the far left. Furthermore, just by observing his hare-brained views on immigration, you can see how much conservative evangelicals like Joel Berry are marinated in this—this is the only moral formation they have been given, and they cannot help it. Many have simply never seen an expression of the Christian faith that does not totally conform to the globalist regime.

But historic Christianity was not this way.

Historic Christianity, of the kind that founded and built America and carried forward Western Civilization, understood that nations were not imaginary lines drawn on a map, but distinct peoples and places, with their own character, heritage, and their own culture.

But the compromised globalist leaders within evangelicalism have rejected Christian Nationalism. If the Anglo-American Protestantism that created America is to be re-awakened in this country, it will not be because men like Russell Moore or Tim Keller will have led the way. It will be because the evangelical laity will flock to historic Christian beliefs and practices that directly oppose globalism, despite evangelical leadership.

That is what the critics of Christian Nationalism have to understand. Christian Nationalism is not a baptized globalism. The critics of Christian Nationalism on the left decry the term “nationalism,” and the critics on the right decry the modifier “Christian.” Both seem to think the two terms are incompatible with one another. But the original founding of America was both Christian and nationalist, and there was absolutely no difficulty for anyone to understand that America is a distinct nation, a distinct people on the earth and that their nation was a Christian one. These two ideas were not in tension.

To that end, that is what we must pray for and work toward—a re-awakening of the Christian faith of our ancestors that sought the good of our fellow citizens. We must build churches that are a place of refuge for the beleaguered evangelical Christian who is told he is a terrible sinner for wanting an America where his rulers will not intentionally replace him. We must encourage church leaders who will boldly defend their people from the lies of the globalists. There is no other way for America to actually be saved. (For more from the author of “The Conservative Case for The Great Replacement?” please click HERE)

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Zelensky vs. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church

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On January 2, an Orthodox church in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, was covered in blood. In the morning, a man burst into the church and turned the crucifix over, broke several icons, threw banners on the floor, and finally cut the priest’s throat with a razor. A few days earlier, in the city of Chornomorsk, parishioners of an Orthodox church only at the last moment disarmed a man who was about to stab the priest with a knife. In the village of Chechelnyk, a man in camouflage brutally beat a priest right on the street, breaking his nose and shouting curses.

There is a backstory to the above. Stand-up comedians at Kvartal 95, the film studio co-founded by now President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, recently released a video where they obscenely insulted Orthodox priests and publicly wished them death. The video is a news parody in the style of The Daily Show that mocks the church and refers to its clergy as “Russian agents.” Many experts see a direct connection between the appeals of the actors and the recent violence.

The target of all these attacks is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which used to be in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate but has had an independent and autonomous status for more than 30 years. . .

Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson assessed the [current] situation accurately: “Zelenskyy’s secret police have raided monasteries across Ukraine, and even a convent full of nuns, and arrested dozens of priests for no justifiable reasons whatsoever and in clear violation of the Ukrainian Constitution, which no longer matters. And in the face of this, the Biden’s administration has said nothing. Not one word. Instead, they continue to push to send Zelenskyy more tax dollars.”

[It seems] Carlson is absolutely right. The president, in violation of Ukrainian laws, imposed sanctions against Ukrainian bishops and then revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of some other bishops, despite the fact that this clearly contradicts the constitution. (Read more from “Zelensky vs. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church” HERE)

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Mangled Remains Of A Christmas Card Got Delivered A Month After The Holiday, But I’m To Believe The USPS Can Handle My Ballot?

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While retrieving a couple of days’ worth of mail over the weekend, I discovered a curious delivery in my box. It was a Christmas card I had long been expecting but never received.

Actually, it was a mangled envelope that had once presumably contained a Christmas card, stamped with a haphazard “DELIVER TO ADDRESSEE WITHOUT CONTENTS” message, and stuffed into a taped-shut United States Postal Service baggie adorned with a pre-printed apology message. . .

It’s a bit frustrating that my dear, faraway friend spent some 60-odd cents to send me an empty, torn-open envelope that was dropped off in a sandwich bag a month after Christmas (and, the way people time their seasonal greetings, probably two months after it was supposed to arrive). But, of course, I do “understand,” Mr. Postmaster, that life isn’t perfect. We live in a crazy, fallen world marred by both human and mechanical error. The USPS isn’t exempt, and neither am I. . .

Unlike my fashionably late, empty Christmas envelope, the delayed arrival of mail-in ballots causes potentially election-tipping quantities of them to miss deadlines. In Pennsylvania’s June 2020 primary, for instance, the pace of voting by mail kept tens of thousands of people from successfully casting a ballot. More than 100,000 mail-in ballots were rejected during California’s presidential primary the same year, mostly for missing arrival or postmark deadlines. And though sometimes the ballot rejections are the fault of a voter’s procrastination, as NPR reported in a 2020 article titled “Signed, Sealed, Undelivered,” vote-by-mail failures are “often through no fault of the voter.” (Read more from “Mangled Remains of a Christmas Card Got Delivered a Month After the Holiday, but I’m to Believe the USPS Can Handle My Ballot?” HERE)

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Is a Real War About to Break Out in Ukraine?

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As readers know, I am a critic of Putin’s “limited military operation” in Ukraine. It was eight years late, and its limited objective is unrealistic. Putin needed to occupy Kiev the minute he saw the US coup unfolding. Failing this, he needed to reincorporate Donbass in 2014 prior to its partial occupation by neo-Nazi militias and Ukrainian military. He failed to act in a timely fashion because he was deceived by the West with the Minsk Agreement, which was a delaying tactic to keep Russia at bay until the US had built and equipped a Ukrainian Army.

I understand why the Kremlin limited its intervention last February to clearing the Independent Donbass Republics of Ukrainian forces. Putin did not invade Ukraine, because he did not want widespread death and destruction in Ukraine, long a part of Russia with extensive intermarriage and mixing of populations. Where the Kremlin failed was in not realizing that Washington would not permit the conflict to be limited to the clearing of Donbass.

Having delayed necessary action for eight years, the Kremlin needed a lightening, overwhelming attack that knocked the entirety of Ukraine out of action immediately before Washington and NATO could get involved. Instead the limited military operation was confined to the territory of the breakaway republics, proceeded slowly to spare civilian lives and infrastructure, and involved little of the Russian Army. The fighting was undertaken by the Donbass militias and a private military organization, the Wagner Group, that functions as an auxiliary to the Russian Army. The Kremlin did not have ready any reserves to maintain the ever-lengthening lines of the slow Russian advance that gave Washington time to widen the conflict. It was this that made possible the limited Ukrainian “counterattacks” that had no meaningful effect. The Russian lines in two sectors pulled back in advance and made penetration impossible.

The Russian pullbacks were misrepresented as “defeats” and gave rise to such nonsense as “Ukraine in Crimea by Christmas.” Washington and NATO are lost in their own narrative and believe their own propaganda.

Mike Whitney looked beyond Western propaganda for information and presents his findings that there are now 540,000 Russian Army soldiers stationed around Ukraine and in Belarus provisioned with enormous numbers of tanks, artillery, rockets, missiles, and ammunition prepared to launch this time a real invasion. If this report is true, it indicates that Putin has learned from his many mistakes. If the report is false, it suggests that Putin is incapable of recognizing the reality that he faces.

In the Western world Russian studies has degenerated into Russophobia. Objective experts are a thing of the past. One of the few remaining objective experts wonders if the stage is now set for a ground war unanticipated by Washington and NATO. If events have forced Putin to abandon his limited operation, Ukraine will simply be rolled up.

The Polish defense minister seems to be reaching a similar conclusion. There are indications that mobilization is beginning with the callup of 200,000 reservists. Whether this is to protect against Russian attack or to occupy western Ukraine which Poland still claims while Russia takes the eastern half or to be sent as reinforcements for Ukraine is unknown.

If Zelensky and Washington are capable of reason, the reported assembled Russian invasion force, if actually present, will not have to be used. The destruction of Ukraine can be prevented by Washington’s acceptance of the return of the Russian liberated territory to Mother Russia and agreement that Ukraine will be a neutral disarmed state and never a member of NATO.

Putin has said that by spurning his diplomacy, the West has left force as his only means of dealing with the West. Putin’s previous reluctance to use force has worsened the situation. Now if he uses force late in the game, Washington will be confused. How will Washington respond if the Russian Army rolls up Ukraine? Washington will commit the world to nuclear war if Washington thinks a commitment of US soldiers to Ukraine’s defense would stop a Russian Army advance. The American soldiers would be slaughtered along with the remaining Ukrainians. What then? Can arrogant Washington overflowing with hubris accept defeat, with the consequence being the likely dissolution of its European NATO empire, or will the madmen who are misruling us push the button?

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The ATF’s Pistol Brace Final Rule Sets The Stage To Classify Legal Gun Owners As Criminals; The ATF, Anarcho-Tyranny, and Parallel Christian Society

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By Daily Caller. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) recently implemented pistol brace final rule could classify millions of gun owners as felons should they fail to comply with the updated requirements, according to the gun rights advocacy groups.

The rule, announced in January, will void all previous guidance on pistols braces, opting to redefine “rifle” as any weapon “designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder,” forcing pistol brace owners, many disabled, to register their pistols as short barrel rifles (SBR) with the federal government. The ATF has allowed 120 days for gun owners with pistol braces to adjust the barrel longer than the required 16 inches, file a Form 1 to “make” the pistol a SBR, remove the brace, surrender the firearm or destroy the firearm.

Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the ATF is in “confiscation mode.”

“I mean, realistically, if you don’t register your gun with them in a certain timeframe and pay the $200 tax, you have to either destroy the gun, turn it in, or convert it somehow with a different barrel,” he said. There are currently between 10 million and 40 million gun owners who use pistol braces and pistol-braced firearms in the U.S., according to gun rights advocate Gun Owners of America (GOA).

The rule reclassifies pistol braces as SBRs, and if gun owners choose to leave their pistols as is, they will need to pay the $200 government tax stamp required by the National Firearms Act (NFA). (Read more from “The ATF’s Pistol Brace Final Rule Sets The Stage To Classify Legal Gun Owners As Criminals” HERE)

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The ATF, Anarcho-Tyranny, and Parallel Christian Society

By Pastor Andrew Isker. On Friday, January 13, the ATF announced a new rule stating that stabilizing braces on what they had previously classified as “pistols” are now to be considered “short-barreled rifles.” Also, they must be registered as such by all manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and owners within 120 days or be charged with a felony. The apparent purpose of such a ruling is to punish the 40 million owners of such guns because they pose an electoral, political, and cultural threat to the ruling regime. And lest anyone be confused, the “ruling regime” does not mean the nominal head installed in the White House; it means the Permanent Government, of which the Administrative State is a major part, which includes the ATF.

That the Administrative State and its organs, such as the ATF, even exist is an affront to the heritage of the U.S. Constitution and Anglo-Saxon common law tradition. The Constitution you thought we had no longer exists. Our form of government originates in Anglo-Saxon witans, which represented the nation as a whole and developed and enforced the common law as it was handed down over the generations. Having armies of parasitic bureaucrats responsible to no one decreeing their laws is far more akin to empires that lorded over innumerable slaves. It is not something a free people tolerate. But such is the American Total State. All of life is politicized and lorded over by unelected vermin.

And the point of the Administrative State in our decaying global empire is to enforce anarcho-tyranny. Look at the ATF, for example. Right now, America is facing the greatest epidemic of violent gun crime in decades (perhaps ever, as crime statistics are often underreported for propagandistic reasons). After the “mostly peaceful” anti-white race-hate riots of 2020, American police pulled back from actively policing high-crime urban neighborhoods.

This was a matter of policy giving in to the rioters’ demands and out of officer self-preservation (what officer wants to be the next Derek Chauvin, sent to prison for decades for aggressively restraining the wrong overdosing felon at the wrong time?). As a result of the police withdrawal in these urban areas, black gun deaths and traffic deaths have significantly increased, as well as violent crime overall. Things have gotten so bad that the violent crime has begun to spill out of the major cities and even into sleepy farm towns, such as Janesville, MN, population of 2453 (and ten minutes from where I sit writing this).

You would think the agency dealing with illegal weapons would be all hands on deck mitigating the urban gun crime epidemic. And also the ubiquitous and very illegal Glock switches, regularly used in the commission of inner-city gang violence. But if you thought that, you would be dead wrong. The ATF is far more concerned with rural, white men owning AR pistols (for defense against criminals invading their home, no less!) than they are about dead black children shot in the head during drive-by shootings.

This is only hypocrisy if you don’t understand what is going on. The Regime and its Administrative State understand the fundamental rule of politics—politics is about rewarding friends and harming enemies. The ATF using its vast resources to investigate and prosecute the suppliers of illegal weapons used in urban crime, would reward its enemies and harm its friends.

Allowing urban crime to metastasize harms the enemies of the Regime, and the criminals themselves are very much the Regime’s friends—the BLM riots have shown us just how useful and loyal they are to the Regime. It is no coincidence that every arsonist looter Kyle Rittenhouse justifiably shot was a criminal. The foot soldiers of Leftism, from 1789 to 1917 to today, are always criminals, the “useful idiots.” Meanwhile, guys in F-250s flying MAGA flags that have a braced AR pistol? The Regime would love any excuse to throw guys like that in prison.

Speaking of Rittenhouse, that needs to be your example of how the Globalist Total State works. Good, decent people will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, while criminals in service of the Regime will always be let off the hook. Instead of whining like Ben Shapiro or other Con, Inc. grift artists, “wow, look at the hypocrisy, imagine if the situation were reversed,” you need to understand that the hypocrisy is the point. Besides, no “third party” will see their hypocrisy and put things right. No referee will see how unfair things are and take apart the regime. The political power to do that is possessed almost entirely by our enemies.

But it is not as though there is no hope. I am pointing out the realities of our situation not to discourage you but to direct you to right action. In 2020, (at least) 80 million people voted for an imperfect man who attempted to represent many of our interests. Even with the rapid replacement of those 80 million by millions of illegals in the last two years, that is a massive number of people, and their existence is the single, most outstanding liability to the regime (hence the aggressive plan for demographic replacement).

The problem with the 80 million is that despite their great numbers and not insignificant collective wealth, they are wholly disorganized, like sheep without a shepherd. The political party that ostensibly represents them, the GOP, is horribly corrupt and ineffective. Their churches—the organization of local political organizing for the first 300 years of American history—are emasculated and led by men terrified of offending anyone (other than white, straight, Christian men). They usually are isolated with very few friends in real life. All of this is by design. The Regime has the 80 million right where it wants them. The question is, what if it didn’t?

What if our churches were led by men who feared God alone who instead of giving weekly inoffensive TED talks between soft rock concerts were able to rally together the men of his local community who understand that we are dominated by people who hate us? What if our pastors preached the authority of King Jesus over all of life, including the Regime and its treacherous Administrative State? What if in those local communities, all those enemies of the Regime gathered together?

What if they began to live and work together as a city-within-their-city, a small-town-within-their-small-town? What if all these men and families began to develop strong bonds around their faith in Christ and devotion to one another? What would happen if communities like this were built up in every town and suburban neighborhood in the country, and all of them were at least loosely connected together? What would happen if each of them began to take leadership in their local GOP, their city council, their county commissioners board, their sheriff’s office, their county prosecutor’s office, etc.?

In 2008, we all laughed when this skinny black dude from Chicago’s only job he ever had was “community organizer.” It sounded like a made-up, make-work job for a deadbeat Ivy League grad. And while Obama himself may well have been a deadbeat, the role he held was anything but worthless. The Regime is as well organized as it is because it has legions of such people. There is no end to the Regime funding of NGOs to drive their various causes to destroy all that is true, good, and beautiful and to make life miserable for decent, productive people. Meanwhile, those proper, hardworking, ordinary people are isolated and alone—sheep ready to be devoured by obese, purple-haired, septum-pierced wolves.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Greek word that Jesus used that we translate as “church” in our Bibles is ekklesia. In Ancient Greece, this was the assembly of citizens who ruled the Greek city-states. What is the church in the New Testament? It is a parallel society within the existing society. It is the heavenly city within the earthly city. It is the city obeying God’s will on earth as it obeyed in heaven.

Far from mocking the function of “community organizing,” Christ has given us the responsibility to organize heavenly communities here on earth. When Christians begin to realize this and the tens of millions of us are no longer isolated and alone, we will no longer be sitting and waiting to be consumed by the Regime and its minions like the ATF. Instead, we will be a well-organized, nation-within-the-nation, and the worst fears of the godless Regime will be realized. So, find good churches. Plant them if they do not exist near you. Find like-minded Christian men. Build communities in real life. Build a new Christian nation. Build a Parallel Christian Society so that your children will no longer be under the thumb of tyrants. (For more from the author of “The ATF, Anarcho-Tyranny, and Parallel Christian Society” please click HERE)

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SATIRE: Sleepy Joe Can’t Stop Me From Buying F-15s for Protection Against Doddering Tyrants Like Him

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DAVOS—I hate it here. The food is under-portioned, overly garnished, and overpriced. Ditto the drugs and prostitutes. The company is as lousy as one might expect. Picture a bunch of rich nerds bereft of repartee, jacked up on virgin blood transfusions, pitching blockchain Ponzi schemes to Chinese fertilizer tycoons, raving about “eternal consciousness” and “driving inclusive impact by rescripting intentionally vis-à-vis diverse need-state expectations in the digital age.” Hunter Biden is the only cool person in attendance. Too bad his old man is a demented goon hellbent on destroying America.

“I love my right-wing friends who talk about ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots,'” President Joe Biden said Monday at an anti-Semitic breakfast rally. “If you need to work about taking on the federal government, you need some F-15s. You don’t need an AR-15.”

God love him. When he’s right, he’s right. The tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Our Founding Fathers held this truth to be self-evident. That’s why they so eloquently resolved that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

That’s why I’ve come to Davos. To ensure the security of our free state against the brutish whims of petty tyrants like King George and Sleepy Joe. [Please redact the following: To liaise with corrupt Albanian and Turkish military officers regarding the lawful return of NATO F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets and MIM-104 Patriot missile systems to the American citizens whose tax dollars funded their development and manufacture.] To preserve our God-given right to defend ourselves with the advanced instruments of modern warfare.

We need some F-15s. Guns alone will not suffice against an “elected” president who threatens airstrikes against his political opponents. I review the U.S. Constitution every morning with a large mug of Black Rifle coffee. (I prefer the Flying Ginsu blend, infused with the remains of eviscerated terrorists.) Go ahead, show me the part that gives federal bureaucrats the power to infringe on private ownership of fighter jets, extended range cannon artillery, and surface-to-air missile launchers. (Read more from “SATIRE: Sleepy Joe Can’t Stop Me From Buying F-15s for Protection Against Doddering Tyrants Like Him” HERE)

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By Enabling Leftist Misinformation, Twitter Helped Democrats and Their Media Allies Peddle Another Russia Hoax

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Top congressional Democrats and the corrupt corporate media falsely branded calls for the declassification of Devin Nunes’ memorandum on FISA abuse a Russia influence operation, internal documents from Twitter released Thursday reveal. And while Twitter executives knew the story was false, they allowed the narrative to grow rather than correct the record.

Soon after the then-chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes penned a classified Jan. 18, 2018, memorandum detailing abuses by the Department of Justice and FBI to obtain a FISA surveillance order on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, #ReleaseTheMemo began trending on Twitter. Within days, Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, issued a press release announcing they had sent a letter to Twitter and Facebook requesting the tech giants “immediately conduct an in-depth forensic examination of the reported actions by Russian bots and trolls surrounding the #ReleaseTheMemo online campaign and how users were exposed to this campaign as a result of Russian efforts.”

To support their claim that the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign represented “Russian efforts,” Feinstein and Schiff cited the Alliance for Securing Democracy, or ASD, and its claim that the hashtag “gained the instant attention and assistance of social media accounts linked to Russian influence operations.” . . .

But internal communications from Twitter made public in the latest Twitter Files thread by independent journalist Matt Taibbi reveal the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign was organic and Twitter had concluded that ASD, the only source for claims that Russian bots and trolls were behind the trending of the hashtag, had used a “flawed methodology.”

“We should have a separate discussion about if/when/how we confront ASD privately with our knowledge of their flawed methodology/dashboard and seek to help them reorient in a more accurate direction,” one Twitter insider wrote after the Schiff-Feinstein press release dropped. (Read more from “By Enabling Leftist Misinformation, Twitter Helped Democrats and Their Media Allies Peddle Another Russia Hoax” HERE)

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