Epstein’s close buddy gave a rare interview on the topic of that association. I found a transcript. Let’s see what the devil’s roommate has to say about himself. Nota bene, I’m not giving him the benefit of the doubt in this fisking. Nobody close to Epstein is clean.

Prince Andrew BBC: Newsnight interview – FULL TRANSCRIPT

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1205447/prince-andrew-BBC-newsnight-interview-jeffrey-epstein-full-transcript

By Katie Sewell, 17 November 2019

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has broken his silence on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in an interview with the BBC. Until now, Andrew – who has strongly denied claims that he had sex with Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre (nee Roberts) – had only released statements on the issue through Buckingham Palace’s press office.

Emily Maitlis, Interviewer: Why have you decided to talk now?

Prince Andrew: Because there is no good time to talk about Mr Epstein and all things associated and we’ve been talking to Newsnight for about six months about doing something around the work that I was doing and unfortunately we’ve just not been able to fit it into either your schedule or my schedule until now. And actually it’s a very good opportunity and I’m delighted to be able to see you today.

No. He wasn’t too busy to think about the world’s reaction to his established, long-term affiliation with child rapist and Israeli intelligence-linked blackmailer Epstein after he was murdered in a supermax prison waiting to testify… possibly against Andrew.

And every journalist drawing a paycheck would have dropped everything for the chance to interview him about it. The timing is probably directed by some necessity… Andrew is trying to send a message.

Interviewer: As you say, all of this goes back to your friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, how did you first become friends? How did you meet?

Prince Andrew: Well I met through his girlfriend back in 1999 who…and I’d known her since she was at university in the UK and it would be, to some extent, a stretch to say that as it were we were close friends. I mean we were friends because of other people and I had a lot of opportunity to go to the United States but I didn’t have much time with him.

The next segue will confirm that the 1999 girlfriend was Giselle Maxwell. Andrew was 39 at the time, a good age for an idle nobleman to be completely burned out on kinky-but-legal.

I suppose I saw him once or twice a year, perhaps maybe maximum of three times a year and quite often if I was in the United States and doing things and if he wasn’t there, he would say “well, why don’t you come and use my houses?” so I said “that’s very kind, thank you very much indeed”.

But it would be a considerable stretch to say that he was a very, very close friend.

He didn’t deny the friendship.

But he had the most extraordinary ability to bring extraordinary people together and that’s the bit that I remember as going to the dinner parties where you would meet academics, politicians, people from the United Nations, I mean it was a cosmopolitan group of what I would describe as US eminents.

Extraordinary people, he says, at the highest levels of society and government. I’m sure all of those rich & famous routinely associate with ordinary guys who like to let strangers couch-surf in his home.

Interviewer: Was that his appeal then?

Prince Andrew: Yeah.

The appeal of Epstein was his network, his ability to provide the… correct people.

Interviewer: Was that what you…because you were perceived by the public as being the party prince, was that something you shared?

Prince Andrew: Well, I think that’s also a bit of a stretch. I don‘t know why I’ve collected that title because I don’t…I never have really partied. I was single for quite a long time in the early 80s but then after I got married I was very happy and I’ve never really felt the need to go and party and certainly going to Jeffrey’s was not about partying, absolutely not.

It absolutely was. The segue is coming!

Interviewer: You said you weren’t very good friends but would you describe him as a good friend, did you trust him?

Prince Andrew: Yes, I think I probably did but again, I mean I don’t go into a friendship looking for the wrong thing, if you understand what I mean.

Trust was not part of their relationship. Power and perversion were.

I’m an engaging person, I want to be able to engage, I want to find out, I want to learn and so we blackmailed important people together you have to remember that I was transitioning out of the Navy at the time and in the transition I wanted to find out more about what was going on because in the Navy it’s a pretty isolated business because you’re out at sea the whole time and I was going to become the special representative for international trade and investment.

Segue and pass the popcorn:

The party prince: how Andrew got his bad reputation

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/18/the-party-prince-how-andrew-got-his-bad-reputation

By Zoe Williams, 18 November 2019

[This] was the 80s. So even though Prince Andrew’s relationship with the actor Koo Stark at the start of the decade was mainly a problem for the Queen, according to rumour (of particular concern was the film Cruel Passion, in which Stark’s character gets raped by a peer and two grave diggers, and is savaged by alsatians), there was also an amount of feminist disquiet. I mean, nobody thought that every relationship ought to end in marriage, least of all an 80s feminist. But a relationship with a woman who, never mind a ring on her finger, would probably not be allowed round an aristo dining table … it looks a tiny bit like using her. As an understanding of women as equals gained ground as the normal way to look at the world, Prince Andrew was increasingly marginal to that.

He was redeemed in the mainstream by his stint as a helicopter pilot in the Falklands war, though that generated some stomach-churning brown-nosing: “His arrival on the scene has given a new meaning to the initials HRH. With Andrew, they stand for His Royal Heart-throb,” is a line biographer Andrew Morton must surely have paid for in self-respect. “Warrior prince” came up a lot, too. So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war. And then in 1986 he married, and all the Queen’s qualms were soothed. For about one second.

The union with Sarah Ferguson was not an especially happy one – 10 years later, Ferguson joked that she passed the time renting videos while he frolicked with 27 concubines – but rich people’s unhappy marriages aren’t fundamentally more interesting than regular people’s.

Nice try, Zoe, but your very job writing this very article puts the lie to THAT whopper.

…Because of the lurid infidelities that surrounded the split (obviously, the toe-sucking stands out – if you’re too young to remember all this, I would strongly discourage Googling it), theirs seemed more like a comedy subplot to the main tragedy [of Princess Diana]. Yet both divorces represented quite a serious crisis for the royal family. As Mayer explains: “The monarchy is smoke and mirrors. It exists, and there is a consensus, though a fraying one at this point, because it appears to have a unifying representation of the ideals and values of the nation. So when they started getting divorced, there was a sense that they were reflecting too accurate a portrait of who we really were.”

[It’s] a problem when your job is as amorphous as Prince Andrew’s was by 2001: no longer in the navy, he was a roving trade envoy, spreading the amorphous message that Britain was – God knows, as good as its word? Classy? For sure, his wasn’t a very feelgood life story; but he probably could have weathered these questions of constitutional purpose were he living a life of green wellies and speciality dogs. Instead, he was at the model Heidi Klum’s Halloween party in New York, where the theme was “kinky sex”, according to the Mail. From beaches in Thailand with “bikinied beauties” to “three-day flirtations with a Playboy pinup” in Los Angeles, there was a pictorial record of a man who has “trade ambassador” on his lapel, but doesn’t seem terrifically interested in the steel industry, put it that way. Ghislaine Maxwell was always tacitly blamed for introducing him to the “fast set” (he had met the daughter of the disgraced Robert Maxwell while she was at university); obviously, that was before we started blaming her for his friendship with Epstein.

Yeah, Andrew why DO they call you the Party Prince when you never went to parties? Because you went to orgies, not parties. Because you started with an actress best known for her necrobestiality movie, traded up to an Israeli honeypot and topped out at Heidi Klum in her Goth phase.

Then you apparently got bored of kinky but legal, because Epstein didn’t have a bridge for sale when you rang him up, Mister Trade Ambassador. What was the Queen thinking, to give you such a long leash?

End segue.

Prince Andrew: So I wanted to know more about what was going on in the international business world and so that was another reason for going there. And the opportunities that I had to go to Wall Street and other places to learn whilst I was there were absolutely vital.

Wall Street has got to be code for Israel.

Interviewer: He was your guest as well, in 2000 Epstein was a guest at Windsor Castle and at Sandringham, he was brought right into the heart of the royal family at your invitation.

Prince Andrew: But certainly at my invitation, not at the royal family’s invitation but remember that it was his girlfriend that was the key element in this. He was the, as it were, plus one, to some extent in that aspect.

It’s REEEALLY got to be code for Israel. He’s outing Giselle as the link.

Interviewer: Am I right in thinking you threw a birthday party for Epstein’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham?

Prince Andrew: No, it was a shooting weekend.

Interviewer: A shooting weekend.

Prince Andrew: Just a straightforward, a straightforward shooting weekend.

Segue:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7371981/Pictured-Jeffrey-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell-pheasant-shoot-Prince-Andrew-Sandringham.html

Dressed in winter coats and walking boots, Epstein and his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell enjoyed a pheasant shooting party on the Queen’s estate in Norfolk after being invited by the Duke.

Well… okay. That could have been very creepy.

One of the young women on the Balmoral trip told the Daily Mail how the prince personally welcomed the party to the castle in mid-1999 – after the disgraced US financier had already begun recruiting dozens of underage girls as sex slaves.

That’s a very brief interval between meeting Epstein via Maxwell and hosting him at a famous Royal Family estate. Methinks the Prince didn’t do that for all of his casual contacts.

It comes after revelations that Andrew even visited Epstein – who killed himself in prison this month – at his home in New York in 2010. This was two years after Epstein had been convicted of sex with a child.

Footage published by The Mail on Sunday showed the Duke of York grinning from the doorway of Epstein’s mansion, as a number of very young women leave and enter.

End segue.

Interviewer: We now know that he was and had been procuring young girls for sex trafficking.

Prince Andrew: We now know that, at the time there was no indication to me or anybody else that that was what he was doing and certainly when I saw him either in the United States…oh no when I saw him in the United States or when I was staying in his houses in the United States, there was no indication, absolutely no indication. And if there was, you have to remember that at the time I was Patron of the NSPCC’s Full Stop campaign so I was close up with what was going on in those time about getting rid of abuse to children so I knew what the things were to look for but I never saw them.

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Interesting that he volunteered that association in an interview about befriending a child-raping monster. Segue:

NSPCC distances itself from Prince Andrew after facing backlash over its historic links to the scandal-hit royal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7391405/NSPCC-distances-Prince-Andrew-facing-backlash.html

By Jake Ryan, 24 August 2019

Britain’s largest children’s charity has distanced itself from Prince Andrew after facing a public backlash over its historic links to the scandal-hit Royal.

The NSPCC faced mounting criticism from members of the public who complained that the Royal Family’s website listed Prince Andrew as a patron of one of the charity’s campaigns.

They questioned the association of a charity that works to protect vulnerable children with the Prince in the wake of the renewed focus on his close friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein.

This isn’t funny anymore.

[NSPCC responded] to a barrage of criticism on social media by clarifying that its ties with Andrew ended a decade ago, saying: ‘Prince Andrew is no longer our patron, he supported our Full Stop campaign which ended in 2009.’

One of a string of social media users to question the charity said: ‘Prince Andrew is still listed as representing a number of children’s charities. I work with child and young people organisations and have cancelled all NSPCC training until I get a response to their position of having him as a patron.’

It’s not enough that ties have been severed. They should check if any children went missing during Prince Andrew’s time there. The NSPCC is probably safe, it sounds like a brief promotional thing. But Andrew was, and still is, well positioned to supply vulnerable children to organized pedo rings:

He is patron of more than 200 charities and organisations, including 33 involved in education and skills with young people.

Only the University of Huddersfield has so far responded after a leading academic called on the institution to suspend the Prince as its chancellor, a post he took up in 2015.

Author Dr Stephen Dorril, a security and intelligence expert and a former lecturer at Huddersfield, wrote a letter to the university asking how it intended to safeguard its ‘good name and values’ over the damaging allegations concerning Andrew.

A spokesman said Andrew had issued an emphatic denial to allegations of impropriety, adding: ‘His enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship is a natural fit with the work of the university.’

Innovation? Entrepreneurship? We’re talking about Prince Andrew? Total lies. His very questionable sex history outweighs any possible benefit.

Over 200 charitable organizations and only Dr. Dorril filed a formal complaint. Pathetic, but USA isn’t doing any better.

End segue.

Interviewer: So you would have made that connection because you stayed with him, you were a visitor, a guest on many occasions at his homes and nothing struck you as suspicious…

Prince Andrew: Nothing.

Interviewer: …during that whole time.

Prince Andrew: Nothing.

Interviewer: Just for the record, you’ve been on his private plane.

Prince Andrew: Yes.

Interviewer: You’ve been to stay on his private island.

Prince Andrew: Yes.

Interviewer: You’ve stayed at his home in Palm Beach.

Prince Andrew: Yes.

Interviewer: You visited Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in Belgravia in London.

Prince Andrew: Yes.

Man, this is a good fight!

Interviewer: So in 2006 in May an arrest warrant was issued for Epstein for sexual assault of a minor.

Prince Andrew: Yes.

Interviewer: In July he was invited to Windsor Castle to your daughter, Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday, why would you do that?

Prince Andrew: Because I was asking Ghislaine. But even so, at the time I don’t think I…certainly I wasn’t aware when the invitation was issued what was going on in the United States and I wasn’t aware until the media picked up on it because he never said anything about it.

Interviewer: He never discussed with you the fact that an arrest warrant had been issued?

Prince Andrew: No.

Interviewer: So he came to that party knowing police were investigating him.

Prince Andrew: Well I’m not quite sure, was it police? I don’t know, you see, this is the problem, I really don’t know.

Feel the burn, Prince Arsewipe!

Interviewer: It was the Palm Beach Police at the time.

Prince Andrew: But I mean I’m afraid, you see this is the problem is that an awful lot of this was going on in the United States and I wasn’t a party to it and I knew nothing about it.

Interviewer: In 2008 he was convicted of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution, he was jailed, this was your friend, how did you feel about it?

Prince Andrew: Well I ceased contact with him after I was aware that he was under investigation and that was later in 2006 and I wasn’t in touch with him again until 2010. So just it was one of those things that somebody’s going through that sort of thing well I’m terribly sorry I can’t be…see you.

Did Andrew ever have “the conversation” with Epstein? The “you motherfucking asshole, you used Buckingham Palace as a safe house to duck a child molestation warrant! Come visit England one more time, I dare you!” conversation?

Interviewer: So no contact?

Prince Andrew: No contact.

Interviewer: When he was serving time there was no call, no letter, nothing there?

Prince Andrew: No, no, no.

Interviewer: He was released in July, within months by December of 2010 you went to stay with him at his New York mansion, why? Why were you staying with a convicted sex offender?

Prince Andrew: Right, I have always…ever since this has happened and since this has become, as it were, public knowledge that I was there, I’ve questioned myself as to why did I go and what was I doing and was it the right thing to do? Now, I went there with the sole purpose of saying to him that because he had been convicted, it was inappropriate for us to be seen together.

He cannot possibly think we’re that stupid, to believe he insisted on a face-to-face meet BECAUSE they couldn’t be seen together anymore. Instead, I think he’s telling (((them))) that when he went back, he knew Epstein was busted and vulnerable.

Because this sure as HELL isn’t making anybody feel better about their association. He couldn’t do a better job of increasing suspicion against him than… if he was trying to?

Prince Andrew: And I had a number of people counsel me in both directions, either to go and see him or not to go and see him and I took the judgement call that because this was serious and I felt that doing it over the telephone was the chicken’s way of doing it. I had to go and see him and talk to him.

And I went to see him and I was doing a number of other things in New York at the time and we had an opportunity to go for a walk in the park and that was the conversation coincidentally that was photographed which was when I said to him, I said “look, because of what has happened, I don’t think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact” and by mutual agreement during that walk in the park we decided that we would part company and I left, I think it was the next day and to this day I never had any contact with him from that day forward.

Andrew was probably getting cold feet. Per

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7642983/Is-proof-infamous-picture-Prince-Andrew-Epstein-WASNT-staged.html

“Questions over the credibility of the photographs came as a spin doctor [Jason Stein] hired by Andrew to help rebuild his reputation quit after less than a month.”

Moral of that story, don’t hire a Jew to investigate a Jew. Not even if it’s New York and there’s nobody else to hire.

Interviewer: What did he say when you told him that you were breaking up the friendship?

Prince Andrew: He was what I would describe as understanding, he didn’t go into any great depth in the conversation about what I was…what he was doing, except to say that he’d accepted, whatever it was, a plea bargain, he’d served his time and he was carrying on with his life if you see what I mean and I said “yes but I’m afraid to say that that’s as maybe but with all the attendant scrutiny on me then I don’t think it is a wise thing to do”.

Interviewer: Who advised you then that it was a good idea to go and break up the friendship? Did that come from the palace, was Her Majesty, the Queen involved?

Prince Andrew: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that came from…so there were a number of people who…so some people from my staff, some people from friends and family I was talking to and I took the decision that it was I had to show leadership and I had to go and see him and I had to tell him “that’s it”.

Interviewer: That was December of 2010.

Prince Andrew: Yep.

Interviewer: He threw a party to celebrate his release and you were invited as the guest of honour.

Prince Andrew: No, I didn’t go. Oh, in 2010, there certainly wasn’t a party to celebrate his release in December because it was a small dinner party, there were only 8 or 10 of us I think at the dinner. If there was a party then I’d know nothing about that.

Seriously, what WAS the point of this interview? We’ve passed parody.

Interviewer: You were invited to that dinner as a guest of honour.

Prince Andrew: Well I was there so there was a dinner, I don’t think it was quite as you might put it but yeah, okay I was there for…I was there at a dinner, yeah.

Interviewer: I’m just trying to work this out because you said you went to break up the relationship and yet you stayed at that New York mansion several days. I’m wondering how long?

Prince Andrew: But I was doing a number of other things while I was there.

Interviewer: But you were staying at the house…

Prince Andrew: Yes.

Interviewer: …of a convicted sex offender.

Prince Andrew: It was a convenient place to stay.

No. It. Wasn’t. Were they doing dirt back and forth? Andy bugging Eppy’s apartment while Eppy hired a photographer?

I mean I’ve gone through this in my mind so many times. At the end of the day, with a benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time I felt it was the honourable and right thing to do and I admit fully that my judgement was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable but that’s just the way it is.

Interviewer: Because during that time, those few days, witnesses say they saw many young girls coming and going at the time. There is video footage of Epstein accompanied by young girls and you were there staying in his house, catching up with friends.

Prince Andrew: I never…I mean if there were then I wasn’t a party to any of that. I never saw them. I mean you have to understand that his house, I described it more as almost as a railway station if you know what I mean in the sense that there were people coming in and out of that house all the time. What they were doing and why they were there I had nothing to do with. So I’m afraid I can’t make any comment on that because I really don’t know.

Sounds like yes, Andrew did bug the house. Those friends who told him to go back to Epstein one last time and “do a few errands while in New York” were probably COINTEL for MI6.

Interviewer: Another guest was John Brockman, the literary agent. Now, he described seeing you there getting a foot massage from a young Russian woman, did that happen?

Prince Andrew: No.

Interviewer: You’re absolutely sure or you can’t remember?

This interview is almost too perfect. Maybe Prince Andrew’s plan here is to taint the jury pool… of the entire planet!

Stay tuned for Part 2! (Or click on the link in frustration that I stopped on a cliffhanger.)

 

John Stonestreet has a tough job. As the latest president of the Chuck Colson Center’s Christian-industrial complex, he needs to address the now-critical problems in the Church with nothing but the behavior of the responsible Boomers to guide him. Imitating the criminal is a terrible way to solve the crime, friend.

Let us walk with John today as he goes…

When There Are No More Volunteers: How the Church Can Love God by Loving Others

https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/breakpoint/when-there-are-no-more-volunteers-how-the-church-can-love-god-by-loving-others.html

John Stonestreet & Brooke Boriack, 12 November 2019

Getting help is a good idea. From a woman on Christian matters, no so good an idea.

According to the National Fire Protection Association, the number of volunteer firefighters across the country has been steadily in decline, with a drop of over 132,000 volunteers in just the last four years. Many volunteer fire departments, especially in rural communities, are struggling to meet the demands of their districts.

Even more alarming, the most drastic demographic decline of volunteers is young people. In fact, over 50 percent of current volunteers across the country are over the age of 40. The widespread decrease in volunteering among young people threatens EMS services, pregnancy resource centers, shelters, and non-profits “from the Red Cross to retirement homes.

This is something you can totally blame on Donald Trump. Because of his disastrous presidency, employment of young men is HIGH. Nobody wants to work for free when he can work for money instead.

In other words, a live and pressing question we face as Americans is this: Will younger citizens be prepared, not to mention willing, to step in and maintain so many of the things we take for granted as Americans who rely on volunteers?

To misquote a grizzled old youTuber named razorbladekandy:

You’re fucked, John.

No free labor. No useful idiots. No cheap foreigners, either, the Democrats gave ’em the vote and now they’re taking your country away one State at a time. All you care to do about it is stand on a tired old soapbox built by a predecessor who taught you nothing and complain that you will have to break a sweat if society won’t improve.

It. Won’t.

Pay for your own damn food, suffer for your own damn beliefs, pick your own damn cotton and have a nice day.

Several federal, state, and local government entities have seen the problem and are experimenting with programs that will incentivize young people to volunteer.from high school and college credit, to scholarships, to tax rebates. Pennsylvania has even proposed a program to forgive up to $16,000 in student loans for those who volunteer for four years as a first-responder.

Alternative idea: PAY THEM. Don’t forgive those student loans, just give a $4k annual stipend to men… not women… who volunteer. As if CalFire would even want the help of a Master’s Degree in LGBT grievance studies. And if you haven’t already noticed, John, mandatory volunteering is already common in many high schools.

Hey, didn’t we outlaw slavery and child labor?

While these sound like good ideas, and we should applaud innovative efforts, government solutions don’t always work out as advertised…

…and we can’t fix what are ultimately cultural and spiritual problems through political means.

DO NOT GO THERE! Don’t you dare say that the Church can best serve the Brave New World by guilting its members into unpaid manual labor. What’s your next question… why Church headcount keeps falling?

Culturally speaking, ours is a far more mobile society than previous generations, but volunteerism and community engagement are rooted in a sense of ownership for a community. Simply put, it’s hard to foster ownership of a time and place among those always on the move.

That’s a triple lie. One, USA has always had a mobile population, it’s a major reason we’re called the New World. We even started out as colonies, remember? Two, people don’t relocate without having reasons to. Most of us would be very glad to put down roots somewhere.

And three, it doesn’t take years of residency to qualify for volunteer work.

Culturally and spiritually speaking, we are all susceptible in this world to the hyper-individualism that marks our age. All of us, but especially young people, are drawn today toward either the pursuit of social media celebrity-status, or personal happiness as our definition of “the good life..

Ah, there it is. Individualism, the perennial enemy of Unity. Look at us MGTOWs running around, following work, avoiding toxic government, never content with the crumbs our masters reluctantly scrape off the tax table. Always caring about ourselves instead of embracing altruistic oblivion like a Republican.

Do you know why I care so much about me, John? Because you don’t. If I don’t care about me than nobody will. Society used to be a two-way street, with men getting respect and assistance in return for participation. Guess which side broke faith? Hint: MASS IMMIGRATION.

What we get instead, as we’ve said before on Breakpoint, is increasing anxiety, loneliness, and depression, especially among young people. The “Joker” film is just the latest to picture what can happen to those who lose all social ties and abandon any sense of social responsibility.

A smarter person than you, John, would listen to what you just said and try to make us proto-Jokers a better offer than working for free… instead of, for example, hating and fearing us BECAUSE YOU KEEP GIVING US REASONS TO SNAP.

“I don’t trust that dog. Gonna have to put it down soon. It snarls a little louder every time I beat it with a chain.”

Not only is the decline of the volunteer ethic physically dangerous to the health of citizens in communities with no EMS providers to answer a call, it’s dangerous to the health of our young people if they don’t hear that they’re needed and that their life matters to their local community.wherever that is. That’s because volunteering protects the health of those providing care, as well as those being cared for.

If that was true then you wouldn’t have a volunteer shortage, now would you? In fact, it’s the reason I myself am a volunteer. When the Big One quake hits, FEMA will feed me first while I walk the fence keeping the zombies out. That, and when some Leftoid sics law enforcement on me I’ll be a friendly face to the local cop.

More effective, I expect, than stockpiling enough ammunition to interest the BATFE.

But if my reader doesn’t have such a motivation then lying to him about the unnamed health benefits of firefighting is a bad idea.

Here, of course, is where the church comes in.or should come in. We can create a sense of community and belonging, instilling civic virtue, helping people experience the truth that “no man is an island unto himself,. and that our faith, though personal, is certainly not private.

THE LACKWIT WENT THERE!

Think about it. God has revealed Himself as a community.the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Relationships aren’t merely something God does. It’s Who He is. Made in His image, we too are made for community. In other words, there’s simply no loving God without loving our neighbor.

So, here we have this place where a cultural need and a theological truth intersect. How might the church respond? What opportunities can we create, or can we join, that will draw young people into the life of the church for the good of the world?

And who knows, that young person we place at a soup kitchen today might be answering our 9-1-1 call tomorrow.

No, he’ll be serving soup today AND tomorrow so YOU can feel good about helping the needy. No? Then how many hours were you going to make him work before promoting him to a paid dispatcher position?

Postscript, about the boldfaced sentence above. It is absolutely possible to love God without loving one’s neighbor. They are two separate commandments, after all, and explicitly not equally important. If you spend a Saturday morning singing hymns to God by yourself instead of working in a soup kitchen like Pastor volunteered you to then you have worshiped God more effectively than the Church would have enabled you to.

If you create something with your hands then you have worshiped God the Creator.

If you go outside and thank God for the fine day and pretty sunset, you have worshiped God.

If you keep a promise even though it costs you then you have worshiped God.

If you go online to talk smack about false Christians trying to make God their tool… then I have worshiped God.

Feels good.

 

A famous artist was hired to paint a Chicomm leader-sized portrait of the infamous eco-midget in San Fransicko… and is hated for using paint and electricity to do so.

Greta Thunberg mural in San Francisco stirs controversy over use of spray paints

https://www.foxnews.com/us/greta-thunberg-mural-san-francisco-controversy-spray-paints

By Robert Gearty, 11 November 2019

A massive mural of the face of teen climate activist Greta Thunberg in downtown San Francisco makes its debut Tuesday . even as it stirs controversy.

Yep, it’s not even finished yet and SJWs are point-and-shrieking. This must be why the good artists cover their art until it’s finished.

The artist behind the 60-foot-tall by 30-foot-wide creation is Argentine muralist Andres Iglesias, who goes by the name Cobre and is known for his .hyper-realistic. portraits. He agreed to work for free on the project, which is being sponsored by the environmental nonprofit One Atmosphere.

Per its website, One Atmosphere is a front organization for (“partners with”) the city and county of San Francisco. Partnering with the state is a little different than partnering with, say, the San Francisco Giants.

But Cobre was forced to go on the defensive after social media users began noting the irony of using spray paints . which they say harm the environment . to pay homage to the 16-year-old Thunberg, The Art Newspaper reported Sunday.

Relax, eco-Nazis. The chlorofluorocarbons destroyed the ozone layer twenty years ago, as infallibly predicted by UN climate change forecasts. You’re already dead, therefore don’t need to worry.

Cobre responded that the materials he was using were environmentally friendly, the paper reported.

.The thing is, the sprays I use are eco-friendly, and most of the paint is hand-painted with a roller,. he told the paper. .[It is] water-based so there is zero impact..

Uh oh, he apologized.

One Atmosphere said Sunday in a post on city guide SF Station’s Instagram page that they were using spray cans that don’t contain environmentally damaging chlorofluorocarbons.

.We are using low-pressure cans with a minimal footprint,. the post said. .The cans and the boxes will also be recycled, although many of the cans will first have a second life as part of a separate art project..

The nonprofit went on to say the cans have been picked up and delivered in an electric vehicle, and the artist and organizers have been traveling almost exclusively by way of electric car, electric scooter or on foot to the project site . the side of building on Mason Street, above the music venue August Hall.

.The lift being used is also electric, not diesel.. the post added.

Sure, and water comes from faucets. Milk comes from cartons. I hope God is herding all of His most vile enemies into the Gay Area in order to drop an environmentally-friendly asteroid on them, because that’s a lot of zombies overrunning my street if He just does the Hayward Fault.

I am reminded of that Berkeley philosophy student who recently went viral for saying rural farmers deserve to be punished for not living sustainably in high-density housing.

At the same time, the paper reported some budding art critics on Twitter claimed the mural looked more like Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Greta Thunberg

Viggo the Carpathian, Ghostbusters 2. My vote.

.I can’t be the only person that thinks the mural of Greta Thunberg in San Francisco looks like Putin, right?. one person tweeted, according to the paper.

Hahaha! It’s been RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA for so long that socialists are losing their already-fragile grasp upon reality. You think they were already psycho? You haven’t seen 4 November 2020 yet.

 

I’m not one to see hidden conspiracies everywhere; the visible, provable conspiracies keep me plenty busy enough. By way of example, my daily scan of crime headlines turned up the silliest FBI false flag I’ve yet seen.

The arrested suspect, Richard Holzer of Colorado. This is nearly the only picture being circulated of him and it was obviously chosen for the menacing head tilt.

Better. Nearly closed eyes at a young age suggests a lot of internal, emotional pain. Combined with a lack of criminal history, he’s a typical low-average guy trying to escape a terrible domestic situation. Twiggy arms indicates he’s not much of a physical threat. But the FBI claims he’s an anti-Semitic terrorist.

Richard Holzer is a California native and white supremacist facing federal charges accusing him of plotting to bomb a synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.

Holzer is a resident of Colorado. Why bring up his childhood in California? To broaden the appeal of his arrest? If anything, this is consistent with my reading that he’s escaping a terrible domestic situation.

He told undercover agents [that he’s] a former KKK member and a current .skinhead,. the FBI says.

The FBI playbook has only one play in it: use informants and moles to infiltrate selected opposition and find (or create) enough dirt to file charges. That’s a maybe-legit tactic against organized criminal syndicates because one informant burns another, domino fashion, until the officers go down and the syndicate implodes.

Here, however, we’re talking about a grocery clerk who only allies were FBI informants and coming up, a nameless Mexican witch doctor.

Holzer is also accused of planning to poison members of the Colorado synagogue by putting arsenic in their water pipes.

I’ve never heard of arsenic being used that way in all my hobby of true-crime stories. White nationalists don’t poison the water supply, the government poisons the water supply. *Gunner Q points at his water softener and filters*

Per the criminal complaint, Holzer claimed to have already poisoned the synagogue a year ago but nobody noticed.

Holzer, 27, was arrested on November 1 on a charge of attempting to obstruct religious exercise by using explosives and fire, according to court documents filed on November 2 in Colorado federal court. Holzer is being held in federal custody pending a detention hearing.

November 5 is 2019’s big election day for USA (first Tuesday of November). This was perfectly timed to influence that election.

U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn said at a press conference said they stopped, .what we believe to be an imminent threat of domestic terrorism against a Colorado religious institution.” Dunn said FBI agents became aware of .racist, anti-Semitic and threatening statements. made by Holzer on social media.

*cough Facebook-data-mining cough*

He said Holzer, .repeatedly expressed his hatred of Jewish people and his support of a racial holy war..

We’ve heard those war drums before. It’s fun to watch the FBI leverage Jewish insecurities. Speaking of, isn’t it interesting that Jews apparently live in constant terror of a goyim uprising? Why might we be inclined to do that, and if they think it’s a legit threat, why not return to Israel… all expenses paid?

FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Dean Phillips told reporters the investigation into Holzer began after the FBI.s Denver office received a tip about online comments he had made. Phillips said they had “credible information” that Holzer was plotting to harm members of the Jewish community in Pueblo and began an investigation.

Yep, Facebook data mining. Not hard to imagine those Converged tech companies helpfully providing anonymous tips on just about any group the FBI might care about.

.After reviewing multiple social media posts, and utilizing a number of investigatory techniques, we determined that Mr. Holzer did pose a threat to our Jewish community, specifically, we learned that he appeared to be planning to destroy the Temple Emanuel synagogue,. Phillips said. .Our task force used multiple investigative techniques to gather information that led to Mr. Holzer’s arrest late Friday night, including recorded conversations, meetings with undercover FBI agents, exploitation of social media accounts and the execution of a federal search warrant..

Is that what they teach at Quantico now? Troll the reddit forums, send a pretty female informant to befriend the lonely ones and get it all on camera? That’s not law enforcement, that’s a prostitution blackmail ring.

Holzer told undercover FBI agents he was taking part in a “racial holy war,. and said his plot to destroy the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo was his .mountain.” He said Jewish people are a “cancer” on his community. Holzer was planning to attack the synagogue on November 1 and believed the undercover FBI agents he had been corresponding with and meeting with in the Pueblo area were going to help him, according to court documents.

Textbook entrapment. This is not legit police work.

According to the targeted synagogue’s website, .Temple Emanuel is on the National Register for Historic Places and is the second oldest Synagogue in Colorado. …

In court documents, an FBI agent wrote that Holzer should be charged because of his “hate crime and domestic terrorism-related activities.” The FBI agent added, .I submit that the evidence developed during this investigation shows that the defendant’s actions meet the definition of “domestic terrorism,. in 18 U.S.C 2331, in that the defendant’s actions involve criminal acts dangerous to human life and are intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population..

The undercover agents who convinced him to engage in those actions are, of course, exempt from prosecution. Even at the best of times, that’s one hell of a slippery moral slope.

Here.s what you need to know about Richard Holzer:

Who wouldn’t like to kill a bunch of pedophiles? Nobody rapes children and deserves to live, by decree of God Himself. The comment about spics actually undermines the FBI case that he’s an anti-semite. A guy who hates everybody and himself isn’t committing a hate crime because “everybody” is not a race.

But it’s hard to be sure when the tweet is blatantly copypasta-ed.

Holzer told the undercover agent that he had hired .a Mexican cook,. nicknamed “Mexican Hitler,. to “hex and poison” the synagogue on October 31, 2018, but the FBI said in the criminal complaint there is no evidence to corroborate his story. Holzer said he paid the cook $70 to put arsenic in the pipes of the synagogue. On October 4, 2019, he sent a video to the undercover agent showing him outside the synagogue and saying he would poison it again because the previous attempt hadn’t worked.

An international hitman charged only $70 to do a Jonestown on 30 families? Was he going to do it anyway but needed gas money after evading the Border Patrol?

Amusingly, the criminal complaint states that the synagogue was closed for a time after the hex and Holzer credited the hex for that… and Holzer was planning to pay for another hexing, not just the arsenic. I wish I could see the expressions on the jury’s faces when the prosecution claims that Holzer’s preferred terrorist weapon is a witch doctor that the FBI can’t find.

Notice that this undercover operation lasted for over a year but Holzer is the only person it was able to arrest. One wonders if the FBI got the dirt on him and then waited months for a politically opportune time to drop the hammer, because the alternative is that this operation spent a lot of resources with nothing to show for it.

According to the criminal complaint, when he was asked by undercover agents what he would do if anyone was inside the synagogue when he went to blow it up, he said he didn’t care if they died, “because they would be Jews..

I read that criminal complaint and it admits that Holzer specifically stated that he did not intend to harm anybody. Only after that admission did the informants ask “but what if somebody happens to be there when you bomb it?” and Holzer replied he didn’t care. The agents were worried that they wouldn’t be able to charge him with serious-enough crimes.

According to [the] criminal complaint written by FBI Special Agent John Smith, the investigation into Richard Holzer began after he began messaging with an undercover FBI agent posing as a female white supremacist on Facebook. Smith wrote that Holzer has “used several Facebook accounts to promote white supremacy ideology and acts of violence, in direct messages and group chats with other like-minded individuals..

Yep, prostitution blackmail ring.

“My name is Candy and I think KKK thugs are hawt. Are you a KKK thug?”

“Um… I used to be?”

“I’m so excited! If you bring me a copy of Mein Kampf with your fingerprints on it then I’ll pay for the hotel room.”

“SCORE!”

3. Holzer Was Arrested on November 1 After Meeting Undercover Agents at a Hotel While Carrying a Knife, a Mask & a Copy of “Mein Kampf,.

Score! He got screwed. Worried about your optics, FBI?

It is not clear exactly when Holzer moved to Colorado. He does not appear to have a prior criminal record in California or Colorado. At his first court hearing, it was revealed that he worked at King Soopers, a grocery store, in Pueblo, according to The Denver Channel.

A dim-witted loser wanted too much to be part of an organization that promised him a better future than bagging groceries, and when a troupe of crisis actors… excuse me, undercover agents… pretended to offer it to him, he thought with his little head.

This nothingburger of an indictment would be a guaranteed flop in the courtroom except that Holzer reportedly waived his Miranda rights in the police station to make more rants… consistent with his being so easily manipulated that he brought Mein Kampf to his arrest party as ordered. That will sink his ship even though it’s proof that he’s no real threat to anybody. The people who won’t shut up about their scatter-brained plans are not the ones you need to worry about.

The real hate crime here is the FBI stoking Jewish racial paranoia for political gain by ruining the life of a useful idiot… which would fit some interpretations of 18 U.S.C 2331.

 

On 4 November 2019, Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren launched her Presidential campaign’s “Meme Team” to harness the mysterious energies that got Trump elected in 2016… and caused her to become a laughingstock everywhere in the United States outside of New York City.

On 5 November, the Meme Team went silent.

On 6 November, Twitter hosed the shredded, bloodsoaked corpse of her dignity off the Internet.

Sorry if you missed it.

Complete history, done. Boom. Word. Which means the time has come for historians like me to document that shitsack of WTF.

Already I am forced to reach for the archives… should not have stopped to eat that lunch burrito. Hat tip to Megan Fox on pjmedia.com.

https://archive.is/lCCT3

WARREN’S MEME TEAM

.. Saving the nation with selfies and memes ..

Read about us in the NY Times!

Almighty God, you are our witness. We warned them: Liberals. Can’t. Meme.

WHY
The most important political battlefield today is social media.
The Right currently enjoys an asymmetric advantage.

You have no idea, you STILL have no idea and Epstein didn’t suicide.

 

No. Clipart done by unpaid interns is not how you… look, you’re messing with forbidden knowledge and it won’t end any better for your than the last chick who broke the seventh seal.

More here. It’s heavily copyprotected which is not a good way to encourage meme making.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-XjINoK2ZG9X1N7yYibe9BNL1h7m3x7DjaMohas_ISc/edit#

Therefore, let’s go to the NY Times as Fauxcahontas recommended.

[Gunner Q has chosen to artistically interpret this article in meme language.]

https://www.nyt imes.com/interactive/2019/11/01/opinion/democrats-2020-election-online.html

1 November 2019

A long time ago, on a different internet . where Photoshopped images of “God Emperor. Donald Trump riding atop a velociraptor were just a faint glimmer in a young meme lord’s eye

[Hat tip to ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com]

…the Republicans were in trouble. Barack Obama’s 2008 win over John McCain was heralded as a digital over an analog.

In 2012, Mitt Romney’s technological secret weapon to track voters in real time crashed on Election Day. A 2012 profile of Mr. Obama’s digital team in The Atlantic exclaimed that the “nerds shook up an ossifying Democratic tech structure.” By 2014, the conventional wisdom was that progressives had lapped the Republican Party in the tech space. I heard rumors swirling that some of the Republican National Committee staff were scouring Silicon Valley churches for tech-company hoodies, looking for programmers to hire.

Two years later, the narrative flipped completely. Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was quickly cast as a digital triumph. The campaign successfully harnessed its candidate’s divisive, populist rhetoric to plaster Facebook with ads. The ads worked, in large part because of their incendiary messages. Mr. Trump’s grass-roots support online came from a legion of posters, message board communities and Twitter pundits who flooded the internet with memes, toxic trolling and hyperpartisan pages glorifying the candidate and vilifying his opponents. Democrats were flummoxed.

The Trump wing of the Republican Party appeared to have a structural advantage in online politics . and there was no clear lane in sight for a wonky, hopeful, progressive message. And for the past three years, as Donald Trump has governed by Twitter, Democrats have watched and winced. An unspoken question hangs over the looming presidential election: On an internet built to favor controversy, can Democrats (or anyone less controversial than Mr. Trump) win online in 2020?

If so, a successful challenger will need time, technology, money and inexhaustible shamelessness. As of today, time is running out, money has barely been spent, and one side has a near monopoly on the ability to operate without decorum or scruples.

The Trump campaign already has a healthy head start building up its microtargeting and fund-raising technology. In the digital ad-spend arms race on Facebook and Google, Mr. Trump’s campaign has spent more than the top three Democratic candidates combined to identify and turn out supporters in key states and counties. Arguably more important is the data acquisition play. The Trump campaign is building tools to take advantage of information like mobile location data to learn intensely personal details about potential voters and then hit them with explicitly tailored messages that fire them up.

SJWs always project. Sorry that’s not a meme but Vox Day hasn’t finished the trilogy.

.Trump has a time advantage we can’t erase,. Shomik Dutta, an Obama campaign vet and the chief executive of Higher Ground Labs, told me recently. .We have to change that by fixing the innovation cycle in progressive politics..

Mr. Dutta and his Higher Ground partner, Betsy Hoover, project an anxious optimism about their technology’s role next year. Ms. Hoover admits that “technology itself is not a strategy or a culture; it’s a tool that sits on top of those things.” And Mr. Dutta, who throws around startup-y business jargon like “loss aversion,. “churn rate” and “digital exhaust,. is honest about Democrats. deficiencies . most notably their inability to compete on digital ads.

.If the chief marketing officer for a Fortune 100 company spent less than 15 percent of their ad budget on digital, they.d be fired for incompetence,. he told me. .Democratic campaigns in the aggregate are all spending less than 15 percent on digital right now, and that is political and professional malpractice..

…Though a few candidates have amassed vibrant online supporters (#YangGang, Bernie Bros), there are concerns that progressive messages, especially from wonkier candidates, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, will be unable to find attention online against policy-light, image-heavy Trump memes.

Misha Leybovich, an M.I.T. engineer and start-up guy, wants to change that. His vision starts with an eight-page emoji-laden Google document titled, .Warren.s Meme Team Plan: Saving the Nation With Selfies and Memes.. .The right understands the importance of memes: They approach it like war,. he writes.

.We can’t let this be an asymmetric battle,. he adds. .We fight back, in a way that’s authentic to our values..

You mean, your LGBT values?

*sigh* Since I’m doing another text interrupt, in the Google document I linked to above, you will find that Misha is an expert mostly in emojis and attached his resume to the end of the Meme Team’s founding document as a full appendix. Warren’s own Meme Team knew the effort was doomed.

Mr. Leybovich’s plan involves creating a “distributed network of thousands of hands and brains” to spread Ms. Warren’s message across platforms. .One thing I think Trump did really well was crowdsourcing the creativity,. he told me. .If you look at the popular memes, it’s not the stuff his campaign makes. They just amplify it, even if it’s toxic.” His idea is to amass content creators and arm them with templates that work across platforms (images for memes but also filters for platforms like Snapchat and TikTok). .If you give people an easy way to have a good time making things themselves, you can get them to organically spread that message..

Mr. Leybovich, who says he has spoken to the Warren campaign about memes and also applied for its deputy chief technology officer position, is optimistic that the right infrastructure and coordination can make Warren plans like a wealth tax and universal child care into base-rallying content. There’s some thin precedent for this. Mr. Leybovich cited the tens of thousands of selfies Senator Warren takes with supporters at rallies as an indicator that the campaign has learned to tap into and energize its supporters. enthusiasm online.

The selfies are a natural fit, but there’s also something inherently cringe-y about an organized campaign to spark and capture the millennial and Gen Z meme magic. That tends to work only organically.

Tara McGowan, a veteran Democratic strategist who founded Acronym, a progressive digital strategy organization, described part of the legacy Democratic media apparatus as “paralyzed” by an older generation of “consultants with a stranglehold on outdated techniques” who rarely engage online.

.There’s a tendency in our party to be overly risk-averse in our messaging and tactics, which can dilute our ability to resonate with voters,. she said. .We don’t need to spread lies or play to people’s insecurities to win, we just need to compete and get our message to voters every single day where they get their information. Right now, we’re not even on the field.” Ms. McGowan says Acronym is trying to sound the alarm and provide a path forward. Political consultants say that means spending more money on political consultants and outmatching Mr. Trump on data collection to identify the two million or so voters who.ll determine the 2020 outcome.

Another central part of the campaign is messaging that doesn’t rely on responding to Mr. Trump. .There is so much noise on these platforms, and we are not playing in those spaces now. We can tell a powerful, true, cohesive story about why this guy is dangerous,. Ms. McGowan said.

…Just as daunting an obstacle: whether Democrats can win without embracing Republican shamelessness. In the age of viral politics, momentum and political capital derive from a well-rehearsed echo chamber of attention: Social media dictates the news cycle, which is used to book TV appearances or rallies, where candidates can gin up controversy or conflict, which fuels social media.

Donald Trump and Republicans understand this potent combination of content creation and shamelessness. Whether it’s weekend tweets by the president or Rudy Giuliani’s constant availability to journalists and Fox News hosts, Trumpists flood the zone with misinformation or ragebait. A Photoshopped image of a dog getting the Medal of Honor. Sharpiegate. A Fourth of July military parade. They’re all attention spectacles. When the inevitable outrage comes, they merely double down, with more content. The reaction from their enemies . the surprise at the shamelessness . is even more indignant, which delights supporters. It feeds cable headlines for another day. The result is disheartening, exhausting and politically effective.

But Republicans don’t need to have a monopoly on outrage. Rather than the Trump variety of outrage and fear of the other, the correct blend of righteous progressive outrage on climate, inequality and corruption could compete with the virality of the MAGA message. Outrage, indignation and alarmism . sentiments proven to win online . can be harnessed by Democrats, provided they choose the right candidate.

Whether Democrats can compete [in the meme wars] with their integrity intact–

Slower, people, SLOWER! You meme mavericks kill so fast, the bodies don’t even hit the floor.

Dave Cullen on youTube has the best of the, ah, “response” memes. I have trouble archiving the animated stuff.

 

You get more of what you subsidize. If you promise citizenship to illegals who are “victimized by a crime” then guess what’s going to happen.

Yep. And it happened.

The most valuable commodity in the United States today is victimhood.

Sheriff: Ten People Faked Restaurant Robbery with Likely Motive to Get Green Cards

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/05/sheriff-ten-people-faked-restaurant-robbery-with-likely-motive-to-get-green-cards/

By Neil Runro, 5 November 2019

A group of illegal migrants reported a daring restaurant robbery in King County, Washington, where “patrons were allegedly tied up, robbed of jewelry and two female members were said to be sexually assaulted..

But the October 19 robbery at Bob’s Burgers n. Teriyakis was just a daring scam by ten illegals to snatch U visas, green cards, and citizenship from the federal government, said county Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht, who described the claimed robbery. .Today I can confirm to you; it was all a lie . Every employee present that evening, every customer participated in a deliberate hoax..

Fortunately, the two men were described as Samoan rather than white.

She continued: “Not only is false reporting a crime, but in this case, concocting a violent takeover crime, where the suspects were allegedy armed, sets up the potential for some really bad things to happen . Deputies and detectives have been looking for that truck. What would’ve happened if we would’ve stopped the driver thinking they were a suspect in a very violent crime?”

The police would have shot another Dindu who resisted arrest because he had outstanding warrants? Because… well, here’s a segue about that truck she mentioned.

https://komonews.com/news/local/customers-return-to-support-owner-after-robbery-at-bobs-burgers-in-seatac

The Sheriff’s Office says they’re also looking for the customer’s truck that was stolen Saturday night, which is a 2005 brown Ford F150 with the license plate number C78292P. The truck is lifted up with large tires and chrome rims.

Yeeeep. I’ve worked on Section 8 housing projects and that’s typical of the vehicles. They go on welfare because they can’t afford food, then pimp their rides with chrome rims and custom sound systems.

Such vehicles, inexplicably, tend to be owned by Dindus with outstanding arrest warrants so Mitzi’s concern of accidental paloose brutality was a valid one.

End segue.

.I don’t recall a time where I’ve seen ten people band together to form a story and present it to individuals whose very job is to note consistencies and inconsistencies, whose very job it is to flesh out and flesh out the truth,. SeaTac Police Chief Jon Mattsen told Q13 Fox.

King County is a sanctuary jurisdiction, so it includes a growing population of illegals in service jobs. That population aids business owners and landlords because it pushes down wages and drives up rents for blue-collar Americans.

A good economic rule of thumb is that the Upper Class wants expensive land and cheap labor while the Middle Class wants expensive labor and cheap land.

The scam spotlights the growing fraud in the U visa program, which offers green cards and citizenship to people who testify against criminals in cases, such as sexual abuse of a child or spousal abuse. Each year, 10,000 U visas are given to people who claim to be victims of crimes, but the number of requests for U visas has skyrocketed as immigration lawyers have tried to guide their paying clients around the tighter enforcement rules set by President Donald Trump.

In 2016, the backlog for U visa requests was 64,000. The waiting list reached 250,000 by the end of 2019. The annual award of 10,000 U visas does not include the grant of U visas to the alleged victims. spouses and children.

Breitbart provides an example of U-visa abuse:

In October, a Colorado lawyer tried to defend his illegal-immigrant client from a rape charge by saying the victim’s mother had a hidden incentive:

“Hess declined to say whether [his client, [Ever] Valencia is in the country legally. He said the victim is a U.S. citizen. Her mother is in the country illegally, Hess said, and will probably apply from a crime victim’s visa, or U visa.

“Because the victim is a minor, her mother can show she cooperated with the investigation and prosecutors and could receive the U visa for which her daughter . the victim in this case . would be eligible, Hess said. Hess said his Glenwood Springs law practice does extensive immigration work and deals with U visas regularly.
.If you’re a victim of domestic violence or other qualifying crimes . and certainly sexual assault is one . you can seek a U visa,. Hess explained. .The motivation to get a U visa is a strong theme underlying this case..”

Feminism 4.0: the illegal immigrant falsely accuses you of rape in order to get citizenship.

 

It never fails to amaze, when professional and/or tenured Seminary professors are publicly, easily wrong about the basics of Christianity. Today’s example is Patrick Schreiner, Assistant Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Western University, Portland campus, who says we shouldn’t be suspicious about celebrity conversions.

I’m starting to think those Franciscan monks had a valid point with those bowl cuts and plain robes as a way of being visibly separate from the world. Background: M.Div and PhD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He’s never left college. Never lived a normal life.

The New Testament Teaches Us Not to Second-Guess Surprising Conversions

By Patrick Schreiner, 30 October 2019

Actually, it does. 1 Timothy 3:6 in discussing the qualifications of overseers and deacons, “He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.” Very sensible. Also, Christ Himself said it’s hard for a rich man to enter Heaven, Matt. 19:23-24, so maybe we should take a rich man’s conversion with a grain of salt.

Another valid, if non-Scriptural reason to doubt a conversion is when the convert is married to a Kardashian.

Kanye West’s move from saying “Jesus walks” to confessing “Jesus is King” has divided Christians.

Those in a position to know are optimistic…

https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/09/30/five-important-things-to-know-about-the-conversion-of-kanye-west/

…but this Californian has seen too many celebrity conversions end up fraudulent. Here, best case scenario, Mr. West’s genuine faith will drive his wife Kim Kardashian to divorce him by Christmas. He’s got a damn hard road ahead.

Some are overjoyed that such a prominent figure has made public turn to faith. Others are more hesitant, taking the .let’s see if this sticks. approach. Kanye himself expected the latter, singing on his new album, .What have you been hearin. from the Christians? They.ll be the first one to judge me. Make it feel like nobody love me..

Man, if you don’t like judgment then you ain’t gonna like God.

While some believers want to wait and see whether his faith is genuine, we don’t find much evidence for this strategy in the Scriptures.

That attitude is a serious mistake. 1 John 4:1, “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

The early church in Acts had its share of surprising transformations and celebrity conversions, which stirred a range of reactions. But ultimately, the text points to acceptance over distrust. It also emphasizes the importance of perseverance for these unexpected converts.

These accounts suggest that with Kanye, there is room for the church to rejoice without suspicion, while also pleading for endurance and mentorship in the faith.

“Without suspicion” is the dangerous part. Let’s dig in.

Paul represents the first surprising conversion in Acts. He was killer of Christians, but then Jesus appeared to him. Understandably, Paul’s conversion is met with some hesitation and fear. Some readers today may take this response as a case for wariness when someone does an about-face. Ananias questions whether he should go to Paul when the Lord comes to him (Acts 9:13-16). The crowd in Damascus is amazed, wondering what has happened (9:21). In Jerusalem, the disciples were afraid and did not believe he was a disciple (9:26).

Each reaction is different based on context. But it helps to consider their concerns in light of the pattern we see throughout Scripture: Continually, God’s people are slow to God’s plan. They need help to catch up to his agenda. They need convincing when God’s plan is out sprinting ahead of them.

That is a vile teaching, that God’s people did wrong by not rushing to accept, in violation of common sense, a unique situation that would become clear only with years of hindsight. In no context did God fault believers for thinking what they did about Saul.

Note that Saul’s conversion broke him to the point of name-changing. One of the most dramatic displays of divine power in the New Testament, including witnesses, and after being struck blind Paul didn’t eat or drink for three days. That’s what it takes for most genuine, late-in-life conversions. God was as subtle with Paul’s conversion as a Trigglypuff passing gas at a chili cookoff.

We didn’t see Kayne West at death’s door for three days after his conversion experience. In fact, he’s already released his first gospel music album. Hmm.

In contrast to the skeptics, Barnabas testifies to those in Jerusalem on Paul’s behalf, and they listen to him (9:27). He is gracious and patient with their concerns and explains the change he has seen. (Maybe the “accepters” need to hear this as well and be gracious to .skeptics..) The crowd moves from doubt to acceptance based on Barnabas’s testimony.

That is another dishonest teaching. Between Ananias’ healing and arrival in Jerusalem, Paul spent “many days” in Damascus, learning and practicing Christianity until he’d reached the point at which his former allies tried to murder him and his former targets helped him escape. To put it mildly, that demonstrated repentance.

Although Acts 9 does not specifically state this, Barnabas introduced Paul most likely because Barnabas knew about the events in Damascus. Paul was apparently known in Jerusalem only be reputation, and again, God faulted nobody for not taking Paul’s claim of brotherhood at face value.

I would be interested to hear anybody argue that Barnabas knew nothing about Damascus and was arguing for Saul of Tarsus’ acceptance strictly on Saul’s say-so.

This does not mean texts like the Parable of the Sower are out of the discussion. There is a place for watching for fruit and perseverance. However, waiting is put into the context of grace and hope, not concern and judgment.

Bullshit. Quoting Christ in Luke 6:43-44, “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.” You never know if someone is a legit Christian until their behavior proves it.

God does not expect us to act stupidly, accepting every claim of Christianity with the kind of gullibility that made P.T. Barnum a wealthy man. We don’t even have a precedent in Scripture for this kind of foolish behavior… certainly not with Paul for an example.

A next surprising conversion comes from Cornelius and his household in Acts 10.11. Once again, we sense a hesitation as the Jerusalem council gathers to debate Cornelius and his household among the earliest accounts of Gentile conversions (Acts 10-11,15).

However, their story is not example of .let’s see if it sticks.” In fact, Peter and the rest are quite quick to accept that a Gentile centurion, the last person they would expect, has come to the faith. They recognize right away that “the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. (Acts 10:45-46).

Again, Patrick is not only wrong but misleading. Cornelius didn’t come out of nowhere. Acts 10:1-2 “At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.”

If Kayne West had had a history of self-discipline and charity instead of headline-making excesses, I would be much less suspicious about his conversion.

The God-fearers were non-Jews of the time who worshiped God as far as they could without actually converting to Judaism, which was a bad idea for many reasons… not least of which was Jewish arrogance towards outsiders. God responded to their devotion even though they didn’t expect it. God-fearers simply saw the rightness of Father God, perhaps as a stark contrast to the daily brutality of life in the Roman Empire.

That Jewish arrogance was so strong that God had to supernaturally convince Peter, who then used the event to convince the other Jewish Christians… and then backslid against his own divine revelation later on.

The Spirit has overcome their prejudices. The evidence is clear. The question in the Council is not if Gentiles are saved, but how and in what way they can enter the people of God. The council accepts the fruit of the Spirit.

Their prejudices were against non-Jews, not against young converts. Cornelius was absolutely not accepted on a “he said he’s Christian so he must be a real Christian!” basis.

The council concludes Gentiles don’t have to “act like Jews” to enter. This is an interesting example because the Spirit’s arrival and the evident fruit makes the conversion of Cornelius’s house widely accepted. They see fruit and move forward accordingly. This does not mean they move forward uncritically, but they move forward with open arms.

Had Patrick consistently argued this point, I would have blogged instead about a white mayor publicly disrespecting Blue Lives Matter in open favoritism towards Black Lives Matter. (If you’re interested in watching law enforcement’s reaction to a public snubbing on behalf of Negro thugs):

Marc Elrich: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

As it is, Patrick inconsistently claims “they saw fruit and moved forward” and in the next sentence, “they moved forward with open arms”. Which is it?

There is also a “celebrity conversion” in Acts: Simon the Sorcerer (8:4-25). This passage is notoriously difficult, and interpreters are divided about whether Simon’s faith is genuine to begin with. He “believed and was baptized. (8:13) and followed Phillip, but Peter refused to pray that Simon would receive the Holy Spirit, citing the condition of his heart.

It is not a difficult passage; notice Patrick answered his own question. The Holy Spirit baptism is separate from both repentance and water baptism, as is demonstrated in this very story.

Peter never refused to pray for Simon about anything. Instead, he ordered Simon to pray for forgiveness and to act out his repentance. That wasn’t something Peter COULD have done for Simon.

The only difficult part of this passage is that it leads into Christian mysticism, which is optional. As this story itself demonstrates, you can be a legit Christian without any fancy supernatural stuff. Why does Patrick have trouble with this story, I wonder?

Some are suspicious noting his discipleship to Philip is abnormal, and his fascination with signs and miracles will be his downfall. However, I think it is better to see Luke presenting this initially as a genuine conversion, though time will reveal the truth.

That would be why Patrick has trouble with this story. Modern clergy have great trouble with the concept that Christianity isn’t a stack of dusty old books to be translated from Aramaic. Simon was once a legit sorcerer, which the modernist cannot accept, who was so impressed with the supernatural acts of Christianity he saw that he wanted to become a Christian sorcerer, which puts the lie to Scripture being merely a useful guidebook for healthy living.

That’s good. I had feared that Patrick’s issue would have been the idea that God’s favor cannot be purchased with money. He did, after all, pay a lot of money to a seminary.

As Acts commentator Eckhard J. Schnabel writes, .There is no hint that Philip baptized Simon prematurely.” Simon follows Philip, like the disciples follow Jesus, and he is amazed at the signs of Philip like the Samaritans (8:6.7). It’s easy to doubt Simon’s conversion as genuine when we as readers already know the end of the story. But Luke makes a point present Simon’s conversion in a positive light before he reveals its spuriousness. This trains his readers to realize not everything is at it seems in kingdom ministry . like with Simon’s miracles. Some people might be attracted initially for the wrong reasons.

Luke SAID Simon BELIEVED. There is no doubt here except that you want to deny an eyewitness account of a believer watching Christians alter reality with the skill of a real-deal magician.

I’m honestly impressed with Simon the Sorcerer. He obviously abandoned a powerful ability in order to follow Christ. The insult he dealt Peter (and/or Holy Spirit) appears unintentional, seeing as Simon immediately sought to make amends.

We’re getting off the topic of Patrick’s bad teachings on acceptance of newly converted celebrities. Skipping several paragraphs of Patrick musing even more about Simon,

We see that conversions in Acts should be viewed initially with joy, acceptance, and baptism. However, Paul will also go around to the churches he planted and “encourage them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. (Acts 11:23), to “continue in the grace of God. (13:43), to “remain true to the faith. (14:22). Paul urges his congregation in Philippi to “hold firmly to the word of life” because then he will be able to boast on the day of the Lord knowing that he “did not run or labor in vain. (Phil 2:16). Paul sends Timothy back to Thessalonica to find out about their faith fearing he had labored in vain (1 Thess. 3:1-5).

Encouraging perseverance is not the same as suspecting disbelief and doubt. Paul writes to these congregations as saints. He tells them they are loved by God. He encourages them by saying he remembers their faith, love, and hope. He says they have a great inheritance waiting for them: We need to hold fast to Christ, but ultimately he is the one who holds fast to us.

Patrick keeps blowing this kind of squid ink. Accept the new celebrity unquestioningly but encourage perseverance afterwards? When he’s already in the henhouse? I note that Patrick’s entire article has avoided any New Testament teaching on humility… perhaps the most relevant doctrine for a celebrity convert.

So what do the Scriptures teach us about how we are to respond to Kanye’s turn to Christ? They encourage rejoicing, acceptance, and support. They also call us to pray for his perseverance and for a mentor. To recognize that all of us can labor in vain. We shouldn’t rain on anyone’s Christ parade. We should fall to our knees asking the Lord of the Harvest to continue the work he has begun.

Blah, blah. He’s fluent in Christianese, hitting all the right notes without giving up any content. Windy words from a career academic whose awareness of God is limited to “a dead guy named Jesus“. (Acts 25:19)

We have reports of gospel musicians and pastors themselves who vouch for Kanye’s faith. My prayer is that Kanye would continue to be mentored, that a Barnabas would come into his life, that he would grow into an oak of righteousness.

My prayer is that when Old Scratch finishes deconstructing Kayne, when he’s friendless and impoverished and lost all, that he will be able to console himself with Christ’s salvation. If he manages that, he will no longer care if he has access to the halls of power, to cheering crowds, to fabulous wealth. He will be among the saints who have passed through the Valley of Death and therefore, have nothing left to prove.

Patrick chose an academic life so he’d never face that challenge. Perhaps he’s too weak. So be it, but it’s a terrible thing to wish health and prosperity on a new Christian. Such is not what we were promised.

Welcome to the Long War.

I won’t believe Kayne is a real Christian until he starts ordering Madame Kardashian to behave. And so it shall begin.

 

On this lazy Sunday, I want to embarrass some eco-Nazis. Begin!

California Wildfires Signal the Arrival of a Planetary Fire Age

By Stephen Pyne

As a historian of fire, I know that no single factor drives it. Flames synthesize their surroundings. Fire is a driverless car that barrels down the road integrating whatever is around it.

We begin our search for embarrass-able people in the Ivory Tower of Nollij. A “historian of fire” presents himself for our consideration.

Climate change acts as a performance enhancer, and understandably, it claims most of the attention because it’s global and its reach extends beyond flames to oceans, mass extinctions and other knock-on effects. But climate change is not enough by itself to account for the plague of megafires. Climate integrates many factors, and so does fire. Their interplay makes attribution tricky.

Hmm, I may have chosen poorly. While he’s plugged into the Narrative, admitting that climate change can’t account for our current combustions is playing with fire. *ducks*

Hey, I said it was a lazy Sunday.

Instead, consider fire in all its manifestations as the informing narrative. The critical inflection in modern times occurred when humans began to burn fossilized rather than living biomass. That set into motion a “pyric transition” that resembles the demographic transition which accompanies industrialization as human populations first expand, then recede. Something similar happens with the population of fires, as new ignition sources and fuels become available while old ones persist.

…We can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions, and sea level changes. It’s an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression.

That hysterical trolling gets a 7/10. I feel better about my opening pick for a lying jackass.

In the developed world, industrial combustion arranges agriculture, built environments, peri-urban settings and reserves for wildlands . all the stuff available for landscape fire. Societies even fight landscape fire with the counterforce of industrial fire in the form of pumps, engines, aircraft and vehicles to haul crews. The interaction of the two realms of fire determines not only what gets burned, but also what needs to be burned and isn’t. It changes the road fire drives down.

“Industrial combustion” is his idea that burning hydrocarbons for industrial energy has resulted in lumber no longer being logged. The actual blame for that goes upon the Leftoid environmentalists who outlawed logging when it was profitable. Strange that Leftoid scientists stop short of identifying causes when the causes are fellow Leftoids. He is also correct that a century of preventing healthy, smaller brushfires has resulted in massive, hair-triggered brushfires. Again, the work of Leftoid environmentalists. Again, he talks like overzealous fire suppression “just happened”.

Add up all the effects, direct and indirect . the areas burning, the areas needing to be burned, the off-site impacts with damaged watersheds and airsheds, the unraveling of biotas, the pervasive power of climate change, rising sea levels, a mass extinction, the disruption of human life and habitats . and you have a pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a Pyrocene. The contours of such an epoch are already becoming visible through the smoke.

If you doubt it, just ask California.

I am so glad you asked! Let’s look at some… how you say… “contributors to the Pyrocene”.

46 Fire in Jurupa Valley Ignited by Stolen Vehicle Fleeing Authorities; 2 Arrested

By Anthony Kurzweil, et al, 31 October 2019

The 46 Fire that ignited near Rancho Jurupa Park in Jurupa Valley and spread into Riverside was caused by a stolen vehicle that was involved in a pursuit early Thursday morning, police said. The two people involved in the pursuit were eventually arrested.

Riverside police officers were on patrol about 12:15 a.m. when they noticed a stolen vehicle traveling northbound on Van Buren Boulevard near the Riverside County line, Riverside Police Department spokesman Ryan Railsback said.

The officers tried to pull over the vehicle but a pursuit ensued.

The driver eventually entered a vacant field in the 4800 block of Crestmore Road in the city of Jurupa Valley, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Flores said.

Two people who fled the vehicle before it caught fire were arrested, Railsback said. They were identified as Bryan Anguiano, 23, of Jurupa Valley, and Kevin Hidalgo, 28, of Riverside.

Dindu Muffins! If only there had been a way to deport these Climate Change factors then California’s environment would be cleaner!

Heat from the vehicle’s wheels started a fire underneath and the car became fully engulfed, officials said. The fire spread quickly into the field and the the river bottom area.

Anguiano was booked on suspicion of felony evading, car theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, and an outstanding felony warrant for burglary and false impersonation, police said. Cal Fire arson investigators are also expected to charge the suspect with arson violations related to the cause of the fire.

Hidalgo was booked for an outstanding felony warrant for violating his post-release community supervision.

Video from the scene showed the car completely engulfed in flames that quickly burned out of control. …The fire came as the region was under a high wind warning until noon and a red flag warning until 6 p.m.

.He sounded normal.: Local woman says she talked with man when he set California brush fires

‘He sounded normal’: Local woman says she talked with man when he set California brush fires

By Sherae Honeycutt, 26 September 2019

Come now, Barbie, admit the truth. You didn’t talk with this arsonist… you fucked with him.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri man is in a Northern California jail, accused of setting more than a dozen fires between Friday and Saturday near the Bay Area. Those fires burned nearly 130 acres of brush.

Freddie Graham, 68, is facing 15 felony arson counts in Santa Clara County. Two of them are for setting fires during a state of emergency.

He’s a physiognometric poster child for antisocial traits. He even resembles an old, fat Rorschach:

I gotta fisk that comic someday.

A woman who knows Graham said he was texting her at the time. She said in the time she spent with Graham she saw he was a troubled man. With the recent loss of his wife, and signs of depression, she said she wanted to help and was shocked by the news of the fires.

“It was crazy,” said the woman, who did not want to be identified. “I just couldn’t believe it.”

She said she met Graham on a dating website back in July.

“He was a fun guy,” she said. “He was very nice. He teased me all the time. I liked that. He made me feel comfortable.”

She said she quickly realized he was emotionally troubled and dealing with the loss of his wife, but she wanted to stay friends.

“He was just a very lonely guy,” she said. “It touched me, so I didn’t want to cut it off completely. So I kept a friendship with him.”

“He was fun, very nice and emotionally troubled with no friends.” Hmm. Hmm. Spoiler: he was also out on bond for felony arson while they dated.

A week ago, on Thursday, he told her he was heading to the Bay Area for his high school reunion in Milpitas. He texted and called her saying he was driving through the hills of Milpitas on Friday, and that he had a lot to tell her about his trip.

“He sounded normal,” she said. “He sounded happy.”

But what she didn’t know was, in California, firefighters were dealing with a serious situation.

…Police tracked Graham to a rental car after a witness spotted him on the hill and was able to get photos. Court documents show they traced the car back to the Hertz rental company at the Mineta San Jose International Airport.

They found that the car was returned, but the same person came back and rented a second car. That car was rented to Freddie Graham of Lone Jack, Missouri.

Investigators said Graham was using lighters to ignite napkins from fast food restaurants and then throw them out the window into the brush.

“It was crazy,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it. I was like — did I really just hear what I thought I heard?”

Well, did you ever ask him about his criminal record?

Back in Lone Jack, Graham is facing an arson charge from last year. Court documents show on Aug. 12, 2018, around 2 p.m., they got word of a fire at the intersection of W. Cannon and Bynum roads.

A tractor trailer with bales of hay was ablaze in front of the old Perrywinkle building.

Investigators said they were able to connect Graham to the fire through surveillance video where they saw his car drive up to the hay and watch as an arm came out of the window and lit the hay on fire.

In the documents, officials say Graham was there while firefighters put the blaze out. When they talked to him about the fire, he said he went to lunch at the Lone Jack Cafe, came out and saw the fire.

When confronted with the video of the incident, he allegedly wrote in a statement, “I guess I done it.”

The woman said she had no clue about the fires in California or Missouri until she woke up and saw it on the news Thursday morning.

She said if she could talk to him now, she would ask him why he did this.

“I would say why? Why would you do that, and why didn’t you reach out for help?” she said. “There’s always someone out there that cares. That’s what I told him. I care.”

Somebody’s in love with jailbait, which means somebody needs neutering.

The charges he’s facing in California are more severe because the fires were set during wildfire season. California Gov.Gavin Newsom put the state of emergency into effect back in the spring ahead of the state’s dry season.

Graham is being held in the Santa Clara County Jail on a $500,000 bond. He is expected back in court in California on Sept. 30.

He was scheduled to be in Jackson County Court on Wednesday, but was in custody in California at the time. There is no new court date set for his case in Missouri at this time.

Some folks think he was a false flag but not me. Not when he missed his court appearance for arson because he’d just been arrested for arson.

And to cap this off, this opinion article.

Devine: Mismanagement, stubbornness have set California ablaze

htt ps://nypost.com/2019/10/30/devine-mismanagement-stubbornness-have-set-california-ablaze/

By Miranda Devine, 30 October 2019

It.s not climate change that has set California on fire, as Gov. Gavin Newsom claims.

It.s human mismanagement and green obstinacy.

Locking up forests and preventing tree clearing and the systematic fuel reduction required in any prudent management of nature has been a disaster in a state that is “built to burn..

Now that the cataclysm predicted by world forestry and fire experts has come to pass, the culprits are blaming climate change.

It.s a self-fulfilling prophecy. They warn of cataclysmic climate change if we don’t suddenly remove the cheap, fossil-fueled energy on which this nation’s economic prosperity was founded.

Then they work against any sensible management of California’s forests that would reduce the severity of routine regular wildfires.

Then, when the wildfires become record-breaking conflagrations, they point and say, .See, I told you so..

They’re like arsonists admiring their handiwork from afar.

“Like”, like hell. They ARE arsonists. Cultural arsonists, spiritual arsonists, legislative arsonists, judicial arsonists and literal arsonists. They will burn the world just to watch you suffer. Especially if you’re cis-normative.

But in this era of climate alarm, they are winning the argument.

When President Trump and then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke pointed out the green culpability in California’s conflagrations last year, they were roundly condemned.

.There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,. Trump tweeted last year.

Zinke went even further: When “we try to thin forests of dead and dying timber, or we try to sustainably harvest timber from dense and fire-prone areas, we are attacked with frivolous litigation from radical environmentalists who would rather see forests and communities burn than see a logger in the woods..

For his forthright approach, Zinke became green enemy No. 1, before he was bundled out of office this year in a stitched-up scandal over charter planes.

…Stephen Pyne, one of the world’s most eminent bushfire historians, and emeritus professor at Arizona State University, says we’ve reached the limit of the “fire suppression model” where the best and bravest firefighters use the mightiest equipment to extinguish fires.

Pyne is right but as we saw in his article above, he’s no friend of ours.

This aggressive fire suppression has made matters worse, leaving forests overgrown and plagued by dangerous fuel loads.

.It.s not enough of the right kind of burning..

Regular systematic prescribed burning to remove ground fuel, as Native Americans used to do, is one partial solution, as is “hardening the houses on the front line” so they can withstand embers, and spending money on burying underground the power lines that spark so many fires.

There’s also the problem of air quality in the smog trap of the Los Angeles basin, which has led to draconian measures to eliminate air pollution.

Which worked, to be honest. Although that has nothing to do with the brushfires we’ve been talking about.

Former Gov. Jerry Brown famously vetoed a bipartisan wildfire management bill in 2016 that would have mandated “prescribed burns,. claiming the work already was being done.

But clearly whatever he was doing didn’t work.

Newsom, after eight years as Brown’s sidekick, now blames .dog-eat-dog capitalism meeting climate change.” He is trying to scapegoat Pacific Gas and Electric, the nation’s largest private utility, which has cut power to 1.5 million Californians this week in a series of pre-emptive blackouts to prevent its equipment igniting more fires, and ward off the lawsuits that have bankrupted it.

But, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board has pointed out, the bungling and money-wasting at PG&E was largely driven by leftist policies of the Brown-Newsom regime. The Democratic political strategy was to use the company to advance their climate agenda, including laws mandating that 60 percent of electricity come from renewables by 2030.

Article is here but behind a paywall. A pity; would’ve been interesting.

ht tps://www.wsj.com/articles/fires-and-blackouts-made-in-sacramento-11572044500

The upshot is that Californians paid an average 19.86 cents per kilowatt-hour for their electricity in August 2019, which is 50 percent more than the national average.

All that money spent on satisfying climate ideologues has created the conditions that have turned off the lights in the world’s fifth-largest economy.

Ironically, the wildfires are now spewing an unprecedented amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

So much for saving the planet.

 

The NFL Convergence scandals made a disappointing story. This one is better because the senior manager who told the SJW creeps “No” was, according to his face, HOPING they would point & shriek at him. And they did, to our amusement!

Deadspin Writers Continue Quitting in Protest of Stick to Sports Mandate

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/10/31/deadspin-writers-continue-quitting-in-protest-of-stick-to-sports-mandate/

By Dylan Gwinn, 31 October 2019

Deadspin writers have not relented in their protest of their parent company’s mandate to stick to sports, as staff members continue quitting en masse.

Sounds like winning to me, hehhheh. You go, girls! Out the door you go!

The latest sign of the tumult at the former sports/political/cultural website occurred Wednesday night and on into Thursday, as Deadspin waited until Thursday afternoon to post an article about the Nationals World Series victory on Wednesday night.

Shoulda named it Tailspin.

According to the New York Post:“Writers have been fleeing [GQ: rage-quitting] the site to protest a mandate to “stick to sports” after the site published a blistering story that accused the company’s owner G/O Media . which also owns Gizmodo, Jezebel and the Onion, and which is backed by the cost-conscious buyout firm Great Hill Partners . of hiring “older white guys” to run the site.”

You can’t quit, motherpuckers, I fired you last week. Sorry you didn’t get the memo, now you won’t get the paycheck either. But that’s okay since you just told the world you weren’t following my orders. Be sure to use me as a reference on your next job application.

In the face of the sports-only directive from G/O execs, staffers have protested that Deadspin’s stories about politics, media, and pop culture frequently generate more traffic.

I bet them getting canned is generating EVEN MORE traffic! Myself, I didn’t even know Deadspin existed this morning.

As of midday Thursday, the only other new story posted on the site since Wednesday evening was a piece about a Jordanian pro soccer team by a freelance writer. In a farewell tweet, Deadspin editor David Roth said he posted it to guarantee the writer got paid.

By way of example, that was not a sports story. Title: “For Palestinians In And Out Of Refugee Camps, Al Wihdat Is More Than A Soccer Team” and a link for the curious:

https://deadspin.com/for-palestinians-in-and-out-of-refugee-camps-al-wihdat-1835888982?rev=1572530743186

Textbook SJW. Problem glasses, left-side-guardedness, narrow, upturned nose and a beard that just can’t grow in.

The revolt began in earnest on Tuesday after Deadspin owner G/O Media sent out a memo telling writers that they were to confine their stories to issues dealing only with sports, and to leave politics to other sites within the network.

Segue for info on that memo:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/go-media-tells-deadspin-staff-in-leaked-memo-stick-to-sports

In a Monday [October 2019] memo to staff, G/O Media editorial director Paul Maidment told the employees of the site.which primarily covers sports, but also frequently writes about media, politics, and culture.to abstain from stories that do not have an explicit link to sports.

.To create as much great sports journalism as we can requires a 100% focus of our resources on sports. And it will be the sole focus,. Maidment said. .Deadspin will write only about sports and that which is relevant to sports in some way..

The top editorial leader at G/O.the new company overseeing Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jezebel, Lifehacker, and a number of former Gawker Media sites.told employees that stories with tie-ins to sports were permitted to run on the site but that they should leave non-sports stories to the company’s other websites.

Sounds reasonable. “We have a different company for that kind of stuff.”

Whoa. Not a face I’d want to argue against. Very angled eyebrows for conflict, a defined brow with determination lines between the eyebrows, again the narrow, upturned nose and wacky hair indicating either creativity or insanity. (In physiognomy, it’s the same thing.) Strong, wide chin. Those thin lips do not care about you. Visible “disappointment” nasolabial lines are like battle scars when found on a confrontational face.

His face shape is also very rectangular (the Sanguine temperament), which is another indicator of conflict; partly because such people tend to work in bursts of energy instead of a measured pace.

But I don’t think he actually sucks on lemons to warm up for the day. His mouth corners are level so he’s probably a reasonable fellow… until he gets restless.

So, what I think happened is Paul made what he thought was a solid business decision, and when the SJWs infesting Deadspin complained for no good reason, Paul blew off some steam at them and the SJWs triggered for a swarm…

Against the kind of guy who needs the occasional fistfight to expend his focused, Sanguine energies. Which is probably why he chose work at a company that purchases failing business and turns them around. Paul’s face suggests that his preferred way of handling unprofitable insolence is to take a couple scalps and clock out early.

End segue.

In response, Deadspin writers flooded the site on Tuesday with stories having to to do with anything but sports.

As a result Deadspin Deputy Editor Barry Petchesky was fired.

.Hi! I’ve just been fired from Deadspin for not sticking to sports,. Petchesky tweeted.

.Top postings on Tuesday included “Woman Furiously S.s on Floor of Tim Hortons, Throws it At Employees,. as well as “What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums Last Year,. and “The Hateful Life and Spiteful Death of the Man Who Was Vig the Carpatian,. the New York Post reports.

Writers have continued quitting since Petchesky’s firing. Other writers who have recently left Deadspin include Drew Magary,

Dom Cosentino,

Dan McQuade, [proud author of https://adequateman.deadspin.com/how-the-hell-should-you-pee-in-this-toilet-1820834166%5D

Kelsey McKinney,

Laura Wagner,

and Luis Paez-Pumar.

Not uniformly SJW soyboy feminazi except in their actions. “Fight the power kicking our asses! Do me next!”

..Stick to sports. is and always has been a euphemism for don’t speak truth to power,. wrote GMG Union, the union which represents Deadspin said in a statement.

The statement specifically called out G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller.

.In addition to being bad business, Spanfeller’s actions are morally reprehensible,. the statement claimed.

G/O Media has not taken the union’s criticism laying down.

FINALLY!!! Why is telling these SJW whiners No such a difficult thing to do?

The company released a statement debunking the writers claim that Deadspin’s political and cultural writing was one of the more popular features on the site.

.In September, unsurprisingly, 24 of the top 25 stories on Deadspin were sports-related while non-sports content accounted for less than 1 percent of the page views on the site,. a spokesman explained.

.While amusing, our readers haven’t actually come to Deadspin for stories like “Classic Rock, Ranked,. or .You’re Goddamn Right It’s Layering Season,. or .It’s OK to Logoff…

SJWs always lie but management doesn’t always kick their asses to the curb. I can’t wait to watch Paul Maidment decide that Jezebel needs to start respecting President Trump.

 

Hat tip to instapundit for the link. Yet another pillar of pop culture has been Converged into justifying female hysterics with hatred of Western Civilization. Woe unto those who call evil, good and veganism, healthy!

People think beef is manly, and that’s a big problem

https://www.popsci.com/meat-masculinity-stereotype/

By Sandra Gutierrez G, 30 October 2019

The guy in Burger King’s 2006 “Manthem” campaign for the Texas Double Whopper sits in a fancy restaurant and looks at his food. He’s appalled. The portion is tiny, and for some reason, it comes with a pink rosebud on the side. In a feat of utmost masculinity, he starts singing an altered version of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman,” boasting that he can’t settle for “chick food” and needs to eat meat.

They included the link. It’s awesome!

Who could possibly find fault with that? Presenting “DIY Associate Editor” Sandra:

Huh, her face doesn’t reflect her toxic background. Long, thick hair–although she obviously dyes it… eyes might be acquiring the Thousand Cock stare but not too quickly. Only her narrow, upturned nose and jutting chin suggest a confrontational attitude.

Per her LinkedIn, she’s a journalist from Chile, had a career going there in local media until going North to abort her residual femininity at Columbia’s J-school, leaving just this year. I don’t think she graduated, having been there only one year, and nothing in her background suggests she is capable of intelligently reporting on science and related topics. She’s been straight journalism/media relations.

Which I guess, explains her starting at Popsci as an editor rather than a mere content producer. Real work is for male drones.

Popsci’s been going downhill for about a decade… now publishing quarterly instead of monthly. Not a mystery if their current (non-photography) staff is any indication:

Editor-in-Chief Joe Brown
Creative Director Pete Sucheski
Executive Editor Kevin Gray
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Anyway, let’s continue the article.

The Double Whopper commercial aired more than 10 years ago, but the truth is, stereotypes around meat and masculinity haven’t changed much.

You had to reach back ten years because stereotypes HAVEN’T changed much?

To this day, there’s a cultural tendency to link the two together.particularly when it comes to red meat. Scientists have been digging into the connection since the 1980s to see how it adds up to traditional gender roles in different societies. Numerous studies have found that larger portions and unhealthy food are perceived as more masculine, while healthy food and smaller portions are considered more feminine.

You be the judge:

In fact, a 2010 study by researchers at the University of Toronto found that women tend to eat less in a romantic dinner situation to “make a good impression” on their male partners.

One, male preference for meat is biological. We have a lot more protein to maintain, most of us, and our naturally aggressive tendencies tend to get us hurt & stressed more often. We like it because we need it.

Two, meat is not inherently unhealthy any more than grain is inherently healthy.

These patterns go hand in hand with other research that’s looked at the way we perceive vegetarians and omnivores, and how that plays out when the binary-gender factor is thrown in. Vegetarianism and veganism are perceived as feminine practices, so when men engage in them, they face harsher judgement.

No, vegans are despised regardless of gender because they make an unhealthy religion out of not eating a good diet. They also tend to be conscientious objectors who enjoy the benefits of having violent defenders while sneering at them self-righteously. Nobody likes a hypocritical coward.

Does veganism also include a vow of not bathing? Asking for a friend in Santa Cruz.

.People generally are more critical of men who eat plant-based than they are of women who eat plant-based, partly because of the common belief that meat is a .man’s food,. . says Matthew Ruby, a professor at the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University in Albury-Wodonga, Australia.

Sandra is native to Chile and transplanted to USA, so why is she quoting an Australian? Is her science not ‘settled’ enough to quote a peer?

Both genders use descriptors like “less masculine” “physically weaker”, and “less likeable” when talking about men who eschew meat; some women even find them less attractive. Last year Italian researchers from the University of Padova looked at how dietary choices in men affected heterosexual dating preferences. In a series of studies, they found that omnivorous men had more success with women, even when women didn’t present a previous negative bias towards vegetarian men.

Let me solve this scientific Gordian knot on behalf of Italy: men who don’t eat meat are scrawny, soyboy crybabies that you women are not naturally attracted to. No meat means no muscles means no chick jumping your bones for a protein squirt.

“Women are often expected to take care of themselves more; they’re expected to be more compassionate and empathetic. Given that a lot of people don’t eat meat for concern for animals or the environment, that fits into those conceptions of what women should be like,. Ruby explains.

Most people who don’t eat meat, don’t have meat readily available. You can’t sniff traditional Chinese cooking without realizing it came about via multiple waves of centralized government-induced famine. “Are dogs edible? What about this seaweed?”

Any woman who says “those poor little fish tacos” cannot expect to marry well.

Meanwhile, when men quit meat for ethical or compassionate reasons, Ruby says they get flagged for adopting a feminine behavior that could jeopardize their position of strength and power.

Why do they believe that? The Christian knows that God designed us to eat meat, in fact, the first recorded animal killings were done by God Himself to provide clothing for Adam & Eve. It wasn’t even for food. Righteous Abel was a rancher. The Mosaic Law had kosher meat. Animal sacrifices were mandated. Saint Peter was a fisherman. Jesus is on record eating fish post-Resurrection.

Pigs are the only animal that will go to Heaven along with humans, because it can’t be Heaven without bacon.

The atheist knows that there is no morality, only winners and losers. There is no evo-psych reason to value the lives of the edible if you’re hungry.

What’s going on here is that weak men want to attract mates by publicly crying over Bambi while not having their man card shredded for just cause.

Pick a uniform and wear it, ye wimpy White Knights.

Matthew Ruby, a lecturer-not-professor. Definite intelligence third of his face. He’s obviously trying to highlight his jaw & chin, thus appearing more masculine than he really is… compensating for a toothpick body, perhaps, although he doesn’t have pencilneck (yet).

If that’s as high as his lips go when smiling then he’s naturally a very pessimistic person. Vegans tend to be that way. I’d be angry at the world, too, if I had to give up bacon cheeseburgers.

You can read some of his dishonest enthusiasm for veganism here; I’ll quote just one excerpt for the lulz.

https://theconversation.com/the-vegans-are-coming-whats-fuelling-the-interest-in-plant-based-eating-123869

For many years, veganism had relatively few adherents, and was largely dismissed as a fringe movement, if not met with outright hostility. In his 2000 book, Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain didn’t mince his words:

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.”

You would’ve been a great MGTOW, Tony.

Why do we think eating meat is masculine?

We don’t. We think eating meat is normal. Stop trying to set up a strawman argument!

In a time where the gender binary and gender roles have been questioned and debunked, it’s hard to put a finger on what masculinity actually is.and why meat has any role in it. While there’s no consensus on why we associate red meat to masculinity, experts have presented a few tasty hypotheses by bridging ancient societies with modern ones.

White men in North America should stop eating meat because the Neanderthals of Eritrea didn’t *all* starve to death on berries so far as vegan scientists are willing to admit. Bah! Don’t tell us that “ancient societies had different diets”, tell us by what authority our government can coerce us to adopt veganism against our will and valid nutritional arguments.

It sure as hell ain’t gonna be a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”.

No. 1: Men are the providers

The most widespread explanation, first presented by Julia Twigg in 1979, dates back to our hunter-gatherer roots. “In many cultures, hunting was a very male activity,” Ruby says. “Men were the ones going out, doing the hunting, and providing that meat.”

This is Julia Twigg. Happy Halloween:

The most successful hunters were often large, strong men who could take on a wild animal and survive. These men were regarded as powerful, and the availability of meat in the community’s meals was a direct reflection of their power.

This association might still be hardwired into our brains, Ruby says, even though “hunting meat” now only requires the strength to tap some buttons and open the door for the delivery guy.

No. The need for animal protein is biological, not sociological. This is a fatal error. This is a blatant lie crafted by deceivers to justify the unjustifiable.

No. 2: Eating meat is a risky business

No again. Just NO already!

In sociology, masculinity is described as a precarious state that men must assert regularly and publicly. One of the main ways to do this is by engaging in risky behavior, be that avoiding medical or mental health care, or engaging in risky sexual behavior or substance abuse.

A diet that includes large portions and plenty of red meat, which is proven to be unhealthier than poultry and fish, can also count as a risky behavior. “There’s this association between unhealthy eating and masculinity, that if you’re a real man you shouldn’t be so concerned about your health,” Ruby says.

How did this get published in Popular SCIENCE? “We can count eating beef as risky behavior on par with drug abuse.”

He.s cautious, though, and clarifies that this is only a possible explanation, given that the idea of red meat being unhealthy is rather new. Only a few decades ago, red meat was seen as a key element of any recommended diet.

Before the Convergence, natch. Although even then, the Federal gov’t tried to push too many grains upon us. I remember the stupid food pyramid. “Teacher, my dad says the food pyramid is meat, veggies and dessert. Why is the government wrong?”

No. 3: Meat is a symbol of white-male privilege

OH COME ON! How can anybody believe this lying trash?

According to Carol Adams, a feminist-vegan advocate and author of the book The Sexual Politics of Meat, the myth that you need meat for strength is “traceable to this intersection of colonialism, white supremacy, and masculinity.”

Wild guess, Carol Adams is New York Times… *checks* Nope, she’s a PastorWife with an M.Div from Yale, whose early work was discovering that wife batterers are all meat eaters.

Historically, Adams says red meat was a luxury reserved for aristocrats, who, at the turn of the 19th century, were largely male and white.

In Europe, sure. Not in the Americas, Asia or Australia. All of which had meat-eating cultures.

The bourgeois didn’t hunt or raise the cattle they ate; servants and peasants did all the physical work, though they themselves couldn’t afford to eat meat on a regular basis.

Sheep herding was huge in Europe at the time. She’s projecting a fictionalized version of the American Deep South’s plantation system back through time to a different continent.

Sixteen full-time editors couldn’t keep this train wreck from publication? Do they need eighteen?

Regardless, Europeans upheld the concept that meat equals strength, masculinity, and ultimately, superiority. Adams notes that the English bragged about how they were able to colonize India because their soldiers ate red meat unlike the native men.

WHICH IS IT? Were the peasants not allowed to eat the meat they raised for idle aristocrats, or did White Man have powerful imperialist armies because the troops were raised eating meat in preparation for colonizing vegan lands?

She also mentions that in World War II, the US and UK rationed meat at home so that soldiers on the front lines would have more fuel for the fight. The governments also launched a victory-garden initiative using propaganda that featured only women planting and harvesting vegetables.

“Millions killed in the World Wars; idle housewives most affected.”

Winds of (cultural) change

Though it’s safe to say that the link between meat and masculinity is widespread, its expression varies between cultures. Understanding the nuances helps us to better dissect the stereotypes and learn how to get past them.

Again, NUTRITION IS NOT A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT!

That’s no small order, of course. Culture is flexible and changes constantly, but it may take a while to get over entrenched beliefs on meat and gender roles. While feminist and LGBTQI+ movements across the world have forced societies to question their definition of masculinity, the industry has been slower on the uptake. Fast food ads continue to target men with gendered cliches and expectations. “All of these are ways of trying to recuperate something that has already been lost,” Adams says.

The popularity of plant-based diets has, in some part, forced meat-centric companies to invest in vegetarian and vegan trends.

Which is it? Are plant-based diets becoming more popular, or were meat sellers FORCED… your word… to carry vegan alternatives? Merchants don’t really care how they make a buck but tyrannical Ivory Tower elitists do… especially the sickly, bitter, vegan ones.

Maybe 2020 will be the year Burger King finally revamps its “Manthem” campaign to include a chicken nugget.or even a carrot.

How can anybody believe these lies? You’ve come a long way, baby, from “men beat their wives because the Super Bowl is on television” to “nutrition is a social construct.”

Get Woke, Go Broke, Popular Science magazine. Die in shame.

 

What I had expected to be another “Optimist Prime Loses His Shirt While Investing In Silicon Valley” story on Heavy turned into Kabbalah-spewing international banksters jacking up my rent. My, my, the things you can find on the Internet.

WeWork Debacle Exposes Why Investing in a Charismatic Founder Can Be Dangerous

WeWork went from unicorn darling with a nearly US$50 billion valuation to a cautionary tale for gullible investors worth just $8 billion in a matter of months. It did so in part by wrapping its real estate sublet business in the cloak of a tech startup destined to “change the world..

Thank you, Heavy, I feel reassured about not signing up for my workplace’s matching 401k because of “paranoia” that not all investments are safe bets. But this show is a rerun. *GQ lifts the remote to change the channel.*

Were investors like SoftBank and JPMorgan duped by the hype of a charismatic founder, as happened with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos?

Ooh, maybe there’s blog material here! Theranos was a glorious train wreck. I’d happily watch another. *GQ puts down the remote.*

As a lecturer in finance and someone who managed investments for 20 years, I believe that there was some of that, coupled with behavioral biases that lead people to make bad decisions. But I also think something else was going on that should give investors pause the next time they stumble across a visionary founder promoting a “change the world” branding strategy.

I bet she’s a thick-haired brunette with legs that go ALL the way up!

WeWork was founded in 2011 as a co-working venture.

But Adam Neumann crafted and pitched a vision for his company that went well beyond office sharing and real estate. He said the “we” culture he was building would change the world.

Huh? Where’s the chick? Where’s the fancy technobabble? There’s a formula for duping Silicon Valley investors and I’m not seeing it. The dumbest venture capitalist in San Jose wouldn’t shovel money at a glorified landlord, not when every politician in the Bay Area is calling for rent control. *Bullshit detected*

Well… Adam IS a thick-haired brunette but now I feel dirty.

Some pics have him in a mullet and some don’t; he’s certainly effeminate either way. Definitely guarded on the left side and no wonder once we discuss biography. Enough pics have him with disordered hair to both confirm disorderly thoughts and attempts to hide it… which normally indicates vanity except he’s so inconsistent with his appearance that “disorderly thoughts” is like calling Antarctica pleasantly cool. The lower pic having exposed bone structures indicates high stress or more likely, heavy drug use over the last few years. Bulbous nose for interest in wealth, long, thick, horizontal eyebrows for intelligence.

Small cheeks but strong zygomatic arches (bone ridge from eyes to ears). Women probably find that attractive but he’s not a natural leader.

Overall, his face is similar to Epstein’s circa 1980:

But Adam’s lips & hair indicate much less sexual energy, thankfully.

Starting with Wikipedia,

Neumann was born in Israel, the son of Avivit and Doron Neumann. When he was seven, his parents divorced.

And so his troubles began.

He and his younger sister Adi moved to the United States with their mother for her medical residency. Severely dyslexic, Neumann could not read or write until third grade. In 1990, after four years in the US, they returned to Israel and settled in Kibbutz Nir Am.

Socialism! Because Mommy couldn’t be bothered with being a Mommy.

Where’s Daddy? Segue:

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/wework-founder-adam-neumann-has-joined-the-chabad-movement-his/article_71d36e9f-2f26-581e-9a8e-4b9028b5f803.html

NEW YORK (JTA) . WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s ties to the Kabbalah Centre have been in the media recently.

A story published last week by The Wall Street Journal described the close ties between Neumann and the center, a Los Angeles-based organization best known for teaching a version of Jewish mysticism to Hollywood celebrities.

Oy vey! One part of me wants to find out what kind of filth that Kabbalah teaches. Another, wiser part wants to be satisfied that it’s a variation of commonplace dualism.

According to the paper, the Israel-born Neumann would bring teachers from the center to company offices and retreats to teach executives. Neumann also reportedly drew inspiration from what he learned from the group when formulating his company values.

But his mother said that her son now has a different relationship with Judaism. Avivit Neumann, an oncologist, told the Israeli radio channel 103FM that her son is part of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Hasidic group with emissaries across the globe who are focused on reaching out to unaffiliated Jews.

.Recently he has also become religious,. Avivit Neumann said in an interviewed aired Wednesday. .I respect his relationship with religion. It enriches him. Today he is an American Chabadnik. He sings songs on Shabbat and lives in Manhattan..

End segue. Wifey became a doctor to marry a doctor, and by the time she got pregnant had the mothering instincts of a cobra.

He graduated successfully from the Israeli Naval Academy and subsequently served as an officer in the Israeli Navy for five years and was discharged with the rank of captain. He later attended the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City.

Honorably discharged at captain rank, which is astonishing given his childhood and subsequent drug-fueled arrogance. Forbes helps explain this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/05/the-rise-of-wework/#170b6e156f8b

Severely dyslexic and an indifferent student, Neumann found acceptance as an expert windsurfer and ringleader for unapproved extracurricular activities.

So gently phrased. Translation, he developed extremely high self-esteem as a defense mechanism against abandonment and being left feral, embraced a life of crime. Your typical hoodrat, both despicable and pitiable.

When it came time for mandatory military service, Neumann says he was among the slowest of the thousands of candidates for the elite naval officers’ school, many of whom had trained for their tryout camp for weeks. When the team-building missions came around, Neumann began to take charge. His was one of the last names to be called when the navy picked its 600-member class. He finished third and left the navy after five years of service.

Now that’s some bullshit. Mister “I don’t care and here’s my rap sheet” blossomed overnight into #3 of 600 at an elite military academy? Somebody laundered that service record, because his post-military life is proof he didn’t use the occasion to redeem himself.

End segue.

Prior to founding WeWork, Neumann founded a children’s clothing company, Krawlers.

A guy from a broken home with no kids of his own was that interested in children’s clothing? Creepy, and he founded a second one when the first failed: Egg Baby.

Neumann and McKelvey began working together after having previously met through a mutual friend. A shared interest in community upbringings and design led them to create Green Desk in 2008, a shared-workspace business focusing on sustainability, which served as the precursor to WeWork, which they founded in 2010. The pair sold their interest in Green Desk and using the funds along with a $15 million investment from Brooklyn real estate developer Joel Schreiber for a 33% interest in the company, they founded WeWork in 2010.

At first I suspected a homosexual relationship because McKelvey isn’t Jewish, but his wife probably is (an 11-year veteran of Lehman Brothers) and that’s how he got plugged into the NYC real estate scene.

Neumann stated that with WeWork, he intended to replicate the feeling of togetherness and belonging he felt in Israel and that he thought was lacking in the West.

This sentiment came up several times in my research. Neuman is mentally ill with persistent abandonment issues. It’s hell being raised by a single mother and he almost didn’t even get that.

By the way, his business partner McKelvey was raised in a rural, five-single-mom commune in Oregon that survived on food stamps. They reportedly met at a party at their shared employer but what united them was being from bad homes even by the standards of single motherhood.

It was on September 22 of 2019 that there were reports, from outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, that various WeWork directors were planning on asking Neumann to step down as CEO, after “a tumultuous week in which his eccentric behavior and drug use came to light” prior to a planned IPO.

In 2018, WeWork faced a lawsuit from a former employee who identified issues of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviors within the company workplace. In her statement, she mentioned that Neumann “plied [her] with tequila shots during her interview with the company.” Shortly after this claim was made, WeWork put an end to its unlimited beer [policy] and implemented a policy of only four beers per day in the New York office.

“Is this accusation true, Adam?”

“I don’t remember.”

“What do you remember about that interview?”

“Um… beer… good?”

Ladies and gentlemen, Capt. Neumann of the Israeli Defense Force, third in his Academy class and multibillionaire entrepreneur. No nepotism!

According to The Wall Street Journal, Neumann chartered a Gulfstream G650 for a trip from the United States to Israel during the summer of 2018. During the flight, Neumann and his friends spent much of the flight smoking marijuana. After the flight landed in Israel, the flight crew found a cereal box stuffed with marijuana and reported it to the jet owner. Fearing a marijuana trafficking incident, the owner of the jet ordered it to return to the US. Neumann and his friends had to find another way to return to New York.

No, that’s not how it happened. You can’t smoke weed in a private aircraft all the way from New York to Tel Aviv without the flight crew wearing respirators knowing. Neumann probably reported to some Israeli handler while stoned, who ordered the jet back early as a humiliation.

He was known for showing up hung over at other business meetings by way of confirmation. For example, a disastrous meeting with Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, officer of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann had aspirations such as living forever, becoming the world’s first trillionaire, expanding WeWork to the planet Mars, becoming Israel’s prime minister, and becoming “president of the world”. A September 2019 Vanity Fair article reported that Neumann made claims that he convinced Rahm Emanuel to run for the presidency of the United States, used JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as his personal banker, and convinced Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman to improve the standing of women in Saudi Arabia.

The boldfaced might be true. Skip to the end of this post for a hopefully thought-provoking conspiracy theory. Speaking of conspiracy theories and Israeli prime ministers,

Neumann became a partner of InterCure, an Israeli cannabis company led by Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, in 2018.

Let’s move on to his company.

.ADAM.S FANTASYLAND BECAME A REALITY.: INSIDE THE CRASH OF WEWORK.S MAGIC MILLENNIAL REAL ESTATE KINGDOM

htt ps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/inside-the-crash-of-weworks-magic-millennial-real-estate-kingdom

By Gabriel Sherman, 23 September 2019

Not long after Adam Neumann started WeWork in 2010 with a single coworking outpost on Grand Street in SoHo, the then-31-year-old Israeli entrepreneur showed up at a real estate industry conference on Park Avenue wearing his now-familiar uniform, T-shirt and jeans, with shoulder-length surfer hair that looked like it hadn’t been washed in days. Neumann, who is six foot five, was an instant object of fascination among the suit-clad executives in the room, many of whom were twice his age. But it was his hyper-confidence that one attendee recently recalled. .I remember Adam asked me what company leases the most office space in New York. I told him JPMorgan. They have about 3.5 million square feet. And he said, .Well, I’m going to lease more than they do…

Psychopaths can have both enormous self-esteem and indifference to social norms. We see the first warning signs here. I’m surprised his eyes looked as normal as they did in my reading.

The boast came true. Last September, WeWork surpassed JPMorgan to become New York’s largest private tenant, with more than 5 million square feet of office leases spread across more than 50 locations in the city. Fueled by more than $10 billion in venture capital from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Neumann grew WeWork to employ more than 12,500 people and was barreling toward an IPO this month that would have valued the company at $47 billion. On paper he was worth close to $7 billion.

That’s not natural. A real estate company that started in 2010 became New York’s new Godzilla by 2018? Worth $16b by 2016? With a drug-addicted surfer bum for a CEO? What’s going on?

In the media Neumann was heralded as the millennial prophet who foresaw a new kind of office culture, one in which the beer and kombucha flowed and MacBook-toting freelancers would love coming to work (at WeWork’s headquarters, Neumann threw “Thank God It’s Monday. parties).

More warning signs of psych trouble. Nobody thanks God for Mondays. Also the phrase “millennial prophet”.

But for WeWork, the last two weeks have been comparable to the end of tulipomania, a complete phase-shift in the company’s prospects. There were stories about Neumann’s reported erratic behavior and drug use. WeWork.s IPO prospectus revealed that Neumann held ownership stake in buildings WeWork leased from, essentially paying himself…

That’s massively unethical. Almost certainly…

Bloody hell.

I figured out their game. How the Jews are screwing us.

WeWork’s business model is to rent unused office space from landlords and “flip it”, renting it out to others. But landlords can do that for themselves, in fact, they’re experts at it if they’ve been landlords for any length of time. Especially the large-scale corporations that have been WeWork’s primary investors thus far. What makes this middleman so popular?

(Corporate) Property owner invests in WeWork.

Same property owner rents office space to WeWork.

WeWork pays him artifically inflated rents.

What the property owner invests in WeWork, he gets back in rents. Zero net change.

Where does the profit come from? Because WeWork intentionally pays inflated rents, the OTHER rents, what the property owner collects directly from real tenants, are also inflated.

This is market manipulation to keep the price of housing artifically high. That’s why WeWork is worth between 10-50 billion dollars on paper but without actually producing anything. That’s why they grew astonishingly fast: they aren’t trying to make money, they’re trying to preserve asset value.

Neumann tipped the scam by cutting out the property owner crony. He bought properties and rented to himself directly, probably thinking himself too clever to be caught (that high self-esteem he’s known for). He saw his friends making bank and followed their example but without the plausible deniability.

Evidence for my theory:

1. WeWork was founded in 2010, the nadir of the housing bubble, when prices would naturally have started correcting… to the massive losses of the banks and investment organizations who were its early investors. Powerful men were looking for ways to avoid the inevitable.

2. Seguing back to the Forbes article,

Some Silicon Valley investors are skeptical that its economics can survive the inevitable real estate slump. WeWork is charging high per-square-foot prices but is also locking itself into long-term leases at today’s record rents. One investor who passed on the company was concerned not by its high valuation but by the prospect of a tenant exodus amid a recession or cheaper competition.

Confirmation of my predicted, intentionally high rents. Also, in an honest business that would be suicide. You don’t assume long-term risks in order to make short-term profits unless there’s collateral, for example paying a house mortgage by renting to tenants. But my theory explains how WeWork can function even if it rents to nobody at all.

https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/the-world-according-to-wework/

While its members pay premium rates . one WeWork member estimates he pays about $200 per square foot at the 79 Madison Avenue location, where office asking rents are in the low $40s . they are only committed on a month-to-month basis. This could cause trouble if the real estate market or the economy starts slipping. Minson, who was hired in part to help WeWork scale up even more quickly, acknowledged that the speed of growth creates challenges. But he called them “good challenges..

Intentionally high rents to as much as 500% of market value! And of course they don’t care if meatspace tenants stick around. It’s worth a slight premium to not be committed to a lease but not to the point of three months being as expensive as a full year.

3. Also from therealdeal,

To be sure, the spread of open floor plans predates WeWork. And major office landlords like SL Green Realty and Silverstein Properties have long offered co-working spaces in the mold of Regus, meaning more traditional and less focused on community and collaboration.

Their business concept is not unique. The niche has several established companies to invest in. Yet WeWork outpaced them because of large corporations investing hundreds of millions of dollars at a time. Are they doing that hoping for a profit they could realize on their own? Or as a way to maintain the valuation of their real estate?

Aside: About those open floor plans. If you disagree then I’d like to hear your thoughts, but mine is that a total lack of privacy is dehumanizing. State prisons also have no privacy and for the same reasons: management doesn’t trust or like its inmates.

4. My theory explains why this superstar company has both gone international swiftly (to protect the value of the offshore holdings of corporate investors) while simultaneously avoiding less urbanized communities–markets that are not dominated by large-corporation ownership of land, which is consistent with the idea that WeWork helps said large corporations artificially inflate their property values.

5. Newmann’s first foray into renting office space was substantially different from WeWork’s operation. From Forbes again,

McKelvey and Neumann struck up a friendship at a party. Neumann asked McKelvey to design his new office space. McKelvey persuaded him to move it to Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. Their first inkling that they could make money selling shared office space came in January 2008, when Neumann began renting out a corner of his office to someone he found on Craigslist to cut costs. Weeks later Neumann’s landlord, Joshua Guttman, took him through an empty building he had just bought down the street. He was going to charge $1 per square foot for each 5,000-square-foot floor. Neumann said, “I got a better idea. Let me take over one of the floors. I’ll split it up into 15 offices, charge $1,000 each. We’ll make $15,000 a month on this floor–you can take $7,500, we’ll pay the receptionist $2,500, and I’ll keep whatever profit is left.”

That’s normal economic behavior and a typical first project for a budding entrepreneur. No red flags.

Neumann kept operating Egg Baby as Green Desk took shape. McKelvey quit his job to renovate the building with help from Neumann’s filmmaker wife, Rebekah Paltrow Neumann (she’s a cousin of the actress [Gwyneth Paltrow]).

Wifey not taking your last name is a bad sign… but wifey insisting on using the name of her famous cousin might be even worse. She is also a kabbalah-spewing freak, who opened a new school (apparently without permits) that proudly pushes children as young as five years old to work retail. You can read here about how she had them build a fruitstand in WeWork’s communal office space. I won’t go into the article but that’s the kind of business sense these people have.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40489360/wework-founder-hopes-her-new-school-will-help-5-year-olds-pursue-their-lifes-purpose

He spent his weekends driving to Ikea to fill up his Zipcar with butcher blocks to create office tables. As the deadline for their first move-in neared in 2008, the economy crashed. Guttman told them the jig was up. “He said, ‘I’m not mad at you guys, but this business is going to fail. In a down economy people don’t rent,’ ” says Neumann.

Just the opposite happened. They filled Green Desk with a mere seven Craigslist ads and word of mouth, with tenants ranging from a private equity shop to blogging website Gothamist. But Green Desk was much closer to an executive suite rental company like $2 billion (market cap) Regus than WeWork would become. It didn’t have the communal open spaces or room for programming that the founders would have liked. “We had aspirations for a global brand,” Neumann says. That would mean designing different layouts for each location and spending much more capital on events and amenities. According to Neumann, Guttman preferred to replicate the model that had already worked in more locations in Brooklyn–and it would, with seven locations today. Just not with Neumann and McKelvey on board.

The founders sold to Guttman at a $3 million valuation that netted them $300,000 in initial cash and the rest in gradual payments they’d live off of for the next two years.

That’s the sort of move I would expect, and in my line of work, actually saw during the depression. Many landowners shrank the size of their rental units because money was tight and people needed to cut costs.

But WeWork, as described above, functions as a super-tenant. Landlords are going to them because they want FEWER tenants. Less turnover. More guaranteed returns. Which is the opposite model of Neumann’s GreenDesk. That is normal behavior in an expanding market, just as GreenDesk worked in a contracting market… but WeWork’s ascent from nothing to $16b in equity happened in 2010-2016, when there were very few swift-growing companies.

7. The company has cozy ties to corrupt politicians. From Forbes,

City governments are all-in on the benefits that such spaces can bring to the local economy. In San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee rerouted police patrols and opened a precinct outpost in the ragged Tenderloin district to keep the WeWork members there safe. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel insisted on personally showing Neumann his unannounced plans for new bike paths and other startup-friendly projects to convince WeWork to move to the West Loop. New Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh chose the new WeWork as the location for one of his first public speeches after taking office.

Which makes sense. High rents imply high property taxes.

6. Adam Newmann is their founder and CEO. QED. Nobody sane would trust that guy with a Benjamin, let alone $15m on Day One. But my theory explains how he doesn’t need to be a competent executive officer… he doesn’t actually have anything to operate.

And the cherry on the sundae,

7. Neumann confessed on record to price-fixing. From the end of vanityfair,

Neumann.s bet may be that he will be able to force landlords into renegotiating his leases to lower prices [in a recession]. Essentially it’s a bet that WeWork is too big to fail and the real estate industry will have to cut it a break. Neumann recently made that argument himself. .In the major cities in the world, WeWork is propping up the office market,. he told a real estate executive. .If I say “pencils down” to my people, the value of buildings will plunge and I can go in and buy them on the cheap.” The executive was chilled by the conversation. .We’re not talking about a Harvard Business School analysis here. This has a predatory aspect to it..

There it is, a smoking gun. “WeWork is propping up the office market.” Straight from the CEO’s mouth.

But I’m not done! Resuming with vanityfair,

…and that his wife, Rebekah Paltrow Neumann.Gwyneth Paltrow’s first cousin.was one of the people with the power to choose his successor. Investor demand for the stock dried up, forcing the company to slash its valuation by more than half, and then delay the IPO entirely. A string of high-profile executives walked out the door, including the chief communications officer, the co-head of WeWork’s real estate fund, and the global head of WeWork’s real estate partnerships. WeWork hemorrhaged almost $2 billion last year, which means the company desperately needs the IPO to happen to raise cash…

Rats scurry before the ship sinks. WeWork is a Ponzi scheme. See, the investor puts his money in and gets it back in rent, right? But what happens next year? WeWork owes him rent money again. The purpose of the IPO was to spread the cost of the Ponzi scheme’s collapse to non-Jewish investors so the original members, most of whom have Israeli passports, could cash out and restart the scam after the next housing bubble explodes.

But Adam Neumann, thank ye lad, fucked that up big-time. A couple months before the IPO, he pulled $700m out of his stake in the company in order to run his own, painfully obvious scam that I mentioned above. And he got caught. There’s been no investigation because the investors don’t want Uncle Sam to notice the BIGGER Ponzi scheme going on.

But outside investors don’t need a jury to tell them what their eyeballs can see.

Not only was the WeWork CEO outed as dirty, but the CEO liquidating a chunk of his ownership just before an IPO demonstrates a massive lack of faith in his own company. “We just lost $2b after we covered up our CEO’s defrauding the company to pay for his drug habits and will probably go out of business unless we can find a rich schmuck or some way to turn an honest profit. Would you like a prospectus?”

…or else must find other sources of funding. .I think this company may go down to zero unless they take drastic moves right away. They’ve gone from heroes to targets in 30 days,. said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU.s Stern School of Business.

WeWork.s board is expected to hold a meeting this week to discuss potentially removing Neumann as CEO. And inside the company, morale is sinking as fast as the share price. .It’s an all-around shitshow,. a WeWork executive told me.

It.s hard to overstate the degree to which WeWork’s business is built on the egomaniacal glamour and millennial mysticism of Neumann and his wife. Neumann sold WeWork not merely as a real estate play. It wasn’t even a tech company (though he said it should be valued as such). It was a movement, complete with its own catechisms (.What is your superpower?. was one). Many major players found this special sauce irresistible. After meeting Neumann, Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire cofounder of developer Boston Properties, told one real estate executive that Neumann was creating the future of work, according to a person briefed on the conversation. Rupert Murdoch also took meetings with Neumann, a source said.

But wait there’s more! Because WeWork is not just market manipulation. It might not be just a Ponzi scheme. There’s one source of income that a business like WeWork is perfect for, which explains why it has a useless CEO known for name-dropping Israeli government contacts.

WeWork could be a money laundering outfit.

Real estate is notorious for the job. “It would be illegal to give you money but I find myself in need of renting office space. Say, $200,000 for 500 square feet somewhere? One month only.” In fact, WeWork might have been TOO perfect for the job. This is getting speculative but bear with me:

CEO Neumann was sent looking for a savior.

The big-money investors bought it, none more so than Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japan’s SoftBank Corp., who ran the $100 billion Vision Fund backed by Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. In 2017, SoftBank and its Vision Fund invested $4.4 billion in WeWork, and would ultimately invest nearly $11 billion.

Vision Fund is primarily a front for Mohammed bin Salman.

The Vision Fund’s biggest backers weren’t the only ones growing skeptical of Neumann. Around the same time, Neumann came up with an idea to partner WeWork with Apple, sources said. Neumann flew out to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters and pitched Apple CFO Luca Maestri on doing a deal with WeWork. It’s unclear why Apple would want to invest in WeWork, and not surprisingly, the company passed. .This was the Hail Mary,. a source briefed on the Apple talks told me. .There was Adam’s idea that there was some way out.. (A source close to Neumann said the potential Apple deal was a small one.)

[Fantasy Interlude]

Adam: “Yo, CFO dude! Would you like to invest in a company owned and operated exclusively by us Jewish banksters from New York? We’re kinda strapped for cash because, you see, I kinda got caught at a bad time.”

Luca: “No. No. No. Good day, sir, and I find Nizoral to be an excellent dandruff shampoo.”

Adam: “Come on, man, I got the primo weed! Got my own source, from my own company in the homeland! Defense Minister Ehud Barak used to own it. That’s right, I’m connected to the Israeli military! I’m Mossad, man! You want my help, trust me. Gonna be some wild parties here.”

Luca: ” *Line 1* Harold, drop whatever you’re litigating and turn on the voice recorder. I’m putting you on speakerphone and will explain later. *Line 2* Security, we have a Code Chutzpah in my office. Code Chutzpah! NOW!”

[End Fantasy]

But guess what, Vision Fund then invested more money into WeWork. That’s not a little suspicious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeWork

On September 30, 2019, WeWork formally withdrew its S-1 filing and will postpone the IPO. The reported public valuation of the company is currently around $10 billion, less than the $12.8 billion it had raised since 2010. In October 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann would receive close to $1.7 billion from stakeholder SoftBank for stepping down from WeWork’s board and severing most of his ties to the company.

*GQ blinks* No way… that’s Guinness level…

WeWork.s Adam Neumann offered package worth up to $1.7 billion to step down from board

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/weworks-adam-neumann-to-get-200-million-to-leave-board-report-says.html

By Todd Haselton and Alex Sherman, 22 October 2019

Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will get up to $1.7 billion to walk away from the company and give up his voting rights, according to people familiar with the matter. SoftBank will pay Neumann up to $970 million for his shares, a $185 million consulting fee and will offer him $500 million in credit to help repay his loans to J.P. Morgan Chase, UBS and Credit Suisse, said the people, who asked not to be named because details of the agreement are private.

Holy Rollers! If Adam gets that, it’ll be the biggest golden parachute in human history. $1,700,000,000 to walk away from the company he screwed up and would surely already have gone to jail for had…

had…

had he not been holding all the dirt on the entire NYC real estate cabal.

This is a lot of gap-filling, but tell me what you think:

1. USA needs petrodollars to keep its economy from collapsing.

2. MBS makes a lots of money selling oil to USA. Carrot: a nice profit, and Stick: all those American military forces in easy reach of his oil fields.

3. Israel, having coopted the American intelligence community, gets dirt on MBS via our CIA and proceeds to blackmail.

4. MBS’ payments are twofold: cash to Israel via fronts such as WeWork, and instituting the feminist agenda in Saudi Arabia. The latter creates new enemies for MBS and thus, forms a co-dependent death spiral until MBS now rents his own life day-by-day.

5. Adam blows up WeWork by acting out his insanities.

6. MBS sees a chance. He is trying to bribe Adam to hand over a controlling interest in this Jewish Ponzi scheme about to blow with all its Jewish secrets with enough money to buy himself clear of his troubles, with enough left over to hopefully die from drug overdose instead of a visit in the dead of night. If MBS seals that deal, it’ll be HIM holding ISRAEL by the balls… or should we say, by the OTHER ledger.

Or MBS is actually loyal to Israel and his bailout is Israel’s way of retaking control without leaving fingerprints. But that doesn’t explain the huge golden parachute. Subsonic bullets are cheap.

Like Theranos, this could be a glorious train wreck.

 

Dalrock just went down for a vacation. One last commenter requested some red-pill for the website Patheos. Why not? Sounds more like my cup of tea anyway. This one should be fun for the whole Christian family!

Paganism, Catholicism and the Amazonian Synod

Paganism, Catholicism and the Amazonian Synod

By REN? ALBERT, 12 October 2019

As someone who has spent a significant amount of time in the Evangelical community, it isn’t uncommon to hear flippant comments about Catholicism. Often the main points of contention between Protestants and Catholics are the role of Mary, the meaning of the Eucharist, the means of justification through faith and/versus works and interpretation of Scripture to name a handful. Though an argument that is often brought up by Evangelicals is the notion that the Catholic Church is inherently pagan.

Paganism is not a point of contention between Prots and Cats. Scripture vs Tradition, yes, maybe idolatry vs anarchy, but neither side can legitimately be called Pagan.

The word “pagan” often makes Christians (especially Catholics) put their guard up. But a common talking point among certain Protestants is that the Catholic Church was created by Emperor Constantine in the 4th century. Of course, this is laughably false; but his dramatic conversion from paganism did lead to Christianity becoming the official religion of the Roman Empire. Many fundamentalists would claim that this is the reason why images of the Virgin Mary and the saints are reminiscent of ancient pagan gods.

Which leads me to ask, what’s so bad about paganism?

That is not a question any Christian should be asking. Paganism, like every religion except Christianity, is a false religion. There is one God and all claims to the contrary are either ignorance or treachery.

Rene’s attempt to deflect criticism of paganism to criticism of Catholicism is therefore suspicious conduct. The most firebrand Evangelical can still see the difference between Catholicism and rain dances.

[Wikipedia’s definition of paganism omitted]

In spite of the word originally being derogatory…

It was originally descriptive, from the Latin word paganus referring to rural people, who tended to worship nature without the hindrance of formal education. Most organized (in the city) religions, of which the Roman Empire had many, came to have little respect for the ignorant religious practices of their redneck bumpkins. Legalized Christianity inherited that disrespect and I’m happy to keep the tradition alive.

Go howl at the moon again, ye ignorant savages! (Lifts kilt.)

…it seems like many modern polytheists embrace the word like a badge of honor (at least in my observation).

Most polytheists being literal pagans, why not. The non-pagan polytheists, example Hindus, might have some words and sticks to share with you.

But it appears the most obvious thing that separates Christianity from the various forms of paganism is between the number of deities they worship. Christians, Jews and Muslims believe in one true God and that their faith descends from Abraham. Christians believe God exists in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (also known as the Trinity). The Trinity is often mistaken as three separate deities, which is why Jews and Muslims (as monotheistic religions) believe Christianity to be a form of polytheism.

That is fatally wrong. As I said before, the separation between Christianity and everybody else is that we worship the CORRECT God. Not “one god instead of many”. The Muzzies worship only one god, too, yet they’re Satan’s useful idiots.

Polytheism comes in many different forms, though for the sake of staying on the topic of the Amazonian Synod I’m going to focus mainly on North American Indigenous culture. In both Christian and Indigenous religious belief, the Earth is viewed as something to be good stewards of. However, the two differ in how the Earth and nature is revered. Christians view the Earth as a created gift and a temporary home, whereas the Indigenous generally belief is that the Earth is a mother of creation and an ultimate source of life . hence the popular name Mother Earth.

Thus far, Rene’s been playing the entryist/infiltrator strategy by the book. First explain why paganism is more of an insult than a false religion, then point out how the eeeevil Lutherans think all Catholics are that definition of “pagan”, then go into how actual pagans aren’t much different from Christians because we all believe that Starship Earth is our home that must be cared for as a religious duty.

Not a word of truth in all o’ that. Next in the playbook, he’ll say that we Christians have much to learn from God’s enemies.

I think we can certainly learn from our Indigenous neighbors on how to work together to be better stewards of the Earth and the environment.

Ding! Rene Albert, you are a Satanic piece of lying shit the infested the RCC because you couldn’t manage it in Protestant circles. Thank you for the backhanded compliment.

After all, we breathe the same air and drink water from rivers that are connected to others. However, from a theological standpoint, I think one of the biggest sources of contention between Christians and “pagan” culture is whether they worship the Creator or the created. As Christians, we ought to value our planet as a gift from God, but we certainly don’t worship the Earth.

The standard talking point of Globalists. “Your religion says you need to care about Climate Change!” Well no, it doesn’t. That isn’t what God said. He promised to destroy this reality when He was done with it, therefore there’s no argument to be made for our preserving it on His behalf.

Atheists got no authority to tell us Christians what our religion teaches… ESPECIALLY if they worm into our clergy first. That just pre-judges them as treacherous liars.

That being said, I think one of the reasons why there is so much apprehension from the Eurocentric Christian worldview is because race and culture are often assumed to be correlated with religion, even in cases where they shouldn’t be. For example, white people in North America are generally assumed to be of European descent, which many would assume come from some form of Christian tradition. But nowadays, that isn’t always the case since our modern society is becoming more non-religious. This is one of the reasons why I think culture and personal belief shouldn’t be viewed as one and the same.

You little shitbag, Rene. Suspicion of “what pagans have to teach us Christians” is hardly a “Eurocentric” perspective. Culture is the aggregate of personal beliefs, unless you take the position of letting people worship whatever deity they want so long as they also worship Caesar.

And don’t spike that “white men are no longer Christian” football too hard. We didn’t abandon God just because you termites successfully infiltrated our seminaries and legislatures. Heck, this won’t even be the first time that Christianity has found itself on the wrong side of the ascendant World Religion. Especially in that “Eurocentric” tradition you sneer at.

Case in point: I’m a French Canadian who was raised in the Roman rite of the Catholic Christian faith, though I didn’t always call myself Catholic. There was a 12-year period in my life when I considered myself to be an Evangelical Protestant. But during that time, I still valued my French heritage. I still partook in my hometown’s F?te au Village every year. I still had tourti?re every Christmas dinner. But now that I’ve reverted to Catholicism, I’ve rediscovered a sense of my own identity through attending the Tridentine Latin Mass. This is the same Mass that my own parents attended when they were young; and the Mass my grandparents grew up with as well as their own parents before them, and so forth.

The better liars try to establish rapport with their dupes before passing out the insults, Rene.

What comes to mind is when the early European explorers migrated to North America and shared land and culture with the Indigenous people. As more Europeans settled in North America, tensions between cultures became more commonplace. One of the reasons why the residential schools were so controversial was because of the methods of coercion used to forcefully convert Indigenous children to Christianity. For them, this meant adopting a religion that took on a westernized, Romanesque imagery rather than something that was resonant with their culture.

Oh, those horrible, evil, Eurocentric white cis-men, ruining the peaceful cultures of Stone Age primitives who have so much to teach us, like cannibalism. (And cannibalism is, in fact, resurging as a globalist priority.) Scum like Rene won’t listen to anything I have to say so let’s segue to a local expert. Here’s a name you won’t see anywhere in the mainstream media, not even the likes of Fox News: Jonas Marcolino de Souza Macux?. Segue:

Intervento di Jonas Marcolino de Souza Macux? al Convegno .Amazzonia: la posta in gioco.

10 September 2019

[translated from Spanish]

I, as indigenous leader Macux? and one of the directors of the North Roraima Indigenous Defense Association, stated that until the age of eighteen I devoted myself exclusively to hunting and fishing. I was born to illiterate parents, I became a mathematics teacher and I graduated in Law. My people and I are totally opposed to the demarcation of our Reserve.

We are integrated, we use electricity, cars, buses and we have productive villages. We want to access these tools, we want to progress. The problem is that some believe that in the 21st century there are still people who can survive by hunting and fishing. FUNAI ( Funda??o Nacional do Indio ) prohibits access to development. This policy condemns us to live in a primitive past. …

Some indigenous peoples have lived in the Americas long before the Portuguese and other Old World nations arrived. There they lived and fought, some died out and others emigrated.

Over the centuries in the Amazon a bit of everything has arrived: explorers, adventurers, pirates, missionaries, naturalists, botanists, zoologists, ethnologists, anthropologists and scientists. Many were the scholars who saw the opportunity and the possibility of offering a new lifestyle to the natives.

All this process of encounters with different cultures has actually allowed an interchange and a partial fusion with different traditions, behaviors and feelings with respect to the indigenous identity. The same story was shared. It was a natural and non-imposed process.

Unfortunately, the fruitful fruit of this process of cultural interchange was poisoned by missionaries of the so-called Liberation Theology, by some members of environmental and environmentalist movements, as well as by some NGOs, which under the pretext of protecting the poor indigenous have actually collected large sums of money, more for their own interests and for their financiers than for the natives of the Amazon. The external influences have been very many indeed.

Jesuits AGAIN?!?

It is from the mid-twentieth century that many supporters of the Indians, the so-called “indigenists”, religious and civilians, politicians and NGOs, both national and international, enter the scene. They followed the indigenist ideal inspired by a new conception of the Catholic Church, prophetically denounced in the work of Plinio Corr?a de Oliveira of 1977 “Indigenous tribalism, communist-missionary ideal for Brazil in the XXI century” .

These new missionaries worked hard to realize the false ideal described by Professor Pliny. They wanted to go back in history, taking the aboriginal as an ideal model. They wanted to destroy, dismantle, defame, separate and fight. The exact opposite of what we wanted.

Remember that the works of the devil are to kill, steal and destroy.

We natives by no means intend to go back to the past. We want to enjoy all the fundamental freedoms and rights, inalienable and indispensable to guarantee full human dignity. Thousands of natives are already fully integrated into universal civilization, no longer living in the stone age and not practicing cannibalism. The very few tribes that still practice infanticide in Brazil do so because the law allows it, considering this barbaric practice an expression of a cultural tradition, in total disregard of the inviolable right to life, freedom, security and dignity.

Many practices among the natives in the Amazon, such as walking long distances, carrying cassava in a backpack, or loading logs on the shoulders or straw on the head, are necessary for survival and not for tradition or cultural value.

Yeah, that never did sound like fun.

In 1949 the Mission of S?o Jos?, the Hospital of S?o Camilo and the School of Father Jos? de Anchieta were established, where the missionaries of the Consolata Mission mainly worked, starting a new phase in the history of the indigenous peoples of the state of Roraima.

Jos? de Anchieta is a known Jesuit. That faction practices much evil, specifically Liberation Theology:

This mission had begun well, but later, with the arrival of the new missionaries of Liberation Theology, these same structures – Mission, Hospital and School – were used to implement an opposite policy: that of dismantling the local economy, which is based on cattle breeding, rice culture and subsistence farming.

This dismantling process culminated with the closure of farms in the 1990s and the end of rice cultivation in 2005, following the unfortunate demarcation of the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve.

It is interesting to note that at that time the Indians were already integrated, an integration that had its peak with the prestigious presence of Marshal C?ndido Rondon in the indigenous Macux? villages of the state of Roraima. Rondon was a unique hero. After his death, his figure inspired universities, professionals, academics, army and navy in the creation of the Rondon Project, which led university students to learn about the Brazilian reality and to participate in the development process of these distant regions. This institution became permanent in June 1968, at the time of the military government, with the motto: “Integrating, not delivering”, which replaced the first “The jungle is not our enemy”.

We now see the influence of new religious missions and NGOs.

The Consolata missionaries arrived in the territory of Rio Branco in 1948 to continue the mission begun by the Benedictines which was intended to catechize the Indians.

In the 1970s, however, the new missionaries connected with the Theology of Liberation arrived and the change began, with clearly negative effects.

I give an example. The fazendeiros [GQ: farmers] made a great effort to help and grow the S?o Jos? Mission, donating 100, 200 and even 300 oxen to the Mission each year. They never imagined that the new missionary priests, whom they also treated with the utmost respect and affection, would use these resources to expel them from the region.

Even the commandments of God’s law were overthrown.

Edmilson das Neves, popularly known as N?go da Guanabara, states that in 1971 [Father Jorge ?lvarez Calder?n, a Jesuit] celebrated his marriage in the indigenous community of Cont?o. At the time, Father Jorge preached the word of God and spoke of the Ten Commandments, including “Don’t steal”. Already in the mid-1980s, when Edmilson again met this priest in the Canta Galo community, he asked him why he had changed his preaching, inducing the natives to steal the cattle from the fazendeiros , contradicting what he himself preached before. Father Jorge replied: “There are many types of theft. Stolen out of necessity, because someone is a kleptomaniac and so on … ” Edmilson concludes: ” Father Jorge spoke and talked until he almost convinced me that stealing is right “.

In addition to the preaching of theft, there is also suspicion of treason and murder.

The Grandmother Monica, an elderly woman from the Camarar?m community, tells for example that Father Jorge Dalden coming to Maturuca asked permission to live there. The Tuxaua Lauro Merikior, in a gesture of humanity, welcomed him. After a few months, the priest disappeared from the community, taking the young Jaci with him. When they returned, the Tuxaua Lauro died suddenly. For Nonna Monica it was Father Jorge who had the Tuxaua Lauro Merikior killed, to allow Jaci to take charge and thus achieve his purpose in the region. Lauro Merikior had inherited the chief’s staff from his father Meriquior, who had received it from Marshal Rondon.

I could tell many facts of this kind. These religious propagate liberation theology under the aegis of communism, and vice versa. In three decades, they succeeded in nullifying everything that had been built in the state of Roraima in more than a century. A century of prosperity based on economic freedom, private property and the principles of the capitalist economy, with an emphasis on the principle of freedom in work. In a short time everything was destroyed in the name of a revolutionary primitivism.

There’s much more at the link. I’m convinced that one reason Pope Frankie is holding his Convergence Synod in the Amazon is to spike the football where his faction, the Jesuits, successfully tore South America apart into civil war for half the 20th Century. It was one of their greatest accomplishments to date, apparently, and now it’s time for Liberation Theology to be applied globally.

Suck on that egg, Rene Albert.

End segue.

When it comes to Christians evangelizing to other parts of the world, one of the barriers they face is cultural differences. The Jesuits were especially good at using descriptions of God that resonated with the tribes, such as “The Great Spirit.” Even Christian iconography, an evangelizing tool that was used to communicate stories, was done in the form of Indigenous art in order to share stories from the Bible. Catholic Christianity blended immensely well with the aesthetics of Indigenous tribes with their respect and love for our Creator and nature.

Heh, heh. I didn’t intentionally time Rene’s endorsement of Jesuit behavior towards the locals but am pleased regardless. Per the Playbook of Evil, Rene is required to reveal who he really is despite it not being in his best interest to do so. God is not “the Great Spirit”. Even the Holy Spirit is not some nebulous “Great Spirit”, it’s the Spirit of Christ.

Unfortunately, as far as colonialism is concerned, the negatives tend to overshadow the positives. And the best way to deal with the negatives is to look them straight in their ugly faces.

QED.

I think the thought of losing a religious or cultural identity resonates with many conservative Christians, especially when we consider persecution for our faith.

Religion is not a synonym for culture. I’ll die for Christ but not a cheeseburger.

If you don’t want your own cultural heritage to be suppressed and wiped out of existence, why would you wish that upon someone else?

Because they want what we have to offer. Stop trying to cause division between people who have different cultures, you Jesuit!

This calls back to the passage in the Bible about doing unto others as they would do unto you (Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31). This is one of the reasons why when Native Americans are told to “just get over it” by white people, it cuts deep to the core of their existence. It minimizes the experiences of hardship these people and their families continue to endure to this very day. It would be like someone telling a Jewish person to just get over the Holocaust.

More attempts to cause division.

This is what makes the Amazonian Synod at the Vatican so significant. It’s a historically pivotal event where the Church is attempting to reconcile with the Indigenous population of the Pan-Amazon nations for the collective sins of individuals who exploited the land, the resources and the people who live there . thus creating the socioeconomic climate they are left to deal with.

The Church isn’t even reconciling with the Church, now that the Synod wants to lift a millenium-old ban on married clergy. Let alone repair the damage done to the natives by JESUITS SUCH AS THE POPE HIMSELF.

Unfortunately, the positive intentions of the Synod have been drowned out by vocal groups who fear the Church changing disciplines regarding clerical celibacy across the board and being unequally yoked with pagan rituals.

Antifa? Is that you? You aren’t wearing urban camo today.

One of the sources of outrage came from images shared on social media of a tree-planting ceremony involving a carving that was mistaken for the goddess of fertility (which was believed to be an Indigenous artistic depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Conveniently enough, the image also appeared to be bare-breasted, which I understand may be taboo in North American purity culture, but certainly does not phase a South American native. There have been many Romanesque depictions of Mary nursing the infant Jesus. Ironically enough, the Tilma of Guadalupe, one of the most iconic images in Catholic culture, happens to depict the Virgin Mary using ancient Aztec imagery.

That’s a total lie. Destroying those fertility idols were a beautiful act of trolling the crypto-Pagans wearing Catholic masks. Does the term “graven image” mean nothing to Rene?

While I can understand the reasoning behind the apprehension surrounding the Amazonian Synod, I think much of it is rooted in a fear of the unknown.

Oh no, not “the unknown”. We Christians fear that the Amazon Synod is exactly what it looks like: the enemies of God throwing a combination victory party and Vatican III to enshrine their globalist Convergence under the perennial fraud of Climate Change, using noble Commie savages for political props and rhetorical human shields. Is there any disgrace you Liberation Theology pigs won’t wallow in?

Anything new or unfamiliar is terrifying; and for many Catholics, this Synod is uncharted territory. I think it’s worth pondering whether or not the hype over “pagan idolatry” is a modern manifestation of deep-seated prejudice thinly veiled as righteous outrage.

This is a DARVO. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

This certainly does not mean we ought to dismiss the possibility of blurring the lines between Earth-stewardship and Earth-worship, let alone a relativistic approach to Church discipline. But I think if Roman-rite Catholics can get away with consecrating pagan objects into Christianity, I don’t see why the Amazonian Catholics couldn’t experience the same with their own culture as long as it brings glory and honor to Christ.

More true than he wants us to realize. “if Roman-rite Catholics can get away with consecrating pagan objects into Christianity, I don’t see why the Amazonian Catholics couldn’t experience the same with their own culture”, heh. That’s exactly why trashing those pagan idols is significant behavior. We do not respect the idols of unbelievers. That way lies Unity.

Or should we say, Convergence.

 

The age-old question: “Who will watch the watchers? Who will guard the guardians?” The answer, finally revealed to humanity: Pornhub customers. We begin with the Jazz Hands scandal.

Student union representatives at the University of Oxford passed a motion this week to ban clapping and replace it with silent “jazz hands” waving, insisting that applause “could trigger anxiety..

Please God, let this be Onion or Babylon Bee. *checks* The Guardian also confirms it for the University of Manchester. NOOOO!

Let’s try that again.

The motion to “mandate the encouragement of silent clapping” proposed using the more “inclusive” British Sign Language symbol for clapping . known as “silent jazz hands. (waving both hands by the sides of the body at about shoulder height) . in place of audible applause.

The clapping ban would affect student union meetings and events where traditional clapping and cheering “presents an access issue” to those with anxiety disorders.

Officers at the student union contended that traditional applause, whooping, foot-stamping, and other loud noises presented an “access issue” for some disabled students who have “anxiety disorders, sensory sensitivity and those who use hearing aids..

Well, when WW3 hits we’ll know how to screen for infiltrators. *golf clap* *REEEE!*

Sabbatical Officer Roisin McCallion says the change is specifically aimed at making events “more inclusive” and accessible to all.

I’m afraid to ask what a Sabbatical Officer is. Guessing here, it’s not a woman who services men on vacation.

.The policy was proposed in order to encourage the use of British Sign Language clapping during our democratic events, to make those events more accessible and inclusive for all, including people who suffer from anxiety. .Inclusivity is one of the Students. Union’s founding principles,.. McCallion said.

One former student told the Daily Mail that despite Oxford’s good intentions and desire to be accommodating for students with accessibility issues, .this idea will not work and is completely ludicrous..

He’s one for two. Plenty of sources have also covered this story but you came here because I take it to the next level. If you think this Convergence derpage was bad then you haven’t been paying attention to the Convergence of “fact-checking” websites.

.University of Oxford Clapping Ban. Rumor

‘University of Oxford Clapping Ban’ Rumor

Disinformation, Fact Checks / By Kim LaCapria / 24 October 2019

Remember that author name: Kim LaCapria.

Claim: The University of Oxford banned clapping because it makes “snowflakes” anxious.

Rating: Not True

Analysis: Straw Man. The original article clearly says the Oxford student union banned clapping, not the university admin. And snowflakes don’t call themselves snowflakes.

Now that staff allow students to run the university, it would have been BETTER if only the professors had banned clapping, because the sex freaks are running their circuses.

Reporting
In October 2019, a number of tabloids claimed that the University of Oxford had “banned clapping,. a move made at the behest of “snowflakes” made “anxious” by applause.

The Daily Mail was one of those outlets, reporting: “Snowflake students at Oxford University are latest to demand clapping is banned because applause noise could trigger anxiety as they call for “jazz hands” to be used instead.

“Roisin McCallion and Ebi Edwards Cole, Oxford Union officers, backed the idea
They argued alternatives to clapping should be found for meetings and events
Jazz hands is a sign language expression for applause involving hand waving
It was argued that traditional applause poses problems for those with anxiety
Snowflake students at Oxford University are the latest to demand that clapping should be banned because applause noise can trigger anxiety and want “jazz hands” to be used instead.”

Noting that “snowflake students” were the latest to “demand” clapping be banned, the site reported that there were proposed alternatives, including what they described as “jazz hands.” A headline on a story from The Sun blared, .CLAPTRAP “Snowflake” Oxford University students ban clapping and replace it with “jazz hands” to stop .anxiety,’. quoting people who were apparently offended by the ban:

Noting that the fact-checker was confusing a partisan reporting of the decision with the decision itself, I decided that Kim had to be smoking crack. I was close… so very, very close.

Other iterations of the claim emphasized that “jazz hands” as a gesture was more inclusive to anxiety sufferers, with some stories strongly implying that “jazz hands” had been selected to mollify people with delicate sensibilities. Tacked on to the end of that item was the following, more honest characterization:

“Jazz hands is the British Sign Language expression for applause and is considered a more inclusive gesture.

“Sabbatical Officers Roisin McCallion said: .The policy was proposed in order to encourage the use of British Sign Language clapping during our democratic events, to make those events more accessible and inclusive for all, including people who suffer from anxiety.”

So, Roisin was accurately quoted. Thanks for confirming with evidence the exact opposite of what you’re claiming, Kim.

Note that in that context, the British Sign Language gesture for “applause” was indeed more “inclusive” . but for hearing impaired people and those with sensory sensitivities, not fun-hating “snowflakes.” Across all three tabloid articles, it would be reasonable to walk away with the impression that clapping was “banned” thanks to demands from the emotionally sensitive.

Yes, it would indeed be reasonable. Put down the crack pipe before you order us what to think, Commissar.

First and foremost, clapping was not banned as the headlines inaccurately claimed . it was simply replaced as a default with sign language.

Too late. And yes, that’s what a ban is.

The reasoning, as explained by the original school paper reporting, was that audible applause as well as whooping and yelling presented an access issue for hearing impaired students as well as those diagnosed with anxiety or sensory processing disorders.

Because deaf students can detect the motions of jazz hands but not clapping hands? And if “sensory processing disorders” means “blind” then you’re making things worse by taking away the auditory indicators they depend on. Stop oppressing blind people!

Second, that was in no way a “ban.” Instead of defaulting to a mainly auditory response (whooping, clapping), the students agreed to use sign language in order to make their gatherings more accessible.

Wrong. Student government ordered the students to use sign language because they’re so filled with corruption that dicks are sprouting out of their eye sockets and mouths like a bad H.R. Giger painting. (See Roisin below.) If there’s one thing Oxford obviously doesn’t teach these days, it’s how to recognize pure, transcendental evil for what it is.

Misleading descriptions of disability accommodations and inclusivity as a “ban” is a common tactic to create “ragebait” headlines by falsely insinuating such accommodations are forced upon the public at large by “offended” people rather attempting to include the requests of people with disabilities and their advocates.

That. Is. Exactly. What. Professionally Offended People. Are. Doing. And what you’re doing, too, Kim.

In short, Oxford University did not “ban clapping,. nor did it acquiesce to “demands” made by “snowflakes.” Oxford’s student union voted to encourage the use of British Sign Language for applause so that students could more fully participate in ceremonies, but clapping and cheering have not been banned.

This goodthink narrative has been brought to you by

Kim LaCapria, alias Vice Vixen, a professional Goth dominatrix sugar baby moonlighting as an Internet gatekeeper.

And so it begins!

Snopes Lead Writer Admits She Gets High While Fact Checking

FACEBOOK SHOULD DRAW THE LINE AT USING THE SERVICES OF A FACT CHECKING COMPANY WHOSE SENIOR STAFF ADMIT THEY WORK WHILE STONED. THERE IS TOO MUCH AT STAKE

Snopes Lead Writer Admits She Gets High While Fact Checking

By Baxter Dmitry, 27 November 2017

The Daily Mail report that LaCapria, who boasts of being a dominatrix called Vice Vixen, also keeps a personal sex blog. In her personal blog she described what she did on a day off, writing that she “played scrabble, smoked pot, and posted to Snopes.. She then added, .That’s what I did on my day .on,. too..

Here’s the link for the interested. Dayumn, it’s time to debunk Snopes!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4042194/Facebook-fact-checker-arbitrate-fake-news-accused-defrauding-website-pay-prostitutes-staff-includes-escort-porn-star-Vice-Vixen-domme.html

The revelation raises further alarm bells for those uncomfortable with Facebook’s inclusion of Snopes in their fact checking team. Should a team of unqualified, avowedly liberal bloggers in California, who operate in a company with no checks and measures or standardized quality control, be given the power to decide what constitutes “real news” that will be allowed on Facebook timelines?

Snopes became the voice of reason by debunking Bigfoot stories and accounts of UFOs in Haiti, then in an ill-advised case of mission creep moved into political fact checking. Snopes have been added to the Red Flagged Spam Sites list . curated and shared by young progressive Democrats . as a “hit and miss” source. Snopes are no more trusted than most of the sites they disagree with politically and loftily claim to debunk.

Sounds like somebody frivorced somebody she shouldn’t have.

When it comes to politics, Snopes. modus operandi involves framing questions artfully so they can answer with the FALSE or UNPROVEN verdict that suits their partisan agenda. For more information see here and here. Being debunked by Snopes these days feels like being savaged by a dead sheep.

In a world where news that doesn’t confirm one’s bias gets flagged as fake, and the snowflake generation seek the solace of a partisan liberal fact checking site to tell them the world is exactly like they think it is, Snopes are thriving. The Daily Mail expos? revealed David Mikkelson, the founder, takes $50K holidays and divorced his wife for a porn star/prostitute.

But the most troubling part of the expos? of the Snopes HQ den of depravity is the fact that lead fact checker Kim LaCapria admits she smokes weed while fact checking.

Aww, I guessed cocaine.

It.s California, it’s legal.

See, if we were still doing the War On Drugs then police could sweep Kim off the streets for a couple years. California and the Internet would both be better off. And a few pussywhipped men would be less whipped by pussies.

That.s not the problem. The problem is that fact checking political news is a serious business, and it should be taken seriously by Snopes . especially now that Facebook have anointed them watchdogs of all of our news feeds.

Facebook should draw the line at using the services of a fact checking company whose senior staff admit they work while stoned. There is too much at stake.

Sure, but this raises uncomfortable questions about Zuckerberg’s potential drug use, too. Not to mention his political ambitions and the possibility he’s a “sub” in BDSM culture.

Lastly, let’s not let Sabbatical Officer Vice President of Welfare & Equal Opportunity Roisin McCallion off the hook, either.

Ow my eyes! HER eyes! Frizzy, cut hair for the OMG she’s batspit cray-cray! And look, she has a manifesto… just like an alt-Right terrorist!

https://www.oxfordsu.org/elections/manifesto/2454/

Consistency

The welfare provisions you receive should not vary depending on which college you happen to go to. However, at the moment it does. I will therefore lobby for all colleges to adopt an equally supportive welfare system ensuring the best for all students across the university, compiling a ‘gold standard’ of best practice and encouraging colleges to pool resources.

Emphasis hers. This suggests the “no more clapping because it triggers me” won’t stay local for long.

Oxford Wealth for Mental Health

I want to lobby the central university body to step up and prioritise mental health. I will reassess the mental health support Oxford currently has available for students and look for solutions beyond a referral to the counselling service. I will bring in external organnizations to properly train University and SU staff so that our university is as well-informed as possible on the issues affecting its students and is able to provide support when needed. Oxford has the money and research resources available, let’s use that wealth for mental health.

Again, emphases hers. Converge it, kill it, gut it, wear its carcass as a skin suit.

Welfare for All

I will dedicate time to male mental health…

Eh? Wait, she’s beginning to care about men? Emphasis hers again.

…and engaging more male-identifying students with both the University and external mental health support and resources.

False alarm. Women self-identifying as men shouldn’t be deprived of female privileges!

And on it goes, into LGBT territory. She does like to pose in rainbow clothing, except when she uses her undergrad culmination pictures… back when she still had pretty hair.

Oxford is lost to us.

 

I was eager to watch the SJW reaction to John MacArthur’s punking of Beth Moore. This article is dated a month prior to that incident yet completely relevant and an interesting historical window on how modern Charismatics ended up as pussy-chasing lackwits.

Female Evangelical Leaders Have a Hidden Predecessor to Thank

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/october/kathryn-kuhlman-female-evangelicals-hidden-predecessor.html

By Grant Wacker, 20 September 2019

.You have been called .hypnotic, charismatic, hypnotizing,.. said Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show in 1974. His guest resisted. With a disarming smile, she said she was “just the most ordinary person in the world.” Carson didn’t buy it. .You’re not quite ordinary..

With this telling anecdote, Amy Artman launches her masterful biography of Kathryn Kuhlman, a charismatic healing evangelist who emerged in the post-World War II era alongside Oral Roberts. It’s hard to say whether Roberts or Kuhlman was the most prominent healing evangelist of the day…

Obviously Roberts, since you probably never heard of Kuhlman.

…but it’s easy to say that she was the most prominent woman in the field. At the height of her ministry, many people considered Kuhlman “the best-known woman preacher in the world.” Very few female religious leaders of any theological stripe were famous enough to snare a berth on a network talk show like Carson.s.

Perhaps they were too well-behaved. Go ahead, take one guess at how Kuhlman’s marriage turned out. You only need one guess. And we’ll see in a minute how optimistic your guess was.

Kuhlman.s story is a big one, yet she has won little attention from historians. Most American religious history textbooks give her a few sentences at most and some none at all. In The Miracle Lady: Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity, Artman not only rescues Kuhlman from undeserved obscurity but also crafts a sweeping interpretation of the cultural origins of the modern charismatic movement. (Artman is careful to credit her secondary sources, including Edith Blumhofer, David Edwin Harrell, Wayne Warner, and, in the interest of full disclosure, me.)

Yes, cultural origins. Not Scriptural origins. The Pentecostals can at least trace their origin to the Azusa Street revival and claim that their creating a new denomination was only a consequence of existing denominations not accepting them. (MacArthur himself is outspoken against speaking in tongues, for example.) This may be why Pentecostalism is referred to separately from the Charismatic movement, they actually did follow Scripture. Originally.

Artman.who teaches religious studies at Missouri State University.offers ample biographical details, but her main interest lies in two overarching arguments.

It’s obvious why Artman wants to Make Kuhlman Great Again. She can’t justify her current position via Scripture so she hopes to justify it via precedent.

The first is that Kuhlman was one of the key figures to transform the .down-home. Pentecostal revival of the early 20th century into the “uptown” charismatic movement of the late 20th century. The second is that Kuhlman offers a revealing case study of the indisputable achievements of strong evangelical women and the equally indisputable roadblocks they often face.

The Pentecostal in me sneered at the first. The second is irrelevant. Women are forbidden from leadership so competence is a non-issue. Although since Tradcons love to “give women a chance”, here we are.

We know comparatively little about the Miracle Lady’s life before her rise to fame in the late 1940s. She grew up in Concordia, Missouri, a small town in the middle of the state. In 1924, when she was 17, Kuhlman dropped out of high school and hit the preaching circuit with an older sister and a brother-in-law. Then she spent two years studying at Simpson Bible Institute, a Christian and Missionary Alliance site in Seattle.

The original faith healers, at least in American history.

The young evangelist did not graduate from Simpson, but at some point she audited classes at L.I.F.E. Bible College in Los Angeles (what today is Life Pacific University).The school had been established by Aimee Semple McPherson, Kuhlman’s famed predecessor on the healing revival circuit.

McPherson is much like Kuhlman, an evangelist turned de facto-priest by the magic of early telecommunications and credulous morons. Interestingly, she’s the origin of the meme “I was left for dead in Mexico!” Off-topic but let’s segue for fun… hope I didn’t just date myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson

On May 18, 1926, McPherson disappeared from Ocean Park Beach, in Santa Monica, CA. Presuming she had drowned, searchers combed the beach and nearby area, but could not locate her body. Immediately, McPherson sightings occurred around the county, often in widely divergent locations many miles apart on the same day. The Angelus Temple received calls and letters claiming knowledge of McPherson, including demands for ransom. After several weeks of unpromising leads, Mildred Kennedy regarded the messages as hoaxes, believing her daughter dead.

Just as the Angelus Temple was preparing for a service commemorating McPherson’s death, on June 23, Kennedy received a phone call from Douglas, Arizona. Her distraught daughter was alive resting in a Douglas hospital, and was relating her story to officials.

McPherson stated, at the beach, she had been approached by a couple who wanted her to pray over their sick child. Walking with them to their car, she suddenly was shoved inside. A cloth laced with some type of drug was held against her face, causing her to pass out. Eventually, the revivalist was moved to a small shack in the Mexican desert. When her captors were away on errands, McPherson escaped out a window.

She then traveled through the desert for around 11.13 hours across an estimated distance of 20 miles (32 km); and reached Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican border town, at around 1:00 a.m. Collapsing exhausted near a house, the evangelist was finally taken by locals to adjacent Douglas.

I don’t believe that. Why take her 460 miles to a tiny town in Mexico when Nevada, not to mention most of Southern California, had plenty of Nowhere spots available? And left unguarded in a small shack that had a window? Any crook that organized would at least have confiscated her shoes. Organized crime wouldn’t have been that stupid and amateurs wouldn’t have taken her that far.

Officials also had their doubts and she was investigated by a grand jury whether she’d run off with a former employee for a combination affair and publicity stunt. The case fell apart into an OJ Simpson-style media circus. Allegations of extramarital affairs haunted her the rest of her life, and seeing as she associated with celebrities such as Mahatma Gandhi and President Roosevelt after a “vindication tour”, hypergamy makes it very likely that she was indeed a slut.

End segue.

 

After her studies, Kuhlman once again embarked on itinerant ministry with her sister and brother-in-law. In 1933, freshly ordained by the Evangelical Church Alliance, she settled down as pastor of an independent church in Denver.Under her ministry, the fellowship prospered.

Witch!

Kuhlman.s story took an abrupt turn when she met a traveling evangelist named Burroughs A. Waltrip. In 1938, Waltrip divorced his wife and abandoned his two sons in order to marry her. Burdened by (unproven) rumors of adultery, both Waltrip and Kuhlman tumbled into obscurity. The marriage, too, soon hit the rocks, and in 1944 the couple separated. Waltrip charged Kuhlman with abandonment, and in 1947 they divorced.

If your guess was at all pessimistic then it couldn’t have been far off. Vows of lifetime fidelity start ringing hollow the second time around, don’t they?

After Kuhlman’s reputation rebounded…

Which proves men have always been thinking with their little head. Feminism is less a modern curse than an incurable condition that occasionally breaks out into a rash, like shingles.

But telecommunications were a game-changer, it seems. Kuhlman and McPherson both were early pioneers in mass media, before male clergy began making effective use of it. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been surprising. I remain astonished that men give money to Internet whores. Why, you dickheads? Porn is free! There’s so much of it that those of you who wish to indulge, can indulge for free! Quality stuff, too! But noooo, you bankrupt yourselves just to hear Slutwalk Barbie whisper your name one single time.

Was the Charismatic/faith healing movement the precursor to camwhoring? That would explain much.

…she landed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she rented Carnegie Hall for her services. Although the prospering steeltown served as her main base of operations, she also crisscrossed the nation and much of the world.

April 1947 marked a major pivot point in Kuhlman’s career. Until then, she had seen herself as an old-fashioned evangelist, calling people to repent of their sins and turn to Christ. But that spring, says Artman, .Kuhlman received the first testimony to a miracle of divine healing at one of her services, a miracle she pointed to all her life as signifying the beginning of her healing ministry..

HAHAHA! Pastorette Kathy stopped calling people to repent of their sins in the same year she got a divorce!

By the late 1970s, Kuhlman had leveraged her 55 years of ministry into an evangelical stardom that included her best-selling books, mass meetings, a national radio program, and two syndicated television shows, Your Faith and Mine and I Believe in Miracles. Her name and face soon grew familiar in thousands, possibly millions, of households across the nation.

Crime pays. Then you die.

How did Kuhlman do it? She had no advanced education or blue ribbon social connections (even within the evangelical world), nor could she boast of institutional support from a particular denomination or a parachurch group like Youth for Christ.

Canwhoring in the early days of television, that was how she did it. It’s so obvious now! The patterns line up!

Artman deftly shows how the larger culture prepared both Kuhlman and her followers for her ministry, especially healing. The trauma of World War I, the flu epidemic of 1918, and the inaccessibility of modern medicine [GQ: where’d that one come from?] primed people to look for cures in the church. Then, as now, the healing of the will and the mind was everywhere in the air. Norman Vincent Peale’s block-buster The Power of Positive Thinking sold millions.

Kuhlman also profited from the mid-century boom in religious radio and television programs, including Billy Graham’s Hour of Decision and Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s Life Is Worth Living. She benefited, too, from second-wave feminism, which secured a woman’s right (however unfulfilled) to enter the workplace on equal footing with men. Female television stars like Barbara Walters, Arlene Francis, and Dinah Shore leveraged the new talk show format to their great advantage.

All this set the stage for the Miracle Lady.

By a combination of genes and skills, Kuhlman seemed born for the task.

Or demonically possessed. Check out my video links at the end.

Tall, willowy, and attractive, she fit the culture’s expectations for a successful female media figure. She knew how to dress the part, always modern and flamboyantly feminine. .Her flair for style and a little .sass,.. Artman wryly notes, appeared “in her choice of white high-heeled ankle-strap shoes that showed off her long legs to good advantage..

Camwhores for Jesus!

Kuhlman.s stylized.critics called it affected.manner of speech won attention, too. She spoke easily with wit, candor, and earnestness. And she understood timing: how long to wait for a laugh, how long to pause for dramatic effect, and how long to talk. Beyond all that lay another aptitude that biographer Wayne Warner calls “Missouri cornbread.” Kuhlman used that phrase to describe how she communicated with her working-class audiences.

Though homiletics professors might cringe, Kuhlman’s sermons were well structured and ran close to traditional evangelical teachings. She urged a view of the end times, always just ahead, that her fundamentalist-leaning audiences had come to expect (especially an abstruse scheme theologians called “dispensational premillennialism.).

Her husband was a hellfire preacher so she probably got it from him.

Kuhlman also taught that healing for the body resided squarely in the atonement. If Christ’s work on the cross offered salvation for the soul, why not for our corporeal selves? Kuhlman often quoted an Old Testament line that her listeners knew by heart: “By his stripes we are healed..

Because we aren’t going to live forever in meatspace. That’s why Christ’s work on the cross doesn’t help our mortal bodies. What sane Christian would want it to? Living forever in a corrupted world, constantly fighting against your own flesh and losing more often than you would like or God would tolerate, absent Christ’s salvation… I’d rather eat a bullet than spend eternity as a perennial disappointment to Father.

If old-fashioned evangelism had been Kuhlman’s only legacy, she would have been eclipsed not only by Billy Graham but also by the “Band of Brothers” that made Graham possible.Billy Sunday, Charles E. Fuller, Harold Ockenga, among many others. But, of course, it wasn.t. Though Kuhlman never considered herself a faith healer, most people did. And rightly so. By one journalist’s account, two million people claimed that through Kuhlman’s ministry they had experienced healing of ailments ranging from sniffles to cancer.

Either two million people were very badly misled or this author is trying very hard to whitewash Kuhlman’s prosperity gospel teachings.

They also claimed healing from ailments that skeptics dismissed as psychosomatic, yet Kuhlman remained undeterred. In the interview with Carson, the Miracle Lady pointed out that psychosomatic cases were the hardest to cure. “As she paused for effect,. Artman recounts, .the audience broke into applause . . . and Carson acknowledged her shrewd answer with a nod..

Unlike Oral Roberts and the deliverance evangelists of the 1950s, Kuhlman avoided healing lines.people standing in a queue, patiently waiting their turn to be anointed by the evangelist’s healing hand. Nonetheless, she did routinely reach out to the faithful. Sometimes she actually touched them, sometimes not, but either way, she often “caused” them to fall to the floor, .slain by the Spirit.. They typically remained prone for several minutes but sometimes much longer.

Not relevant, but the first time I saw that happen I almost did CPR on the guy. It’s really disturbing when the associate pastor pulls a blanket over a guy apparently having a seizure… and then you notice he has more blankets ready for use… and then you wonder about the coffee you just drank.

In terms of theology, Kuhlman strongly opposed the notion advanced by Roberts and others that people would be healed if they had enough faith. .Too often,. she snapped, .I had seen pathetically sick people dragging their tired, weakened bodies home from a healing service, having been told that they were not healed simply because of their own lack of faith.” Instead, she used the gift of discernment to identify healings that had already taken place and called people to come forward and testify to God’s miraculous work in their bodies.

THAT’s how she claims to not be a faith healer? Spiritual gifting is real but those gifts are given for the benefit of others… not so the “gifted” can build a multi-million-dollar personality cult around herself. When they do that, they’re a fraudulent Christian even if the gifting is real.

That “love is patient, love is kind” Scripture passage that you constantly hear at weddings and see on Nikki’s ass at the Bottoms Up club? That is bookended by Paul’s discussion on spiritual gifting. It’s not a celebration of “twu wuv”, it’s a reminder of what’s important in the Christian life in the middle of discussing the people who get to play Elijah.

From the beginning of her ministry to the every end, Kuhlman strenuously insisted that she herself did not heal anyone. She was a mere instrument in the Holy Spirit’s hands, an untrained “maiden of the Lord..

You quit school to follow your itinerant preacher brother-in-law… you married a preacher… you studied at two seminaries… and were ordained as a pastor… yet you’re an “untrained maiden of the Lord”?

More like “expert whore of Babylon”.

In Artman’s view, Kuhlman, more than any other individual, guided historic Pentecostalism into the modern charismatic movement.

Many older Pentecostals, now led by Kuhlman, leaned away from the margins and into the mainstream. They no longer encouraged overt emotionalism or insisted on glossolalia (speaking in tongues) as the only valid sign of Holy Spirit baptism or viewed non-Pentecostal Christians as hopelessly lost. Indeed, many took care to retain their ties to their natal mainline denominations, especially Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Catholics. Artman calls it the “gentrification” of the Pentecostal tradition.

As a result, the newer Pentecostals.now dubbed charismatics.quietly moved from the fringe of respectability toward the center. Maybe they never quite made it, but most came close enough to pass. Though Artman does not say so, she intimates that their position on the American religious landscape looked a lot like that of Mormons: almost good enough to be president.

Kuhlman.s career helps us understand not only the progression of 20th-century charismatic Christianity but also the role of female leaders in the American religious story. The problem here is that Kuhlman, like many evangelical women, held that men.and only men.should be formally ordained, administer the sacraments, and stand behind the pulpit and exposit Scripture. At home, women should submit to their husbands, joyfully if possible, obediently if necessary.

Seriously? The author is citing her for precedent then admitting she refuted that very precedent? I appreciate his full disclosure but seriously, now.

So how did Kuhlman reconcile the apparent contradiction between her restrictive theology of women in ministry and her own expansive practices? More precisely, how did she say what she said and then go out and do what she did?

To begin with, Kuhlman insisted that she was a preacher, not a pastor. When critics countered that this was a distinction without much of a difference.after all, she had served as a pastor explicitly in Denver and implicitly in Pittsburg.she nimbly shifted gears. In so many words, she said, .God called me. That’s all. God called me.” In 1973, Christianity Today asked Kuhlman straight up, .Why aren’t there more women preachers?. Her answer was equally straight up: .You will just have to ask God..

Kuhlman is a liar and hypocrite along with being a false teacher and rebel against her husband. That’s not a precedent; it’s a pattern of female clergy.

Some cultural assumptions played in her favor. For example, women who served as founders of a ministry or denomination were viewed in a separate category. They acted not in their own capacity but rather as ad hoc instruments that the Holy Spirit used only for that particular time and that particular purpose. It also helped when female leaders placed their financial affairs in men’s hands, served in non-traditional spaces like auditoriums or civic centers rather than church buildings, and surrounded themselves with male musicians, counselors, or ushers.

Sound like anybody we know today? *cough* Beth Moore *cough*

McPherson offers another case in point. Her name appeared year after year on the front page of American newspapers; she established and served Angelus Temple, one of the largest churches on the West Coast; and she also founded and ran her own denomination, The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. At the same time, .Sister,. as she was often called, refused to “sit under” the ministry of another woman, insisted that a man always accompany her on the platform, and chose only men as ushers.

Total bullshit hypocrisy. “I created this denomination from scratch but don’t worry, my kitchen bitch is the real pastor. God must be obeyed!”

Artman notes the same contradictions in The Miracle Lady. .Kuhlman lived the liberated life while opposing women’s lib,. she writes. .It is difficult to discern whether Kuhlman knew she was acting disingenuously or if it was just second nature to protect herself in the way she knew best. The answer probably lies somewhere in between..

The age-old question of “do women have agency?” God said yes so there’s no excuse to not call a witch a witch.

In Artman’s even-handed treatment, Kuhlman emerges as a flawed yet admirable figure. She was tough, savvy, enormously gifted, and absolutely committed to serving God and God’s people, especially those broken by suffering. She was not free of ego, but she also evinced a humility that is hard to deny. Kuhlman once told the Lord, .Take nothing, and use it.. A grace note, perhaps, but in her case a grace note that seemed to echo the entire symphony.

She was a false priest turned TV celebrity almost before the term “TV celebrity” was coined.

Kuhlman.s example helped carve the space that many female clergy and clergy-like leaders have come to occupy on the Christian landscape. In The Miracle Lady’s foreword, historian Kate Bowler notes that today’s female faith leaders “owe much of their success to a handful of pioneers who battled convention and prejudice to convince American Christians that a woman’s voice could win the crowds.” Think Methodist Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, mainline preacher Barbara Brown Taylor, evangelical Bible teacher Beth Moore, charismatic evangelist Juanita Bynum, or Donna Barrett, who was recently voted in as the first female general secretary of the Assemblies of God.

No, they owe their success to weak men believing that encouraging female rebellion is legit religion. This paragraph is how I came across it while hunting reports for Beth Moore.

Not all would claim Kuhlman as a predecessor, but no matter. Artman makes a compelling case that the Miracle Lady spurred a growing conviction in the broader culture that God calls women as often as men to tend God’s kingdom on earth.

Unlike Social Justice Warriors, God never contradicts Himself. Kuhlman was a hypergamous celebrity dogged by suspicions of adultery, who denied being a pastor without recanting her ordination as a pastor, who weakened her teachings on Scripture when they would have condemned her for divorce and proceeded to let stupid male dickheads purchase her a new denomination.

That pattern of treacherous female clergy didn’t originate with Kathryn Kuhlman but she certainly perpetuated it. She eventually died of sleeping pill overdose compounded by failing kidneys… possibly a suicide but possibly not.

Kuhlman’s career was recent enough that youTube has archival video of her. She creeps me out. Especially her eyes:

I try to not read Spawny’s Space (spawnyspace.wordpress.com). They always have such interesting off-topic links that my blog backs up like the public toilet at the welfare office. So much shit to step in!

Today’s shit is Joanna Schroeder, a female contributor to the New York Slimes who did a nation-wide point & shriek at her own children.

A definite candidate for Control Freak of the Year.

This isn’t the first time she used her sons as props for her not-quite-realized dream to be a nationally syndicated columnist. Huffington Post has a couple of her articles such as “7 Things I’m Not Afraid to Tell My Sons About Love, Sex and Their Bodies”…

You don’t have to be jacked. You don’t have to be ripped. You can be yourself and people are still going to want to be your friend and date you.

and “What Nobody Told You About Zombie Nipples While Breastfeeding”. I’m tempted to post a link just to prove that’s real.

Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons.

https://www.nyt imes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/white-supremacist-recruitment.html

By Joanna Schroeder, 12 October 2019

Parents need to understand how white supremacists prey on teen boys, so they can intervene.

Because nothing says Mommy Cares like being test subjects for her witch hunt how-to manuals.

Raising teenagers can be terrifying. Our squishy little babies become awkward hormonal creatures [GQ: men] who question our authority at every turn.

I expected that. What I didn’t predict was that my sons. adolescence would include being drawn to the kind of online content that right-wing extremists use to recruit so many young men.

I twirl my handlebar mustache, don the black hat and offer your impressionable adolescent sons the respect, wisdom and male camaraderie that you couldn’t offer them even if you had ever tried.

The first sign was a seemingly innocuous word, used lightheartedly: .triggered..

As my 11- and 14-year-old sons and their friends talked and bantered . phones in hand, as always . in the back seat of the car, one of them shouted it in response to a meme, and they all laughed uproariously.

I almost lost control of the car.

You are overly sensitive.

That.s because I know that word . often used to mock people who are hurt or offended by racism as overly sensitive .

*whistles innocently*

is a calling card of the alt-right, which the Anti-Defamation League defines as .a segment of the white supremacist movement consisting of a loose network of racists and anti-Semites who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy.. People associated with this group are known for trolling those who disagree with them, and calling critics “triggered” is a favorite tactic.

I’m blushing, even though I’m not alt-Right and the ADL is wrong about the alt-Right anyway.

The next red flag: I watched my son scroll through Instagram and double-click on an image, lighting up a heart that signifies a “like.”

.Hold on a minute,. I said, snatching his phone. .Was that Hitler?.

OHMIGAWD HAHAHAHAHA *gasp gasp* “Was that Hitler?” HAHAHAAAAAA!!!!

The meme showed a man in contemporary clothing tipping off the Nazi leader to the invasion of Normandy. My son said he hadn’t even read it, he’d just assumed the time traveler was trying to kill Hitler, not help him. He was shocked and embarrassed when I pointed out the actual message: that it would have been better if the Holocaust had continued.

.I.m not stupid enough to like a Hitler meme on purpose, Mom,. he said. “And anyway, I’m sure my friend shared it to be ironic..

We must excuse his fibbing. Had he told the truth, Mommy would have lost control of the car. She was already looking over his shoulder instead of at the road. Would’ve been very easy to ‘trigger’ a collision. *ducks*

Belly up to the MGTOW bar, kids. Anybody who likes a good Hitler meme is welcome here and the first [non-alcoholic beverage because you’re still underage] is on us.

I didn’t see the irony and my son couldn’t explain it. I talked to him about the Holocaust, the trauma and violence that Jewish people all over the world still experience and my late friend Edith, whose delicate arm displayed a number tattoo that stopped my heart every time I saw it. He knew all this already, but I worried that he was forgetting. I worried that he was being pulled toward a worldview that would see this painful history as fodder for jokes, or worse, as something to celebrate.

At a time when the F.B.I. reports a 17 percent rise in hate crime incidents from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year for which there is data, white parents like me have had recent, terrifying reminders that we must prevent our sons from becoming indoctrinated by a growing racist movement that thrives online and causes real-life devastation.

I don’t mind that they hate us. I mind that they ruin their own childrens’ lives in the effort to poison them against us. It’s okay to be white, Joanna!

In August, a young white man who admitted to targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart. In New Zealand, 51 people were killed when a gunman attacked mosques filled with worshipers observing Friday prayers. In the past year, a total of 12 worshipers were killed in the U.S. in two hate-motivated attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and San Diego.

So what? Is that typical behavior of white men? No!

In each of these cases, the killers were white men with a history of extremism. The San Diego gunman, for instance, left a manifesto on 8chan also claiming responsibility for a mosque fire.

And the San Diego and New Zealand gunmen posted hate-filled online manifestoes that included internet-culture references, such as references to memes and a notorious shout-out to a noteworthy YouTube personality. Both of them mentioned or alluded to the “white genocide. . which the Anti-Defamation League defines as the white-supremacist belief that the white race is “dying” because of growing nonwhite populations and “forced assimilation..

You left out “government-mandated favoritism towards non-whites”. Joanna cares more about the ADL’s approval than allowing her own sons to think for themselves.

But of course, it’s not just that we want to prevent our sons from becoming perpetrators of mass shootings. We want to raise them to be the kind of men who would never march with the neo-Nazis who chanted “Jews will not replace us. in Charlottesville before one of them killed a counterprotester, Heather Heyer. Beyond that, we want to keep them from becoming supporters of the racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and gender- or sexuality-based hatred that is on the rise.

Over-controlling your sons to ensure they don’t commit thoughtcrime against the Jew-operated ADL might be the worst possible way to do that.

According to Jackson Katz, author of “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help,. it’s not necessarily the ideology behind white nationalism, anti-feminism or the alt-right that initially appeals to young white men and boys as much as it is the sense of being part of a “heroic struggle..

Participating in the alt-right community online “offers the seductive feeling of being part of a brotherhood, which in turn validates their manhood,. Dr. Katz says. YouTubers and participants in chat forums like 4chan, the defunct 8chan and Discord “regularly denigrate liberal or progressive white men as soft, emasculated “soy boys” and insufficiently aggressive or right-wing white men as .cucks…

(((Jackson Katz))). Sometimes I think that the reason the alt-Right is growing so quickly isn’t that they’re antisemitic, they’re PRO-Semitic. They imitate the Jews. They use the same methods towards the same end of building a pure ethno-state. The Jews were able to destroy nationalism but cannot destroy ethno-nationalism without destroying themselves.

It also seems to me, as a mom, that these groups prey upon the natural awkwardness of adolescence. Many kids feel out of place, frustrated and misunderstood, and are vulnerable to the idea that someone else is responsible for their discontent. When they’re white and male, they’re spoon-fed a list of scapegoats: people of color, feminists, immigrants, L.G.B.T.Q. people. If they really embrace this, it’s not hard to convince them that there’s a “white genocide” happening and that these people . and the “leftists” who represent their interests . are to blame.

So what can parents do?

Admit the obvious truth instead of punishing their children for correctly perceiving reality.

First, we need to understand how this works.

A favorite activity for many boys is to watch gamers playing video games on YouTube.

That sounds like a double miss. Not only is youTube not a video game platform, they’re notorious for persecuting dissident perspectives.

According to John Duffy, author of “Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety,. the problems come with advertisements that may appear during the videos. Kids can be exposed to dozens of ads in a sitting. They might hear about the border, or “Crooked Hillary” or a conspiracy theory on how the left works, Dr. Duffy said. Many of these spots are created and promoted by organizations like PragerU, which, Dr. Duffy notes, is not an accredited university but a propaganda machine that introduces viewers to extremist views via video. And YouTube’s recommendation algorithm offers videos that become more and more extreme as viewers watch them.

This bitch be nutz.

.There is a sophisticated psychology at play,. Dr. Duffy warns, noting that today’s teenagers have been using smartphones and tablets their whole lives. They like to dive deeper into topics that pique their curiosity, which is a great thing. The problem is they often turn to the internet before their parents for answers.

Hands down, we have our Control Freak of the Year!

Google may lead them to white nationalist outlets like The Daily Stormer, where hate and harassment are normalized. Often, they have no idea which sources are reputable.

This fake news is also old news.

They may also find videos by more mainstream figures, including members of the so-called intellectual dark web like Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, whose conservative perspectives on feminism and gender are very popular among young men and often are a path to more extreme content and ideologies.

Such as Vox Day’s refutation of Jordan Peterson.

In an interview with the actor Alan Alda for the podcast .Clear+Vivid,. Christian Picciolini, a former Nazi, explains that modern white supremacists create friendships and build trust in online spaces such as autism chat rooms and gaming-related forums. They “go to these places and they promise them paradise,. he says.

No, that’s Islam, you crazy cat bitch who thinks Gamergate is still a thing.

What really hooks many white teenagers is the alt-right.s insistence that white men are under attack in America, the true victims of oppression. If your child has already been punished for his opinions, this message is especially resonant. They find a home for their rage, a brotherhood of guys like them, and that oh-so-alluring heroic struggle . and that’s how an extremist is born.

Other white teenagers know something is wrong with their ADL dogma-spewing mother who kicked Daddy out of their lives at a young age, drinks too much and loses her mind when they utter phrases like “triggered”… but need a third-party perspective to help them figure things out, because they’re so deep in the feminist lies that they can’t see daylight.

You don’t have to agree with us dissidents. We’re satisfied if you listen to us then reach your own conclusions. By contrast, the Left demands goodthink:

Parents also need to encourage our sons how to think critically about the things they’re hearing online. One term I’ve debunked in this way for my kids is “snowflake.” An insult embraced by moderate conservatives and the alt-right alike, it’s used to dismiss people who complain about racism, sexism or homophobia as laughably delicate.

When one of my kids used it, I smiled and, in a conspiratorial tone, asked him to think about this: Who is more of a delicate snowflake? The person who wants people to stop racial slurs or mocking of gay people or the person who is upset and offended by the use of the phrase “Happy Holidays. . a common talking point during Fox News’s infamous War on Christmas segments?

He thought about it and laughed at the irony.

Methinks he was laughing at his delicate snowflake of a mother.

He, like the rest of us, sees that Christmas is promoted everywhere in society and isn’t going anywhere. I also took the opportunity to explain that calling someone who is upset or offended a “snowflake” or “triggered” is just a lazy . and often hypocritical . way to justify treating that person poorly. For my sons, this conversation was effective. After all, they don’t want to hurt anyone, and they’ve long understood that a person who refuses to take responsibility and apologize is probably a jerk. But they needed a reminder.

Control Freak of the Year with oak clusters!

Perhaps the best tool is prevention. … If we avoid talking about our values about race and the experiences of marginalized people, strangers on the internet will be happy to share theirs.

.Right now, our fear about addressing race causes us to leave kids guessing,. says Shelly Tochluk, a professor of education at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, and author of “Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It.. .They fill in the blanks with whatever they see online, and this includes horrifically twisted messages from white nationalists..

That’s not education. That’s circling the wagons. That’s “Two Minute Hates”. On your terms, when you’re surrounded by allies, you force people to recite the Narrative. Only liars and cowards can pass that test. The devil is pleased with either.

Parents of white kids need to talk about race and racism and how they’ve played out in this country . a lot. That history includes horrors and tragedies, but as Dr. Tochluk says, it also “includes the fact that there have always been groups of white people in the United States who have fought for freedom and liberty for all..

.In our choices and actions,. she says, .white people can align ourselves with that lineage..

Probably the most attractive part of the alt-Right to her sons is them not having to spend their entire lives atoning for the “horrible, tragic crimes” committed by other people centuries ago.

Dr. Katz suggested, .To counteract the seductiveness of that appeal from the right, we need to offer them a better definition of strength: that true strength resides in respecting and lifting up others, not seeking to dominate them..

Stuff your lies, Jew. They don’t work on us anymore. How about if YOU do nice things for US at YOUR expense for a change? Because your people need to atone for the horrible USS Liberty attack… never mind that you weren’t personally involved.

Requiring all Jewish organizations to have at least 20% Scot/Irish ownership would start the healing. Israel could take a couple million refugees, too.

I.m working hard to instill these values in my kids. But keeping them away from the radical right is a continuing project for me and should be for any parent. I have confidence that they’re more equipped than they were a year ago to detect and reject hateful messages, but in the meantime, every time they laugh at a so-called edgy meme, I’m going to make it my mission to find out what’s so funny.

You never will, you child-abusing bitch. I pray your children realize the problem isn’t them; it’s you.