Category: Dissident Mama

“If a man is passionate or mean, or conceited or boastful, or anything else of the kind, it [the priesthood] unveils all his shortcomings and speedily lays them bare.”

— St. John Chrysostom

Note: The following essay is part-parody of the blog post "Open Letter: OCA priest participates in Trump riot, reported to FBI" and part-call-to-action, since the information recorded here is absolutely true and should be challenged. My critique is meant to not only elucidate the partisan and peremptory suspension of Father Mark Hodges (more about his story in part 2), while also ridiculing the one-sided system from whence it came.

An observant reader has informed us here at Dissident Mama that there is a shocking double-standard in the policing of clergy in the Orthodox Church in America. To keep him/her safe from the very real and present danger of death threats in today’s sociopolitical climate, we are publishing his/her social-media research anonymously.

This fellow Orthodox believer has shared with us for dissemination to our readers around the planet evidence that while conservative priests are held to account for woke wrongs, left-wing priests are allowed to communicate without impunity highly partisan political rhetoric.

Yet, this is in direct opposition to the OCA’s social media guidelines for clergy: “Clergy should refrain from making political statements, joining political groups, or ‘becoming fans’ of particular political candidates or political causes on social network sites.”

And what’s more troubling is that the proof seems to suggest that the biggest benefactor of this glaring inequity is the Right Reverend Christopher Calin, an archimandrite (the highest rank of the priesthood and only one step below bishop) and dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection in New York City.

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“While we don’t engage fools in their folly, we must warn the Church about them.”

— Fr. Ioannes Apiarius

We at Dissident Mama are “chilled to the bone” that the OCA attracts the sorts of followers, like fellow-traveler Father Joshua Coolman. Below he displays a quote from the “progressive Christian theologian,” who encouraged young girls and women to surrender their purity rings so that they could be melted down and made into a vagina sculpture that was presented to longtime feminist Gloria Steinem. Father Coolman might be well advised to be more circumspect concerning with whom he makes common cause.

Were it not for our concerned reader who has brought these images to our attention, we might not be wise to the insurrectionists in our midst. “I did not do so out of political, social, or spiritual spite,” he/she explained.

Had it not been for his/her brave handiwork, we might be lulled into complacence by outwards appearances. “I did it out of civic responsibility,” he/she added.

Or because we faithful are always seeking unity to strengthen the Church, we might turn a blind eye to the revolutionary spirit brewing in some of our jurisdictions.

Perhaps some cassock-donned wolves, who are purposefully identifiable as Orthodox priests and representatives of the Orthodox Church, are attempting a siege – a kind of cucked coup within the OCA and beyond.

Concerned citizens at Monomahkos and Orthodoxy Today have already in years past pointed out that Calin’s public figure page on Facebook contains nothing of spiritual edification for Orthodox faithful, but rather a steady stream of left-wing conspiracy theories, election denialism, anti-Trumpism, anti-whiteness, and promotion of the rallies where domestic terrorist groups incited insurrections against law-abiding citizens. Yet, these condemnations have fallen on deaf ears.

Unfortunately, the woke priest’s actions cannot be reported to the FBI, since the government agency has not requested information on him/her because all of his/her beliefs fall right inline with the federal regime.

So, we pray that the stark inconsistencies, the abetting of violence and sin, and the hurt will end in our jurisdictions, and in our Church. Like Saint Ambrose opined, “Not only for every idle word must man give an account, but for every idle silence.”

Please contact the Most Reverend Michael Dahulich at [email protected] or (914) 779-6580 to register your concerns. You need not be part of the OCA’s Diocese of New York and New Jersey, or even Orthodox to write or phone him. We are deeply hopeful that His Eminence will recognize the gravity of the situation and swiftly suspend Calin and his collaborators.

Be sure to keep an eye out the forthcoming part 2.

Source: Dissident Mama – Where’s the clerical consistency? – part 1

Every January, I recoil as both a Christian and an American at the tedious and noxious deification of Martin Luther King, Jr. As my friend Boyd Cathey explains so thoroughly in his bold synopsis of the Cult of King and the corrupt cottage industries built upon the malevolent mythos, MLK is “that deeply and irredeemably flawed and fraudulent figure imposed upon us and our consciousness.”

And the socially engineered imprint is that Saint King cannot ever be critiqued because he is the “fulfillment” of the Declaration of Independence. See, Lincoln started us on the path out of American apostasy, say the egalitarians, and MLK was our salvation. And although King’s the symbolic watershed for collective repentance, some people (you know who you are, neo-Confederates) still got work to do.

So, in order to really heal our sinful “nation,” insist the progressives, we must purge the idols and identity of our bygone and bigoted days. Gone is Lee-Jackson Day in my native state of Virginia, and Confederate Heroes Day in Texas where my husband was born and raised. Down with their monuments, their names, their symbols, and any vestige of their memories.

“Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual person, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?” asked Plato in The Republic.

“Anything received into the mind at that [young] age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.”

This is why we’ve homeschooled our children from the beginning – because my husband and I understand the power of education and the dangers of miseducation. But the battle for the hearts and minds of the American youth is raging like never before. First with cultural Marxism and all its perversions and propaganda, and now with the anti-child impositions of covid craziness, the elites want to paint children into a dark corner of total conformity.

But like Stonewall Jackson opined, “The future of our ancestors belongs only to them. It is up to us to make our own future.” So, that’s what we aim to do in rearing our sons: to contradict the zeitgeist by teaching them truth and light, and about real heroes and the content of their character.

“What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.”
— Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Like Jackson, we too are patriots for the cause of independence. We are traitors to the empire and its godlessness. We are rebels to rootlessness, materialism, and centralization. As poet Allen Tate wrote, “So face with calm that heritage and earn contempt before the age.” So be it.

Ronald Reagan said that what we needed is “an informed patriotism,” and asked the question: “Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?” Hell, yeah, I am, and always in defiance of the globohomo narrative which aims to enslave us all.

So today, I shall honor the enigmatic Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, whose 197th birthday is today. I’ve talked about our beloved “Hill Jack” before through an essay written by my eldest son, but this time it’s more about action.

“We cannot indulge a sentimental admiration of the hero if we are to keep our children banal and safe,” notes Anthony Esolen in 10 Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. “A hero … is like a pack of dynamite, ready to blow any mountain of heaped-up conformity and dullness sky high.”

So, my sons, my mother, and I headed north up I-95 from Richmond. It was one of our many covid-lockdowns-can-shove-it travels that we enjoyed this past summer. Not only did I want to give my kids a sense of normality in the midst of wu-flu hysteria, but I want us to visit as many Southern historical sites as possible before the regime scrubs them all from existence.

First destination on this step back in time? The Stonewall Jackson Death Site in Guinea Station, Virginia.

On May 4, 1863, two days after being shot in Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson was brought to this house, an outbulding for the Fairfield Plantation in Guinea Station, a busy Confederate supply base. His wife, Mary Anna, and baby daughter, Julia, arrived on May 7. Mary Anna wrote, “his fearful wounds, his mutilated arm, the scratches upon his face, and above all, the desperate pneumonia … wrung my soul.”

On May 10, he told Mary Anna that he was willing to die if it was God’s will and then whispered, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of trees.” The date was Sunday, May 10, and Jackson was only 39 years old. The closest window on the left was the room in which the “Confederate Joshua” passed.

Jackson told Alexander Swift Pendleton, an officer on his staff who was one of the few present with him at Guinea Station, “It is the Lord’s Day. My wish is fulfilled. I have always desired to die on Sunday.” Jackson’s loyal black servant Jim Lewis also stayed at Jackson’s side and was one of a select few given permission to enter Jackson’s sick room at any time. Upon Jackson’s death, Lewis led Jackson’s horse, Superior, in the Confederate general’s funeral processions in both Richmond and Lexington.

From there, we headed 27 miles northwest to Ellwood Manor to see the burial place of Jackson’s “mutilated arm.” The manor dates back to the 1790s and served as headquarters for Union Gens. Gouverneur Warren and Ambrose Burnside during the Battle of the Wilderness, an area spanning around the house, connecting its rolling landscapes, dense forests, marshy tributaries, and few taverns, churches, and sparse residences by poorly traveled paths and backwoods roads.

The manor is the only original building still standing that was a witness to the horrors of invasion and war, and the tens of thousands dead and even more maimed physically, mentally, and spiritually. The fierce fights of the Wilderness took place in May 1864, and even though considered a “tactical draw,” this campaign solidified the beginning of the end for the CSA – such stark contrast to the stunning Confederate victory at Chancellorsville just one year prior and a testament to Jackson’s irreplaceable value as a leader.

“The past is like a secret room in an old house, filled with dust and cobwebs, but also rays of light cast upon ancient armor, and odd tools whose use we have forgotten, and books recalling the words and deeds of men and women who once walked the earth, and whose bones now rest in their graves. It is a chamber that strikes one with the sense of holiness, because we come into the presence of those who once were as we are, and who now are as we will be.”
— Tony Esolen

When Jackson was mistakenly shot at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, he was taken to a nearby field hospital north of Wilderness Tavern, where his left arm was cut off on the kitchen table of locals William and Rebecca Simms. Jackson’s chaplain, Rev. Beverly Tucker Lacy, then took the general’s limb to bury it in his brother’s family cemetery at Ellwood, as he didn’t think mighty Stonewall’s arm should be cast into the bloody pile of amputated body parts of other Confederates.

From there, we trekked a few miles east of Ellwood to Chancellorsville, which “was not a village but a house” owned by widow Frances Chancellor and her six children.” It was at a “strategic crossroads,” and on May 3, flames finally “consumed the home and drove the family away. It was a six-day battle that raged from May 1-6, 1863, and launched Jackson to worldwide fame.

“Lee won an unlikely victory, but lost Stonewall Jackson,” noted a placard. “The Union army under Gen. Joseph Hooker retreated in a gloomy rain, but would soon be ready to fight again – at Gettysburg.”

“A greater sense of loss and deeper grief never followed the death of a mortal man.”
— One of Jackson’s men

“I rejoice at Stonewall Jackson’s death as a gin to our cause, yet in my soldier’s heart I cannot but see him the best soldier of all this war, and grieve his untimely end.”
— U.S. Gen. Gouverneur Warren Lee

“Never take counsel of your fears.”
— Stonewall Jackson

That day before Jackson’s fateful nighttime recon, he ordered, “You can go forward then,” leading 30,0000 Confederates of his 2nd Corps on a 12-mile march around the Union army and destroyed Hooker’s right wing in one of the most well-known and successful surprise attacks of the War, which occurred across the field my kids are looking toward.

Receiving the brunt of Jackson’s bayonet was the the 11th Corps, a relatively new group of soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. “It’s 11,000 men included a large percentage of European immigrants, men with names like Peissner and Buschbeck, Schurz and Schimmelfennig.” Many fled, giving the 11th Corps the nickname “The Flying Dutchman.”

When Lincoln found out about the 130,000 Feds and their army of foreigners being beaten so badly (even though they dwarfed the Confederate numbers 2 to 1), he cried out, “My God! What will the country say?” Forever the politician is Dishonest Abe. Honorable he is not.

Chancellorsville was a place “bombarded, bloodied, and looted … farms large and small ruined … refugees by the thousands forced into the countryside” with more than 30,000 combined casualties, “most now in graves unknown.” Yet, it was a “virtuous tragedy that freed 4 million Americans and reunited a nation.” Now, that’s what you call sticking to the narrative. Don’t ya just feel all that liberty and solidarity, folks?

Our last stop of the day was about 50 miles due north: Manassas, or as the Yankees call it, Bull Run. The First Battle of Manassas took place on July 21, 1861. It was the event that catapulted Jackson onto the world stage and gave him his legendary nickname, forever immortalizing him as “Stonewall.”

As one of the most revered generals in history, Jackson led his men from the front, taking them into battle himself. His courage and selflessness inspired his troops to be the fiercest and most loyal warriors of the Late Unpleasantness.

In a letter to his wife after First Manassas, Jackson wrote, “Yesterday, we fought a great battle and gained a great victory, for which all the glory is due to God alone.”

Civilians from nearby Washington, D.C. picnicked on a hill to watch this first major battle of what they assumed would be a quick War, hoping that the Union would handily defeat the Rebs. But instead, the US lost nearly 1,000 more men than did the South, so the Federals retreated and onlookers fled in horror, proving to everyone that the Confederates were a formidable foe not to be underestimated. You invade a man’s homeland, and that’s a serious affront.

Honor and duty, and defending their homes and their rights is what Jackson and his soldiers fought for. Not conquest, not Total War, but simply the desire to be left alone. It’s all we good Southerners want today.

The Second Battle of Manassas raged from August 29-30, 1862. Lee, accompanied by Jackson and a few other of the CSA’s ablest commanders, won an astounding victory. Despite the fact that the Rebs were greatly outnumbered by 20,000 troops, the Union suffered double the casualties, losing more than 14,000 men the South’s 7,000.

“We are in the process of losing history and, therefore, any meaning for our life that is more than a rapidly passing moment,” remarks Clyde Wilson. And he is right, which is why we’re teaching our boys to know the past, to slow down, to take note, to ask questions, to challenge the status quo, to seek truth, to be brave, and to trust God – to “feel as safe in bed as in battle,” as Jackson would say.

Here’s an example of some of the fruits of those virtuous lessons we’re trying to impart to our progeny, all while maneuvering our way around this soul-crushing dystopia the elites have created only for their own benefit.

Unfortunately, a first cousin of mine (who just recently relocated back to Richmond after living for decades up North) doesn’t share our zeal for time and place, and kith and kin. Here’s her triggered retort to my post, followed by my smack-down. Scalawags are just the worst, but they do make for good statist foot soldiers.

“We must endeavor to follow the unselfish, devoted, intrepid course he pursued,” advised Lee to his fellow Confederates after Jackson’s death. So even though our culture may be utterly degraded, that doesn’t mean we have to participate in the degradation and in our collective suicide.

Let’s break free from the gulag of the mind, and forget the frauds with their casual tales and corrupt schemes. Instead, let’s remember, celebrate, and emulate men of true character, and build up our sons to lives of honor. Every, single day and at all costs. This is how we can make our own future.

Source: Dissident Mama – “What is life without honor?”

Just as Charlottesville is eternally imprinted into the American psyche as “the deadly white-supremacist rally,” this week’s pro-Trump, anti-elite protest in Washington is successfully being tarnished as “mob violence” and “a siege.” The pearl-clutching is pretty epic, even for a postmodern people.

“Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol” and “rioters breached security,” go the contrived commentaries with their carefully framed inflammatory verbs. It was a “disturbing, deadly insurrection” perpetrated by “extremists,” and a even a “coup” attempted by “white supremacists.”

“Imagine how many more folks would’ve died had the protesters been black,” screech the blue checks on Twitter. Well, I can answer that confidently: zero. Armed black men have “invaded” a capitol before, and no one died.

Of course, let’s not forget that BLM riots raged for six months and not one black person was killed. Yet, four DC protesters are dead at the hands of federal police, including Ashli Babbitt and three others who expired from “medical emergencies,” whatever that means.

But the white Air Force veteran won’t be eternally lauded like Heather Heyer, the nearly sainted fat feminist who had a heart attack in Charlottesville. Nor will Babbitt ever be deified like amateur porn star and armed robber George Floyd.

On bent knee, the Leviathan would’ve rolled out the kente-fringed red carpet for black Americans, and maybe even a rainbow-bunted rug for their marginalized LGBT comrades. All intellectually honest people know it’s true, although they may not admit it publicly.

Which brings me to the related issues of capitulation and cowardice. Sure, the double standard within the media-government complex is renowned among wise consumers of “news.” We get that the weaker and more compliant are journalists, corporate goons, and politicians, the better are their chances to crawl their way just a smidgen above the herds of pathetic but powerful mediocrities.

What is troubling is that fomenting of the agitprop isn’t just coming from these usual suspects, but is being disseminated by some on “the right.” I expect this kind of effete behavior from Rod Dreher. But Pat Buchanan?

The granddaddy populist described the protest as “a disgrace and a debacle,” while Betsy Clarke, a contributor to the paleocon periodical Chronicles, echoed that the actions of the pro-Trump supporters were “disgraceful.” Nope, they were glorious and long overdue.

Buchanan worries that the events will be “forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency.” And Ann Coulter tweeted that “this will be used FOREVER against conservatives.” How can these smart politicos not grasp that the leftist-fabricated narratives endure precisely because those on the right allow them to even take root?

Charlottesville only became forever pegged as “the deadly white-supremacist rally” because nearly every conservative spent his precious time disavowing Unite the Right, which in turn overshadowed the extremely valid reasons the event was organized in the first place: to defend Southern monuments, to advocate for free speech, and to oppose cultural Marxism. Thus, the right inadvertently helped to craft the bludgeon by which it is constantly struck.

Sadly, conservatives and liberty-lovers, save for a few outliers like the fiery Ilana Mercer, are giving the left ample ammo yet again. Can’t they now see (with the benefit of more than three years hindsight) that maybe, just maybe if more good people had defended UTR, “Charlottesville” might not have morphed into the watershed moment for ringing in the epoch of anarcho-tyranny and its ensuing anti-racist hellscape?

Don’t punch right. Learn from the left. They are masters at staying on point and never getting distracted by the details or apologies or nuance or even facts, which are still spotty concerning the DC events.

This is an information war, so never cede an inch of ground to the enemy. Ever. You can even turn what some insist is bad optics into a win, but only if you stay on the offensive and on point: that Americans are finally grasping that the Great American Experiment is imploding and that centralization is inherently corrupt.

I know it’s a bitter pill for some, but turns out that what Southerners have been saying for more than 160 years is spot on. Embrace it.

So when Alex Jones gets sidetracked, saying that QAnon was led astray by Antifa and the “storming of the Capitol” will forever besmirch the liberty movement, I see this as highly counterproductive. Maybe if he didn’t spend all day Friday trying to distance himself from the protesters and interviewing people claiming the events were akin to 9/11, he could co-opt the “storming the Capitol” narrative, turning the progressive misinformation on its head.

Even Buchanan says a 9/11 comparison is “malicious hyperbole, establishment propaganda,” just like Chuckie Schumer’s claim that the protest was like Pearl Harbor. I mean, c’mon. We should mercilessly mock this “pseudo-reality,” as James Lindsay calls it, not give it fuel. Stop carrying the water for Babylon, and instead help to douse out the demonic fire that burns hottest in the belly of the beast.

I know we’re tired of being vilified, but we non-leftists must pull our tails from between our legs and boldly celebrate the fact that the very people who are empowered and enriched by mass democracy and forever wars and our oppression were this week cowering under their desks. Good optics? Check.

Celebrate that the politicians who praised the anti-white, anti-Southern, and anti-civilization BLM riots, encouraged the leftist mobs to take it to the suburbs and rural communities, ignored small-business owners who called out the wanton destruction, and maligned any patriot who had the cojones to use guns in self-defense of life and property are now the ones who are scared. Bruce Willis really says it best in Die Hard, “Welcome to the party, pal.” Good optics? Check.

Celebrate that a Battle Flag was “carried triumphantly inside this most anti-Confederate landmark.” Whether or not the picture below is a fake (which is the going rumor), it should warm our rebel hearts that triggered elitists see it as “a symbolic gut-punch.” Gloriously good optics? Oh yeah.

Celebrate that Capitol events were way more in line with “the Founders,” who are incessantly bandied about by Congress, but always in the pursuit of increasing the size and scope of the state and in decreasing your freedom. Don’t parrot that the protest was “sedition,” but rather declare that it was a win for sanity. I’m confident that America’s Revolutionary War heroes would be pleased as punch that the deep-state dwellers in our far-away capital were shaking in their boots.

I mean, for an ideology that’s constantly citing Thomas Jefferson and his “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” quote, its supposed conservative adherents sure are squeamish about “doing liberty shit,” as one tweet succinctly put it.

In predictable fashion, globalist powers wagged their totalitarian fingers at the American deplorables. From India, the world’s “oldest democracy [is] in crisis.” From France, it was “the day America’s democracy fractured.” From Portugal, “Trump supporters attack the heart of American democracy.” And from Germany, “American democracy will prove to be much stronger than the aggressors and rioters.”

Bad American history is to be expected from foreigners, but many US “patriots” echoed the same kind of miseducated pronouncements. Sen. Ted Cruz castigated the “despicable terrorists” for threatening our “citadel of democracy.” James Mattis, former defense secretary under Trump, declared that the “violent assault on our Capitol [was] an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule.”

At least when Buchanan called the protest a “mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic,” he got what is supposed to be our form of government correct. But really, what should be decried is the worship of tyrannical centralized power that would shock even “Mr. Nationalize Everything” Alexander Hamilton. If the state is our religion and the US Capitol its “sacred place,” consider me an atheist.

Whether through its egalitarian schemes, regulatory control, taxation, war-on-terror tactics, or covid hysteria, the criminal class in DC and in too many of our state capitols (along with their foot soldiers in the law and medicine, legacy media, big tech, academia, and woke capitalism) has taken away your speech. Your jobs. Your right to self-defense. Your history. Your culture. Your freedom of movement. Your friends and family through the social shaming of people with politically incorrect thought. Your church and your life’s rewarding recreations. In a word, your liberty.

Yet, some conservative pundits are still chirping about “law and order” and muh Constitution. How tone deaf do you have to be?

There is no room for purism. Just study what happened to Shenandoah Valley’s neutral civilians when Union General Philip Sheridan marched in and carried out The Burning. The empire isn’t interested in “unity,” y’all. It wants your soul.

“The Constitution controls, not the mob,” stated Sen. Lindsey Graham. But for people who didn’t already realize that that document was murdered and buried more than 160 years ago, they saw with their own eyes in 2020 that violence is indeed how at least some people get what they want.

And they also witnessed that the electoral process in which they’d put so much faith for so long is a complete mirage. So, they took note of the politicos, talking heads, corporate cronies, and churched leftists assuring the masses nonstop that MLK was correct in describing that “A riot is the language of the unheard.”

In fact, history shows us that “America as a sovereign country was founded in violence, righteous violence,” explained DM guest columnist Jack Kerwick. I say, the DC protesters were indeed exhibiting the “Spirit of ’76” there in the shadow of the “Statue of Freedom,” which crowns the dome of the diseased American “temple.”

And the fact that she stands upon a globe etched with the moribund motto “E pluribus unum” (Out of many, one) that is propped up by fasces, I think that makes resistance even more palatable for patriots. Good history and logic? Check and check.

If you must condemn violence, you must also condemn the Founders. You must condemn the occupying centralized Lincolnian nation-state which was built upon total war against Southern civilians, including the elderly, women, and children, as well as the destruction of the Planes Indians. You must condemn the US empire and its deadly welfare-warfare complex, which is subsidized through theft at the point of a gun.

You must condemn BLM-Antifa. The “peaceful protesters” at Charlottesville.” And the censorship, cancel culture, and “hate speech” laws that create an environment where violence appears to be the only option. But to do so is in fact to condemn the state, which puts us right back at square one. See how that works? I say, knock that golden calf from its undeserving pedestal, or support those who are willing to do so.

A friend pointed out to me that the Capitol protest took place on the Christian feast of Epiphany, which means “to reveal.” Normies aren’t “spitting out their red pills,” as some libertarians claim. The realization that the empire is not their friend or keeper cannot be undone.

Nor are the 74 million pissed-off patriots saddened by this “challenge to a symbol of national power.” Indeed, that was the whole point of the event: to push back against the state and the fraudulent institutions it has used to buttress our dysfunctional, dangerous, and degenerate society, and demean the good people within it.

They’re done being rubes of the new-world religion. So, rather than scolding the newly red-pilled who are ready to gulp down the whole damn bottle, let’s exhibit some strength … sans all the cucked disclaimers.

Solidarity really is the only thing, other than prayer and God’s will, that can help us withstand the postmodern assault that is not going to let us alone. So, let’s stir what Rudyard Kipling described in his poem, “The Beginnings“: an altruistic and peaceable people finally tapping into their angst in order to oppose a sinister enemy and bring forth a new era. Amen and awomen: the jig is up. And it’s about damn time.

Unless you like the status quo, you should defiantly defend these true justice warriors, as opposed to disavowing them. Be compatriots, not compromisers. Now is the time to harden that skill. We’ll need it in the turbulent days to come.

Don’t denounce, distance, or deny. Don’t make the same weak-kneed, virtue-signaling mistakes made by too many after Charlottesville, forever solidifying the progressive mythos. Think big picture, people; don’t get lost in the weeds.

Instead, unapologetically back the protesters and their redress of grievances. It’s the right move to disempowering the beast and throwing off the continuing domestic war and coming amped-up sieges on community and tradition, faith and family, history and localism. Anything less, that is the disgrace.

Source: Dissident Mama – Disavowing is the disgrace

Where was the constitutional duty to act forcefully when BLM and Antifa goons romped and rampaged across the country? None was evident.

By Ilana Mercer
January 8, 2021

Why repeat hackneyed phrases about annus horribilis 2020? 

Recall the opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities, a classic by Charles Dickens. Interspersed in that epical introduction are countervailing, sweetness-and-light words. Excise these—and you get 2020:

. . . it was the worst of times . . . it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch . . . of incredulity, it was . . . the season of darkness . . . it was the winter of despair. . . . we had nothing before us.

MAGA men and women are just that: The best of people in the worst of times. 

These good people converged on Washington, D.C. Wednesday to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote.

They, who have “nothing before them,” had come to demand that something be done by those who had “brought [them] forth into this wilderness,” yet sit “by the fleshpots [on the Potomac] and [eat] bread to the full.” (My adaptation of Exodus 16:3.)

Cassandra Fairbanks of Gateway Pundit framed her report about the protest that ensued just right: “Patriots Have Stormed the Capitol Building—Masses Breaching Federal Barriers—Cops Losing Control.” 

Yes, patriots. Rage that had been simmering over an election whose results lacked constitutional credibility had finally come to a boil. 

Prior to the eruption, on January 5, patriots had gathered at the Freedom Plaza in D.C. They patiently awaited their president, who was due to deliver a “Stop the Steal” address the following day. In short succession, they recited the “Lord’s Prayer” (from Luke, not the one-chord grunts of Lil Baby, or other rappers, emblematic of the Black Lives Matter repertoire).

These good people, who have been thoroughly marginalized and demonized—their country made diverse to the point of distrust—puncture their prayers with an “amen,” ancient Hebrew for “so be it.” 

Symbolically—oblivious to etymological origins of the word—one of the imbeciles on the Hill (they all make out like bandits on the people’s dime), Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) boorishly closed his Godless chant with an “amen and awoman.” Cleaver had been assigned to give “the opening prayer on the opening day of the 117th Congress.”

Trump’s America has had it with this confederacy of cretins and knaves, that “minds other people’s business,” and can’t even leave the language alone, much less their president. 

Donald Trump has been maligned and sabotaged for the entirety of his term. As his constituents gaze down at their mobile devices, they observe that the president has been canceled by Deep Tech, my preferred term for the high-tech sector, as it denotes how deeply the head honchos of high tech have penetrated and poisoned the American public and private sectors. about:blank

Trump’s communications are routinely throttled, plastered with warning notices intended to disgrace a president whom “Deplorables” hold in high esteem.  

And this from the president’s Twitter account:

“History will judge Trump as a villain,” vaporized CNN’s John Avlon, the husband and commentary sidekick of NeverTrump Republican Margaret Hoover. Appearing on CNN alone or with Avlon, this progressive Republican has also been disgorging the same “piercing” “insight” for months, if not years: “This ends not well for the GOP.  There will be a backlash for the GOP [for standing by Trump and his base and denying the election result.]” 

A backlash from whom? The intellectual and moral sinkhole to which Margaret Hoover and her buddies belong?

MAGA men and women have themselves been dubbed “deplorables” (courtesy of Hillary Clinton), “lizard brains” (via TV historian Jon Meacham), and, recently, “jerks,” by Donny Deutsch, a lefty business-cum-media man on MSNBC, who hollered that “there are 50 million jerks in this country.”

Correction: We are 74 million strong. 

The thread that runs through fatuous TV debates, among Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt and his ilk, is the failure of the Grand Old Party to stand up to Donald Trump. 

Unmentioned are the 74 million people who prop up President Trump. These solipsistic, vain TV degenerates—Bush-era operative Nicolle Wallace, the gaseous Ana Navarro, celebutante Margaret Hoover, and many more—have simply “disappeared” or canceled 74 million Americans.

And, in character, cowardly Republicans have been tripping over one another to join them, since the storming of the Capitol building. (These characters were less inclined to flap their law-and-order chops when the BLM movementarians needed to be stopped from occupying and burning down American cities.) 

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, suggested that Ashli Babbitt, a patriot shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol, might have had it coming. 

“The president should order U.S. troops to secure the Capitol immediately,” tweeted Laura Ingraham, an ego in an anchor’s chair.

Had Babbitt been black, the Capitol would have long since been burned down (and looted) by BLM, to empathetic nods from the “enemedia.” 

As to the “OMG, shocking, shocking” huffing and puffing over the pro-Trump protesters, who “descended on the Capitol to protest the certification of results, before clashing with police”: Get a grip! 

Where was the constitutional duty to act forcefully when BLM and Antifa goons romped and rampaged across the country? None was evident. The American power elites—cops, too—simply knelt to and with their racial overlords.

Here’s the difference between pro-Trump patriots and BLM detritus: The latter trashed, looted, and leveled their countrymen’s livelihoods, their businesses. MAGA men and women stormed the seats of corruption.

Want to know more about Ilana Mercer? Be sure to check out my interview with the author and longtime blogger.

Source: Dissident Mama – MAGA patriots: The best of people in the worst of times