FEDIT POLITICS Thread

davey telling Miller "just wait til i yank you in the playoffs, this is nothing"

 

^ going full BZ here it comes lol

 

dem governor of Hawaii now saying he's considering "acquiring" the burnt out properties to protect them from outside developers...
this is the kind of shit makes me certain that fire was no accident or act of God
i believe nothing i see or hear anymore

 

I believe the gov is an ass.

 

yes he is which makes it impossible to believe the idea was his alone

 

catching up on things before i die in this hurricane there are 2 must watch interviews on X
the interview w Steven Sund who was the chief of police at the capitol on Jan 6th
and Vivek Ramaswamy and his views on the world w Tucker

 

dude nails it

 

I subscribe to Epoch Times. So I'll paste this into the board rather than link it.

This Tucker guy ... he nails it. Y eah ... he brings religion in hard ... but I know this - he's 100% right on anyway.

Who Best Avoided the COVID Religious?

One of the greatest contributions that America gave to the world was and is religious freedom. In 2020, that freedom was taken away from all religions in the United States. We’ve not yet come to terms with this awful reality and what it means for the future of faith.



The lockdowns were a major blow to religious institutions and practice. Every major survey shows that attendance at weekly religious services is down from pre-lockdown times.



“The share of all U.S. adults who say they typically attend religious services at least once a month is down modestly but measurably (by 3 percentage points, from 33 percent to 30 percent) over that span,” writes Pew, “and one-in-five Americans say they now attend in person less often than they did before the pandemic.”



I’ve had this confirmed by many friends who report that the religious houses of their choice seem to show far less participation. This very likely translates to a decline in financial support too. Once people got out of the habit of participating in a physical church, the ritual was broken and now we see the spreading of indifference. This is surely not a good sign.



But that picture is complicated by a strange feature: the religious congregations that resisted COVID controls and shutdowns have likely earned trust and loyalty from their members. Indeed, this weekend I happened to attend the debut of a new opera where attendance was dominated by what are called “traditionalist” Catholics. Talking with people after, I was thrilled to learn just how many of their congregations never closed down.



A priest friend of mine in the Midwest tells the story of Easter 2020, when most every church in the country was closed. That’s an outrage, by the way. It’s a devastating commentary on the Catholic Bishops that they uttered no protest against this. It’s a black mark against an entire generation of Church leadership.



My priest friend, however, stood up to his own Bishop and said he would sooner resign his post as pastor than lock his own parishioners out of church on Holy Week.



“You are bluffing,” the Bishop said.



“Try me,” the priest answered.



The Bishop could not afford to take the chance of losing this man because his parish had a very large school and was thriving. So the meeting broke up with the Bishop neither given permission nor refusing it. The parish allowed parishioners to come in the back entrance where the media was not on the lookout, and they kept the lights in the building very low so as not to attract government officials.



Services went on. The parishioners have not forgotten this act of bravery and increased their participation and financial support in gratitude. The priest was tested and showed that he took seriously the Gospel message. He was not going to throw away the words of Jesus that wherever two or three gather in his name, there is God.



There is nothing in the Gospels about social distancing, much less mRNA jabs as a moral imperative.



Jesus ate with the lepers but Fauci told us not to get near each other because of a virus circulating with a 99 percent and higher survival rate, even while he was banning therapeutics and killing people with ventilators and toxic pharmaceuticals.



Those who trusted Jesus over Fauci have earned the respect of their congregations. But there is even more to it than that.



There is something about a very strong religious faith that protected people against government propaganda in those times. They could see straight through the lies even as more secular people in general went for the government-pushed baloney.


Think back to those times. Who resisted? Certainly the traditional Catholics did, more than a few of them devoted to the older form of liturgy with Latin and all the smells and bells. They teach a stricter doctrine about sin and salvation than you get from the watered-down version in modern parish life. Those people were certainly among the resistance to government decrees.



It was the same with Jewish congregations. The typical Reform, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox temples and synagogues shut down and went to Zoom. This infuriated people and alienated them from their place of worship. But in many communities called “ultra-Orthodox” or Hasidic among others, there was indefatigable resistance.



Indeed, both the governor and mayor of New York dared blame these faithful Jews for the spreading of disease. The New York Times agreed completely, despite how this claim revived one of the more grotesque smears of the Jews from the Middle Ages.



The Amish never paid the slightest attention to the disease frenzy that shut down the rest of society. In the Anabaptist tradition which also includes the Mennonites there is no real distinction between the community, the way of life, and the functioning of the place of worship. It is all in a unity in both belief and practice. And so there simply was never a chance that these people would stop worshiping God in the way their tradition demands.



It was all true of many break-off sects of the so-called Mormons. Outside the confines of the official church that is forever seeking respectability of the media and secular elites, these communities continued right on with their practices. And why not? Their whole lives are defined by the choice to believe and live in a certain way. Some hysterical screaming from D.C. and the media elites are not going to shake them from something much more fundamental: the relationship of their members to their God.



The evangelicals were a bit slow to catch on to the scam that was the lockdowns but they figured it out too, many by the summer of 2020, and they started holding weddings and funerals. Regular weekly services returned to the howls of the media hounds but they didn’t care. Once they had shaken off their fears, they were ready to get back to their religious obligations.



Tellingly, it was the more secular areas of the country that stayed closed longer. And the mainline Protestant and Catholic churches proved themselves all-too-willing to go along with the demands that they shut down services because of Fauci’s diktats.



For most of 2020 and 2021, many of these churches simply kept their doors closed or forcibly masked their parishioners. Horribly, some of them even went along with the vaccine mandate, not only for staff but parishioners too.



“Nationwide, a number of churches and synagogues are implementing vaccine mandates,” wrote the Deseret News in September 2021. “Some are requiring not just clergy and staff to get vaccinated but even congregants. Grace Cathedral, an Episcopal church in San Francisco, California, is enforcing such an all encompassing mandate — complete with ushers who will politely turn away those without proof of vaccination.”



I’m not saying that such churches deserve to go out of business, but ... actually such churches deserve to go out of business.



What have we learned? People who take their faith seriously have proven that they are more immune to the lies of the secular elites than those who barely go through the motions. It’s the hard core among them who put God ahead of government, their teachings ahead of the media, and their personal convictions ahead of the biomedical elite and their bogus claims.



In other words, it was faith itself that enabled people to follow real science better than those who outsourced their hearts and salvation to pharmaceutical companies and government bureaucrats. In other words, it was the people of firm religious conviction who proved to be better practitioners of both science and human values.



Think what that means in terms of the history of science and faith. For centuries we’ve been told that only a faithless rationalism provides a true guide to truth, while faith is merely a superstitious distraction. There are perhaps some valid historical reasons for this bias—certainly the union of church and state was not good for religion or civic community—but the truth is more complicated.



The last three years have shown that this claim might be completely inverted. It is faith that allows people clarity to see through government propaganda and inspire people with moral conviction to do what is right regardless of what a totalitarian government happens to be preaching at any one time.



In the end, it was Fauci and the whole COVID regime that was the superstitious distraction, while robust and traditional religion provided the best guide to light and truth.

 

i am still incredulous at how society as a whole lined up and complied because i never thought it was possible it could happen
i'm not anti vaccine, not even close, but it was obvious from the start something wasn't right and the fear needed questioning
but as the article says, every major institution was on board for shaming and demanding you get that poison or else
especially shocking to me was how every house of worship including my mothers church fell in line and locked people out
interesting thing happened for me along the way
i was around 11 when i turned my back on the hypocrisy and lies my mother forced upon me with religion
i knew that my Japanese neighbors were not going to hell because they didn't follow Catholicism and anyone telling me that was wrong
so it was a struggle living w a very pious mother and standing up for myself initially but we made it work and i remained in touch w many priest over the course of her life
the last one, who shall remain nameless because he is rather well known, forged a friendship of sorts
when i say he is well known its because literally anywhere i have gone with him he is treated and approached like a rock star
he has spent many dinners with our family and i have gone on long walks with him and gotten to know each other on a personal level
have always told him i don't see him as anything but a man and he being a true Irishman in every sense of the word busts my bawls
drink whiskey together and have some pretty awesome conversations over the years
he recently had an incident that i won't go into but it has him questioning a lot about his choices and our conversations have gotten far more intense and interesting
after my mom passed my brother, sister and I took him out to dinner and we talked for almost 5 hours closing the restaurant
he and I were particularly engaged talking about things he'd seen and the amazing detail of his memory and stories
at the end of the meal I promised I would come and listen to him and get the feeling there's more there than that and it leaves me somewhat intimidated
hard to explain but at times it feels like he's looking to me for something and I have no idea what or if that's just his charm but i don't think so
maybe the institutions have outlived their usefulness and its time to really see spirituality differently
or maybe...it is just is for me and him at the same time
never belonged to any clubs and doubt i'll become a parishioner but this is pretty intriguing and I intend to keep my promise to him...soon

 

he and NY and Illinois can do whatever they want since they're lost causes and will never vote anything but leftist anyway
so let them do what they want because no way the entire country goes mail in/out ballots like during the plandemic
this kind of shit just makes people angrier and determined to support Trump and eject these bastards trying to rig elections
already plenty of noise about more covid and uber lib institutions have started enforcing mask mandates again
was listening to John Phillips on the radio yesterday talking about how the health secretary ferrer and shiff had tried to get him silenced
for questioning that bitch and her authoritarian mandates and winning in public
this fucks will stop at nothing and are well outside the law

 

thing is this isn't so much about him as it is the rest of us
the people who think something wasn't right in the last election or any election anymore
how the FUCK do people failing at every level continue to win?
those of us being constantly called "anti" whatever because we don't agree w the tyrannical minority that's seemingly hell bent on the destruction of civilization
democrats have lost their minds and repubes sit back like curious onlookers
this absolutely is the last chance and i hope to GOD enough folks are paying attention to not allow them to roll out another covid suffocation
these fucks are smiling while they punch humanity in the face and shit down our throats

 

love Gutfeld and his comedians full homo but i'm really laughing to tears when Greg and David Angelo go back and forth, good shit mae