Joe Biden blames you for the raft of gun violence in America and not his own destructive policies.
Jesuit Joe was up to his old tricks late last week, this time proclaiming his love for “commonsense gun reform.”
So what does Joe consider “commonsense” (sic) gun reform? He tells us.
Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
Strengthen background checks
Enact safe storage laws and red flag laws
Repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers from liability
Address the mental health crisis deepened by the trauma of gun violence
It’s tempting to ask Joe how he knows these things are “commonsense,” but I doubt he’d be able to give a coherent reason. At any rate, let’s do a quick run-through of his proposals.
Ban Assault Weapons
What is an assault weapon? Joe doesn’t tell us and neither do the other gun banners. I say gun banners because that is what they want to do: legally bar Americans from owning firearms. Don’t think for a minute that this is just about “assault weapons,” whatever those are, and not about the Second Amendment more broadly.
They’re coming for your handguns, your shotguns, and your 22 rifles as well.
Same with the term “high-capacity magazine.” What does Biden consider a high-capacity magazine? I guess we’ll find out. My guess is that ultimately, Biden would consider anything greater than zero to be a high-capacity magazine.
The Biden administration announced a plan to fight antisemitism. Credit…Tom Brenner for The New York Times
It’s truly surprising how much Western governments hate their own people.
It sounds strange to say it. But it’s true almost without exception.
The Canadian government hates Canadians. The British government hates the British. Just as Germany’s government holds its own people in contempt. France likewise.
America is no exception to this rule. The Democrats have expressed their hatred of the American people and in particular the historic core population of this nation, white Protestants, for as long as I can remember. But it’s not just Democrats. Much of the conservative and Republican establishment couldn’t wait to denounce their own voters during the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020.
From my observation, Hungary’s Calvinist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is the only exception to this rule. As he wrote in a tweet in March of this year, “We respect and help the Ukrainians. There is one thing we won’t do: to put their interests ahead of ours. As Prime Minister of Hungary, I am responsible for the Hungarian nation. Therefore we will always put Hungary first! This is my moral compass.”
If only America had a government that defended the interests of Americans the same way! Instead, we have a government that actively hates the historic core population of America. Stolen elections have consequences. Having a government that hates and fears its own people is one of those consequences.
Indeed, we have Joe Biden who clearly hates a significant part, perhaps even a majority, of the American people. In this regard, he’s merely picking up where Barak Obama, who spoke of small-town Americans bitterly clinging to their guns and religion, and Hillary Clinton, of the notorious “basket of deplorables” comment, left off.
“Looks Like He Made it While Waiting for a Table at the Cracker Barrel.” That was Jimmy Kimmel’s arrogant comment about Tucker Carlson’s video from which this image was taken.
Defenestration. It’s an interesting word. One that gets your attention.
Literally, it means the act of throwing someone out of a window – for a Biblical example, think of Queen Jezebel. A more recent example is known in history as the Second Defenestration of Prague which took place in 1618 and is cited as a spark that set off the Thirty Years’ War.
When used today, defenestration is commonly meant in a figurative sense. That is the sudden or violent removal of someone from his position. And it is in the metaphorical sense that I use the term in this instance.
I confess I found Carlson’s work to be a breath of fresh air compared to the normal diet of talking points from network new programs. He was, in my opinion, the only mainstream TV personality that was worth watching. Any number of times I found myself watching his show in amazement at what he was talking about. Not, mind you, that I was amazed at the content so much as I was that someone on a major network was actually saying it.
On any given night, you could hear Carlson talking about replacement migration, the plight of men in modern America, opposing the war in Ukraine, defending the January 6th “insurrectionists,” criticizing the Federal Reserve’s practice of money printing, raising questions about the “most secure election in American history,” questioning the COVID cult including its most sacred mRNA gene therapy “vaccine” sacrament, skewering Critical Race Theory, and lambasting the LGBTQ agenda. At this best, watching Carlson was like watching an independent YouTuber or reading a blog. It was as close to an anti-corporate, anti-mainstream journalistic experience as I have seen in corporate-controlled media.
For my part, I think there are two closely related reasons for his removal. First, Carlson had the audacity to speak up for ordinary, white Americans and defend them from elites out to do them harm. Second, this is part of the establishment plan to rig the 2024 presidential election for Joe Biden or whomever they plan to install in the White House next year.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:1
I’m a natural pessimist. A glass half empty kind of guy.
Yesterday I took some time to watch the Cincinnati Reds play the Philadelphia Phillies. The Reds are coming off a miserable season that saw them lose 100 games. The Phillies, on the other hand, were the National League champs last year. But going into the bottom of the ninth and against all odds, the Reds held a slim 2-0 lead, needing just 3 outs to claim the victory. My comment at the time was, they’re probably going to find some way to choke. And sure enough, they did. The Reds’ bullpen imploded, giving up 3 runs, the lead, and the game.
Oh well.
As the line from the movie A League of Their Own goes, “There’s no crying in baseball.”
Now in the ranking of life’s disappointments, watching your favorite team snatch defeat from the jaws of victory rates as a minor thing. But it is an example of the disappointments we all encounter in life. Maybe you didn’t make the varsity team in high school. Maybe you didn’t get into that college you set your heart on attending. That big promotion you thought you were going to get; it went to someone else. And to these examples can be added countless others.
I spend a great deal of time on this blog analyzing the news. Have you heard any good news lately? If you’re like me, probably not very much. It’s ugly out there.
Joe Biden greets U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
“We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.”
Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, Presbyterian Minister and Union Civil War Veteran
For the first time in his nearly 2 years in office, Joe Biden will visit America’s southwestern border today to lie to the American people once again about what he and his Regime are doing to destroy the nation that he supposedly represents through the policy of mass, welfare migration.
As America’s second Roman Catholic president, Joe Biden has wasted no time implementing the welfare immigration program of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church-State, a program designed to weaken and subvert the United States and to strengthen the hand of the Vatican in the internal affairs of the nation. The goal of this program is to render the United States ungovernable and fold it into a regional, and finally a world government with the Pope – the man who claims to be the father of kings, governor of the world, and vicar of Christ – as the head.
While the lying legacy media portray America’s border crisis as if it, like Melchizedek, were without father or mother or genealogy, the parentage of America’s illegal alien migration disaster is very clearly known. It is a creation of the Democrats generally, of the Biden Regime more particularly, and of the Vatican ultimately.
But while the Vatican origins of the current immigration crisis are not hard to see, most Americans, even Reformed Christians who of all people should have the discernment to see the scam for what it is, fail to grasp what is being done to them and by whom it is being done.
The Antichrist Roman Church-State has been active on our southern border for years, decades really, promoting the destruction of America through mass Roman Catholic, welfare migration. But in the past few years, Rome has stepped up its game. Jesuit Pope Francis paid a visit to Juarez in January 2016, celebrating a mass that was simulcast in the Sun Bowl in El Paso. Unsurprisingly, Francis used this occasion to promote his favorite nation-breaking ploy, mass welfare migration.
The Wall Street Journal reporting on the Pope’s visit to Juarez noted, “While many are expected to cross the border to see the papal Mass at the nearby Juárez fairgrounds, some 600 ‘VIPs’ invited by the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso – migrants, labor advocates, nuns and immigration activists – will gather to watch the pope from a levee on the U.S. side.”
In another article on the same subject from February 9, 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported, “Pope Francis arrives in Mexico on Friday for a six-day visit that will end with a highly symbolic and potentially controversial act: the pontiff taking a stand on the fortified U.S. border to show solidarity with the migrants trying to cross it.” The Journal even went so far as to refer to migration as, “the expected theme of the pope’s Juárez visit.”
With this in mind, is it any big surprise that seven years later El Paso is the epicenter of Antichrist’s illegal alien assault on America?
If you’re not from the Cincinnati area as I am, you likely do not know the name Dr. O’Dell Owens. But in this area, he was a very well-known and admired individual. The article just cited listed some of his titles: Hamilton County (Cincinnati) coroner, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College president, and Cincinnati Health Department medical director.
Personally, I never knew him or interacted with him at all. My only knowledge of him comes from his media persona. From my own observations, he seemed to be a sincere and decent fellow. I know of no scandal associated with his name. From some of the coverage I’ve seen, he was a member of a local Baptist church.
His death on November 23 at the age of 74 has generated no small amount of coverage in the local newspapers and TV stations. There is talk of naming the recently opened county coroner’s crime lab after him. That seems reasonable enough, given that he was the county coroner.
But then there’s this. The county commissioner who wants to name the office after Owens stated one reason she wants to do this is because of Owens, “encouraging people during the pandemic to get vaccinated.”
According to local radio station WVXU, “Owens planned to spend his retirement volunteering ‘to support community groups on the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic,’ and even advised Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on the state’s COVID response” Advising Gov. Mike DeWine on the Covid response is a dubious accomplishment to cite, as DeWine was a Covid tyrant. While not as bad as some of the Democrat governors, his response was heavy-handed and did a great deal of damage to the personal liberty of all Ohioans and to the economy of the state. If it were not for the action of the Ohio General Assembly, which passed a bill curtailing the emergency medical powers of the governor, a bill that was passed over DeWine’s veto, it’s hard to say when the Covid lockdown would have ended in Ohio. It ended despite, not because of, the actions of Gov. DeWine.
According to his Wikipedia article, Owens’s role in advising DeWine concerned “equitable vaccine distribution.” The likely meaning of this is that Owens worked to ensure vaccines were distributed to black Ohioans. If so, this was not the blessing that Owens seemed to think it was.
Another article from a local TV station noted, “Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Owens was one of Cincinnati’s most vocal advocates for COVID-19 vaccination in the Black community.
There’s also this short video from June 2021 Owens made for PBS titled “Confidence in the Vaccine / Dr. Owens.” In it, Owens claims that he has confidence in the vaccine because it’s been under development since 1999 and that it’s been tested. Owens conceded that there was no long-term testing data, but he called the vaccine safe and effective anyway.
What’s the sum of all this? Dr. Owens, despite all his significant accomplishments, was a pusher of what is probably the deadliest medical treatment in all of history. But not one of the many local stories on Dr. Owens made this point. And the fact that not one news outlet coving this story saw fit to mention that Owens pushed the Covid jab tells you that we’re still very much in the propaganda matrix when it comes to Covid.
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is seen Monday. The Democrat defeated Adam Laxalt, a Trump-backed Republican and former Nevada attorney general. The win means Democrats retain the U.S. Senate. Gregory Bull/AP
I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
After a lot of hype about a big Republican showing in the Mid Terms, the results were less than overwhelming. It appears that the GOP will retake the House, so that’s something. But the Senate will remain in the Democrats’ hands. Further, none of the Covid lockdown governors were removed, as Gretchen Whitmer and Kathy Hochul both held on to their seats in Michigan and New York respectively. It appears as if voters in those and other states said, in effect, “lock us down harder next time!” A friend of mine relative to the result in Michigan commented, “Those people get what they deserve.”
If it was an honest vote, I couldn’t argue with that. Of course, there’s the district possibility that it was not an honest vote. But more on that below.
“In our bones, we know democracy is at risk,” said Joe Biden at Union Station, Washington D.C., 11/2/2022.
“Donald Trump if the Democrats don’t steal it.”
Two years ago about this time, I was sitting in a friend’s family room watching the final Trump/Biden presidential debate. My friend had asked me who I thought was going to win the 2020 presidential election and I replied to him that I thought Trump would win if the Democrats didn’t steal the election.
As things turned out, the Democrats with a little help from their friends in the Deep State, major corporations, the courts, the Covid lockdowns, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the mainstream media, major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the entertainment industry, pollsters, schools, universities, and various and sundry thugs in the Democrat party, etc. did manage to steal the election for the most incompetent and uninspiring presidential candidate in my lifetime, possibly in all of American history.
The theft of the 2020 presidential election and the ability of the Democrats and their helpers to make it stick bodes ill for the future of our republic. The successful steal, perhaps it’s better to call it a coup d’état, of the 2020 election has led many to the opinion that we cannot vote our way out of the problems currently facing our nation. Count me among their number.
But for all that, the aim of this post is not to discourage people from voting, giving up, and heading for their survival bunker in the hills. As Christians, we are called to be salt and light in a lost and dying world, and this includes carrying out our civic responsibilities the best we are able. Further, we do not know the future. Perhaps the Lord will have mercy on America for the sake of his elect and save us from the oppressive darkness we see gathering all around us. He’s done that sort of thing before, and he can do it again if he so wills. Has the arm of the Lord been shortened?
For this reason, it’s not my purpose today to fill people with dread and fear of the future. I’ll leave that to the Democrats. Rather, my aim is to realistically assess the situation facing America in November 2022 and offer a few suggestions and perhaps even venture a prognostication or two.
Queen Athaliah Orders The King’s Children to be Killed by Harmen Jansz Muller, Hadrianus Junius, and Gerard De Jode.
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
II Kings 11:1
Today I’d like to wrap up our look at Jehoiada’s righteous interposition on behalf of the legitimate Davidic line of kings and the people of Judah.
As we’ve discussed so far, the purpose of this series is to look at an important but largely ignored Biblical doctrine known as the doctrine of the lesser magistrate. Last week we defined the doctrine of the lesser magistrate using Matthew Trewhella’s book The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates. In his book, Trewhella gives the following definition of this doctrine,
The lesser magistrate doctrine declares that when the superior or higher civil authority makes unjust/immoral laws or decrees, the lesser or lower ranking civil authority has both a right and duty to refuse obedience to that superior authority. If necessary, the lesser authorities even have the right and obligation to actively resist the superior authority (1).
It’s important to define and discuss this doctrine because Christians in the West find themselves in situations where more and more they live under governments that are openly hostile to them. Good is now evil and evil is now good. In some places, Christians can find themselves prosecuted for quoting what the Bible says about homosexuality, while satanic transgender activists are free to recruit kids for their perverted cause.
Here in the United States, we have a situation much like what Judah faced under Queen Athaliah, an illegitimate government that goes out of its way to implement evil policies. Athaliah was a murderess and promoter of Baal worship. Joe Biden works tirelessly to implement the Vatican’s globalist agenda via his climate change policies, unprecedented illegal immigration, attacking the Americans’ Second Amendment rights, fanning the flames of war in eastern Europe, the promoting sexual perversion, and accusing patriotic, Christian Americans of sedition when they speak out against his evil.
When faced with evil government dictates, some Christians will point to Romans 13:1 – Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities – and argue that there is no legitimate or almost no legitimate reason for Christians ever to push back against evil government commands. If a governor says that you have to shut down your church due to Covid, you shut down your church due to Covid, and that’s just that. Anything else is unrighteous rebellion. That this is a widespread opinion can be seen by the number of churches that bent their knee when told to close their doors “to stop the spread.”
On the other hand, there are some people who hold that primate rebellion is a justified response against a tyrannical government. There are several instances where the kings of Judah and Israel were murdered by political opponents. Oddly, young king Joash, whom Jehosheba and Jehoiada saved, would later be murdered by his servants. But the murder of Joash, even though Joash had clearly deviated from the paths of righteousness later in life, is clearly condemned in the Scriptures.
So we see that neither blind obedience nor private rebellion is the Christian answer to dealing with tyrannical governments. The Christian answer is the doctrine of the lesser magistrate. A doctrine we see modeled quite well by the righteous high priest Jehoiada. Jehoiada hid the young, rightful heir to the throne of Judah for six years. After that period had elapsed, he organized a military guard, brought the seven-year-old Joash out in public, and made him king.
That’s where we left off last week. Let us now consider the beneficial effects of Jehoiada’s actions and what lessons American and other Western Christians can take from his example.
Lux Lucet 