Before turning to today’s essay, I must note the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. I disagreed with Graham on Ukraine, but I have always admired his grasp of the true threat facing America: Islamism. Graham died from a sudden illness just hours after returning from an official diplomatic visit to Kyiv, Ukraine. I know that there’s nothing that unusual about a 71-year-old man dying of a heart attack, but that part of the world, you know. Just the day before, Graham appeared to be perfectly healthy as he briefed reporters about his plan to put further sanctions on Russia to bring about an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Two clips Steve Bannon used in his cold open on last Thursday’s early edition of War Room drew separate responses from me on Facebook. I want to combine them here and make these available to visitors of my platform (my Facebook account is set to friends and acquaintances), so I will take them in order. This essay elaborates considerably on the commentary I posted on Facebook, so those on Facebook who follow the link to this essay will not experience a repetition of those posts.
The first was a clip from Morning Joe that concerned the canard that the United States is a “nation of immigrants.” I published an essay on this last week that debunks the myth (see Exposing the Guilt Trip: A Nation of Immigrants? Not Really). It’s a myth progressives use to undermine national integrity. They pine to make the myth a reality. They are engineering the replacement of the original people of the United States with Third World populations.
Mika Brzezinski, daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Director of the Trilateral Commission, a globalist organization founded in 1973 by American banker David Rockefeller (a Baptist), warned that when a nation turns from its creed to its people, its moral compass has been demagnetized. As if the national creed and the nation, which is a people, are mutually exclusive. As if these people can be trusted to accurately convey the American creed.
Joe Scarborough (also a Baptist) followed his wife (a Catholic) with a rant about Jesus’s message condemning those whom we today call patriots, then known as the Zealots, and their calls for rebellion against Roman occupation, focusing instead on the Messiah’s message of grace, which we are told negates the imperative of national communities. Scarborough repurposed Scripture to chastize those Americans who are unwelcoming to foreigners and who disregard his misinterpretation of our national motto.
After decades of telling Americans that their country is not founded on Christianity, are the globalists and progressives now admitting that America is a Christian nation? No, of course not. They are exploiting the rhetoric of Christianity, selectively appealing to the teachings of Jesus to manipulate Americans, to further the managed decline of the United States and the West.
Are Christian patriots going to put up with this? Christians have as much right to participate in their government as anybody else. Since Christians are a majority in America, one would certainly hope they would. Overall, Christian voter turnout in the United States typically hovers around 55-60 percent during presidential elections. To be sure, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic white Protestants voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, but they’re up against Hispanic Catholics and black Protestants, upon whom the Democratic Party can confidently rely. Evangelical Christians and those patriots who subscribe to Catholicism need to get energized and mobilized.
Perhaps it is needless to say that Morning Joe is obvious propaganda. Brzezinski and Scarborough lie so confidently you’d think they actually believe what they’re saying. But it is still important to show why their show, a production of MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and shows like it (CNN, NPR, and PBS are notable examples) are organs of globalist propaganda.
Scarborough and Brzezinski (and David French, who joined them in dialogue) can’t be that ignorant of history. The talking heads know that those who founded the country were not immigrants but colonists. I tell readers what they won’t: that half of white people living in America today are descended from the colonial generation—and more than 90 percent of black people are descended from slaves brought to the United States before the country even existed. These are the original peoples of the American Republic.
The historical claim is demonstrably untrue, and those who grasp history know that Scarborough and Brzezinski are deceiving an audience the hosts of Morning Joe believe is too ignorant or indoctrinated to know they are lying. They would be insulting their audience except for the fact that the hosts’ assumption is largely correct: except for those who monitor such propaganda, those who watch Morning Joe are among the most ignorant and indoctrinated people in America.
This is why it is so crucial for readers to understand how the meanings of terms and phrases are twisted to mislead the audience. This is a major reason why I resurrected Freedom and Reason in 2018: to clarify the meanings of words. Scarborough provides a case in point; he misrepresented the motto “E pluribus unum.”
If a man did not know history, he might believe that the motto refers to a creed established at our founding that the United States is a place where those of many nations may come to America and be Americans. But the motto does not mean one nation integrating people from many nations, but rather the union of the thirteen distinct colonies that formed the Republic after throwing off the yoke of monarchy.
So, while there are immigrants in America (I happily married one), America is not a “nation of immigrants,” albeit it will become one if Americans don’t do what they did in the 1920s and shut down mass immigration for all but a select few—and more than that, establish a project of remigration.
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In another clip shared on War Room, the blonde-haired woman tangling with Scott Jennings on the CNN NewsNight panel, Caroline Sunshine, said that Iran would never attempt to assassinate Donald Trump because that would rally Americans around the flag and justify the US invading Iran.
One reads a similar sentiment on social media to the effect: “How can Trump complain upon hearing the news that the Islamic Republic of Iran means to assassinate him after he assassinates the Ayatollah and his whole family?” Drawing the proper moral parallel, I respond to the meme with this: “One would expect Germans to want to see Franklin Roosevelt assassinated if an attempt was made on Adolf Hitler’s life.” After all, the Ayatollah is to contemporary times what Hitler was to the WWII era.
Sunshine (the British would laugh at the aptness of the former Disney actress’s name) is oblivious to the obvious: it’s the Iranians who want war. To be sure, the Iranians want it to appear as if the US is the aggressor, so they can garner the sympathy of Muslims and their allies and delegitimize the United States and the West (which talking heads in many Western countries are doing their damndest to accomplish for them), but the reality is that they want to bring on the war they need to flush out the child Imam who went into hiding centuries earlier so they can establish an Islamic world order.
Sound far-fetched? This is why history matters. Study the Twelver Shi’a tradition. You will learn that the Twelver Shi’a belief centers on the twelve Imams descended from the Prophet Muhammad through Ali and Fatimah. Wilayat al-Faqih, developed most prominently by Ruhollah Khomeini, argues that during the occultation of the mythic Twelfth Imam, qualified Islamic jurists have authority to govern society, and the goal of the project they oversee is to steer the world towards a situation that will encourage the twelfth Imam to return and assume leadership.
The Islamic Republic is an end-times cult. Obsession over the return of the Twelfth Imam consumes them, so much so that they will wreck their own country to bring about his ascendancy. But he will never come because he isn’t real. And the experience of Persians will become even shittier than it is now.
This theory, as crazy as it sounds (and it is batshit crazy), is the theological foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran: establishing an Islamic state governed by clerical authority, viewing opposition to the religious-political leadership as illegitimate and worthy of violence suppression, and supporting “resistance” movements against foreign influence, including armed struggle. The strong emphasis on revolutionary ideology and confrontation with perceived enemies is inherent in Twelver Shi’a. The madness is a feature, not a bug. Shi’a Islam is unreformable.
Groups and states influenced by variants of this ideology not only include Iran’s clerical establishment but also movements such as Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy army in Lebanon. It even influences those Sunni Muslims, such as Hamas (also a proxy of Iran), operating in the territory the Roman Empire called “Palestine,” i.e., Israel, previously Judea. There is a lot more to understanding this, which is why I provided above Triggernometry’s interview with Ed Husain, co-founder of the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam Foundation, Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Watch that interview to become aware of the peril the West is in. The question every American must ask himself is this: Who is the US, Israel, and the Middle East at war with? All one needs to do is say their names, and one knows what’s happening: the Islamic Republic and its proxies because they are at war with us. They are the aggressors. Moreover, this war has a domestic front. A Twelver Shi’a Muslim, Zohran Mamdani, is the mayor of New York City, and his administration is making overtures to the Islamic Republic. Meanwhile, the democratic socialists have announced their plans for a one-party state that will abolish the Constitution.
According to City Journal, the top official in the Zohran Mamdani administration’s Office for International Affairs made plans to meet with Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations. City Journal reports: “Commissioner Ana María Archila was scheduled to meet with Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, at 2 United Nations Plaza, alongside two other senior officials in the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs on July 7 at 11 a.m.—this according to screenshots of a calendar invitation reviewed by City Journal and confirmed by a source connected to the international affairs community and another familiar with Archila’s office.”
Sleepwalkers are being led by people who seek the destruction of the West and the enslavement of its people. These fools not only defend Shi’a Islam—they vote it into office in our own country. They openly call for the destruction of America. And if America falls, the West is cooked. The hour is late, comrades. You need to mark the time.
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