As one views modern man in his innumerable exhibitions of irresponsibility and defiance, one may discern, if he has the courage to see what he sees … a prodigious egotism.”
Richard M. Weaver
The West’s decline into “fragmentation,” said Weaver, owes much to an inner disintegration of soul, an egotism without any sense of proportion. Weaver then quoted Plato’s statement that, “the excessive love of self is in reality the source to each man of all offenses; for the lover is blinded about the beloved, so that he judges wrongly of the just, the good, and the honorable, and thinks that he ought to prefer his own interest to the truth.” With these words the ancient philosopher has given us an insight into the collapse of empires and the fall of mighty men; and also, an insight into the fall of a pillow salesman from Minnesota named Mike Lindell.
In the days following his Sioux City symposium extravaganza, Mike Lindell has turned into a raving madman, lashing out at anyone who disagrees with him. How do we explain Lindell’s self-destructive behavior? Has he shown such behavior in the past? As a gambling addict? As a crack cocaine addict? Has politics become yet another addiction for this addictive personality? What are we to do with Lindell as he careens dizzily into unreality? One thing is certain. We must not follow him there.
Many of us thought Lindell was well-intentioned; but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Many of us thought Lindell was honestly taken-in by the swindler, Dennis Montgomery; but then we are forced to admit the adage that “you cannot cheat an honest man.” Many of us thought Mike Lindell was a loyal patriot; but he and his side-kick Brannon Howse are slandering and maligning an ever-expanding circle of patriots, truthtellers and good-faith bearers of bad news.
When detective Mike Zullo and I attempted to warn Lindell that he was being swindled by Dennis Montgomery, Mr. Lindell called Mr. Zullo on the phone and chewed him out for two straight minutes – refusing to hear anything Mr. Zullo had to say. Being a former police detective, who had invested months of his own time, Mr. Zullo had much to tell Mr. Lindell. But Lindell would not listen, though he would have profited beyond measure by doing so.
Zullo and I worked to warn Mr. Lindell because we believed Lindell was a reasonable and honest man. To our regret, Mike Lindell could not recognize the truth if it crawled up his nose and ate out his brain. A real leader is one who can see the truth when others cannot. Lindell, however, has proved to the country that he is unable to tell truth from falsehood. We have also learned that questioning Lindell is Lèse-majesté. His money, indeed, has purchased a small army of “investigators” and “experts.” They earned their pay by failing to correct three crazy assertions: (1) that in August Lindell was going to win before the Supreme Court, nine to nothing; (2) that this would return Donald Trump to the White House; (3) that this was possible because Lindell had acquired and verified all the packet captures for the whole November 3rd election.
All three of Lindell’s assertions were absurd on their face for the following reasons: (1) The Supreme Court is in recess until 4 October 2021; (2) There is no precedent for overturning a presidential election once a new president has been sworn in; (3) It is impossible for a civilian to legally acquire all the packet captures from the November 3rd election.
Nearly everyone who attempted to warn Mike Lindell has been taken to task, either by Lindell or his yapping dog (Brannon Howse). Others, who dared report the truth about the cyber symposium, have been maligned and slandered. Just to name one: IT consultant Josh Merritt has been vindictively assailed by Lindell as a “traitor” to America.
On Tuesday I spoke with Tom Trento and John Guandolo. All three of us were publicly chastised by Brannon Howse during an ill-omened Friday the 13th radio broadcast. Incredibly, Howse berated us because we were allegedly wrong about the dangers of going ahead with last week’s symposium. Gaslighting his audience, Howse claimed that we had acted shamefully, that we were “useful idiots” on the right. In retrospect this was high praise coming from a “useless idiot” in the wrong. In order that he does not gaslight his audience (once again) by saying I have misquoted him, I have linked an audio recording of his Friday the 13th program in the notes below. Here is what Howse said about me:
Shame on Jeff Nyquist. We should have never given him a platform. It’s amazing the people we’ve given a platform to over the years that turned out to be not what we thought they were. But, you live and learn; and it’s hard to see through people; but, Jeff Nyquist, big disappointment. Quoting me in articles, lying. He wasn’t even quoting me correctly. And he was quoting private conversations. That’s a trashy journalist. That’s not even a journalist.
I am gratified that Mr. Howse failed to notice my real faults. Yet Mr. Howse needs to explain his grotesque hypocrisy; for three days after decrying my alleged misquotation of a private conversation with him, Mr. Howse aired the private conversation of IT consultant Josh Merritt before a live TV audience. In a back-and-forth discussion, Lindell and Howse commented on Merritt’s use of foul language in a conversation not intended for television. Howse even complained of how he had to clean up the recording for broadcast. If, indeed, I am a “trashy journalist” for outing Mary Fanning and Brannon Howse’s slanderous whispering campaign against detective Mike Zullo, then what are we to think when Howse maliciously broadcasts a man’s private telephone conversation with a running blow-by-blow commentary?
Yet even so, Merritt’s sincerity was obvious to every discerning listener. By comparison, Lindell and Howse’s misrepresentations were painfully inept. Merritt’s words, even as they were decried by Lindell and Howse, rang true. Merritt said that Lindell’s vaunted packet captures were bogus. When Merritt broke the news to Lindell at the symposium, the pillow salesman refused to believe him. After all, Lindell would have been compelled to honor his promise to pay out $5 million dollars. Naturally, he wasn’t ready to part with his money. Yet, if you make a public promise in front of a hundred million people, you’d better be prepared to honor it.
To Lindell and Howse there is only one thing to say: If you were going to gaslight us, gentlemen, you should have shown more skill. What kind of idiots do you think we are? We are not members of a cult who are bound to believe that last week’s symposium was a glorious success. We were never fooled by Montgomery, as you were. And neither were those polite politicians who do not want to tell you, face-to-face, that you fell on your face. Furthermore, it would be best if you quit the field before you do even more damage to the country and to yourselves. Once more, it is good advice I give – and free. I am afraid, however, you will once again go against my advice. I am afraid that you both have decided to brazen it out, and pretend you were not fooled – alleging you still have the vaunted packet-captures. In this matter I must offer another warning. Lies have a limited lifespan. When you are caught in a lie, it does you no good to cast light upon it while saying it isn’t so. And when you are given accurate warnings, it does you no good to cry shame at those you should have heeded. And when you are dressing someone down for an alleged offense, it is stupid to turn around and commit that same offense for all to see.
And I must say, again, that I am gratified that Mr. Howse missed my real faults. Oh yes, to my everlasting shame I do not turn the other cheek. I hit back, Mr. Howse. And I can hit harder than you, having nothing to lose. So think twice before you call another man a “joke” and a “clown”; for I investigated Dennis Montgomery when you did not. I investigated back in January because I was afraid you were walking into a trap. I got involved in this subject out of concern for you; that is to say, I was a fool for thinking you cared about the truth. And so, I sought to protect your reputation by diligently researching the source of these packet captures. I warned you in early February about Montgomery. And for my reward in trying to protect you – ungrateful blockhead that you are – you not only disregarded my warning; but you slandered Mr. Zullo. And now you say that I am a “Joke” and a “clown.” And yes, I am a joke and a clown because I trusted you. I believed in you; and I did not let you down. You let me down. And you know what? I should have seen that coming.
The bottom line, Mr. Howse, is simple: When you veered away from the truth, I veered away from you.
Notes and Links
Lindell Declares all-out war on Fox News – https://patriots.social/2021/08/06/mike-lindell-sets-off-firestorm-with-symposium-new-ad/
Lindell says Trump will return to White House in August – https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-lindell-says-trump-will-be-back-in-office-in-august-thanks-to-his-voter-fraud-lawsuit/ar-BB1f5SW8
Supreme Court Calendar and Lists – https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/calendarsandlists.aspx
Mike Lindell bizarrely airs ‘confession’ from his own cyber expert – Mike Lindell Apparently Streamed A ‘Confession’ About Symposium’s Lies (uproxx.com)
Brannon Howse assails Trento, Guandolo and Nyquist, starts during 9th minute of broadcast – https://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/brannon-howse-august-13-2021
Jeff Buongiorno on Mike Lindell – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lindell-attack-jeff-buongiorno_n_611c17f9e4b0e5b5d8e3d2a0
Pillow fight! Police release photo of man suspected of assaulting CEO Trump supporter Mike Lindell at South Dakota cyber symposium – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9907109/Police-release-photo-man-allegedly-aggressively-poking-CEO-Mike-Lindell.html?src=ilaw
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Bye.
Because you think Lindell and Howse are honest?
Jeff how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise?
There should be a warning label on the truth.
Sounds like a slogan.
I had a run-in with Howse some years ago. About 2009 or 2010. I made a factual statement on Calvinism and I was banned from World View Weekend (that parts of it has roots deep in gnosticism). He has a very strong fear of the truth and will diss anyone that dares disagree with the narrative he has internalized. Frankly, I trust nothing he has to say without being able to corroborate it from other sources.
For some reason I am not able to log onto WordPress through you blog using Brave. Pale Moon works, tho. Other sites give me no trouble at all. It’s strange to say the least.
I am not well-versed in software.
The Apostle Paul himself was called the “Apostle of Heretics” by, I believe, Origen (but it might have been Tertullian). Origen actually wrote a refutation of the “Gnostic” view of Romans 9, imagining the pre-existence of the soul in order to explain away why God treats Jacob differently than Esau (pre-existent works). This would later become a big thing for the Mormons.
The Gnostics were certainly “Calvinists” from a certain point of view. I forget which one of the Gnostic founders it was, but one of them claimed succession from Paul on the grounds that their teacher had been a disciple of the Apostle. Marcion considered himself a follower of Paul and put together the first canon of the church, which consisted exclusively of Paul’s letters.
This isn’t Paul’s fault and doesn’t take away from his teachings. If you read him, you can’t help but become a “Calvinist.” Just ask Augustine! Though in the days of Calvin or Luther, they would have called them “Augustinians”
In what sense is a Calvinist a Gnostic? People who believe the creator of the world was a Demiurge, that the world is therefore evil, may be classified as Gnostics. Calvinists believe no such thing. Or was I asleep in my confirmation class?
Re: Gnosticism and “Calvinism”
The Gnostics (or at least the ones Origen was arguing with) believed in Predestination and Election, though they obviously go to lengths not agreed to by modern day Calvinists. They interpreted Romans 9 and other texts in the same way Calvinists do, denying the free will of man, upholding Sovereign grace, affirming the predestination of the Elect and the Reprobate. Origen, in his attempts to refute this, as mentioned before, upheld free-will by imagining the pre-existence of the soul, and argued that Jacob was righteous in the pre-existence while Esau was not. This was his way of answering the problem raised by Romans 9 and the Gnostic’s perspective of it.
Just by way of thinking – if one believes that God the creator can do anything – a stretch of the imagination might assume He is able to see the future and the past – even travel between them. And though all mankind is a product of both good and bad DNA each individual succumbs to one side or the other – that being known beforehand by God and, as such, one may be predestined to salvation or rejection by the all-knowing Creator. We, however, cannot know the outcome of an individual in like manner and are therefore commanded to seek the salvation of everyone. Therein lies the sticking point. Most especially today.
Sounds like Calvinism, lol.
Haha. I wouldn’t really know. It was just something that popped into my head.
I will add Sharon’s subscription to mine.
Good riddance.
Great job, Mr. Nyquist. Dont beat yourself up over trusting Howse. You are faithful to those you believe are true. Just as Jesus treated Judas as Judas presented himself, and He even knew Judas’s heart.
I myself thank you for trying to help these men who presented themselves as patriots. Thanks to your diligence, now we know they are not patriots.
They be blind, leading the blind.
Thanks for helping us to see.
What I have written will not be popular.
The truth never is, as you are all too aware. But those who want the truth will appreciate you even more.
Not only will truth lovers appreciate you more, but you serve as an inspiration to others to get to the truth of a matter, and not be afraid to say what needs to be said.
What Greyknight said!
Better that it is truthful than popular.
What a disaster for Mike Lindell and anyone (still) connected to him. I do believe his intentions were good in the beginning, but did he ever get railroaded by his own tunnel vision. He was clearly way out of his league on this.
Clashes of opinion are natural and inevitable in a free, pluralistic society. America at least retains the ability to accommodate such clashes more than my homeland, Canada. If you compared the two lands, you would see that in Canada, freedoms are at the discretion of the government; in the U.S. of A such freedoms are graven in stone…
I wonder how many other public figures who made big promises that eventually fell through were being manipulated in the same way. This has served as an excellent example of the methods employed when this happens. Outstanding detective work!
It was Zullo’s detective work, not mine. My investigation depended on him. These two — Lindell and Howse — are acting as bullies. A very large audience heard Howse denounce me as a liar who misquotes people. My reputation for truthfulness is all I really have. He has damaged that reputation before an audience a thousand times larger than my own, and I do not have the resources to seek legal remedy. All I can do is defend myself with words. I cannot pretend my words will equal his reach. But the truth, in the long run, will come out. It fell to me to write these awful things that nobody else would dare to write. I believe that Lindell and Howse are doing great damage to the country. I am not so important compared to that, so if this painful piece of writing harms me further but encourages others to stand up to them, then it will have been worth it.
Many of those listening to Lindell and Howse probably have never read any of your works. If even one of them takes the time to search the Internet to find any of your works, and reads them they will see truth being presented which most do not want to see or hear.
Storytellers get a lot of attention because they are entertaining, not because they are telling the truth.
Those telling the truth receive far less attention because they are not entertaining. The truth is meant to learn from, something far too many are not interested in.
Being entertained is all most want.
Learning is too dull and boring.
That is true, unfortunately. It makes it very difficult for research that leaves the beaten path.
I would never have read American Betrayal had it not been for the assault on Diana West.
Some things are shown to be important by the unethical way they are attacked.
Filing suit in Federal Court is not rocket science. Any good writer, such as yourself, is more than capable. Filing fees are about $400 if memory serves, and the indigent can petition for fee waiver. That being said, what you have asserted might well be counter sued. Either side can request a jury.
Mainly a reader, not much of a poster, but you have my prayers/support also in trying to get to the bottom of all of the escalating craziness. Viva Christo Rey.
Thank you.
Jeff I could have told you Lindell was a shyster from the beginning. How did I know? That cheezy jewel tone shirt he wears on his commercials. It was the tell. Nobody respectable still wears those. Sometimes it really is that simple.
You are more perceptive than I. Foolishly, I believed he was honest until his behavior during the last ten days.
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The above post was meant in reaction to @elfleinkr.
As i’ve said before, I would not trust these types to be security guards for an empty warehouse. This man has made a whole career well before this of fleecing the Fools. And now he’s been trying to hang noodles on people’s ears and likely make money doing that too. Some people think that there is no such thing as negative publicity, and perhaps they are right. Fools are everywhere, because it is easy these days to be lazy and not think.
Where did that expression about noodles come from?
I was doing a quick internet search on Howse and found that a few years ago he tried to blemish pastor John MacArthur’s reputation using the failing memory of a 96 year old man during a phone interview. If you read the article, you’ll see it was shown that Howse masked his own voice during the interview. Hmm.
Lindell got himself involved with the wrong folks, and now his pride and tunnel vision prevent him from seeing the truth. I am not surprised by the results from the symposium, but I am very disappointed by Lindell’s reaction. You always have my respect and support, Jeff, and I have been trying to educate folks in my circle who were so invested in the claims by Lindell and his team, as to the real truth.
https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/macarthur-brannon-howse-charles-evers/
The tragedy is that politics is complicated and people are being misled in so many ways. This business of slandering others, especially in the name of a false narrative, has to be put down.
Hmm, I’m having trouble posting on here. Will try without the link. If you search for an Epoch Times story called “If you live in Taiwan, time to worry,” that is the article I’m referencing.
Here’s my previous post:
Jeff, did you happen to see that Biden had used the withdrawal from Afghanistan as a pretext to move the lone remaining US aircraft carrier in the Pacific, the USS Ronald Reagan, away from Japan (and Taiwan), clear out to the Indian Ocean?
“But the United States has also pulled its long-range bombers (B-52s and B-1s) out of Guam and has taken few steps to reinforce U.S. forces in Japan and Okinawa. The single U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific, the USS Ronald Reagan, has been redeployed to the Indian Ocean, removing a formidable capability from the area. These measures, especially Guam and the redeployment of the Reagan, represent dangerous Biden administration concessions to China.”
Yes, I saw that they moved a carrier out of the Pacific. In this I am most worried about the shaken confidence in America’s promises to defend. This is directly related to dollar strength.
https://theepochtimes.com/if-you-live-in-taiwan-time-to-worry_3951218.html
OK, I figured it out, it wasn’t letting me post it because it was a mobile link with an “m” at the front of the url.
Sad that patriots have tied themselves up in foolish knots trying to prove the fraud in the 2020 election, when so much of it was patently obvious in the form of vote-by-mail, big city ballot-stuffing (looking at you, Atlanta), ballot harvesting, and over-adjudication of ballots, to name a few.
Yep, the Left did what it needed to do to win (“by any means necessary…”).
As I’ve posted here before, there were so many contra-indications to a Biden victory in terms of bellweather counties, the record low # of counties won by Biden, improbably high turnout in many areas, the GOP’s state legislative gains, and 12 seats picked up by the GOP in Congress, none of which have been adequately explained.
Too bad Lindell turns out to be a quack.
I agree that this election has to be audited with an eye to the ground game. Mail-in ballots offered an easy opportunity to cheat. Trump knew this and worried about it.
Hey Jeff, I am sorry that you have to go through this. It seems to be a “hill upon which we should not die.” Is there a way that you can wash your hands of this situation? Have you been slandered beyond repair? I would walk away. Your work on things that “matter” is vital at this time in history.
Mike Huckabee has quoted from some of the findings at the “Symposium.” It may be that some good has come from what we consider a “rotten tree.”
It has to be sorted out. I fear that we are too nice and that we are always making excuses for bad actors.
Mr. Nyquist, chin up!
You did the dirty work few others would ever do – go against not only the serially shady Fanning and the conman Montgomery, but also the useful idiot generals that aligned themselves to this obviously bogus narrative.
Sharon Rondeau and Mike Zullo also deserve tremendous amounts of credit. They were saying unpopular things more than a year ago – about the original BS story, the ‘Hammer.’
You’ve gained me as a reader, and I am thankful for people like you.
When you look at this whole grift and order the culpability, I think it belongs like this:
1. Dennis Montgomery – the originator of the fraud
2. Mary Fanning Kirchhoefer – the fork-tongued lying deceiver, hiding behind her husband’s law firm, who was as tunnel-visioned and incurious as Mike Lindell. Took the bait from Montgomery and turned hollow confidence into a high art.
3. Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney – Nothing should be assumed of his character… he should have know better. I used to trust him, now I would if he’s always been a plant … ?
4. Brannon Howse – Talk about a useful idiot. (And a destructive moron, and a plain old moron as well.)
5. Mike Lindell – It’s hard to hate him too much. He’s just ruined his credibility and his empire. It’s one thing to be wrong, it’s quite another to double and triple down when presented with evidence…. and even another to slander those who try to help you!
Rather than these miscreants creating a blacklist, which apparently includes you and Tom Trento – wear it like a badge of honor, like getting written up by the SPLC – they should blacklisted. Read out. Excommunicated. Ignored eternally.
Keep going – please! Align with Trento and Guandolo and expose these clowns (especially Numbers 1 & 2).
PS, the writers at barryclark . info must have been threatened to remove all their exposes… apparently Kirkland & Ellis got to them. Incredible that a law firm is suffocating routine journalism. Why aren’t we allowed to know the background of Fanning? What about Alan Jones? What rock did he crawl out from under?
Who are the fascists now?
I wish I knew what exactly scared them. And yes, I just did a podcast with Trento and Guandolo. Many interesting insights there.
Wonderful, when/where will it be available?
The Lindell thing is a sideshow compared to the present global strategic crises. Let’s refocus.
I like this title. Very clever 🙂
Jeff, what are your impressions of Bannon?
I do not know that much about him.
Steve Bannon is what passes for a conservative guru these days, quoted as having read Evola and Dugin among others, smart man. Called himself a ”Leninist” once as I recall, Probably just in a sense of treating politics as a form of war, not in a Leftist sense. Has a seemingly genuine concern over China;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon
I have read Dugin and Evola. The later is as fascinating as he is exasperating; a true iconoclast. Classical liberal thought and its enemies deserve careful study and I believe the debate is far from over for both sides.
It’s important to note here that Breitbart (the website) and Bannon are on the grifter side of Conservatism Inc. During the primary with the Republicans, they were essentially an arm of the Ted Cruz campaign but didn’t have the honesty or decency to announce it. Their weekly polls (which Trump always won) were used to mine voter data for Ted Cruz. They also promoted a fake Conservative Ratings website and used it as factual in their non-opinion pieces. Naturally, Ted Cruz was listed as the most conservative candidate of them all. I actually got personally insulted by several editors when I pointed out that their ratings on Cruz on such things as immigration were not technically accurate: Cruz had supported vastly increasing Green Cards and H1B1 visas. He opposed “amnesty” too, but only insofar as it was defined as “giving them the vote.” He was in favor of permanent legal status going back years and even to just a few short months before he declared his candidacy. (All of this was white washed by Breitbart.)
I can’t remember when Bannon left Breitbart (it might have even been before the bad behavior described above), but whenever he left, he took with him his shared cunning and dishonorable methodology. Primarily, this manifested in making himself appear more vital and important to Trump than what was actually true. I recognized it immediately since it was always Breitbart that was pushing a narrative of Bannon being the sole conservative voice fighting against the leftists in Trump’s ear. While I think Trump listened to Bannon, Bannon went so far as to claim he was essentially the sole reason why Trump was doing so well. He even went crying to the enemy media to attack Trump once things began to look bad for Trump after some particular scandal (there were so many I can’t remember which one made him go turncoat). Bannon was removed and then Trump beat Hillary without him.
If Bannon was what he claimed to be, I don’t think he would turn traitor and go straight to the media to help them write their books and publish their defamatory articles on Trump. Bannon is just a grifter, and probably the first clue to his grifter status should have been one look at his appearance: he seems to be a drunk and looks quite terrible in many photos, especially those during the campaign. O
Michael Wolff got much inside information from Bannon for his “Fire and Fury” book, which greatly angered Trump. Famously, with regard to Bannon’s manner of dress, Trump used to complain about his refusal to wear a suit and tie when Bannon worked in the White House.
I have never been able to feel trustful of Bannon.
I have to disagree here with the original poster. IMO, Breitbart is not a “grifter” outlet of Conservatism. It is, arguably, one of the best Conservative online news publications out there now. One of my favorite journalists, John Hayward, writes for them. He’s actually the real reason that I went over to Breitbart.com in the first place.
Here’s a simple one…
When something is called “Absolute Proof” and there’s no such thing – when the so-called ‘proof’ itself was never even presented because the conman had another well-timed stroke, and the most we know is that not only ‘cyber expert’ could validate any of it…
Then the Cyber Syposium wasn’t a ‘huge success’ – as Howse says – it was an Absolute Sham and embarrassing failure. Anyone continuing to listen to Howse, Fanning, Lindell, or their acolytes is a willing dupe. Oh well, there are many such people and they’re on both sides of the aisle.
Remember, according to Lindell this was irrefutable. Now, the best they can claim is that the snake oil got people in the door, where they heard from more credible experts about what is much more likely to be real fraud. But that’s not what we were promised. We were promised a coup de grace. Way to move the goalposts. Howse should get a job as a weatherman.
Having listened to the August 13th broadcast, Howse strikes me as inept as Jeff Sessions, as gullible a 3 year old, and as slippery as a teflon banana peel dipped in Crisco.
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Sometimes it’s best to ignore bad actors. A Nobel prizewinning physicist who had been libeled, told me that himself. You haven’t ignored them completely, but maybe your rebuttal is enough, and it’s time to start ignoring them.
Here’s the thing about conmen, what constitutes their greatest strength:
The deeper you get involved, the more embarrassing it is to extricate yourself. The psychology demands that the mark double down (or face an unpleasant crisis).
Give Montgomery credit for the acuity with which he plies his craft: he’s got Lindell on the hook for millions and millions…. and more ardent than ever.
The number is in the millions.
Thank you for your posts. Some of us look for answers. Sometimes we get sidetracked. Some things are obvious without the need to prove. Others require an inquisitive mind and a shovel. Many folks often cannot fathom either. I don’t mind being wrong; but I do mind not knowing.
“The guy is so out there, and he’s so narcissistic that everything he says is about him,” Webb said. “So, he follows his own meandering river in whatever he wants to do and expects everyone to follow him, and when they don’t, they’re just wrong.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/15/mike-lindell-mypillow-trump-election-conspiracy-494302
I don’t agree with the author’s opinion that Trump’s election allegations of fraud was a conspiracy. I witnessed the election fraud directly at the polls and from what I could tell, the fix was in from the beginning. Luckily, I was in the right position to provide actual evidence to the Trump legal team.
Today, we need relentless, driven people that thrive off the negativity like Lindell to wake up the complacent Americans to right this ship. Most would not be able to handle this defeat nor the intense media scrutiny. Even though he went about this the wrong way, he has refused to give up. Not many would take this crusade on and risk their livelihood, especially for someone they barely know. Hopefully, he will learn from his mistakes and be better prepared.
A side note: Mr. Nyquist, excellent essay. In FACT, all of your essays are well researched, supported by evidence, very articulated in a current trajectory in the state of this country and the world.
Thank you for posting such a thoughtful comment.
Thank you for fighting for the truth! Long before you did your research I also did some and came up with the same conclusion that Montgomery/ Fanning are frauds. Unfortunately Mike and Brannon will be discredited because they failed to do due diligence like you did. You just confirmed my suspicions. Thank goodness the symposium also had other evidence of fraud. I just truly hope that the symposium doesn’t short circuit the true boots on the ground audits. Me thinks Mike protests too much to not even hear you out. It would be to his advantage…..
The evidence of fraud witnessed on the ground really did save the Symposium. Good thing those folks went indeed
That bizarre enigma whose name is Mary Fanning seems like an interesting topic. What’s her deal?
Much more has been discovered on this topic during the past month; but we are still developing the information. Everything you learn about a game like this takes time to develop as one discovery leads to another and you scratch your head wondering what it means.
I see. Thank you.
Jeff and 907IE, not sure if you can comment, I have uploaded some audio to my megaupload account which anyone can download is about the Grand Solar Minimum from David DuByne’s radio show Mini Ice Age Conversations:
https://mega.nz/folder/ecoATBZR#i4AzAf-QR0u1NI7sL_8XfA
I was able to listen at https://radiopublic.com/mini-ice-age-conversations-adapt-G4bgzN
as well as download the linked files and listen to the mp3 using a media player (on a MAC).
Many thanks, Mr. Alex.
It really is an unbelievable situation we currently find ourselves in regarding climate, weather, and the incredibly big lie (another one!) being promoted around the world while we are actually on the verge of a potentially historic minimum that may make the “Little Ice Age” seem like a cool summer breeze and could quite possibly be the onset of a full glaciation. While there is considerable debate about this last point, no substantive evidence exists to prove it is not a threat at this time.
In my correspondence with UK scientist Valentina Zharkova the good news is that full on Ice Age is yet hundreds of years away, as shown by her team’s long years of research. This GSM will last 33 years, with a return to warming around 2053.
Thank you Alex — and thanks for helping to connect me with Valentina Zharkova. She has corresponded with me snd answered many of my questions. I intend to write a long piece on the Grand Solar Minimum. A very important subject.
While no one sane is rooting for the glaciation, Zarkhova admits potential errors of a “few hundred years” due to the Vela Junior supernova impacting carbon dating accuracy.
And, “on top of this increase of the baseline terrestrial temperature, there are imposed much larger temperature oscillations caused by standard solar activity cycles of 11 and 350-400 years and terrestrial causes.”
As far as the arguments posed against Zarhkova’s conclusions concerning the distance between the earth and sun, time will certainly tell, but there are significant problems with the orbital mechanics explored.
I simply have to return to Brown, who stated we are already 8k years past our climate optimum which is a conclusion I find to be accurate, well reasoned, and significant.
Jeff, not sure if you can comment, are you interested on interviewing David DuByne (Adapt2030), I can ask him since he is on my facebook.
Jeff, please, before you write your article, also look into Ben Davidson’s work. He disputes Zharkova’s work and has a very compelling, yet alternative take on what is in store for us weather-wise. We are not entering GSM, at least not this solar cycle. We are, however, facing an accelerating collapse of earth’s magnetic field and a magnetic field-shift which could have other effects on our weather that could create some serious problems. the site is http://suspicious0bservers.org/ and he has been researching the shift, the 12,000 year cycles, and much more.
He backs up his assertions with a great deal of peer-reviewed research, all of which he links in his daily morning videos. It’s worth your time to analyze his work, then write your article.
Okay. I will look at it.
Jeff not sure if you can comment, before looking into Ben Davidson’s work. Lee Wheelbarger who talks about the Grand Solar Minimum made this video earlier in the year:
I look forward to reading your piece on the grand solar minimum, Jeff. Thank you for so many excellent articles. Keep up the good work!
I find climate history and meteorology to be fascinating, so I’m excited to read this as well.
Jeff, I continue to appreciate you and your work. Regardless of whether or not our fellow citizens thought the election legitimate, more and more erstwhile Biden supporters are having buyer’s remorse. The Washington Wormtongues will continue to whisper evil counsel on behalf of their Mordor master. Time to reassert the 9th and 10th amendments and start grabbing the steering wheel from D.C.
I am planning to write about the Afghan situation next. I know someone closely involved in rescue operations and learned yesterday how many lives are at stake there. The scale of this tragedy, brought on by an incompetent American administration, is staggering.
I look forward to reading it; I’ve been keeping myself abreast of the “fall of Kabul.”
Jeff, perhaps you can comment, from what I’ve read (and inferred), Biden intentionally abandoned tens of thousands of Americans in Afghanistan, not to mention billions of dollars’ worth of armaments (firearms, tanks, planes, etc.), and likely was blackmailed into doing so by the Chinese. Since Afghanistan is strategically important for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, it helps them greatly to have US troops gone. And as you mentioned, the defeat will further weaken the American dollar. Apparently Russia and China are so friendly with the Taliban that they’re now writing talking points for their press conferences. What we’ve witnessed is a de facto communist takeover of Afghanistan. I’ll be interested to read all your thoughts in your upcoming commentary.
Everything depends on what Biden was “told” by Xi Jinping.
Mr. Nyquist, Your planned writing topic suddenly reminded me of a people a long, Long time ago in a place far, Far away.
The nature, strength of character, and purposefulness of those people at that time seems seems starkly Absent today. Am I off base in my musings?
https://archive.org/details/THELUCKYFEWWMV91280x72016x9
We have groups coming together, working day and night, to evacuation friends and allies from Afghanistan. Their task seems almost impossible. The Taliban is preparing a massacre of those left behind.
As you say Mr. Nyquist:
“The scale of this tragedy, brought on by an incompetent American administration, is staggering.”
You have not understated the matter.
It appears that we are faced with a Time for Truth and Consequences.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/20/biden-is-lying-we-are-going-to-leave-behind-thousands-of-americans-in-afghanistan/
Mr. Nyquist, I got a big kick out of your posts about Mike Lindell. Funny story, I bought Lindell’s book for my wife (a lover of biographies), attracted by his Christian testimony. I got a $25 gift card with it and that covered the cost of the book. Only problem, I didn’t really want to buy anything from My Pillow and when I tried to use it, the code didn’t work. Anyway my wife, who is one of the most perceptive people that I know, was super unimpressed with Lindell’s story. As Christians familiar with many genuine conversion stories, she was sort of disgusted with his telling of his story as the sordid part dragged on and on and she could not detect the exact moment where his conversion took place. I am not saying it did not, it was just not clearly detectable in his story. I just read your post above to her and she laughed cause it so resonated with her perceptive insights into the guy. On the other hand, I am sorry to see someone who claims to be a Christian, making an ass out of himself on a national stage or any stage for that matter. Keep up the good work. I get a lot out of your writings.
Thank you
Mr. Nyquist, you asked me;
”Where did that expression about noodles come from? ”
”You’re trying to hang noodles on my ears”…
It’s a saying that has been one of my favorites for years now. a person with noodles hanging from their ears won’t see them, but others can and will laugh at them; they’re being fooled, and in a particularly silly and even grotesque manner. Nobody wants to be fooled and humiliated in a silly and grotesque manner.
Or do they? I wonder sometimes.
Such is this whole nonsense about the US 2020 Presidential Election. Whether legitimate outcome or not, the result was legitimated both by the elites and by the people. What protest there was, was ill-timed, foolish, and served to blacken everyone associated with the protests. Same with this Pillow guy and the other clowns still fighting about the election; they look like idiots, morons, schizophrenics and losers.
2020 is not important any longer. 2022 and 2024 are, as elections. I do not have answers, being a Monarchist I do not think that there are any good ones. But maybe this has to get out of people’s system before they think of alternative answers.
The question of the breakdown of Republicanism is intimately connected with moral and I intellectual decline in the larger society. A failure of leadership is in evidence, and it is accelerating as we go along. It is accompanied by rising arrogance together with rising incompetence. Our Vice President is the poster girl for this. One thinks back with trepidation to the slow breakup of the Roman Republic and the terrifying dictatorship of Sulla. Even this expedient — as evil as it would be — does not exist for us. The future is like an abyss into which one simply falls. But how far is the drop?
I, more than many people perhaps, am tempted to think that we are very close to the End Days. But I do not give in to that temptation. Therefore I look for a natural level, a natural cycle, in which there is a drop that doesn’t go all the way back to the stone age. People will be forced by circumstances to grow a brain. People I know during the collapse picked mushrooms and wild berries in the forest to eat to not starve. Others ate dogs and cats, who knows what else. people banded together even more than usual to survive. Did things they never thought they’d have to do, for their families, God forgive them.
Maybe you do not want a Sulla or say the possibility does not exist, but if something horrible happens God forbid to your country, I think that there will be a grey and unsmiling man or men from the national security/Military industrial complex to act as the adults in the room. Serious people.
You might think it absurd or crazy, but before that homeostatic mechanism kicks in, you might find yourself talking about a ”President Lindell” someday in a few years, a ”man who did his best to save America by helping President Trump salvage his Presidency”, who ”now is stepping up to take on America’s enemies foreign and domestic”. A dangerous embarrassment, yes? And all from the ”Right”, too.
President Lindell is not possible. The deficits are too great. The incompetence too all-encompassing. Crises call forth great leaders while clowns are always swept away. Greatness was, I believe, correctly described by Thomas Carlyle. It resides in the ability to actually see. And then to stand by the resulting insight. Providence uses fools, of course — but only as placeholders or instruments chastisement.
There is a dictator coming that will outstrip the evil done by every dictator before him. Bible prophecy deals with the issue and things are coming together to set the stage for the one Revelation calls “The Beast.” There are people actively working to bring that situation about.
Ohengineer: there’s a principle called “Scripture interprets Scripture”. “Beast” in Revelation is not interpreted. In Daniel, “beast” refers to political systems, though once to Alexander the Great because he was the political system. So using the principle of “Scripture interprets Scripture”, the “beasts” in Revelation refer to political systems, not individuals.
As for the number 666, it appears three other times in Scripture—once connected with the name “lord arises” and twice connected to King Solomon, known as much for his wealth and apostasy as for his wisdom. So the political systems mentioned in Revelation will have apparent wisdom, connected with wealth and apostasy.
That is interesting!
Remember the Dark Age?
Mr. Nyquist, you said;
”I have read Dugin and Evola. The later is as fascinating as he is exasperating; a true iconoclast. Classical liberal thought and its enemies deserve careful study and I believe the debate is far from over for both sides. ”
Evola is indeed exasperating. It would be as easy to dismiss him as a mere Fascist as it would Heidegger or Schmitt, but one doesn’t abolish mathematics because the Devil says ”2+2=4”.
Evola is interesting in his hermeticism, which is indeed very old, his expression of it. I learned of him initially via my reading of the life and death of his friend Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and was quite intrigued.
Dugin? He is right where he is obviously right, from a certain perspective, but too much of what he says to me is like what is (to use another one of my favorite expressions) ”from under the dog’s tail”.
Vladimir, let me see if I can use your two idioms correctly: it definitely seems that Lindell and co, do not mind having noodles hanging from their ears as they espouse that which came from under the dog’s tail, lol.
Lol, pretty close :-). I know this may sound strange, but I do adore eccentric and foolish people, even the mad, maybe even especially them. God love them, but sometimes they are like the ”canary in the coal mine”, sense things that regular common people fail to notice at first, animals and children too are that way.
Everybody knows that the 2020 US Presidential Election was stolen, everyone. But the crazy people filled the vacuum of those wanting to do something, even if stupid. And damn it was very stupid. Some of it amazingly glorious and very messy, but kind of stupid.
But just as the Underground Man in Dostyoevsky’s story says, man refuses to be a piano key. He will go against something even if it’s the right thing to do, if he thinks his freedom of action is limited by it.
At some point though, people have to be adult and serious and do the right things if anything is to be salvaged of a decent life for most people.
The man from underground. He emerges into the open now. He surfaces. Yes.
Vladimir, while Lindell’s bullheadedness was foolish, and now his state of denial is doubly foolish, there are some who are going about this the right way with audits, and citizens demanding audits. That is the only correct way.
Also, there were many people who swore affidavits that they witnessed fraud. Of course, our criminal judiciary dropped those cases one by one, and the gutless Supreme Court refused to hear the challenge by some 20 states, which was a very good way to go about challenging this.
With everyday citizens, and the lawsuit by the states, there was logic, seriousness, and courage. The main silliness was Lindell and, in my opinion, Trump encouraging him. And also the Q bs.
The average citizens are kind of like the Scotch commoners in their protracted war for independence from England. A large mass of the people clearly understand there was major fraud. People do everything they can to challenge it in legal ways. But like the Scotch of old, we are constantly betrayed and sold out by our so-called leaders.
Also, if we cant somehow rectify the fraudulent election, I dont think 2024 even matters. But even if we could do something about the election, we must have changes in society and government on a much deeper level. Every year, we are churning out thousands and thousands of people from high schools and universities, who at the very least are ill-equipped to understand and change the trajectory of our nation. And at the worst, they have been trained to hate and eradicate the traditional heritage of America.
They have not been taught responsibility toward God and their fellow man. They appreciate nothing. I speak of the vast majority, not all of them. But I believe we passed critical mass a long time ago.
Yes. You have grasp Dugin’s smelly underpinnings. As with the West, there is a crisis of ideas in Russia which has to play out one day. It is impossible that Russia should live in this halfway house between faux tradition and NEP Bolshevism. Only genuine insight can produce a lasting adaptation for Russia. An administrative hybrid system, through secret police management, is a dead end (however creative the managers may be). True cultural revival, as you know, can only occur through a spiritual/religious revival. It must be organic, not state managed. It must develop out of the situation, which is steadily moving toward a military crisis. We wait to see where this leads, each side helpless before the unknown intentions of Providence. In the West we are compelled by events. One crisis leads to the next. And the mechanism for return is not clear. Evola, as you say, cannot be dismissed any more than Schmitt because there are inconvenient truths we must not deceive ourselves about. In Europe I wonder if monarchy will assert itself, or a sudden turn to Catholicism or fascism or a new kind of nationalism.
Like T.S. Elliot, I am ”shored up against the ruins”. People do what they must under the pressure of the situation collectively, and in the interim use the past in strange ways that show they do not grasp the original intent of the planners of old. Perhaps that is best, I might add. I know the original sin of Russian Orthodox Commonwealth very well, the ”Raskol”, or Schism. We heal that, everything else will fall into place. Old Russia, Moscovy.
Europe I think is headed for a kind of Neo-Fascism and reactionary Monarchism, probably linked to a renewed and reinvigorated Papacy. Hard to see that now, it’s true, but it’s what I sense. Don’t necessarily like it, but it’s what I suspicion as happening.
Perhaps it’s the romantic in me that favored the Old South in books and film, but that spirit too is bound to have a revival I think as well.
I think we’re seeing a disintegration of Modernity (not necessarily technology) as a complex of philosophies, and a reversion to the natural, the norm, around the world.
This video suggests, as you say, that a revived Catholicism is coming. Modernism and its instruments are failing — https://youtu.be/fwjeumh21xE
The Russian Orthodox Church is organically unable to lead any sort of spiritual recrudescence in Russia. A large number of the clergy were KGB agents and are still compromised and working with the Putin regime. Russia became a moral junkyard under the soviet regime, and things have not improved.
This is true. The fish, as it were, rotted from the head.
What are your views on Dugin as an alleged Satanist and Occultist? I’ve heard these claims but have not verified them.
I knew a Ukrainian who had connections to Dugin’s circle in the USSR and told me they were enthusiasts of A. Crowley’s writings on Magick. There is a detailed biography on Dugin which recounted his recruitment to the KGB based on his occult interest.
I had read a book once that was about the early origins of the Nazi Party in Germany, post-WWI. This book made claims that Hitler had ties to German occultists, and even perhaps to some psychics. The secret society names were, allegedly, Thule, Vril, and the people of the Black Sun. I don’t know if I believe any of this, but it was really intriguing.
Hitler was supported by members of the Thule Society. Rudolf Hess was a member, as I recall.
The Masons along with discharged Marines, are behind the Covid Live Exercise.
Mr. Nyquist, concerning a ”President Lindell”, I think you’re probably right, there is a limit where pure incompetence is not possible at the top, unless one is a placeholder or a brief chastisement. You and I are not Populists or Democrats, so I think we can understand one another on that at least. I think that by 2024, the American people will understand leadership a little better.
Speaking then of as you say a ”revived Catholicism”, it’s the same situation; leadership. I assure you that today there is some prelate (with other clergy and laity behind him) out there who absolutely will take everything back to the Papal Church before 1958, indeed to the 1200’s. And he will do it if for no other reason than the nature of the office of the Pope himself as it has developed. There was the Modernist temptation, specific to this brief era of people born around 1914-1989, and it is now fading. Dostyoevsky himself in his writings suggested that the Roman Church would take up the worldly concern of Socialism and all that. But these men now are old, and very out of touch; they have been forced to wait too long, could not carry out their revolution quite as they had hoped.
Half of all Catholics voted for the socialist abortion supporters Obama and Biden. Reform in R.C. is needed at the pew, the leadership won’t even censure itself. After WW3 there will be Reform. As far as the wisdom of Russian people restoring a Holy Monarchy? The forces against that have had 100 years to consolidate power. Keep dreaming.
Those ”forces” you mention have had power drain from them considerably in that same 100 year period. They are practically mummies. Depending on which polls,a good one-third to half of the Russian people want a return to the monarchy, although not necessarily the Romanovs.
Those forces will climb in power until Christ comes again you troll. These are the same forces behind every leader of Russia since Lenin. The same ones backing the false Chrstian Putin. Discussion with you is pointless. You are spreading disinformation.
Vladimir is taking over again. Please sit down and shut up. Jeff, you kicked this guy off the blog once, and now you let him start running the discussion again? Please don’t let him ruin your blog for all the rest of us.
It takes a lot of nerve to go on another person’s website and tell them and other people who they can talk to or not talk to, and tell other people to ”shut up”. Perhaps you can explain exactly what your problem is with my talking to Mr. Nyquist and others here? I’m not ”running the discussion” i’m having a conversation. Perhaps you could be positive about it and join in with your own opinions instead of having the appearance being some kind of weird authoritarian ”mother” of another person’s website essay comment section; ”Gretchen”.. I cannot for the life of me understand your irrational and emotive animus towards my discussing some difficult and complex issues with educated and highly thoughtful people. Disagree with me and what I say if you must, but I think it’s mr. Nyquist who determines if my comments have value being here and are worthy of discussion not you. Is it an ethnic problem? Historical? Religious? It seems a bit odd to me, but I don’t know you, just as you do not know me. Try to be less judgemental, please.
Over the past few months, several of you at different times have been very “posty.” Probably because something being discussed resonated with you. I don’t think any of Vladimir’s postings are scandalous or morally dangerous, I enjoy the cultural history references about Russia, And more often than that his postings as do Mr. Nyquist’s, stimulate thought. I think Mr. Nyquist runs a very charitable blog. And I am here because most of what is discussed is very edifying. Now though, I feel like a schoolyard teacher watching a fight at recess If you don’t care for a particular person’s postings, Then Ignore them. If someone is a troll then God will take care of it.
Are you now, or have you ever been, Vladimir?
Yeah he’s the same Vlad from the last few articles that was banned, IMO he goes back to the final the last “The Final Phase Forum” Bulliten Board.
Why is everyone so threatened by Vladimir? Just ignore him. Occasionally he has an interesting perspective, the rest of the time, we can simply choose not to engage. I don’t think he should be censored unless Jeff is absolutely certain he’s some sort of operative.
I refuse to read anything he posts under any of his known guises, so for me at least, he’s wasting his time. Russia is a morally bankrupt state, and I’m indifferent to its history, culture or anything else positive anyone might have to say about it. Its leadership wants to bury all of us and has the means and growing confidence to at least attempt it. For m, that’s all I need to know about Russia.
http://sspxpodcast.com/crisis/
Comprehensive information about the crisis in the Catholic Church.
There are silver linings in the lockdown situations. One is the rise in homeschooling, which, according to a recent article on the Epoch Times, has reached a “tipping point.” This also leads to a strengthening of family life and Christian values learned at home. A return to Christendom is the solution to counter this Revolution.
Thanks for the link to Michael Matt’s video. I didn’t know what the connection was btwn the Vatican and Davos. I feel less and less surprised each day with the “spaghetti dish” of connections btwn the players.
I read an article on Lew Rockwell yesterday explaining the Taliban’s connections with Russia/China. Not surprised.
God bless. Viva Christo Rey.
Conservative Catholics are under the mistaken impression that they can revive Catholicism. In truth, all they’re doing now–especially after Francis’s destruction of the Traditional Mass–is doing what Protestants like Luther once did: they’re going back to the “original sources” and essentially separating themselves from the Pope. In this case, their original sources just happens to be bonafide Catholic tradition. Their separation from the Pope is also in a less official way. One prominent blog states that the previous Pope did not actually resign and, therefore, Francis is illegitimate. Others still regard him as Pope but treat him as a demonic enemy.
No restoration of this traditional Catholicism is possible, whatever the case. 2/3rds of the Bishops are homosexuals, pedophiles or Marxists. The Pope himself promotes every person he finds who has a shady past, including a Bishop who was caught in a stuck elevator with a “rent boy,” as it was termed in Italian papers. These people represent the core of the Church’s leadership. They run the seminaries which are producing literal gay networks across the world (the Church Militant website has done an excellent job in documenting these networks). They decide what is doctrine and make all the decisions.
In a perfect world, some vigilante would just show up and kill them all. Or maybe God would do it. Alas, the conservative Catholics will have to hope that WW3 does it for them.
In any case, Conservatives and right wing people in general (“right wing” including Libertarians and even extremists, for the sake of brevity, since they all follow the pattern I am about to lay down) look at old forms of things and think they can restore them to fix the world. Some go the Catholic route. Vladimir is of the Russian Orthodox species, and there are even some in the US who embrace Russian Orthodoxy, because they see it as a non-liberal Catholicism. The Calvinists have seen their own “revolution” and a tremendous surge in recent years, a surge I have seen personally. Again, driven all by conservatives in search of old things, stable things, with rules and hardness. Still others are turning to Paganism and foreign religions. There is a Guru who flirts with the extreme right wing (even the white nationalists) and teaches Hinduism, what he calls Sanatana Dharma, and speaks of reforming the world with his religion and the emergence of “Dharma warriors.” Again, this attracts right wing people in search of the old, the stable, the venerable, hoping to find a solution and an escape from the present collapse.
The problem though is that for any of these old forms to work, everyone has to embrace them. You can’t have your Catholic counter revolution unless your counter revolutionaries are actually all Catholic. This will never be because the Catholic Church, as it exists, simply won’t cooperate with the revolution. You can’t have your counter revolutionary Calvinist army unless they’re all Calvinists, and this cannot be because Christian doctrine, by nature, is divisive and people are prone to creating sects (this goes for the Catholics too). You can’t have your fascists, your white nationalists, your Hindus, your Vikings, your whatever, unless everyone is on the same bandwagon.
I think the only hope for us is old fashioned American patriotism, at least in the USA. None of this BS about religions or complicated ideologies will rise up and move the people. What will happen–if we don’t all die–is that Americans will be driven to the wall and will either fight back or die, and they will do so under the American flag, not the Pope’s, not Monarchy, not the Vikings.
Can old-fashioned American patriotism be separated from those religious denominations that built the country? If so, what are the practical limitations of political/religious ecumenism? Could Muslims or “Vikings” be included? Or does a descent into religious idiosyncracy prevent unity? I cannot imagine Islam fitting in. Mormons seem to have inserted themselves, though many do not regard Mormons as Christians. If we adapt a strict political creed that ignores religious differences, does this weaken the solidarity of the community thereby affirmed? It seems to me that the danger from the left is great enough to establish unusual alliances between very different creeds. Otherwise, not sure how this works.
Time to jump in again for what it’s worth. After a Christian upbringing of sorts and a number of years exploring the many denominations via attendance of services and Sunday school classes, I decided to limit myself to biblical reading and study for direction and inspiration. All religions and their various sects/denominations are, by (decree ?) exclusive clubs that cannot be altered without destroying the original intent of the organization as evidenced by our alteration of the the founding documents of America by way of example. That is why there will be a sifting of convictions throughout the world in the days ahead.
Re: JNyquist
We actually have seen an “ecumenism” of sorts. With Trump, we had the Hare Krishnas dancing at MAGA rallies (if you look at right-wing Indian publications or YouTube Channels, they are all heavily Pro-Trump). We had Trump commanding the endorsement of conservative Catholics (see, for example, Church Militant.com). The Prosperity Teachers, Pentecostals, Apostolic goofballs with all their prophecies and spiritual gifts, all on Team Trump. Most of all, we had the common people who were not necessarily concerned with religion–though they may be religious–or ideology, but who were behind Trump all the way.
And keep in mind, Trump only had commonality with the common people. He’s not Catholic. Isn’t much of an Evangelical, though he embraces them all. He’s not a Pentecostal or a megachurch leader. If Trump was similar to anyone, it was to various Bruce Willis “every man” characters played out in movies! And yet, somehow, he was embraced by all as one of their own.
The unifying factor I think was Trump’s personality and his willingness to fight, but also the feeling that Trump was returning the USA to a place of former glory. I also think that he was expressing things that were deep in everyone’s mind, but which no one else was willing to say.
Can old fashioned American patriotism be separated from those denominations that built the country? Well, are most people concerned with their specific denomination building the country? I think polls have shown that the average American doesn’t really even understand the basics of their own religions. They can’t define the Trinity. They’re loose and mushy on the specifics of salvation. I bet that, in the political realm, they know even less about the Constitution, the political parties or on the various different theories on how government should be run.
What they DO know is a common culture, a sense of being American, an innate sense of right and wrong. Hollywood has distorted us to a great degree, but there is a certain American Spirit that undergirds everything and can’t be systemized or explained like an ideology. There is a certain subset of people who look at various ideologies/religions, like Catholicism or whatnot, or Libertarianism, or whatever system, and they make it into a very serious thing, and all the world must conform to it. And if you’re not in the club, then you’re an enemy. And they think that this system is the only way anything is ever going to change for the better. But the average person doesn’t think like this.
Do we need to establish a “strict political creed”? Did Trump do so? He had support of a lot of different factions who had some differences.
Interesting post. Thanks.
American Patriotism is Masonic. The Bill Of Rights, is Christian fundamentalist.
”Greyknight” I think that I can understand your concerns and the course you wish to take for future elections, and God knows what’s best. I think we’re all in for some rough journeys i’m afraid, especially if we set out without Him with us.
Vladimir, I agree. All we can do is trust God and be faithful to Him. Times are about to get rough.
It’s not easy when I see all the hatreds and misunderstandings and paranoia, and ignorance. It’s disheartening.
It is difficult to separate one’s tribe from the individual in question.
Looks like this has become Vladimir/Pilgrim’s blog (again).
Somewhere, V. Putin must be smiling.
Irrational paranoia, it must be one hell of a drug.
Vlad and his team have got to post x amount to paid in full.
Mr Nyquist what are the Svengali methods of Dennis Montgomery and Mary Fanning that produce a situation where an otherwise knowledgeable and astute person such as J. Kirk Wiebe, retired legendary NSA senior intelligence analyst, cyber expert and whistleblower ADMITS He is AWARE that Montgomery has provided no traceable Cyber Packet evidence for substantiating 2021Election Fraud at the Lindell Cyber Symposium…Yet And Stiil Wiebe Defends and Justifies the Importance of Protecting Dennis Montgomery from Legal Jeopardy AS Being Far More Important than Preserving and Protecting the American People from Tyranny.
Wiebe is Amply Aware of abundent reports that Montgomery is a lying dog, a con artist, and a philanderer.
Wiebe’s philosophy is “Be that as it may; Still Dennis Montgomery is a Genius, with a Security Clearance and I KNOW THAT ANYONE THAT HAS a SECURITY CLEARANCE MUST HAVE INTEGRITY and
IS A-OK in MY BOOK!
What WORLD is Wiebe LIVING IN Mr Nyquist?
Does he Live in the Same World That John Top Security Clearance Brennan, James Top Security Clearance Comey, Andrew Top Security Clearance McCabe, Edward Top Security Clearance Snowden, and CIA EngineerJoshua Adam Top Security Clearance Child Pornographer Schulte live in?
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/cia-employee-charged-leaking-classified-information/index.html
https://thenewamerican.com/lindell-cyber-symposium-j-kirk-wiebe-retired-nsa-senior-intelligence-analyst-cyber-expert-and-whistleblower/
How are Montgomery and Fanning able to persuade people to Major in the Minors and Do Their Bidding?
As regards Fanning’s operational methods… Here is an anonymous First Hand report that I received for your perusal and comment Mr. Nyquist
I took my troubles down to Madame Mary Fanning Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She’s got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin’ little bottles of Love Potion No. 9
I told her that I was a flop with chicks
I’ve been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm, and she made a magic sign
She said, what you need is Love Potion No. 9
She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said, I’m gonna make it up right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink
I didn’t know if it was day or night
I started kissin’ everything in sight
But when I kissed that cop down at Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion No. 9
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink
I didn’t know if it was day or night
I started kissin’ everything in sight
But when I kissed that cop down at Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion No. 9
Love Potion No. 9
Love Potion No. 9
Love Potion No. 9
Kirk Wiebe is what you might call double-minded. He listens to everyone’s version of events and cannot decide between them.
Note to Cicero: I was on the receiving end of Fanning and Brannon Howse’s push to sell Montgomery in January. I never talked to Montgomery, but Mike Zullo says Montgomery is incredibly persuasive because he is “endearing.” Fanning uses a combination of flattery and threat. She attacks anyone who questions the narrative, so it is clear how you will be regarded if you fail to support it. If you go along you are a hero. If you question it you are a bad guy. Manipulative people, who do this sort of thing, are not my cup of tea. I allow that people think differently than I do. They have to make the same allowance for me.
I think that people, in general, who fit the description of “incredibly persuasive and endearing” are the most dangerous, because it is so easy to be taken in by them. People like this seem, at least for a while, almost genuine.
Independent review of Lindell’s show:
https://rumble.com/vl8n47-mike-lindell-clears-up-cyber-symposium-controversy.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=3
Doesn’t Bannon get advertising revenue from Lindell?
I wouldn’t be surprised. The independent guy who made the vid, didn’t really have as much to say as I thought. Sorry I didn’t view the entire thing before posting here. Still, it seems like there’s plenty of evidence to indicate fraud, even if there’s no proving who did it. The problem is the Smartmatic / Dominion voting machines, mail in ballots, and no ID requirements.
We have to have a better system for voting in the USA. The problem is, the ruling party doesn’t want honest reform and the opposition party is stumbling.
For what it’s worth, the latest.
https://rumble.com/vlgc8v-rank-choice-voting-found-on-voting-machines.html
@JRNyquist: “Doesn’t Bannon get advertising revenue from Lindell?”
If so, very interesting. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Here’s Walter Scott, again.
I have seen so many conservatives shifting their narratives to accommodate donors and advertisers. But the worst corruption of thought may stem from the public. To summarize: they would like a redo of Old Yeller. We really haven’t the stomach for shooting the best dog in the West, and so we let Yeller foam and rage. We love Old Yeller, after all, and would never shoot him for being bitten by a hydrophobic critter. So what if the kids get rabies? It’s all about love. And Old Yeller is a box office hit. Three hundred millions worth.
That’s good!
Yes, I’ve seen their ads on Bannon’s show, War Room, as recently as a couple weeks ago. I actually commented to the person watching with me, “This is a good show, I don’t know why they have these ads from this guy.”
When the advertiser dictates content, then everything depends on the honesty and intelligence of the advertiser.
I guess that this could be said of Fox News as well.
Yes. Except they did not allow Lindell to shape their content and dictate to them. So he took $1 million per week in advertising revenue from them in retaliation for not running his political ad.
The “Old Yeller” analogy that you had used, Mr. Nyquist, in your response to me; is “Old Yeller”, in this case, the U.S.? I’m a little confused.
Think about the thread as a whole.
All right. Thanks!
I’m glad that Fox News didn’t dance to his tune, so to speak.
Old Yeller is like how back in 2004, John Kerry accused Republicans of cheating him with Smartmatic voting machines, when he ran for president. How come nobody brings that up?
It is untimely for some reason. Gee, I wonder what that reason would be.
I did not watch one second of Mike’s endeavor. Not that he doesn’t seem to be a nice man, I know people personally who have worked for him, but because slicing at the air after a stolen election is only going to take us all backwards. They won that round…..period…..and it is going to be near impossible to remove the “wasted oxygen” occupying the White House in regards to proving election fraud.
“There is more than one way to skin a cat”.
I would let Mike go, he either sinks or floats on his own ship at this point. He is bread and circuses for those people hung on election fraud. Mike is a planned distraction to any real avenues of salvation for the US.
The real puzzle is the DELIBERATE disaster of Afghanistan. Lara Logan’s take on this is by far the most logical. They wanted to leave Americans and faithful Afghanistan citizens behind, they wanted a large cash of weapons left behind. They wanted the exact situation that played out. Biden is an old feeble fool but the people pulling his strings are not. How beautifully played to let the old goat appear to be responsible for such chaos. Whether it serves to embarrass us on the global stage, deteriorate trust among our allies, destabilize with another mass infusion of fresh refugees, maybe many more reasons yet hidden, or all of the above. We just moved to another tier in this horrific debacle of America’s planned destruction..
The globalists in charge believe that money is the best weapon. Pat Buchanon makes the point that the Taliban’s money is in the United States, just like Iran, China, Russia… VPPence said Biden simply didn’t want to honor a deal already made by President, Trump, so he missed the pull out date. That’s why the Taliban invaded after a cease fire.
The Chinese will be directly for us.
And now the mineral wealth and the resources of Afghanistan will fall into China’s hands, and they won’t have had to do a stitch of work to get these things. How fortunate. *sarcasm*
This development is extremely dangerous as well as very upsetting. Control of that natural wealth could have stayed with the U.S.! We shall rue the day, as the old saying goes.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/08/18/chinese-firms-prepare-to-cash-in-on-afghanistan/
Also, look at the photo at the top of the article–it’s like a grim parody of the Oval Office.
One scenario could be that by pulling out of Afghanistan before evacuating Americans, and Blackhawks, before US troops, was intended to create a crisis, which would necessitate a large scale US invasion, to revive the US economy. This would not dilute US troops Worldwide, as if China or Russia were to start war, we would not do battle conventionally, anyway.
The ever-to-be-resolved-question: Is it stupidity or cupidity? Incompetence or payoffs? — or treason?
• the US military corporations wins because all of that equipment left behind has to be replaced
• the US government wins because it has a new well-armed bogyman to fight
• the christian west loses because its another enforced migration of thousands or millions of displaced muslims (some of which are not freedom lovers).
• russia (probably) wins because it probably supported the Taliban just as it did the Arab Spring and forced emigration to europe of muslims–I hope Jeff you will provide some insights into this
• globalist win in further forcing western nations to welcome more cultural enrichers
• American taxpayers lose because all of the wasted money thrown down the crapper
Our enemies are not bogeymen. And in the end, all the above lose because the whole world goes into the abyss when America goes down.
I’m not an avid believer in the whole Q(Anon) phenomenon, but what you have said here, Mr. Nyquist, closely echoes something that I had read last year on qanon.pub. On 10/30/20, so, right before the general election, an entry stated, “If America falls, the world falls.” That dark, prescient phrase has stuck with me ever since; I definitely agree with it.
It is strategically likely that the fall of America would result in the collapse of the entire West. There may be some unusual combination of events that makes it otherwise; but I would not count on it.
Jeff, if Diana West’s thesis is correct, that America was thoroughly infiltrated pre WW2, do you think it is likely that Russia has been literally running the US government at almost every level in every department at least since the fifties?
The story is complicated, and we should not exaggerated.
Indeed. Russia barely manages to run it’s own government on every level in every department, much less the labyrinthine maze of agencies and programs of the US government.