Sir Thomas More: [More has been found guilty of treason, and now for the first time breaks his years-long adamant silence on Henry VIII’s divorce of Queen Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn] Since the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will now discharge my mind concerning the indictment and the King’s title. The indictment is grounded in an act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the law of God, and his Holy Church, the Supreme Government of which no temporal person may by any law presume to take upon him. This was granted by the mouth of our Savior, Christ himself, to Saint Peter and the Bishops of Rome whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth. It is, therefore, insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it. And more to this, the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and in the king’s own coronation oath!
Cromwell: Now we plainly see you *are* malicious!
Sir Thomas More: Not so. I am the king’s true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm. I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live. Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my blood, but because I would not bend to the marriage!
A Man for All Seasons 1966
They came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on the Battle of Waterloo
10 years ago when this blog, while being in it’s post noticing Clinton & Epstein decline, still had some oomph in the blogosphere I wrote two pieces concerning election 2016 that were significant. An endorsement of Donald Trump once he won the GOP nomination:
I called my support for him a “leap of faith” but the real kicker was this:
I think the breaking point is near, I think there are a lot of people in this country who are deciding that the Government is openly hostile to them. I think that the sight of women and gay men being beaten by leftists because they support the presumptive GOP nominee, having it happen in full sight of police ordered to do nothing AND SEEING THOSE OFFICERS CHOOSING TO LET THEM BE BEATEN means that they can not count on the authorities to obey their oaths of office if they think doing so might cost them their jobs.
Even worse than this is the obvious question it raises: If leftists are willing to resort to violence and boast about it before an election when it might hurt their ability to persuade the people to vote for them, how much more willing will they be to violently suppress their political foes when such behavior is rewarded with electoral victory by the people?
Thus my conclusion:
And the single best temporal step will be the election of Donald Trump and the breaking of the power of those Americans who have decided their fellow citizens are the enemy.
Again I don’t take this step lightly, I know that there will be times that Donald Trump will disappointment me just as I expected Mitt Romney to disappoint me on social issues and John McCain to disappoint me on immigration and George W Bush who disappointed me on spending and the bank bailouts.
But while Trump will occasionally disappoint me (when he does I’ll call him on it) I am convinced he will neither persecute me nor strip me of my rights for holding my Conservative Catholic beliefs and acting on them.
I am very sorry to say I can not make that same statement about Hillary Clinton, and I’m even sorrier to see the day when I would say this about a presidential candidate.
That was July 3rd just before the GOP convention. In October when the left’s October Surprise of the Billy Bush tape dropped a lot of people cut and ran.
I didn’t:
Now I concede this is bad, not only in terms of what was said but what it implies. I strongly disapprove of it as I suspect many others like me do.
And that’s why I’ve chosen this moment, Catholic Blogger that I am, to double down and re-endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States!
Why would I do this? Quite simple, I’m not going to let myself be played. Let me explain.
My reasons were simple:
Nothing on that tape changes these truths. Clinton is going to persecute me, Trump is not.
Furthermore in terms of electability there is one thing that still favors Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton.
I must confess at the time I didn’t realize how true that statement actually was:
But here are the two key sections:
No this is about convincing those who still have to values to allow the election of someone who not only is directly opposed to all you hold dear but will persecute you on every level. This is about tricking you into letting go of your one chance to stop your own destruction. They want you to lose your nerve. Furthermore they want the GOP to lose their nerve and the press will do all they can do enable it.
In other words they are counting on you to be suckers.
And the results of the magic ballots in 2020 proved the point I made to Jonah Goldberg in spades:
Update 4: I respect Jonah Goldberg whose point is valid:
Either way, this video is not an aberration. It is not a special circumstance. It’s him. There’s no pivot in him. There’s no “presidential” switch to flip. He’s Donald Trump all the way down.
However given the reality that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States I ask Jonah this question:
If we concede that Donald Trump’s character is bad, Would it be better for the country to have a President of poor character who will be under intense scrutiny by the press, pols and law enforcement agencies (Trump) or to have a President of poor character who will be given a pass and or defended by the press, the pols and apparently the FBI regardless of what they say or do (Hillary).
I submit and suggest the answer is clearly the former.
Trump has proved that such a concession on Character is not necessary. I am and have been astounded at the quality of his character. It’s a coarse character which reminds me of many of the WW2 vets I knew as a youth but it’s a strong character which is a was a huge surprise given where he came from.
And to those now saying “He’s an election denier” let me answer with my favorite phrase on election 2020:
Joe Biden won election 2020 as sure as the Cincinnati Reds won the 1919 world series
But not let’s flash forward to 2026. It’s a mid-term election. Trump is not running for anything and will be gone in two years. His list of accomplishments is mind blowing that he’s done it in the face of the opposition and resistance from his own party in the Senate is even more incredible.
But let’s put that aside for one moment. I referred to this election as the Pastor Hall election. Let me explain why.
Pastor Hall is a movie from 1940 that I recently discovered which stared one of the most forgotten great actors of his time Wilfred Lawton as a protestant Pastor in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party who stands up and speaks out about what has happened to his country & is sent to a concentration camp because of it,
What’s interesting about the movie are these trivia quotes from IMDB
This film was officially banned in Chicago by the city’s police censor board, which deemed it “exceedingly controversial.”
Completed before WW2, but shelved at the behest of US distributors United Artists for fear of offending the Third Reich.
In the late ’30s, when the Boulting brothers submitted the script to the British Board of Film Censors (a common practice for years), it was rejected as unsuitable. The board claimed that it would have a negative effect on the Prime Minister’s attempt to make peace with Hitler. However, after war broke out, the film was instantly put into production as an anti-Nazi tract.
What’s really amazing is that it was argued that the portrayal of the Nazi concentration camps was considered too over the top to be real & a slander. The irony was in fact that the reality was so many degrees beyond what the movie suggested that if the US Army at the direction of IKE had not made sure things were documents and made sure the troops saw the reality people wouldn’t have believed it and many are still in denial today.
That bluntly is the state of the left.
10 years ago I wrote about my fears of what the left would do & quoted some of them above, reality has shown itself to be far worse than anything I had imagined from
- the celebrations of the murder of Charlie Kirk for daring to engage
- to the multiple attempts on Trump’s life
- to the wholesale taking over of parts of cities
- The refusal to enforce laws or prosecute violent crime
- The withholding of FEMA funds to concervatives in National disasters
and a lot more I could say but I have to be somewhere shortly.
Put simply if you told 2006 me when I was 43 years old that the Democrat left would be openly doing the things & and openly advancing the things that they are, I would have called you a conspiracy nut.
It is quite evident that the reality is much worse than I ever dreamed.
Now I’ll concede that this is a midterm election, that even if the Democrats win the house and senate Trump will still be Trump and will do all he can for the country, but frankly I’ve reached a point where I don’t put anything past either the violent irrational people who are now the loudest on the left or the cowards who are silently consenting to their advancement out of a combination of fear, profit indifference or tribalism.
The statement from 2016 still stands: I trust Trump to protect my rights as an American, I can’t trust the Democrats to do the same and I now have 10 years of evidence to support that distrust.
I know I don’t have the reach and the oomph that I once did but I urge any of you considering sitting on the fence for this election to get out and vote for your own rights, because never forget in the history of the world, American freedom and prosperity are the exception, not the rule and if we lose it, it will be our own fault.
Closing thought: Take a look at the coup attempt currently in progress in Poland for daring to defy the EU. That is what the left has in store for us once they are strong enough to try it.
You have been warned.
