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Ok I must confess I didn’t see this coming:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president on Wednesday via filings with the Federal Election Commission.

The 69-year-old’s bid is considered a long shot in an effort to replace President Joe Biden in 2024. Kennedy Jr. is the second Democratic candidate to announce a bid for the White House. Author Marianne Williamson is also running in the Democratic race. Biden has not yet declared that he is seeking reelection.

Well the Dollar is collapsing as an international currency and Biden is as popular as a wart even among democrats and while Yahoo is loudly calling RFK and “anti-vaxxer” you will find there is a sizable amount of democrats not so keen on the whole “shots today, shots tomorrow shots forever” business. As Hotair notes:

No one, other than Fauci and the CDC, was a bigger vaccine nag than Joe Biden. It has only been recently that Biden has let up on talking about the vaccines every time he speaks. Even after evidence began emerging that the vaccines were not as effective as once thought, and sometimes downright dangerous to the health of some people, Biden and his administration continued to insist that everyone get the COVID-19 vaccine. People lost their jobs for not getting jabbed, including members of the military, and everyday Americans lost their ability to attend events if they couldn’t produce proof of receiving the vaccine. Our lives have never been the same. There is a lot of resentment in public opinion now over how the pandemic was handled so Kennedy will have some level of support built in.

I suspect there are plenty of dems in blue states who lost jobs over this who would be delighted to turn out for this along with some republicans who haven’t forgotten Trumps support of the vaccine.

There’s not enough old folks who still think “Camelot” for the Kennedy name to mean much but I suspect while the MSM laughs this off there will be a little bit of oomph there.

Anyways it will be fun to see how it works out.

Holy Week begins with a small vanity announcement. The Mother of Mercy Catholic Center is now carrying my book Hail Mary the Perfect Protestant (and Catholic) Prayer.

When I saw the Canadian Government is sponsoring a drag camp for kids I’m reminded that before Christianity became big the sexualization of children was the norm in pagan places which explains why you see it advancing in post Christian societies

The two Red Sox games so far this year is a pretty good sign of what we are going to see this season: A team with no pitching that scores a lot of runs.

Much to my shock I was able to take Tampa Bay to five games and was actually up two games to one at one point so I put the fear of God in him.

Can someone explain to me why the guy who asked the ChatGPT to make a joke about Jesus (it did) but refused to make a joke about Muhammad (out of respect for religious sensitives) why he didn’t ask ChatGPT why Muhammad is off limits but Jesus isn’t?

There are many advantages to being a Sicilian. The great genes from being from a land conquered by just about every nation that ever lived, the food, but the biggest one is that people tend to leave you alone and not mess with you as articulated by Don Corleone in the opening scene of the Godfather

But one of the disadvantages, at least to me, is the instinct to take revenge.

Sicilians don’t just take revenge like other people they take generational revenge. When one harms a Sicilian that person puts their grandchildren and great grandchildren at risk. I’ve known of people worried about vengeance for actions done a century and a half previous and acting accordingly It’s one of the reasons why you never see rioters cross over into certain neighborhoods in certain cities.

Now most people and communities don’t have that instinct toward revenge squared but the reaction by the left that I mentioned yesterday concerning the shooting up of a Christian School and the killing of kids there is just the type of thing to bring out the Sicilian in a lot of people, and frankly the Trump indictment which implicit ally says “If we can do this to him we can do this to you” makes it worse.

All of this brings out the normal human instinct to start putting such people up against walls, particularly when they are making open threats or celebrating violence against you and yours

It’s then, when you are being driven toward that instinct that, if you are any sort of the Christian, Catholic or Protestant that these words of Christ slap you across your face

The direct admonition of Christ to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you is one of the most basic non-optional doctrines of the Christian faith. It is completely opposed to basic human instinct to strike back. It’s the most non-Sicilian thing in the world and is, in my opinion, even harder than the admonitions against lust and sex outside of marriage in the faith.

But it is the thing that prevents us from entering into a self destructive cycle because nothing makes a person more worthy to be put up against the wall then to start putting their foes there first.

Loving your enemies prevents all the horrors of Communism and Nazism because it forces you to see the person in front of you as a child of God, loved by him and whose sins have been paid for by the sacrifice of Christ. It reminds you that said enemy is only one good confession away from turning away from the pit.

That’s why it’s so important to practice in life.

Or to put it another way Heaven will be no less glorious and hell no less unbearable if you find someone you didn’t expect next to you there.