The authors (Viganò and Janet Smith) justification why Catholics should vote for Trump. That those who are not voting for him are misinformed through the media. That there are serious problems with some of Trump’s policies which a Catholic cannot agree with but ….. vote for Trump.
Tucker Carlson has praised Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s “insightful” letter to American Catholics urging them to vote for Donald Trump.
“A remarkably insightful description of what’s at stake in this election from Catholic Archbishop Carlo Viganò. Please read this,” Carlson wrote Thursday on X before sharing the complete text of His Excellency’s message.
A good case can be made for not voting or voting for a third-party candidate in “non-swing” states, but I believe it imperative for Catholics to vote for Trump in swing states. Indeed, somewhat indirectly, Cardinal Burke makes a strong case for this perspective.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump expressed support for Israel’s offensives against Hamas and Hezbollah in a recent call with the country’s prime minister
Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu in one call this month, “Do what you have to do,”
“He didn’t tell him what to do militarily, but he expressed that he was impressed by the pagers,” …“He expressed his awe for their military operations and what they have done.”
International doctors who have volunteered in Gaza hospitals have said that they have never seen any Hamas fighters running around any hospital.
The Catholics endorsing and advocating for Trump, do they also endorse:
– Trump’s support for Israel’s offensives?
– His advice to Netanyahu: “Do what you have to do?”
There are many, many, many more examples of the Israeli offensives that have been posted on this blog.
Trump supports the Israeli offensives on:
the innocent civilians, those ill in hospitals, the medical professionals who look after them, the journalists who report on the war, Palestinians whose land and homes are being stolen by the settlers…..
And those who endorse Trump support his support for:
the Israeli offensives and agree with his advice to Do what you have to do.
Esme, your contribution to the blog is much appreciated.
Thank you. That means a lot. 🙂 Sometimes the words just flow, and other times it can feel surprisingly difficult to convey the meaning you’d like to on these platforms. Especially with people you’ve never met, however much they might seem kindred spirits. You don’t have the shared ‘shorthand’, the mutual understanding and trust, of people who know each other well ‘in real life’. Words can be misinterpreted, meaning Lost in Translation (sorry, another gratuitous movie link – Bill Murray, karaoke, a shared experience of Japan as a foreigner – what’s not to like?)
…
I’ve commented on other blogs before, but things I appreciate about this one: genuinely critical thinking and intellectual honesty that reflects these times (while some supposed “freedom” blogs – like the big-name, highfalutin conferences, alliances etc out there – still promote, or at least start from the false premise of, a genuine, democratic voting choice – how to communicate on such different wavelengths?); unapologetic expressions of Christianity and acknowledgement of the reality of Christian persecution around the world; no domineering zealots hurling insults and shouting down different opinions…
But mostly I’m grateful for the opportunity of a sense of a simple (virtual) conversation which you don’t always get in throwing a comment on the pile for unpredictable ‘moderation’.
As you’ve said, kaysee, in amongst all the other activities of daily life, it can be hard to find the time to comment here regularly – let alone on multiple blogs you’d like to support – but it’s good to do what we can, when we can.
EXCLUSIVE
Qld election day’s exit poll shockwaves: Labor surges, election too close to call
The Queensland election result will come down to the wire, as exclusive exit polling reveals the two major parties are neck-and-neck as voting closes.
The Courier-Mail polled 2000 voters as they cast their ballots at a cross-section of electorates today, with the final tally revealing 33.9 per cent of voters had backed the LNP, while Labor was just 0.3 points behind with 33.6 per cent of the vote.
The results show an incredible comeback for the Miles Government, who trailed 48-30 in The Courier-Mail’s first exit poll, conducted on October 14.
Israeli Ambassador interrogated by LBC callers | Key moments
It may sound sexist but it’s especially hard to watch and listen to these deflections from a woman. I guess that’s why women are ‘useful’ in such positions.
There might be a topic that you or mh would be interested in, kaysee? Since I’ve already had a turn
If you have a topic, post it. We can have multiple Muse Room threads open at the same time.
No need to be politely waiting your turn to post something here. ˚◡˚
There are so many points I want to post on – both in the Posts section as well as the Muse Room……but….. time. Right now, my brain is saturated with some of the major world events.
Sometimes the words just flow, and other times it can feel surprisingly difficult to convey the meaning you’d like to on these platforms. Especially with people you’ve never met, however much they might seem kindred spirits.
Yes, sometimes we mean to say something but the words don’t get typed out the way we want. Then you read your own comment after it appears on the thread and think “Oh, no”. But, then, it is not as if there is some limit on words or number of comments. We can post another comment to clarify.
In a setting, like this one, there are just a few of us on the site. Adam’s blog rule: the No D- -kheads Policy is really good. It means that we treat the commenters and the blog with respect. Anyone can disagree with or debate what is posted on the blog, but it has to be free from abuse, sniping or ridicule.
There are enough problems in real life; there is no point coming to a blog if we have fights and unpleasantness. I see it as “the WEF-fing enemies outside our gates”, not in here.
US Elections – Continuing from yesterday
The Cult- Follow the leader
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Many people who work at polling booths do it as volunteers. It is long hours and they don’t get paid very much. There are clear rules for voters when they come to vote: No political signs or logos.
Early voting has opened. I just came across this clip and I have a question for you:
Which is worse:
What the Magadonian said and did, OR the response of the GOP VP nominee?
2/ Maga Influencer-1
Leading the McCult. Make America McDonald’s Again.
‘Sad’ seems too small a word to cover the ‘conservatives’ for Trump/’right of centre’ politics/Israel, directing people to a three-hour Joe Rogan interview for an exercise of their “critical thinking”. Anyone with intact critical faculties doesn’t need to know any more about the Father of the Vaccines.
If you have a topic, post it. We can have multiple Muse Room threads open at the same time.
No need to be politely waiting your turn to post something here. ˚◡˚
There are so many points I want to post on – both in the Posts section as well as the Muse Room……but….. time. Right now, my brain is saturated with some of the major world events.
Thank you, kaysee 🙂 I understand and can relate. I feel inspired to focus on something positive and forward-looking. Have some thoughts and ideas. It is a challenge when we’re surrounded by the uniparty timewarp though!
Extremist influencer Candace Owens’ Australian visa cancelled
Tony Burke said Candace Owens’ remarks about minority groups has the “capacity to incite discord in almost every direction”.
So the “free” Australian public square is vacuum sealed against such “extremist”, now ban-tainted utterances (what were they again?), and people pushing for the ban behind the scenes can pretend they had nothing to do with it. Ban speech – who, us?
Shades of the Novak Djokovic Covid “vaccine” ejection – for our “safety”. This time, to avoid “discord”.
7News Queensland’s latest promotional campaign celebrating the arrival of its new co-anchor has reportedly stirred up controversy among industry peers.
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The new co-anchor is an activist
7NEWS Brisbane
@7NewsBrisbane
Robbie Katter joins the 7NEWS panel for a debate on women’s reproductive rights.
We have posted plenty on Zionism in our Open Threads, but I am trying to put info in the threads dedicated to this ongoing war so that it will be easy to find links and proof of the genocide, if we need to later on.
Robbie Katter joins the 7NEWS panel for a debate on women’s reproductive rights.
He handled that pretty well. And he’s right that she doesn’t speak for all women. The idea of killing my unborn baby – another human being, created in God’s image, with as much right to live as I have – would’ve caused me more “angst” than any possible suffering or inconvenience of my own.
And what about adoption? Very few babies available for adoption nowadays. They never even countenance that as an option. As though it’s unheard of, unthinkable, that a woman might selflessly carry a baby to term, and let him or live, to be looked after by someone else. It’s all or nothing.
Four Israeli Soldiers Killed in Southern Lebanon Combat, IDF Announces
An initial IDF probe into the event says the force was caught by surprise by three Hezbollah militants hiding in a building. The militants threw grenades and shot toward the soldiers when a fire broke out, making the structure collapse
“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.
“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life…
“I have always believed it is critical for people to take care of themselves first,” Melania Trump writes. “It’s a very straightforward concept; in fact, we are all born with a set of fundamental rights, including the right to enjoy our lives. We are all entitled to maintain a gratifying and dignified existence…
Saying “timing matters”, Melania Trump also defends the right to abortion later in pregnancy.
Because timing matters, these statements come out now, not during the greatest, most widespread infringements of “individual liberty” in our lifetime, which her husband’s regime oversaw with Covid. When there was to be no talk of “my body, my choice”, nothing about people “taking care of themselves first”, even absent any real threat, as has since been acknowledged.
And, as usual with these statements, there are many words about the adult woman, her agency, her rights, her life – of which she may happily have already enjoyed a significant proportion. But very few words allocated to the innocent unborn child, the life yet to be lived, the life denied. And always that cold, clinical “terminate”, for the snuffing out of a tiny, helpless human being.
And the male voice muttering “oh my God” at the reminder that there are “babies in this equation as well; they need representation”. The tragic irony that the God (casually, unintentionally) invoked would be on Katter’s side, on the ‘side’ of the innocent baby, not these smilingbreakfasttvtotalitarians. They actually make me feel physically ill, the ‘well-made-up monster’ characters they play. I know we should pray for them.
Yes. The babies need representation. Those who haven’t yet been given the chance to take an independent breath.
Two articles on Catholic websites.
The authors (Viganò and Janet Smith) justification why Catholics should vote for Trump. That those who are not voting for him are misinformed through the media. That there are serious problems with some of Trump’s policies which a Catholic cannot agree with but ….. vote for Trump.
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Tucker Carlson shares Archbishop Viganò’s ‘remarkably insightful’ letter endorsing Trump
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On the Brink
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Trump gives Netanyahu “Key to the White House”
Oct 2024
Trump signals support in call with Netanyahu:
‘Do what you have to do’
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International doctors who have volunteered in Gaza hospitals have said that they have never seen any Hamas fighters running around any hospital.
The Catholics endorsing and advocating for Trump, do they also endorse:
– Trump’s support for Israel’s offensives?
– His advice to Netanyahu: “Do what you have to do?”
Offensives like this?
Kamal Adwan hospital-1
Kamal Adwan hospital-2
Elderly Palestinian lady
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Do what you have to do?
Christians in the Holy Land
The genocide
Lebanese journalists
There are many, many, many more examples of the Israeli offensives that have been posted on this blog.
Trump supports the Israeli offensives on:
the innocent civilians, those ill in hospitals, the medical professionals who look after them, the journalists who report on the war, Palestinians whose land and homes are being stolen by the settlers…..
And those who endorse Trump support his support for:
the Israeli offensives and agree with his advice to Do what you have to do.
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Thank you. That means a lot. 🙂 Sometimes the words just flow, and other times it can feel surprisingly difficult to convey the meaning you’d like to on these platforms. Especially with people you’ve never met, however much they might seem kindred spirits. You don’t have the shared ‘shorthand’, the mutual understanding and trust, of people who know each other well ‘in real life’. Words can be misinterpreted, meaning Lost in Translation (sorry, another gratuitous movie link – Bill Murray, karaoke, a shared experience of Japan as a foreigner – what’s not to like?)
…
I’ve commented on other blogs before, but things I appreciate about this one: genuinely critical thinking and intellectual honesty that reflects these times (while some supposed “freedom” blogs – like the big-name, highfalutin conferences, alliances etc out there – still promote, or at least start from the false premise of, a genuine, democratic voting choice – how to communicate on such different wavelengths?); unapologetic expressions of Christianity and acknowledgement of the reality of Christian persecution around the world; no domineering zealots hurling insults and shouting down different opinions…
But mostly I’m grateful for the opportunity of a sense of a simple (virtual) conversation which you don’t always get in throwing a comment on the pile for unpredictable ‘moderation’.
As you’ve said, kaysee, in amongst all the other activities of daily life, it can be hard to find the time to comment here regularly – let alone on multiple blogs you’d like to support – but it’s good to do what we can, when we can.
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Says it all, doesn’t it. The clear compromise.
He would, wouldn’t he.
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He says:
Did he mean “deafening”? Either works, I guess.
Thank you for highlighting this, kaysee.
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Courier Mail
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I voted:
1 LNP
2 ONP
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It may sound sexist but it’s especially hard to watch and listen to these deflections from a woman. I guess that’s why women are ‘useful’ in such positions.
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I voted with a (Christian) cross over the ballot paper.
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This could be added on the ballot paper for voters to check one of these options:
○ Agree
○ Disagree
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If you have a topic, post it. We can have multiple Muse Room threads open at the same time.
No need to be politely waiting your turn to post something here. ˚◡˚
There are so many points I want to post on – both in the Posts section as well as the Muse Room……but….. time. Right now, my brain is saturated with some of the major world events.
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Max Blumenthal interviews Hamas spokesman on October 7
The Grayzone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JSXYVhVYQ&t=459s
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⬆️ From the beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JSXYVhVYQ
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Yes, sometimes we mean to say something but the words don’t get typed out the way we want. Then you read your own comment after it appears on the thread and think “Oh, no”. But, then, it is not as if there is some limit on words or number of comments. We can post another comment to clarify.
In a setting, like this one, there are just a few of us on the site. Adam’s blog rule: the
No D- -kheads Policy is really good. It means that we treat the commenters and the blog with respect. Anyone can disagree with or debate what is posted on the blog, but it has to be free from abuse, sniping or ridicule.
There are enough problems in real life; there is no point coming to a blog if we have fights and unpleasantness. I see it as “the WEF-fing enemies outside our gates”, not in here.
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OMG, no wonder I don’t watch a lot of Aussie tv.
Robbie Katter MP is getting grilled by a female CH 7 election coverage anchor on abortion. She’s carrying on like a pork chop. What an old bat.
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Powerline’s The week in Pictures: Hitler Homecoming Week Edition
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The standard of journalism in QLD:
Courier Mail
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Andrew Bolt will be happy.
The Age
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We don’t this sort of thing in Australia
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Coalition easily wins majority government in QLD
ABC headline
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US Elections – Continuing from yesterday
The Cult- Follow the leader
1/
Many people who work at polling booths do it as volunteers. It is long hours and they don’t get paid very much. There are clear rules for voters when they come to vote:
No political signs or logos.
Early voting has opened. I just came across this clip and I have a question for you:
Which is worse:
What the Magadonian said and did, OR the response of the GOP VP nominee?
2/
Maga Influencer-1
Leading the McCult. Make America McDonald’s Again.
3/
Maga Influencer-2
Preparing the cult for another J6.
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Brian interviewing the cult.
Brian-1
Brian-2
Brian-3
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It is about MIGA not MAGA.
Three “Vote for Trump” ads appealing to Jewish voters.
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Trump Ad-1
From the Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund
One of the replies
Whoever wrote this script is *not* Jewish.
These ladies would not end their chat with “amen!”
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Trump Ad-2
Origins unknown
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Trump Ad-3
From the same coalition in Ad-1
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Opinions on the election/voting from American citizens or world citizens.
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‘Sad’ seems too small a word to cover the ‘conservatives’ for Trump/’right of centre’ politics/Israel, directing people to a three-hour Joe Rogan interview for an exercise of their “critical thinking”. Anyone with intact critical faculties doesn’t need to know any more about the Father of the Vaccines.
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Thank you, kaysee 🙂 I understand and can relate. I feel inspired to focus on something positive and forward-looking. Have some thoughts and ideas. It is a challenge when we’re surrounded by the uniparty timewarp though!
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I was just putting together the clips for my next comment related to that interview. It doesn’t fit into the Citizen series.
(The Joe Rogan interview with Trump yesterday)
Before the interview
One reply predicted:
LOL at you thinking Rogan will push the father of our Covid response
After the interview
JP says
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Citizen-8
Citizen-9
……
(To be continued)
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Thank you.
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So the “free” Australian public square is vacuum sealed against such “extremist”, now ban-tainted utterances (what were they again?), and people pushing for the ban behind the scenes can pretend they had nothing to do with it. Ban speech – who, us?
Shades of the Novak Djokovic Covid “vaccine” ejection – for our “safety”. This time, to avoid “discord”.
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Sorry for disrupting your flow, kaysee
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Dan Bilzerian
@DanBilzerian
If you’ve got a pair of balls, repost this
https://x.com/DanBilzerian/status/1850166967472201920
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The new co-anchor is an activist
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What’s that?
You didn’t disrupt anything.
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In 18 hours it has 24K reposts and 45K likes.
We have posted plenty on Zionism in our Open Threads, but I am trying to put info in the threads dedicated to this ongoing war so that it will be easy to find links and proof of the genocide, if we need to later on.
More from Rick Wiles.
2% control the rest
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Michael Tracey
The caliber of US political debate on Israel and the Middle East is a global laughingstock
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He handled that pretty well. And he’s right that she doesn’t speak for all women. The idea of killing my unborn baby – another human being, created in God’s image, with as much right to live as I have – would’ve caused me more “angst” than any possible suffering or inconvenience of my own.
And what about adoption? Very few babies available for adoption nowadays. They never even countenance that as an option. As though it’s unheard of, unthinkable, that a woman might selflessly carry a baby to term, and let him or live, to be looked after by someone else. It’s all or nothing.
Some of the comments are surprisingly reassuring.
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And for this Sunday…
I Love to Tell the Story
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A Ponderable
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Notice she rolled her eyes at the end.
She is a disgrace, a partisan hack, and CH7 News MUST move her on.
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Trump called him a Palestinian.
This is becoming cartoonish.
Cartoonishly evil.
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It’s a good message at least, from a public figure whose utterances have been deemed unacceptable for free Australia
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Melania Trump on “abortion rights”:
Because timing matters, these statements come out now, not during the greatest, most widespread infringements of “individual liberty” in our lifetime, which her husband’s regime oversaw with Covid. When there was to be no talk of “my body, my choice”, nothing about people “taking care of themselves first”, even absent any real threat, as has since been acknowledged.
And, as usual with these statements, there are many words about the adult woman, her agency, her rights, her life – of which she may happily have already enjoyed a significant proportion. But very few words allocated to the innocent unborn child, the life yet to be lived, the life denied. And always that cold, clinical “terminate”, for the snuffing out of a tiny, helpless human being.
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And the male voice muttering “oh my God” at the reminder that there are “babies in this equation as well; they need representation”. The tragic irony that the God (casually, unintentionally) invoked would be on Katter’s side, on the ‘side’ of the innocent baby, not these smilingbreakfasttvtotalitarians. They actually make me feel physically ill, the ‘well-made-up monster’ characters they play. I know we should pray for them.
Yes. The babies need representation. Those who haven’t yet been given the chance to take an independent breath.
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I like this.
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BRICS
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