Monday, April 15, 2024

Peddling fear with rosary in hand

 Silvio Canto, Jr.    "Does anyone remember the 2020 campaign?   

 "I mean the one where one candidate hid in the basement and walked out to buy ice cream once in awhile. 
 "Yes, the "moderate" or the man who was going to make things normal again after the chaotic Trump presidency. 
 "Yes, Scranton Joe who walked with a rosary and was going to bring us together by getting everyone to work together.  
 "Well, the moderate never never lived up to the billing.  Instead, he's governed more like Bernie Sanders or Beto O'Rourke.  Everything we feared about a socialist Sanders presidency or anti-AR-15 Robert Francis O'Rourke performance is coming true with Joe Biden.
 "The so-called "moderate" is now buying votes by cancelling college loans and having the first lady tell the LGBTQ crowd that #45 is a bully:" . . .

. . ."Overall, the Trump presidency was better for the LGBTQers than the Biden term.  These citizens paid less for food and gasoline.  There was more order on the border and the world seemed a bit more calm.
 "Mrs. Biden reminded them that "...marriage equality is now the law of the land, gay men can donate blood, trans Americans can serve in military, and end convergent [sic] therapy."
 "Again, was any of that threatened by the Trump presidency?   Any gay men denied donating blood?  The blood truck comes by our church 2-3 times a year and I never saw a sign like "gays need not donate."
 "So the fear machine is roaring forward.  They can't ask you to vote for them on their record, so they want you to vote against Trump.  
 "In the meantime, the moderate who was going to bring together has a master’s in division and a Ph.D. in peddling fear.
 "And he does it all rosary in hand!"

President Joe Biden doubled-down on his Catholic faith and his pro-abortion policies Sunday. "Let me be clear," he said to reporters as he exited Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. "If you're not okay with women aborting their babies, then you ain't Catholic, Jack!" . . .

"President Joe Biden has long claimed to be a very serious Catholic, the kind who goes to Mass regularly and keeps a rich prayer and devotional life. At times he even claims to accept unpopular teachings of the church, including the teaching that human life begins at conception.

"But many Catholics say that Biden, while raised a cultural Catholic, is subject to the ideology of his party and its leaders, who actually run the show when it comes to how he governs as president. As such, they argue, his Catholicism only shows up if it happens to rhyme with big d Democratic values.

"Which is really a way of asking, What does it mean to claim one is Catholic?" . . .

"It’s true that these are complex issues. A Catholic politician who has views at odds with the ideology of his or her party may wrestle with how to be fair, and their pronouncements and policies would at least invite others to wrestle with them as well. The authentic struggle of putting the truth of the faith at the heart of one’s life is a visible one, and a strong leader can allow others to see it in him."

Iran Strikes Israel: Biden’s Doctrine of ‘Don’t’ Fails | National Review 

 . . ." Though President Biden did the right thing by deploying American assets to assist Israel’s defensive response, the reality is that things never would have gotten to this point had it not been for his accommodating policies toward Iran and months of chastising Israel.
Looking further back, the origins of last night’s Iranian aggression could be traced to his former boss." . . .

 . . ."Thanks to the policies of the Obama and Biden administrations, Iran — which has vowed to destroy Israel as a step toward its ultimate goal of “Death to America” — has thousands more ballistic missiles it could fire at Israel." . . .

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