HOT TAKES: Bud Light Twitter Account Face-Plants Into the Weekend, Gets Brutally Roasted on the Way Down

"There is an old saying "If you walk the middle of the fence you get shot on both sides" This is why you stay away from these topics in marketing. Its beer "We are Bud Light, we are for the people that like to have fun with their friends at a BBQ, a wedding, a brisk" See how hard is that and I don't even have a degree from Harvard." Joey - Master of Wit and Sarcasm

RedState  "Anheuser-Busch is starting to realize that its dive into the pool of wokeness was a major mistake. As RedState reported, sales of Bud Light have crashed since the beer brand decided to celebrate Dylan Mulvaney’s supposed “365th day of girlhood” by printing his face on the side of a can and making him a brand influencer.

Things have gotten so bad for Bud Light that all advertising for the beer has been suspended until top executives can evaluate what in the world happened here and how to move forward. Of course, we know what happened. A far-left vice president of advertising got hired and immediately nuked the company with its most loyal consumer base. Namely, white men who aren’t really into the whole “man pretending to be a young girl” thing.

First this: Anheuser-Busch Puts out a New Statement on Dylan Mulvaney That Will Make No One Happy – RedState

This should air NON STOP before 2024 election!!!!! https://t.co/yilvd5yOZP

— SF Conservative PATRIOT 🇺🇸 (@SF_Conservative) April 5, 2023

 Nike hands real women a real insult - American Thinker  "Dylan Mulvaney is a young man who wanted to be an actor.  He has five credits on his IMDB listing. Like many actors when they first start out, Dylan was having trouble making his dreams come true.  Rather than pay his dues as a man, he found a different way to achieve stardom.  He decided to market himself as a woman during the pandemic after a Broadway musical he was appearing in closed.  And a star was born, or perhaps I should say spawned.

"Dylan started a TikTok series called Days of Girlhood, where he documented all the strange things a man must do to superficially resemble a woman (or at least a stereotype of a very young woman, circa 1955).  He now has millions of adoring fans.

"He has scooped up endorsements for everything from cosmetics to light beer.  He's making a fortune with his claims that he really is a woman.  His latest achievement is marketing sportswear for Nike, including sports bras.  However, considering that a man does not have a need for the support that a sports bra provides, this may be the straw that broke the camel's back.". . .

UPDATE: #BoycottHersheys Campaign Goes Viral, Company Accused of Erasing Women (americanpigeon.org)

. . ."Shortly after, #BoycottHersheys began trending on Twitter, with notable accounts such as @LeftismForU encouraging its followers to get the hashtag trending to first place.

"Oli London, a British influencer who began his detransition from a “Korean woman” called the campaign a “disrespect to real women.” He also included a screenshot of a tweet by Johnstone that advocated for “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” to be “vilified” and “shut down.”

"A year ago, Hershey celebrated women’s day without pandering to transgenders, writing, “Girls rule. Who are the women and girls in your life you’re celebrating? CelebrateSHE.' ”. . .

Amish Farmer Threatened for Not Giving Up Traditional Farming

 The Epoch Times.com

"Rebel News calls this recent court-ordered armed threat “an attack on Amish religious freedom just 150 miles from Washington, D.C.”

"Armed federal agents were used to threaten a traditional Amish farmer just 150 miles outside Washington, D.C., who does not use pesticides, fertilizer, or gas to run his farm.

• Amos Miller, an Amish farmer and owner of Miller’s Organic Farm just 150 miles from Washington, D.C., has been under the USDA’s microscope since at least 2015.
• It was the National Organic Program from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that first launched an investigation in 2015, seeking all the food club’s purchase records and a list of members who pay a premium to get food from an independent farmer who doesn’t process meat and dairy at a USDA facility.
• Miller has helped organize private food clubs where individuals can purchase produce, dairy, and meat from traditional farmers; the Department of Justice (DOJ) seems intent on stamping them out.
• While Miller produces and sells organic meat, dairy, and eggs, “experts” are pushing fake junk food for billions in profits, including the current “sustainable, plant-based” consumables that resemble convenience store food more than whole food.
•  Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) meat, dairy, and eggs are also not the answer to a healthy society and environment. There is a better solution and Amos Miller is using it—regenerative farming has a lower carbon footprint than either CAFOs or plant-based products, protects human health, and improves the environment.

"Historically, experts believe that food cultivation has been widely established for roughly 7,000 years.[1] While many of today’s farmers have embraced the agribusiness evolution that took over U.S. farmland, there are some, like Amos Miller and his 4,000 customers, who believe the old ways are still the best ways. Unfortunately, as reported in this short video from Rebel News,[2] the U.S. government does not agree.". . .

Honor the rank, not the man. Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached?

To think; back when in the Marines I and my unit would have had to draw up in ranks and present arms to honor this man. It wouldn't help to say "We honor the rank, not the man". TD

The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

"Our enemies do not fear us, our allies judge us unreliable, and neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join."  Victor Davis Hanson

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Biden is the most amoral President in US history - American Thinker

Biden will go down in history as the most corrupt, the most nationally and globally disastrous and the dumbest President in American history.  If we are to prevail as a constitutional republic, the American people better wake-up and fight for everything they cherish – family, freedom and basic human and civil rights – or it will be gone in the blink of an eye.  It began with Obama and that crowd is determined to carry out their plan to transform America.  They’ve been remarkably successful to the detriment of us all. 

Bravery, Then and Now - American Thinker   . . ."Why aren’t Republicans demanding that their representative draw up articles of impeachment against Joe Biden?  The man has obviously committed not only an impeachable offense, but a treasonous one, if it can be demonstrated that he was “the big guy” getting 10% of profits from his son’s energy deal with the Chinese Communist Party.  But even if he wasn’t “the big guy,” the man sold oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the Chinse Government, which is and should be an impeachable offense.  No, it does not require one to be decorated with medals and have legendary war stories to tell in today’s woke world in order to be brave and make a change, in today’s world it just requires having a spine not made of Jell-O.  Having this basic qualification is necessary to protect and preserve the liberties, way of life, and government that the men of Easy Company, the band of brothers, fought, bled, and died for."

Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached? – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"American voters are a thick-skinned lot, and know pretty much that many politicians are scoundrels. But Biden is a different breed.

"His family has, for years, received mysterious piles of money — we’re talking millions of dollars here — from questionable overseas sources, including Chinese Communist-linked executives, Russians with ties to Vladimir Putin and huge sums from Ukraine and its giant Burisma energy company.

"The latest revelation is just stunning.". . .

What were they thinking at Bud Light?

UPDATE: Anheuser-Busch CEO Issues Statement After Dylan Mulvaney Beer Can Scandal (breitbart.com)

 What were they thinking at Bud Light? - American Thinker   . . ."If Bud Light decides to align its branding with the LGBT crowd, so be it.  I don't drink the stuff anyway, but if others decide to abandon it in favor of a label more aligned with themselves, that is, or should be, their choice.  But will it be?  Or is the left going to use this as leverage to divide us further by shaming all those who don't embrace the LGBT-endorsed products?. . ." 

Here Are All the Brands Owned by Bud Light's Parent Company Anheuser-Busch (resistthemainstream.com)

It's Not Just Bud Light: These 13 Major Brands Are Also Partnered with Transgender Dylan Mulvaney (westernjournal.com)  

The Only Way Out Is Through - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"A decade ago, around the time liberals were boycotting Chick-fil-A en masse due to the devout Christian beliefs and strongly held views on marriage of the company’s founder and managers, many on the Right refused to countenance reciprocating with such “nasty” tactics, preferring instead to seize an illusory moral high ground. But concerted economic boycotts, it turns out, work: They are effectual punishments of one’s cultural enemies using the undoubtedly legitimate means of market pressure. The Right, it turns out, can mass-organize just like the Left can. Perhaps Anheuser-Busch will see the folly of its ham-fisted attempt to foist the transgender agenda down the throats of its disapproving — “fratty,” to use the Bud Light vice president of marketing’s now-infamous description — customer base. Or perhaps it won’t. Regardless, the dramatic and successful pushback, which continues almost two weeks later, underscores that the only way out is through.

"Consider also the recent drama in Tennessee, where the Republican-dominated state House of Representatives recently voted to expel two Democrats for their role in fomenting what the hyperpartisan corporate press, if the parties were reversed, would not hesitate to describe as an “insurrection.” Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are both clearly seen on video ginning up a frothing pro-gun control mob that descended upon the legislative chamber to demand more Second Amendment restrictions after a transgender lunatic decided to shoot up a local Christian school. In the video, Jones and Pearson can be clearly seen shouting into a bullhorn, flying protest signs, and leading vapid chants for protesters in the gallery — all of which flouts Tennessee House rules.". . .

Riley Gaines rips Nike for partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney: ‘They can forget taking my money’ - Bistosh World  . . ." Gaines appeared on OutKick’s “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” and joked that she has not been given an offer from Nike.

“And I don’t anticipate that happening. I don’t know if they can understand the mockery [Mulvaney’s deal] makes of women, especially the video of Dylan — I guess portraying what he thinks women look like when we work out — doing jumping jacks . . ."

"Hunter The Handler"

 Biden takes questions from kids in Ireland - and Hunter steps in to give instructions | Daily Mail Online  Now we know why Joe and Hunter seem joined at the hip. (As is Hunter with many working girls.) TD

'Any of you guys want to ask me any questions?' Biden asked the children.

 He then got distracted by a youngster holding a toy model of Air Force One. 

Then he turned his attention back to the crowd.

'In the back. He's got a question,' Hunter told his father. 

 The kid then asked the president to describe the 'top step' to success.

 Biden went into a long-winded answer about Senator Helms 'who was "not very crazy about African Americans.

" 'Oh, what's the key to success? 

You know what I found out is the key to success? 

And I'm not sure I'm the best guy to explain it; these guys can tell you,' he says. 

'The key to success is whenever you disagree with someone, it's okay to question their judgment — whether they're right or wrong — but it's never okay to question their motive. 

If you question their motive, then you never get to be able to agree. 

'For example, if you say to somebody, "The reason why you don't agree with me is because you are stupid, you are bad, you are — you just don't like the people I like."

You mean the people you spoke of here, Joe?

Vatican Apologizes to the ‘Infidel Enemies of the Christian Name’ –

 "That 'dialogue' only resumed, after al-Tayeb broke it off during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, when Francis agreed not to criticize Islam or speak out against Muslim persecution of Christians. Al-Tayeb, meanwhile, made no similar concessions. The 'dialogue' is entirely one-sided," Spencer noted.    Christians Slam Pope Francis' "Abomination of Desolation"

 Raymond Ibrahim; PJ Media . . .While the above sounds open-minded and “progressive,” the all-important context is, as usual, missing. The above-referenced bulls, or edicts, were primarily focused on neutralizing Muslim powers that were otherwise terrorizing virtually every corner of Christendom.

"For example, Dum Diversas was issued the same year (1452) that Sultan Muhammad II laid siege to Constantinople, leading to that ancient Christian city’s brutal fall in 1453.  At the same time, Muslims from North Africa were terrorizing Spain and the broader Mediterranean through constant and devastating slave raids. Whether in Christendom’s furthest east (Constantinople), then, or furthest west (Spain), Muslims were massacring and enslaving countless Christians.

"As such, these bulls, like so many before them, were designed to inspire Europeans to rise up and defend Christendom against Muslims — to “restrain the savage excesses of the Saracens and of other infidels, enemies of the Christian name,” to quote from the Romanus Pontifex.

"Because some of these bulls deal with Christians invading and seeking to conquer North Africa, modern-day “enemies of the Christian name” have sought to spin these as unprovoked wars of conquest and colonization.  For example, the Romanus Pontifex authorized King Alfonso V of Portugal (1432–1481) to “invade [North Africa], conquer, defeat and subjugate all Saracens and pagans and other enemies of Christ,” and to “enslave their persons perpetually” and seize their possessions for profit.". . .

Again, such ruthless language must not be read in a vacuum.  The atrocities Muslims were committing against nearby Christians, especially against the subjects of Spain and Portugal, make Islamic State (“ISIS”) atrocities seem like child’s play. It was all-out war to the death.

Moreover, while expeditions into North Africa were very similar to the Crusades, in that they featured Christians traveling to and seeking to conquer Muslim lands, often left out is that all of these “Muslim lands” — all of North Africa and the Middle East — were Christian first, centuries before Islam invaded and conquered them in the seventh century.

Raymond Ibrahim, an expert in Islamic history and doctrine, is the author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (2022); Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018); Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013); and The Al Qaeda Reader . . .

Joe Biden confuses All Blacks with Black and Tans during Ireland trip

Joe Biden confuses All Blacks with Black and Tans during Ireland trip | Joe Biden | The Guardian White House edits transcript after US president referred to military force rather than New Zealand rugby team

The All Blacks team

"The White House has corrected a gaffe by Joe Biden that confused New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the British military force known as the Black and Tans that terrorised Ireland.

"An official transcript of the remarks released on Thursday crossed out “Black and Tans” and inserted “All Blacks” instead.

"The US president made the slip during a speech in the Windsor pub in Dundalk on Wednesday night on the first day of his three-day visit to Ireland.

"Biden was thanking Rob Kearney, a distant cousin who played in an Irish rugby team that beat New Zealand, for the tie he was wearing. “This was given to me by one of these guys, right here. He was a hell of a rugby player. He beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.”

"Ireland’s rugby team won a famous victory against the All Blacks at Soldier Field in Chicago in 2016.". . . 

In Ireland, most commentary seemed to view it as funny and harmless. The Irish Times called it a “delicious gaffe”, while the Irish Mirror said Biden had left people “in stitches”. Twitter users called it a highlight of the trip. “A fantastic Freudian slip. Good lad Joe,” said one. . . .

Then there are the Black and Tans.   The real history behind The Black and Tans in Ireland (irishcentral.com)    "The Black and Tans were a force of Temporary Constables recruited to assist the Royal Irish Constabulary in maintaining control over the IRA during the Irish War of Independence. They were generally thought of as the scum of the British system - looking for British ex-soldiers turned psychopaths, turning them into an evil, murderous militia and releasing them from jails into Ireland.

"Not so, says author David Leeson. And a review of the book by Eunan O'Halpin in The Irish Times says it will open many eyes.". . ."Among the major surprises, I found while reading O'Halpin's review was that many of the Black and Tans were actually Irish-born and that regular British soldiers were far more likely to commit atrocities.

"He writes: "Leeson’s careful analysis of Black and Tan recruitment disposes of the widely altered charge that these temporary policemen were the sweepings of the British penal system. Rather, they were a miscellany of British and Irish ex-servicemen, almost none of whom had criminal records.' ". . .

White House edits transcript after US president referred to military force rather than New Zealand rugby team

Why You Should Never Order A Black And Tan In Ireland | VinePair  "It would seem pretty un-offensive to call the drink a Black and Tan since it’s, well, black. And tan. But as with “Irish car bomb,” though maybe less obviously, the term Black and Tan has a totally different connotation in Irish history. (fairly recent Irish history, at that) “Black and Tan” was the nickname given to the British paramilitary force “formed to suppress the Irish independence movement in 1920 and 1921.” They were mostly of ex-servicemen who’d served in World War I and they all wore khakis and dark shirts."

I don't want to go home: Biden jokes that he wants to STAY in Ireland as he meets President Michael Higgins after White House was forced to correct his 'Black and Tans' gaffe - and brings son Hunter and sister Valerie along

 - and brings son Hunter and sister Valerie along.

The Best Memes From The Joe Biden/Black And Tans Gaffe | Balls.ie  "Yesterday's Joe Biden 'Black and Tans' gaffe is destined to go down in Irish cultural history with moments such as the time we entered Dustin into the Eurovision or when we legalised ecstasy for the day. Surreal and down right bizarre.

"As a quick recap; Biden was discussing Ireland's famous win over New Zealand in Chicago in 2016, but referred to the Southern Hemisphere side as the 'All Black and Tans'.

"The story has been picked up all over the world, most notably with the White House addressing the mistake and Sky News getting into a bother about it.

" 'Officials say Biden is having the time of his life reconnecting with his Irish heritage.

"  'But they also had to play clean-up on Biden's gaffe when he muddled the Black and Tans, a British force that brutally put down Irish insurgents in the 1920s, with the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team.". . .

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report - Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)

" The Carousel of Hope Charity Ball announced Friday that the fundraiser will be held this fall at the Beverly Hilton. It's a big charity event where movie stars serve as dealers in the casino. One possible problem is, what do you say if Will Smith is your Blackjack dealer and you need another card?

"The White House was reported Monday to be hiring popular social media influencers to spread goodwill toward President Biden, influencers that include young women who dance on TikTok. So the President of the United States is paying women dancers to say they love him. Like father, like son.

"Beer Business Daily website reported that Americans drank a total of six billion gallons of beer in 2022. It takes creative marketing for new brands to attract the public's attention. Anheuser Busch received tremendous publicity last week when it introduced its new beer Bud Light in the Loafers.

"Beer Business Daily website reported that Americans drank a total of six billion gallons of beer in 2022. It takes creative marketing for new brands to attract the public's attention. Anheuser Busch received tremendous publicity last week when it introduced its new beer Bud Light in the Loafers.

" China conducted naval, army and missile drills in the Straits of Taiwan last Saturday in anger over U.S. congressional meetings with Taiwan. During the drill, China fired missiles that landed in the ocean, short of Taiwan. The Taiwanese naturally assumed they were being attacked by North Korea. .

Millions Have Voted For Trump Since 2020 — With Their Feet

But not every city in America is suffering these maladies. And the ones that are getting hit worst are all controlled by Democrats. They are the ones who pushed draconian lockdowns, needlessly shuttered their schools, forced people to wear masks (even outdoors), required vaccine passports, let crime run rampant, punished their residents with high taxes, and suffocated businesses with onerous regulations. Cities that haven’t followed this script aren’t seeing their people flee in droves.

Millions Have Voted For Trump Since 2020 — With Their Feet – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)  "Over the past two years, vast numbers of Americans picked up and moved. In a mobile society like ours, that’s not news. What is news is where they are moving from, and where they are going to.

"Turns out, there’s a mass exodus underway, with people leaving Biden strongholds and heading to MAGA country.

"New Census data show that, from 2021 to 2022, more than 2 million people moved out of urban areas that are largely controlled by Democrats and relocated to exurbs and more rural areas that largely voted for Donald Trump.

"Los Angeles County, for example, had a net ex-migration of more than 363,000 over the past two years. Cook County, Illinois, lost 200,000. In New York, New York County lost 109,000, Queens County, 158,000, and Kings County, 187,000. Philadelphia County sank 52,000.

"In Texas, a state where Trump beat Joe Biden 52%-46%, the two counties that saw the largest ex-migration – Dallas and Harris – both went heavily for Biden. Combined they had a net loss of 130,000 people.

"The two biggest gainers in Texas – Collin and Denton counties – went for Trump. They had a net gain of 120,000. Another big gainer – Montgomery County – voted 71% for Trump.

"Salt Lake County, Utah, (which went for Biden 58%-39% in a state Trump carried 58%-38%), lost 20,000 people.". . .

"The counties in Virginia that saw the biggest outflow of people are all ones that went heavily for Biden.". . .

Still not convinced? Take a look at these two maps in the gallery below. One, produced by the Census Department, shows net migration from 2021 to 2022. The other (click on the arrow) shows the 2020 election results by county. Notice how, across the country, the places losing population almost all voted for Biden, and the ones gaining are almost all Trump counties.

The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares War

 The Fighting Sixty-Ninth: Irish New York Declares War - Long Island Wins "When Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, it was not clear what New York’s best-known regiment would do. The New York State Militia’s “Fighting Irish” 69th Infantry Regiment was one of the most controversial, and beloved, military units in the United States. But its loyalty to the Union and its willingness to submit to Lincoln’s control were in doubt.

"Today we think of militias as paramilitary groups attached to extremist political movements. Historians like to compare Civil War-era militias to today’s National Guard: part-time soldiers under state control who could be federalized in times of national emergency. Upon closer examination, however, we find that the militia units of 1861 were not exact counterparts of either.

"The 69th New York was formed in 1849. The city was flooding with refugees from the Potato Famine and exiles connected with the failed 1848 revolt against British rule. Irish immigrant leaders saw the formation of an Irish military unit as a way of focusing a dispirited community on a future in which they would be able to challenge their overlords.

"The leadership of the regiment would come from a cadre of recent nationalist exiles associated with the Young Ireland revolutionary movement who believed that Irish in their homeland and in the growing diaspora needed an armed force to win respect.". . . 

. . .

The evidence against Hunter and Joe Biden that is already public is voluminous. It’s not clear what they are still hiding.

 

CHINA COUGHS UP THE DOCUMENTS: Releases Proof of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of Payments from China Firm to Hunter Biden - And They're Just Getting Started! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft    "As The Gateway Pundit has reported – the connections and business dealings between Communist China and the Biden Crime Family are numerous.

"Colorado Attorney Kevin Evans says the Biden Department of Justice is hiding hundreds of documents on gifts Joe and Hunter Biden received from China.

"Evans sued the DOJ in March after he said the agency failed to comply with his Freedom of Information Act request for records about the overseas business relationships of Joe Biden’s son and brother James Biden.

"The Gateway Pundit reported on the giant diamond gifted to Hunter Biden from Ye Jianming, then the chairman of CEFC China Energy Company. The Gateway Pundit reported in

October 2020 that this diamond was estimated to be worth $80,000. Hunter claimed it was worth $10,000.". . .

Why are There so Few Christians in the West?

 The Postil Magazine

A concern for both Catholics and Protestants. The caveat, however, is that the Scriptures speak of a "falling away" in the last time and that God has ordained the paths of nations and the Church. "The church", meaning all believers in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; those basing their salvation on that alone. The Tunnel Dweller

"Christianity has become a minority religion in Europe, the place of its influence: how did this come about and what is the future of Christians in the West? Why are there so few Christians in the West?

” ' For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things” (Phil 3:18-19). Do these lines of St. Paul, written two thousand years ago, not apply to our present world? Let us add this question asked by Christ: ” But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8). These words challenge us, when the question of God seems to be of little interest to Westerners, when they are in the minority in believing in God and even less in practicing what the religion of their fathers prescribes for them, even though no one here can ignore the existence of Christianity, even though many people are unaware of what it actually is and what it teaches.

"Many books have been written on the reasons for the de-Christianization of the West, its secularization and the fall in the number of practicing Catholics. External and internal causes are usually put forward. Among the former, we can largely mention the long movement of emancipation of man from his traditional dependencies (God, nature, culture), with the nominalist revolution and the affirmation of sovereign reason from the Renaissance onwards; thus, without denying faith at first, God was progressively put aside. At the personal level on the one hand, the rise of individualism, to the detriment of holism, caused a dissociation between spiritual life, belonging to the private sphere, and public life. [In politics, holism refers to a society where the group, the whole, predominates over the individual, the part.]

"At the political level, on the other hand, a clear separation between the temporal and spiritual orders was established, giving total primacy to the former. With the French Revolution and the disappearance of “Christendom,” the movement accelerated and sometimes took on a strong anti-Christian tone, as in France with the secular laws that led to the 1905 separation. At that moment, God’s sovereignty over the city was largely destroyed—there yet remained to destroy the sovereignty of the natural moral law and the heritage of culture so that the will of man would no longer have any obstacle. We are there today, gender theory and Wokism being the final stages of the deconstruction of the classical anthropology shaped by Christianity.

"On the side of internal causes, by oversimplifying, two types of explanations clash. The “progressives,” who had hoped that the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) would mark a clean break with the past, believe that the decline of Catholicism is due to the Church’s still reactionary positions, positions that are not understood by our contemporaries; they therefore advocate an opening to the world and its demands, especially moral ones (contraception, abortion, same-sex marriage, abolition of celibacy for priests and desacralization of the office, ordination of women, etc.). Some “traditionalists” defend the exact opposite point of view: Vatican II caused a rupture in the Church’s Magisterium and in its liturgy, a rupture caused by a rejection of the past and an excessive openness to the world, which manifested itself in a generalized stampede that explains the sharp drop in religious practice and vocations; the remedy would be a “forgetting” of Vatican II and a certain return to the pre-conciliar Church. Between these two somewhat caricatural extremes, there are all kinds of nuances, including those who consider internal causes to be negligible.

"External justifications have certainly played a major role in the decline of Christianity in Europe. As for the internal causes, the “progressive” explanations are far from reality. . . ."

BLM, Eco-harpies, Trans Loons, and Femi-nags Are All Marxists, But Christianity Is the Cure – PJ Media  . . ."The leaders of the left-wing fringe groups — referred to as “sleepers” or “sleeper cells” — wait for a triggering event to spring into action. A perfect example would be the death of Saintly George Floyd. (Emphasis mine, TD)

"If the true goal of BLM is to help black people, why would they destroy black communities around the nation? They wouldn’t. The actions of BLM — with the help of Antifa — were focused on two goals: to get rich; and to destroy as much of America as possible. What could be more Marxist than that?....

"A  Milwaukee, Wis., thug named Sylville Smith pulled a gun on cops in 2016 and was shot by a black policeman. Race played no part in this incident, yet “protestors” began burning down a black neighborhood in Milwaukee. Smith’s younger sister, unaware that Marxists were behind the violence, urged rioters to go burn down the suburbs where white people lived instead. The Communist News Network (CNN) dutifully edited the tape to try to show the angry little lady as a peacekeeper and not the violent racist she is. The violent Marxists on the ground did their job, as did the sneaky, lying tovarishes at CNN.