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Red-Brown-Green Alliance in Five Acts. Good read!

I think people ought to strongly consider Barbie's theses and arguments here. For my own part I'll note that the conservative right has made amazing strides in public approval and the left has consistently discredited itself with its extreme, anti-American, anti-law enforcement, anti-life, anti-sanity positions. The left, however, is relentless and will never die, no matter how manifestly wrong and destructive their policies. No matter how proudly godless they are. So we are constantly on notice that we must always be vigilant, and vigorously combat the left, as relentlessly as they attack us and everything we consider good, noble and beautiful. But now it has become obvious thanks to people like @DefiyantlyFree and @ConceptualJames and many others, that we have another flank to worry about. This unholy alliance, as Barbie calls it, is real and it's dangerous. I don't intend to elaborate on any points Barbie has made here and in her first piece on this and other posts, because she's been clear enough. Instead, I just want to focus on one aspect of this. As I've written many times, I reject the charge that those of us focusing our attention on the Woke Right and other varieties of anti-semites, is not infighting and it is not destructive to our cause. The Woke Right is not conservative. It is not the actual right. Apart from their heinous anti-semitic, anti-Israel bile, they are promoting other policies and ideas that are anything but Christian, conservative, capitalistic, or America First. But the problem is that these insidious people lie about where they're coming from. They gained their big audiences masquerading as conservatives and they are continuing to position themselves as conservatives even though their positions are not. As Barbie and others have presciently noted, one of their main lines of attack is to divide Christians, with the goal of undermining primarily evangelical support for conservative, Republican, America First policies and coalitions. Evangelical Christians, objectively speaking, have been the bulwark of conservative political power. But conservative Catholics are an essential part of the coalition too. Just because evangelicals represent a larger percentage of the coalition doesn't mean conservative Catholics aren't fundamentally important to it as well. It's not like we have a wide margin going forward against leftists and Democrats anyway. But here's my concern, which I have stated before, though perhaps from different angles. I believe the unholy alliance is doing everything it can to drive a wedge between Catholics and evangelicals. (For those who believe this is a far-fetched conspiracy theory, then choose to believe it's not by design. It is nevertheless intrinsic to their activism and so it might as well be intentional.) For moral reasons alone we must resist this effort to alienate evangelicals from Catholics and vice versa. It is just wrong. We can love each other and resist this poison for all the right reasons. But we must also resist it for pragmatic reasons, i.e., our very political viability and ultimately, our national survival. Too many people on both sides of this aisle are taking the bait. I refuse to. Too many from each side are calling the other heretics, and worse. We don't have to agree on theology to be respectful and to not accuse each other of inauthenticity and blasphemy. Please don't make the mistake of assuming I don't understand some of the very strong, sometimes fundamental theological differences we have. But my theology tells me we don't have to pass a theology exam to be saved. The question is whether one has saving faith in Jesus Christ. All kinds of people have that despite their theological errors and ignorance and regardless of their denomination. (I know some Catholics believe all evangelicals are heretics for betraying the real church of Rome. And I realize some evangelicals believe Catholics are part of the "whore of Babylon.") Just stop it. Enough. But I don't even want to get bogged down in theology here because I realize some from both sides will adamantly say the other side isn't saved, etc. OK, if you think that, then try to evangelize, not demonize those who disagree. Don't ridicule, proselytize. But while your at it recognize that the unholy alliance is baiting all of us -- trying to infuriate each side against the other. And when we take the bait we hurt God's cause and America's cause. But there's an important nuance. Despite my general admonition to both sides not to maliciously slam the other, there's an important exception, i.e., this does not mean we cannot strongly condemn certain members of each group for the destruction they're fomenting. That is, Tucker Carlson, for example, doesn't get a pass for loudly asserting his Christianity. Rather, he deserves condemnation for blaspheming under the banner of Christianity and pretending to be a super-patriot while undermining America and its interests at every turn. And please understand this as coming from a Catholic-respecting evangelical, there are a number of high profile woke right Catholics who are deliberately alienating evangelicals hoping they'll fire back so that they can then hide behind their Catholicism to dupe other well-meaning Catholics into believing the criticism of them is theology-based. It is theology based to the extent we believe they are cheating and misrepresenting their own theology but it is primarily based on their evil political intentions and the actual destruction they are causing. So I will continue to criticize individual Catholics (and evangelicals) if I believe they are harming America's interests, and dividing the conservative and Republican coalition, among other things. But let's not allow ourselves to be drawn into battle against well-meaning people on both sides who wrongly assume our attack is bigoted against Catholics or evangelicals. That's precisely what these wrongdoers want. So, please keep a sharp eye out there for these evil forces whose aim (or at the very least, whose actions will result in) chaos, destruction and implosion of conservative and America interests. Finally, please review and consider all of Barbie's other points -- especially "multipolarity" and who's behind it and how the unholy alliance is advancing it to gut America of its power, liberty, and uniqueness.

I'll give him credit for creative backtracking.

@HornSports It's legit cute to watch lil' bro celebrate his super bowl.

Texas Tech fans aren’t impressed. Disorganized, didn’t even surround the bus. Lots of work to do for 2028.

That image is what happens when Paula White is your personal pastor and people around you are continually comparing you to Christ. Trump desperately needs to understand the bad news that precedes the Good News: you are a helpless sinner in desperate need of a Savior, as we all once were.

I was already pretty sure that Russell Brand was a last days deceiver, but this pretty much seals the deal.

You're welcome to come down here if you like, but Paxton's gonna win regardless. #TXSen

Pretty sure you should just plan to come on down anyway, Scott. 😉 🗳️ Texas Republicans will be delighted to rally with you and with Gen @KenPaxtonTX to get out the vote AND support the SAVE America Act! 🪪 + 🇺🇸

Free markets And civil society Lifting more people out of poverty than any government ever will

I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy. But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.

Now for a serious tweet, this is utter blasphemy and Christians should not be afraid to call it out.

The Lakotas stole that land from other tribes. Then didn't fight hard enough to keep it. History doesn't care what losers want.

When a Russian agent tells you he’s a Russian agent, believe him.

The primary *inherent* problem with antizionism, that is calling for the destruction of the state of the Jewish people, it’s not that it’s antisemitic, even though it often is, but it’s always genocidal. There is no way the state will be destroyed without expelling or murdering the Jewish population. In my interactions with antizionists, they sometimes deny that this is inevitable, but they very rarely will agree that if that were the likely outcome, they would abandon antizionism.

Our idiot mayor will now start putting mom and pop grocery stores/ bodegas in Harlem outta bizz

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I generally agree, but the forecast was also terrible for Austin and we got an extra inning softball game in today. #HookEm

The community note on this one is a doozy.

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