Clarissa Riddles

I’m so over it! It’s the smug self assurance of those who aren’t sure how to let us simpletons know about the high moral status which they have obtained through grandiose gestures of radical compassion towards enemies of western civilization, while they smile with contempt at people from their own family and country who don’t think exactly like them.

This is absolutely true & I encounter it frequently when I have clients who are here from California. I *literally* was just talking about this exact thing last night with my husband. I had a woman a couple of days ago who was from LA, here in Iowa temporarily for work. She was telling me how she had just visited a historic mansion in our neighboring city; how it was nice but it was nothing like “Well, you probably haven’t ever heard of this, but Hearst Castle—“ “I know what Hearst Castle is.” My dad is from LA. I spent a lot of time there visiting family as a kid. Secondly, Hearst Castle is famous. But, I’m a country bumpkin & I’ve never heard of anything outside my little flyover state, right? I’m so unworldly & unenlightened. This conversation happened after other complaints about Iowa had already occurred. For some reason, it seems to be a common thing that Californians come here & complain about the Midwest TO the native midwesterners they are talking to—like, you’re expecting to…commiserate with me about how my state sucks?? It’s so common that’s it’s a cliche. And, it’s not just the denigrating of the Midwest, it’s an entire ethos of malcontent & judgmental superiority that differs from people from other places. I just had a guy here from Baltimore, telling me how much he loved Iowa & he couldn’t believe how kind & welcoming Iowans are. He was here for grad school & was like, “I could see staying here. It’s so great.” I love Southern California, & I miss visiting it, but it’s not a magical place with magical people who are somehow better than everyone else. I just wanted to say to that lady, “It’s you who is dull & closed-minded. You expect everyone else to think the exact same as you, & that every place you visit should be just like your home.” This is the same general attitude I recognize in so many around me who are on the Left. They accuse everyone else of being ignorant & unenlightened, when it is precisely them who have insulated themselves in an echo chamber of ideological conformity & an assumption of personal superiority. Gross.

@AllyJKiss @Omoteni Pathetic

Disgusting and idiotic. Megyn Kelly: What happens to Trump now? Tucker Carlson: Trump’s going to be 80 next month and will be dead very soon. Things could be worse with someone like Gavin Newsom because, unlike Trump, Gavin is NOT INCOMPETENT.

@AntSpeaks @jonsac The macabre imbecility of having to listen to Piers and his guests who talk over anyone that could potentially illuminate a subject is so tedious. So now they can’t even distinguish between genocidal regimes like Iran and a democracy like Israel. Absolutely pathetic

Huge respect for @jonsac for putting up with these ignorant, incredulous, ill-informed morons, including Piers Morgan. NO Western nation is fully transparent about how many nukes it has. That’s a fact. As usual, Piers turned up completely unprepared.

@liam_out_loud 👏👏👏

As society becomes more feminized it increasingly operates like a daycare where there are only three roles: 1. Infants (the oppressed/helpless): To be protected. 2. Caregivers (the allies): To administer protection. 3. Predators (the dissenters): to be removed.

You make some good points. I have contemplated this too- but I think the issue would arise in the unforetold meeting between humans and other types of intelligent beings that are supposedly NOT malevolent in the event that aliens claim to have esoteric knowledge about the nature and the destiny of man that shifts our perspective to believe that we can transcend the limits of sin and death through knowledge and technology

If aliens exist, and they're demons, it doesn't impact my faith. If they exist, and they're angels, it doesn't impact my faith. I see no Biblical reason for creatures traditionally understood to be purely spiritual to actually have physical forms and technology or to live somewhere physically outside of earth. Biblically, angelic beings had swords, chariots, and more mysterious modes of transport (see Ezekiel), and there's many Biblical passages that talk about God's rule over specific stars and constellations, including the Pleiades, which is the alleged origin of a popular alien of alleged encounters. If aliens exist, and they're just other races of greater or lesser intelligence or technology than humans, it doesn't impact my faith. The Bible tells the story of God's interaction with Earth: the curse on Earth, the redemption of Earth. Escatology includes the heavens and the stars, but the whole "aliens can't exist because did Jesus die for them?" argument has just always been nonsensical to me. C.S. Lewis' space trilogy does a great job imagining a universe with all three of these types of aliens that does not contradict Scripture.

Funny, it’s been on my mind to rewatch this again too. Haven’t seen it for over 10 years. I’m going to watch it again this wknd. I agree, that this revived antisemitism is eerily reminiscent of what happened in Germany and since the battle is spiritual, it cannot be comprehended through reason alone. This is a resurgence of an ancient demonic hatred that foretells of the end of the age.

I just watched Schindlers List. Hadn’t watched it in awhile. It hits me the same every time. A man who was self serving who woke up to what was happening. Spent all the money he had on saving 1100 Jews. Today there are over 8000 descendants of survivors alive. But the biggest thing that hits me I’m 78 and always wondered how could the world sit by and not stop it. And now I understand exactly how it happened. It’s just been under the surface until Satan said now is the time. I believe in God and my savior Jesus. We are all going to spend eternity somewhere. Make sure you know where There are no do overs. The world is getting darker and darker. Gods patience will run out. The film also makes me ashamed I didn’t do more with my life

In our voracious quest for knowledge and the desire to become like our creator, mankind forgot that the pursuit of knowledge without love is catastrophically deleterious-and that the great responsibility of divine love is more than a mere man can endure. The awful responsibility of divine love as demonstrated in Christ’s passion ought to have conveyed the limits of this pursuit, as greater gifts come with greater responsibility and becoming like God necessarily entails the suffering of sacrifice. The extravagant gift of being made in God’s image was corrupted when Satan imperceptibly diffused the alluring perfume of rebellion into the atmosphere of our descent-and insensibly lured us away from our rightful place in the universe and that grateful fidelity to our creator which could have reconciled us to God. Have we forgotten that only perfect love can create and that hate must destroy? We have been blinded by the seductive beauty of knowledge that entices us with false promises of unrestricted progression towards enlightenment. In the feverish yearning to transcend beyond what the wisdom of divine providence has established as limits for our existence, we are straining to become what we cannot possibly be, and to know what has been forbidden to us- Creation is the flower of perfect love-if hatred is in our hearts, we are doomed to destroy what remains.

@VerminusM 👏👏👏

The reason Western students love the keffiyeh so much is because they consider being White and Middle Class the ultimate evil and this terrorist rag allows them to hide their whiteness and wealth and cosplay as oppressed people of color.

@cie_papegai @brivael 👏👏👏

@brivael La gauche est la religion séculière de la modernité, sa grande espérance collective. Une religion se contredit difficilement, sa foi est auto-perçue comme le vrai, le bon, le bien ; le scepticisme et la critique envers cette foi sont un égarement pour l'humanité.

Une chose qu'il faut comprendre quand on débat avec des communistes en 2026 : on ne gagne jamais. Non pas parce qu'ils ont raison. Mais parce qu'ils ont fait du déni du réel une méthode, et de l'esquive un art martial. J'ai passé la journée à répondre à deux d'entre eux sur le Livre Noir du Communisme. À chaque coup porté, même chorégraphie. Ils ne contestent jamais le fond. Ils glissent. "La source est datée." "Les coauteurs ont désavoué." "Courtois a dit une horreur sur Abu Ghraib." "Le capitalisme aussi a tué des gens." "Mao a augmenté l'espérance de vie." À chaque fois qu'on rebouche un trou, ils en creusent un autre. Jamais aucun chiffre alternatif. Jamais aucun bilan opposé. Jamais aucune historiographie de remplacement. Juste de la détestation pour le messager. C'est qu'ils ne peuvent pas faire autrement. Le réel les contredit trop violemment. Entre 65 et 100 millions de morts au XXe siècle. Toutes les fois où leur idéologie a été appliquée, partout, sans exception, elle a produit des charniers. URSS, Chine, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Cuba, Venezuela. Aucun contre-exemple. Aucune "version qui a marché". Aucun pays où ça s'est bien passé. Face à ça, deux options honnêtes : assumer ou renoncer. Ils choisissent la troisième, le sophisme perpétuel. Isoler un fait précis pour décrédibiliser l'ensemble. Une querelle de chiffrage entre coauteurs devient "le livre est invalidé". Une phrase malheureuse de Courtois en 2004 devient "la totalité du travail historique est suspecte". C'est une technique. Pas un argument. Et c'est là que ça devient intéressant psychologiquement. Parce qu'au bout de la méthode du déni, il y a toujours, historiquement, la même issue. Quand le réel résiste trop à l'idéologie, on ne change pas l'idéologie. On supprime le réel. Et le réel, ce sont des gens. Des paysans qui refusent la collectivisation. Des intellectuels qui doutent. Des entrepreneurs qui produisent. Des religieux qui prièrent. Des dissidents qui parlent. C'est l'invariant absolu du communisme appliqué. Pas un dérapage, pas une "mauvaise application", pas une trahison de l'idéal. Une conséquence mécanique. Quand votre système suppose que le réel va se plier à votre théorie, et que le réel refuse, vous avez deux options : abandonner la théorie, ou éliminer ceux qui incarnent le réel. L'histoire montre lequel des deux choix a été fait, partout, systématiquement. Et voici la partie qui devrait glacer tout le monde : ces gens-là, en 2026, sur X, qui pratiquent l'esquive, le sophisme, la réécriture, la disqualification, sont les mêmes qui passent leurs journées à traiter la moitié de la planète de fasciste. Le libéral est fasciste. Le conservateur est fasciste. Le centriste est fasciste. L'entrepreneur est fasciste. Quiconque les contredit est, selon eux, dangereux, raciste, violent. C'est une projection. Une inversion accusatoire de manuel. Les porteurs de l'idéologie la plus meurtrière de l'histoire humaine accusent tous les autres de violence. Ceux dont les prédécesseurs intellectuels ont rempli les charniers de Vorkouta, de Phnom Penh, de la Mongolie intérieure, expliquent au reste de la société qui sont les vrais barbares. Il faut le voir clairement : c'est l'aboutissement logique du déni du réel. Quand on ne peut pas reconnaître ses propres morts, il faut bien les attribuer à quelqu'un. Donc on les attribue à l'autre. Le capitalisme a tué un milliard. Le libéralisme est un fascisme. La démocratie est une dictature. La liberté d'expression est une oppression. Les mots perdent leur sens, l'histoire se réécrit, le réel devient négociable. Et au bout de cette logique, toujours, il y a quelqu'un qu'il faut faire taire. Hier c'était au Goulag. Aujourd'hui c'est sur Twitter, par le bannissement social. Demain ? La leçon est simple. On ne convainc pas un communiste avec des faits. Le fait n'est pas son langage. Le fait est son ennemi. Ce qu'il faut, c'est démasquer la méthode publiquement, devant les lecteurs qui passent. Non pas pour le convertir lui. C'est perdu. Mais pour que les milliers de personnes qui lisent en silence comprennent comment fonctionne le procédé. Comment on isole un fait pour effacer un livre. Comment on disqualifie un homme pour effacer une science. Comment on accuse l'autre de la violence qu'on porte soi-même. Le vrai combat n'est pas avec eux. Il est avec les témoins. Et les témoins, eux, voient.

@Lantenac @brivael 👏😂

pkoi debattre des points technique, quand le seul debat est moral. Les cannibals n'ont pas le droit de voter ce que l'on va manger ce soir; les socialistes ne sont que des cannibaux de l'esprit et de l'effort; ils ont les deux des moyens immoraux : le cannibalisme d'autrui au service des autres. l'altruisme tel quel est le cancer. il rend a neant la valeur de l individu.

@GTitvs @brivael 👏😂

@brivael Je suis né dedans. Je connais très bien les communistes : un cancer de la société. C’est pire que le nazisme si l’on commence à classifier le mal absolu, même si cela n’a aucun intérêt. La place des communistes est soit en prison, soit dans un hôpital psychiatrique.

@brivael So true-perpetual sophistry! I’ve debated, engaged, etc. seems like is always a waste of precious energy-so many are in full flight from reality now

@benjaminbutter Followed!

I have lost 30 followers in an hour after sharing this video about anti-Semitism on my Instagram Story. How bloody revealing. If you are not a racist and want to follow me in the other place, I am here instagram.com/benjaminbutter

@JakeWSimons Demonic hatred

Honestly this really does say it all when you watch it with the sound on. This man’s daughter was killed on October 7! Just so sad and disturbing

@romanhelmetguy Precisely!!! 👏👏👏

People haven’t lost trust in “science,” they’ve lost trust in a self-selected self-perpetuating academic priest class who rely on constant alarmism or revisionism to secure funding and who look upon dissent as heretical to an extent that would make the medieval church blush.

@w_bitterman Amen! 👏👏👏

Why Would Demons Need Spaceships? By now many Christians have seen the claim making the rounds online. Supposedly there has been or may soon be, some kind of government meeting with pastors about UFOs, disclosure and possible implications for faith and Scripture. Whenever stories like that begin to spread, they tend to produce the same reaction. Some people become uneasy or fascinated. A Christian should probably do neither. Even if such a meeting did take place, it would not put the believer in any spiritual crisis or shake the authority of the Bible. And it certainly would not mean the church needs to start taking its cues from rumors, government briefings or internet speculation. The Christian faith does not stand on secrecy. It stands on revelation and God has already spoken. That is where our footing has to remain. For many years now, there have been people trying to use UFO claims and strange readings of history to explain away the Bible. These theories may sound impressive at first, but once examined they usually rest on poor scholarship, exaggerated claims, misused evidence and badly distorted Bible interpretation. That is still true. One of the great temptations in every age is to take whatever sounds mysterious, dress it in scientific language and then use it to push God to the margins. That is why these theories often gain traction. They offer people a thrilling way to talk about the unknown while avoiding the living God who made heaven and earth. But Scripture begins by settling the central question, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The Christian does not start with rumors in the sky. He starts with God. The heavens and the earth is His creation. The Bible does not present man as one intelligent race among many equal rivals in the universe. It presents man as uniquely made in God’s image and uniquely accountable to God. That matters greatly because once you lose that truth, every other truth begins to unravel. Sin is reduced to a defect and then salvation becomes self-improvement. Scripture keeps bringing us back to this reality: the great issue is not whether there are strange things in the heavens. The great issue is that man has sinned against God and stands in need of redemption. That is why Christians should be very cautious whenever someone says a new discovery will force us to rethink the Bible. Usually that means the Bible has already been set aside in favor of speculation. The faith is then rebuilt around fear and the thrill of hidden knowledge. That spirit is very old. A great many UFO reports are exaggerations and some are deliberate hoaxes. Some may be spiritual deception, since the devil has always loved counterfeit wonders. Christians do not need to mock every report, but neither should we be naive. The world is full of misread events and overconfident claims. This is where a calm mind helps. The Christian does not have to become excited every time the culture points upward. We are allowed to say that the universe is vast and that there may be many things we do not yet understand. But mystery itself is not a threat to biblical faith. In fact, Scripture already teaches that creation is filled with things beyond our grasp. “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever” (Deuteronomy 29:29). That verse is a great help here. God has not told us everything. He has told us what we need to know for life, salvation, obedience and hope. The church does not live on classified information. The church lives on revealed truth. And above all, God has spoken finally and clearly in His Son. Hebrews says, “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,” and then gives the line that steadies the whole church, “but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.” Christianity is not waiting for a government unveiling to complete the story. God’s final and fullest Word is Jesus Christ. That means whatever may be discovered in the heavens, it cannot outrank Christ. It cannot revise Christ. It cannot sit in judgment on Christ. The Lord Jesus is not one interesting figure in a crowded universe. He is the eternal Son of God through whom all things were made. He entered this world as a man, lived in perfect obedience, went to the cross for sinners, rose bodily from the grave and now reigns at the Father’s right hand. The center of Christian faith is not unexplained lights, hidden civilizations, or secret encounters. The center is a crucified and risen Savior. That is where the gospel comes in. Man’s deepest problem has never been that he lacks information about unusual things in the sky. His deepest problem is sin. We have broken God’s law and have loved darkness rather than light. We stand guilty before the God who made us. And no government disclosure can fix that. No secret meeting can reconcile a sinner to God. Only Jesus Christ can do that. At the cross, He bore the wrath sinners deserve. In the resurrection, He conquered death. And now He calls men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel. That remains the great need of the hour. Not inside information about cosmic speculation. The need is forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace with God through His Son. So how should a Christian respond to all this? First, refuse panic. If something is true, it will still be true tomorrow. You do not have to surrender your peace to a headline. Christ still reigns. Second, refuse gullibility. Claims should be examined carefully. Evidence should be tested. Scripture should be handled rightly. The church should never be impressed by a confident tone alone. Third, refuse theological drift. The moment a theory starts diminishing the God of Genesis, the Christ of the Gospels, the cross, the resurrection, or the uniqueness of man as God’s image-bearer, it is leading you away from the faith, not deeper into it. Fourth, keep your eyes on the main thing. The church has a commission from Christ....we preach the gospel, make disciples, worship God and we bury our dead in hope. We wait for the return of Jesus. Rumors about government meetings do not alter that calling for one second. In the end, the believer can be steady. Even if the government says more, Christians can listen without fear. Since the church can still open its Bible and say with confidence that God has spoken, Christ has come, Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again. That is enough. Actually, more than enough. The church does not need a new word from the sky. The church already has the living Word who came down from heaven to save sinners. And because of Him, the Christian can meet every rumor, every claim, and every supposed unveiling with a settled heart and an open Bible.

@GayRepublicSwag Maybe it’s more of a spiritual battle than what we realize Hatred is demonic

Genuine question… I really want to know. Why do Democrats hate Jews so much??? Hating Jews is foreign to me and I don’t understand it. Can anyone let me know?

@rich_toronto Personally, I love it when people have thoughts that vary from the proscribed party line! You are right though, it seems to be less and less acceptable these days

When did our world become so black and white? When did we become so divided and everything was an all-or-nothing proposition? When did we become so intolerable of other people’s positions and points of view? So closed-minded? Why is it people can’t support Trump and the work he’s doing in America and his support for Israel, without disagreeing on his stance on Ukraine? Or being upset with his tariffs against Canada or Mexico? Why can’t people question what Zelensky is doing, but still support Ukraine in the war with Russia? Why are people ending friendships that have lasted decades, because of who they support? When did our world become so polarizing and polarized? Recently I’ve had a few experiences that have made me more aware of just how far we’ve moved in this direction. I’ve had at least two people choose to unfollow me – one of whom got extremely agitated and upset – because I support Trump and because I criticize Trudeau. I was accused of being a traitor to Canada for referring to Trudeau as a cockwomble. Both of these people support Israel, so the disagreements had nothing to do with the war or Gaza. I had another person unfollow – and block me – because they didn’t quite understand something I was explaining. Why are people so quick to anger? And then, there was a post where I commended someone on not being so black and white, when they commended Trump for something he had done, even though they are not a fan or supporter of his. This one shocked me, as a number of people attacked the original poster, because they were trans. The post had nothing to do with being trans or men or women at all. Our world is splitting apart. We’re all on edge. Living in a powder keg and so many seem to have an incredibly short fuse. Why? How did we get to this point? What’s making us this way? Is it fear? Is it something else? And more importantly? How do we get back? I support Trump. I didn’t before Oct 7, but I do now. I believe he was the best possible option for America right now, and for Israel. I think his comments about Canada becoming the 51st state are silly, and I wouldn’t support that at all (unless it was the only way of saving Canada from becoming Canadikstan). I think the tariffs are absolutely awful, and I wish he’d let Canada know what he really wants so we can move forward. I believe in free speech and the second amendment, and I believe women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies – including the right to choose. I believe in mass deportations and programs to strip citizenship for people who want to destroy the countries they’re in. I believe in multiculturalism, when all cultures want the same thing and want to embrace the values of the countries they immigrate to. I gravitate towards Zionists, towards pro-Israel, and I believe that right now, our world is being split into two camps. Those who believe in Israel’s right to exist, who believe in the existence of the Jewish state, who believe in light over darkness, and those who wish to see Israel destroyed, who call for a global uprising, who want to see Western nations being conquered. I find myself more interested in communications with people who are critical thinkers, who are able to acknowledge when they don’t know something, or when they’re wrong, and people who are able to recognize that not everything in our world is black and white. You can support a politician, and disagree with some of their policies or decisions. You can support a country, and think they have a bad leader in place. You can be critical of someone’s decisions and actions, especially when they’re far reaching and impact you or people you love. You’re allowed to think. You’re allow to be your own person. You’re allowed to stray from the crowd, and even go against the grain. There are some absolutes in life, some things that are absolutely black and white, and we’re getting closer and closer to everyone in the world having to choose a side. Western civilization, or global Islamic caliphate. If we let every other issue polarize and divide us, it’s going to make it that much more difficult to rise up and defeat the evil that’s coming for us. We have to not let that happen.

I agree!!! Well said! I do think a lot of the shift is due to the oversimplification of the world into Marxist paradigm of oppressed vs oppressor thinking, group identity as opposed to individualism, and the prevailing identity politics that has saturated academia and the popular culture

Yes!!! 👏👏👏 The grotesque caricature of humanity that Marxism indulges, where only some are held responsible for their lives, others excused on the basis of some vague notion of historical oppression, twists justice into a farce. Reality is denied in favor of a more palatable theory that dehumanizes us into a mere group member

Il "Buon Selvaggio" non è un animale da accarezzare Smettetela. Smettetela di usare l’“Altro” come un peluche ideologico per pulirvi la coscienza sporca di benessere occidentale. La vostra infatuazione per l'Islam radicale e per le tradizioni più retrive del Medio Oriente non è accoglienza: è una forma perversa di #razzismo delle basse aspettative. Voi, che vedete il patriarcato in una pubblicità di profumo, diventate improvvisamente muti e deferenti di fronte allo #hijab o alla segregazione di genere. Elevate il velo a simbolo di "resistenza", ignorando che per milioni di donne è una divisa imposta dal terrore. Considerate queste tradizioni come una riserva indiana di "purezza" da proteggere dalla modernità, condannando le donne musulmane a vivere in un Medioevo perpetuo che voi non accettereste per un solo istante. Il vostro errore più tragico è la giustificazione sistematica dell'indifendibile. Quando un immigrato porta con sé atteggiamenti pre-rinascimentali, violenti o teocratici, voi vi affrettate a scusarlo in nome del "trauma coloniale" o della "diversità culturale". Ma l'integrazione non si fa con le carezze e i sensi di colpa. Cercare di integrare chi rifiuta i valori fondamentali della libertà e della laicità senza pretendere un cambiamento radicale è come maneggiare un ordigno inesploso: vi scoppierà tra le mani. Non si può accogliere chi considera la nostra libertà un peccato da punire senza aspettarsi che, prima o poi, cerchi di demolirla dall'interno. Ammirate tutto ciò che è anti-scientifico e anti-razionalista, anti-cristiano perché odiate la civiltà che vi ha dato i mezzi per sputarle addosso. Siete disposti ad accettare l'omofobia teocratica e l'antisemitismo mascherato, purché siano agiti da chi percepite come "vittima". Trattare l'#Islam radicale come un'eccezione da coccolare è il tradimento supremo. Non è tolleranza, è cecità. Trattate queste persone come animali feroci di cui non si può condannare il morso, ma la storia insegna che chi nutre il lupo sperando che diventi un agnello finisce per essere la sua prima preda. Il "Buon Selvaggio" non esiste. Esistono individui che devono rispondere delle proprie azioni e dei propri valori. Smettetela di giustificare l'atteggiamento sbagliato nel nome di un multiculturalismo suicida. Se non pretendete il rispetto dei nostri valori universali, non state integrando nessuno: state solo preparando il terreno per un conflitto che non saprete gestire. L'Altro non è il vostro animale domestico da proteggere dalla realtà. È un essere umano che va messo di fronte alle proprie responsabilità. Smettete di giustificare le sue catene, prima che quelle stesse catene diventino le vostre. #woke #sinistra #progressives