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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I’m enthralled by the deftness with which the Catholic Church, summarily reviled for most of its existence in these Protestant United States, has managed to put itself at the forefront of receiving government largesse to improve its situation (and I’m looking at you, Steve Bannon).

    The fact that the first Catholic President was JFK and the second was Joe Biden serves to demonstrate that Catholicism has (historically) had a pretty hard road of it in America.

    But that was then, this is now. Religion is actually dying and because of this, the distinctions between denominations are increasingly not understood. The struggle of the new (conspicuously religious) Nazi proletariat only require the trappings of religion (because actual belief is beyond passe - love thy neighbor? please) and therefore all religion is acceptable.

    Until it isn’t. And it won’t be secular forces that make it so. Catholicism has not (for several thousand years) been in the business of playing nice with competitors.



  • They are both beholden to Putin, very likely afraid for their lives and rightfully so. Putin is a billionaire but he also has a state apparatus with global reach behind him that he is intimately familiar with. He has demonstrated repeatedly over the years that he is willing and able to use that apparatus to… make people fall out of windows, etc. And all of this doesn’t even consider the possibility of kompromat - these are all deeply bad people.

    I believe Putin is the real mastermind behind everything that is going on and also that he has realized that Trump is of limited value to him in the White House. Trump’s cult gets him in, but he had four years already and really didn’t make a lot of inroads (not to mention his visibly declining health).

    So in my opinion, this is Putin shuttling in someone who can be more useful to him. The canary in the coal mine for whether or not this is true will be to see if the infighting everyone is breathlessly predicting ever materializes. I predict it will not. Elon Musk will not end up like Anthony Scaramucci.