He's a New Yorker, so when he thinks Catholic, he thinks Italian. I grew upas one of those, and I remember the nasty Italian jokes that were common. Times have changed, America has evolved a bit, but Fuhrer Trumpleschtupkopf has not.
He hangs out with some right-wing religious cults that keep pushing him as God's Choice. Those cults hate Catholics, so he throws them bones regularly.
There was some Seven Mountains nonsense I read about recently. Seven heads of seven government agencies they want to seize control of.
Oyyy... reminds me of a Seven-Headed Beast I read about somewhere.
He TRYS to think Jewish, also. He has no center. He's barely a "person".
BTW: I think Italians are incredible. Yes, they did Mafia stuff because in Italy, to survive, you had to. One could only proper in Italy if one was stealing.
Giuliani was the 1st in his family to achieve so much education and then become Major of NYC. (!!) He got rid of a lot of the Mafia corruption in NYC and shined during the 9/11 attack. Then, because of his relationship with Trump, the contagion of Trump turned him Mafioso. Now, he's a bad Italian, reverting back. He has lost everything because of Trump, as so many have. .........trump is a cancer.
I am watching Italian films ( from the '60's and '70's.) on Criterion. The way Italians are and think, in the arts, is so creative and brilliant.
Those who have back tRump's craziness have wound up in jail or indicted. "Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas. Do tRump supporter consider that all those who have worked with him during his presidency are backing Harris, not to mention all the prominent Republicans and retired military brass who have come out in support of Harris. If I were a trumster I might or at least reconsider my position in light of those who know tRump know he is unfit for any public office let alone the WH.
Just read an article on a group called the Word of Faith Church supporting Trump. This is scary stuff. I just dont get it. Trump is the least godly of anyone who has ever run to be president of the United States.
My theory about his shark phobia: sharks are predatory, merciless. Trump is also predatory and merciless and thinks he can dominate anyone anytime.
Trump "wins" by bullying, lying, flattering, tricking, bribing, gaslighting. You can't do any of those with a shark. It wins by tearing you onto pieces and eating you.
If Trump met up with a shark, the shark would win. The end.
Wikipedia: Word of Faith is rejected as unbiblical[2] and heretical[3] by almost all Christian scholars and theologians across nearly every denomination.[4][5][6][7] N. T. Wright, an Anglican bishop and theologian, referred to it as “myth” and a “pact with the Devil.”[8]
So, there you go. Probably aliened with Zionism and thinks genocide (murder) is OK.
Murdering one's enemies is OK by the Old testament and this is gospel for the Mizrahi Jews who are the majority now in Israel. Murdering every Palestinian is their right by God.
Interesting that Germany supports this, They murdered 6 million Jews, now they support the Jews murdering approx. 6 million Palestinians and they won't stop there, There is a centuries old Christian community in Israel they are going after them also.
Cool it. You have no idea what you are talking about. If you understood the history of the Middle East, you might think differently. No one is ok with the loss of life in Palestine, but it is not genocide. And it is Hamas that is more than ok with the loss of life and are ok sacrificing thousands of lives for PR. Their PR won you over.
What? No authentic genocide yet?? Not absolutely everyone in Gaza is dead yet? Killing a million people is hard work. Just give it time. Perhaps Germany could gift gas chambers and ovens to help out. Goodness knows, they do support genocide in their little Nazi hearts.
Hey, I would LOVE to "cool it". Unfortunately, the more I LEARN about what is going on in the Middle East and in Washington, the more pissed I am.
I think it's YOU who knows a lot of wrong history.
You should save this and post it other places. Very clever.
I would say to start a substack but frankly, it sounds like too much work. A substack was stuck on me and now I have an annoying reminder to start posting....well, thank you, but, NO!
We already know that Donald Trump and the Republican party are demonstrably corrupt. But so are the Democrats. This is not my opinion, it's fact. If you really want to stop the corruption, you are going to have to show the American people concrete proof both major political parties have sold them out! My book does exactly that. (There is a link for a free digital copy in this post.)
My name is Ted Martin. I have finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
P.S. I blame the Federalist Society for the corruption in the federal judicial system. The six so-called conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, and all the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee are members of the Federalist Society. Donald Trump picked “his” judicial nominees from lists provided by the Federalist Society.
I didn’t know that the Democrats were in on it until I tried to give them proof of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. If you would like to read about their reprehensible conduct, you can skip ahead to the Postscript on page 221 of my book. But, by all means, read the rest of the book.
The corruption is undeniable. The judges in both of my cases incorporated the defendant’s fraudulent statements into their opinions even after I pointed the fraud in every brief that I filed. These “judges” are clearly taking dictation from corporate defense counsel without even reading the plaintiff’s briefs.
Thank you, Michael. This talk from you brought back so many memories of being brought up Catholic in the 50’s in a Catholic school in an Irish Catholic neighborhood. When you started reciting the Mass in Latin, I was following along and it was nice to hear it again after so many years.
I can remember when I was seven that I had many sins to tell the priest in confession, since I was so compulsive I made sure I knew all the basic venial sins and told them all and then I was afraid I may not have told the right number of times I did or didn’t do whatever sin I was confessing, since we had to tell sins of commission and omission, and that would mean I lied to the priest which probably elevated my sin to a mortal sin. So I am now your basic garden variety neurotic, thanks to my early indoctrination.
Now, on to why the Catholic Church doesn’t protest when Trump does his putting down Catholics thing. I think because they think he is anti-abortion and that is all that matters. He certainly is not pro-life by any stretch of the imagination because the only life he values is his own. A friend of mine stopped going to Church because when Trump was running the first time, the priest, from the pulpit, told the congregation to vote for Trump because he was pro-life, and politics and who to vote for should never be discussed in a sermon by a priest. The Catholic Church isn’t pro-life, either, and though I know of many reasons why, suffice it to say, as the nuns used to say, my mother, RIP, came perilously close to dying with her sixth child and the Doctor told her if she had another baby, she would die, and since being Catholic and not being able to use birth control, my mother and father became like brother and sister, in which case, they couldn’t hug and kiss because that might cause arousal, which meant that they were putting themselves in the occasion of sin, which is probably a sin in itself. It sounds crazy as I write it and most people I talk to say that is not how it really was, but that is how it really was, take it from me, a recovering Catholic.
It was hard. We were just kids. It was hard when I was a little girl to talk to an adult man and not know how to answer questions. And who could you talk to? How could you complain or even explain it? Some people have a different personality and they don’t worry like I did. I am glad you understand .
Good "Share " - bad pun - I enjoyed watching that - kinda nails that - BUT I'm the bubble 24/7 -
But broad strokes kinda nails it.
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Very coherent rant / 'calling out".
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BTW if anyone wants to know what's going on with these "Sami" sounding linguistic "Tics" its just another stochastic hack to hack the channel one should be chilling and doing YOGA on.
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I'm not too concerned but quite funny that it ONLY kicks in with 8Hz to 4 hz brain activity that is of low arousal state but may be as high as 12 Hz but not much beyond that.
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It doesn't stress me out - but funny the chill out channel in the brain is filled with fake arctic circle phrases and phonemes. A real "Low rent Santa".
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Also its remarkably consistent - seems to go on a "Loop" that's about a week long.
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I don't think Hanz Zimmer ever got tangled up in one of his 25 five foot tape loops yet like for 'Arrival".
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The "Normal" gaslighting back channel - and intrusive hacking of my current wife is far more (psychologically) damaging and intrusive for me as its a direct un-countermanded intrusion by the 'Machine" and clickety clack crude autonomic circuity that decided to make those "Plays".
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Until I'm out f the "bubble" or "Box" - I don't foresee a "cure" or "kill switch" for the low frequency and various modes and modulated stochastic hacking.
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Funny as it mainly appears when I cough or early in the morning when I traverse from bed to coffee machine for the first 20 minutes of the day until I am more alert and similarly in reverse when my brain goes into neutral in the evening.
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My wife is hacked and yet I'm more concerned how she will "Feel" as result of my "Tics" that were stochastically "Installed".
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You people truly are sick puppies.
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You know who you are...
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This "Game" is NOT for people who are preoccupied or obsessively concerned about their safety lol.
However I do start to stutter or glitch when I reach for "Dangerous" concepts in my mind before trying to say them out loud - within the larger sphere of control and abuse. Especially when my spouse is present - or when I am closer to surveillance equipment / principal listening devices.
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The 1984 narratives that were created for this project were a ruse - but ultimately did actually teach me in the end that it ALL boils down to sadism for its own sake and nothing else.
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We Sapien sapiens (apparently) on masse have a hard time with setting an internal or external boundaries on that.
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Probably explains why Cro-Magnon (larger brain capacity) and Neanderthals more limpet like in their anti-fragile / "Robust" nature were out bred - interbred and counter competed out of existence.
Also for completeness and probably legal adjacent and medical reasons...
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If I quietly try to suppress in my mind one of these verbal/ diaphragm based tics that are brewing below the surface and try to negate its emergence through targeted extra chill - it builds up instead to make a spasmodic physical tic - like a head jerk - almost like going to the chiropractor when they do that surprise head twisty.
Anyhow Elizabeth, don't trouble yourself, there are more mainstream catholics than not. People who attach themselves to the white nationalism that Trump espouses come in many religions, sad to say.
We stand for human rights for all, regardless of creed and all else. This is a fight that never ends. Literally never ends. Chin up and carry on. :-)
'What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.'
You're loved Sean, for all your efforts to understand the world you exist in.
Now let the World go. Be happy, or at the very least content. It's all been done before, there is nothing new under the sun. You don't have to carry all of that burden yourself, and no one expects you to.
Oh yes, it's all been done before. Any student of history knows this. You don't live in interesting times. You live in your lifetime, nothing more. The 'world has been ending' since the beginning of Time. Make the most of your time is my only message.
Yes, all those migrants, immigrants, are predominantly Catholic. It's a huge family, from culturally Catholic like myself (what does "recovering Catholic" even mean? Like, you grew up? lol). I'm Ireland born, came to Canada with the family, usual story, dad went first, mom and us kids later. Just us, all the rest dead and alive in Ireland. The reality of life here changed my parents - work work work. The church went into the back seat. But, we were all schooled in Catholic schools. What did we learn? We're part of a family, and that family is diverse on their adherence to the church.
Like Michael, we had young hippie priests, two of them from Rochester NY - and a youngish pastor. Before them was an old alcoholic pastor who was amusing if nothing else at Sunday mass.
What did I learn? Compassion, empathy, first and foremost- and - strength - you are above no one and beneath no one. Except the enlightened one who walked the earth, JC. Hard act to follow. Looking back I'd sum it up as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Yeah, I made up sins in confession too, what else was there to chat about in that box with the screen? If I'd any notion at the time that it was just a chat I'd have been in there for an hour. Do I know now that the priest behind the screen knew that? Yes. LOL
Michael, so spot on. Drumpf would go full stop on his Migrant /Haitian attacks if the media focused on Catholic abuse instead of immigrants from a steamy island or the South American invasion. Great recollection of your Catholic upbringing. I remember when I taught at a Catholic school and would take my students to the church for confession. The students all knew the cool priest . When my wife was in Catholic grade school, at home she pretended to be a nun complete with a black slip over her head as she forced her siblings to be in her made up school class.
Yes agreed , the media usually skips the part about the violent criminals that also are millionaires. Thanks again for another great podcast.
why does Michael Moore not care more about the Ukraine war? there are far more dead there than in Gaza (but still, thank you for amplifying the Gaza atrocities!). The warmongers that include oil companies and the military industrial complex deceptively started the Ukraine war for their benefit. They did this by paying off Ukraine politicians ($5 billion starting in 2013) to be "pro-joining" to Nato and paying neo-nazis in the Donbass region of Ukraine (and other areas of Ukraine) to beat up and kill Russians living there (what would USA do if dozens or hundreds of american citizens were being killed in Mexico? we would do something!) . This made Russian citizens and Putiin angry which triggered the war. Listen to former Colonel George MacGregor of the US Army.
Taking action can reduce stress! Let’s mail Get-out-the-vote postcards to urge everyone to vote Blue! Some people hand-write the message and addresses in colorful markers. That’s very time-consuming - and my hand writing is terrible. So I buy cards with pre-printed voter instructions, and addresses printed right on the cards (or on sheets of Avery labels they provide). You can often buy stamps there, too!
You want cards with the Voterizer QR code (or web address) printed on. The recipient aims their smart phone camera at the code, a web site appears, they enter their state - in a flash, they can check if they’re registered, register if they are not (in some states, they have until 14 days before the election!). They can also ask for a mail-in ballot. Right then and there!
Unless you want to do a lot of writing, check the card’s back view before ordering - some cards have state-specific imagery on the front, but blank backs. If you get pre-printed cards, you only need to write a couple sentences in a colorful fine-tip marker.
I’ve sent out 350 cards already to GA, AZ, PA, and MI. Who will join me?
What is Catholic? It's billions of people. Everything from Opus Dei fanatic nutjobs to the lapsed, cultural Catholics. I made the mistake long ago of assuming all were like me, Liberal. Not so.
I do agree with you. What is disturbing is the number of former democrats who have recently switched to supporting Trump. I am worried. I am working hard to support Harris/Walz but this data was really disturbing. Reported out on NPR today.
On reflection I realise a trend - nationalism adopting an old religion. What better than a 2000 yr old religion?
Problem is, for the likes of the conveniently converted, such as JD Vance - is the fact that Michael here points out - Haitians for instance (who according to him and Trump are eating pets) - are Catholic. LOL
I should add, it's not something new, they've been around forever. Look at Spain's history for instance. What is interesting to me is the current trend of they politically conservative in the US converting to Catholicism. I've wondered if it is a type of Catholicism unique to America. Certainly the Vatican has for some years now criticized a lot of what goes down in America's 'version'. Is it the beginning of a schism?
About 80% of our politicians belong to the organized crime corporations that run this country, Trump is insane, as well as a hypocrite, making fun of low income people getting help through welfare, when our corrupt politicians give trillions in corporate welfare to the corporations, each year. Trump while president gave corporations billions of dollars, adding to the national debt, our government thinks the taxpayer's money is their own personal piggy bank. A low income friend of mine, needed food stamps at a time when the food industry upped their price gauging a long with the Fossil Fuel Industry was seriously price gauging gas, and he only got $44.00 per month, because our government does not give anything but crumbs to people who cannot contribute to political campaigns. Our politicians steal what ever money they need to have the best healthcare in the world while our poor, Middle Class, and elderly get little to no healthcare, their healthcare is around 40th or 50th in the world. The government is so corrupt they are using insider trading to make millions of dollars, when if the public uses insider trading they go to prison, the laws of this country, including the Constitution are a farce, propaganda and disinformation used by our organized crime government, so people think they have rights and a democracy.
He's a New Yorker, so when he thinks Catholic, he thinks Italian. I grew upas one of those, and I remember the nasty Italian jokes that were common. Times have changed, America has evolved a bit, but Fuhrer Trumpleschtupkopf has not.
He hangs out with some right-wing religious cults that keep pushing him as God's Choice. Those cults hate Catholics, so he throws them bones regularly.
There was some Seven Mountains nonsense I read about recently. Seven heads of seven government agencies they want to seize control of.
Oyyy... reminds me of a Seven-Headed Beast I read about somewhere.
Whatever could they be up to? Hmmm...
Catholic, I grew up as one, but I am no longer practicing. I feel more comfortable trying to walk the walk as Jesus taught us.
He TRYS to think Jewish, also. He has no center. He's barely a "person".
BTW: I think Italians are incredible. Yes, they did Mafia stuff because in Italy, to survive, you had to. One could only proper in Italy if one was stealing.
Giuliani was the 1st in his family to achieve so much education and then become Major of NYC. (!!) He got rid of a lot of the Mafia corruption in NYC and shined during the 9/11 attack. Then, because of his relationship with Trump, the contagion of Trump turned him Mafioso. Now, he's a bad Italian, reverting back. He has lost everything because of Trump, as so many have. .........trump is a cancer.
I am watching Italian films ( from the '60's and '70's.) on Criterion. The way Italians are and think, in the arts, is so creative and brilliant.
Those who have back tRump's craziness have wound up in jail or indicted. "Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas. Do tRump supporter consider that all those who have worked with him during his presidency are backing Harris, not to mention all the prominent Republicans and retired military brass who have come out in support of Harris. If I were a trumster I might or at least reconsider my position in light of those who know tRump know he is unfit for any public office let alone the WH.
correction: One could only PROSPER in Italy is if one was stealing.
Just read an article on a group called the Word of Faith Church supporting Trump. This is scary stuff. I just dont get it. Trump is the least godly of anyone who has ever run to be president of the United States.
My theory about his shark phobia: sharks are predatory, merciless. Trump is also predatory and merciless and thinks he can dominate anyone anytime.
Trump "wins" by bullying, lying, flattering, tricking, bribing, gaslighting. You can't do any of those with a shark. It wins by tearing you onto pieces and eating you.
If Trump met up with a shark, the shark would win. The end.
Wikipedia: Word of Faith is rejected as unbiblical[2] and heretical[3] by almost all Christian scholars and theologians across nearly every denomination.[4][5][6][7] N. T. Wright, an Anglican bishop and theologian, referred to it as “myth” and a “pact with the Devil.”[8]
So, there you go. Probably aliened with Zionism and thinks genocide (murder) is OK.
Murdering one's enemies is OK by the Old testament and this is gospel for the Mizrahi Jews who are the majority now in Israel. Murdering every Palestinian is their right by God.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Samuel-Chapter-15/#29
Interesting that Germany supports this, They murdered 6 million Jews, now they support the Jews murdering approx. 6 million Palestinians and they won't stop there, There is a centuries old Christian community in Israel they are going after them also.
Cool it. You have no idea what you are talking about. If you understood the history of the Middle East, you might think differently. No one is ok with the loss of life in Palestine, but it is not genocide. And it is Hamas that is more than ok with the loss of life and are ok sacrificing thousands of lives for PR. Their PR won you over.
Say more. Who is Hamas, Actually?
What? No authentic genocide yet?? Not absolutely everyone in Gaza is dead yet? Killing a million people is hard work. Just give it time. Perhaps Germany could gift gas chambers and ovens to help out. Goodness knows, they do support genocide in their little Nazi hearts.
Hey, I would LOVE to "cool it". Unfortunately, the more I LEARN about what is going on in the Middle East and in Washington, the more pissed I am.
I think it's YOU who knows a lot of wrong history.
The New Testament does not support murder. Christ forbid it , even as vengeance for attacks on the self. "Turn the other cheek."
This church is totally crazy.
See: Matthew 5 vs 21 New Testament. any version.
OMG! Wisconsin Professor Sheeter,
You should save this and post it other places. Very clever.
I would say to start a substack but frankly, it sounds like too much work. A substack was stuck on me and now I have an annoying reminder to start posting....well, thank you, but, NO!
Ooh, favorite movies as a child growing up Catholic...
Definitely Song of Bernadette.
You can see it on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muoFcCkR8NQ
I was also fond of The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wonWtdBhLQA
Dagnabbit, Michael... I have stuff I need to do today!
Oh heck, since I'm wasting time anyway... I hope this doesn't give Donald a case of poopypants:
Taylor and Randy Rainbow.
Enjoy, Don-Don:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzYt-WuCCA
Dear Mr. Moore,
We already know that Donald Trump and the Republican party are demonstrably corrupt. But so are the Democrats. This is not my opinion, it's fact. If you really want to stop the corruption, you are going to have to show the American people concrete proof both major political parties have sold them out! My book does exactly that. (There is a link for a free digital copy in this post.)
My name is Ted Martin. I have finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)
It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.
In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.
The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.
Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.
Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.
While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.
If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.
Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.
*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.
In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.
All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.
If you want a government that actually acts in your best interests, I urge you and everyone you know to read my book as soon as possible. You can get a digital copy of my book free of charge at the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vaMH1riLodzOfQn0kI7ow0RDrPM0NqE/view?usp=sharing
P.S. I blame the Federalist Society for the corruption in the federal judicial system. The six so-called conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, and all the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee are members of the Federalist Society. Donald Trump picked “his” judicial nominees from lists provided by the Federalist Society.
I didn’t know that the Democrats were in on it until I tried to give them proof of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. If you would like to read about their reprehensible conduct, you can skip ahead to the Postscript on page 221 of my book. But, by all means, read the rest of the book.
The corruption is undeniable. The judges in both of my cases incorporated the defendant’s fraudulent statements into their opinions even after I pointed the fraud in every brief that I filed. These “judges” are clearly taking dictation from corporate defense counsel without even reading the plaintiff’s briefs.
Thank you, Michael. This talk from you brought back so many memories of being brought up Catholic in the 50’s in a Catholic school in an Irish Catholic neighborhood. When you started reciting the Mass in Latin, I was following along and it was nice to hear it again after so many years.
I can remember when I was seven that I had many sins to tell the priest in confession, since I was so compulsive I made sure I knew all the basic venial sins and told them all and then I was afraid I may not have told the right number of times I did or didn’t do whatever sin I was confessing, since we had to tell sins of commission and omission, and that would mean I lied to the priest which probably elevated my sin to a mortal sin. So I am now your basic garden variety neurotic, thanks to my early indoctrination.
Now, on to why the Catholic Church doesn’t protest when Trump does his putting down Catholics thing. I think because they think he is anti-abortion and that is all that matters. He certainly is not pro-life by any stretch of the imagination because the only life he values is his own. A friend of mine stopped going to Church because when Trump was running the first time, the priest, from the pulpit, told the congregation to vote for Trump because he was pro-life, and politics and who to vote for should never be discussed in a sermon by a priest. The Catholic Church isn’t pro-life, either, and though I know of many reasons why, suffice it to say, as the nuns used to say, my mother, RIP, came perilously close to dying with her sixth child and the Doctor told her if she had another baby, she would die, and since being Catholic and not being able to use birth control, my mother and father became like brother and sister, in which case, they couldn’t hug and kiss because that might cause arousal, which meant that they were putting themselves in the occasion of sin, which is probably a sin in itself. It sounds crazy as I write it and most people I talk to say that is not how it really was, but that is how it really was, take it from me, a recovering Catholic.
Yes, that is how it was.
I remember making up sins, while waiting in line for the dark confessional. It occurred to me later that I lied!
It was hard. We were just kids. It was hard when I was a little girl to talk to an adult man and not know how to answer questions. And who could you talk to? How could you complain or even explain it? Some people have a different personality and they don’t worry like I did. I am glad you understand .
I thought this protester at a Paul Krugman speech said it well:
https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1841820896111001987
Good "Share " - bad pun - I enjoyed watching that - kinda nails that - BUT I'm the bubble 24/7 -
But broad strokes kinda nails it.
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Very coherent rant / 'calling out".
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BTW if anyone wants to know what's going on with these "Sami" sounding linguistic "Tics" its just another stochastic hack to hack the channel one should be chilling and doing YOGA on.
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I'm not too concerned but quite funny that it ONLY kicks in with 8Hz to 4 hz brain activity that is of low arousal state but may be as high as 12 Hz but not much beyond that.
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It doesn't stress me out - but funny the chill out channel in the brain is filled with fake arctic circle phrases and phonemes. A real "Low rent Santa".
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Also its remarkably consistent - seems to go on a "Loop" that's about a week long.
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I don't think Hanz Zimmer ever got tangled up in one of his 25 five foot tape loops yet like for 'Arrival".
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The "Normal" gaslighting back channel - and intrusive hacking of my current wife is far more (psychologically) damaging and intrusive for me as its a direct un-countermanded intrusion by the 'Machine" and clickety clack crude autonomic circuity that decided to make those "Plays".
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Until I'm out f the "bubble" or "Box" - I don't foresee a "cure" or "kill switch" for the low frequency and various modes and modulated stochastic hacking.
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Funny as it mainly appears when I cough or early in the morning when I traverse from bed to coffee machine for the first 20 minutes of the day until I am more alert and similarly in reverse when my brain goes into neutral in the evening.
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My wife is hacked and yet I'm more concerned how she will "Feel" as result of my "Tics" that were stochastically "Installed".
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You people truly are sick puppies.
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You know who you are...
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This "Game" is NOT for people who are preoccupied or obsessively concerned about their safety lol.
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However I do start to stutter or glitch when I reach for "Dangerous" concepts in my mind before trying to say them out loud - within the larger sphere of control and abuse. Especially when my spouse is present - or when I am closer to surveillance equipment / principal listening devices.
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The 1984 narratives that were created for this project were a ruse - but ultimately did actually teach me in the end that it ALL boils down to sadism for its own sake and nothing else.
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We Sapien sapiens (apparently) on masse have a hard time with setting an internal or external boundaries on that.
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Probably explains why Cro-Magnon (larger brain capacity) and Neanderthals more limpet like in their anti-fragile / "Robust" nature were out bred - interbred and counter competed out of existence.
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Also for completeness and probably legal adjacent and medical reasons...
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If I quietly try to suppress in my mind one of these verbal/ diaphragm based tics that are brewing below the surface and try to negate its emergence through targeted extra chill - it builds up instead to make a spasmodic physical tic - like a head jerk - almost like going to the chiropractor when they do that surprise head twisty.
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Head twisty by a ghost / invisible chiropractor.
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Anyhow Elizabeth, don't trouble yourself, there are more mainstream catholics than not. People who attach themselves to the white nationalism that Trump espouses come in many religions, sad to say.
We stand for human rights for all, regardless of creed and all else. This is a fight that never ends. Literally never ends. Chin up and carry on. :-)
'What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.'
ECCLESIASTES 1:9
Dear Sean, you need to contemplate more, write less.
You're loved Sean, for all your efforts to understand the world you exist in.
Now let the World go. Be happy, or at the very least content. It's all been done before, there is nothing new under the sun. You don't have to carry all of that burden yourself, and no one expects you to.
Some music to make you smile:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2q9xbJhKHNI
Oh yes, it's all been done before. Any student of history knows this. You don't live in interesting times. You live in your lifetime, nothing more. The 'world has been ending' since the beginning of Time. Make the most of your time is my only message.
Yes, all those migrants, immigrants, are predominantly Catholic. It's a huge family, from culturally Catholic like myself (what does "recovering Catholic" even mean? Like, you grew up? lol). I'm Ireland born, came to Canada with the family, usual story, dad went first, mom and us kids later. Just us, all the rest dead and alive in Ireland. The reality of life here changed my parents - work work work. The church went into the back seat. But, we were all schooled in Catholic schools. What did we learn? We're part of a family, and that family is diverse on their adherence to the church.
Like Michael, we had young hippie priests, two of them from Rochester NY - and a youngish pastor. Before them was an old alcoholic pastor who was amusing if nothing else at Sunday mass.
What did I learn? Compassion, empathy, first and foremost- and - strength - you are above no one and beneath no one. Except the enlightened one who walked the earth, JC. Hard act to follow. Looking back I'd sum it up as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Yeah, I made up sins in confession too, what else was there to chat about in that box with the screen? If I'd any notion at the time that it was just a chat I'd have been in there for an hour. Do I know now that the priest behind the screen knew that? Yes. LOL
Meme
“That ain’t no red tie”
It’s America’s blood dripping off his chin
As he sucks our democracy dry
Michael, so spot on. Drumpf would go full stop on his Migrant /Haitian attacks if the media focused on Catholic abuse instead of immigrants from a steamy island or the South American invasion. Great recollection of your Catholic upbringing. I remember when I taught at a Catholic school and would take my students to the church for confession. The students all knew the cool priest . When my wife was in Catholic grade school, at home she pretended to be a nun complete with a black slip over her head as she forced her siblings to be in her made up school class.
Yes agreed , the media usually skips the part about the violent criminals that also are millionaires. Thanks again for another great podcast.
why does Michael Moore not care more about the Ukraine war? there are far more dead there than in Gaza (but still, thank you for amplifying the Gaza atrocities!). The warmongers that include oil companies and the military industrial complex deceptively started the Ukraine war for their benefit. They did this by paying off Ukraine politicians ($5 billion starting in 2013) to be "pro-joining" to Nato and paying neo-nazis in the Donbass region of Ukraine (and other areas of Ukraine) to beat up and kill Russians living there (what would USA do if dozens or hundreds of american citizens were being killed in Mexico? we would do something!) . This made Russian citizens and Putiin angry which triggered the war. Listen to former Colonel George MacGregor of the US Army.
RFK j talking about how the Ukraine war started:
https://youtu.be/9RVmHbEaASA?si=_zHexyZhm65s_AdZ&t=2172
Taking action can reduce stress! Let’s mail Get-out-the-vote postcards to urge everyone to vote Blue! Some people hand-write the message and addresses in colorful markers. That’s very time-consuming - and my hand writing is terrible. So I buy cards with pre-printed voter instructions, and addresses printed right on the cards (or on sheets of Avery labels they provide). You can often buy stamps there, too!
You want cards with the Voterizer QR code (or web address) printed on. The recipient aims their smart phone camera at the code, a web site appears, they enter their state - in a flash, they can check if they’re registered, register if they are not (in some states, they have until 14 days before the election!). They can also ask for a mail-in ballot. Right then and there!
Check out Field Team 6 - https://www.fieldteam6.org/postcarding1 - and Blue Wave - https://shop.bluewavepostcards.org/ - for great pre-printed cards.
Unless you want to do a lot of writing, check the card’s back view before ordering - some cards have state-specific imagery on the front, but blank backs. If you get pre-printed cards, you only need to write a couple sentences in a colorful fine-tip marker.
I’ve sent out 350 cards already to GA, AZ, PA, and MI. Who will join me?
PENNSYLVANIA CATHOLIC DEMS ARE CHANGING REBUBLICAN. THIS IS A LONG STANDING DEM AREA. ONE ISSUE VOTERS?
What is Catholic? It's billions of people. Everything from Opus Dei fanatic nutjobs to the lapsed, cultural Catholics. I made the mistake long ago of assuming all were like me, Liberal. Not so.
I do agree with you. What is disturbing is the number of former democrats who have recently switched to supporting Trump. I am worried. I am working hard to support Harris/Walz but this data was really disturbing. Reported out on NPR today.
On reflection I realise a trend - nationalism adopting an old religion. What better than a 2000 yr old religion?
Problem is, for the likes of the conveniently converted, such as JD Vance - is the fact that Michael here points out - Haitians for instance (who according to him and Trump are eating pets) - are Catholic. LOL
I should add, it's not something new, they've been around forever. Look at Spain's history for instance. What is interesting to me is the current trend of they politically conservative in the US converting to Catholicism. I've wondered if it is a type of Catholicism unique to America. Certainly the Vatican has for some years now criticized a lot of what goes down in America's 'version'. Is it the beginning of a schism?
It's no surprise to me. Many catholics in the world are social conservatives.
And we know it's a cloak of convenience because the newly converted want to celebrate the mass in Latin. ROTFL
About 80% of our politicians belong to the organized crime corporations that run this country, Trump is insane, as well as a hypocrite, making fun of low income people getting help through welfare, when our corrupt politicians give trillions in corporate welfare to the corporations, each year. Trump while president gave corporations billions of dollars, adding to the national debt, our government thinks the taxpayer's money is their own personal piggy bank. A low income friend of mine, needed food stamps at a time when the food industry upped their price gauging a long with the Fossil Fuel Industry was seriously price gauging gas, and he only got $44.00 per month, because our government does not give anything but crumbs to people who cannot contribute to political campaigns. Our politicians steal what ever money they need to have the best healthcare in the world while our poor, Middle Class, and elderly get little to no healthcare, their healthcare is around 40th or 50th in the world. The government is so corrupt they are using insider trading to make millions of dollars, when if the public uses insider trading they go to prison, the laws of this country, including the Constitution are a farce, propaganda and disinformation used by our organized crime government, so people think they have rights and a democracy.
Cathoholic. Thats what it’s called. The Flying Nun! Sally Field