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As solar radiation management and geoengineering continues under a regime many thought would be populist and oppose Globalism and the new word order up to the point of Alex Jones having done an interview with the currently installed puppet in the White House. This tyranny has escalated to a religious level and Dane you know how hypocritical religious institutions are by neglecting to talk about weather manipulation even after you informed them of geoengineering so I think it’s important to realize that those who cream the loudest that they’re Christian nationalist patriots are actually the least patriotic and the most anti Christian people and the least moral people you can interact with or experience.
Religion can be used to challenge political power or be co-opted by political power for totalitarian ends.
Be very careful with how Trump and his cult of personality use Christianity because it’s not Orthodox. Paula White compared Trump to Jesus and is widely considered a heretic.
Many people think language doesn’t matter but as a college student that is seeking to major in linguistics I want to reassure you that language absolutely matters which is why we should never inform people about “chemtrails” when we could be using terms like solar radiation management. That being said we also don’t want to call people fake Christians because it doesn’t lend itself to adaptable morphology that can be used in precise sentences.
As a Christian I don’t want religion in politics because I know it’s all a massive grift but if this is the direction the country is going in we need to talk about it.
Trump is uniquely a dangerous politician because unlike other political figures, he has a considerable cult following that is loyal to him no matter what he does and will always make excuses for it. I tried to come up with a word for it “Credotropy—a bending twords ones own beliefs. I have to admit I’m not fully satisfied with this term but I also don’t want to call it “Trump derrangement syndrome”.
Last but not least, we can’t call out problems we don’t have good words to describe, so while we are witnessing the rise of what people term as “Fascism” and I think at this point people are recognizing it’s already here to some degree. I would like to introduce new words to describe those who use religion in vain for their own Kleptocratic capitalist global Oligarchy and/or fascistic purposes as is occuring in the USA and has occurred in other countries to a lesser extent in recent years.
christopretendism (n.)
Use: feigned Christianity for image/power while contradicting Christian virtue.
Why: compact, brandable, and system-like; works as a critique term.
christopretendism — the overall phenomenon/system of feigned Christianity for advantage
christopretending — the act/practice (gerund noun) / ongoing action (participle)
christopretend — verb: to feign Christianity for advantage
christopretends — 3rd-person singular verb form
christopretended — past tense / past participle
christopretender — person who christopretends (plain agent noun)
christopretendist — person who practices christopretendism (agent noun)
christopretendist (attributive adjective) — “christopretendist rhetoric/branding”
christopretendic — adjective: characterized by christopretending
christopretendically — adverb: in a christopretendic manner
christopretendistic — adjective: pertaining to the broader pattern/system (christopretendism)
christopretendistically — adverb: in a christopretendistic/systemic manner
christopretendery — the “craft/industry” of christopretending (like trickery)
christopretendance — ongoing posture/state of christopretending
christopretendness — the quality of being a christopretender
christopretenditude — rhetorical/latinate “attitude/state” noun
christopretendicity — academic-sounding “property/quality” noun
christopretendship — social role/status of being a christopretender
christopretendhood — collective condition/identity class of christopretenders
christopretendize — verb: to institutionalize/turn Christianity into a branding tool (-ize form)
christopretendify — verb: same idea (-ify form)
christopretendified — past tense/past participle of christopretendify
christopretendology — tongue-in-cheek “study/analysis of christopretendism”
christopretend-act — a single instance/episode of christopretending
christopretend-claim — a specific claim used in christopretending
christopretend-performance — a staged/public episode of christopretending
christopretendocrat — a christopretender who leverages it for governance/power (extra sharp variant)
You can never get this linguistically precise or flexible if you only used the terms “cosplaying Christian” or “fake Christian” and I think this rising wave of so called “Christian nationalist” and pretentious patriotism tyranny that calls itself MAGA wouldn’t have happened to such an extent if not for the silence of effective criticism proceeding from word poverty.
Remember that the regime in power is not this nationalist morally virtuous Christian saviorist government that will take care of the struggling working class man and save this country from the pedophile globalist elite tyranny of mass establishment and end all the forever wars and restore America to what people have been told through propaganda was once a glamorous past of countryside men who knew each other and would hang out on their farms during the weekends while their children played with the free roaming chickens. That mythology of what the USA used to be like when it was “conservative” is all fake. Remember the kleptocratic capitalist enslavement of Africans and the genocide of native Americans and the overthrowing of democratically elected foreign governments so the wealthy political class can loot the resources.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
The rise of authoritarianism can only happen when everything the public believes is a lie. The lie of the founding of the USA, the lie of who Jesus was and is, the lie of who the current occupants of the Whitehouse are and their priorities and the lie of what the real problems in the country and the world actually are.
I don’t believe the problems are the immigrants, but it’s easier to look down instead of up when looking for people to blame for one’s misery in the system because it’s easy to oppress the marginalized than challenge those who hold the power and are actually capable of defending themselves effectively.
Vote out all christopretensist politicians out of office. No more christopretendsiveness should be tolerated and we must defeat christopretensism.
P.S.
Dementia, possibly, for not writing, “Pope Leo.”
Regarding PDL’s mention of Obama, note that
his paternal grandmother got in an interview,
by late-night radio host, when she bragged
about her pride in having been present at
Obama’s BIRTH in KENYA !, the radio host
halted the conversation and asked her for
clarification—then, silence, then one could hear
a cacophony of male voices in the background,
after which curiosity for radio listeners, she
backed off her pride of being at his birth,
changing her story.
Obama had been chosen, groomed, and installed
as president, not elected.
I found this podcast somewhat odd. Not odd in the sense that it casts Democrats in an unfavorable light – that’s par for the course for this newsletter. What I found odd was that although the title of this podcast claimed that this was just another example of “the art of the smear”, I didn’t detect any political “smearing” according to what I consider a political “smear” to be.
The gist of the podcast is that the Obama Administration withheld the story of David Patraeus’s dalliances as long as he toed the line on the Benghazi attack. But once he strayed off course, they used that story to discredit him. Now I have no idea if that is true or not (and SA offers no proof that it is; the podcast is full of things like “isn’t it odd that this happened right after that happened”, clearly expecting us to make the connection that some later event must have been caused by an earlier event). And I admit that it is plausible that such a string of events did occur.
But this isn’t a political “smear” in the common understanding of the term. For something to qualify as a political “smear’, it has to be a story that is either completely made up or one that takes some basic facts and spins a story that is barely consistent with those facts. It’s not “smearing” someone when the stories being told are in fact true. And the stories about Patraeus’s dalliances are actually true.
Another element that makes up a real political smear is that the charges are difficult, if not impossible, to refute.
Here’s a good example of “smearing”. Trump had consistently praised Tucker Carlson as long as he supported him. But once he broke with Trump on the Iran war, Trump called him things like “low IQ”, a “broken man”, a “loser”, and advised him to see a psychiatrist. Does anyone, no matter what you think about Carlson’s positions, think that he is “low IQ”? How about a “loser? Trump’s charges are unsupported by any known facts. That’s what makes it a smear.
In fact, I could argue that this whole podcast is a “smear” on several folks in the Obama Administration since it accuses them of underhanded tactics without offering any proof. Pretty ironic, huh?
A couple of comments on Benghazi…. I have read the summary of the findings of the seventh and eighth Benghazi investigations (the eighth one being the one that McCarthy admitted was being held primarily to hurt Clinton’s polling numbers) and two of the top conclusions were these:
1) Clinton never personally disapproved any request for additional security at the Benghazi site
2) No rescue was possible
In addition to these points, Joe Klein wrote in Time that the Benghazi compound was really a CIA operation, and they were the ones who were primarily responsible for security there.
But none of those pieces of information are in this podcast. I wonder why that would be?
And while it is true that Obama originally blamed the attack on the video, to the best of my recollection he changed his tune and admitted that it was a terrorist attack less than a week later (remember the brouhaha when the moderator corrected Romney at one of the Presidential debates when Romney claimed that Obama hadn’t called it a terrorist attack). So Petraeus’s apostasy couldn’t have lasted more than a week.
If you want to gig Obama on something related to Benghazi, how about when he went after the preacher who made the video that was originally claimed to be the cause of the attack. Even though the video was nasty and pretty childish, he had every right to make it. Obama should have left him alone.
Lisa,
Sharyl
—and Full Measure Team :
Re: Embedded Communists, nearly everywhere—even ‘Under Every Bed’ in West
Hillary Clinton and Her Misery, Bill, are communists
( Commies take very seriously, their closeted goal ).
Eisenhower was a closeted communist (( I’ve got the book
—and he slaughtered tens-of-thousands of German soldiers
A-F-T-E-R the war; find and read, “Hellstorm,” by Goodrich )).
FDR and wife were closeted communists, who had entered
the war after getting elected by PROMISING he’d never
take America to war—ever !.
Pope Paul is a communist ( His nasty “Holiness”
had to scrub his past Libertine/Liberal/Leftist/Commie
scribblings from his history of opining, before taking
office ).
Correspondent of mine, Father Malachi Martin, had
warned about communistic influences building within
the Roman Catholic Church ( see Liberation Theology ).
Abraham Lincoln was a communist, subject to the
whims/directives of the Illuminati/Rothschild/Bank
of London cabal : see
https://sharylattkisson.com/2026/04/watch-emf/comment-page-1/#comment-195094
Stupid/Moronic Christians were pitted against each
other via that Cabal’s evil Machinations, as 750,000 were
slaughtered unnecessarily !!!; and, as the black columnist and
economics professor Walter Williams had explained, Lincoln’s
war against self-government was about centralization
of power, for Marxian-type control, N-O-T about slavery
Only 2 % to 3% of Southerners could even afford
owning a slave, which – if not purchased from the African
Kings, would have been tortured to death, and possibly
eaten :
— Blame Black Men for Slavery —
“ MUKONO, Uganda—President Clinton all but
apologized for U.S. slavery yesterday in Uganda,
following by two days a statement by Uganda
president that such an apology is ‘rubbish . . .
African chiefs were the ones waging war on
each other and capturing their own people and
selling them. If anyone should apologize it should
be the African Chiefs. We still have those traitors
here even today’ “
[ see Washington Times front page article, “Clinton
nears slavery apology,” March 25, 1998 ]
-Rick