Chicago, Ill., Mar 4, 2020 / 02:45 pm (CNA).- Gazing at the Chicago skyline from his upper-floor hotel room, Brian Carroll is excited to be visiting the Windy City.
“I figured while the sun is shining, I might as well get out and see something,” the 70-year-old Californian told CNA, with the enthusiasm of a seasoned traveler eager to explore.
This is Brian Carroll’s first trip to Chicago, he said, other than changing planes at O’Hare. But he’s not here for tourism.
Carroll has the clear diction and the good nature of a teacher, which should come as no surprise— Carroll spent his 43-year career teaching in one capacity or another, before retiring last year.
Now, he’s running to become President of the United States.
Carroll, an evangelical Christian, is the presidential nominee of the American Solidarity Party, a small-but-growing political party based largely on Catholic social teaching.
Carroll has come to Chicago to meet, for the very first time, his running mate, Amar Patel— a high school teacher from the city’s suburbs.
He’ll also take part in a March 4 debate for third-party presidential candidates.
“There’s no way I can look ahead and see what God is doing. I feel very strongly that God told me to run, but he didn’t tell me what was going to happen,” Carroll told CNA.
Birth of a party
Though the American Solidarity Party is not explicitly religious, its platform rests on the principles of Catholic social teaching: solidarity, subsidiarity, and distributism.
The party began in 2011 as the Christian Democracy Party USA, and Mike Maturen, a Catholic, ran for president on the party ticket in the 2016 election.
Abortion is a key issue for members of the ASP. The party platform calls for an end to legal protection for abortion, and it supports social services for mothers in need. But the party says that pro-life convictions must also include opposition to euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research and the death penalty.
The party’s beliefs on the definition of marriage and religious liberty could be considered conservative, while its views on the environment, health care and immigration could be considered liberal.
Distributism, the favored economic theory for the party platform, is a model championed by notable Catholics such as G.K. Chesterton and Hillair Belloc.
The party describes distributism as “an economic system which focuses on creating a society of wide-spread ownership…rather than having the effect of degrading the human person as a cog in the machine.”
“The core of distributism is to bring the economic engine closer to home,” then-presidential candidate Mike Maturen explained to CNA in 2016.
“Rather than having a huge portion of our economy wrapped up in the hands and control of a few major corporations, we believe that it is the small business – the mom and pop shops – that drive the economy best. We would propose to rewrite regulations to favor the small businesses and family farms, rather than the major corporations that also just so happen to be the major donors to our government officials. Regulations, taxes, etc all need to be re-thought and revamped.”
Carroll had never heard the word “distributism” until he joined the ASP, but as soon as he read the description, it clicked for him.
“It shares with scripture the importance of watching out for our brothers, and not letting any class of people become exploitative of others,” Carroll explained.
Amar Patel, the ASP’s 2020 vice presidential candidate, is also chair of the party. Patel said the ASP is working to break the narrative that if you’re pro-life, you have to be a Republican, and if you want to love for the poor, you have to be a Democrat.
Patel became involved in the pro-life movement after converting to Catholicism in 1993. His opposition to abortion was— and still is— a guiding principle for his politics, and for years, he said he would vote for whichever candidate he considered pro-life, which would almost invariably be the Republican candidate.
Over time, as Patel grew in faith, and became involved with the Knights of Columbus, he says he started to become disillusioned with Republican policies and attitudes.
For example, he says, the United States was constantly at war during the George W. Bush years, and looking at the Catholic Church’s just war theory, the wars in the Middle East, waged primarily in retaliation for the September 11th attacks, did not seem to Patel to be just.
Through a Facebook page called Catholic Geeks, and through conversations with fellow Catholics, Patel started to realize that he loved plumbing the depths of Catholic social teaching.
“One of the rules of the group was that everything you posted had to be from the Catechism, or encyclicals, or the Church Fathers, and just reading some of the things that people found about the richness of our faith, it made me [think]: neither party is addressing this,” Patel told CNA.
“Neither one comes close. They both just touch tips of icebergs…but the totality of the faith I felt was missing. And I felt like that should be an integral part of my life in the public square.”
“The long game for Christians in the public square is a big loss if more people don’t get out there and proclaim the Gospel message,” he said.
Faith journey
For presidential hopeful Carroll, getting out of his native California and exploring new places is nothing new. He’s lived abroad for more than a decade, altogether, most of that time spent in Colombia.
Carroll grew up in Los Angeles, and moved to California’s Central Valley in the late 1970s. His family was very active in the Methodist Church during his formative years.
His family’s commitment to education made an impression on Carroll. His aunt was the international president of Laubach Literacy, a program that began in the 1930s to address adult illiteracy. Carroll’s brother got involved in teaching English to immigrants.
Carroll’s family also left him with a sense of the struggles migrants and refugees face. For a time during his childhood, his parents used their spare bedroom to sponsor two Vietnamese refugees from Saigon.
“From a very young age we were involved in refugee resettlement, meeting the needs of immigrants, both to learn English and other training, so that was my upbringing,” he told CNA.
He remembers that the Gospel has long had a hold on his mind, and his imagation. When he was 10 or 12, a preacher mentioned a quote from the biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Protestant pastor.
“If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” Carroll recalls hearing.
“And I thought: ‘Boy, if that’s the question, that would be a horrible thing to live your life as a Christian without leaving enough evidence to be convicted for it,’”
At a certain point, Carroll says, he became disillusioned with the “social gospel,” that some members of his church seemed to hold.
“We were doing lots of good things, but it just seemed to me like they were treating the Bible as a convenient mythology to hold the social organizations together,” Carroll mused.
He said he failed to gain a sense that, in his church, there was a “sufficient belief that the Bible was true.”
“And I thought: I don’t really want to base my life on a mythology. I want something that’s firm and secure.”
He said he spent some time looking for truth in other faiths. He says he read the Koran, as well as Buddhist and Taoist literature. None spoke to him.
One thing he did learn with time, though— don’t judge a religion by the way people are living it.
“Judge a religion by what the original founder said,” he concluded.
Carroll resolved to try living by the words of Christ, and to lead his family that way.
As early as 1980, Carroll and his wife became concerned that, despite some legislative efforts to the contrary, federal money was funding abortions. They wanted no part of that. So, they decided to reduce their income— by drastically increasing their tithing— to the point where they weren’t paying any income tax. At one point, they were donating as much as 30% of their income to Christian causes.
“Then God said: I don’t want your money, I want you,” Carroll recalled.
Carroll and his family got involved with Wycliffe Bible Translators, a nondenominational mission that translates the bible into indigenous languages. He and his wife went to Colombia to teach, staying for 5 years, returned to the US for two years, then went back for another four.
Wycliffe had to leave Colombia in 1995 because of the country’s civil war. At that point, the Carrolls returned to California.
Trying to decide what was next, Carroll earned a Master’s degree in fine arts and creative writing, worked at a Pentecostal school for a while, and eventually settled into another teaching job, where he taught for 11 years before retiring.
At that same time, Carroll was involved in building a new congregation in the Evangelical Free Church. That community split four years ago, over doctrinal and leadership issues, Carroll says.
A group of 30 people, including Carroll, organized a house church. With little overhead, they mainly fund and support missionaries.
A new political home
Though Carroll had voted Republican ever since 1980, primarily because of his pro-life convictions, he told CNA he eventually began to feel that the Republican party was just “leading us on”— that the candidates needed votes to pass their economic agendas, but “could not afford to give us what we really wanted.”
He says the first crack from him came in the George W. Bush era, when Republicans had control of the House and Senate. Bush was asked in 1999 if he would push for a federal personhood amendment to outlaw abortion, and the president said no. Carroll says that shook him.
Then, in 2010, California Republicans ran a pro-choice candidate, Meg Whitman, for governor.
When Donald Trump burst on the scene as a presidential candidate, Carroll says it seemed that Trump “had a habit of sucking in everyone around him and corrupting them.”
“And I don’t want to see the pro-life movement sucked into that,” Carroll said.
“I don’t want it to be Trump’s pro-life movement; I want it to be Christ’s pro-life movement.”
Like Carroll, Patel cited the rise of Donald Trump as a tipping point, which caused him to question his party allegiances.
In 2016, Carroll resigned from his church and changed his voted registration at the same time, briefly joining the Democratic party. He liked Bernie Sanders’ idea of “getting money out of politics,” so he supported him while searching for a third party.
It only took a few weeks to find the American Solidarity Party.
Caroll helped to organize the solidarity party in California, and in 2018 decided to run for Congress against Devin Nunes, a Republican who has held his seat since 2003.
He did not have much time or money to devote to the campaign, as he was still teaching full-time. Still, he garnered 1.3% of the vote— more than the Libertarian candidate in the race.
After his run for office, Carroll realized that he had gained more campaign experience than nearly anyone else in the American Solidarity Party, and that the party would likely ask him to run for president.
“I saw that coming, and had a year to pray about it,” Carroll said.
Every time he came up with a reason not to run, God seemed to provide an answer, usually through preaching that Carroll heard on the radio.
“Lord, you didn’t bring me out into the desert for me to die here,” Carroll remembers telling himself.
Faith and politics
The reasons Carroll joined the American Solidarity Party are not immediately obvious to his fellow evangelical Christians, he told CNA.
He says many of his fellow elders in the church he left behind “probably thought I was a heretic.”
For example, everybody else on the elder board felt that capital punishment was what the Bible demanded, but Carroll started to doubt that. After reading up on the subject, when capital punishment came up on the ballot in California, he decided to vote against it.
He says he has Christian friends on both the left and the right who tell him, often, why his positions are wrong.
But, he says joining the party has given him a chance to get to know many more Catholics than he had ever encountered in his life.
Recent polling conducted by EWTN News and RealClear Opinion suggests that some 52% of US Catholics are open to voting for a third party.
Some of those Catholics have made their way to the American Solidarity Party.
“99% of my Catholic friends are members of the party,” he said.
Carroll estimates that at least 80% of members of the party are Catholic, with some Orthodox Christians as well.
“It has very much changed the flavor of my Facebook friends list,” he chuckled.
Paths to victory
Neither Carroll nor Patel is sanguine about their chances of actually winning the presidency.
Though the ASP hopes to get on the ballot in Colorado, in many states ASP members are working hard just to earn the chance to be counted as write-in candidates.
In some states, such as Oregon, even achieving write-in status has been an uphill battle.
The ASP is “in the process of building a party,” Carroll explained.
He said California, New York, Ohio and Texas are increasing in activity in the party— though turnout remains small compared to major parties.
“If we get 5 people to a meeting, that’s a major rally,” he admitted, and the ASP is “not yet to the point where we’re going to be satirized in the Onion or the Babylon Bee.”
Still, the party has gained at least one high-profile member in the past few months: Charles Camosy, a leading pro-life Democrat, announcing in early February his departure from the Democratic Party in favor of the ASP.
“Who knows what’s coming this year,” Carroll said.
Both men said their presidential run is about raising the party’s national profile and getting people talking about the issues that are important to the ASP.
Even if they don’t win offices, Carroll said, their party can affect policy by influencing the national conversation or drawing attention to specific issues.
Carroll pointed to Ross Perot, who ran for president as an independent in the 1990s, while pushing for a balanced federal budget. Though Perot did not come close to winning, the major parties discussed a balanced budget for years after that, Carroll contended.
In Carroll’s mind, if enough pro-life Democrats switch to the ASP, then the Democratic Party may consider softening its position on abortion.
Also, he said, if enough Republicans who “don’t like to see kids in cages at the border,” or who support a more universalized healthcare system, switch to ASP, the Republican Party might also begin to rethink their positions.
“My personal goal is for everyone, whether they love us, they hate us, or are completely indifferent and think we’re a joke, at least will have heard of us by November 3, and that the people who want to vote their conscience have at least that opportunity,” Patel said.
He said he suspects that many Christians and Catholics end up voting for a candidate who they believe will defend one specific aspect of Christian morality, rather than looking for “ideal candidates who will actually defend the Christian message in total.”
“They can actually put in ‘Brian Carroll’ if they want a write-in vote that is significant, is meaningful, and counts specifically FOR something, as opposed to against something, which I think a lot of people are ending up doing.”
Patel said he hears a lot about “wasted votes” when it comes to third parties. But in states where a Republican or Democratic victory is all but assured, such as California, even if millions of voters switched to a third party, it would be unlikely to change the outcome, he said.
If that happened, however, the “entire face of American politics would have changed,” because people would be talking about the third-party candidate who garnered millions of votes.
“If you’re strongly pro-life and you vote for Trump in a state he’s going to lose, THAT’S a throwaway vote, because not everyone who votes for Trump is pro-life,” Patel argued.
“But if you change your pro-life vote to Brian Carroll, that will be a specifically pro-life vote that will be counted as such,” he added.
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I’d recommend that these bishops ought to spend the time praying for their own salvation.
Let us recollect that the Shepherds of their flocks the Bishops are called to be more concerned about the welfare of their flock than of their own souls. Taking a moment to pray for the victims, the shooter and first responder is certainly charitable and compassionate and our calling to pray for our enemies and the enemies of God, those that hated Him before they hated us.
Yeah, you’d recommend it. You wouldn’t take the trouble to pray for their salvation yourself, of course. Not your job, is it, deacon? But then, maybe that’s no great loss, if your prayer was only going to run like this: “O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this bishop. I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.”
You make no offer to pray for them yourself. Such an offer might be Pharisaical grandstanding — it usually contains at least an element of that — but if you were to follow through with private prayers, some good would come of it.
Nor are you offering fraternal correction. You do not address them directly. I doubt you would say that directly to your own bishop, or even write a letter with a signature and a return address to any of these other bishops.
What you are doing is gossiping. That’s all. Cut it out.
You put “deacon” in front of your name, presumably because you think Holy Orders entitles you to some deference. Well … not really in a forum like this, where the argument should not depend on the genetic fallacy that it matters who said it. Regardless, if you think your office of deacon entitles you to respect, the same logic should require you to think that the office of bishop entitles them to whatevever respect or deference you hope to receive from your title.
If no one can tell you have Holy Orders from the wisdom and holiness of what you write, maybe keep that part to yourself.
I will pray for you, however, Outis.
We are not obligated to respect corrupt leadership, and defending it, which is a consistent pattern for you, is sin on your part.
Absolutely
Fight, fight, fight the progressives outside the Church and inside the Church.
Prayers for all those who were injured or killed yesterday. 🙏
Security breakdown is obvious and as some of the media are reporting this morning, looks bad to the world when your Republican candidate is not adequately/smartly protected, (not to mention those in attendance).
Dear Kevin Roberts.
To bring this sad event into perspective, let’s remember that it is not the radical Left alone who are responsible for political violence. At the storming of the Capital (which was a violent political response which this very man did little to prevent) several people also lost their lives. Violence is never the answer and both parties are quilty of it. We must condemn all violence and not put the blame on one party alone. May the former president recover and conduct a decent campaign and be willing to humbly accept whatever the outcome. May both parties become more honest and moral in their rhetoric and behavior. May we as Americans hold the next president accountable for his actions and demand transparent and just leadership. May God bless America.
“We must condemn all violence and not put the blame on one party alone.”
A disgraceful and inappropriate post. Republicans aren’t shooting their opponents.
Is it disgraceful and inappropriate to condemn violence and call for both parties to be accountable? How can we ignore those on the Right such as the Proud Boys and the KKK etc. etc. who openly support Trump? Just look at their current posts and tweets that are calling for war and promoting violence! It’s Not all one sided. Both parties have drifted into the extreme. There is little if any honest dialogue, none seem willing to compromise. Our form of government welcomes diversity of opinion and dialogue resulting in compromise and cooperative dialogue . We need to understand and respect each other and get along. Nothing is gained by broad brushing and labeling others. We need love, tolerance and respect which is becoming to our Christian witness.
“… the Proud Boys and the KKK…”
I think all reasonable people lament and denounce the endless rioting and the hundreds of millions of dollars in destructions and damage caused by the Proud Boys and the KKK during the riots of 2020. (Ahem.)
The idea that because Party A (Dems) have become incredibly radical, amoral, and immoral means that Party B (GOP) has surely done the same in equal measure is both stupid and contrary to data/reason. The problem with the GOP, in many ways, is that is simply does what the Dems did 5 to 10 years ago rather than following actual objective principles. Hence, the part of stupid. And the reality of a “uniparty” in so many ways. But it mustn’t blind anyone to the fact that the Democratics, as a Party, have completely sold out to the culture of death, insanity, moral depravity, mutilation, etc.
James Connor,
Your “perspective” referencing the storming of the Capitol lacks perspective…
The House Select Committee formed to investigate January 6, 2001—why did it reject the request for a broad perspective to consider escalating events preceding that single date? The street riots in other urban areas in 2000? In Minneapolis and Portland, and in Seattle where several city blocks, including a police precinct station, were occupied for almost a month? Several shots fired and one 16-year-old boy hit fatally. Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest
Would Jan. 6 have been even thinkable without these incompetently-handled lead-in events?
I clearly recall, at the beginning in Seattle, Mayor Durkan at the site (and broadcast live on local radio) likening the event to a neighborly “block party,” and then pleading, “we gave you free college education, what more do you want?” A reference to Seattle’s recent taxpayer-funded program for free junior college education. Compassionate vote buying, and a small-scale version of forgiving student loan debt?
“What more do you want”? The swan song from a therapeutic/value-neutral education system and Provider State?
So, about your “perspective”: there are more layers to this onion. Including this recent clip regarding responsibility: https://x.com/OversightAdmn/status/1800207258514575730
Dear Peter. I doubt that we will ever know what really happened at the storming of the Capitol, but we do have numerous tweets and recordings of Mr. Trump which call for vigilante violence against those who have parted ways with him or he considers his enemy. Such as arresting and locking up former President Obama, the Clintons, former vice president, Michael Pence, President Joe Biden and many others. Many people have been intimidated. Some politicians such as Mitt Romney have publicly stated that they got out of politics because of threats against their families . These are all instances of dirty politics, and we must demand better. The dirty politics of the past pale in comparison to what is happening now. Watergate Looks like a fraternity prank in comparison to the physical violence we are experiencing today. Both parties are guilty of giving their tacit support to violent groups who support their agendas. It is not at all one sided. We must demand better we must demand accountability and transparency. My prayer is that the former president humbles himself and is drawn close to the Lord and if re-elected becomes an exemplary leader who draws the country together. I pray that he respects the rule of law and the limitations of his elected office. I pray that he openly condemns all of the violent groups who support him as well as those on the left. I pray that he will welcome dialogue and be able to respect the opponents views without resorting to character assassination. In short I pray that he may become a humble and holy man who is greatly used by the Lord. May God bless America and him.
Meanwhile, I’ll pray that you might develop the willingness to see beyond your DNC talking points and see the situation, and your contributions to it, more clearly. Don’t worry about Trump. Repent of your own sins.
James. I agree with your assessment of our polarized politics. As you point out, there is dirty politics on both sides. However, I take issue with Trump ever becoming humbled or admitting guilt for anything. “The buck stops THERE”. His enormous ego prevents him. But you and I must continue to pray for miracles. We have no choice.
Thank you.
No political figure was assassinated on Jan 6th. The people who gathered to support President Trump were peacefully assembled.
The folks who dressed up in costumes and entered the Capitol, which is in fact a public building that exists to serve the American citizens, had emerged from a QAnon rabbit hole. I know a few people who follow that conspiracy narrative and they can barely perform their daily tasks competently, much less organize an insurrection.
I think there was a combination of easily led, angry citizens and some orchestration by interests who wanted to smear Trump and his supporters. It was a perfect way to accomplish that. If Donald Trump had been a political insider he might have seen it coming.
WOW! Your glasses? On Jan 6 several people died. “Stop the Steal” protesters Kevin Greeson, 55, and Benjamin Phillips, 50, both died of cardiovascular disease. Rosanne Boyland died “in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line. Ashli Babbitt shot while entering a broken Capitol window. Officer Brian Sicknick “passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty.” The report stated that Sicknick “was injured while physically engaging with protesters. He returned to his division office and collapsed. Four suicides: Four other police officers committed suicide in the days and months after the riot. In-your-face!. Crazy Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson echoed “the rioters were only a group of tourists HAVING FUN”. AND, he was there!!!
Evidence Trump, Guiliani, Bannon and Eastman were directly initiating the invasion…
Trump: “Go down to the Capitol and FIGHT LIKE hell. While reclining to the WH for 2 hrs, Meadows received many calls to have Trump end the attempted coup, (even his family!!!), he refused. Then, after the building was trashed, Trump arose to say “Go home now, we LOVE YOU!!!
Bannon’s podcast and on TV. Jan. 5th. “Fasten your seat belts. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow”.
At the elipse…
Giuliani Call for ‘Trial by Combat’ Before Trump Mob Broke Into Capitol.
Eastman: Even after Jan 6 Eastman was trying to convince the public that the 2020 election was fraudlent. Iroinically prior to the coup told Trump two days before the insurrection that his scheme to keep himself in power was against the law.
All three begged Trump for a pardon!!!
Some other lawyer minions who admitted guilt…
Kenneth Chesebro the architect of the false elector scheme
Jenna Ellis, pleads guilty in Georgia.
Sidney Powell who was restricted from Trump meetings because she was “crazy”.
All factchecked. Hope this helps.
This rant is simply insane and is a good example of the very kind of delusional thinking that prompted the assassin’s attempts this weekend. Shame on you.
Mr. Morgan, a riot is not a coup nor an insurrection.
I’ll be glad when Mr Mr Trump is reelected, please God, and we can put these false narratives aside.
It’s a free country and you can vote for whomever you choose but we shouldn’t be going down these rabbit holes forever.
“On January 7, 2021, a United States Capitol Police (USCP) officer, Brian Sicknick, died after suffering two strokes the day after he responded to an attack on the U.S. Capitol.” ~ Wikipedia, citing a Washington Post article.
“All factchecked.” … badly.
Political violence has come from both sides of the political aisle. But currently 95% of the violence emanates from the Far Left. January 6 is the fault of the right, compared to the George Floyd riots, Antifa riots, Antifa taking over entire cities like Portland and Seattle, and the violent Pro-Hamas protests on US campuses, all of which are the fault of the Left.
I’m afraid that blood may flow from BOTH sides soon. BOTH are equally dangerous. It’s the nazis against to communists all over again. Different names but same ideologies.
Republicans are not Nazis. There is no logical or historical basis for that claim, which means that you are either profoundly ignorant or outright lying, both of which are unacceptable from the standpoint of basic Catholic teaching.
You are not the Pope. You don’t speak for the Church.
Violence is mostly from the GOP, and that the catholic church is tolerating this is unbelievable. Jesus Christ would be be very ashamed of the American catholic church.
Pope Francis’s view of this whole abortion and LGBTQ issue is exactly how Jesus would look at it.
“Violence is mostly from the GOP…”
Which branch? The Antifa-GOP? The BLM-GOP? The Planned Parenthood-GOP? The Abortion-Without-Limits-GOP? The Trans-Mutilation-GOP? The Illegal-“Immigrants”-Who-Commit-Violence-GOP?
So many choices. (Sarcasm off.)
At our Mass this morning not a moment of silence nor prayers for the victims, shooter certainly not for Trump even in the prayers of the people. No parting comments after the dismissal. When I asked Father about the lack of compassion, he dismissed the attempted assassination as an “incident” then hurried away.
EWTN definitely mentioned it right away.
Does anyone really care about what are essentially automatic canned replies expressing shock and outrage tweets, of outrage so sincere it does not put off eating breakfast and forgotten the moment SEND is pressed….I am so sick of posturing by “leaders” and their PR staffs. But such posturing makes up the majority of “news” today, a long string of blather statements.
The unfortunate attack on former President Trump is a sign of the toxic political polarization evident in the divisive rhetoric, seemingly the new norm.
The evidence is being accumulated, but it is reported that the weapon used was the military-style AR15, much like my miltary issue, the powerful M16.
We must pray that honest and freedom loving American poeple will become more involved in helping an effort to reunite our delicate republic. A start is joining an organization in your area using the “bully pulpit” provided. And, contact your political reps.
When Trump was in the hospital a major event happenned. President Biden called to offer his concern and whished him a full recovery. Trump THANKED Biden and told him that “the heat of political rhetoric needed to be lowered”. Biden agreed and made an appeal to the public from the Oval Office.
It appears that the current divisivness began when Trump refused to provide a peaceful transfer of power and began a maddening campaign to overthrow the election.
I hope the heat will cool quickly. Suprisingly or not, they are only providing ONE thermometer .
All well and good, as in yada yada yada, ssdd, etc.
But let’s not forget that ‘catholic’ Joe Biden is quoted as recently saying this to his donors: “it’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.” (source – Sean Fitzpatrick Crisis Magazine July 15, 2024)
Who is dangerous?
And then Biden, in expressing “regret” for that comment, STILL turned right around and called the opposition (backed by about half the population) a “threat to democracy”….that is, not voting for Biden and his party, and voting for anybody else, is undemocratic…
Biden’s short-term memory isn’t the best, and his long-term habit is inflammatory speech.
Supposedly, the man who investigated him for mishandling classified information declined to prosecute on the grounds that he could not prove mens rea for a person with such significant memory problems. Likely we cannot expect him to be entirely responsible for his speech now either.
Has Pope Francis issued a personal message about the attempt and directly to President Trump? A message from the Vatican press office is not enough
Liked what MrsCracker & Terrence posted.
Today heard a solid podcast that shooter Crux couldn’t have acted alone with supporting details& then a scary but true-sounding podcast with video of ASST FBI DIRECTOR Brittany (?) sitting BEHIND TRUMP at Sat’s Butler, PA assassination attempt. She’s on camera using her cell phone but looking toward shooter BEFORE he shot! Then she doesn’t freak out & slips down behind her sign- unlike everyone else! She calculatedly then took photo of Trump on floor!
Then a demonic George Soros post on VOZ shows their chilling picture “prophecy” of a bullet in glass next to $47 in cash (-presidents on bills) ! Trump would be President #47!!
And let’s recall that the Left lied “prophesying” again claiming that “Trump would take revenge on his political ‘enemies’ after his election”. But then I realized that all of the “FBI-protected” Leftist criminals would then BE investigated by actual TRUTHFUL law-abiding Conservative PROSECUTORS, with FAIR judges! Optic that they’d be “innocent victims”! Ugh!
PRAYING for WISDOM for our citizens & GOD’S WILL 🙏