Just how cold IS it?

Walt's fingers are too cold to type, and Ed.'s are too cold to do whatever he does, so...

VIDEO: "Is the Pope Catholic?" - Michael Matt on the Pope's meetings with Pelosi & Biden: "His pontificate is a chastisement from God!"

Our old friend Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, has recovered from the Wuhan flu [Thank you, Lord.] and has rushed out this special edition of The Remnant Underground to denounce the recent actions and pronouncements of Pope Francis, "the chaplain of the New World Order".

Mr Matt has some pretty scathing comments on the ramifications of Francis' making population control guru (((Jeffrey Sachs))) a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Aside from being militantly pro-contraception, Mr Sachs is also co-author of the UN Sustainable Development Goals which promote abortion worldwide. So, here’s the question: How pro-life can Francis be when he has no problem partnering with pro-abort population controllers? 

Of course there's more. Last week, Pope Bergoglio called on Big Tech to crack down on our freedom of speech. The week before that, as reported here on WWW yesterday, he rolled out the red carpet for Nancy Pelosi. So, how can one be a sincere Catholic and also a defender of a man who aids and abets the most notorious apostate pro-aborts in the world today? 

In this video, Mr Matt argues that Francis has turned the Church over to radical globalists hellbent on building a New World Order out of the ashes of Christendom. In his e-mail to Walt today, he says "I pray I'm wrong. Please watch this video and decide for yourself."

Even if you're not Catholic, you should be very, very worried by the events of this week, particularly the meeting between Francis and Joe, on which we posted an update yesterday afternoon. Besides being the two most powerful "Catholics" (quote marks used intentionally) in the world. President Brandon and the man who calls himself "Pope" are two of the top three leaders of the One World movement. The missing third man was their boss, (((George Soros))). 

We were not told what Mr Soros' acolytes discussed, but can safely assume that it wasn't how to promote freedom, Western civilization and Christian values. Let us pray again, today and every day, the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel.

"What's a trillion"?

Too much? Let's start with "What's a million?" That's a paraphrase of comments made by C.D. Howe, the Canadian "Minister of Everything" in the post-war Liberal government. During debate over estimates for the War Appropriation Bill in 1945,  Mr Howe told an opposition member, "I daresay my honourable friend could cut a million dollars from that amount, but a million dollars from the War Appropriations Bill (of more than $1.35 billion) would not be a very important matter."

John Diefenbaker, a Conservative MP, quickly rephrased Mr Howe’s words as "What's a million?" It is used even today to portray liberal governments' arrogance and looseness with the public purse.

Three-quarters of a century ago, a million dollars was a considerable sum of money. Half a century ago politicians went from talking of "millions" to "billions". Now even 000,000,000 (nine zeros) isn't enough, and another three zeros have been added to appropriations bills in Biden's US of A.

Last month, the Senate passed an infrastructure bill backed by Sleepy Joe, costed at roughly $1,000,000,000,000 -- a million million or trillion dollars. All of the Senate Dumbocrats and 19 Republicans (?) voted for it. It now needs to be approved by the House before being sent to Mr Biden's desk.

But wait... Apparently a trillion dollars isn't enough for the "progressive Democrats" in the House of Representative, who have vowed not to advance it unless and until the Senate passes an accompanying "reconciliation" bill which will cost... wait for it... $3.5 trillion!

The “Squad,” which includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have joined Burnie Sanders (I-VT), the chairman of the Senate budget committee, in refusing to budge on the linking of the two bills, as a package deal. 

They say moderate Democrats, like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kristen Sinema (D-AZ), are standing in their way by opposing the gargantuan price tag of the social safety net expansion, which includes funding for healthcare, climate change, childcare, affordable housing, and education, all for the benefit of "marginalized communities" suffereing from centuries of "systemic racism" yada yada yada.

Sen. Manchin, along with many Republicans argue that the national debt is too large for this type of spending, and that it could contribute to already higher-than-normal rates of inflation. He told the Clinton News Network today that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer "will not have my vote on $3.5 (trillion) and Chuck knows that, and we’ve talked about this."

All this talk of billions and trillions reminded me of something I read in Bill Bryson's commendable Notes From a Big Country (Doubleday, 1998). The entire national debt, at the time Mr Bryson was writing, stood at $4.5 million, the total of the two bills now proposed by the Democraps. Mr Bryson puts millions, billions and trillions in terms than even I can understand. 

Big numbers are simply beyond what we are capable of grasping.... What does $4.5 trillion actually mean?

Let's just try for a trillion. Imagine that you were in a vault with the whole of America's national debt and you were told you could keep each dollar bill you initialled. Say, too, for the sake of argument, that you could initial one dollar bill each second and that you worked straight through without stopping. How long do you think it would take to count a trillion dollars?...

If you initialled one dollar per second, you would make $1000 every 17 minutes. After twelve days of non-stop effort you would acquire your first $1 million. Thus it would take you 120 days to accumulate $10 million and 1200 days -- something over three years -- to reach $100 million.

After 31.7 years, you would become a billionaire, and after almost a thousand years you would be as wealthy as Bill Gates.... But not until after 31,709.8 years would you count your trillionth dollar, and then you would be less than one-fourth of the way through the pile of money representing America's national debt.

That is what $1 trillion is.

James Carville: Sanders can't win by "expanding the electorate"

I've been laboring for nigh on 24 hours trying to think of something clever and original to say about Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT - Don't forget the "I" part) hyuge win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses. Something about the Dumbocrats drinking the socialist Koolaid, or lemmings stampeding towards the cliff... something like that... but alas, I'm dry. [Please keep your personal life to yourself. Ed.]

I am therefore tossing the ball to James Carville, a media personality with considerable expertise and experience in American elections. A prominent political consultant who specializes in developing framing and strategy for electoral campaigns, Mr Carville has consulted for candidates for public office in the Excited States of America and 23 foreign countries. (Funny that no foreigners have complained about US interference in their elections!)

Mr Carville, aka "the Ragin' Cajun", gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of Slick Willy Clinton. He's worked for the Clinton News Network off and on from 2002 until parting company with them in 2013. The following year, he joined Fox News as a contributor. Here's his reaction to the Sanders steamroller.

Note from Ed.: There was supposed to be a short video here, with Mr Carville's comments on MSNBC. For some reason I can't get it to embed, so I can only refer you to the link on Real Clear Politics; click right here!

In case you couldn't see it, here are two key quotes.

"The entire theory [put forward by Mr Sanders and his supporters "that by expanding the electorate, increasing turnout so you can win an election, is similar to climate denial. When people say that, they're as stupid to a political scientist as a climate denier is to an atmospheric scientist."

"If you want to vote for Bernie Sanders because you feel good about his program, you don't like the banks on Wall Street or you don't like pharmaceuticals, that's legitimate, I understand that. If you're voting for him because you think he'll win the election, politically, you're a fool."

There's nothing I could possibly say that would top those comments for brevity and pithiness. Well said, sir.

Democrats: which rich old Jewish guy will you choose?

As the Nevada caucuses draw near -- actually they're already under way -- new polls show Mayor Pete, the darling of the alphabet people fading, and the contest for the Dumbocrat presidential nomination shaping up to be between (((Michael Bloomberg))) and Senator (((Bernie Sanders))).

A national poll from NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist -- good liberals, all -- released today showed Former Mayor Michael with 19% support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, putting him in second place behind the senator from Vermont, who had 31%. Mr Bloomberg's surge is enough to qualify him to participate in tomorrow's debate in Vegas, the first time the billionaire New Yorker will appear onstage alongside the billionaire from Brooklyn and other Democratic presidential rivals.

Isn't it odd (I hear you thinking) that the Democrats, the party of the common man [and woman, and those unsure or in transition. Ed.] should be poised to choose between one rich old New York Jew and another, to get out and there and fight for equality. The little cartoon expresses my thoughts.

Memo from Walt to all those afflicted with TDS

It's been fun watching the reactions of the Dumbocrats and their mouthpieces in the lamestream media to Still-President Trump's "victory lap", delivered this noontide from the East Room of the White House, which he will continue to occupy for at least another 11 months.

To all those afflicted with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), including but not limited to: Stephen Colbert, Nancy Pelosi, (((Chuck Schumer))), Mitt Romney, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosemary Barton, (((Jerry Nadler))), Paul Hunter, Rachel Maddow, (((Bernie Sanders))), Pete Buttigieg, Brian Williams, Ellen DeGenerate, Hellery Clinton, John Berman, (((David Frum))), Mrs Prince Harry, Mara Gay, Joy Anne Reid, Malcolm Nancy, the Bidens, Cher, Jim Carrey, Bobby DeNiro, Fauxcahontas, Amy Klobuchar [That's enough never-Trumpers. Ed.], I have just two words to say, quoting Nelson Muntz... HA ha!!!

Brilliant satire from the People's Cube: dream diary of Tiffany, SJW

Komissar al-Blogunov, writing in The People's Cube, has concocted a brilliant piece of satire: "From the dream diary of Tiffany, SJW". Constraints of space prevent us from reposting the whole thing, but these excerpts will give you the flavour of it. To read the aarticle in its entirety, follow the link at the end.

Okay, like, I had this totally awful dream last night, okay - in my safe space! It was literally the worst dream I have ever literally had. It went like this:

It was November 3, 2020. Bernie won! It was wonderful that he won because that meant that Trump was gone! My feminist studies professor told me that Trump was literally the worst Republican president since Hitler, and I believe him. Everybody on campus was cheering, hugging, dancing, getting high, and waving rainbow flags while burning American flags. It was the greatest day in our nation's history.

Bernie gave the best inaugural address that I have literally ever heard. He said, "The time has come to realize FDR's Second Bill of Rights."

I had to Google FDR, and Google said that he was literally the best president ever and AOC said Republicans persecuted him and rewrote the Constitution (some kind of boat, I don't get it) so he couldn't run for a fifth term after he died.

My bad, back to the speech. It was literally awesome.... I thought I was literally going to go deaf from all the cheering. But then something really weird happened in my dream, and it was like I was going forward in time....

I guess I needed to like, work or something. I knew I could make a lot of money with the new minimum living wage of $50 per hour (Thank you, thank you, Bernie!) so I looked for my first job. I was so confused because it was like everybody else needed a job, too. Everywhere I went some guy or some woman would tell me they couldn't afford to hire me. I went to the Employment Council building, and they said that since I was white I had to move to the back of the line. How come there were no jobs when the pay was so good?

We ended up living in an alley, and I'm not lying when I tell you it was literally the filthiest place I've ever seen. We tried to make a shelter, but it didn't do much to keep the rain out, and nobody would share their tent with us. My little brother got sick, so we took him to the hospital because all the health care was free (Thank you again, Bernie, you're awesome!) and we knew we could just walk in. You know what? There were so. many. sick people there. When we got to the desk, Mommy said that my brother may have typhoid (she used to be a nurse) and needed to be seen immediately. Well, the clerk told us to go home and come back when there weren't so many sick people in the waiting room and the earliest appointment we could get was 11 months later.

When I woke up, I was so confused, so angry. I mean, how is it even possible for socialism to turn out so bad when they make so many cool promises? Whatever. We just need the right people in charge.

Click here to go to The People's Cube and read Tiffany's bad dream, in its entirety. Good job, Komisar! Keep up the good work!

Groundhog Day: Hellery sees her shadow

Let me be clear. I'm tired of the political correctness, liberal insanity and general mediocrity with which the failed Obama administration has saddled the USA. I want America to be great again! But that doesn't mean that I would vote for The Donald or that I was displeased with the results of last night's Iowa caucuses.

The higher Donald Trump's star rose [not in the East, surely! Ed.], the more worrisome the question of what would happen to the Republic Party if he won the nomination. Even more so the question of what would happen to the USA if he beat Hillary Clinton into the Oval Office. The prospect was frightening to the point of being inconceivable to those who take America and its politics at all seriously.

Many pundits predicted that a Trump candidacy would see large numbers of rank-and-file Republicans desert the party, leaving the field open for Hellery. A Trump win would thus see another Clinton in the White House, with Ole Bill right behind her, pulling the strings. Pulling the strings! (Ooops, just had a flash from Ed Wood there.)

The Trump campaign is far from over though. I wouldn't be surprised if he won New Hampshire. (Lifetime pct .972.) And his candidacy has been good for the GOP in that it has moved the party well to the right of where it would be had Jeb Bush [Who he? Ed.] emerged as a contender. A year ago Ted Cruz was all but written off as a right-wing nut. As of this morning he's the front-runner, due in no small measure to his being unafraid to proclaim his Christian Faith. Well done, that man!

Also noteworthy is Marco Rubio's strong third place finish. Mr. Rubio is acceptable to the Republican establishment as well as conservatives, and would do well with Hispanic voters. A Cruz-Rubio ticket would be very strong, even if Mr. Trump went off in a huff and ran as an independent. That the Republicans could offer voters a clearly conservative choice was seen as highly unlikely until The Donald threw his hat [That stuff on top of his head is a hat? Ed.] into the ring, so in that sense his candidacy has been good for the GOP and good for America.

Then we have the Democrats. I can't swear that this picture was taken last night, but it seems a likely visualization of Hillary Clinton's reaction on hearing the final tally.

Learning that she had squeaked by Bernie Sanders by a mere 1/2 of 1 percent of the votes must have been good for Hellery's bowels. The good news (for America -- see first paragraph) is that the Democratic establishment is now in the same invidious position as the Republicans, faced with the possibility of a wild-eyed socialist emerging as their candidate. Faced with a real question as to Mrs. Clinton's electability, what will they do?

Joe Biden has ruled himself out. Michael Bloomberg used to be a Democrat, but switched to the Dark Side before becoming mayor of New York. Would he switch back again? What will the Democrats do?!

So, all in all, a satisfactory result, from Walt's viewpoint. Looks like we're in for an exciting political year.

FOOTNOTE: A bit of Iowa trivia: The IATA airport code for Sioux Gateway Col. Bud Day Field is SUX. Aren't you glad we're not back in the old days when luggage tags had the destination in big black letters? How'd you like to walk around with SUX on your luggage?!

Voting in the Iowa caucuses? See Walt's endorsements!

Hellery Clinton is not inevitable, and thank God for that! Walt endorses Bernie Sanders, just to give the Democratic Establishment a scare and make things interesting. If Bernie becomes the Dems candidate -- which I doubt, even if he wins today -- it would for once give Americans a clear choice between two "outsiders".

What "outsider" do I commend to Republican voters? I wouldn't be fussed if Ted Cruz squeaks through, but, if I could vote in Iowa, I'd vote for Donald Trump... just to make things really interesting. Besides, Mr. Cruz was born in Canada. He can deny his birthright all he likes, but he's got the taint of maple syrup about him.