Joyfully Plugging Away on the Road to Mordor

Posted on 2022-06-21
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I am working on a big piece. In the fits and starts I go through while on the road, the trouble is the balance between getting something up and giving it the time and care it needs to be just right. Besides this site, I do a piece for the newsletter every other week, a podcast each week, and now I am doing a piece every week or two for the American Thinker. I do the latter because I believe that, in these times of confusion, the critical thing is to get the first things right, primary principles. If you don’t do that, you are forever chopping away at the branches of problems instead of getting to the root. Beyond that, it is critical to take the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s dictum to “live not by lies,” to heart. Solzhenitsyn’s faithful witness helped bring the Soviet Union down. In this time when the entire public culture of the United States and the western world is founded on lies that the authoritarian left (which has seized control) insists we pretend are true, simply stating what is obviously true is subversive to their despicable project.

I have just found that I am allowed to reprint my articles from American Thinker after they have appeared, provided I give it credit for the original article. Yeah, I should have known from the start, but sometimes I am slow on the uptake on the most basic stuff. It has been a bane of my existence: the sophisticated, complicated stuff I get right away while the simple, basic stuff often takes me a while. And so I will republish them here when I am working on a tougher piece.

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From left, Jim and Elizabeth Graham, me, having breakfast just before I departed Houston for San Antonio (photo by Camron Grace)

I have had a very productive (and fun) swing through Texas, thanks in large part to my dear friend and CORAC board member, Jim Graham. If you follow my Facebook Page at all, I have been putting up a lot of pictures of the people I see and the places I pass through. I thought that the Abraham’s Journey Page was originally set up to chronicle my day-to-day steps on my pilgrimage of 11 years ago, so why not do the same with the different, but very fruitful, series of pilgrimages I am living now? We have such a fine and growing group of people working together at CORAC to help support each other and others in a time of crisis it is something you should participate in, as well, even if sometimes virtually.

On Sunday night, we went to an Astros game (Astros defeated the White Sox, 4-3). Joining us was our regular commenter here, Lake Johnson. Turns out he has spent a lot of years in the oil and gas industry and knows a lot about our current energy problems. And he is a more prolific traveler than I am. In the last few years he has been to over 80 countries. I LOVE meeting the people who make up the fabric of what we are building together.

From left, CORAC Board Member Jim Graham, me, and Lake Johnson, a regular commenter here at ASOH. We were just coming out of an Astros game. Notice that Lake is wearing a Northwestern t-shirt – which we both attended.

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Everyone within about 500 miles of Houston will know who the guy next to me is:

From left, me, Mattress Mack, my grandson Camron Grace, and CORAC Regional Coordinator Ed Haren

People from around the country may know Mattress Mack as the guy who opened up his furniture stores to house people during crises such as hurricanes and the great freeze in Texas a year ago. Over the last few years, I have had the pleasure of visiting with him almost every time I am in Houston – and he is one of the great humanitarians I have known, in little things as well as the larger more public ones. He is mentor to the people who work at his furniture stores and, quite frankly, father figure to many of them. The passion which allowed him to build a little business up into one of the biggest furniture stores in the country is even stronger in his commitment to the friends he has made through his work. The man loves his Jesus and shows it through his love for his fellows. A lot of lives have been turned around because of his commitment to all, including the least of these.

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By now, I am sure you know my grandson, Camron Grace, has been traveling with me for a few weeks (entirely at my expense: CORAC is not paying for his expenses). It has been a delight. He turned 15 yesterday. Normally, I don’t do much in the way of sightseeing when I travel, but having a grandson with me forces me to stop and smell the roses along the way. When he goes back home in about a week and a half, my granddaughter, Mya, will join me for a few weeks. For all the trials family can sometimes entail, family is the greatest joy in life.

Camron and me at Minute Maid Park in Houston as the Astros play.

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Following is my latest piece from American Thinker. It is on election fraud. The editor I work with, Drew Belsky, came up with this cool headline. My original headline was way too clunky. I love when someone gets it just right:

D’SOUZA’S MULES LEFT TRACKS

Many conservative commentators have noted that Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary, 2000 Mules, offers compelling evidence of large-scale vote fraud.  It offers more than this, though.  It provides compelling evidence of a massive, centrally coordinated conspiracy to commit vote fraud.  Examining several states with different voter laws while focusing on just one form of fraud, the movie found that the method of fraud was executed identically in each of these states.  That is prima facie evidence of central organization and management.

From the moment counting was stopped in the dead of night in five Democrat-run swing states on election night, Democrats and the media have treated anyone who questioned election integrity in 2020 like a mob boss treats anyone who threatens to testify against him: shut up, or we will cancel you.

Democrats and the media routinely smear anyone who questions the election results as a conspiracy theorist.  They routinely pronounce any evidence that emerges as “debunked.”  For the record, “debunked” does not mean “inconvenient to the leftist narrative.”  It means “thoroughly investigated and proven to be false.”  Almost none of the evidence has been debunked; very little has been officially examined.  Leftists treat actual evidence like how a vampire treats a crucifix.  There is no reasoned discourse, just a lot of hissing and snarling.

From well before he took office, Donald Trump faced an ongoing administrative coup attempt.  First was the long-running Russian collusion hoax, mounted by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee and abetted by the FBI and intelligence agencies.  Federal employees who were, theoretically, subordinate to Trump gleefully worked to undermine his administration.  Two baseless impeachments were mounted against him by Democrats who know nothing other than shrieking partisanship anymore.  The slow-moving coup finally succeeded on the evening of November 3, 2020, when those five states quit counting ballots to give Democrats time to “fortify” the election.  The last real hurdle to thwarting election integrity came on December 11, 2020, when the Supreme Court ruled that Texas and 18 other states lacked standing to complain of massive fraud.  How states that conduct honest elections lack standing to complain of states that don’t in an election that affects them all is beyond my understanding.  It looked like unconditional institutional surrender to massive fraud to me.  All hail the barbarians!

Partisan media outlets began crowing that many courts had “investigated” claims of fraud and found them baseless.  Rather, almost all courts refused to even look at any evidence, dismissing almost all claims on procedural, rather than substantive, grounds. Refusing to look at evidence is not an investigation.  A trickster can pat mud over a rock to change its shape, but time and tide will wash away the mud, leaving only the rock of truth — and then the fraud is exposed.

D’Souza’s documentary examined only the slice of fraud that involved organized physical ballot-stuffing.  It did not touch on compromised voting machines and systems or unconstitutional, administrative election law changes.  If the single slice that 2000 Mules so effectively biopsied is filled with the cancer of fraud, it is willful ignorance to believe that everything else was clean.

If the election of 2020 had been fundamentally clean, Democrats and the media should have been the loudest advocates for a thorough and bipartisan investigation of the election to put widespread doubts to rest and own the conservatives.  (By bipartisan, I do not mean like the J6 committee, where the Democrats unilaterally appointed all members, including a couple of Republican chumps for show.)  Instead, the left hisses and snarls at every piece of evidence brought forth, no matter how compelling.  A guilty man tries to suppress every bit of evidence at his trial, never knowing which piece will seal his conviction, while an innocent man tries to get every piece into evidence he can, never knowing which piece will exonerate him.  To assess credibility on this, look who is trying to suppress evidence and who is trying to get evidence into the public record.

 

At this stage, it is hard to credit Democrat and media intransigence to anything innocent.  If they are not just stupid, they have become co-conspirators in the only actual insurrection America has seen over the last six years.  Understand, this coup was not primarily aimed at Trump and conservative Republicans; it is a coup against the very idea of self-government.  Alas, many Republicans may disagree with elements of Democrat methods but agree with them that a self-serving elite class should rule the citizen-serfs they think constitute the American people.

The relentless smears, the constant howls, and the shrieking rage of the leftists are not because they are so offended that the right would challenge them.  It is because the mud of massive deception is being washed away to reveal the rock of stark fraud the left mounted to steal an American presidential election.  That is genuine insurrection.  Confession, repentance, and forfeiture of all offices of public honor or trust by the conspirators could begin to establish American honor and liberty anew.  That, of course, will never happen.  Power is the left’s only god, and pursuit of it by any means its only liturgy.

Republicans will win by unprecedented margins in November.  If they hold the left to account for its depredations against the American system of law and systemic attack on the Bill of Rights, we can begin to crawl out of this hole of despotism.  If, instead, the Republicans largely choose to let bygones be bygones, as they have done with the Russian collusion conspirators, there is little hope that America can long survive as anything the founders would recognize.  Renewal will come.  Americans will not forever submit to be ruled by any class of people — and certainly not to this degenerate class of aspiring despots.

However it comes, D’Souza’s documentary is the seminal moment the tide washed away enough mud that, despite their shrieks and howls, the left can no longer hide the ugly truth of what it did.  Massive election fraud in 2020 is a conspiracy, but it is no longer merely a theory.

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The squirrel at the bottom of this article is courtesy of Mike and Mary Drapeau of Georgia. It was taken by his parents. It has no fear of people and often comes up to them seeking food. Locals have taken to calling it the Lady of the Forest.

 

If communication goes out for any length of time, meet outside your local Church at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings. Tell friends at Church now in case you can’t then. CORAC teams will be out looking for people to gather in and work with.

Find me on Gab at Charliej373 or at the CORAC group.

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