The Conscience of a Cuckservative

If you ever wondered whatever happened to Eddie Munster, now you know. He was mentored in brown-nosing by another famous Eddie (Haskell of Leave it to Beaver fame) and then grew up to be Speaker of the House of Representatives (2015-2017).

This odious fellow, who presumes to speak for the GOP faithful, is quite possibly the most self-absorbed man that ever walked the face of the earth. Megyn Kelly (a drama queen if there ever was one) looks like a wallflower in contrast.

One has to wonder who gives him counsel. I mean, really: who told him that filing suit against a future Trump Administration would win him the hearts and minds of conservatives? Doesn’t anybody in his circle have the presence of mind to tell him how bad this looks considering his primary response to Obama’s incessant overreaches is to grab his ankles and hope for a kiss afterwards?

Really? Do they think that this will fire up the base?

What we are seeing here in Ryan is nothing less than the prototype of the Cuckservative, that species of fool which actually believes the propaganda of their enemies and pants for their approval.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great gig if you can swallow the humiliation of seeing your country being mounted by aggressive Third World hordes. I mean, it may suck for the working man who struggles with his diminishing self-worth and has to take Oxycontin to alleviate the pain but if you’re living in DC and environs, you’ve got it made.

The roster of well-compensated Cucks and Cuckettes is a long one: George Will springs instantly to mind but then there is Dana Perino, Steve Hayes, Joe Scarborough and so on. These people don’t have to worry about the wreckage that is apparent in the Rust Belt or Appalachia. The six counties that surround Washington the richest in all of America. Being part of the Washington scene is no different than being a courtier at Versailles.

Like the harruspices of ancient Rome, the gig of these mandarins is to go on TV and interpret the entrails found in the polling data for the day or the policy pronouncements emanating from the Chairman of the House Subcommittee of Fiddle-farting. These guys get six figures to sit on their asses and talk on FOX or CNN. Hey, what red-blooded American male wouldn’t love to sit by Nina Easton or A B Stoddard or S E Cupp? (Heck, you might even get lucky after the show.) Seriously, what other chance would a humunculus like Ben Shapiro have to make it with an attractive chick?

Besides the emotional charge of being feted for taking on The Donald, you don’t have to worry about losing your income should you actually lose an election. It sucks to be Eric Cantor, the former House Majority Leader was whipped and hog-tied by a penniless unknown. Still, if you parade your “principles” a nice job at a lobbying firm awaits. Cantor for example, quadrupled his income. John Boehner likewise made out like a bandit. Nice work if you can get it.

Us peasants in the hinterland on the other hand have to actually work for a living as we worry about crumbling schools and an overworked medical system. Thanks to the Oligarchy who use illegal aliens to maximize their profits while socializing their costs, the Middle Class is becoming overburdened. On top of that, we now have to worry about some “American” going all jihadi and spraying a workplace (or nightclub) with an AR-15, all in the name of Allah.

Isn’t diversity wonderful? It is if you’re one of these one-percenters. They don’t have to worry about crappy government schools or overcrowded emergency rooms.

So why do they do it? Why do they preen about, emphasizing their “conservative principles”? To salve their consciences, that’s why. They can always comfort themselves by saying that at least they’re not like that ghastly Trump fellow with his trophy wife and gaudy country clubs. The people that like him are “racists,” not goodthinkers like us. It’s also possible that they are truly ignorant and don’t understand what the majority of the people are undergoing. Their world is attending some conference and making sure that the sacred texts of Milton Friedman are being correctly interpreted.

Now, mind you, I have no problems with Friedman. In a better, fairer world, I would espouse free trade. I have no problem either with a muscular foreign policy; just not one which sends the men of Flyover Country to die in the sands of the desert for some vague concept called “democracy.”

But I do have a problem with a Ruling Class that bows and scrapes before an incompetent president and his secretary of State, both of whom do not have the best interests of the American people foremost in their minds. And I have a visceral hatred for those “conservatives” who cannot –and will not–fight the massive injustices that are befalling our once great Republic.

What I would give to see these cucks fight one-tenth as hard fighting Obama as they do fighting Trump.

What fools they are. Many of them are actively working against their party’s nominee in the surety that they will pick up the pieces and ride to a glorious Republican victory in 2010. What they don’t understand is that when President Hildebeast amnesties 11,000,000 illegal aliens by executive order there won’t be a Republican Party on the national level. America will become for all intents and purposes California.

Worse, some look at the last time a Clinton was in office and a muscular GOP took over the Congress for the first time in 40 years. Some good things actually happened then, ergo, we can expect more good stuff to happen under a future President Clinton. Unfortunately, past is not prologue. For one thing, Gingrich and his ilk were made of sterner stuff. All one has to do is look at the soft, pampered face of Paul Ryan and observe his brown-nosing ways to know that we are well on our way to becoming a banana republic.

He’s got it made. The rest of us? Not so much.

Comments

  1. Peter A. Papoutsis says

    Perfect!

  2. Tim R. Mortiss says

    What is the point of this vulgar ranting? The term is disgusting, as is the language of half of the rest of the piece.

    • George Michalopulos says

      I just wanted to vent. Needed to actually. My hatred, loathing and contempt for the GOPe is so overwhelming that I may have to go the Grand Canyon soon to help me store it. I hope to be there to help put in the final nail in the GOP’s coffin when the time comes. By publishing this piece I hope to show other disaffected (true) conservatives how we have been hoodwinked by the Cuckservatives and why we need a new, really patriotic Party, one not beholden to the Oligarchy.

      Or secession. I’d go with either one.

    • Peter Millman says

      Hi Tim,
      According to the website Redstate.com, the term ” cuckservative” is a racist slur. ” It is used by racists in support of a racialist agenda. The people who use it are not opposed to illegal immigration, but are opposed to immigration in general. They are opposed to evangelical Christians because they support interracial adoption. They are opposed to anyone who does not think in terms of the white race. … They hate actual, practicing Christians. They claim they are conservative and Christians and they are not.”
      Basically, people who use this term are considered to the right of the John Birch Society. I say that we should eliminate all these meaningless labels altogether. To be a liberal is not necessarily to be a Christian; to be a conservative is not necessarily to be a Christian Why don’t we just be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ instead of liberals and conservatives? Although I like and respect him, Mr. Michalopulos is coming very close to espousing racist views.
      Thank you very kindly.

      • George Michalopulos says

        Mr Millman, Redstate is hardly an objective source for a polemic against the cuckservative slur, especially since their editor, the odious Erick Erickson has been tainted with that slur. Erickson is the uber-nationalist when it comes to the ethno-state of Israel. Why he can’t uphold the same values for the land in which he lives is beyond me.

        You must get off the racial angle as well. The phenomenon of cuckoldry in the marital relationship happens in all nations, cultures and races.

        Nor are nationalists against immigration per se. Even when they espouse a moratorium, as was in place from 1924 to 1965, hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants were admitted to the US in manageable numbers. During this time of “no immigration,” my maternal grandparents and my father immigrated to the US.

        A moratorium on all immigration is merely a mechanism whereby all immigrants can be acculturated to American folk-ways. That’s not an unreasonable request.

    • Terry Myles says

      Tim,
      I agree. This blog, while George’s baby, sometimes descends below the level of low-brow discourse. The term ****servative is beyond vulgar. Please George, uplift us!

      • Ah, Terry Myles! There are two of us! I haven’t read the full essay or the comments to this topic, since the first syllable of the torqued “conservative” term could be a purposeful misspelling of either 1) a vulgar term for a part of a man’s body or 2) a vulgar term for sexual intercourse, neither of which elevates discussion at any time.
        Thank you.

  3. Anonymouse says

    Well said, George.

    If Trump loses to Hillary, the GOP is done, maybe forever. By demographic changes alone, they will be relegated to an existence as the Washington Generals to the Dems’ Harlem Globetrotters.

    Heck, maybe that’s what they want. The GOP has utterly failed at leading in Congress ever since they were put there. Maybe they prefer to be the noisy but inept opposition. Then they don’t have to actually accomplish anything.

    It’s interesting that everything the Left and cuckservatives love about places like Israel (a border wall, maintaining a cohesive culture, etc), they attack Trump for when he wants the same things for America. Why?

    • Peter Millman says

      Not so my friend. The “Left” does not particularly like the racist , apartheid state of Israel. The support for the apartheid, immoral state is off the charts in the Republican party. That’s another reason the Republican party disgusts me. We need to have at least four major parties, instead of the disastrous two party system we have now.

      • George Michalopulos says

        Peter, Israel is not “racist” but “nationalist” or “racialist” if you will. It’s an ethno-state, much like Greece, Italy, Germany, and the US before 1965 (90% white, 10% black).

        I grant you that it’s an “apartheid” state but that’s the end result of diversity, when two or more ethnicities find that they can’t learn to live with one another. We’re seeing this very thing happen in the Ukraine right before our very eyes, with the Latinized/Uniate Western region trying to subjugate the more Orthodox/Russianized eastern regions. This becomes obvious over time.

        Now, this is not to say that Israel is above criticism –far from it. As I said before however, ethnogenesis is not a pretty thing. As to why the average Republican venerates Israel is because he recognizes a nationalist spirit there, while he is not permitted to hold the same value in his own native country. In addition being pro-Israel absolves him of the taint of anti-Semitism.

        • Peter Millman says

          Hi George,
          Isn’t the reason the Republican Party overwhelmingly supports the apartheid state of Israel because it is comprised of a plethora of evangelicals? The dispensationalist evangelicals believe that the birth of the state of Israel is a sign of the imminent return of Christ. They also equate this state with ancient Israel.
          As you know, there is great prejudice in Israel against Arabs and Ethiopian Jews. How can the American people support a state that is guilty of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment? I wouldn’t even put my beloved Greece in the same sentence as this disgraceful state.
          I’ll say this: Israel’s values are not my values. Hopefully, they’re not yours either. Many thanks for the platform.

    • Cynthia mae Curran says

      Israeli wall doesn’t work 100 percent either since people smuggle other people in through it.. The wall Trump wants is about 2 to 3 times longer than Israel since Mexico borders a lot of states. Also, ranchers have sometimes opposed a wall on their land, one reason Bush was unable to do it. The Wall is the lazy man’s way of dealing with illegal immigration. I lived for many years in Orange County Ca and the illegal immigrants have a big smuggling ring there that can go around walls by smuggling people for 10,000 a shot in a car or a truck. If you don’t want illegal immigration and people to return home, fine every business that hires illegal immirgration Also, pushed for a natonal ID or nationalwide e-verify system and allow Mexico to developed better paying jobs. Instead of make Ford come back to the Us allow Ford to stay there since Ford pays the Mexicans about 5 an hour. Trump’s supporters want less immigration then some factory work has to go to Mexico, its a fact of life. Instead of getting the old factory jobs Trump should create new ones by beefing up defense aerospace spending and the space program. I think Trump is smarter to pushed China to let in Virtual Reality devices instead of attack Ford in Mexico. This is why Pence who is more moderate on Trade can helped Trump. Pence’s state grew 10 percent in the factory work the past 5 years while liberal states like California lost .9 percent.

      • Anonymous says

        The concept of a wall is fool’s candy. A wall is easy to dig under when it has that much length. It would simply be too costly to build it 20 feet down, and anything less than that is very easy to dig under in a single nite. The fact it even gets discussed says a lot about the seller. He knows his buyers, but probably won’t get enough.

  4. Thomas Barker says

    It’s as though they said, “We need a new Speaker. Go and find someone with eyes that are even creepier than John Boehner’s.” Ryan’s headlamps are redolent of the eyes of men associated with great violence: Adolph Hitler, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Manson, Osama bin Laden.

  5. Very good, George. Can’t say I hold out hope for our little republic. Whether it’s Trump or Hillary, they will have a cowardly Congress and a very questionable Supreme Court to deal with. Descent into warmongering banana republic status seems in the cards. Plan on it.

    A hard landing of the welfare state when people figure out the money’s worthless, rising disaffection because we have no single culture and our standards have gone to hell, Muslims overrunning Europe and killing Americans on our own soil – The future is here.

    So, look forward to the Great War. Catharsis. Islam and Western Heterodoxy, Gog and Magog. I suggest we Orthodox stay out of it as long as possible. Those who believe in an afterlife can take it all with some degree of dispassion. Meanwhile, keep your bibles handy. Wouldn’t want to go to the theater and not have a program now, would you?

    It’s going to get surreal because at some point it will become undeniable to anyone and everyone who has any knowledge of how the holy story winds up.

    You see, the West has deluded itself quite thoroughly into believing that through democracy, reason and science that it has achieved “escape velocity” and is no longer in need of the concepts of “God” and “religion”, let alone Christianity. That world grounded on monopoly money, unicorn farts, therapeutic humanism and the arrogant rejection of limitations as to the capacities of human knowledge will shortly grind to a bloody, tragic halt.

  6. The Democratic Party started to die in the 1970’s – morphing into soft shell and hard shell varieties of socialists/small c communists & Globalist corruptocrats. They hide behind the rhetoric of standing up for minorities while turning people into dependent trolls.
    The Republican Party entered it’s death spiral in the 1990’s – morphing into Globalist corruptocrats also, with a few conservative ‘originalist’ holdouts. They hide behind the mask of ‘conservative values’ while hollowing out our economic independence.
    Both ‘sides’ harbor the Uniparty elites that Wall Street owns lock stock and barrel.

    The ‘good things’ that happened 40 years ago, did so, before the Uniparty became entrenched in DC. Forgive me, but it’s long past time to flush the toilet.

  7. The Orthodox Hulk says

    HULK LOOK FORWARD TO EVERY TIME TRUMP CAMPAIGN HITS NEW LOW, GEORGE MICHALOPULOS WRITE NEW SCREED AGAINST GOP POLITICAN! SEEM TODAY PAUL RYAN TURN IN BARREL.

    NOW, HULK NOT FAN OF PAUL RYAN. RYAN BUDGET CONSERVATISM HULK FEEL PERFECT OFFSPRING FROM MARRIAGE OF AYN RAND AND ANTON LAVEY. SO WHILE HULK NOT FEEL BAD FOR RYAN, HULK UNDERSTAND DIFFICULT POSITION RYAN IN FROM DUMPSTER FIRE THAT IS TRUMP CAMAPAIGN.

    IN NORMAL UNIVERSE, HOUSE GOP CONTROL ABSOLUTELY SAFE IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE. BUT, THIS NOT NORMAL ELECTION CYCLE. STILL VERY UNLIKELY GOP LOSE HOUSE, BUT SMALL CHANCE THAT TRUMP DRAGS ALL OF CONGRESS DOWN WITH HIM GROWING WEEKLY.

    RYAN REWARD FOR MEETING WITH TRUMP AND MOVING TOWARDS SHOW OF UNITY WAS WATCHING IN HORROR AT CHEETO JESUS PRAISING HIMSELF ON TWITTER WHILE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE LINED UP TO GIVE BLOOD IN ORLANDO.

    AND TRUMP HAS RUBES LIKE GEORGE MICHALOPULOS WILLING TO BLAME DAMAGE TRUMP IS DOING TO GOP ON EVERYBODY BUT TRUMP, LIKE RYAN. SO HULK WISHES HULK COULD FEEL SORRY FOR RYAN, BUT STILL CAN NOT.

    What we are seeing here in Ryan is nothing less than the prototype of the Cuckservative, that species of fool which actually believes the propaganda of their enemies and pants for their approval.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great gig if you can swallow the humiliation of seeing your country being mounted by aggressive Third World hordes.

    HULK LOVE THAT GEORGE MICHALOPULOS CONSTANTLY INSIST NO RACIAL CONTEXT TO ‘CUCKSERVATIVE’ BUT THEN USES IT IN EXACT ALT-RIGHT TERMS. AMERICAN IS WHITE WOMAN, FORNICATING WITH NON-WHITE (IMMIGRANT OR AMERICAN, NOT MATTER) MAN WHILE WHITE MALE POLITICAN REPRESENT HUSBAND.

    GEORGE MICHALOPULOS REALLY NOT FOOLING ANYONE. ALMOST EVERYONE USING CUCKSERVATIVE ALSO TWEET HASHTAG #WHITEGENOCIDE AND POST PICTURES OF WHITE CHILDREN LOOKING SAD THEY HAVE TO SHARE PLANET WITH PEOPLE WHO NEED LESS POWERFUL SUNSCREEN.

    I mean, it may suck for the working man who struggles with his diminishing self-worth and has to take Oxycontin to alleviate the pain but if you’re living in DC and environs, you’ve got it made.

    HULK START TO FEEL SYMPATHY FOR WHITE WORKING CLASS POOR. THEN HULK REMEMBER THEY NOT HAVE GREEN SKIN LIKE HULK AND LISTEN TO CHARLES MURRAY. ALL DUE TO MORAL FAILURE AND BREAKDOWN OF FAMILY. NOT SURE WHAT HULK CAN DO ABOUT THAT. WHY WHITE WORKING CLASS POOR NOT CARE ABOUT WHITE WORKING CLASS POOR OPIATE ADDICTION? HULK NOT UNDERSTAND WHY GEORGE MICHALOPULOS THINK GOVERNMENT CAN FIX MORAL FAILURES OF WORKING CLASS POOR WHITES. SOUNDS LIKE SQUISHY LIBERAL TALK. HULK SMASH!

    Hey, what red-blooded American male wouldn’t love to sit by Nina Easton or A B Stoddard or S E Cupp? (Heck, you might even get lucky after the show.) Seriously, what other chance would a humunculus like Ben Shapiro have to make it with an attractive chick?

    AMUSING THING ABOUT GEORGE MICHALOPULOS RANT IS IF HULK DELETE RACISM, SEXISM AND BIGOTRY, WHAT IS LEFT MAKES GEORGE MICHALOPULOS SOUND LIKE SQUISHY LIBERAL DISAPPOINTED ELIZABETH WARREN DIDN’T RUN FOR PRESIDENT. HULK LOVE SOUND SQUISHY LIBERAL MAKE WHEN HULK SMASH!

    HULK WONDER HOW LONG IT TAKE GEORGE MICHALOPULOS TO REALIZE TRUMP CAMPAIGN INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM GIANT GRIFT. HULK NOT SURE BEFORE NOVEMBER.

    • Anonymouse says

      “ALMOST EVERYONE USING CUCKSERVATIVE ALSO TWEET HASHTAG #WHITEGENOCIDE AND POST PICTURES OF WHITE CHILDREN LOOKING SAD THEY HAVE TO SHARE PLANET WITH PEOPLE WHO NEED LESS POWERFUL SUNSCREEN.”

      Most nationalists would not agree with this. Nationalism says that every people-group should have its own homeland, free of outside influence: from primitive tribes in Paupua New Guinea, to Europeans; not rid the planet of everyone else. Homogenous societies are more peaceful, and are actually more conducive to socialism, because societal norms are easier to enforce socially, without the need for law. Sure, it flies in the face of the “melting pot” mythology, but now we know it was just a myth.

      Every culture is unique and deserves to be preserved in as a pristine state as possible and maintained in peace. Isn’t that the best way to celebrate diversity, rather than mixing it all together in an experiment which has been tried and failed?

      I mean, in a broad sense this is actually how the Orthodox Church is run. Every nation has its own church, with its own traditions and ways of doing things. Where things get messy is in the West, where everyone is mixed together and people end up arguing about what chant style is better and whose typikon to follow. When there are distinct boundaries for distinct groups of people, we can learn about each other and appreciate each other, while remaining true to our own “tribe”.

      • Terry Myles says

        Guess all we, the scions of Poland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, Mother Russia, etc. better get on boats and head back to the “old country” and leave the U. S. A. to the Anglo-Saxons and Scotch-Irish who cleared the continent of the Red vermin and created “Their” white christian national republic. Praise the Lord!

    • Cynthia mae Curran says

      Ben Sharpio is married. He is a few of course but lots of Trump followers that use cuckservice have posted pictures of Sharpio with locks. People can dislike policies of Isreal against Palestinians but not pick on people for being Jewish. Cuckservice is a very nasty term it means your wife has sex with a black man.

  8. Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

    Old men stripping in public is always disturbing, but it doesn’t stop them, ever!

  9. Pat Reardon says

    Thomas Barker says, “Ryan’s headlamps are redolent of the eyes of men associated with great violence: Adolph Hitler, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Manson, Osama bin Laden.”

    Oh, my.

    I thought George’s message was way over the top, but this comment goes even further.

    Lately this blog site has become a bit too much for my nervous system.

    • Thanks, Father Patrick. Well-said.

    • Michael Bauman says

      Think of it as non-parsers anonymous. The whole world sets my nervous system on edge. Makes it really difficult to see or admit to shades of meaning without being fed through a wood chipper feet first while still conscious.

    • Thomas Barker says

      Father Pat,

      Have you never observed a person’s eyes and had your instincts tell you that he or she is going to be trouble?

      • Pat Reardon says

        Of course.

        But that was hardly my point

        • Thomas Barker says

          Father,

          Avoiding your point for a moment, I add that Speaker Ryan is an avid bow hunter. Bow hunting is an appallingly cruel form of entertainment for people who enjoy watching injured animals struggle in agony. Ryan does not need to feed his family this way. His bow hunting is serving some other drive inside him. I think that the bloodlust shows in his eyes and that it is less than desirable in the man who is second in the order of presidential succession.

          • Michael Bauman says

            Mr. Barker, only bad bow hunters are as you describe the ones who go out once a year mostly as an excuse to get drunk.

            The bow hunters I have known do everything they can to hone their skill so that they can make a clean kill. Working with targets to put their arrow into the kill zone in an area roughly the size of a 50 cent coin

            While death is not instantaneous it is likely better than what happens when the deer population is much too large for its environment and there are few natural predators other than man. Not to mention the manner in which animals are treated and slaughtered in the typical assembly line agri-business super market meat. Animals die gruesomely there as well. Maybe you should consider being a vegetarian. Not a bad choice and it would take fasting to another level as well.

            I think you gave a bias against hunting in general.

            Hunters are not blood thirsty just because they are hunters.

            The meat obtained by good hunters is used far more completely than what our modern packing houses do and it is much healthier meat.

            Your criticism is just a reflection of your own bias and not germaine to the discussion.

            • Thomas Barker says

              Mr. Bauman,

              I’m wondering why you chose to misrepresent my statements. Nowhere did I state a bias against all hunting in general. Nor did I claim that all hunters are bloodthirsty. Please don’t patronize me with the suggestion of becoming a vegetarian. Eating venison killed with a rifle, or ground beef from the supermarket is perfectly respectable if it’s not a fast day and one offers a prayer of thanks to God.

              The humane picture you paint regarding the accuracy of the bow hunter and the kill are fantasy promoted by the industry. Even Olympic level archers miss the mark often. The reality of what happens in a bow hunt is that quick kill shots are rare, and the animals usually die in protracted, horrific suffering. A lung hit can take 30 to 45 minutes to result in death. Many are maimed and bolt into the woods to die slowly over several days. This is all deliberate cruelty in the name of sport.

              We will never agree on bow hunting, Mr. Bauman, this side of the Last Judgement.

              • Michael Bauman says

                Olympic archers are capable of putting a series of arrows in a circle the size of a grape fruit at 90 meters (the length of a football field) and has nothing to do with bow hunting.

                The bows most commonly used for hunting are compound bows which don’t take much to shoot accurately at the hunting distance inside of 30 yards.

                My statement that you have a bias against hunting is because that is the impression I got. An inference.

                Have you visited a commercial meat slaughtering plant.

                All food we eat requires death for us to have it to eat. That death should not be excessively cruel but the mammals we eat die in pain — all of them.

                Your criticism of Congressman Ryan because he bow hunts is a complete non-sequiter.

                • Anonymous says

                  Paul Ryan is trying to stop the Republican party from becoming the stone walling party.

                  His dislike of Trump is wise.

                  He wants to expand the base; not shrink it through alienation of women and minorities, immigrants and Muslims.

                  Prepare for an ass whoopin.

          • I hope you don’t eat commercially processed meat. That would make you quite the hypocrite.

            As for Ryan being a bowhunter, I’m glad to see I have something in common with him.

          • Pat Reardon says

            Thomas Barker proclaims, “Bow hunting is an appallingly cruel form of entertainment for people who enjoy watching injured animals struggle in agony.”

            Bow-hunting includes MOST hunters until the invention of fire-arms.

            So much for searching into peoples’ eyes and reading their hearts.

            • Thomas Barker says

              Father Pat,

              Most of the historical bow and arrow hunting to which you refer was done with the goal of feeding hungry people. It was hunt or starve, and hunters used the weapons they had. There’s a vast difference between necessity and amusement. Your attempt to equate the hunter of history with the modern American thrill seeker (whose supermarket contains some 42,000 plus items) is invalid.

            • Monk James says

              A skilled bowman will take his prey dead at one shot. I know such a man, but he’s a rare exception among bad hunters, and he will not use a gun.. He takes his prey as food and he and his family are grateful to God for that.

              Some questions remain: Why must we hunt animals except that we need to live by eating their flesh? Then, in how many human cultures does it now remain true that we ourselves must directly kill the animals whose flesh we would eat to sustain ourselves?

              Most of us now find dead birds and chopped-off and ground-up pieces of them and larger animals wrapped in plastic in the cold cases of our supermarkets, and have less than any thoughts about hunting.

              Unless we’re prepared to embrace vegan or at least vegetarian diets, we should remember that some earliest christian principles tell us that anyone who would enter a monastery thinking that it’s wrong to marry or to eat meat is seriously mistaken and should not be admitted.

    • George Michalopulos says

      Sorry Father. Now that I’ve vented I’ll tone it down a little. As long as events warrant.

    • Terry Myles says

      Thanks Father!

  10. What does this have to do with Orthodoxy?

    • Most internet Orthodox also happen to like Donald Trump…never mind how the Fathers of the Church would view the man. I’m still working on a unifying explanation.

  11. Joseph Anderson says

    May God have mercy on you for what you have written here, Mr. Michalopulos. The daily Mass readings this month have included Matthew 5: “But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.” Control of our tongues is one of the fruits of the Spirit.

  12. Tim R. Mortiss says

    The term is quasi-obscene, a deliberate stand-in for the obvious obscenity. It doesn’t have anything to do with the political issues, whatever one’s views. The tone of the site is declining, and this makes it worse by far. This is not a Christian usage in my view.

    • George Michalopulos says

      Mr Mortiss, the term may very well indeed be “quasi-obscene,” but what these traitors have done to our once-great Republic is even more obscene. All I did was call them out on it.

      • On a site claiming to be Orthodox?

        • Michael Bauman says

          How can a site claim anything. Too much anthropomorphism there for my taste.

          George IS Orthodox. Like me he is also a sinner. So, what is the specific problem you wish to bring to his attention.

    • Anonymouse says

      Is it any more obscene than saying someone “got screwed”, which is very common slang for a sexual act, though it now generally means “got shortchanged” or “got taken”? The vulgar connotation is what gives the “cuckservative” term its punch. As far as that goes, it is useful, causes people to take notice, and prompts a reaction from those to whom it is applied.

      It is not really gratuitous, as it is analogous to how many Republicans are doing business these days. They seem to enjoy sitting on the sidelines, watching the country destroy itself, because they do absolutely nothing to stop it. Not unlike a man who invites another man to have sex with his wife while he watches.

      Sure, it’s not very nice. But neither are the times.

  13. Michael Bauman says

    George, here us where you err:. “These traitors” have not destroyed a once great republic. Aside from the fact that you idolize our polity, any destruction was greatly accelerated by we the people, by you and by me.

    People get the leaders we want. It seems uncharitable to then condemn them for so faithfully expressing our desires.

    The world is a lie. How can we expect those in the world and of the world to be anything but liers?

    It is as the old parable of the scorpion and the frog.

    • George Michalopulos says

      Michael, there is no doubt that the electorate is complicit in the destruction of this Republic. Up to a point however. Never forget that the roster of choices that is presented to the electorate is an extremely narrow one, pre-examined as to whether they are on board with globalism or not.

      Hence the vilification of Ron Paul in 2012 by the media and the surreptitious rules changes put in place by the RNC to retroactively remove him from nomination at the convention. Same thing going on here with Trump in 2016.

  14. Michael Bauman says

    It is all a con-game but cons work the best on those who lack integrity. It began after the Civil War if not before.

    In any case it is long past fixing through anything like normal channels. It will either fall of its own weight, be subject to some sort of political violence or morph into a full blown tryanny of some sort. At least those are the historical solutions.

  15. Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

    What’s the problem that some showily Orthodox have with globalism? Isn’t globalism the whole point of empire? Why, for example, do monarchs love to be portrayed holding globes?

    • Globalism is to the world as Papism is to the Church.

      It undermines the nation-state and limits and waters down the unique culture of nations.

      • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

        “Ages!” There is no support for your arbitrary assertions about globalism. I wonder what a cultural anthropologist would make out of your “watering down”of cultures! Is that what Alexander the Great did? “Water down” cultures by means of Hellenism?

      • Michael Bauman says

        Ages,. As you say but the elite has decided that there is no such thing as national sovereignity any more. That is backward and evil. The US public school system has been pushing the “citizen of the world” for some time.

        As a result those under say 35-40 have a negative view of both different cultures and national sovereignity.

        The only real sovereignty is individual sovereignty based on one’s chosen identity.

        It is an integrated ideology which has been adopted by all political elites. Just another of the long list of reasons I will no longer vote in national elections. Any vote I cast would be in favor of the nihilistic agenda.

        • Peter A. Papoutsis says

          Not if you and I and others say no. Common Michael history is changing, but only IF WE make it change. We have to fight buddy so let’s do it.

          Peter

    • Michael Bauman says

      Your Grace while you have a point, there is a bit of conflation going on I think. There is a big difference, in theory, between a Christian Empire and a secular one.

      • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

        In theory. But all the empires, including the “Christian” ones, were first and foremost, GLOBALISTS !

        • Michael Bauman says

          ….and the nation state with its idea of national sovereignity is a fairly recent invention roughly 7-8 hundred years old.

          It too will pass.

          • George Michalopulos says

            The concept of the nation-state is fairly recent overall but in the main, the fact that they are based on ethnicity tends to make them more irenic. The Netherlands is not a threat to its neighbors for example, while Belgium, which is cobbled together by two warring ethnicities has never been a particularly happy place. It’s easy for a would-be hegemon to take advantage of long-standing ethnic/tribal grievances in order to conquer a rival.

            Hitler was the prime example of this, exploiting the tensions that existed between ethnicities. The old divide-and-conquer strategy if you will. The Israelis are present masters of this.

            For all his faults in creating the Federal Reserve and the National Income Tax, Woodrow Wilson was right to insist that national borders should approximate ancestral homelands. The fantasy that warring tribes could coexist within a polity has been proven wrong time and again.

            Some may point out that things have worked out swimmingly for the Swiss for going on 800 years now. True, but Switzerland is a highly decentralized polity in which the German, Italian and French cantons are incredibly autonomous.

            • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

              Here’s some nonsense: “As a result those under say 35-40 have a negative view of both different cultures and national sovereignity.”

              Ever hear of the Republican candidate for President, Wendell Wilkie, who ran against FDR on an approved platform of “One Worldism?” 40 year olds weren’t even conceived then!
              Don’t they teach ANYTHING in civics classes any more?

              One Worldism, or “globalism,” was born in the super patriotic days of the 1940s!

            • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

              George!
              You build your theorem on the basis of comparing Netherlands-Belgium! How does ethnically German/French/Italian/Romansh SWITZERLAND fit into your template?

        • Peter A. Papoutsis says

          The Kingdom of God is Global my good bishop. By the one who heads globalism today is not God, but he who is the father of lies. Therein lies the difference.

          Peter

          • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

            Peter, you’re making it up as you go! God’s still in charge.
            The bolsheviks used to call globalism “cosmopolitanism.” In 18th & 19th century Germany universalists warred philosophically against particularists: the empire against the states (Laender) It boils down to the sum of hot air being constant.

            • Peter A. Papoutsis says

              Peter, you’re making it up as you go!

              RESPONSE: Well, you would know about that my good bishop as you are an expert at it.

              God’s still in charge.

              RESPONSE: Yes, I know. That is why you don’t annoy me as you apparently do others.

              The bolsheviks used to call globalism “cosmopolitanism.”

              RESPONSE: Don’t care what they called it. They along with Globalism/Cosmopolitanism are evil.

              In 18th & 19th century Germany universalists warred philosophically against particularists: the empire against the states (Laender) It boils down to the sum of hot air being constant.

              RESPONSE: Again you would know about hot air not I.

              God bless My good Bishop.

              Peter

            • Michael Bauman says

              Your Grace please read Wendell Berry’s book: “What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”. It is an excellent primer on both the desacralization and tryanny of the current brand of globalism.

              Your continued conflation of dissimilar ideas and practices is disingenuous for someone of your learning

              • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

                Oh, so now, Michael Bauman, it’s “THE CURRENT BRAND of globalism.” We’re making progress! Continue!

  16. Michael Bauman says

    For those of you who still hope for a political defense of our Constitutional liberties it does not lie with any national party or candidate. However you might be interested in The Tenth Amendment Center and it’s state level approach.

    Worth checking out.

    • Peter A. Papoutsis says

      After the Brexit Hope springs eternal. Go Trump!!!
      I have Hope in the American people. Join in Michael and leave your cynicism at the door. We have a real good chance now of making a real change in America for the better. Come on brother let’s do this and start to push back in November.

      Peter

      • Michael Bauman says

        Peter, I am not sure I am a cynic, a pessimist yes, but not a cynic. I think people are quite capable. It is just that I have never met a politician who was anything but venal, stupid and vain or quickly became that way after some time in DC.

        The way the system is now to be elected to national office requires the surrender of one’s integrity.

        I do think that there is still some hope at the state level which is why I rather like the 10th Amendment Center though I do not agree with everything they favor.

        Personally I think Trump is a phony and Hillary totally corrupt. Trump is right that she is the most corrupt person to ever run for President, except maybe her husband.

        Trump is a populist and populists almost never govern well. If anything is to change it must come from united grass roots demands that develops it’s own leadership organically wholly outside the system. Trump ain’t it.

        • George Michalopulos says

          Regarding populists’ ability to govern, I’m not sure that your characterization is all that fair. True, populists like Hugo Chavez and Juan Peron did make a hash of things but that’s because we’re talking about Latin American cultures which are corrupt.

          Populism can serve as an important check on elitism. Especially since elites tend to side with elites of other races and ethnicities other than their own. This is where I’ll give Progressives of the Theodore Roosevelt variety their due: they took into consideration the economic critique of William Jennings Bryan and tried to take care of their own people above foreigners.

          Speaking of Bryan, he was viscerally opposed to America’s entrance into the Great War. Like Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin and the great main of Midwesterners who were also animated by populism, they saw no great need to help pull the chestnuts of the European elites out of the fire.

          • smitemouth says

            And, you make a statement like that and wonder why people accuse you of racism? As someone else pointed out, you use the language of white supremacists and previously you have promoted a Diocese of Dixie flag with the stars and bars–preferred flag of southern racists.

            • George Michalopulos says

              They can accuse me of racism all they want but that doesn’t make it so. And not simply because that word has been drained of all meaning. Let us never forget that the diabolical Leon Trotsky invented that word when he lived in America in order to sow the seeds of discord.

              As for the Stars and Bars being the eschutcheon of “southern racists,” I would ask you to look at photos of real white supremacist groups and you will be astounded to see Old Glory waving rather prominently.

              Just sayin’.

          • Michael Bauman says

            Not denying that Populists have great importance in the political system but the example you mention are those who never governed. They had an impact on policy, but never governed.

        • Peter A. Papoutsis says

          Wrong! Stop looking at Trump and look to us the people. You want to fix things Michael you have to go out and get involved and vote. I will leave it at that buddy. God’s speed.

          • Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

            Tell Trump to look at “us the people” instead of at his beloved mirror!

            • Peter A. Papoutsis says

              He is looking at the people as opposed to Hillary who has always looked at our wallets.

  17. Cynthia mae Curran says

    Well, George got his way with Brexit. I was mixed on that one.

    • Peter A. Papoutsis says

      I wasn’t Brexit: Good for people, democracy and National Integrity and National economy.

      Staying in the EU: Dictatorship, no democracy, Brussels bureaucrats running people’s lives and pushing a Global agenda that allowed nations to be flooded with illegal immigrants and to destroy local and national economies.

      Kinda a no brainer.

      Peter

  18. Michael Bauman says

    The rats leaving the GOP ship is almost enough to make me vote for Trump.

    • George Michalopulos says

      Indeed, I rejoiced upon hearing that George Will is leaving the GOP. There is yet hope…

      • Funny how George Will has told us for years to just hold our nose and vote for Dole, Bush, Romney, and McCain, because that is the nominee and we can’t let the Democrats win! But now when someone he doesn’t like gets nominated, he virtually endorses Hillary.

        So, enjoy your progressive super-majority on the Supreme Court, Mr. Will! You’re 75 years old, so who cares, you won’t have to suffer the consequences.

        • I wonder whether George Will has Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for President, in mind. I simply can’t imagine Mr. Will supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton for *anything*!

          • Michael Bauman says

            Mr. Will is supporting Clinton by his tantrum. Like a two year old he won’t play unless he sets the rules. Stupid. Especially the sad sack candidates he has supported. He is too sophisticated. A left over from the old east coast Episcopal elite.

            • 2 more cents says

              George Will is also an avowed atheist (and seems to be proud of it). I heard him say on a talking head news show once that he “just hasn’t been convinced” that God exists. Seems to be a classic “intellectual” who relies way too much on our human fallen “logic.”

              In light of his atheism, I don’t think we can rely on his judgment — I’d take what he says with a grain of salt. His atheism clouds his reasoning. I do, though, very much admire his dedication to his Downs Syndrome son and his dedication to baseball.

              • Michael Bauman says

                The old line Episcopal elite were functional atheists.

              • That is true. He is an atheist. I read an interview in which he was asked the question directly and he answered something like that he had seen no evidence that would suggest to him that there is a God. I had always thought him to be Catholic.

              • The elites—on both sides of the aisle—view Christians as useful idiots.

                Republican elites see their conservative Christian supporters as useful idiots so they push for social issues, though they never actually accomplish anything. (Abortion is a good example.)

                Democrat elites see their liberal Christian supporters as useful idiots so they push for more programs, though they too fail to solve any actual problems. (Poverty is a good example.)

                • Often, Christians are useful idiots. For example, many Christians in this country (and I assume by Christians we are talking about Conservative Christians; i.e., those who actually believe in Christian theology and morality as well as its social teaching) are patriotic.

                  Fine.

                  But that patriotism all too often means that they knee-jerk against Russia, Syria, Serbia, whomever. They tend to want to promulgate an American presence around the world without asking what accompanies this presence. Is it traditional Christian morality? Of course not. It is licentiousness. Is it traditional Christian patriarchy? Of course not. It is feminism. Is it traditional Christian abhorrence for abortion? Of course not. It is promulgation of abortion. Is it traditional Christian condemnation of homosexual sodomy? Of course not. It is normalization of homosexual sodomy as a human right.

                  Anti-poverty initiatives are profoundly commendable. No argument about that here. But if you cannot excise the evil from the good, what are you to do? Support the evil?

                  Of course not.

                  Spread the Gospel, not Sustainable Development Goals which contain the false gospel of the evil one.

                  • Misha,
                    I think as we approach the end times it will be clearer and clearer which side everyone is on. For the council, everything was revealed and anyone who wanted to know who was behind the scenes could find out in real time as it happened. As the global elites reveal themselves (or are revealed) we will see them for what they are. I always found it interesting reading Revelation that it was clear to me that at the end times Christians WILL KNOW what is happening. There will be no surprise, but most will be blind.

  19. Wow! George Will and Paul Ryan are 2 of my favorite republicans. George has been a thoughtful, insightful conservative commentator for years. Just because he can’t stomach Trump, as neither can I, does not diminish his laudable contributions to conservatism. Paul Ryan should be running for President. I believe he is the best chance the republicans have to defeat Hillary. Trump is a blathering, self-absorbed narcissist. As much as I don’t want Hillary I can not vote for Trump. I still hope and pray that somehow Ryan emerges from the convention as the candidate.

    • Michael Bauman says

      Are there Topps cards for politicians? If there are, I’ll trade the full run of today’s pols for, shoot one Dwight Eisenhower even. Better yet heap them into a pile and burn them.

  20. Michael Bauman says

    johnkal delusion rules.

    George Will loves baseball. I will give him that.

    Let’s review Hillary is a death dealing corrupt narcissist while Trump is is a pragmatic wheeler dealer narcissist and Paul Ryan is a dull idealog with a lust for power. Hmmmmm. I vote none of the above. We would better off with a lottery.

  21. Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

    Democrats and Republicans always agreed that George Will was a brain. What happened?

    I have to admit I get an almost sadistic delight thinking of Bibi Netanyahu tossing and turning all night, trying to decide between Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton!

    • Peter Millman says

      Greetings Your Grace,
      Do you really think that Netanyahu is tossing and turning all night trying to decide between Trump and Hillary? Both candidates are Israeli shills. I was outraged when Trump said the other day that ” Jerusalem is the eternally undivided capital of Israel.” Didn’t our Lord have something to say about that when He said not to swear by Jerusalem because it was the city of the great king? Now, I don’t know if He was referring to Himself or King David. Anyway, He made it very clear that ” Jerusalem is not Israel’s undivided capital.” As for me, count me as a strong supporter of the Palestinian people. I favor one state called Palestine where Christians, Muslims and Jews enjoy full equal rights. As long as the US supports the racist, apartheid state of Israel, it has absolutely no credibility at my address. Also, I cannot support any candidate who supports Israel. I support the Green Party. Many thanks for your kind indulgence.

  22. Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says

    Well, Peter, who do YOU think Netanyahu decided is the best?