7 months in prison for posting memes

FWIW, he was prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 241 of the federal code, which reads “to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person… in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution…” In this case, the regime chose to include meme wars – satire – as criminally threatening the right to vote. The announcement below the meme is directly from the DOJ website this morning.

Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Sentenced after Conviction for Election Interference in 2016 Presidential Race

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Douglass Mackey, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 7 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to interfere with potential voters’ right to vote in the 2016 election for the Office of the President of the United States. Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was previously convicted of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights at trial by a federal jury in Brooklyn. Mackey was convicted of the charge in March 2023 following a three-week trial.   

“One of the foundational rights we hold as Americans, a right that many fought so hard to obtain, is the right to vote.  The defendant weaponized disinformation in a dangerous scheme to stop targeted groups, including black and brown people and women, from participating in our democracy,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “This groundbreaking prosecution demonstrates our commitment to prosecuting those who commit crimes that threaten our democracy and seek to deprive people of their constitutional right to vote.”

As proven at trial, by 2016, Mackey had established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as one of the most significant influencers of the then-upcoming presidential election.  Between September 2016 and November 2016, Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which was legally invalid…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-sentenced-after-conviction-election

St. Margaret Mary did not shrink from the task at hand; let her be our model

Originally posted 

Today is the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the traditional calendar.

Our Lord appeared to St. Margaret Mary, and requested three primary things from her:

  1. To promote the reality of His physical, human, Sacred Heart
  2. To establish the First Friday devotion
  3. To establish the Feast of the Sacred Heart

Who was St. Margaret Mary? She was a cloistered nun in far rural France in the 17th Century. How do you think she reacted when tasked with her mission? Do you suppose she threw up her arms, thinking it surely impossible that someone like her could be in a position to accomplish these things? How on earth was she supposed to create and spread a worldwide devotion from her tiny cell at the cloister in the 1680s? Can you imagine her saying, “But Lord, it’s too much. But, how? Why me? Boohoo.”

Except that’s not how people with faith, hope, and love react to seemingly unsolvable situations. This is especially true if one knows that the desired outcome, nay, the INEVITABLE outcome, is directly willed by God Almighty, who can do whatever He wants, whenever He wants, and use anyone He pleases to accomplish the task.

Act, and God will act.


From a letter of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin:

« We must know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge »

It seems to me that our Lord’s earnest desire to have his Sacred Heart honored in a special way is directed toward renewing the effects of redemption in our souls. For the sacred heart is an inexhaustible fountain and its sole desire is to pour itself out into the hearts of the humble so as to free them and prepare them to lead lives according to his good pleasure.

From this divine heart three streams flow endlessly. The first is the stream of mercy for sinners; it pours into their hearts sentiments of contrition and repentance. The second is the stream of charity which helps all in need and especially aids those seeking perfection to find the means of surmounting their difficulties. From the third stream flow love and light for the benefit of his friends who have attained perfection; these he wishes to unite to himself so that they may share his knowledge and commandments and, in their individual ways, devote themselves wholly to advancing his glory.

This divine heart is an abyss of all blessings, and into it the poor should submerge all their needs. It is an abyss of joy in which all of us can immerse our sorrows. It is an abyss of lowliness to counteract our foolishness, an abyss of mercy for the wretched, an abyss of love to meet our every need.

Therefore, you must unite yourselves to the heart of our Lord Jesus Christ, both at the beginning of your conversion in order to obtain proper dispositions, and at its end in order to make reparation. Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of the altar. Offer God his fervent love in reparation for your sluggishness. In the course of every activity pray as follows: “My God, I do this or I endure that in the heart of your Son and according to his holy counsels. I offer it to you in reparation for anything blameworthy or imperfect in my actions.” Continue to do this in every circumstance of life. And every time that some punishment, affliction or injustice comes your way, say to yourself: “Accept this as sent to you by the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ in order to unite yourself to him.”

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the divine heart. In this way his will can carry out for us whatever contributes to his glory, and we will be happy to be his subjects and to trust entirely in him.

Happy Feast!

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Q&A from the combox regarding Pope Benedict’s ideas about changing the structure of the Papacy

“CJ”2023/10/14 at 3:38 pm: Is there any evidence that Benedict was a proponent of a bifurcated papacy prior to his resignation? (proximity to the Miller Dissertation and its proponents notwithstanding) Just wondering if this was forced upon him by the wolves, or if it was his intent from the outset… which would raise the issue of accepting the papacy in substantial error.

Mark D. in reply to CJ: “The Petrine ministry…while preserving its substance as a divine institution, can find expressions in various ways according to the different circumstances of time and place.” -Cardinal Ratzinger (as Prefect of the CDF), Communionis Notio, 28 May 1992, P.18

From the Latin: “quodque, salva substantia divina institutione definita, diversimode pro varietate locorum et temporum se manifestare potest”

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_2805199

(Link has since been scrubbed by some antichurch quisling)

Also keep in mind, in the book-length version of the Miller dissertation, Chapter 16 is titled, “Facing the Future: 21 Theses on the Papal Ministry.” Twenty-one theses! There was wild and open discussion over different forms the papacy might take.

Miller: “Ratzinger admits that “without a doubt there have been misguided developments in both theology and practice where the primacy is concerned.” A particular way of exercising the primacy might well have been the pope’s duty for the Church’s welfare at one time, without its being so in the future. In the words of Hermann Pottmeyer, “the present juridical and organizational form of the office of Peter is neither the best imaginable nor the only possible realization.””

Lastly, never forget this exchange in Cardinal Ratzinger’s 1997 book-length interview with Peter Seewald, Salt of the Earth, page 257 in the English print:

 Seewald: “Do you think that the papacy will remain as it is?”

++Ratzinger: “In its core it will remain. In other words, a man is needed to be the successor of Peter and to bear a personal final authority that is supported collegially. Part of Christianity is a personalistic principle; it doesn’t get vaporized into anonymities but presents itself in the person of the priest, of the bishop, and the unity of the universal Church once again has a personal expression. This will remain, the magisterial responsibility for the unity of the Church, her faith, and her morals that was defined by Vatican I and II. Forms of exercise can change, they will certainly change, when hitherto separated communities enter into unity with the Pope. By the way, the present Pope’s (JPII) exercise of the pontificate—with the trips around the world—is completely different from that of Pius XII. What concrete variations emerge I neither can nor want to imagine. We can’t foresee now exactly how that will look.”

“What concrete variations emerge I neither can nor want to imagine.”

“Forms of exercise can change, they will certainly change”

But remember, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Pope Benedict/Ratzinger ever had even once thought about changing the structure of the Petrine Ministry. Shut up, stoopid.

To answer the last part of CJ’s question: Does any of this suggest that Ratzinger’s acceptance of the papacy was invalid, due to these erroneous ideas? I don’t think so, because he never denied anything about the intrinsic nature of the papal office. He wasn’t assenting (in his acceptance) to an erroneous idea of what the papacy is, at its core. His errors were related to FUNCTION: Roles, structures, forms of exercise. The “how it works” not the “what it is.” He makes this distinction over and over.

I hope this helps.

“Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and confide in him for all the rest.”

From Laura Wood at The Thinking Housewife:


DOM PROSPER Guéranger, in his commentary on the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, offers a profound description of these times, when there is “an almost universal falling off” from infinite and unchangeable truth:

“It is then more than at all previous times that the Faithful will have to remember the injunction given to us by the Apostle in today’s Epistle; that is, they will have to comport themselves with that circumspection which he enjoins, taking every possible care to keep their understanding, no less than their heart, pure in those evil days. Supernatural light will, in those days, not only have to stand the attacks of the children of darkness, who will put forward their false doctrines; it will, moreover, be minimized and falsified by the very children of the light yielding on the question of principles; it will be endangered by the hesitations and trimmings and human prudence of those who are called far-seeing men. Many will practically ignore the master-truth, that the Church never can be overwhelmed by any created power. If they do remember that our Lord has promised himself to uphold his Church even to the end of the world, they will still have the impertinence to believe that they do a great service to the good cause by making certain politically clever concessions, which, if they were tried in the balance of the sanctuary, would be found under weight! Those future worldly-wise people will quite forget that our Lord will have no need for helping him to keep his promise of crooked schemes, however shrewd those may be; they will entirely overlook this most elementary consideration—that the cooperation, which Jesus deigns to accept, at the hands of his servants, in the defense of the rights of his Church, never could consist in the grabling, or in the disguisement, of those grant truths which constitute the power and beauty of the Bride. Is it possible that they will forget the Apostle’s maxim, which he lays down in his Epistle to the Romans—that the conforming oneself to this world—the attempting an impossible adaptation of the Gospel to a world that is un-christianized—is not the means for proving what is the good, and acceptable, and the perfect will of GodSo that it will be a thing of great and rare merit, in many an occurrence of those unhappy times, to merely understand what is the will of God, as our Epistle expresses it. [bold added]

“Look to yourselves, would St. John say to those men, that ye lose not the things which ye have wrought; make yourselves sure of the full reward, which is only given to the persevering thoroughness of doctrine and faith! Besides, it will be then, as in all other times, that, according to the saying of the Holy Ghost, the simplicity of the just shall guide them, and far more safely, than any human ingenuity could do; humility will give them Wisdom; and, keeping themselves closely united to this noble companion, they will be made truly wise by her, and will know what is acceptable to God. They will understand that aspiring, like the Church herself, to union with the eternal Word—fidelity to the Spouse, for them, as it is for the Church, is nothing else than fidelity to the truth; for the Word, who is the one same object of love to both of them, is, in God, no other than the splendor of infinite truth. Their one care, therefore, will ever be to approach nearer and nearer to their Beloved by a continually increasing resemblance to him; that is to say, by the completest reproduction, both in their words and works, of the beautiful Truth. By so doing, they will be serving their fellow creatures in the best possible way, for they will be putting in practice the counsel of Jesus, who bids them seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and confide in him for all the rest. Others may have recourse to human and accommodating combinations, fitted to please all parties; they may put forward dubious compromises which (so their suggestors think), will keep back, for some weeks, or some months perhaps, the fierce tide of revolution—but those who have God’s spirit in them will put a very different construction on the admonition given us, by the Apostle, in today’s Epistle, where he tells us to redeem the time.”

Pfizer slashes earnings forecast because no one is taking the “boosters”

Since the new “vaccines” rolled out last month, only 4 million true believers showed up. That means the jab-happy are now only 1.1% of the population. It seems the sheep have finally woken up; maybe they take down the Ukraine flags from their profiles soon. -nvp


Pfizer slashes earnings and revenue guidance as Covid treatment, vaccine sales slump

“Pfizer said it expects revenue from the Covid treatment Paxlovid to come in $7 billion lower than previously anticipated, in part due to the return of doses labeled for emergency use by the U.S. government. It also said it anticipates sales of its vaccine, Comirnaty, will be $2 billion lower than previously expected because of lower-than-expected vaccination rates.Pfizer’s latest Covid booster became available in the U.S. last month, but the rollout has been rocky …”

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/13/pfizer-cuts-earnings-revenue-guidance-as-covid-sales-slump.html

Video: Pope Benedict’s failed resignation explained in 14 minutes.

The Miracle of the Sun occurred 106 years ago today at Fatima, as was foretold by the Blessed Virgin Mary. She also foretold many terrible things would happen, unless people repented, and Russia was consecrated to her Immaculate Heart. Things like: “Entire nations shall be annihilated.” We didn’t listen.

Then there is the vision of the bishop in white. Then lastly, there is the part we still haven’t been told, but all the conciliar popes knew, including Pope Benedict. I am quite convinced, though only a hunch, that everything that has transpired these last 11 years (or maybe 65 years) is bound up in the Third Secret. What a privilege to be born into this age.

Here is the video from our friend The Catholic Esquire, shared here with permission. 14 minutes of truth bombs. He covers all the key points, including the idea of synodal papacy as laid out in the Milller dissertation, which is backed up with copious annotation from 1950s-1970s  “leading” German theologians. He covers the +Ganswein speech in May 2016, which lays out in precise detail what Pope Benedict had attempted to do: Half resign, yet remain some kind of pope. Per canon law, if he intended to remain in any way papal, the entire resignation was invalid.

Please share with friends who are about to be scandalized by the “synodal church.” Bergoglio is not the pope, and he never has been.

Who Is the “Man of Lawlessness”?

As you read the following, keep in mind, a certain bishop in white who canceled the title, “Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles,” instead preferring to be called “Successor of Christ.” But I’m sure it’s nothing. -nvp


Who Is the “Man of Lawlessness”?

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Under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul wrote this to the Thessalonians about the man of lawlessness:

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.—2 Thess 2:2.

Re-read the above slowly to see if it applies to the current events in the Catholic Church.

In verse three, we read of that “man of lawlessness.” The Greek word for lawlessness is ἀνομίας, or in the Latin alphabet, anomias.  Nomos in Greek is law.  This is an example of the alpha-privative which is defined as “the prefix a- or an- expressing negation in Greek and in English.”  Thus, the “man of lawlessness” is not going to be a Wild-West shoot-em-up villain, but simply be a man with no reference to any law except himself.  The notion that he will take “his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God” means he will replace dogma with himself.

In verse 4, the Greek states the lawless one will “sit” (καθίσαι, the root of the English “cathedral”) “in the temple of God.”  There, he will “exhibit himself” (ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν) to be God.  All of this clearly portends not only the hijacking of the seat of a religious center, but also the usurping of her doctrine. Most of the early Fathers believed this passage would take place in Jerusalem, but a few Fathers believed it would take place in Rome. In his recent video between minute 21 and 22, Archbishop Viganò says there already exists this evil person doing a coup d’état against the “Throne of Peter.”

Keep in mind the highest written form Catholic dogma is the Bible, according to everyone from the early Fathers to St. Thomas Aquinas to Pope Leo XIII.  The following is the recent and official Vatican answer to an allegedly-controversial question.  It reveals how a certain man is now replacing the Bible:

https://padreperegrino.org/2023/10/who-is-the-man-of-lawlessness/

UPDATE: Turns out the Cindy McCain synod demon is not the priest murderer but a child murderer

TLDR: The Arizona traitor widow gifted the antipope with a goddess of child murder. Take that, Pachamama.

Original story and video HERE.

It was originally thought that the demon in question was the priest-murdering demon warrior, since Cindy was whispering, “it’s a warrior” in the video released by the stolen Vatican. However, eagle-eyed reader “L. Williams” spotted the distinction from my original post and called it out in the combox, pointing to this: 

“The spirit represented in this figure is called Soyoko Mana by the Hopi. This figure is distinguished from other ogre women because of her butterfly whorl hairstyle, which indicates she is not yet married. She carries a knife and crook and has a basket on her back. These items are used to catch her prey, children, and carry them away. Children are expected to provide food for her, and if they don’t, they are told she will eat them instead.”  https://lammuseum.wfu.edu/2022/03/hopi-ogre-woman-kachina/

And now, confirmation: