It’s always the glasses

Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino plans remodel, menu changes - Bizwomen(I took one look at this person, pre-crimed her, then one look at her LinkedIn, and everything made sense. And just like the Bud Light Marketing VP who hated her own brand and its core consumer, nothing will ever lead a leftist to learn anything. How could the bitter clingers and deplorables possibly be right? Oh and this isn’t about just the logo… search for pics of the interior redesign. -nvp)

Cracker Barrel’s Board Should Fire The CEO Immediately

Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance via Zerohedge

Cracker Barrel is learning the same lesson Bud Light did: fat, bearded, gun toting middle Americans not only dislike change — especially the “woke” kind — but will also turn on you for taking a staple brand they love and pile-driving it into the ground.

Today Cracker Barrel’s stock cratered more than 10% after the company unveiled a rebrand that scrapped its iconic barrel-and-man logo in favor of a sterile, text-only “woker” design minus the old white guy and the…well, cracker barrel.

Cracker Barrel gets a new look

The move, pushed by CEO Julie Felss Masino, has triggered furious backlash from customers, conservatives, and investors alike, with many calling it the chain’s “Bud Light moment…” I mean, honestly. How do you become (redacted) CEO of Cracker Barrel without understanding that this is your demographic?

How does the company’s CEO just not walk into one of their own restaurants and open their eyes? How does she not understand that nobody has ever said, “Let’s pull off at Exit 49 for a plate of woke minimalism.”

People go for biscuits the size of baseball mitts, kitschy décor that hasn’t changed since Nixon, and that faint smell of maple syrup soaked into the walls. Instead, the CEO has singlehandedly torched decades of brand identity with a text-only logo that looks like it was spit out by a bored intern with Microsoft Word.

The backlash has been ferocious. Meanwhile, CEO Julie Felss Masino is insisting the feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive,” which is corporate-speak for “I muted my notifications yesterday morning and set my e-mail to my ‘out of office’ reply”.

Masino’s vision is essentially to strip away the hokey charm and replace it with something she clearly believes will appeal to “younger, more diverse diners.” The menu is being tinkered with too—lighter options, healthier twists, a nod to “evolving tastes.”

But here’s the obvious question: did she learn nothing from Bud Light? After watching the number-one beer in America self-immolate by alienating its core base, Masino still thought bulldozing nostalgia in favor of bland “relevance” was a stroke of genius?

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the reparation thereof

Today is the feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. That we are living through Fatima, there can be little doubt. Make First Fridays and First Saturdays. Why wouldn’t you?


Five First Saturdays Devotion of Reparation to The Immaculate Heart of The Blessed Virgin Mary

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https://holycross-olog.vermontcatholic.org/five-first-saturdays-devotion

  • The following is an explanation of the conditions contained in Our Lady’s request at Fatima, Portugal regarding the Communion of reparation on the on the first Saturday of the month for five consecutive months.
  • The promise made by Our Lady to Lucia on July 13th, 1917, that there would be a future manifestation concerning the practice of the Five First Saturdays, was fulfilled on December 10th, 1925. Lucia was then a Postulant Sister in the Dorothean Convent at Tuy, Spain. On this occasion Our Lady appeared together with the Child Jesus, Who spoke first to Lucia:“Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment, while there is no one who does an act of reparation to withdraw them for her.”
  • Our Lady then addressed Lucia as follows:“Behold, my daughter, my Heart encircled with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Give me consolation, you, at least; and make known on my behalf that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all who on the First Saturday of five consecutive months confess their sins, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the purpose of making reparation to my Immaculate Heart.”
  • WHY FIVE SATURDAYS? It is sometimes asked why Our Lady asked for Communions of reparation on five first Saturdays, instead of some other number. Our Blessed Lord answered that question when He appeared to Sr. Lucia May 29, 1930. He explained that it was because of five kinds of offenses and blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, namely: blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, against her perpetual virginity, against the divine and spiritual maternity of Mary, blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonoring of her images, and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.
  • The spirit of reparation is a loving desire to make reparation to and console the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Our Mother. It considers the offenses which the Immaculate Heart of Mary now receives from those who reject her maternal intervention and despise her prerogatives. One should make this intention before carrying out Our Lady’s requests. A renewal of the actual intention at the time is best.
  • 1. Confession On February 15, 1926 the Child Jesus alone came to visit Sr. Lucia and asked if the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was being propagated. Sr. Lucia spoke of a difficulty some people have in confessing on the first Saturday, and asked if they might be allowed eight days in order to fulfill Our Lady’s requests. Jesus answered: “Yes, even more time still, as long as they receive Me in the state of grace and have the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
    Confession: Repentance and Conversion: In order to fulfill this requirement in a truly worthy manner, we must look beyond the mere formality of going to confession at the appointed time, to a heartfelt spirit of repentance and lasting sorrow for our sins. This spirit of penance should pervade our entire life, in such a manner that it compels us to walk always in the path of that amendment of life for which Our Lady asked. In all true devotion to Our Lady — and devotion to her Immaculate Heart is the perfect expression of this true devotion — there must always be an effective repentance, that is, the returning of our hearts to Christ Our Savior. For all of us (sinners all), it is a call to conversion to the path of grace and submission to God’s holy Will. Even for those souls who already habitually live in the grace of God, true devotion to Our Lady impels them more and more to travel the pathway to holiness, by striving to purge themselves daily of all that is not of God. And it is this true devotion, based as it is on heartfelt repentance and conversion, that creates in them a truly authentic spirit of the Christian apostolate — the desire to lead others along the same path to the Heart of God.
    If one cannot go to confession the first Saturday of the month, one can go within eight days. Even one’s monthly confession would be sufficient, which would need the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
  • 2.Receive Holy Communion
  • 3.Devout Recitation of the Rosary with Meditation“Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.”
  • The question is often asked: Does the meditation while reciting the Rosary fulfill this condition, or is there required an additional fifteen minutes of meditation? That an additional 15 minutes of meditation is required was recently confirmed by Sr. Lucia of Fatima. It is clear too from a statement by the first Bishop of Fatima.The last entry in the chronology of Fatima, published in the official Calendar of the Sanctuary for the year of 1940, and signed by Dom Jose Correia da Silva, the first Bishop of Fatima, gave a summary of Our Lady’s requests concerning the Five First Saturdays. From that official statement in the Calendar of the Sanctuary, we read the Bishop’s enumeration of the various items that pertain to the devotion of the five Saturdays:It consists in going to Confession, receiving Communion, reciting five decades of the Rosary and meditating for a quarter of an hour on the mysteries of the Rosary on the first Saturday of five consecutive months. The Confession may be made during the eight days preceding or following the first Saturday of each month, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. Should one forget to form the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it may be formed at the next Confession, occasion to go to confession being taken at the first opportunity.The meditation embraces one or more mysteries; it may even include all, taken together or separately, according to individual attraction or devotion; but it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month.Speaking of the requirement of “keeping me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary,” Bishop da Silva’s comment that “it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month” could apply only to an extra fifteen minutes, for each decade of the Rosary must have its own particular meditation.
    Like the Rosary, this meditation may be made any time or place during the first Saturday. Yet again, like the Rosary, a very fitting time and place would be in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament before or after Mass. The question has been asked: “Would an extra Rosary, which would require about fifteen minutes, fulfill this request? It would seem, if fruitfully meditated, that it would. Or again, the time could be spent reading meditatively on one of the fifteen mysteries, which is a form of mental prayer that involves reading with frequent pauses to reflect on the matter read.
  • 4.With the intention of making reparation. All of the conditions mentioned above – in numbers 1 to 3 – should be fulfilled with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On the occasion of the visit of the Child Jesus to Sr. Lucia (Feb. 16, 1926), she asked: “My Jesus, what about those who forget to make the intention?” Jesus answered: “They can do so at their next confession, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go to Confession.”The above are the minimum requirements for fulfilling the conditions of Our Lady’s promise to obtain for us “at the hour of death the graces necessary for salvation.” Yet, thes e Communions of reparation, as has been pointed out, are only a portion of the devotion of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These few pages are meant to help bring about a frame of mind and heart that will make us aware of the need of reparation all through the month, and not just on the first Saturday.
  • The Promises attached to the Five First Saturdays Devotion.
  • 1. Salvation of our own soul To all those who, on the First Saturday of five consecutive months … fulfill all the conditions requested, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their soul. This little devotion practised with a good heart, is then enough to procure infallibly for us – ex opere operato so to speak – as with the sacraments – the grace of final perseverance, of eternal salvation! And this promise is without any exclusion, limitation, restriction. To all who ….. I promise. Heaven for eternity for five Holy Communions!
  • 2. Salvation of sinners So numerous are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Me that I come to ask for reparation. Sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray. (Our Lady to Sister Lucy at Tuy, June 13,1929.) In consideration of this little devotion, They (Jesus and Mary) wish to give the grace of pardon to souls who have had the misfortune of offending the Immaculate Heart of Mary, wrote Sister Lucy in a letter of May, 1930.
  • 3. Peace in the world Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the will of our dear Mother in Heaven. Sister Lucy, March 19,1939.

Stephen Kokx interviews Dr. Mazza on the newest purported “revelations” from Msgr. Bux

Spoiler alert: The new “revelations” from Msgr. Bux don’t hold water. Because unless he has access to Doc Brown’s DeLorean, the timeline simply doesn’t work for him, nor his claims. Dr. Mazza will explain on the upcoming Barnhardt Podcast, which was recorded earlier today. But here is a sneak peek from today’s Kokxcast!

Kokx News founder Stephen Kokx speaks with Church historian Dr. Edmund Mazza about the controversial resignation of Benedict XVI and recent allegations made by Msgr. Nicola Bux.

 

Why the “Bifurcated-Papacy” Still Matters

(Today is the feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church, who protested at length against antipope Anacletus II, even as that antipope ruled with universal acceptance in Rome for eight years. Got that? Someone who doubts the person of the Pope is NOT schismatic. Upon the death of Anacletus, Pope Innocent II took his rightful place thanks to St. Bernard, Innocent’s Papacy was recognized as being in force for the prior eight years, with the Anacletus antipapacy being fully nullified and expunged. Look it up, because it is only a matter of time before this happens again ;-/. -nvp)


Why the “Bifurcated-Papacy” Still Matters

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This summer, Monsignor Nicola Bux claimed that Pope Benedict XVI wrote him about public accusations that he had bifurcated the papacy before he died.  Among other things, the late Pontiff allegedly wrote the Italian priest in 2014: “To suggest that I resigned only from the exercise of the ministry and not from the munus is contrary to clear dogmatic and canonical doctrine. If some journalists speak of a ‘creeping schism’, they do not deserve any attention.”

Even if Pope Benedict XVI had written that (something I doubt) the late Pontiff is still the one to blame for that rumor that there was a “contemplative Pope” and an “active Pope” over the last decade.  I have already written much on this topic, so I’m not going to re-hash it all.  But I will remind you that in his last public Wednesday audience at the Vatican, Pope Benedict made it clear he was only executing a semi-resignation to the papacy:

The “always” is also a “for ever” – there can no longer be a return to the private sphere. My decision to resign the active exercise of the ministry does not revoke this. I do not return to private life, to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences, and so on. I am not abandoning the cross, but remaining in a new way at the side of the crucified Lord. I no longer bear the power of office for the governance of the Church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, in the enclosure of Saint Peter. 

Does a “semi-resignation” exist?  Of course not.  And that is why we are going to see how that novelty foisted upon the Chair of St. Peter continues the destruction within the Vatican to this day.

In fact, even though Pope Benedict died on the last day of 2022, I’m not the only one writing about the troubles in Rome connected to his “semi-resignation” through this summer of 2025.

In this article, I will reference two recent writings on the papacy found only in Italian, but translated from Google Translate to the English on my site at an article I labeled Italian Papal News Translations.  The first writing on that site comes from Archbishop Viganó from August 2025 on the site of Marco Tosatti.  The second comes from a secular Italian writer on the papacy at Roma Today.  The full English to both articles are found in the above link.  If you want to read them in Italian, also click the above link and you’ll be directed to them.

From Archbishop Viganó’s recent writings, I want to highlight and then comment on some of the most important paragraphs.  His words will be in italics below.  My commentary will be in bold font, as usual.

ViganóIt will not be surprising to learn—as Cardinal Walter Brandmüller confided to me in January 2020, responding to a specific question of mine—that Professor Joseph Ratzinger developed the theory of the [papal] emeritus and collegial papacy with his colleague Karl Rahner in the 1970s, when both were “young theologians.” During a telephone conversation I had in 2020, a trusted assistant of Benedict XVI confirmed to me the Pope’s intention—reiterated several times to her—to retire to private life in his Bavarian residence, without retaining either the apostolic name or the papal vestments. But this eventuality was considered inappropriate for those who would lose their power in the Vatican, especially those conservatives who looked to Benedict XVI as their model and had mythologized him.

Nix: Notice here that AB. Viganó is again insisting that Ratzinger had it in his head his whole clerical life that a future Pope (be it himself or someone else) could one day become a “Pope Emeritus” will full power shared into a “collegial papacy.”  So, if Msgr. Bux really got that letter from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2014 referenced in the first paragraph, then Benedict XVI simply changed his mind from his earlier insistence on a bifurcated papacy.  (Dr. Ed Mazza has repeatedly proven very clearly from Ratzinger’s own writings in the 1980s that he [erroneously] believed a “resigned Pope” would still maintain the grace of office of Pope somehow until death.) So, we can ask this question from the beginning: If Benedict really told Bux he never meant to double-up the papacy into “two Popes” then why did he promote this broken notion from the 1980s forward?

Viganó:  It must be said that the institution of the Episcopate Emeritus is also a canonical monster, because with it, the diocesan bishop’s jurisdiction is “frozen” based on his age (upon reaching the age of 75), contrary to the centuries-old practice of the Church. The Emeritus, by diminishing the bishops’ awareness of being Successors of the Apostles, has also had the immediate consequence of a total deprivation of responsibility, relegating them to the role of mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The institutionalization of Episcopal Conferences as governing bodies that interfere with and hinder the exercise of the potestas of individual bishops has certainly constituted an attack on the divine constitution of the Catholic Church and its apostolicity.

Nix:  In other words, Ratzinger got his idea of a “Pope Emeritus” being ontologically the same as a Pope from the notion that a “Bishop Emeritus” retains his original ordination, too.  Besides the fact that Viganó rightly indicates that both are modernist inventions, we have to remember that there is no ontological change to accepting the papacy, even though it contains new graces and responsibilities as the highest office in the Church.  Yet, again in his final Wednesday audience, Pope Benedict XVI revealed he was only semi-resigning when he snuck in there that for him and the papacy, “Always’ is also ‘forever’–there is no return to private life.”  Benedict clearly revealed in that statement he believed he would continue as the “contemplative Pope” with Francis as “active Pope,” thus creating a two-headed monster that would ravage the Church and the minds of believers for decades to come.

ViganóWe thus witnessed a sort of artificial separation of the Papacy: on the one hand, the Pope renounced the Papacy, and on the other, the person Papæ, Joseph Ratzinger, sought to maintain certain aspects of it that would guarantee him protection and prestige. Since his physical departure from the Apostolic See could be seen as a form of disapproval of the Church governance line imposed by Bergoglian deep church, both the Personal Secretary and the Secretary of State strongly pressured Ratzinger to remain “half-service,” so to speak, playing on the fictitious separation between munus and ministerium—a separation, moreover, vigorously denied in the Emeritus’s response to Msgr. Bux.

Nix:  Basically, Viganó is here saying that while Benedict did indeed believe he bifurcated the papacy into a two headed monster (half-Ratzinger and half-Bergoglio) he regretted up to the end of his life that his “other half” was so much more of a member of the “deep church” than he was.   As even Mr. Peter Seewald once admitted:  “As a South American and a Jesuit, [Bergoglio] has erased much of what was precious and dear to Ratzinger.”  Yes, sadly that Hegelian and naive Ratzinger thought the other half of the bifurcated-papal-monster he created would be Catholic… but it wasn’t.

Nix, now pivoting to the next article translated from Italian to English:  What does this have to do with the current situation in the Vatican?  A secular writer at Roma Today asked a Cardinal in Rome right after the Conclave of 2025 why they all chose Prevost.  Again, see the link found in the third paragraph of my blog today if you want to see the full article in English or Italian.

Roma TodayI risked everything and pressed him: “Your Eminence, how did it go? Is it true that Parolin withdrew his candidacy? Is it true that the College of Cardinals wanted to find a more moderate candidate after Bergoglio?” “My dear son,” he said to me, “you just don’t understand: Prevost was Bergoglio’s only candidate. Even shortly before he died, that old Argentine stubborn man had called all the cardinals he could trust and told them: ‘Please remember: after me, it’s the American’s turn. A missionary, an Augustinian, he will be the best for the Universal Church.’”

Nix: This shows that Prevost was always Bergoglio’s number one pick to succeed him in what they have both labeled “the synodal church.”  Also, if this story is true—if a Cardinal really did claim that “Prevost was Bergoglio’s only candidate” and that he chose him, then we’re obviously looking at two successive illegal Conclaves in a row, albeit separated by 12 years.  The Roma Today reporter also gives us clear proof that “Leo is Francis 2.0” (as they say) without any respite from the leftist-globalism foisted upon the Vatican beginning in 2013.  Or, perhaps you don’t believe the account of a secular Roman journalist regarding an “anonymous Cardinal.”  That’s fine.  But then just look at the fact that “Pope Leo will host a pro-LGBT Catholic group in Rome…”  That is all the evidence you need that “Leo is Francis 2.0” and that he had to be his number-one pick for years prior.

Roma Today: “But why Prevost?” I asked. [The Cardinal replied:] “Because Bergoglio was very clear that after his pushback, a ‘normalizer’ was needed, someone who could reassure the Curia, even though he wasn’t a member of the Curia; someone who could reassure the progressives, even though he wasn’t a traditionalist; and finally, someone who could reassure the traditionalists, because he saw himself as a moderate. This last thing was what worried the old Pope most; he had a clear sense that, at a certain point in his pontificate, schism had actually come close. In short, someone was needed to unite, even a little gray, if you like, but after the fireworks, a little silence is good. Look,” he said, bringing his face closer to mine, “I’ll confess something to you, even the name, on that too I think the Argentine pampas had their say; they needed the name of a Pope of tradition, but also the first Pope who opened the Church to the modern world, the one of ‘Rerum Novarum’.”

Nix:  It’s very telling that this anonymous Cardinal in Rome admitted that Prevost was chosen to “reassure the traditionalists” he was a moderate, even though he was Bergoglio’s first pick after the bifurcated Papacy of Benedict XVI.  I have to ask you dear readers:  Does any of this sound legit to you?  Does any of this sound like a valid Conclave?  Does any of this even sound Catholic?  Of course, there has always been lobbying in past Conclaves (and sometimes even funny-business) but never have we seen a full re-definition of the papacy introduced by imposters until the 21st century.  Yes, this level of infiltration is even more novel than Vatican II, even if the two of them are theologically and sociologically connected.

Roma Today:  Anonymous Cardinal: “Only then, to put an end to the matter immediately, did Bergoglio’s most trusted man, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, (coincidentally the Synod’s general rapporteur, Bergoglio’s brainchild) take action. Hollerich set things straight, and Parolin, at that point, declared his unwillingness to be elected. So it was a landslide: 107 votes. I believe poor Erdő even asked not to be voted for again, but the hardline traditionalists had figured out the game and wanted to represent their dissent. In short, only those who made a mistake didn’t vote for Prevost.”

Nix:  The Holy See stated earlier this year that even though Pope John Paul II officially limited the number of Conclave-voting Cardinals to 120, it would simply “dispense” with this number because the late-Francis wanted more Cardinals to succeed him on the next vote.  Thus, it’s either hilarious or devastating (or both) that the above anonymous Cardinal brags about so many illegal voters (men of whom even EWTN claimed another anonymous Cardinal admitted earlier this year that only “ten Cardinals have a good, solid understanding of the faith”) for that “Conclave” which avoided all past rules on electing a true Pope.  Of course, this is all downstream of the invalid-bifurcation attempt upon the papacy executed by Pope Benedict XVI.  Don’t believe me?  No problem.  See the overwhelming evidence to these claims in the above links from Ratzinger, Viganó, Seewald, Mazza and others.

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https://padreperegrino.org/2025/08/bifurcaterevis/

Feast of St. John Eudes: “A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.”

Blessed Feast of Saint John Eudes. Enjoy some selected quotes. -nvp


God inspired in the heart of the pure Virgin Mary His own intense love for humility…It was this humility which attracted to her the countless graces which rendered her worthy to be the Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth.

No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.

O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many others would I have committed if thou hadst not preserved me? How often have I seen myself on the brink of Hell in obvious danger of falling into it but for thy most benign hand which saved me? How often would the Roaring Lion of Hell have devoured and swallowed up my soul had not the charity of thy heart opposed him? Alas! Without thee, my dearest and my all-good Mother, where should I be today? I should be in the fiery furnace of Hell from which I would never emerge!

Every Saint belongs to the court of the Queen of All Saints.

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.

I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

https://www.azquotes.com/author/32529-John_Eudes

 

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

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UPDATED… COVID Vax: The Poisoned Jab that Keeps on Giving

UPDATE 8/18 0715 MST: Mary Ann reports the Blogger platform has deplatformed her post. Censored without warning for “violating their guidelines.” It is interesting that this wasn’t some random rant, but rather a fully annotated essay with all the direct quotes backed up with links to original sources (published studies, sworn Senate testimony, etc). Thankfully I mirrored it here before they bitter clinged her.


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The CDC continues to push the COVID-19 gene therapy despite more and more evidence of serious and even lethal damage to the vaccinated. We’ve heard over and over again the mantra, “Follow the science!”, but Big Pharma and their allies in the government health care system support only one narrative, the big bucks narrative. Hospitals received financial rewards for pushing the deadly Remdesivir/ventilator protocol. Those doctors who advocated ivermectin and other alternative therapies that were highly effective were mocked, doxed, and, sometimes lost their licenses.

The scientific data is out there, but don’t expect the complicit media to publish it. That’s why we need alternative media and megaphone blogs to share information from the real scientists open to learning from the data.

Here are a few articles that indicate the danger of the COVID jab. The first was published in February. It examined the forensic evidence following autopsy. It was a small study, but the sample indicates that more autopsies should be done to examine the impact of the COVID shot. Why aren’t they being done? Maybe the follow-the-science “experts” don’t want to see what the autopsies are revealing. So check out this first study:

The Autopsy Data Are In: What They Reveal About COVID-19 Vaccines and Public Health Oversight:

“A Pattern in Post-Vaccination Deaths

“The Hulscher et al. systematic review examined 325 autopsy cases from 44 published studies, finding that 73.9% of deaths were adjudicated by independent physicians as being directly caused by or significantly linked to COVID-19 vaccination​. The leading causes of death included:
– Sudden cardiac death (35%)
– Pulmonary embolism (12.5%)
– Myocardial infarction (12%)
– Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT, 7.9%)
– Myocarditis (7.1%)
– Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (4.6%)
– Cerebral hemorrhage (3.8%)

“Most deaths occurred within one to two weeks of vaccination, with the highest concentration in the first week. The temporal relationship between vaccination and fatal outcomes suggests an urgent need for deeper forensic investigation.

“However, while the autopsies in Hulscher et al.’s study provide invaluable insight, they are only part of the picture. Rose’s (2025) new analysis of VAERS autopsy data exposes an even larger issue: the dramatic decline in autopsy rates despite rising post-vaccine deaths.”

The next study looked at comparative results between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals and found a significant increase in stroke, heart attack, coronary artery disease, and arrhythmia in the vaccinated. I know several people personally who developed arrhythmia after the vaccine. It’s a logical fallacy to say that B came after A, therefore A caused B, but these studies indicate a serious likelihood. When are the “experts” who ridiculed their peers going to do studies to evaluate the damage of the “vaccines” on the vaccines?

BREAKING: 85-Million-Person Study Finds Increased Risks of Stroke, Heart Attack, Coronary Artery Disease, and Arrhythmia Following COVID-19 Vaccination:

“This large-scale analysis of over 85 million individuals shows that COVID-19 vaccines are associated with significantly increased risks of stroke, heart attack, coronary artery disease, and arrhythmia. Pfizer’s mRNA injections (BNT162b2) were specifically linked to substantial increases in stroke, myocardial infarction, and coronary artery disease—particularly following the first and second doses. Arrhythmia risk was elevated following the first dose of any vaccine, with the strongest signal observed after AstraZeneca’s ChAdOx1.

“As each day passes, a new study is published that reveals the serious harms of the COVID-19 genetic countermeasures. They must be removed from global markets immediately.”

The last article relates to data provided to the U.S. Senate about the dangers of the COVID jab. Dr. Peter McCullough was one of the doctors persecuted for revealing the dangerous truth about the COVID shots.

Dr. McCullough Drops the Hammer in the Senate — FDA Concedes with Expanded Myocarditis Warning

“Dr. McCullough presented data from both his clinical experience and the peer-reviewed literature, exposing the widespread risks of COVID-19 mRNA injections — particularly myocarditis in young men and fatal vaccine outcomes confirmed by autopsy.

“’I’ve examined thousands of patients with this problem,’ he told the Senate. ‘Before the pandemic, I had seen just two cases in my entire career.’

“Just one day before the hearing, likely for preemptive damage control purposes, the FDA quietly updated its myocarditis warning on Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines, expanding the risk category to males aged 16 to 25 and citing an incidence of 8 cases per million doses for the 2023–2024 formulations. Unfortunately, no mention of death was added — despite robust, peer-reviewed autopsy evidence confirming fatal vaccine-induced myocarditis.

“Dr. McCullough referenced multiple such cases, including the tragic findings of Gill et al, who documented two teenage boys (ages 16 and 17) found dead at home just days after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. Autopsies confirmed unequivocal myocarditis as the cause of death….

“Dr. McCullough’s testimony was clear, data-driven, and difficult to ignore.
He made the case that public health agencies minimized known harms, failed to act on early warning signs, and still have not provided the public with full transparency.”

Dr. McCullough would like to see, at the very least, a black box warning on the COVID vaccine if it isn’t pulled off the market altogether. The black box warning lets medical personnel and patients know that a drug has serious and even life-threatening side effects. The warning is prominently displayed on the packaging.

It’s amazing how many people around the world were willing to be guinea pigs in the largest drug experiment ever conducted with few trials and drug company cover ups when they knew the risks. That Big Pharma has been protected from the results of their fraudulent promotion of the vaccine is horrifying. It has also contributed to vaccine hesitancy and a major loss of trust in the fields of science and medicine.

Shall we talk about all the scientific papers withdrawn and retracted? Better save that for another day and another post. Meanwhile, you won’t find me in the vaccine line at the local pharmacy.

https://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2025/08/covid-vax-poisoned-jab-that-keeps-on.html

Amid Stellantis layoffs, workers are excited for the future: EVs are dead, gasoline brutes are back

So it came to pass that there were fresh layoffs announced on the final day of production before summer break at the Windsor, ON plant that makes all the Dodge Charger EVs that nobody wants. ICYMI, several years ago Stellantis decided to curb stomp their bread and butter best-selling old-school Charger and Challenger for 2025, instead shifting to all-EV models… no gasoline nor even hybrid available, basically shitting on their core customer. Oh and instead of blue collar, cheap muscle, the 2025 electric starts at $60K for the base model. Meanwhile, you can still buy a Durango with a Hemi-V8 for ten grand less, and you will never have to plug in. What could go wrong?

2025 Dodge Charger Daytona Review: Expert Insights, Pricing, and Trims
Well, nobody wanted one. Really, think about it. Have you ever seen one of these on the road? I found one in a parking lot a few months ago, but it had dealer plates on it. To make matters worse, there are horror stories on YouTube about first-year quality issues that go beyond fit and finish.
Yet the workers in Windsor heading off to summer break have a spring in their step.

The handful of workers who spoke to CBC Friday outside the Windsor assembly plant said they expect workers to be back on the job before long. “Could be a couple weeks,” Emanuele Caruana said. “Right now things aren’t looking too good, but they’re going to be good soon.” Dave Lumley isn’t worried at all, and predicted the workers would be back on the job before Christmas. “It’s just temporary,” he said. Lumley attributed the layoffs to changes in Dodge Charger production at the plant. “We have a battery area, and … we’re not building batteries,” he said.

So why are these workers so cheery upon getting their pink slips? Because the future is bright. Today’s layoffs promise tomorrow’s overtime pay… very, very soon. But why? Aren’t they afraid of tariffs? What could possibly be the good news?

The good news is that the climate hoaxers who made all the bad decisions are gone, and the new muscle smells like napalm in the morning. While the old Hemi won’t fit into the new car, they cooked up something even better, less two cylinders. 2026 brings high-tech gasoline and screaming performance, standard. The BASE MODEL makes 420HP, for $10K less than the current model. I will end my commentary here, and simply cut and paste the bullets points from the press release last week. Smells like… victory.


All-new 2026 Dodge Charger Scat Pack Drops the Hammer With 550 Horsepower, AWD Fury and Gasoline-powered Old-school Attitude as Most Powerful Car Under $55,000
  • 2026 Dodge Charger Scat Pack, powered by the turbocharged SIXPACK high-output (H.O.) engine, clocks a 3.9-second 0-60 time and runs the quarter-mile in 12.2 seconds with a top speed of 177 mph
  • 420-horsepower 2026 Dodge Charger R/T AWD available at a starting U.S. MSRP of $49,995, the most standard horsepower of any muscle car
  • 550-horsepower 2026 Dodge Charger Scat Pack available at a starting MSRP of $54,995, delivering the most horsepower under $55,000
  • Dodge launches award-winning 3.0-liter Hurricane Twin Turbo I-6 engine as SIXPACK, offering standard-output and high-output versions
    • SIXPACK standard-output (S.O.) engine delivers 420 horsepower on 2026 Dodge Charger R/T
    • Twin turbo-powered SIXPACK H.O. engine reaches 550 horsepower on Dodge Charger Scat Pack, and is the most powerful version of the Hurricane in production

https://media.stellantisnorthamerica.com/newsrelease.do?id=26969&mid=1

 

Assumption Day: “Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies”

(Originally posted August 15, 2021)

Happy Feast of the glorious Assumption!

“The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies to nought. Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies. Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God. Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honour of our people.” Lesson, Feast of the Assumption, Judith 13:22-25; 15:10

The Assumption is the Fourth Glorious Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary. Fruit of the mystery is a well-provided death. You really need to start praying for that. We are sprinting toward all manner of persecution, and as we learned last year, the sacraments are not guaranteed. Get your house in order and be prepared. Do it right now, today.

The Fifth Glorious Mystery is Mary’s Coronation. Fruit of the mystery is trust in Mary’s intercession. It means really trusting her with your needs, in a spirit of holy hope and NOT in a spirit of desperation or helplessness. Get out of your own way and hand it over to her. She has been directed to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies. She’s got this.

Pray the Rosary, every day. It is life changing. Fly to her and trust in her.

Also, have I mentioned practicing Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at least once a week? Schedule it on your calendar the way you would a super important work meeting, because it is even more important than that. You need to spend time with your Creator, and He really wants you there. You don’t need structured prayers; just converse with Him. You cannot hear His voice without silence and stillness. Listen to Him. If you don’t think you can do an hour, try fifteen minutes to start. He doesn’t need much to work with.

God is in charge, and His Mother is directing traffic. Go to them.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Queen of the Universe, pray for us.

Virgin Most Powerful, pray for us.

Happy feast, everyone!