Author: chris

Chris is a follower of Jesus Christ. A technologist. And a believer in the words of the US Constitution being the 2nd most important document ever written. He plays, runs, and creates various table top role playing games and is collector of dice.

The Fall of the Kingmaker

Bob vander Plaats has been making bad endorsements for the past decade. The latest in this long line of losses was the endorsement for Adam Steen for Iowa Governor in this week’s primary election. And the first was picking Senator Cruz over the people’s choice of Donald Trump in 2016.

Donald Trump was a guest of The Family Leader a year or two before he decided to run for President. And Bob himself made a couple of trips out to NYC and Trump Tower. He spent time with the future President. But throw it all away.

He could have been a great voice for Christ and supported Trump’s bid for President in 2016. But he didn’t. The question has always been “why didn’t Bob vander Plaats do this?”

There have been several possibilities floating around for years. They had a falling out was one. The companionship formed with Steve Deace is thought to be another. And on the surface these are all valid reasons. But they too are just more symptoms of the Kingmaker’s fall.

No the real reason is due to the loss of the one person that kept Bob vander Plaats from being his own worst enemy. That one person, in Bob’s own words, “knew where they bodies were buried,” at The Family Leader.

The same person who was wrote the very letter that was given to then governor candidate for the 3rd time, Bob vander Plaats, on the night he lost that primary race. The letter that offered him the presidency and CEO position at the Iowa Family Policy Center that would later be renamed as The Family Leader.

That person was Kristen Rheinherren, nee Major. The Director of Development at the Iowa Family Policy Center. She is 100% responsible for text of that offer that Bob took. She wrote that recruitment letter.

And in June 2015, Kristen resigned from The Family Leader to pursue other opportunities. The date is strikingly haunting considering it’s when Bob started down that path of bad endorsements just after that departure.

Since 2015 Kristen hasn’t been around to give her voice to the staff meetings and private meetings with the leadership of The Family Leader. Kristen you see was a prayer warrior the likes of which are rarely seen. And without her, The Family Leader has suffered.

Bad choices in endorsing candidates and causes, one after the other. None of which Kristen would have supported and could have possibly talked Bob out of endorsing them publicly.

Kristen passed from this world and into Christ’s loving arms in 2020. So there is no way for her to ever return to The Family Leader to offer her thoughts and speaker her mind. And they will likely to continue to be more and more irrelevant in Iowa and national politics in the future.

In the Meme Time

Here we go again we have another Leftist meme that is wrong.

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There are 5 statements and most of them are either incorrect, taken out of context, or an out-right lie. So let’s break it down:

The Founders did indeed write the Constitution and it’s true that the Apostles did not. But what the Apostles did write under the guidance of the Holy Spirit led to what the Founders wrote in the Constitution. Without the work of the Apostles the Constitution would never been written.

The Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution, it is the first 10 amendments. And part of the Worldview of the Founders that was shaped by the Gospels and intertwined with the common knowledge of the time. Our Founders knew that rights came from God and that the role of proper government was to preserve and defend those rights.

Their intent is plainly written. CONGRESS shall pass no laws on the establishment of religion. This prevents the government from creating a “Church of America” that it controls. The Founders fled England and the Church of England, headed by the English Monarch, aka the government, due to religious persecution. They wished to worship the Most High as they pleased but couldn’t do it in England or even most of Europe.

The Church of England is a state-sponsored religion. Enforcement is still practiced in part even today in the UK. Thus the Founders wanted the freedom of religion. Not the freedom FROM religion which the Left tries to enforce. And that is why there is no Church of America.

This wasn’t a mandate to keep religion out of government. It was the opposite. To keep government out religion. The people of Faith are the very reason we have our government and nation today. Government doesn’t control religion. But religion should control government.

The Founders never created a Democracy. They were adamantly against the creation of a Democracy and a democratic state. The Founders were well aware of the dangers associated with a democracy and decided against that form of government when they created this nation. The instead created a Constitutional Republic. The two forms of government are not interchangeable and have nothing to do with one another.

No one, except Leftists, have ever stated that Christianity is a political party. Of course some Leftists have created political parties with the word “Christian” in them but they are far from being Christian or any other part of their name.

But Christianity cannot be separated from politics. All Believers are called to participate and we are a Royal Priesthood. Called to be Kings and Priests forever. It is the duty of every Christian to see that the world becomes more Christlike. After starting with yourself, then your family, then your community and government.

Government is one of the 3 powers created by God. As a Child of God it is a sacred duty to ensure government is ran by Godly men.

Papal Fallacies

Pope Leo’s message the other week on war was appallingly inaccurate and not at all Biblically sound. But this is normal for the Bishop of Rome and his Roman Catholic Church.

It’s hard to even begin because so much is wrong with that message. But we have to start somewhere. So here we go. First and foremost, Jesus doesn’t answer prayers, the Father does. And believers don’t pray to Jesus. Prayers go to God the Father.

It is not Biblically accurate to address prayers to anyone but God the Father. As His Son Jesus taught the disciples how to pray and they taught the rest of us through the Word.

One does not pray to Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Mary, Joseph, any Saint, or anyone but God the Father. It is blasphemy to do any other prayers. Saints don’t intercede on our behalf. Another Roman Catholic falsehood. Prayers are always asked for in the name of Jesus but He is never prayed to directly.

It seems that, in a way, Pope Leo was correct. Jesus doesn’t hear or answer the prayers of warmongers. Because he doesn’t hear or answer the prayers of anyone. They go to the Father.

To say that God doesn’t hear or answer the prayers of “warmongers”, aka soldiers, officers, and national leaders, and those engaged in war is completely false as well.

The Old Testament is full of examples of God’s people going to war and praying for victory. Many times God answered these prayers and gave the people the victory they desired. Other times He did not. And these were not just wars of defense, some were wars of aggression. Perhaps if Pope Leo were to actually READ the Bible he would know these facts about God Almighty.

So the conclusion is obvious, God is not against war as a whole. Peace we know is a preferable path but it is not always obtainable. Wars are sometimes necessary and God does hear our prayers about it.

In the Meme Time

Oh boy, we have a good one for this installment. So here it is:

Dear MAGA Leftist Meme of Falsehoods

Take a read for a moment and then we’ll dive right into this one. Unlike a lot of Leftist memes, this doesn’t have an ounce of truth to it. Save for showing the true nature of Leftists themselves. This one is complete wickedness.

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Kyle Rittenhouse and Alex Pretti are not the same. Different motives. Different set of circumstances. And a host of other differences. They simply cannot logically be compared with one another.

Kyle was defending property rights and lives from a violent mob. While Alex was part of a violent mob willfully impeding justice, and he had a history of doing so.

They were both armed. But that is the only similarity between the two men and their actions. Kyle defended himself from an aggressive violent mob. Firing warning shots before he ever had to shot his assailants. And when he was confronted by the police. He surrendered his weapon and followed police instructions. Not doing so would have led to his death.

Alex on the other hand did not. He attacked and provoked the police and he drew his weapon on them. He too knew that he could get shot and killed but he did it any way. He wanted to be a martyr. His actions lead to the confrontation and to his death.

No one believes that Alex Pretti deserved to die. No one deserves such a fate. It was a tragic, yet preventable death.

As for the 2nd Amendment. They were both in their Constitutional rights to be armed. Yet Alex chose suicide by cop instead of life.

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First of all let’s be 100% clear here. There is NO right to protest. The right in the Constitution is to peacefully assemble and that wasn’t happening in Minnesota.

Again here the Left is trying to compare very different events in the hope that you are an idiot. The events of January 6th 2021 are vastly different from the events in Minnesota the day Renee Good lost her life. I hate to repeat myself but it must be done. No one deserves to die. Renee’s death could have been prevented by Renee herself. But like Alex, she was a known instigator and came looking for a confrontation with law enforcement.

Her lesbian lover was filming the entire thing and was outside of their vehicle. She is also responsible for Renee’s tragic death. Renee Good chose to commit suicide by cop. She wanted a filmed confrontation with ICE and she got it.

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The term you are looking for is “illegal aliens.” Not “undocumented criminals.” Their criminal history is very much documented. The little boy in the bunny hat was never detained by ICE. The evidence is very clear in this case. The boy’s father was a wanted criminal and fled the area leaving the boy behind.

What ICE did was ensured that no harm came to the child that was abandoned by his criminal father. The streets were a chaotic mess with the illegal protesting and mobs attacking law enforcement. Protecting the child was the right thing to do in this case.

To answer the question, of course this is fully about illegal aliens, their arrest and deportation. Age is not a factor in someone’s legal status, children can be illegal aliens too. And all illegal aliens are criminals. They broke the law by entering the country unlawfully. Others have committed additional crimes and some very serious ones.

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No one is being executed in the streets. That is bearing false witness. Executions are not happening in the streets of the United States. To see executions in the streets go to Iran and other Leftist regimes.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good were not executed in the streets. Their deaths are a tragic loss of life. But they died because they broke multiple laws and willfully agitated the situation to the point of violence that was ended with their deaths.

Tragic but not at all against the doctrine of pro-life.

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The truth of each of these points is acceptable. The Leftist lies about them are not. Truth can be tragic so it shouldn’t ever be sugar coated. And it should never be altered with falsehoods and wickedness.

Principles are always about truths. And we hold these truths to be self evident. Cut through the hype and toss out the media propaganda. Truth remains. Clear and principled.

The MAGA movement believes that there is one race, human. And that all human life is sacred. MAGA also believes in Law and Order. All of the issues pointed out here could have been avoided if people simply followed the laws of the United States.

The only bullshit is the Leftist propaganda and lies that distort facts and conceal the truth in this meme. Those that buy such Leftist bullshit either hate the United States and want to see it burn or they are just part of the Left’s army of useful idiots.

Email – King of Social Media

I’ve written about this before in previous incarnations of this blog. Unfortunately, those posts have been lost. So this gives me the ability to revisit this topic.

The best social media platform of all time. The undisputed king. Is none other than: Email.

Yes email. A humble form of communication we use every single day in both our personal lives and corporate lives. This was the first social media platform, even before it had a name.

We shared photos, news, and information with our friends and family over email. Some of us had an email list service while most just CC’d or BCC’d a multitude of friends with the content.

In turn, we could share it (forward) to others who were not on the list. We could comment (reply back) and carry on a conversation of the subject. “Likes” exist in the form of a comment/reply that it was something the reader liked hearing about.

If a message got forwarded to you, you could reply back to the sender and ask to get future emails. In today’s social media platforms, you would be now a follower or added to the “friends” list. All the same concept when using email.

Now of course today, most of the younger generations have an email account of some kind because it is necessary to sign up for other services. But they just don’t utilize it. They prefer texting and various forms of instant messaging.

Email chains and lists are still in use today however and will continue to be in use for the foreseeable future. Thousands of conversations are being had every day over email.

So if you are tired of the social media platforms that give you ads. Restrict your content. Or even ban you outright. Try email. Build your community there. Tried and true.

Stolen Land

The Myth of Stolen Land

I grow tired of seeing this Leftist non-sense cry about “stolen land.” There is no such thing as stolen land. Land, territory, property, whatever you want to call it cannot be stolen. Unless you are going out with a shovel every night to take some of your neighbor’s yard.

Stolen? No. Land can be gifted, bought, traded, or conquered. But never stolen. Those are the only ways land changes ownership. And is exactly what took place in the Americas.

The various Indian tribes waged war against one another for centuries before the first European settlers ever reached the shores. In those times “tribal land” changed hands a multitude of times. By right of conquest, with the spoils going to the victor.

The European settlers used the methods of buying, trading, and conquest to gain ownership of the lands on which they forged new nations. Where the Indian tribes cheated or swindled in these buying and trading deals? The answer to that is possibly but that doesn’t mean it was stolen. Know the terms and negotiate better.

In addition to buying and trading, conquest was used for vast majority of the land to change ownership by force of war. This isn’t stealing, this is conquest. A method of gaining land ownership since Biblical times.

Today these tribes have reservations. Land that was gifted to them. Some tribes, being savvy businessmen have purchased additional land making their reservations larger over the years. Did they cheat and swindle the sellers? The answer to that is again probably. It happens all the time. Again though, the land is not being stolen even if the buy is cheated or swindled.

There are cases where there are inter tribal disputes as to who owns what part of the reservation. These are settled in court under law. But sometimes still at gun point in a few cases. That’s conquest again if you aren’t paying attention.

So to say “none one is illegal on stolen land” or any other such non-sense about “stolen land” is just false. We do not live of on stolen land, no body does anywhere. The land has either been gifted, bought, traded, or conquered.

If you want land you must use one of those methods to get it.

The Right is Stupid

Time after time I see that the Right is Stupid when it comes to technology with an almost Luddite mentality.

Wanting to return to paper ballots when a blockchain based ballot system would be far superior to anything we have now. Secure and tamper proof.

Being against electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles. These are the future of automobiles. Battery and computer technology continues to grow in leaps and bounds. And this technology will replace our current gas vehicles.

And then there is Social Media. During President Trump’s first term, the President and many other conservatives were silenced across multiple social media platforms. Even to the point of being banned for life. One of these was Twitter, before it was purchased and rebranded by Elon Musk.

There was a growing open source project called StatusNet. A twitter-like service that was decentralized. Anyone could setup a server and they would all talk to each other. And as it grew and developed it became the service known now as Mastodon. Which of course uses an elephant for it’s logo.

As a decentralized platform each server can have it’s own rules and and structure. Each server can choose to associate with any of the others or none of them at all. Or even allow its users to follow but not otherwise interact. It’s really a great system.

And like many new technologies the Left seems to adapt to them quickly. While the Right sits in the cave and bangs stones together.

Today the Mastodon Fediverse is free of ads. And none of use like the heavy use of ads on other services. The Right, after being banned from Twitter created a few of their own Twitter-like microblogging services. But they are full of ads. This was dumb move. The Right should have just flooded the Fediverse with servers. So what if the Left doesn’t follow them? We would Federate with others and still have a great system everywhere.

There is still time to do this of course if the Right decided to do something intelligent when it comes to technology. But they probably wont.

In the Meme Time

The idiotic Left is at it again. Here is yet another meme that is so full of holes it would never float. Yet to the Left this is so real. Scary how they don’t think.

Stupid Leftist Meme made to frighten the ignorant.

Line by line we will take it apart. And of course there is usually a hint of truth to make something so idiotic as this believable by the ignorant.

“The are trying to bait us into violence.”

Well Leftist, violence is your specialty. The Right doesn’t commit violence, we have prayer vigils and peaceably assemble. It is the Left that riots, burns, attacks, and protests. All against the law. We don’t need to bait you in order for you to commit an act you were going to do anyway.

“That’s the plan.”

No, that isn’t the plan. The plan all along has been simple. To secure our borders, secure our cities, to secure our citizens. And in doing so we round up and deport the criminal illegal aliens from our nation. This is the plan and why we voted for Donald Trump.

“Kill Americans on camera until someone shoots a federal agent,”

There is no desire or plan to kill Americans or even the illegal aliens for that matter. The events in Minnesota would have happened without cameras present if agitators attacked federal agents doing their jobs. But most agitators want the cameras because it is all show to them. Their lives are meaningless to themselves. This is another example of suicide by cop. Don’t violate the law and you wont end up getting shot or killed because you did something stupid.

Now if some Leftist agitator DOES shoot a federal agent. That would be a crime, probably several, in the state of Minnesota. But that nothing that is hoped for at all. We would like our law enforcement officers and citizen to be safe.

“then declare “insurrection”, “

The quotes aren’t needed. If violent illegal mobs are attacking federal officers in the line of duty. That is insurrection. It would be a fully justified course of action to invoke the Insurrection Act. This part of the meme is true, if a federal officer is shot, I’m 100% behind invoking the Insurrection Act to restore order in Minnesota or anywhere for that matter.

“deploy the military”

Another truth. If the Insurrection Act is invoked due to a federal officer being shot by an illegal violent mob. Then the military would be deployed to restore order. That is part of the act’s powers.

“and cancel the 2026 elections.”

This is a scare tactic and fearmongering. It is also laughable unless one is unhinged and ignorant enough to believe the drivel. Federal elections cannot be cancelled. They are Constitutionally protected. They cannot be cancelled or postponed. They take place in November no matter what. Unlike other countries, we have no provision to stop federal elections. Leftist countries have those, not the United States.

“This is the fascist playbook.”

Yes it is a Leftist playbook item. And that is not a mistake, fascists are Leftists just as Marxists, Socialists, National Socialists (Nazis), Communists, and any other totalitarian regime. This is exactly what they would do but again it isn’t possible under the US Constitution. Sorry to burst your bubbles useful idiots.

“Do not give them their Reichstag fire.”

This of course is their inane juvenile attempt to compare Trump and the Right to Hitler and Nazis. Again, this just shows the ignorance. Nazism, National Socialism is a Leftist form of government. It has nothing to do with the Right. And Trump and Hitler have nothing in common at all.

Iowa Gubernatorial Debate

After the first gubernatorial debate in Iowa I have a new favorite. But I will give a rundown of my opinions of all the candidates running. Even if they didn’t take part in the debate.

Representative Eddie Andrews is now my current favorite for the nomination. He has done well in the Iowa House representing his district. And continues to do so even while campaigning across the state for governor. Visiting all 99 counties.

He lacks funding, but doesn’t see that as a hindrance. He also seemed a bit unsure of himself on the stage and fumbled a bit. But not too badly.

Brad Sherman was my original choice, back when Governor Kim Reynolds hadn’t decided if she was seeking another term or not. However, after seeing and hearing him on the debate stage I have doubts. His age shows, it really does.

I was at Zach Lahn’s announcement party in West Des Moines. My opinion of him hasn’t changed and has only been reinforced. He’s a farmer and businessman, although an outsider is always good to have it’s not one of his faults. What drives me away from Mr. Lahn is his effeminate and soft spoken nature. It gives the appearance of lacking a leadership. He would easily fit into the crowd at The Garden in downtown Des Moines. But not in the Governor’s office.

Adam Steen was professional and polished. He could have easily taken the lead in this debate and contest. But, he was endorsed by The Family Leader, who in the last decade has had a number of bad picks for their endorsements. The nail in the coffin however is that Adam Steen supports the Convention of States. I cannot in good conscious support that at all. It is a dangerous form of Pandora’s box.

Lastly we have Randy Feenstra. Another Family Leader pick I might add and the current Congressman from Iowa’s 4th District. He was invited to the debate. Came to Iowa on the Air Force One with the President. But declined to attend. He is the establishment pick for Governor. He has more funds than the other 4 combined and has great name recognition.

He is not truly a deep conservative. His record shows that with easy. And the Left knows this as well. This is why Rob Sands, the Democratic candidate is hoping that the November election is between himself and Feenstra. Many know that if Feenstra is the Republican nominee, then Sands will will that November election and become Iowa’s next Governor.

Joining the Fediverse

I have always been fond of the original Twitter. Before it was taken over by ads and junk that unfortunately has followed it since becoming X. But there is the Fediverse which is a microblogging system that isn’t plagued by ads. So we are joining it.

This means that you can follow the Something For Everything blog from your favorite Mastodon instance and follow us like you would follow anyone else.

Just add @somethingabouteverything and you can get our feed.