Barr's colossal betrayal of his Oath of Office as A.G. will come back to haunt him when Trump is finally gone, and the Congress turns blue. Remember that it took two years for Nixon's AG Mitchell to go to jail.
Trump's latest comment in his recent Fox and Friends rant pointed out how Barr shut down Mueller. He said of Barr, "We may have ended this thing a lot sooner had he been there."
https://twitter.com/j363j/status/1198598508871331842?s=11
NYC Bar association has asked Congress to investigate William Barr
Wonder if Barr personally threatened Mueller. There's little doubt now that he shut the investigation down. Parnas said tonight he's afraid of Barr and the DOJ under him.
Barr is the most dangerous person in this country. I honestly don't understand what he's doing, or why. He's a religious zealot, as is Pompeo and other in the administration, and that's the kind of odd thread that ties many of them together. Still, I don't see why he's doing so much to protect trump. What he's doing, the way he's behaving, feels to me like a combination of diabolical and dictatorial. I get a visual image of him twirling a metaphorical thin mustache, like a cartoon villain.
@lynnventura, I totally agree. And he runs our law enforcement agencies, which makes him particularly dangerous. Has anyone gotten any recent impressions on BB?
@lynnventura, I totally agree. And he runs our law enforcement agencies, which makes him particularly dangerous. Has anyone gotten any recent impressions on BB?
Yes. I've been having a vision for a little while in which I see IMPOTUS stumbling or falling while walking in front of people. Someone, maybe a secret service agent, either steps in to break his fall or reaches down to help him up. But in the president's embarrassed rage, he either shoves this person away or swipes at their arm. I think we'll see this on camera.
Afterward, I see an explosion of internet memes around "The Two Popes," relating this incident to Pope Francis' recent tangle with an over-zealous follower.
So, I was writing this vision into a list yesterday for Jeanne when I noticed a strange thread of energy linking these obviously very different men. (For anyone curious, I see threads of energy as very subtle, pulsating dots or pinpoints of low light—each one is very small—running like a strand between two people or things.) When I looked closer, I saw two other people on the same strand: Erik Prince and William Barr.
I guess I've had my head in the sand because I hadn't been aware that William Barr is considered a "Catholic extremist" or a member of Opus Dei. If you could see the look of horror that's still on my face, I know you'd all comfort me. (Also, I really wish I could read the full Nation article about this subject but alas, it's behind a paywall.)
Since I signed up here, I've been referring to a strange vision I've been having involving Erik Prince and Pope Francis. Whatever goes down between them, I don't get the feeling they're on the same side. After writing about it here for the first time, I did read on Wikipedia that Prince had converted to Catholicism at some point. But only just now after a brief Google search did I uncover stories about him being connected with Opus Dei.
I'm getting ominous flashbacks from The Family on Netflix.
So, @lynnventura, I agree. He's the most dangerous person in the country right now. I think what he's doing is this: everything he can to consolidate power, shore up an extremist religious agenda, and institute a neo-reactionary/Dark Enlightenment politics for the purpose of dismantling democratic norms and institutions, on the way to ushering us backward in time to an America governed by divine-right monarchy. Sans female leaders. Sans queers.
He sees himself as that version of America's noblest knight. And like every other Christian extremist in the country (and not a few Jewish extremists in Israel), he's more than willing to align himself behind a morally bankrupt puppet president because he believes he's wielding the man like a battle axe in the service of his cause.
@vestralux, thanks for sharing your visions. I know that @jeanne-mayell has seen BB's betrayal of his office coming back to haunt him once T is gone and Congress turns blue. I pray that happens sooner because as @lynnventura remarked, he's the most dangerous person in this country. But I sense that Jeanne is probably right.
I gradually learned about BB and Pompous's religious zealotry, much to my horror. The end they seek (as Vestralux succinctly put it, "divine-right monarchy") justify the means (T as President). The scary thing is, there are others currently holding high office in the U.S. who share this extreme vision for our country. I never watched The Family, but I read about it. I've also read that S. Bannon, who is Catholic, is heavily involved in that extremist religiosity. After he lost his White House gig, Bannon traveled to Rome and spent time working with members of the church hierarchy who vehemently dislike the Pope's vision of global Catholicism, where issues of social justice are paramount. I read that Bannon even bought a monastery in an Italian village outside Rome, where he plans seminars to train new leaders in populist nationalism. The Italian villagers protested, calling it fascism. I don't know what's come of that.
I grew up Catholic and back in the 50's, when I was a little kid, I never understood missionaries who occasionally would come to preach in our church. They made me uncomfortable. I never understood why they felt the need to convert anyone. I intuitively felt that if these people were living in peace and spirit spoke to them through nature or other means, why did they need to be saved? I certainly could respect missionaries helping the poor and disenfranchised, but I always suspected a hidden agenda. Once while sitting in church, in my mind's eye I saw Jesus sitting on top of one of the enclosed confessionals. He was listening to one of the sermons, sadly shaking his head, saying "you just don't get it."
Side note: I used to have a problem passing out in church. Although the church was very large, I often felt like I was suffocating. A relative once said, "why does this keep happening to you in church? What don't you ever pass out in a movie theater?" Hmm ....
@lynnventura
Still, I don't see why he's doing so much to protect trump. What he's doing, the way he's behaving, feels to me like a combination of diabolical and dictatorial. I get a visual image of him twirling a metaphorical thin mustache, like a cartoon villain.
Loved my inner belly laugh from this image! Lynn, Thank you for spreading a bit of light today.
@Vestraluxe
I guess I've had my head in the sand because I hadn't been aware that William Barr is considered a "Catholic extremist" or a member of Opus Dei.
Whoa!
Instant heart pain. I may need a full saging of mind-body-spirit just reading these words.
On a personal note @deetoo
I'm a baptized Catholic 1949. Brought into the church by my mother but not until much later for the other rights. I was always attracted to the magic and incense and rituals but needed to learn how "to altar" that early magnetism to create my own mythologies, rituals and magic.
I did enjoy those old 70s folk mass sing-a-long however. And obviously viewing all of it and the churches role in my life differently in almost all ways now.
I had a another good laugh realizing I've always centered "the bar" across in the symbol by moving it back to center and being bothered by traditionalists of all faiths always wanting it more to the top of the circle on the cross. ???
Love the Two Popes and the other connections @vestraluxe. Huge ❣
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I had a similar experience in Church too! I also grew up Catholic. I didn't pass out, but I used to feel a heaviness and was uncomfortable. I actually used to read the bible though, because my mother did and we did it together. I was only 9 years old once when I started questioning the priests in my church about things that didn't jive to me. I left the church at 9 yrs old. I approached the priest one day and told him that I could no longer be in a place that was breaking all of God's rules. (LOL)
1. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, ... Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them”: second of the Ten Commandments. I looked around and we had statues (graven images) of St. Peter, St. Anthony, Mary etc. and people were praying to them.
2. There is no mention of purgatory in the bible.
3. The Bible nowhere mentions abstaining from meat on Friday.
Those were the 3 things that bugged me the most at 9 yrs old so I left. I told the priest I would pray for him and some woman chased me out of the church for two blocks when she heard me say this to him. Later in life, I actually got married in a Catholic church (for my in-laws sake) so I had to make my confirmation. I made a deal with the monsignor of the church at the time to come in on Thursdays at lunch time for a while and discuss God with him and he would confirm me. It was actually a wonderful experience because the monsignor was actually a charismatic priest who secretly agreed and felt like I did about many things in the church. You just never know.... lol ?
About William Barr: I believe he is a religious nut who is using T to further his insane agenda. He only cares it's a rethublican in office so he can continue what he started years ago. He is truly part of the evil minions and I think he helped orchestrate the removal of Epstein.