Presidential recitation
Conniving presidentés — we’ve had quite a few. There was Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Franklin D. Roosevelt, too.
There’ve been Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Now they’ve all been eclipsed by one “subtle” push.
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, et al., told Joe Biden — “the big guy” — he must take a fall.
They put him in office through fraud and deceit, but when he exposed them — then came the heat.
The debate showed the public Joe hadn’t a clue. Details for the suckahs? No, not for you.
Bridger Barnett
Clarkston
Project 2025, Opus Dei
As election season approaches, I’m paying attention to the intersection of religion and politics because there’s a pile-up, a crash, an “11-80, over.” I’m a rubber-necker who can’t unsee the casualties and the constitutional carnage found in Project 2025, the document that restructures the United States government under the next Republican administration.
What surprises me most about Project 2025 is the concession by U.S. Protestants to the Vatican. I didn’t see that coming. Did Protestant sects get together and secretly convert to Catholicism? Because I found weighty influence and funding behind Project 2025 comes from the secretive Catholic group, Opus Dei (think “The Da Vinci Code”). The Cult Education Institute says Opus Dei “labors silently and stealthily to align government policies with those of the Vatican.”
Opus Dei members are also credited for orchestrating U.S. Supreme Court appointments, clearing the legal path for the next Republican administration to implement Opus Dei’s Project 2025. King Cyrus (Donald) Trump is a Judas after all. Or worse. I don’t think most Catholics know about this subversion, either. What a coup.
If people elect Project 2025/Trump, they elect the Vatican. Will we be Catholic by annexation and taxed tithe to an already morbidly wealthy church? Should I learn to genuflect? Set up a Saint-for-Sale Etsy shop? Is there a patron saint for Protestants? A market for kosher communion wafers? Vegan wafers for noncannibals?
There was a time when the church ran things, and we call it the Dark Ages.
Janet Marugg
Clarkston
