Rev. Christopher Gillespie

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The retreat to this platform is a demonstration of the lack of persuasiveness of your argument.

Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit (He who is silent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to, is taken to agree)
— Latin proverb

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” - GK Chesterton

“Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And therefore indifference is always a friend to the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor, never his victim.”
--Elie Wiesel

Votes are still being counted in Maryland.
Votes are still being counted in Ohio.
Votes are still being counted in California.

I am thankful for all the drums beating in 2020 and convinced me to DCA.

I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things.
—Alexander Dumas

Alejandro Mayorkas, a lawyer with no security experience, to the Department of Homeland Security
Deb Haaland, hailed as the first Native American cabinet member when named to the Department of the Interior, had been a Member of Congress without relevant experience.

Pete Buttigieg to the Department of Transportation despite no experience in that area;
Xavier Becerra, a lawyer, to the Department of Health and Human Services;
Jennifer Granholm, Michigan governor with no energy experience, to the Department of Energy;

Inflation cannot be measured as an increase in consumer prices (see also the BLS). That’s the effect of inflation. Instead, the only accurate metric is the increase in currency supply. It’s all about the denominator.

Always have the cameras or recorders rolling if in a difficult situation.

Do not trust others or institutions to tell the truth or present the facts.

The gated institutional narratives of the corporate media are easily broken with a phone camera and non-algorithmic social media.

The sixth-century Digest of Justinian (22.3.2) provides, as a general rule of evidence: Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat—"Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies".