Thomas Sheridan has a new conspiracy theory. OK, folks, you won´t believe this one!
Some interesting information on the Mormon (?) Church in this podcast, about a Church lawsuit against a LDS-critical content-creator on YouTube. Barbara Streisand effect in full spin!
Feminist atheist and cult-watcher Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) has discovered some kind of Über-syncretist sect or cult. Based in Utah, it combines fundamentalist Mormonism, Scientology and multi-level marketing of nutritional supplements. Yes, really! The business-slash-cult is called Balance of Nature and was founded by a chiropractor. Because of course it was.
Interesting, and frankly a bit disturbing.
I´ve heard of the NESARA conspiracy theory before, but clearly I didn´t know half of it! I mean, wtf.
There are strange connections to Ramtha, Mormonism, David Icke´s reptilian aliens, the 9/11 Truth Movement, MLM-like ponzi schemes...
NESARA (and its later twin GESARA) has everything. Except maybe QAnon, although I wouldn´t be surprised if many true believers in one might easily morph into the other.
I admit I was somewhat shocked by this stuff. Or am I just getting old?
I suppose I should have posted this on March 8, but what the heck, here we go anyway. Make of this information whatever ye wish.
Utah was one of the first territories in the United States were women got the right to vote. The year was 1870. The reason? The patriarchal Mormon regime wanted a better image and knew that all Mormon women would vote for the (male) Mormon candidates.
The micro-nation of San Marino had the only Communist-dominated government in Western Europe from 1945 to 1957. It was overthrown in 1957 during the so-called Fatti di Rovereta. Peculiar fact: women didn´t get the right to vote until seven years *after* the Communists had been overthrown by the Christian Democrats?!
I have no idea whether this is true. Candace Owens is...shall we say...a notorious contrarian. And by promoting her, Jimmy Dore is becoming one, too.
So I´m just asking questions, bruh. Do your own research.
I heard rumors about this before, but usually rolled my eyes at it. Until now. Ever heard of the Progressive Western Republicans, some of whom were Mormons?
Yes — very much so.
In fact, for several decades after World War II, parts of the American West (especially Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana) produced a distinctive kind of “Western Republican” who was economically progressive, pro-labor, and pro-government investment, even while being culturally conservative.
This now-forgotten tradition is one of the great buried chapters of U.S. political history.
Here are the clearest examples.
From the 1930s through the 1970s, many Republicans in the interior West believed:
The federal government should build dams, roads, and power plants
Labor unions were legitimate
Social Security and Medicare were good
Antitrust law should restrain corporations
Public land should serve the people, not just private industry
This was not seen as “left-wing” — it was seen as practical Western development policy.
Western states were poor, rural, and underdeveloped, so Republicans there wanted federal investment.
A conservative Mormon, but:
supported Social Security
backed Medicare
supported federal water projects
voted for civil rights laws
He opposed big business monopolies and supported labor protections.
Church was actually a Democrat, but Idaho’s Republicans were often not much different from him on economics.
The most important Idaho Republican was:
Pro-welfare
Pro-public works
Pro-federal land protection
Backed Social Security and labor law
Idaho Republicans routinely supported:
unions
environmental protection
anti-corporate regulation
The most famous was:
A Republican who:
opposed the Vietnam War
supported civil rights
supported food stamps
supported public housing
backed environmental protection
Today he would look like a Bernie Sanders–style Democrat on economics — but he was a lifelong Republican.
Republican Governor and Senator who:
expanded higher education
created environmental protections
supported abortion rights
supported welfare programs
Washington Republicans were often to the left of Southern Democrats.
The Western GOP came from:
small farmers
miners
loggers
Mormons
rural communities
They feared:
Wall Street
Eastern corporations
railroad monopolies
oil and mining trusts
So they wanted:
A strong federal government to protect the people from corporate power.
That was Republicanism in the West.
This tradition died after:
the Civil Rights Act
the Southern realignment
the rise of evangelical politics
Reagan’s transformation of the GOP
The Republican Party became:
Southern
evangelical
anti-government
anti-union
The Western progressive Republicans were pushed out or retired.
Yes — for much of the 20th century, Republicans in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana were often economically progressive, pro-labor, pro-environment, and pro-welfare.
They were not Democrats in disguise.
They were a now-extinct species:
The Western Progressive Republican.
If you’d like, I can show how this tradition connects to Mormon political culture, conservationism, and even Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy — it’s a fascinating lineage.
The connection is deep, old, and very specifically Mormon — and it explains why Utah-Idaho Republicans once looked so “left-wing” on economics.
Let’s go step by step.
Early Latter-day Saint society under Joseph Smith and Brigham Young was built on ideas that would today be called:
communitarian
cooperative
anti-corporate
anti-speculation
They practiced:
the United Order (shared property)
church-run industries
cooperative stores
price controls
collective land settlement
The goal was:
prevent rich outsiders from exploiting Mormon farmers.
Wall Street capitalism was seen as spiritually dangerous.
Mormons had been:
expelled from Missouri
driven from Illinois
murdered and dispossessed
So Western Mormons developed a paradoxical view:
They hated federal interference in religion
But they loved federal money and infrastructure
Because:
Federal dams, railways, irrigation, and land law protected them from Eastern corporate power.
This produced a political instinct:
Government should defend the community against monopoly.
In Mormon theology:
The church must care for the poor
No one should be left without food, land, or work
Utah built:
church welfare farms
church-run job systems
mutual aid societies
So when Republicans like Wallace F. Bennett supported:
Social Security
Medicare
federal housing
labor protections
they were not betraying Mormon values — they were translating them into federal policy.
Mormon settlers believed:
mining companies
railroads
oil firms
were tools of Gentile exploitation.
They wanted:
public land
cheap power
irrigation
antitrust law
That’s why Western Republicans backed:
the TVA model
dam building
public power
conservation
All of which look “left-wing” today.
After WWII:
Mormons became middle-class
Utah became suburban
the Cold War made “collective” sound dangerous
evangelicals took over the GOP
Mormon Republicans shifted from:
communitarian populism
to:
suburban capitalism.
The old Mormon Republicanism quietly died.
The reason Utah and Idaho Republicans once sounded like New Deal Democrats is simple:
They were practicing Mormon communitarianism through Republican politics.
It was not secular socialism —
It was theocracy-flavored welfare capitalism.
And for about 40 years, it quietly shaped the American West.
Who or what is George Zinn? The elderly Zinn was the person who tried to distract the police in the immidiate aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. He was recently sentenced to prison for this incident and for possession of child pornography. Many assume that Zinn is a leftist. Others place him in the foreground of various conspiracy theories. None of which is surprising, tbh. But who was Zinn really? The article linked below is written from a somewhat conspiracist perspective, but it does contain a lot of interesting (and surprising) information about "the Forrest Gump of Utah".
The most straightforward interpretation is that Zinn was (at least nominally) a Mormon and a conservative Republican. He was a local profile and "gadfly" who always showed up at Republican election meetings and conventions. The man was also something of a prankster. Zinn lived alone in a small flat, had no known job for decades, and may have had mental problems. I get the impression that the Mormon Church kept him under surveillence (!) after suspending him from active membership for unknown reasons. Many others saw him as a harmless kook.
The article further points out that many conspiracy theories about Zinn simply aren´t true. He isn´t Jewish (despite a Jewish-sounding last name), nor was he a witness to what *really* happened on 9/11, et cetera. But why on earth did he try to help Kirk´s assassin get away? Here, we can only speculate. Maybe Zinn is mentally ill. Or maybe he really did dislike Kirk for some reason. There were rumors that Kirk was turning against Israel, while the Mormon Church is staunchly pro-Israeli. The article-writer wants to think that the rabbit hole goes deeper, that Zinn may have been an "asset" for some intelligence agency, or that he was bribed by somebody to distract the police. He also speculates that there may be some connection to "Mormon" sex cults, and what not.
One thing´s for sure. It seems the weird good luck of the Utahan Forrest Gump has run out.
Overheard somewhere on YouTube: A Woke "Satanist" says "May Charlie Kirk burn in Hell". All but un-ironically.
Oookay...
This is exactly why nobody should cheer on terrorist attacks of this kind. Hint, hint...
Trump´s alleged would-be assassin was interested in "Furries"
This is the bizarre video which recently broke the Internet, in which Charlie Kirk (transformed into a cyborg) goes to Heaven together with Alex Jones, meets Hulk Hogan, partakes of communion wine, and so on. Note that the pope-like figure is supposed to be J D Vance! Note also the references to secret UFO bases in Antarctica, the Ashtar Command, blonde Nordic aliens, the Black Sun, and so on.
This is so 2015. But sure, I suppose it works as ironic parody of the videos which un-ironically depicted Kirk as the Second Coming...
Liberals often mock the right for *still* talking about trans issues and Furries. Meanwhile, on a certain liberal-leftoid forum...
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The conservative but moderate YouTube channel Whaddo You Meme criticizes Candace Owens and her conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk. Note also her claim that Kirk was actually a convert to Catholicism!
Posted here to balance the previous blog post. All of this could be yesterday´s news when my own "kill switch" publishes this content on Monday morning...
Dare I link to far left gadfly Jimmy Dore promoting anti-Israeli conspiracy theories c/o far right gadflyette Candace Owens?
Charlie Kirk and TPUSA must have had *some* kind of fall out with American Jewish donors. Kirk refused to "cancel" Tucker Carlson and (surprise) Candace Owens. If that´s enough for Mossad to kill him is perhaps another thing entirely...
Make of this content whatever you wish.
A rant c/o Thomas Sheridan, but he does say some interesting things. Paganism will come back due to "natural law" and ditto "cycles". The only forms of Christianity that will survive the inevitable downfall of the Abrahamic religions are Catholicism and Orthodoxy, since they are really "pagan" anyway.
There is a certain connection to the Charlie Kirk situation, since some people are trying to use it to pit Christians and pagans against each other. There are also rumors that Kirk may have been privately interested in...you guessed it...Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
As usual, you listen to this content-creator at your own risk.
Thomas Sheridan´s most disturbing video yet? Sheridan claims that Charlie Kirk´s soul might be turned into an astral vampire by Christians making an AI version of him?! Et cetera. Note the reference to John Michael Greer´s book "Monsters". Note also that Sheridan himself seems visibly shaken by the whole situation.
The cult of Charlie Kirk as a bona fide Christian martyr *is* weird in the extreme, almost as if his death didn´t really mean anything at all. Is it just a cope, or is something much stranger going on?
