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Pope Night (also called Pope’s Night, Pope Day, or Pope’s Day) was a holiday celebrated annually on November 5 in the colonial United States. It evolved from the British Guy Fawkes Night, which commemorates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Pope Night was most popular in the seaport towns of New England, especially in Boston, where it was an occasion for drinking, rioting, and anti-elite protest by the working class.

Gang violence became part of the tradition in the 1740s, with residents of different Boston neighborhoods battling for the honor of burning the pope’s effigy. By the mid-1760s these riots had subsided, and as colonial America moved towards the American Revolution (1765-1783), the class rivalries of Pope Night gave way to anti-British sentiment. Under the leadership of Pope Night organizer Ebenezer Mackintosh, Boston’s North and South End gangs united in protest against the Stamp Act of 1765.

Local authorities made several attempts to crack down on the festivities. In 1775, to avoid offending Canadian allies, George Washington issued an order forbidding any troops under his command from participating. The last known Pope Night celebration in Boston took place in 1776, though the tradition continued in other towns well into the 19th century.

The Discordians still celebrate this holiday annually to this day, by burning effigies of the authorities for religious purposes.

Elizabeth Christ Trump (born Elisabeth Christ) was a German-American businesswoman and the paternal grandmother of Donald Trump. She married Frederick Trump in 1902. They had three children, Fred, John, and Elizabeth. She co-founded the real estate development company E. Trump & Son with her son Fred, the father of Donald Trump. Elizabeth Christ Trump was considered the matriarch of the Trump family. She remained close to her son Fred for her entire life. She is buried in the Lutheran cemetery. Thus, technically, Donald Trump is a direct descendant of Christ, and moreover, a grandson.

Evangelical Christianity has played a significant role in the life of the Trump-Christ family. The Trump family are Lutheran members of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. Members of the family’s American branch tend to be Presbyterians, or adherents of other Reformed churches. Fred Trump was a supporter of Southern Baptist evangelist Billy Graham, whom he took his family to see speak at Yankee Stadium. At the megachurch in Miami, evangelicals are literally praying over Donald Trump:

Evangelicals Pray Over Trump at Miami Megachurch by Bloomberg

At the same time, Ivanka Trump, Donald’s daughter, practices Judaism, having converted upon marrying her husband Jared Kushner, a prominent Zionist. In Judaism, Zionism is a current of adherents of the idea that it is necessary not to wait for the fulfilment of divine scriptures, but to implement them on one’s own (found Israel, tear down the mosque on the Temple Mount, build the Third Temple on that site, and so on). Similarly, in Christianity, evangelicals methodically attempt to bring the second coming of Christ closer, formerly calling this practice the ‘immanentise the eschaton’ (in modern terminology, this process is sometimes described as ‘hastening the eschaton’ or ‘ hastening the apocalypse’). In this sense it refers to a phenomenon related to the specific Christian form of millennialism which is based on a particular reading of the Christian Bible’s Book of Revelation especially popular among evangelicals in the United States.

For example, many evangelicals believed that Trump’s embassy in Jerusalem would hasten the second coming of Jesus. Some evangelical Christians believe that recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will bring on the end of the world. The significance of Jerusalem and Israel to evangelicals concerns the ‘Third Temple’ prophecy. Prophecies of a Third Temple are made in the books of Daniel, Matthew, and Revelation, and in the Second epistle to the Thessalonians. These have been interpreted by some to suggest that the building of a Third Temple, known as the ‘Tribulation Temple’, will occur during the period of the Antichrist and bring on the apocalypse. This is said to be followed by 1000 years of rule on earth by Christ himself, which some evangelical Christians are in favour of seeing happen.

Just a few days ago, the official Chabad Lubavitch website reported that ‘President Trump Marks Oct. 7 With Prayer Visit to Ohel’: Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of the terror attack with a personal prayer visit to the grave of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Earlier, Trump received the Friends of Zion award. Fred Trump, Donald’s father, donated land in order to build a Jewish centre and synagogue in New York.

It is possible that the Trump family is an example of deliberate co-operation between evangelicals and Zionists in hastening the apocalypse, in a situation where the Christian end of the world cannot come before the Jewish end of the world, because the Jewish one-world ruler, the Moshiach, is the Antichrist who must precede the coming of Christ. Some religious groups opposed to the immanentisation of the eschaton have noted the Trump family’s direct ties to the AISB (The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria). Either way, given formal descent from the Bavarian Elizabeth Christ, Donald Trump and his descendants, such as son Barron, have formal family rights to the place of the Christian one-world ruler prescribed by the scriptures.

But it is also possible that formal descent from Elizabeth Christ will not be enough, and instead of the Christian scriptures, the Trump family will embody the writings of Ingersollom Lockwood: ‘The Amazing Underground Journey of Baron Trump’ and ‘1900; or, The Last President.’ Notably, Lockwood’s adventures of Baron Trump began in Russia, so already at least this part – already realised.

Dolphin Bluex has been a temporary admin here at different times, and is one presently. DBx is currently the most active poster here, and has reported or personally handled a number of problems here.

And two of our current admins have had little or no activity here in the past year and a half to two years. I propose giving Dolphin Bluex permanent admin status beginning on Jake Day Jr./Day of the Elppin aka 70 Discord or May 23, 2024.

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On this day 57 years ago, the CIA sent its employees classified memo #1035-960 outlining strategies for neutralizing criticism of the Warren Commission to quell doubts about the conclusions of the Presidential Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. This document called for the use of the “conspiracy theory” charge with negative connotations in the media and books.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), taking advantage of previous academic work equating those rejecting official accounts for significant political and social events with pathology (Popper, 1949; Hofstadter, 1964), intentionally set in motion a process leading to the creation of the terms conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorist as pejoratives (deHaven-Smith & Witt, 2013). These pejoratives were subsequently adopted as such by academics, the news media, and other authorities (Green, 2015). This conspiracy theory meme has been used to shut down critical thinking and analysis to control public debate about actions of those in power. Stated simply, the terms have taken on such negative connotations that some people will repress their own conspiracy suspicions and accept the official account for fear of being stuck with the label (Chomsky, 2004, 2009).

Ed Rankin, PhD, in his academic work “The Conspiracy Theory Meme as a Tool of Cultural Hegemony – A Critical Discourse Analysis.pdf” noted:

People who do not accept the official accounts for events like the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK) or the attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (9/11) are often called conspiracy theorists, and their theories conspiracy theories (Green, 2015). Being labeled a conspiracy theorist implies one is delusional or otherwise unable to accurately perceive reality, among other things (Bale, 2007; Basham, 2001; Chomsky, 2004). Indeed, often conspiracy suspicions are not dismissed at the level of evidence, but simply by applying the label “conspiracy theory” (Bratich, 2008).

Those holding power have obvious motives to silence those who challenge their authority by questioning their official interpretations of policy and actions, such as justifications for going to war or rationalizations for new laws (Herman & Chomsky, 2002). Those who reject the official accounts for events like assassinations and terrorist attacks often compete with epistemic authorities (e.g., academics, government agencies, government-sponsored special commissions, etc.) who may support official government positions (Harambam & Aupers, 2015). As Harambam and Aupers (2015) stated, “conspiracy theorists compete with (social) scientists in complex battles for epistemic authority in a broader field of knowledge contestation” (p. 466).

Those buying into a conspiracy were characterized as either cognitively-impaired or suffering from paranoia (Hofstadter, 1958, 1963, 1964). Yet research suggests many people overtly reject conspiracy theories while privately accepting them as true (Douglas & Sutton, 2010). Do Chomsky’s (2009) and Monbiot’s (2001) rejections of the speculation that these events were the result of conspiracies represent their true beliefs, or do they fear being discredited by the conspiracy theorist label? As Bratich (2008) stated, “Among the competing accounts for any event, the official version is not merely the winner in the game of truth—it determines who the players can be” (p. 7). Clearly, labeling someone a conspiracy theorist is a tactic employed as a strategy of subjugation (p.7) or a strategy “by which…disbelief is validated and…counterknowledge [sic] is discredited” (Fiske, 1994, p.192).

The term “conspiracy theory” was not invented by the CIA, but it was the CIA that started to be used in the 1960s after the assassination of John F. Kennedy to suppress meaningful national debate on the subject. As independent journalist Brandon Smith has observed, the term is now actively used not only by CIA agents and government media, but also by so-called “useful idiots.” In political jargon, a “useful idiot” is a pejorative term for someone who is seen as a propagandist for a cause without a full understanding of its goals, and who is cynically used by the leaders of that cause. The term was originally used during the Cold War to describe non-communists who were considered susceptible to communist propaganda and manipulation.

It is worth noting that the “conspiracy theory” meme has infiltrated other cultures due to the spread of US popular culture. Quite possibly purposefully, given that according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the CIA and the Pentagon have tirelessly “worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000 TV titles.”

The spread of this meme in other cultures through the penetration of US mass culture is clearly illustrated by the frequency of mention of the phrase “conspiracy theory” in the Russian language, where a noticeable growth began back in the USSR, during the late perestroika period, precisely at the time when US mass culture began to spread in the USSR. Since then, Russian-speaking people have increasingly used the term in connotations originally caused by the CIA.

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