The Pope, the Irish counter-revolution, and acid tests for how communist your polity actually is: Links 1 for April 14, 2026

1. Diana West’s take on the Pope and his meeting with David Axelrod. As is always true with Diana’s material, it reveals important and well researched and footnoted truths, as well as improves one’s own vocabulary. Stopping at unfamiliar words or phrases and right clicking for definition pays off well. Not to mention her phrase, “Who, Whom?” in this article which turns out to carry a bucket full of meaning.

Below is Grok’s explanation of it:

Diana West is using a very famous Lenin quote/phrase: “Who, Whom?” (in Russian: ??? ????? — Kto kogo?)What it means:Lenin’s “Who, Whom?” is a brutally cynical way of looking at power and politics.It boils down to this:“Who will dominate whom?”
or
“Who will destroy/eat whom?”
In Lenin’s worldview, all politics ultimately comes down to one simple question:
Which side will win and which side will be crushed?There is no neutral ground, no fair play, no compromise — only the question of who will be the oppressor and who will be the oppressed. It’s a raw, zero-sum power struggle.Why Diana West inserted it:She is saying that the person (or side) being discussed is thinking like Lenin.
They are not interested in truth, fairness, dialogue, or principles.
Instead, they are coldly asking:
“Who is going to dominate whom here?”It’s a very sharp way of accusing someone of having a Leninist mindset — seeing politics as pure power warfare rather than as a contest of ideas.Simple translation:When Diana West writes “Who, Whom?” to invoke Lenin, she means:“This is pure Leninist thinking: it’s all about who will crush whom.”
It’s a sophisticated (and quite damning) shorthand used by anti-communist writers to signal that someone is approaching politics as a ruthless struggle for total power, not as normal democratic disagreement.Does that make sense in the context of the article you’re reading? If you want, you can tell me the surrounding sentence and I can explain exactly why she dropped that phrase there.

I’m not gonna bottom line Dianna’s post on this meeting. Some things need to be read in their original. And yeah, it does matter if you want to understand the recent public skirmish between the Pope and President Trump for one thing, and the state of the Catholic Church for another.

Frankly, over the course of a lifetime, I cannot help but notice that in many if not most cases, the authority of a religious leader, or for that matter, guitarists, is signalled by the hat. Not always for sure with guitarists. But pretty much always for religious clerics.

Paragraph 1:

At the Vatican last week, one famous Chicagoan, Pope Leo XIV, received another famous Chicagoan, David Axelrod. You might say the private tete a tete on April 9 took place between two popes: the Pope of the Catholic Church and the political pope — Capo, certainly — of the Obama Democrats. More to the unpadded point, Axelrod is a scion of American Marxist networks, as is his own political masterwork, Barack Obama, who also has notable Chicago ties. These are just some of biographical details that should begin to bring the alarming “optics” of this papal audience into focus.

2. I really wanted to address what is taking place in Ireland as a separate post, and even started one, but it looks like I won’t be able to manage it. So I’ll post a few data points and the thesis here.

The thesis is that the Irish are in fact attempting a genuine counter-revolution against the communist deracination of Ireland via mass immigration and other means. That the state itself is countering in a few ways, The first of which is what Canada did to the Freedom Convoy which was a nascent attempt at the same thing except over the destruction of all individualism via Covid restrictions and vaccine mandates. They sent in a force majeure. In Canada it worked. But in Ireland, the jury is still out. We can say hopefully without breaking any laws, that in Egypt twice in one year, and frankly for a lot of recorded history, the way revolutions against a tyrannical state succeed is enough people hit the streets hard enough and long enough that the agents of the state, army police or what have you, change sides and go against the state and with the people. The state’s anticipation of that is usually to bring in thugs that are not local and so have no sense of connection to the local population and will be as barbaric and cruel as they need to be. This also happened in Canada at the Freedom Convoy. No satisfactory answer has yet been given as to who the anonymized thugs are that beat and tortured people at the freedom convoy.

But it is the second method that might be being missed by most reporting on the Irish counter-revolution.

Media appears to be reframing it as a protest against higher fuel prices. Some even blame Trump for those because of the attack on Iran.

This has traction. Probably the majority of people who are even aware of the events in Ireland think this is the case. It is not. But the attempt to destroy the counter revolution by reframing it, dialectics in other words, is interesting and must be countered with greater spreading of the truth of the matter.

In 2019 in Canada there was a large Trucker Convoy protest to Ottawa people have likely forgotten about or never knew about. It was called, “United We Roll”. It was essentially part of the global Yellow Vest protests, (Gilets Jaunes) that started in France.

For several days, Wellington St. was blocked by trucks who had come to protest mass immigration and other early signs of the communist revolution in Canada, although it was not recognized as such at that stage. But the effects were being felt.

During the protest, the Canadian government in coordination with FaceBook managed to cut all live streaming from the convoy in order to limit what people could know about it. That was one side of the attack on a legal and worthy protest by working Canadians. Below is a video with an interview I did with one of the leaders of that entire effort during which he is interrupted by his own people who explain that the feed to FaceBook went dead.

One of the interesting things from that protest was the nature of it was changed by the “Conservative” party of Canada,” Andrew Scheer to reflect Conservative Party platform points about an oil pipeline. In fact it was a Yellow Vest protest, but in true ‘democratic’ fashion it was hijacked to another agenda. When I was there covering it, the only people claiming it was about an oil pipeline was the media and the various CPC MPs who set up a stage and spoke as if they represented the convoy.

A similar thing appears to be happening to the counter-revolution in Ireland where it is being reframed as opposition to fuel taxes. Something so banal that no one outside Ireland would pay attention. This is dialectics at work.

Having watched some of the Rebel’s media coverage, it appears that many on the streets do in fact see it as a fuel tax crippling the Irish people. This may be more complex and nuanced than I thought. Also, many of the accounts framing it as protests against the mass immigration program of the Irish (along with the rest of the West) are by accounts posting falsified framing of real events, and from whom we believe are in fact IRA (A Russian internet disinformation agency) operatives, So consider this as a hypothesis and not a theory. This is the fog of war stage.

3. So about them there ‘vaccines’.

Full text:

? SHOCKING CONFESSION: Cleveland Clinic Director Breaks Down in Tears, Apologizes to ALL His Vaccinated Patients!

“I didn’t provide informed consent. Absolutely deplorable on my part and I apologize to my patients.”

This is the moment the dam breaks wide open. A former top medical director at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic is crumbling on camera, admitting the unthinkable: doctors were never giving patients the full truth about the shots.

He confesses medical schools teach zero about real vaccine contents, true safety data, or proper informed consent. No honest discussion of risks. No mention of the massive secret payouts for injuries. Just push, jab, and move on.

Neides ran the Wellness Institute and was one of the first in line to promote and administer the vaccines. Now he calls his own actions deplorable and begs forgiveness from every patient he vaccinated.

How many more doctors know the truth but stay silent out of fear? How deep does this suppression run? Big Pharma billions, captured regulators, media attacks on anyone who questioned the narrative, all while “informed consent” was treated like a joke.

This is not one man’s regret. This is a massive red pill for the millions who trusted the system and rolled up their sleeves.
The apologies are starting. The Great Awakening is here.
Share this far and wide before they bury it. Demand real answers.
What did they know and when did they know it?

4. One of the most conclusive tests of a communist polity, is both the De facto AND the De jure consequences of speaking truth which contradicts state narratives.

This is one of the most clear examples.

When the book, The Bell Curve was released in 1994 I saw something I had never seen before. Countless book reviews in every publication which instead of reviewing the content one way or another, the authors had explained that they had not read the book, and neither should anyone else. That it was a book that should not exist. So I bought it and read it. And of course, it was not really much like it was accused of being. It in fact said that racism, specifically pro white Episcopalian male favouritism at Harvard had in fact slowed down progress because people with greater IQ and therefore merit for accomplishment were being kept out of. Harvard, the main focus of the early part of the book. But once they decided to admit people based purely on IQ, (Murray argues that the tests to get into college are a close approximation of an IQ test) that graduates of Harvard from the 1950s would not even qualify for admittance by 1980. And this was because once they dropped the racial component, Jewish people, East and South Asians and other people with high IQs dramatically ramped up the average of ability of Harvard students and consequently graduates. But yes, there was indeed a racial component. Just as some tribes in Africa are much taller than other tribes, so also is IQ on average related to other genetic factors which we loosely lump together as race. Same with athletic ability etc. etc.

To speak of this openly from a position of authority is a litmus test of how communist your society is. Now we will get to find out exactly what ‘tenure’ actually means.

4. This next tweet is clearly related to the points above in item 3

5. The Cloward-Piven plan to turn a nation communist involved 3 basic tactics.

A: Open the borders and flood the country with people who have no connection to the history, culture, values, laws etc of the target country.

B: Print money till everyone’s savings are essentially gone.

C: Grow the civil service with as many people as possible who’s primary goal is to oppress the public.