Celebrity endorsements in this presidential election

Res ipsa loquitur

As has become abundantly clear, candidate Harris is incapable of uttering a single original thought. Thus, she is a slave to the teleprompter. Indeed, there have been several incidents on the campaign trail in which her speech stopped dead when the teleprompter failed.

Who better, then, to speak on her behalf than a rogue’s gallery of celebrities, including Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Keaton, Harrison Ford, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, and countless others. I guess Harris’ people haven’t got the memo that star power isn’t quite as strong as it once was. You can count the number of movie stars that can “open” a film on the fingers of one hand. And, the music industry is but a faint shadow of what it once was.

As to the celebs, one wonders what’s in it for them, to purposely turn off at least one-half of their market. The only upside is that they will continue—for a while—to be part of that exclusive club of conformists, sycophants, and toadies to “the cause.” Much of Hollywood, except for management, was all in on supporting the Hollywood Ten, choosing to ignore their traitorous affiliations. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

At the same time, there is a not insignificant number of celebs supporting Trump, although most of them are silent about it. I know that there are conservatives in Hollywood, since some years ago, I was a member of a particular organization, and met a lot of them—some of whom would decline to give their names. Really. Others were stars of the Golden Age, and had long ago stopped caring about peer pressure.

There is one important celebrity endorsing Trump, and that is Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Viganò, of course, is no stranger to the American scene, having been Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016. Viganò has been outspoken in his criticism of the current pope, which earned him a charge of “schism” and eventual excommunication.

Before that, he spoke out on the financial scandal of 2012, and had some harsh things to say about how COVID was handled. At this point, his excommunication has about the same effect as Trump’s felony convictions.

On 22 October, he posted an “Open Letter to American Catholics.” But, it can include all people of good will.

Here are some key excerpts (emphasis in the original):

[Y]ou are not simply called to choose between two candidates who happen to be on different political sides but who both nevertheless have the common good at heart in compliance with the Constitution and the Law. No; in this election you must choose between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery.

On one side we have candidate Donald J. Trump, who, despite serious problems in his positions – especially in the matter of abortion and assisted procreation – has as his objective the common good and the protection of the fundamental freedoms of citizens. In Donald Trump’s America, every Catholic can practice their Faith and educate their children in it without interference from the State.

On the other side we have a candidate and a party that promotes everything that directly opposes the Faith and Morals of the Catholic Church. In Kamala Harris’ America, Catholics – but also Protestants – are considered fundamentalists to be marginalized and eliminated, and their children are considered the property of the State, which arrogates to itself the right to lead them astray from an early age in both body and soul. Trump’s America can become great and prosperous again. Harris’ America is destined for invasion and for moral, social, and economic destruction: the most ferocious dictatorship.

I repeat: the choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan. For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy.

In these four disastrous years of the Biden-Harris administration, we have had a puppet in the White House and a corrupt and incompetent Vice President who has never stopped lying and deceiving voters about her past and her future. Power is managed by the criminal deep state – whose names and faces we now know – that is responsible for the destruction of your great Nation. And to ensure that the crisis is endless, new war scenarios are continually opening up, in conflicts that no one actually wants, except for those who make enormous profits from them, sacrificing human lives and compromising international stability.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris: we are not talking about two visions that are a bit different but still part of the normal political back-and-forth. No; we are talking about two diametrically opposed and irreconcilable worlds, in which Trump fights against the deep state and is committed to freeing America from its tentacled grip, while on the opposite side we have a corrupt and blackmailed candidate, an organic part of the deep state, who acts as a puppet in the hands of warmongers like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, of self-proclaimed “philanthropists” like the criminals George Soros and Klaus Schwab, or of characters like Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs.

Viganò is about as plain-spoken on this matter as you can get, and joins the proud tradition of those prelates who spoke out against slavery, Nazism, and government tyranny.

A famous ad campaign once proclaimed, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish rye bread.” Likewise, you don’t have to be Catholic to know that Viganò is right.