America began its experiment with secular government after the War Between the States. Now we have the data, and they show demonstrable failure. Low birth rates, a population increasing (if at all) through immigration, and corruption of all human institutions tell the tale. America must abandon secular government, or die.

Roots of secular government in the United States

The United States government, in the days of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, was anything but secular. John Adams, in his letter to the Massachusetts Militia, famously said,

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

But in 1875 Rep. James G. Blaine (R-Maine), then Speaker of the House, promulgated his Amendment to all but twelve State Constitutions. That Amendment essentially forbids any State to do anything for its religious community. Louisiana repealed its Blaine Amendment in 1973. Ironically, Maine never ratified a Blaine Amendment, but they might as well have.

Blaine shares the blame with three other nefarious social scientists. Rep. Horace Mann (Whig-Mass.) gave us government schools even before the War Between the States. John Dewey ensured that those schools would be secular. Democracy – as Jean Jacques Rousseau might have imagined it – was his ideal.

Those three men fought to destroy the influence of Catholic schools in America. But they didn’t stop there. Without them, a Communist named Roger Baldwin would never have succeeded, with his American Civil Liberties Union, in driving religion out of the public square.

What secular government promotes

Secular government, the ideal of Blaine and company, promotes nihilism and despair in all areas of human endeavor and law. Every school in America, except for Christian schools and maybe those of some other religions, teaches the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm of the origins of the universe, the Earth, and life. That Paradigm pervades all debate on public policy, on everything from “climate change” to the “endangerment of species.” According to it:

• The ages of the universe, the Solar system, and the Earth, are 13.7 billion years, 4.6 billion years, and 4.5 billion years, respectively.

• Life on Earth began 3.8 billion years ago. But it somehow “exploded” into its dizzying variety slightly more than half a billion years ago.

• Human beings have existed on this Earth for at least four million years, and perhaps as long as eight million.

Of course, civilization did not begin with such a dry vision of how humans came to be. That would come with the sophistication that has always characterized civilization. The ancient Greeks flirted with this idea – and then, of course, the Romans conquered them. Rome eventually fell, and the constituents of the Western Roman Empire continued with the Roman Catholic Church to guide them.

But with the coming of secular government came the promotion of the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm, or “Evolution.” With that, have come all the moral, philosophical, and legal ills of the “developed” world today.

Depopulation and the pursuit of immortality

Among those ills, we now see the depopulation of the Earth. The United States remains today the only “developed” country with a growing population. One should note two things:

1. That growth is through migration only, not “natural increase” (the excess of births over deaths).

2. Even in the United States, population is peaking, if it hasn’t peaked already.

Furthermore, one sees explicit holdings of a depopulation ideology in Western law. These include:

1. Abortion on demand, for any reason or no reason, and

2. The Alphabet Soup paradigm, which states that gender, and intimate attraction, are fluid.

With regard to that last: occasionally one hears of “promising research” aimed at allowing humans, born into one gender, to exercise the reproductive functions of the other. Don’t believe it. The Western elites, who run the United Nations, specifically say that life expectancy will continue to increase. For that reason, they insist, the world needs fewer people, not more. Thus they have tipped their hand. They are researching immortality, not flexible reproductive options. So they won’t do a thing for those Alphabet Soupers who want to have children other than in a marriage of a man to a woman. The elites want the planet to themselves, and want the rest of us to die out. Which is also why they promote abortion on demand, enlisting the feminists with lurid tales of death in childbirth.

Perversion of astronomy

Secular government, with its education system, has twisted our understanding of astronomy. Of course this twisting has lasted a long time, to support the notion of “billions of years.” But the recent appearance of three long-period comets has introduced absurd pronouncements and predictions.

The three long-period comets, which the astronomical community calls interstellar objects, are:

1. 1I/Oumuamua,

2. 2I/Borisov, and

3. 3I/Atlas.

Each of these objects is appearing, or has appeared, in our skies for the first time – ever. Borisov need not concern us here, and does not concern anyone. It came in 2019, no closer than two AU to the Sun, and went. (AU stands for Astronomical Unit, the semimajor axis of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.)

But Oumuamua, with its unusual features (in addition to its orbit), scared the living daylights out of many astronomers. It has the shape of a cigar, not the usual snowball. It tumbled as it passed close to the Sun, then the Earth. And on its way out, it allegedly accelerated. This led Jordan “The Angry Astronaut” Wright to conclude that Oumuamua is an uncrewed probe from a galactic lighthouse parked outside the Solar system, at what astronomers call the Galactic Standard of Rest – the frame of reference for motion applicable to the Galaxy as a whole. This probe had orders to sniff at the Earth, then switch on its engines (ion engines?) and blast out.

The aliens are here!

Never mind that any ship that tumbles as it passes, is a derelict, and that no shipwright would ever design a ship with engines that could propel the ship on a straight course while it is tumbling. That hasn’t stopped modern graphic artists from creating fanciful graphics of Oumuamua as a ship.

CNAV has said before what Oumuamua is: a long-period comet, made of material left over from the Global Flood. But of course, the perennial UFOlogist Avi Loeb refuses to consider any theory but one. That is, that an extraterrestrial civilization built Oumuamua, and launched it at us for a closer look.

Now Dr. Loeb is back in the news again, and scare-mongering feverishly about the third “interstellar” object, Atlas. Atlas is much larger than Oumuamua, by an order of magnitude. In fact it is more than six miles wide – wider than the fictitious “Meteor” of the 1979 American International movie. Apparently Atlas is on a course (or rather, trajectory, the path of a thrown object) that will not let it come anywhere near Earth. (Or at least, no nearer than 130 million miles, or about 1.4 AU.) Loeb asks, what if the Atlas object is not only an alien vessel, but a hostile one?

Again Jordan Wright ran with that speculation. He attributed to Loeb a chilling scenario: that Atlas is a gigantic robot with engines that could brake it and send it crashing into Earth. Such an outcome would, of course, destroy civilization.

Why would they do this?

Why, indeed? Because, says Wright, these aliens consider us a threat to the galactic order. We are, says Wright, an angry and hostile race, always inventing – and deploying – cruel weapons against one another. Therefore the Galactic Empire – or whatever Wright (or Loeb) might call the launch authority for Oumuamua, Atlas and perhaps Borisov also – has determined, to quote Douglas Adams,

Terra delenda est! [Earth must be destroyed!]

From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels

Forget Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here Meteor meets The Day the Earth Stood Still or even Plan 9 from Outer Space!

This is the poisonous fruit of secular government. If we were still that “moral and religious people” John Adams said we were, we would not make these mistakes. We would know that those objects all consist of Flood ejecta, that have come inside the orbits of even more massive objects beyond sight of our telescopes. (Has anyone trained the James Webb Space Telescope on any of these objects, to look for gravitational assistant objects?) We would also know not to expect any of those objects to be anything but big rocks – and not to expect any of them to brake and steer toward Earth.

Furthermore, our birth rate would be higher – much higher. And how do we know this?

The control against the secular government experiment

We know this because – against the wishes of the Blaine-Mann-Dewey-Baldwin Axis – their experiment in secular government has a control. That control is the population of Old Order Amish that settled in Pennsylvania before the War Between the States. Since then they have spread to Ohio and then into Indiana.

These Old Order Amish are the “Amish” of popular lore. (The New Order Amish are the “Mennonites.”) The Amish, from the start, separated themselves from the rest of us, whom they call “The English World.” (Amish speak a dialect of German.) Not only do they avoid our notions of secular government and education, but they also avoid every institution that might tie them to the rest of us. That most famously includes the electric grid and the Public Switched Telephone Network. A typical Amish village might have one telephone, usually in its general store, to serve the entire community.

Amish women enjoy a Total Fertility Rate (the number of children an average woman has during her lifeftime) of at least 4. In years of robust commerce with “The English World,” the TFR climbs to 6 or 7. They doubled their population in 25 years and show every sign of continuing that growth. Furthermore, all the growth of the Amish population is through natural increase. That growth always exceeds the “losses” to the custom of Rumspringa, in which Amish youth sample “English” ways and decide which is more attractive to them.

Possible reasons

Naturally advocates for a secular government – when they’re not cursing Amish women’s unusual fertility as evidence of their exploitation – will protest that the Amish could have many reasons for their extra fertility and overall thriving. Some of those reasons might interest Health Secretary Kennedy. The Amish drink their cow’s milk raw, not heat-treated, and are much more careful when collecting it. They do not add artificial dyes or anything else to their food that God didn’t put there. Nor do they expose themselves to noxious chemicals (including motor fuels) or electric fields.

Nor do they “veg out” in front of television sets – because they consume no television, nor any other mass medium. As one result, they get exercise – far more than we “Englishers” get.

But most of all, they have hope. The Grand Evolutionary Paradigm offers no hope, and says what you do makes no difference to anyone else.

Religion attends the birth of civilization; philosophy accompanies it to its grave.

Will Durant

And because they do not consume mass media, they do not pollute their minds with mass media content.

Tellingly, no trustworthy independent clinical authority has studied the epidemiology of Alphabet Soup urges in Amish society. Naturally Alphabet Soup propagandists say that Alphabet Soup individuals, born into that society, either:

• “Flee” it, usually at Rumspringa, or

• Suffer shunning as adults upon failure to repent.

So no one really knows whether the Amish develop “Alphabet Soup” tendencies as often as “Englishers” do.

Secular government has failed

We do know that the Amish, the controls of the secular government experiment, are thriving. In contrast, “The English World” is dying. In fact, if the Amish are thriving less well now than they did before, that’s because they have allowed “English World” values to creep into their society. Perhaps that was inevitable when the Amish expanded beyond their first settlement and had to buy land – with “English” currency – from “English” landowners.

All of which to say: the culture that includes secular government is not only dying, but has deleterious influences. The most deleterious influence of all is surely secular government itself. It is buying the loyalty of its subjects (citizens might not be the word anymore) with cheap, immediate thrills, just as Roman society bought off its “Head Count” with bread and circuses. And it’s not working. Or rather, it is not working as advertised. But secular government is working according to the designs of the elites who likely built upon the work of Mann, Blaine, Dewey, and Baldwin (and don’t forget Darwin), and added to that work through the contributions of such “geniuses” as Darrow, Friedan, Steinem, Dworkin – and the incomparable (in the negative sense) Earl Warren, who famously dictated that the Constitution should mean whatever he said it meant, any time he said it.

Thankfully, Earl Warren is dead, and the Supreme Court today is in wiser hands than his. But the problem remains.

The solution

To continue that thought, the Supreme Court signaled, in its 2021 Term, a sea change in its attitude toward religion. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District destroyed the “Lemon Test” of “secular applicability.” Carson v. Makin laid a foundation for invalidating Blaine Amendments everywhere. That invalidation requires only the will to find plaintiffs in the thirty-seven States that still have Blaine Amendments, and file lawsuits that will lead to Supreme Court orders like this:

The petition(s) for writs of certiorari is/are granted. The judgment(s) of the lower court(s) is/are vacated, and the case(s) is/are remanded to [that/those] court(s) for further proceedings consistent with this Court’s opinion in Carson v. Makin.

The immediate effect would be to nullify those Blaine Amendments. Thereafter, education systems, going beyond private Christian academies, could lay the foundation for faith-based government.

A faith-based government would teach the Bible as not only Beautiful Poetry and a Quaint Historical Artifact, but as Fact. Honest findings in biology, chemistry, geology, archaeology, astronomy and cosmology, to name six, support the Bible, rather than contradicting It. The government, and other Major Scientific Grantors, would for the first time consider creation as a valid scientific model, and evidence in its favor worthy of scientific investigation.

More to the point, abortion would be unlawful, as is murder according to conventional definition. Furthermore, society would treat loose talk of extraterrestrial fleets including “meteoric” planet-wrecking mass drones with the contempt it deserves. And maybe someone will study Alphabet Soup epidemiology, intending to heal people of such tendencies, not “celebrate” them as ideal.

Donald Trump might not be the man to lead this charge. This will require leaders dedicated to erasing the secularism of government, and returning to the ideals of John Adams.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2025/08/05/foundation/constitution/secular-government-failings/

Video:

Jordan Wright’s alarmist video about Comet 3I/Atlas:

Paper about why the Amish continue to outbreed “The English World”:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8417155/

Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

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Clixnet Media

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The past week and a half have seen some astonishing activity in our nation’s capital. This activity rivals the Dobbs Decision, and the Great Leak that preceded it, for its shock value alone. Evidently, then-President Barack Obama convened a meeting of top intelligence advisers after the Election of 2016. At that meeting, he told them: “Make it look as though Donald Trump had Russian help in gimmicking the election.” Today we have more than what Obama and his supporters have dismissed as unfounded speculation. We have the minutes of that meeting, after Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, declassified them – and much else. This shows that Barack Obama, unhappy with the election result, engineered a deliberate effort to undermine his successor. That effort has continued from that day to this. Trump knows it – and has threatened Obama with arrest. For America’s sake, now he must carry that threat out.

Why would Obama do such a thing?

Barack Obama would do such a thing for the same reason he spoke of “fundamentally transform[ing] the United States.” As his memoir Dreams of My Father makes clear, he despises America and everything for which it stands. He dismisses the Constitution as “a charter of negative liberties,” making clear that citizens should have allowances, not rights. He would dispense those allowances as he saw fit – and cheerfully negate the rights of anyone standing in his way.

The Obama story might involve more than this. Hillary Clinton’s infamous private email server might have evidence implicating him in more crimes. Or might have had such evidence, until Hillary destroyed her server with the Bleachbit™ reformatting program. But did Hillary “get it all”? Maybe – or maybe not.

As may be, Barack Obama very much wanted Hillary Clinton to win the Election of 2016. When she did not, he took greater alarm than she took. And that’s saying something! Rumors at the time had her receiving the news of her defeat while in a hotel ballroom with tables laid out for her victory banquet – and proceeding to pull food, plates, utensils, and everything else off those banquet tables, by seizing tablecloth corners and pulling with all her frenzied might. Whether this happened or not, one thing definitely did. She withdrew from public view and did not come out until 11:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Release of the Obama scandal documents

On or about Wednesday, July 16, investigative reporter Paul Sperry revealed a meeting of “Trump administration officials,” held July 13. “New information on Russiagate” (the notion that Trump was a Russian asset) headed the meeting’s agenda. Sperry mentioned a December 2016 meeting of intelligence agency heads and seconds-in-command, the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, and the “Steele Dossier.” He also mentioned Hillary Clinton’s private server, and what now is called the “Clinton Annex,” showing that Hillary, as far back as July 2016, sought to frame Trump as a Russian asset.

Worth remembering now is that Vladimir Putin, the effective head of Russia, cut short an overseas trip that summer. Upon his return to Moscow, he issued a ukase ordering his people to arm themselves.

Two days later, Tulsi Gabbard, as DNI, declassified key “smoking guns,” exactly as Sperry predicted. These include a detailed time line in the form of a memorandum with this subject:

Intelligence Community suppression of intelligence showing “Russian and criminal actors did not impact” the 2016 presidential election via cyber-attacks on infrastructure.

Five bullet points, from August 31 through October 7, 2016, make one thing clear. No one had any evidence that Russians planned to alter reported vote counts in the upcoming election. An Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on September 12 stated in part:

The report finds “foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks” on election infrastructure.

On October 7 came a brief mention that the FBI and the National Security Agency had “low confidence” that Russians had hacked the Democratic National and Congressional Campaign Committees.

The election blew up everything

Then came the election. To be sure, the results surprised everyone. Trump shocked the world by carrying Pennsylvania, of all States. That State alone gave Trump momentum he would never lose. He carried it by carrying every Pennsylvania county outside the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh television markets.

Then came these key events in December of 2016. On December 7, then-DNI James Clapper was ready to conclude that:

“Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”

“We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results.”

Intelligence officers were still planning to say that on December 8. But then, FBI Director James Comey took his name off the memo and said he would write a dissenting memo. Late that afternoon, the DNI buried the “Presidential Daily Brief” saying there was nothing to the Russia story.

Then on December 9, Ambassador Susan Rice convened ranking Cabinet officials in the Situation Room for an emergency meeting.

James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Brian McKeon, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, and Avril Haines are among those in attendance.

X account DeepFakeQuotes has a video presentation describing that meeting.

The Meeting That Changed Everything – Dec 9, 2016

Two days after intel said no foreign actor changed the 2016 election, Obama met with his top officials.

What followed? A reversal. A dossier. A soft coup.

The documents are declassified.

The evidence is real.

The republic was targeted from within.

https://x.com/DeepFakeQuote/status/1946654472522064294

The minutes say definitely that “Moscow used [certain] tools” and “took [certain] actions” to affect the outcome of the election. They speak of asking, not whether Russia influenced the election, but how and why. In sum, those setting the agenda had by then made up their minds to accuse Russia of election interference.

That very day, intelligence officials, speaking as “Senior Administration Officials” and “Persons Familiar With The Situation,” dropped hints to The Washington Post accusing Russia of gimmicking the election – and Trump of benefiting from that.

Assertion of facts not in evidence

One of those “hints” says the CIA had “concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened” in the election. But the CIA had made no such determination – at least, not yet. Five days later (December 14), intelligence officials were openly accusing Vladimir Putin of active and “personal… involve[ment]” in altering the election.

Two days later, Obama himself spun the scenario, as follows:

What I was concerned about in particular was making sure that [Wikileaks/Clinton emails] wasn’t compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting and affect the actual election process itself. And so in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that, that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out.

Cut what out? Obama had to admit he had no “evidence” that Russian operatives gimmicked actual voting scanner-tabulators.

Later that month, someone, now a “whistleblower” to the ODNI, “question[ed] his leadership” about the sudden change in tune. The results of that, including “sidelining” and pressures to “go along to get along,” were entirely predictable.

Director Gabbard described all this in a lengthy X thread, using the strongest language short of profanity or obscenity.

🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump, subverting the will of the American people and undermining our democratic republic. Here’s how:

https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1946271402971312514

Among other phrases Gabbard used was the phrase treasonous conspiracy.

The Democrats began doubling down on their Russia, Russia Russia story immediately. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued this angry attempt at rebuttal:

It seems DNI Gabbard is unaware that the years-long Russia investigation carried out by the Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure’ ahead of the 2016 election, and that it ‘used social media to conduct an information warfare campaign’ in order to benefit Donald Trump. This conclusion was supported on a unanimous basis by every single Democrat and Republican on the committee. (1/2)

It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the president’s election conspiracy theories. It is appalling to hear DNI Gabbard accuse her own IC workforce of committing a ‘treasonous conspiracy’ when she was unwilling to label Edward Snowden a traitor. (2/2)

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322743042998684

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322744565784854

Never mind that this committee worked with material from the Obama CIA. Reaction to his posts was almost uniformly negative. That reaction included reminders that Sen. Warner has his own scandal involving communication with a Russian oligarch.

Further releases

Yesterday the Justice Department received from Gabbard a formal referral of Obama for criminal prosecution. Also yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released his own report – the “Clinton Annex.”

I’m making “Clinton annex” public today so the American people have all the facts. Sen. [Ron] Johnson [R-Wisc.] & I have requested this document’s declassification together since 2020 & Pres Trump/Pam Bondi/Kash Patel + others finally got it done. Thanks for your dedication to transparency.

https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1947324460983296172

Here are the press release, to which Sen. Grassley shared the link, and the Clinton Annex.

According to it, the FBI had all the evidence it would have needed for a criminal investigation. And they didn’t even start one.

From lawyer Julie Kelly comes this excerpt – alleging credibly that Obama’s email was hacked.

NEW: According to just released declassified annex to DOJ OIG report on Hillary Clinton email investigation, Barack Obama's email were hacked and the FBI was aware.

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1947332087196868982

Trump has been trolling Obama and his defenders mercilessly since the first revelations came out. For instance, this video contains a montage of every Democrat who said, “No one is above the law.” It ends with a generated clip showing FBI agents entering the Oval Office, during a “photo-op” session between Trump and Obama, and arresting Obama.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114887992924632896

Similarly he shared this video of Tulsi Gabbard’s interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox’ Sunday Morning Futures:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888219088263084

Then consider these two posts:

HOW DID SAMANTHA POWER MAKE ALL OF THAT MONEY???

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888263063561606

Obama himself manufactured the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and numerous others participated in this, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!. Irrefutable EVIDENCE. A major threat to our Country!!!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114893984552850709

Finally, Mike Davis, head of the Article III Project, insists that Presidential immunity cannot cover Barack Obama for these deeds. The reason: Obama has continued the conspiracy even today, long after leaving office.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1947342358170796352

Analysis

The President is head of his Party, and that was certainly true of Barack Obama. As the head, Obama took the Democratic Party into banana-republic territory, long before the Mar-A-Lago Raid. Tulsi Gabbard has now released definitive proof that Obama was behind the abrupt change of tune by the intelligence community regarding Russian “interference” in American elections.

Wayne Allen Root, Assistant Editor of The Gateway Pundit, flatly accuses Obama of all the above, and much more. Root’s allegations seem to go far afield, but they do require investigation. They include weaponization of the IRS and the beginning of the Great Immigration Flood. Root also lays the questionable results of the Election of 2020 at Obama’s feet – and even accuses him of arranging with the Chinese to infect the country with coronavirus. Then after Biden became President, Obama actually ran the Biden White House, through his agents.

Then Root asks:

Now the question is does the Trump DOJ have the [gonadal fortitude] to do what needs to be done? This is the biggest criminal conspiracy in U.S. history. This is a treason case. And this is either a death penalty case, or life in Gitmo.

Certainly what DNI Gabbard and Senator Grassley have released, is damning enough of Obama. Furthermore, anyone who defends him the way Senator Warner did, convicts himself of ignorance – or collusion.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has a chance to redeem herself after her Epstein Files blunders. Obviously, prosecuting a former President for an extension of his conduct in office does not make for a happy situation. But Democrats started it with their specious cases against Trump. This case is anything but specious. That’s worth remembering next year – at Midterms.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2025/07/22/news/obama-conspiracy/

Video:

ODNI time line of perfidy:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/DIG/DIG-Russia-Hoax-Memo-and-Timeline_revisited.pdf

DeepFakeQuote post:

https://x.com/DeepFakeQuote/status/1946654472522064294

Tulsi Gabbard’s July 18 thread beginning:

https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1946271402971312514

Sen. Warner’s rebuttal:

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322743042998684

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322744565784854

Sen. Grassley’s Clinton Annex release:

https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1947324460983296172

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-doj-watchdog-report-shows-fbi-cut-corners-in-clinton-email-investigation

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/download/horowitz-2018-midyear-appendix-released-by-chairman-grassley

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/horowitz_2018_midyear_appendix_released_by_chairman_grassley.pdf

Julie Kelly’s post:

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1947332087196868982

Trump’s Truth showing the “arrest” of Obama, and other Truths:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114887992924632896

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888219088263084

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888263063561606

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114893984552850709

Mike Davis’ interview with Benny Johnson:

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1947342358170796352

Wayne Allen Root essay:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/wayne-root-does-trump-doj-have-balls-charge/

Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/

Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

In the fiery debate on American patriotism and exceptionalism, American patriots have missed one vital element – measurement. Most of those who talk about measurement, lament that ours is one of the few countries left that still uses ancient units of measurement that do not relate to one other in “clean,” powers-of-ten ratios. In short, only in the laboratory (and not always at the drugstore) does any American use “the metric system.” Nor is this for lack of effort by its proponents to cram it down Americans’ throats. But to make any coherent defense of our American system of measurement (other than “we grew up with it, so why change”, one must understand where those ancient units came from. Once one does, one realizes that those ancient units are the only units that relate reliably to regular human experience. And that alone makes them worth keeping.

Measurement began with human anatomy and physiology

Any system of measurement requires a standard so that everyone understands what a given unit means. When human beings first started measuring things, they used themselves as the standard of measurement. Or if that didn’t make sense, they used something in common human experience, like water.

The United States Customary System of Units uses most of those ancient units of measurement, plus some not-so-ancient. In fact many of those units are as ancient as the Roman Empire, or more ancient than that. Admittedly, humans have stopped using at least two: the cubit (from elbow to middle fingertip) and the span (from thumb to little finger on a stretched-out hand). But the inch (breadth of the nose), foot (length of the foot), and yard (from nose to fingertip of the outstretched hand) are still part of the U.S. Customary system. So is the fathom, or length of an anchor rode between two outstretched hands – six feet.

This system contains many other units of length, most of which have fallen out of use. (Examples: link, rod, chain, furlong.) But we still use the mile, which is a thousand paces on the march. And some might have heard of the league, though they never learned what it meant. A league is an hour’s march in full infantry kit. The standard speed on the march is three miles per hour, so one league is three miles.

The beauty of these units

All these units of length have one thing in common. They relate to the human experience. That makes them absurdly easy to use. Want to know how long is the boundary between your yard and your neighbor’s? Step it off. If you’re in a boat and want to know how deep the water is, drop a lead weight attached to a length of rope, then pull it in by stretching it between your arms. The number of times you do that, is the number of fathoms.

Obviously one doesn’t convert from one length unit to another by multiplying by a power of ten. But one doesn’t have to. All that matters is using the unit appropriate to the activity.

Units of area have a similar derivation, as do the units of liquid capacity. The units of weight initially derived from the units of liquid capacity – one pint of water weighed one pound. Sadly, that’s no longer true – different “prototypes” changed sizes too often. Also, in the ancient world, weight and mass meant the same. Not until Sir Isaac Newton would anyone even think of going to a place where a one-pound mass weighed less. Or, for that matter, more.

Temperature had a similar connection to human experience. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit famously defined zero as the freezing point of saturated ammonium chloride brine. His high point was 96 degrees – his estimate of normal body temperature. So now you know why, when temperature drops “below zero,” salting the roads is useless.

Vive la révolution!

Then came the French Revolution – the first great excuse to abolish human anatomy and experience as a standard of measurement. European kings had, to be sure, laid the groundwork for this change. A new king would redefine the foot as the length of his own foot. The infamous Asymmetrical Ship shows what can happen: halfway through its building, the king was dead, long lived the king, and the foot changed. Needless to say, that ship was never seaworthy.

The French Revolutionists wanted to get away from all things royal. In the process, Joseph Lagrange and his Revolutionary Committee on Weights and Measures also broke away from human experience. They invented the metric system, or at least the first version of it, and the forerunner of Système International d’Unités – International System of Units, which we abbreviate SI.

The meter would be one-ten-millionth of a quarter-meridian of Earth. All other units of length would be powers-of-ten of this unit. To form the names, the Committee ordered affixing Latin prefixes for shortening, and Greek prefixes for lengthening. So the units of short distance would be the decimeter, the centimeter, and the millimeter. The unit of long distance became the kilometer, or one thousand meters.

How does any of this relate to human experience? It doesn’t. The meter is longer than anyone’s arm – unless that person is an acromegalic. And the kilometer bears no relationship to how fast one walks, on the march or otherwise.

Derivation of other metric units of measurement

Similarly, Lagrange’s Committee derived units of liquid capacity and mass from the meter, using pure water as the standard. One cubic decimeter (one-tenth meter) became the liter, the base unit of liquid capacity. The Committee defined the gram as the mass of one milliliter of pure water.

But not at any temperature! Anders Celsius, in 1742, had proposed his own centigrade temperature scale. It went from 100 (the freezing point of pure water) to zero (the boiling point of pure water). The French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin inverted this scale to produce the Celsius scale we know today. Water is at its most dense at four degrees Celsius. So a milliliter of water at that temperature became the standard for a gram of mass. So said Joseph Lagrange’s Committee.

Again, none of this relates to the human experience. True, Fahrenheit’s scale now has a redefinition, but at least Fahrenheit tried to define his scale in relation to human experience. Neither Celsius nor his successors can make the same claim.

One quantity of which no one has successfully substituted a new unit, is time. Humans everywhere still use the second and all its multiples, with ratios dating back to ancient Babylon. Emperor Napoleon tried to change to a decimal unit of time – and faced armed rebellion as a result. No serious effort at time conversion has occurred since.

Further distancing from human experience: redefinition

The United Nations General Convention on Weights and Measures, in 2019, made matters worse. Originally, SI had seven base quantities for defining everything, with definitions that made some sense. Furthermore, these definitions had a traceable history, and one could understand the need for a redefinition.

So for decades the units of time, length, mass, temperature, electric current, amount-of-substance, and luminous intensity had common-sense definitions. But that wasn’t good enough for the keepers of SI. That held especially for the unit of mass – the kilogram – then the only unit defined in terms of an artifact. But they also felt that way about the other units, except perhaps the unit of time (the second).

So in 2019 this UN body replaced seven units with seven constants, which now are defined constants. They are the:

1. Hyperfine transition frequency of cesium-113,

2. Speed of light in a vacuum,

3. Planck Constant,

4. Boltzmann Constant,

5. Elementary charge,

6. Avogadro Number of elementary entities, and

7. Luminous efficacy at a frequency of 540 tera-Hertz.

Behold! This Convention finishes the job of Lagrange’s Revolutionary Committee. They have utterly divorced our units of measurement from any semblance of human experience. True, they did it to “future-proof” their definitions. But they make no attempt to tell us where the original definitions came from. Given that, these definitions, such as they are, are purely arbitrary.

Why doesn’t America use the metric system – yet?

YouTube influencer Joe Scott publishes this history of attempts to “metricate” the United States. This and other sources reveal an interesting sequence of events.

In 1793, Joseph Dombey traveled to France and acquired a standard kilogram. But pirates seized his ship, took him hostage (he died as a hostage), and apparently destroyed his artifact. Five years later, the United States almost went to war with France. Even the effort in 1832 to establish a uniform system of measurement, failed.

1875 saw a new effort to “metricate” the United States. The only practical result has been the complete switch to the metric system (actually SI) in research laboratories. A few industries (like food and beverages) will sell their products in metric quantities. Toolmakers offer either metric or “English” tools. But never once has anyone made conversion to the metric system compulsory. For that reason, only one major highway in the United States (Interstate Highway 19 between Nogales and Tucson, Ariz., stretching for 102 kilometers) has metric distances throughout its length.

One cannot explain this in terns of American exceptionalism, because until today, no one has consistently defended U.S. Customary units on that ground. Perhaps one can make allowance for simple “cultural inertia” – not wanting to change the units one has lived with. But why did the French embrace Lagrange’s new system so readily? Revolutionary fervor?

Perhaps. But perhaps the real reason why metrication remains incomplete in America is … supernatural.

American measurement and American patriotism

Today, CNAV will be the first to defend the American measurement system on grounds of American patriotism.

Human beings have no reason to insist on having only one unit of length, mass, or liquid capacity. Multiplying these base units by powers of ten doesn’t change them. The metric system, and its current variant (SI) have one base unit each for length, mass, and liquid capacity. Everything else depends on these three.

Tellingly, this is not true of units of time. Humans still measure time in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, as appropriate to the application. Nor does the one-unit rule hold for length in absolutely all applications. Astronomers do not measure stellar or even planetary distances uniformly in multiples of the meter. They use other units that, again, reflect the experience of the application. These are the:

• Astronomical unit (semi-major axis of the orbit of Earth around the Sun),

• Light-year (the distance that light travels in a year), and

• Parsec (Parallax of one second, or the cotangent of one second of arc, multiplied by an astronomical unit).

An American patriotic system of measurement would retain these units – while also retaining miles, yards, feet, and inches.

Extending the American Patriotic System

At present, the American Patriotic System would still be incomplete. It would retain three units from what some call the Gravitational English System. They are the second, the foot, and the slug, or that mass that accelerates by one foot per second squared when pushed or pulled by a force of one pound. It would also retain the Rankine, or the unit of absolute or “thermodynamic” temperature equivalent to a Fahrenheit degree.

But it would need three more units – of electric current, amount-of-substance, and luminous intensity – to be complete and coherent. (Coherency means deriving one unit, other than a base unit, from others with ratios of one.) To arrive at that, one must revisit the original definitions of the SI units of these quantities. For instance, one mole of a substance was its molecular (or formula) mass expressed in grams. Substituting the dram (slightly heavier than the gram) will require recalculating Avogadro’s Number to make it fit.

Similarly, before 2019, SI defined the ampere in terms of meters and newtons (the SI unit of force). A “patriotic” unit of electric current would start with a definition in terms of feet and pounds-of-force instead. (Call it the franklin, after Benjamin Franklin.) One would need a similar accommodation to arrive at a “patriotic” unit of luminous intensity. (Call that the patriotic candle.)

Conclusion

In 2016, and again in 2024, Americans elected a President who believed in America as an exceptional country. If Americans are going to embrace their exceptionalism, then they should embrace it in every context that could possibly matter. That the United States has never managed to switch measurement systems in more than two centuries, cannot be an accident. That’s one reason to retain, and expand, the system of measurement that has served us well for those two centuries.

The use of ratios other than powers of ten to convert between and among different applications is not a good reason to abandon the American system. If decimal conversion is so important, why do astronomers still measure stellar and planetary distances in astronomical units, light-years, and parsecs? The answer is that the choice of conversion ratios is far less important than is their consistency within the system. Abandoning decimal-power ratios is a small price to pay to retain appropriateness of various units in various applications. Put another way: is it worth remembering that 5,280 feet make a mile to retain a definition of a mile as a thousand human paces? Yes.

At a minimum, President Trump should resist, roll back, and cancel any further attempt at metrication of the American people. And at maximum, the President should consider extending an American Patriotic Measurement System to all quantities, not merely time, length, mass, temperature, and their derivatives.

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https://thatjoescott.com/2023/09/25/the-many-times-the-us-tried-to-go-metric/

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