Promises Kept?
It wasn't what I really wanted to do.....watch President Trump's latest rally.....but I thought that I had to.....particularly since there might have been a dozen or so folks that I know either in the arena or outside watching on the big screen. Yes this was just as big as a Pittsburgh Penguin playoff game.....only in a Penguin playoff game you can believe the voice on the screen. This was President Trump's third rally since he he became president....fourth if you include the Boy Scout Jamboree.
He gave essentially the same speech that he gave during the entire campaign but no one cared because they had essentially come for reassurance that they did not make a mistake last November. These are good people folks who originally cared so much for their country that they rallied en masse for a man whom they perceived to be their champion, but over time, spectacle won out over truth.
The ubiquitous cell phone camera raised and pointing to the podium throughout these arenas demonstrates very clearly that it is the image that counts and not the words emanating from the image....for they are the same words....the same promises he has spoken from the beginning.
Last night in Youngstown, Ohio, President Trump at one point shouted out.... "Don't even think about it...we will build the wall!" Cheers followed as everyone stood up again for the umpteenth time and raised their professionally made placards distributed to them. As to this particular comment the placard read...."BUILD THE WALL." They can flip the sign around later when appropriate to the 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN' side.
These rallies cannot go one for much longer. This arena yesterday held 7,000 people and the Trump White House most likely will be able to fill the arenas in the immediate future... but the concept of listening to the same campaign slogans over and over is going to get old for everyone else.
The Republican establishment elites have successfully regained 80% to 90% of the ground that they lost in the election. Jeff Sessions was turning out to be too hot a topic. Today the President announced that the military will not allow transgenders in the military. The narrative has been temporarily changed....mission accomplished. This type of 'victory' and the timing of it's release....whether intentional or not.....tends to undercut any criticisms against President Trump on the many backslidings on other major issues. When you make 100 promises, of which a handful were absolutely essential to winning the election, you can then keep and announce scores of promises kept on lesser issues....and thereby take the heat off of the more major issues....but eventually the people will catch on.
We are in the midst of incessant probing of possible collusion with Russia by Donald Trump in the election that put him in office. This issue may eventually force President Trump's resignation or even impeachment. On the other hand, the tables may be flipped over and we will find....quite frankly what we already know....that the modern day Schumer/Clinton/Obama Democrat Party is and has been guilty beyond any definition of corruption.....but this and all the above mentioned 'major issues' such as Obamacare repeal and the Wall will pale in comparison to the dangers from what may lie just ahead for America and the world. Donald Trump will most likely be our president during these trying times and travails.
This is why he has to be challenged as he abandons his conservative base....particularly in the restoration of establishment elite power. Surely President Trump is guilty of collusion here! One would think that this lack of character would naturally transfer over to his role of commander and chief of our military. Thus this whole mess isn't as simple as waiting for the 2018 elections....it is rather directly related as to whether or not we can get to the 2018 elections.
We have....all of us....forgotten God in America. Instead of long ago pleading in humility for God's mercy and trusting in Him....we sought out our own champion. After ten of the twelve 'spies' came back to Moses (Numbers 13) and reported that the enemy was too strong to defeat....and this after all the power that God had shown to the people....God brought judgment upon the ten spies and ordered the people to go back into the wilderness.....but the people had a better idea.....they rethought the issue.....they admitted that were wrong....they would indeed go into Canaan in the power of the LORD. Only the LORD had already judged them....Moses then warned them....they went out on their own anyway....and they were routed. This is essentially what we are doing..... and in an attempt to assuage our guilt in not first seeking God's will.....rather than praying that Donald Trump humble himself before Almighty God.....we pray that God would anoint the champion that we already anointed. We refused to rely on God and now that we have our champion we will attempt to go forward in God's name.
'Be Prepared"
Conservatives are being torn apart. President Trump is tearing us apart by asking...no demanding of all of us that we abandon our principles and just follow him and believe him no matter what the outward appearances might be or how outrageous that of which we are witnessing.
Had he just showed up at the Boy Scout Jamboree and encouraged them in their civic and patriotic duties it would have been fine. These are just kids who love being Boy Scouts and could have had the added excitement of actually seeing in person the President of the United States. Surely their parents hold to many different political opinions. To those parents this time that should have been one of celebrating their son's week of fun and excitement was probably turned into a nightmare.
Many if not most of those parents are most likely conservative in their beliefs. If my son was of age, and a younger Boy Scout, and present at the Jamboree, and I were there also, I would have been praying for God to protect him from falling for this purely political miasma. What could possibly make these Boy Scouts shout in unison....."We love Trump...we love Trump...we love Trump!"? Once again if I were there I would have taken my son out at that point....depending on his age!
Folks, I say this not because it was President Trump they were shouting out to....I would feel the same way if it were a rock star or even a Christian minister! I can't remember the year but it was at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena and I was there as a Leon Russell fan. In the middle of the concert the lights in the arena went out. Quite a bit of time passed and Leon felt that he should take the microphone to pacify the crowd. Exactly what he said in his talk I do not remember but I do remember this...at one point he had us....all of us....shouting out...."Thank you Jesus...Thank You Jesus...Thank You Jesus." Such is the sway that celebrities might hold over those who sometimes even worship them.
It wasn't what I really wanted to do.....watch President Trump's latest rally.....but I thought that I had to.....particularly since there might have been a dozen or so folks that I know either in the arena or outside watching on the big screen. Yes this was just as big as a Pittsburgh Penguin playoff game.....only in a Penguin playoff game you can believe the voice on the screen. This was President Trump's third rally since he he became president....fourth if you include the Boy Scout Jamboree.
He gave essentially the same speech that he gave during the entire campaign but no one cared because they had essentially come for reassurance that they did not make a mistake last November. These are good people folks who originally cared so much for their country that they rallied en masse for a man whom they perceived to be their champion, but over time, spectacle won out over truth.
The ubiquitous cell phone camera raised and pointing to the podium throughout these arenas demonstrates very clearly that it is the image that counts and not the words emanating from the image....for they are the same words....the same promises he has spoken from the beginning.
Last night in Youngstown, Ohio, President Trump at one point shouted out.... "Don't even think about it...we will build the wall!" Cheers followed as everyone stood up again for the umpteenth time and raised their professionally made placards distributed to them. As to this particular comment the placard read...."BUILD THE WALL." They can flip the sign around later when appropriate to the 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN' side.
These rallies cannot go one for much longer. This arena yesterday held 7,000 people and the Trump White House most likely will be able to fill the arenas in the immediate future... but the concept of listening to the same campaign slogans over and over is going to get old for everyone else.
The Republican establishment elites have successfully regained 80% to 90% of the ground that they lost in the election. Jeff Sessions was turning out to be too hot a topic. Today the President announced that the military will not allow transgenders in the military. The narrative has been temporarily changed....mission accomplished. This type of 'victory' and the timing of it's release....whether intentional or not.....tends to undercut any criticisms against President Trump on the many backslidings on other major issues. When you make 100 promises, of which a handful were absolutely essential to winning the election, you can then keep and announce scores of promises kept on lesser issues....and thereby take the heat off of the more major issues....but eventually the people will catch on.
We are in the midst of incessant probing of possible collusion with Russia by Donald Trump in the election that put him in office. This issue may eventually force President Trump's resignation or even impeachment. On the other hand, the tables may be flipped over and we will find....quite frankly what we already know....that the modern day Schumer/Clinton/Obama Democrat Party is and has been guilty beyond any definition of corruption.....but this and all the above mentioned 'major issues' such as Obamacare repeal and the Wall will pale in comparison to the dangers from what may lie just ahead for America and the world. Donald Trump will most likely be our president during these trying times and travails.
This is why he has to be challenged as he abandons his conservative base....particularly in the restoration of establishment elite power. Surely President Trump is guilty of collusion here! One would think that this lack of character would naturally transfer over to his role of commander and chief of our military. Thus this whole mess isn't as simple as waiting for the 2018 elections....it is rather directly related as to whether or not we can get to the 2018 elections.
We have....all of us....forgotten God in America. Instead of long ago pleading in humility for God's mercy and trusting in Him....we sought out our own champion. After ten of the twelve 'spies' came back to Moses (Numbers 13) and reported that the enemy was too strong to defeat....and this after all the power that God had shown to the people....God brought judgment upon the ten spies and ordered the people to go back into the wilderness.....but the people had a better idea.....they rethought the issue.....they admitted that were wrong....they would indeed go into Canaan in the power of the LORD. Only the LORD had already judged them....Moses then warned them....they went out on their own anyway....and they were routed. This is essentially what we are doing..... and in an attempt to assuage our guilt in not first seeking God's will.....rather than praying that Donald Trump humble himself before Almighty God.....we pray that God would anoint the champion that we already anointed. We refused to rely on God and now that we have our champion we will attempt to go forward in God's name.
'Be Prepared"
Conservatives are being torn apart. President Trump is tearing us apart by asking...no demanding of all of us that we abandon our principles and just follow him and believe him no matter what the outward appearances might be or how outrageous that of which we are witnessing.
Had he just showed up at the Boy Scout Jamboree and encouraged them in their civic and patriotic duties it would have been fine. These are just kids who love being Boy Scouts and could have had the added excitement of actually seeing in person the President of the United States. Surely their parents hold to many different political opinions. To those parents this time that should have been one of celebrating their son's week of fun and excitement was probably turned into a nightmare.
Many if not most of those parents are most likely conservative in their beliefs. If my son was of age, and a younger Boy Scout, and present at the Jamboree, and I were there also, I would have been praying for God to protect him from falling for this purely political miasma. What could possibly make these Boy Scouts shout in unison....."We love Trump...we love Trump...we love Trump!"? Once again if I were there I would have taken my son out at that point....depending on his age!
Folks, I say this not because it was President Trump they were shouting out to....I would feel the same way if it were a rock star or even a Christian minister! I can't remember the year but it was at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena and I was there as a Leon Russell fan. In the middle of the concert the lights in the arena went out. Quite a bit of time passed and Leon felt that he should take the microphone to pacify the crowd. Exactly what he said in his talk I do not remember but I do remember this...at one point he had us....all of us....shouting out...."Thank you Jesus...Thank You Jesus...Thank You Jesus." Such is the sway that celebrities might hold over those who sometimes even worship them.
Two years ago, we in the conservative movement were anything but followers. We might have been accused of it because we listened to conservative radio so much but on the whole we readers and thinkers. Common sense was our guide....not a man with a sign instructing us to...'applaud,' but that's what we are turning into.....and that is where the dividing line will be in this split in conservatism. On one side will be those of us who do our own thinking and make up our own minds. On the other side will be those who simply acquiesce to the carefully crafted stimuli and join in the rallying state of mind.
Charlie Gard
Charlie Gard
Abortion is legal in many if not most circumstances in England, Wales and Scotland. Hundreds of thousands of babies are aborted every few years, but this is not a numbers thing. Every time I scan the news and see a picture of that beautiful child Charlie Gard, the pit of my stomach just....it just sinks or something. His parents announced today that they are giving up the fight with the British government. Too much time has passed with all the court battles to help the child.
Sarah Palin was right....you betcha she was right....these are death panels. Charlie didn't make the grade. Today is the anniversary of the disaster of the capsizing of the SS Eastland in 1915 where over 800 people died in the Chicago river harbor as the ship was top heavy as it was being loaded and turned on its side.....844 people were lost and most of us in America today are not even aware of it. I mentioned in a previous post how I thought that the Challenger disaster in January of 1986 was a sign to America....we were being judged by God because of what we had become....and folks these were the Reagan years! The various ethnicities and religions, and genders of the crew....the tentacled plume in the sky forever etched in our mind.....these things have meaning......yet this was only seven people.
Charlie Gard is only one child but because of the impact of his image in the news for weeks and the circumstances where the government is just going to let the child die without even letting his parents try to help him....because of this....it is....in my opinion....a very visual piece of evidence that the United Kingdom has mocked God.....and of course we know that God will not be mocked.
In the last few days here in America we have read and watched (video) news stories were teens laughed and cursed as a man drowned in front of them...and another where a young woman livestreamed on Instagram (whatever that is) before, during and after an automobile crash where a 14 year old girl was killed. These type of stories dumbfound us every few days....unfortunately we are only dumbfounded temporarily! What have we become?
The big big news this weekend of course was the marvelous and thrilling finish to the British Open....or so I hear. Chaos and collapse and capsizing are everywhere but all we have to do is point the remote and change the channel. May God have mercy upon us. (NOTE: Charlie Gard died today July 28th, 2017)
