Thursday, May 17, 2018

Dispatches

Every few weeks I put out a post titled 'Dispatches' which consists of short commentaries on current events in the news:

           Friends, they are using the 'bot blitzkreig' on you.....on all of us....the 'bot blitzkreig' being my name for metadata analysis and then a blitzkrieg upon our senses. They have determined through the information that metadata gives them exactly what stimulates us.....they then bombard us with an unrelenting....unrelenting barrage of words that need not have any truth in them at all. As an example I just listen to Breitbart's Alex Marlowe interview White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley whose gave a nonstop litany of accolades of President Trump's 'accomplishments'......given so fast that one cannot in any way actually consider the veracity of any of the accolades.....each one carefully chosen and nuanced just enough to stimulate opinion while bypassing the mind. This wasn't an interview....it was an assault on our senses.

           The timing is terrible for moving the United States embassy from Tev Aviv to Jerusalem. Why didn't President Trump announce this move a year ago. The answer to that is that he made dozens of promises and saves some for when he needs either an uptick in his polls or he needs a Roman Candle to get everyone to look up because he is about to stab conservatives in the back. The administration says that European countries will follow suit in moving their embassies and they probably will as behind the scenes we will apply pressure and give something in return. Of course we won't be told about this.

            President Trump's pending face to face meeting with communist mass murderer Kim Jong-un is unnecessary and unwise.....it's a Billy Jean King/ Bobby Riggs photo op moment.....and as relevant to peace as Tiny Tim's wedding on the Johnny Carson show was to marriage. Showmanship has totally replaced statesmanship. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have a lifetime of experiences with propaganda and communist tactics. Donald Trump has a lifetime of experiences with getting building permits....dealing with unsavory characters.....and John Bolton as an adviser....that's it.
     
            Lastly, Mitt Romney made news yesterday as he was outraged that author, radio and television minister and Southern Baptist mega-church pastor Robert Jeffress would deliver a blessing at yesterday's embassy move ceremony. Why? Jeffress....according to Mitt Romney....is a bigot because he believes that 'you can't be saved by being a Jew'....or a Muslim....or even a Mormon...."Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem."  I've written on this topic a few times and hope that you take it seriously for there is a winnowing coming not only in conservatism but more importantly in the church....and this outrage by Mitt Romney is a harbinger of it!!!
           Right now the evangelical is not only welcomed into the MAGA movement but hogtied and branded so as to be returned if we stray from the reeducation camps. We will continue to be accepted and recruited until we do what Mitt Romney was offended at.....that being present the actual Gospel of Jesus Christ. If we believe the Gospel.....and do not water it down enough so as not to offend anyone.....and do not at least attempt to keep it to ourselves or within our own circles.....then we will not only be branded bigots by those outside of the Christian church....like Mitt Romney.....but in due time will be labelled divisive by those who at the present time consider themselves upstanding representatives of Christianity!