If I were watching a spy/thriller movie where the President of the United States was not only going to meet in a face-to-face summit with a nuke-capable mass-murdering dictator....and not only meet with him but initially meet one-on-one without any advisers present....I would probably turn the movie off because it was too absurd to believe.....but that apparently is what will happen in Singapore. John Bolton should have threatened to resign then and there when told he would have to stand outside while the President who is famous for not studying anything goes behind doors for the oral exam with the Dean of DPRK U's Torts (short for Torture) Department.
Donald Trump as President stepped into or inherited a dangerous situation with North Korea....and as difficult a situation as one can imagine. He started out well as he brought the full force of American power to the waters surrounding this madman's kingdom. The American public was preparing for what might take place and our military was ready.....but things deteriorated as the months passed. It's been a year now and America is no longer preparing for what might be ahead....instead it is expecting peace and safety because many from our formerly august body of conservative talk radio show hosts have told us that North Korea is on the run.
When I heard that the President had said that he didn't need to prepare for this coming meeting with Kim Jong-un I simply shook my head....for this is the same man who early last year said that he didn't have to have daily intelligence briefings because after all....he was very smart and didn't need them....but even this isn't the essence of this post. Tonight I listened to a regular conservative radio talk show host gush once again over the brilliance of Donald Trump.....as if their leg was tingling. This nightly talk show host castigated and ridiculed the media for taking umbrage with President Trump's statement about not needing preparation. Here finally is my point.
Conservatives such as myself who not only voted for Donald Trump in November of 2016 but celebrated....and who genuinely hoped that he would show some maturity and wisdom in his responsibilities....yet who saw nearly from the beginning that he was not who he proclaimed himself to be in the primaries or general election....we seem to be non-entities. It's as if we don't exist. Any criticism of the President is labelled as 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' from the media or the Progressives or the Never-Trumpers. They never mention or even allude to the fact that those of us who were an integral part of his general election base are not happy at all with who the President has shown himself to be....or the mind manipulation techniques that he relies upon to keep his 'base' stirred up and off his back. They lump us who had celebrated on November 8th of 2016 in with Never-Trumpers. Why? It's because discontent within the ranks like this could cause problems in that which has become but our latest day of salvation.....the mid-term election day.
Sooner or later our questions will have to be answered. Sooner or later a major conservative radio talk show host is going to see that he (she) has been had....and that Trump Republicans have become no better than the Democrats or Republican elites in prodding their branded cattle into the pen! They stifle legitimate critical opinion...or ignore it.....and even deny it. They are now even punishing those who do not toe the line. They use the same deceptive tactics that have been used against us by the Democrat Party and the Republican establishment. Transparency is totally gone. Selective reporting and selective facts dominate just about every radio broadcast....and I don't think that they are aware of this....because their discernment has disappeared as they gave up necessary principles....principles such as 'let your yea be yea and your nay be nay'.....principles that they came to prominence with....they gave them up for the pragmatics of bending the truth to win the next election which will be no more effective that any of the last elections because no one anymore pledges their lives or their fortunes or their sacred honor.....but now wind up only pledging is to the McConnells and Ryans of the Congress to vote yes when told....no when told...and to shut up when told.
This upcoming summit is naivety in spades. The preparation necessary would have been on what Communism is....in how the communists connive....and in what their tactics have been for a century. If Kim throws a fit....it will have been pre-planned....and if he smiles and makes promises....they will never be kept....and time will pass just as it always has. President Trump should not be himself meeting with this mass-murderer. This is reality TV. Someone in the President's coterie of advisers should have stood up to him on this. If Kim Jong-un is serious as many hope that he is then he can send his people to meet our people....for we do have some who know what to expect and what to look for....and who have prepared.
Either way we need to start preparing ourselves again....preparation....and even that would be entirely useless if it doesn't begin with our imploring of God undeserved mercies....and His wisdom in this chaotic and dangerous situation....for...."Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it, except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." (Psalm 127:1 KJV)
Donald Trump as President stepped into or inherited a dangerous situation with North Korea....and as difficult a situation as one can imagine. He started out well as he brought the full force of American power to the waters surrounding this madman's kingdom. The American public was preparing for what might take place and our military was ready.....but things deteriorated as the months passed. It's been a year now and America is no longer preparing for what might be ahead....instead it is expecting peace and safety because many from our formerly august body of conservative talk radio show hosts have told us that North Korea is on the run.
When I heard that the President had said that he didn't need to prepare for this coming meeting with Kim Jong-un I simply shook my head....for this is the same man who early last year said that he didn't have to have daily intelligence briefings because after all....he was very smart and didn't need them....but even this isn't the essence of this post. Tonight I listened to a regular conservative radio talk show host gush once again over the brilliance of Donald Trump.....as if their leg was tingling. This nightly talk show host castigated and ridiculed the media for taking umbrage with President Trump's statement about not needing preparation. Here finally is my point.
Conservatives such as myself who not only voted for Donald Trump in November of 2016 but celebrated....and who genuinely hoped that he would show some maturity and wisdom in his responsibilities....yet who saw nearly from the beginning that he was not who he proclaimed himself to be in the primaries or general election....we seem to be non-entities. It's as if we don't exist. Any criticism of the President is labelled as 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' from the media or the Progressives or the Never-Trumpers. They never mention or even allude to the fact that those of us who were an integral part of his general election base are not happy at all with who the President has shown himself to be....or the mind manipulation techniques that he relies upon to keep his 'base' stirred up and off his back. They lump us who had celebrated on November 8th of 2016 in with Never-Trumpers. Why? It's because discontent within the ranks like this could cause problems in that which has become but our latest day of salvation.....the mid-term election day.
Sooner or later our questions will have to be answered. Sooner or later a major conservative radio talk show host is going to see that he (she) has been had....and that Trump Republicans have become no better than the Democrats or Republican elites in prodding their branded cattle into the pen! They stifle legitimate critical opinion...or ignore it.....and even deny it. They are now even punishing those who do not toe the line. They use the same deceptive tactics that have been used against us by the Democrat Party and the Republican establishment. Transparency is totally gone. Selective reporting and selective facts dominate just about every radio broadcast....and I don't think that they are aware of this....because their discernment has disappeared as they gave up necessary principles....principles such as 'let your yea be yea and your nay be nay'.....principles that they came to prominence with....they gave them up for the pragmatics of bending the truth to win the next election which will be no more effective that any of the last elections because no one anymore pledges their lives or their fortunes or their sacred honor.....but now wind up only pledging is to the McConnells and Ryans of the Congress to vote yes when told....no when told...and to shut up when told.
This upcoming summit is naivety in spades. The preparation necessary would have been on what Communism is....in how the communists connive....and in what their tactics have been for a century. If Kim throws a fit....it will have been pre-planned....and if he smiles and makes promises....they will never be kept....and time will pass just as it always has. President Trump should not be himself meeting with this mass-murderer. This is reality TV. Someone in the President's coterie of advisers should have stood up to him on this. If Kim Jong-un is serious as many hope that he is then he can send his people to meet our people....for we do have some who know what to expect and what to look for....and who have prepared.
Either way we need to start preparing ourselves again....preparation....and even that would be entirely useless if it doesn't begin with our imploring of God undeserved mercies....and His wisdom in this chaotic and dangerous situation....for...."Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it, except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." (Psalm 127:1 KJV)
Note: I find it interesting that President John Kennedy was to give a speech on November 22, 1963 in Dallas that he was never able to give. That speech on paper ended with the second sentence in this verse! So these in effect were the last official words of President Kennedy...and a harbinger of what was ahead for America...."For as was written long ago: Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
We also might want to remember this Scriptural warning: "While they are saying, 'peace and safety!' then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief.....so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be sober and alert." (1 Thessalonians 5: 3,4,6)
We also might want to remember this Scriptural warning: "While they are saying, 'peace and safety!' then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief.....so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be sober and alert." (1 Thessalonians 5: 3,4,6)
