The past two weeks have not been good for President Trump. The elections were an absolute disaster....(even though he said that they were a great victory?)....and that was followed by a disastrous trip to France. The President's generals....(not the military ones but the talk radio ones) ....rallied the troops when a reporter was purged from the White House but then that situation turned sour also as Fox News took the side of the purged reporter....and it didn't help that the President's wife purged one of her own enemies. There was good news from the President's perspective though as his allies.....the Republican establishment....retained control of Republican leadership positions in the majority Senate and now minority House.
We....conservatives....had over a month to celebrate the results of the November 8th 2016 election. My concern in December was in what direction conservative talk radio would go now that we won. Would they humbly be thankful for Hillary's defeat and try to encourage a reverence for our Creator who had sustained us in our dalliances for so long....the reaction of our government in the midst of America's first civil war....or would they atrophy in victory....or worse yet would Donald Trump become their god? None of us could foresee with any great detail what would transpire with the Mueller probe. Although we are only now nearing the conclusion of the investigation we have already witnessed disastrous repercussions....(this my opinion of course)....in the complete and utter collapse of the value of Rush Limbaugh.....and others in talk radio....to the discernment of conservatives on America's greatest problem....our refusal to accept or even consider that God alone causes nations to rise and to fall. Many of these hosts are mere sycophants now.....with no objective or journalistic investigative intent other than in protecting President Trump against mostly his own foibles....the absurdity of his outrageous tweeting....his new agenda which bears little resemblance to what it was on the campaign trail.....and even his continuous habit of telling untruths.
All that these hosts of talk radio had to do was to hold President Trump to candidate Trump's promises....all of them....not just the few that go hand in hand with his empire building....and to reel him in when it became apparent that he was close to becoming unhinged in his excessive need for not only approval but adulation.....but they.....for whatever reason.....did not do this. They would have had plenty of time to address FISA warrants and still critique the many missteps and betrayals of President Trump. They could have lauded his legitimate successes while reporting on his errors of judgment....but they opted solely for the former while obfuscating the latter. They emboldened the President by ignoring his many absurd statements (Ivanka would make a great Ambassador to the UN) and irrational actions (the Kim Jong-un summit)....thus encouraging him to keep it up....and are now almost daily forced to defend outrageous at times proclamations of promises kept and an agenda that only vaguely resembles the campaign agenda....and often outright departs from it. Instead of continuing the fight for what was right....they simply accepted reassignment as generals in Trump's personal war....which wasn't our war.
Folks, the following are words that I wrote about conservative talk radio back in December of 2016 under the post title of "Your Mission....Should You Accept It." Please take note of my hopeful comment on Donald Trump at the time. We needed conservative talk radio to at least hold firm....but even more than that we needed our pulpits to preach a Holy God calling a rebellious people to repent and to warn us not to place our trust in politics but only in Jesus Christ. We got neither:
"This mass of kinetic energy that covered the landscape with Trump signs from Easton to Boise (east of Easton and west of Boise...eh...not so kinetic), this army of Minutemen, this patriotic, educated and intellectually armed throwback to Valley Forge would not have survived the winters of our discontents had not conservative talk radio been leading the way.
This was our Publius, our Thomas Paine, our Benjamin Franklin and our John Locke transmogrified into waves of electromagnetic radiation travelling at the speed of light into every kitchen and workroom and automobile in America. The mainstream media, our betters as they perceive themselves to be, tried to keep the truth from us but utterly failed. We went through basic training all the way up to OCS at the instruction of radio and books and our own Constitution....all synchronized by common sense and reason....rare in the cities but abundant outside of them. The only thing that we needed was a George Washington to lead us. Well...we didn't get him.....but we did get Donald Trump. Considering that you could probably count the George Washingtons that America has had on the fingers of one hand...I guess we could have done a whole lot worse.
These stellar stars (Limbaugh et al) that we navigated by as we passed through a perfect storm wrapped in a cosmic disturbance that threatened every foundation laid in the latter half of the eighteenth century....these men and women kept the heat on and their powder dry. Their mission now....a much more difficult mission this time....should they accept it....is to bring God into the equation....but first they themselves have to realize that God alone rules in the affairs of men....and that is where our pulpits come in. Please pray for the men in them!
We....conservatives....had over a month to celebrate the results of the November 8th 2016 election. My concern in December was in what direction conservative talk radio would go now that we won. Would they humbly be thankful for Hillary's defeat and try to encourage a reverence for our Creator who had sustained us in our dalliances for so long....the reaction of our government in the midst of America's first civil war....or would they atrophy in victory....or worse yet would Donald Trump become their god? None of us could foresee with any great detail what would transpire with the Mueller probe. Although we are only now nearing the conclusion of the investigation we have already witnessed disastrous repercussions....(this my opinion of course)....in the complete and utter collapse of the value of Rush Limbaugh.....and others in talk radio....to the discernment of conservatives on America's greatest problem....our refusal to accept or even consider that God alone causes nations to rise and to fall. Many of these hosts are mere sycophants now.....with no objective or journalistic investigative intent other than in protecting President Trump against mostly his own foibles....the absurdity of his outrageous tweeting....his new agenda which bears little resemblance to what it was on the campaign trail.....and even his continuous habit of telling untruths.
All that these hosts of talk radio had to do was to hold President Trump to candidate Trump's promises....all of them....not just the few that go hand in hand with his empire building....and to reel him in when it became apparent that he was close to becoming unhinged in his excessive need for not only approval but adulation.....but they.....for whatever reason.....did not do this. They would have had plenty of time to address FISA warrants and still critique the many missteps and betrayals of President Trump. They could have lauded his legitimate successes while reporting on his errors of judgment....but they opted solely for the former while obfuscating the latter. They emboldened the President by ignoring his many absurd statements (Ivanka would make a great Ambassador to the UN) and irrational actions (the Kim Jong-un summit)....thus encouraging him to keep it up....and are now almost daily forced to defend outrageous at times proclamations of promises kept and an agenda that only vaguely resembles the campaign agenda....and often outright departs from it. Instead of continuing the fight for what was right....they simply accepted reassignment as generals in Trump's personal war....which wasn't our war.
Folks, the following are words that I wrote about conservative talk radio back in December of 2016 under the post title of "Your Mission....Should You Accept It." Please take note of my hopeful comment on Donald Trump at the time. We needed conservative talk radio to at least hold firm....but even more than that we needed our pulpits to preach a Holy God calling a rebellious people to repent and to warn us not to place our trust in politics but only in Jesus Christ. We got neither:
"This mass of kinetic energy that covered the landscape with Trump signs from Easton to Boise (east of Easton and west of Boise...eh...not so kinetic), this army of Minutemen, this patriotic, educated and intellectually armed throwback to Valley Forge would not have survived the winters of our discontents had not conservative talk radio been leading the way.
This was our Publius, our Thomas Paine, our Benjamin Franklin and our John Locke transmogrified into waves of electromagnetic radiation travelling at the speed of light into every kitchen and workroom and automobile in America. The mainstream media, our betters as they perceive themselves to be, tried to keep the truth from us but utterly failed. We went through basic training all the way up to OCS at the instruction of radio and books and our own Constitution....all synchronized by common sense and reason....rare in the cities but abundant outside of them. The only thing that we needed was a George Washington to lead us. Well...we didn't get him.....but we did get Donald Trump. Considering that you could probably count the George Washingtons that America has had on the fingers of one hand...I guess we could have done a whole lot worse.
These stellar stars (Limbaugh et al) that we navigated by as we passed through a perfect storm wrapped in a cosmic disturbance that threatened every foundation laid in the latter half of the eighteenth century....these men and women kept the heat on and their powder dry. Their mission now....a much more difficult mission this time....should they accept it....is to bring God into the equation....but first they themselves have to realize that God alone rules in the affairs of men....and that is where our pulpits come in. Please pray for the men in them!
