President Trump Tweeted the name of Congressman Adam Schiff....only he spelled it "Adam Schitt." This is our President. I've heard Rush Limbaugh say it quite a few times....and I don't even listen to his show that much anymore. You can hear the frustration in his voice....he'll say that never Trumpers "hate" Donald Trump....because "of his style."
I think that we all have known someone like this at one time or another in our lives....usually when we were in our teens....it seemed like they couldn't conduct a simple conversation without greatly embellishing something or outright lying about it. We felt sorry for them. They had this overwhelming need for personal approval....with absolutely no concept of truth....and we would try our best to avoid them. They had a serious problem....it wasn't just their style. There is not a word that President Trump tweets out every day that we can just take at face value....not a word. This man who pummeled us for three years with the phrase "fake news' is the biggest fake of all.
There was a popular CBS television show when I was young called To Tell The Truth. Apparently it lasted for a few decades in various incarnations. There were three contestants of which one had something very interesting attached to them. Four celebrity panelists would ask questions where the central character would tell the truth and the other two contestants would lie in an attempt to get the celebrity panelists to vote for them. The game ended as the host would ask...."Would the real (main character) please stand up?" This was our Republican primary campaign in 2015/16....and Donald Trump got the votes....as truth and honor and integrity were skunked! We didn't lose our way in the general election....we lost it in the primaries!
As for his daughter Ivanka.....in December of 2016.....just after the election....in response to Lesley Stahl asking her what her role would in the administration....she answered "I'm....no....I'm going to be a daughter"....but we don't care! We've entered Donald Trump's orbit and cannot get out of it. The following post is from the morning after the election:
Have you read President Trump's tweets this morning? One might think at first glance that this is an unbalanced individual as the tweets are absurd and even idiotic....but unbalanced is not the word....for this is the essence of the man.....and he's been the same man probably since his late teens.....or eight years of age if you accept his own testimony on the subject. There is no 3-D chess in this man.....no statesmanship.....and not even any political machinations as we are used to. He is at the center of this universe in his own mind.....and whatever he says has no obligation to truth or even common sense. As sad as this is it gets worse....for so many people had listened to his spiel.....signed the contract.....and went out like gangbusters to recruit others in this Ponzi scheme from Hades.
President Trump's rallies have two banners hanging high to the left and to the right. The one reads "PROMISES MADE" and the other "PROMISES KEPT." If you keep repeating a lie.....boldly repeating it......and the bigger lie the better....the people will believe it. In March of 2017 the Republican elites brought a fake Obamacare repeal and replace bill up for a vote. President Trump tried to rally everyone around it. The Freedom Caucus in the House stood up to protest. President Trump then threatened to work against them....(the only good people we have in the House of Representatives)....in what would have been yesterdays elections....if they did not get on board. This was a promise where we were stabbed in the back....and yet today he tries to present this as a valiant effort....and even a promise kept.
Probably the biggest promise of all was the wall. Trump could have had much of that wall built today if he really wanted it but he could care less. He only blusters about it when his back is against another wall....another promise that he had no intention of keeping.
If any issue rivaled the wall it would have been "DRAIN THE SWAMP." What has transpired on this is absolutely ludicrous....and yet he has the audacity to continue to make that pledge and actually tell us that he is doing it....and we believe it.
Had President Trump really cared about the location of our embassy in Israel the move would have been done much sooner. He has made so many promises that he saves some for when he needs a change in the news cycle. Israel's capture of Jerusalem's Old City during the 1967 Six-Day War has prophetic implications of the highest order....but Jerusalem is Jerusalem to God....while capitals and embassies are but political maneuvers.
French President Emanuel (God with us) Macron.....who President Trump not that long ago described in yet another ludicrous comment as "almost perfect"....he and others in Europe are pushing....and have been pushing.....for their own united army. Macron said that they need it to defend against Russia and China and maybe even the United States. We cheered President Trump's tough penny saving stance with NATO but he is building up animosity all over the globe.
One national security official only a few days ago came clean on President Trump's ill-advised summit with Kim Jong-un. President Trump made a mess of that situation and yet we still buy into the line that it was a brilliant deal making maneuver. We are far worse off than we were two years ago.....and it was almost as bad it could get back then.
We have two conservative Supreme Court judges that we would have had with any of the candidates who were in contention in 2016. Stifling business regulations would have been eliminated with any of those candidates had they become president but to listen to President Trump he alone accomplished these things.
So today the President describes what happened yesterday as "the great Midterm Election....a very big win"....and inconceivably conservative talk radio hosts who I have heard so far are pretty high on it also! In reality President Trump has his rabid....and newly formed....Trump base. Gone are those of us who had the audacity to hold the President up to any kind of scrutiny. Fortunately the gavel was kept out of the hands of a Democrat Senate's majority leader but the loss of the House was a major defeat for the "winning" that has been shoved down our throat. This should be acknowledged but it won't be.
President Trump has been a judgment from God and not a blessing. We Republicans are no longer defending the high ground.....we gave that up for a couple of pots of gold down in the swamp. We need to go back up on that hill....our pulpits need to get off of their high horse of moral superiority and plead in front of their congregations for God's mercy upon our many dalliances with the world....and we need to think for ourselves once again....seeking God's wisdom....instead of Rush Limbaugh's wisdom.
I think that we all have known someone like this at one time or another in our lives....usually when we were in our teens....it seemed like they couldn't conduct a simple conversation without greatly embellishing something or outright lying about it. We felt sorry for them. They had this overwhelming need for personal approval....with absolutely no concept of truth....and we would try our best to avoid them. They had a serious problem....it wasn't just their style. There is not a word that President Trump tweets out every day that we can just take at face value....not a word. This man who pummeled us for three years with the phrase "fake news' is the biggest fake of all.
There was a popular CBS television show when I was young called To Tell The Truth. Apparently it lasted for a few decades in various incarnations. There were three contestants of which one had something very interesting attached to them. Four celebrity panelists would ask questions where the central character would tell the truth and the other two contestants would lie in an attempt to get the celebrity panelists to vote for them. The game ended as the host would ask...."Would the real (main character) please stand up?" This was our Republican primary campaign in 2015/16....and Donald Trump got the votes....as truth and honor and integrity were skunked! We didn't lose our way in the general election....we lost it in the primaries!
As for his daughter Ivanka.....in December of 2016.....just after the election....in response to Lesley Stahl asking her what her role would in the administration....she answered "I'm....no....I'm going to be a daughter"....but we don't care! We've entered Donald Trump's orbit and cannot get out of it. The following post is from the morning after the election:
Have you read President Trump's tweets this morning? One might think at first glance that this is an unbalanced individual as the tweets are absurd and even idiotic....but unbalanced is not the word....for this is the essence of the man.....and he's been the same man probably since his late teens.....or eight years of age if you accept his own testimony on the subject. There is no 3-D chess in this man.....no statesmanship.....and not even any political machinations as we are used to. He is at the center of this universe in his own mind.....and whatever he says has no obligation to truth or even common sense. As sad as this is it gets worse....for so many people had listened to his spiel.....signed the contract.....and went out like gangbusters to recruit others in this Ponzi scheme from Hades.
President Trump's rallies have two banners hanging high to the left and to the right. The one reads "PROMISES MADE" and the other "PROMISES KEPT." If you keep repeating a lie.....boldly repeating it......and the bigger lie the better....the people will believe it. In March of 2017 the Republican elites brought a fake Obamacare repeal and replace bill up for a vote. President Trump tried to rally everyone around it. The Freedom Caucus in the House stood up to protest. President Trump then threatened to work against them....(the only good people we have in the House of Representatives)....in what would have been yesterdays elections....if they did not get on board. This was a promise where we were stabbed in the back....and yet today he tries to present this as a valiant effort....and even a promise kept.
Probably the biggest promise of all was the wall. Trump could have had much of that wall built today if he really wanted it but he could care less. He only blusters about it when his back is against another wall....another promise that he had no intention of keeping.
If any issue rivaled the wall it would have been "DRAIN THE SWAMP." What has transpired on this is absolutely ludicrous....and yet he has the audacity to continue to make that pledge and actually tell us that he is doing it....and we believe it.
Had President Trump really cared about the location of our embassy in Israel the move would have been done much sooner. He has made so many promises that he saves some for when he needs a change in the news cycle. Israel's capture of Jerusalem's Old City during the 1967 Six-Day War has prophetic implications of the highest order....but Jerusalem is Jerusalem to God....while capitals and embassies are but political maneuvers.
French President Emanuel (God with us) Macron.....who President Trump not that long ago described in yet another ludicrous comment as "almost perfect"....he and others in Europe are pushing....and have been pushing.....for their own united army. Macron said that they need it to defend against Russia and China and maybe even the United States. We cheered President Trump's tough penny saving stance with NATO but he is building up animosity all over the globe.
One national security official only a few days ago came clean on President Trump's ill-advised summit with Kim Jong-un. President Trump made a mess of that situation and yet we still buy into the line that it was a brilliant deal making maneuver. We are far worse off than we were two years ago.....and it was almost as bad it could get back then.
We have two conservative Supreme Court judges that we would have had with any of the candidates who were in contention in 2016. Stifling business regulations would have been eliminated with any of those candidates had they become president but to listen to President Trump he alone accomplished these things.
So today the President describes what happened yesterday as "the great Midterm Election....a very big win"....and inconceivably conservative talk radio hosts who I have heard so far are pretty high on it also! In reality President Trump has his rabid....and newly formed....Trump base. Gone are those of us who had the audacity to hold the President up to any kind of scrutiny. Fortunately the gavel was kept out of the hands of a Democrat Senate's majority leader but the loss of the House was a major defeat for the "winning" that has been shoved down our throat. This should be acknowledged but it won't be.
President Trump has been a judgment from God and not a blessing. We Republicans are no longer defending the high ground.....we gave that up for a couple of pots of gold down in the swamp. We need to go back up on that hill....our pulpits need to get off of their high horse of moral superiority and plead in front of their congregations for God's mercy upon our many dalliances with the world....and we need to think for ourselves once again....seeking God's wisdom....instead of Rush Limbaugh's wisdom.
