Tuesday, July 9, 2019

DISPATCHES

During Barack Obama's first campaign for president he spoke at a park just a four or five minute walk from our home. I purposely stayed home and did something trivial. If President Trump was to drive down our front street....I'd water flowers in the back. Rush Limbaugh had it right back in 2008.....(I came across the transcript quite by accident).....when he likened Obama's rallies to that of a cult. Ironically the Maha-Rushie is now the chief spokesman for a different cult. Both President Obama and President Trump have been judgments from God....where discernment and vision were taken away. Donald Trump for his part has sucked in evangelicals and high-profile ministers and so-called prophesy experts....prophesy experts who claim to have unravelled great prophetic mysteries of the Bible....but stumbled over simple warnings about delusion....that Christians are told always to be very wary of....that's why I had no desire to be in the presence of Barack Obama....and even less to be anywhere near Donald Trump. The hints were there all along....that this man was someone to avoid.....but no one warns us anymore....of anything. Not all Christians have been taken in....I know this for I talk to them all the time....but we are generally pushed in the background by the starry-eyed...glazed over rush to get a photo.....to see the hair in person....or to stand in the very presence of perceived greatness....when God's greatest gift to Christians....gets read with less frequency than the sports page.....or the community page....and has less attention given it than even the number of steps taken each day.....steps by the way.....that lead to Bunyan's The Flatterer.

God has brought America low. From President Trump to Kirsten Gillibrand....all of our options are cultural creations that should bring any thinking American to tears over how low we have sunk in the mire of our own entertainments. We created these people because of what we have become. From daytime and evening television to Trump rallies.....from congressional hearing firing squads to talk radio propaganda outlets....from mainline churches devoid of biblical truth to latte bars in vibrant but gospel-less mega-churches....from blasphemous cursing everywhere from our youth to the mouth of the president of the United States....and from the aroma of the ubiquitous 'God bless America' that must be a stench in the nostrils of God....to the meaningless 'in God we trust' that we attempt to assuage our guilt with....we are undone.

Tariffs are always risky in that they invite responses that can escalate. They are good and necessary at times....usually when our economy needs help.....but unwise when not necessary. On the one hand President Trump tells everyone all the time that America is doing better than it ever has and is the envy of the world. Does that sound like tariffs might be necessary? President Trump needs a booming economy....statistically....to secure reelection. He is risking serious consequences....even hostilities....unnecessarily. This also must be said....the general consensus among economists is that the economy is.....good.....not great. Nothing that Donald Trump says....ever....can be taken as accurate without outside verification....but we 'conservatives' do not value truth and honesty and integrity and ethics anymore. We've been weaned off of those archaic Puritanical customs in the new Trump Party. We want only results....profits....power...and leverage. We could not care less what other nations really think of us....as long as they bow down. Talk radio is our new bible....and Donald Trump our new messiah.

Geopolitical economist Jim Rickards new book is out....Aftermath. This is a man who travels with the elites of this world.....dines with the richest of the rich....and is an insider and often an adviser for our government. You can easily Google his name for his tweets and articles. I reviewed in 2017 his last book....The Road To Ruin....and highlighted the post a number of times since then. He is big on owning gold and I think that it would benefit anyone to hear his reasoning on this....but it is another of his theories that I want to bring up here in this post....and it concerns the expected small decrease by the Fed today on the interest rate. (The Fed did cut the rate a quarter) Rickards says that stock market collapses use up tools that are available to bring the market back.....and the more collapses there are over many years....the less tools that are left available. He says that those tools are now essentially gone. With such a low interest rate as we have now there is no dropping it anymore in an emergency....and that that interest rate should have been built up somewhat for that purpose if for no other reason. President Trump has applied pressure on the Fed to lower the already low interest rate....it looks as if the Fed buckled under that pressure. It's the opposite of what we should be doing.....and he wants this for his own personal reasons that will improve his chances for reelection. That's who he is folks....that's what we wanted....and that's just one example of many on the lack of wisdom and foresight in this man....not to mention the recklessness and egocentricity.

I returned today from a road trip of a couple hundred miles and received a few 'thumbs up' signals for my bumper sticker.....'TRUMP...4...YEARS ONLY....FROM A CONSERVATIVE.' We are out here....just waiting for a conservative challenger to the President who will tell the President's base what talk radio will not tell them. They won't touch this topic on talk radio....for they know that the only way President Trump retains his support is if we are kept in the dark as to what actually transpired....and who Donald Trump actually is.

Texas congressman John Ratcliffe....who in the hearings a few days ago called the Mueller Report and therefore Robert Mueller....."unAmerican"....was rewarded by being named to succeed Dan Coats as director of national intelligence. His appointment is subject to Senate approval and should be turned down. William Barr played coy and fooled us during his confirmation hearings. This appointment needs to be independent from the heavy hand of the political machinations of the president....any president. To attack an independent counsel examining the four decades old dealings that Donald Trump has had in Russia....and the subsequent obstruction of justice....and then almost immediately be appointed to such a job is not only questionable....it is under the circumstances unacceptable! What is interesting is that this man who used his five minutes of fame in attacking Robert Mueller will now find himself in Mueller's seat! UPDATE: Rep. Ratcliffe's nomination has been withdrawn....or the Congressman withdrew from consideration?

Robert Mueller appeared before Congress knowing that the questioning would be difficult. President Trump refused to be interviewed by the Special Counsel....knowing the questions would be difficult. All those around the President knew very well that he could not be interviewed in person without lying somewhere in that interview. The result of it all is that Robert Mueller was ridiculed while Trump and talk radio laughed their way through it all. Apparently there is no room today for someone who might actually think before he speaks. I could hardly understand the words let alone the questions that the first hostile questioner started the hearings off with and therefore set the tone for the entire hearing. This man was decorated in Vietnam for saving the life of a fellow Marine under fire....and decorated another time with a Purple Heart. At least he wasn't captured by the enemy because Donald Trump really doesn't like those guys does he. In a sane world people would have complemented him for holding back opinion in his report. Considering how President Trump blatantly and publicly worked on witnesses through his tweets and backroom pressuring....it's amazing that Mueller did not come out in the report outright and call it obstruction of justice.

I remember what it was like as an eighteen year old to listen with rapt attention to Robert F. Kennedy speak. When today I think of his name....the picture that comes to mind is of him standing....above everyone else....in a car possibly....what I remember of it is his being totally engulfed by black faces and outstretched arms....his sleeves rolled up on his white shirt. Love was in the air. I Know....I lived it. There were many similar photos where the crowds were white or mixed. I watched....on tape tonight....most of President Trump's speech to the young people at Turning Point USA....here with the outstretched arms pointing the camera end of their phones. Whatever this was....it was not the same thing. There was adoration in the air. Aside from references to the youth themselves it was practically identical to the typical Trump rally.....Rolling Stones and all. Whatever RFK's politics were....his emphasis was on 'other' people....what we could do for people in need. Looking back....I was one of those in need....but my thoughts were on others....never even contemplating what I could get or become out of it. Today the emphasis is on ourselves.....it may use statistics implying that the focus is on others.....but that focus is really on us....how we can become great.

It is time for John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and others to search their conscience on whether or not they are ignoring danger signs of a severe psychological disorder....but they think that they can keep under control....and apart from real decision-making....President Trump's disruptive and inciting attack tweets....impetuous and adolescent tantrums and narcissistic rants.

Donald Trump is a destroyer. He destroys people....(enemies on purpose....all who refuse to bow down to him....and others who simply fly too close to his flame.) He destroys ideas and whole movements. He has no conscience or compassion. Conservatism is dead. Talk radio is dead. Evangelicalism has shifted their focus from Christ onto a genuine biblical false prophet....all this while the now President Trump tweets and blathers what should easily with common sense and in light of ethical considerations be recognized for what it is....but then common sense and ethics are dead also.

The Freedom Caucus has now officially come out against the budget deal that will be coming up for a vote. (It's too late guys....and gals....all 31 or so of you....you have lost credibility....have you forgotten how in March of 2017....after coming out against Trump's Obamacare Lite bill....that he threatened to work against you in the 2018 elections....you are attempting to squash the Mueller report....but President Trump would swat you like a gnat if he had a chance.

As for Mark Levin....who I had often posted positively on over the years....recommending his excellent books....he began his show today hammering Congress for this new budget deal that continues to add to the tonnage of the national debt bomb that will eventually get us....but he left Trump out of it....which I knew that he would. I wonder if he ever even heard the story of how President Trump's economic advisers once early on sat him down with charts and graphs and told him how the debt bomb should explode just about the time that he....President Trump....would be ending his second term? What was the President's response? "Yeah, but I won't be here." I've repeated this anecdote before....and always end it with....'there's your champion!'

Anyone who had read deep into Donald Trump's dealings with the Russian government and Russian oligarchs....in various ways....over many decades.....and then was apprised of how Vladimir Putin's people worked so hard to get Donald Trump elected....might then see why some people in the FBI and CIA might bend some rules to investigate candidate Trump's actions.....but we don't read any of those books do we?

The problem still remains that a coverup is in progress. One question that I would have had today to Mr.Mueller would have been when if ever this redacted information in the Mueller probe will be set for release? The present Attorney General has effectively shut down all avenues in the investigation. Watergate was nothing compared to this.

I don't know if they are conspiring with one another but China/North Korea and Iran/ Hezbolah et al may act in tandem if a war breaks out in either area. If America has two fronts to deal with in a major conflagration then the draft will be instituted. Folks....imagine for a moment the problems with a draft today as to gender issues and illegal immigration and a divided country and a pool for conscription from today's culture. I guarantee you this....China and Russia know more about our potential problems than we do....and are planning accordingly.