New: Donald Trump.....(news reports would generally say...'The White House'....but everything coming out of that plot of land is ordered by Donald Trump)....so Donald Trump blocked Dr Fauci from appearing before a House committee....but it appears that next month Donald Trump will let him appear before a friendlier Senate committee....and we conservatives....(former conservatives actually).....still don't think that there are serious psychological disorders in this man....and troubling Soviet style disinformation and show trials in the wind.
New: Michael Cohen was put in two-week isolation in order for release to home confinement because of Coronavirus concerns. We then learned that he was writing a book. Yesterday the Trump White House notified Cohen's lawyer that Cohen was to stop writing because he signed a non-disclosure agreement. Today there is a report that Cohen's release order to home confinement....along with all the others in his prison who also are in two-week isolation in anticipation of release....are still under review. We need to know if the White House is involved in this so that he won't be able to write his book. We need Woodward and Bernstein reporters. If they question the prison about it the answer will certainly be negative as to White House involvement....so it has to go beyond that. Like Cohen or not....this is serious stuff. We already saw how President Trump blundered into the Navy Seal case.....and don't forget the USS McCain issue in 2019 where an email was sent to hide the ship during the President's trip to Japan.
New: The Supreme Court is scheduled in two weeks to hear both sides on whether Trump's financial documents held buy banking institutions must be handed over to Congress. In a surprise move the Supreme Court asked for more briefs on the case. They could decide to hear the case and possibly overturn lower court decisions that said banks must turn over the documents....or they could agree with the lower court decisions....or they could opt out of hearing the case which could just let the lower court decisions stand. We know this for sure....Donald Trump....for whatever reason....does not want his financial history released to the public.
Have we totally forgotten how they had to lift the arms of Moses for the battle to go their way? Have we totally forgotten how God pared Gideon's army down to 300 men? God was driving it home that this wasn't them....this wasn't them! And there are more examples. "Oh no God"....we say...."we need Donald Trump.....even though there isn't an ounce of truth in him....even though he brings us right down in his own swamp....and we need the Supreme Court God....surely you cannot do anything without these things!"
JUSTIN AMASH....Michigan Congressman....a former republican who had enough of Donald Trump and is now an independent....should announce within a few days if he will run a third party race for president. The argument that not voting for Trump....(a man with severe psychological disorders and no truth grid in his life whatsoever)....is a vote for the democrat candidate....is meaningless. No government leader is going to stop God's judgment on us. This pandemic has not seemed to turn us in humility towards God at all. All we can do in this election....Lord willing we should have one....is hope that a God-fearing man is on the ballot. Practically speaking.....and I only have a half century of watching politics to go on....Amash could send the decision to the House of Representatives....where both major parties would fight against each other's candidate....and they might then have to compromise.
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WORLD WAR....BRING IT ON....Risking World War For Political Gain....this is how wars start. We supposedly were the greatest economy in the history of the world....but Trump wanted more....so we started a tariff war with China....and they were hurting. Then came the coronavirus. We may find out what China hid from the world....but we'll never know if they would have acted differently had not the US somehow tried to make the greatest economy ever....even greater. Now we need that economic boom back before the election....and China is the perfect foil to President Trump's many missteps....so Rush is stirring all his people up against China....and the President has his people out for blood....and they may get it....of course if war comes they will both deny they had anything to do with it. This issue has to be separated from the November election. Campaign rhetoric can lead to volleying recriminations....then to saving face retribution....and before you know what happened....war.
BEN SASSE....When I'm working around the house....and listening to Rush Limbaugh....I do so out of a radio station in Nebraska....(it was the first one to come up on Google).....and today a Ben Sasse campaign add came up. First of all the good news on this....Senator Sasse is one of the best we have in Congress.....and now the not so good news....even this handful has failed us miserably. In the case of Senator Sasse.....this man is not just an evangelical....he is a reformed evangelical....and not just a reformed evangelical.....a very learned and informed reformed evangelical....and he still failed the test. Yes he is known for opposing Donald Trump....but we needed someone to put his/her own political future on the line and actually challenge this dangerous movement and dangerous man. Our founders pledged their 'their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor' but our best today won't even pledge their political futures. In the campaign add Senator Sasse brought up China....not for us to be determined yet patient with this difficult matter....understanding the full potential of risk....which would be wisdom....but rather joining in the attack....which coincidentally takes the microscope off Trump.
MARSHA BLACKBURN...Republican Senator from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn is being put out there as a spokesman for people who don't want to be put out there. She now uses the term....'the new axis of evil'....for China and North Korea and Russia and Iran....and this of course is true....and no revelation. She'll bring up pharmaceuticals....which is good....and then follow that with "many things" that we can do to China....including maybe doing away with our debt to them. I don't think that she has a clue about how Reagan handled the old axis of evil....or the dangers in not handling it wisely. Here it is Senator....we want to avoid world war. We are to go as far as we can....without starting a world war....or giving them an excuse to start a world war. These people who are not out front want their huge profits back. Try 'vigilance and soberness and patience' instead of 'in your face....we got the power....or else.'
TOM COTTON has become the conservative's hero....but is a little too much of a hardliner for my taste....and he is too close to the disastrous...(disastrous to the gospel)....power Christianity of Washington's secretive National Prayer Breakfast group. If you are not familiar with the controversy here it would benefit you to do some research on The Fellowship Foundation. I would ask Senator Cotton concerning China to take his own advice from 2017.....for he famously penned a letter to Republicans in the House concerning the fake Obamacare repeal and replace bill that they and Trump tried to sneak past us...."To my friends in the House: pause, start over. Get it right, don't get it fast."
Update....April 21: Senator Cotton strongly urged listeners to a Breitbart radio program to boycott Chinese goods in any way that that they can. Lead us to war Tom....we're right behind you.
Update....April 29: Stephen Moore....a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation supported Marsha Blackburn's idea of just not repaying the interest of China's $1.1 trillion treasury bonds. He says that it might cause in China...."self-righteous rage"....but simply adds...."Bring it on." The 'bring it on' mentality implies impulsiveness....and knee-jerk reactions....rather than well thought out responses....where every angle is checked....and every possible repercussion considered.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE....Sent out a 57 page memo.....this according to Politico.....telling senators in this election season not to defend President Trump on China but rather to go on a strong offensive against China....."attack China.....Coronavirus was a hit-and-run followed by a cover-up that cost thousands of lives." So much for thinking for themselves. War apparently is the furthest thing from their minds.
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To my Christian brothers and sisters....do not false words such as those directly below mean anything to you? "This nation is our canvas, and this country is our masterpiece. We look at tomorrow and see unlimited frontiers just waiting to be explored. Our brightest discoveries are not yet known. Our most thrilling stories are not yet told. Our grandest journeys are not yet made. The American Epic, the American Adventure, has only just begun. Our spirit is still young; the sun is still rising; God's grace is still shining; and my fellow Americans, the best is yet to come. Thank you, God bless you. God bless America." That was Donald Trump on February 4th at the State of the Union. Does not years of his saying we are going to keep on "winning winning winning"....at least make you a little uneasy at the possibility of his being a false prophet? What other beliefs are you willing to give up besides false prophets....literal demons....or how about hell....neither fits in with the MAGA agenda. Donald Trump has become too dominant in the lives of believers. We need to shed dependence on this person and turn back to total dependence on our Savior.
My reading of seventy books on the entire life of Donald Trump....in a three year period....is probably three times as many books that I've read on John F. Kennedy over a lifetime....but....add Bobby to the list and it narrows somewhat. I was not only a Kennedy admirer....I was therefore a Harvard admirer. I was on the campus a few times just to walk around and take in the aura. My wife and I stopped there on our honeymoon in 1976 which was spent primarily on Cape Cod. I had earlier joined a bus trip while at Pitt....to attend a Peace And Conflict Studies conference....just to be able to room on the campus. Then I became a Christian in the early 80s....and Harvard took on a whole new aura....with Puritans and Dissenters becoming those that I would now look up to. Harvard has a $38 billion endowment....and yet kept or was going to keep $9 million from the stimulus package. Segue to Emanuel College, Cambridge. I particularly wanted to visit the college during a family trip to England in 2001....a few months before 9/11. John Harvard was educated there. I have a picture of this but no story behind it....as we.....my wife and son and I....walked up a staircase....there was an oil portrait of of Puritan....maybe the founder....I don't remember....and under it was a large statue of Buddha. Such is what has transpired in Western Civilization since those days. Maranatha....Lord Jesus Come!
ICHABOD TRUMP....Eli was dead...Phinehas was dead....but more importantly the Ark of the Covenant....or the Ark of God.....the symbol of His presence in Israel....was taken into enemy hands. Eli's daugher-in-law....Phinehas' wife....bore a child and named him Ichabod...."saying....'the glory has departed from Israel'." (Samuel 4) Donald Trump....whose constant rally cry of "One glorious nation under God" was the height of presumption....is just the latest manifestation that God has left us to our own devices.
Franklin Graham has for quite some time now interjected his ministry into politics and defense of President Trump...and against those of us who do not agree with his belief. His recent comments on the horrific shooting in Canada had to include the ineffectiveness of gun control. As for his wonderful efforts in Samaritan's Purse you will get no argument from me! When his father died I knew that he would obviously give the eulogy....and I knew that Donald Trump would be in the front row. I posted on it....requesting prayers in this great opportunity for this profane man to hear that he also was dead in his sin. I prayed and waited. When the eulogy was over I was disappointed. The gospel was there but in a very sanguine way....a very typical and acceptable message. I few years ago I posted on a Trump rally in which Franklin Graham gave the opening prayer. It was marvelous....hitting to the heart where we in America had left God. No sooner had the prayer ended but Vice President Pence was at the lectern....and the crowd....who only seconds previous were quiet and reflective....was again chanting....USA....USA....USA. I had hoped that Reverend Graham had seen what had happened. In retrospect I do not think that he did.
Robert O'Brien is the man who replaced John Bolton as National Security Adviser. He had been a Mitt Romney adviser (he converted from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism in his twenties) and then a Scott Walker adviser....and then a Ted Cruz adviser (who once claimed that Putin "is going to do what he can to help Donald Trump) (He apparently likes to jump around) but is part of the replacements for the purged experienced intelligence community. North Korea may or may not be near a succession mode. Once again we see how things can change in one day! O'Brien put these words out...."People should know we have a great intelligence community, the president, vice president, Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Esper, General Milley..." Now who do you think dictated these words? The word 'great' gives it away. It is if nothing else odd how our ''intelligence community" is now summarized in political appointees.
It looks as if Israel has finally solved its Prime Minister problem as Benjamin Netanyahu will continue as PM until October of 2021 and then Benny Gantz will serve after that. Here is what comes to my mind as I read this.... we know that a seven year covenant with the Antichrist is coming if it has not already been made in some clandestine manner. It's possible that one prime minister may sign onto that covenant....but another be in place when the covenant is broken. We may see the words on paper.....but promises and assurances made behind the scene are also probable.....the second prime minister thus being at somewhat of a disadvantage.
The man who has the word 'fake' at the tip of his tongue 24/7.....and uses it as a magical incantation to cast a spell...is himself the biggest fake of all. He was never the man who he said that he was during the primaries. He did not change....we did. We in conservatism once thought of ourselves as rigorous thinkers where we could spot a fraud because we knew the genuine....but that turned out not to be the case. After winning the November 2016 election we crumbled almost immediately. He has manipulated us perfectly and now has us totally under control. He not only admits....he brags how he uses fear to get his way....and we former conservatives now live in deathly fear of losing him. Whenever he is in trouble....which is always....he finds something to hold up as a pinata....to take the heat off of him....and he of course labels as fake anything critical of him....of which we dutifully accept....no questions asked.
The day that Donald Trump would secure a second term is the day that he would no longer need those who gave up everything....along with their integrity and their conservatism and even the Gospel of Jesus Christ....to cover up for him and keep him in power.
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TRUMP AND RUSSIA.....There is currently a major investigation.....from the new people in power....on how and why the FBI investigated Donald Trump's four decades dealings with Russians....and Vladimir Putin's subsequent attempts to secure a win for Donald Trump in the election....a legitimate investigation if there ever was one. These 'new' investigators are concerned....to put it mildly....that something afoul was going on with the people in the FBI that they are investigating. They are doing the very same thing that the FBI did with Donald Trump.....who were concerned that something afoul was going on with Vladimir Putin and the American election. The only one that wins in this is Donald Trump....as of now anyway....as the Steele dossier effectively sent the investigation off the rails and off message. The FBI members in question may....indeed they should....get to tell their story in any proceedings....and since they would now be 'defendants'....have more freedom than previously to expound on what were their intentions....and why their knowledge of who Donald Trump is gave them great concern. It could be that President Trump's obsession with revenge....and using the new Attorney General to get it through purges and trials....will just bring back into the picture the issue of why Putin wanted so badly for Donald Trump to win....which was the issue to begin with.
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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN....The anti-Trump news sources.....CNN NBC et al....are highlighting the story.....while the pro-Trump news source....Fox....is highlighting the Department of Defense denial. Nothing new there. The issue is an ABC report that states that intelligence memos warned in late November of a possible catastrophe in Wuhan....and that the White House was briefed on more than one occasion. It is part of the job of intelligence agencies and particularly analysts to pass on important information even if it is incomplete. The President or the people on the NSC do not have to accept the material as being as important as the agency may view it as important.....but they are required to seriously consider anything put on their desk as legitimate intelligence. President Trump has been and is at war with our intelligence agencies on political matters. Because of this....this issue eventually has to be settled. ABC owns this report....and just as it was with the story behind All The President's Men....they have to follow through with it....either two sources gave this information....or it didn't happen. Either way we need to know. There have been a number of times when President Trump outright rejected the findings of an intelligence agency....Russia's involvement in the election and Saudi Arabia's involvement in the Khashoggi murder being two....both for political reasons. We cannot play this 'deep state' game on issues as important as this. We have to have 100% certainty that the information gathered by our intelligence agencies is at least respected at the White House.
Update....April 19: President Trump was asked if the reason he did not pick Mitt Romney for the economic task force was because he has a grudge against him. The President's response was...."Yeah, it does.....I don't really want his advice." This is why we have to eventually find out if these memos were given to him. Was this also a grudge.....such that he didn't want their advice?
Update....April 20: The Times Of Israel is reporting that an America intelligence warning of a virus in China was given in November to President Trump...."which (the White House) did not deem it of interest".....but it was passed on to NATO and to Israel. It wasn't clear whether this was the same memo as ABC reported on.
Update....May 3: President Trump said today that "now...now" that there are good people in our intelligence agencies....and they will tell us tomorrow how he was first briefed on a virus in late January. There will eventually be hearings on this.....and people will testify under oath.....under penalty of perjury. Until then.....
New: Michael Cohen was put in two-week isolation in order for release to home confinement because of Coronavirus concerns. We then learned that he was writing a book. Yesterday the Trump White House notified Cohen's lawyer that Cohen was to stop writing because he signed a non-disclosure agreement. Today there is a report that Cohen's release order to home confinement....along with all the others in his prison who also are in two-week isolation in anticipation of release....are still under review. We need to know if the White House is involved in this so that he won't be able to write his book. We need Woodward and Bernstein reporters. If they question the prison about it the answer will certainly be negative as to White House involvement....so it has to go beyond that. Like Cohen or not....this is serious stuff. We already saw how President Trump blundered into the Navy Seal case.....and don't forget the USS McCain issue in 2019 where an email was sent to hide the ship during the President's trip to Japan.
New: The Supreme Court is scheduled in two weeks to hear both sides on whether Trump's financial documents held buy banking institutions must be handed over to Congress. In a surprise move the Supreme Court asked for more briefs on the case. They could decide to hear the case and possibly overturn lower court decisions that said banks must turn over the documents....or they could agree with the lower court decisions....or they could opt out of hearing the case which could just let the lower court decisions stand. We know this for sure....Donald Trump....for whatever reason....does not want his financial history released to the public.
Have we totally forgotten how they had to lift the arms of Moses for the battle to go their way? Have we totally forgotten how God pared Gideon's army down to 300 men? God was driving it home that this wasn't them....this wasn't them! And there are more examples. "Oh no God"....we say...."we need Donald Trump.....even though there isn't an ounce of truth in him....even though he brings us right down in his own swamp....and we need the Supreme Court God....surely you cannot do anything without these things!"
JUSTIN AMASH....Michigan Congressman....a former republican who had enough of Donald Trump and is now an independent....should announce within a few days if he will run a third party race for president. The argument that not voting for Trump....(a man with severe psychological disorders and no truth grid in his life whatsoever)....is a vote for the democrat candidate....is meaningless. No government leader is going to stop God's judgment on us. This pandemic has not seemed to turn us in humility towards God at all. All we can do in this election....Lord willing we should have one....is hope that a God-fearing man is on the ballot. Practically speaking.....and I only have a half century of watching politics to go on....Amash could send the decision to the House of Representatives....where both major parties would fight against each other's candidate....and they might then have to compromise.
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WORLD WAR....BRING IT ON....Risking World War For Political Gain....this is how wars start. We supposedly were the greatest economy in the history of the world....but Trump wanted more....so we started a tariff war with China....and they were hurting. Then came the coronavirus. We may find out what China hid from the world....but we'll never know if they would have acted differently had not the US somehow tried to make the greatest economy ever....even greater. Now we need that economic boom back before the election....and China is the perfect foil to President Trump's many missteps....so Rush is stirring all his people up against China....and the President has his people out for blood....and they may get it....of course if war comes they will both deny they had anything to do with it. This issue has to be separated from the November election. Campaign rhetoric can lead to volleying recriminations....then to saving face retribution....and before you know what happened....war.
BEN SASSE....When I'm working around the house....and listening to Rush Limbaugh....I do so out of a radio station in Nebraska....(it was the first one to come up on Google).....and today a Ben Sasse campaign add came up. First of all the good news on this....Senator Sasse is one of the best we have in Congress.....and now the not so good news....even this handful has failed us miserably. In the case of Senator Sasse.....this man is not just an evangelical....he is a reformed evangelical....and not just a reformed evangelical.....a very learned and informed reformed evangelical....and he still failed the test. Yes he is known for opposing Donald Trump....but we needed someone to put his/her own political future on the line and actually challenge this dangerous movement and dangerous man. Our founders pledged their 'their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor' but our best today won't even pledge their political futures. In the campaign add Senator Sasse brought up China....not for us to be determined yet patient with this difficult matter....understanding the full potential of risk....which would be wisdom....but rather joining in the attack....which coincidentally takes the microscope off Trump.
MARSHA BLACKBURN...Republican Senator from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn is being put out there as a spokesman for people who don't want to be put out there. She now uses the term....'the new axis of evil'....for China and North Korea and Russia and Iran....and this of course is true....and no revelation. She'll bring up pharmaceuticals....which is good....and then follow that with "many things" that we can do to China....including maybe doing away with our debt to them. I don't think that she has a clue about how Reagan handled the old axis of evil....or the dangers in not handling it wisely. Here it is Senator....we want to avoid world war. We are to go as far as we can....without starting a world war....or giving them an excuse to start a world war. These people who are not out front want their huge profits back. Try 'vigilance and soberness and patience' instead of 'in your face....we got the power....or else.'
TOM COTTON has become the conservative's hero....but is a little too much of a hardliner for my taste....and he is too close to the disastrous...(disastrous to the gospel)....power Christianity of Washington's secretive National Prayer Breakfast group. If you are not familiar with the controversy here it would benefit you to do some research on The Fellowship Foundation. I would ask Senator Cotton concerning China to take his own advice from 2017.....for he famously penned a letter to Republicans in the House concerning the fake Obamacare repeal and replace bill that they and Trump tried to sneak past us...."To my friends in the House: pause, start over. Get it right, don't get it fast."
Update....April 21: Senator Cotton strongly urged listeners to a Breitbart radio program to boycott Chinese goods in any way that that they can. Lead us to war Tom....we're right behind you.
Update....April 29: Stephen Moore....a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation supported Marsha Blackburn's idea of just not repaying the interest of China's $1.1 trillion treasury bonds. He says that it might cause in China...."self-righteous rage"....but simply adds...."Bring it on." The 'bring it on' mentality implies impulsiveness....and knee-jerk reactions....rather than well thought out responses....where every angle is checked....and every possible repercussion considered.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE....Sent out a 57 page memo.....this according to Politico.....telling senators in this election season not to defend President Trump on China but rather to go on a strong offensive against China....."attack China.....Coronavirus was a hit-and-run followed by a cover-up that cost thousands of lives." So much for thinking for themselves. War apparently is the furthest thing from their minds.
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To my Christian brothers and sisters....do not false words such as those directly below mean anything to you? "This nation is our canvas, and this country is our masterpiece. We look at tomorrow and see unlimited frontiers just waiting to be explored. Our brightest discoveries are not yet known. Our most thrilling stories are not yet told. Our grandest journeys are not yet made. The American Epic, the American Adventure, has only just begun. Our spirit is still young; the sun is still rising; God's grace is still shining; and my fellow Americans, the best is yet to come. Thank you, God bless you. God bless America." That was Donald Trump on February 4th at the State of the Union. Does not years of his saying we are going to keep on "winning winning winning"....at least make you a little uneasy at the possibility of his being a false prophet? What other beliefs are you willing to give up besides false prophets....literal demons....or how about hell....neither fits in with the MAGA agenda. Donald Trump has become too dominant in the lives of believers. We need to shed dependence on this person and turn back to total dependence on our Savior.
My reading of seventy books on the entire life of Donald Trump....in a three year period....is probably three times as many books that I've read on John F. Kennedy over a lifetime....but....add Bobby to the list and it narrows somewhat. I was not only a Kennedy admirer....I was therefore a Harvard admirer. I was on the campus a few times just to walk around and take in the aura. My wife and I stopped there on our honeymoon in 1976 which was spent primarily on Cape Cod. I had earlier joined a bus trip while at Pitt....to attend a Peace And Conflict Studies conference....just to be able to room on the campus. Then I became a Christian in the early 80s....and Harvard took on a whole new aura....with Puritans and Dissenters becoming those that I would now look up to. Harvard has a $38 billion endowment....and yet kept or was going to keep $9 million from the stimulus package. Segue to Emanuel College, Cambridge. I particularly wanted to visit the college during a family trip to England in 2001....a few months before 9/11. John Harvard was educated there. I have a picture of this but no story behind it....as we.....my wife and son and I....walked up a staircase....there was an oil portrait of of Puritan....maybe the founder....I don't remember....and under it was a large statue of Buddha. Such is what has transpired in Western Civilization since those days. Maranatha....Lord Jesus Come!
ICHABOD TRUMP....Eli was dead...Phinehas was dead....but more importantly the Ark of the Covenant....or the Ark of God.....the symbol of His presence in Israel....was taken into enemy hands. Eli's daugher-in-law....Phinehas' wife....bore a child and named him Ichabod...."saying....'the glory has departed from Israel'." (Samuel 4) Donald Trump....whose constant rally cry of "One glorious nation under God" was the height of presumption....is just the latest manifestation that God has left us to our own devices.
Franklin Graham has for quite some time now interjected his ministry into politics and defense of President Trump...and against those of us who do not agree with his belief. His recent comments on the horrific shooting in Canada had to include the ineffectiveness of gun control. As for his wonderful efforts in Samaritan's Purse you will get no argument from me! When his father died I knew that he would obviously give the eulogy....and I knew that Donald Trump would be in the front row. I posted on it....requesting prayers in this great opportunity for this profane man to hear that he also was dead in his sin. I prayed and waited. When the eulogy was over I was disappointed. The gospel was there but in a very sanguine way....a very typical and acceptable message. I few years ago I posted on a Trump rally in which Franklin Graham gave the opening prayer. It was marvelous....hitting to the heart where we in America had left God. No sooner had the prayer ended but Vice President Pence was at the lectern....and the crowd....who only seconds previous were quiet and reflective....was again chanting....USA....USA....USA. I had hoped that Reverend Graham had seen what had happened. In retrospect I do not think that he did.
Robert O'Brien is the man who replaced John Bolton as National Security Adviser. He had been a Mitt Romney adviser (he converted from Roman Catholicism to Mormonism in his twenties) and then a Scott Walker adviser....and then a Ted Cruz adviser (who once claimed that Putin "is going to do what he can to help Donald Trump) (He apparently likes to jump around) but is part of the replacements for the purged experienced intelligence community. North Korea may or may not be near a succession mode. Once again we see how things can change in one day! O'Brien put these words out...."People should know we have a great intelligence community, the president, vice president, Secretary Pompeo, Secretary Esper, General Milley..." Now who do you think dictated these words? The word 'great' gives it away. It is if nothing else odd how our ''intelligence community" is now summarized in political appointees.
It looks as if Israel has finally solved its Prime Minister problem as Benjamin Netanyahu will continue as PM until October of 2021 and then Benny Gantz will serve after that. Here is what comes to my mind as I read this.... we know that a seven year covenant with the Antichrist is coming if it has not already been made in some clandestine manner. It's possible that one prime minister may sign onto that covenant....but another be in place when the covenant is broken. We may see the words on paper.....but promises and assurances made behind the scene are also probable.....the second prime minister thus being at somewhat of a disadvantage.
The man who has the word 'fake' at the tip of his tongue 24/7.....and uses it as a magical incantation to cast a spell...is himself the biggest fake of all. He was never the man who he said that he was during the primaries. He did not change....we did. We in conservatism once thought of ourselves as rigorous thinkers where we could spot a fraud because we knew the genuine....but that turned out not to be the case. After winning the November 2016 election we crumbled almost immediately. He has manipulated us perfectly and now has us totally under control. He not only admits....he brags how he uses fear to get his way....and we former conservatives now live in deathly fear of losing him. Whenever he is in trouble....which is always....he finds something to hold up as a pinata....to take the heat off of him....and he of course labels as fake anything critical of him....of which we dutifully accept....no questions asked.
The day that Donald Trump would secure a second term is the day that he would no longer need those who gave up everything....along with their integrity and their conservatism and even the Gospel of Jesus Christ....to cover up for him and keep him in power.
........................................................................
TRUMP AND RUSSIA.....There is currently a major investigation.....from the new people in power....on how and why the FBI investigated Donald Trump's four decades dealings with Russians....and Vladimir Putin's subsequent attempts to secure a win for Donald Trump in the election....a legitimate investigation if there ever was one. These 'new' investigators are concerned....to put it mildly....that something afoul was going on with the people in the FBI that they are investigating. They are doing the very same thing that the FBI did with Donald Trump.....who were concerned that something afoul was going on with Vladimir Putin and the American election. The only one that wins in this is Donald Trump....as of now anyway....as the Steele dossier effectively sent the investigation off the rails and off message. The FBI members in question may....indeed they should....get to tell their story in any proceedings....and since they would now be 'defendants'....have more freedom than previously to expound on what were their intentions....and why their knowledge of who Donald Trump is gave them great concern. It could be that President Trump's obsession with revenge....and using the new Attorney General to get it through purges and trials....will just bring back into the picture the issue of why Putin wanted so badly for Donald Trump to win....which was the issue to begin with.
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OPEN UP THE ECONOMY....I agree with President Trump that the economy needs opened up....but not necessarily for the exact same reasons. President Trump tweeted this an hour ago...."Once we OPEN UP OUR GREAT COUNTRY....and it will be sooner rather than later....Our Economy will BOOM, perhaps like never before." The focus on this side of the discussion is on getting that 'great' economy back again. I'm more focused on those individuals who this shutdown effects the most. Billionaires may be losing billions....and still have billions. Millionaires may be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in their 401s....but it's the ones who are losing their livelihood that concern me more. The former may have to begin from scratch building up their great fortunes....the latter may have to begin from scratch making a living again. It's not hard for someone like me to stay in my two-story house....and work around the yard.....and get some sun on my patio.....but I was raised in apartment buildings....where there was a family above you....and below you....and on both sides of you. The mental health of our nation also has to be taken into consideration..............................................................
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN....The anti-Trump news sources.....CNN NBC et al....are highlighting the story.....while the pro-Trump news source....Fox....is highlighting the Department of Defense denial. Nothing new there. The issue is an ABC report that states that intelligence memos warned in late November of a possible catastrophe in Wuhan....and that the White House was briefed on more than one occasion. It is part of the job of intelligence agencies and particularly analysts to pass on important information even if it is incomplete. The President or the people on the NSC do not have to accept the material as being as important as the agency may view it as important.....but they are required to seriously consider anything put on their desk as legitimate intelligence. President Trump has been and is at war with our intelligence agencies on political matters. Because of this....this issue eventually has to be settled. ABC owns this report....and just as it was with the story behind All The President's Men....they have to follow through with it....either two sources gave this information....or it didn't happen. Either way we need to know. There have been a number of times when President Trump outright rejected the findings of an intelligence agency....Russia's involvement in the election and Saudi Arabia's involvement in the Khashoggi murder being two....both for political reasons. We cannot play this 'deep state' game on issues as important as this. We have to have 100% certainty that the information gathered by our intelligence agencies is at least respected at the White House.
Update....April 19: President Trump was asked if the reason he did not pick Mitt Romney for the economic task force was because he has a grudge against him. The President's response was...."Yeah, it does.....I don't really want his advice." This is why we have to eventually find out if these memos were given to him. Was this also a grudge.....such that he didn't want their advice?
Update....April 20: The Times Of Israel is reporting that an America intelligence warning of a virus in China was given in November to President Trump...."which (the White House) did not deem it of interest".....but it was passed on to NATO and to Israel. It wasn't clear whether this was the same memo as ABC reported on.
Update....May 3: President Trump said today that "now...now" that there are good people in our intelligence agencies....and they will tell us tomorrow how he was first briefed on a virus in late January. There will eventually be hearings on this.....and people will testify under oath.....under penalty of perjury. Until then.....
