Friday, April 17, 2020

Why Be Critical At A Time Like This

Preface: To put it in political jargon it is a lose-lose situation....Biden or Trump...but we certainly can't see it as such. I am not putting out these posts so that Donald Trump might lose....but that we might turn back to Christ no matter who wins....should God even permit us to get there. God has judged us. The whole Clinton/Obama and now AOC thing has been judgment for what the Left is.....and now Donald John Trump has been judgment for what we are....on the right....and judgment on evangelicalism....and on the church....as we have trusted in a prince....and on our own power....and have let this profane man enter our love feasts....talk up God....and lead us where we should not go. Politics is not only not the answer....it is now the problem. Fear of the Democrats has replaced fear of God! Donald Trump is our new savior....and Rush Limbaugh is his prophet....and in their lack of wisdom....and one immediate aim and one aim only....the reelection of this president....they are pursuing this purely political agenda....which demands that a booming economy might restart....and that our ire be directed anywhere other than this administration....they are inching us closer to world war....as they are coming down off the high ground....to pick up what they think is a big fat bag of the Chinese Yuan.

             I want to address head-on the topic of continuing critical analysis of Donald Trump during this emergency....when some would say that this is a time to get behind the President. It was over forty years ago....and there was a party attended by those of us who had just been hired as new employees in jobs that we would continue in for many decades. Many were sloshed but I had just given up drinking. And today....thank the Lord....forty-one years later....I haven't had more than one drink in any one day. Anyway we were all trying to get to know one another as I asked one man who would be a friend over the following decades....if he had any brothers or sisters....as I had told him that I was an only child. His eyes were glazed and he said that he was an only child too....then he thought for a moment and said...."except for my brother." I've reminded him of that many times. When in March of 2017....after the newly inaugurated President Trump threatened to work to unseat members of the Freedom Caucus....our only reliable members of Congress....for not rubber-stamping his fake Obamacare repeal and replace bill....I started reading about this man whose election I cheered only a few months earlier. Almost seventy books later on Donald Trump's entire life....as I feel that I know him as a brother would....I'm hear to tell you he is never....ever....to be trusted.
             This latest episode of firing the inspector general is key to understanding him. One of his extreme psychological disorders is his maniacal need to get revenge on someone who was critical of him....as he has a need of constant praise....and as we have seen....he will constantly give it to himself. Folks....we've seen him tweet vitriol on people who were so low on the totem pole that they were in essence....'nobodies.' Donald Trump himself has written that he will never forget and will hit back ten times harder. Now he is feigning outrage at news reporters asking about this firing.....when he is the one who chose this moment to do the firing.....knowing it would bring a reaction.....and that he could then attack the press once again. This is the man who will be dealing with issues that directly relate to world war....that is why we cannot just drop the character issues. He has to be held in check but no one seems able to do that or even willing to attempt it. I'm repeating this from a very recent post....the Democrats want a congressional committee to look into the funding specifics of the Coronavirus bill. The Republicans say no....but they have a bill in Congress where the Justice Department can do the investigating.....which would essentially be....Trump investigating Trump. That's how he was able to quash the essence of the Mueller Report....where if you listen to his people it exonerates him.....but if you read the report it doesn't.
              I've read history my whole adult life....as other men have played golf. I have never.....other than Nebuchadnezzar....read about anyone who thinks himself more important than Donald Trump thinks of himself. If he had any integrity at all....seeing how almost half this nation vehemently opposes him....he would pass on a second term....for the good of the country....but then he believes he is the only one who can save the country. My concern is on China.....and Venezuela.....and hotspots like that. Donald Trump may be paying attention to his advisers on the Coronavirus....but he also has his eyes on transferring profits from China to the USA. The problem is that this President has no forward vision beyond immediate profits. Is anyone at least advising him of a possible war with China.....which would probably lead to world war. Exacerbating the situation is that he is replacing experienced intelligence people who know these issues with his own people.....who do not have the experience.....and who are rubber stamps. There have been reports that we have repositioned some of our naval power to the Caribbean from the Pacific. You surely didn't hear this anecdote on talk radio....Andrew McCabe wrote in his book that in a 2017 meeting on foreign policy President Trump brought up Venezuela with...."That's the country we should be going to war with....They have all that oil and they're right on our back door."
             Donald Trump is one of those rare people who have absolutely no grid for truth. He doesn't even care if he is called out on his lies....as he is totally confidant that his supporters....many of whom were former principled conservatives....do not care if he lies or how much he lies. There is nothing that he can say that they will not immediately defend. We bought into this....'promises made-promises kept'....nonsense. He has had to be dragged back into line a number of times. On these 193 federal judges he had installed.....those are our judges....not his. We fought for issues like this for decades. Any one of those conservatives in the primaries would have given us those judges....yet Donald Trump claims this as some kind of gift given to us through his great abilities that no one else would have had.
             Conservatives stumbled and failed on Donald Trump from the beginning of his term. They should have laid down the law right at the beginning.....but instead they looked for ways to defend his antics....and now we are unscrupulous and unprincipled as he is. Once Donald Trump would win a second term there would be no stopping him. He would not even need talk radio....and his new goal would be pushing to greater heights Donald Jr. or Ivanka.
              Evangelicals are the most duped of all. I just finished the single saddest book on Donald Trump of the books I have read....Stephen Strang's....God, Trump and the 2020 Election....Why He Must Win and What's at Stake for Christians if He loses. Evangelicals like Stephen Strang....and those who he references in his book....do not know Donald Trump. They have been hauled into meetings with him....had lunches with him....listened to his professionally crafted statements....and bought the whole deal. Not helping anything was Jonathan Cahn's book convincing us that Donald Trump was Jehu....sent by God to help us. Donald Trump is continuing judgment on us....not a blessing. Should we not at least consider the words from Lamentations...."Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity  to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading."