I'm sitting here in a rocking chair in front of our hotel in Virginia Beach....on a few day getaway. The distancing and mask rules are being followed by everyone where we have been. Navy jets roar overhead.....and I personally love it....and feel that pride for our military every time that I look up at them....and there is a United States Navy helicopter ship going out to sea...right in front of me.
Every beach seems to have it own special thing. Here where I'm at today it's the giant container ships....and these Navy frigates that pass by.....where I then grab my binoculars to see at times even the hands on deck.
I have a book prominently displayed.....Hoax....Donald Trump....Fox News...and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.....by CNN's Brian Stelter...hoping to generate a conversation.
Other than a blowout on I-95 on the way down....changing it to a donut while 18 wheelers fly past....praying on the highway afterwards and thanking God for his protection....and then driving the next 100 miles at 50 mph....other than this it has been a relaxing trip.
As for Stelter's book.....I wasn't expecting much because of his obvious bias.....and I haven't finished it yet as I'm highlighting everywhere....(I'll buy just about any book that can give some insight on Trump)....but as for Hoax....it's the book to read if you want to know what the world of the Hannitys and the O'Reillys and the Stelters is like. Donald Trump....who has politically survived on the words 'fake' and 'hoax'....is the biggest and grandest and most deceptive fake and hoax of them all.
After about 75 books now on Donald Trump....on every part of his life....and every decade of his life....and observing him now for three and a half years....I am sickened by him.....and saddened at how Christians had so easily left their trust and dependence on Christ to follow a false prophet.
My contention after these three years of intense research is that Donald Trump is deranged. His megalomania is such that I have never even come close to witnessing in over a half century of following politics.....his lying.....clinically tested or not....is a textbook malignant and dangerous disorder.....his sadistic lust for revenge should frighten us every bit as much as Joe Biden....his mesmerizing of once rational and rigorous thinking conservatives....and his ever-growing power-mad purging and obviously dictating every move of his carefully chosen soldiers is nothing short of history being repeated.
Evangelicals should not only have distanced themselves long ago.....but prayed and worked for a different representative to defend our causes....but we didn't....and he step-by-step changed us into clones of himself....where we now care only for ourselves.
So technically we have a choice in the voting booth....but it's no real choice....for both men are judgments on us from God....and at least until January of next year we will have Trump making vital....impetuous....risky....poll and election-driven decisions on every aspect of our lives....including our national defense.
Woe to us....woe to us....for we on both sides of this political nightmare have chosen to be renegades from God's path to wisdom.
Update: As I've mentioned so many times in these posts.....we do no have the cable news networks in our home.....so I only get to see Hannity or any of the others when on vacation.....one of which I just finished. So my opinion here.....if anything....is almost one of a first impression....not under its spell as I haven't viewed any of these programs in over a year....and there may be a benefit to this. After watching Tucker Carlson tonight....my impression was.....that this type of reporting bypasses the mind.....and goes straight to the emotions....so handle with care! That was my first thought after his show ended....and that of a few minutes of Hannity....(all that I could take.) I imagine that my impression would be much the same after any of the other shows on any of the networks. Folks....read....don't let the image or the soundbite or the repetitiveness or the furled brow dominate your thinking processes.
