Donald Trump fits the biblical definition of a false prophet....who entered the sheepfold not by the gate....but the down escalator....and most of evangelicalism.....to one degree or another....is in bondage to him right now. He has dragged us down to his level....as we have forsaken the glory and the promises of Jesus Christ....and replaced it with the vain-glory and broken cisterns of Donald Trump....in whom we now trust. My prayer every day is that the Lord might open our eyes to this man.
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Why is it that we who are pro-life have always focused on the number of lives that did not survive because of abortion....but all of a sudden on the coronavirus we focus on the number of lives that survived?
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In May of 2019 Donald Trump tweeted this as Roy Moore was considering a bid for the Alabama Senate seat...."If you actually care about #MAGA more than your own ego, it's time to ride off into the sunset, Judge." I pleaded throughout 2019 in these insignificant posts for republicans to tell President Trump.....in effect....'Mr. President....thank you for your efforts....but you personally are tearing us apart....so please....for the good of the country....turn this effort over to someone else'....but knowing all the while that Donald Trump would never put the country's well-being over his own glory.
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How many times have you heard Donald Trump boast....."I got rid of the Johnson Amendment?" Surely dozens....as it was a regular boast at this rallies.....but the Johnson Amendment is still there....and Trump knows it.....for it was legislated in.....and would have to be legislated out.....and I never heard of him even trying to do so. As time passed.....quite a bit of time.....he was forced to modify that statement.....or not use it all.....but rather approach the subject in a different way....or attempt to nuance the issue.
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John McCain died well over two years ago. Why would Donald Trump tweet this tonight...."Check out last in his class John McCain, one of the most overrated people in D.C."? McCain was on his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam when he was shot down.....while Trump was on his fifth draft deferment.
Operation Warp Speed....a clever name....and a remarkable scientific and medical achievement....any president that we have had in modern times....seeing the potential devastation of the pandemic.....would have thrown every single resource possible into coming up with a vaccine....and they would have started sooner....while Donald Trump might be the only one to claim afterwards that he accomplished such a great thing.
Donald Trump's grandfather died of the flu....the Spanish Flu....at 49 years of age....in May of 1918....(one of 675,000 Americans to have died from it....CDC statistic).....that particular strain of the flu came back in the fall with even deadlier results.....yet President Trump said in March of this year....after being told that over the past ten years an average of 36,000 had died of the flu...."I never heard those numbers. I would have been shocked. I would've said....'Does anybody die from the flu....I didn't know people died from the flu." That Trump once incorrectly said that his father was born in Germany....when it was his grandfather that was born in Germany....is not surprising....nor that he didn't know that his own grandfather died from the Spanish Flu. I recommended below....Andrea Bernstein's book....American Oligarchs, the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power....to get a better idea of what is important in Donald Trump's life.....and what is just at times convenient.
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OK Mr. Talk Show Host....since you keep on bringing it up....let's talk about Russia again! The Democrats used this same political tactic for decades....as they criticized Joe McCarthy so much...over so many years....that now they can offhandedly just say....'McCarthyism'....and everyone accepts the premise that the Wisconsin Senator's efforts were wrong. Trump people do that today with Russia....where they have for four now years bombarded us on their one-sided talk shows in that the Russia probe was a hoax....that now they can just nonchalantly but with extreme sarcasm....spew out the phrase....'Russia Hoax'....and the listeners just automatically believe it was a hoax....but nothing could be further from the truth. It's not that Trump willfully wanted to sell us out....it's that he was so involved with Russian money....over so many years....and therefore became so complimentary to Putin....that he needed investigated....while his strange personal meetings with Putin didn't help the situation....and those investigations proved out in that Trump appears to be.....guess what....Russia's Trump.....just as Biden appears to be.....China's Biden! If you want to find out for yourself Trump's history with Russian money....here are some books to start with....
Trump/Russia...A Definitive History....by Seth Hettena
House of Trump/House of Putin....by Craig Unger
American Oligarchs, the Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power...by Andrea Bernstein....and
Crime In Progress....Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion Investigation of Donald Trump....by
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch....co-founders of Fusion GPS
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OK....you are all by yourself as you read this.....there is no one there for which you have to automatically defend Donald Trump....you can actually.....for a few minutes.....think absolutely on your own....exhilarating thought isn't it.....for we haven't done that in years? Here it is....what would happen if somehow....this election result.....corrupt as it is as I have said from election evening....but by far not the first election stolen in America....if this election result was actually overturned....what would happen in America? Now....in this age of not thinking for a single minute before responding....we would say something like...."who cares....what's right is right....yeah!.....USA USA USA"....or something like that. In reality....America would most likely.....implode......right or wrong.....it would most likely implode.....disaster. You don't like that alternative. None of us do.....but for once in the last four years....think two steps ahead instead of just what tomorrow's polls show. No....there is no possibility that a second term is awarded to this man. That does not mean that we do not fight to get some checks and balances for elections....as we pick ourselves up....and go forward....but not with an impulsive and absurd demand that this very troubled man somehow fires and purges and strongarms his way a second term....the same man who was tickled pink in 2016.....that someone outside of America was helping his campaign.
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I think that a lot of people today are weeping over America. Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump have been judgments on us. How many times have I posted that thought? And Joe Biden is the same thing. Somewhere in 2016 we made a very poor decision. I'm pointing here to the primaries....and primarily to evangelicals. And now look at us. We needed this break....to clear our heads....and possibly see our own culpability in what has happened to us....but he won't loosen his grip on us....but God can loosen that grip. Possibly reading of David's pleas in the Psalms might stir within us that which we need to pray rightly?
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It's a disturbing film.....from 1957.....Abandon Ship....that starred Tyrone Power. A wandering mine....left over from World War II strikes an ocean liner.....which goes down with about 1000 souls if I remember. Around 26 survive and cling to a lifeboat that is designed to hold maybe 18. Tyrone Power is the highest ranking crew member to survive.....and is therefore the captain.....a man determined to save as many as possible. A storm is coming in....the lifeboat sits low to the water....and Power's character decides that some must be set adrift. That in itself is hard to take for a number of the survivors.....but the 'captain' has a pistol. OK....they'll do what he says.....so they mention that the women and elderly and the injured stay.....so who is to be set adrift. They are then told that....no.....the weaker ones are to be set adrift.....for they are of no help in rowing. Well....I won't describe some of what happens other then to say as I did at the top.....it is disturbing. The aim of the film is to have the viewers pick sides. I was probably no more than ten when I first saw the film....and the effect of it never left me. It may have had one minor Oscar nomination. Normally it would have deserved more....but it was probably perceived that the public wasn't ready for this question. Unfortunately we may be ready for it today....and I don't think I would want to hear our answer.
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If Attorney General Bill Barr wrote that resignation letter.....then I'm a monkey's uncle....or maybe he did.....maybe he's as nuts as the rest of them.....but my vote goes to Stephen Miller.....with most likely Donald Trump himself throwing ideas at Stephen Miller. You can fairly easily Google the transcript for yourself.
Donald Trump tweeted that he had a nice conversation with Attorney General Barr....and then said Barr will be resigning to be with his family at Christmas. Buffalo Chips! To use one of Colonel Potter's quaint Hannibal, Missouri phrases. Thirty-eight days.....can we make it? Everyone in government....almost....on both sides of the aisle....have to be chewing their fingernails waiting for this man to leave....but he will attempt to torment as many people as possible until the day that he walks out the door. How do I know this? Eighty books on him showed me who he has been his entire life. There's nothing new.
I commented a few times over the past few years how I hoped that he would leave after four years....enjoy retirement at Mar-a-Lago....golf to his heart's content....get a pardon for everything he needs.....and then just bask in the fact that he rose to become the 45th president of the United States....but that's impossible with a man so troubled as he is. Who is there to watch him? It's not going to be Pompeo....and Pence is probably counting the days more than anyone....and ruing the thought of possibly having to become president for a day.
It was obvious that Bill Barr would be leaving after saying only two days ago that he would not be intimidated by a "deposed king ranting." Yet today he writes this type of resignation letter....'horse hockey.....mule fritters....pigeon pellets....monkey muffins!' We'll find out later what really happened in that room. As for Barr....he wanted this job....schmoozed his way through the hearings....did Trump's bidding on the Mueller Report....and now goes the way of Sessions and Mattis and Tillerson and dozens if not hundreds of others who wished that they were never offered the jobs.
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