DISPATCHES

Voted For Him....Celebrated....Found Out Later Who He Was

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked....” Psalm 1:1a

This morning.....Friday.....Donald Trump is tweeting praises to himself in his usual fashion....this time in that there has been no war with North Korea....or other wars started.....and there are troop withdrawals all over the place. Folks.....just another warning here to those who have been taken in by a masterful cult leader....nothing means anything to Donald Trump that is not in some way meaningful to his perceived glory. North Korea is so much worse than it was four years ago....and many have documented the worsening situation as it happened. As for the troop withdrawals....it is so dangerously easy to for political reasons....actually more of a burning the place down before you leave....to appear as a man that doesn't want war.....(by the way this is the same man who said "Venezuela is who we should be going to war with....they've got all that oil!").....and then as the problems he has caused by his ignorance metastasize under a new administration....just blame it on them.

Things are starting to get more clear on Mike Pompeo....a man that evangelicals had so much confidence in to keep Trump in line. The third State Department Inspector General under his watch is leaving....as the IG issued a report essentially requesting that the wife of the Secretary just get approval for her trips....not condemning the trips....just saying please follow the protocols.....a report of which the Secretary blew up on. This may explain how Mike Pompeo could have for so long turned a blind eye on Donald Trump's antics whereas so many other men of honor could no longer take it.

I jotted down on paper at 12:44 a.m......forty-four minutes after midnight election night.....that Pennsylvania and Georgia would wind up in Biden's column.....this because that's what some of these urban Democrats machines do.....they cheat. I immediately recognized what was happening after a half century of watching these presidential and congressional elections. Trump would have won the election if it were fair....but it's not as simple a situation as it looks at first sight.....for I also remember when leaks were coming out late in H. Clinton's campaign. I knew right then that they had given Trump a big boost....and I celebrated that! Trump's 2016 win was more than tainted by Russian meddling....for as it turns out....a foreign entity helped him win the first time....but he wants back in office because he was the one this time that got the short end of the stick. His impeachment trial was fixed in his favor....as was Bill Clinton's in his favor. Trump gave a whole new meaning to the phrase....'bully pulpit'....over the past four years....and kept his base support strong because of it....as through faithful Fox news....(Friends/Carlson/Hannity/Ingraham etc.)....adoring talk radio hosts....and mind-manipulating rallies....all of his lies and cons were hidden....and now that same information machine would have us believe that this election result is evil triumphing over good. Yes....Trump was cheated this time....as the screw continued to turn....but we are far past the point of no return on doing anything about it....for there would be....as John Buford's character in Gettysburg would spew out....."The devil to pay." Our only hope is making sure it can't happen so easily again.

Note on the above: Our intelligence agencies determined in January of 2017 that Russia meddled to a grand scale in the 2016 election....and that their goals were to undermine our electoral process....aid Trump and hurt Clinton. Of course we immediately labeled this determination the workings of the Deep State. In April of this year a bi-partisan Senate committee concluded the same thing as that of our intelligence agencies.

It was announced today that the Pentagon....reeling recently under the purge of officials....replaced by Trump loyalists....and this under President Trump's orders of course....would limit the amount of help given to the CIA on counterterrorism...."Pentagon plans to cut most of its support to CIA's counterterrorism missions"....as an ABC headline put it. This seems to be Donald Trump's version of....Defund The Police.

Donald Trump is moving quickly to attack his enemies in the last few weeks of his administration....while beginning to pardon his friends. This is an illness.....with nothing to do with justice. Imagine.....just imagine what he would do....after this fraudulent election.....if his powers were extended. Have we on our side lost all vigilance? Have we totally succumbed to the powers and threats of this very troubled man....driven by a maniacal narcissism.....and ruled by a sadistic lust for revenge....in whom it has been thoroughly documented that truth holds no intrinsic value to him....and never has.....that it can be abused.....and parcelled out selectively.....distorted regularly....and purposely and deftly hidden when inconvenient?

The statistic of the percentage of people dying who had the coronavirus.....death rate....is not that easy to determine....particularly since various age groups come into question....but we still choose to use the highest survival rate CDC figure that we can find to downplay the virus.....but have any of us who are pro-life in like manner ever used CDC figures on the survival rate on pregnancies vs abortions? Of course not....for we have always been concerned with how many lives were taken....not how many births occurred. Something has happened to social conservatives concerning our respect for human life. What could it be...or who was it that so destroyed our discernment....that all of a sudden we pick the figure that supports our political position.....over the figure that shows actual deaths?

I posted in August...."Only God knows how many virus deaths there would be if President Trump had his way from the beginning"....without the pressures built up upon him to finally respond. My prayer then and now is....Lord protect us from this man....if not all of us....then your church....let us not be taken in anymore....winnow us Lord....give us unity....cause our first love to return.....for Thy glory alone....in spite of our just deserts....in spite of my just deserts."

So the latest whistleblower....this one in Florida......is of the criminal element.....their information probably being lies....for in this particular acase it does not portray the governor of Florida....a Trump person....in a good light. If the whistleblower.....any whistleblower....in any way....supports the MAGA agenda.....they are automatically a hero whistleblower....but when they oppose the MAGA agenda....they automatically are a fraud....possibly a criminal.....and maybe even a traitor.

When the police show up in the morning in full force.....with a warrant....to arrest someone in the Trump administration....it was a terrible thing.....and we were constantly reminded over the years of how terrible it was....but yesterday....when the police showed up in the morning.....in full force.....even pointing guns at small children....it was a good thing....this because the small children were children of a person that probably does not like Trump....at least she doesn't like one of Trump's people. When someone in power tries to hide statistics....whether it is in the current fraudulent election in Pennsylvania....or coronavirus statistics in Florida....it is not a good thing.....and if we compromise....we are on a downward slide into an abyss of tyranny....whether we are sliding down the left side of the chasm.....or the right.

President Trump retweeted a few days ago a video of long lines forming in Georgia for his rally....with hardly a mask in sight. A photo of a Young Republicans gala event in New Jersey emerged....with only one mask in sight....on that of a waiter. It's as if we are saying...."O God....we are not afraid of your judgments....nor your plagues....nor the chaos....nor any enemies that you threaten us with....for our best is yet to come."

We've used this quaint little ditty for a long time....that going to church does not make one a Christian any more than going into a garage makes one an automobile.....so how did it come about that we are playing with fire with this very serious virus by demanding that we be allowed to go into a church....as if going into that church does indeed prove one to be a real Christian.

President Trump today awarded Olympic gold medalist Dan Gable.....BEAT THE RUSSIANS....with the Medal of Freedom. When Gable won that medal for America....August of 1972....Fred and Donald Trump were being investigated and were later defendants in a Justice Department suit for discrimination in their rental properties....in which they in turn sued the department for $100 million for defamation. This has been the M.O. for a half century....and has never changed. John McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton at the time.... and Donald Trump was classified 4-F....after four student deferments.

I am sick-discontented-and out of humour. Poor food-hard lodging-cold Weather-nasty cloaths-nasty cookery-Vomit half my time-smoak'd out of my senses-the Devil's in't-I can't endure it-why are we sent here to starve and Freeze-Here all Confusion-smoke and cold-hunger and filthyness. A Pox on my bad luck"

The above is from a letter sent home on December 14, 1777 from army surgeon Albigence Waldo at Valley Forge. The passage is taken from a very good read.....Valley Forge....full title.....The Heart of Everything That Is....Valley Forge.....by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin....yet today our complaint is that we have to wear masks....and that everyone had to stay home and cook their own turkey. Waldo's diary jottings appear elsewhere in the book.....with descriptions that make the above look tame.

I have said it for years now.....Donald Trump is a destroyer.....businesses....friendships....he either purposely humiliates with the intent to destroy anyone who does not bow down to him.....or friends and allies fall by the wayside....often destroyed......simply by believing too much of what he says. He has destroyed conservatism.....talk radio......evangelicalism.....discernment itself and the courage to stand up against a tyrant....while driving wedges in families and churches....and whole denominations. God's Word has very clearly told us to stay away from people like this....but we have utterly ignored this valuable precept.