Saturday....March 12: Someone asked me this question today....so I thought that I would post here the exact answer that I gave. The question was one that seems to come to people's mind first on what is going on in the Ukraine...."What would Putin do if Trump were in office?" First of all....Putin loved Trump being president....he did everything that he could to help him beat Hillary. Trump paid back the favor by pleading Putin's case a number of times....including taking Putin's word over that of every one of our intelligence agencies....this on whether Russia interfered in the election. Secondly....Trump had no idea what to do when he took office....he never expected to actually win. He had to make cabinet appointments....and knowing nothing about anything....he took advice. The advice that he took on all the appointments that related to our national defense was good advice....Mattis and Bolton and a number of others who were very capable....particularly VP Pence. So the original question should be more...."What would Putin do with people like this all around the president?" Was it Biden and Afghanistan that emboldened Putin? Where to start on that? I'll just give a Tweet Trump sent out in July of 2021...."I started the process, all the troops are coming home, they (Biden) couldn't stop the process. 21 years is enough. They (Biden) couldn't stop the process, they (Biden) wanted to but couldn't stop the process."
Thursday: I supported Ted Cruz right up to the 2016 convention.... and lavished praise on him here in these posts after his 21 hour filibuster on Obamacare in 2013....but his has been the single biggest collapse of a conservative that I have ever witnessed. In his latest attempt to make himself relevant he joined the trucker freedom protest in the capitol....and said that the message to the government should be...."Leave me the hell alone"....and on having to show papers...."That's none of your damn business." A crowd member shouted...."You should run for president"....to which he responded...."Thank You." Sad.
Tuesday morning: William Barr was interviewed on NBC by Lester Holt. Former president Donald Trump then wrote a very typical 'Trump diatribe' type of letter to Holt. You can easily access the interview and the letter through Google. I was present a few weeks ago when Barr was interviewed.....honored really....on a very conservative college campus....and posted on that....and today....in a few hours....Lord willing....I hope to begin reading William Barr's just published book....One Damn Thing After Another....and post on it as soon as possible.
Donald Trump rules the Republican Party as would a king. He was duly nominated and elected in 2016....but only anointed and christened for his second nomination. When he demanded that we use his own book of prayer titled....We Are One Glorious Nation Under God....many of us said no. When it became apparent that he was losing his mind....many more said that must go. He continues to reign as I type....becoming more of a reign of terror as time goes on....as the number of dissenting voices in the parliament increase....now seeing that the emperor....the king in this case....the former president to be more specific....has no clothes.
We are on the brink of world war....and from our side literally pounding our president every moment of every day....with Kamala Harris in the wings. I had to ask myself how I handled it when President Trump was confronted with a similar situation in 2017 with North Korea....so I went back in these posts and saw these words in June from a post titled.....What President Trump Doesn't Need.
I thought I would add here a prayer that I posted for the then....President-elect Donald Trump:
Lord I lift this man up to you who is to become our president.... for mercies upon his soul Lord and for wisdom that might in turn lead to mercies upon we your children. I see myself in him Lord, not the fame or wealth or great abilities in business but in his blindness and even arrogance. I see myself when I was cast off from your blessings of grace and knowledge of your majesties....I see myself even now in need of the same mercies. Lord, you permitted him to attain that which this world calls great success...show him that it is but a dung heap. He finds himself in a position that he believes talent and purpose has brought him....maybe even fate as he perceives fate to be. Surely his countenance of supreme confidence must dissipate at night when he has nothing to do but lie in bed and contemplate what has happened to him in the last year. Surely Lord the responsibilities must unnerve him. Does he marvel Lord? I pray that he doesn't, for he would not marvel at what you have done for he has shown no inclination to consult you, therefore he would have to marvel at what he perceives he himself to have done....just as Nebuchadnezzar had marveled. In whatever is in store for him in this exalted position he is to assume I pray that if it be thy will that his eyes would be opened to the realities surrounding him...the realities of a world that has rejected its Creator and will therefore be judged by its Creator...and the reality that he also has fallen under this prideful self-exaltation and is in need of the mercy of redemption. Cause him to tremble Lord....at your holiness....at his sinfulness....and if it be in thy plans to have mercy upon us then cause him to humble himself before you just as you did so with us.... and that the accompanying eternal and unsurpassable blessings would also be his as they are ours. I ask not Lord for him to be the champion that he projects himself to be, for you alone Lord are our champion...our captain...and our king. I ask not Lord that our nation would merely be granted more time to move further away from you... but that it would...in whatever time you give us...display clearly to the world a refusal to follow the schemes of those whose plans are for building a new world in total antithesis to you its Creator. Lord, this man is not alone in need of mercy for we ourselves have failed miserably. Show us this Lord....and set us apart once again....for your purposes. If you should will it that we return to you then no force on this earth or in the heavens can thwart our return. Lord, this man has advisers all around him. Some acknowledge that only you cause nations to rise and to fall but most do not acknowledge you. Blind this man who will be called the president to those that are blind to you Lord! Give this man no strength apart from trust in you Lord, for any other perceived strength is worthless and deceiving. Then should turmoil come, we shall have perfect peace Lord...not necessarily peace as man views peace...but peace in the midst of travail....our minds set upon you who not only created the heavens and the earth but controls everything and everyone in this your creation.....and if peace should come....as man views peace....we could do nothing but gratefully acknowledge that you have brought order out of chaos for thy glory alone.
