I've heard this a few times. A brother or a sister in Christ will say to at least give Donald Trump a chance. This is not a situation where a candidate won a nomination....and then an election....and should be given a chance. Trump instigated an insurrection where people's lives were lost. It was pure horror....and all the explanations trying to deny this are lies. I had to turn the television off that day....while watching what was going on at the Ellipse....(this before the horror at the Capital)....because....as I wrote at the time...."It unnerved me." Trump then spent the next four years....threatening Republicans....calling in favors....flattering....seeking the weakest politicians around as supporters.....promising rewards....avoiding debates....promising the world....peace and security...and riches. Back in January of 2017 that argument to give him a chance might be legitimate.....but not this time. If only everything this time around was just built on sand....but it much worse than that. It is built on ruined reputations....greed....revenge....and hatred. It rendered evangelicalism helpless....significantly hurt national ministers who up until Trump had defended the gospel over defending a political party....dissipated compassion....and took our eyes off of Jesus Christ...all this to build a statue of a man who is the embodiment of everything that God's Word tells us to flee from!
If I am to go too far in this paraphrase reading of a few verses in Galatians then I apologize....but this is essentially how I read it in my reading this evening....starting with chapter 2 verse 21:b...."If righteousness comes through being against abortion and homosexuality and all of the other cultural and societal sins of today....then Christ died in vain. O foolish evangelicals....who has bewitched you? Well I know who bewitched you....Donald Trump! Did you become Christians by being against abortion....or did you see your sin....and have faith in what Jesus says in His Word. Having begun by being born again....have you now advanced in the faith by trusting in yourself again?
There was today in the Oval Office the typical....gather around Trump and lay hands on him and pray....by the "Faith Office"....led by super-false prophet Paula White-Cain....and about fifteen other assorted deceived ministers. If you have never watch Paula White's prayer from four years ago....calling on angels from Africa and South America....then you should. Just Google it to see who leads this group....and to see who you have joined with as you turned away from the gospel of Jesus Christ once delivered to the saints.
I would not be a good critic on literature whether it be prose or poetry or anything....nor would I really want to be. I only know what I like. So when I say that ....Alexei Navalny.....Patriot.....A Memoir....seemed to me to be great literature....well I'm the same guy whose favorite poet fifty years ago was Rod McKuen. I could not put the book down once I really started into it....and I highly recommend it to get a much needed fresh view of what Russians are dealing with in Vladimir Putin....and also what evil....evangelicals here in America have cozied up with.
March 20....This is no surprise....Trump's Elon Musk ventured into the Social Security area. Here is how it works. Trump uses Musk to broach a topic....outrages most of America....then denies that he is behind it. He then....actually he already has....orders Musk to find back doors into cutting money from the elderly and disabled. Just one way they are doing this is making it very hard for nursing homes to survive. Technically they are not 'cutting' benefits....but the result is that people have a harder time finding a nursing home.
Think about this evangelicals....personally my hope is that our Lord and Savior and King is already mounted along with His myriads of holy angels....but should the Lord tarry....and the 2026 mid-term elections come about....I would expect that the Republicans would handily lose both chambers of congress. Imagine....just imagine how these progressives will react if they get power back....after the abuse of power that all of us have witnessed in just the last two months? We have given them a precedent to run with....and O will they run with it! If a Democrat House calls an independent counsel to investigate Trump's many constitutionally challenged executive orders....and treatment of long time allies....not even Trump's loyalists at the FBI and Justice will be able to hinder it.
Trump will surely say that all he wanted to do was get NATO countries to pay more of their fair share....but in reality he just wants to destroy it. He is right now forcing them to form their own army....hey....maybe ten nations....ten horns and seven heads....who knows? Who cares right? I mean it's not as important as keeping transgenders off the girl's swimming teams right?
Trump says that tomorrow....March 18...."all of them"....the 80,000 pages of JFK files....will be released. Let me say this....as someone who has studied JFK for almost a half century....and someone who is right now on book number 105 on Trump.....every aspect of his life....and every decade of his life....first of all Trump tomorrow may....or he may not....release...."all"....the files. He has absolutely no comprehension of what the word truth means....so on any question....in any area of life.....if he makes any kind of statement at all....it can never....ever....just be accepted at face value. This is unfortunate....but it is the way that it is. Second....Trump said he did not want to summarize what was in them....these 80,000 pages....but this should be considered....Trump would be hard pressed....if it is even possible....to read 80 pages of anything straight through. His ghostwriter for The Art Of The Deal....said back then....after spending a long period of time with Trump....that it may be possible that Trump never read a book straight through in his entire life. And Third....I have learned this in my eight year study of Trump....whenever he makes a decision to do anything that is of any substance....that will occupy the American mind.....then he picked that moment in time for a purpose. He usually needs something to be a distraction for something else!
March 19....Trump said today that he had a "good call" with Zelensky. After eight years of intense study of this man....here is my advice on how to handle a statement like that...it has absolutely no veracity one way or the other. The man is like an AI robot with no conscience as to what truth may or may not be. I feel that I know the man like a brother....and he is utterly and totally untrustworthy....on anything. He will say or fashion a statement on one criterion alone....what would benefit him.
A few days ago a conservative evangelical friend....out of the blue....said to me that they could not believe how biased Fox News was. He was astonished as he related to me how they cannot say anything negative about Trump. I told him that I had been posting for years now for Christians to...."Flee Fox News!"
Their own news media is firmly ensconced. Everything is 100% pro-Trump....as no negative stories are able to enter. Efforts are underway to secure the new Trump Hollywood....including television....while the Kennedy Center is flanking the arts. Sports are progressing to Trump.....as education of the youth is coming into line. All dissent within the Republican Party has been squashed. Fear is ruling....as planned....and purges have been taking valuable people from many areas of America's defense....particularly intelligence and criminal justice....which pleases to no end our enemies.
The United States collapsed....from within....just as so many had warned....those warnings going back all the way to the Founding Fathers....but more importantly to those many writers of God's Word! So watching us collapse from within is not surprising....what is a surprise though....is that it was the Grand Old Party that brought in the Trojan Horse....and it was the church that gave sanctuary to the tyrant so that he could have free reign to dismantle the bulwarks!
My initial concern was that Kari Lake would turn Voice of America into Trump propaganda....but as it turns out that this now privatized organization has instead had it's U.S. supportive grants taken away. Whatever the financial abuse....if there was any....and there probably was because that is a natural in most settings....Left or Right....whatever that abuse may have been....not only would it be gone....but also gone is a voice that Putin and China and Iran and many more enemies to the United States hated. In other words....Putin is very happy about what we are doing.....nothing new there.
Maybe you've already noticed....I had.....there is an article somewhere right now about the gilded look in the Oval Office. I first noticed it in during the Zelensky meeting. To me it looks like what the executive bathroom might look like at the Trump Tower...with gold everywhere.
Trump has multiple psychological illnesses. He has since taking office focused on one thing more than anything else....putting very average people into very important postions....people whose primary mission is to protect him from the law. We see this today in this statement made by one of those people chosen to insulate him....an Attorney General....as she said...."We will never stop fighting for him and for our country." Did he give her those words to say? Quite possibly....for who on their own might frame their job position in such a way?
The South African ambassador to the United States was expelled. What is concerning is that Marco Rubio stated that the ambassador...."is not welcome in our great country....because he hates America and he hates POTUS." Do any of these men and women...Rubio in this case....ever actually speak for themselves.....as it seems obvious again where those words originated?
There are two types of evangelicals that I would like to point out. The first likes to tell you how they do not like Trump.....but he was the lesser of two evils. That little ditty....'I do not like Trump'....is meant to absolve them of all responsibility of what is happening and what will happen. They can now go back to their entertainments with a clear conscience. Their hands are now clean because they volunteered that...they do not like Trump. These are probably the majority of the two types of evangelicals that I mention. The other type may not be in the majority but are everywhere. They know that Trump is everything that God's Word has told them to flee from. they know that God would never use a man like this....a man who lies as easily as he breaths....a man who flatters and threatens and a man who loves to....indeed lives to instill rage in others...,to being about anything good.
We have as a nation in these short past seven weeks.....broken covenants....dismantled the rule of law....despised the alien in our midst....set in place a junta to lop off the heads of anyone who dare utter any challenge to a man who is stabbing long-time friends and allies in the back....and is proving before our very eyes the concerns about Trump and Putin were valid.
Take note of this! The Republicans now hold a four seat advantage in the House....218 to 214. There are two special elections scheduled for April 1 to fill the seats of Gaetz and Waltz. These are strong Republican districts. There are two more seats in question. Texas Congressman Sylvester Turner (D) died a few weeks ago. The Republican Texas governor is trying to strategically deal with this. Elise Stefanik hasn't been confirmed yet for UN Ambassador. If she is eventually confirmed then her seat will also be up for a special election....in another strong Republican district. It is highly unlikely....but if Democrats would win those seats in Florida....then it would be 218 to 216. If the Democrats would hold the seat in Texas then it would be 218 to 217....and if a Democrat would take Stefanik's Seat....then the Democrats would retake the Congress. Can you even imagine the repercussions from that?
Update on the above....ten hours after it was posted. Another Democrat member of the House died today....Raul Grijalva....which makes the numbers right now....2018 (R)....and....213 (D)
