Today....Friday....March 27: The latest in Trump and Musk's punitive scorched earth....Ride To The Sea....is RFK JR's announcement that 10,000 people will lose their jobs at HHS. Two things about this....all this is not being done to cut America's deficit....that would be impossible....it is done to give Trump immediate laurels....for he needs constant laurels....and for retribution....revenge....it is a sickness....and second....conservatives are going to turn on Trump big time when they see that their own families are being hurt....and the elderly and the disabled are losing benefits....and when the Democrats return to power....if we can get that far....they have all the precedent they will ever need to have their own....executive orders....Ride To The Sea....because Trump did it first!
If the president and his national security advisors and joint chiefs of staff decided to bomb a country in 24 hours....then that right then is classified! It does not need to be written down....placed in a Manilla envelope....and stamped....CLASSIFIED....to be classified. Telling the Congress that there was nothing classified in those texts is the deceitful and untruthful and maybe unlawful tact that our intelligence heads are taking....and this surely on direct instructions of President Trump. Some of these people have to go....Gabbard and Hegseth for sure....and any of them that are telling the Congress that there was nothing classified in the chat texts. If they are ignored on this then there is nothing that they could ever tell us that could be automatically believed!
The four primary government ministries in Orwell's 1984 were the Ministry of Truth....(Trump has to have a plan for this)....the Ministry of Peace....the ministry of Love and the Ministry of Plenty....Trump does have his Ministry of Government Efficiency....of which he just changed the word 'ministry' to 'department.' Top Republicans today said that they are out of the loop on changes being made to Social Security. I've said it many times in these posts....this is supernatural....because there is no way that the Republican Party could permit these things to be happening if this was not a direct blindness from God as part of our judgment.
March 26....There have been large protests in a couple of cities in the Gaza Strip over the past two days....with people shouting....."Hamas Out!"....and that they want peace! I watched a couple of those videos and prayed for God to have mercy on these people and grant their wish.
March 25....Speaker Johnson today threw out there the possibility that the Congress can just eliminate certain district federal courts. First of all...Mike Johnson would never come up with an idea like this in a million years. Trump directs absolutely everything that everyone does. Secondly....can you not see what is happening here....if you do not like a certain judge or court of judges....just get rid of them. Whatever Trump does not like....just try to get rid of it. In a recent post titled....A Midwinter Nights Nightmare....I paraphrased Martin Niemöller's famous poetic prose....'then they came for those holding signs....and I said nothing....then they came for those who did not stand to pay tribute....and I said nothing....then they came for me....and there was no one to hear what I said.' Evangelical....this man will come for you in due course....as soon as you are no longer needed....or have become a hindrance!
In late October of 2008....Barack Obama said in a speech that...."We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America"....and we conservatives went ballistic. That never happened and Obama never really tried. Today....Trump is open about trying to fundamentally transform and redesign and reshape America....to more of a monarchy....with a coterie of loyal prefects of discipline to enforce it....and he is actually doing it....and we....former conservatives....are wildly applauding it.
NCAA wrestling championships....A father....a mother or both....watched their son train and struggle through pain and possibly adversity over years as they followed his dream of being a wrestler....maybe even making it to states....and then in college....maybe even to the national championships. It's an honorable extracurricular effort....low key as far as campus celebrity goes....and then the big day comes. He probably will not win a national championship but just being there is such a reward....something to take with him throughout life....and then that day is taken away from all of them as the most vile person in America decides to use that august venue to build his ego while participating in his own favorite sport....making countless numbers of others cringe as they are forced to participate in his sport....subjugating and irritating others. That is what we saw yesterday. Yes....many of those present cheered who have been taken in by this fake sportsman....but probably half of them just shook their head as they cannot seem to get away from this man that has elbowed his way into the national psyche.
I believe that most of us are getting....and probably will continue to receive on our computers....advertisement videos of those little colorful lifelike bunny rabbits. I guess there are a number of ways to look at this. One would be..."Aren't those bunnies adorable?" The other would be that America will be inundated with that pagan symbol for Easter....and this right up to Easter Sunday. The cross of Calvary is long gone in America....Easter was the last day that it made a regular appearance....but is now being pushed aside by a bunny rabbit.
J. D. Vance was upset that his young child was exposed to protests while the family was in Vermont. Point taken....but I had to wonder how upset Vance has been at the many toddlers in the Ukraine blown apart by Putin's missiles over the past few years? Apparently not that much as he chose to hammer Zelensky. The first time around we had Mike Pence to fall back on. This time around it looks like we have no one to fall back on.
Franklin Graham today thanked God again for Donald Trump...."a president who knows the importance of diplomacy and negotiations." The Rev. Graham has no clue as to who Donald Trump really is....or why he does the things that he does. He then asked for prayer for President....Putin...that God would...."work in his heart." If Franklin Graham lived during WWII....I wonder when the prayers for God to work in the heart of the Fuhrer or for Stalin....would change to prayers to protection from these evil men? Franklin Graham needs our prayers....John MacArthur needs our prayers. I need your prayers. We are all in this together....on some have compassion....but on others pull as out of a fire.
What is going on with Trump is so similar to what happened in Germany in 1933 when the hated Weimar government was removed....and hasty decisions led to the National Socialists and their Fuhrer. Those first hundred days were one continuous consolidation of power and purging of opponents. The man was wildly popular....as Germany was going to be great again! Most of the German church was taken in by all of this....just like today in America. Pray with me....please....that if it be God's will....that He would open the eyes of those who trust in Him....and have mercy upon us for our dalliance with pride.
The last eight years have been a disaster. Yes the economy took off when Trump took office the first time....and we got good Supreme Court justices....but this would have happened with any Republican president after eight years of Obama policies. We had two very legitimate impeachments....and when the pandemic came....Trump royally screwed it up for an entire month until forced to take some advice. Because of Trump...families and churches and just about everything has been ripped in two. Had he accepted a pandemic as a pandemic....they happen....he might have won in 2020....but instead he attacked and attacked and then just denied losing the election....himself causing a violent insurrection....and continued to tear us apart as a nation. He wound up destroying the Republican Party and conservatism and evangelicalism....and a number of formerly strong and faithful national ministries and ministers. No one had a chance to break through his stranglehold in the 2024 primaries. He defeated probably the worst president America ever had....before him....in Joe Biden....with a VP who shouldn't even have been in state government let alone on a national ticket. We on our side came down off of the ethical high ground into the putrid swamp of lies and greed and followed him like lambs led to slaughter. He has since destroyed alliances that kept the West strong...turned friend after friend against us....dismantled hedges of protection....placed in power a motley crew of sycophants like Bondi and Hegseth and Vance and Musk....turned everything once held sacred into a WWE Smackdown....and threatened everyone in the world....except Putin....to bow to him or feel his wrath.
Bible recommendation: I have given away quite a few Study Bibles in my day....as a matter of fact I have a couple on the shelf right now ready to give away if someone needs one....but....in this day of technology everywhere....if you have a smart phone or a computer....you do not need a Study Bible.....because for commentary on any Bible verse all you have to do is Google it. I recommend Googling the verse....and "John Gill"....or the verse and the word...."Ligonier"....or the verse and....."John MacArthur." What is most important in choosing a Bible is getting one where the print is very easy to read! As for the translation...the ESV would probably be my first choice....the New American Standard...NASB my second....and the New King James my third....NKJV. Get highlighters and use a mechanical #2 pencil for notes. You can probably do all of this for under $40. Also....get some books of the Bible tabs....and choose the hardcover Bible over the leather which is more expensive....and it is easier to set a hardcover on your lap to read.
