First it was bars....then sporting events....and trips to see his girlfriend....and now it's reported that he cut way back on daily briefings. This is the head of the FBI. The other side always tries to come up with something on opponents....at times there is no truth there....at times it is all truth. Kash Patel needs investigated....somehow....and if he is just playing around with this position then get him out....and Trump will appoint another crony....maybe Hulk Hogan....and if he is the same then get rid of him....until Trump is forced to put up a legitimate nominee. If Patel is doing the job....then let's go on....but we have to make sure.
Trump yesterday fired the acting head of FEMA....because in testimony before Congress he said that it would be wrong to eliminate the agency. They asked his opinion....he gave it. Do you see what happened here for the umpteenth time under Trump....if you do not toe the line perfectly....you are out....you are to have no mind of your own!
Trump is floating the name of Stephen Miller....as National Security Adviser! This is more nonsense....a computer game....build your own government. Trump would want him in there....not for any national security strengths and experience....but to keep an eye on the rest of those attending National Security Council meetings....to make sure that no one ever gets any ideas of doubting Trump. I'm adding at the bottom of this post....a post from 2020 on a biography that came out on Stepehen Miller:
O Can...ada....just a brief thought on Trump and this Canada nonsense. It is so epically absurd that it has not even been worth talking about. It's just Trump being his absurd self. He says things just about every day of his life that shows a mind that has never been fully developed. The real surprise is that people actually take him seriously....but on Canada....they are a proud nation of their own....and even if they thought they needed some kind of merger....why on earth would they want to be part of this mess? I would never have called us a mess ten years ago....but this administration is totally screwed up....and we apparently have no one in Congress to stand up to this man....(OK maybe two or three)....and few pastors to tell the sheep that they just invited a wolf in for supper....and guess who is going to be supper?
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." That was Barack Obama in 2008. He never did fundamentally transform America....Trump did. So why didn't Trump do this in his first term? Some people theorize that he saw all the mistakes that he made back then....and this time he wasn't going to make those mistakes. It has to be more than that. We have all heard this word used to describe Trump....he is....vile....he always has been vile. He is a destroyer....and he is a deceiver....but there has to be more than even that. A clue might be January 6, 2021. I was watching that morning....not expecting anything....I just wanted to see what was happening on the ellipse....that had been in all the news. I've posted on this often. What I heard from the speakers at the microphone....and what I saw in the crowd reaction....was....as I posted at the time...."unnerving." I had to turn the television off....and this was before Trump finished his speech! Something happened to Trump that day....for before that he was just....vile....after that day he became possessed of something or for something.
Trump knows how to manipulate people....and he knows how to get his way....but he is not a very smart man. He's had bankruptcies and almost lost his empire....which he wouldn't have had to begin with without his father's money. If he wasn't so good at getting his own way he would have been in jail by now....many times over.....and now he is using his position in the White House....for himself and his brand....that surely will be investigated tooth and nail....if and when he finally pushes the envelope too far in his authoritarian measures. Trying to double and triple his wealth while president....and as the world is at the precipice....is not smart.
Are you a gambler? Of course your aren't....for you are a Christian....and Christians do not gamble. This disastrous mess that Trump has made in our government....and what is happening every day....is nothing but a gamble. He is gambling with China and Russia and the economy and the lives of all of us. Of course you do not know this because his foot soldiers at Fox and on radio and podcasts spin everything to make it sound like something it is not. So you who put this man in office and brought him back....you indeed are gamblers after all.
Evangelicals today are gamblers anyway....and the stakes are their eternal souls. There is evidence out there....in church history....and God's Word.....which tells us very clearly that if one is born again then one will and must be separate....for he or she is no longer of this world....but as the church compromised....so did our interpretation of the gospel of Jesus Christ....the result being that all we have to do today is say that we are Christian....and maybe go to church....and we are then free to waste our lives in stadiums....and politics....making it sure that we can continue to go to our stadiums at our leisure.....and we call all of this....freedom and liberty....but as I put in a post many years ago...."We are not as the Roman Empire falling, we are as the Roman Empire beginning whose gods are numerous, whose Caesars consolidate powers given by a populace that only wants another day at the Coliseum. God's hand is being lifted and the exhilaration of choosing our own destiny emboldens us to stare into the eyes of Caesar and say not, "Give me liberty or give me death" but "Give me liberty to choose my own death."
Addendum: August of 2020 post that was titled...."Something Is Missing"
"So many have left the Trump administration on bad terms....to say the least.....some fired on twitter because the man whose career was saved from oblivion by The Apprentice....where he fired someone on television every week....and who in real life cannot empathize nor is he compassionate....delegates or distances himself from the dirty work.
Mnuchin has survived but there is no surprise there for both he and Trump have only one pratical interest....that being money....and Vice President Pence has too many evangelicals behind him....but there is really only one man who has the same killer instinct as Trump.
To look at him you would think that he is in his 40s....but it wasn't that long ago that his political aspirations started to bud in high school with talk show host Larry Elder as his mentor....and later started to blossom under David Horowitz. SNL portrayed him in their skits as a Cobra popping up out of a wicker basket. We all know his name....and hear his words come out of Donald Trump's mouth....Stephen Miller.
I passed up the book when it first came out as the title....HATE MONGER....Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda....seemed a little over the top....and I already had a book in hand at Barnes & Noble this past Tuesday....when I decided to give it another look....and picked it up. I'm well over seventy books now on Donald Trump....books for him....books against him....books by him....but this one by Jean Guerrero is a must read to more fully understand Donald Trump's rise to power.
Guerrero appears to be the Left's version of Branden Darby....both passionate....both well informed. She interviewed more than 150 people....most who were either Miller "friends, family or colleagues." If they said something good about Miller it was in the book....if they gave opinions on why Stephen Miller is who he is.....or if they are outright critical....it's in the book also.
The author starts way back with Miller's lineage....with an emphasis on the maternal line....in nearby to me....Johnstown Pennsylvania....but Miller's high school days in Santa Monica are where the man was created. We see him....with the notoriety he garnered from his high school protests....head off to Washington....move up the ladder....wind up with Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions....become involved with Breitbart....controversies all along the way....and finally....and extraordinarily....become candidate and President Trump's chief ideological marketer.
We see Steve Bannon go....but Stephen Miller stay....which meant that Donald Trump would never grow into the job....but dehumanize it. Bannon marketed ideas....but Miller marketed fear. Watch him at your leisure on YouTube....as his continuous pounding of factoid after factoid...done with either a condescending smile or verbal attack....this apparently going all the way back to high school....is more a power show than a debate.
You can see Miller in the supposedly great speeches that President Trump has given....the inauguration....state of the unions....and Poland. President Kennedy had great speechwriters....as did President Reagan....but the patriotism was real with these men....with Donald Trump it is but a marketing strategy....for there is something missing in Stephen Miller....the same thing is missing in Donald Trump....something that has to come with maturity....something that works to fend off disastrous consequences."
