It's hard to understand what is going on in the mind of our 47th President. It certainly doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the mind of our 45th President. This is definitely Trump 2.0.
We are making mistakes with the names of programs connected to CIA machinations. When you wrote that the National Endownment for the Arts, as well as USAID, are program names covering for CIA evils, I suggested that you meant the Endownment Fund for Democracy instead of for the Arts, but I miswrote. I meant the NED National Endowment for Democracy, which Trump's team is also curbing as well as USAID.
Although the mainstream news-media give it relatively little coverage, the institutional ‘Christians’ (perhaps even some in Canada) who still vocally and politically support Donald Trump usually see him as literally Godsent. Many, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her reporter boyfriend Brian Glenn, also perceive Trump’s presidency as divinely-intended punishment against liberals.
If God really is as vengefully angry, even seemingly blood-thirsty, as institutional Christianity generally portrays Him to be, is anyone — including supposed ardent followers or conservative Bible believers — truly safe or really ‘saved’? One could reasonably theorize that He’d be especially peeved by those self-professed Christians He’d (likely rightfully) deem as fake or frauds. After all, Jesus, who was God incarnate, was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love and non-wealth.
His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of great poverty. (I’m talking about the biblical Jesus who’d not roll his eyes and sigh: ‘Oh well, I’m against everything the politician stands for, but what can you do when you dislike even more what his political competition stands for?’)
Yet, they are not practiced by a significant number of ‘Christians’, likely including many who really seem to worship Donald Trump, a callous man who stands for very little or nothing Jesus taught and represents.
As for the U.S. president, early on Nov.6, Mr. Trump stated: “Many people have told me that God spared my life [from assassination attempts] for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness.” ... (BTW, Adolf Hitler also escaped assassination attempts made against him, most notably that called the July Plot or Operation Valkyrie.)
... I watched a documentary a few years ago about Michel de Nostredame, a.k.a. Nostradamus, and his quatrains. Amongst them were disturbing prophesies apparently making references to the first [Napoleon], second [Hitler] and third anti-Christs, the latter having yet to come and do his immense damage. One of the Nostradamus scholars interviewed for the documentary said the writings suggest the third anti-Christ will originate from what's now the United States, though he'll be of European ancestry.
To many of us, Trump is the very unstable, vengefully angry and self-centered/-serving type willing to take the world for a most brutal spin, perhaps even if only for the sake of his historical ‘greatness’. If anything, he's evidence of a great evil being unleashed onto a largely powerless world.
We are making mistakes with the names of programs connected to CIA machinations. When you wrote that the National Endownment for the Arts, as well as USAID, are program names covering for CIA evils, I suggested that you meant the Endownment Fund for Democracy instead of for the Arts, but I miswrote. I meant the NED National Endowment for Democracy, which Trump's team is also curbing as well as USAID.
Sorry for too quick typing with knarled fingers.
It is Endownment Fund for Democracy
Hey Ron, Would you give us permission to run this on the Left Coast?
My only concern is that you never get around to talking about the Endownment Fund for Democracy. Want to change the title?
Jim
Although the mainstream news-media give it relatively little coverage, the institutional ‘Christians’ (perhaps even some in Canada) who still vocally and politically support Donald Trump usually see him as literally Godsent. Many, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her reporter boyfriend Brian Glenn, also perceive Trump’s presidency as divinely-intended punishment against liberals.
If God really is as vengefully angry, even seemingly blood-thirsty, as institutional Christianity generally portrays Him to be, is anyone — including supposed ardent followers or conservative Bible believers — truly safe or really ‘saved’? One could reasonably theorize that He’d be especially peeved by those self-professed Christians He’d (likely rightfully) deem as fake or frauds. After all, Jesus, who was God incarnate, was about non-violence, genuine compassion, love and non-wealth.
His teachings and practices epitomize so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard gratuitous wealth in the midst of great poverty. (I’m talking about the biblical Jesus who’d not roll his eyes and sigh: ‘Oh well, I’m against everything the politician stands for, but what can you do when you dislike even more what his political competition stands for?’)
Yet, they are not practiced by a significant number of ‘Christians’, likely including many who really seem to worship Donald Trump, a callous man who stands for very little or nothing Jesus taught and represents.
As for the U.S. president, early on Nov.6, Mr. Trump stated: “Many people have told me that God spared my life [from assassination attempts] for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness.” ... (BTW, Adolf Hitler also escaped assassination attempts made against him, most notably that called the July Plot or Operation Valkyrie.)
... I watched a documentary a few years ago about Michel de Nostredame, a.k.a. Nostradamus, and his quatrains. Amongst them were disturbing prophesies apparently making references to the first [Napoleon], second [Hitler] and third anti-Christs, the latter having yet to come and do his immense damage. One of the Nostradamus scholars interviewed for the documentary said the writings suggest the third anti-Christ will originate from what's now the United States, though he'll be of European ancestry.
To many of us, Trump is the very unstable, vengefully angry and self-centered/-serving type willing to take the world for a most brutal spin, perhaps even if only for the sake of his historical ‘greatness’. If anything, he's evidence of a great evil being unleashed onto a largely powerless world.