The Truth about Trump is that He Lies….I’m a recovering Republican, for now having abandoned the party not because my views have changed that much, but the mindset of the party has shifted so far to the radical right it’s unrecognizable, plus has embraced the moral degradation of Trump. The truth about Trump is he corrupts all he touches. For as long as the GOP remains controlled by Trump & the Fox-led echo, I will not only refuse to be party to it, but will continue to call them out. From the holiday with thevoracs.com only posting one set of messages this week, there are many relevant stories below from the newsfeeds to cover, especially here in part 2 largely about messaging.
When my echo-absorbed Cubs fan buddy replies to my last set of messages with such sentiments like “the illegal Mueller investigation and scandalous spying into his campaign,” it’s emblematic of the type of alternate-reality thinking we’re now forced to deal with as a nation. The part 1 VORACS posts from a week ago in the commentary, excerpts & related article links proved how productive the Mueller probe has been, while in part 2 we were spectacularly successful in refuting this echo-spygate nonsense, but Trumpeters remain trapped inside their hermetically-sealed tribal bubble, hopelessly hoodwinked by duplicitous subterfuge: deep-state-trump-conspiracy-sp
Trump has the bully pulpit along with a cheerleading echo & compliant base, which makes him almost as effective as he is dangerous in shaping the political narrative. At this point he seems to have his fans convinced the probe is unfair, mounting this massive/coordinated PR campaign distorting the facts. But Mueller remains mum & his team doesn’t leak, so we have yet to hear the final word.
Dangers to Democracy
Americans need to be alerted to the dangers: trumps-contempt-for-the-rule-o
An international politics expert who studies authoritarian regimes said President Donald Trump was following the playbook of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Brian Klaas, an expert on global democracy and political violence, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Trump’s attacks on democratic institutions — with the help of congressional Republicans — have already provoked a constitutional crisis. “They’re orchestrating a political campaign to politicize the rule of law in America, and they’re trying to do it to save the president’s skin,” Klaas said. “Even if it means hurting American national security, even if it means eroding democratic principles and institutions and even if it means sacrificing their own personal integrity that they tried to build for their careers.”
Klaas, a Washington Post columnist and a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, compared Trump’s democratic abuses to Erdoğan’s attacks on the rule of law after his 2014 election as Turkish president. “I think the strongest parallels really are 2014 in Turkey when President Erdoğan was facing a corruption investigation,” Klaas said. “He called it a witch hunt, he said he was a victim of the ‘deep state.’ He fired prosecutors and he purged the equivalent of the Department of Justice. This sounds really familiar, right?” He said the changes came slowly, but left Erdoğan with dictatorial powers after the transformation was complete. “They chipped away at it slowly, day after day, and I think that’s what we’re in the midst of, democratic decay,” Klaas said. “We accept new normals that were previously unacceptable by Republicans and Democrats, and are now just daily life.” The political scientist and author faulted Republicans for being complicit as Trump behaves like a despot. “It’s the test of their political lives, and they’re failing,” Klaas said. “We have a situation in which the founding fathers anticipated a demagogue like Trump. They didn’t anticipate that Congress would be complicit with him.”
Only time can tell to what extent damage has been done to our democratic institutions during the Trump era, but it could be substantial: democracys-end-is
The challenge Americans face today is “how do we maintain that sense of common purpose, our ‘in it together,’ as opposed to splintering and dividing? As we are seeing in some debates in social media and elsewhere, it’s harder to do today. But I think it becomes more necessary than ever, because if we don’t figure it out, not only will it be hard for our economy to survive but it is going to be hard for our democracy to survive.” Obama believes that one important way we can maintain and increase a national identity, where citizens view themselves as Americans first, rather than members of a particular tribe (like our political party, or race, or gender) is by sharing stories with each other. The more we can do that, the more we’ll see each other as fellow humans, rather than as caricatures representing some other tribe. One place to start is to ask everyone, no matter where in the political spectrum you fall, to expand your media sources, he suggests. “Right now part of our polarization is that if you watch Fox News all day, or you read the New York Times, you are occupying two different realities. We have to be able to figure out, in this multiplicity of platforms, to have some common baseline of facts that allow us to meet and solve problems,” he said.
Trump Lies
We continue to observe the irrefutable reality that Trump has enormous challenges with the truth: trump-lies-demonstrable-falseh
Recently we’ve let the fantasy dog out for a romp. “Donald Trump is a pure fantasyland being, its apotheosis,” Andersen writes. Trump is celebrity subsuming governance. Every day he produces great geysers of fantasy — some of which rip the cultural fabric (Mexican rapists), some of which merely tug it (“Obama had my ‘wires tapped’”). Trump’s fantasies regularly collide with reality, and so far reality has a perfect winning percentage. The dangerous thing about Trump’s fantasy world is not when it dissolves into nothing; it’s when he seduces the rest of us to move into it. It’s not when he ignores the facts; it’s when he replaces them by building an alternate virtual reality and suckering us into co-creating it.
The first problem is you can’t beat Trump at his own fantasy game. As Daniel Boorstin understood back in 1962, you can’t refute an image with a fact. Every pseudo-event “becomes all the more interesting with our every effort to debunk it.” Trump gets to monopolize attention ever more comprehensively and deepen his credibility as anti-establishment hero. The second problem is that when you agree to operate within his fantasy, even if you are motivated by the attraction of repulsion, you’ve given the man your brain. Sometimes my Trump-bashing friends and I seem like puppets on his string.
There was a fascinating essay in Literary Hub by the book agent Erik Hane. Hane reads through the slush piles of new novel submissions. These days they are often about Trump. The novelists, he writes, have lost control of their own consciousness: “These authors are not writing the political moment so much as the moment is writing them.” Hane, who writes at the top of his voice, continues, “It is one of fascism’s goals to monopolize our attention. It would like to shrink our imagination. … Fascism welcomes our attempts to play logical ‘gotcha’ with its inconsistencies because it knows we will lose — not because we won’t find a fallacy but because the fallacy won’t matter.” Hane says he misses novels that are about someone else’s actual lived experience. I miss people thinking about the world outside the gravity field of Trumpian unreality, and about the world after Trump — the world we should be building. We’re in the middle of some vast historical transition, and it’s very hard to know what to believe in. The more time we spend on the Trumpian soap opera, the less likely we are to know where we are or what we should do.
Further evidence of Trump’s penchant for pathological lying is seen in Advanced-Gaslighting-Trump-
The one thing that seemed to emerge from Thursday’s viewing of the documents that Donald Trump claimed would show an FBI spy “implanted” in his campaign was … nothing. No spy. No implanting. No evidence that would rile even the most conspiracy-happy Trump supporter. The emperor’s new theory was simply naked lies. Though Republicans did rouse themselves enough to complain when Democrats pointed out the truth, the prevailing attitude—even among the most ardent Trump supporters—was one of walking away, saying little, and hoping that the press would simply forget this whole thing. But Donald Trump is not giving up. He’s determined that his own version of “unmasking” and “release the memo” is just as good as … those Devin Nunes-created pointless exercises in distraction. Even based on the new Republican formula that lies are patriotic, while telling the truth represents a leak of classified information, this seems … Honestly, it’s hard to know what this seems. Unintelligible, that’s what it seems. Trump appears to be suggesting that the FBI placed an informant within his campaign before there was any evidence of a connection to Russia, and paid that informant “a fortune.” None of which squares with what has made it into the public domain. Considering what has been published by outlets such as the Washington Post, and the reaction of those who saw Trump’s apparently very-non-smoking-gun documents, this “nothing burger” appears to be even emptier than usual. Donald Trump is still trying to make what he calls “Spygate” happen … but he appears to be going it alone.
The truth about Trump is he can’t be trusted. It’s astounding the way the prez has no hesitation & no shame spreading around the most ridiculous claims, as if he can just make stuff up & convince himself it’s true. He certainly has many supporters believing. Personally, I could never in good conscience publicly state so many lies, or actually say them with a straight face, but Trump must be accustom to it. A common trait among pathological liars is they’ve become so good at it. More truths about his lies are seen here from politics/trump-conspiracy
Now that he is president, Mr. Trump’s baseless stories of secret plots by powerful interests appear to be having a distinct effect. Among critics, they have fanned fears that he is eroding public trust in institutions, undermining the idea of objective truth and sowing widespread suspicions about the government and news media that mirror his own. “The effect on the life of the nation of a president inventing conspiracy theories in order to distract attention from legitimate investigations or other things he dislikes is corrosive,” said Jon Meacham, a presidential historian and biographer. “The diabolical brilliance of the Trump strategy of disinformation is that many people are simply going to hear the charges and countercharges, and decide that there must be something to them because the president of the United States is saying them.”
But Mr. Trump’s willingness to peddle suspicion as fact has implications beyond the Russia inquiry. It is a vital ingredient in the president’s communications arsenal, a social media-fueled, brashly expressed narrative of dubious accusations and dark insinuations that allows him to promote his own version of reality. Students of Mr. Trump’s life and communication style argue that the idea of conspiracies is a vital part of his strategy to avoid accountability and punch back at detractors, real or perceived, including the news media. “He’s the blame shifter in chief,” said Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer. “Conspiracies, by definition, are things that others do to you. You’re being duped; you’re being fooled; the world is laughing at us. It goes to this idea that you can’t believe anything that you read or see. He has sold us a whole way of accepting a narrative that has so many layers of unaccountable, unsubstantiated content that you can’t possibly peel it all back.”
Calling Out The Prez
The truth about Trump is he’s scandal ridden. Those who broke the Watergate story can certainly offer good insights to how that Nixon scandal compares to now, as seen in carl-bernstein-warns-apos-auth
Bernstein, who broke the infamous Watergate scandal in the early 1970s with his partner Bob Woodward, discussed the matter during a Sunday appearance on CNN: “I think we can look at a big picture now with some real definition,” Bernstein said, “in which [it’s a] perilous moment for our country right now.” “It’s a question of whether lies, authoritarianism and the character of the president of the United States are going to take us to an authoritarian place where we have never been,” he continued, “in which he will bury a duly constituted and legal investigation that will determine whether or not the president is above the rule of law. What we are seeing, and what Donald Trump understands and the reasons he wants to bury, demean, undermine and put this investigation out of business for all time, is he knows Mueller has the ability and the facts to reveal him … in a really terrible light,” Bernstein said Sunday. “Mueller has enough to show Donald Trump and his lies in a way that definitely the American people, including a lot of Fox viewers perhaps, may be convinced that we are seeing a false narrative by the president of the United States,” he continued. “Trump does not want this story told. That’s the bottom line.”
We need to find a contingent with some backbone: republicans-for-the-rule-of-la
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) defended the FBI in comments on ABC on Sunday, saying he believes law enforcement was right to investigate “certain individuals” with suspicious histories connected to Russia. Rubio argued the FBI was not investigating President Trump‘s campaign, but was looking into these individuals, something he said was appropriate. “As far as what I have seen to date, it appears that there was an investigation not of the campaign but of certain individuals who have a history that we should be suspicious of that predate the presidential campaign of 2015, 2016.” Rubio said on ABC’s “This Week.” “When individuals like that are in the orbit of a major political campaign in America, the FBI, who is in charge of counterintelligence investigations, should look at people like that,” Rubio added. “But they’re not investigating the campaign, they’re investigating those people.” Rubio made the remarks in response to Trump’s argument that the FBI improperly spied on his presidential campaign through the use of the informant.
Trey Gowdy also voiced honesty in defending the FBI & admitting the prez has no credible evidence supporting his spygate claims. Gowdy says the legit evidence indicates the FBI during the campaign did exactly what they’re supposed to do, surveil shady Russians, as seen in gowdy-gets-behind-fbi & also conservative-stalwart-boosts-t
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Tuesday that the FBI’s use of an informant for the Trump campaign in 2016 was appropriate, joining top Democrats in disputing President Donald Trump’s characterization of the informant as a spy. “I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Gowdy said during an interview on Fox News. In recent days, Trump has parroted misleading claims about the FBI’s use of the informant as part of its counter-intelligence investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, dubbing the individual a “spy” and referring to the controversy as “Spygate.” Gowdy’s comments were significant because the former federal prosecutor participated in a classified briefing about the informant last week that was conducted by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The so-called “Gang of Eight”—which includes House and Senate leaders in addition to the top Republicans and Democrats on the intelligence committees—also joined the briefing. The Democrats present at the meeting previously released a joint statement saying they heard “no evidence” from Rosenstein and Wray that a “spy” was placed within the Trump campaign. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has also backed Gowdy’s and other congressional leaders’ characterization of the FBI’s activities as part of the counter-intelligence investigation. On Sunday, the senator said the FBI was right to look into “individuals with a history of links to Russia that were concerning.”
Also see this for more debunking of spygate: fox-newss-napolitano-trumps-sp
Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, joked by recommending people under criminal investigation by the FBI send their lawyer to intel meetings. “What the president’s did team yesterday is something no other citizen in this country would be permitted to do,” Steele said. “And that is to have their counsel and their executive chief officer from their business, if you will, inside a meeting.” “This is what twists my stuff in a knot,” Steele continued. “Republicans are complicit in this crazy. And they’re sitting here now and dumbing down the system, they’re disintegrating the very pillars of justice in this country. A., by going after those institutions like the FBI and the DOJ, but then permitting the president to behave in a way in which no other American citizen — and they no damn well that this is true — would be able to behave.”
The truth about Trump is he’s a conspiracy theorist. More on Trump’s elaborate habit of hoaxing are seen here from the link former-intel-chief-hayden
General Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and NSA during the George W. Bush administration, said on Sunday that President Trump will attempt anything in an effort to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling. “I think he’s simply trying to delegitimize the Mueller investigation, the FBI, the Department of Justice and he’s willing to throw almost anything against the wall,” Hayden told ABC’s “This Week.” “Remember, wiretapping Trump Tower, unmasking U.S. identities, FISA applications that were abused and now we have — now we have this,” Hayden added, referring to recent allegations from Trump that a spy was placed in his presidential campaign.
In recent days it was reported that the FBI had an informant who spoke to members of Trump’s presidential campaign. The FBI has worked to assess if there were links between the campaign and Russia. Shortly after the reports broke, Trump and several Republicans labeled the informant a “spy.” Hayden noted that while the president’s comments lack evidence, they have made an impact on many Americans. “All of those are incorrect. All of those are stunningly normal in the development of intelligence and law enforcement,” Hayden said. “But…for a lot of people in the country, one or another or many of those things have already stuck.” Hayden noted that, based on what he knows of the ongoing investigation, “everyone has handled this just about the way it should have been handled.”
Might the reality of the Trump presidency now playing out have been foretold by a previous book of fiction?: philip-roth-trump-de
For more than a year, President Trump has been at war with law enforcement agencies that answer to him, interjecting himself into an investigation in which he himself is a subject. And he has escalated the conflict drastically in recent days by accusing the F.B.I. of placing a “spy” inside his 2016 campaign, pressuring the agencies to reveal secret information and demanding an investigation of his investigators. The confrontation has no precedent in the modern era and holds great stakes not just for the president but for the relative autonomy for law enforcement investigations established after Watergate. Mr. Trump’s allies argue that he has every right to manage the executive branch and every reason to be outraged at possible misconduct aimed at his campaign. But many law enforcement veterans say he is wreaking untold damage on institutions that form the bulwark of a democratic society. “To turn on the F.B.I. using this loaded language like ‘spy’ and ‘infiltrate,’ President Trump is trying to poison public opinion against the F.B.I. for his own reasons,” said Barbara McQuade, a career federal prosecutor who served as United States attorney in Michigan under President Barack Obama. “He may be successful, but I worry about the impact his kind of rhetoric has on the public when the F.B.I. is investigating a case of kidnapping or bank robbery and the president has told them they’re not trustworthy.”
Since even before taking office, Mr. Trump has disparaged intelligence agencies that concluded that Russia sought to influence the election on his behalf, at one point in effect comparing them to Nazis. He has publicly badgered law enforcement officials to shut down the Russia investigation and instead open inquiries into his political adversaries. But he went even further last week by effectively ordering an investigation into the actions taken regarding his campaign. He also summoned Mr. Wray and Mr. Rosenstein to the White House to insist they turn over details about the F.B.I. informant that he called a “spy” and even sent Mr. Kelly and a White House lawyer, Emmet T. Flood, to a meeting that Mr. Wray and Mr. Rosenstein held with congressional leaders about the confidential information. Although the White House said they did not stay, Democrats called their presence highly inappropriate.
More Lies
Besides the free press & law enforcement, Trump also has a long history of fighting the courts & due process, seen in excerpts from:
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Two years ago Sunday, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump derided US District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, hearing a lawsuit against Trump University, for his “Mexican” heritage and complained of being “railroaded” by the legal system. It was shocking, Democrats and Republicans alike condemned Trump’s racially intemperate criticism of the Indiana-born judge. Turns out, it was nothing. Over the past 24 months, Trump has scorned judges, derided the American court system, and trampled on all manner of constitutional principles. Trump has especially ridiculed due process of law, the bedrock against government’s arbitrary denial of a person’s life, liberty or property. Critics warn that denunciations that once seemed so aberrational may be seeping into the American psyche and influencing how government operates.
If Trump’s norm-shattering derision of the courts and constitutional principles has only accelerated in the past two years, public responses appear more polarized. Opponents are overwhelmingly Democratic. Trump’s approval rating among Republicans remains high. There also may be fatigue. Trump is constant. His questioning Thursday of a legal process for people apprehended at the border drew scant public response. Long before he was a candidate, Trump was known for complaints about the justice system and incendiary rhetoric. He railed against five black and Latino men accused (and wrongfully convicted) for a 1989 rape of a jogger in New York’s Central Park. Trump bought full-page ads in New York newspapers proclaiming, “Bring Back The Death Penalty. Bring Back Our Police.” Even after the men were exonerated, he suggested they were guilty.
There’s no longer any doubt among objective observers that our prez is a chronic liar cnn-host-trump-is-a-well-docum
Notes the New York Times: “Students of Mr. Trump’s life and communication style argue that the idea of conspiracies is a vital part of his strategy to avoid accountability and punch back at detractors, real or perceived, including the news media.” True, no doubt. Yet the most clarifying point on this matter comes from Billy Bush, who is, if nothing else, a student of Mr. Trump’s life and communication style. Bush was the fellow chatting with Trump on the infamous 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape in which the mogul bragged about grabbing women by their genitals. Bush was fired from the “Today” show over the incident. It just so happened, however, that Bush had spent a lot of time with Trump back in his years as an entertainment correspondent, and he discussed his experiences on an episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” in March. Maher noted that Trump had exaggerated the ratings of his program “The Apprentice,” prompting Bush: Well, he’s been saying No. 1 forever, right. Finally I’d had enough. I said, “Wait, Donald. Hold it. Wait a minute. You haven’t been No. 1 for five years, four years — whatever it is. Not in any category, not in any demo.” He goes, “Well, did you see last Thursday? Last Thursday, 18-49 … last five minutes.” I said, “No. I don’t know that stat.” So he was like, “I told you.” And then later, when the cameras were off … he says, “Billy, look, look, you just tell them and they believe it. That’s it, you just tell them and they believe it. They just do.” And I said, “Ah, okay.” That’s called telling the truth about lies. Being a blabbermouth, Trump apparently cannot stop himself from confiding about his malicious tactics — to media types, of all people. Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” recently revealed that Trump had told her about the thinking behind his media-bashing ways. “You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe it,” Trump told Stahl shortly after his election, as she recalls it.
Fox Lies
On Fox there are many knuckleheads (FOX-News-Falsely-Accuses-Afri
It is a miraculous twist of fate that Fox News and Donald Trump found each other. They both have so much in common. Their shared commitment to telling flagrant lies in pursuit of an ultra right-wing agenda is the tie that binds them in an embrace of harmony and mutual devotion. And if you’re feeling a little nauseous right now, just wait. One of the defining characteristics of modern conservatism is the determination to blame anything and everything, other than themselves, for their problems. Trump is a master at this pretense of victimhood. He is certain that there are clandestine “Deep State” conspirators embedded in the government who are out to get him. Or at least he pretends to believe that. And the media is in on the conspiracy with their constant negative (i.e. truthful) assessments of his disastrous presidency. Every utterance from Trump is either a declaration of unprecedented success for which he is solely responsible, or a historic failure that his enemies blame him for. And Fox News reports all of these things exactly as Trump imagines them.
We can take heart the truth occasionally leaks out from Fox, especially on Shep’s afternoon show. But many Fox viewers don’t like it, since they’ve been preconditioned & would prefer believing the lies. These excerpts are part of the larger narrative where Shep skewers spygate, coming from this link Fox-News-host-yes-really-deliv
It took about two minutes for Shep Smith to thoroughly debunk one of Donald Trump’s Tuesday tweets, and it’s something to behold. The Orange One sent out quite a fiery tweet first thing Tuesday morning, calling Mueller and his team Democrats (again) while predicting meddling in the 2018 midterms, all while denying collusion. You know, one of his usual breakfast-time rants full of nonsense. Shep Smith, the only guy at Fox News who doesn’t also spew complete nonsense 100 percent of the time, deconstructed and debunked the tweet piece by piece, with a little Spygate added in as a bonus serving of truth on the network that loves to serve lies. It’s worth two minutes of your time. Later in the segment, Smith voiced frustration. “You laugh at them because there’s almost nothing else you can do.” But in living rooms across the country, millions of Fox News viewers probably cursed Smith’s name and dismissed the truth as a lie. Smith’s uncommon penchant for reporting facts has made him reviled by many a Fox fan, who prefer to get their “news” from the likes of screaming bloviators like Sean Hannity.
With any luck, perhaps the worst of the echo may be soon muted. Certain show hosts are doing so much damage to our country, I would applaud the day they are forcibly removed from the airwaves. And it wouldn’t be because of their show’s content or what they say, since that would seriously abridge the First Amendment. I would never advocate for irresponsibly attacking free speech or the free press as Trump & Kellyanne Conway suggest: Kellyanne-Conway-goes
Another media force is every bit as bad as Fox: sinclair-hires-trump-staffer. We also see from this conclusion to from-the-pizzagate-basement-to
Gaetz is a prime example of the hybrid of conspiracy theorist-legislator. He notoriously even brought an alt-right troll as his guest to the State of the Union address this year. When asked whether this latest theory that’s the foundation for the call for a second special counsel had a conspiratorial tinge to it, the darling of the alt-right didn’t deny the impression. “Well, we live in very strange times,” Gaetz said, without a hint of self-awareness. “I mean it’s unbelievable that you had the intelligence community weaponized in this way. I think there’s going to be even more information coming public soon about the intelligence collection on the Trump campaign. I never thought I’d see that. That is crazy.” Critics say the truly crazy thing is actually the symbiotic relationship between the now powerful alt-right media and some of the nation’s most powerful policy makers, including the president himself. “They have an amazing echo chamber…so they just create this alternative reality,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a leader at the Democratic National Convention, told The Daily Beast. “To literally promote a false narrative simply to distract—our First Amendment is imperiled when people do that.” Other conservative voices outside and inside of the Capitol do brush these far right voices aside though without trying to alienate them or their shared base. “People have different motivations for calling for special counsels. A vast majority of them are political,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told The Daily Beast about this new cabal. But if you tune into what was once conservative media, you now have alt-right voices or backbenchers in Congress masquerading as the mainstream and pretending to speak for the entire party, so many everyday voters aren’t aware that they’re consuming the extreme voices when they’re merely just hungry for information they can trust. Critics say Trump likes it that way and now they fear this could be a trend that’s here to stay. “The way the Trump White House has legitimized “news sources” that are clearly not news is deeply disturbing, and that is something new,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) told The Daily Beast. “You did not see previous White Houses validate some of these extreme right wing organizations that are just putting out things that are flat out not true.”
Roseanne
Her show should be cancelled. She is repugnant! Regretfully, too many Trumpeters share her same racist attitude & poisoned mind. Kudos to ABC for acting decisively without hesitation: roseanne-canceled-abc-roseanne
Evangelicals
The truth about Trump is he lacks a moral code. If we need a definition of evil, this might do: This-Administration-Isn-t-
Billy Graham was probably the foremost preacher in history spreading the Gospel around the globe. Unfortunately, his son is working hard to undo the good that was done & conflate the true Christian message: franklin-graham-invades-godles
Please be discerning. Be open to the possibility the forces of deception have infiltrated messaging sources popular with Christians, including much of what is heard on Fox News & even Christian broadcasting: how-christian-media-is-shaping
We’re finding in addition to many evangelical leaders now following their own gospel agendas, that’s also been true lately of Liberty University, but it’s not the gospel of Christ. Based on this articlean-evangelical-university-is-h
“There is another gospel in our country right now, and it is the gospel of Trump,” Mr. Claiborne preached at the revival in his Tennessee drawl. “It doesn’t look much like the gospel of Jesus.” Lynchburg sits at the heart of pro-Trump evangelical Christianity. Liberty University’s commencement speaker last year was Mr. Trump, a personal friend of Mr. Falwell’s. Fox News hosts are frequent speakers at chapel services.
Far be it from me to want to bash my own practicing faith, but I sense my calling is to call out these disturbing patterns & trends. When so many are being led astray, it’s time to sound the alarms! The downfall of our church could be nigh, with the destruction coming from within more than changing cultural norms from outside influences. The evangelical faith needs a fix as much as the GOP, before their very existence is threatened through deceptive, erroneous & self-destructive beliefs. Many conservatives are now complicit in destroying the brand & core values these institutions have always stood for. Maybe for now I’m just a lone voice in the wilderness, but I ask you to please consider this as an important admonishment that needs heard & contemplated.
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