Falling from grace….It may be as important for Evangelical Christians to excise the heretical charlatans from their leadership as it is for the GOP base to rid themselves of the echo-chamber. Certain evangelical leaders & echo-blabbers support unequivocally a leader so lacking in values, character, honesty & most any other personal traits which would command trust & respect, such unquestioned support for a moral degenerate defiles the principles we believe in & is a scourge on our great nation. I hate to be so blunt, but I guess during the campaign disparaging disabled people, women’s faces & bragging about grabbing women in the p***y was just hunky-dory with the vast majority of voters in a religious faith I’ll admit I’ve long been associated with (& increasingly embarrassed about). It’s time for evangelical Christians to denounce such immorality while calling out ex-faith leaders turned misguided political pundits, recognizable names we can now nominate to the evangelical Hall-of-Shame which has grown into a rather large list, highlighted by Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins, Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell Jr, Robert Jeffress, James Dobson & Pat Robertson. We even have a local pastor here in the Cleveland area, Darrell Scott, who’s a total crackpot apparently possessed by something other than Christ’s love, grace & wisdom. And after today’s unhinged performance by Trump, there can be no more defending this guy!

Is it possible they’ve all been deceived through demonic spirits in the way they’re so willing to support & excuse evil? I wouldn’t know how else to explain all the preposterous/hypocritical claims they’ve made trying to give cover to this President’s indiscretions which are inexplicable & indefensible. And when the core of Trump’s base is a disjointed hodgepodge of white supremacists & white evangelicals, something is wrong in the company they keep, as if deceptive messaging has somehow infiltrated & diluted the church’s higher calling. The bigger damage that’s being done is in the way evangelicals are seen as tied in with radical politics, only serving to drive so many away from the faith. When these former evangelical leaders have so obviously shunned principles, values, ethics & integrity in possibly being given over to the dark side by crawling in bed with maybe the devil himself, they’re going to get burnt. It’s become apparent they lack the moral authority & should no longer speak on behalf of our religion. And as for the Trump alter they worship at, Trump is simply a despicable person which no man of God in good conscience should support. Conservatives need to turn to brand new faith leaders just like they need new conservative talk-show hosts. Maybe restructuring the old order as America hits rock bottom can somehow bring on revival from the ashes….

Further Reading

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/346515-cnn-reporter-to-trump-havent-you-spread-a-lot-of-fake-news-yourself

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/08/14/morning-bits-1126/?utm_term=.5f55013638e4

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/15/16151186/charlottesville-white-pastors-asking-are-we-complicit

Views from the far-left….

We’d never expect Cubs fan & those of his ilk to believe these articles (I don’t even believe a lot of this stuff myself), but they should be exposed to it in helping take the edge off the hardcore echo-nonsense they buy into & even spread themselves. The lies & conspiracies keep circulating throughout the echo until everyone inside that bubble actually believe all that rubbish. So Daily Kos isn’t even as far left as the echo has gone to the far right, so this could provide precious medicine to help snap the radical right out of their spell. And we’d all better start realizing Trump has a personality fitting of a ruthless dictator if we don’t stop him!….

Further Reading

 
 
Evil-Echo Empire update….
Today on CNN I watched Gergen & Axelrod basically say today was the craziest talk they’ve ever heard from a President, after which Van Jones basically broke down sobbing.  But that’s real news I watch, as those who watch Fox aren’t getting!  They’re still in the dark.  And let me be clear, the echo-audiences aren’t true conservatives.  They think they are but in buying into the falsehoods from the echo are only given the illusion of conservatism.  The echo-narrative has been dragged so far to the right & become so radicalized, it’s now a bastardization of true conservatism far removed from what real conservatives believe.  Conservatives should rise up in unison to denounce this toxic force attempting (& in many ways succeeding) to hijack the GOP, since the rise of their deranged mindset is threatening to destroy the party & our nation.  Look at how far off the tracks our country has become, & as I’ve stated before the echo is one of the biggest problems America is having to deal with.  They’re now totally in line with Trump’s bombasts & falsehoods, while pushing an extremist policy agenda which is unworkable & unpassable, which means leadership can’t get anything productive done.  To the extent the GOP base trusts the lies from the echo more than the real media & GOP politicians, is to the extent they’re complicit in threatening to destroy our nation.  The crazy train that is a wild ride with Trump & the echo leaves no more excuses for supporting such deranged nonsense & since it’s doing such great damage to America, we’re at the point where Trumpeters & echo-fans should be rightly ridiculed for their false/nutty ideologies (after all, they’re to blame for this running nightmare in the White House in the first place).
​It’s time for true conservatives to help expose the evil echo for what it really is, which includes Fox non-News, psycho-conservative talk radio & conspiratorial websites/social media, whose deranged propaganda full of lies has become a curse on our nation.  ​The President who constantly rails against fake news had the gall this week to retweet something from an alt-right conspiracy theorist, from which his pattern of using such false narratives has proved he’s totally sold out to the echo & those duped Trumpeters in their audience.  For America to ever recover & restore competent leadership, it’s becoming obvious that can only happen with Trump’s removal from office & the echo being thoroughly discredited for the fake garbage they feed their flock.  The news conference today showed a President who is mentally unstable if not mentally ill, which there’s no rational reason any media sources should be in the tank cheerleading him on.  Trump apologists are obviously either deceived or lack integrity.  Check out the links below, some of the hosts these psycho-conservative media outlets are putting on the air are a complete disgrace.  When it’s all said & done, it’s very possible Insanity Hannity will be recognized as a traitor to America, particularly if he’s among those involved in the Russian cover-up.  I’ve said all along Trump & Hannity might both be insane.  It’s beginning to look like I was right.  Fox basically had to blatantly lie to cover today’s news, trying with all their might to avoid criticizing Trump.  Echo-audience members must stop themselves from being repeatedly lied to by turning the channel….
Further Reading

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article167050667.html

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/15/trump-defense-of-confederate-memorials-echoes-daily-stormer-fox-news/

Fox News website features story glorifying running over liberal protesters with cars

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/after-charlottesville-trump-retweets-then-deletes-image-of-train-running-over-cnn-reporter/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.0947490d29ce

Fox News Republished a Celebratory Video of “Cars Plowing Through Protesters” in January

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/15/tucker-carlson-attempts-defend-americas-history-slavery-pointing-out-aztecs-africans-and-mohammed/217649

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/15/tucker-carlson-compares-removing-statues-confederates-extremism-taliban-khmer-rouge-and-china/217648

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/15/get-ready-things-are-going-get-much-much-worse/217647

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/15/echoing-fox-news-trump-defends-charlottesville-white-supremacists-says-they-were-not-all-nazis/217642

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/15/cnns-jake-tapper-blasts-trump-again-equating-neo-nazi-violence-anti-racist-demonstrators/217644

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/15/limbaugh-conspiracy-democrats-allowed-charlottesville-terrorism-political-gain/217639

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/15/how-sean-hannitys-charlottesville-propaganda-works/217635

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346728-ann-coulter-on-trump-comments-we-got-our-leader-back

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/15/msnbc-member-trumps-diversity-coalition-says-left-wing-media-and-white-supremacists-have-synergistic/217640

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/15/pizzagate-seth-rich-conspiracy-theorist-troll-giddy-after-trump-retweets-him/217636

http://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-media-defend-trumps-statement-on-white-nationalists-2017-8

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/15/1690017/-Fox-News-Reporter-Exalts-White-Supremacist-Killer-in-Charlottesville-as-a-Vigilante

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/right-wing-media-charlottesville_us_59923286e4b08a247276c9cf?section=us_media

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/15/laura-ingraham-fox-news/

Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn’t racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong

https://www.gq.com/story/jesse-watters-charlottesville

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-blames-media-not-150825634.html

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/fox-host-martha-maccallum-dont-we-need-recognize-both-sides-have-gone-insane-these-attacks/217624

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/fox-contributor-there-are-those-instigators-both-sides-fight-was-going-charlottesville/217619

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/14/right-wing-media-provided-home-white-supremacist-he-organized-charlottesville-rally/217616

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/trump-attacks-cnns-jim-acosta-after-being-asked-why-he-didnt-condemn-hate-groups-earlier/217620

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cnn-pro-trump-pundits_us_5991eacce4b09071f69bb6d1?section=us_media

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/CNNs-John-Avlon-White-nationalists-advising-Trump-have-a-vested-interest-in-stoking-these-/217612

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dont-be-a-sucker-government-fascism-film_us_599127a8e4b09071f69aa4ee?section=us_media

Asked why it took him so long to denounce racists, Trump attacks the media

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/14/1689557/-Trump-evades-on-white-supremacists-lies-about-holding-a-press-conference-and-shouts-fake-news

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/14/1689596/-Alt-White-House-real-fake-news

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/alex-jones-lot-kkk-protesters-are-jewish-actors-who-look-cast-seinfeld-their-hoods/217615

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-a-conservative-tv-giant-is-ridding-itself-of-regulation/ar-AAq31FL?li=BBnbfcN&ocid=spartanntp

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/346478-house-dems-press-fcc-for-answers-on-Sinclair

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/12/1689068/-Sinclair-Broadcast-News-exposed-its-white-nationalist-agenda-today?detail=emaildkre

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/14/1689643/-Justice-Dept-seeking-info-IDs-on-1-3M-visitors-to-protest-website

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-retweets-alt-conspiracy-theorist-051102836.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/14/why-is-donald-trump-so-bad-at-the-bully-pulpit/?utm_term=.b5ce262b54a3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/cuccinelli-catches-flak-for-telling-symone-sanders-to-shut-up-on-cnn/2017/08/14/1988389c-80f7-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/08/14/discussing-white-supremacists-charlottesville-cnns-ken-cuccinelli-tells-cnn-s-symone-sanders-shut/217614

Economy section….

Much like the previous email a couple days ago, this first article below helps illustrate the daunting & entrenched economic challenges we’re facing to restore the once-great American middle class. Neither side is talking intelligently about finding real solutions. And September could be a policy disaster with a know-nothing President becoming increasingly unpopular with all his antics….

Further Reading

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/14/the-whys-of-increasing-inequality-a-graphical-portrait/?utm_term=.2cf5db3a9ab0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/08/15/morning-bits-1127/?utm_term=.1719258e648e

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/346626-how-to-wake-a-sleepwalking-economy

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/15/he-ruins-everything-trump-is-having-a-negative-effect-on-the-workplace_partner/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/15/diversity-right-wing-complaints-working-class-problems

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/13/trump-aides-predicting-brutal-september-241594

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/14/1689544/-As-August-heats-up-for-Trump-s-White-House-September-is-looking-even-more-brutal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/14/republicans-are-heading-for-a-hellish-month-trump-will-only-make-it-worse/?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.930e69512d71

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/republicans-pushing-plan-solve-nearly-131049438.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumps-obamacare-tantrum-shows-hes-learned-nothing-from-repeals-collapse_us_598f097fe4b090964297360c?section=us_politics

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/14/measuring-up-us-infrastructure-against-other-countries_partner/