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lees1975's JournalAn Easter gift for those who have absolutely lost their minds.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/an-easter-gift-for-those-who-have.htmlThere are thousands of Evangelical pastors and church leaders Trump could have chosen to run the White House faith office, and be his "spiritual advisor." If he believed in and followed the Christian gospel, he would join a local church and that pastor would become his spiritual advisor. But, other than getting the votes of those Christians who have been duped and deceived into following him, Trump despises Christianity and denies any personal need for it. He has chosen, instead of a Christian who expresses belief in Biblical doctrine, a prosperity gospel heretic who sees American Evangelicalism as a chance to make a buck off of the ignorance and superstition of the prosperity gospel she preaches.
Every prayer she utters, every "blessing" she gives has a financial value attached to it. It's not hard to see why Trump is attracted to her and rejects traditional Christian practice. She worships money, too, and has developed a system for making a profit off religion. Blessings have a financial cost to them, in her world. And that's what resonates with Trump.
You had to know this was coming.
https://baptistnews.com/article/trumps-faith-adviser-selling-seven-easter-blessings-for-1000-gift/On her website and social media, televangelist Paula White has a special offer for what she calls the Passover season when your obedience to align yourself with the desires of God can release seven specific supernatural blessings for your body, your family, your finances and your future.
White leads the White House Faith Office and recently assembled a group of 17 evangelical pastors to pray over Trump in the Oval Office.
She bases her promise of seven blessings (for the gift of $1,000) on Exodus 23, which ironically begins with these words: You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness. You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing; when you bear witness in a lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice.
There's a segment of this country that has absolutely lost its mind.
The security breach regarding the war plans attack on Yemen is a gigantic mistake and a huge hole in national security.
Just a few things---
The use of communications other than secured, government operated sites is mentioned in Project 2025 as a means of avoiding investigations and subpoenas.
This is the kind of thing that ends the careers of executive cabinet bureaucrats. No one in that cabinet is anywhere close to competent or experienced enough to be doing the job they are doing, least of all Michael Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth. It should have been expected that this kind of catastrophe was coming soon and there WILL be more if these people are allowed to continue.
As I see it, within the boundaries of Constitutional law, with a legislative body that won't exercise accountability here and with a commander in chief who is mentally insane and out of it, what kind of public pressure can be exerted, and where, to force reluctant Republicans to take action?
Because if this is allowed to go on, someone is going to get careless with nukes.
The leader of the stop Trump movement is clearly Bernie Sanders.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-much-time-do-we-have.htmlI'm going to say something that will make a lot of people angry, but it needs to be said. If Bernie Sanders had been the Democratic nominee in 2020, and had been in the White House, Donald Trump would now be in prison for the crimes he committed during his first term, especially for inciting an insurrection against the United States.
That's why he's the one who, along with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, are drawing the kind of crowds and interest that are surpassing the size of campaign rallies, and is building the kind of popular support, and pressure, that it will take to stop Trump. That is a big job, given the failure of the GOP to stand up for itself, and their spineless support, which is based on what they are getting out of it. Democrats in Congress, especially in the Senate, are stuck in their old way of thinking, and a few of them have sold themselves out. So there's no credibility for a resistance there. Sanders isn't a Democrat, and AOC is on the House side, where there appears to be a bit more in the way of unity.
I'm almost convinced that if Bernie had been the nominee in 2016, Trump would never have been elected. He brings working class support and credibility in his message that, united with moderate to liberal Democrats, would have swamped Trump and maybe even picked up a couple of red states, in addition to solidifying the blue wall.
How much time does democracy have left?
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-much-time-do-we-have.htmlI'm going to say something that will make a lot of people angry, but it needs to be said. If Bernie Sanders had been the Democratic nominee in 2020, and had been in the White House, Donald Trump would now be in prison for the crimes he committed during his first term, especially for inciting an insurrection against the United States.
That's why he's the one who, along with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, are drawing the kind of crowds and interest that are surpassing the size of campaign rallies, and is building the kind of popular support, and pressure, that it will take to stop Trump. That is a big job, given the failure of the GOP to stand up for itself, and their spineless support, which is based on what they are getting out of it. Democrats in Congress, especially in the Senate, are stuck in their old way of thinking, and a few of them have sold themselves out. So there's no credibility for a resistance there. Sanders isn't a Democrat, and AOC is on the House side, where there appears to be a bit more in the way of unity.
I'm almost convinced that if Bernie had been the nominee in 2016, Trump would never have been elected. He brings working class support and credibility in his message that, united with moderate to liberal Democrats, would have swamped Trump and maybe even picked up a couple of red states, in addition to solidifying the blue wall.
Risk and boldness, not politics as usual, are necessary to stop Trump.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/if-trump-is-existential-threat-to.htmlThat would have been a bold move, but looking at where Trump is headed and what is happening, it was a necessary move. But Biden didn't want to give up the filibuster, on long standing tradition and principle. And in hindsight, a majority leader like Schumer wouldn't have gone along with doing it. They were right in claiming that Trump was an existential threat to American democracy, but they were wrong, dead wrong, in the manner that they chose to deal with that. I wonder if they really cared. They have the resources to protect their own interests and cover their rear. The rest of us are the ones who will suffer under this.
And that might explain why there wasn't a whole lot of enthusiastic support from voters in November of 2024. They might have seen Trump as a threat to democracy, but they didn't see Democrats as the best way to deal with it.
That's the evaluation of Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national security advisor under the Obama Administration, and a contributing editor to the New York Times. I've read some of his work before, and he's in a position to know, and be honest about it. Simple observation shows him to be correct. Our senate minority didn't have the stomach to do the right thing about the CR. How in the world are they going to confront the big stuff we know is coming?
Christian nationalism is all over the Trump agenda, separating Christianity from Evangelical political right wingers.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-can-you-maintain-your-christian.htmlIt is on this particular point, in fact, where American Evangelicalism parts company from orthodox Christian faith and practice. Christian nationalists have used "It was God's will" as justification for the annihilation of the native populations of North America, who they condemn because they were "godless heathens" as well as justification for the enslavement of African Americans, claiming that black skin was the mark God put on Cain, Adam's son who murdered his own brother, a story from myth, not history.
Evangelicals, as Christian nationalists, believe that whatever was necessary to allow white people to take over North American land, and consider it a gift from God for their Christian faithfulness, to be able to exploit the resources of a virgin planet. is justified because it is being done for God, whether that's displacement of the rightful owners of the land, or conquest and destruction of those who get in their way, including eliminating political enemies.
This is the way that they are leading America. So if you haven't caught on, and aren't awake to this yet, you need to get there quickly.
Why aren't Americans out in the streets over what Trump is doing?
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine, European, over what Trump is doing. He noted that Americans seem to be flatly apathetic for two reasons, one, that the bulk of those opposed to a second Trump Presidency were not registered to vote and didn't participate, and two, that in his country, such government actions that are so far out of line as to be outside the boundaries of democracy, public pressure would be so intense that the government would back down. And that Americans are just passively clicking their tongues and letting it all go by, especially the Democrats, who should be orchestrating and conducting protests that, while they don't cross the Jan 6th line, make it hard for members of Congress to move from home to work without having to face opposition.
We live in a free country, and if politicians are unable to respect that to the point where what they do makes people mad enough to want to confront them about it, then they should deal with the consequences, including protests in front of their house keeping them and their neighbors up all night, and having to face shouting, angry people on their way to and from the capitol. It doesn't have to get violent, they just have to see that it might cost them an election and they are going to have to face opposition on it.
Observations about the Democratic Senate minority: Do they have what it takes to beat Trump now?
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/observations-about-democrats-in-senate.htmlBut I sense there's a new factor involved that is finding its way into the Democratic minority during this Trump administration, and that's self-preservation. It seems there are a few Senators who, after winning their seat on the backs of moderate to liberal Democratic party supporters with strong rhetoric and appealing characteristics, have now decided to preserve their power and their seat, not by compromise, but by being conciliatory. There were several of those who didn't have to run for re-election in 2024 with Trump on the ballot, who won a decisive race in the 2022 mid-terms, and who are now sitting back thinking that they may somehow achieve the "king's" favor by kissing his ass or his ring.
Granted, it would have taken some really politically risky moves. But anything worth achieving is worth the risk. There were Democrats who were farsighted and visionary enough to see what needed to occur in order to prevent Trump from being the existential threat to democracy that Democrats said he was. And if we really believed he was such a threat, real action could have accompanied the rhetoric, and we would have succeeded in making sure Trump was never able to walk the halls of the White House again.
The only peace deal America should accept in the Ukraine War is complete restoration of territory and reparations.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-only-peace-deal-america-should.htmlNATO is a defensively postured organization. Ukraine's belonging to it should not be considered a threat to Russian security.
The Ukrainian government, elected before the war, should remain in power until there are elections. And the Ukrainian military should be armed and trained by NATO.
Anything less than that, and Putin will succeed in demonstrating to the world that Trump is, indeed, both a sucker, and a Russian asset.
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