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lees1975
lees1975's Journal
lees1975's Journal
November 23, 2021
I'm shocked to learn that this guy was once a moderate Democrat opposed to tax cuts for the wealthy and is actually a highly educated attorney. In Louisiana, I guess you have to play dumb to get elected. Apparently everything about the guy is an act, down to his annoying, whiny, ignorant-sounding Southern accent.
We're seriously trapped by media images, sixty-second sound-bytes and, on top of it all, ignorance. Greed and the intoxicating effects of money and power are in the driver's seat. What are we teaching kids in school? Certainly not much in the way of critical thinking skills. Or verbal expression.
Louisiana Senator Kennedy Compared to "Foghorn Leghorn" Cartoon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/our-foghorn-leghorn-republican-senator-little-resembles-his-former-democratic-self-louisiana-we-know-type/I'm shocked to learn that this guy was once a moderate Democrat opposed to tax cuts for the wealthy and is actually a highly educated attorney. In Louisiana, I guess you have to play dumb to get elected. Apparently everything about the guy is an act, down to his annoying, whiny, ignorant-sounding Southern accent.
We're seriously trapped by media images, sixty-second sound-bytes and, on top of it all, ignorance. Greed and the intoxicating effects of money and power are in the driver's seat. What are we teaching kids in school? Certainly not much in the way of critical thinking skills. Or verbal expression.
November 22, 2021
What's going on with MSNBC
when Alex Witt picks our an outlier poll to announce that Biden's job approval is down to 36% when there's a slew of recent, larger and more comprehensive polls that show his average ticking up back above 45%?
Is she trying to scare Democrats and motivate them to go vote? Or are they just enjoying the ratings that put-downs and negativity get them. I'd expect that kind of crap from CNN, but I thought MSNBC had higher standards. Even Scarborough isn't pushing the negativity.
November 22, 2021
I feel sorry for those within these groups who have been faithful, trusting leadership, and now having to watch things crumble as sharp divisions create fault lines in churches and denominations. If someone leaves a church because a pastor is a "never trumper" that tells you where their loyalty was in the first place. Some of what is going on here, especially the tactics that are being employed. Dr. Russell Moore, the former director of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who recently resigned to take a job at Christianity Today, describes what he calls "psychological terror" aimed at him because he was openly a "never Trumper." He claims he and his family got death threats. Ed Litton, a pastor from Alabama who ran against a Trump-supporter for President of the SBC, and won, has left his secular political preference aside to prioritize more pressing issues in the SBC, and the MAGA supporting gang has mercilessly attacked his character, searching through archives of sermons to make the claim that he "plagiarizes" his sermons, a claim for which they have not produced any evidence.
Among the new developments, a lawsuit for "defamation of character" leveled against Russell Moore by the former chair of the SBC executive committee, more trustee board resignations at Liberty, and a "documentary" attacking a Southern Baptist seminary and several officers, accusing them of being "woke", promoting "Marxist ideology" (aka social justice) and supporting the LGBTQ agenda.
Throw the mud against the wall, see how much of it sticks and how big of a stain it leaves, is pure MAGA philosophy.
Are these Evangelical issues the result of MAGA support, or is it why they support MAGA?
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/if-anyone-is-causing-divisions-among.htmlI feel sorry for those within these groups who have been faithful, trusting leadership, and now having to watch things crumble as sharp divisions create fault lines in churches and denominations. If someone leaves a church because a pastor is a "never trumper" that tells you where their loyalty was in the first place. Some of what is going on here, especially the tactics that are being employed. Dr. Russell Moore, the former director of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who recently resigned to take a job at Christianity Today, describes what he calls "psychological terror" aimed at him because he was openly a "never Trumper." He claims he and his family got death threats. Ed Litton, a pastor from Alabama who ran against a Trump-supporter for President of the SBC, and won, has left his secular political preference aside to prioritize more pressing issues in the SBC, and the MAGA supporting gang has mercilessly attacked his character, searching through archives of sermons to make the claim that he "plagiarizes" his sermons, a claim for which they have not produced any evidence.
Among the new developments, a lawsuit for "defamation of character" leveled against Russell Moore by the former chair of the SBC executive committee, more trustee board resignations at Liberty, and a "documentary" attacking a Southern Baptist seminary and several officers, accusing them of being "woke", promoting "Marxist ideology" (aka social justice) and supporting the LGBTQ agenda.
Throw the mud against the wall, see how much of it sticks and how big of a stain it leaves, is pure MAGA philosophy.
November 20, 2021
I don't think I've enjoyed seeing anything as much as the Democratic congressional majority breaking out into cheers, jumping and screaming like they were at a football game, when the Speaker announced that Build Back Better had passed the house. I'll be able to watch that footage for a long time. It was inspiring.
In the football analogy, that was the go-ahead touchdown. Now it's time to put together the strategy and plan for winning the game in November of 2022. I continue to be optimistic about the party's chances. Will it be a blue wave like 20I8? I think so.
They're not asking me how to do it, and that's OK. I think going after January 6th hard and fast, using the courts as much as possible, since getting a 2/3 vote won't do it, bringing criminal charges and putting the likes of Taylor-Green, Boebert, Gosar and anyone else who was directly involved in jail. You can't vote from there. Go after Trump. Even the surface stuff that's appeared in the media makes it clear he planned and incited this with the intention of stopping the vote count. That's going to keep voters away from the GOP.
But win the minds of independents and motivate Democratic turnout. This first year of the Biden administration has been a "Wow moment." Massive, rapid distribution of a vaccine for a deadly virus, getting us out of the worst diplomatic and military mess we've ever been in, made worse by the failed previous president's "deal making" with the Taliban, passing one major piece of signature legislation and on the verge of another, in the middle of a fast moving, forward moving economy. Inflation and high gas prices are symptoms of a growing economy. It's healthy, people are working, wages are up and we're about to renovate infrastructure and make this country better.
It's time to celebrate. And it is time to start the steamroller, ending all this silly and phony conversation about Democrats in disarray.
Contrary to the news media, Democrats are clearly not "in disarray"
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/democrats-are-on-roll-control-narrative.htmlI don't think I've enjoyed seeing anything as much as the Democratic congressional majority breaking out into cheers, jumping and screaming like they were at a football game, when the Speaker announced that Build Back Better had passed the house. I'll be able to watch that footage for a long time. It was inspiring.
In the football analogy, that was the go-ahead touchdown. Now it's time to put together the strategy and plan for winning the game in November of 2022. I continue to be optimistic about the party's chances. Will it be a blue wave like 20I8? I think so.
They're not asking me how to do it, and that's OK. I think going after January 6th hard and fast, using the courts as much as possible, since getting a 2/3 vote won't do it, bringing criminal charges and putting the likes of Taylor-Green, Boebert, Gosar and anyone else who was directly involved in jail. You can't vote from there. Go after Trump. Even the surface stuff that's appeared in the media makes it clear he planned and incited this with the intention of stopping the vote count. That's going to keep voters away from the GOP.
But win the minds of independents and motivate Democratic turnout. This first year of the Biden administration has been a "Wow moment." Massive, rapid distribution of a vaccine for a deadly virus, getting us out of the worst diplomatic and military mess we've ever been in, made worse by the failed previous president's "deal making" with the Taliban, passing one major piece of signature legislation and on the verge of another, in the middle of a fast moving, forward moving economy. Inflation and high gas prices are symptoms of a growing economy. It's healthy, people are working, wages are up and we're about to renovate infrastructure and make this country better.
It's time to celebrate. And it is time to start the steamroller, ending all this silly and phony conversation about Democrats in disarray.
November 16, 2021
Better wake up and pay attention to this
https://religionnews.com/2021/11/15/why-a-crowd-was-chanted-lets-go-brandon-and-sang-to-jesus-at-john-hagees-megachurch/
November 15, 2021
This may explain why so many white Evangelicals are attracted to him.
Behind the Scenes, Among Trump's Evangelical Supporters, It's a Mess
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/behind-scenes-among-trump-supporting.htmlThis may explain why so many white Evangelicals are attracted to him.
November 13, 2021
Jennifer Rubin was Right about the Religious Political Right
America can't give them what they want. But to call them Evangelicals is no longer accurate. They've abandoned Evangelical doctrine.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/know-truth-part-2.html
November 9, 2021
Know the Truth
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/dont-discuss-politics-and-religion-with.html
November 8, 2021
And they're not government overreach or intrusion, not since the Supreme Court said so in 1905.
I want this thing to be over, and vaccinations are one of the quickest and most effective routes to it. People are getting frustrated with restrictions and they need to start turning that frustration into votes against Republicans who keep insisting that this somehow violates their rights. It violates my right to not have to be exposed.
Vaccination Mandates Do Not Violate Religious Freedom
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/11/mandated-vaccinations-have-nothing-to.htmlAnd they're not government overreach or intrusion, not since the Supreme Court said so in 1905.
I want this thing to be over, and vaccinations are one of the quickest and most effective routes to it. People are getting frustrated with restrictions and they need to start turning that frustration into votes against Republicans who keep insisting that this somehow violates their rights. It violates my right to not have to be exposed.
November 4, 2021
I haven't seen any "Massive Voter Fraud" claims from Republicans in Virginia this time.
Because they are hypocrites and liars.
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