Kirk Gallaway Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 (edited) You see, you have to look at the bigger picture! Edited December 14, 2023 by Kirk Gallaway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 This Is Not a War Against Hamas (theintercept.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 1 hour ago, Douglas Caddy said: This Is Not a War Against Hamas (theintercept.com) Doug, I've had a lot of respect for Jeremy Scahill, after reading his book, Dirty Wars, several years ago. Most of what I know about U.S. drone warfare during the Obama years came from reading Scahill's work. He, obviously, has a less than sanguine perspective on Biden and Blinken's role in the Gaza disaster. Jeremy Scahill: Gaza "Scorched-Earth Campaign" Is a "Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation" We discuss President Joe Biden's "full support for a scorched-earth campaign" in Gaza with _The Intercept_'s Jeremy Scahill, who says the U.S. is providing "political cover and rushing weapons there and giving support to the most pernicious lies that Israel [is] telling." Despite the Biden administration's recent assertions that it is helping to restrain Israel, Israel's military and intelligence operation is significantly propped up by resources from the United States State and Defense departments, explains Scahill. "This is a joint U.S. operation militarily and politically." Meanwhile, he says, Biden continues to repeat debunked falsehoods about pictures of beheaded babies from the October 7 Hamas attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 - Pastor at Trump rally in Iowa - Trump rally warns that God will punish those who don't worship Dictator Trump Carla Sinclair 7:25 am Thu Dec 14, 2023 https://boingboing.net/2023/12/14/trump-rally-warns-that-god-will-punish-those-who-dont-worship-dictator-trump-video.html "The Donald Trump campaign is now conflating Trump and God, warning a MAGA crowd at a rally in Iowa last night that if you go against the Republican frontrunner, you are rebelling against God. And, as the headlining pastor put it, "there will be retribution against all" who "rebel against the authority." "Let's not lose sight that this election is part of a spiritual battle. There are demonic forces at play. But I want to remind those who have fallen prey to the leadership of such demons…this is the warning: The authorities that exist have been established by God," he said to the cheering MAGA flock. "Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted. And those who do so will bring judgement on themselves. And judgement is coming," the pastor continued. "When Donald Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States, there will be retribution against all those who have promoted evil in this country."" This is pure evil. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Steve Thomas said: - Pastor at Trump rally in Iowa - Trump rally warns that God will punish those who don't worship Dictator Trump Carla Sinclair 7:25 am Thu Dec 14, 2023 https://boingboing.net/2023/12/14/trump-rally-warns-that-god-will-punish-those-who-dont-worship-dictator-trump-video.html "The Donald Trump campaign is now conflating Trump and God, warning a MAGA crowd at a rally in Iowa last night that if you go against the Republican frontrunner, you are rebelling against God. And, as the headlining pastor put it, "there will be retribution against all" who "rebel against the authority." "Let's not lose sight that this election is part of a spiritual battle. There are demonic forces at play. But I want to remind those who have fallen prey to the leadership of such demons…this is the warning: The authorities that exist have been established by God," he said to the cheering MAGA flock. "Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted. And those who do so will bring judgement on themselves. And judgement is coming," the pastor continued. "When Donald Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States, there will be retribution against all those who have promoted evil in this country."" This is pure evil. Steve Thomas It's evil, Steve, and it's also nuts. Trump worships Donald Trump and the Golden Calf. He's the antithesis of a true Christian. The best essay ever written on the subject of Trump's twisted "theology" is Peter Wehner's July 2016 essay in the New York Times. Wehner nailed it seven years ago. The (Satanic) Theology of Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/opinion/campaign-stops/the-theology-of-donald-trump.html by Peter Wehner July 5, 2016 SINCE Donald Trump assures us that the Bible is his favorite book, it’s worth asking: Just what is his theology? After Mr. Trump met with hundreds of evangelical Christians a couple of weeks ago, James Dobson, who is among the most influential leaders in the evangelical world and serves on Mr. Trump’s evangelical executive advisory board, declared that “Trump appears to be tender to things of the Spirit,” by which Dr. Dobson meant the Holy Spirit. Of all the descriptions of Mr. Trump we’ve heard this election season, this may be the most farcical. As described by St. Paul, the “fruit of the Spirit” includes forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, hardly qualities one associates with Mr. Trump. It shows you the lengths Mr. Trump’s supporters will go to in order to rationalize their enthusiastic support of him. Dr. Dobson is not alone. Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, has praised Mr. Trump’s life as in many ways exemplary and said that he believes that “Donald Trump is God’s man to lead our nation.” Eric Metaxas, who has written popular biographies of William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, has rhapsodized about Mr. Trump and argued that Christians “must” vote for him because he is “the last best hope of keeping America from sliding into oblivion.” And should your conscience tell you that Mr. Trump might not be the right choice, Robert Jeffress, the influential pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, explains that “any Christian who would sit at home and not vote for the Republican nominee” is “motivated by pride rather than principle.” Continue reading the main story This fulsome embrace of Mr. Trump is rather problematic, since he embodies a worldview that is incompatible with Christianity. If you trace that worldview to its source, Christ would not be anywhere in the vicinity. Time and again Mr. Trump has shown contempt for those he perceives as weak and vulnerable — “losers,” in his vernacular. They include P.O.W.s, people with disabilities, those he deems physically unattractive and those he considers politically powerless. He bullies and threatens people he believes are obstacles to his ambitions. He disdains compassion and empathy, to the point where his instinctive response to the largest mass shooting in American history was to congratulate himself: “Appreciate the congrats for being right.” What Mr. Trump admires is strength. For him, a person’s intrinsic worth is tied to worldly success and above all to power. He never seems free of his obsession with it. In his comments to that gathering of evangelicals, Mr. Trump said this: “And I say to you folks, because you have such power, such influence. Unfortunately the government has weeded it away from you pretty strongly. But you’re going to get it back. Remember this: If you ever add up, the men and women here are the most important, powerful lobbyists. You’re more powerful. Because you have men and women, you probably have something like 75, 80 percent of the country believing. But you don’t use your power. You don’t use your power.” In eight sentences Mr. Trump mentioned some variation of power six times, to a group of individuals who have professed their love and loyalty to Jesus, who in his most famous sermon declared, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” and “Blessed are the meek,” who said, “My strength is made perfect in weakness,” and who was humiliated and crucified by the powerful. To better understand Mr. Trump’s approach to life, ethics and politics, we should not look to Christ but to Friedrich Nietzsche, who was repulsed by Christianity and Christ. “What is good?” Nietzsche asks in “The Anti-Christ”: “Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases – that resistance is overcome.” Whether or not he has read a word of Nietzsche (I’m guessing not), Mr. Trump embodies a Nietzschean morality rather than a Christian one. It is characterized by indifference to objective truth (there are no facts, only interpretations), the repudiation of Christian concern for the poor and the weak, and disdain for the powerless. It celebrates the “Übermensch,” or Superman, who rejects Christian morality in favor of his own. For Nietzsche, strength was intrinsically good and weakness was intrinsically bad. So, too, for Donald Trump. Those who believe this is merely reductionism should consider the words of Jesus: Do you have eyes but fail to see and ears but fail to hear? Mr. Trump’s entire approach to politics rests on dehumanization. If you disagree with him or oppose him, you are not merely wrong. You are worthless, stripped of dignity, the object of derision. This attitude is central to who Mr. Trump is and explains why it pervades and guides his campaign. If he is elected president, that might-makes-right perspective would infect his entire administration. All of this is important because of what it says about Mr. Trump as a prospective president. But it is also revealing for what it says about Christians who now testify on his behalf (there are plenty who don’t). The calling of Christians is to be “salt and light” to the world, to model a philosophy that defends human dignity, and to welcome the stranger in our midst. It is to stand for justice, dispense grace and be agents of reconciliation in a broken world. And it is to take seriously the words of the prophet Micah, “And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?” Evangelical Christians who are enthusiastically supporting Donald Trump are signaling, even if unintentionally, that this calling has no place in politics and that Christians bring nothing distinctive to it — that their past moral proclamations were all for show and that power is the name of the game. The French philosopher and theologian Jacques Ellul wrote: “Politics is the church’s worst problem. It is her constant temptation, the occasion of her greatest disasters, the trap continually set for her by the prince of this world.” In rallying round Mr. Trump, evangelicals have walked into the trap. The rest of the world sees it. Why don’t they? Edited December 15, 2023 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Larsen Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 10 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: Jeremy Scahill: Gaza "Scorched-Earth Campaign" Is a "Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation" Absolute nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump By Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, CNN December 15, 2023 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/ Washington (CNN) — “A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said. In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.” Surprise. Surprise. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 IDF accidentally shoots and kills three Israelis held hostage in Gaza (aol.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Wanker...He'll go down in history... 😲 Live updates: Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148M to Georgia poll workers - The Washington Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Larsen Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 6 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: Live updates: Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148M to Georgia poll workers - The Washington Post Unfortunately, the poll workers will have to wait in line with all the other Giuliani creditors. Like his unpaid lawyers. Oh well, at least the poll workers are guaranteed to get something if Giuliani has any assets left. The other day, the scumbag was out again making the same false claims against the poll workers, while the judge was deciding what the lawsuit's reward amount should be. Unbelievable. May his sideburns continue to melt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Wow!, Was there ever any doubt that RK was anti vax despite his lame denials? RK is nailed with past statements, even declaring himself as a crusader who thought it was his duty to tell any mother with a newborn child he might happen to meet to not get the child vaxed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 Juan Cole always merits attention as to what he is thinking. "Tell me how this ends" - Gaza Edition (juancole.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Israeli airstrike killed a USAID contractor in Gaza, his colleagues say (aol.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country! Damned Irish. Send 'em back where they came from, I say. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Steve Thomas said: Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country! Damned Irish. Send 'em back where they came from, I say. Steve Thomas Trump is partly correct, Steve-- he, himself, and his children had immigrant mothers, (except for Tiffany, who was conceived out of wedlock.) The immigrant Fred & Mary (nee McLeod) Trump progeny have, certainly, poisoned the U.S. Edited December 17, 2023 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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