If Providence intervened on behalf of President Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, then it is beyond cavil that it was for a very good reason. Despite the obstacles he faces (and they are considerable), it would seem that he will prevail against those who seek his political and physical demise. More to the point; that DJT sh…
If Providence intervened on behalf of President Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, then it is beyond cavil that it was for a very good reason. Despite the obstacles he faces (and they are considerable), it would seem that he will prevail against those who seek his political and physical demise. More to the point; that DJT shall fulfill the task(s) that Providence has sought him out for. His will be done.
Mr. Kunstler: There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty. However, one can observe and deduce. All that I know is that God made the plants for their simplicity, animals for their innocence, and man to serve him wittily in the tangle of his mind. This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fulfil his will. I don't know this for certain, but one can at least be open to the possibility. One can have faith.
Or, perhaps, the people have become so corrupted and godless in their hearts that God has given them over to reap the rewards of their actions. Seems to me that wickedness and corruption is having its way with the good and decent these days.
A truly righteous people would not tolerate a wicked government. The fact that the people have allowed their government to become such as it is today speaks volumes to the condition of the general American citizen.
We as a people have become immoral, amoral, anti-God, anti-religion, lovers of ourselves, greedy, selfish, and slaves to our debt. Hey, this sounds just like our own government doesn't it?
God's plan, if he/she has a plan, may be to let humanity stumble through and resolve the mess they themselves have created.
"A truly righteous people" voted - for liars, cheats and traitors. Without reading their minds, we can't know if a politician is worth his salt until he acts. We waited for them to prove themselves, waited for the "white hats" to effect a correction, and chose the only path that does not involve immediate civil war or lynchings: vote for different people. About 60-70% of us voted for better people. That is the contract we've all agreed to. We have something that separates us from France (Le Pen), Brazil (Bolsinaro), Romania (Georgescu), Germany (AfD): a Constitution like no other. It's what is keeping those "truly righteous people" from acting out. It may come to war, but we're yelling as loudly we can, and somebody has acquired the authority to listen and DO something about it. Laura Loomer talked with Trump about what she knew, and he fired 3 NSC people. But there is another aspect of "truly righteous people" that nobody mentions. Humanity are a spiritual beings, above ALL else, for without it, that body you inhabit is nothing but rotting meat. And there is a confluence of positive thought, prayer, intent on an unseen, unrecognized, unacknowledged level that influences everything. It's part of "being awake," and it appears to be working. Think positively. That doesn't mean begging "God" for an outcome, but thinking, encouraging, applauding the good in every way possible. It does matter, and it does make a difference. Why, we have a manifestation of it today: Klaus Schwab quit! What gets more positive than that?
I see that in Hollywood. Melissa Gilbert wrote something on X. She said that oh we were woke in the days of Little House on the Prairie on t.v. She just doesn't get it. They cannot tell a story. They start out moralizing because they are the best people in the world. I hope I don't think that about myself! Go look at the self righteous yard sign. IN this house we believe, meaning those that don't are inferior. If you go to a church, they recite a creed. The creed is for the person reciting it, the creed is not for other people. Hollywood will go bankrupt. I know the mind of Blind and they cannot see now.
They all live in a woke silo, all we can do is ignore them or pray for them. I haven't watched any of the filth that's come out of Hwood for well over 10 years. I also don't have any use for current "music" out of that industry.
Christians believe that God has planned everything, and that includes planning for some people to go to hell.
There's nothing you can do about it, since that would go against God's plan. Praying is asking him to change his plan. Telling God he has it all wrong and you have a better idea!
The fact is Christians don't think they're smart enough to live their lives without some sort of divine intervention.
Why would anyone who is intelligent and educated get duped into believing 1st Century/Bronze Age superstition?
Myths based on ignorant men "making shit up" in order to try and understand the natural world.
Without one shred of verifiable, concrete data or experiment-based evidence of a single supernatural "God" or event?
We should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.
God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are.
The Devil is real. He is the great "deceiver". People are being deceived, which explains the bad choices that are manifest at every level, from petty lies and theft to embezzlement to wars big and small.
It is good to have faith. I share your view that the bullet "missing" by an inch or two is miracle, in the positive sense. God can, and does, thwart the powers of evil. It is possible that nefarious forces or people sought Trump's removal, and God thwarted their plans. The Holy Trinity is, ultimately, "the boss."
I like to think this experience (even more than his advanced age) reminded Mr. Trump of his mortality, of the fact that we are not going to be here forever.
I can't read Trump's mind though. I can perceive his ACTIONS by what I DISCERN from what I see and read. And his actions, whether they reflect his beliefs or whether he is being manipulated, when it comes to war and peace are not encouraging. While I recognize it is impossible to satisfy everyone, all the time, President Trump could have pulled the plug on the Ukraine war. He has not done so. And his words and actions in the Middle East, at least to me, point to wider war with a lot more death and destruction coming, and very likely adversely impacting the US economically, perhaps kinetically.
Now, he may think he is really a peacemaker, and his actions are necessary to pave the way to a long-term peace. I just don't see it. Time will tell.
Zelensky, galaxies far from a great mind, is being manipulated by the EU and the UK, based on their delusional and diabolical motives, to keep throwing wrenches into the ceasefire/peace efforts, convincing him via promises to have his his back based upon pure fairy dust.
The combination of their certifiably insane TDS, and their utter hubris have brought us to the brink of WWIII, and mutually assured destruction.
Ironically, it has only been Putin’s personal resistance to pulling the nuclear trigger that has kept us from crossing that Rubicon.
Vladimir Putin is the greatest leader Russia has ever had (possible exception Catherine the Great), and one of the greatest leaders in the world today. Hungary's Orban and El Salvador's Bukele are equally brave and visionary, but their countries are not as huge and consequential as Russia. (Although they are certainly playing key roles in the current world situation right now, aren't they?!)
"God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are."
Exactly. This principle tells me two things, Socrates.
1. God cannot violate his own laws and therefore cannot get involved which means we humans are on our own to fix the mess our actions and inactions have created.
2. God is not all powerful and cannot intervene. If God intervenes God breaks his own law of human free choice and free will and if he breaks his own law he becomes a liar. If God becomes a liar he loses his authority which comes from his honor and the honor of his creations.
Either way, I don't believe God is going to save us from our wickedness. We made this mess. We need to fix it. We fix it by first fixing ourselves, inwardly. Once we as a people fix ourselves inwardly and turn ourselves back to righteous principles and righteous living, everything else will fall right in line. I truly believe this.
Oh, and Socrates, a close friend of mine is a police chief in my town and believe me when I tell you, the people themselves are corrupted and wicked. The heart breaking stories of drugs, crime, child abuse, spouse abuse, infidelity, pornography and so forth are stunning. And I live in a rural Utah community.
Drugs can turn people into MONSTERS. Like you, I am closely acquainted with this fact. I have friends who have adopted foster children.... The hell that those kids endured as victims of drug-addicted parents is unimaginable.
As for porn, I have seen marriages destroyed. And I know of at least one man who always tried to be a good and decent husband, father, church member and community leader, but was addicted to online porn. He committed suicide because of the crushing guilt he felt at leading a double life.
If anyone reading this has this problem, I beg you: Get help!!! I just did a search for "porn addiction hotline christian" and a TON of resources came up. Get help. Today.
Well said. And many women are addicted to social media, doing all kinds of crazy things for likes. Many of them are still on dating sites after being married just for the validation, or to keep their options open. About 60% of married women admit to having a "Plan B" or back up man if things get bad.
Janos - Plan B's aren't all bad. About 95% of Americans don't even have a Plan A, so they're already screwed.
About 4% have a Plan A, so they're on the right track.
It's the 1% that have a Plan B, that'll come out the other side, knowing full well, that something always goes awry with Plan A.
Those women are just covering their downside risk. Problem is that a lot of one-time losers - men or women - end up becoming two-time losers. It's a pattern.
And if wifey meets a better man online, she'll start talking with him. If it all checks out, she'll replace her husband and blame him for it. Such is the feminine nature which you adore.
God rules absolutely. We have all been subjected to vanity. That's the point of this exercise. God makes what He will of every vessel, honorable or dishonorable. He creates good and evil. You have no choice in when you were born, to whom, and all your personal characteristics. You have no choice in life but what He puts before you. After choosing wrong for so long and reaping the consequences, you will learn to choose right by His grace only. Repentance and faith are a gift.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for part of a weekend."
We are told an all-knowing God designed the incredible complexities of life, yet was so unimaginative & primitive it could only resolve issues by killing people.
"In the beginning man created God, then he created stories in which God created man."
When I was 4 years old, my grandmother was given a couple of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) by one of her students (she taught third grade). She made up a terrarium for them where they did - nothing. Not satisfied with this inactivity, I took a pencil and started prodding them to get them to move, to do - something... Well, I may have prodded too much because eventually they became VERY inactive.
I don't think that "God" is a 4-year-old with a terrarium.
Carl Gustav Jung, whose work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies, in his autobiography "Memories Dream Reflections" said "I will not discuss the transparent prophecies of the Book of Revelation because no one believes in them and the whole subject is felt to be an embarrassing one."
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
Yes, there seems to be different factions of globalists striving for dominance. Trump is part of the Neo-Con/Israeli faction - and they are terrible warmongers.
Israel is a warmonger? You can't be more upside down that that, Lugh. Look up Raymond Ibrahim and read some of his stuff or watch his videos. It's not about Israel, but it will show you who the real warmongers are.
The Greater Israel Plan means taking over whole nations such as Lebanon and large parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. It's imperialism on steroids and the burning wick of WW3
How far God will extend Israel is up to Him, but as for your accusation, it's patently ludicrous. If Israel had been planning to take over territories it would have done so after the '67 war and in the years since. Instead, it didn't take over Judea and Samaria, gave Sinai back to Egypt, and vacated the small Jewish population of Gaza.
I would say you should limit yourself to talking about things you know about, but I'm not sure any of those apply to the topics on this blog.
You're the liar. The IDF banned those patches, which were taken on by some orthodox soldiers.
That said, I fully support Israel expanding as much as God wills, which is more than what's held at present. Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, some of southern Syria and Lebanon for sure.
They always intended to expand, the two blue lines on their flag being the two rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates.* Thus they never negotiated in good faith.
*Whether this is the actual dimensions delineated in the Bible is debatable. It says the "spring of Egypt", is the Nile a spring? And by the Euphrates, did it mean the Euphrates in the north or in Iraq?
In any case, this is not the Israel of God. But it is the Israel of the Antichrist.
How do you even talk to people like this "Cohen?" Shouldn't he be engaged in a check cashing racket or scamming life insurance policies from veteran's widows? Why is he here mudding up the chat?
That bullet didn't really miss though, did it? Just barely nicked Trump's ear, not even leaving a lasting scar. A few millimeters to the right and it busts off a chunk of Trump's head. A few millimeters to the left and he doesn't even feel the breeze. Certainly a miracle - or possibly something a little more profane.
I can't read Trump's mind either - fortunately, there are many who can. Many of them can also read God's mind and know that Trump has been chosen by God to lead us out of the wilderness. "Mysterious ways" indeed. The shadow of doubt need never darken our lives again.
"Many of them can also read God's mind". Give me a fuckin break.
The same folks that are delusional.
I’m delusional and talk to an imaginary friend in the sky. You guys are too naive and don’t make enough efforts to become delusional like me. If you don't agree with my God delusion, then you're naive!
'My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na na Neener neener nee ner"
"Oh, but there's plenty of evidence for Gods existence! There are so many things!"
“There's...... uhh......eeermm ... I saw God’s face and I talk to him!”
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
EVERYTHING happens according to God's PLAN Christians will say.
But when SOMETHING tragic happens, the Christian says God gives us FREE WILL.
The age-old trick of constantly moving the goalposts.
Or the cop-out: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform
Hmmm, “The Devil is real”? Could it be he is the cumulative of Man’s evil side, that he represents the “evil” side of our nature, inside our minds and souls, as God represents the “good” side? Is the battle between good and evil within ourselves?
Let’s give Trump a break relative to his being a peacemaker. I think Putin dropped a turd on his idea of what it would take to make a deal to stop the Biden stupidity. IMHO, Putin is using the slowdown from Trump to his advantage and will continue to push his land grab in East Ukraine until stopped. Watch Odessa.
Putin will definitely finish the denazification by fall, when the now clearing Rasputitsa (literally "season of bad roads") muds return. Only then will peace be made. And who can blame the Russians for not trusting any deal to restrain those who mercilessly murderered their own Russian speaking civilians in Donbass? They haven't forgotten about Minsk! Merkel herself admitted to acting in bad faith to rearm the Ukraine.
Can you imagine what the US would do if Mexico contained a significant concentrated enclave of Americans & the Mexican gov't shelled & slaughtered them? We would not stop until every last Mexican combatant was killed to ensure an end to the threat. It's a very loose analogy since the Ukraine, a term meaning periphery (as the center of the empire had moved east to Moscow) was always an artificial construct; empires such as the Hapsburg (Austro-Hungarian) & Polish-Lithuanian pushed Ukrainization (to make them feel like a separate people from their fellow Russians, despite the Kievan Rus being the origin of Russia) even before Vladimir Lenin's wheeling & dealing fraudulently officialized it through Soviet "Republic" status. Other neighboring countries also lost some land to the north & west of the Ukraine, but Russia is likely to take back much of their own lost land, probably to include Odessa. This will leave a landlocked rump state of a demilitarized zone ripe for regional reabsorption into respective parent nations once EU & NATO military support collapses & US subsidization ends (the Ukraine has been FULLY subsidized, military & civilian operations alike- the whole enchilada- since at least 2022).
Faith is the most important. So is knowledge wisdom and understanding. All of these qualities followed by works pleases God. Trump is fulfilling this role to make America great again in a morally profound way.
He will prevail as well as those who have faith that God is really in charge but we humans still have the power of choice given to those who wisely choose life.
We're blessed with tape worms, plague, cancer, leprosy, dengue fever, malaria, and mosquitoes that spread diseases. The brain-eating amoeba is a special gift from a creator if you believe in a Creator.
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
"There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty."
That applies to absolutely everything that you, or any human, "knows" about anything. Therefore, it also applies to any claim whatsoever about God. It's all belief, and that "fact" is inescapable.
No, I don't know. Neither do you. The difference is that you believe you possess truth, while I believe everything in a human's consciousness is, and can only be, belief. Your "God informing you" is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. Highly problematic when one wants to spread "Good News" to skeptics.
More generally, my stock reply (ordinarily, just to myself) to literally anything someone tells me -- "revealed" religion or not -- is "WWIBT?" or "Why Would I Believe That?" I have learned well over many decades, especially in the [post]modern West, to have less than zero *automatic* respect for "experts", who are more often than not simply feral political animals who are primarily Aristotelian ethos-hucksters, whatever else they do in life. That goes double for godmongers of all kinds. I find it very useful in keeping my mind open to what evidence and possibilities are plausible and which are not.
If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know.
I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. Or maybe you'd admit you don't know that either.
Faith isn't airy fairy imaginations. It's the evidence of things not seen. So you're not going to know with your native senses. However there's more to life than those, much more.
The truth is, you think you know a lot because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses, so there's no point in trying to argue with someone so limited and self-contradictory, and I'm not.
I can wait for you to find out. Not a problem at all.
"If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know."
Correct. I did not deny that. But it is not relevant to my belief or not in God. Please read again, carefully: "Your 'God informing you' is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. "
"The truth is, you think you know a lot ..."
False. I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs. I believe there is much of my beliefs that you're assuming, and others you're just not getting. I'll happily confess some of that is doubtless my own lack of clarity in places.
"... because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses,"
If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver. At least for much of science, limited as it is, can widely be transferred to, and then tested by, a theory's skeptic, limited only by the receiver's ability to understand its complexity, not to "sense" it. So, as far as I can see, and in this late stage in life, either (in the words of a Steve Martin '70s skit), regarding religion, either you're "feelin' it" (to me, i.e. the apparent God hallucination), or not.
"I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. ... [etc. etc.] "
It is not important to me where I believe I came from. It is ultimately unknowable to any human being how that belief and many others work. What we perceive about the entire universe could be a massively complex illusion. We can forever hunt for evidence whether I came from a "Big Bang" or anything else, and it's entertaining and useful (within a frame of reference), but ultimately forever unsettled.
I am able to sit with the void of that lack of knowledge. Most amazing to me, however, is the tendency of most humans to be utterly incapable of accepting their not being able to know something. They especially cannot accept that some things may be unavoidably unknowable by *any* humans, smart and/or educated about whatever. That lack of comfort drives them crazy, until they latch onto some kind of belief-rock. But as I said earlier, *nothing* is knowable -- it's *all* belief. It's in the nature of all humans. I'm now convinced this emotional weakness we humans have is at the heart of humans' need to stuff a God/gods into their heads.
But it's not the only dimension of pretension. Most relevantly and importantly today, is it also behind the need to stuff their heads with certainty about which (major) political "side" is factually correct and morally "correct", when it is entirely plausible that both are. IMO, because both Right (simplistically put, for brevity: prioritizing individuality/freedom) and Left (prioritizing society/fairness) are "correct", they exist as political forces in perpetuity (although each instantiation is usually heavily distorted by the forces in each context). Once we drop that pretension and regain our humility, accepting that everyone possesses (human) truths, we may be able to get back to functioning politics again. The same thing applies to pretentions about divinity or lack thereof.
I didn't know, admitted it, asked God to show me, and He did (this was 48 years ago and has continued to this day). Admittedly, I asked by faith, which is a gift from God. He gives to whom He wills when He wills. He's in charge.
As for your condition, it's caused by what the Bible calls "sin," a word many are not familiar with its actual meaning. You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge "beliefs."
You won't see or know God till you eat from the Tree of Life.
You are also responsible for your condition, which is a good thing for you. It's how you'll come out of that darkness when your time of repentance and faith arrive. And they will. Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord - readily with great peace and joy.
Only our Creator can, has, and will accomplish this. I am a witness.
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14).
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14)."
LOL.....just a CLAIM scribbled down by unknow ignorant goat herders two centuries ago. With no evidence. Anonymous undated ancient writings. Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
The Bible only makes claims. The Bible is not evidence.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?
Why do a Christian expect a book written by unknown authors in a variety of languages, that was translated, rewritten, edited countless times ~ is evidence for anything?
It's just a book.
Every statement of "Jesus says" needs to start with "my old book says Jesus says...."
If, instead, you could believe that alien (non-infinite, non-"loving") intelligence(s) is/are behind the origins (and maybe continuance) of the Abrahamic God -- *that* is something I can find plausible.
Now you've circled back to square one. Again, you believe what, to a skeptic, is indistinguishable from a hallucination. You didn't address it the first time, so I must assume its import whooshed over your head.
"You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge 'beliefs.' "
Again, I make no such claim to being a god. Quite the opposite. As I said above: "I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs." I say only that in the obvious absence of such a creature as God, I take matters into my own hands. You're right only about the pro-active part of my beliefs -- but nothing else about my attitude.
"If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver."
I should add that this failure to receive (due to missing senses) also makes the receiver *unaccountable* to the alleged God the godmonger asserts. So much for pistol-whipping many of the thinking non-believers into compliance post-Enlightenment, the way it had been done successfully prior to that time.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son ... "
The entire premise that there is some great "loss" to the all-powerful creator of the universe, one that binds people to "owe" him or otherwise pay the price, is simply insane. Yet I understand it is the most quoted Biblical phrase. Who knew he was such a bean-counter? It conjures up those pagan gods always looking for human sacrifices to throw into the fire pit.
As Hume pointed out (thru a dialog character), "It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”
It's also preposterous that many Christians seem to be awed by mid-second-millennium English. As if it has magical powers to sound like "God's voice", rather than being completely an accident of time and place, and a translation to boot.
Re: "This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fill his will."
The infamous Egyptian Pharaoh of the book of Exodus comes to mind. Trump epitomizes the collective greed of society today and one would have to be blind to not see how he has been energized by everything that is thrown at him. The biblical God "hardens" (another good translation is "strengthens") what's already there to make sure that as H.L. Menken has said, "the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Sometimes doing nothing has a massive impact. Ignoring demons is immensely effective. Praying keeps them away. We can only take care of ourselves and our communities, to a lesser extent. That's not doing nothing.
It's amazing how many people understand this that I run into lately! So heartening. I found out a woman I play pickleball with and hike with is a conservative Christian. She didn't advertise, so I didn't know. Once we started chatting about the trans agenda, I knew! A kindred soul. Hallelujah!
Although disputed, "Providence" intervened to let Corporal Adolf Hitler live. One corporal Henry Tandey is reputed to have been in a position to shoot a wounded Hitler dead in WW1, but did not do so.
Now, I am NOT saying Trump is Hitler (like many Trump-haters and Democrats do). I supported Trump (in the past). I despised Biden and campaigned AGAINST Crooked Joe in 2024. (That's not the same as supporting Trump).
It is miraculous Trump survived Butler, PA, I agree. However, after his first 100 days, it's clear that peace is not a priority for Mr. Trump, and if alternative and mainstream news accounts are correct, he appears to be intent on precipitating a massive escalation in WW3 by attacking Iran, which likely will torpedo the entire world economy--and this will sink the US.
Some are claiming Iran already has a nuke or two. They had a lot of help from President Clinton and of course the Shiaphile Obama. One will note every action taken by Obama favored Shiites over any other sect. Curiously favorable agreements made by "towering intellects" like Lurch Kerry surely have not soothed an observer's concerns about the intentions of the Islamic Republic.
Unlike the bufoons preceding him, Trump goes for the win. If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done, but only if he believes there is going to be a nuclear attack from them. None of this boots on the ground and nation building crap. "...and there ain't gonna be no wine tasting after."
John, Setting aside the many shades of grey in the first paragraph (for the sake of brevity here), in the second paragraph you seem pretty confident that an attack on Iran will be "decisive".
There won't be any boots on the ground because America has no boots to send. The army and marine corps are rather small. Yet, history has shown that to defeat an adversary nation, it is necessary to occupy part or all of them. Look at Desert Storm (Iraq war 1). How did Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan turn out for the US? The US however did occupy Japan and Germany.
Iran has already demonstrated that it can reach out and hit Israel. That means they can hit oil wells and loading terminals. They can probably choke or close the Strait of Hormuz. Once you back the Iranian regime (or any regime) into a corner, with no way out, they will respond with everything they have. They may even be able to hit US ships. Perhaps we will find out, unfortunately.
Next, Iran is not an isolated nation. It is linked to the bigger global picture. It is not in China's, or Russia's interest to have the US/Israel dominate the Persian Gulf (maybe Trump wants to rename it "Gulf of Aramco?"). They won't sit idly by and watch.
Outside of Iran, there is a lot of pressure in the Middle East. Many fanatic Sunni Arabs, rich and poor, may hate the Shiite Persians--but several of them hate the US and Israel more; others hate the US and Israel more, and the despise their ruling governments. One cannot rule out the possibility of uncorking instability in those countries.
There are lots of things that could go wrong, some I have listed, others I can't even imagine at this point.
Also, you seem to overlook that the US, as an advanced modern society, dependent on trade as well as communications networks, has many vulnerable points. Complexity breeds fragility. We could implode in short order, without a single bomb or gunshot going off in this country. We are a soft country, with a lot of "needs", in a world where our relative strength is constantly shrinking (because much of the rest of the world is growing stronger faster than we are).
Also, Iran has not attacked any of its neighbors or bombed and killed thousands of civilians. More importantly, for America Firsters, Iran has not killed any Americans that I know of. Israel has killed several dozen--the USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, and more.
In other words, you don't care that Iran is relatively peaceful and Israel is very warlike. You like who you like and that's the end of it. There's no dealing with wild eyed fanatics like you. You're going to get us nuked sooner or later.
No, no nukes, we will just have our country destroyed. Our Masters don't want to irradiate our stuff, they just want us gone - or at least powerless - so they can take our stuff.
Are you old enough to recall the neocon scare tactics that it was only a matter of days before Iran had a nuke and would nuke NYC or unleash a dirty bomb on the US? In this day, if a nuke was launched, it would either be directly from Israel, or from the US, at the behest of of their AIPAC masters.
Iran has demonstrated they can shoot ineffective drones and a couple of rockets which did little damage thanks to the Iron dome.
Iran is toothless which is why they run mouth and do very little.
They lost most of their air defense, lost several missile factories and a few other items I can't remember, and Israeli aircraft did not so much as get a scratch.
It took months for Iranians to actually comment one way or the other which round about proves they got ass handed to them.
Iran is fucked if they don't start making nice and quit with proxy war bullshit.
China and Russia won't do anything for IRAN BUT BLUSTER.
Russia is bleeding out in Ukraine and China does not want direct military confrontation until they go after Tawain.
The Shiite Sunni schism is easily leveraged back into a hot war.
It will happen sooner or later without any prodding they literally HATE each other over grievances that are six hundred years old.
Iran is responsible for massive bloodshed - what the hell are you talking about? First, starting in their own country. They terrorize and murder many in Iran. They also arm and instigate other militants in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Judea and Samaria and to bring about death and destruction to many.
As for the USS Liberty, that was a fog of war incident. Israel never intended to and has never attacked Americans. But Iranians have killed Americans deliberately as in the Beirut bombing of the US Marine barracks, which they actively supported. They often talk about destroying the Great Satan. Read the Hamas Charter, Iran's affiliate, and see what the end game is for Islamic jihad, but you refuse to open your eyes or ears.
Rachel Corrie was a troublemaker who put herself deliberately into harm's way where she had absolutely no business and got herself killed.
Get behind me, Satan, with your lying poisonous tongue.
Israel sold state of the art drones to the Muslim Azeris enabling them to crush Armenia's tank army. Israel is not pro-Christian. Indeed a faithful Jew is required to spit when he passes a Church or sees a Christian.
"If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done..."
Ummm, yeah... Iran is just another Grenada waiting to be put in its place by God's Country (TM).
Our words and actions over the past seventy-odd years "surely have not soothed an (Iranian) observer's concerns about the intentions of the" Zionist States of America.
Iran has every reason to want a nuclear weapon - and yet, according to UN investigators, they are refraining from developing one. They might as well arm themselves, our Masters have made the decision that we will destroy Iran for them, nukes or no nukes.
"One and done". It's the world economy that will be done.
If Iran DOES have a nuke, Scott Ritter suggested Iran needs to test it in some Iranian desert now, so that the US, China, Russia, etc, KNOW Iran has one.
Then, Iran, like North Korea and Pakistan (and unlike Qaddafi/Libya and Saddam/Iraq) becomes largely "untouchable".
Or course, showing that card would show that Iran violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Iran signed. This might have some serious economic consequences if Russia and China frowned on it. (The big powers had, and have, a vested interest in monopolizing nuclear weapons).
On the other hand, Israel never signed the NPT. That alone should have made Israel ineligible for any US military aid. Think of the money and geopolitical turmoil we could have saved....
I have no idea why some people expect Trump to loudly telegraph his true intentions so enemies can form effective strategies. I recommend Badlands Media show Geopolitics with Ghost for a full analysis of what Trump, Putin, MBS, et al, are quietly up to in the Middle East. The current wars are very connected & will likely both be resolved in a single deal, possibly hosted by Qatar. It very much appears that the deals (including Putin's completion of denazification this summer) have already been made & we're just watching the pre-arranged theatre play out. Right now it seems we're waiting out Netanyahu's demise as his nation teeters on the brink of civil war. And Trump just cranked up the heat on Israel's economy by making them the only country to not receive tariff relief in return for dropping theirs. Oh, & while everyone was distracted by bombing Yemen, Trump very quietly approved Egypt's plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing the Palestinians.
But hey, gloom & doom all you want. Just don't ask me for sources as I am no one's secretary! Go ask Grok to find them for you. Also, I'm no longer in the business of pursuasion, as I can't help anyone anyway if they can't simply sense that the forces of darkness are on the ropes. I can pray for y'all, that's about it.
Not true I value life except in the case of a group of people who put terrorists into power then engage in kidnapping, rapes, murders, bombings, running people over with cars/truck/tractors, suicide bombers and all the other general mayhem Palestinkians have been involved in.
Surprised Lugh cares about nasty brown people oh wait they are killing Jews and the enemy of my enemy is my friend right peeyou Lugh?
Iran appears eager for the confrontation so who is really pushing for World War 3?
It is not normal for a world leaders to send private letters specifically asking other countries leaders to come to the peace table to hash stuff out if they are intent on another war.
Not like McCain who famously and poorly sang BOMB BOMB BOMB iRAaaaaaaaaAN after suggesting they send Iran an Airmail message it is interesting that I can no longer find the word Iran in this terrible song.
Why on earth was Israel leveling tariffs on its main benefactor, the US, in the first place? Is it to rub our noses into the muck, just to show how much they own us?
You should actually search out the answer to your question before postulating before everyone, but it appears you're actually proud of yourself for having Israel Derangement Syndrome.
Could it be that all the countries, especially our “Allies”, Israel, Europe, Britain, Canada, Mexico have been waging the KIng of the Mountain game with the USA forever. I really favorite Trump’s agenda here, to punish the countries that have taken advantage all these years. Especially our “friends”. The world is about to learn the power of the USA consumer base.
At least with Russia and China, we know who our enemies are.
How ever tariffs are used primarily to protect a countries industry from cheaper or better products by making them more expensive.
Israel has a weapons industry, chips, clothes and food.
One of the biggest mistakes in all this tariff stuff was not broadcasting loudly every country tariffs on American goods what they are and how much in dollars they are making.
Percentage points get lost in the noise.
When the details are there, the idiots can't argue how unfair it is to reciprocal tariff other countries products well some still will because they are irrational and delusional but honest people won't.
Trump did say that this was going to be initially painful.
Watching the stocks go down I have a key number of picks I want to buy when I think they hit the bottom.
I initially had both nVidia and Amd at just over three dollars and stupidly sold them when they went up to around $10.
Same with apple I bought apple when I heard Bill Gates was going to help them but chickened out and sold long before I should have.
Maybe he did, but who would know as his enemies control the media?
Why not let the State have one channel people can tune into and by which Trump or whoever can communicate directly with the people?
Or Trump could have made a major speech about the tariffs. They'd have to cover it, as much as they hated it. Seems like an error that he didn't do that.
Ben, the stock market reaction show how much the Left empire AND foreign influence affect our economy barometers. Look around and I will bet that Soros, Rothschild, Rockefeller are all trying to exacerbate the reaction.
Yep, not surprised. Money does not just disappear, it is re-invested elsewhere. Gold comes to mind, or foreign resources? Eventually, when the Chicken Littles come to their senses, they will bring all their money back plus invest in the new manufacturing base of the USA.
BTW, on Netflix, check out “Founder”. The story of Ray Kroc and McDonalds.
Yeah, I agree with you. Trump, again, has underestimated the power of the Leftists to stop his agenda, especially the judicial side. He needs SCOTUS to stop the overstepping by these Leftist stooges. If he does not get this stopped, we are going to see a re-play of #1. Populist MAGA will be overwhelmed by the Leftist power base that is still in power. Number one is the media, that is overwhelmingly Far-Left, and is the “programmer” of the mind of Joe Average. If they convince the country that Trump is BAD, and 2026 sees a Dem comeback in the House, #2 will be a race to see how fast Trump’s MAGA can be destroyed with ongoing impeachments.
As mentioned here, it probably all depends on John Roberts and his side kick, Amy Barrett.
Since ACB has become Roberts' sidekick, what are the chances that she'll stray from him and vote with the 4 conservative Justices? From the way she looked away from Trump when he greeted her after his SOTU speech, it's not hard to see where her loyalties lie. Super lawyer Robert Barnes warned Trump not to pick ACB after Justice Ginsburg died. Seems he's been proven right.
The Iranian regime, following in the footsteps of Muhammad, has been attacking the US from its beginning. Dealing with them now, belated as it is, isn't WW3 - it's putting down a lawbreaking troublemaker. Your chicken little shtick should be retired.
I am more concerned about Israel's nuclear capabilities (that it has never disclosed) as was John F. Kennedy just before he was murdered in 1963. Iran's desire to defend itself with nukes is logical given that their expansionist neighbor has them. Iranian nuclear capability would create a balance of power in the Middle East. Or the alternative - just let Israel and its co-dependent friend with big bombs and big boats wipe out every perceived threat in the region until it owns everything.
If Providence intervened on behalf of President Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, then it is beyond cavil that it was for a very good reason. Despite the obstacles he faces (and they are considerable), it would seem that he will prevail against those who seek his political and physical demise. More to the point; that DJT shall fulfill the task(s) that Providence has sought him out for. His will be done.
It's possible that you don't know that for sure.
Mr. Kunstler: There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty. However, one can observe and deduce. All that I know is that God made the plants for their simplicity, animals for their innocence, and man to serve him wittily in the tangle of his mind. This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fulfil his will. I don't know this for certain, but one can at least be open to the possibility. One can have faith.
“One can have faith.”
Sure beats the alternative.
Faith is a tricky thing.
Indeed, it surely is. Daily one sees the detritus of misplaced faith.
Or, perhaps, the people have become so corrupted and godless in their hearts that God has given them over to reap the rewards of their actions. Seems to me that wickedness and corruption is having its way with the good and decent these days.
A truly righteous people would not tolerate a wicked government. The fact that the people have allowed their government to become such as it is today speaks volumes to the condition of the general American citizen.
We as a people have become immoral, amoral, anti-God, anti-religion, lovers of ourselves, greedy, selfish, and slaves to our debt. Hey, this sounds just like our own government doesn't it?
God's plan, if he/she has a plan, may be to let humanity stumble through and resolve the mess they themselves have created.
"A truly righteous people" voted - for liars, cheats and traitors. Without reading their minds, we can't know if a politician is worth his salt until he acts. We waited for them to prove themselves, waited for the "white hats" to effect a correction, and chose the only path that does not involve immediate civil war or lynchings: vote for different people. About 60-70% of us voted for better people. That is the contract we've all agreed to. We have something that separates us from France (Le Pen), Brazil (Bolsinaro), Romania (Georgescu), Germany (AfD): a Constitution like no other. It's what is keeping those "truly righteous people" from acting out. It may come to war, but we're yelling as loudly we can, and somebody has acquired the authority to listen and DO something about it. Laura Loomer talked with Trump about what she knew, and he fired 3 NSC people. But there is another aspect of "truly righteous people" that nobody mentions. Humanity are a spiritual beings, above ALL else, for without it, that body you inhabit is nothing but rotting meat. And there is a confluence of positive thought, prayer, intent on an unseen, unrecognized, unacknowledged level that influences everything. It's part of "being awake," and it appears to be working. Think positively. That doesn't mean begging "God" for an outcome, but thinking, encouraging, applauding the good in every way possible. It does matter, and it does make a difference. Why, we have a manifestation of it today: Klaus Schwab quit! What gets more positive than that?
I see that in Hollywood. Melissa Gilbert wrote something on X. She said that oh we were woke in the days of Little House on the Prairie on t.v. She just doesn't get it. They cannot tell a story. They start out moralizing because they are the best people in the world. I hope I don't think that about myself! Go look at the self righteous yard sign. IN this house we believe, meaning those that don't are inferior. If you go to a church, they recite a creed. The creed is for the person reciting it, the creed is not for other people. Hollywood will go bankrupt. I know the mind of Blind and they cannot see now.
They all live in a woke silo, all we can do is ignore them or pray for them. I haven't watched any of the filth that's come out of Hwood for well over 10 years. I also don't have any use for current "music" out of that industry.
Christians believe that God has planned everything, and that includes planning for some people to go to hell.
There's nothing you can do about it, since that would go against God's plan. Praying is asking him to change his plan. Telling God he has it all wrong and you have a better idea!
The fact is Christians don't think they're smart enough to live their lives without some sort of divine intervention.
Why would anyone who is intelligent and educated get duped into believing 1st Century/Bronze Age superstition?
Myths based on ignorant men "making shit up" in order to try and understand the natural world.
Without one shred of verifiable, concrete data or experiment-based evidence of a single supernatural "God" or event?
We should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.
God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are.
The Devil is real. He is the great "deceiver". People are being deceived, which explains the bad choices that are manifest at every level, from petty lies and theft to embezzlement to wars big and small.
It is good to have faith. I share your view that the bullet "missing" by an inch or two is miracle, in the positive sense. God can, and does, thwart the powers of evil. It is possible that nefarious forces or people sought Trump's removal, and God thwarted their plans. The Holy Trinity is, ultimately, "the boss."
I like to think this experience (even more than his advanced age) reminded Mr. Trump of his mortality, of the fact that we are not going to be here forever.
I can't read Trump's mind though. I can perceive his ACTIONS by what I DISCERN from what I see and read. And his actions, whether they reflect his beliefs or whether he is being manipulated, when it comes to war and peace are not encouraging. While I recognize it is impossible to satisfy everyone, all the time, President Trump could have pulled the plug on the Ukraine war. He has not done so. And his words and actions in the Middle East, at least to me, point to wider war with a lot more death and destruction coming, and very likely adversely impacting the US economically, perhaps kinetically.
Now, he may think he is really a peacemaker, and his actions are necessary to pave the way to a long-term peace. I just don't see it. Time will tell.
Zelensky, galaxies far from a great mind, is being manipulated by the EU and the UK, based on their delusional and diabolical motives, to keep throwing wrenches into the ceasefire/peace efforts, convincing him via promises to have his his back based upon pure fairy dust.
The combination of their certifiably insane TDS, and their utter hubris have brought us to the brink of WWIII, and mutually assured destruction.
Ironically, it has only been Putin’s personal resistance to pulling the nuclear trigger that has kept us from crossing that Rubicon.
Vladimir Putin is the greatest leader Russia has ever had (possible exception Catherine the Great), and one of the greatest leaders in the world today. Hungary's Orban and El Salvador's Bukele are equally brave and visionary, but their countries are not as huge and consequential as Russia. (Although they are certainly playing key roles in the current world situation right now, aren't they?!)
What remarkable times we live in....
Putin is a great leader. He’s shown remarkable patience in the USA proxy war…he knows our deep state put Z in place.
I don’t know if I’d use the word “greatest”, as it can imply characteristics I wouldn’t necessarily apply to Putin. But I would go with smartest.
Amen. You forgot the Democrat machine backing Zelensky.
"God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are."
Exactly. This principle tells me two things, Socrates.
1. God cannot violate his own laws and therefore cannot get involved which means we humans are on our own to fix the mess our actions and inactions have created.
2. God is not all powerful and cannot intervene. If God intervenes God breaks his own law of human free choice and free will and if he breaks his own law he becomes a liar. If God becomes a liar he loses his authority which comes from his honor and the honor of his creations.
Either way, I don't believe God is going to save us from our wickedness. We made this mess. We need to fix it. We fix it by first fixing ourselves, inwardly. Once we as a people fix ourselves inwardly and turn ourselves back to righteous principles and righteous living, everything else will fall right in line. I truly believe this.
Oh, and Socrates, a close friend of mine is a police chief in my town and believe me when I tell you, the people themselves are corrupted and wicked. The heart breaking stories of drugs, crime, child abuse, spouse abuse, infidelity, pornography and so forth are stunning. And I live in a rural Utah community.
Drugs can turn people into MONSTERS. Like you, I am closely acquainted with this fact. I have friends who have adopted foster children.... The hell that those kids endured as victims of drug-addicted parents is unimaginable.
As for porn, I have seen marriages destroyed. And I know of at least one man who always tried to be a good and decent husband, father, church member and community leader, but was addicted to online porn. He committed suicide because of the crushing guilt he felt at leading a double life.
If anyone reading this has this problem, I beg you: Get help!!! I just did a search for "porn addiction hotline christian" and a TON of resources came up. Get help. Today.
Well said. And many women are addicted to social media, doing all kinds of crazy things for likes. Many of them are still on dating sites after being married just for the validation, or to keep their options open. About 60% of married women admit to having a "Plan B" or back up man if things get bad.
Janos - Plan B's aren't all bad. About 95% of Americans don't even have a Plan A, so they're already screwed.
About 4% have a Plan A, so they're on the right track.
It's the 1% that have a Plan B, that'll come out the other side, knowing full well, that something always goes awry with Plan A.
Those women are just covering their downside risk. Problem is that a lot of one-time losers - men or women - end up becoming two-time losers. It's a pattern.
Plan A will definitely go awry if you have a Plan B. That’s not a marriage, it's a "situationship," as the kids say. That’s no way to live.
And if wifey meets a better man online, she'll start talking with him. If it all checks out, she'll replace her husband and blame him for it. Such is the feminine nature which you adore.
God rules absolutely. We have all been subjected to vanity. That's the point of this exercise. God makes what He will of every vessel, honorable or dishonorable. He creates good and evil. You have no choice in when you were born, to whom, and all your personal characteristics. You have no choice in life but what He puts before you. After choosing wrong for so long and reaping the consequences, you will learn to choose right by His grace only. Repentance and faith are a gift.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for part of a weekend."
We are told an all-knowing God designed the incredible complexities of life, yet was so unimaginative & primitive it could only resolve issues by killing people.
"In the beginning man created God, then he created stories in which God created man."
Repentance and faith are a gift.
Oh, no! Please! No!
Not Hell! Not the Lake of Eternal Fire!
Lord, I believe! I repent!
I'm saved now, praise Jesus!
I'm saved!
Thank you, Jesus, thank you!
The anti-Gospel according to a perverse and corrupt mind.
When I was 4 years old, my grandmother was given a couple of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) by one of her students (she taught third grade). She made up a terrarium for them where they did - nothing. Not satisfied with this inactivity, I took a pencil and started prodding them to get them to move, to do - something... Well, I may have prodded too much because eventually they became VERY inactive.
I don't think that "God" is a 4-year-old with a terrarium.
Cankerpuss
Your last paragraph is a wonderful summation of the message of Jesus. The key to salvation is within every one of us.
Oh, no! Please! No!
Not Hell! Not the Lake of Eternal Fire!
Lord, I believe! I repent!
I'm saved now, praise Jesus!
I'm Saved!
Thank you, Jesus, thank you!
Yes. "...within you but you don't realize it."
That is, make it real.
God has interviened many times in the Bible. He has a master plan, and will follow that to the ultimate end.
No argument here, but maybe included in that master plan is to let humanity fail because humanity no longer believes in or listens to God.
The message of Revelation.
If Vegas could vote on the likelihood of human self-salvation, I think the odds would be very long.
Carl Gustav Jung, whose work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies, in his autobiography "Memories Dream Reflections" said "I will not discuss the transparent prophecies of the Book of Revelation because no one believes in them and the whole subject is felt to be an embarrassing one."
Beware of those who claim to interpret God’s “word.”
They don’t know any more than you do.
What they want is not truth, but power.
The bolder their interpretations, the more power they want.
"(God) has a master plan, and will follow that to the ultimate end."
In which everything plays a part, with humanity a barely noticeable background blip.
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
Yes, there seems to be different factions of globalists striving for dominance. Trump is part of the Neo-Con/Israeli faction - and they are terrible warmongers.
Israel is a warmonger? You can't be more upside down that that, Lugh. Look up Raymond Ibrahim and read some of his stuff or watch his videos. It's not about Israel, but it will show you who the real warmongers are.
The Greater Israel Plan means taking over whole nations such as Lebanon and large parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. It's imperialism on steroids and the burning wick of WW3
How far God will extend Israel is up to Him, but as for your accusation, it's patently ludicrous. If Israel had been planning to take over territories it would have done so after the '67 war and in the years since. Instead, it didn't take over Judea and Samaria, gave Sinai back to Egypt, and vacated the small Jewish population of Gaza.
I would say you should limit yourself to talking about things you know about, but I'm not sure any of those apply to the topics on this blog.
The IDF wear a patch of the map of Greater Israel on their shoulder. Do you really not know this or are you lying?
You're the liar. The IDF banned those patches, which were taken on by some orthodox soldiers.
That said, I fully support Israel expanding as much as God wills, which is more than what's held at present. Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, some of southern Syria and Lebanon for sure.
They always intended to expand, the two blue lines on their flag being the two rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates.* Thus they never negotiated in good faith.
*Whether this is the actual dimensions delineated in the Bible is debatable. It says the "spring of Egypt", is the Nile a spring? And by the Euphrates, did it mean the Euphrates in the north or in Iraq?
In any case, this is not the Israel of God. But it is the Israel of the Antichrist.
God does not exist Paul.
And the one the Israelis invented conveniently played real estate agent in their favour.
"God gave us this land"....
"It's bullshit, and it's fucking stupid." Probably the best and most accurate description of religion I've ever heard.
...than that....
How do you even talk to people like this "Cohen?" Shouldn't he be engaged in a check cashing racket or scamming life insurance policies from veteran's widows? Why is he here mudding up the chat?
You can't answer me directly because you have nothing and can only resort to wild ad hominins born of your own moral depravity.
That bullet didn't really miss though, did it? Just barely nicked Trump's ear, not even leaving a lasting scar. A few millimeters to the right and it busts off a chunk of Trump's head. A few millimeters to the left and he doesn't even feel the breeze. Certainly a miracle - or possibly something a little more profane.
I can't read Trump's mind either - fortunately, there are many who can. Many of them can also read God's mind and know that Trump has been chosen by God to lead us out of the wilderness. "Mysterious ways" indeed. The shadow of doubt need never darken our lives again.
"Many of them can also read God's mind". Give me a fuckin break.
The same folks that are delusional.
I’m delusional and talk to an imaginary friend in the sky. You guys are too naive and don’t make enough efforts to become delusional like me. If you don't agree with my God delusion, then you're naive!
'My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na na Neener neener nee ner"
"Oh, but there's plenty of evidence for Gods existence! There are so many things!"
“There's...... uhh......eeermm ... I saw God’s face and I talk to him!”
Every fucking time.
I hope you feel better now.
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
EVERYTHING happens according to God's PLAN Christians will say.
But when SOMETHING tragic happens, the Christian says God gives us FREE WILL.
The age-old trick of constantly moving the goalposts.
Or the cop-out: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform
Hmmm, “The Devil is real”? Could it be he is the cumulative of Man’s evil side, that he represents the “evil” side of our nature, inside our minds and souls, as God represents the “good” side? Is the battle between good and evil within ourselves?
Let’s give Trump a break relative to his being a peacemaker. I think Putin dropped a turd on his idea of what it would take to make a deal to stop the Biden stupidity. IMHO, Putin is using the slowdown from Trump to his advantage and will continue to push his land grab in East Ukraine until stopped. Watch Odessa.
Putin will definitely finish the denazification by fall, when the now clearing Rasputitsa (literally "season of bad roads") muds return. Only then will peace be made. And who can blame the Russians for not trusting any deal to restrain those who mercilessly murderered their own Russian speaking civilians in Donbass? They haven't forgotten about Minsk! Merkel herself admitted to acting in bad faith to rearm the Ukraine.
Can you imagine what the US would do if Mexico contained a significant concentrated enclave of Americans & the Mexican gov't shelled & slaughtered them? We would not stop until every last Mexican combatant was killed to ensure an end to the threat. It's a very loose analogy since the Ukraine, a term meaning periphery (as the center of the empire had moved east to Moscow) was always an artificial construct; empires such as the Hapsburg (Austro-Hungarian) & Polish-Lithuanian pushed Ukrainization (to make them feel like a separate people from their fellow Russians, despite the Kievan Rus being the origin of Russia) even before Vladimir Lenin's wheeling & dealing fraudulently officialized it through Soviet "Republic" status. Other neighboring countries also lost some land to the north & west of the Ukraine, but Russia is likely to take back much of their own lost land, probably to include Odessa. This will leave a landlocked rump state of a demilitarized zone ripe for regional reabsorption into respective parent nations once EU & NATO military support collapses & US subsidization ends (the Ukraine has been FULLY subsidized, military & civilian operations alike- the whole enchilada- since at least 2022).
Good summary, thanks.
Faith is the most important. So is knowledge wisdom and understanding. All of these qualities followed by works pleases God. Trump is fulfilling this role to make America great again in a morally profound way.
He will prevail as well as those who have faith that God is really in charge but we humans still have the power of choice given to those who wisely choose life.
We're blessed with tape worms, plague, cancer, leprosy, dengue fever, malaria, and mosquitoes that spread diseases. The brain-eating amoeba is a special gift from a creator if you believe in a Creator.
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
"There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty."
That applies to absolutely everything that you, or any human, "knows" about anything. Therefore, it also applies to any claim whatsoever about God. It's all belief, and that "fact" is inescapable.
"There are no certainties in this life"
death
Arguably, death is external to "in this life" ;)
But if God informs you, take it to the bank. He is Real, you know.
"He is Real, you know."
No, I don't know. Neither do you. The difference is that you believe you possess truth, while I believe everything in a human's consciousness is, and can only be, belief. Your "God informing you" is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. Highly problematic when one wants to spread "Good News" to skeptics.
More generally, my stock reply (ordinarily, just to myself) to literally anything someone tells me -- "revealed" religion or not -- is "WWIBT?" or "Why Would I Believe That?" I have learned well over many decades, especially in the [post]modern West, to have less than zero *automatic* respect for "experts", who are more often than not simply feral political animals who are primarily Aristotelian ethos-hucksters, whatever else they do in life. That goes double for godmongers of all kinds. I find it very useful in keeping my mind open to what evidence and possibilities are plausible and which are not.
If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know.
I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. Or maybe you'd admit you don't know that either.
Faith isn't airy fairy imaginations. It's the evidence of things not seen. So you're not going to know with your native senses. However there's more to life than those, much more.
The truth is, you think you know a lot because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses, so there's no point in trying to argue with someone so limited and self-contradictory, and I'm not.
I can wait for you to find out. Not a problem at all.
I suppose you think you came out of a magic Sky Daddies finger....ABracadabra. Shazaam.
It's impossible to argue from logic when your opponent basically claims "MAGIC."
They never lose a debate in their minds.
These are the ones who say their God is unknowable and then proceed to tell us what all we need to know about their God.
Imagine what goes on in these people’s heads.
It’s amazing to me how people can believe these religious stories that play over and over in their imaginations.
It’s mental illness. How do they function in the real world?
The depth of their delusions and their grip it has on their mind is terrifying.
I just hope they have someone caring for their well-being.
"If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know."
Correct. I did not deny that. But it is not relevant to my belief or not in God. Please read again, carefully: "Your 'God informing you' is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. "
"The truth is, you think you know a lot ..."
False. I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs. I believe there is much of my beliefs that you're assuming, and others you're just not getting. I'll happily confess some of that is doubtless my own lack of clarity in places.
"... because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses,"
If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver. At least for much of science, limited as it is, can widely be transferred to, and then tested by, a theory's skeptic, limited only by the receiver's ability to understand its complexity, not to "sense" it. So, as far as I can see, and in this late stage in life, either (in the words of a Steve Martin '70s skit), regarding religion, either you're "feelin' it" (to me, i.e. the apparent God hallucination), or not.
"I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. ... [etc. etc.] "
It is not important to me where I believe I came from. It is ultimately unknowable to any human being how that belief and many others work. What we perceive about the entire universe could be a massively complex illusion. We can forever hunt for evidence whether I came from a "Big Bang" or anything else, and it's entertaining and useful (within a frame of reference), but ultimately forever unsettled.
I am able to sit with the void of that lack of knowledge. Most amazing to me, however, is the tendency of most humans to be utterly incapable of accepting their not being able to know something. They especially cannot accept that some things may be unavoidably unknowable by *any* humans, smart and/or educated about whatever. That lack of comfort drives them crazy, until they latch onto some kind of belief-rock. But as I said earlier, *nothing* is knowable -- it's *all* belief. It's in the nature of all humans. I'm now convinced this emotional weakness we humans have is at the heart of humans' need to stuff a God/gods into their heads.
But it's not the only dimension of pretension. Most relevantly and importantly today, is it also behind the need to stuff their heads with certainty about which (major) political "side" is factually correct and morally "correct", when it is entirely plausible that both are. IMO, because both Right (simplistically put, for brevity: prioritizing individuality/freedom) and Left (prioritizing society/fairness) are "correct", they exist as political forces in perpetuity (although each instantiation is usually heavily distorted by the forces in each context). Once we drop that pretension and regain our humility, accepting that everyone possesses (human) truths, we may be able to get back to functioning politics again. The same thing applies to pretentions about divinity or lack thereof.
I didn't know, admitted it, asked God to show me, and He did (this was 48 years ago and has continued to this day). Admittedly, I asked by faith, which is a gift from God. He gives to whom He wills when He wills. He's in charge.
As for your condition, it's caused by what the Bible calls "sin," a word many are not familiar with its actual meaning. You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge "beliefs."
You won't see or know God till you eat from the Tree of Life.
You are also responsible for your condition, which is a good thing for you. It's how you'll come out of that darkness when your time of repentance and faith arrive. And they will. Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord - readily with great peace and joy.
Only our Creator can, has, and will accomplish this. I am a witness.
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14).
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14)."
LOL.....just a CLAIM scribbled down by unknow ignorant goat herders two centuries ago. With no evidence. Anonymous undated ancient writings. Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
The Bible only makes claims. The Bible is not evidence.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?
Why do a Christian expect a book written by unknown authors in a variety of languages, that was translated, rewritten, edited countless times ~ is evidence for anything?
It's just a book.
Every statement of "Jesus says" needs to start with "my old book says Jesus says...."
If, instead, you could believe that alien (non-infinite, non-"loving") intelligence(s) is/are behind the origins (and maybe continuance) of the Abrahamic God -- *that* is something I can find plausible.
"[I] asked God to show me, and He did"
Now you've circled back to square one. Again, you believe what, to a skeptic, is indistinguishable from a hallucination. You didn't address it the first time, so I must assume its import whooshed over your head.
"You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge 'beliefs.' "
Again, I make no such claim to being a god. Quite the opposite. As I said above: "I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs." I say only that in the obvious absence of such a creature as God, I take matters into my own hands. You're right only about the pro-active part of my beliefs -- but nothing else about my attitude.
"If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver."
I should add that this failure to receive (due to missing senses) also makes the receiver *unaccountable* to the alleged God the godmonger asserts. So much for pistol-whipping many of the thinking non-believers into compliance post-Enlightenment, the way it had been done successfully prior to that time.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for part of a weekend."
“For all addicted religious person who lights a candle for me, then verily it shall be immediately bloweth out by me.
I didn't ask for your candle to be lit for me.
I don't want it.
I don't need it.
Please have your Candle back thank you very much.” – the great atheist Cristopher Hitchens
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son ... "
The entire premise that there is some great "loss" to the all-powerful creator of the universe, one that binds people to "owe" him or otherwise pay the price, is simply insane. Yet I understand it is the most quoted Biblical phrase. Who knew he was such a bean-counter? It conjures up those pagan gods always looking for human sacrifices to throw into the fire pit.
As Hume pointed out (thru a dialog character), "It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”
Re thee, thou, [verb]-eth, verily, etc.
It's also preposterous that many Christians seem to be awed by mid-second-millennium English. As if it has magical powers to sound like "God's voice", rather than being completely an accident of time and place, and a translation to boot.
Re: "This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fill his will."
The infamous Egyptian Pharaoh of the book of Exodus comes to mind. Trump epitomizes the collective greed of society today and one would have to be blind to not see how he has been energized by everything that is thrown at him. The biblical God "hardens" (another good translation is "strengthens") what's already there to make sure that as H.L. Menken has said, "the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
That attitude allows Dispensationalist Christians to do nothing.
Sometimes doing nothing has a massive impact. Ignoring demons is immensely effective. Praying keeps them away. We can only take care of ourselves and our communities, to a lesser extent. That's not doing nothing.
GOD'S will is going to be done. Like it or not. HE has already won this war. The final battles are now being fought.
It's amazing how many people understand this that I run into lately! So heartening. I found out a woman I play pickleball with and hike with is a conservative Christian. She didn't advertise, so I didn't know. Once we started chatting about the trans agenda, I knew! A kindred soul. Hallelujah!
Faith!
I don't see that his post asserts absolute surety. It only postulates a reasonable scenario described using words such as "if" and "seem."
Although disputed, "Providence" intervened to let Corporal Adolf Hitler live. One corporal Henry Tandey is reputed to have been in a position to shoot a wounded Hitler dead in WW1, but did not do so.
Now, I am NOT saying Trump is Hitler (like many Trump-haters and Democrats do). I supported Trump (in the past). I despised Biden and campaigned AGAINST Crooked Joe in 2024. (That's not the same as supporting Trump).
It is miraculous Trump survived Butler, PA, I agree. However, after his first 100 days, it's clear that peace is not a priority for Mr. Trump, and if alternative and mainstream news accounts are correct, he appears to be intent on precipitating a massive escalation in WW3 by attacking Iran, which likely will torpedo the entire world economy--and this will sink the US.
Some are claiming Iran already has a nuke or two. They had a lot of help from President Clinton and of course the Shiaphile Obama. One will note every action taken by Obama favored Shiites over any other sect. Curiously favorable agreements made by "towering intellects" like Lurch Kerry surely have not soothed an observer's concerns about the intentions of the Islamic Republic.
Unlike the bufoons preceding him, Trump goes for the win. If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done, but only if he believes there is going to be a nuclear attack from them. None of this boots on the ground and nation building crap. "...and there ain't gonna be no wine tasting after."
John, Setting aside the many shades of grey in the first paragraph (for the sake of brevity here), in the second paragraph you seem pretty confident that an attack on Iran will be "decisive".
There won't be any boots on the ground because America has no boots to send. The army and marine corps are rather small. Yet, history has shown that to defeat an adversary nation, it is necessary to occupy part or all of them. Look at Desert Storm (Iraq war 1). How did Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan turn out for the US? The US however did occupy Japan and Germany.
Iran has already demonstrated that it can reach out and hit Israel. That means they can hit oil wells and loading terminals. They can probably choke or close the Strait of Hormuz. Once you back the Iranian regime (or any regime) into a corner, with no way out, they will respond with everything they have. They may even be able to hit US ships. Perhaps we will find out, unfortunately.
Next, Iran is not an isolated nation. It is linked to the bigger global picture. It is not in China's, or Russia's interest to have the US/Israel dominate the Persian Gulf (maybe Trump wants to rename it "Gulf of Aramco?"). They won't sit idly by and watch.
Outside of Iran, there is a lot of pressure in the Middle East. Many fanatic Sunni Arabs, rich and poor, may hate the Shiite Persians--but several of them hate the US and Israel more; others hate the US and Israel more, and the despise their ruling governments. One cannot rule out the possibility of uncorking instability in those countries.
There are lots of things that could go wrong, some I have listed, others I can't even imagine at this point.
Also, you seem to overlook that the US, as an advanced modern society, dependent on trade as well as communications networks, has many vulnerable points. Complexity breeds fragility. We could implode in short order, without a single bomb or gunshot going off in this country. We are a soft country, with a lot of "needs", in a world where our relative strength is constantly shrinking (because much of the rest of the world is growing stronger faster than we are).
Also, Iran has not attacked any of its neighbors or bombed and killed thousands of civilians. More importantly, for America Firsters, Iran has not killed any Americans that I know of. Israel has killed several dozen--the USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, and more.
Thanks, but we've heard all this from the ineffectual Iran appeasement faction too many times already.
In other words, you don't care that Iran is relatively peaceful and Israel is very warlike. You like who you like and that's the end of it. There's no dealing with wild eyed fanatics like you. You're going to get us nuked sooner or later.
" Relatively peaceful." That merits a ROTFLMFAO!
No, no nukes, we will just have our country destroyed. Our Masters don't want to irradiate our stuff, they just want us gone - or at least powerless - so they can take our stuff.
Are you old enough to recall the neocon scare tactics that it was only a matter of days before Iran had a nuke and would nuke NYC or unleash a dirty bomb on the US? In this day, if a nuke was launched, it would either be directly from Israel, or from the US, at the behest of of their AIPAC masters.
Iran has demonstrated they can shoot ineffective drones and a couple of rockets which did little damage thanks to the Iron dome.
Iran is toothless which is why they run mouth and do very little.
They lost most of their air defense, lost several missile factories and a few other items I can't remember, and Israeli aircraft did not so much as get a scratch.
It took months for Iranians to actually comment one way or the other which round about proves they got ass handed to them.
Iran is fucked if they don't start making nice and quit with proxy war bullshit.
China and Russia won't do anything for IRAN BUT BLUSTER.
Russia is bleeding out in Ukraine and China does not want direct military confrontation until they go after Tawain.
The Shiite Sunni schism is easily leveraged back into a hot war.
It will happen sooner or later without any prodding they literally HATE each other over grievances that are six hundred years old.
The Iron Dome is too slow to stop Russian hypersonic missiles.
Better known as vaporware.
I had a fevered, pleasant dream the other day that I woke up and Israel was glass.
Iran is responsible for massive bloodshed - what the hell are you talking about? First, starting in their own country. They terrorize and murder many in Iran. They also arm and instigate other militants in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Judea and Samaria and to bring about death and destruction to many.
As for the USS Liberty, that was a fog of war incident. Israel never intended to and has never attacked Americans. But Iranians have killed Americans deliberately as in the Beirut bombing of the US Marine barracks, which they actively supported. They often talk about destroying the Great Satan. Read the Hamas Charter, Iran's affiliate, and see what the end game is for Islamic jihad, but you refuse to open your eyes or ears.
Rachel Corrie was a troublemaker who put herself deliberately into harm's way where she had absolutely no business and got herself killed.
Get behind me, Satan, with your lying poisonous tongue.
Israel sold state of the art drones to the Muslim Azeris enabling them to crush Armenia's tank army. Israel is not pro-Christian. Indeed a faithful Jew is required to spit when he passes a Church or sees a Christian.
The entire 1400-year history of Islam should not reassure any "infidel".
"If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done..."
Ummm, yeah... Iran is just another Grenada waiting to be put in its place by God's Country (TM).
Our words and actions over the past seventy-odd years "surely have not soothed an (Iranian) observer's concerns about the intentions of the" Zionist States of America.
Iran has every reason to want a nuclear weapon - and yet, according to UN investigators, they are refraining from developing one. They might as well arm themselves, our Masters have made the decision that we will destroy Iran for them, nukes or no nukes.
"One and done". It's the world economy that will be done.
If Iran DOES have a nuke, Scott Ritter suggested Iran needs to test it in some Iranian desert now, so that the US, China, Russia, etc, KNOW Iran has one.
Then, Iran, like North Korea and Pakistan (and unlike Qaddafi/Libya and Saddam/Iraq) becomes largely "untouchable".
Or course, showing that card would show that Iran violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Iran signed. This might have some serious economic consequences if Russia and China frowned on it. (The big powers had, and have, a vested interest in monopolizing nuclear weapons).
On the other hand, Israel never signed the NPT. That alone should have made Israel ineligible for any US military aid. Think of the money and geopolitical turmoil we could have saved....
I have no idea why some people expect Trump to loudly telegraph his true intentions so enemies can form effective strategies. I recommend Badlands Media show Geopolitics with Ghost for a full analysis of what Trump, Putin, MBS, et al, are quietly up to in the Middle East. The current wars are very connected & will likely both be resolved in a single deal, possibly hosted by Qatar. It very much appears that the deals (including Putin's completion of denazification this summer) have already been made & we're just watching the pre-arranged theatre play out. Right now it seems we're waiting out Netanyahu's demise as his nation teeters on the brink of civil war. And Trump just cranked up the heat on Israel's economy by making them the only country to not receive tariff relief in return for dropping theirs. Oh, & while everyone was distracted by bombing Yemen, Trump very quietly approved Egypt's plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing the Palestinians.
But hey, gloom & doom all you want. Just don't ask me for sources as I am no one's secretary! Go ask Grok to find them for you. Also, I'm no longer in the business of pursuasion, as I can't help anyone anyway if they can't simply sense that the forces of darkness are on the ropes. I can pray for y'all, that's about it.
Yes and think of all those dead Jews.
Win win in your book.
Only Jewish lives matter to Bin.
Not true I value life except in the case of a group of people who put terrorists into power then engage in kidnapping, rapes, murders, bombings, running people over with cars/truck/tractors, suicide bombers and all the other general mayhem Palestinkians have been involved in.
Surprised Lugh cares about nasty brown people oh wait they are killing Jews and the enemy of my enemy is my friend right peeyou Lugh?
Go back to listening to old screwdriver records.
So your group hasn't undermined White, Western Civilization with mass 3rd World immigration? It's obvious that they have.
Haha. Ben-Gurion, always out there shilling for the dual citizens.
What group is that?
Are you telegraphing fake news again screwwy lughie?
C’mon, Lugh, Ben is no Leftie wacko as you seem to claim.
Iran appears eager for the confrontation so who is really pushing for World War 3?
It is not normal for a world leaders to send private letters specifically asking other countries leaders to come to the peace table to hash stuff out if they are intent on another war.
Not like McCain who famously and poorly sang BOMB BOMB BOMB iRAaaaaaaaaAN after suggesting they send Iran an Airmail message it is interesting that I can no longer find the word Iran in this terrible song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris
Iran is far more comfortable being the turd in the punchbowl with proxy wars where they don't get their dainty little hands dirty.
Israel needs the wars and Trump needs money from Israel's deep pocket managers.
Israel needs wars like you need cancer. Maybe you both do in a larger sense, but you're going to have to do something about it if you can.
No not really but thanks for the opinion.
Its the middle east after all which is always at war.
All one need do is make fun of the "prophet" of Islam and walla war.
Also, for reference Trump leveled tariffs on Israel and Israel caved and very fast.
Why on earth was Israel leveling tariffs on its main benefactor, the US, in the first place? Is it to rub our noses into the muck, just to show how much they own us?
You should actually search out the answer to your question before postulating before everyone, but it appears you're actually proud of yourself for having Israel Derangement Syndrome.
Outsider
Could it be that all the countries, especially our “Allies”, Israel, Europe, Britain, Canada, Mexico have been waging the KIng of the Mountain game with the USA forever. I really favorite Trump’s agenda here, to punish the countries that have taken advantage all these years. Especially our “friends”. The world is about to learn the power of the USA consumer base.
At least with Russia and China, we know who our enemies are.
Simplest reason greed.
How ever tariffs are used primarily to protect a countries industry from cheaper or better products by making them more expensive.
Israel has a weapons industry, chips, clothes and food.
One of the biggest mistakes in all this tariff stuff was not broadcasting loudly every country tariffs on American goods what they are and how much in dollars they are making.
Percentage points get lost in the noise.
When the details are there, the idiots can't argue how unfair it is to reciprocal tariff other countries products well some still will because they are irrational and delusional but honest people won't.
Trump did say that this was going to be initially painful.
Watching the stocks go down I have a key number of picks I want to buy when I think they hit the bottom.
I initially had both nVidia and Amd at just over three dollars and stupidly sold them when they went up to around $10.
Same with apple I bought apple when I heard Bill Gates was going to help them but chickened out and sold long before I should have.
Maybe he did, but who would know as his enemies control the media?
Why not let the State have one channel people can tune into and by which Trump or whoever can communicate directly with the people?
Or Trump could have made a major speech about the tariffs. They'd have to cover it, as much as they hated it. Seems like an error that he didn't do that.
Buy call options: Cheaper and, if you stay alert, they offer a better risk/reward ratio.
Ben, the stock market reaction show how much the Left empire AND foreign influence affect our economy barometers. Look around and I will bet that Soros, Rothschild, Rockefeller are all trying to exacerbate the reaction.
I forget who I was listening to, but they said money was being pulled from the US stock market and put into the European one.
Yep, not surprised. Money does not just disappear, it is re-invested elsewhere. Gold comes to mind, or foreign resources? Eventually, when the Chicken Littles come to their senses, they will bring all their money back plus invest in the new manufacturing base of the USA.
BTW, on Netflix, check out “Founder”. The story of Ray Kroc and McDonalds.
Yeah, I agree with you. Trump, again, has underestimated the power of the Leftists to stop his agenda, especially the judicial side. He needs SCOTUS to stop the overstepping by these Leftist stooges. If he does not get this stopped, we are going to see a re-play of #1. Populist MAGA will be overwhelmed by the Leftist power base that is still in power. Number one is the media, that is overwhelmingly Far-Left, and is the “programmer” of the mind of Joe Average. If they convince the country that Trump is BAD, and 2026 sees a Dem comeback in the House, #2 will be a race to see how fast Trump’s MAGA can be destroyed with ongoing impeachments.
As mentioned here, it probably all depends on John Roberts and his side kick, Amy Barrett.
Dems + RINOS = Control?
Since ACB has become Roberts' sidekick, what are the chances that she'll stray from him and vote with the 4 conservative Justices? From the way she looked away from Trump when he greeted her after his SOTU speech, it's not hard to see where her loyalties lie. Super lawyer Robert Barnes warned Trump not to pick ACB after Justice Ginsburg died. Seems he's been proven right.
Her loyalties lie in Haiti.
The Iranian regime, following in the footsteps of Muhammad, has been attacking the US from its beginning. Dealing with them now, belated as it is, isn't WW3 - it's putting down a lawbreaking troublemaker. Your chicken little shtick should be retired.
Then— your strategy is to stand by and wait until Iran nukes Israel and us?
I am more concerned about Israel's nuclear capabilities (that it has never disclosed) as was John F. Kennedy just before he was murdered in 1963. Iran's desire to defend itself with nukes is logical given that their expansionist neighbor has them. Iranian nuclear capability would create a balance of power in the Middle East. Or the alternative - just let Israel and its co-dependent friend with big bombs and big boats wipe out every perceived threat in the region until it owns everything.
Not enough substance to base WWIII on…
Since when do megalomaniacs need "substance"?
I’m so glad you pointed this out. We need reminding sometimes that keeping the faith in times like these is incredibly difficult but oh so important.
Besides, it's Trump's DNA to fight.
Please, God.
Amen!!’
There were multiple near misses of President Lincoln, one by Booth, until one finally took him down.