A panel of historians is releasing its third collection of essays analyzing and assessing
the accomplishments and failures of a presidential administration. But for the first time,
a former president, Donald Trump, spoke to the historians to offer his own take on his time in office. Correspondent Rita Braver talks with Princeton University’s Julian Zelizer, who assembled the panel, and with the academics who unpack history’s first judgment of the 45th president. All Presidents | C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2021 | C-SPAN.org
Total Scores/Overall Rankings | C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2021 | C-SPAN.org
Warnings in 1984. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Divide Them & Conquer Them 🙁
Mr. Orwell provides the reader with three practical warnings against certain dangers in government. The first warning states that people who want individualism and freedom must be willing to fight and risk their lives to protect these values, as we all know that freedom is not free.
Straight from the 1971Book Saul Alinsky, “Rules for Radicals.” pdf
Barack Obama ran a Shadow Government the entire time TRUMP was in office ….
until Sociopath Pelosi: “There’s an agreement to be reached” with Manchin. TO THE Insurrection on January 6. What Does an “Arrow in the Quiver” Mean? (with a picture) (infobloom.com) and now they are using Historian’s to erase his accomplishments while he was in office.
If Democrats can’t pass their agenda now, they may not get another chance for years. Here’s why (msn.com)
The U.S. drops an average of 46 bombs a day: Why should the world see us as a force for peace? (msn.com)
Invoking Jan. 6, The Crooked Dems pivot to fight for voting legislation (msn.com)
Why America may not see its 300th birthday (msn.com)
WELL HELL:
If the left has its way . . . . The United States — won’t see its 250th Birthday in 2026.
Hostile historians may come to regard Donald Trump’s presidency as an aggregation of the lesser traits of his predecessors. The bullying of Lyndon Baines Johnson, demeaning White House aides and even humiliated his Vice-President Hubert Humphrey – forcing his deputy once to recite a speech on Vietnam while he listened, legs akimbo, trousers around his ankles, on the toilet.
The intellectual incuriosity of Ronald Reagan, who once apologized to his then White House Chief of Staff James Baker for not reading his briefing books with the immortal excuse: “Well, Jim, The Sound of Music was on last night.” The shameless lies of Bill Clinton about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. The paranoia of Richard Nixon, who in
his final days railed, King Lear-like, at portraits hanging on the White House walls.
The incompetence of George W Bush, whose failure to master basic governance partly explained his administration’s botched response — to the aftermath of the war in Iraq
and also to Hurricane Katrina. The historical amnesia of Gerald Ford, whose assertion during a 1976 presidential debate that Eastern Europe was not dominated by Moscow
was a forerunner of Trump’s recent endorsement of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The strategic impatience of Barack Obama, whose instinct always was to withdraw US forces from troublesome battlefields, such as Iraq, even if the mission had not yet been completed. Even the distractedness of John F Kennedy, who whiled away afternoons
in the White House swimming pool with a bevy of young women to state his libido, a sexualized version, perhaps, of Donald Trump sitting for his hours in front of his flat-screen TV watching friendly right-wing anchors massage his ego.
At the midpoint of Donald Trump’s first term, historians have struggled to detect the
kind of virtues that offset his predecessors’ vices: the infectious optimism of Reagan; the inspirational rhetoric of JFK; the legislative smarts of LBJ; or the governing pragmatism of Nixon. So rather than being viewed as the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Trump gets cast as a modern-day James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce or William Harrison.
Last year, a poll of nearly 200 political science scholars, which has routinely placed Republicans higher than Democrats, ranked him 44th out of the 44 men who have occupied the post (for those wondering why Trump is the 45th president, Grover Cleveland served twice).
Though the president has likened himself to Abraham Lincoln, who posterity has deemed to be the greatest of all presidents, this survey judged him to be the worst of the worst. Even the conservative scholars, who identified themselves as Republicans, placed him 40th.
Was it not for his braggadocio, Donald Trump might receive a more positive historical press? A recurring problem, after all, is that he gets judged against his boasts. He can point to a significant record of right-wing accomplishment. Tax reform. Two Supreme Court nominees safely installed on the bench. The travel ban. The bonfire of federal regulations. Criminal justice reform. Legislative action aimed at ameliorating the opioid crisis. Nato members pony up more cash.
Annual wage growth is at a nine-year high. 2018 was the best year for job creation since 2015. Many of his campaign pledges, such as the renegotiation of the Nafta free-trade agreement and the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,
have been kept. Promise made; promise kept is one of his boasts regularly rings true.
Read More: How will history judge President Trump? – BBC News
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Jesus preaching the sermon on the mount. What would Jesus actually do?
He’d never give up on US “deplorables”. Opinion by Nathaniel Manderson.
From The Holy Bible published by William Collins, Sons, & Company in 1869. Chromolithograph by J.M. Kronheim & Co. As a former evangelical pastor:
Who strongly opposes Donald Trump and the current leadership of the evangelical movement, I believe this: The blueprint for stopping them can be found in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, who devoted himself to strengthening the downtrodden and exposing the evils of religious leadership.
With many political experts predicting a pretty bad performance for the Democrats in 2022, and the possible or probable return of Trump two years later, it’s a dangerous time. I think that would be a bad thing for this country, very bad for the Christian faith and very, very bad for anyone on the wrong side of advantage in America.
If we look at the life of Christ, the central message was clear. Attacking Caesar and Rome — or, today, attacking Trump or anyone else who wields power — is not the path. The answer lies within the people that the church has typically ignored, while revealing the hypocrisy of the leadership and expose the modern-day Pharisees, a role now being played by evangelical leadership.
I must admit, as a side note, that my faith in the Democratic Party is not strong. I believe we need more political parties in the U.S., as that large corporations seem to be controlling everything from a celebrity’s voice to the news media to politicians of both parties, the health care industry, the justice system and also, most certainly, the church. It often feels like too much to take on, and truly living a life of integrity has become more and more difficult. What I do see clearly is that Trump’s form of leadership is dangerous for America. Stopping him is by no means the end of the battle, but it’s a start.
How Christian nationalism drove the insurrection: A religious history of Jan. 6
To start off with, I think the tactic of attacking Trump and his followers is a mistake that only makes him and his movement stronger. Calling his followers a basket of “deplorables” only encourages many more people to jump into the basket. Hell, when I heard that comment from Hillary Clinton back in 2016, I felt much more “deplorable” than not. I not only voted for Clinton against Trump (I laugh), I believe she would have been a more effective president than her husband, and perhaps than Barack Obama (I laugh again). But the language of the downtrodden is the language of humility, and an understanding that we have failed in life in ways that makes us feel more deplorable than not. Trump was unapologetically deplorable and that felt good for the millions of Americans who have lost a hundred times over in their lives. So, stop that approach, because it’s not working.
I want to be clear that I am not talking about reaching a certain type of Trump follower. I’m not quite that naive. For instance, during my last haircut I was advised to watch out for the Nazis who were trying to check my vaccination status. After a remarkable conversation not based on any understanding of history or anything logical, I can only conclude that person is unreachable. There are millions of others who are simply too far gone, lost in a system of control and manipulation. But those people do not represent all Trump voters any more than my liberal neighbors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speak for all Democrats.
In the ministry of Jesus, his church and message welcomed all who were willing to improve themselves through humility, forgiveness and grace. It did not matter what was happening in their life, how much or little they owned, what sins they had committed in their life or what their social station might be. His followers until that time had no agency, no voice, no acceptance. In a sense, that is how liberal or progressive leaders should approach these next two years. Learn the stories of all those who have struggled with the American dream. Provide them a voice, embrace them as brothers and sisters, and show them a path that leads to their own success, whether materially, spiritually or otherwise. Do not speak from a place of arrogance, success and superior knowledge but a place of humility and empathy.
In the ministry of Jesus it was equally important to show the great divide between the religious leadership and the needs of their followers. The Pharisees presented themselves as the arbiters of God’s justice and as people of purity and goodness, while hoping to shield their misdeeds and hypocrisy in darkness. Things are much the same today: Nothing the evangelical leaders do is for their followers. They only seek to lift themselves up, and to be seen as both righteous and powerful. They have set themselves up as the gatekeepers to God’s love, but in the words of Matthew 23, they have neglected “justice and mercy and faithfulness” and they serve the devil, making their followers
“Twice as much the children of hell” as they are.
In truth, I am no one and I am everyone. I am a liberal, a deplorable, a minister, a father.
I am alone and a failure. In the end I am just a man with two coat hangers, trying to solve a problem much bigger than I am capable of solving. About a year ago, I was locked out of my car at night, in the winter, in a state park with a closed gate, a dying phone and no coat. AAA turned me down, and the cops wouldn’t open the gate. I had to run four miles back to my car, with no way of reaching anyone and with nothing more than two coat hangers, in an attempt to break into my car and get out of my jam.
My best friend and soulmate, who has asthma and is massively allergic to dogs, was stuck in a car with my mom, who has a dog and wasn’t wearing her mask correctly. I needed to solve this issue with my two coat hangers and no phone signal. My friend was worried about me and told my mom, “Listen, Nate will die out there. He will not give up.” She knew me well. That struggling, relentless part of me is a part of every working person in this country. None of us quit. We keep fighting, in spite of the structures that let us down, in spite of the God that seems to ignore us and in spite of our own personal failings, armed with our two coat hangers and the hope — or the faith — that somehow we will find our way through.
I say all this because I want those people who have power, voice and agency not to give
up on us “deplorables.” This country is heading in the wrong direction and the only way through is to look to a very old formula: one that goes back 2,000 years or so: Expose the hypocrisy of the religious leadership, lift up the downtrodden and reclaim the American dream. Our nation’s “greatness” is not found on a slogan, at a fancy hotel or on an exclusive golf course. It is not found in the top circles of the news media, the deep pockets of the Hollywood elites or in any political party. It is certainly not found in the church. It is found with the people who understand what it is like to take on some of life’s most difficult problems with a couple of coat hangers, your strength of will and a little hope.
More from Nathaniel Manderson on Christianity in America:
Now evangelicals want to depict “social justice” as un-Christian: I hope God will forgive them
Evangelicals, science and the vaccine: Refusal is built on deep-seated fear
Evangelicals are teaching false doctrine. Who says so? Jesus Christ
Chinese Art and Poetry: Christmas – the birth of God in the flesh, Jesus Christ,
the Savior of all men (chinese-art-and-poetry.blogspot.com)
The Justice of God: Look up, your redemption is at hand: The Apocalypse –
The Book of the Revelation – The Testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ
The Justice of God: Apostate Vatican II versus Apostolic Catholicity –
Vatican II is Apostate
Look up, your redemption is at hand: The Apocalypse – The Book of the Revelation –
The Testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ
The Fall of Babylon (New York City)
Rv:18:
1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2
2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and has become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!
3 Because all nations have drunk off the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7; Rev.: 18:9, 15
Her Sins and Punishment
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45; 2 Cor.: 6:17; Eph.: 5:7; 1 Tim.: 5:22
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9
6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29; 2 Thess.: 1:6
7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. … Scripture reference – Isaiah: 47:8
8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.
Dirge of the Kings
9 ¶ [1] And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18
10 Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17
Dirge of the Merchants
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise anymore. … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27;32!
12 Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of pearls and fine linen
and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory:
and all manner of vessels of precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble:
13 And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts [2] and sheep and horses and chariots: and slaves and souls
of men.
14 And the fruits of the desire of thy soul have departed from thee: and all fat and goodly things have perished from thee. And they shall find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand far off from her,
for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 10
16 And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4
17 For in one hour are so great riches come to naught.
Dirge of the Mariners
And every shipmaster and all that sailed into the lake, and mariners, and as many
as work in the sea, stood afar off, … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30; Rev.: 18:10
18 And cried, seeing the place of her burning, saying: What city is like this great city? … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30; Rev.: 18:9
19 And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate. …
Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30, 32, 33.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12
The Angel’s Promise
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone, as if it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:63, 64
22 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman [3] of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee: … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 26:13; Jer.: 25:10!
23 And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were
the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that
were slain upon the earth. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6! (DRV)
[1] -Ver. 9-19. This passage is not an account of a vision but rather a direct prophecy, after. the manner of the prophecies of Isaias and Ezechiel concerning Tyre. Tyre furnishes a type of the vengeance of God upon satanic pride and luxury.
[2] -Ver.13. Beasts [of burden]: the Greek has “cattle.”
[3] –Ver. 22 The city had boasted previously of her craftsmen, skilled in every craft.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45; 2 Cor.: 6:17; Eph.: 5:7; 1 Tim.: 5:22
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9
6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29; 2 Thess.: 1:6
13 And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts [2] and sheep and horses and chariots: and slaves and souls of men.
These are the sins that those who do not follow God’s command to totally come out of all connection to Babylon incur upon their souls with no repentance ever offered them by God. No matter what happens they are at that point damned forever.
Satanism and pedophilia
Murder of the innocent, including abortion and genocide
Sorcery, including all worship of false gods and goddesses, which are actually devils and demons, and all practice of magic.
All pillage and thefts of lands and possessions and belongings of others.
Apocalypse 9:21 Neither did they penance [metanoia, i.e. repent] from their murders nor from their sorceries [pharmekeia] nor from their fornication nor from their thefts.
This is a weight of unimaginable burden that drags the damned down into hell forever.
1 ….. Scripture reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2
2 ….. Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!
3 ….. Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7; Rev.: 18:9, 15
4 ….. Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45; 2 Cor.: 6:17; Eph.: 5:7; 1 Tim.: 5:22
5 ….. Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9
6 ….. Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29; 2 Thess.: 1:6
7 ….. Scripture reference – Isaiah: 47:8
8 ….. Scripture reference – Revelation 6 · Revelation 18:8 KJV
9 ….. Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18
10 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17
11 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27;32!
12 … Scripture reference – Revelation 18:12
13 … Scripture reference – Revelation 18:13 Parallel
14 … Scripture reference – Revelation 18:14 Parallel
15 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 10
16 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4
17 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30; Rev.: 18:10
18 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30; Rev.: 18:9
19 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30, 32, 33!
20 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12
21 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:63, 64
22 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 26:13, Jer.: 25:10!
23 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!
24 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6!
An anti-vaxx scientist said ‘mass formation psychosis’ caused people to follow
COVID-19 measures. Psychologists say there’s no such thing. (msn.com)
Talking Points: Expert Says Pandemic’s Worst Is Yet To Come.
Google Manipulates Results as Searches of ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’
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The Omicron variant is causing spikes in COVID-19 cases throughout the world.
Some European hospitals are at capacity as the virus threatens to derail the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Gottlieb says Omicron wave is set to hit Midwest next
Dr. Scott Gottlieb says the Omicron variant appears to have peaked in
several states in the mid-Atlantic.
Here is the real insurrection that took place: Levin
‘Life, Liberty, and Levin’ host Mark Levin reacts to the politicization
of Jan. 6 and reveals the real insurrection that took place.
Europe Fears Economic Hit If Russia Is Sanctioned Heavily – Bloomberg
Concern among some big European nations about economic fallout raises
the risk of a split — with the U.S. on how strongly to hit Russia with fresh
sanctions if it invades Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Maria Tadeo reports on “Bloomberg Markets: Europe.”
EU scientists say 2021 was world’s fifth-hottest year on record
What is 5G? An electrical engineer explains (msn.com)
Americans continue to flee from blue states.
Jim Jordan Refuses to Cooperate With Jan. 6 Panel.
GET IT RIGHT WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!!
Why are more Americans quitting their jobs than ever before?
Ohio has 6 of the 50 cities with the greenest space per capita.
Opinion: Even Canadians fear US democracy could end soon!!!
What US presidents were worth after the White House.
What it will take – to – save – American democracy?
Last 7 years ‘warmest on record’ globally: EU??
What If Humans Didn’t Breathe Oxygen???
Electric Cars Emit Nitrogen????