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napoleoninrags · 4 years

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MY PLAN FOR HOW TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE AN ELECTION, TRUMP IS REMOVED, AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE GONE FOR GOOD

by Michael Moore

TRUMP HAS DECLARED WAR ON US AND OUR DEMOCRACY.

IT’S TIME FOR US TO PUT OUR LIVES ON THE LINE, IF NECESSARY, AND TO MAKE HIM THE LAST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF OUR UNITED STATES.

Trump, right now, tonight, is up to some very nasty, scary stuff — stuff we can’t even imagine — and of course we can’t imagine it because we don’t think like Trump. Our brains are wired for love, empathy, solidarity, compassion, freedom, person, woman, man, camera, TV.

You know like I know that Trump has a devious, wicked plan to destroy this Election. We need to declare, immediately, that it is he and the Republican Party who have to go, for the sake of this country’s existence, they must be crushed and removed.

Trump actually has an arsenal of plans already in action to ensure he never leaves office. He has them all in high gear — some visible, some not. If you could see them all you’d be so stunned, you’d have to immediately convince yourself that there’s no way he can pull this off.

We are all caught in Trump’s Matrix, a mad web, the work of a psychopath-in-chief with tricks so devious that fascists of old, if alive today, would marvel at what Trump has accomplished.

For the next 11 weeks — and then for the 12 weeks between the Election and the Inauguration — Trump is planning nothing but anarchy, chaos, a call to arms of his angry white male followers and the complete destruction of our democracy. You think I’m kidding? You think I’m overstating the case? Do you want to take the risk that I might not be wrong? Most of you understandably chose not to listen to me four years ago when I warned you Trump was going to win the Presidency by taking Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. May I please ask that you now give me your serious attention for what I am about to say — because if I’m right again this time, there won’t be a next time. There will be nothing left for me to warn you about. There probably won’t be much left of me.

Here’s how Trump plans to end our right to choose the next President and Congress. It will happen fast. I am also laying out here a battle plan for us to defeat this takeover of our democracy. We must act now.

HERE ARE TRUMP’S 5 PLANS ALREADY IN MOTION:

PLAN #1: Create Chaos. Instill Fear. Fire Up the Base with Racist Vigor. Pandemonium Ensues.

CHECK. DONE.

PLAN #2: Suppress the Vote

•Dismantle the Post Office.

•Create 4-Hour-Long Lines by Drastically Reducing Number of Polling Locations.

•Throw Black and Brown Voters Off the Rolls.

•Stop Those Who’ve Served Time from Voting.

•Place 50,000 “Poll Watchers” at Voting Sites Around the Country to Intimidate Voters.

VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ACTION AS WE SPEAK.

PLAN #3: Postpone the Election. Place the blame on a “legitimate” national tragedy or emergency — massive deaths from the pandemic, a terrorist attack, an assassination, a deadly hurricane, a civil war in the streets, one or both Presidential candidates falling ill to Covid-19 — anything that reasonable people, even people who are opposed to Trump, will agree that “we just can’t hold an election right now! We just need to postpone it for a couple days, a couple weeks (a couple months... a couple years...)” Or perhaps he’ll just cancel the Election outright and see if he can get away with it.

TRUMP READY TO PULL THE TRIGGER.

PLAN #4: His September Surprise.

His October Surprise.

His November Surprise.

His January Surprise.

You think you can guess what it will be, but trust me, it’ll be far worse. We need to be ready. Stay on high alert, my friends. Millions of us will need to act on a moment’s notice. It’s the grim reaper of Democracy at our doorstep. We made the mistake of letting Trump get this far — why wouldn’t he now think he can get away with everything??

THE SURPRISE IS UNKNOWN. THAT’S WHY IT’S A SURPRISE.

PLAN #5: He Will Not Leave.

When Trump loses, he will declare the Election invalid, rigged, stolen — and he will refuse to step down.

So, what will we do then?

HERE IS OUR BATTLE PLAN TO REMOVE TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS:

1. Do Not Wait — Biden/Harris Should Start Running the Country Now.

We simply don’t have time to wait until January 20, 2021. Nearly 200,000 of us have already died from Trump’s reckless incompetence with the coronavirus. By Election Day it’s possible another 100,000 to 200,000 of us will have needlessly died. A total of 400,000 dead? That’s the equivalent of one hundred and thirty-three 9/11s! Or 532 planes being flown into 532 buildings. If something that horrific ever happened, and the President not only didn’t do anything about it, but tried to pretend it wasn’t all that bad - “it is what it is” - he would be run out of the White House by an angry mob of millions of Americans, lucky not to have his head put on a spike on the Key Bridge over the Potomac.

It doesn’t have to come to that. Biden and Harris should present to America a simple nationwide plan to end the pandemic — and then act on it immediately.

They should call a meeting of all the Governors and ask them what help do they need — and then find a way to get them that help, going around Trump and just making it happen. They should ask industry, in lieu of campaign contributions, to produce hundreds of millions of instant-result tests. They should call their Heads of State friends overseas and ask them to send all the PPE they can spare. They should get 250 million Americans to take the “Face Mask Pledge.” And they should promise the scientists in our top universities all the money and help they need once they’re in office. Ignore Trump. Treat him as if he’s irrelevant and get the job done.

2. The Republican Party Must Be Crushed and Destroyed. Trump Must Become the Last Republican President.

In the Michigan county where I live, the August primary this month set a record turnout for a presidential-year primary. In fact, more people this year voted by mail-in ballot than ALL those who voted in 2016 — by mail-in AND in-person combined. This is a highly encouraging sign for what we now need to do:

• We must create an historic massive turnout between now and November 3rd — a tsunami of voters the likes of which have never been seen, and may never be seen again. In 2016, 66 million Americans voted for Hillary Clinton. This time, though, we have to WALLOP Trump with an electoral concussion, a blow so profound he won’t know what hit him. This must be a defeat so crushing, so humiliating, a whooping of such epic proportions that he will be forced to leave 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his tail between his legs on January 20th. This mammoth landslide must not only ensure that no president ever behaves this way again, we need to see to it that Trump is the last Republican president. The Election Day Uprising must put an end to this party of Trump enablers and traitors. They had a choice. They chose Trump over Democracy. They chose Putin and Netanyahu over fair elections and freedom for all. They chose the 1% over the 160 million working Americans. They chose the NRA over the massacred children of Sandy Hook. They chose to rig our elections, our textbooks, our economy. Democrats helped them along the way, and we’ll take the stick to them and fix that. The Republicans, though, chose to let hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens perish from Covid-19 because loyalty to Party and to Trump was greater than their duty to the American people. For that alone, the Republican Party must be put out of business for good. Vote out every last one of them. Conservatives will have to form a new party, much like when the Whigs were sent packing in the 1800s. The Republicans must pay for their crimes.

• We must flip the Senate —- and not just by the three seats we need for control. We should shock the pundit class and, as the Republican Party is reduced to ashes, grab a solid 55+ seat majority. Colorado, Arizona, Maine, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Montana and even Kansas, South Carolina and, yes, Texas (a state that is now 57% non-white) — are all possible Democratic Senate wins. Think about spending a weekend or a week helping out in one of these states. The Republicans will wish they had managed this pandemic better and had everyone busy back at work by now. All this “free time” should make for their undoing.

• Finally, we have to vote the local Republicans out of office, too. State Houses and Senates will be drawing the electoral map for the next ten years. We can’t let the cheating Republicans do this again. Do what you can to elect Dems in your state and local elections. The punishment of the Republican Party — a certified terrorist organization for having helped kill at least 200,000 Americans — is an imperative.

3. Who Would Be Willing To, If Need Be, Put Their Life on the Line To Ensure This Election Is Held and EVERYONE Gets to Vote? I Would. Would You?

These steps must be taken immediately:

• The Secret Service, the FBI, the Capitol Police and the Joint Chiefs of Staff must be called before Congress and swear under oath that they will guarantee that the election will be held, they will enforce the Constitution they swore to uphold, and if he’s defeated but refuses to leave, they will escort the former President of the United States out of the White House.

• Biden and Harris must put Trump on notice that if he does one more thing to interfere with the Election or issues one more threat to suppress the vote, they will turn him and his crime family over to the new Justice Department for prosecution.

• Every single one of us must be strong in our publicly-stated resolve that there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON ON EARTH TO POSTPONE OR CANCEL THE ELECTION. That’s our unmovable and intractable position. No national tragedy, disease, threat or the melting of all of Greenland will cause us not to vote on or before November 3rd. Even if, God forbid, either candidate passes in their sleep between now and Election Day, the Election will continue — and the winner’s VP - or Nancy Pelosi - will become President on Inauguration Day.

• Let’s all pledge that, if Trump tries to cancel the election or if he refuses to accept its results, millions of us will go to DC and encircle the White House, a thousand deep, until he backs down, resigns or is removed.

• And, if you can, quietly make this commitment to yourself: “There are only a very few things I’d be willing to give my life for. This is one of them.” I know. That’s dark. And heavy. And awfully sad because it shouldn’t have come to this. But if we can’t even say that, then what good are we? If we aren’t willing to make that sacrifice, then America is already over and we might as well just fold our tent and see if Canada will take the non-racist, non-homophobic, non war-mongering ones of us who have manners and get satire.

4. Become an Election Defender.

Each of you should form an urgent action group - a rapid response team - in your neighborhood or town and do the following:

• Hold a daily protest at your local post office

• Picket the home of your local Postmaster (he/she may be on your side, so bring them some baked goods)

• Chain yourself to a local blue USPS dropbox if you can find one. Or chain it to something that won’t move.

• Sign up with the city clerk to be a poll worker on Election Day - especially if you’re young. Because of the pandemic, polls will be very short of poll workers. If you’re told they have enough help, then call the local Democratic Party and offer to be a “poll watcher”, the group of people from each party who get to oversee the voting to make sure there are no irregularities.

• Demand your city create more voting locations. Convince owners of arenas, theaters, ball parks, malls - places with large open spaces - to offer their facilities as polling places so that everyone gets a chance to vote.

• Canvas your neighborhoods over the next month to get people to fill out the form you’ll have them sign to get a mail-in ballot — and if they want to vote in person, let them know when the first day is so they can do that. Make a list of who needs a Covid-safe ride. The earlier the better!

5. The Uprising We’re In Is Only Getting Bigger. The People Will Now Call the Shots.

Why wait for the politicians to fix the mess of a country we’re in when they helped orchestrate the mess in the first place? Why don’t we just declare how we want to live — a new way to govern and function as a country — and we will finally fulfill the promise of the American Dream that has never been realized. Life, liberty, true equality, a sharing of the wealth, being good citizens of this world and kind stewards of a fragile Earth.

What have we learned from this pandemic? What we already knew: That employer-based health insurance can evaporate in an instant. Health care is a human right.

That being told “we can’t afford that!” (free college, free child care, free medical care - the things most advanced nations have) is total BS — the government CAN afford anything we decide we need!

We’ve learned that teachers, nurses, the mailwoman, farm workers, mass transit drivers and the minimum wage workers stocking the grocery shelves at 3 in the morning are our most important citizens and they need the respect and income they deserve immediately. 74% of the country now believes a guaranteed annual income is a great idea — fifty percentage points higher than when Andrew Yang proposed it 7 months ago!

We’ve learned to slow down, consume less — and that is what may be the path to saving the planet (when the 4% of its inhabitants [US] is no longer sucking up 25% of its resources and hoarding more than half its wealth).

We’re about to go elect more women than ever before — a time to turn the reins over to the gender that stands a better chance of getting us through the deadly viruses of Covid, Capitalism and Republicans(R.I.P.).

None of this will be launched by politicians. It will only come about through you and me taking action as part of the largest protest movement in our history — still growing, still going strong! — to end the racism, the abuse of the police state, the disgusting income inequality and the hateful misogyny that is going to come to an end in our lifetime.

America, post-pandemic, must become a very different place. Let’s make this happen. Doing the above will be the best cure for the trauma of these past four years.

Commit to being the change.

Organize your friends and family today.

Make your plan to campaign in a swing state Sept. or Oct.

VOTE AS EARLY AS YOU CAN—and take 5 people along with you!

We can do this. Trump - we’re coming for you. I’ll be in the first U-Haul truck that pulls up to your door.

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go-redgirl · 5 years

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It’s Long Past Time for National Discussion About Mental Illness epoch times ^ | 8/8/2019 | BRIAN CATES

After two horrific mass shooting incidents last weekend, the United States is once again locked into the same frustrating routine that follows such tragedies.

In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, deeply disturbed individuals shot and killed more than 30 people in two separate events.

Many Democratic politicians running for president immediately began using the incidents in their fundraising, calling for gun bans and more gun control laws, such as bringing back the lapsed “assault weapons ban.”

President Donald Trump took a far different approach when he stated that it’s time to begin grappling with mental health reform, and I think he’s right.

Trump outlined five steps he intends to take in response to these latest mass slayings.

Set up partnerships between the Department of Justice, local state and federal agencies, and social media companies to identify and act on early warning signs of someone threatening a mass shooting.

Stop the glorification of violence in our society, which includes video games and other forms of mass entertainment where the act of killing is celebrated in a “culture of violence.” Reform the mental health laws to more accurately identify mentally disturbed individuals who may commit acts of violence to ensure they get treatment when necessary, they must be involuntarily confined. Ensure that people judged to be a risk to public safety have their access to firearms taken away by due process. Quickly and decisively administer capital punishment for those who commit mass slayings, without yearslong delays.

Trump acknowledged some of these proposed steps will be very hard to achieve, such as the second one, which calls for a cultural change. Trump himself said:

“Cultural change is hard. But each of us can choose to build a culture that celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every human life. That’s what we

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News KEYWORDS: mental illness; q tards

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To: bitt Yes, mental illness...

Everyone does know who is going to be declared mentally ill, right?

3 posted on 8/8/2019, 1:58:22 PM by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: bitt Here is the problem.

I was listening to Dr. Laura’s satellite radio show and she claims that radical feminists have basically hijacked the curriculum at any institution where one might train to become a therapist.

They might conclude that being a straight male is a form of mental illness, and then they come for your guns.

Like everything else in this country mental health has been thoroughly, utterly politicized.

4 posted on 8/8/2019, 1:59:13 PM by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt They used to lock up crazies. Now they register them to vote as democrats.

5 posted on 8/8/2019, 1:59:33 PM by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: bitt Like when we used to institutionalize crazy folks?

The left dumped them all in the street.

6 posted on 8/8/2019, 1:59:39 PM by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt As long as there is patient confidentiality and police can’t do sh** before someone kills someone, and people get meds (which are ALWAYS experimental) instead of being confined, nothing will change.

7 posted on 8/8/2019, 1:59:48 PM by Sacajaweau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: bitt This is the ruling that destroyed our mental health system and shut down the states’ psychiatric hospitals. It must be overturned if we’re to stop these horrible mass killings.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/527/581/

8 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:00:58 PM by ryderann ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: DoughtyOne Exactly. And don’t forget how this will be abused by personal vendettas in situations like divorce.

9 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:01:05 PM by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt Agreed that there needs to be a larger recognition that this is a problem however this term of National Discussion (conversation) is worn-out by now and the left only wants to converse on their point of view. 10 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:01:22 PM by capydick (Â“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt The left wants to funny-farm the right. The right wants to funny-farm the left.

Of course the right is right.

But it would depend on who is in power at the time.

11 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:02:10 PM by Migraine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt There are no more discussions, only conflicts.

12 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:02:15 PM by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt Get back to Church regularly, put the Ten Commandmants on display in all public schools, acknowledge God in all our ways.

Stop murdering our children in the womb; stop encouraging and celebrating sexual perversion and all things lgbtq, which are an abomination to God.

Then and only then will this nation be healed.

13 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:02:22 PM by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Tell It Right Oh absolutely.

Gun owners should NEVER go to an shrink either. During the registration they’ll ask if you own weapons.

So if you actually need help, they’ll treat you as a hostile before the sessions even begin.

I opted out the last time I wanted some counseling during a rough patch. Never again...

14 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:05:42 PM by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)

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To: bitt Let’s start with the Democrats mental health!

21 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:16:11 PM by tallyhoe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt Implementing #3 removes the need for #4.

22 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:16:24 PM by TheDon (MAGA!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: bitt We do have high rates of mental illness, and the billions of pills swallowed over the last 30 years haven’t reduced those rates.

The culture is sick, but we can’t talk about social issues. That’s been off the table since the 1992 Republican Convention.

23 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:17:25 PM by cdcdawg (Fact: Dogs can extract more info from smelling a pile of $h!t than humans can from viewing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt Both Mario, and Andrew Cuomo closed psychiatric centers in NY State, and tossed the residents into the community. Prison population exploded in the State, and a large number of inmates came into the system with mental health issues. I know, because I worked as an officer in NYDOCS for 25 years, and had to deal with them.

24 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:19:00 PM by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: bitt There IS no “national discussion” when only one side owns all the platforms by which such a discussion can be carried out.

25 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:24:18 PM by papertyger (Trump, A president so great, that Democrats who said they would leave America if he won, stayed!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To: bitt There are a lot of people who demand that some challenged children are included in classrooms, sports, competitions, etc.

To some extent that’s OK. But as adults who are still challenged and possibly alienated... there is a time to call a thing by its right name.

We’re cultivating an element that cannot cope. We are enabling adults who are NOT responsible for themselves... not in their relationships, their work, their property (including guns) and you have to make some decisions from the start, to address this likelihood.

Liberals have always fought this. Now, it’s coming home to roost. Never mind that media violence and the criminally dummied-down education in the US has contributed greatly to the problem.

THIS is the perfect storm

26 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:26:29 PM by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bitt

Mental illness is certainly part of the problem but we also have a problem with young men of all races who need proper raising to know how to be a man and not a problem to society.

The government, education, workforce, military, and media have become female centered. It’s not a bad thing to give women opportunity for a future, a young woman without good opportunities is a sad thing, but a young man without good opportunities is a dangerous thing. They tend to drag women down with them as well.

I think we need to concentrate on our young men for awhile.

27 posted on 8/8/2019, 2:26:56 PM by Tejas Rob

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epistolizer · 4 years

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Hit & Run Commentary #130

Democrats obsessed with race to the point that their primary principle of social organization is preferential pandering to specific demographics are outraged that Trump utilized the term “lynching” in reference to the President’s impeachment travails abandoning the rudiments of habeas corpus. It is argued that the term ought only be articulated in reference to a solemn historical remembrance. As such, do these linguistic marms also intend to surrender usage of the term “witch hunt” as well? For a significant number had their own rights tragically violated during such inquisitions to stamp out occult activity. One must suppose that the majority of such apparently weren’t Black enough to bring the English language to a screeching halt.

New York has changed state law so it can still prosecute those that have been granted a presidential pardon. So how is this appreciably different than Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio enforcing immigration law when the federal government refused to? Do progressives intend to speak out as forcefully in regards to this New York development?

Some people really need to think through the implications of the things they advocate. Apparently an associate is outraged that a student could be denied the opportunity to attend prom because of an unpaid lunch tab. Yet the same individual stated he is actively praying for the conditions to come about where that very same student could very easily end up being a trafficked sex slave or summarily executed on the streets. Civil wars are not the photographic tourist monuments of the Gettysburg fields. Just what exactly does this person think will come about if his prayer is granted that God judges American through a civil war? God promises things will be well afterwards for those that place faith in Him once the person is dead. However, history proves that He allows overwhelming horrors to take place in regions gripped by such conflict. Such a naive thinker apparently epitomizes Stalin's remark that one death is a tragedy but a million are just a statistic.

It is often argued that Halloween used to be OK but no longer is because “times have changed”. If one holds the celebration is wrong, isn’t that essentially the same as saying that it used to be acceptable for grandpa to go to the strip club but Junior had better not do it?

On the 8/14/19 edition of Fox and Friends, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas in part blamed video games for the El Paso massacre because the gunman allegedly mentioned in his manifesto wanting to live out the super soldier scenarios found in video games. If this is the route we are to head down as a culture, will Marvel Comics also be blamed since Captain America is also a super soldier? While we are at it, why not lay a bit of the blame offices within the Pentagon such as DARPA constantly speculating about tinkering on the genetic, psychological or biochemical levels to create actual super soldiers and whose surreptitious machinations might actually have some shady role behind these acts of violence.

In light of a series of mass shootings across the United States, it is repeatedly admonished that people need to come together in unity. Apart from not shooting people, just how close are people obligated to come together? Relatedly, do those insisting that these incidents are failures in tolerance intend to compromise on the incessant demands those advocating progressive revolution constantly make under threat of upheaval? For it is usually those holding to traditionalist conceptions of morality and social organization that are expected to alter their fundamental beliefs or be penalized with a variety of punitive sanctions.

Obama is now jacked out of shape about the ideological purity of cancel culture. But didn’t he in part get that particular ball rolling when he urged supporters to get in the faces of those that dared articulate criticism of his policies and when he threatened to punish his electoral enemies?

Cambridge University Press has published a book titled “Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism”. So the people of the United Kingdom governing their own affairs is to be feared but arbitrary bureaucratic intervention into their lives on the part of transnational technocrats as epitomized by the European Union is the ideal to which they are expected to aspire?

A Florida church is accusing the 18% that did not vote in favor of a Black pastoral candidate of racism. But if the congregational leadership is going to take the allegations online, shouldn’t the rest of us be provided with some idea what was actually said to determine if it actually was racist or merely what passes as such in the circles of contemporary Southern Baptist elites? Often that can be as little as disagreeing with a Black person or, perhaps more importantly, with the White leaders metaphorically using Black people as human shields to keep their hold on power.

The Southern Baptist Convention is considering disfellowshipping a Florida church where a Black pastoral candidate did not receive the percentage of affirmations necessary to be granted the position. In all fairness, it was remarked in the Religious News Service coverage of the development that things were so split in the church that it’s doubtful Billy Graham in his prime could have mustered the necessary votes. Getting booted from the Convention like that at this time could end up being the best thing that could happen to such a congregation. For is that really a spirit of diversity and inclusion if a mere 15% of a congregation fails to bend to dictates from a level of hierarchy technically derived nowhere from the pages of Scripture?

Media and political elites are outraged that Trump announced that he is switching his official residence from New York to Florida. Commentator Juan Williams remarked that greed was behind this as part of a scheme to take advantage of Florida’s more favorable tax rates. So why isn’t it greed for governments to demand an increasing percentage of what individuals have prudently accumulated? Golfer Phil Mickelson was essentially accused of being a tax cheat in the press for making a similar move from California. But shouldn’t this mobility instead be praised as one of the inherent strengths of the federal system where the individual is free to ideally select from the fifty jurisdictions most in accord with their particular values or in which one can maximize individual well being?

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary provost Matthew Hall laments that he views reality through a racialized lens, that that has given him undeserved power, but being called a racist is not the worst thing that one can be called. If so, why do those ranking among this faction of Southern Baptist functionaries spend so much time peddling White guilt and (along with what even Obama criticized as cancel culture) invoke that label with little evidence as a way to frighten opponents into silence? Most importantly, Hall seemingly does not feel so guilty as to be compelled by his conscience to relinquish his posh lifestyle to someone of their preferred demographic. But he does apparently feel guilty enough that you as a mere pewfiller in his estimation should be called upon to surrender what you have earned by the sweat of your own toil to be redistributed to or at least seized from you in the name of those that have not really lifted a finger of their own.

Theologian Kyle J. Howard claims that the rise of homeschooling is linked to racism. Where in the Constitution does it say that the exercise of a right is predicated upon a socially acceptable justification? And what exactly does he define as “racism”? To many of these woke Southern Baptists, that consists of little more than disagreeing with a minority or, more importantly, with White elites claiming to speak for minorities.

In a podcast on racial reconciliation, the theologian that denounced the founding of the homeschool movement as racist said that it is his desire to plant a multiethnic, minority led church. If he is to be praised for being so race conscious as to exclude Whites apriori from leadership positions, why would any Whites other than the self-loathing variety be willing to attend such a venue of subversion and leftist cognitive conditioning? For what if a minister spoke of his desire to plant a multiethnic yet Caucasian-led congregation where it was insinuated that all that minorities are wanted for is what they can drop funds in the collection plate?

The cover story of the Oct 2019 issue of Harper’s Magazine is titled “Do We Need The Constitution: Has The Nation’s Founding Document Become The Nation’s Undoing?” Usually when such questions are asked, it is not to consider provisions such as those regarding the establishment of post offices or forbidding the issuance of a title of nobility. Rather such grandiose inquires are enunciated as a pretext to justify the elimination of the Bill of Rights, particularly the fundamental guarantees of the First and Second Amendments.

So if Chick-Fil-A is on record as not being an explicitly Christian company, perhaps we can at least do away with having to justify if one is a believer why one has never been to one or for feeling sleazy over picking an outright heathen establishment such as McDonald’s for a fast food outing.

Doesn’t the altering of a corporation’s philanthropy policy to placate an agitated faction indicate which side in that debate is most likely to engage in acts of violence or sabotage in the so-called “culture war”?

After a call to the CEO, Franklin Graham assures the faithful that Chick-Fil-A remains committed to Christian values. So does that mean celebrity Christians will stop upbraiding the mere pewfillers that don’t make themselves religious nuisances in the workplace but instead model their witness more along the lines of Joseph of Arimathea who Scripture references as a secret disciple?

In a world where the Salvation Army is looked upon with more contempt than outright subversive front groups such as C.A.I.R, Planned Parenthood, and La Raza, how long will it be before it becomes a crime to drop spare change in the Christmas kettle or parents charged with child abuse for letting their little ones do it?

Hugh Ross as an Old Earth Creationist believes that the days of the Genesis creation account are not to be understood as literal but rather as lengthy epochs of time. Now it seems his ministry has uploaded a podcast insinuating that the global flood was likely not quite as global as many Christians have come to believe. The astrophysicist assures that, by making this concession, the skeptic might be more inclined to consider other more important miraculous claims of Scripture. So how long until Ross starts insisting that it does not matter so much whether or not Jesus really did rise from the dead or that believers go to Heaven when they die? Instead what really matters are the moral teachings of Jesus. Think this is an allegation a step too far? Ross’ conclusions were arrived at through a form of linguistic analysis not all that different than that resulting in the RSV substituting “young woman” for “virgin” in its translation of Isaiah.

If as the commercial suggests it is Jimmy Dean sausage that lifts your spirits this time of year, you must be having one really miserable and pathetic Christmas.

Those sneering down their noses over Trump’s remarks about the effort to undermine Thanksgiving are the same ones that pitch a fit about the Pilgrim’s being White European Christians and over romanticize American Indians as the embodiment of Rousseau's noble savage hooey.

Apparently the KFC fire log is something to burn in your fireplace and not what emerges from the other end of the digestive tract once that culinary treat is consumed.

In a SermonAudio homily, a pastor confessed that, in terms of paganism, Christmas is as inherently evil as Halloween. As such, he weaned his family off the celebration over the span of three years. But if Christmas is as evil as he insists and given that a holiday cannot produce biophysical dependency like a narcotic or alcohol, isn’t his way of renouncing the practice akin to saying one should quit the strip club over time rather than suddenly? Perhaps having a lapdance only once every other week followed by a time where one just goes to watch with no physical interaction?

If Hillary Clinton was really shocked at the way Donald Trump speaks about woman, wouldn’t she have not gone on the Howard Stern program?

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Republicans Storm Schiff’s ‘Capitol Basement Bunker’

Dozens of Republican lawmakers, including members of the House GOP conference, barged into the U.S. Capitol basement’s Special Compartmented Information Facility, where Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was holding a secret hearing. Prior to “storming the SCIFF,” the Republican lawmakers held a press conference outside. During that event, Minority Whip Steve Scalise said: “What is Adam Schiff trying to hide? I think that’s a question so many people have—so many of my colleagues have, so many people in the press should have—is through those hidden closed doors over there, Adam Schiff is trying to impeach a President of the United States behind closed doors. Literally trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election a year before Americans get to go to the polls to decide who’s going to be the president. Frankly, it should be the people of this country who decide who’s going to be the president, not Nancy Pelosi and not Adam Schiff in secret, behind closed doors. The fact that Adam Schiff won’t even let the press in—you can’t even go in and see what’s going on in that room—voting members of Congress are being denied access from being able to see what’s happening behind these closed doors where they’re trying to impeach the President of the United States with a one-sided set of rules. They call the witnesses. They don’t even let the president’s legal counsel question people who are making baseless allegations. Maybe in the Soviet Union this kind of thing is commonplace. This shouldn’t be happening in the United States of America, where they’re trying to impeach a president in secret behind closed doors. The American people deserve better. We will demand better for the American people.” According to The Hill, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Laura Cooper was testifying at the time. Schiff initially didn’t say anything, but eventually paused the testimony to have the lawmakers removed. When some refused to leave, he threatened them with ethics complaints. Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.) tweeted from inside the SCIF: “We are in the SCIF and every GOP member is quietly listening. Meanwhile, Adam Schiff, clearly peeved that he will no longer be able to hid his impeachment sham, is threatening ethics punishment for all of us. His fake intimidation can’t hide his lies—open the process!” That triggered a complaint to the House Sergeant at Arms over a breach of SCIF security procedures. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson’s complaint states, in part: “Today, a group of minority members of the House of Representatives, including minority members of the Committee of Homeland Security, intentionally brought their electronic devices into a SCIF … Such action is a blatant breach of security, violates the oath all members of Congress sign to gain access to classified information, and contravenes security controls established by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for the protection of classified information. “This unprecedented breach of security raises serious concerns for committee chairmen, including me, responsible for maintaining SCIFs. As such, I am requesting you take action with respect to the members involved in the breach. More broadly, I urge you to take House-wide action to remind all members about the dangers of such reckless action and the potential national security risks of such behavior.” Republicans were undeterred. Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) told reporters: “[Schiff] doesn’t have the guts to come talk to us. He left, he just got up and left. He doesn’t have the guts to tell us why we can’t come in the room, why he doesn’t want this to be transparent. It’s the biggest façade, biggest farce, of my life.” The Hill reports Schiff and Cooper left the room at the same time. and the interview was postponed indefinitely. Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) made it clear that Republicans don’t want to stop the hearings. They just want the full proceedings done in public. During Tuesday’s God-cast, TruNews host Rick Wiles discussed the testimony of Ambassador Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine. He claimed there was, indeed, a quid pro quo to withholding aid to Ukraine until President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised to investigate Hunter Biden’s business dealings. Last night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told FOX News Channel’s Laura Ingraham the diplomat’s testimony didn’t stand up to scrutiny: “Adam Schiff won’t let us talk about what happened, but I’m hearing—and I just saw Devin talk about this on TV—in 90 seconds, we had John Ratcliffe destroy Taylor’s whole argument … Well, we can’t really talk about it, but what we’re finding is just his questioning in 90 seconds refuted everything of what Adam Schiff believes out there. There is no quid pro quo. And the one thing that you find out in this process is all this information is just like that whistleblower—remember, who we haven’t seen that whistleblower anywhere—everything is second-, third-, and fourth-hand information.” Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican and member of the Intelligence Committee, shared some of the details from Tuesday’s supposed “explosive” testimony. He said Taylor’s testimony failed to establish that Ukraine officials were aware that military aid was being withheld when President Trump spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart over the phone. He also provided an inside view of how Schiff has warped the rule of law to advance the impeachment agenda: “It changes every day. We don’t know because they haven’t made up their mind. This is Adam Schiff changing the rules literally day-to-day based on what’s happening. We don’t know that witnesses are being called and what they are going to be focusing on. It depends on what they hear. This is an abuse of power. This is us finding out when we walk in the door what the rules of the day are going to be for that particular witness. It’s really unfair for all of who are trying to represent our constituents … that’s why it should be conducted in the open, not a secret grand jury where Adam Schiff, who is a material witness, gets to make up the rules as they go. It’s unfortunate” Bloomberg reported this afternoon that Republican lawmakers met with President Trump before their storming of the SCIF. According to the report, the president gave the plan his support. He also reportedly said he wants to see the impeachment inquiry transcripts released because he says they will exonerate him. (Photo Credit: Twitter) source https://trunews.com/stream/republicans-storm-schiffs-capitol-basement-bunker

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Crystal Mason is a 43-year-old Black woman in Fort Worth, Texas, who attempted to vote during the 2016 general election. After casting a provisional ballot — that wasn’t counted — she was told three months later she had committed voter fraud because she was on supervised release for the non-violent crime of tax fraud. Mason has been out on appeal, but tomorrow she is going to court and her lawyers say more than likely she will be locked up for five years in federal prison.

Today, Mason and her lawyer Alison Ginter were guests on “The Clay Cane Show” on SiriusXM Urban View. An emotional Mason said, “Everything is just really overwhelming, just knowing everyday my freedom is on the line. My kids, my son is in college, his freshmen year — football scholarship — he wants to come home, I don’t want him to do that. I go to court on the 30th, his first game is September 1st.”

She continued, “You come home, you tell your kids you are never going to leave them again, everything is right, you show them how you are rehabilitated. You do everything right. You get a job within three days of being out. You go to school. … I’m showing them if you hit a bump in the road, you can pick yourself up and recover. I just feel like the whole system failed me.”

Mason also explained no one told her she couldn’t vote, nor did she sign anything saying she could not.

Mason’s lawyers have asked for a new trial, but Judge Ruben Gonzalez refused in June. Her lawyer Alison Grinter explained, “Crystal was convicted at a bench trial with different counsel, then we started the appellate process. She got an appeal bond, the state of Texas says, ‘You are fine to be out and living your life pending the outcome of the appeal.’ If the appeal says the judge was right then you are going to have to serve your sentence. If the appeal says the judge was wrong — like we believe they were—then you are fine.”

Grinter continued, “The state of Texas is content to wait and see what the court says, the federal government, on the other hand, doesn’t necessarily have to do that. They can revoke Crystal’s supervised release on the basis of her having violated one of the laws from the state of Texas. What I think is just absolutely God-smacking is that Texas really isn’t sure that she violated the laws of the state of Texas yet. That is still on appeal, but the federal government is ready to charge ahead. There’s just not any willingness from Jeff Sessions to stop and listen, there’s no waiting. They are perfectly content to make permanent when maybe there’s no need to do that.”

Source: Crystal Mason (Left To Right: Kim Cole, Crystal Mason, Alison Ginter)

In a racist double standard, a white woman from Iowa named Terri Lynn Rote was convicted of voter fraud for trying to vote for President Donald Trump twice. Her punishment? She was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $750 fine.

Sadly, despite protests in Fort Worth, Texas, the power is in the hands of the courts and Mason could be in prison this time tomorrow. Mason said, “Just keep me in your prayers. I thank you guys for supporting me. I thank you guys for giving me this opportunity to even let my story be heard. Just keep my family in your prayers.”

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Famous Conservative Launches Nasty Attack Against Hurricane Victims

Hurricane Harvey’s violence was not caused by global warming or even by regular weather. According to some right-wing extremists, Hurricane Harvey was sent by God to punish the people of Houston, Texas.

Echoing the opinion that right-wing personality Ann Coulter first proposed, activist Dave Daubenmire used his podcast “Pass the Salt Live” to speak for God.

Daubenmire wears a baseball cap with a black cross emblazoned on the front, so clearly he had a special relationship with God that allows him to tell the world he understands the motives of the Almighty.

“Houston, we got a problem here,” Daubenmire said, twisting around a famous movie quote.

“Could some of the problems be the result of the judgment of God coming your way because of the slaughter of unborn children? You had a lesbian mayor who wanted to look at the prayers of pastors in their churches. It’s debaucherous.”

Daubenmire is referring, of course, to Annise Parker (D), who served as Houston’s mayor from 2010 to 2016. She was one of the first openly homosexual mayors to serve the U.S.

She did not seek reelection in 2016 due to the state’s term limits, which have since changed.

“Water is a sign of judgment and cleansing. Is now not the time for the voice of the church to rise up and declare, ‘Let’s stop killing the babies!'” Daubenmire screamed from his podcast.

To be clear, lesbians do not cause hurricanes. Instead, they are caused by warm ocean water, which hurricanes use to power themselves as they sweep across the surface of the water.

Most of the world’s respected scientists, including those at National Geographic, agree that climate change affects the frequency of hurricanes.

Daubenmire made a name for himself as a high school football coach who ran afoul of the American Civil Liberties Union when he forced his players to pray with him.

Ann Coulter recently took to Twitter to state that she would believe that God created the hurricane to punish Houston much more easily than she would believe global warming caused this weather event.

Coulter is a right-wing personality who frequently appears on Fox News to tout her opinion on everything that happens in the world.

She endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012, then supported Donald Trump in 2016. She’s also against abortion and LGBT rights, and supports the ongoing War on Drugs.

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At least 31 people have been killed by Hurricane Harvey, and tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. The storm has caused environmental disasters thanks to the state’s loose regulation among oil refineries and chemical plants.

It is dangerous, it is frightening and it is deadly. And according to the most right-wing conservatives, it’s God’s punishment for homosexuality and abortion.

Share this story, and these horrifying words from the extreme right. This is honestly how they think and what they believe—and that is far more terrifying than any weather event ever could be.

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