I get this comment sometimes on my Facebook page, so let’s address it. Are we really better off with Donald Trump than we would have been with Hillary Clinton? It’s not a matter of re-fighting the election but of taking a good, hard look at what (if anything) has actually been accomplished by the election of a third-rate celebrity con man with no governing experience to the highest office in the land. I will be including links at various places to articles I’ve already posted as support for my ideas.
Huh?
Ho-kay. I said that I was going to be commenting in a post on a commenter’s comment, so here it is. This is from a guy named Wes Curtis whom I taught in high school. He quotes or refers to a Wall Street Journal article that says the following:
“It was Mr. Comey who botched the investigation of Mrs. Clinton by appropriating the authority to exonerate and excoriate her publicly in an inappropriate press event, and then by reopening the probe right before the election. This gave Mrs. Clinton’s supporters a reason to claim they’d been robbed, which in turn stoked the ‘resistance’ that has overrun U.S. politics.” From WSJ 6/09
Saul’s Kingship and Trump’s Presidency
I was sitting this morning working on my summer Bible study material,Life Principles from the Kings of the Old Testament, and I was totally struck with the resemblances between President Trump and King Saul. Let me be clear here: I was in no way looking for this resemblance; I was just sitting here, minding my own business, working on Lesson One. And there the resemblances were, as plain as day:
Once Again, With Feeling–Respect for Authority
Ho-kay. I write these general posts rather than just replying to a comment when I think the topic needs to be shared fully. So here goes, once again, with this whole idea of a Christian’s and a citizen’s obligation to respect authority.
As Ed, my estimable bro-in-law pointed out, “Obey them that have the rule over you” does not contravene “We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Is the Trump Administration to Blame for All Violence, All the Time?
Yet another post inspired by a Facebook comment. So . . . I’ve put up a couple of articles about the whole Greg Gianforte mess, in which comments are made that now the pro-Trump right is trying to justify the behavior of the newest Republican member of Congress. The violence and vulgarity of the Trump campaign is now spawning further violence and vulgarity. Rush Limbaugh calls Gianforte “manly and brutish.” Laura Ingraham says that the reporter should have been manly enough to fight back. And on and on. What vile, nauseating balderdash!
Why Do I Keep Doing This?
Periodically I ask myself why I’m continuing to spend the time I do on reading and posting others’ articles or writing my own. After all, most of the time I’m just preaching to the choir, and, as I often say to my husband, no one’s paying me to do this! So why bother? And, as a followup question, Would I be doing this if Hillary Clinton had won?
How Donald Trump Will Aid the Liberal Cause
Back in May, in fact, exactly a year ago tomorrow, Andrew Sullivan wrote an article in New York Magazine titled “Democracies End when They Are Too Democratic,” with the subtitle “America Has Never Been So Ripe for tyranny.” It was a long and erudite piece that was hailed in some circles as a masterpiece, one of the most important articles to be written about the election season thus far. His thesis, as far as I was able to determine, was that when a country becomes splintered into special-interest groups and there is no national unity behind the values of the country that a strongman,
Dear NeverTrumpers: Why Wouldn’t You Vote for Clinton?
Here we are on the day before the 100th day of the Trump Presidency (or Der Einhundert Tage, as Jonah Goldberg calls it, or perhaps Les Cent Jours, in honor of Trump’s advocacy for Marine Le Pen, or even Один hundnred дней in honor of his [perhaps now somewhat-moderated] affection for all things Putin.)
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that we have a President who doesn’t know what he’s doing, and who admits it. It’s just completely mind-boggling. He didn’t realize it would be so hard, he says in the now-infamous Reuters interview.
Michael Savage Would’ve Liked the Japanese Internment Camps
Periodically I dip a toe into the toxic waters of the far right, or the alt-right, or whatever you want to call it. I’ll sometimes take a look at Laura Ingraham’s site or scout out the latest Breitbart headlines, and even (horrors!) peek at The Gateway Pundit or WorldNetDaily. And I do run across Rush Limbaugh sometimes. (The estimable Allahpundit over at HotAir had an article a day or two ago in which there was a clip of Rush bemoaning Trump’s “cave” over the wall. Pretty entertaining.)
I don’t descend so far as to read or listen to Alex Jones, but I do sometimes read what Michael Savage is saying, or whining. (“Weiner the whiner” is my nickname for him. I can’t stand to listen to him, so I read the transcript excerpts that are posted on his newsletter.) Savage/Weiner claims credit for Trump’s victory, by the way, as the “Godfather of Trumpmania.” I’d be careful about saying that, Michael! (Think I’ll call him by his first name so as to do away with the double last names. Yes, his real name is Michael Alan Weiner. Perfectly respectable name, so I don’t know why he felt the need to change it.)
Mexico should happily build the wall
Despite, or more likely because of, the many words written and spoken about the subject of President Trump’s border wall there’s been a lot of confusion and inconsistent thinking.
What if we could bring together both sides in this? I know it seems impossible, but if we combine Aristotle’s interest in understanding a thing by knowing what it’s for, and a determination to find a win-win solution, we can do it!