What are the three things which the Democrats used to persuade a bare majority of voters to put Joe Biden in the White House? They are: 1) He's not Donald Trump; 2) Because he's not Donald Trump, he can smooth all those ruffled feathers in European capitals ("America's back"); and 3) In a party which is racing to embrace the radical Marxists who now control it in both Houses of Congress, he represented the kind of adult leadership which could manage to get the AOCs of this world to support a more moderate agenda, at least in the short run.
Now, let's look at reality: 1) Yes, Joe Biden isn't Donald Trump. However, that isn't a good thing. While Trump may have blustered, occasionally bullied, and wrote all those mean tweets, he clearly gave the American people the sense that he was firmly in charge here. Can anyone say that about Biden and keep a straight face doing so? Didn't think so, and the Afghan disaster shows that. Someone who really is in charge might just have listened to the military experts who, I hope, recommended a more well organized withdrawal. Instead, we got this panicky rush for the exits, with the resulting disaster, and very possible tragedy looming if the Taliban are serious about saying that the clock runs out on 31 August, which I believe they are. 2) All those ruffled feathers are even more so, as the criticism from London, Paris, and Berlin clearly shows. The Europeans look like all those Canada Geese hanging around my apartment, which have a tendency to randomly attack the unwary. Joe Biden may have managed to do what I never thought any American President would do; destroy NATO in one swoop. If America's back, then it seems we've gone all the way back to the Carter years, only with much more potential loss of life ahead. 3) The polls indicate that moderates and political independents, despite their latent fears that all this may result in the Return of the Orange Man, know that we can't live with high, and maybe hyperinflation, a loss of energy independence which Trump gave us, and the return of both al-Qaeda AND the Islamic State. And COVID's back, with a citizenry understandably unwilling to live in Tony Fauci's self-imposed prison.
I'm afraid that dark, tragic days lie ahead. It took America 15 years to recover from the damage to its prestige which the Vietnam misadventure cause. The damage which has resulted from the thoroughly preventable Afghan disaster may be irreparable.
William, I disagree on only 1 point, and it's a minor one.
We both agree that "God rules in the affairs of men." We also know (getting into the weeds now) that He has both a "perfect will" and a "permissive will." Now, theologians have debated this issue for centuries, so we won't get into the finer points of "Sovereignty of God versus Fr Will of Man" right now.
But if we agree that He has a "Plan A" (His perfect will for mankind, but then we blew it)...then in so many areas His *permissive* will comes into play.
Not for a NANOSECOND do I believe that God "installed"--by an act of His will--Joe Biden as President. Rather, God PERMITTED mankind (the citizens who voted) to put Biden into office. He allowed it within His permissive will.
And since He already knows the end from the beginning, He already knows how He is going to us this travesty to bring about His perfect will.
God, because of who He is, can make "Plan B" turn around and become "Plan A" by the results He pulls out of it. (Romans 8:28 comes into play "for those who love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose..
Since God is holy and righteous, He never does evil. There are several things, as you know, God cannot do:
-He cannot lie.
-He cannot do evil.
-He cannot deny Himself.
-He cannot act in violation of His character or His Word. (That's just another way of saying He cannot do evil or deny Himself.
THREFORE, God no more "installed" Biden in the Presidency than He "installed" Satan as the current "Prince of this world." Evil rulers are the result of man's wickedness and rebellious choices.
My comfort is in knowing that even with the consequences of man's wrong choices, God in His infinite wisdom already knows the last chapter and how He's going to redeem it.
My daughter has a piece of wall art in her family's living room that says, "I can trust the next chapter because I know the Author."
(Aren't you glad we had this little discussion? ;-) Apart from that, I agree with all else you said.
I agree with all of your points. My interpretation of Romans 13:1 relative to Biden or any other leader, is……that person would not be in power if God did not “allow” it. Now that Biden was allowed, my point is that there, I believe, is a message for the people of our nation. We need to pray that many many more of our fellow citizens repent and seek the Lord. Romans 8:28 promises, as you point out, that the promise of all things working together for good is dependent on loving the Lord and being called according to His purpose.
We need much more of that in our country. We have Biden…..and that should force us to our knees in prayer.
Biden can’t tie his own shoes. Who are the puppet masters in the Democratic Party? His only job was to reliably sign the bills sent to him. He is the ultimate empty suit.
When the Republicans controlled the three seats of power, they did little. Were they waiting for a Republican to be elected Pope?
Our allies no longer trust us. Our enemies are on the march since they correctly see we are weak. Anyone want to take bets on when Taiwan is invaded?
Most Republicans with few exceptions (Chip Roy (R-Tx) comes to mind) have the spine of a jellyfish. And the Republicans in the higher echelons of power despise their base (hat's us, the little guys, those who have still have principles).
I'm still concerned about the short term memory of the "dumb-masses" of voters. You said many times, "People are stupid." Will anything be different when 2022 mid-terms take place, or 2024 presidential election?
They're already trying to switch the narrative to "It was TRUMP'S FAULT"...a former aide for Pence is claiming that there was "hurtful and offensive", "anti-immigrant" rhetoric during Trump's tenure that caused all this, because they couldn't get visas.
I know...they were claiming that Trump wouldn't issue visas because he didn't want Afghans coming here, when ALL visa applications were temporarily put on hold due to Covid.
Oh, and two other tidbits…karma is a bit of a bitch…and if Newsom gets recalled, the 3 big Trump antagonists of 2020 - Cuomo, Biden and Newsom - all get screwed…back to my first point karma’s a bitch…special ops needs to get our people out regardless of what this feckless moron says or does…
You know, I’m mostly mad at the media which did not treat Biden as an actual candidate for president. Kid gloves, syrupy language throughout the campaign and his first months in office. I probably read it here that the media has trained Biden that he has to answer for nothing, they’ll cover for him. Every president should always face the unvarnished double-edge sword of a skeptical media. That Biden hasn’t till now is to most of the media’s shame.
I call it "the Great American Leftmedia" for a reason, and you illustrate the reason. Said media, ever ready to serve as the Democrats' Ministry of Propaganda, gave the ever fragile cognitive disaster which is Joe Biden the velvet glove treatment while advocating the administration of the 25th Amendment to a Donald Trump who is very much in complete control of his faculties. And you may rest assured that the same treatment awaits Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, or any Republican who runs in 2024. If you need more proof, consider this op-ed in the L.A. Times on the California recall election which the Democrats consider so lost they didn't even bother to consider a replacement for Gavin Newsome: "Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians It's a particularly vicious hit piece on the leading Republican candidate to replace Newsome. And the Ministry of propaganda grinds on and on and on...
I saw that and also Larry's response to it in an interview. He was prepared for the character assassination from the LA Times.
What most of us outside California are NOT prepared for is the already massive plan of election stealing and voter fraud underway--beginning with the fact that you can now PRINT OUT YOUR OWN PAPER BALLOT. <--Now, that's not a recipe for fraud, is it?
That's why Pastor Jack Hibbs (Calvary Chapel Chino Hills) and some other churches have a system in place where their members and anyone else in the community can bring their ballot on election day to the church, where ballots will be secured in lockboxes, then be delivered THAT DAY to election officials and directly placed in their hands so at least THESE votes cannot be mysteriously lost along the way.
What are the three things which the Democrats used to persuade a bare majority of voters to put Joe Biden in the White House? They are: 1) He's not Donald Trump; 2) Because he's not Donald Trump, he can smooth all those ruffled feathers in European capitals ("America's back"); and 3) In a party which is racing to embrace the radical Marxists who now control it in both Houses of Congress, he represented the kind of adult leadership which could manage to get the AOCs of this world to support a more moderate agenda, at least in the short run.
Now, let's look at reality: 1) Yes, Joe Biden isn't Donald Trump. However, that isn't a good thing. While Trump may have blustered, occasionally bullied, and wrote all those mean tweets, he clearly gave the American people the sense that he was firmly in charge here. Can anyone say that about Biden and keep a straight face doing so? Didn't think so, and the Afghan disaster shows that. Someone who really is in charge might just have listened to the military experts who, I hope, recommended a more well organized withdrawal. Instead, we got this panicky rush for the exits, with the resulting disaster, and very possible tragedy looming if the Taliban are serious about saying that the clock runs out on 31 August, which I believe they are. 2) All those ruffled feathers are even more so, as the criticism from London, Paris, and Berlin clearly shows. The Europeans look like all those Canada Geese hanging around my apartment, which have a tendency to randomly attack the unwary. Joe Biden may have managed to do what I never thought any American President would do; destroy NATO in one swoop. If America's back, then it seems we've gone all the way back to the Carter years, only with much more potential loss of life ahead. 3) The polls indicate that moderates and political independents, despite their latent fears that all this may result in the Return of the Orange Man, know that we can't live with high, and maybe hyperinflation, a loss of energy independence which Trump gave us, and the return of both al-Qaeda AND the Islamic State. And COVID's back, with a citizenry understandably unwilling to live in Tony Fauci's self-imposed prison.
I'm afraid that dark, tragic days lie ahead. It took America 15 years to recover from the damage to its prestige which the Vietnam misadventure cause. The damage which has resulted from the thoroughly preventable Afghan disaster may be irreparable.
Oh I’m so tired of it all. So tired. I’m Catholic. I’m going to Adoration at 8pm to fling myself before the Blessed Sacrament.
Read Romans 13:1. We should be asking what does God want from us as individuals and a nation now that He has installed Biden as President.
William, I disagree on only 1 point, and it's a minor one.
We both agree that "God rules in the affairs of men." We also know (getting into the weeds now) that He has both a "perfect will" and a "permissive will." Now, theologians have debated this issue for centuries, so we won't get into the finer points of "Sovereignty of God versus Fr Will of Man" right now.
But if we agree that He has a "Plan A" (His perfect will for mankind, but then we blew it)...then in so many areas His *permissive* will comes into play.
Not for a NANOSECOND do I believe that God "installed"--by an act of His will--Joe Biden as President. Rather, God PERMITTED mankind (the citizens who voted) to put Biden into office. He allowed it within His permissive will.
And since He already knows the end from the beginning, He already knows how He is going to us this travesty to bring about His perfect will.
God, because of who He is, can make "Plan B" turn around and become "Plan A" by the results He pulls out of it. (Romans 8:28 comes into play "for those who love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose..
Since God is holy and righteous, He never does evil. There are several things, as you know, God cannot do:
-He cannot lie.
-He cannot do evil.
-He cannot deny Himself.
-He cannot act in violation of His character or His Word. (That's just another way of saying He cannot do evil or deny Himself.
THREFORE, God no more "installed" Biden in the Presidency than He "installed" Satan as the current "Prince of this world." Evil rulers are the result of man's wickedness and rebellious choices.
My comfort is in knowing that even with the consequences of man's wrong choices, God in His infinite wisdom already knows the last chapter and how He's going to redeem it.
My daughter has a piece of wall art in her family's living room that says, "I can trust the next chapter because I know the Author."
(Aren't you glad we had this little discussion? ;-) Apart from that, I agree with all else you said.
And to think that you wanted to censor me just a few days ago……
"I abhor myself repent in dust and ashes."
Please send me a photo……….
LOL
This is the first time I've laughed today. Thank you.
I agree with all of your points. My interpretation of Romans 13:1 relative to Biden or any other leader, is……that person would not be in power if God did not “allow” it. Now that Biden was allowed, my point is that there, I believe, is a message for the people of our nation. We need to pray that many many more of our fellow citizens repent and seek the Lord. Romans 8:28 promises, as you point out, that the promise of all things working together for good is dependent on loving the Lord and being called according to His purpose.
We need much more of that in our country. We have Biden…..and that should force us to our knees in prayer.
I just hope that we will not be dragged to Babylon with a ring in our noses.
Absolutely. If this doesn't prompt widespread prayer and repentance, nothing will. Wholesale crying out to God for mercy is called for.
Beginning in the pulpits and pews.
As Steve Deace so often points out, "It's revival or bust."
The people wanted a king so God gave them Saul.
Carmine, I thought about adding the "King Saul" account as an example. But my comment was already verging on setting an new record... .
Thank you for adding that example to the mix.
He wants us to love Him with all our heart, soul and mind and our neighbor as ourself. To do justice and to love mercy and walk humbly with our God.
Amen to that. We can do that no matter who is President. I believe that God is calling our nation to repentance and to do what you wrote.
Biden can’t tie his own shoes. Who are the puppet masters in the Democratic Party? His only job was to reliably sign the bills sent to him. He is the ultimate empty suit.
When the Republicans controlled the three seats of power, they did little. Were they waiting for a Republican to be elected Pope?
Our allies no longer trust us. Our enemies are on the march since they correctly see we are weak. Anyone want to take bets on when Taiwan is invaded?
Most Republicans with few exceptions (Chip Roy (R-Tx) comes to mind) have the spine of a jellyfish. And the Republicans in the higher echelons of power despise their base (hat's us, the little guys, those who have still have principles).
I'm still concerned about the short term memory of the "dumb-masses" of voters. You said many times, "People are stupid." Will anything be different when 2022 mid-terms take place, or 2024 presidential election?
They're already trying to switch the narrative to "It was TRUMP'S FAULT"...a former aide for Pence is claiming that there was "hurtful and offensive", "anti-immigrant" rhetoric during Trump's tenure that caused all this, because they couldn't get visas.
I hope you know from which pit of hell that lie came from. It was one of the lower ones.
I know...they were claiming that Trump wouldn't issue visas because he didn't want Afghans coming here, when ALL visa applications were temporarily put on hold due to Covid.
Oh, and two other tidbits…karma is a bit of a bitch…and if Newsom gets recalled, the 3 big Trump antagonists of 2020 - Cuomo, Biden and Newsom - all get screwed…back to my first point karma’s a bitch…special ops needs to get our people out regardless of what this feckless moron says or does…
Any surprise Erick?
You know, I’m mostly mad at the media which did not treat Biden as an actual candidate for president. Kid gloves, syrupy language throughout the campaign and his first months in office. I probably read it here that the media has trained Biden that he has to answer for nothing, they’ll cover for him. Every president should always face the unvarnished double-edge sword of a skeptical media. That Biden hasn’t till now is to most of the media’s shame.
I call it "the Great American Leftmedia" for a reason, and you illustrate the reason. Said media, ever ready to serve as the Democrats' Ministry of Propaganda, gave the ever fragile cognitive disaster which is Joe Biden the velvet glove treatment while advocating the administration of the 25th Amendment to a Donald Trump who is very much in complete control of his faculties. And you may rest assured that the same treatment awaits Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, or any Republican who runs in 2024. If you need more proof, consider this op-ed in the L.A. Times on the California recall election which the Democrats consider so lost they didn't even bother to consider a replacement for Gavin Newsome: "Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians It's a particularly vicious hit piece on the leading Republican candidate to replace Newsome. And the Ministry of propaganda grinds on and on and on...
I saw that and also Larry's response to it in an interview. He was prepared for the character assassination from the LA Times.
What most of us outside California are NOT prepared for is the already massive plan of election stealing and voter fraud underway--beginning with the fact that you can now PRINT OUT YOUR OWN PAPER BALLOT. <--Now, that's not a recipe for fraud, is it?
That's why Pastor Jack Hibbs (Calvary Chapel Chino Hills) and some other churches have a system in place where their members and anyone else in the community can bring their ballot on election day to the church, where ballots will be secured in lockboxes, then be delivered THAT DAY to election officials and directly placed in their hands so at least THESE votes cannot be mysteriously lost along the way.
Re: "Lost" ballots. You mean like these ones: "A California man who was caught in his car last week with a loaded gun, meth and multiple drivers licenses also had more than 300 voting ballots, police said Monday." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-man-busted-with-more-than-300-ballots-for-upcoming-gubernatorial-recall-election-in-his-car/ar-AANHJ91?ocid=uxbndlbing
And, also, his ‘press conferences’ are choreographed with pre-screened questions. Beyond sad. What other president was allowed this?
Specifically, "What other nation' citizens (other than those under tyranny) would allow this?
This bad news for Joe and his party is well deserved. It could not happen to a worse group. Shot himself in the foot he did.
When does Joe Manchin switch?
Never. He's enjoying the unexpected notoriety.
I know Joe…….He will always identify as male…..