I did a search and couldn’t come up with anything indicating whether Trump had anything to say about this matter—one which has many conservatives extremely worked up.
#defindthefbi #defundthecia and I would add #defundcongress if that were also possible - they have all become enemies of the people, such that we are no longer a "government of the people, for the people, and by the people." All are shameful, and not even aware enough to know it.
The Ukrainians haven't had a major battlefield loss in... a while. The money and arms will keep flowing as long as the rank and file think there is a W behind it.
On the other hand, we keep waiting for a Russian main offensive which never seems to come.
What an ignorant comment. NYT and WaPo have written repeated articles--along with other knowledgeable commentators--reporting that Ukraine is being attritted at the rate of up to a battalion a day. And you think that allows for any possibility for a W? The interview Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian military chief, gave to The Economist--a Neocon outlet--painted a similarly grim picture.
Speaking of Trump, did you see Abp Vigano’s statement about the “gay” extravaganza at Mar-a-lago? “Trump’s LGBT gala shows Deep State has ‘contaminated the entire political elite. The Republican Party is recklessly pursuing a minority of voters who are indulging in lifestyles that are contrary to the Commandments and to the common good.’” (Link below)
Apropos of this and the discussion spurred by Mark’s recent commentary, I do believe we are going to see enthusiasm wane for the Trump Train going forward.
there are some large negatives in Trump policies that are now causing significant second thoughts about him.
One has been his inability to apologize for the horrendously bad Covid policies enacted and maintained under his presidency, and his inability, even now, to admit that his Operation Warp Speed and its jabs have been far worse than the disease: they killed and maimed millions around the world. We realize that he was constantly lied to and manipulated about them, but surely he must know by now how destructive those policies have turned out to be and the absolute necessity for a heartfelt apology.
The second major flaw in current Trump policies is his strong, public support for the LGBT movement and leaders and his appointment of some of these people into key government positions. We have a moral obligation as a life and family issues news service to not shy away from calling out Trump on his huge failures on this now crucial issue that is seriously threatening what is left of the healthy family life foundation of American society and religious and moral freedoms.
We at LifeSiteNews have seen conservatives in different nations fall into this trap again and again over the years with the same result every time. The LGBT agenda is a key part of the Great Reset New World Order plans for the world.
I never said anything about “indulging in a lifestyle.” But since you brought it up:
I don’t agree that there is any such thing as a “sexual orientation,” at least not in the way proposed by our current discourse. We act/think/talk ourselves into our behaviors. And insofar as we become attached to any behaviors or make them habitual, they will shape our “identity” — even in ways that fly in the face of our own personal good and self-preservation. That’s the general human condition. Nothing particularly unique about “gay” in that regard, except that it has social cachet at the moment. Which points to another perennial human characteristic, namely that we can be suckered into believing/accepting just about anything.
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this previously. My father was a clinical psychologist who spent his adult life both as a university professor and as a private clinician. He had significant experience in the field you reference and would agree with you entirely.
Honest question: what’s the difference between accepting (or, in the extreme, celebrating) homosexuality and doing the same for alcoholism or drug addiction? After all, in both cases, the argument from the person so entangled is basically the same: A) I want what I want and B) it is beyond my control to do/be otherwise
Riddle me this: Where does the road lead that's paved with good intentions? Life isn't always fair--maybe not even most of the time. The only thing that makes life livable for most people is adherence to sound principles of human nature. Compassion is fine as long as it flows from sound principles. Otherwise it paves roads you don't want to go down.
Not meant to be personal, but your remark about supporting something you disagree with out of "basic human compassion" reflects what so often sets people on a slippery slope.
It’s one thing to welcome the “GayCons” into the tent — which requires little more than acknowledging their contribution to the cause of draining the swamp, restoring constitutional sanity, etc. But it’s quite another for Trump to go out of his way to host a big “gay” gala and to say what he said, especially in the immediate wake of the execrable “Respect for Marriage Act.”
It's not a dilemma. Trump got 28% of the LGBT vote in 2020. The prospects of any GOP candidate improving on that are slim to none. Your recommendation is to go all in abandoning a large and loyal demographic to try to attract more than a tiny minority of a tiny minority. It's not a question of "Vigano's followers." That's simply one group of a much larger group that gave Trump the WH in 2016. I think you're also misrepresenting Brother Ass's views re "indulging".
As for your "main point", my main point in writing on this issue is that the moral character of America is, indeed, an existential issue.
The point being that Trump or any other GOP candidate would stand to lose far more votes--people simply not voting--than they would gain. That's the lesson of 2016. Trump, with a strong pro-life message and other positions also held by the vast majority of pro-life voters, increased turnout to such an extent that it overwhelmed the margin of fraud. Dems got the message, GOPers didn't.
"Now, we easily see what’s in this for Ukraine and Zelensky. Likewise, the Dems. What’s in it for McConnell—that’s the interesting question."
Faced with the threat of being blamed for a government shutdown (Whether they are to blame or not) has always caused the GOP to cave. By now it is reflexive. Presumably they got at least some of the gravy in that 4000+ page bill. Perhaps it includes a line item somewhere for thirty pieces of silver. I don't know to what extent McConnell believes the nonsense he spouted about Ukraine. I suppose that like many politicians before him, he believes in his own inventions as long as they serve his purposes.
The main lesson to be drawn from this is that McConnell feels the populist insurgency to be safely put down. This could not happen in any country that had even the prospect of an effective opposition party.
This FBI statement is a classic example of the logical fallacy known as an “argumentum ad hominem” or “argument against the man”. It demonstrates the head honchos at the FBI can’t defend themselves against the Twitter information, therefore they must personally disparage anyone who criticizes them. So they are reduced to name calling, like any wretched bully on the proverbial playground who can’t get his way. How truly pathetic they are.
I can tell you first hand the anger I am witnessing at the betrayal is very, very real. I listened to 3 lifelong friends and several of their family & neighbors say they will never vote again should this bill pass.
Died in the wool, lifelong Republicans every one of them.
If this bill makes it and was enabled by Republicans, GOP will lose what is left of their dwindling base, and rightly so.
It is absolutely necessary that conservatives be made painfully aware of their Grand Old Party's depraved complicity. But it's also very important to stop thinking of the party as a monolith. If things are as they seem, then I think there are basically three alternatives, at this point:
A: The "base" empowers some coalition of existing rival factions, under the MAGA / America First banner, to overthrow the entrenched but aging GOP leadership.
B: A new party arises and tries to undermine the GOP, forgoing any support by existing institutions and bureaucracies.
C: Bill Gates gets his declared wish for a civil war. A real old fashioned shooting war.
Either way, things could get much better or much worse.
As for your neighbors, I hope they take all that anger and disgust and channel it into something productive.
The problem is a very small minority of American adults have any awareness of anything that is being discussed here today. Most of them, if they hear or see anything get their information from the usual old sources: the networks, cnn msnbc nyt, etc. to them everything is just hunky Dory and old Joe is doing a fine job and Putin sucks.
#defindthefbi #defundthecia and I would add #defundcongress if that were also possible - they have all become enemies of the people, such that we are no longer a "government of the people, for the people, and by the people." All are shameful, and not even aware enough to know it.
May be Trump is being offered a quid quid pro.
Stay quiet on the omnibus spending bill, and the criminal charges will go away?
I agree with the other commenters asking where is Trump on so many key issues:
- Ukraine corruption
- Censorship
- Jab side effects
- Border
- Building the infrastructure to fight the lefts lawfare
- Purging the eGOP party establishment from the county level on up
- Budget deficit
- Culture war from libraries to schools, and forced diversity training
- forced jabs in the military
- Jan 6 set up
- Covid early treatment
- Attacks in Churches in US
- Attacks on Christians worldwide
Truth Social I thought would be used to hammer these issues, but it seems castrated to keep on the apple and Google stores.
The only area Trump is still focused on is the 2020 election steal. And fighting all the lawfare he is enduring.
The Ukrainians haven't had a major battlefield loss in... a while. The money and arms will keep flowing as long as the rank and file think there is a W behind it.
On the other hand, we keep waiting for a Russian main offensive which never seems to come.
What an ignorant comment. NYT and WaPo have written repeated articles--along with other knowledgeable commentators--reporting that Ukraine is being attritted at the rate of up to a battalion a day. And you think that allows for any possibility for a W? The interview Zaluzhny, the Ukrainian military chief, gave to The Economist--a Neocon outlet--painted a similarly grim picture.
I have read those articles and don't dispute them. But I see it as a psyops, a prelude or primer to start sending in foreign/NATO soldiers in.
Lets be clear- the leadership in Kiev doesn't care about the men being shredded on the front. They are running their grift game.
Speaking of Trump, did you see Abp Vigano’s statement about the “gay” extravaganza at Mar-a-lago? “Trump’s LGBT gala shows Deep State has ‘contaminated the entire political elite. The Republican Party is recklessly pursuing a minority of voters who are indulging in lifestyles that are contrary to the Commandments and to the common good.’” (Link below)
Apropos of this and the discussion spurred by Mark’s recent commentary, I do believe we are going to see enthusiasm wane for the Trump Train going forward.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-trumps-lgbt-gala-shows-deep-state-has-contaminated-the-entire-political-elite/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
He's as tone deaf as Biden.
I saw that, and there's a longer and IMO thoughtful piece on the same subject:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/telling-the-truth-about-the-rise-in-lgbt-influence-in-conservative-circles-is-a-must-for-the-good-of-everyone/
there are some large negatives in Trump policies that are now causing significant second thoughts about him.
One has been his inability to apologize for the horrendously bad Covid policies enacted and maintained under his presidency, and his inability, even now, to admit that his Operation Warp Speed and its jabs have been far worse than the disease: they killed and maimed millions around the world. We realize that he was constantly lied to and manipulated about them, but surely he must know by now how destructive those policies have turned out to be and the absolute necessity for a heartfelt apology.
The second major flaw in current Trump policies is his strong, public support for the LGBT movement and leaders and his appointment of some of these people into key government positions. We have a moral obligation as a life and family issues news service to not shy away from calling out Trump on his huge failures on this now crucial issue that is seriously threatening what is left of the healthy family life foundation of American society and religious and moral freedoms.
We at LifeSiteNews have seen conservatives in different nations fall into this trap again and again over the years with the same result every time. The LGBT agenda is a key part of the Great Reset New World Order plans for the world.
I just bumped across this via Max Morton on Twitter- thought it appropriate.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605741280075517952.html
Seems more effective than Patriot missiles!
I never said anything about “indulging in a lifestyle.” But since you brought it up:
I don’t agree that there is any such thing as a “sexual orientation,” at least not in the way proposed by our current discourse. We act/think/talk ourselves into our behaviors. And insofar as we become attached to any behaviors or make them habitual, they will shape our “identity” — even in ways that fly in the face of our own personal good and self-preservation. That’s the general human condition. Nothing particularly unique about “gay” in that regard, except that it has social cachet at the moment. Which points to another perennial human characteristic, namely that we can be suckered into believing/accepting just about anything.
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this previously. My father was a clinical psychologist who spent his adult life both as a university professor and as a private clinician. He had significant experience in the field you reference and would agree with you entirely.
“basic human compassion”
Honest question: what’s the difference between accepting (or, in the extreme, celebrating) homosexuality and doing the same for alcoholism or drug addiction? After all, in both cases, the argument from the person so entangled is basically the same: A) I want what I want and B) it is beyond my control to do/be otherwise
Riddle me this: Where does the road lead that's paved with good intentions? Life isn't always fair--maybe not even most of the time. The only thing that makes life livable for most people is adherence to sound principles of human nature. Compassion is fine as long as it flows from sound principles. Otherwise it paves roads you don't want to go down.
Not meant to be personal, but your remark about supporting something you disagree with out of "basic human compassion" reflects what so often sets people on a slippery slope.
It’s one thing to welcome the “GayCons” into the tent — which requires little more than acknowledging their contribution to the cause of draining the swamp, restoring constitutional sanity, etc. But it’s quite another for Trump to go out of his way to host a big “gay” gala and to say what he said, especially in the immediate wake of the execrable “Respect for Marriage Act.”
It's not a dilemma. Trump got 28% of the LGBT vote in 2020. The prospects of any GOP candidate improving on that are slim to none. Your recommendation is to go all in abandoning a large and loyal demographic to try to attract more than a tiny minority of a tiny minority. It's not a question of "Vigano's followers." That's simply one group of a much larger group that gave Trump the WH in 2016. I think you're also misrepresenting Brother Ass's views re "indulging".
As for your "main point", my main point in writing on this issue is that the moral character of America is, indeed, an existential issue.
The point being that Trump or any other GOP candidate would stand to lose far more votes--people simply not voting--than they would gain. That's the lesson of 2016. Trump, with a strong pro-life message and other positions also held by the vast majority of pro-life voters, increased turnout to such an extent that it overwhelmed the margin of fraud. Dems got the message, GOPers didn't.
"Now, we easily see what’s in this for Ukraine and Zelensky. Likewise, the Dems. What’s in it for McConnell—that’s the interesting question."
Faced with the threat of being blamed for a government shutdown (Whether they are to blame or not) has always caused the GOP to cave. By now it is reflexive. Presumably they got at least some of the gravy in that 4000+ page bill. Perhaps it includes a line item somewhere for thirty pieces of silver. I don't know to what extent McConnell believes the nonsense he spouted about Ukraine. I suppose that like many politicians before him, he believes in his own inventions as long as they serve his purposes.
The main lesson to be drawn from this is that McConnell feels the populist insurgency to be safely put down. This could not happen in any country that had even the prospect of an effective opposition party.
This FBI statement is a classic example of the logical fallacy known as an “argumentum ad hominem” or “argument against the man”. It demonstrates the head honchos at the FBI can’t defend themselves against the Twitter information, therefore they must personally disparage anyone who criticizes them. So they are reduced to name calling, like any wretched bully on the proverbial playground who can’t get his way. How truly pathetic they are.
https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/logical-fallacies/logical-fallacies-ad-hominem/
I can tell you first hand the anger I am witnessing at the betrayal is very, very real. I listened to 3 lifelong friends and several of their family & neighbors say they will never vote again should this bill pass.
Died in the wool, lifelong Republicans every one of them.
If this bill makes it and was enabled by Republicans, GOP will lose what is left of their dwindling base, and rightly so.
It is absolutely necessary that conservatives be made painfully aware of their Grand Old Party's depraved complicity. But it's also very important to stop thinking of the party as a monolith. If things are as they seem, then I think there are basically three alternatives, at this point:
A: The "base" empowers some coalition of existing rival factions, under the MAGA / America First banner, to overthrow the entrenched but aging GOP leadership.
B: A new party arises and tries to undermine the GOP, forgoing any support by existing institutions and bureaucracies.
C: Bill Gates gets his declared wish for a civil war. A real old fashioned shooting war.
Either way, things could get much better or much worse.
As for your neighbors, I hope they take all that anger and disgust and channel it into something productive.
The problem is a very small minority of American adults have any awareness of anything that is being discussed here today. Most of them, if they hear or see anything get their information from the usual old sources: the networks, cnn msnbc nyt, etc. to them everything is just hunky Dory and old Joe is doing a fine job and Putin sucks.
It’s a miracle!
Where is Trump on the vaccines and Covid scam?
… and on the Jan 6 folks in the D.C. gulag?
To be honest, they were fools for letting themselves be lured inside.
My money's on reality.