"Trump has warned Republicans that backing the petition would be treated as a hostile act." During his campaign, he insisted he would release the files as soon as he was president again. Put that promise in the same category as lower grocery prices, $1.99 a gallon gasoline, and The No-War President.
I simply refuse to have any empathy for the man. Works for me.
Everyone dies, eventually, and none of us are guaranteed to live for any set amount of time. Accepting this, I feel no need to be sad for the death of a man who has been responsible for a large number of deaths already due to his self serving policies.
If he were to die tomorrow, I would breath a huge sigh of relief, even knowing the fight is far from over. His life or death are not under my control, or even influence, so praying for it merely increase anxiety. I do not hate him because I do not wish the hate to pollute me, I simply oppose him in every way I can.
It is common to find that when opposing a great evil, you must change, adapt to become something srtong enough to win. Too often we find it changes us to become that which we oppose. While strategies need to adapt, I find that I do not need to change who I am in order to become 'strong enough' or find ways to win without becoming evil in turn.
"It is common to find that when opposing a great evil, you must change, adapt to become something [strong] enough to win. Too often we find it changes us to become that which we oppose. While strategies need to adapt, I find that I do not need to change who I am in order to become 'strong enough' or find ways to win without becoming evil in turn."
Consider what Trump does, and compare that to the "Seven Deadly Sins".
Look at Trump especially in his first term, and you see a consistent pattern of corrupting people until they break either to follow him or quit before they are forced to cross a line they cannot cross.
This time through he started with people who were much worse, and even there we will find some who are pushed to go beyond their limits. Trump has no morals, no values, no honor, no integrity, is certainly not law abiding and has broken every oath he ever took.
You are on the money. But it still begs the question. How is it that anyone like this can still be president? It violates every tenent of our country. And here he is not in jail, not paying fines even when found guilty, not released his taxes. Friendly to our enemies and hostile to our friends and allies. This cannot just be pure luck nor political blindness. What is the ultimate insult is that he has has surrounded himself with religion zealots. Biblically speaking the ultimate false prophet. Perhaps the devil himself in disquise?
The short answer on 'how?' is the cowardice and lack of any actual commitment to ideals of Most all Republican politicians (some notable exceptions which 'prove the rule').
Regarding the religious side: If I believed in prophecies, I would think he was the anti-christ. He fits all the criteria. Unfortunately there are many who do believe in the prophecies, but in a twisted way. They see Jesus, not as a teacher or spiritual leader, but only as the ultimate sacrifice, "The lamb of God", to be 'Formulaically' performed with wafer and wine, representing his flesh and blood, so they must merely repeat the ritual and be released from all spiritual consequences for their sins, their hate, their vengence... In fact, in their teaching it is ONLY by following this ritual can one be saved, so they do not even need to consider a path of salvation by actually following the teachings of Jesus.
Further there are very large numbers that believe in prophecies that only after the 'second coming' will people finally be able to ascend into heaven (After waiting thousands of years apparently) and upon the second coming, the righteous (those who have ritualistically sacrificed Jesus) will rise up to heaven in their own body, without having to die first, saving them from any discomfort, effectively acheiving immortality the easy way, so these selfish, impatient people seek to hurry the end-of-days by trying to ensure the prophecies are fulfilled, which apparently include the formation of Israel and a major conflict involving Israel. Unfortunately prophecies are very vague and have been translated to fit other situations many times in the past. This does not bother these impatient, self centered people, so they favor Trump because he has done things they wanted, to fulfill the prophecies, which Trump is glad to do, because he does not care. These zealots do not care how evil Trump is, because they themselves have shown their faith does not include compassion, love, help for the stranger... Reminds me of the famous 'Greek Tragedies which typically revolved around a prophecy which the people concerned tried to resist, and thereby caused it to come about. In this case, by seeking to get into heaven the 'easy' way, they in fact paved the way for their descent into hell per the religion they profess to belong to.
While I have no faith in prophecies, I do sadly believe in the power of Human Stupidity and greed to really mess things up.
Why not pray for his conversion instead? Which would do more to show the power and glory of God: to pray for his death or to pray for his conversion? If he dies, it can be attributed to natural causes. If he puts his trust in Jesus Christ alone for his salvation, it can only be attributed to God as a supernatural act.
This is where religion has its limits. The Jews in the cattle cars on the way to the gas chambers prayed for the help that never came. Are we now saying that if they had prayed to Jesus, there would have been a better outcome. Fat chance.
Govt is a manmade construct. With that we get some good some bad. Now superimpose religion onto govt led by Sunday Christians, amongst which we have Americas biggest sinner, and you get selfishness, bigotry and racism on steriods. There are more Bibles per person in jails and prisons than in the rest of the US and we see how that works out.
The middle east is a screaming example of how mixing religion and govt do not mix well. Bottom line keep your religion to yourself and out of politics.
Faith is an intrinsic part of many people, so they will carry it with them, but I agree that professing your faith is not appropriate in government service. Do not wear it like a shield or armor, protecting you from accusations. Instead simply let your faith shine forth from you, "Be the light" by your example and let your actions and behavior be what you are known by.
I think Jesus either gave up on that fool a while ago, or has some master plan for us that involves Trump burning this country to the ground. Both theories of course boggle my agnostoc mind….
I am not sure Jesus tells anyone how to act. I believe all of us have free will to do right or wrong.
I think you may have hit the nail on the head as to our possible future. USA is a house divided and unless we get our act together and find some common ground we may not have a future. We are surrounded by external enemies, yet we spend of our resources smelling arm pits and investigating each other. When a country fears its own more than its enemies, they are already defeated.
"Trump reacted to a meeting between China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un... and complained about being excluded from the gathering."
Seriously people, Trump WANTS to be included in the "Axis of Evil". Once upon a time, that statement of his would be enough for all true Republicans to want to tar and feather the man and chase him out of town.
Stop the continuous shifting of the goal posts. This is not even remotely acceptable.
Love David Pakman! And agree that Trump's demise (politically or physically) seems imminent, but there needs to be a lot of talk about Vance coming to the fore. That guy is the real danger for so many reasons- IMOA. Open the floodgates to switch the focus to the Danger-in-waiting - JD VANCE!
A discharge petition regarding the Epstein files, "forcing a vote to release sealed documents. ... Trump has warned Republicans that backing the petition would be treated as a hostile act."
That is a declaration of GUILT! Any Republican who does not back the bill should be declared complicit in the cover up. I am done with giving any of them the 'benefit of the doubt' or accepting as 'well intentioned' weak excuses.
There is no more 'But he is sincere in his beliefs' or 'He is a true believer'. It is now on them to show where they stand. Do they stand with the pedophiles raping young girls? Trump is the one who declared it to be a partisan issue, and that should be enough to tell you who and what he is. Trump declares ANYTHING he does not want, does not like, to be a partisan attack upon himself. That is what you get when you elect a criminal, bully, rapist, con-man, liar, grifter, dictator wannabe. Trump considers people who serve the nation to be 'Suckers' and 'Losers'. Trump never had any values other than serving himself.
Is it possible Trump is protecting people who are supporting him? Vaguely possible. Much more likely, if Trump were actually innocent, or even mostly innocent where he could simply claim he 'didn't know'... that he would gladly throw others under the bus (he has zero loyalty to anyone, including his own children) in order to save himself. Most likely of all is that Trump was a business partner with Epstein in the sex trafficking business, Putin has the hard evidence, and Trump had Epstein killed. The evidence that is currently public already shows this beyond a reasonable doubt.
"That is a declaration of GUILT! Any Republican who does not back the bill should be declared complicit in the cover up. I am done with giving any of them the 'benefit of the doubt' or accepting as 'well intentioned' weak excuses."
Agreed! At some point (and we passed it years ago, if you ask me) just falling back on the idea that they're going along with everything because they're "afraid" is giving them far too much credit.
It implies that they otherwise wouldn't get behind these - and so many more - disgusting, horrific, and even treasonous actions just to hold onto power, yet they don't just quietly go along with it, they repeatedly and full-throatedly come out and defend all the worst things... WHILE screaming loud and proud about whatever the hell they're twisting into the category of "religion" these days 😒
I am not religious at all, so I'm certainly no expert in that field, but when you can commit, cover up, or fix your lips to justify the preventable, deliberate harm or death of children (or anyone else for that matter) while hiding behind alleged religious beliefs, you ARE the evil your religion talks about... the wolf in sheep's clothing... the Jim Jones, if you will 😖
Wow! The cover up team is going to extraordinary lengths to keep this under wraps. Can't understand what the big deal is if they're all innocent, why not prove it???? Can't wait to find out who's names are in the files
I think it is funny that Trump felt slighted for not being invited to the China military parade, as a superpower. They even know that Trump is weak. Trump is a pathetic slime ball. Trying to proved how stupid Trump's military parade looked, compared to their parade. What a fucking joke. The US citizens better start having a fire in their belly against this regime. Things are not sad, nor embarrassing.
It would be interesting if tRump got a second dose of covid. Long covid? Thoughts and prayers time? I would like him to hang around long enough to actually be impeached and held accountable for his bs.
The “Perp walk of shame” might make me feel 🆗 for a change. Handcuffs, behind his decomposing back, shankels - feet cuffs on his canckles, in a county orange jumpsuit until he’s arraigned like every crook in America who’s caught! Then a trial of his peers. His peers? They can’t do jury duty! They have felonies or they are dead! We the people are many and we are more than capable of deciding exactly where he should spend the rest of his smelly gross slimy scumbag life - I’m talking high security in a 4x4 cell where he cannot hurt any more Americans or the world at large because as we know he doesn’t know anything about sovereignty! Borders? Give me a break! Has any foreign person ever violated so many other nations borders than this Putin Hitler djt? EVER? Fucking hater! He hates America. And we hate him right back. He needs to be locked up in Alcatraz - don’t bother with renovations. Throw him in the moldy cell and lock the cage and throw away the fucking key!
Routine maintenance at the White House includes chucking garbage bags out of windows??? How did it get reported that it was medical waste?? That whole TRUMP whatever it could be called other than circus needs to be dumped- or sent to CECOT for endangering American lives
"a plan to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama."
This is what Trump was trying to hide with all his other BS in the speech. He did not want people talking about WHY he was moving it. Moves like that are expensive.
Is he paying off somebody in Alabama? Punishing somebody in Colorado? Creating opportunity to weaken our Space Force as a personal favor to his Russian 'handler', Putin?
It is political reward. Dem-Colorado to Repub-Alabama. simple. Interesting that Madison Co, home of Huntsville has been moving toward the Dems. With Trump gutting the federl govt and various programs I would not be surprised if Alabama woke up and went Dem next time.
Thank you, David! What do you think will happen if we dump Trump? I know that's a loaded question. I can't imagine JD as commander and chief. What's to come in your opinion?
"Trump has warned Republicans that backing the petition would be treated as a hostile act." During his campaign, he insisted he would release the files as soon as he was president again. Put that promise in the same category as lower grocery prices, $1.99 a gallon gasoline, and The No-War President.
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Is it wrong to pray for an evil man's death?
I simply refuse to have any empathy for the man. Works for me.
Everyone dies, eventually, and none of us are guaranteed to live for any set amount of time. Accepting this, I feel no need to be sad for the death of a man who has been responsible for a large number of deaths already due to his self serving policies.
If he were to die tomorrow, I would breath a huge sigh of relief, even knowing the fight is far from over. His life or death are not under my control, or even influence, so praying for it merely increase anxiety. I do not hate him because I do not wish the hate to pollute me, I simply oppose him in every way I can.
It is common to find that when opposing a great evil, you must change, adapt to become something srtong enough to win. Too often we find it changes us to become that which we oppose. While strategies need to adapt, I find that I do not need to change who I am in order to become 'strong enough' or find ways to win without becoming evil in turn.
"It is common to find that when opposing a great evil, you must change, adapt to become something [strong] enough to win. Too often we find it changes us to become that which we oppose. While strategies need to adapt, I find that I do not need to change who I am in order to become 'strong enough' or find ways to win without becoming evil in turn."
I second that emotion! 🙃
Good comment. On the Trump side the motto is "Let's go along to get along"
Trump does not merely 'go along' with evil...
Consider what Trump does, and compare that to the "Seven Deadly Sins".
Look at Trump especially in his first term, and you see a consistent pattern of corrupting people until they break either to follow him or quit before they are forced to cross a line they cannot cross.
This time through he started with people who were much worse, and even there we will find some who are pushed to go beyond their limits. Trump has no morals, no values, no honor, no integrity, is certainly not law abiding and has broken every oath he ever took.
You are on the money. But it still begs the question. How is it that anyone like this can still be president? It violates every tenent of our country. And here he is not in jail, not paying fines even when found guilty, not released his taxes. Friendly to our enemies and hostile to our friends and allies. This cannot just be pure luck nor political blindness. What is the ultimate insult is that he has has surrounded himself with religion zealots. Biblically speaking the ultimate false prophet. Perhaps the devil himself in disquise?
The short answer on 'how?' is the cowardice and lack of any actual commitment to ideals of Most all Republican politicians (some notable exceptions which 'prove the rule').
Regarding the religious side: If I believed in prophecies, I would think he was the anti-christ. He fits all the criteria. Unfortunately there are many who do believe in the prophecies, but in a twisted way. They see Jesus, not as a teacher or spiritual leader, but only as the ultimate sacrifice, "The lamb of God", to be 'Formulaically' performed with wafer and wine, representing his flesh and blood, so they must merely repeat the ritual and be released from all spiritual consequences for their sins, their hate, their vengence... In fact, in their teaching it is ONLY by following this ritual can one be saved, so they do not even need to consider a path of salvation by actually following the teachings of Jesus.
Further there are very large numbers that believe in prophecies that only after the 'second coming' will people finally be able to ascend into heaven (After waiting thousands of years apparently) and upon the second coming, the righteous (those who have ritualistically sacrificed Jesus) will rise up to heaven in their own body, without having to die first, saving them from any discomfort, effectively acheiving immortality the easy way, so these selfish, impatient people seek to hurry the end-of-days by trying to ensure the prophecies are fulfilled, which apparently include the formation of Israel and a major conflict involving Israel. Unfortunately prophecies are very vague and have been translated to fit other situations many times in the past. This does not bother these impatient, self centered people, so they favor Trump because he has done things they wanted, to fulfill the prophecies, which Trump is glad to do, because he does not care. These zealots do not care how evil Trump is, because they themselves have shown their faith does not include compassion, love, help for the stranger... Reminds me of the famous 'Greek Tragedies which typically revolved around a prophecy which the people concerned tried to resist, and thereby caused it to come about. In this case, by seeking to get into heaven the 'easy' way, they in fact paved the way for their descent into hell per the religion they profess to belong to.
While I have no faith in prophecies, I do sadly believe in the power of Human Stupidity and greed to really mess things up.
I pray for Trumps, Vances and Johnsons death every day!!!
It must feel a little weird to do so! But I can’t fathom how Trump and his crew of evildoers can thrive— while at the same time America survives….
Many Christians do that every day with the "Lord's Prayer" when they ask GOD "to deliver us from evil"!
🤣 I'm an atheist heathen but dammit that was a good one!
Why not pray for his conversion instead? Which would do more to show the power and glory of God: to pray for his death or to pray for his conversion? If he dies, it can be attributed to natural causes. If he puts his trust in Jesus Christ alone for his salvation, it can only be attributed to God as a supernatural act.
This is where religion has its limits. The Jews in the cattle cars on the way to the gas chambers prayed for the help that never came. Are we now saying that if they had prayed to Jesus, there would have been a better outcome. Fat chance.
Govt is a manmade construct. With that we get some good some bad. Now superimpose religion onto govt led by Sunday Christians, amongst which we have Americas biggest sinner, and you get selfishness, bigotry and racism on steriods. There are more Bibles per person in jails and prisons than in the rest of the US and we see how that works out.
The middle east is a screaming example of how mixing religion and govt do not mix well. Bottom line keep your religion to yourself and out of politics.
Faith is an intrinsic part of many people, so they will carry it with them, but I agree that professing your faith is not appropriate in government service. Do not wear it like a shield or armor, protecting you from accusations. Instead simply let your faith shine forth from you, "Be the light" by your example and let your actions and behavior be what you are known by.
I think Jesus either gave up on that fool a while ago, or has some master plan for us that involves Trump burning this country to the ground. Both theories of course boggle my agnostoc mind….
I am not sure Jesus tells anyone how to act. I believe all of us have free will to do right or wrong.
I think you may have hit the nail on the head as to our possible future. USA is a house divided and unless we get our act together and find some common ground we may not have a future. We are surrounded by external enemies, yet we spend of our resources smelling arm pits and investigating each other. When a country fears its own more than its enemies, they are already defeated.
Not at all
Wouldn’t that depend on what you believe about the power you are addressing your prayer to?
"Trump reacted to a meeting between China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un... and complained about being excluded from the gathering."
Seriously people, Trump WANTS to be included in the "Axis of Evil". Once upon a time, that statement of his would be enough for all true Republicans to want to tar and feather the man and chase him out of town.
Stop the continuous shifting of the goal posts. This is not even remotely acceptable.
This is a great little daily update. I like that you can listen to it as well.
Who cares about trumps declining health? I am more worried about his recovery!
Love David Pakman! And agree that Trump's demise (politically or physically) seems imminent, but there needs to be a lot of talk about Vance coming to the fore. That guy is the real danger for so many reasons- IMOA. Open the floodgates to switch the focus to the Danger-in-waiting - JD VANCE!
Oh. You mean JC Mandell?
"Any Republican support for the petition to release the Epstein documents will be treated as a hostile act" = guilty...I mean...?
A discharge petition regarding the Epstein files, "forcing a vote to release sealed documents. ... Trump has warned Republicans that backing the petition would be treated as a hostile act."
That is a declaration of GUILT! Any Republican who does not back the bill should be declared complicit in the cover up. I am done with giving any of them the 'benefit of the doubt' or accepting as 'well intentioned' weak excuses.
There is no more 'But he is sincere in his beliefs' or 'He is a true believer'. It is now on them to show where they stand. Do they stand with the pedophiles raping young girls? Trump is the one who declared it to be a partisan issue, and that should be enough to tell you who and what he is. Trump declares ANYTHING he does not want, does not like, to be a partisan attack upon himself. That is what you get when you elect a criminal, bully, rapist, con-man, liar, grifter, dictator wannabe. Trump considers people who serve the nation to be 'Suckers' and 'Losers'. Trump never had any values other than serving himself.
Is it possible Trump is protecting people who are supporting him? Vaguely possible. Much more likely, if Trump were actually innocent, or even mostly innocent where he could simply claim he 'didn't know'... that he would gladly throw others under the bus (he has zero loyalty to anyone, including his own children) in order to save himself. Most likely of all is that Trump was a business partner with Epstein in the sex trafficking business, Putin has the hard evidence, and Trump had Epstein killed. The evidence that is currently public already shows this beyond a reasonable doubt.
"That is a declaration of GUILT! Any Republican who does not back the bill should be declared complicit in the cover up. I am done with giving any of them the 'benefit of the doubt' or accepting as 'well intentioned' weak excuses."
Agreed! At some point (and we passed it years ago, if you ask me) just falling back on the idea that they're going along with everything because they're "afraid" is giving them far too much credit.
It implies that they otherwise wouldn't get behind these - and so many more - disgusting, horrific, and even treasonous actions just to hold onto power, yet they don't just quietly go along with it, they repeatedly and full-throatedly come out and defend all the worst things... WHILE screaming loud and proud about whatever the hell they're twisting into the category of "religion" these days 😒
I am not religious at all, so I'm certainly no expert in that field, but when you can commit, cover up, or fix your lips to justify the preventable, deliberate harm or death of children (or anyone else for that matter) while hiding behind alleged religious beliefs, you ARE the evil your religion talks about... the wolf in sheep's clothing... the Jim Jones, if you will 😖
("In my opinion" or whatever 🙄)
Agreed. No more treating these people politely, with restraint. They have chosen their path, and should suffer the consequences.
Wow! The cover up team is going to extraordinary lengths to keep this under wraps. Can't understand what the big deal is if they're all innocent, why not prove it???? Can't wait to find out who's names are in the files
I think it is funny that Trump felt slighted for not being invited to the China military parade, as a superpower. They even know that Trump is weak. Trump is a pathetic slime ball. Trying to proved how stupid Trump's military parade looked, compared to their parade. What a fucking joke. The US citizens better start having a fire in their belly against this regime. Things are not sad, nor embarrassing.
Things are angering me and and we need to start our own militia in each state against this tyrant. It's time to fight
It would be interesting if tRump got a second dose of covid. Long covid? Thoughts and prayers time? I would like him to hang around long enough to actually be impeached and held accountable for his bs.
The “Perp walk of shame” might make me feel 🆗 for a change. Handcuffs, behind his decomposing back, shankels - feet cuffs on his canckles, in a county orange jumpsuit until he’s arraigned like every crook in America who’s caught! Then a trial of his peers. His peers? They can’t do jury duty! They have felonies or they are dead! We the people are many and we are more than capable of deciding exactly where he should spend the rest of his smelly gross slimy scumbag life - I’m talking high security in a 4x4 cell where he cannot hurt any more Americans or the world at large because as we know he doesn’t know anything about sovereignty! Borders? Give me a break! Has any foreign person ever violated so many other nations borders than this Putin Hitler djt? EVER? Fucking hater! He hates America. And we hate him right back. He needs to be locked up in Alcatraz - don’t bother with renovations. Throw him in the moldy cell and lock the cage and throw away the fucking key!
Whew.
Routine maintenance at the White House includes chucking garbage bags out of windows??? How did it get reported that it was medical waste?? That whole TRUMP whatever it could be called other than circus needs to be dumped- or sent to CECOT for endangering American lives
"a plan to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama."
This is what Trump was trying to hide with all his other BS in the speech. He did not want people talking about WHY he was moving it. Moves like that are expensive.
Is he paying off somebody in Alabama? Punishing somebody in Colorado? Creating opportunity to weaken our Space Force as a personal favor to his Russian 'handler', Putin?
It is political reward. Dem-Colorado to Repub-Alabama. simple. Interesting that Madison Co, home of Huntsville has been moving toward the Dems. With Trump gutting the federl govt and various programs I would not be surprised if Alabama woke up and went Dem next time.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, David! What do you think will happen if we dump Trump? I know that's a loaded question. I can't imagine JD as commander and chief. What's to come in your opinion?
Resignation scandal is highllighted in the teaser, but then, nothing.