FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Please don't fall into the mis-spelling of others. The correct spelling is Libertarian Party, not Libertaryan.

Mikeyavelli

You mean from the Uniparty to the MAGA party.
The difference between a kommiecrat and a Romney republican is the kommiecrats want socialism now, and Romney needs two weeks to think about it.
Republicans are weak, MAGA MAGA is strong.

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Let us not forget that Billy Clinton was also impeached while he was in office for the same transgression. Had he been tried in a Civil Court would he have fared any better than Trump? Remember OJ was freed in criminal court but convicted in civil court.
Are you happy that the American Political Scene has degenerated into this yellow journalism? Why are you less worried about America becoming a Third World Nation. Examine the pictures of our major cities if you can stomach the scenes you see.

Ricktloml

I look at things a little differently. Only Trump can immediately step in/stop, or at least slow down, the blatant corruption/abuse of power from day-one. Trump definitely knows the depths to which the left/Democrat/Communist Party will sink...and if Republicans who are fed-up with the Trump drama think the left won't do to ANY/EVERY Republican candidate what they have done to Trump, they're kidding themselves. The left is a vicious mob willing to do ANYTHING to DESTROY their political opponents...AND to "fundamentally transform" this country into another socialist/communist h*ll-hole. If there are other candidates willing to fight the left like Trump can/has, I haven't seen them stand-up and do so...and we don't need another watered-down version of a fighter...we need a real proven fighter

EmilyD

ABSOLUTELY!! I agree with you a thousand percent!!!!!

I don't think many people realized what Obama meant when he said he wanted to "fundamentally change" America. He meant he wanted to get rid of our Constitution and start moving us toward global Socialism, which in turn becomes one step away from Communism. But we didn't realize what he was doing until he was well into his presidency. And if Hillary had won instead of Trump, we would be all the way Socialist by now. That's what Biden took up - Obama's promise to "fundamentally change" us!! Which means we will have no more freedoms -- what our founding fathers were running away from and WHY they started our Constitution and our way of government that is based on Capitalism (private ownership versus government ownership of production) and the way they wanted to live their lives: with liberty, justice and freedom for everyone! (Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. Freedom of the right to assemble!!)

If we let the Democrats/Globalists take over this country, we will cease being the nation that we have successfully enjoyed living in for TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE YEARS! Do we REALLY want that change? Once it happens, there will be no going back!

And to those who argue that we already have Socialism here - yes, we have a few Socialist type of programs like welfare, health insurance, food and housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and a few others aimed at helping the poverty-stricken out. But for the most part, although the Democrats are trying hard to cancel out Capitalism, we still use it for our production, and it works to keep us independent, living our own lives at our own expense rather than being dictated to by a handful of people who don't have our best interests at heart!

Why on earth do people want to stop living the way we have been, and start living in poverty while the handful of "Elites" (that's what they want to be called!!) have zillions of dollars and we have pittance? Why do we want to become slaves of the government?????

Trump will fight to the end for us and our country to remain the sovereign (self-governing) nation it always has been. He made us energy independent! Biden stopped that his first day in office! Trump filled up our Strategic Petroleum Reserves (our emergency oil supply) to the brim to protect us in case of natural OR unnatural emergencies (and he bought it at a discount price from the Saudi's when he jumped into the middle of a bidding war between Russia and the Saudi's) Biden sold MORE THAN 41 BILLION BARRELS OF IT to the global market, where most of it ended up in China -- He essentially sold our stored up reserves to China!!!

Now, if we have an emergency, like a hurricane or another terrorist attack like 9/11 or anything that causes a national disaster, we will be scrounging around for oil instead of protected like Trump wanted us to be!

If we don't do something about what Biden/Obama/Globalists are currently doing to our country - and soon - we will all (Republicans AND Democrats) be in a world of hurt as we in the middle class see our assets dwindle away into nothing!! They WANT us poor and dependent on them (the government they want to instill in this country) so they can control our every move...and for some of us, our deaths! It's already happening, and I sincerely believe the only one capable of stopping it is Donald J. Trump!!!

I don't know of any other person, other than maybe his son, Donald Trump, Jr., who could possibly save this sinking ship. No one has the ability to stand up to the opposition like he does. Nobody has the financial independence he does, meaning he is not one of those politicians who owes anyone "favors" in order to get elected so that he has to cave on issues he cares about! And THAT is what the left is terrified of....that he CAN keep our nation safe from Globalism/Socialism/Communism!!!

I don't understand why regular working everyday Democrats who will never be anywhere near being one of the "Elite" rulers wants to live the way they will be living under a Socialist regime! The only thing I can come up with for a reason is that they are under a delusion that things will be great and wonderful as a Socialist country...what our media is telling them. All anyone has to do is study what has happened in Socialist countries to the people - the non-ruling class people!

martsiva

Let me rephrase the question, Why do people call it the rapture when the word rapture does not appear anywhere in the Bible?

jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana

I would love to see Trump win, but he is just too spoiled, and can’t keep his mouth shut. He was great for our country, but he gets too dramatic.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

My point exactly!!..Thank you!..👍👍👍

jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana

Truth

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

The word may not appear in today's English Bibles but the concept does. As my sister would say... read on McDuff...

Regarding the term rapture and its use in theology the following should answer your question. It is taken from Ryrie’s Basic Theology, Electronic Media from Parsons Technology.

Our modern understanding of rapture appears to have little or no connection with the eschatological event. However, the word is properly used of that event. Rapture is a state or experience of being carried away. The English word comes from a Latin word, rapio, which means to seize or snatch in relation to an ecstasy of spirit or the actual removal from one place to another. In other words, it means to be carried away in spirit or in body. The Rapture of the church means the carrying away of the church from earth to heaven.

The Greek word from this term “rapture” is derived appears in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, translated “caught up.” The Latin translation of this verse used the word rapturo. The Greek word it translates is harpazo, which means to snatch or take away. Elsewhere it is used to describe how the Spirit caught up Philip near Gaza and brought him to Caesarea (Acts 8:39) and to describe Paul’s experience of being caught up into the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2-4). Thus there can be no doubt that the word is used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 to indicate the actual removal of people from earth to heaven.

***Note: The Latin Vulgate actually used a different form of the same verb-- "Rapiemur" instead of "Rapturo." The point and connections Ryrie is making remain the same.***

PZG1225 Loc: Florida

Thanks Parky ..... Was going to say much the same but you did a better job than I would have.

SeaLass Loc: Western Soviet Socialist Republics

Once again I must concede that great minds do think alike.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

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Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

I say we already have socialism because, the fact is, we do. It is not the government running a few welfare programs or a few government run projects. Socialism is the government owning or controlling property and/or the means of production thru regulation. We are deeply into socialism with government, through regulation, controlling nearly ever aspect of our lives. From our toilets and stoves to attacks on our freedom of speech and mobility. We have not been a free country for a very long time. It is just hidden under thinly veiled subterfuge in the name of protection. The disappearing middle class and small businesses are a result of this socialist government widespread regulation.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

When your country is facing an existential threat, WTF is a leader supposed to do? Shut his mouth, sheath his sword, unload his guns, get on his knees and beg for appeasement?

Why not take a page from the leftist playbook and say and do whatever it takes to win?
If we had fired General Patton for his mouth, we would have lost the war.