We are seeing statements, tweets, posts here on OPP, that reflect some severely limited thinking, actually more like beliefs, that this is all about the phone call...somehow limited to what was said during the phone call.

There is so much more coming out that covers weeks and months, there are emails and texts that support far more than the phone call specifically said. There was an off the record unofficial set of deals being orchestrated by the personal attorney of Trump who was working in an unofficial capacity.

The very basics here of trump withholding military aid at all, nevermind why and what he was trying to accomplish, are impeachable if not treason in terms of the damage done to the Ukraine on behalf of their enemy Russia.

Having his personal attorney mucking around in foreign affairs in any capacity shows a profoundly unfit lack of judgement.

Cutting career diplomats and intelligence experts out of the loop as far as wh**ever Giuliani was trying to accomplish was impeachable. If Trump had a worthy and valid purpose in the corruption he was so concerned about, it could have been done through official channels, the fact is they had nothing to do with national security interests and were working in opposition to what was in the country's security interests.

These mentions of the phone call are as stupid as calls to hold the whistleblower accountable. What, give him a medal for having the guts to come forward and spill the beans on this president crapping all over this country that is our ally against Russian invasions?

How To End the Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico
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Nine Americans-including three women and six children-were gunned down by drug cartel members in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora. Eight young children survived the gunmen’s attack. Although violence of this type occurs in Mexico on a regular basis this attack caught the attention of the American news media due to the citizenship of those k**led. They were U.S. citizens with dual Mexican citizenship. And it was a horrible attack.

Both President Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) have come up with solutions to stop the cartel violence.

President Trump made his solution very clear in the following tweet:

“If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,” Trump tweeted. “The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!”


Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refused the offer and proposed his own solution-“hugs not bullets.” Obrador also thinks that helping the poor is in some way going to affect the way the drug cartels operate.

Both leaders are dead wrong. There is only one way to end the drug cartel violence in Mexico and that is to end the drug war by legalizing all drugs immediately. This would also end the drug violence we see in cities across the United States. When alcohol prohibition was ended we didn’t see Coors and Budweiser shooting it out on the street for territory. They had courts to take care of business. They no longer needed mobsters. And when drugs are legalized we will see the same peaceful t***sition.

The drug war industrial complex is very big and very powerful. There are only a few politicians who would dare to propose legalization of all drugs. But this is what is needed if we want to end the cartel violence in Mexico and here in the United States.

The cartel violence we have seen take thousands upon thousands of lives in Mexico is blowback from our failed domestic policy on drugs. It is the U.S. demand for drugs that drives the market and the violence. We are at least partially responsible for the failed Mexican state. A state where every politician and every policeman are corrupt.

As a former frontline drug warrior I know ending the drug war is the only way out of this mess. All the task forces, narcotics courts, and military cooperation will not stop it.

End the drug war now!

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Imagine if it had worked.
Imagine if our President had leveraged his role as Commander in Chief to persuade a foreign power to open an investigation into his political opponent.
Imagine if the President’s rival lost the primary because news broke that he was under investigation.
Imagine if that meant the President faced a weaker candidate in November 2020–and won re-e******n as a result.
Imagine if our President owed his victory to a foreign power and we never found out.
Imagine how much influence the leaders of that country would have on our foreign policy decisions.
Imagine how easily they could blackmail our Commander in Chief.
Imagine what our President would do next, knowing he could subvert our democracy without paying a price.
Now, imagine if, eventually, we did find out. But it was too late–because he had already won.
Imagine what that would do to our faith in e******ns, to our trust in government, to our belief that we live in a democracy.
If President Trump’s efforts to coerce Ukraine into interfering with American democracy had stayed a secret until the 2020 e******n–if a whistle-blower hadn’t spoken out–we would have fundamentally, perhaps irrevocably, lost faith in the legitimacy of our republic.
That is why there is no choice but to impeach and remove Trump: because he was willing to undermine our democracy to help his prospects of re-e******n; because he has stated, unapologetically, that he would do it again; and most important, because he wielded the powers of his office for personal benefit instead of for the benefit of the people. And a President like that–a President who puts himself over his country–is exactly the kind of Commander in Chief our founders included impeachment in our Constitution to remove.

short answer: when recording biblical events, the authors often had to use words and phrases that "best described" the events due to language and cultural barriers. Additionally, with several different "versions" of the Bible available, there are a lot of 'events, concepts, and words' that have been changed, omitted, or misconstrued.....this is the what's meant by "following the letter" of the Bible. Following the "spirit" of God's word is a bit different.
Basically, if mankind truly understood that "God is Love" -it shouldn't matter which 'version' of the Bible you study because the "spirit" of the various versions all point out the same. God is a true, living, "triune" God of three equal parts: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God created the heavens, the earth, and all that is seen and unseen. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent (all powerful, all knowing, always present) and He created man (kind) in His own image. No, we are 'not gods' - but we do have d******n over the earth and the animals, and we are just a little less than the angels.

I will refer to dozens of things the mainstream covers where they use direct quotes and show indictments and other legal documents. The information is verbatim, and has no other way it can be interpreted. Then we look over at FOX's Hannity and friends and they arrive at completely different conclusions that have nothing to do with the documents that they apparently refuse to read, so as to be able to maintain a willful ignorance.

The right can take positions where people who have violated the law any number of times are portrayed as innocent good men, like Flynn, Manafort, Stone, Cohen. Cohen is a bad man because he decided to tell the t***h, the others are looking for dangled pardons. My point here was that the right no longer knows what the t***h is, I want the t***h and support t***h in media laws, of course the people that don't seem to mind being lied to aggressively defend the freedom of speech covering lies and fraud.

I think that the majority of the people in this country would agree with this, everyone seems to think it's the other half of the country.

As a solution it's really easy to figure out what that is, there needs to be an accountability to media for vetting facts and the t***h.

Here are some common sense facts pertaining to this that would mean something if it weren't for the nature of the problem with the side that can't figure it out...
...one side, dominated by FOX, relies on media dominated by opinion op eds, not a news department
...most MSM has news departments and refuse to air totally incorrect facts and apologize and set the record straight when they do, the opinion based Hannity's almost never set the record straight
...the opinion based media uses terms like "we all know that...", "you all know that...", "everyone knows that...", which sucks people into believing wh**ever it is that they are saying, MSM tends to show actual references such as court transcripts and other corroborating documents

I'm not sure why the sheer number of times the right wing media gets busted for having misrepresented facts doesn't result in people looking hard at what they are saying and checking it out elsewhere. It has to do with the fact that they represent what their base want to hear. Then when they represent unfortunate facts their people refuse to believe the t***h, I guess a steady diet of lies and rhetoric becomes what people expect.

My point here is that something needs to be done about this, it's getting ridiculous when half the country argues about something that is super easy to prove and says that the t***h is a lie. It has gotten so bad that this group has decided that even documents and investigations, or court systems can't be trusted because of their bias. Yet there is never any concession that the right is creating hard right biased courts that have no problems ruling outside the boundaries of the law.

We need t***h in media laws, and it doesn't matter which side you think are the ones being duped by their media, it needs to stop. And isn't it interesting that it's the side that is being misled that wants nothing to do with the freedom to lie as a freedom of speech being curtailed? I basically thing people know they are being lied to and don't care as long as it fits with their beliefs.