Maybe you should ask Trumpet's son-in-law what he gave to the Saudis that was worth 3 billion dollars to them.

Would you do that, Arch? You know I - and 81 million other Americans - would greatly appreciate your doing that for the good of the country. Four more years of a f*****t like Trumpet would definitely cause great harm to the country.

Long time no talk to. How's the family? Take care.

Alabuck

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IF, as you claim, you verified your post with the “National Archives,” then please explain the release FROM the National Archives, itself, last Friday, 8-12-2022.


In case Fox Entertainment News failed again to inform its viewers of what the t***h is in relation to what the FBI raid discovered and even how it came about, the National Archives and Records Administration issued a statement Friday (8-12-22) in an attempt to counter misstatements (A.K.A LIES) from Trumpet claiming President Obama had absconded with 33 million “classified documents.” In spite the official NARA statement, Trump continues to peddle his LIES about President Obama.

Within minutes of the statement from the Archives, Trump again pushed his evidence-free (LIE) claim in response to the latest reports, saying, “What are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?” This promulgation of LIES about former president Barack Obama’s p**********l records have continued for several days post raid and even after the publication of the search warrant and the receipt of items removed from Mar-a-Lago. These lies and threats of violence against federal law enforcement have been spread by former president Donald Trump and conservative commentators as well as a vast majority Republicans in Congress, all without any basis in fact.

In its statement, NARA said that it obtained “exclusive legal and physical custody” of Obama’s records when he left office in 2017. It said that about 30 million pages of UNCLASSIFIED records were t***sferred BY THE NARA to a NARA facility in the Chicago area and that they continue to be maintained “exclusively by NARA.”

Classified records from Obama are kept in a NARA facility in Washington D.C., the statement said. “As required by the [P**********l Records Act], former President Obama has NO CONTROL over where and how NARA stores the P**********l records of his Administration.”

Despite the official NARA statement, Trumpet continues to peddle his false claims (A.K.A LIES) DISPUTING the fact that classified documents relating to nuclear weapons WERE among the items FBI agents sought in a search of Trump’s Florida residence Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Within minutes of the statement from the Archives, Trump again pushed his evidence-free LIES in response to the latest reports, saying, “What are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?”

More recently, the warrant, signed by a Trumpet-appointed judge, and given to Trumpet the day BEFORE the raid occurred, was released to the public as was a copy of the receipt Trumpet was given, identifying the boxes and other articles removed from his property. Also, a Trumpet spokesperson let it out that Trumpet and members of his family, and other leaches, watched the entire operation unfold on the closed circuit TV system Trumpet has throughout his properties. So much for his claiming to be totally surprised about the whole affair.

In another release, NARA listed the number of boxes removed from Trumpet’s house, based on the box’s national security classification. FBI agents seized 11 sets of documents from Trump’s Palm Beach club on Monday, including documents identified as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” according to the inventory unsealed Friday. The list of items taken also notes that agents carted away four sets of documents marked “top-secret,” three sets of documents marked “secret” and three sets documents marked “confidential.” In fact, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons WERE FOUND to be among the items FBI agents sought in a search of Trump’s Florida residence Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.

These sets of documents range in classification levels, depending on the degree of their significance to U.S. national security. According to the federal regulations governing classification, “confidential” denotes the lowest rung. Information at this level could, if wrongly disclosed, cause “identifiable damage” to national security. “The next level, “secret” information, could cause serious damage to national security if wrongly disclosed. The “top secret” designation is reserved for material whose unauthorized disclosure could cause “exceptionally grave damage” to national security.

Trumpet knows nothing else to say, except more LIES. He’s playing the “victim card,” knowing full well that he’s broken several federal criminal laws. Now, he’s trying to gain sympathy from those people who can’t think for themselves and look to him as their savior from the oppression he told them they were living under.

I’m still waiting on him to keep his promise to release his federal tax returns from 2016 to the present. I’m still waiting on him to get the money from Mexico thst he promised he’d get from Mexico. I’m still waiting on him to see the replacement to Obamacare he promised since 2015, when he began his p**********l campaign. I’m still waiting to see all those “hundreds of millions of fraudulent v**es” he promised to reveal to the country back in November and December of 2020.

Are you sure you didn’t mistakenly go to the “National Lampoon” website instead of the “National Archives” website? By releasing the warrant - signed by a Trumpet appointee - the receipt for the items taken and the statements released by the NARA outlining and exposing Trumpet’s and his minion’s LIES, it’s quite easy to see the article you referenced was full of pure and unadulterated 🐴💩!

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I would surmise from your post that you’d be far more happy with Trumpet being returned to power and his kissing Putin’s rump all the time; much like he did with Kim Il Sung, of North Korea (which even the “love letters” sent between them, accomplished NOTHING in terms of getting North Korea to stop it’s nuclear weapons development. All their “love fest” did accomplish was to make Trumpet - and the US - look like complete fools in the eyes of the world.

Are you in favor of our leaving NATO? SEATO? If Trumpet returns to power, look for the US to be without any military partners, should he get his way. And, why should we have any? If Trumpet withdraws the US from either or both of these military alliances, look for Russia and China to fill the power vacuums and become the military threats these alliances have protected us from since the end of World War 2.

FYI, Without these alliances, should a shooting war ever break out between the US and China and/or Russia, by ourselves, we would loose. Simply because there would be zero reason for our former allies to come to our assistance. It’s not just the US that deters Russia and China from major military aggression. It’s the combined strength of the US and our allies - through those treaties - that gives pause to the leaderships in Russia and China.

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It’s Fox’s logic. Talk to them. Maybe they can explain it to you.

Also, the actual reasoning behind Trumpet’s deal was to allow the US oil producers to get more money for their own production of oil; not so much to broker a peace treaty between Russia and the U.S. ending their price war. Adding to the issue was that Putin knew that since Trumpet didn't do anything when Putin invaded Crimea, Trumpet wouldn’t do anything when Putin invaded the rest of Ukraine. What Putin didn’t count on was our getting rid of Trumpet and replaced him with someone who would stand up to Putin and his aggression.

Even most of the GQPTPers in Congress are onboard with helping Ukraine. Why don’t you b***h at them for a while?

Biden warned us it would cost us at the pump. But, defeating Putin is worth the cost.

So, now all you wrong-wingers are rewriting the article - or denying it’s obvious intent - published by your own, “Ministry of Propaganda,” (a.k.a Fox News), so it can reflect any and all blame being removed from the initial source of the rise in oil and gasoline prices, that being Trumpet’s deal with the Saudis, and placed at Biden’s feet. Biden has talked to the Saudis and asked them to increase their production of oil for our purchase but they refused.

Bear in mind, this happened after they loaned Trumpet Jr. $2 BILLION for his up-start investment company. Actually, it wasn’t a loan as much as a bribe for future favors, should the GQPTP retake the Congress and/or the White House.

Man, oh man. Talk about denial. You guys are so full of crap, all of your collective eyes are the darkest shade of crap-brown.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trump-saudi-arabia-russia-opec-oil-deal-role

Hey GQPTPers! Check out the above link. Your own Faux Entertainment News posted this back in 2020. You want to know why gas is so high? Read the article from Fox. Trumpet lead the charge to raise our gas prices and you fools didn’t even know it.

Add Trumpet’s “deal with the Saudis” to our stoppage of buying Russian oil and you can see what gas prices are rising. And remember, Trumpet started it all by sucking up to Putin.

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Hey jf,

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trump-saudi-arabia-russia-opec-oil-deal-role

Check this out. Your own Faux Entertainment News posted this back in 2020. You want to know why gas is so high? Read the article from Fox. Trumpet lead the charge to raise our gas prices and you fools didn’t even know it.

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The most important aspect of the article you posted a link to (which I did read), was that it totally omitted the FACT that a law, written by the GOPTPers, during the Clinton administration, was passed that made it illegal for the federal government to NOT provide the food needed for immigrant children. Both Trumpet and Biden are FORCED to follow the law.

BTW, Trumpet tried and failed to get the courts to overturn the law. Biden, learning from Trumpet’s mistake, hasn’t tried, knowing the GQPTPers would accuse him of trying to starve immigrant children. Typical GQPTP hypocrisy.

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That-, “I***tic, Mentally Changled, Moron in the Whitehouse” you mentioned is a perfect description of Biden’s Immediate predecessor, Trumpet. Trumpet made love to Putin when Trumpet publicly refused to believe his own intelligence people about Russia helping Trumpet win in 2016. Trumpet went so far to as to claim he looked into Putin’s eyes and could tell Putin was a good man and wouldn’t lie to Trumpet. Oddly, the 45 minute, one-on-one meeting Trumpet had with Putin in Helsinki, the one where Trumpet ordered his note-taker to destroy all written records of the meeting. Citing it was a “personal and private meeting,” it wasn’t recorded like ALL p**********l meetings are lawfully supposed to be. It’s a FEDERAL LAW that Trumpet, intentionally, failed to follow all throughout his term.

Biden is violating Article 5 of the War Powers Act? How so? 99% of all of the GQPTPers in Congress are DEMANDING Biden DO MORE!, GIVE UKRAINE FIGHTER JETS1, ENFORCE A ‘NO-FLY ZONE!’ You and your bunch are clamoring for Biden to instigate WW3 just so they can blame the Dems for it. Well, Sunshine, unlike Trumpet, who was too scared to shake hands unless he knew they’d recently sanitized their hands (unless, of course they were handing over their “sucker money” to him, THEN, he’d be very happy to shake their hand.) As to Russia and him, it’s a well known FACT that Putin used Trumpet as his own, personal lackey. As long as Trumpet could cover it up or blame someone else, he was at Putin’s beckon call.

In a 2020 interview on CBS, Biden said, “No NATO forces on Ukrainian soil or patrolling its skies.” And, that his responsibility is “to protect America’s national self-interest and not put our women and men in harm's way to try to solve every single problem in the world by use of force.” A lesson of Iraq (started by Bush 2’s lying.) and, later, Afghanistan.

How is Biden destroying our economy? Prices go up, in most cases, because of two old capitalistic theories: 1) supply and demand, and 2) pure greed. Had you come up from the bottom of the cess-pool you’ve been living under these past 4 years, you’d have noticed we’ve been experiencing a very deadly p******c, the likes of which we’ll still have around for some years to come. This “minor flue,” this “it’s nothing to worry about,” “it’ll be gone by Easter” (of 2-19), “try drinking bleach or Lysol to k**l the disease,” you needn’t wear a mask unless you want to,” “Me?!” I’m healthy as a horse!, I don’t need to take a v*****e!” (Never mind that when he caught the TRUMP V***S, he was rushed to the hospital and given treatments that most people can’t afford to take and still aren’t available in enough quantity to distribute to the general public.) “Here! Try these horse de-wormers. I’ve been told it’ll fix you right up.” (Never mind that to-date, there have been ZERO peer-reviewed medical studies that show the horse de-wormer has ANY effect on lessening the effects or mortality of the TRUMPET V***S and it’s several variants.)

The economy is trying to recover its huge losses suffered under Trumpet through his constant LYING about how the v***s can and will effect the country’s jobs. Millions of people were forced to quit their jobs or were laid-off as a direct result of Trumpet’s LIES.

I work with homeless people, trying to get them back on their feet. I know what their stories are like and the circumstances surrounding their homelessness; losing minimum pay jobs and being forced out of their homes, getting sick with the TRUMP V***S and not having any insurance thanks to Trumpet’s and his GQPTP friends in Congress cutting Obamacare funding, just a few of the major issues leading to homelessness.

As to gas prices, that’s a prime example of corporate greed and Trumpet’s own shortsightedness. In 2019, Trumpet tried to get the Venezuelan President ousted. Trumpet’s c**p failed, so Trumpet decided to stop importing Venezuelan oil to get even. Under pressure to punish MJB for k*****g the WaPo journalist, Trumpet also ordered the stopping of importing Saudi oil. To make up the difference, he ordered an increase in the buying of Russian oil. (Seeing as you like to believe conspiracy theories, perhaps you’d like this one: Trumpet’s private, 45 minute talk with Putin, in Helsinki, was to set up a scenario by which Trumpet would do Putin a favor to increase our purchasing Russian oil; devise a scheme to get the US to stop buying Venezuelan and Saudi oil and buy more oil from Russia. Looks like it worked, too. Between 2018 and 2019, US importation of Russian oil increased over 35%.)

Then along came the full effects of the TRUMP V***S. With so many people working from home, people used less gasoline because they either worked from home or didn’t work at all. As a result, US oil producers and distilleries stopped making as much gas as before. Instead, they’ve used their huge profits to pay their stockholders. They’ve intentionally slowed production of oil products, their drilling on federal land of which hundreds of already approved leases are just sitting there, waiting to be used, while the demand has increased dramatically. Hence, higher prices. Remember, all of our products are delivered to us via fuel-burning vehicles. Hence, the higher prices of all commodities is passed along to the consumer. This isn’t rocket science. One just needs to research for themselves instead of listening to Hannity and his crew of lying gerks.

And, another of Trumpet’s lies is in regards to our being “no longer oil dependent.” FYI, all through the Trumpet years, the US imported oil as well as exported oil. Not once were we ever totally oil independent. We did export more than we imported… for 1 year, but we NEVER stopped importing foreign oil. NOW, Biden has stopped our importing Russian oil and is trying to get the Saudis and the Venezuelans to export to us again. Biden has released 30 million gallons of oil from our Strategic Reserves to help out and he’s asking Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for more oil. Sadly, he can’t control the greed of the oil companies. Yet, you blame him for their greed.

No! Putin doesn’t have ANY right to expand his territory because of NATO. How would you like it if Russia decided to invade Mexico or Canada because Putin needed more space between Russia and the U.S./NATO? Hey! Many Texans want to secede from the US. Maybe they could ally themselves with Russia. That way, Putin would have a buffer between him and the US. Plus, Texas could be a drain on the Russian economy instead of the US’s. After all, Texas receives more money from the federal government than it sends in. Plus, given the way Texas is already being run by the GQPTPers, it’s already used to living under an autocracy.

Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
At least it’s not civil war — and other countries do it all the time — but breaking up the union would be next to impossible here. Like the old, Neal Sedaka song says, 🎼🎹🎶 “…breaking up is hard to do.” 🎼🎹🎶


Americans are deeply, sometimes viciously, divided. But, secession isn't the answer.
By Stephen Marche
December 31 at 1:50 PM CT

When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention, just like Trumpet does. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — reinforcing the idea of disunion that has taken hold in the outer reaches of the public imagination.

A survey published in September by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, for example, found that 41 percent of Biden v**ers and 52 percent of Trump v**ers at least “somewhat agree” that “the situation in America” makes them favor blue or red states “seceding from the union to form their own separate country.”

Texas has such an active — if still marginal — secession movement that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) breezily engaged a question about it at a recent conservative event at Texas A&M University, saying that he was “not there yet” but that if Democrats “fundamentally destroy the country,” then, “I think we take NASA, take the military, take the oil.”

Secession, as an actual political program, “is being normalized in an unwinding and degrading country,” Richard Kreitner told Antonia Hitchens for her recent Atlantic article about the secessionist movement in Oregon that proposes to make a large rural swath of the state part of Idaho. Kreitner, whose book about secession, “Break It Up,” was published last year, said the Oregon proposal should be taken as “a peace proposal, or a way to avoid war.”

It’s not hard to see why the idea is gaining traction. Talk of secession is still mostly just talk, but wouldn’t it be a civilized way to deal with the deep divisions in the country? Wouldn’t it beat, say, the civil war that a restive segment of the population hungers for? “When do we get to use the guns?” a young man asked Charlie Kirk at Kirk’s far-right Turning Point USA rally in Boise, Idaho, last October. “I mean, literally, where’s the line? How many e******ns are they going to steal before we k**l these people?” Secession, surely, is preferable to that alternative.
But in ways secession-curious Americans may not appreciate, it’s also almost impossible.

It’s not that secession can’t work. The rest of the world is busily at it all the time. Separatism is a global political trend. The number of nations in the world has tripled since 1945. And, there will soon be more. “Right now, there are about 60 secessionist movements worldwide. Sixty independence movements is a pretty large number by historical standards,” says Ryan Griffiths, a professor at Syracuse University who focuses on the dynamics of secession and the study of sovereignty. “In the long run, there will be another secessionist movement in the United States. It will just happen. No country is permanent. It will change. It will break apart in some way [or be added to].”

And the United States might well be better off as separate countries. It might be healthier, more rational, less prone to violence. Secession would not have to be seen as a failure, given the tensions tearing the country apart.

The main difference between the American separatist movements and those in the rest of the world is that the countries that emerge from the separation could join the world quite comfortably as independent nations. If Texas were a country, it would have a GDP of $1.59 trillion, tenth in the world, slightly below Brazil and slightly ahead of Canada. It would certainly look like a country, 47th in population, 40th in size. California is even larger. With a GDP of $2.88 trillion, it recently passed Britain to become the fifth largest economy in the world. It would rank 36th in population, with the world’s largest technology and entertainment sectors. A separate California would have the largest national median income in the world.

BUT, the legal process of separation is profoundly complicated, and the laws of the United States render it much more difficult to achieve than it is elsewhere. Both the Texas and California separatists have their arguments about why separation is constitutional, drawn from esoteric readings of Texas v. White, an 1869 Supreme Court decision about the legality of state bonds, but generally there is consensus on the point. “I cannot imagine that such a question could ever reach the Supreme Court,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2006. “To begin with, the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede.” The separatists respond with the obvious fact Scalia admits: Technically, the constitutionality of secession has never been tested in the Supreme Court.

International law also complicates the possibility of secession. It’s all very well to imagine a bunch of independence-minded Texans raising their rifles in the air, shouting “Don’t mess with Texas” and defying the world in the name of their freedom. That’s until nobody will land an airplane at a Texas airport, or the United States government in Washington shuts down the Internet, like the Chinese government did with Xinjiang province in 2009. Romantic ideas of statehood, derived from the 18th and 19th centuries, have little purchase in the 21st. [Something else to consider: Texas RECEIVES more in federal dollars, annually, than it sends to Washington. How do you rec**p those losses?]

“There’s only one sovereignty game,” Griffiths points out. Everybody needs to get into the same club, and that club is the United Nations, which would require the approval of whoever is still technically the government of the United States.

Without U.N. backing, a new country can’t do international exchange or use international post offices. MAn application to the United Nations goes to a working group, and if the group thinks the application is too trivial, they reject it. If they think an application is serious enough, which they do by asking other states, then it goes to the Security Council. The Security Council is the arbiter, but the council almost always agrees when the application has proceeded that far. So the United States [sans the seceding state(s)], if it wanted too, could easily hold up any state asking for sovereignty. It would have the Security Council seat, and it would have the home state veto.

A separate Texas wouldn’t have the power of the current United States in global negotiations. It would just be another midsize country with no history and no connections. The rest of the world would give as much attention to an “oppressed” Texas as it gave to Xinjiang in 2009 — i.e., none.

Some nations do separate without U.N. recognition. Kosovo is not a recognized state. “You have states out there that are quasi-states, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus — they sort of endure as states,” Griffiths says. “But it’s difficult. They’re sort of handicapped. They can’t do international exchange with foreign banks. They can’t have an international post address. So they’re forced to use the black market. All of these things are denied them because they’re not a sovereign state.” If you want to go to Northern Cyprus, you have to fly to Turkey, because it’s the only country that recognizes Northern Cyprus. So the planes touch down for a minute in Istanbul and then reroute to Ercan.

Undoubtedly a national separation is a bureaucratic nightmare. Uncertainty over small questions of daily life like pensions and passports is a major reason Scotland and Quebec are not independent nations today. How will the national debt be divided? Will double citizenship be permitted? What amendments to the Constitution would be necessary to make secession possible? How would a state decide which country to belong to? Would the federal government be willing to give up any of its military and civil property without compensation? What would the terms of any new confederations look like? What would happen to the military?

Yes, there are good reasons for breaking up the United States, beyond the nationalist aspirations of the secessionists. Barack Obama’s powerful 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention notwithstanding, there is a red America and a blue America. The political parties don’t merely reflect different ideologies, they also reflect different fundamental values, different ways of life. Important social differences correspond to which states v**ed Democratic and which states v**ed Republican in the 2016 and 2020 e******ns (even if this is geographically complicated by the fact that there are blue urban pockets in red rural states).

That political divide further corresponds to which states were free states and which states were s***e states before the Civil War. But the biggest reason to separate is the most glaring and the most frightful to contemplate: The citizens of the United States are losing faith in the validity of their institutions and their founding institutions. In the place of solidarity, a vast and powerful anger is building, a rage that increasingly expresses itself directly in violence like the r**ts we witnessed a year ago at the U.S. Capitol.

Secession may be a painful option to confront; it is far less painful than the alternative suggested by those who favor disunion. Given the hurdles, it also may be far less possible.

Now, how many of you will actually consider these points and not just respond with mindless and empty rhetoric?

Only a few months ago, Republicans decried extended unemployment benefits as the economy struggled to get back on its feet. President Biden was encouraging people to sit home, they said. Job creation was low because lazy people were taking benefits!

None of that turned out to be true. Job numbers were dramatically revised upward for June, July, August and September. Red states that discontinued unemployment benefits did not fare any better in getting people back to work than those that continued benefits.

Now, after a gain of about 6 million jobs, employers are desperate to find workers to fill jobs. And Republicans are subsidizing sloth for the irresponsibly unv******ted.

“At least five Republican-led states have extended unemployment benefits to people who’ve lost jobs over v*****e mandates — and a smattering of others may soon follow,” The Post reported. “Workers who quit or are fired for cause — under which defying company policy would qualify — are generally ineligible for jobless benefits. But Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee have carved out exceptions for those who won’t submit to the multi-shot c****av***s v*****e regimens that many businesses now require.” Wyoming, Wisconsin and Missouri may copy them.

Of course, unlike the depths of the recession when jobs were scarce, there are now far more job openings than people to fill them. Rather than tide over people who really need help, Republicans prefer to advance their cultish aversion to v******tions. This is atrocious policy on several fronts.

First, encouraging people NOT to get v******ted — now standard practice among the MAGAT crowd — puts people at grave risk of serious illness or death. No governor or state legislator who favors this shift can legitimately claim to be “pro-life.”

Second, forcing taxpayers to subsidize such irresponsible conduct — and then absorb health costs when many wind-up in the hospital — CONTRADICTS “supposed” conservative values such as personal responsibility and self-sufficiency. Imagine if progressive Democrats changed unemployment rules to allow people who quit or refused to follow company rules to get benefits. Republicans would be up in arms and accuse Democrats of enabling millions of lazy, able-bodied people to choose dependency over work. But, quitting working or refusing to follow work-related TRUMP V***S guidelines is peachy-keen to qualify for unemployment benefits.

Third, imagine starting or expanding a business. Are you going to set up shop in a state that encourages employees to defy v*****e requirements — and then cost employers money by going on unemployment? The Washington Post reported, “Business leaders and industry groups have argued against the change because, they say, companies end up shouldering the costs.” They are sabotaging their states’ economic recoveries.

Paying people to intentionally be laid off is indicative of a party in which traditionally conservative values and principles (e.g., limited government, work, capitalism) now take a seat at the back of the bus. It’s become far more important to “own the libs” or trying to make the president look bad instead of good governance via sound fiscal and social policies in light of a global p******c where the U.S. is closing in on 1 MILLION deaths from the TRUMP V***S. That’s more than any other country reporting deaths from the TRUMP V***S. Well, I suppose that’s one thing the the GQPTPers can claim as a “We’re Number One,” win for Trumpet; no matter how dubious the claim.

If, in the process, more people get sick or die, work ethic is diminished and economic recovery stunted, well, too bad. That is the cost of identifying with a movement in which ill-placed, mis-timed and mis-informed oppositional behavior is valued above being socially responsible.

For Democrats running in 2022, this is a golden opportunity to once more present themselves as the pro-capitalism party of work. The attack ads against Republicans write themselves.

Taken from an article by Dana Milbright, WaPo, Dec. 30, 2021.

Where does the Bible Indicate that Jesus is God?

My Translation: The New American Bible

Bible Passages:

What did Jesus claim?
Mark 14: 61-64 “Once again the high priest interrogated him: ‘Are you the messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?’ Then Jesus answered: ‘I am; and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.’ At that the high priest tore his robes and said: ‘What further need do we have of witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy....’”

John 8:58; John 10: 30
“Jesus answered them: ‘I solemnly declare it:
before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
[This was the name God gave himself when he first communicated with Moses, Exodus 3:14
“God replied, ‘I am who I am.’ Then he added, ‘This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you.’”]

”The Father and I are one.”
John 14:8-11
do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?.... Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe because of the works I do.’”

Matt. 11: 27 “Everything has been given over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son – and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”

Matthew 9: 5-7 “Which is less trouble to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or ‘Stand up and walk?’ To help you realize that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he then said to the paralyzed man – ‘Stand up! Roll up your mat and go home.’ The man stood up and went toward his home.”

John 10:37 + 38 “If I do not perform my Father’s works, put no faith in me. But if I do perform them, even though you put no faith in me, put faith in these works, so as to realize what it means that the Father is in me and I in him.”

What did Jesus’ followers think/say?
John 1:1, 3, 14, 17, 18 “In the beginning was the Word; the Word was in God’s presence and the Word was God.... Through him all things came into being, and apart from him nothing came to be.... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we have seen his glory: the glory of an only Son coming from the Father, filled with enduring love.... For while the law was given through Moses, this enduring love came thorough Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, ever at the Father’s side, who has revealed him.”

John 20:28 John 21:17 Colossians 2:9
“Thomas said in response, ‘My Lord and my God!’” [Peter said,] “Lord, you know everything....”

“In Christ the fullness of deity resides in bodily form.”
Colossians 1:15+16 “He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creatures. In him everything in heaven and on earth was created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominations, principalities or powers; all were created through him and for him....”

Philippians 2:6, 10-11 “Though he was in the form of God, he did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at.... Because of this, God highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name above every other name, so that at Jesus’ name every knee must bend in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim to the glory of God the Father ‘JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!’”

Hebrews 1:3 “This Son is the reflection of the Father’s glory, the exact representation of the Father’s being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had cleansed us from our sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven, as far superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.”

Romans 1:3 “... the Gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh but was designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead.”

2 Cor. 4:4 “Their unbelieving minds have been blinded by the god of the present age so that they do not see the splendor of the gospel showing forth the glory of Christ, the image of God.”

1 Cor: 15:3-8 “...I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you:... ...that he was seen by Cephas, then by the Twelve. After that he was seen by 500 brothers at once, most of whom are still alive, although some have fallen asleep. Next he was seen by James; then by all the apostles. Last of all he was seen by me....”

Revelation 5:12-14 “...and they all cried out: ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory and praise!’ Then I heard the voices of every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea; everything in the universe cried aloud: To the One seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, be praise and honor, glory and might, forever and ever!’ The four living creatures answered, ‘Amen,’ and the elders fell down and worshiped.”

Some Examples of Miracles Worked by Jesus:
John 11:43 “Having said this he called loudly, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man
came out, bound hand and foot with linen strips, his face wrapped in a cloth.”

John 8:19-20 “’Do you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of fragments you gathered up? They answered, “Twelve.” When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many full hampers of fragments did you collect?’ They answered, “Seven.”’

John 2: 1-11 “The waiter in charge tasted the water made wine, without knowing where it had come from....”

Mark 4:39 “He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ The wind fell off and everything grew calm.... They kept saying to one another, ‘Who can this be that the wind and the sea obey him?’”

Luke 8: 26-38 “...The demons then came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd charged down the bluff into the lake, where they drowned.”

Luke 7: 22-23 “Jesus gave this response: ‘Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. The blind recover their sight, cripples walk, lepers are cured, the deaf hear, dead men are raised to life and the poor have the good news preached to them. Blest is that man who finds no stumbling block in me.’”

Jesus even fulfilled prophesies
Isaiah (Example Chap. 53) Psalm 22 (Example 17-19)
What was Jesus like? (Notice attitudes like compassion, acceptance, gentleness....)
John 4: 17-18 “You are right in saying you have no husband!’ Jesus exclaimed. ‘The fact is, you have had five, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. What you said is true.’”

Matt 8: 1-4 “Suddenly, a leper came forward and did him homage, saying to him, ‘Sir, if you will to do so, you can cure me.’ Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. ‘I do will it. Be cured.’” [As a general rule, no one would touch a leper for fear of contracting the disease and also because that act would render him ritually “unclean.”]

Luke 7:11-16 “The Lord was moved with pity upon seeing her.... He said, ‘Young man, I bid you get up.’ The dead man sat up and began to speak....”

Luke 15: 10-31 “’I tell you there will be the same kind of joy before the angels of God over one repentant sinner....” The Parable of the Prodigal Son follows this statement and reflects the merciful Father’s heart over the return of the Prodigal.