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2020 Presidential Election

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Mar 26, 2020.

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    Yes... yes we have....



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    Hmm... I wonder what "suburban housewives" will say about this?

     
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    My gosh... two enormous whoppers of lies... I mean, its as if they don't even care that they are lying to the American people.



     
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    In all fairness to Tiffany... she is the one trump who hasn't leeched off of daddy's job...


     
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    Wait... I am confused.... how many wives has trump had? And didn't he get caught paying off a p*rn actress and a playboy model to keep them quiet about affairs he had with them while his latest wife was home taking care of their new born son? And Dee Dee Myers, the first female press secretary was Clinton's press secretary (though she may not have had children at the time).

     
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    I bet this is the first fake naturalization ceremony ever scheduled during a major party political convention...

     
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    So... doing a staged naturalization ceremony for the republican party political convention wasn't enough... now they are doing a COVID-19 essential workers event as party of the political convention. What next, a book sale?


     
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    The secretary of state, from Israel, speaking at a republican party political convention, using a highly offensive term...



     
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    Apparently using military as props for a partisan political convention was a no no... who knew?




    Meanwhile, over 1,200 Americans died from COVID-19...
     
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    Fact check:

     
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    USA Today OpEd by Billy Graham's granddaughter (and member of the Lincoln Woman, an off shoot of the Lincoln Project....

    I'm Billy Graham's granddaughter. Evangelical support of Donald Trump spits on his legacy.
    By supporting Donald Trump, evangelical leaders are failing us and failing the gospel. Christian women must step up where our church leaders won't.

    As the proud granddaughter of the man largely credited for beginning the evangelical movement, the late Billy Graham, the last few years have led me to reflect on how much has changed within that movement in America.

    I have spent my entire life in the church, with every big decision guided by my faith. But now, I feel homeless. Like so many others, I feel disoriented as I watch the church I have always served turn their eyes away from everything it teaches. I hear from Christian women on a daily basis who all describe the same thing: a tug at their spirit.

    Most of these women walked into a voting booth in 2016 believing they were choosing between two difficult options. They held their breath, closed their eyes, and cast a vote for Donald Trump, whom many of us then believed to be “the lesser of two evils,” all the while feeling that tug.


    I feel it every time our president talks about government housing having no place in America’s suburbs. Jesus said repeatedly to defend the poor and show kindness and compassion to those in need. Our president continues to perpetuate an us-versus-them narrative, yet almost all of our church leaders say nothing.

    I feel this tug every time our president or his followers speak about the wall, designed to keep out the very people scripture tells us to welcome. In Trump’s America, refugees are not treated as “native-born,” as scripture encourages. Instead, families are separated, held in inconceivable conditions and cast aside as less then.

    The church honors Trump before God
    Trump went so far as to brag about his plans, accomplishments and unholy actions towards the marginalized communities I saw my grandfather love and serve. I now see, through the silence of church leaders, that these communities are no longer valued by individuals claiming to uphold the values my grandfather taught.

    A false gospel:Trump and the 'prosperity gospel' sell false promises to credulous evangelical Christians

    The gentle tug became an aggressive yank, for me, earlier this year, when our country experienced division in the form of riots, incited in great part by this president’s divisive rhetoric. I watched our president walk through Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., after the tear gassing of peaceful protesters for a photo op.

    He held a Bible, something so sacred to all of us, yet he treated that Bible with a callousness that would offend anyone intimately familiar with the words inside it. He believed that action would honor him and only him. However, the church, designed to honor God, said nothing.

    It seems that the only evangelical leaders to speak up praised the president, with no mention of his behavior that is antithetical to the Jesus we serve. The entire world has watched the term “evangelical” become synonymous with hypocrisy and disingenuousness.

    American evangelist Billy Graham gestures as he preaches to over half a million South Koreans at a plaza on Yoido islet in Seoul, June 3, 1973, in the final day of a five-day crusade there.
    My faith and my church have become a laughing stock, and any attempt by its members to defend the actions of Trump at this time sound hallow and insincere.

    One of my grandfather’s favorite verses was Micah 6:8, in which we are told that the Lord requires of his people to do justly, to love kindness and mercy, and to walk humbly. These are the attributes of our faith we should present to the world. We can no longer allow our church leaders to represent our faith so erroneously.

    Women of faith know better
    I have given myself permission to lean into that tug in my spirit and speak out. I may be against the tide, but I am firm in my faith that this step is most consistent with my church and its teachings.

    At a recent large family event, I was pulled aside by many female family members thanking me for speaking out against an administration that they, too, had been uncomfortable with. With tears in their eyes, they used a hushed tone, out of fear that they were alone or at risk of undeserved retribution.

    How did we get here? How did we, as God-fearing women, find ourselves ignoring the disrespect and misogyny being shown from our president? Why do we feel we must express our discomfort in hushed whispers in quiet corners? Are we not allowed to stand up when it feels everyone else around us is sitting down?

    The God we serve empowers us as women to represent Him before our churches. We represent God before we represented any political party or leader. When we fail to remember this, we are minimizing the role He created for us to fill. Jesus loved women; He served women; He valued women and we need to give ourselves permission to stand up and do the same.

    If a plane gets even slightly off course, the plane will never reach its destination without a course correction. Perhaps this journey for us women looks similar. Perhaps you cringe at the president suggesting that America’s “suburban housewife” cares more about her status than those in need, but try to dismiss comments on women’s appearance as fake news.

    When we look at our daughters, our nieces, our female students, and even ourselves, we feel the need to lean into that tug in our spirit. You may not have felt it four years ago; we do the best with what we know at the time. However, if we continue to ignore the tug we now feel, how will we ever be able to identify what is truly important to us?

    I chose to listen to my spirit and speak out. Not because doing so feels comfortable, but because it feels like the right way to leverage the voice God has empowered me with. Now I am asking all of you that feel as I do, to embrace your inner tug, and allow it to lead you to use the power of your God-given voice and not allow Trump to lead this country for another four years.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...ort-donald-trump-hypocrisy-column/5625617002/
     
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    Chris Wallace reacts to Trump's White House RNC, Pompeo remarks: ‘All of this has never happened before’
    'I don't know what personal capacity a secretary of state has,' Wallace says after Pompeo speech
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chris-wallace-trump-white-house-rnc-reaction
     
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    Hmmm... battleground polls tighten
     
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    And sure enough... karen pence will speak tonight... for no apparent reason but to represent all the "karens" of the world.

     
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