#RevThread #133
Hearts Trained in Greed
1/ I write during the week following the slaughters in El Paso and Dayton. Clearly, deranged young white men, influenced by Trump, are attempting to start a race war inside America.
Hearts Trained in Greed
1/ I write during the week following the slaughters in El Paso and Dayton. Clearly, deranged young white men, influenced by Trump, are attempting to start a race war inside America.
2/ Trump is now revealed to be a white supremacist. Indeed,he has called himself a white nationalist. Trump’s compulsive, mobster’s cruelty once again surfaced as he insulted person after person on his way to console the grieving relatives of those killed by his adoring acolytes.
3/We are dealing with a vicious human being whom we, as a free people, have lifted to power. Trump had lots of assistance from Russia, true, but the GOP can not bestir itself to object to Russia’s sway over him.
4/ And now Latino- and African-Americans are targeted, not just for Trump’s insults, but for death at the hands of his fellow white supremacists.
5/ St. Peter, imprisoned in Rome around 68 C.E., wrote a letter to his young church shortly before being executed. Peter was infuriated by phony Christian teachers coming among his congregations and corrupting them....
6/.. with showy false miracles and fast talk about guaranteed prosperity, while modeling lives of dubious morality -- all for money. Peter said of these predators that “They have hearts trained in greed, accursed children!” (2 Peter 2:14)
7/ Donald Trump, when informed in the summer of 2016 that he had to hire a team to prepare for a presidential transition, exploded in anger...
8/.. Why should his campaign have to pay for that?!! Trump screamed, “That’s my money! Why should I?” Because it’s the law, he was told. “I don’t give a s**t about the law! I want my f***ing money!”
9/ Hearts trained in greed.
10/ Wayne LaPierre, hearing that - gasp - background checks might become mandatory after a weekend of mass slaughters in 2 cities, called the President to tell him that his base would not approve.
11/ Hearts trained in greed.
12/ GOP senators, watching their party follow Trump into white supremacy, continued their support of Trump and sustained their silent complacency.
13/ Hearts trained in greed.
14/ Out in Suburbia the big questions is: will the suburbanites, especially the women who have seen Trump’s misogyny and the GOP’s insistence on white male dominance decide the economy is just too good and, holding their noses, vote for Trump again?
15/ Hearts trained in greed.
16/ Meanwhile, Russia is preparing more intrusions to divide and destroy the country, and Facebook et al will (continue to) receive vast sums to publish their lying propaganda.
17/ Hearts trained in greed.
18/ This is not a GOP nor a White House that follows Jesus. These leaders are following Judas, who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
19/ Hearts trained in greed.
20/ When your heart gets trained in greed, your personality loses grace. You become the “accursed child”.
21/ The heart trained in greed is a cold little thing. And the next thing you know, ICE is dispatched to destroy the lives of little children of color in Mississippi.
22/ Truly, this President and his enablers are a curse on our land.
