2008: "It's, you know, it's one of these instances you've got a few people whose testimony could mean the impeachment ostensibly of the president.... Their interviews are taped. . . . washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
A reminder of what happens to America when faith replaces truth: "the reality-based community," a comment that has come to epitomize the Bush regime's faith-based mindset." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” armageddonbuffet.wordpress.com/scathing-comme…
He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”Ultimately, the contrasting colors on our electoral map mark a continental divide between those who prefer the real world and those who don’t."
According to Pew 25.4% of Americans are evangalical protestants. The largest single religious group in the country and largest single concentration of evangelicals in the world. Something often overlooked by both coasts and the media. pewforum.org/religious-land…
The real 2020 battle will be for Trump's blackened soul. Anywhere from 36% to 42% of evangelicals distrust or disapprove of Trump. buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoco…
Trump's crumbling overhang with evangelicals may be because the black mark of impeachment shows he is venal, not just plagued with sins of the flesh. None despite intense coverage of impeachment none of this morality discussion and erosion hit the media. thehill.com/blogs/congress…
But what is Trump's religion? What are his beliefs? Simple. Everything he believes in and everything he does is his religion. You either worship him or are a disbeliever. Trump can be understood quite well as a false prophet. A sheep in wolf's clothing. businessinsider.com/influence-norm…
"The Emperor’s New Clothes" by Hans Christian Anderson was published on April 7, 1837 but Anderson stole the tale from a 1335 Spanish collection of cautionary tales. Tale 7 is "Of that which happened to a King and three Impostors" elfinspell.com/CountLucanor3.…
The King is convinced by three con men that they will weave a fine garment "that a legitimate son of his father could see the cloth; but if he were illegitimate, though believed to be legitimate, he could not see it." Only true believers would see the fine garment.
"a negro, who happened to notice the King thus equipped; for he, having nothing to lose, came to him and said, “Sire, to me it matters not whose son I am, therefore I tell you that you are riding without any clothes. On this the King commenced beating him"
"But no sooner had the negro said this, than others were convinced of its truth, and said the same; until, at last, the King and all with him lost their fear of declaring the truth, and saw through the trick of which these impostors had made them the victims."
"When the weavers were sought for they were found to have fled, taking with them all they had received from the King by their imposition."
And therein lies the cautionary tale of Trump. Believe at your own peril. elfinspell.com/CountLucanor3.…
And therein lies the cautionary tale of Trump. Believe at your own peril. elfinspell.com/CountLucanor3.…
