I understand no such thing. Absolutely reject this lie. WE hire our Public Servants. It's a popularity contest. No invisible being chooses for us.
I don't dispute anyone's hopes that they made their choice with a correct interpretation of what's right and wrong, God's Will if you have Hubris to use divination of Her Inner Thoughts as your justification or inspiration. ( depending on your self doubts on Speaking for your diety, aka how confident you are in your role as Prophet Of God )
Now, I admit you can argue that Bernie is endorsed by Satan. Satan is revered by Marx & Alinsky. I can understand someone believing that pure evil lust for power motivates him, ( I agree ) and that Satan himself interferes in our lives to make our fellow citizens too foolish to realize there is no free stuff being dispensed by the Holy State. ( I think it's more easily explainable by a century of evil propaganda in public schools & deliberate sabotage of standards. But you can argue those thousands of activists are...inspired by Lucifer. )
The only reason there have ever been bosses "over me" is that I chose to work for others to make a living. In my last job I could have been a boss over others, but the culture at that job, created by people, certainly not Allah or Baal, was so toxic that I chose not to. ( I would have been fired the first time I was politely honest about the system being abused )
The main reason we hire people to be in Congress is we have better things to do with our time than argue with mean & corrupt rich jerks that want to steal from us. So people who enjoy that kind of thing volunteer and get handsomely paid to do so. Some even quit because they had illusions that it wasn't a job that figuratively meant standing in psychic feces up to their necks and throwing it at each other.
I wouldn't willingly work with lying wretches like Warren, Schiff, and Sanders, would you? Dishonest back stabbing thieves.
Divinity has nothing to do with our Government. It's people. Fractious, intemperate, flawed, people.
"which one of the following scenarios represents the greatest threat to American liberty:
A) After identifying a U.S. citizen volunteering for the U.S. presidential campaign of the party out of power, the FBI makes false claims and persuades a federal court that the citizen may be a Russian agent and should be subjected to electronic surveillance.
B) After observing a U.S. citizen obtain a Ukrainian company board seat for which he was manifestly unqualified while his father was running Ukrainian policy for the U.S. government—and in which capacity the father would later demand the firing of a local prosecutor investigating the son’s business associates—the U.S. President urges the government of Ukraine to investigate."
Oh... Fair enough. I apologize, should not have called a belief, a lie. My bad.
And... I still don't buy that. Nope.
I think I understand your point, God ( supreme being of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims ( yeah the Prophet used the name of a local deity ) ) CAN do anything She wants to. The Book describes stopping the sun in the sky, so, absolute control of inertia, time space gravity, etc. No limitations on the Creator. no argument.
Yet She does not run you like a puppet. Does not change everyone's minds so they behave. or... are you a NPC? programmed? I doubt you think so.
If God controls everything, then how do you account for free will? Does that allow you to abandon any responsibility? Because God made you do it?
A fundamental question of Reality. Free will, or Predestination?
For poetry, I like "Free will is a golden thread through the fixed matrix of events" which may indeed be the view of a Supreme Being that "sees" all that happens, did happen and will happen at will, all at once by Gestalt... or some thought process beyond our comprehension.
As life advice, the "golden thread" quote is not as useful.
If you could describe how to view all time and space as All or whatever Omniscience in the context of God is, then by all means, I'm listening. I can conceive that All seeing, All Knowing MIGHT see the whole Universe from Big Bang ( Word ) to Dog catching the Flat Earth Frisbee ( or Cosmic reset/??? ) as a complete experience at the instant we think of as Creation. He is Timeless, thus yeah, he did control every atom ever, throughout time,
But while I can see it as an idea, it doesn't work for my time bound brain. And if it All was perfect clockwork set in motion and done, then why the Prophets and Commandments, and Flood, and the asteroid strikes? ( or whatever happened to Sodom ) Show business?
My point might just be to say that Free will may not exist, and all things are fixed, but since lazy & evil men use that as an excuse for everything I'm going to believe Free will does exist. The clockwork is set in motion, and even if God knows what will happen I don't. And My actions have consequence. At least they seem too.
Was It God's will I insulted you? (sorry) Or my poor communication skills, and a poorly worded rejection of what I see as a flawed concept?
BTW I do not argue that God does not exist. Or mean to Imply it.
What was the Promise after the Flood?
Genesis chapter 9 "11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
Which is commonly thought to mean "your responsibility now, no more Divine Resets." or words to that effect.
Or do I have that wrong?
Sometimes between Episcopal Preachers, Jesuits, and Davey & Goliath, I might get some things confused.
There is an alternative to the creation of a real Palestinian State. Jordan and Syria can drop the pretense that generations born there are hereditary permanent refugees, and offer citizenship to their exploited minorities. And rule of law that especially in Assad's case, is brutal, harsh, but infinitely better than the Kleptocracy they suffer under today.
Gaza isn't wanted by Egypt, at all. Unless invaded & Hamas annihilated... Makes me wonder what would happen if a large shipment of Iranian rockets was sabotaged with remote detonators and "allowed" to be smuggled in? Besides blowing up schools, hospitals, and Day Care centers.
My Senator, Chuck You, is correct. Forever next to the honest history about Impeachment, there will be Trump's name, & an asterisk. And a link to the articles about how raging denial and fury started Impeachment within the hour of Inauguration.
And hopefully a link to the part where the Klan finally lost political power, and the next to most racist organization in America was outlawed at last.
I'd think even an uncouth Russian Puppet like the Bad Orange Man might be understanding that the Chinese government can't fulfill their trade agreements if no one can go to work and the ports are shut down.
Not to mention the possibility that between Coronavirus and the next influenza outbreak there should be delays in allowing even the delegates for the next round of talks to come here, at all.
Or that the worst case scenario might result in less demand for $200 billion in food, or availability of the money to pay for it. ( doubtful, but still, February is gonna Suck )
Good time to buy stocks in American production companies. ( but not ones that manufacturer in China...)
Now that impeachment is essentially wrapped up, what will Dems pull out of their asses next? They’ve got to have a few more insurance plans up their sleeves. Will it be more of their own projected crimes? More rape accusations? Assassination by a Bernie Bro or antifa anarchist? The sky is the limit.
And at this point, Schiff could have a private meeting with Trump, and come out bleeding with an obviously broken nose and black eye, screaming Donald beat him, and no one would believe him.
It's the Boy Who Cried Wolf problem.
Anything the Bad Orange Man actually did bad, is invisible behind the lies of Russian Collusion, Racism, Pro-Confederacy, ( New freaking Yorker! ) vote fraud, and attempting to destroy the Constitution.
Every single one, I MUST point out, are proven crimes, crimes obvious and verified, but not prosecuted by the FBI, and denied historical facts, of the Democrats.
Even The Boy Who Cried Wolf wasn't killing sheep and blaming invisible wolves, so the situation is actually worse than the Fable.
Since my election, we have created 7 million new jobs — 5 million more than Government experts projected during the previous administration.
The unemployment rate is the lowest in over half a century.
Incredibly, the average unemployment rate under my Administration is lower than any administration in the history of our country. If we had not reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witness to America’s great economic success.
The unemployment rates for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans have reached the lowest levels in history. African-American youth unemployment has reached an all-time low.
African-American poverty has declined to the lowest rate ever recorded.
The unemployment rate for women reached the lowest level in almost 70 years — and last year, women filled 72 percent of all new jobs added.
The veterans’ unemployment rate dropped to a record low.
The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all-time low.
Workers without a high school diploma have achieved the lowest unemployment rate recorded in United States history.
A record number of young Americans are now employed.
Under the last administration, more than 10 million people were added to the food stamp rolls. Under my Administration, 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps, and 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare.
In 8 years under the last administration, over 300,000 working-age people dropped out of the workforce. In just 3 years of my Administration, 3.5 million working-age people have joined the workforce.
Since my election, the net worth of the bottom half of wage-earners has increased by 47 percent — 3 times faster than the increase for the top 1 percent. After decades of flat and falling incomes, wages are rising fast — and, wonderfully, they are rising fastest for low-income workers, who have seen a 16 percent pay-increase since my election. This is a blue collar boom.
Real median household income is now at the highest level ever recorded!
Since my election, United States stock markets have soared 70 percent, adding more than $12 trillion to our Nation’s wealth, transcending anything anyone believed was possible — this, as other countries are not doing well. Consumer confidence has reached amazing new heights.
All of those millions of people with 401(k)s and pensions are doing far better than they have ever done before with increases of 60, 70, 80, 90, and even 100 percent.
Jobs and investment are pouring into 9,000 previously-neglected neighborhoods thanks to Opportunity Zones, a plan spearheaded by Senator Tim Scott as part of our great Republican tax cuts. In other words, wealthy people and companies are pouring money into poor neighborhoods or areas that have not seen investment in many decades, creating jobs, energy, and excitement. This is the first time that these deserving communities have seen anything like this. It is all working!
Posted on Wednesday, February 05, 2020 - 05:14 am:
It was funny to see Pelosi's childish antics. Also, so satisfying to see the Dems have to sit there and listen to Trump's accomplishments. Hell, some of them may not be fully insane with TDS and realize that their lies can't fool enough people and he is going to win bigly in November. Speaking of lies, the Dem answer was pretty funny, claiming that they were the party of the little guy and going on about a kid filling in potholes with dirt. Poor safety, washout in the first rain, and stealing work from government union workers? Ha!