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Trump using the Bible AS a PROP
OP ^

A PROP is Support!

Looks as IF the OP is Against "The Bible" being "a Prop".

The "Bible" being "A Support" for A Church!
An Elected Official, in Agreement with the Bible being "a Prop" for a Church.
A Bible being "a PROP" in view of Citizens of America.

Gee, how Devastating...an Elected Official would Reveal "his Standing" with Biblical Principles in Public View of American citizens AND the World!!!

OP writer...thanks for sharing your Standing is Against the Bible, as unfavorable to you for Support.

Jesus Warned of people like you.

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Exactly.

If the president wants to hold up a Bible, while standing on a stack of Bibles in front of a Church made of Bibles - MORE power to him.
As long as he keeps defending religious liberty and making decisions based on Biblical principles - then he's got MY support.
 

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Bingo! Looks like CNN could go out of business if they don't raise their paltry ratings.

Fox News beats CNN, MSNBC combined in ratings, tops all of cable
[published June 18, 2020]

Fox News Channel attracted more prime-time viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined last week, adding to its streak as the most-watched basic cable network.

Fox News averaged 2.3 million viewers during the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET from June 10-16, while MSNBC finished second with an average of 1.5 million. HGTV, A&E and USA joined them among the top five, while CNN averaged just 744,000 to finish 14th.

Discovery, TNT, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, TBS, Hallmark and the History Channel also finished with more prime-time viewers than the struggling CNN.

Source: Fox News beats CNN, MSNBC combined in ratings, tops all of cable

Nolte: Fox News More than Triples CNN’s Collapsing Viewership
[Published February 20, 2020]

Even with the Democrat primary in high gear, the U.S.S. CNN’s ratings are still beyond pathetic.

The far-left CNN, a hate network that spreads conspiracy theories and promotes violence against President Trump and his supporters, could not even average a million viewers during the same week New Hampshire came out to vote.

Worse still, CNN’s chief nemesis, Fox News, annihilated the fake news network in the ratings by averaging more than three times — three times! — as many primetime viewers as CNNLOL.

Here’s the primetime breakdown of average viewers during the week of February 10:

Fox: 3.2 million

MSNBC: 1.677 million

CNNLOL: 969,000

As you can see, during the first presidential primary in four years (Iowa is a caucus), CNNLOL belly-flopped into ninth place, losing to HGTV, TLC, the History Channel, and only barely beating the Hallmark Channel.

How is that even possible?

Wait, it gets worse…

Here’s the total day viewership average for that same week:

Fox: 1.743 million

MSNBC: 920,000

CNNLOL: 630,000

Seriously, how is it even possible for a cable channel that’s currently available in some 85 million homes to attract only 630,000 average viewers throughout the day — especially during the week of the New Hampshire primary?

Here’s a better question…

How is it possible that CNN chief Jeff Zucker, who has not only failed to dig CNN’s ratings out of the dirt, but who has forever destroyed the credibility of CNN as a respected brand, still has a job?

Numbers this low do not just point to a failure to attract viewers, they point to a flat-out rejection of CNNLOL by the American people.

Source: Nolte: Fox News More than Triples CNN's Collapsing Viewership

CNN is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, it's not a fair and balanced news outlet.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/27/cnn-d...rty-ties-of-questioners-in-sanders-town-hall/
 

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And I think maybe you're the Big Bad Wolf, about to huff and puff and blow my house down.

I have seen the souls of aborted babies. I know the pain, the anguish and the agony.
I have never seen a soul. What do they look like??

How did these fetuses get a soul before they were born, when God breathes into them the Breath of Like??

These souls you saw, were they some sort of alien beings??
 
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This is false. There may have been peaceful people present, but there were also agitators causing harm.

Transcript: Attorney General William Barr on "Face the Nation," June 7, 2020 - CBS News
Isn’t it funny how two people can read the exact same text and still come to different conclusions? I see a politician squirming and desperately trying to deflect here. So on Monday Barr personally saw somebody throw something in Lafayette Square and weirdly enough nobody else did? And according to Barr the media is soooo biased because in his mind they did not adequately cover Sundays riots, when even over here in Germany the news were all over them? Sunday Sunday Sunday …

Seriously: It’s dictatorships that wish to use the military to fight their own citizens, not democracies. And it’s dictatorships that mow down peaceful protests, not democracies. Even if there had been one or two stone-throwers amongst the protesters, it should be easy enough for well trained police to single them out and leave the rest alone. That use of force on Monday was utterly out of proportion. No wonder China is having a hayday sending gleeful tweets about Western hypocrisy about Hong Kong..


Jesus was a practicing Jew and yet, this did not stop him from turning over the tables of the money changers, or referring to the scribes and Pharisees as "white washed tombs."
Jesus surely did that. Which is why I wonder why so many Christians are still so much like the Pharisees and even more Christians worship mammon/capitalism/the economy rather than follow Christ in what he said about accumulating material wealth. But what has this to do with the topic at hand?


What is her real concern here? Is she concerned that the President of the United States disrespected a Bishop of the Episcopal church? Why does she think she deserves a courtesy call from the President? Is she concerned about the President's manners? Was she concerned at all that someone set her church on fire? Did she use her own church for political gain? That's what I saw.


Yes, God is love. And Jesus taught us that our love needs to be perfect as God's love is perfect. The Washington Post article resorted that some of her followers were handing out water bottles and granola bars to protesters "and expressing solidarity with their cause." Were they handing out water bottles and granola bars to the police officers also? That would be perfect love, right?

Wouldn't most pastors exhort the flock to stay home out of danger? Why would she allow her flock to remain in harm's way? Rather than giving out water to everyone, which is perfect love, they gave a drink of water to those with which they agreed in support of the protesters with whom they agreed. In other words, Bishop Budde herself was using the church to send the country a political message.

What makes you think the clergy who handed out water to protesters would also have given water to thirsty police-men? It would probably be impolite though to offer police-men water without them asking first, just in case they’re not allowed to accept it. And it would be very difficult indeed to offer water to a police-men who’s in the process of attacking you with pepper-spray.

I’m surprised that you don’t see your own double standard here. So Trump is allowed to use Bible and Church to send a political message and Bishop Budde is not? If anything I’d expect a President to remain religiously neutral, not a Bishop.

As for her duty to keep her flock safe: yes, she’s to keep them spiritually safe. If their spiritual safety demands you demonstrate against racism and run the risk of being pepper-sprayed for it, that’s a risk Christians will have to take if they truly want to follow Christ, take up their cross and bear it.


One last question, do you think Bishop Budde would have gotten a hearing from the Washington Post if her message was "Repent, and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ?" Is that in her sacred text?
Seeing that this verse has been preached for almost 2000 years the Washington post would probably not have regarded it as newsworthy. But that verse would certainly be in an Episcopal Bishops Sacred Text. Budde may have thought of that very verse, when she heard Trump stating that he’s never asked for God’s forgiveness . Did you think of it then?
 
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It’s dictatorships that wish to use the military to fight their own citizens, not democracies.
I don't believe you really understand the peril that is facing America today. So before you say another word, kindly examine what has happened in Seattle and what it means for democracy, liberty, and the rule of law.

PHOTOS: Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Has a Border Wall, Conducts ‘Deportations’

PHOTOS: Seattle 'Autonomous Zone' Has a Border Wall
Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Demands U.S. Citizenship for 11 to 22M Illegal Aliens
Seattle 'Autonomous Zone' Demands U.S. Citizenship for All Illegal Aliens

This is (1) treason, (2) sedition, (3) anarchy, (4) lawlessness. And you believe that the President should just sit back and do nothing? Indeed, he should have made sure IN ADVANCE that nothing like this ever happened in America, and that the National Guard + the FBI + ICE + the police force were all used to arrest and DEPORT all these people. Laws which pertain to legal immigration make illegal immigration a crime. Since they want deportation, give them deportations in spades.
 

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Seriously: It’s dictatorships that wish to use the military to fight their own citizens, not democracies.

Seriously,
the US is a Republic, not a Democracy.

Seriously,
Every Person in the US House of Representatives takes an OATH, under God, to:
...defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;

When domestic people in the US Become out of control, it is up to authorities to dictate BY what measure they will subdue the agitators.
 

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Jesus surely did that. Which is why I wonder why so many Christians are still so much like the Pharisees and even more Christians worship mammon/capitalism/the economy rather than follow Christ in what he said about accumulating material wealth. But what has this to do with the topic at hand?
Spoken like a person who knows absolutely NOTHING about history, economics or geo-politics.

It's not the "worship" of Capitalism - it's the recognition that Capitalism is the ONLY system that has brought people out of poverty on such a grand scale. Dictatorships never did, monarchies never did - and Socialism has failed on such a GIGANTIC scale because it is rooted in evil. Socialist governments have killed over 100 million of their OWN PEOPLE in the last 100 years.

Capitalism is the ONLY system that levels the playing field - and THAT'S why Americans are THE BIGGEST charitable contributors on the planet.
And that's precisely what Christ wants us to do. Start acting like an ADULT Christian instead of a whiny, undisciplined millennial . . .
 
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I have never seen a soul. What do they look like??

How did these fetuses get a soul before they were born, when God breathes into them the Breath of Like??

These souls you saw, were they some sort of alien beings??
This was a private thing, and perhaps I should not have mentioned it. If God wants your questions answered for you, I am sure He'll provide them for you.
 

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Instead of making snarky remarks about Trump...why not reveal straight out if you Hate Trump and Why.

Looking forward to your list.

Glory to God,
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I think I probabably dislike you more than I dislike him. I never met him, not even online.
When domestic people in the US Become out of control, it is up to authorities to dictate BY what measure they will subdue the agitators.
People are unhappy and unrestful because of injustice in our government. Can't have that. Authority must put the domestics in their place. Suffer in silence, you domestics, so we can have domestic tranquility. Yeah, Trump for dictator!

What is it you don't get? If we had good government, we wouldn't be seeing these protests. Trump promised to fix the government. He hasn't done it. Things have become worse. By your line of reasoning, the King of England should have smashed the American Revolution to establish domestic tranquility.
 
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I think I probabably dislike you more than I dislike him. I never met him, not even online.

That's okay. Because I love my enemies, and good to know who my enemies are, foreign and domestic.

People are unhappy and unrestful because of injustice in our government.

Awe, come on...people love the injustice of Government that Takes from the Working class and gives to those who do not provide for their own!

Can't have that.

Do have that!

Authority must put the domestics in their place. Suffer in silence, you domestics, so we can have domestic tranquility. Yeah, Trump for dictator!

Always a higher authority than ones self.

What is it you don't get?

Your list... About Trump if you Hate Him and Why.

If we had good government, we wouldn't be seeing these protests.

Hummm...
Protests...?
What Exactly do you think People are Protesting?

Trump promised to fix the government.

How?

He hasn't done it.
.

Why?

Things have become worse.

How?

By your line of reasoning, the King of England should have smashed the American Revolution to establish domestic tranquility.

So, by your line of reasoning: Domestic Tranquility is achieved by a Governing head supporting lawlessness?

LOL
 
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Seriously: It’s dictatorships that wish to use the military to fight their own citizens, not democracies.
The President has not used the Military yet.

Jesus surely did that. Which is why I wonder why so many Christians are still so much like the Pharisees and even more Christians worship mammon/capitalism/the economy rather than follow Christ in what he said about accumulating material wealth. But what has this to do with the topic at hand?
This speaks to the Bishop's political activism, turning the house of God into a worldly den of political activists. Some will say to Jesus, "we marched peacefully in the streets for you." And we will say to them, "I never knew you."

I’m surprised that you don’t see your own double standard here. So Trump is allowed to use Bible and Church to send a political message and Bishop Budde is not?
Trump was NOT sending a political message.

If anything I’d expect a President to remain religiously neutral, not a Bishop.
There is a difference between religion and faith. An example of religion is waving smoke or throwing water at people. Faith is acting on one's beliefs with conviction. Do you understand the difference? We don't expect our Presidents to be religious, but we do expect them to have faith.

Presidents of the United States are not only politicians, they are statesmen, and ministers of God who carry the sword. Unlike the Bishop, The President knows and understands that social justice is not a political issue and can not be solved by statute. Understand. The fundamental basis for our Republic is a population of freemen (women included) who hold themselves to a power much higher than the government. God has given the President the sword, and he will use it when necessary. But when the President stands in front of a church in his neighborhood, holding up a Bible, which is the sword of the Spirit, he reminds the nation that true social justice comes from the inner man, nourished and led by the Holy Spirit.

The current crisis in America was born the day the NYT said "God is dead."

As for her duty to keep her flock safe: yes, she’s to keep them spiritually safe. If their spiritual safety demands you demonstrate against racism and run the risk of being pepper-sprayed for it, that’s a risk Christians will have to take if they truly want to follow Christ, take up their cross and bear it.
So what's your complaint? If that was her goal, to get pepper sprayed in the name of Jesus, then she has her reward, as Jesus said.


Budde may have thought of that very verse, when she heard Trump stating that he’s never asked for God’s forgiveness . Did you think of it then?

Trump was misquoted. I just now watched original interview, which you can watch here.
User Clip: Trump Doesn't Ask God for Forgiveness | C-SPAN.org

 
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This was a private thing, and perhaps I should not have mentioned it. If God wants your questions answered for you, I am sure He'll provide them for you.

Deflection-
If it WAS private, YOU made it Public.
You made the comment "You have SEEN souls".
You are accountable for YOUR WORDS.

So YOU describe what YOU SAW, and the circumstances, regarding the souls of aborted babies..


Aborted baby's have never been Born Alive Individuals...

Where is a Scriptural Reference God Gives His Breath of Life to a form that is/has Not a Born ALIVE Individual ?

Glory to God,
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How can you be sure about events unless you were there?
We rely on the witness of other people. When CNN makes up a story, we get either one or both of the following: video evidence that it didn't happen, and/or witness testimony that it didn't happen.

You know things that haven't made the news yet?
Yes. For instance, we knew about FISA abuse 2-1/2 years before the rest of the country did.

The FBI denied wiretapping the Trump campaign at Trump Tower. They had wiretapped some members of a gambling ring.
Of course they denied it. But now the truth is coming out. Right?

Please re-read the Nypost article again. This time think about what we have learned about the FISA process. The FISA courts were created after 911 in hopes that the US intelligence services might use electronic surveillance techniques to spy on foreign operatives. Under the Fourth Amendment, the government is forbidden to spy on American citizens without a warrant so when the FBI or other intelligence agencies wire-tap phone calls, transcriptions of the phone call, the names of American citizens are redacted.

We recently learned from public testimony and declassified official documents that the Obama Administration was abusing the FISA system. James Comey and others would swear under oath that the target was one person, when in fact the target was another person instead. So, for instance, the FBI got a warrant to spy on Carter Page, but the actual target was Donald Trump. The FBI got a warrant to spy on George Papadopoulos, but the true target was Donald Trump. A warrant to spy on a Russian Gambling Ring can easily encompass a candidate for public office.

How is this done? The law allows for the "two hop rule", which essentially says that a FISA warrant that targets person 'x' is also a warrant to target his or her associates and the associates of these associates. i.e two hops. So how does this give the former FBI access to Donald Trump if his name is redacted? FBI officials and others are allowed to request that the redaction be removed, i.e. "unmasked."

Trump's Attorney General knew of a crime and chose not to pursue it? I honestly can't believe this.
Eric Holder was the Attorney General at that time.

Why would he threaten to intervene in a matter that falls under the jurisdiction of a state?
The Insurrection Act of 1807

The Act empowers the U.S. president to call into service the U.S. Armed Forces and the National Guard:

*when requested by a state's legislature, or governor if the legislature cannot be convened, to address an insurrection against that state (§ 251),
*to address an insurrection, in any state, which makes it impracticable to enforce the law (§ 252), or
*to address an insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy, in any state, which results in the deprivation of Constitutionally-secured rights, and where the state is unable, fails, or refuses to protect said rights (§ 253).
 

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Deflection-
If it WAS private, YOU made it Public.
You made the comment "You have SEEN souls".
You are accountable for YOUR WORDS.

So YOU describe what YOU SAW, and the circumstances, regarding the souls of aborted babies..


Aborted baby's have never been Born Alive Individuals...

Where is a Scriptural Reference God Gives His Breath of Life to a form that is/has Not a Born ALIVE Individual ?

Glory to God,
Taken
I wrote that to Grailhunter for a specific reason. I hoped it would benefit him; and I think maybe it did. The post also contained a line giving the reason I did not wish to discuss the details . Can't you read? Or do you have a reading comprehension problem?

I also know if I were to discuss it, no one would believe me, so why bother? Heaven's plan will take place no matter if you or I believe in it.

Specifically, if I were to discuss it, I'd be throwing pearls before swine. I would not convince angry people like you who think you know it all already. Why would I bother to try to explain anything to someone like you?

I am accountable to God for my words, not you. Who do you think you are anyway? God? The Spanish Inqusition?

If you want to continue this farce of pretending to be stupid (assuming that you aren't really stupid), go find someone who enjoys having stupid conversations. Time to put you on ignore, at least for a while.
 
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We rely on the witness of other people. When CNN makes up a story, we get either one or both of the following: video evidence that it didn't happen, and/or witness testimony that it didn't happen.

Yes. For instance, we knew about FISA abuse 2-1/2 years before the rest of the country did.

Of course they denied it. But now the truth is coming out. Right?

Please re-read the Nypost article again. This time think about what we have learned about the FISA process. The FISA courts were created after 911 in hopes that the US intelligence services might use electronic surveillance techniques to spy on foreign operatives. Under the Fourth Amendment, the government is forbidden to spy on American citizens without a warrant so when the FBI or other intelligence agencies wire-tap phone calls, transcriptions of the phone call, the names of American citizens are redacted.

We recently learned from public testimony and declassified official documents that the Obama Administration was abusing the FISA system. James Comey and others would swear under oath that the target was one person, when in fact the target was another person instead. So, for instance, the FBI got a warrant to spy on Carter Page, but the actual target was Donald Trump. The FBI got a warrant to spy on George Papadopoulos, but the true target was Donald Trump. A warrant to spy on a Russian Gambling Ring can easily encompass a candidate for public office.

How is this done? The law allows for the "two hop rule", which essentially says that a FISA warrant that targets person 'x' is also a warrant to target his or her associates and the associates of these associates. i.e two hops. So how does this give the former FBI access to Donald Trump if his name is redacted? FBI officials and others are allowed to request that the redaction be removed, i.e. "unmasked."
What can I say? If you think you have inside information that the general public doesn't have, there is nothing I can say to convince you of anything.

Eric Holder was the Attorney General at that time.
He isn't now.

The Insurrection Act of 1807

The Act empowers the U.S. president to call into service the U.S. Armed Forces and the National Guard:

*when requested by a state's legislature, or governor if the legislature cannot be convened, to address an insurrection against that state (§ 251),
*to address an insurrection, in any state, which makes it impracticable to enforce the law (§ 252), or
*to address an insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy, in any state, which results in the deprivation of Constitutionally-secured rights, and where the state is unable, fails, or refuses to protect said rights (§ 253).
The state of Washington has certainly not asked for Trump's help; and I don't see how the other three provisions would apply. Maybe Trump should have intervened when white nationalists were demonstrating -- when one of them drove into a crowd. Maybe he should have intervened in Minnesota when he saw how the police force in Minneapolis was trampling on peope's rights instead of protecting them. Let's not be absurd. Invoking that law is not done lightly.

There is no insurrection in Seattle. There are protesters violating the law by being in a park when they shouldn't be. They aren't raping, murdering or looting. Whose civil rights are being violated? Better to have them all together in one place than have them running through the city where they could commit crimes since the police couldn't be watching them all. So you think people in a park illegally poses a real danger to the nation? You think they might overthow the entire government?
 

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I wrote that to Grailhunter for a specific reason. I hoped it would benefit him; and I think maybe it did. The post also contained a line giving the reason I did not wish to discuss the details . Can't you read? Or do you have a reading comprehension problem?

I also know if I were to discuss it, no one would believe me, so why bother? Heaven's plan will take place no matter if you or I believe in it.

Specifically, if I were to discuss it, I'd be throwing pearls before swine. I would not convince angry people like you who think you know it all already. Why would I bother to try to explain anything to someone like you?

I am accountable to God for my words, not you. Who do you think you are anyway? God? The Spanish Inqusition?

If you want to continue this farce of pretending to be stupid (assuming that you aren't really stupid), go find someone who enjoys having stupid conversations. Time to put you on ignore, at least for a while.

LOL-
You bring up a comment...
Then shrink away because you claim people are angry and won't believe you.

Newsflash-
You don't have the power to make me angry.
Fear of being unbelievable is on you...
Not me.
 
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What can I say? If you think you have inside information that the general public doesn't have, there is nothing I can say to convince you of anything.
All I can tell you is what I know. As long as my information is true, it shouldn't matter where I heard it. Should it?

It's hard for me and people like me because we are not able to "prove" our statements using Google, Facebook, Instagram, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, NPR, or any number of other publications people read. Just after the Vietnam War, journalism decided to abandon news reporting for advocacy. The factuality of a news report was not as important as the emotional impact of a "narrative", which is intended to sway public opinion. If actual footage was not available in order to tell the story, events were staged.

We now refer to the media as the "Mockingbird media" because although there are thousands of TV and Radio Stations and hundreds of News Papers, they all broadcast the same broadcast using the same script and the same talking points.

Please watch these videos, which are the tip of a very big iceberg.
The Secrets Of The CIA's Iraq Media War

Many of us have decided to seek alternate sources of information.

He isn't now.
I was saying that the 2014 DOJ decided not to prosecute Manafort.

The state of Washington has certainly not asked for Trump's help; and I don't see how the other three provisions would apply.
In this case, the judgment of the President prevails.

There is no insurrection in Seattle.
Define insurrection:
a violent uprising against an authority or government.
 

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All I can tell you is what I know. As long as my information is true, it shouldn't matter where I heard it. Should it?
The question is how you know it's true. If I hear a story from a source which later turns out to have been wrong, it matters to me where I heard it. If that source refuses to apologize, that's even worse. I believe almost nothing until I see several sources I trust are also reporting the same thing.

My guess is you are tuned into Trump's tweet and into sources which support what he says. That is what you will hear; and if you hear something different, you conclude the other sources must be lying. I on the other hand try to look at sites which might tell me things that don't agree with my biases. I check Drudge Report every day and often the headlines at Breitbart. I know I'm not going to agree with the slant Breitbart puts on things; but they often have stories that the liberal sources avoid -- it's not that the liberal sources are lying, they just keep silent when certain liberals say or do strange things.

It's hard for me and people like me because we are not able to "prove" our statements using Google, Facebook, Instagram, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, NPR, or any number of other publications people read. Just after the Vietnam War, journalism decided to abandon news reporting for advocacy. The factuality of a news report was not as important as the emotional impact of a "narrative", which is intended to sway public opinion. If actual footage was not available in order to tell the story, events were staged.

We now refer to the media as the "Mockingbird media" because although there are thousands of TV and Radio Stations and hundreds of News Papers, they all broadcast the same broadcast using the same script and the same talking points.

Please watch these videos, which are the tip of a very big iceberg.
I think some of this has to do with how ownership of local tv stations changed after the deregulation of the industry under Reagan. I think the owners of channels send them statements to be read. Thus if a corporation owns twenty channels nationally, they can get all twenty to say the same thing. If I had the time, I'd research the channels in that video to see who owned them. Perhaps the industry needs to go back to more regulation.

Sometimes local channels also echo something said on a network.

Having lots of people saying, "This is dangerous to our democracy" has little to do with reporting on factual news that I can see. They are expressing the same opinion. That one video was enough for me. Why listen to the rest? When I hear any reporter saying what those were saying, I tune them out. Reporters should stick to facts -- if they want to keep my interest.

The problem for the media now is financial. Most local tv stations and newspapers lack the money to do real reporting. The major networks are pressed financially too. Back when I did have cable, CNN did some responsible reporting at the top of each hour when they had real news -- and then the rest of the hour would go to more opinion style talk. I don't know what their format is today since I don't have tv. But I used to see reporters flying to other countries to get information. Very few news outlets can afford to do that very much today.

Who does? Well, the British "The Guardian" comes to mind. They partner with good local reporters around the world. That way they don't need to spend lots of money flying reporters around the world.

The problem I see with papers like the Washington Post and the New York Times is not in their news sections, but in their opinion sections. I don't know why they have those opinion sections. What are they for? And some "liberal" papers are now having trouble with their black journalists because the "opinion" pieces are written almost exclusively by whites.

That being said, I wonder about the sources you have. Most news sources mix in lots of opinions into their stories to appeal to whichever reader or listener base they cater to. It's been that way for a long, long time. In the same rural county in Pennsylvania I grew up in, there were two papers -- one for Democrats and one for Republicans. Now there's only the Republican one left. If you can spot the "opinions" being expressed in liberal media, I ask if you can spot it in the "conservative" media? I like to hear from both sides -- try to sift out the opinions -- and often you can find both sides agree on certain facts.
In this case, the judgment of the President prevails.
He is not sole arbiter of what is constitutional; and if a President invokes this law and interferes in the internal affairs of a state, he had better be very certain his actions will make things better not worse. As matters stand now, the Governor of Washington can be blamed for anything that goes wrong; but if Trump interferes and things got worse, he would get blamed. A President could incite an insurrection while to claiming to put one down. We saw how Trump became more unpopular over how the protesters were dealt with on Pennsylvania Avenue. His supporters cheered, but most Americans didn't like it. I think it inspired more people to protest.
 
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People are saying (supposed News) is a "scripted" load of opinionated nonsense aired on multiple stations, by multiple people, in repetitive "brainwashing" style.

Thanks to Conan's staff for their efforts and thank you for sharing the Facts of How Laughable And Fake American (so called) news-stations are in the US.

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