January 30, 2019: Even President Trump's Spiritual Advisor Is after the Loot

 

1/30/19: In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Sarah Sanders makes it clear that if her boss is having trouble here on earth there’s no cause for worry. He has one celestial Fan. “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times,” she tells her CBN hosts, “and I think that He wanted Donald Trump to become president [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted], and that’s why he’s there.” 

Apparently, God likes to play pranks.

Unlike Eric Trump (see below), this Democrat does the dirty work himself.

The blogger begins repointing his main chimney

 

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“God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.”  

Rev. Paula White, asking listeners to send cash

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Another Trump fan made it clear this week that we should not take chances when it comes to His wrath. God, I mean. Not Trump. 

Paula White, described as “the president’s spiritual adviser,” and the woman who delivered the invocation at his Inauguration, believes her supporters should, if they want God to bless them, pony up the dough. 

$$$$$

 

“Each January,” she wrote in a missive to fans, “I put God first and honor Him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month’s pay. That is a big sacrifice,” she admitted. “But it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides!” (Certainly, God will always provide for White – so long as her followers fall for her shtick.) 

The results, White promised, would be “miraculous,” whether her followers sowed a month’s pay, a week’s pay, or a day’s. “First Fruits has impacted my life personally and the lives of countless others!” she wrote. “First Fruits is more than just an offering … it’s a principle.” 

Best of all, if you sent Ms. White $75 or more (and hopefully one-twelfth of what you were going to earn in 2019) you would get one of her books. Also: a Paula White calendar! Or you could NOT give and risk God’s fury. “God lays claim to all firsts,” White insisted. “So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.”  

I think she meant you should send her a fat check before God zapped you with a lightning bolt or sent locusts to eat all your crops.

 

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Good wages, health care and a pension of some kind. 

ERIC TRUMP, son of President Twitter Thumbs, wraps another day with an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show. 

We report, as they say at Fox News…that the president is great…that Democrats are bath scum…and you decide we’re right. 

Boiling down Eric’s message to its essence, we learn Democrats have been “radicalized.” They’re a bunch of “socialists.” If they aren’t stopped, the U.S.A. is going to end up like Venezuela. 

The Democrats, he insists, don’t want law and order. They want to tax people to death. They want to get businesses out of this country. They want to let all the criminals in Mexico come waltzing across the border. They want to bankrupt the system through free healthcare for all. “America’s about hard-working people,” Eric assures Hannity. “America’s about capitalism. America’s the greatest country in the world because people work for that American dream.”

 

Speaking as a typical Democrat, I can say that Eric is a jerk. 

I can also say with absolute confidence that our side has no desire to destroy the American dream. In fact, as a liberal – not a socialist – I believe all workers deserve good wages, health care and a pension of some kind. 

Unlike the Trump Organization, I do not hire the undocumented to do all the hardest work around my house. And if I did, I wouldn’t be a hypocrite and vilify immigrants at every turn. (See: 1/27/19.)

 

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ERIC ISN’T THE ONLY TRUMP fired up today. Dad is furious after his top intelligence officials called into question several of his claims. 

Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel both warned, in the words of Politico, that 

the Islamic State remains a forceful presence in Iraq and Syria, that North Korea is not likely to give up its nuclear weapons, and that Iran is not yet seeking a nuclear weapon. They also warned about foreign interference in U.S. elections, and declined to classify the migrant crisis on the southern border a security crisis as Trump has previously claimed.

 

This infuriated Dad and he responded with Twitter rage. “The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran,” he fumed. “They are wrong! When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond. Since ending the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different, but a source of potential danger and conflict.” 

Trump also had the red ass over the comments by his intelligence chiefs about North Korea, insisting angrily in another tweet, “North Korea relationship is best it has ever been with U.S.” 

As for Coats and Haspel, the president grumbled, “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!”

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (4/24/21): In the last half of his administration, we now know, Trump fails to bring Iran to the table for a better nuclear deal than the one he ripped up. North Korea gives up exactly zero nuclear weapons. Again: Diplomacy proves to be bitch. Trump leaves his successor with the same mess he whined about inheriting when he took over. Diplomacy, the Golfing Leader of the Free World finds out, is much harder than it looks.