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Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 6:32pm On Aug 23, 2020
57% Of Republicans Say Trump Killing Over 170,000 Americans Is Acceptable

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/23/republicans-trump-virus-deaths-acceptable.html


A new poll found that 57% of Republicans are perfectly fine with Trump’s pandemic mismanagement killing over 170,000 Americans.

CBS News reported, “For most Republicans, America is a nation where the economy is still fairly good, where the effort to handle the coronavirus is going at least somewhat well and the president is doing a very good job on it. For them, the virus elicits less concern in the first place. They believe the 170,000 fatalities is an overstated count and one which, for many, can so far be considered acceptable.”

Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 7:16pm On Aug 23, 2020
Republican National Convention 2020

List of daily big line up speakers with Donald Trump planned to speak every night at 10pm

The only living GOP president, George W. Bush is not included

Re: US Politics Today! by Minent: 12:33am On Aug 24, 2020
Re: US Politics Today! by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:28pm On Aug 24, 2020
The Plannedemic – Ben Garrison Cartoon
Ben Garrison in Political Cartoons March 28, 2020



A Plan you can't trust!

The coronavirus is real, but we've had many waves of flu viruses throughout the years. Many thousands die each year from the flu. Our elderly and infirmed are the hardest hit. This time the deaths are being magnified by the Fear Porn Channels. Statistics are controlled and manipulated to produce panic and hysteria.

The Democrats failed with their Russia collusion lie. They failed with impeachment. They are all for this hysteria because they can blame it all on Trump.

Trish Regan was just fired from Fox Business Network because she called out concerns that the Chinese coronavirus was just another attempt to impeach President Donald Trump.

That was too close to the truth for Fox. They fired her.

We now have social distancing to further divide the human race—as if we were all some sort of disease in need of eradication. The corrupt WHO and CDC have us controlled like puppets on strings. We obey without question. Citizens are not allowed to question medical 'authorities' without fearing censorship or ridicule. When the time comes for a mandatory vaccine, people will already have become conditioned to obey the medical 'authorities,' and it's all going according to plan.

But plans have a way of not working out sometimes.

Never take your eyes off the Government in a crisis.


Ben Garrison

Source
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 8:11pm On Aug 24, 2020
REUTERS EXCLUSIVE

Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years


https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/

Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells began when he was 20. He says he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr, head of Liberty University and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on.

Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987. “Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,” Granda said in an interview. Now 29, he described the liaisons as frequent – “multiple times per year” – and said the encounters took place at hotels in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells’ home in Virginia.

The material Granda showed Reuters includes screenshots from what Granda said was a FaceTime conversation he had with the Falwells in 2019. During that call, Granda said, Becki was naked as the two discussed their relationship while Jerry peeked from behind a door. Reuters was able to verify Granda’s description of the screenshots.

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Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 9:49pm On Aug 24, 2020
Republicans, party of family values and one of Trump's strong White Evangelical support base

The Evangelical, the ‘Pool Boy,’ the Comedian and Michael Cohen

Jerry Falwell Jr. defied expectations when he supported Donald J. Trump in 2016. Now details are emerging about behind-the-scenes maneuvering before the endorsement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/trump-falwell-endorsement-michael-cohen.html

MIAMI BEACH — Senator Ted Cruz was running neck and neck with Donald J. Trump in Iowa just before the caucuses in 2016, but his campaign was expecting a last-minute boost from a powerful endorser, Jerry Falwell Jr.

Mr. Falwell was chancellor of one of the nation’s largest Christian colleges, Liberty University, and a son of the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., the televangelist and co-founder of the modern religious right.

Months earlier, Mr. Falwell had provided Liberty’s basketball arena for Mr. Cruz’s formal presidential announcement and required that the student body attend, giving the Texas Republican a guaranteed audience of thousands of cheering young religious conservatives.

With the caucuses now fast approaching, the senator’s father, Rafael Cruz, an evangelical pastor who had taken the lead in wooing Mr. Falwell, alerted the campaign that Mr. Falwell had pledged to endorse his son.

But when the time came for an announcement, Mr. Falwell rocked the Cruz campaign and grabbed the attention of the entire political world. He endorsed Mr. Trump instead, becoming one of the first major evangelical leaders to get behind the thrice-married, insult-hurling real estate mogul’s long-odds presidential bid.

That backstory, in true Trump-tabloid fashion, features the friendship between Mr. Falwell, his wife and a former pool attendant at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach; the family’s investment in a gay-friendly youth hostel; purported sexually revealing photographs involving the Falwells; and an attempted hush-money arrangement engineered by the president’s former fixer, Michael Cohen.

The revelations have arisen from a lawsuit filed against the Falwells in Florida; the investigation into Mr. Cohen by federal prosecutors in New York; and the gonzo-style tactics of the comedian and actor Tom Arnold.

Over the last two years, Mr. Arnold has fashioned himself an anti-Trump sleuth and crusader, working to dig up evidence of past malfeasance on television and in social media. In that role, Mr. Arnold befriended Mr. Cohen — who had lately become a vivid, if not entirely reliable, narrator of the Trump phenomenon — and then surreptitiously recorded him describing his effort to buy and bury embarrassing photographs involving the Falwells.

That attempt, Mr. Cohen says on the recording, came months before he brought Mr. Falwell “to the table” for Mr. Trump. Until then, he adds, “none of the evangelicals wanted to support Trump.”

There is no evidence that Mr. Falwell’s endorsement was part of a quid pro quo arranged by Mr. Cohen. Indeed, the relationship, if any, between the endorsement and the photo episode remains unclear. But the new details — some of which have been reported by news outlets including BuzzFeed and Reuters over the last year — show how deeply Mr. Falwell was enmeshed in Mr. Cohen’s and Mr. Trump’s world.


And they add another layer to one of the enduring curiosities of the Trump era: the support the president has received from evangelical Christians, who have traditionally demanded that their political leaders exhibit “family values” and moral “character.” Mr. Falwell’s father forged those words into weapons against the Democrats after he co-founded the Moral Majority political movement, which propelled Ronald Reagan into the White House and made religious conservatives a vital constituency for any Republican who would be president.

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Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 10:31pm On Aug 24, 2020
Jerry Falwell resigns from Liberty University following allegations of sexual tryst


https://religionnews.com/2020/08/24/jerry-falwell-resigns-liberty-university-alleged-affair-trump-pool-attendant/

Jerry Falwell Jr. the embattled president of Liberty University and one of the biggest champions of President Donald Trump, has resigned, Religion News Service has learned.

His resignation came within hours of the publication of a news story that alleged he and his wife Becki had a years-long sexual relationship with a business associate.

Falwell had been placed on indefinite leave earlier this month after posting, then deleting, a provocative Instagram photo of him posing with his arm around a woman at a party with their zippers down and midriffs showing.
Re: US Politics Today! by OLAADEGBU(m): 12:39am On Aug 25, 2020
A.F. Branco Cartoon – Wait Until Dark
A.F. BRANCO on August 24, 2020 at 7:40 am
Darkness on the Land
www.nairaland.com/attachments/12199060_thedarkness_jpeg1dc9d719daca6ecdf2837d95d6ee02b2

California goes dark after years of left-wing green policies, while Dems try to blame Trump. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020.

Source

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Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 3:41pm On Aug 25, 2020
To those who are interested, the full coverage of Day 1 of the RNC:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ1BVOj0EYE
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 4:13pm On Aug 25, 2020
Re: US Politics Today! by Minent: 4:28pm On Aug 25, 2020
Trump is winning!
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 4:53pm On Aug 25, 2020
Why Republicans didn’t write a platform for their convention this year

https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention-platform-2020-2016

The Republican Party took an unusual approach to writing its convention platform for 2020: It decided not to write one.

Rather, the GOP is reusing its platform from four years ago, which was written before Donald Trump became president. That means Republican delegates will not go through the usual process of deliberating over policies and principles to determine what the party stands for in 2020, as Democrats recently did.

A Republican National Committee (RNC) resolution on the topic says the reason the party has no new platform is the Covid-19 pandemic, which has necessitated a scaled-back convention this year. Since all the delegates couldn’t gather in person, they claim, they’re not doing a platform.

But that’s not all there is to the story. Just a few months ago, word leaked out that Trump’s team, led by his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, had big plans to shake up the platform by dramatically shortening it — plans that drew the ire of some conservative activists, who were used to exerting their influence on the lengthy document.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdPTypgVhos
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 11:23pm On Aug 25, 2020
I'm Billy Graham's granddaughter. Evangelical support of Donald Trump spits on his legacy.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/25/billy-graham-evangelicals-support-donald-trump-hypocrisy-column/5625617002/

As the proud granddaughter of the man largely credited for beginning the evangelical movement, the late Billy Graham, the last few years have led me to reflect on how much has changed within that movement in America.

I have spent my entire life in the church, with every big decision guided by my faith. But now, I feel homeless. Like so many others, I feel disoriented as I watch the church I have always served turn their eyes away from everything it teaches. I hear from Christian women on a daily basis who all describe the same thing: a tug at their spirit.

Most of these women walked into a voting booth in 2016 believing they were choosing between two difficult options. They held their breath, closed their eyes, and cast a vote for Donald Trump, whom many of us then believed to be “the lesser of two evils,” all the while feeling that tug.

I feel it every time our president talks about government housing having no place in America’s suburbs. Jesus said repeatedly to defend the poor and show kindness and compassion to those in need. Our president continues to perpetuate an us-versus-them narrative, yet almost all of our church leaders say nothing.

I feel this tug every time our president or his followers speak about the wall, designed to keep out the very people scripture tells us to welcome. In Trump’s America, refugees are not treated as “native-born,” as scripture encourages. Instead, families are separated, held in inconceivable conditions and cast aside as less then.

The church honors Trump before God

Trump went so far as to brag about his plans, accomplishments and unholy actions towards the marginalized communities I saw my grandfather love and serve. I now see, through the silence of church leaders, that these communities are no longer valued by individuals claiming to uphold the values my grandfather taught.

A false gospel: Trump and the 'prosperity gospel' sell false promises to credulous evangelical Christians

The gentle tug became an aggressive yank, for me, earlier this year, when our country experienced division in the form of riots, incited in great part by this president’s divisive rhetoric. I watched our president walk through Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., after the tear gassing of peaceful protesters for a photo op.

He held a Bible, something so sacred to all of us, yet he treated that Bible with a callousness that would offend anyone intimately familiar with the words inside it. He believed that action would honor him and only him. However, the church, designed to honor God, said nothing.

It seems that the only evangelical leaders to speak up praised the president, with no mention of his behavior that is antithetical to the Jesus we serve. The entire world has watched the term “evangelical” become synonymous with hypocrisy and disingenuousness.

Women of faith know better

I have given myself permission to lean into that tug in my spirit and speak out. I may be against the tide, but I am firm in my faith that this step is most consistent with my church and its teachings.

At a recent large family event, I was pulled aside by many female family members thanking me for speaking out against an administration that they, too, had been uncomfortable with. With tears in their eyes, they used a hushed tone, out of fear that they were alone or at risk of undeserved retribution.


I chose to listen to my spirit and speak out. Not because doing so feels comfortable, but because it feels like the right way to leverage the voice God has empowered me with. Now I am asking all of you that feel as I do, to embrace your inner tug, and allow it to lead you to use the power of your God-given voice and not allow Trump to lead this country for another four years.

Jerushah Duford is an evangelical author, speaker and member of Lincoln Women, a coalition of women in the Lincoln Project. Follow her on Twitter: @jerushahruth

Published 12:00 PM EDT Aug 25, 2020

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Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 11:14am On Aug 26, 2020
Since Trump is not the democrat leaders who unnecessarily killed innocent Americans for money and politics, then it's all nonsense!

We all know the states and the governors that killed people who may or may not have covid19 and they will pay for it, just wait, I know you have heard about class action lawsuits before.

Democrats know this and that why they are panicking like crazy and frustrated.
feedthenation:
57% Of Republicans Say Trump Killing Over 170,000 Americans Is Acceptable

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/23/republicans-trump-virus-deaths-acceptable.html


A new poll found that 57% of Republicans are perfectly fine with Trump’s pandemic mismanagement killing over 170,000 Americans.

CBS News reported, “For most Republicans, America is a nation where the economy is still fairly good, where the effort to handle the coronavirus is going at least somewhat well and the president is doing a very good job on it. For them, the virus elicits less concern in the first place. They believe the 170,000 fatalities is an overstated count and one which, for many, can so far be considered acceptable.”

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Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 11:25am On Aug 26, 2020
Did anyone see the classy Republican convention event?

Now compared to that of Democrats convention that looked like hostage negotiations.
Re: US Politics Today! by Minent: 11:34am On Aug 26, 2020
DCatt:
Did anyone see the classy Republican convention event?

Now compared to that of Democrats convention that looked like hostage negotiations.

I love when the first lady made her entrance.
That lady is beautiful!
Also, it has more views than the leftist convention.
grin

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Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 11:35am On Aug 26, 2020
I always say, Biden is a placeholder and not the real presidential candidate.

Biden and Kamala have now said that they are being tested for covid19 everyday, when covid19 cases are almost gone.

Democrats will announce soon that one of them has covid19

Democrats want to use this to

1. Switch Biden or Kamala because they know they can't beat Trump

2. Prevent Biden from debating Trump because they know Trump would eat him for lunch.
Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 11:41am On Aug 26, 2020
Yes I saw that. She's so beautiful!

At least she is a real woman not the former so called Michelle, a transgender hot mess.

This is a first lady who has been under attack from the media.
Minent:


I love when the first lady made her entrance.
That lady is beautiful!
Also, it has more views than the leftist convention.
grin
Re: US Politics Today! by Minent: 11:43am On Aug 26, 2020
DCatt:
Yes I saw that. She's so beautiful!

At least she is a real woman not the former so called Michelle, a transgender hot mess.

This is a first lady who has been under attack from the media.

She needs no media hype cuz she's a class on her own.
Re: US Politics Today! by Minent: 11:46am On Aug 26, 2020
DCatt:
I always say, Biden is a placeholder and not the real presidential candidate.

Biden and Kamala have now said that they are being tested for covid19 everyday, when covid19 cases are almost gone.

Democrats will announce soon that one of them has covid19

Democrats want to use this to

1. Switch Biden or Kamala because they know they can't beat Trump

2. Prevent Biden from debating Trump because they know Trump would eat him for lunch.

These people are nothing but snakes

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Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 11:55am On Aug 26, 2020
They are desperate because they know their time is up.
Minent:


These people are nothing but snakes
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 12:00pm On Aug 26, 2020
DCatt:
Yes I saw that. She's so beautiful!

At least she is a real woman not the former so called Michelle, a transgender hot mess.

This is a first lady who has been under attack from the media.

...and Melania Trump is also a polyglot...

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Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 12:00pm On Aug 26, 2020
You mean we should believe this one that looks like a coked-up junkie over the word of Franklin Graham who said his father voted Trump?

Come on! You have to do better that this!
feedthenation:
I'm Billy Graham's granddaughter. Evangelical support of Donald Trump spits on his legacy.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/25/billy-graham-evangelicals-support-donald-trump-hypocrisy-column/5625617002/

As the proud granddaughter of the man largely credited for beginning the evangelical movement, the late Billy Graham, the last few years have led me to reflect on how much has changed within that movement in America.

I have spent my entire life in the church, with every big decision guided by my faith. But now, I feel homeless. Like so many others, I feel disoriented as I watch the church I have always served turn their eyes away from everything it teaches. I hear from Christian women on a daily basis who all describe the same thing: a tug at their spirit.

Most of these women walked into a voting booth in 2016 believing they were choosing between two difficult options. They held their breath, closed their eyes, and cast a vote for Donald Trump, whom many of us then believed to be “the lesser of two evils,” all the while feeling that tug.

I feel it every time our president talks about government housing having no place in America’s suburbs. Jesus said repeatedly to defend the poor and show kindness and compassion to those in need. Our president continues to perpetuate an us-versus-them narrative, yet almost all of our church leaders say nothing.

I feel this tug every time our president or his followers speak about the wall, designed to keep out the very people scripture tells us to welcome. In Trump’s America, refugees are not treated as “native-born,” as scripture encourages. Instead, families are separated, held in inconceivable conditions and cast aside as less then.

The church honors Trump before God

Trump went so far as to brag about his plans, accomplishments and unholy actions towards the marginalized communities I saw my grandfather love and serve. I now see, through the silence of church leaders, that these communities are no longer valued by individuals claiming to uphold the values my grandfather taught.

A false gospel: Trump and the 'prosperity gospel' sell false promises to credulous evangelical Christians

The gentle tug became an aggressive yank, for me, earlier this year, when our country experienced division in the form of riots, incited in great part by this president’s divisive rhetoric. I watched our president walk through Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., after the tear gassing of peaceful protesters for a photo op.

He held a Bible, something so sacred to all of us, yet he treated that Bible with a callousness that would offend anyone intimately familiar with the words inside it. He believed that action would honor him and only him. However, the church, designed to honor God, said nothing.

It seems that the only evangelical leaders to speak up praised the president, with no mention of his behavior that is antithetical to the Jesus we serve. The entire world has watched the term “evangelical” become synonymous with hypocrisy and disingenuousness.

Women of faith know better

I have given myself permission to lean into that tug in my spirit and speak out. I may be against the tide, but I am firm in my faith that this step is most consistent with my church and its teachings.

At a recent large family event, I was pulled aside by many female family members thanking me for speaking out against an administration that they, too, had been uncomfortable with. With tears in their eyes, they used a hushed tone, out of fear that they were alone or at risk of undeserved retribution.


I chose to listen to my spirit and speak out. Not because doing so feels comfortable, but because it feels like the right way to leverage the voice God has empowered me with. Now I am asking all of you that feel as I do, to embrace your inner tug, and allow it to lead you to use the power of your God-given voice and not allow Trump to lead this country for another four years.

Jerushah Duford is an evangelical author, speaker and member of Lincoln Women, a coalition of women in the Lincoln Project. Follow her on Twitter: @jerushahruth

Published 12:00 PM EDT Aug 25, 2020

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Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 12:02pm On Aug 26, 2020
The full coverage of Day 2 of the RNC

From 48mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYnYffTrGdc
Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 12:03pm On Aug 26, 2020
Because democrats lie too much and lost all credibility, we don't care!
feedthenation:


...and Melania Trump is also a polyglot...

Re: US Politics Today! by Minent: 12:04pm On Aug 26, 2020
feedthenation:


...and Melania Trump is also a polyglot...


Beautiful Man!

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Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 12:07pm On Aug 26, 2020
You know no one is going to watch that here because we know democrat media were not even showing the real and full event live because they needed to edit it first.

No one believes established liars!
feedthenation:
The full coverage of Day 2 of the RNC

From 48mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYnYffTrGdc
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 12:08pm On Aug 26, 2020
DCatt:
Because democrats lie too much and lost all credibility, we don't care!

Do you know the meaning of a polyglot?
Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 12:08pm On Aug 26, 2020
You baad!
Minent:


Beautiful Man!

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Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 12:08pm On Aug 26, 2020
Minent:


Beautiful Man!


Do you know the meaning of a polyglot?
Re: US Politics Today! by DCatt: 12:11pm On Aug 26, 2020
What has that got to do with democrats being demonic liars?
feedthenation:


Do you know the meaning of a polyglot?
Re: US Politics Today! by feedthenation(m): 12:12pm On Aug 26, 2020
Minent:


Beautiful Man!


….with two degrees from Princeton University and Harvard University Law School

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