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How To Live Under An Unqualified President by John Piper

Practices Christian Living
#3708

Three years of the idiocy of trying to remove our President - and in the fog of that foolery, things like this are not noticed by the MSM or the Dems. Why would a Dem - @Paidion - not think this was a good thing?? I think DT deserves high praise for facilitating this: (but maybe throwing out a Red Herring, like the Barron not being a Baron, is more important?)

Quote - unemployment rate for black men remained at the lowest level ever in November.

The economy added 266,000 jobs in the month, far more than expected. Black men over 20 picked up 14,000 of those jobs, according to Labor Department data released Friday. That matched in increase in the civilian labor force for that cohort.

As a result, the unemployment rate for black men stayed at the all-time low of 5.1 percent hit in October.

The total number of black men employed in the U.S. rose to a seasonally adjusted 9,014,000, the highest on record. The total black male civilian labor force is comprised of just under 9.5 million individuals. The labor force participation rate held steady at 68 percent.

The unemployment rate for black women ticked up a notch to 4.9 percent but remains near its recent record low of 4.8 percent.

The combined unemployment rate for black men, women, and young people between 16 and 19 is a 5.5 percent, a tick above the all-time low of 5.4 percent hit last month.


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#3709

Speaking of rich, white house “hopefuls” :crazy_face:

Asked to respond to the claim he was trying to buy the election, Mr Bloomberg told CBS of his rivals: "I’m doing exactly the same thing they’re doing, except that I am using my own money.

Asked by CBS why he had changed his mind about running - after saying in September that he would not - Mr. Bloomberg said the Democratic field was weak.

Mr Bloomberg’s net worth is $52bn, according to Forbes - 17 times more than Mr Trump.

Before setting up a mass media empire, Mr Bloomberg made his billions from data terminals widely used in the financial industry.

#3710

It’s time for an informative (and presumably neutral) BBC news article:

#3711

It seems to me that Trump is doing a good thing here, but the medical community is fighting back?


(CNN) A coalition of major hospital groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop the Trump administration from requiring them to disclose the prices they privately negotiate with insurers.
The move comes less than three weeks after the administration issued a final price transparency rule that officials say will help reduce health care costs, one of President Donald Trump’s main promises as he heads into the 2020 campaign.
The hospital groups contend that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services overstepped its authority in compelling hospitals to publicize these rates. Plus, they argue, the provision violates the First Amendment by mandating they reveal the rates “in a manner that will confuse patients and unduly burden hospitals.”<<

#3713

Here’s an interesting article, exploring an historical perspective.

#3714

True. I wonder what his misconduct IS. He’s been as honest as anyone, keeps his promises better than anyone else has in modern history, etc.
Really. Thanks for the perspective.

#3715

The impeachment of Clinton helped his popularity, I think the same thing happens here.

#3716

I too think that’s apt to happen, and especially among Trump supporters. Time will tell.

One possible difference for those in the middle is that an accused Clinton confessed he’d done deep wrong, and then ignoring GOP’s impeachment attack, he pivoted as his popularity sagged to embrace programs that more conservative Republicans would support and achieved much bipartisan progress.

Trump possibly will pivot like this in his second term, or even close to the election, but I’m less sure he has that kind of political animal in him like Clinton did. And I don’t envision him winsomely reaching out to moderates by confessing that he has flaws. It may change, but I see his personality intent on pursuing a more partisan style to enthuse his base.

#3717

Apparently it IS helping him, judging by the number of Independents and Dems who are vocal about it. I noticed also that black folks are 4 times more favorable to DT than for any 'Republican" prez in modern history. I’m sure economics helps with that, plus the deplorable record in our largest cities of Dem mayorship. Shameful. Still, whether all these factors can overcome the amount of illegal immigrants who will vote Democrat and will vote illegally with Dem help remains to be seen.

#3718

Looky what’s the next Coming Attraction!!:

"As we have seen, though, the way the media has treated Saudi Arabia is different. Over the last several months, there is a clear and palpable desire among the left-wing press and Democrat politicians to break not just the multi-generational U.S.-Saudi relationship, but to replace its leadership structure and interfere with its line of succession.

For these obsessives, the villain and the narrative are always the same; it’s the details that keep changing. Already, some professional Twitter trolls like Bill Kristol and Ed Krassenstein have begun fixating on Saudi Arabia as a possible next furious locus of the president’s alleged seditious treachery. “He might not be a Russian agent,” they might say, with increasing desperation, “but he’s a pawn of the Saudis.”

#3719

Here’s the latest from the BBC. I’m sure everyone knows this already. :crazy_face:

But here’s some other news.

#3720

Certainly this is not true for ‘each person’ who is a leftist - but we do see these hatreds almost daily, month after month.

Dennis Prager:
I never thought I’d see the day when the Salvation Army would be hated by a substantial number of Americans or lose the support of a Christian-run business.

But given the Left’s loathing of virtually all things good — such as America, Israel, traditional Christianity and Judaism, the Boy Scouts, the nuclear-family ideal, Thanksgiving and America’s founders — it is not surprising.

As I have said for years, the left destroys everything it touches: music, art, Christianity, Judaism, economies, universities, high schools, late-night comedy, pro football, women’s likelihood of finding happiness, men’s likelihood of maturing, the Boy Scouts and the innocence of children (think “Drag Queen Story Hour” for 5-year-olds at libraries), to cite some of the more obvious examples.

And while it destroys good institutions, the left never builds a viable replacement. Is there a left-wing equivalent to the Boy Scouts, a left-wing institution that helps mold boys into responsible men? Of course not. The left destroys, but it builds nothing — except state power. Or, to take the present example, is there a left-wing equivalent to the Salvation Army? No, there isn’t.

Yet, leftists — most especially LGBTQ groups, which spread a remarkable amount of hate in the name of “love” — seek to crush The Salvation Army. They threaten and pressure whoever supports the Salvation Army.

#3721

And they are not ASHAMED to admit this? Gads. You and I are paying for this circus, remember.
The following statement would be the end of justice and democracy - no matter which of us it was used against, no matter which Presidents it was used against. It must not be allowed to stand.

" The House Judiciary Committee released a report Saturday in which it argued that a president may be impeached for “illegitimate motives” even if his actions are “legally permissible.”

The 52-page report, written by 20 members of the staff for the Democratic majority, attempts to provide a legal and constitutional basis for the Democrats’ ongoing effort to impeach the president.

The report states: “The question is not whether the President’s conduct could have resulted from permissible motives. It is whether the President’s real reasons , the ones in his mind at the time, were legitimate.”

That novel theory is only one of several questionable features of the report." Follow the link if you are actually interested in the truth of this thing.

Yeah yeah, it’s Breitbart but so? If you can prove them wrong, please do!! I’d like to know it also.

#3722

They have Twitter power fanned by the media but if they (leftists)were simply ignored but disputed by the Salvation Army & others when opportunities arise , their (leftists) power would fade away.
It’s not real power, it’s perception and if it doesn’t get an immediate knockout i think it melts away.

#3724

More on Trump’s Posture with the House of Saud

#3725

Who was that?

#3726

The Christian Century’s view of this thread’s theme

#3728

So just so I’m on the same page, you are against the Congressmans view… You said: “A GOP Congressman has proposed a bill that would ban discrimination against LGBTs. Hopefully it doesn’t become law.”
I’m just trying to get it right, if you are for or against the laws that discriminate against LGBT and such?

#3730

" The American public often is reminded, usually by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and their loyalists in the American news media, that Obama’s eight-year reign was “scandal-free.” Of course, that is nowhere near the truth. From the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scam and IRS targeting of Tea Party activists to the egregious Benghazi terror attack cover-up two months before the 2012 election, the Obama Administration was among the most corrupt in U.S. history. And they have laughed all the way to Martha’s Vineyard and the Democratic presidential debate stage.

So truth-seekers should be gratified that on one day—Monday, December 9, 2019—the spin and subterfuge that the Obama White House successfully employed to hide their rampant malfeasance started to collapse under the full weight of its deceit and hubris.

Three scandals—the Russian collusion hoax, Burisma, and the disastrous Afghanistan war—blew up in their self-proclaimed “scandal-free” faces."

https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/09/obama-and-biden-three-scandals-one-day/

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#3731

It’s good news week?