He’s nuts, he’s not speaking for us, he needs to be gone

 

The speech at Davos should be the breaking point. Everything about it is a warning signal. Everyone with an interest in tomorrow needs to engage the conversation of how can he be removed.

WHAT HAS COME BEFORE

 

His deceit, divisive plans, retribution and revenge are warnings enough, but they’ve been normalized. That’s a bad sign. World leaders, repulsed by him, attempt to placate him with phony praise. That’s a bad sign. Republicans joke about him, but dare not speak against him. That’s another warning and it bespeaks the cowardice and lack of character of the republican party who have willingly allowed him to sodomize the GOP. They will be remembered as quislings but that is of little help to the rest of the world now.

 

His ignorance, wrapped in his arrogance, his instability abetted by sycophants, possibly the least qualified and oddest assortment of administration players in history, leave us all exposed to dangerous potential.

 

How many times have people said if only Hitler had been  removed, how many million lives could have been saved? The same is said of Joseph Stalin, and for that matter about tyrants throughout history. 

 

WHEN WARNINGS ARE IGNORED

He was dangerous enough when he decided not to govern a United States, but to champion the grievances of MAGA. When a man says “only he can do,” you have there a neon warning. This unfit and unqualified man is where he should never be. When a leader seeks revenge and retribution, you live in a dangerous nation. A leader who orders extrajudicial murder is an outlaw. When a man who has evinced racist characteristics repeatedly, turns an army of masked agents and thugs loose to terrorize people of color, including US citizens, you are getting a full on warning this man has to be stopped.

NOW THIS

 

And then the speech at Davos. Has a world leader ever been so incompetent, intellectually bankrupt, abusive, threatening, incoherent, foundering, deceitful,  or embarrassing while looking and acting like a carrier of catastrophe? 

 

Watch it, or read it, or view as many clips and analysis as you can. The world can have no clearer warning, no more obvious signal, Donald Trump is a clear and present danger, full stop. 

 

It’s time for America to begin to pull him away from power and to begin a national conversation about the ways that can be done. When a man says the only thing that can restrain him is his own morality, when that is said by a cheat, fraud, sexual predator and malignantly narcissistic vulgarian, with his record,  it’s the most obvious warning sign the cosmos can offer.

WE OWE IT TO A FUTURE

 

Donald Trump is not to be trusted. He is not well. He is not rational. He must be stripped of power. 

See you down the trail. 

FRAUD RELIGION and LOOK AT DAVOS

    Balloons have lifted my spirit since I was a kid. They add cheer to anywhere, including an alley.

        Even the shadows are playful and teasing,

      and something to chase.

where a shadow haunts

Photo by Fabrice Coffrini Agency France-Presse

    The World Economic Summit has commenced again in Davos. 
    60 World leaders, countless corporate and business chieftains, academics and theoreticians gather each year to plumb the world's economy. This year there is more security than ever.

     Terror is a threat, in the form of armed zealots, but nature has done her part as well. A record 6 feet of snow has fallen. It is as though the planet's climate is demanding a place on the agenda.

Photo by Gian Ehrenzeller European Press Photo Agency

        There is also the growing terror of people dislocated by economics, war and disaster. There may have never been more refugees in history and more are likely. There may never have been a wider gap between the haves and the have-nots. The number of wealthy remains small-most of the rest of the world's population faces more struggle. A storm of another kind is brewing.

Photo by Fabrice Coffrini Agency France Presse

they wait for the rupture

    I attempt to avoid religion in these posts. A person's beliefs are their business, a most intimate and personal piece of being human. I think we should afford respect, but today I must speak.

     In the last couple of days two major news organizations have explored the support for donald trump by evangelical Christian groups, mostly right wing. There have been other pieces over the last year, but his recent profanity burst and the leak of his paying hush money to a porn star to be silent about their relationship prompted a new examination.

     They still back the vulgarian. That very support gives their brand of faith a black eye and a crushed credibility. 
     Trump is a liar, a swindler, a serial adulterer, an apparent racist, a sexual predator, a bully, worships money and is by most evidence stupid but conceited. All of that but the stupid makes him an ideal target for the evangelicals to capture- to change his heart, to convert him, to make him a better human being. But there is nothing in that to cause them to step away from the faith of Jesus to back  trump. They must have forgotten that Jesus was a radical rabbi who's rare display of anger was to turn over tables and toss out the swindlers. He spoke of eschewing all of the things that trump worships and does and how he lives and how he behaves.

    Can you imagine trump laying down his life for his followers, or living as a wandering vagrant, urging his followers to give what they have to less advantaged, or to decry violence, to be a peace maker, loving all, even those who are handicapped, or from Haiti, or Mexico, or Syria, etc, etc, etc.?

   So how do you justify going from a devotion to a Christ to a devotion to a trump? How? How in the hell do you do that? Ah, there is that!

      From my understanding of Jesus he would probably be the first to forgive trump and the first to try to bring him into the fold, but also the first to recognize the wrong or evil and perversion of the man's life and his devotion to himself. 
      Someone who purports to be a person with a genuine faith and who uses articles of that faith to support trump is, in my opinion, not to be trusted on matters of faith. Same for those who ignore trumps perversity of character.

      I knew Billy Graham and even worked with him and his senior staff over the course of a couple of years. I was leery of evangelists, but Graham was sincere and devoted to preaching. I came to a new understanding of Graham, his role and impact. Something that he wrote and spoke of is how he had been emotionally and spiritually swindled by Richard Nixon, with whom he had a close relationship. As someone pointed out recently he never got over how he was "snookered" by Nixon.  It would behoove his son Franklin and other evangelicals who somehow find a way to support the behavior and action of trump to learn the Billy Graham lesson. 

     To those who say they are evangelical Christians and who support trump-would you want to spend eternity with him? Not that you have anything to say about that.

     One year of him in the White House has been a kind of hell for the majority of US citizens and others around the globe. Try to save him if you wish, pray for him, but to take a pulpit or a public forum and endorse him or his actions makes you a phony and a fraud, just like trump. Your faith is more important than just another one of us mere mortals with feet of clay. To support trump or to ignore his perversity is to make a mockery of what you say you believe.
      And a reminder to me and everyone else, the founders were right with this idea of separation of church and state.

     And on that note, God bless you and God bless America, please! In fact, God bless this whole planet.

     See you down the trail.