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President Donald Trump does not have many Republican critics left in Congress — but one of the few who remains recently told The New York Times that he views his upcoming primary as a “litmus test” for his own party. “He told me that he thinks if he wins, it will embolden his colleagues to oppose Trump on policy issues they truly care about,” the Times’ Catie Edmondson told Katie Gleuck in a Wednesday interview . Edmondson was discussing her recent interview with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has been an outspoken critic of Trump for invading Iran and concealing files related to the late convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “That being said, and what I hope came through in the piece, is that Massie, and his relationship to his district, are unique. Even if he wins, I’m not sure how many of his colleagues would rush to follow his lead given how much outside money is being spent against him.” Massie is not alone among Republicans in Congress who stand up to Trump, althou...
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Former Republican fears 'complete nut jobs' in charge of the White House

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Podcaster and former reality show star Angie “Pumps” Sullivan said she grew up in a Republican home and stayed true to the faith, until around the time she discovered the immorality and low IQ of candidate and later President Donald Trump. “I grew up a Republican. I was raised by Republicans that are now MAGA,” Sullivan told Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller. “[But] … my entire life blew up and I had to reexamine how I viewed my religion, evangelical Christianity, and that spilled over into politics.” It is with the candor of personal experience, then, that Sullivan admits the Trump administration has “let complete nut jobs that are not tethered to reality into positions of power.” “Like, we have the dumbest people in the world in positions of power,” Sullivan told Miller. “When you really look at it, you go around the cabinet and you think this is the biggest collection of dip—— I have ever seen in my entire life. … It would be hard to try to even get a collection of dip—— that are d...
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​​'A lame duck and getting lamer': Trump's Iran invasion exposed as desperate power grab

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A longtime conservative writer is not quite ready to give up on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran — but even he admits that the Republican is acting like “a lame duck and getting lamer.” In a Tuesday editorial that labeled America’s 45th and 47th president as a “wild card,” Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. argued that Trump is a “lame duck and getting lamer” who, as a result, is “betting on luck” to get him a series of major policy achievements. “His war aims run athwart the Napoleonic dictum: If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna,” Jenkins explained. “Disapprove of George W. Bush but he took steps and mobilized the resources to make sure he met his stated goals in Iraq. And luck cuts both ways. Like history’s most notorious foreign-policy gamblers, Mr. Trump is unlikely to quit while ahead.” When Trump’s anti-war supporters express bafflement at his sudden warmongering, Jenkins observed that Trump was never actually an isolationist, but rather exults ...
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Scholars attack Trump ally's twisted theology as a dangerous delusion

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President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally and military technology supplier, Palantir CEO Peter Thiel, says he is an expert on the Antichrist — but actual experts disagree. “Thiel’s evangelism is another example of how the right has strategically co-opted Christian religious teachings to provide support for their autocratic tendencies, as well as their fears about technology being limited through ‘woke’ beliefs,” Anthea Butler, chair of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies, wrote in a Tuesday editorial for MSNOW . Earlier in the piece, Butler broke down the components of Thiel’s religious philosophy, identifying them as a “mishmash of his political and personal beliefs about technology, civilization, race and democracy. And his views on the antichrist range from the disturbing to the nonsensical.” Thiel, a businessman in the military-industrial complex, “believes the antichrist will push the world toward peace using the fear of war” and “use peace to slow ...
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Mainstream media is playing a dangerous game: mental health experts

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President Donald Trump is a habitual liar who may also suffer from serious mental illness, a seasoned journalist argued on Monday — but the mainstream media is too cowardly to call it out. “For a while now, I’ve been imploring the leaders of our top news organizations to call out Donald Trump’s derangement,” wrote Dan Froomkin, editor of Press Watch and former journalist at The Huffington Post and The Intercept . “My argument is simple: It is the central, underlying explanation for everything else they’re covering.” Yet, as Froomkin pointed out, “They won’t do it. Their arguments: It would appear partisan; We don’t want to take sides; And (more reasonably) we prohibit the use of language associated with mental illness unless a person has been diagnosed as mentally ill. (I wrestle with a variation of this last one myself: How do you call him insane without stigmatizing insane people?)” Even though Froomkin can understand journalists being reluctant to discuss mental illness, Froomk...
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War-gamer exposes Trump's fatal miscalculation in Iran

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President Donald Trump’s surprise war against Iran did not factor in the implications of an important consideration, and a foreign policy expert who “war gamed” this conflict is calling it out. “Kasie, I've war-gamed the Iran war plan a number of times across multiple administrations,” Brett McGurk, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant under both President Barack Obama and Trump himself, told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday . “And I think what the administration said earlier — a 4-to-6-week military campaign — was about right. If you're going to degrade Iran's defense industrial base, the missiles, the drones, everything, it takes 4 to 6 weeks.” Yet there is one variable that did not happen in those war games, and it makes a big difference. “The one thing that usually did not happen in those war games was that on Day One of the campaign, you took out the entire Iranian leadership,” McGurk told Hunt. “Tha...
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News24 | Faith and kindness carry Mossel Bay mother across 1 400km to witness son’s graduation

What began as a simple WhatsApp message among a handful of Bible study women in Mossel Bay has turned into a milestone journey stretching from the shores of Cape Town to the heart of Johannesburg. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/CHxwWYJ via sinceretalk
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