End Notes on the Political Divide, Maybe

 Liberal friend asks if I'd agree that both sides spin the news to suit our political position and that accounts for a lot of our insbility to agree on facts.  I'm not sure abourt the last part of that, I'm gusessing about that part, but she did seem to expect me to agree that both sides spin the facts to suit our political views.

Well, I don't agree but I can aoncede that since we view the news through our particular poitical lenses that our political opinion s are going to shape it and color it even to the point sometimes that it is hard to recognize eachothers' s poisition it's so different from our own .  Sometihing like that.  But no, if we're talking about spin no, the right does not spin in the sense of manipulating facts to create a particular impression such as I was trying to show in the examples I gave in the previous post.  That is not just the news freighted with a political viewpoint, it's the news altered by intention to make something apprear to be the case which is not the case.  In those examples , at leats the first two of them, the news was specifically manipulated to make Trump look bad, make him out to be sympathetic to neo Nazis, make him out to be the sort of crude person who would mock a man's disability.  that's not ordinarly political coloration, that's outright lying to destroy a person.

In the Gerlge Floyhd example, thebelief that he was killed by racist politic led to rioting that destroyed cities and nobody saw fit to try to stop it.  If anybody knew about the tony timpa case, a white man who was killed in eaxactly the same way as Floyd was, it was kept from the public.  It is still kept from the public.  You have to go out of your eway to find it.  he was treated to exactly the same police manuever, he also kept protesting that he couldn't breathe, and after eleven minutes you can hear on the audio as he exhales his last breath.  After which they frantically try to revive him but it's too late.

At least the public should be wmade aware of the Tony Timpa case but that isn't happening and I guess it won't because the media are in service to eh Left which doesn't want to have a democracy in whicdh all sides get heard and the truth is allowed to come out, they want a totalitarian regime in which we all bow to leftist policieeds and the media are servicing that aim.  even though there are lots of good conservatives tgalking on the radio and in podcasts and through good organizations and publicastions, their point of view is never allowed to spread to the public at large.  All they ever get is leftist spin, real spin, real lying manipulating spin.

the eorge Floyd case gets even more complicated as there is some good evidence that he didn't die of the police manuever at all, but of overdosing on some heavy drugs.  he was already complaining that he couldn't believe before he was put into that manuever.  Certainly we could regard the decidsion to treat him that way as a great error of judgment at least, but apparently he was hard to restrain and bad decisions were made.  I don't know the whole story but apparently it is now told in a fiolm titled The Fall of Minneapolis.  

In aycase Derek Chauvin is not guilty of murder or even manslaughter.  He was following police procedsures and mistakes don't get you imprisoned for murder or manslaughter in a normal functioning justice system.  Which we no longer have.

As often happenes I managed not to talk about what I started out to talk about but I guess I can start on that here.  I didn't know much about the E Jean Carroll case yesterday, and I'm very li.klely getting her name wrong beause I konly know it by how it sounds since I can't read it.  I still don't know the whole story but I now know that this defamation he was charged with , Trump I mean of course, was calling her a liar and insisting he isn't guilty of what she accused him of.  Now THAT is a miscarriage of justice.  Good grief if you can't protest that you're not guilgty and the accuser is lying there is nothing canyone can safely say in this country any more.  I'm sure this must be the only time in the history of the planet that chargeds of defamation were brought against someone for saying that, the whole thing should have been thrown out of court bwfore it got to the doorway.

I was also ruminating about my liberal friend's complaint that Trump was behving like a child in the courtroom.  Well, OK, that speaks to his personality and many people don't like his personality.  The Guy from Queens is one way that \\\\ he gets described, which I surmise describes a rather crude or impuslive personality or something like that?  I don't know.  But in any case it's personality and when you start talking about his personality you've left the topic of justice.  Well, is the complaint that he's flouting the law or that he is behaviorng like a child?  I guess you can object to both but rally not in the same breath if you want to make a point about what's going on with him.    

It's possible that quite a bit of Trump's personality is what epopel turn into a criminal mindset or something like that?  I can't fathom what they are doing with Trump.  He's no fascist but they insist he is.  Just the usual leftist following of the instruction manual which tells them to acuse the opposition of what they are guilty of?  That's how I tend to read it.  Because they are the ptotalitairans, not Trump.  They are the destroyers of democracy, not Trump.  they are the ones who have censored conservativeas who simply hold opinions they disagree with.  That's totalitarianism.  The right doesn't do that sort of thing.  Yell and scream and call the Left names sometimes, yes, but actually try to censor them, no, actually lie about them, no.  there's no need, they are objectionable enough just as they are.  Ha Ha.  

Mark Levin hade Matt Tyobe on his show this evening, and I'm sure I'm mangling that name for the same reason I mangled Carroll's, I'm just going by how it sounds.  Tyobe is the man who exposed the twitter fils about all the censorship of poolitical positions the Left doesn't like.   He's recently exposed a group who are plotting to bring down the next election by various means jut as they brought down the previous one.  As Trump keeps saying, 

THIS IS NO LONGER AMERICA.

I still ponder how it might be possible to have a real discussion with liberals.  I'm told it's not possible, give it up, they don't want to talk, they want to hold onto their opinions no matter what, partly because they reall y do believe you have nothing to say anyway.    But I go on daydreaming.  And I'm pretty sure I know how it should be done procedurally.

A bigproblem I fun into with liberal friends is getting rushed, trying to say too much, trying to say something when I'm not ready to say it and hevaveln't had time to think it all through.  The time has to be made to think it throutgh.  No more than one issue at a time should be brought up for discussion and it should be discussed in calm orgiving tones on both sides,k but at least on the conservative side.  Gerting frantic and anxious is an enemy to making any headway at all.  If it needs to take dayhs or weeks, then so be it, but maybe a few hours or less is all some issues would need.  but it woulde hve to be throughouthly pursued so that both sides know that what they think about it is ver y clear.  

Tha's pretty much what I said a couple posts down too.  

The way things are going, though, it's probabsly a lost cause.  We're coming down to the very end and the return of Christ and any victories at this late date would no doubt be very short lived.  But then, I don't know, we don't know when the EndTimes are going to unforld with an;y certainty and we have to keep busy at our calling in any case.

Railroading Trump

 So what I had thought was headway in a disussion with a liberla turned out not to be which got me the usual Wat did ou expect from a liberal?  meaning you might as well give up, he gave up long ago.  I an' t give up though.  I have to think it's possible tht if you really ahve some facts that cofrrect a liberal misinformation that the liberal has to be honest enough to recognize3 that fact and change course at least on that one issue.  I still think that.  But ome form of denial seems to reign for the moment at least.  Nevertheless I'm not giving up.  

All I have are a few incidents in which the facts are provable.  There are endless incidents that seem obviously enough to me to be falsely represented by the liberal media but I don't hav the incontgrovertible facts in those cases.  Ao all I have are a few incidents, rather old by now which my liberal friend treated as some kind of argument against them, but the facts are incontrovertible so I continue to depend on them.  I'm sure I've brought this up here before but things nieed to be represated from time to time.

First one is the Charlottesville speech in which Trump was mischaracterized as saying newNazies are good people.  What he said was that there are good bpoeople on both sides of this issue of whether historical monuments should be removed or left, and since there were neoNazis protested at the scene along with others he was taken to be tsaing that neoNazis are good peop,e.  And tht is still believed by a great many on the lieft.  I asked my liberal friend if that's what she sthought he said and she said yes.  So I said that she should listen to his speech through to the end as toward the end he clearly says that he is not talking about the neoNazis that they should be condemned.  He says that very specifically, but that was not included in the news reports at the time or ever.  That is how the leftist medial create fake news to make Trump look bad, or conservatives in general and so on.  Just leave out whatever would contradict the smear they want to make people believe about Trump.  Trump has also repudicated the neo Nazis since thern but that never gets int othe main sources of news that liberals follow eight.  You have to go out of your way to find such things.  Which is why it is importnat to bring these things up and point them toward the sources that would correct their false impression.

I would think it would be a slam dunk, that an honest liberal would simply see the truth and have to admit it.  And learn from it that if this incident was falsfied to make Trump look bad a lot of other things they believe about Trump are very likely the result of the same sort of smear campaign.  I would think that would be a slam dunk.  Apparently it isn't and I really don't get why not.  

The other incident I like to use is the account of Trump's supposedly mocking a disabled reporters disability with a hand flopping gesture he makes which I guess is meant to imitate a befuddled garbled disorderly behavior or some sort.  Such as perhaps a disabled person might do or something like that.  nd that is exactly the pimpression the leftist media wanted to create and cuccceded in creating in the mind so f a great number of liberals in this country.  And my liberal friend is no exception as she answered my question whether she believes that is what Trump did by saying yes she did belive it.  So Isaid that there are videos available that show him making that exact same getsture in repsonse to a number fof other people who are not disabled, making it clear that he was mocking their opinion, not their person.  Again that ought to be a slam dunk revelation of how the news sources create false impressions to smear Trump, but again somehow I gather it was brushed off.  Beyond my comprehension.

Then I also refer to the George Floyd case, asking if the person believes Floyd was killed by racist cops.  A huge number of people in this country still think that was the case.  My friend said no in this case so I asked if she belie verd it was police brutality instead and she said yes to that but she acknolwedged that it was donge according to police directives in their training manusl so that the problem was not the cops but the plice policy itself.  The problem is hat we didn't follow up on this.  If it was police policy that was correctly followed then drerk chauvin did not murder Geolrge Floyd.  It would have to have been a rogue misbehavior on his part to justify that conclusion.   Also my firend did not know about the incident in which a white man, Tony Timpa, was ,killed by aexactly the same police maneuver in another part of the  country around the same time.  That should definitely ively show that it was rnor tracism and even if she had rejected that conclusion she should acknowledge that a misimpression was given that justified weeks of rioting and destruction in cities.  But liberals don't let themselves object to such things no matter what I guess.  

So much for attempts to get liberals to see facts.  

I was told that Trump acted like a child in storming out of the coutnrtrrom in the case of defamation brought against him for his rejection of some woman named Carroll's claim that he assaulted her sexually years ago.  Childish of him.  Well, liberals think all these court cases are legitimate legal actions.  We on the right know they are rigged and examples of the corruption of our justice system for political reasons on the part of the Left.  Trump knows he's being unujustly treated as usual so storming out of the courtreem seems like an undrstandable reaction to me, but ieven if you'd rather see more dignity and decorum from the Guy from QAueens as he is sometimes referrred to, the act remaisns that this is dfefinitedly a case of miscarriage of justice, not at all a case of a legal proceeding which should be treated with respect.    The very fact that one woman's testimony is allowed to be used against a person is a miscarriage of justice.  The bible requires two or three witnesses in order to exstablish a person's guilt.  You commit an injustice when you take one person's word for it against anytother, and thoughat ought to be obvious to anyone.   Trump is bwing dragged through unjust attacks on him for political reasons. Well, it's produced the very positive outcome that Trump supporters know he is being unjustily treated and are rising up to make him the most strongly supported candidate for President in history.    good sign that there is something of American spirit left in this country.

There is also that ridiculous accusation of him as supposedly inciting insurrection on January sixth.  Does nobody ever listen to that speech he made?  Guess not.  The evil on the side of the left is so think you'd think even those ON the left might begin gto notice it.  Not yet I guess.

Allegations that women have been offered money to testify to sexual assault in ortder to entrap a man , say Donald Trumkp in particular, float around.  I/ve been trying to find some evidence of a particular allegation that I've been told about but I can't find it.  Working on it.  

But when all you have is one accuser, one witness, the legal case can't be just no matter what.  

I listened a bit to some discussion by leftists on MSNBC about the Trump case he walked out on yesterday Which by the way was perfectly within his right to do since he was there by choice just to hear the proceedings and not required to be there.    Anyway these liberals go on and on about how nobody is above the law but Trump acts as if he thinks he is.  I don't know how they think a person would act who knew he was being reailroaded and that the legal proceedings were all a politial game to hurt him.  In such a case maybe he would act in a way intended to register a protest in the the hminds of his audience?  Maybe that could be construed by enemies to be putting himself above the law when what it really is is a protest that the law is in this case corrupted and broken.   Again some call him a Guy from Queens.  Some of his personality quirks perhaps result from that background and are not to be interpreted as the left loves to interpret them.  A lovely young woman called Georgia H as I recall who did a podcast about her discovery that she was being lied to by liberals was on you tube a few years ago, and may still be for all I know, called him a guy from queens and seem ed to think that accounts for a lot of what people hold against him.

This is all very sickening stuff.  For one thing everything against trump is somebody's word against him, nothing else.  In the case of Biden we have a video of himtalking about bribing Ukrainian officials to protect his son from a prosecutor looking into Hunter biden's financial midsdeeds, and we have evidence from a lptop belonging to Hunter biden full of incriminating evidence .  but what is used as evidence against Trump has to be made to look like something it isn't.  A speech about peaceful protest has to be called a n incitement to insurrection and if it's called that over and over again they figure it will become a reality although all he ever did was describe people protesting peacefully.  In the ases above information crucial to understanding what he said and did is simply left out by the media.  But the lefties continue to go on and on with their hatred of the man, using words to smear him in a million ways.  Lies lies andmore lies.  And the average liberal seems to accept it as simple truthy.

They can sound plausible in their accusations and allegations against Trump.  But then I remember how flimsy their foundation for any of it really is.  We know that Hilary Clinton bought the Russian dossier to smear Trump during his first election campaign.  How manyu of average liberals know that?  The Mullier Report found nothing because there was nothing to find.  The two impeachmenets were a clear sham based on making ordinary actions into criminal actions, which is a lot of what the left is doing against trump.  With all that going on any actual charge he might be guilty of is impossible to ascertain.    Despite the endless accusations and allegations against him in the end it looks to me like absolutely nothing sticks, he's guilty of none of it.  None.  Yet they have piled up a mountain of crime

Amazing how willing these liberal pundits are to just blather on about Trump and conservaitives in general as if they could analyze everybody's personality off the top of their own partisian political heads.  .    

           How do they get away with that 

Loneliness on a new level

 There are manty distresing things going on these days, and mnnot only in the world but in my own personal life, which makes it hard to arrive at conclusions and solutions about anything.  For me for sure but I think for many of us.  I continu to be distressed by the political situation in particular, meaning the fact that lfeft and right can't talk to each other specifically.

we hear different sets of facts.  Althoughn I can demonstrate in a few dcases that the media have been putting out false facts and that liberals still believe their fversion of those situations, I'm not up on the whole range of issues so I can't make the case for more than a few.  Not to mention the fact that liberals don't want to discuss uany of this anyway.  Even if I propose a discussion I get a no from them.  And other consrvatives say thesame thing.  

But surely there must be a way.  RTo To the expent that it is a matter ofof errors of fact on one side or the other such things ought to be resolvable.  If emotions run high it should be possible for us to learn to tone them donewn for the samekke of discussion.  I don't think of the average liberal as having any nefarious motives, I just think of them as believing false information.  To some extent I think they have the same view of us on the right, but I'm not entirely sure of that since what they think we are accepting is some pretty horrible stuff like white supremacy and fascism and that sort of thing, which are pretty personal things.  But that is something that it would be good to try and sort out.  How long can we go on with half the country believe ing one set of supposed facts and the anot other side a completely different set?

I can prove a few things about how the media have distorted the facts about Trump and about George Floyed and I think also about Black liives matter and that sort of thing.  It's etedious going even with those few things but I do think it worth it to try to get sdiscussions boing on any issue at all.  Even if it takes days or weeks to get through a particular minor issue to a point wehere we have a better understanding of the actual facts on both sides that should be worth it.  I don't know how to begin to try to bring this about because as I said I encounter a complete lack of openness to such discussions from my libedral friends and acquaintancxes.

An even tone, a willingness just to listen and not talk until the right moment if that ever arrives, brief comments to begin with and so on.  Why isn't this a possible mode of discussion for us these days?  I hear the conservative side of thing from many talk show hosts and they are pretty good at including lengthy sound bites of the opposition but I'm always frustrated that the conversation remains one sidesd and that we can't get liberals in on it with us.   What good does it do for a bunch of us to think even the truth about a situation if the truth stays only in our own group?  And yes it is possible that it's not always the truth and we do tneed the input of the other dside.  I very psessimistic about that of course but it has to be allowed as a possibility.  

I understand that there is a strong hatred of Trump by some people, not only on the left but even the right to some extent, and I have to admit to not really understanding it.  It's not that I think Trump is perfection by any means but he offers us a true vision that most conservatives do agree with, but the liberals I know think he's just a power mad fascistic feolonious rapist or some such and while that just takes my breath away with its bizarre falseness I have to acknowledge tghat it's there and bpeople believe it and I don't know what to do about it.  and just going on with the conservative mesasge as the conservative talk shows do isn't going to deal with any of that.  And that is what needs to be dealt with above all.

I'm suffering a lot these days from a sense of isolation and loneliness that seems to be to exceed the normal situation of my life.  There is some personal cause for this but a lot of it is the political situation, the sense of this encoroaching totalitarianism that can't be stopp[ed and largely because we can't talk to the other side about it.  They think we are the totalitarians.  YHikes.  What do you do with that level of falseness?  How do we deal with that?  it is necessary to keep on with the soconcservaitve point of viesw, that can't be dropped, but at the same timed if it isn't etting across to the other side we're just talking in an cho chamber.  Something has to be done.

My typing in this is terrible.  

My eyes are getting wrose.

Anyway as I started to say I'm gefeeling a level of what, disconnection, alienation, loneliness, that seems new to me and is at times even frightening.  I pray and the Lord is there. His peace comes over me whan I speak to Him but still this world is getting to me.   And I keep searching my head for solutions.  And praying about it when I think about it which isn't often enough.  he is always the source of all the answers, how ridiculous of any of us to forget that but I do.

I'm suffering from this sense of isolation and loneliness in a new way it seems to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone, in fact I know I'm not, I have aliberal freind sho admits to having similar feelings.   Someone I can't discuss politics with although recently we might have made alittle headway there, I'm not sure.   But we are both sufering from this state of affairs.  Since the COVID sthing started at least.  

I wish I could read emails but I can't.  I wish I had wsays of being in touch with more people but thanks to my failning eyesight I just can't.  I cdon'at have a solution to any of this for myslef at least.  But as long as I can still type even if I can't read it maybe I can keep up the subject, keep it on the table at least.

A Sane Approach to Demon Possession, Exorcism, etc

and Clicked on the wrong thing on a menu and totally messed things up.  I was watching this Lutheran theologian talking about demon possession and hoped I'd caught the URL but as usual it looks like I didn't or didn't get all of it, I can't see any of it here so have no idea.  

I wants to find a sane Protestant point of view about demon activity ahnd possession and I ran across him, A Dr. Gordon Cooper on a podcast titled Just And Sinner, the and being the ampersand which I can't find at the moment on mykeyboard.  It's been hard to track through his series for some reason, no doubt because I can't see to click on the right things, and when this oneof his series on demons came up I was very happy because I'd seen the previous one.  It just appeared out thof the ether as I was poking around You Tube and now I can't get it back having just lost it with that fateful click on that menu.  He's pretty good on the subject.  I didn't want any more Catholics and I don't want to hear from the Chraismatics on the subject.  Had enough of all that.  The problem is that the saner Protestants pretty much ignore the topic so I was very happy to find this guyu who is willing ort talk about it and takes it seriously while clearly rejecting the Catholics and Charismatics.

He is very aware that we are in a time when demonic activity is going to increase as the Church has lost its power in the culture and morality of a saner sort is alos out the window therse days, and of course he is quite right.  He thinks we should be prepared to encounter much more activity from the demonic realms.  I guess the devil doesn't like my knowing anything about him so he's making my usual difficulties even more difficult to keep me from finding him.  

Here

s another attempt at the URL 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5yjZJPnIdo&t=118

QWell, it doesn't work, for me anyway.  But I did find out this time that the title of this video, perhaps of the whole series is A Lutheran Approach to Exorcism.

Forgot what day it is

 Woopsie/.  I'm not doing Christmas this year but I suppose on a blog I ought at least to show some awareness of the date and wish all one and a half of my readers a a very 

Merry Christmas.          

Yousef takes a Turn Into Dangerous Territory

 Ouch.  Still listening to Yousef and for the most part finding his comments very good and courageous, for instance the admission that Islam is a religion of war.  Finally someone has the guts to say that, not a religion of Peace, no way, a religion of war, entirely war, all about killing everybody who isn't a Muslim.  

Then unfortunately it seems he thinks all religions are the problem and the solution to him is a secular Constitution that keeps them in check, at least that's one way he put it in an interview for Jerusalme Post.  No God above the Israeli Constitution in that case.  Which I suppose is his view also of the United States Constitution.  

He talks a lot about delusion, which I suppose he got from Buddhism, one of the concepts he's taken from various religions to put together his own personal philosophy of life.  But this is a delusion on his part.    Eventually it becomes clear that although he is being identified as a Christian he is really not at all a Christian and disagrees with much of Christian doctrine.

He seems to know that Islam is unique in its murderous objectives and yet he finds fault with all the other religions as well.  Pretty clearly, judging from more recent videos, he doesn't believe in God at all and simply chooses ideas he likes from any particular religion or philosophy and brings them together as if they could be united in one worldview.  He likes many teachings of jesus and often describes himself as dying to this or that in his own life, which clearly he gort from the teachings of Jesus, he likes loving your enemy etc.  

 In a couple of videos he tells a sort of parable of his own making about the shepherd and the sheep thta of course echoes the teachings of the bible, which so contradicts those teachings I found myself rather shaken with a sort of fear as I heard him tell it.  More than offense, though offensive it is, if you think of it as an answer to Christ Himself as it must be, and that is what makes it scary too, that he would make up a story that contradicts a major theme of God's own word.  In the Bibgle the good shephered is the trustworthy caretaker of the sheep, the sheep are God's wo-own flock and the shephered is ultimately God Himself.  Jesus refers to Himself as the shephered, the true shpehered who loves the sheep and protects them while the hireling shephered leaves them to the wolves.     Thy rod and thy staff tghey comfort me.  The rod protects against the wolves and the staff draws the sheep near to the shephered that's a line from the twenty third psalm The Lord is My Shephered.  

But Youself makes the shpehered the enemy of the hseep.  He's their worst enemy he says, and that is because ultimately they will be slaughtered for food, so all the love and protection is just a sham.  I guess he's making some point about not trusting authorities, oworldly aughotieis perhaps, although I'm reallynot at all sure what point he wants to make here.  But he's picture the phephered as the opposite of the Bible's view of the shpehered, as the enemy of the sheep.  Perhaps this is because he thinks of the sheep in terms of being raised for slaughter rather than the more common use of them for their wool, which I'm sjure is the context of the biblical referensest to the imagery.  he jumps to conclusions but in so doing he doesn't seem to fmind offending an entire religion and the God who inspired the Bible.

Wrongly.  he's wrong.  Let's make that clera.  

That little parable of his so unnerved me I started thinking of him as an antichrist, and he mayh well be.  He does a terrifica job of calling out Hamas and Islam and his own story is very compelling in many ways as a road to knowledge that his own people don't have and he wants to give them.  Knowledge that leads to an appreciation of humanity and a rejection of the narrowminded murderous focus of Islam, and a liberty that the Palestinians are in no position to understand without an education fo the sort he's been privileged to have.  Too bad he didn't really become a Christian because that would bw the worldview that would finally put together this puzzle of the nature of truth that he has been dedicated to learning throughout his life.  Too bad he didn't take it that far.  I reather doubt he still could but mayhbe it's not impossible.  At the moment he souns like thn antichrist to me when he gets into this thoughts about the human condition and religion.

The Great Insanity of Our Suicidal Political Policies

 This is the most insane thing of all going on now.  A civiolized country does not let criminals do whatever they want without restraint, and that includes people who shouot slogans inciting criminal behavior and lauding criminal behavior such as the loud demonstrations for Hamas we've been seing in the universities and the streets.  This is the big insanity of the day.  It's the same as Biden's being allowed to write laws that overturn our Constitutional standards and commit the treasonaous act of letting "migrants" come into the country unrestrained.  He should have been impeached already.  And the so called protestors who are not protesting acording to Constitutional principles but according to the lawlessness of the times should be imprisoned and in many cases deportexcdd. No civilized country shouild ever put up with these things and yet is t is happenening.