TRUMP WATCH: 6.29.19 - An angry, stressed and worried America

An angry, stressed and worried America - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

Gallup conducted another poll about whether Americans were angry. Some 84% said they are angrier today compared with a generation ago. Over 70% said they get angry or sometimes get angry when checking the news. A previous Gallup poll of the emotional state of people worldwide and found that the 55% of Americans who experienced stress and worry were of the highest rates of the 143 countries studied, beating the global average by a full 20 percentage points. Among the most angry countries in the world, Gallup reports, are also Islamic-Iraq, Iran, the Palestinian Territories, Morocco, Turkey, Niger, Chad, Libya, and Pakistan. There's a lot of stress, worry and anger in the world-all things we must resist.

 

We get all wrapped up in politics and entertainment and day to day life. The mixture of the three may cause a lot of worry and anxiety. But what does Christ say about this? In Matthew 6:31-34, he says, "Therefore take no thought, saying What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

 

Stress, anger and worry are not of the Lord. And, yes, I know full well that they hit us every day full force. This is a matter of focusing on the good and controlling what you can control. The rest will take care of itself. When challenges present themselves, take a breath. Focus on the task at hand. Don't take it personal or get over emotional about it. Then start working on those things that you can impact. It's a matter of renewing your mind and understanding who you are and why you are on this earth. As the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 12:2, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

 

It is so interesting that Islamic areas of the world are more angry than other cultures. If they were following the one true God, perhaps not only the words of the Holy Scriptures would give them peace, but also the Holy Spirit would guide them personally to not be so angry. We in America have so much for which to be thankful. Our worst living conditions are better than most of the world, yet we are angry and stressed. On the other hand, I have seen brothers and sisters in Africa who face tremendous challenges each day, but they are not angry-they have the joy of the Lord and they practice the words of Christ by allowing the morrow to take thought for the things of itself. Have a blessed, and stress/anger/worry-free day today. Practice it. Renew your mind. Find the joy of the Lord and embrace it!

 

 

Deception, disruption, duplicity and dishonesty - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

The mainstream media and Democratic Party presidential hopefuls are taking President Donald Trump to task for sounding the alarm on Iran and then pulling back. They say he went against his repeated campaign promises to not telegraph military actions as did his predecessor. They say it was reckless foreign policy and Joe Biden went so far as to say that it was "a self-inflicted disaster." Biden said that Trump walking away from the Iranian nuclear deal actually was a breakdown in diplomacy that will allow Iran to make a nuclear weapon and that Trump was failing to protect national security by not securing a stable energy supply through the Straights of Hormuz. The facts speak otherwise.

 

The Iranian nuclear deal actually gave Iran the green light and over a billion American dollars in cash to continue its nuclear development. The previous president admitted his deal with the terrorist-sponsoring nation only prevented nuclear weapons for 10 years. Trump did not telegraph his military action against Iran, he was actually using an old Teddy Roosevelt foreign policy tactic-speak softly and carry a big stick. The "big stick" was a threatened attack on Iran for shooting down an American drone in international airspace. The "speak softly" was the offer to discuss issues between Iran and the US rather than go to war over them.

 

For these Democratic Party presidential candidates to decry the horrible situation in the Middle East as Trump's fault, and the media to allow their statements to stand without challenge is blatantly irresponsible on both parts. The Middle East is an extraordinary mess because of Arab Spring where the previous Administration supported the terrorist organization Muslim Brotherhood fomenting revolution throughout the region and destabilizing or overthrowing governments. The Democratic Party hopefuls' foreign policy is to support policies that create problems, and then blame the problems on the guy who tries to fix them. Some of the things they are saying defy common sense and expose their deadly weaknesses.

 

We do not need another war. America is far too long in the wars in the Middle East. We have lost too many of our sons and daughters, too many are maimed for life because America is the world police against Islamic aggression. If he does nothing more the rest of his presidency, Donald Trump did the right thing by showing restraint and trying to negotiate peace with Iran, which has gone way too far in its own warmongering. All the political forces are shouting "WAR" in Trump's ear, yet they will be the first to criticize him if he takes the bait or criticize him if he doesn't. Christ said in Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Peace is a tough business, especially when you have Islam, the media and political hypocrites working deception, disruption, duplicity and dishonesty.

 

What The Trump Peace Plan Cannot Accomplish - By Jonathan Tobin - http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=3304

 

When the Trump administration released the economic portion of its Middle East peace plan last week, the avalanche of criticism was immediate and harsh.

 

Even though the president's foreign-policy team couched the plan as a "vision" of peace rather than an intricate blueprint, its critics weren't wrong in pointing out that there was little in it that was new, and that its chances of success were nil.

 

Yet in analyzing the effort, it's important to note that there's a difference saying that the plan won't succeed and saying that putting it forth was the wrong thing to do. That's because the problem with it isn't the content, but the context.

 

An effort to shift the focus from a push on Israeli concessions, which are never enough to satisfy the Palestinians, to one in which Palestinian society could be transformed--economically and hopefully peaceably--was long overdue. But as long as the intended beneficiaries aren't interested in such programs, the "ultimate deal" is simply not going to happen under any circumstances.

 

The sticking point is clear. Palestinian Authority leaders say they want the investment and aid, but that any discussion of economics must await a political settlement in which they will be given an independent state. Only after they achieve sovereignty, they say, will the aid be welcome or relevant.

 

That's a fact that many Trump-administration critics have echoed when dismissing the plan authored by presidential adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner and U.S. negotiator Jason Greenblatt. They say Trump's team is putting the cart before the horse and effectively rendering the peace process irrelevant by not focusing on the actual points of contention that separate the parties, like borders, settlements and refugees.

 

As veteran State Department peace processor Aaron David Miller, who now heads the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank, put it: "The Palestinians' economic problem isn't a lack of money. It's a lack of liberty."

 

Even if we were to lay aside for the moment that the main obstacle to Palestinian liberty is the tyrannical rule of Hamas in Gaza and that of Fatah in the West Bank rather than Israel, this argument fails to answer the key question that most be posed to critics of Trump's plan: Why have decades of peace processing by foreign-policy professionals like Miller, who knew a lot more about the conflict and diplomacy than Trump's Middle East team, always failed?

 

All previous administrations have paid some lip service to economic issues, with many issuing their own plans that were not dissimilar to the one Trump just proposed. They have all taken the approach the Palestinians say they prefer: how to strong-arm Israel into agreeing to a two-state solution.

 

Yet that strategy never succeeded, no matter how much pressure presidents like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama put on the Jewish state, and no matter how many times Israel said "yes" to two states as they did a number of times in the last 20 years.

 

The Palestinians had their chance to get the "liberty" they say they wanted in 2000, 2001 and 2008, when Israeli governments put a two-state solution with almost all of the West Bank and a share of Jerusalem in their hands.

 

They also enjoyed eight years of an Obama administration that clearly saw Israeli policies as the main obstacle to peace. Still, every time they had the chance to get the state they say they want so badly, they said "no."

 

At some point, the foreign-policy professionals should have figured out that the old approach was never going to work.

 

That is, in essence, what Kushner, Greenblatt and company have done by attempting to restart the conversation about peace in a different way.

 

Instead, they think emphasizing policies that will give the Palestinians a stake in peace and promoting measures that will mandate good governance have the potential to change everything. You can call that an attempt to "bribe" the Palestinians into accepting peace with Israel, but all it really amounts to is a reminder that coexistence would create a better reality than the current one rooted in conflict.

 

Trump was right to try to end his predecessors' coddling of Palestinian fantasies of defeating Israel, which is what their policies of non-recognition of Jerusalem and refusing to condition aid on ending support for terror amounted to.

 

The problem is that the Palestinians' century-old war on Zionism has become inextricably linked to their national identity to the point where it is impossible for anyone inside their political structure to imagine normal life alongside a Jewish state.

 

And even if they could make that leap of imagination, entrenched forces like Hamas and other Islamist groups, as well as the millions of descendants of the 1948 Arab refugees who continue to hold onto the false hope of erasing the last 71 years of history, won't like them act on it.

 

That's why Hamas continues to promote the "right of return" as if the eradication of the Jewish state was a viable option. And it's why the Palestinian Authority continues to subsidize terror in the form of salaries for imprisoned terrorists, and pensions for their families and survivors, because to do otherwise would be to admit that their defeat in a war they haven't the courage or the good sense to give up on.

 

If Trump's plan is going to fail--and it will--it can be attributed to these reasons. It's not because previous administrations understood the conflict any better, or that the focus on economics is wrongheaded.

 

If this latest approach doesn't work, then the blame should fall on those responsible--the Palestinians--not on the ideas behind the plan itself.

 

 The immorality of college debt - Bill Wilson -

www.dailyjot.com

 

Several years ago, I was on the phone with a college finance office discussing what I believed to be overcharges on my son's student loan. Of course, through the whole tangled web of this grant, and that loan, and whatever, it was like unraveling a ton of coat hangers dumped in a pile. By and large, even with a football scholarship and academic scholarships, my son will have over $80,000 in debt to start his professional life. I told the finance person that I believed it was immoral what these colleges and universities were doing to this generation. You can see why neo communist Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and other politicians are saying they would forgive college loans if elected. It's down-right vote buying.

 

Sanders and others are going after the millennial generation vote by saying that they will cancel college debt. In fact, they have introduced legislation to do just that, and provide free tuition at public colleges and universities. AP reports, "Sanders vowed at a Monday news conference that his plan "completely eliminates student debt in this country and the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation, the millennial generation, to a lifetime of debt for the crime of doing the right thing. And that is going out and getting a higher education." He appeared alongside the proposal's House sponsors, Reps. Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in attendance." No mention that Sanders' "plan" will never be implemented. It's just his plan to get votes.

 

These neo communists know that their legislation has zero chance of passage. They also know that by saying that if elected they will cancel college debt and provide free tuition is an impossible lie. But it doesn't matter, millions of millennials will believe them and vote for them. The question of who is going to pay for this would come up. And the answer will likely be that we owe it to our children. In reality, what we owe to our children is to clean up the entire mess of the liberal education system, which propagates immorality, irresponsibility, and socialist agendas, and perpetuates the dumbing down of our children. Universities and colleges are so bloated with political nonsense, teachers that can't hold a real job, and nonessential overhead that higher education is an unaffordable bad value.

 

What happens if ever there is free tuition? What happens if college debt is cancelled? It just cheapens education and starts the debt cycle over again. What is needed is real reform. Removing the fat from college budgets, which would include the political agenda, a whole bunch of unnecessary student services and fees, and the inflated administration budget, including salaries of the overstuffed pontificators who are ruining generations of Americans. But that won't happen because it would address the root of the problem: Ending socialist brainwashing paid for by either students, their parents, or the general public. Colossians 2:8 says, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." And therein is the immorality of college debt.

 

 

 Big tech free speech "truth" squads - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

The First Amendment to the US Constitution reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." This means that the US government cannot abridge the freedoms of speech, the press, peaceful assembly, and to petition the government for redress. But I repeat myself. It is important. Especially when big tech companies have become such large platforms that their censure of free speech. religion and political ideologyhas a similar affect as if the government were doing the censuring.

 

In a blatant private enterprise attempt to censure free speech, Twitter announced it will attach a notice to tweets that it considers offensive, but "may be in the public's interest for the tweet to remain available." Twitter says, "A cross-functional team including Trust and Safety, Legal, Public Policy and regional teams will determine if the Tweets are a matter of public interest based on the criteria listed above the following considerations..." Twitter listed five criteria its truth squads will use including the severity of the "rule violation"; whether preserving the Tweet will hold public officials or candidates accountable; whether sources of information are available for the public to stay informed; if removal would hide context or prevent people from understanding the issue; and if the Tweet will provide unique context for a broader discussion.

 

Then Twitter reveals the true story about their free speech truth squads: "In instances where a Tweet violates our rules and our review doesn't find that it would be in the public interest to leave it up, we will require the account owner to remove the Tweet. Either way, this notice will make our decision-making clearer." Twitter's policy applies to candidates, public office holders, and government officials with over 100,000 followers. In other words, as a matter of policy Twitter is going to allow a special appointed committee to determine whether to allow a public official's free speech to live or die on its platform, which has become the major vehicle of direct communication to the people.

 

Twitter (and probably the other tech giants will follow suit if they haven't already-can anyone say Facebook?) will attempt to influence the next election by censuring public officials. Who is the public official who uses Twitter most effectively to talk to Americans? President Donald Trump. Twitter is saying if Trump doesn't meet their truth squad's criteria, he will be censured. This is the problem when privately-owned free speech platforms become so large that they can be weaponized for political purposes and impose their own ideology. As Christ said in John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Big tech is attempting to suppress the truth to hold you captive to political intolerance and ideological bigotry, and that includes your Christian values.

 

 

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