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I'm very pleased at what I've seen from Trump so far. He is a non stop work horse!
It's amazing the energy level of Trump. I believe to take on all the problems of America realy does take a type A personality.
Believe it or not, the other thing good about him is his ego, rather than a thirst of getting rich from the office.
I person with a strong ego would want to make America great once more, and go down in history as the greatest president of all time. That will be his goal and to acheive this takes hard hard work.
By his appointments, I am having more confidence that he truly is no longer a Democrat and has seen how badly these extreme Democrats have hurt this nation.
Time will tell. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt for now. Because hey, that's what we're supposed to do in a democracy. We had the election, we have a result, now we all try to move forward together. There's a lesson there you know.
A democracy ? A democracy is a type of government where the creation, evolution and proposal of laws are made through the engagement of all eligible citizens. There are several types of democratic systems, such as direct and semi-direct, representative, parliamentary, presidential, constitutional and hybrid democracies.
Maybe so, but you know what? To bring praise upon himself (even if it is purely self centered), means our nation must be doing well, or he will have zero legacy as Obama will have.
8 years of a Socialist President and his policies have been kicked to the curb. That election process defeated the Progressives in 2010 , 2014 and in 2016. So give a shout out how well socialist policies work !
Obama isnt a socialist, he doesnt have socialist policies. Maybe they are further to the left than you'd hope, but there never really has been a true socialist president. Roosevelt was much more a socialist than Obama
Then you simply dont understand ideologies. Just because someone is more liberal than you doesnt make them a socialist, just like someone who is a bit less liberal than me isnt a capitalist.
You can say he is a leftist, you can say he is a liberal or whatever..
How many egoists have you actually met? We're not exactly a common occurrence, and I don't think Trump even is one. An egotist, perhaps, but that's not the same at all. :P
Ha, you mean egotists. Those are common enough. An egoist is something altogether different. While the former are identified by their personality, the latter is identified by a philosophy. I'm an egoist (not egotist, I think), and I've only ever met one other person who may have been one too. We're like the Mew Twos of philosophy. ;)
You brought Santa Claus and God into it, which has absolutely nothing to do with this debate or my argument. So no, your point wasnt accurate, it was ridiculous and irrelevant.
Wow. You are setting the bar just about as low as possible. This is the problem with delusion and political parties. You have bought into the idea that you have to defend your political party no matter what. Now you are desperate to make sure that no one gets the idea that your party has screwed up. He picked his team. Picking your team is not success.
Maybe you missed it, but most all of our greatest sports figures, have big egos. This is what drives them to be the best. They want everyone to look at their achievments in sports and sing their praises.
There is nothing wrong with some ego because it truly does spur the athelete's best effort.
It also brings out the best in our occupations. Most of us try to impress the Boss by being the best we can be. This is another form of ego. It gets us our goals in life.
We have too many politicians whose goals are not making America a better place, and receiving the praises from the electorate, but rather pushing their ideology and getting people of like mind elected.
I believe Trump wants to succede for himself and the nation.
I made no mention of egos. You can't just change the subject and pretend you responded to what I said.
You are saying that Trump is a success because he picked his team of advisors. You say that Obama is a failure because he didn't grow the economy enough and he grew the debt. Do you see the massive disparity there?
I agree that there's nothing inherently wrong with pursuing your self interest, and I don't regard that as being mutually exclusive to benefiting others. I'm genuinely curious, though: why do you believe that Trump wants to succeed for himself and the nation?
Most all of our greatest sports figures, have big egos. This is what drives them to be the best. They want everyone to look at their achievments in sports and sing their praises.
There is nothing wrong with some ego because it truly does spur the athelete's best effort.
It also brings out the best in our occupations. Most of us try to impress the Boss by being the best we can be. This is another form of ego. It gets us our goals in life.
We have too many politicians whose goals are not making America a better place, and receiving the praises from the electorate, but rather pushing their ideology and getting people of like mind elected.
I believe Trump wants to succede for himself and the nation.
Trump has done a great deal already! He shot down Chris Christie from havng a big part in his administration because of the bridgegate scandal!
Can you grasp how important that is? With that one decision, he sent a message to every politician that corruption will not be a part of his administration.
Unike Obama who paid back Hillary by giving her the secretary of state position for pay back for her support, Trump refused to pick Christie because of his corruption.
THAT'S HUGE and is the total opposite of how this extreme above the law Democrat party has been running the show.
Obama has fired very few people involved in scandals.
I don't think Trump, at heart, is either a republican or a democrat. He ran as a reformed party candidate...was it '99?. I think he wears whatever suit will best fit his plans. He would have been a democrat only for the political affiliations best suited to his business interests and I think the same holds true now. He clearly leans toward Republican values of personal responsibility and it's better to have a leader, ungodly though he may be, who has actually earned his way by working and producing rather than sucking the blood out of the economy through tax extortion to give handouts to as many people as possible to buy their votes, and line their own pockets with as much money as they use to buy votes with.
I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. His negotiation with companies to stay put; ticking China off; bringing in people with real-world experience who are practicioners, not academics; commenting on expensive military programs and that they need to be renegotiated; trade deals needing to be reworked, and basically putting everyone on notice that a new sheriff is in town and business as usual will not stand. It seems that we finally have someone who understands costs and will be a good steward of our resources.
I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. His negotiation with companies to stay put; ticking China off; bringing in people with real-world experience who are practicioners, not academics; commenting on expensive military programs and that they need to be renegotiated; trade deals needing to be reworked, and basically putting everyone on notice that a new sheriff is in town and business as usual will not stand. It seems that we finally have someone who understands costs and will be a good steward of our resources and put US number one.
Trump has done a great deal already! He shot down Chris Christie from havng a big part in his administration because of the bridgegate scandal!
Can you grasp how important that is? With that one decision, he sent a message to every politician that corruption will not be a part of his administration.
Unike Obama who paid back Hillary by giving her the secretary of state position for pay back for her support, Trump refused to pick Christie because of his corruption.
THAT'S HUGE and is the total opposite of how this extreme above the law Democrat party has been running the show.
Obama has fired very few people involved in scandals.
You don't actually live in a democracy. You live in a republic. That's why there's an electoral college, and it's been around as long as the country has but I don't recall seeing you or any other liberal objecting to it until it didn't work out in your favor.
At any rate, these are the results under the current laws of the republic you live in. You agreed to those conditions and the validity of the result for this cycle when you cast your vote and participated in that system. You might want it to change down the road, but for the time being Trump's election is just as valid as Clinton's would have been if she'd secured the electoral college instead. And I very much doubt you'd have been whining about her not being your president if that's how things had turned out.
The US Constitution establishes the country as a Republic. Democracy is majority rule. Some Islamic nations practice democracy, using terror to coerce their citizens to vote for the thugs to be in power. Unrestrained democracy will always become fascism.
Christians do not commit acts of terror. In times past known as the dark ages, a government establish pagan religion claimed to be the authority of Jesus Christ and killed real Christians who would not join. This brutality against Christians has never stopped, never will. Catholicism is not Christian, and even if you compare their brutality to that of Islam or Communism, there is little comparison. The Crusades were used to kill real Christians as they killed Muslim invaders who were Hell bent on conquering Europe and it's a good thing the Catholics stopped them.
This brainless "Christians are terrorists the same as Islamic terrorists" is silly.
I'm sure he says he wants peace but when it comes down to it he is going to side with the radical Muslims. The goal of Islam is world domination by force, "peace loving" Muslims uphold Mohammed as God's final prophet and Mohammed says Muslims are to force all infidels to convert, become slaves of Islam, or be killed. If your friend really wants peace he should start by completely renouncing and abandoning Islam. If he will not renounce Islam, he is guilty by association of all acts of Islamic terror.
I renounce and refuse to associate myself with Catholicism even though I'm glad they stopped the Muslims from conquering Europe in the crusades....they also killed many real Bible believing Christians like myself. I am totally against the religion of Catholicism which is a pagan religion using Bible terms and characters, changing the meaning of words and changing the significance of Bible characters to make them fit Catholic dogma.
Any Muslim who will not renounce Islam is guilty by association no matter how peaceful the claim to be. Your friend hates Israel. Don't let him kid you on that. If you question him about Israel's right to defend itself and to attack those who attack it, you'll see. Your Muslim friend wants Israel to lay down and play dead and let themselves be bombed and attacked mercilessly by Muslims.
My friend follows the Quran in Surah 2:256 when it says that religion is not by compulsion. He also follows the Quran when it says that he is not to go to war against people who have done nothing wrong to him. If you are going to judge the Quran, you need to read the whole thing.
Obama was an okay President. He has both good and bad points. He was strong on healthcare, women's rights, okay on children's rights, weak on war, torture, and and the death penalty.
Even if it were true that your mother was saved from others subsidising her health insurance, you do realize that there are millions of middle class families that can no longer afford insurance, and some will die from cancer.
People can not afford the insanely high premiums and deductibes from Obamacre.
If your mother was able to purchase her own Obamacre, then she would have been able to afford any insurance even if there were no Obamacare.
Socialized medicine is for those who can't help themselves. We had medicaid for those people LONG BEFORE the hideous Obamacre came along.
Obamacare is a hideous pathetic Democrat sponsered socialist program. As with most all socialist programs created by Democrats, it is a complete failure.
I have four preexisting conditions, I would be refused by private inrance, and take 1200 dollars worth of medications per moth to save my life that I can't afford. What am I supposed to do, die?
You are suppose to do what the middle class must do today when they can no longer afford insurance because they are subsidising people like you.
Trump said he was going to try and keep the pre existing illness part of Obamacare, but would improve all the lunacy of a plan that added birth control, abortion, vision, mental, etc. on the backs of the middle class tax payers.
Obama practically ruined the American health care system, and set it on a path toward ruination.
As for women's rights, why does Obama not care about the rights of women in China or in Muslim nations where they are sex slaves? Why does Obama not speak out against the abuse and mistreatment of women in Communist China or in countries governed by evil Islamic laws?
Children's rights? What about parental rights? Democrats want the government to replace parental authority. Pretending they care about your children is nothing but a ploy to take away your parental authority and replace it with governmental authority.....it's what Hitler did with the Hitler Youth.
I don't know how old you are, but I have seen the changes of health care in America and the drastic reductions of services and increase in costs under Obama care. Obamacare is coercion and control and hopefully Trump will undo most of it. So your mother signed up for a health care plan under Obamacare and was treated, that's great but it does not justify Obamacare. I don't know your mother's story, but there was always treatment available for everybody without insurance. I worked for a charity, and interacted with many other charities and hospitals and was very familiar with all the avenues for people with no money and no health care to get full health treatment. Anybody who sough treatment could get it. Your mother did not need Obamacare before it was shoved down the throats of America in closed door back room deals in the government"s bid to hijack and own 1/7th of the US economy by coercive laws controlling health care.
Health care today is a nightmare compared to what it was 20 years ago......even compared to only a few years before Obamacare when fear of Obamacare started causing drastic changes and suddenly appearing and growing mountains of red tape and bureaucracy with decreasing service and rising costs. You're had the wool pulled over your eyes on Islam and Obamacare both...probably many other things too.
I'm a child of God forever. What are you? Do you know what you are? I can tell you what you are......you're a sinner and you're in trouble with God and need to get things straightened out with Him.......that means you need to agree with Him about your sins and believe He died for you to save you from Hell and receive Him by faith and be forgiven of your sins.
I have had enough of your self righteous talk. Christians never question the status quo. Seriously question why a loving God would depend on eternal torture. You are not a child of God, you are a hostage of God. Religion is a hostage situan. I object to the Bible because it is full of living rights violations. I had all of the the faith in the world, then it died. Yeshua abandoned me, let me count the ways: I have 4 mwntal illnesses, was raprd by my father when I was 13 and never got justice, when I was 22, another man tried to rape me to deasth. Yeshua took my ability to read the Bible. I was forced to drop out of high school and educate myself, and have succeeded at doing so. I got on my knees and repented, and accepted Yeshua Ha Mashiach as my God on 9-16-1996, God refuses to save me from my skeptical heart. I want to yell OBJECTION YOUR HONOR to the throne of God. Tell me how a loving God allows this?
Thank you. I am working on being more independent minded so I don't get pissed off like I used to. I take my meds religiously and see a psychiatric prescriber. I got tired of myself and made a change through Yeshua,
Ok sister, I'm going to try to be truthful and kind. God loves you and wants the best for you. He has a special purpose and plan for you, and part of that was allowing you to go through the things you went through.
First, I went through plenty of abuses in my life and still have to deal with family members who have never changed. One of the finest Christians you could hope to meet is a member of my church and she was raped when in her late teens or early twenties and bore the child of the rapist and gave it up to adoption. She later married the man she was dating at that time and they now have five children, two of them married. She has been set free from a "skeptical heart" and looks at the whole ordeal of her past from God's perspective knowing he always cared for her and she has learned to forgive and move forward in freedom knowing God loves her and not blaming God for the evils he allowed to come on her.
You have demon problems, they are pushing your buttons telling you to believe lies. God allows evil temporarily and you can either turn to Him for consolation and believe He is good or you can get mad at Him and say He is not good enough and blame Him for allowing evil in the world.
Try to stand on the truth. The truth will set you free, you have to stand on solid ground of truth. You can be free. I'll be happy to try to help you. I went through a lot of stuff also and have been set free and I know you can be free of the bondage you describe as "mental illnesses" and "skeptical heart".
To start with, you have to understand that God allowed evil to be in the world temporarily as the only way of preserving Adam's race from destruction he brought on himself when he turned evil against God in disobedience. All of the evil you have suffered from is the result of sin in the world, and all of the evil is allowed in the world under God's mercy as He gave us time by making Himself a sacrifice for our sins. God loves you specifically, individually,and has a special purpose for you......you need to know and stand on the truth as the truth will make you free and standing on the truth you can enjoy God's blessings in this world as a tiny taste of His blessings in Heaven, in the world to come.
I love you like a brother or sister. I am sorry for going off on you. I am just angry at God and angry at the church. The church leads more people to Hell than any other group. Rarely do I trust pastors and churches. I would be dead without my church family. I am sorry you were abused. Please pray for and forgive me. I want us both to be happy.
I have gone through this personally....you have to forgive God for allowing you to be born into an abusive situation, you have to believe He had a purpose in allowing you to go through it, you have to forgive everybody who mistreated or continues to mistreat you. That does not mean you have to approve of their bad behavior, it means your heart has to be forgiving even if they will never say sorry so they can understand you forgive them.
Find a good King James Bible only Baptist church with a pastor who is established with a highest reputation among his peers (other KJV only Baptist preachers) and known by his members to live holy and above accusations.
You need not ask my forgiveness, I knew you would get the point after you opened up some and started "going off" on me. Being angry at God or the church is putting blame where it does not belong. People in churches don't see everything clearly and they won't act the way you prefer. They are entitled to their opinions even if they are wrong. You have to believe God loves you, always has and always will...even in the times of terrible abuse.
Look what God Himself went through when He took our place on the cross, suffering the abuse of the people He loved and died for. And remember , He died for your sins as well. Sure you have been wronged but you too have wronged God. You have to move forward toward His redeeming love, forgive and forget the things that are behind you. Keep your eyes on Jesus, pick up your cross to follow Him, denying yourself of ungodly indulgences. Lose your life for the gospel and you will find it. Christ came to set us free, it's our unbelief which keeps us from living the life He gave us, His life, the life of His Spirit, a well spring flowing out of you to eternal life.
I have a book assigned to me by my pastor as I'm working through much of the same issues as you growing in faith. I'll send the title in a private message. The author is not KJV only but his teaching is sound Bible doctrine aimed at helping people like us realize who we are in Christ to experience the freedom He promises to us if we continue in His word....if we continue in His word, we are His disciples indeed and we will know the truth and the truth will make us free.
It would be easier for me to forgive my father than to forgive Yeshua. He choose to force His plan on me. I have a love hate relationship with Him. I am not trying to offend, just keeping it real.
God knew you and loved you before you existed. He has a plan for you and it's all good if you will trust Him.
Romans 8:28-39
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thank God for giving you life, the past is behind you and the glory of God is ahead. Look what Jesus endured for us knowing the joy that was ahead of Him...the joy He shares with us who will be revealed with Him in His glory in Heaven as the children of God. He suffered and died for you, the sufferings we go through in this present world are not worthy to be compared to the glory which will be revealed in us. Jesus endured it all for you, there is nothing you went through that He was not touched by Himself. We deserve what fell on Jesus, we deserve to die and burn in Hell, He was innocent but He took our place in suffering to pull us up out of it. We still have to go through it but we know what is ahead and can thank God for giving us life. Blame evil in the world on the evil one, and thank God for giving you life and delivering you from evil...He promises to deliver us from evil and one day we will be completely and forever where evil cannot touch us again, nor will it be in us as we will be forever changed to be like Jesus in His glory.
Don't let the devil get you believing lies which hold you back from realizing who you are in Christ as a child of God born of His Spirit.