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"The Trump campaign is (1) living like there's no pandemic; (2) ignoring Jacob Blake but condemning violent protests; (3) still searching for a line of attack on Biden that sticks; (4) hoping you’ll believe Trump’s a nice guy; (5) pretending he was never impeached; and (6) unable to drown out the sound of protest"...
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Analysis by Kevin Liptak, CNN Updated 7:20 AM EDT, Fri August 28, 2020
(CNN) By the time President Donald Trump descended the South Portico steps on Thursday, the goals for this week's Republican National Convention had become clear: win back women, put coronavirus in the rear-view and convince Americans the President is not a racist.
In one of the longest convention acceptance speeches ever delivered, spoken in a dour tone almost entirely from a teleprompter, Trump sought to deliver on all three of those aims -- teed up for him by the conventions' previous speakers -- while also appeasing the base of supporters who helped propel him to the White House lawn in the first place.
The result was a made-for-television world in which the coronavirus pandemic has largely faded, the President is oozing with empathy and accusations he is racist are met with appalled denial.
Outside the fortified gates of the White House, things look different. The type of mass gathering the President arranged isn't possible nearly anywhere else. His insult-filled Twitter feed gives voters little evidence of hidden warmth. And his hardline "law and order" stance has veered into racist rhetoric.
Yet in his speech, Trump essentially asked viewers to believe what he was offering instead of their own lived reality.
He proclaimed his efforts to combat the virus were centered on "the science, the facts and the data," despite numerous examples to the contrary -- including the very mask-free crowd he had assembled for his speech.
He declared, "very modestly," that he had exceeded any previous president's efforts for the Black community, save Abraham Lincoln, even as he's declined to address issues of systemic racism that have sparked nationwide protests.
And while he claimed to be "an ally of the light," a nod to rival Joe Biden's own acceptance speech last week, he delved into dark premonitions about "violent anarchists, agitators, and criminals" who he claimed would be given free reign if Biden wins.
"Everything we've achieved is now in danger," he said. "This election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life or allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it."
The four-day convention, which came as Trump struggles to reverse a polling deficit caused by his handling of the pandemic, was the President's highest-profile opportunity to frame the race on his terms.
The final evening amounted to the clearest attempt yet to reverse the hardening impressions among Americans that Trump mishandled the pandemic and has behaved like a bully during his term.
Here are 6 takeaways from the final evening of the Republican National Convention:
Living like there's no pandemic
Kamala Harris slams Trump's handling of coronavirus: 'He was scared'
If the speakers at this week's convention provided a portrait of Trump's presidency that didn't always comport with reality, the images of mask-less crowds gathered without social distancing helped reinforce it.
Combined with the repeated references to the coronavirus pandemic in the past tense, the images projected a post-pandemic world, even as deaths mount.
Trump did not address the pandemic at great length. When he did, he predicted a quick resolution to the ongoing crisis using dubious claims about his own performance.
"In recent months, our nation, and the entire planet, has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy. Like those brave Americans before us, we are meeting this challenge," he said. "We are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner."
Later, he sought to brag about his handling of the pandemic using misleading figures and exaggerating the extent to which he had tackled the outbreak in its early stages.
It's an image Trump wants as he tries to convince Americans he is on top of the pandemic. To vouch for his handling of the virus, Trump did not rely on medical experts but on Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship who is his longtime friend.
Of course, the pandemic is not over. More than 3,200 Americans have died since the Republican National Convention started three days ago -- more than died during the terror attacks on 9/11.
Unlike most Americans, Trump has access to an extensive testing regime that his aides say renders him the "most tested man in America." Anyone who comes into close proximity with him receives one; on Thursday, that included at least some of the more than 1,000 invited guests on the South Lawn for his speech.
The effect has been to provide Trump with the crowds he long desired for his convention. But it has also allowed him to project a reality that simply doesn't exist for the rest of the country.
How effective that is in convincing Americans that Trump has handled the virus well isn't clear. People living through the outbreak are still feeling its effects. Images of the President going about his life as normal can't change that reality.
"Here's what you have to understand about the nature of a pandemic: It's relentless. You can't stop it with a tweet. You can't create a distraction and hope it'll go away. It doesn't go away," Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said in a prebuttal to Trump's speech earlier Thursday.
Ignoring Jacob Blake but condemning violent protests
Pence reinvents Trump's presidency on a disorienting night of crises
The "law and order" message Trump hoped to advance Thursday came at tense moment. Kenosha, Wisconsin, remains on edge after the police shooting of a Black man. Many professional athletes were continuing a boycott, though NBA playoff games were scheduled to resume. In Washington, a large racial justice demonstration was being planned for Friday.
In his speech, Trump sought to cast Biden as dangerous at a precarious time.
"Your vote will decide whether we protect law abiding Americans, or whether we give free reign to violent anarchists, agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens," he said.
At the same time, he lamented what he characterized as unpatriotic efforts to reckon with the country's hateful past.
"In the left's backward view, they do not see America as the most free, just, and exceptional nation on earth," he said. "Instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins."
The tinder-box atmosphere surrounding the President's address is not an entirely unfamiliar or uncomfortable place for Trump, and in some ways fits squarely into the theme of his convention and campaign: that Democratic-run areas will devolve into chaos should Joe Biden win.
He used almost identical themes in his 2016 convention acceptance speech, when he said: "The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored."
But in refusing the address or even acknowledge the circumstances that have led to protests in Wisconsin, Trump also seems to undercut the assertions made over and over during the convention that he is attuned to the issues of the Black community and eager to help.
Those themes arose again Thursday, with speeches from Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Trump's sole Black Cabinet member, and Ja'Ron Smith, the highest-ranking Black official at the White House.
"Many on the other side love to incite division by claiming that President Trump is a racist. They could not be more wrong," Carson said, citing (among other things) Trump's willingness to accept Black and Jewish members at his club in Florida.
Alice Johnson, whose life sentence for a drug violation was commuted by Trump, said she was "free in body thanks to President Trump, but free in mind thanks to the almighty God."
Yet in the same evening, Trump claimed Biden wanted to release hundreds of thousands of criminals, and touted his own demand that people convicted of defacing federal memorials spend 10 years in jail.
Ultimately, the messages appeared designed to inure Trump from accusations that he is racist. Yet in practice, his unwillingness to confront the reasons behind current racial tensions -- and to instead stoke them with divisive rhetoric -- offers a different reality.
Finding an attack on Biden
Biden says Trump is rooting for violence
Throughout this year's campaign, Trump's aides have struggled to identify a line of attack on Biden that both moves the needle with voters and earns Trump's seal of approval.
The scattershot approach was evident in the President's speech.
In Trump's telling, Biden is both a status-quo Democratic politician who is out of time to prove himself -- and a "Trojan horse" for socialists like Bernie Sanders.
He is both concealing his agenda -- "Biden wants to keep you completely in the dark," he claimed -- and working in cahoots with Sanders to move the agenda far-left in "a 110-page policy platform."
And he's both weak on crime, willing to allow criminals onto the streets, and overly tough in passing a 1990s sentencing law that saw harsh sentences applied on many Black Americans.
The dueling narratives about Biden encapsulate the challenge Trump will have in defining his rival in the weeks before Election Day.
The one area Trump avoided Thursday was Biden's mental condition, an attack he's relished but that his advisers fear could alienate senior citizens.
Instead he took a swipe at Biden's hands-on approach to politics -- "he took the donations of blue-collar workers, gave them hugs and even kisses," Trump said -- another attack that some aides fear might open the President to questions about his own accusations against him of sexual impropriety.
Conversely, Trump didn't begin spelling out a second-term agenda until toward the end of his speech -- and spent only a few minutes describing what he hopes to do if reelected.
He's a nice guy -- believe me
A persistent message delivered at this week's convention has been that Trump is a nicer guy than he seems.
Delivered primarily by people who work for him in the White House, the accounts all suggest that in private, Trump is a warm man oozing empathy for those around him.
"President Trump is a kind and decent man. I wish you could be at his side with me to see his endless kindness to everyone he meets," said Dan Scavino, the social media guru who is often behind Trump's more lashing and insulting tweets.
"I have seen his true conscience. I just wish everyone could see the deep empathy he shows to families whose loved ones have been lost to violence," senior White House adviser Ja'Ron Smith said, naming Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, two Black men killed this summer.
The most effusive in insisting on Trump's empathy was his daughter Ivanka.
"I've been with my father and I've seen the pain in his eyes when he receives updates on the lives that have been stolen by this plague," she said.
It's a description of Trump that, as the parade of his aides acknowledged, is not usually seen in public.
"I recognize that my dad's communication style is not to everyone's taste," Ivanka Trump said. "And I know his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered."
Still, neither his daughter nor any of his aides really explained why -- given the ample access the public has to Trump through his frequent press availabilities, his active Twitter feed and his phone interviews on Fox News.
It all appeared designed to rebut Biden's stake on the "nice guy" mantle -- though Trump himself seemed less sold on the idea of empathy.
"The laid-off workers in Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and many other states didn't want Joe Biden's hollow words of empathy, they wanted their jobs back," he said in his speech.
Remember impeachment?
It's perhaps unsurprising that Trump's impeachment has been largely forgotten. He is still the president, a world-altering pandemic struck weeks after he was acquitted and the political calculus surrounding the matter shifted.
What is surprising is who, seven months later, is raising it as an issue. Democrats entirely ignored the impeachment era in their convention last week, even though many claimed back then that the stain of impeachment would follow Trump forever.
Instead it is Republicans who have made it an issue during their convention -- including through the final-night speaking slot assigned to Rudy Giuliani, the President's volatile personal attorney whose actions helped prompt the entire impeachment scandal in the first place.
Giuliani did not address the impeachment proceedings directly, choosing to focus instead on violence in American cities and an attack on Biden.
"He's a Trojan Horse with Bernie, AOC, Pelosi, Black Lives Matter and his party's entire Left Wing hidden inside his body just waiting to execute their pro-criminal, anti-police policies," he said.
But his presence alone was enough to harken back to late last year, when his appearances helped drive Democrats' efforts.
Trump's allies appear to have calculated that time has either softened Americans' views of the impeachment, clouded their memories of its specifics or rendered it a petty distraction compared to the massive problems of today.
Fortress White House
Until this year, convention speeches were delivered inside sealed arenas. If protests occurred, they were out of sight and well out of mind.
Trump's outdoor speech Thursday from the White House South Lawn didn't provide those advantages, though a fortified security perimeter around the executive mansion provided a wide buffer between him and protesters, who could be heard during Trump's speech.
The ethically questionable move has drawn scrutiny all week, and the final manifestation -- massive "Trump-Pence" signs underneath the Truman Balcony, a fireworks display above the Washington Monument and an opera singer on the South Portico -- only cemented the norm-busting nature of the night.
Trump himself made little attempt to downplay his venue.
"The fact is, I'm here," Trump said, gesturing toward his residence. "What's the name of that building?"
"We're here," he said, "and they're not."
At least two groups said they would convene near the White House during Trump's speech. One said they hoped to "drown out" the President using loudspeakers and trucks.
Protests, including banging, air horns, and muffled chanting, were audible from the South Lawn, where Trump delivered his acceptance speech.
Sound from protests has previously carried over the White House fence to where the President is speaking, including when a group of truckers blared their horns during a Rose Garden event.
More notably, the sound of flash bangs could be heard from the Rose Garden as Trump spoke ahead of his fateful walk across Lafayette Square to St. John's Church in June.
Ahead of Trump's speech on Thursday, temporary fencing was erected around the perimeter of the White House grounds, almost entirely encasing the property. It mimicked the barricades that were positioned around the White House during that week in June, when Trump at one point was rushed to an underground bunker.
This story has been updated.
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"The Trump campaign is (1) living like there's no pandemic; (2) ignoring Jacob Blake but condemning violent protests; (3) still searching for a line of attack on Biden that sticks; (4) hoping you’ll believe Trump’s a nice guy; (5) pretending he was never impeached; and (6) unable to drown out the sound of protest"...
The real highlights of day 4 of our convention....
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After accepting the Republican party nomination from the White House Thursday night, President Donald Trump delivered a speech hammering rival and former Vice President Joe Biden on every front, laid out his vision for a second term and celebrated the greatness of America.
On his vision for a second term:
Tonight with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I profoundly accept this nomination for President of the United States.
The Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, goes forward united, determined, and ready to welcome millions of Democrats, Independents, and anyone who believes in the greatness of America and the righteous heart of the American People."
In a new term as President, we will again build the greatest economy in history – quickly returning to full employment, soaring incomes, and record prosperity! We will defend America against all threats, and protect America against all dangers. We will lead America into new frontiers of ambition and discovery, and we will reach for new heights of national achievement."
We will rekindle new faith in our values, new pride in our history, and a new spirit of unity that can only be realized through love for our country. Because we understand that America is not a land cloaked in darkness, America is the torch that enlightens the entire world.
Over the next four years, we will make America into the Manufacturing Superpower of the World. We will expand Opportunity Zones, bring home our medical supply chains, and we will end our reliance on China once and for all.
We will launch a new age of American Ambition in Space. America will land the first woman on the moon – and the United States will be the first nation to plant its flag on Mars.
On the stakes of the 2020 election:
Everything we have achieved is now endangered. This is the most important election in the history of our country. At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas.
This election will decide whether we save the American Dream, or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny.
It will decide whether we rapidly create millions of high paying jobs, or whether we crush our industries and send millions of these jobs overseas, as has foolishly been done for many decades.
Your vote will decide whether we protect law abiding Americans, or whether we give free reign to violent anarchists, agitators, and criminals who threaten our citizens.
And this election will decide whether we will defend the American Way of Life, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it.
Biden is a Trojan horse for socialism. If Joe Biden doesn't have the strength to stand up to wild-eyed Marxists like Bernie Sanders and his fellow radicals, then how is he ever going to stand up for you?
On Joe Biden:
At the Democrat convention, you barely heard a word about their agenda. But that's not because they don't have one. It's because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee. Joe Biden may claim he is an "ally of the Light," but when it comes to his agenda, Biden wants to keep you completely in the dark.
-Jobs and economy:
Joe Biden is not the savior of America's soul – he is the destroyer of America's Jobs, and if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of American Greatness.
For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue collar workers, gave them hugs and even kisses, and told them he felt their pain – and then he flew back to Washington and voted to ship their jobs to China and many other distant lands. Joe Biden spent his entire career outsourcing the dreams of American Workers, offshoring their jobs, opening their borders, and sending their sons and daughters to fight in endless foreign wars.
-Violence ravaging the cities:
During their convention, Joe Biden and his supporters remained completely silent about the rioters and criminals spreading mayhem in Democrat-Run Cities. In the face of left-wing anarchy and mayhem in Minneapolis, Chicago, and other cities, Joe Biden's campaign did not condemn it – they DONATED to it. At least 13 members of Joe Biden's campaign staff donated to a fund to bail out vandals, arsonists, looters, and rioters from jail.
Last year, over 1,000 African-Americans were murdered as result of violent crime in just four Democrat-run cities. The top 10 most dangerous cities in the country are run by Democrats, and have been for decades. Thousands more African-Americans are victims of violent crime in these communities Joe Biden and the left ignore these American Victims. I never will.
-Law enforcement/law and order
The most dangerous aspect of the Biden Platform is the attack on public safety. The Biden-Bernie Manifesto calls for Abolishing cash bail, immediately releasing 400,000 criminals onto your streets and into your neighborhoods.
When asked if he supports cutting police funding, Joe Biden replied, "Yes, absolutely." When Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called the Minneapolis police department a cancer that is "rotten to the root," Biden wouldn't disavow her support and reject her endorsement – he proudly displayed it on his website.
Make no mistake, if you give power to Joe Biden, the radical left will Defund Police Departments all across America. They will pass federal legislation to reduce law enforcement nationwide. They will make every city look like Democrat-run Portland, Oregon. No one will be safe in Biden's America.
My administration will always stand with the men and women of law enforcement. Every day, police officers risk their lives to keep us safe, and every year, many sacrifice their lives in the line of duty.
-Taxes
He has pledged a $4 trillion tax hike on almost all American families, which will totally collapse our rapidly improving economy and once again record stock markets. On the other hand, just as I did in my first term, I will cut taxes even further for hardworking moms and dads, not raise them. We will also provide tax credits to bring jobs out of China back to America – and we will impose tariffs on any company that leaves America to produce jobs overseas. We'll make sure our companies and jobs stay in our country, as I've already been doing. Joe Biden's agenda is made in China. My agenda is made in the USA.
-Trade:
Biden’s record is a shameful roll call of the most catastrophic betrayals and blunders in our lifetime. He has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. Biden voted for the NAFTA disaster, the single worst trade deal ever enacted; he supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization, one of the greatest economic disasters of all time. After those Biden calamities, the United States lost 1 in 4 manufacturing jobs. The laid off workers in Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and many other states didn't want Joe Biden's hollow words of empathy, they wanted their jobs back.
As Vice President, he supported the Trans Pacific Partnership which would have been a death sentence for the U.S. Auto Industry; he backed the horrendous South Korea trade deal, which took many jobs from our country.
-Foreign policy/national security:
When I took office, the Middle East was in total chaos. ISIS was rampaging, Iran was on the rise, and the war in Afghanistan had no end in sight. I withdrew from the terrible, one-sided Iran Nuclear Deal. Unlike many presidents before me, I kept my promise, recognized Israel's true capital and moved our Embassy to Jerusalem. But not only did we talk about it as a future site, we got it built. Rather than spending $1 billion on a new building as planned, we took an already owned existing building in a better location, and opened it at a cost of less than $500,000. We also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and this month we achieved the first Middle East peace deal in 25 years. In addition, we obliterated 100 percent of the ISIS Caliphate, and killed its founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Then, in a separate operation, we eliminated the world's number one terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.
He voted for the Iraq War; he opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden; he opposed killing Soleimani; he oversaw the rise of ISIS.
-China:
[Biden] cheered the rise of China as "a positive development" for America and the world. That's why China supports Joe Biden and desperately wants him to win.
China would own our country if Joe Biden got elected. Unlike Biden, I will hold them fully accountable for the tragedy they caused.
-Wuhan coronavirus:
When I took bold action to issue a travel ban on China, Joe Biden called it hysterical and xenophobic. If we had listened to Joe, hundreds of thousands more Americans would have died.
Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country. His shutdown would inflict unthinkable and lasting harm on our nation's children, families, and citizens of all backgrounds.
The cost of the Biden shutdown would be measured in increased drug overdoses, depression, alcohol addiction, suicides, heart attacks, economic devastation and more. Joe Biden's plan is not a solution to the virus, but rather a surrender.
-On Illegal immigration and border security:
He repeatedly supported mass amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Joe Biden's campaign has even published a 110-page policy platform co-authored with Far-Left Senator Bernie Sanders. The Biden-Bernie Manifesto calls for suspending all removals of illegal aliens, implementing nationwide Catch-and-Release; and providing illegal aliens with free taxpayer-funded lawyers. Joe Biden recently raised his hand on the debate stage and promised to give away your healthcare dollars to illegal immigrants. He also supports deadly Sanctuary Cities that protect criminal aliens. He promised to end national security travel bans from Jihadist nations, and he pledged to increase refugee admissions by 700 percent. The Biden Plan would eliminate America's borders in the middle of a global pandemic.
-Energy:
Biden has promised to abolish the production of American oil, coal, shale, and natural gas – laying waste to the economies of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. Millions of jobs will be lost, and energy prices will soar. These same policies led to crippling power outages in California just last week. How can Joe Biden claim to be an "ally of the Light" when his own party can't even keep the lights on?
-Education and school choice:
Biden also vowed to oppose School Choice and close down Charter Schools, ripping away the ladder of opportunity for Black and Hispanic children.
In a second term, I will expand charter schools and provide school choice to every family in America. And we will always treat our teachers with the tremendous respect they deserve.
-Abortion
Joe Biden claims he has empathy for the vulnerable – yet the party he leads supports the extreme late-term abortion of defenseless babies right up to the moment of birth. Democrat leaders talk about moral decency, but they have no problem with stopping a baby's beating heart in the 9th month of pregnancy.
-Religion
During the Democrat Convention, the words "Under God" were removed from the Pledge of Allegiance – not once, but twice. The fact is, this is where they are coming from.
If the left gains power, they will demolish the suburbs, confiscate your guns, and appoint justices who will wipe away your Second Amendment and other Constitutional freedoms.
-Entrenched political class
Joe Biden is weak. He takes his marching orders from liberal hypocrites who drive their cities into the ground while fleeing far from the scene of the wreckage. These same liberals want to eliminate school choice, while they enroll their children in the finest private schools in the land. They want to open our borders while living in walled-off compounds and communities. They want to defund the police, while they have armed guards for themselves.
This November, we must turn the page forever on this failed political class. The fact is, I'm here, and they're not – and that's because of you. Together, we will write the next chapter of the Great American Story.
Fresh off of closing out the RNC convention, President Trump will hold a campaign rally in New Hampshire Friday night.
You can read more about President Trump's second term agenda here.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/08/27/on-all-fronts-president-trump-delivers-a-knock-out-punch-against-biden-n2575223
Judging by the response of the mob in the streets of DC last night, it was a knockout blow to the Biden campaign.
why don't you seed this separately and not take up space in JBB's seed
Only in your most fetid far rightwing dreams...
He is like a hermit crab taking over the shell (seed) of other crabs when they post here.
It's kinda pathetic if you think about it. He has to comment on other's seeds because nobody comments on his. And then...nobody ever votes his comments up.
If you are following me around intending to troll me into a ticket, please let me disabuse you of that notion. I'm not interested
I think you enjoy telling women what to do, don't you? But they listen do they because otherwise you wouldn't try to be so domineering on NT
Men who pretend to be dominant and masculine on-line are rarely so in real life
Near perfection?
Isn't that a fucking hoot?
I think it is
Are you suggesting that my husband beats me? Or that he should? Because that what it sounds like
"reality smacks me upside the head" or maybe you should explain that remark
Ummmm not what he said at all...............
Or do you have the hubby so cowed you think all men should hide in the corner when you saunter in?
I guess you didn't read the "smacks me upside the head" part
OK again, everyone knock it off with the personal comments. Only warning.
We need a saluting emoji
Done!
OK - but when you order that one, could you get a "mooning" emoji too?
I'm pretty sure I could put it to good use on a regular basis.
LMAO, that might make a good case for not having one.
You could moon me and I'll just laugh at ya
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Yes - that's pretty much where the Democrats are coming from. Supporting the Constitution and Roger William's separation of Church and State.
The Founding Fathers were very careful to leave any promotion of any religion out of the Constitution and the oaths contained in it. And later for a pledge of allegiance to the country during WWII the following was considered sufficient and appropriate.
It's become trendy in some Evangelical circles to promote the idea the the United States is the New Jerusalem and as such should be a theocracy. Some even claim it is a theocracy. In such a theocracy a religious test, such an oath sworn to God, would be required for anyone to run for office - much as it was in the American Colonies before the Revolution.
When Church and State mingle, it's the Church that suffers most in the relationship.
They are like the Wizzard of Oz, all big and powerful. But when the curtain is pulled back, it reveals a small insignificant man.
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Well mine was directly related... an op-Ed on takeaways from the night 4 of the convention from another point of view.
Any rational person would indeed condemn violent protests. Jacob Blake was going for a weapon.
I agree 100%. And there’s no way the police person could know the nature of the weapon he was reaching for.
(7) Avoiding prison at all costs for the Trumpbino crime family and associates. (8) Hoping he won't get called out for numerous violations of the Hatch Act.
Not a done deal that this violated the Hatch Act.
The above is a snippet from the article and I wouldn't call USAToday a hard core conservative site.
RNC paid for and provided the hours of work to set it up so no exposure for federal executive branch employees.