"Anderson Cooper Shreds Donald Trump’s Latest Gaslighting Attempt With Genius Caption "
- Well done, Anderson Cooper. His Jan 31, 2019 report is great - oops, that's Trump seeing himself - incisively damaging to the man seeing himself as God with his
"“once again telling you not to trust your own eyes and ears, not to believe what you see and hear, but to believe only him.”"
believe only me attitude. One serious problem, other than having a delusional president who believes he is a good God, is that Trump is far from a good guy.
In this video a good God appears at 4:45. His position, unlike virtually all of what Trump has to say, is well worth listening to. -
DarkMatter2525 Even though I’m a nonbeliever, would I be scared to learn that God really does exist? No. Far from it. The belief that God desires praise, worship, and violent retribution, comes from a lack of understanding about what it’s like to be an enlightened being. It is ignorance projecting ignorance.
The theist view of God is actually far more insulting than the atheist view. It is commonly held that the atheist is the offensive one, that the nonbeliever must walk on eggshells, and be considerate of the beliefs of others. That seems backwards to me. What if there is a god and that god is offended at the thought of people believing he desires worship and praise, demands it even, for eternity - like some petty narcissist? What if that god is disappointed in those who expected him to torture their enemies? What if the believers and the nonbelievers are made to face their creator, and it is the believers who must answer for their offensive beliefs? Even if that’s the case, I don’t think any of us would have anything to worry about, believer and nonbeliever alike, because any mind capable of creating this universe would be enlightened to the point of being beyond such petty concerns.
Trump’s Spy Chiefs Call B.S. on His Entire Foreign Policy
"Anderson Cooper Shreds Donald Trump’s Latest Gaslighting Attempt With Genius Caption"
Thanks for that snag from so far back, blackhawks. It's very good.
Trump, in a fury, shot back on Twitter: “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!”
By Tina Nguyen January 29, 2019
C.I.A. director Gina Haspel speaks with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats during a Senate Intelligence... By Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg/Getty Images.
The reality gap between Donald Trump and his spy chiefs, while always disconcerting, has grown to encompass far more than just Russia. According to a new threat-assessment report .. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf .. compiled by the U.S. intelligence community for the Senate Intelligence Committee, the president’s entire foreign-policy agenda is based on faulty assumptions, too.
[Insert: All of which any relatively objectively informed, and honest, individual would have believed without the help of the intelligence agencies.]
On Wednesday morning, Trump erupted on Twitter. “The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong! When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond,” he wrote in a series of posts. “Since ending the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different, but a source of potential danger and conflict. They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge. There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!”
Neither Coats nor Haspel directly challenged the president during Tuesday’s hearing. But their testimony was, in its own way, a remarkable reminder of the disconnect between the commander in chief and the agencies that report to him. Whereas Trump has insisted .. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/politics/trump-north-korea-second-summit/index.html .. that North Korea is well on its way to denuclearizing, and plans to meet with Kim later this month, Coats told the Senate that North Korea likely has no plans to do so, as “its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival.” Haspel added that the regime has seemingly continued to develop a long-range missile, despite their claims they had begun denuclearizing. While Trump recently claimed .. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-now-says-isis-largely-defeated-days-after-declaring-terrorist-group-had-lost .. that ISIS was “largely defeated” in Syria, justifying his controversial decision to remove nearly all troops from the region, Coats said that “ISIS is intent on resurging” and that the group would “seek to exploit Sunni grievances, societal instability, and stretched security forces to regain territory in Iraq and Syria in the long term.” Haspel said Iran was less of a threat than Trump claimed when he withdrew from the Iran deal .. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557622096/transcript-trump-s-remarks-on-iran-nuclear-deal , and “at the moment, technically they’re in compliance.”
Notably, the “Worldwide Threat Assessment” report does not say anything about building a wall along the southern border. Instead, it argues that the greatest foreign threats are technological in nature, including the risk of fake news, disinformation, and cyber-hacking. It specifically mentions China and Russia as the two greatest threats in that area:
- At present, China and Russia pose the greatest espionage and cyber-attack threats, but we anticipate that all our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly build and integrate cyber espionage, attack, and influence capabilities into their efforts to influence U.S. policies and advance their own national-security interests. In the last decade, our adversaries and strategic competitors have developed and experimented with a growing capability to shape and alter the information and systems on which we rely. For years, they have conducted cyber espionage to collect intelligence and targeted our critical infrastructure to hold it at risk. They are now becoming more adept at using social media to alter how we think, behave, and decide. -
The overall threat assessment aligns with the national mood on foreign policy. A recent poll .. https://www.vox.com/world/2019/1/28/18200489/trump-foreign-policy-poll-russia-north-korea .. from the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago found most Americans have a grim outlook regarding the country’s position in the world, with only 21 percent of respondents confident that Trump’s approach would be helpful. The majority, 53 percent, said his foreign-policy agenda was making America’s position worse. Of course, as with all things partisan, the survey broke down along party lines: 76 percent of Republicans said they approved of Trump’s approach, while 89 percent of Democrats disapproved; and in a reflection of the Trump base, 68 percent of Republicans said illegal immigration was “the greatest threat” to national security.
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