Former senior Trump administration official endorses Joe Biden By Jeremy Diamond, Jake Tapper and Michael Warren, CNN Updated 5:34 PM ET, Mon August 17, 2020 (CNN) - Miles Taylor, a former senior Trump administration official, endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Monday, becoming one of the highest-ranking former Trump administration officials to do so. Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, also accused President Donald Trump of repeatedly using his office for political purposes, including directing officials to cut wildfire relief funding to California because voters there overwhelmingly opposed him in 2016. P - Taylor, a longtime Republican and political appointee at DHS from 2017 to 2019, endorsed the former vice president in a video produced by the group Republican Voters Against Trump .. Your Video SoxFan .. in which he also made several allegations about Trump's conduct. He also wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post calling the President "dangerous" for America. "At Homeland Security, I saw firsthand how dangerous Trump is for America" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/at-homeland-security-i-saw-firsthand-how-dangerous-trump-is-for-america/2020/08/17/f10bb92e-e0a3-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html
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Thirdly, a 2024 birthday post on the movement of the nastiest man in America today.
He has begun characterizing his political adversaries as subhuman “vermin” who must be “rooted out.” [...] Situated in a middle ground between God and human beings, Satan is a liminal figure. He is like a person but not quite a person. For one, he is gifted with superhuman powers of the sort, Murray writes, that children have always imagined they might possess in the furthest reaches of their wish-fulfilling fantasies. But he does not possess certain qualities that adults especially value and recognize as part of the human condition. He lacks wisdom, for example, and love. He is not troubled by a complex inner life, by the doubts, ambivalences and moral quandaries that routinely run through the consciousness of mature humans. He is instead like the modern conception of a superhero. Satan is one-dimensional and mythic, an idealized personification, rather than a fully articulated person.
Donald Trump sees himself in the same way. While Trump insists that he is a force for good rather than evil, he truly perceives himself to be qualitatively different from the rest of humankind. He has often compared himself to a superhero. He has famously described himself as a “stable genius” who has never made a mistake. He is not lying when he makes these outrageous claims, for Trump truly believes them to be true, just as he believes he won the 2020 election. [...] An AI-generated image. (The Hartmann Report)
Many of Trump’s supporters perceive Trump the way Trump perceives himself. In their minds, he is a liminal figure, superhuman in some ways but also lacking certain qualities that most people, for better and for worse, possess. A liminal figure who is more than a person, but less than a person, too, may not be subject to the rules and contingencies that pertain to regular people. Conventional norms of rectitude and decency do not apply.
[We all know cancel culture flourished in conservative churches before conservative politicians cynically made it one of their favorite pin on the donkey games. Still, it was with surprise and appreciation that i bumped into and read the the article below. First a tiny reminder: "Voice of the people: Evangelicals know cancel culture [...] Other evangelicals see Trump as akin to the ancient Persian King Cyrus the Great, who freed a population of Israelites even though he was not one of them. Yet others see him as their David fighting against the Goliath of the liberal mainstream. It is good versus evil, the righteous army of God versus the vicious force of the devil. God works in mysterious ways, many Christians believe, choosing the unlikeliest agents for divine purposes. If an unsuspecting virgin can give birth to the son of God, and if Christ’s inveterate persecutor (Saul) can ultimately be transformed into a Christian saint (Paul), then what is to keep God from choosing a crude, self-centered adulterer for yet another divine mission?
Capitalizing on this sentiment, Trump recently shared a video on Truth Social that proclaims, “God made Trump” to be a “shepherd for all mankind.” The video’s narrator intones: “God had to have someone willing to go into the den of vipers, call out the fake news for their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s, the poison of vipers is on their lips. … So God made Trump.” [...] Watch our video essay based on this article:
Trump has done one thing for America; he has taken this country and allowed the world to see for themselves that America is not a very nice country. Not only was trump inept at his job as President, but he demonstrated to the world that for a relatively small price America could become quite vulnerable. Putin probably asked himself many times how easy it was to take advantage of Trump and wondered why he ever competed with America.
China pushed back at trump with his trade deal negotiations and discovered trump was not only weak, but basically told him to go to hell. The American farmer soon learned that 50 billion that went to China was cancelled quickly.
So many American farmers lost everything believing trump could master an agricultural deal with China.
Now America is watching Trump make an ass out of himself daily, Trump even made a joke about Arlington Cemetary, and I have yet to see any Republicans come out and register their disgust.
Once again trump proves to all of America, and the world that 35-40 % of America have no honor in themselves, and would trample even the graves at Arlington, just as long as they could support trump, a man who would even call them losers.