So Just WHAT Is The Deal With President Trump?

Duh?? But I thought...

What a mess out there. Right? There's just a lot of information and it's overwhelming. Most of it has to do with politics...which really bites for me (most of the time) because I am not a political person. Never have been...

As far as I'm concerned (now), politics is basically a lot of bribes and favors, and backstabbing, and mudslinging...and it just wares me out. Political issues tend to involve so many things that...well, they should not involve. Issues that are spiritual and sacred, and matters of the heart. These things creep into the political arena, and then completely take it over...and it seems that people can't stop arguing about...everything.

Social media doesn't help...amen? People posting and posting about what they think...usually getting frustrated with others because they need to "do their research." I consider myself an intelligent person. I'm able to reason things out pretty well, I think. But honestly...politics makes me stupid. More specifically, it makes me look stupid and that's why I hate it. I do not want this to be just another" stance" on any particular issue because this just adds to the "noise" out there. It adds to the arguments. There are times I've just gotten fed up and said, H--l with it...Im done. It's then that I imagine myself living "off grid" someplace and having no contact with anyone. But the innate need to have some sort of connection with the rest of the world always has me inching my way back out there. This is my life. There are powerful people making MANY decisions which directly affect my life. I do not have the option of just going to sleep and pretending that it isn't happening. I know this, because I've honestly tried. It doesn't work. Eventually, the isolation is too much, and well, let's just say the turtle has to come out of its shell.

In scripture, it says, "Be as wise as serpents, but as gentle as doves." Jesus said this as a means of teaching us to always guard our hearts and be aware...while treating others with kindness. So, being the person of faith that I am, I try to keep this in mind in politics as well. This is not easy in a world full of cynicism and suspicion, that most of the time, some say, is driven by hidden agendas. So, there is an art to the gentle part...lets just put it that way.

I talk all the time about friendship and loyalty, but often wonder if I would prize the handshake of an enemy more, if that enemy was a smooth operator who told me everything I ever wanted to hear about myself. Every presidential debate (ever) I see this happen: "Let me tell you what I think you want to hear so that you'll follow me...whether it's true or not. Then when the truth comes out, the joke will be on you." Do I sound cynical yet? But at some point, we have to take a risk and trust...right?

Part of my dilemma is that I don't know how to even write about all this without sounding as though I'm just playing the victim. I don't like it when I sense this in others...why do I think they would want to read my whining about why I can't fix something? You'll see what I mean in a moment. But just know that my intent is honesty and also empathy. The empathy part may sound odd because the assumption might be made that I'll not be very objective. I'll try.

Looking back now, I think that people become able to vote about who controls their life...when they are in the dumbest point of their life (basically). At 18 years old, most kids know little to nothing about politics...and most don't care. You're still at the point where you believe a parent or older adult will just handle everything you can't. Now there are always exceptions to EVERY rule. Of course I'm just speaking generally. But in my view, the ever growing technocracy that we live in, is giving us little to no reason to...grow up.

We are used to Facebook posts and Instagram pics, YouTube videos and tweets (How many characters??) Our phones and tablets have become stuck to us like appendages, and information on anything we want is just a tap away.

Things are easy and in most cases instantaneously given to us, and we've come to expect this. Face it...we throw a fit if we have to wait too long to connect to the internet. So as far as accuracy is concerned...this is another story. How do you know whether the information you are putting out there is true...especially with all the "fake" news that's out there?

Man, how many times have I heard of a celebrity dying, for example, and I think: "Wait, I thought they had died already." What can I say, maybe I heard or read a report of the same kind a few months back, and now here it is again, presented as current news.

"Check your dates," you say. Absolutely...and at times I do get lazy about this. But I'm willing to bet that most folks don't check dates at all. How easy is it to scroll and see a supposed news story...become emotionally charged by it and just assume that it's true? So, we need to be aware, right? Okay, but I'm gonna ask the question: Aware of what, exactly?...

We need to be aware that there is...a lot of fake news out there? Okay, fine...so we check several sources...what if they are all untrue and we don't know it because the dates happen to match up? What if they are not dated at all? What if they are NOT outdated...but we are told that they are? What can I say, that happened to me yesterday. Such things have probably always been, but there was a time not so long ago when there were generally hard copy sources to check. This made the authenticity of information...well...authentic.

This authenticity is gone now because everything is in what's called real time...and changing constantly...second to second even. Who can keep up with that? Who would want to?

"Why would anyone do that?" Is this what we are supposed to ask? I don't know.

I suppose maybe because some people don't tell the truth? Because not everyone has motivations that are in others best interest? Sometimes yes...sometimes no. So let's say someone does not have our best interest in mind. Let's say someone wants to accomplish something they don't want others to be aware of?

The analogies to explain this could go on forever, but suffice it to say, in a given situation, if these things were going on, you would want to be aware of them, right? If you know something dishonest could be going on, you would want to warn others about it, wouldn't you? Of course!

As a result, there are MANY proverbial "snakes" in the grass. But, if we don't see them, we don't see them. How about if we don't even believe they are there to begin with? Well, that's nice. You don't raise hell, you don't rock the boat, and everybody goes undisturbed. They are also ALL being bitten by the snakes they don't believe are there. But who cares? Why mess up a good thing? Maybe because it actually isn't the good thing people think it is?

All of this being said, I'm sure many would agree that there are many things we may not find in our efforts just to be thorough and accurate and honest.

We don't want to mislead people, right? We don't want to mess people around and we don't want to be messed around, right?

I would think that the majority of the public feels this way. So there are all kinds of sources out there designed to give us clarity. This reminds me of the voters guides. How many times when we vote yes on an issue are we actually voting no? How many times does our vote say that we are against something, when our principles (were supposed to say) we are for it? What if we wanted to express that we are for something but our pro vote is saying that we are for...gettting rid of it? Oh dear. That's the part no one told you about, right? Or...maybe you WERE told about it. Let's say you did your research and you know exactly what you're voting for and exactly why...but later you find out there was something else behind it (whatever it is) that you didn't even know existed.

In other words, no amount of sources checked would've revealed something that we found out after the fact? Oh well...we were TOLD about it, right? The fact that we had no idea what "the rest of the story" was till it was too late is irrelevant?

I don't know. I just know that things are not always what they appear to be on the surface..

In my own political journey, I identified as a Republican from the beginning because I felt that in most cases, the people of faith were on the Republican side. They were against abortion and other issues that I also was against, in a largely losing battle, only because these are spiritual matters of the heart that are usually butchered (pun intended) when brought into political circles. We were standing up for the good guy, I thought. The little guys (literally) who needed an advocate. But most people in the political arena (I was taught) are on the other side of the fence.

Besides...looking back...Clinton had an ongoing affair and went on TV and lied to everyone about it, right? Clinton was a bad influence on kids, laughing and telling them that he tried Marajuana...but he didn't inhale, right? George Bush Jr.? Yeah, nevermind Obama? He said that the affects of abortion on a woman were...above his paygrade, right? That is NOT all he said...I found out later...that was just all I heard on the news or read on the internet, because the angle I was supposed to see was of a callous, uncaring, pompous jerk who thought he was too important to be bothered with that issue. But he was PRESIDENT!

Shouldn't he have been concerned about that?? What he actually said was that abortion is a very personal, very serious spiritual decision, the repercussions and complexities of which are above his paygrade. He was asked what he thought the affects of abortion were on women. That's a paraphrase from memory...its not a direct quote. The point is that I was embarrassed when I found out the rest of what he said. You live and you learn, right?

So, one might say I had all these reasons for thinking that I was "Spiritually correct." Not politically correct...never politically correct, but fighting the right battle, I thought. So, then Trump came on the scene, and, let's just say that the level of confused haze seemed to take on a whole new meaning.

What the heck was going on anyway? I watched Trump and I thought he was an arrogant, pretentious, self centered slob who really did not care about the American people. I thought that he could not read (that he was faking it). I thought that he cared more about sucking up every bit of attention for himself when cameras were around. He was loud and boisterous and pompous...apparently thinking he was too good to answer the media's questions.

At this point, if you're a person of faith, you might be thinking: "That's what you get for watching the news." I was told over and over again that the media "paints" things a certain way...THEY want him to look bad. They cut up what he says and only play certain parts of it. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. "Yes, I know all about how the media shapes things to look a certain way, " I thought. I'd been learning all about this since my early days in college, as a social work major, reading a book called "The Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Prison."

I'm a smart person, remember...I check my sources...most of the time. Not always...sometimes I get emotionally charged and post things without looking into them...I think everybody has made that mistake. But I know how to check my sources, look at dates, use direct quotes, or say when I've paraphrased something. So why did I seem to keep getting the same advice about checking sources so many times when I would post an article or photographs?

I'll be honest, I thought Trump's actions and his attitude and his yelling and screaming spoke for itself. I would find pictures of him and the first lady with Jeffery Epstein and think "Okay (believers), are you going to tell me that this is why you wear your MAGA hats? Are interactions such as this "sanctioned by God"? Does this demonstrate the "God send" that you're so happy with? Frankly, I was very confused.

My more liberal, democratic friends were validating for me that our president was a self centered baby, who was pretty narcissistic. Every source that I was checking, this was the impression I was getting. And when I checked the Christian or faith based sources, I saw them trying desperately to ignore the pompous jerk I thought he was, in the name of only focusing on the good. Isn't that the same as lying? (Duh, right?). How could this be okay? How could this be something Christians would think is okay? Why did they always seem to be so quick to defend him? I would ask about it, and would hear things like: "Look at all the good things he's done!" I would think "Okay, but what good things are those? This was not a rhetorical question. I didn't get it. I didn't understand.

I saw him on TV boasting about what a great job he was always doing, while everything out there seemed to get worse and worse. I saw him refusing to read documents when he was asked, and then several minutes later, saying he forgot his glasses (??). I saw him making fun of those with disabilities, and his other running mates, while seeming to build himself up on their weaknesses. (Beto O Rourke is a great example of this). Not saying Trump had to like the guy, but I don't believe he deserved any public humiliation either.

Then there's the infamous wall being built: Just HOW many working people's tax dollars were going for that?? The 70s group "Bread" had a song called "This isn't What the Govern Meant". I kept thinking of that...everytime I would get on social media, or see the headlines, or watch the news, even for 10 minutes.

I have a good friend, who would validate me when I went on about how Trump was a pompous jerk. "I know what you mean", he would say. "I don't blame you." He would say, "I know he's a jerk, but I'd rather have him running things than not, because there's a lot of good happening." (emphasis mine).
"What good is that," I would wonder. Basically, he would tell me, "You'll see as things go on ", but I had no clue what he meant.

In the beginning of Trump's presidency, I supported him for the reasons I mentioned before. I thought he stood for things that I stood for. Most folks around me supported Trump and frankly, I wasn't sure what to think, and I trusted their judgement. But I wanted to find out for myself. So I did my research, as I was being advised to do. At the risk of repeating myself, the more I looked into it, the more disgusted I became with POTUS 45...no matter how many sources I checked.

Even stranger was that there seemed to be no middle ground. People either really love Trump, or they really hate him. Whenever I would be patronized for (not) liking Trump, I would be told to look at all the good things he's done. Okay, but the problem was I couldn't figure out what these good things were that he had done.

When I would read faith-based news sources, everything sounded candy coated and sugar coated...like it wasn't real, or something. What to do? I never really wanted to believe Trump was such a bad guy...but I wasn't sure how I could believe anything else. I wasn't going to lie!...Although sometimes it was very tempting because I got tired of paying for (not) putting Trump on a pedestal. If anything, I wanted to knock him down (in my own mind) from the proverbial pedestal he seemed to already be on.

Something slowly began to shift when I began to see articles and posts about two hospital ships, one docked in LA, and the other in New York. These ships, equipped with a thousand beds apiece, were apparently there to alleviate the over-burdened hospitals, because of COVID 19. I believe the ships were supposed to be taking general patients to allow the actual hospitals to only treat COVID 19 patients. But many employees hired for these ship hospitals apparently were confused because less than half the beds were being used and most of these workers had nothing to do.

What's been happening? Nothing made any sense to me. I did not understand at that time, any good that POTUS was doing, because I did not know then that he had made a promise...

My friend, who empathized with me about my views towards Trump, had forwarded a post to me that had a picture of Donald Trump and JFK JR. on it. The tagline said: "Payback Time Bitches!" What? What does that mean? I had not known this, but these two men had been dear friends. I could see it in the picture because Trump is giving a rare smile. I wasn't sure that there was really ANYONE who made Trump happy, or who he was pleased with.
I saw, a little bit of "vulnerability."

Praise God, I saw something that made this man human. So I looked up interviews of Trump mentioning JFK jr. as a dear friend. His voice was kind...sincere...genine. He was proud to say honestly that he'd known JFK JR, but sad that his friend was gone. For a second, any barriers of suspicion seemed lifted.

POTUS 45 seemed to want to say, "I could talk about him for hours." I was no fan of Trump, but JFK JR.? That was another story! John-John was gorgeous, charismatic, smart, personable, gracious, very outspoken, but gentle. To me, the gentle side of someone always sticks out the most because it's The one that I look for the hardest. When I learn that there is not a gentle side to a person, I tend to get very dismayed and need to know why that happened.

The compassionate side of JFK Jr. was never hard to find.
Whatever we didn't know about JFK's boy seemed to just become minor details because of his outgoing personality and his kind hearted, good nature.

The world had stopped back in 1999 when the Prince of Camelot had been killed in a plane crash with his wife and sister in law. How could this have happened...AGAIN???!! The world had frozen in time in 1963 when JFK had been tragical)y murdered. Then, 36 years later, his son was dead...in a tragic accident.

What nudged at my insides wasn't so much that the president had been friends with John-John...but that JFK Jr. had been good friends with HIM. Did he know something that most of the public does not?...

I'll give a comparison:

Author Kevin Trudeau wrote three books about natural cures. One is "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About," the second is "More Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About," and the 3d is "Weight Loss Cures They Don't Want You to Know About." The trouble is, if you Google Kevin Trudeau, you might discredit him right away because you'll find scads of articles that tell you that he has been put in jail. Apparently, he got in trouble for using the word "Cure".

Consistently through the books, Trudeau says that he is not a doctor. He says that modern medicine has its place. Drugs and surgery have their place. He also tells people not to get off of drugs prescribed to them by a doctor after reading his book. Sounds pretty thorough to me. But Trudeau also says that he knows that he's telling people things that will most likely get him into hot water.

In the end he went to prison, supposedly for promising results in his weight loss book that he could not deliver. Trudeau would later say that this was all they could nail him with (Or something to that effect). In other words, over 99% of what's in these books could in fact be true and beneficial, however, because of one thing that apparently, is to the contrary...this guy is in big trouble. I am not promoting Kevin Trudeau or anything he sells...and his past behaviour is none of my business...I don't care.

What I'm saying is, who on earth is this guy hurting just because not everyone gets the same results from his book? The charge against him was criminal contempt. He says results vary, and he also says that he did not write his books to tell people to stop seeing their doctors. But there's one problem: He uses the word "Cure."

In using this word, he is not TELLING people not to see their doctors...in fact as mentioned, he tells them the opposite. But, when I saw the title, I thought "Wow! You mean I wouldn't have to go to the doctor again??" (Maybe)? How did I know? But this would be nice, right? Any psychologist can tell you...sometimes something works just because you believe it's working and your attitude changes. See the lightbulb yet? You do the math... This title might make people believe that they may not have to go and see their doctor anymore. How unconventional is that?? This is simply one of those unwritten rules nobody even THINKS of breaking.

So, one of the things Trudeau claims is that there is a system in place that is all working together and communicating with each other in order to influence the way people think. This includes what they buy, where they travel, what insurance they choose, what medical care they take, what charities they support...and on and on it goes.

Trudeau claims that many accidents and catastrophic events are in fact created, in order that certain services and protections might be offered to help get the average Joe out of the mess he is now in.

Trudeau claims that there are always things going on behind these coordinated events that the public knows nothing about. In other words, it's like being grateful to someone for saving you from falling off a cliff...but you have no idea that the one who saved you is the one who pushed you off in the first place.

This way, they save you, they get the glory, they get the credit. Look at political ads every election...mudslinging everywhere. Are they counting on what we DO know or what we DON'T know when influencing us to make our decisions. I'm not sure because I don't know what to think, and it takes too much time to find out, right?

Getting back to Trudeau...

So, as a result, there is and has been a huge "smear campaign" against Trudeau. This is my opinion based on things I've found online that are consistent with things Trudeau talks about in his books. In other words, Trudeau says that many people do not like the things he writes, and he has been smeared as a result to make it appear as though He's out of his mind. He's been painted in the media as a fake, a "flake".. basically a snake-oil salesman kind of character.

Who would believe someone like that? This is not to say that Trudeau has never done anything that might cause a person to discredit him. He has, and he's admitted that...in his books. The trouble is, researching Kevin Trudeau for accuracy leads people to the "smear campaign" against him...not what he himself has honestly admitted about his own life. Digging deeper might lead one to find more credible information about him...but why bother? People don't want be messed around. We don't want to look stupid because someone else is a liar. So the smear campaign works, and anything of value this person says is buried under double-talk, lies, and an over-magnification of any negative thing they have been associated with (whether real, or made up by someone else). Bullseye.

My point is, that many people, including me, have accused Trump of behaving this way. We say he's a narcissist. It ought to be glaring at us by now that this man is a pompous jerk who is unfit for his job and only cares about his own agenda, right? Only caring about his own agenda and being a pompous ass is one thing. Many political figures have done a lot worse and been easily forgiven. But this guy seems to take stupidity and ignorance to another level. He's rude and loud and his responses to things, or lack thereof, leave people wondering if he's possibly somewhere else in his head that nobody can figure out.

He seems to be like Bob Wiley...walking down the street repeating "I feel good. I feel great. I feel wonderful." This has caused many to believe that Trump is both incompetent and insane. Psychiatrists have claimed that he has dementia, many people have speculated he's an alcoholic...and on and on it goes.

So then you have the other side of the equation: The Trump supporters in their MAGA hats, holding up Q banners and screaming "USA! USA! USA! Again, do they know something we do not? Maybe.

It makes sense that when your emotions tell you on a spiritual level that someone is to be praised...you pretty much just go with it. But what is So spiritual about him? To me, Trump TRIED to appear spiritual in order to gain attention, but I thought that was all there was to it. So, we then come to the conclusion that Trump is delusional, and so are his..."followers"...right? As to the spiritual level part, guess what? I can't explain this because it is bigger than I am. Man, who wants to live with the discomfort of no explanation?? We want answers. We want solutions. We want a LEADER who will give us ANSWERS, right? Of course...so it has been with every president that's ever been in power. Why is 45 so different??...

Split in Three...The Trinity.

When I really think about it, I'm surprised that we have so-called "Christian" or faith based news sources at all. How many different ways can an angle be stretched before it needs to be thrown out altogether? My point being that so much of the news out there is simply reported from such a negative perspective. When the two elements are merged, or blended, it can sometimes be hard to separate them.

In trying to figure Trump out, I've learned that there are three kinds of news sources, not two: There's the mainstream secular news, the mainstream Evangelical news (yes, you read that right), and then there's the news that seems to have its own stream.

I'll start with the last one first: The point of news that has its own stream is that it's separated from the popular news everybody is watching. To me, this is simply news with a perspective different than the popular mainstream viewpoint. This news is not limited to Evangelical perspectives, it can be either secular, or faith based.

Mainstream news is basically the stream of popular, non faith-based topics that most people hear on the main news networks several times a day. These are the secular news stories that are repeated over and over.

Then we have the strangest one, I think: Evangelical mainstream news. This is basically secular news that is retold (or this attempt is made), with a faith based, largely Evangelical perspective. This is a strange concept I think, because Evangelicals are supposed to be able to be recognized by the secular world as having "clean hands" you might say. They are people of faith, recognized by what is supposed to be a perspective with a firmly planted code of ethics.

Ethics? What's that? Who even knows what ethics are anymore? To me, ethics means doing everything we can to always give someone all the information necessary in order to make a free choice. A violation of ethics is when someone does not have all the information pertinent to making a free choice...and they do not realize it.

It is the considered opinion of many that mainstream secular news largely does not give viewers all the information needed to judge for ourselves what we think about different issues, and that most of the information presented is presented for the purpose of supporting agendas, rather than giving people all the information they need in order to make there own free choice.

Now it used to be that everything was divided in two: you have the secular world and the Christian world. Black...white. Dark...light. You got the picture. So, when a person converted to Christianity, for example, there was Christian music and media, and these things helped a Believer to be salt and light...to stand out...to "evangelize" to those around them. But as pastor David Gibbs says: "Most churches today could be run by a secular business manager."

Sadly, much of Evangelicalism (though not all) has become like a secular business rather than a Christian ministry. So, secularism and evangelicalism are both in the "world"... What happened to the faith base?

What happened to the salt and light? Most of it is in that third stream of news...the news with its own stream. I don't have a name for it...independent, I suppose. Sort of like politics, where more and more people identify as Independent because they believe that both the Democrat and Republican parties are corrupt...and fighting against each other.

In my opinion, the problem with mainstream Evangelical news (the second type), is that it is pretty much a copy of mainstream, secular network news. It's almost as if they've taken the mainstream network nightly news and tried to put a "Christian" or faith-based "coat" around it. Now, this isn't always the case. Also, not every story in Evangelical mainstream news is taken from the mainstream nightly news. This is mainly why many people of faith like the "alternative." But most of it is basically secular, mainstream news with a Christian wrapper.

It is also mixed with many stories about Evangelical ministers and leaders, some, but not most of which can be spoken of in the mainstream media as well. This stance on faith-based leaders and the like is supposed to be the difference in these two genres of media, but more and more, the salt is losing its flavor and the light is being dimmed.

Talk about snakes in the grass! You basically end up with all the venom, all the slime, all the hissing (which often isnt recognized anyway, because people trust the news they are given),the total adrenaline rush and fear factor so that people will WATCH it to begin with...and now you have a network, and news anchors whose job it becomes to put a positive, faithbased spin on all this.

I think the stereotype is that positive is boring...negatve is exciting. Negative keeps people tuned in so they are not bored. Mainstream secular news makes people believe they are fully informed about all the negative stuff that's out there that we need to now avoid in order to be safe.

What does the mainstream Evangelical media try to do? The mainstream Evangelical media is supposed to TRY to...glorify our Creator. That's the point. However, this has become laughable, right? What they end up doing a majority of the time is making people believe they are now fully informed about all the negative stuff that's out there that we need to now avoid in order to be safe...and they put a positive, Christian spin on it.

So even if negative agendas in mainstream, secular media are clear as day...and to many they are...what happens when they are presented wearing a "Christian coat" or a Christian "wrapper"? Here's the problem: what's more negative than a smear campaign? Face it...this is the perfect tactic for magnifying negativity. It's the perfect tactic to cause people to dwell on what scares them or makes them insecure. This makes people afraid, and scrambling for answers...often without even realizing what's happening.

The American public is not stupid... We're just so well adjusted to the negative that we've learned to just say "Whatever" and see what else is on. We might be shocked for a minute, but we've become accustomed to it I think. We KNOW that the majority of our nightly news is depressing. It worries us...it produces anxiety. We know the adrenaline it produces. We're used to it.


Most of the time, we don't even notice it.
Many of us believe that it's honest negativity...but we still believe it's honest. What happens when someone tries to put a faith based angle on it? Yikes! We still have the original negative root. So one of two things happens: Either, the darkness underneath seeps through and begins to convolute the whole thing, or the "faith-based" coat wraps the news up so well that now we have a triple threat: negative agendas that directly affect people's lives that are fueled by particularly negative news, with a not only positive, but faith based spin now put on them that creates confusion as far as what side we should be on. What "angle" are they coming from?? Ouch.

The secular mainstream news, in my opinion, depends on a certain shock value. Are they afraid folks won't tune in? Is it sorta like a box office movie? I'm not sure...I don't produce the evening news. But what happens when you try to put a Christian coat on shock value? What happens when we try to put a Christian "coat" around information derived originally from secular networks, secular sources, etc., who rely so heavily on smear campaigns and even GIVE us our news with the smear campaign already over it? It's tricky because this does not mean that they're lying to you. Oh no, I didn't say that. The mainstream secular media is putting its emphasis on everything negative so that people focus on what scares them.

The evangelical Christian media wants to appear as though they've found the positive faith base in all this negatively charged news, and focus on that... but they also want to REACH people. (Oh no). They want to come down to the level of the average American audiene sitting on their sofas with their phones attached to them, getting charged up on all the negative news anyway. You guys, the result...is a train wreck (a lot of the time).

The result is the negative continually coming through underneath. So what we often end up with is this odd, sort of positive smear campaign, as in smearing the supposed positive all over the negative trying to keep the light shining. But we still have the original negative root. Like a virus, the negativity spreads through much of the faith-based angle, and most of what's left sounds...totally fake. It sounds made up. It sounds as though someone HAS to have an angle to put on what they are saying, so they picked...THIS one. But it sounds contrived. I'm not saying that all news with a faith base sounds contrived. It doesn't. But I found this to be the case especially concerning news about President Trump.

I think there's a strong undercurrent there that seems to scream: "GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK!" People who believe Trump is a selfish, narcissist for example, might think, "Look you guys, if it's honesty and integrity you want, you might try calling a spade a spade...and just be through with it. Admit that this man is a total narcissist, and I might give you the time of day. Don't candy coat it."

This creates a horrible hypocracy that many people (both believers and non-believers) totally detest. All of this is important, simply because Trump's main base of followers is faith-based...mainly evangelical Christians.

Of course, Faith-based news that has an emphasis on Evangelical Christianity is NEVER called "mainstream" because it's supposed to be the alternative, it's supposed to be the light in the darkness, it's supposed to be...faith based. Now, forgive me for picking on anyone, but tell this to personalities such as Glen Beck or Todd Friel, who, in my opinion, both fuel their so -called faith based broadcasts with so much sarcasm and innuendo, that it becomes difficult to know...which side they're on. Are you being serious now, or using continual sarcasm to make a joke? Do you think what you are reporting on is a good thing or a bad thing? I can't tell, because I'm tired of peeling back the layers of what you're saying.

Like an onion that goes bad...this really stinks. By the way, does this sort of "triple threat" (reporting the negative news with a negative agenda with a positive spin) sound at all like anyone else we know? So then (after all that) we add Trump to all of this. What IS he all about anyway? Honestly, I'm still not sure, but as I told you before...he made a promise. It's actually pretty easy: John F. Kennedy Jr. said publicly that one of his life goals was to find those who murdered his father and hold them accountable...even if it meant bringing down the government. When JFK JR was killed in 1999, Donald Trump remembered what his friend had vowed to do...and he apparently took over the job? He vowed to his dear friend that he would "drain the swamp." What does that mean, drain the swamp? In truth, I'm still learning as I go...


On a surface level, one could say: What does any of this have to do with POTUS 45 being such a jerk? What does it have to do with him being so narcissistic and selfish? I've said it before: I wish there was a word for needing to appear as though you are a total ass for a time...until a later time when your true (good) intentions can be made clear. I think president Trump might be best summed up now with this phrase: "If I told you now, you'd never understand it anyway."

In the Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy is rescued from the witch's castle, her friends dress up and march like the chanting palace guards sent to find THEM. The guards think they are all one of them, and let them in. They get into the castle and through a series of events, the witch is melted after Dorothy is rescued. All is well!

A person's enemies can often be described as wolves in sheep's clothing. Donald Trump's largely Evangelical following are often described as "Sheeple." They are being led right to the slaughter because they believe the "wolf" in sheep's clothing is on their side, right? But there's a problem with this: Donald Trump seems to have flipped this whole concept on its head.

He's not wearing "sheep's" clothing. He IS the WOLF...And his supporters believe He is protecting them...that he's on their side. He has too much nerve...too much attitude. He's too demanding...hes too much of an ass, but his supporters LOVE him! Why? Just watch the NEWS...the mainstream, secular news...you'll be even more confused than you already are about why Donald Trump seems to abuse and belittle the very loyal following who seems to want to fall at his feet. My feeling was that Trump himself did not need much help, if any...to make himself look bad. Translation: It couldn't be all the media's fault. I just didn't believe that.

Still, how can we explain the "FANS" in their MAGA hats with their Q signs? I wonder if many of Mr. Trump's evangelical fan base realize that to many out there, it seams as though the very people who are supposed to never put up with the blatant mistreatment of others are not only putting up with it, but they are encouraging it. They are agging it on! It's because of the "triple threat." A


And this is the reason that there is a third kind of news source that seems to have its own stream. The saying goes that one bad apple spoils the whole barrel. But I'm not trying to say that Trump is the bad apple...

The "Trinity" (as I choose to call it here), is negative news, smear campaigns, and a faith based perspective put on these things that is not believable. Most people believe, as did I, that the evening news is out there to keep us informed about what's going on. We believe this is in our best interest, and there to protect us. Of course we do...why not? There's good and bad in everything correct? It all depends on your point of view. Sometimes a person's viewpoint changes however, when they get underneath the layers of the onion going bad. Hence this third kind of news source, that seems to have its own stream. Do I call it independent? I don't know. But as far as backing up what we say with sources...this is difficult to let others see if the sources one uses keep disappearing. Checking our news for authenticity can be almost impossible when the only choices you have are negative news with negative sources, or negative news with a positive spin, checked with sources that are also negative news with a positive spin. Eventually, these two are going to mesh together and look just like the others.

Guys, the mainstream media simply is not very friendly or accepting towards news or sources that are in this third type. In fact, more and more, this third type of news isn't even allowed to be given attention on the first type of news. Things are deleted...taken off...shut down...suspended...not there to be seen anymore. Now, if you believe that the first type of news is there for our good, okay...then when news of the third type is silenced, taken down or deleted, you believe that it's for our good as well, right...because they're doing us a favor by letting us know what isn't true. Right?

Let's get back to the ship hospitals. In the first type of news, it was reported that Samaritan's Purse, Franklin Graham's ministry was...running the ship hospitals? Apparently, they were staffed completely with Samaritan's Purse volunteers free of charge...who were happy to help. But then it was reported that the state of New York demanded tax money from Samaritan's Purse. Why? The first type of news reported that the federal government was not providing enough aid for Corona virus victims and so the taxes were necessary. Franklin Graham is on President Trump's team. They are allies, would you say? That's just FYI.

The second type of news, understandably glorified Samaritan's purse, because it's an evangelical ministry. Why not? It talked about Franklin Graham offering hope. It also reported that the organization was treating Covid-19 patients. But the mainstream media had reported that the ship hospitals were treating non Covid-19 patients to allow the overburdened hospitals to only treat COVID patients. But the evangelical Christian news sources basically reported what the mainstream secular news did.

So what about the third type? When I looked into the third type of news sources, I found videos that said that both ship hospitals and the medical MASH unit type tents set up were treating children...that they were rescuing children. Children??

There were pictures of doctors and nurses treating tiny little bodies...several of them with abnormalities. There were photos of plastic IV bags filled with liquid nutrition. There were sippy cups, teddy bears, humidifiers in the shape of penguins, baby incubators. Hospital ships apparently are not allowed to deliver babies. Why would there be incubators for infants? I had no idea, but, did anyone hear about any of this in the mainstream media?? Now it could be argued that children and babies can get this (virus) too, and they need to be treated as well. Yes. So, if that's the case, why did the mainstream media not report it that way?

Why the pictures of deformities? Why the pictures of limbs that are so so thin that no IV can even be put in them? Why does everything in the tent hospitals/ ship hospitals look like it's for children and not adults? And another thing: Why all the Orange Crush Soda, Starbucks, candy and sugary food and drinks, along with boxes and boxes of Pampers? Not one thing shown seemed to be for adults...only kids. It looked as though these doctors and nurses were treating starvation and dehydration...rather than COVID 19.

I saw not one ventilator. There is however an audio clip of someone close to one of the nurses in the Central Park MASH unit. The woman was on the phone with someone, and she said: "The situation with the kids is real, and it's just horrible." What situation with the kids? What did she mean?? It might just be that if I post that video, or a link to it, this blog entry might stay up...I don't know. That video is in the category of news that has its own stream and this category is most of the time, taken down, in my view, by the first type of news. I say this because it's been my own experience. Things are being taken down and removed.

I heard once that apparently women who are hired to play Disney princesss in their theme parks are required to be smiling all the time. When they do not smile, they are given a zing of electrical current through some sort of a device they are required to wear. I wondered if a job like that would really be WORTH it! The anxiety, the humiliation, the invasion of privacy! I guess it comes with the territory, but still...always wondering whether somebody will ZAP you or not??

So, now imagine you are President Trump, and there are only certain answers the media wants from you when they question you...and you know it...all the time. If you don't answer what they want, you get zapped, in the form of scathing reports that misquote you, and blatantly say that you are unfit to do your job. Do you think you'd want to bother answering their questions, or would you tell them to mind their own business and keep walking?

I think the EXPECTED reaction would be for President Trump to allow himself to be pigeon holed. Would reporters then be satisfied because their questions had been answered? Possibly...but he's the president...maybe he has something he feels is more important that he'd like to say. Doesn't he have that right? He should. If he allowed himself to be pigeon holed and turned into a robot just to appease them, then our leader would not have a mind of his own. He would be spineless. We don't want that do we?

But I think one reason so many can't stand the 45th president is because most of his answers seem to be generalized statements that he makes over and over again...so much so that he sounds as though he doesn't know what he's talking about. It sounds like filler...almost like he's making it up as he goes. Why?...

Did you know Mel Gibson was blacklisted in Hollywood? Apparently he spoke openly about some absolutely grotesque things he says go on in Hollywood circles. In a sense...he said too much and he was...kicked out? That could be one way to explain it...

Imagine that every word you said to the public, there was someone right next to you reading Miranda rights in your ear. So, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, (hypothetically speaking), as well as in the first type of media (because you're the president). What exactly would you be ALLOWED to say?? Anything? Here's the public wishing you would take advantage of the first Miranda right, (be silent), while the media continually bashes you in the head because they think you don't have any answers to anything in the first place. This is a terrible pun, but, is there any breathing room here?

What if Mr.Trump is making major decisions behind the scenes that most of the public wouldn't understand anyway? The thing is, even the feeling of secrecy makes folks very distrustful doesn't it?: What are you doing that I don't know about?? I think Mr. Trump is keeping a promise: He's draining the swamp. Now if you've been tuning into the (third type) of news, you know what this hashtag means. If you have not, you might have no idea what I'm saying, and might be REALLY frustrated with me now because I wont just come out and tell you what the heck I'm talking about...

Is it confusing when Christians remind you to have faith all the time? Does it sound like the people of faith who are supposed to know better are just letting the "wolf" get away with all kinds of bad behavior? Yeah, I get it. I've been really...embarrassed by this for a long time.

There is no way to talk about this whole thing without talking about faith in things higher than we are. The fact is, this has many people angry and scared. Let's face it, we've been taught over and over again about "separation" of church and state, right? So why do Christians seem to be getting so much favor here? (From someone who seems to not care about them at all)? Why does it seem like not only are Christians getting all the clout here...but they seem to be getting that clout from a man who seems to just be the complete antithesis of everything they say they stand for? As I said, if you're familiar with the third source of news, you
Most likely are familiar on some level with the "good things" that Trump is doing.

I could be wrong, but I think it's like this: Most of Trump's faith based fan base gets at least some of their news and information from that third source of news...but there's no platform for that third source of news most of the time. News with its own stream tends to be taken down...it disappears. So you know why somebody is your hero, but it becomes harder and harder to share it with people. Meanwhile, the smear campaigns continue in the first kind of news... they are presented as truth oftentimes, but are always sensationalized.

Meanwhile, those who don't have a platform in news that has its own stream... The only alternative for this that I know of, is the evangelical Christian media, the second type of media...but there often isn't much we can say. We are not believed, and trying to put a faith based spin on things just makes then convoluted and confusing. Who would believe that? If someone is outside of Christian circles and trying to understand what's going on...how can they? The type 1 news isn't friendly to the type 3 news and it is largely silenced. So what comes out are very generalized, vague statements:

"Why do you support Trump?"
"Look at all the great things he's doing!"
"Really? What great things are those?
"Do your research. Look it up! It's all out there!"
Now we sound just like the President, right?

("Oh okay...youre a Trump supporter...I got it.").

I don't blame you for thinking this.

What does that mean? Come on. You don't want me to start all over at the beginning do you? Okay, well, as I said, it's a mess out there.

So, all things considered, how on earth do we who claim Trump is doing all these good things even begin to say what they are?

Enter Qanon.

I could never really understand the good that is taking place because of president Trump until I began looking at Q drops. If you still do not believe that parts of the news are taken down or made not valid, that's up to you, but consider that Qanon actually began on the dark web. This alone causes many to dismiss the whole thing and think it's a bunch of BS. Now, Q message boards that assign numbers to each drop make them easy to look up and research. There's even Q app. Dark web? Nevermind, just Google it. 😊 But Qanon began in 2017. In my view, Qanon is a way for people who pay attention to the third type of news to get some validation, some answers and some support. The identity of Q is not known. Some people believe it's a group of people. Some people believe it's Trump himself. Some people believe it's the Trump administration. Some people think Q is all of the above, and some believe that Q is John F Kennedy Jr. himself. Want to understand Trump's crazy tweets? Start looking at Q drops. Wanna know what #DrainTheSwamp means? Start looking at Q drops. Wanna know about the good things Trump is doing? Start looking at Q drops. Think all of this is the most ridiculous thing in the world because we believe that John-John is alive? Okay. I can't blame you. By the way, have you ever seen an aerial shot of the JFK Memorial?

Follow the pen...

So, trust me...I don't understand things like pictures of our president and the first lady with Jeffery Epstein. I don't understand why he he won't show his tax returns like every other president has. I don't understand Mary Trump's book. I don't understand a lot of things. In the end all I can do is quote Q and "trust the plan." I just wanted to try and let people know: If you think we're all nuts, I understand. I wanted to try and give something more then just "It doesn't matter what he did."