Posted on 09/29/2025 10:39:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Something remarkable recently passed unnoticed. Trump spoke at Charlie Kirk’s memorial but didn't champion Christian charity. He advocated a decidedly Old Testament approach (one finding unanimous support on these pages):
He was a missionary with a noble spirit. …He did not hate his opponents, he wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent. I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry Erika. … And maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent.
Who preaches hatred while eulogizing “a missionary”?
Trump spoke deliberately.
He’s preparing America for war while placing enemies on notice. He doesn’t support understanding the sinner and seeking to reform him. He hates the sinner and the sin.
In domestic politics (or politics projected outward as foreign policy), anything else becomes suicidal. America reformed Japan and Germany only after bombing them into submission.
It's contrary to “America First” isolationists’ childish beliefs that America can withdraw within its borders, ignoring the world, as foreign actors continuously plot our destruction. Becoming mired in years-long counterinsurgencies isn’t the same as preemptive strikes to proactively interdict planned attacks, e.g., Iran’s nuclear program.
The year 2025 began with a 3:15 a.m. New Orleans Islamic attack on New Year’s Day (13 dead, 57 injured).
Syria’s “former” ISIS/al-Qaida leader bears responsibility.
The National Counterterrorism Center, under the ONDI, released a minimalist declassified warning on Sept. 19, two days before Trump’s hate-the-enemy comments. The timing wasn’t coincidental.
Both represent components of Trump’s war preparations.
The ODNI alert was largely ignored in America. But Afghans paid attention. The document provided few details, beyond that terrorists are targeting “aviation, symbolic or economic targets, U.S. military or government employees and facilities, and the U.S. public.” We’re...
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Why Trump Hates His Enemies
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Maybe it is because they have tried to:
1. bankrupt him
2. imprison him
3. kill him
It’s contrary to “America First” isolationists’ childish beliefs that America can withdraw within its borders...
I actually think we should try this. Doing the same thig over and over expecting different results (ala insanity) is what we have been doing during my entire life. America First for a change.
And this is why I want him as my President. I'm not for turning the other cheek, I'm for shooting back.
Trump’s enemies are America’s enemies....
Trump’s enemies are America’s enemies....
We tried that many times. Then got caught with our pants down.
Of course, President Trump was engaging in hyperbole and wasn't saying that he "hates" his opponents any more than Kamala Harris believed that Joe Biden was a "racist" during the 2020 Democrat primary debate, which she later dismissed as debate rhetoric after being named to the VP ticket.
President Trump was expressing how seriously he took campaigning for office. "Little Marco" Rubio was a competitor and Trump certainly went hard after him, but now Rubio is Trump's Secretary of State -- so much for "hating" his opponents.
President Trump was whimsically talking about how hard he campaigns, not that he "hates" his opponents during campaigns.
-PJ
I voted for obliteration and draining.
Those aren’t directed at Trump’s allies.
I hated a lot of his enemies even before he hated them. 😡
Then we weren’t doing it right. Can’t allow for exceptions.
President Trump is right, as usual.
And the world is very fortunate to finally have a man in that office that will say what needs to be said.
Men are being conditioned to keep silent about things that offend us - and that is very bad for the world.
When my grandfather was disgusted by something, he would say so. If somebody did or said something stupid, he would say so. Probably most men of his generation, were that way.
Criticism and harsh words can be painful, but pain is the best teacher.
When I was a kid, I kept to myself and didn’t bother anyone. Generally, I was silent, in my own world happily reading books or wandering in the woods. I had no fear of anything and didn’t care for crowds or parties or much other than friendly hellos and such. Didn’t even gossip about anyone because I wasn’t around to hear any gossip to spread.
But this was taken as weakness. So, one day while out minding my own business, while other kids minded theirs, several bigger kids in my class surrounded me and shoved me to the ground, started taunting me, etc.
I was in shock at first, not expecting to be attacked. One I thought was my friend. Another was a known troublemaker, his brothers being into selling weed and speed. The others were just follower types, not known for much other than attendance. No one came to my rescue. Some were scared too, others joined in laughing. I was the smallest kid in claas, just a girl.
But I focused my attention on the guy I thought was my friend and nailed him in the face. That seemed to shame him so he backed off but I still had to fight the others until a teacher broke it up. He had the little cut on his face for years afterward.
But this was not an isolated thing. I still kept to myself, even more so after that. Whenever new people came along who didn’t expect me to fight, they would start something, precisely because they thought it would be easy to target someone who didn’t fight with others and who didn’t have any allies with fight in them either. All my friends were peaceable people.
And these attempts to ambush or attack would only stop when at least one of them got hit. Bullies are cowards, but they are also STUPID. They always have a folowing of sycophants who join up mainly to keep from being singled out an attacked themselves. That alliance is only as strong as you are willing to tolerate. When you fight back, or when you deliver a good knock on them, their posse quickly disperses. If you keep walking away, or are unwilling to fight, they will pile on.
You only have peace as long as the memory of you fighting back and knocking their heads together lasts.
But that doesn’t mean there will be peace generally- they then go after your friends, or just the next kid they see as weak or vulnerable. I for one don’t like to see the weak or helpless get attacked- if those attacks succeed the bullies gain allies and strength and more people become afraid and intimidated into supporting them or at least not resisting them. Eventually they get strong enough to take you down hard. They have to be stopped before they get confidence and allies.
The same is true on the grand scale.
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YESHUA didn’t say wouldn’t have enemies. Put weSGOULD pray for them.
YESHUA didn’t say wouldn’t have enemies. Put weSGOULD pray for them.
I prefer Bismarcks view forgive your enemies it is the Christian thing to do but only after they have been hanged😐
If a guy hits on my wife, I will forgive him after I lay him out. I really will.
If, as a Christian, he wants to forgive evil done against himself that is a worthy goal both in a spiritual and a personal sense. But it is not his official duty to forgive and/or deny justice to evildoers. He is not to allow evil to go unchecked and unpunished nor is he to allow the innocent to be punished unjustly. God demands justice from all and to all in a proper and righteous manner.
Why? Simply look what happened in this country for the past couple of decades when genuine justice was denied or was applied unjustly. It brings a form of secular and even spiritual hell for individuals and the nation and it corrupts every institution and the people.
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