Posted on 12/29/2017 10:30:27 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
NBC’s Joe Scarborough on Thursday is predicting that 2018 will be the “most consequential political year of our lives.”
In a Washington Post op-ed, the “Morning Joe” host slams President Trump for his “anti-democratic” actions in 2017 and warns that a "storm is gathering" next year.
Scarborough writes that Trump's “low points” included his endorsement of accused sexual predator Roy Moore for an Alabama Senate seat and his statement that there was violence “on both sides” at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
“Others would surely consider the president’s malignant idiocy in foreign affairs to be the most damning legacy of his first year,” Scarborough writes. “World leaders continue to watch dumbstruck as the United States retreats from organizations that were created following the allies’ victory over Hitler. Those same alliances that Trump now undermines with reckless tweets and discarded treaties carried the United States to victory in the Cold War.”
Scarborough invokes former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose book “The Gathering Storm” warns that “isolationist conceptions” can follow even stable political periods.
Scarborough writes that Churchill’s warnings will be “more relevant to 2018 than at any time since it was written in the years after World War II.”
“While Trump’s eroding of U.S. prestige across the globe is disturbing, it is his administration’s undermining of democratic values that poses an even greater threat to our Constitution and country,” he writes.
“Borrowing again from Churchill, America’s constitutional norms tremble in the balance as Trump unleashes furious attacks on First Amendment protections, independent counsels and law enforcement officers who refuse to be bullied,” Scarborough continues.
“While the framers of the Constitution foresaw the possibility of a tyrannical president, they never let their imaginations be darkened by the possibility of a compliant Congress.”
Scarborough, a former GOP lawmaker, has been a consistently tough critic of Trump, and formally left the Republican Party earlier this year.
he is such an arse wipe....
bammy was the tyrant, and yes the congress was compliant...
He’s just generically lefty. Thinks that if he talks a good enough game, he can bend reality.
Actually he could, but only if the supporters of Satan stand up while the supporters of God stand down. Which sadly enough seems a real possibility. A partial GOP sitdown strike on Roy Moore kept him from being pushed over the hump.
The closer to God someone gets, the more alleged stink there is going to be on that person. Good gospel theologians knew this, in all branches of Christendom. Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant. C. S. Lewis seemed to be one of the exceptions, and maybe that’s because his output was mainly books to niche audiences. He didn’t cut a high or broad public figure. He notably sent one of his brothers to answer personal calls upon him. But for politicians no such refuge is available. The “stink” of Jesus will pursue them.
[The closer to God someone gets, the more alleged stink there is going to be on that person]
Well anyhow. Yeah I am talking theology here. But it’s nothing that the bible doesn’t vouch for pretty openly.
C. S. Lewis slipped through by keeping a low figure. It was good for his witness that he had a strong bent to personal privacy.
Donald Trump slipped through by timing (he was painfully nominal at best about Christian faith, until he approached the helm and began to understand the spiritual engine that had made old America run). In the meantime he talked the best GOP game that had been heard in a coon’s age, with his famous brassy optimism that won worldly friends.
The far more openly Christian Donald Trump will not face as easy a battle in 2018. He needs savvy spiritual planners. The vote that matters more is going to be cast in supernatural polls.
If these elitist crooks think they experienced emotional trauma in November 2016, they have no idea of what's headed their way in 2018, as the inexorable wheels of Justice—driven by the winds of positive change and the service of a faithful leader—slowly roll over them. These uniformly corrupt criminals will be repudiated.
I've become convinced that these totalitarian ideologues—in a desperate last resort bid to retain and seize power which they no longer legitimately possess or merit—are willing to push this nation to the brink of Civil War. They think that the Deplorables—that is, the vast bulk of the informed patriotic citizenry in the country—will balk. They think that we aren't willing to fight, when in reality—just like the Patriots of old—the Spirit of 'Seventy Six passionately animates both our words and our actions.
The People are ready—spoiling for a confrontation, really—and a few delusional propagandists like Joe Scarborough and his ilk will only serve to steel their resolve.
The Swamp is on the wrong side of History, and it will be drained—and those who cast their lot with it are headed for a rude awakening...
It's the Democrats who will lose big in 2018. All the events and emerging facts are moving against the Democrats, the Deep State, and the Swamp in general.
The depth of the Swamp's Treason—attempted sabotage of a Presidential election and a major party candidate, criminal both in its intent and its practical execution and with the full complicity of the Obama administration, President Obama himself, Hillary Clinton, and extensive assets of the Deep State—simply cannot be overlooked. It has emerged as the single most important issue of the Trump Presidency. Nothing else can proceed until this primary issue—the preservation and integrity of this Republic—is addressed.
A tyrannical President? He means Trulp but his boy Obozo was the tyrant
“If God wills.”
And a lot of that is whether we are willing to be made ready for it. I don’t think we can talk a good game in a vacuum without being ready for the likes of what narrowly struck out Roy Moore.
We can call something the worst things under the sun — and indeed our dear Democrats have been quite terrible — but going spiritually AWOL would hurt the Trumpian gains even more. Because it’s the devil who pushes iniquity and he’s more powerful than people. God is the only leverage that can bring the devil down.
Perhaps Joe should work on making the DNC fiscally solvent again. That would be a start.
Why suggest that. Wouldn’t it be better for us if it flops?
Without God being robustly called into our picture, we end up having no way to prefer fact over fiction, or truth over lies, since people can juggle the discourse any way they jolly well please.
It’s kind of like the kids allowed to go feral at one of our public schools, since the administration is too weak or ambivalent to say this is right and that is not. That’s an open door to a satanic power play. Tell me about it, it comes far closer to home for me than most talk about, and as a result I will never forget the lesson. Conservatives sometimes tend to be so gruff to those on the wrong side of such power plays (”suck it up” etc.) that they forget that without fundamental justice, the whole house of cards soon flutters down to the ground. If you don’t fight upwards to God, the devil will fight you downwards to hell. And our lefty liberals have walked away with that side of the discourse because the right refuses to be sensitive to it.
I don’t know how naked the corpse was but I’d bet she was pregnant by Joe. And that’s why her autopsy was “botched”.
The 2010 midterm losses for Odumbo we’re a direct backlash of the heinous healthcare act, and they have been losing ever since. The media has been able to hide just how much people hate that awful law. Now Trump has beneficial legislation and a growing economy, the public would have to be suicidal to want to stop that. Hopefully not likely.
The liberal MSM are the ones being anti-democratic by trying to take down our democratically elected President.
You want a storm, Joe S.? Be careful what you wish for.
JoMa
I cannot read this incoherent garbage. Joe is in show business buts thinks he is a savvy political insider. They smirk and wink at each other every morning on the set like they have the inside line with all the cool kids. The smarmy, self aggrandizing makes me want to throw up. Not to mention that he and his concubine are essentially adulterers and half their gang are sexual predators or plagarists. Idiots.
Of course. Just pointing out that he has no funding for the storm. No mojo. Which is good. Broke as the two dollar wh##es they are.
Yeah... trying to pump up something like the narrow upset in the Alabama special senatorial election all over the USA is going to spread him rather thin. We’ll see more robust GOP campaigning simply by comparison.
Or... and nobody else said it first? ... this storm might fit into a teapot after all.
Still, we need to make sure we’re ready to back what we put up. I think the opposition to Roy Moore caught a lot of people by surprise. Safe mushy moderates will do if Trump is leading the GOP by the trunk.
Joe Scarborough, desperately seeking publicity.
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