Missed
The news all week, of course, was largely around the assassination attempt on Trump, so that occupies a big space in today's entry. One staffer for Democrat Bernie Thompson asked that the next gunman get some practice so he doesn't miss. (She
was fired.) We still don't know the motive, but a
popular suggestion is that Biden and the Dems brought this about with their "threat to democracy" and "becoming a dictator" and comparisons to Hitler rhetoric which may have just prompted a
patriot to try to save America from Trump. Trump urged his followers on Jan 6, 2021, to "fight" and he was accused of insurrection. Biden said he wanted to put Trump "in the bull's-eye." Could that have been taken as a call for violence?
Putin thinks so. On the other hand, former Biden press secretary, Jen Pasaki,
suggested that
Republican rhetoric was to blame.
The Atlantic offered an opinion piece titled, "The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator." Nice. On Monday, two days after the attempt, the
New York Times published a piece on how a "megalomaniac who will happily destroy American democracy" is at the door. Helpful rhetoric that will surely not incite further violence, right?
A veteran sniper suggested that the kid who took the shot could not have gotten where he was without help. Somebody on the inside. Maybe.
There are questions about how a guy could be sighted on the roof with a gun, reported minutes before the shooting, and none of the protection team responded. It's a mess, but, while Trump took a literal hit,
some are suggesting that it just won Trump the White House or, at least,
vastly improved his position. Unfortunately, given the known unreliability of both the media and government, we shouldn't expect real answers anytime soon.
No Surprise Here
Oh ... and Trump got the
GOP nomination. Like we didn't expect that. Perhaps something from the RNC that
was news was the
Sikh prayer offered to "Vaheguru, our one true God." Does not bode well for the RNC.
California ... Again
Good ol' reliable California Governor Newsom signed into law that schools
cannot tell parents their kids are going transgender. Or, to put it another way, "You have no rights to your children; they're ours." California schools will be required to indulge the fantasies of children as if they were reasonable and expect to be trusted. Quite a leap. On the other hand, are parents so disconnected that they can't tell? Both sides are sad. (And at least one
California school district is suing over it.)
Missing the Point
I had to give this one its own entry. It
is on the Trump assassination attempt, but in a different direction. Robin Abcarian from the
LA Times says the real issue is "We are a nation ravaged by gun violence because we make little effort to limit the availability of weapons of war." Standard ideology ... but thoroughly mistaken
not because we shouldn't limit availability of weapons (not my point), but because it fails to identify the
real problem -- our current culture of death. We show it on TV and in movies and call it "entertainment." We encourage it in the abortion clinics. Too many voices after the incident said, "Don't miss next time" because we have jettisoned God's values, substituted our own, and can't figure out why humans are killing humans. "Must be that we have the means to do it." Nonsense.
Humans are the problem, not the tools they use. (Same principle for the death of
Anne Fundner's son of fentanyl overdose. Illegal aliens are not the problem; human nature is.)
Threat to Democracy
It's interesting, isn't it? Trump is a "threat to democracy" (I'm no Trump fan, but I'm not exactly clear on why he's a "threat to democracy"), but Biden hopes to
reform the Supreme Court and abolish presidential immunity. The idea is if he can get enough liberal justices in there, they can reverse the decisions made under the latest justices ... which is exactly what they're complaining about from the latest justices. To put it another way, "If we can manipulate the Judicial Branch to work as we in the Executive Branch want it without the vote of the people, we will have undercut the entire Constitution, but we'll be in charge, won't we?" Who is a "threat to democracy" now?
Viable Vaccine
President Joe is "vaccinated and boosted" ... and
has COVID. No reflection on Joe, but when a "vaccination" goes from "You'll never get it again" to providing scant protection from getting, spreading, and even dying from what it's supposed to protect against, one has to wonder. Mind you, Joe is in the "worst" category because of his age and Scripture compels us to pray for all who are in authority (1 Tim 2:1-2), so you know what to do.
Target Rich Environment
The Bee, of course, had a slew of pieces with this target rich environment. Like the one about
J.D. Vance donning helmet and body armor in preparation to run with Trump. May not be a joke. Or how Vance was
horrified to learn he had to use Truth Social now. Ouch! Or the story of
CNN doing a piece on famous assassinations throughout history with headlines like "Lincoln nods off at play" and "JFK startled by loud popping noises." Typical. I suppose if we didn't try to laugh at it all, we'd cry.
Must be true; I read it on the Internet.