“Trust Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3: 5-6
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The World in Turmoil: Where to Begin?
Impeachment
Having thoroughly humiliated herself, finally Nancy Pelosi will send two articles of impeachment to the Senate. She is demanding that senators do what Democrats in the House refused to do: Conduct a fair trial.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing accompanying the articles of impeachment. All we have is hearsay testimony and innuendo. None of it was subjected to serious cross-examination. In a nutshell, there is no evidence that the person being charged, President Trump, committed a crime or a misdemeanor, and the people who are guilty of committing crimes are not on trial. They include the whistleblower, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and others.
The stage is finally set for impeachment’s dramatic, divisive endgame:
The imminent final act of America’s impeachment ordeal will be played for far higher political stakes than might be expected given the all-but-guaranteed acquittal of President Donald Trump in his trial in the Republican-led Senate.
The long wait for the trial to begin — nearly four weeks pulsating with political gamesmanship after the House voted to consign Trump to historic ignominy — finally looks to be over.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, will meet her troops on Tuesday and is expected to finally relent in her refusal to send the articles of impeachment to the other chamber — a delay triggered by a bid to dictate the terms of the trial.
Finally, the Senate will get the chance to assess whether Trump, the third president ever impeached by the House, is guilty of the standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for trying to coerce Ukraine to dig up dirt on his possible 2020 election foe Joe Biden.
Given what happened in the House, senators would be well within their rights to dismiss the articles of impeachment and expunge the record. If they have any guts, that’s exactly what they will do. Pelosi knows it, and she’s crying “foul” already.
Nancy Pelosi gamed the system and lost. If she can be believed, her goal was to tarnish President Trump’s record. History will show that he was impeached, but historians are not fools. They will acknowledge that the president was impeached, but they will delve into the details and show that it was a partisan political witch-hunt inspired by the Democrat Party. When the Horowitz report and the Durham report are brought into the picture, it will be clear that President Trump’s impeachment was part of a failed coup d’etat and that Nancy Pelosi was one of the ringleaders.
Historians will not be kind to Speaker Pelosi or the Democrat Party. If our republic survives long enough, they will make Benedict Arnold look like a choirboy.
Iran
President Trump got Iran right. Without going to war, he unleashed forces in Iran that will bring down the brutal, dictatorial, Islamist regime. All he had to do was take out their terror mastermind. The message to the people of Iran was loud and clear. The thugs running their country are not invincible.
For all of his good work, President Trump was attacked mercilessly by the Democrat Party, Democrats in Congress, and Democrat presidential candidates. History won’t look kindly on them, either. Some of them are cowards. Others were in cahoots with the Iranian murderers. Barack Obama and John Kerry are guilty in that regard. They should be investigated for possible criminal activity.
1: Iran state TV sees at least 2 news anchors quit: ‘Forgive me for the 13 years I told you lies’:
At least two Iranian journalists at a state-owned media outlet reportedly resigned from their jobs, with one of them apologizing to viewers for “the 13 years I told you lies.”
As Tehran continues to grapple with the fallout from protests stemming from a cover-up of its accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner, TV anchor Gelare Jabbari addressed her viewers on an Instagram post that appears to have been deleted.
“It was very hard for me to believe that our people have been killed,” the post read, according to The Guardian. “Forgive me that I got to know this late. And forgive me for the 13 years I told you lies.”
Two other news anchors at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) thanked their supporters in separate statements.
2: Nazee Moinian: Trump ‘understands that empowering the Iranian people may be the answer’:
Nazee Moinian, a former consultant on Iran at the Council on Foreign Relations, appeared on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Monday to discuss the protests in that country and President Trump’s impact in the region.
“The Iranian protesters have had enough of this. They don’t want less. They don’t want more. They want out,” Moinian said. “They don’t want this regime to represent them. Actually, this regime does not represent the people.”
Anti-government protests have roiled Iran since Saturday, with thousands of demonstrators calling for a regime change and chanting “death to the dictator” after the government’s reluctant admission that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.
The plane was shot down shortly after takeoff as Iran braced for retaliation after firing ballistic missiles at two bases in Iraq housing U.S. forces. The ballistic missile attack, which caused no casualties, was a response to the killing of Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad.
Moinian credited Trump for his support of the protesters.
3: Is this Iran’s ‘Chernobyl’ moment?:
Iran’s admission that it mistakenly shot down a passenger plane sent protesters pouring into the streets over the weekend. Though demonstrations were smaller on Monday and nearly outnumbered by riot police, some observers have already begun to wonder if this could be the beginning of the end for the current regime.
After days of denial and obfuscation, Iranian officials finally acknowledged early Saturday that its military had shot down a Ukraine International Airlines jet, killing all 176 people on board, many of whom were Iranian citizens.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif blamed “human error” prompted by “US adventurism,” alluding to the escalating brinkmanship between Iran and the United States over the US killing of a revered Iranian commander, Qasem Soleimani.
But the Iranian government’s tendency to point the finger at Washington, or other malicious foreign actors, for unrest at home is ringing hollow now. While the Trump administration has fomented a fractious atmosphere, it was not responsible for this accident.
4: Iran announces first arrests in downing of Ukrainian airliner:
Iran’s judiciary has announced the arrests of an unspecified number of suspects in the accidental downing of a commercial passenger jet during a major confrontation with the United States last week.
In comments carried by state media, spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on Tuesday that “extensive investigations have taken place and some individuals are arrested”. He did not offer additional details.
Wednesday’s downing of the Ukrainian airliner, en route to Kyiv from Tehran, killed all 176 passengers and crew on board. It happened just hours after Iran launched missile attacks on US targets in Iraq in retaliation for the US assassination of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3.
After days of denials, Iran on Saturday admitted that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had shot down the plane in a “disastrous mistake”, saying air defences were fired in error while on alert after the attacks against two Iraqi bases hosting US troops. US President Donald Trump had previously threatened to strike 52 targets within Iran if Tehran targeted US citizens or assets following Soleimani’s killing.
Iran’s acknowledgement of the shootdown and the lack of transparency around it triggered protests in Tehran and elsewhere, with hundreds of people taking to the streets to direct their ire towards senior officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid allegations of being misled.
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In a televised address on Tuesday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani promised a thorough investigation into the “unforgivable error” of shooting down the plane, the latest in a series of apologies from a leadership grappling with public anger.
Rouhani called for a special court to be set up with a ranking judge and dozens of experts to investigate the “tragic event”.
“This is not an ordinary case. The entire world will be watching this court,” Rouhani said, adding that everyone responsible in the accident must be punished.
“For our people, it is very important in this incident that whoever was at fault or negligent at any level” faces justice, Rouhani said. “Anyone who should be punished must be punished.”
The president called the government’s admission that Iranian forces shot down the plane the “first good step”.
“We should assure people that it will not happen again,” Rouhani said, adding that his government was “accountable to Iranian and other nations who lost lives in the plane crash”.
The mullahs in Iran are doing what they think they need to do to survive. Heads are going to roll, but they won’t be the right heads. The Iranian people are not stupid. They know that. The mullahs will be held accountable.
Hitler committed suicide. Mussolini was killed by ordinary Italians and hung from a pole by his feet in Milan. Muammar Gaddafi was tortured and killed by ordinary Libyans. Saddam Hussein was captured and hung by the band of countries that overthrew his brutal regime.
Iran’s leaders should consider their fates carefully. They brutalized their own people, and their fates are in the hands of ordinary Iranians. Iran’s leaders don’t have bright futures.
The Democrat Primary is Descending into Chaos
Joe Biden
Joe Biden is the leading contender for the Democrat nomination for president. In the weeks and months ahead, the American people will understand that he engaged in criminal activity to enrich himself and his son. Joe is guilty of committing the crimes that Democrats accused President Trump of committing. Joe won’t make it to the end of the primary season.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are next in line. They are just beginning to get down and dirty. Sanders told Warren that a woman couldn’t win, but the truth is that neither one of them can win. Sanders is a socialist/communist bum, and Warren is a pathological liar and an opportunist. They don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a national election against President Trump.
See “These 8 words spell big trouble for Bernie Sanders”:
“I thought a woman could win; he disagreed.”
Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can’t win, sources say:
The stakes were high when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren met at Warren’s apartment in Washington, DC, one evening in December 2018. The longtime friends knew that they could soon be running against each other for president.
The two agreed that if they ultimately faced each other as presidential candidates, they should remain civil and avoid attacking one another, so as not to hurt the progressive movement. They also discussed how to best take on President Donald Trump, and Warren laid out two main reasons she believed she would be a strong candidate: She could make a robust argument about the economy and earn broad support from female voters.
Sanders responded that he did not believe a woman could win.
The description of that meeting is based on the accounts of four people: two people Warren spoke with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting.
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg may be able to draw a big crowd in Los Angeles, but thankfully ordinary Americans aren’t ready to elect an openly immoral degenerate.
The Billionaires
That leaves the billionaires in the race for the Democrat nomination: Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer. Neither one of them can inspire the Democrat base.
See “Chris Cillizza’s winners and losers from the Iowa debate”: Tom Steyer: Simply put, the billionaire businessman looked badly out of his depth. He struggled badly to make the case that he was better equipped than his rivals to manage the country’s foreign policy — his answer amounted to the fact that he has traveled a lot internationally (and, no, I am not kidding) — and things didn’t get much better for him from there. For most of the debate, it felt like the Top 5 were involved in one conversation and Steyer was just, well, there.
Also, see “‘Meatball Mike’ Bloomberg has a weird night on Twitter during Democratic debate”.
The Democrat base and their comrades in the establishment media are sending an unmistakable message to the 2 billionaire contestants in the Democrat field: “Go home! You are not wanted here.”
Trump Wins in 2020: Keep America Great
Donald Trump’s victory in 2020 may shock Democrats back into reality. If it doesn’t, they should fold up their tent and fade into the sunset.
The Democrat Party is the worst enemy we face as a nation. The American people are beginning to get it. Democrat heavyweights are blind to reality. They can’t see what is heading their way.
Looking Ahead: Young Democrats are Just as Corrupt as Old Democrats
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been in Congress for less than 2 years. Before taking her seat, she was a barmaid who was head-over-heels in debt thanks to student loans that she took out to attend Boston University, an expensive private school.
Two years ago, AOC’s net worth was less than zero by a big number. Today, her net worth is $100,000. How does a person with a huge negative net worth and a salary of $174,000 accumulate a positive net worth of $100,000 in less than two years? Inquiring minds want to know.
FBI, where are you?
Democrats hate President Trump because he’s draining the swamp. Lots of establishment politicians are going to prison. Some newbies may join them. That’s why Democrats are so frantic and that’s why they are fighting like their lives depend on it.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
