Donald Trump is again taught the meaning of Homo proponit sed Deus disponit but it obviously won't do him any good

 

 Man proposes but God disposes.

The locution belongs to Thomas von Kempen (1380-1471), Imitation of Christ 1.19. It is the template for the American adage that "the president proposes but the Congress disposes".

In America the power of the purse rests in the people's representatives in the House and Senate assembled. It does not rest in the hands of one man.

Donald Trump has once again been taught this lesson about who's boss around here, and that the president can't always get what he wants.

On Thursday he suddenly sprang the wish for an elimination of the US national debt ceiling entirely, which is what Democrats have long wanted. He then hedged for at least an extension of the time limit for a decision about it through Jan 30, 2027 after the primaries, but he didn't get that either, let alone an extension into 2029 after he's out of the picture. Congress taught him similar lessons multiple times during his first presidency, but he obviously learned nothing.

The compromise passed by the House and the Senate overnight funds the government through March 14, 2025, and forces Trump to deal with the debt ceiling in 2025. He promised to primary any Republican in 2026 who voted for that.

He's going to be very busy!

He'll have to primary 170 Republicans in the US House lol, which I'm sure will smooth the way to getting passed what he wants passed there the next two years lol.

Trump's threats aren't just rash. They are idle, and self-defeating to boot, displaying nothing so much as his impotence.

Democrats who said they feared another Hitler were just lying to their fool followers, or were the fools themselves.

 

 

There are lots of things just as phony as Christians and Republicans

Self-aggrandizing Democrats, for instance. 

Former Obama administration officials reportedly have increased their wealth dramatically since 2009 and now a bunch of them occupy high positions in the Biden administration, which is supposed to represent a return to normalcy :

Susan Rice, Domestic Policy Council Director, now worth as much as $149 million.

Ron Klain, Biden Chief of Staff, as much as $12.2 million.

Jeff Zients, Coronavirus Response Coordinator, $442.8 million.

Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, $1.5 million.

Brian Deese, National Economic Council Director, $7 million.

Jen O'Malley Dillon, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, $4.7 million.

Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser, $27.5 million.

Julissa Reynoso, Jill Biden Chief of Staff, $14.8 million.

Story.

Libertarianism is incapable of even responding to a pandemic

Because libertarianism cares nothing for the πᾶν, only for the deme of one, the self.

For this reason it appears to others that libertarians even want the ill among the πᾶν to die, who would have died anyway, they say. Who wouldn't have died anyway, of course, but for the pandemic.

The libertarians are the most loathsome members of our society, as were the dog philosophers of old.

Coronavirus catastrophe exposes fraudulent Christianity at the heart of Trumpism: Love of money is the root of all libertarianism, more important than life itself

Texas lt. gov.: Grandparents 'don't want the whole country to be sacrificed' amid coronavirus closures:

“You’re basically saying that this disease could take your life but that’s not the scariest thing to you. There’s something that would be worse than dying,” Carlson said. “If I get sick, I’ll go and try to get better, but if I don’t, I don’t, and I’m not trying to think of any kind of morbid way, Tucker, I’m just saying that we’ve got a choice here and we’re going to be in a total collapse, recession, depression, collapse in our society if this goes on another several months, there won’t be any jobs to come back to for many people,” he said. ... “But the point is, our biggest gift we give to our country and our children and our grandchildren is the legacy of our country." 

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 

-- I Timothy 6:8ff.

CNN gives Reza Aslan the left foot of fellowship

I'm not gloating, really I'm not

From the story here:

CNN has parted ways with controversial host Reza Aslan one week after Aslan called President Trump "a piece of s---" and "an embarrassment to mankind" on Twitter.

"CNN has decided to not move forward with production on the acquired series "Believer with Reza Aslan,'" the network said in a statement. “We wish Reza and his production team all the best."

The Iranian-born Aslan is the host of CNN's "Believer," which aired weekly on Sunday nights. The 45-year-old author and religious scholar also called the president a "man baby" in a subsequent tweet.

Trump presidency to prioritize Christian refugees persecuted by Muslim fanatics, restoring balance

From the story here:

[A]bout 99 percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. were Muslim, while less than 1 percent were Christian.

Mormon Glenn Beck doubles down, lectures Christians that real Christians cannot vote for Trump

Quoted here:

“No Christian, no real Christian – I don’t mean a judgmental Christian, I mean somebody who is living their faith – no real Christian says, ‘I want that guy, that guy is for me,’” he said during a broadcast of his radio show. "Nobody, nobody.”

Obviously, at length driving the Mormons west to the Great Salt Lake was still a sea too short.

A dick joke only Marco Rubio's Jesus would be proud of

Rubio, quoted here:

In an interview after the GOP debate in Michigan, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly questioned Rubio about the vicious personal attacks that have emerged between the two candidates. During the debate, Rubio called for his rivals to focus on policy, but the Florida senator tangled in several spats with Trump. Rubio slammed the front-runner's candidacy as a scam and tied him to his controversial Trump University, which faces a class-action lawsuit alleging fraud. “If I don’t do it, it’ll be because I don’t want to do anything, for example, that Jesus wouldn’t be proud of, to be honest with you,” Rubio said. “Or that my kids would look at and say, ‘I don’t want you to keep doing that.’”