🗞WaPo📰Senator Lankford paints a stark portrait of GOP border-deal critics
👉Text quotes; comments added in quoted text; a following article by me👈
Article link is at the conclusion.
"Repeatedly in recent days, Lankford has taken on critics directly. He has suggested that his own conservative allies are spreading misinformation about the deal (whose text has yet to be released). He’s effectively accused them of choosing political expediency and presidential campaign politics over border security. [Me: Exactly‼️‼️‼️] And significantly, he’s had some backup from other Senate Republicans....¶Lankford over the weekend seemed to expound on his meaning. He suggested that Republicans were flip-flopping and prioritizing Donald Trump’s 2024 election hopes — and there’s evidence for this contention....¶“It is interesting: Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy,” Lankford said on CNN. ¶He added: “And now, it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re finally getting to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding, I actually don’t want a change in law because it’s a presidential election year.’”...¶Lankford also isn’t the only one who continues to defend and push the effort. So too have the top two Senate Republicans and the likes of Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). Many of them have made principled cases, like Lankford, that this a conservative proposal and that the problem is too significant to bow to Trump’s wishes."
SIGNIFICANT FACTS:
1. DONALD TRUMP IS NOT PRESIDENT.
2. DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A MEMBER OF CONGRESS.
3. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OUR GOVERNMENT ARE NOT "OWNED" BY DONALD TRUMP.
4. TRUMP'S STATEMENTS, ACTS AND INTENT ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THE USA INTO A DICTATORSHIP FOR TRUMP AND/OR ANYONE ELSE, INCLUDING TRUMP’S EFFORTS TO DO SO BY ATTEMPTING TO DOMINATE AND CONTROL EVENTS AND LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS, IS EXPLICITLY, OVERTLY, ABSOLUTELY AND PERMANENTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL (the latter may not be an explicit Constitutional matter, however it is a significant problem and threat to the integrity of USA's government and governing).
5. I DO HAVE QUESTION: DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY BELIEVE DONALD TRUMP IS INTERFERING IN EVENTS AND LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS TO ASSIST ANYONE OTHER THAN DONALD TRUMP?
FYI: Trump's persistent, repetitive, habitual lies about the 2020 election and related matters, Trump's persistent flouting of the emolument clause when he was in office (https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C7-1/ALDE_00000233/#:~:text=The%20President%20shall%2C%20at%20stated,States%2C%20or%20any%20of%20them), Trump's acts involved with January 6, 2021 (out in the open, no way to mistake what Trump wanted), the government owned documents that Trump illegally at worst and unethically at minimum removed and retained and attempted to avoid returning (👉👉what about the missing classified documents??????👈👈), Trump’s derogatory and denigrating statements and attacks against so many others, Trump’s statements that lie about at worst or misrepresent at minimum so many other People who are actually good, decent People who are taking a stand for decency and facts (particularly thinking about USA's election officials and workers of the 2020 election, USA's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Covid-19, and witnesses, court officials, judges and prosecutors in the legal cases involving Trump), are not acts being "directed by God" so that Trump and his actions can be "used by God to accomplish God's will". Trump’s statements and acts are by Donald Trump and his own decisions and actions. An important fact about our One Shared Author of Life (i.e. God): Our Blessed Author is Most Blessed Purity of Good, and never does opposite-of-good. Our Blessed Author does not bring about or direct or ordain such practices as discussed in this paragraph so that our Blessed Author can "use opposite-of-good" to accomplish good. Our Blessed Author can and will forgive such practices, but part of the point of forgiveness is that forgiveness is shared and the injustices stop; i.e. the forgiveness is not provided so that the injustices can be excused and then continued.
Part the point is the fact that Donald Trump’s efforts to try to stop the border deal legislation are unjustified, are harmful and against USA national security, are misrepresentative, are harmful against Human Rights and Human Decency, and are not "ordained by God" so that Trump can use any resulting impediments to campaign for the 2024 election.
These types of problems and problematic beliefs are an explicit part of my traumas, religious and God-associated traumas. Understanding these matters more accurately was something I started learning from our Blessed Author--Great Spirit to me now--in 2018, as I rebuilt my relationship with Great Spirit. What I learned from Great Spirit about an accurate understanding of Great Spirit's actual goodness did not solve or "fix" my traumas, but did aid me with rebuilding my relationship with Great Spirit, and aided my trauma management. As I read and hear news about Donald Trump and support for Trump in evangelical circles and from leaders of evangelical practices, I start having to deal with trauma management, including taking steps trying to avoid trauma trigger episodes. Donald Trump is an explicit, overt, absolute, obvious threat to the United States of America, our Constitution, our rule of law, Human Rights and Civil Rights, our democracy, democracy generally, national security and our safety by national security, USA's national sovereignty, and multiple other matters that involve decency, safety and rights. Support for Donald Trump by evangelicals is no comfort to me, and is instead a source of trauma triggers, stress and distress. Why mention evangelicals? One reason Trump has continued having so much influence in the Republican party is by support of evangelicals, and this support includes beliefs such as described above. I know that is part of the problem; I've lived these types of problems for most of my adult life.
If evangelicals want to obtain results in USA law and policy that are consistent with their views:
1. First, Donald Trump is NOT the way to do it;
2. Second, evangelical views and goals must include maintaining USA's progress in, and accurate protections and recognition of, Human Rights, Civil Rights and Women's Rights (yes, Human Rights, the Civil Rights Movement and Women's Rights were and continue to be important positive developments that are accurate to/with the standards of our Blessed Author and the goodness of our Blessed Author);
3. Third, evangelical views and goals must include maintaining the Constitution, rule of law, equalities in the law, and democratic governing of the United States of America;
4. Fourth, evangelical views and goals must include maintaining historical lessons and accurate information about our history, the happy parts and the unpleasant parts;
5. Fifth, evangelical views and goals must include maintaining USA's free press, and accurate distinctions between actual journalism that is accurate versus opinions and rhetoric misrepresented as journalism--e.g., inflammatory, derogatory commentary about "the radical left" (American Human Beings who have different views, perspectives, life experiences, and who have so often accomplished incredible good that benefited everyone else), inflammatory, derogatory commentary about migrants at our southern border (Human Beings, sometimes Children, who are trying to obtain safety; whatever the problems with some, this describes most of them), and other inflammatory, derogatory commentary that conveys explicitly or subtly disdain and dehumanization against those disliked and disagreed with;
6. Sixth, evangelical views and goals must include maintaining the required decency, safety, protections, social and legal equalities, and recognition for People who are Non-binary (whatever the questions and matters to resolve, our Blessed Author establishes the same rights for Non-binary People as for others; more later).
Members of Congress and their staff who worked on the border deal legislation worked hard and worked long hours to prepare this legislation. Their reward must be the attention, discussions and votes that the legislation was prepared for. And the beneficiaries are all of us, the People of the United States of America🇺🇸🦅🏛📜🌹❤🤍💙🥰
Carol Etta Kelso
Prophet, Charging Complainant (against the betrayer), the Petitioner (on behalf of Life and Lives), author of the charging document (For the Healing of the Universe, subtitled the Blessed Document)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/02/senator-lankford-paints-stark-portrait-gop-border-deal-critics/