{"id":115134,"date":"2020-01-21T00:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T07:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=115134"},"modified":"2020-01-16T22:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:45:20","slug":"as-moscow-mitchs-sham-trial-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2020\/01\/as-moscow-mitchs-sham-trial-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"As Moscow Mitch&#8217;s Sham Trial Begins&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026it is important to grasp that the Christians in the MAGA Cult do not see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/16\/politics\/gao-report-administration-violated-law-withholding-aid\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration broke the law when it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/26\/politics\/ukraine-aid-trump-call-omb\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">withheld US security aid to Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0last year that had been appropriated by Congress, a decision that\u2019s at the heart of the House\u2019s impeachment case against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The GAO, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog, said in a decision issued Thursday that the White House budget office violated the Impoundment Control Act, a 1974 law that limits the White House from withholding funds that Congress has appropriated.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it \u201cwithheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent \u2018in a manner that could conflict with the President\u2019s foreign policy,'\u201d said Thomas Armstrong, the GAO\u2019s general counsel. But the GAO rejected that argument.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\u201cFaithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,\u201d the GAO wrote. \u201cOMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act. The withholding was not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>or anything else Trump has done, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/trump-his-foundation-were-just-forced-admit-their-fraud-now-ncna1081906\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">defrauding charities<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2018\/04\/10\/trump-university-settlement-judge-finalized\/502387002\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scam universities<\/a> to the obviously impeachable offenses which brought about this trial, as sin or crime. In the land of white conservative MAGA Christians who take Amway and multi-level marketing and pyramid scams as \u201cbusiness\u201d Trump is seen as the Wise Serpent and Innocent Dove whose \u201csmarts\u201d have been blessed by God.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t want to convict this guy. They aren\u2019t filled with revulsion for this criminal.<\/p>\n<p>They are filled with <em>admiration<\/em>. They want to <em>be<\/em>\u00a0this guy.<\/p>\n<p>And their theology is so distorted that they see this as perfectly biblical.\u00a0 Trump is Jacob outwitting his enemies with lies and cunning. He is the Cult\u2019s definition of a Blessed One\u2013because he gets away with it and that proves God is on his side. He is an adorable rogue and diamond in the rough on his rocky road to redemption (just like themselves). And he is defeating the brown, gay, babykilling, poor, liberal enemies of the Chosen People, the Royal Nation, the people set apart for God\u2019s glory: white conservative MAGA Christians (that is, themselves). God smiles on his antics and so-called \u201csins\u201d (sins according to the liberal babykillers who can be dismissed as the DEMON RAT emissaries sent by Satan to deceive, if it were possible, the very Elect.) God overlooks these cuddly and adorable peccadillos (after all, who among us is without sin?) and indulges him because the ends\u2013the glory and power of white MAGA conservative Christians\u2013justifies the means. <\/p>\n<p>In short, the hope is that someday in the great bye and bye every member of the Body of Trump will share in the money, prostitutes, power, and immunity from consequences of the Head.  <\/p>\n<p>What matters far more to them than abortion is power and spite against those they hate.  That\u2019s why they are silent about the fact that Trump raised Planned Parenthood funding by 8% last year and has refunded it for $550 million this year.  None of that matters most.  What matter to them is that when Trump skates, it will \u201cmake the snowflakes cry\u201d.  Spite, not some interest in \u201cjustice for the unborn\u201d is what really revs their engines.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don't care if <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/l7nq8gN7i5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/l7nq8gN7i5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnCoulter\/status\/632954040675078144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not that all prolife people are like this.  There are people with an actual consistent ethic of life who want human life to be respected from conception to natural death.  I\u2019m one of them and there are few people who hate me more than MAGA \u201cprolife\u201d Catholics.  Rebecca Bratten Weiss is another and she was fired from MAGA hatchery Franciscan University of Steubenville and has been consistently lied about by \u201cprolife\u201d Pravda for MAGA Catholics at Liesite News and other propaganda organs.  <\/p>\n<p>If you want find out more about people who think that the dignity of the human person, not power for the sake of power, should be the focus of our civil order, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rehumanizeintl.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rehumanize International<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Something to remember as we observe three signal achievements of the GOP in the past 50 years: <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the <em>Casey <\/em>decision, and the travesty of law that is the GOP Crime Syndicate\u2019s dogged protection of a Mob Boss who is utterly unworthy of his office\u2013to the applause of the Most Wrong Demographic in the Church.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026it is important to grasp that the Christians in the MAGA Cult do not see this The Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration broke the law when it\u00a0withheld US security aid to Ukraine\u00a0last year that had been appropriated by Congress, a decision that\u2019s at the heart of the House\u2019s impeachment case against President Donald 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