Oct, 11, 2020
So Trump is
back on the campaign trail, having showed his supporters that it is so easy to
overcome the corona virus, spend a few days in the hospital, a bit of
medication, and all is now well. See. It is so easy.
Ha. Who has access to a whole team of
specialist doctors and access to Dexamethasone and Remdisivir, experimental
medicines which, it is my guess, are not cheap and are not casually
administered. The average citizen will never be able to get such specialized
treatment, you can be sure. So I am not convinced by the ease with which he
sends the message that this corona is just like another flu, don’t let it worry
you.
I guess that
some of those 214,000 who died didn’t take it too seriously. Well, now that they are
dead. I guess it doesn’t make much difference. But for those who are still
alive, it might be a good thing, to take it a a bit more seriously.
Millionaire Statistics (Editor’s Choice):
·
The
United States added 675,000 new millionaires from 2018 to
2019 alone.
·
The
total number of millionaires in US equals to 18.6 million.
·
There
are 705 billionaires in the United States.
·
There
are 293,992 millionaire households in New Jersey.
·
76% of US millionaires are white or
Caucasian.
·
The
city with the biggest concentration of ultra-rich millionaires is New York
with 8,865 UHNW.
·
The
United States’ millennial millionaires own an average of three properties with
a real estate portfolio worth $1.4 million.
·
About 44% of the millennial
millionaires of
the US are concentrated in California.
·
47% of the world’s wealth is controlled
by the top 1% UHNW individuals.
According
to the Federal Reserve report, the top 1% of the US owned 44% of the country’s
wealth in 2019. A report by Boston Consulting Group further stated that by
2021, 70% of US’s wealth will be controlled by
millionaires
and billionaires.
Oct. 13.
2020
This was
the comment from the medical profession regarding Trump’s flagrant disregard
for the reality of the coronavirus with the crowd he was addressing many of
whom were not wearing masks and were not keeping any distance from one another,
as it were, inviting the virus to come and do its thing.
"I promise
you, the virus is there, whether it is an indoor event or an outdoor event in
these large gatherings," said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of health
policy and preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University on CNN's Erin Burnett
"OutFront," who added that the images of Trump's rally made him "weep."
"Some of those
people will become sick, they will spread it to others when they get home and
they will become sick. These are accelerator events that promote the
distribution of the virus," Schaffner said.
Trump's mockery of
his own government's recommendations -- his rallies are almost the only mass
participation events taking place in the world right now -- came amid fast
darkening warnings about the months ahead.
The government's
top infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned that rallies like
the one Trump held on Monday night are "asking for trouble."
Oct. 14, 2020
Trump hasn’t 'saved
Christianity' and Christians shouldn’t save his presidency
Michael Wear, Opinion contributor
,
The truth is, Donald Trump can’t
win without the overwhelming support of Christians —support he does not
deserve.
Trump’s desperation is showing.
Just days ago, Trump tweeted “Biden is against Oil, Guns
and Religion.”
This is a ridiculous statement
and it says everything about his approach to religion. His primary argument to
Christians has never been that he’ll do anything positive for them, but that
they must support him out of fear of the other side. Like much of his
presidency, his approach to Christians weakens rather than strengthens
them. And he shows exactly how much he values faith when he lumps it
alongside petroleum and firearms.
No, Trump did not save
Christianity
In addition to Trump’s latest
tweet, his son, Eric Trump, went so far as to make the insulting claim that his father has “literally
saved Christianity.” For Christians, of course, the position of Savior is
already filled, and Jesus is one person Trump can’t fire or bully.
Yet, Trump supporters arguing
that Christians must support him often want us to believe Joe Biden is
responsible for every statement ever uttered by anyone on the political left,
while they fail to hold Trump accountable for his own actions.
Trump has evaded accountability
for long enough.
The effects of Donald Trump’s vulgarity, incivility, and
cruelty have not stayed confined to politics, but have affected
our culture, our families and our churches. While the toxicity of our
politics won’t be completely excised once Trump has left the White House, we
can’t even hope for healthier politics while he’s still president.
It is Biden who has run a
campaign that has promised to decrease the antagonism in
our politics, not Trump. It is Biden who has committed to pursuing racial
justice from the basis of our shared humanity, as opposed to
Trump’s consistent use of race as a tool to tear the American people
apart. It is Biden who insists political opponents can be good people, and
that those who have a different perspective must still be valued members of the
American family.
Christians and
the election: Christian conservatives like
me should not let abortion and socialism scare us off Biden
This isn’t just rhetoric; we’ve
all seen Joe Biden live it. And we’ve seen the life and leadership of Trump.
We’ve seen enough.
This election transcends partisan
divides. I say this, yes, as someone who worked for President Barack Obama. I
also say it as someone who has real disagreements with many Democrats on issues
that are important to me.
It's OK for Christians
to vote for Biden
In 2016, I wrote that it was both a political
error and substantively wrong for the Democratic nominee to support repealing
the Hyde Amendment, and my position on that
issue has not changed.
On the issue of religious
freedom, I find myself isolated from both political parties in that I believe
religious freedom can’t be dismissed even when it’s inconvenient to other
political goals, and I also believe it’s for people of all faiths and none at
all.
If Biden wins this election, and
I believe he should, there will be real disagreements that will need to be
worked out through the political process. Those of us who support Biden in this
election must stand ready to advocate on those issues where we disagree with
him. This is the work of politics.
The optimistic view: what
could happen if Biden wins big
I do not believe, as a
theological matter that, it is inherently a sin to vote for Donald
Trump. I do not believe voting for Joe Biden is a sin either. There is too much
of that kind of religious manipulation in our politics. There are faithful
Christians who will support Donald Trump, and faithful Christians who will
support Joe Biden. I disagree with the former, as a prudential matter, but I
can understand why they might do so. Should he win, Biden has promised to be
their president, too.
But when Donald Trump asks
Christians to save him at the polls once again, I know I will join millions of
other Christians with a different answer: not this time, Mr. President. Not our
vote. Not our faith.
You can’t have it.
Michael Wear is an adviser to Not Our Faith.
Follow him on Twitter: @MichaelRWear
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