“The Fourth of July is the exponent of independence and civil freedom, Thanksgiving Day is the national pledge of Christian faith in God, acknowledging Him as the dispenser of blessings. ...
Everything that contributes to bind us in one vast empire together, to quicken the sympathy that makes us feel from the icy North to the sunny South that we are one family, each a member of a great and free nation, not merely the unit of a remote locality, is worthy of being cherished. We have sought to reawaken and increase this sympathy, believing that the fine filaments of the affections are stronger than laws to keep the union of our states sacred in the hearts of our people." ~ Sarah Josepha Hale, the “Godmother of Thanksgiving” - c. 1852
There can be no doubt that God and Liberty are at the heart of this holiday and the reasons to give thanks...
Of the many influences that shaped the American concept of liberty, the first and most formative was faith. More than anything else, religion formed the backbone of colonial culture and defined its moral horizon.
This religious character was largely a product of the fact that many came to the New World in search of religious liberty—to freely practice and spread their faith. As a whole, America’s Founders were strongly religious. Thanksgiving proclamations, as official statements of the American president, underscore the Founders’ faith. Some were more traditional, such as John Jay and John Witherspoon. Some were more skeptical of religious institutions and doctrines, such as Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.
But the vast majority of the Founders were firmly in the mainstream of religious belief. They understood God as having created man with an immortal soul, as actively involved in human affairs and as “the Supreme Judge of the world”—in the words of the Declaration of Independence.
The day after approving the First Amendment to the Constitution and its protections of religious liberty, Congress called upon the president to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.”
President George Washington responded by proclaiming Nov. 26, 1789 the first official Thanksgiving. He noted:
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore his protection and favor.”
One can speculate about the details of each Founder’s faith. But we know the Founders as a whole took religious beliefs seriously and understood religion, Christianity in particular, was a necessary component of republican government.
That there are laws of God that exist prior to, outside of and above the laws of the state necessarily means the laws of the state are limited and controlled by a higher or transpolitical authority. Take the injunction in the Bible to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21). In other words, although man has responsibilities to legitimate government authority, the state must not negate or replace man’s responsibilities to God. The distinction demanded a space for other institutions—church and religious communities, families and tribes—to exist and flourish. The idea of human dignity, that we are created in the image of God, forms the theological underpinning of human nature and human equality—core principles of liberty.
The belief that all men are sinners is the theological equivalent of the commonsense observation that human beings are drawn to their passions and prone to be selfish. It also informs the political idea that no one is to be trusted with absolute power. At the same time, the idea that all are redeemable—that there is a divine spark in each person, as a young George Washington wrote in his childhood copybook—grounds the belief that all can govern themselves and are capable of justice and benevolence. These concepts in turn became crucial to the beginnings of liberty in America and creation of conditions favoring a yearning not only for self-government but for limited constitutional government. And for all of this we can give thanks.
O MOST merciful Father, who hast blessed the labours of the husbandman in the returns of the fruits of the earth; We give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness to us, that our land may still yield her increase, to thy glory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“I don’t care if they’re wearing a military uniform or a suit or a dress. … A cabal is a cabal. And this is a cabal.”
Pegged! It's not only that President Trump wants his own people in these administrative positions carrying out his policies, you know, like ANY PRESIDENT EVER has been afforded! By the way, remember when Obama fired all of Bush's ambassadors! But it's becoming ever more clear that the Democrats are utilizing this cabal of disgruntled bureaucrats, who don't like Trump or his policies, to impeach the President on the most bogus grounds imaginable for the purpose of stopping the executive branch's investigation into their own corruption!
Throughout this impeachment charade we’ve been told by the media and House Democrats that a cadre of unelected career bureaucrats in the State Department and the National Security Council who are cooperating with the impeachment inquiry are heroes, patriots, and paragons of virtue and self-sacrifice for defying President Trump and proclaiming the truth about Trump corruption and self-dealing in Ukraine. ...
...we need to pause and ask whose policy priorities should count, the president’s or the career bureaucrats of the “interagency”? State Department diplomats and NSC experts serve at the pleasure of the president, not the other way around. What’s emerging in these hearings is an unmistakable attitude and ethos among career officials that their opinions and priorities about U.S. foreign policy should matter more than those of the president of the United States.
At the very least, House Democrats and the media should spare us the sanctimonious narrative that every impeachment witness is a selfless hero whose credibility is above questioning and whose every statement must be taken at face value. After all, we need look no further than the appalling display of other “deep state” bureaucrats connected to the Russia collusion hoax—former FBI director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, and the sneering former FBI agent Pete Strzok—for examples of craven, dishonest “deep state” bureaucrats who despise Trump and will seemingly do anything to undermine his administration.
Let’s not be surprised if some of the interagency figures now testifying in the House impeachment probe turn out to be just as dishonest, self-dealing, and contemptuous of the president’s authority to set U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine and determine what’s in the national interest.
Not to rehash the entire week's worth of questioned (and questionable) collaborators in Schiff's circus sideshow (minus the phony whistleblower, of course), but the Republicans, who stepped up to the plate to sit in these sham proceedings with very little resources or rights granted to them, have actually been extremely effective (even if the media doesn't let you know about it, or in some cases straight up contradicts the facts!) in pulling the quintessential information out of these witnesses and crumbling the entire crux of the Democrats' ever-evolving irrationale for wanting to impeach President Trump in the first, second or third place: no quid pro quo, no bribery, no extortion, no nada!
Neither is hearsay an impeachable offense...and by the way, superb scorekeeping from Turner by week's end, with a fantastic conclusion:
"You guys want to be the laughing stock of history to impeach a President of the United States, because he didn't take a meeting? Oh, please. Dear, God. Please undertake that."
And even ol' Schiffty gets the same out of 'em!
"I want nothing...I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing."
So then why continue this charade? Ranking member Nunes has eloquently expanded on it across everyopening statement and everyclosing statement given daily, but I think it might be Jordan that's put it most succinctly:
"Democrats have never gotten over the fact that this new guy, who's never been in this town, never been in politics, this new guy came in here and is shaking this place up!"
Furthermore, the unfree press is just as much a part of this cabal...
“The legal analysts on TV will not tell you this: The American system and the American people have never ever seen a process like this, ever. It is thoroughly corrupt and tyrannical.”
So even with this big NOTHING burger that the Dems have now concocted, it's likely that they'll still proceed towards THE partisan of partisan votes to impeach a duly elected president and shuttle this phony charge to the Senate for trial in an election year, further dividing the nation like we've never seen before...anything to regain their power, oust ours, and damn sure keep us away from their filthy laundry, of which there is MUCH...
The Ukrainian timeline the Democrats and their media don’t want you to see ...https://t.co/kw35nuYjPI
With a corrupt party, an infected press, and assistance from Deep State bureaucrats in this attempted coup, their hope is that We The People break and bend to their will. However, there's really only one thing WE MUST do...and that is to DEFEAT THEM at the ballot box come 2020.
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia: "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?"
Dr. Benjamin Franklin: "A Republic, if you can keep it."
~ response attributed at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried leaving Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation; included within Dr. James McHenry's notes, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention
For one, he continued, “not a single witness felt that the president committed any of those elements of impeachment” listed in the Constitution. “Not one, even those most friendly to the Democrats and hostile to Trump. Not one.”
Additionally, Levin added, “Not one of them had met with the president other than [Ambassador Gordon] Sondland. Only he met with the president. The others never even had a conversation with the president. They’ve never exchanged niceties, emails, texts, nothing.”
“In the case of Sondland, he had three relevant meetings and/or discussions with the president of the United States,” the host continued, “and he says [the] Biden name never came up, tying military aid to meeting with the president of Ukraine or announcing an investigation or conducting an investigation by Ukraine never came up, which underscores what Senator Ron Jonson has said in his meetings and phone calls with the president. He says the same thing: It never came up.”
“The president of the United States did not commit an impeachable offense,” Levin concluded. “Not even close. The president of the United States didn’t do anything wrong.”
Throughout these Democratic COUP hearings dressed up as an impeachment inquiry, of which the biased press continues to misleadingly address as 'impeachment' itself, here's the most TRUTHFUL statements that have been presented to the American public, both on Wednesday...
"The fact that we are getting criticized by Chairman Adam Schiff for statements that he himself made early on in this process shows the duplicity and just the abuse of power that we are continuing to see." pic.twitter.com/yzsx4Fwnds
And of course, the biggest LIE (besides all of these Deep Staters' hearsay and second-third-forth-hand allegations, who are attempting to undermine a duly elected president's ability to make policy decisions and lead his administration) came from Shifty Schiff himself...
.@GarrettHaake: "You just asserted…Adam Schiff either personally met with the whistleblower or knows the identity of the whistleblower, which he continues to deny...do you think he's lying?"
Keep cutting through this hogwash, ladies and gentlemen, because this can't simply end with Democrats conceding that their impeachment argument is failing. Oh no. We MUST get to the real collusion going on here and hold these actual conspirators accountable for even plunging us into this wasteful farce.
Uhhh, just like sooo many have said from the beginning, now with evidence to boot, both in recognition of the time frame (within DAYS after being sworn in) and the outright confessions to overthrow a duly elected president! (H/t:tRS)
...troubling tweets from the attorney of the whistleblower at the center of the phony House impeachment saga:
...even more troubling tweets revealed from his account, one of them in response to a POTUS tweets that says the “coup has started”:
The other says that, but then adds “impeachment will follow”:
Of course we know later that year Zaid started a group to convince leakers to come out against Trump, and now here we are embroiled in a phony Democrat impeachment inquiry to fulfill that coup that Zaid promised.
What do they say? Social Media is forever. And you better believe Trump addressed these inconvenient tweets during last night's packed Monroe, LA rally in the most transparent of fashions, calling out the Dem's charade and their enablers in the Media!
"Do us a favor" with no threat of withholding anything even mentioned is drastically different from "if the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money." It's true. Wanna go after someone, Press? It's quid pro JOE! 'Cause there's no there there in Trump & Zelenskyy's conversation. Quite the contrary with Biden's blatant statement.
Furthermore, America is so tired of these destructive, political theatrics from an angry Party out of sole power and a Press that incessantly props them up.
