That is Mike Pompeo, not Mike Pence. Mr. Pompeo talks about the rapture. “We will continue to fight these battles,” he said at a “God and Country Rally” in 2015, because there is a “never-ending struggle” until “the rapture.” “Be part of it,” he said at the meeting, at the Summit church in Wichita, Kan. “Be in the fight.” In November, Mr. Pompeo told a reporter for The New York Times Magazine that the Bible “informs everything I do.” The reporter noticed an open Bible in his office, with a Swiss Army knife marking his place at the end of the book of Queen Esther. Mr. Pompeo, 55, became a devoted Christian at West Point, where he joined a Bible study group. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/pompeo-christian-policy.html There is nothing scarier to me than the combination of religious "devotion" (regardless of the religion) and the military.
Any devotion + the military is a dangerous thing. National devotion gets people slaughtered just fine, too. Give me skeptics as generals (and leaders), not those with devotion.
Actually both: https://newscoop.com/pompeo-looking...christian-zionism-driving-u-s-mideast-policy/ There’s at least one clear reason for that tunnel vision: Israel. Pompeo, like U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, is an evangelical Christian. And both Pompeo and Pence, like the majority of evangelical Christians, are also “Christian Zionists” — that is, they believe that the Second Coming of Christ is predicated on the Jewish people occupying all of the Holy Land. For a Christian Zionist, this would necessitate both supporting Israel in countering whomever they see as an enemy, and also in closing out any possibility of Palestinians achieving a state of their own. Donald Trump is just about the furthest thing imaginable from an evangelical. So, why in the world would he allow a Christian Zionist world view to drive U.S. foreign policy, even to the point of risking major wars? The answer is simple. One quarter of the U.S. adult population is evangelical Christian, and 80% of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016. As Trump faces greater and greater legal and political peril, he is evermore dependent on that voting block.
I am not sure that this often-quoted number of 1-2% is still true. The latest report from WHO stated that there are 82294 confirmed cases, and 2793 confirmed deaths (as of 10 am CET). That gives a confirmed death rate of ~3.4%. If no one else gets infected or diagnosed as being infected from now on, some of those confirmed cases will likely result in death. That would bring the death rate to over 3.4%. Of course, we do not know how many infected people remain undiagnosed and hence unconfirmed.
See if you can get an invite to the White House. Trump really does like to shake hands. Lick your hand first.
Ben Carson is actually a brain surgeon. Surely he’d be a more understanding person to have in charge of a pandemic than the white on white Jesus freak. I mean he’s more likely to consult with medical people to understand the problem not his local priest. Unless his priest worships the same Klingon Jesus.
Rushbo spreading manure up to the date he croaks. https://www.inquirer.com/news/coron...ssonnier-trump-cdc-stock-market-20200227.html I'm preparing a tasty, dirty Chinese market bat pate for Rush to scarf down. Let's just speed this process up.
Presidential Medal of ... oh hell, I can't write it. Even for a cynic like me who thinks that such awards are mostly rubbish, Rush getting one was several steps too far.
No, don't speed it up. Just have someone withhold his pain meds. Cancer is no joke, and he deserves to go out this way.
We're doomed, two cases in my region. Community cases now with no exposure from China. Infection rate is astronomically high, symptoms are common and the government has no real plan. Be afraid people very afraid.
I don't think this virus cares if you are a liberal or conservative, rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, black or white, a Trumper or a Bernie Bro. What is alarming is some people seem to be rooting for the virus and economic recession, a pretty self defeating strategy.
It won't be long before Trump starts saying he'll build a quarantine wall around all of America and get the Coronavirus to pay for it.— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) February 27, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for one, remember when she condemned Trump for his travel ban on foreign nationals traveling from China only a month ago? And don't pretend you haven't been hoping for an economic down turn for 3 years.