While I'm Still At The Keyboard...

...I feel compelled to acknowledge the day...which is actually tomorrow.  Christmas is upon me and I am to endure it not only alone, but asleep until it's time to get up for work.  Yes.  I must work on Christmas once again.  My lovely wife is back in Illinois for the holy holidays, and as a part-timer, I believe I could have bowed out of work to be with her and the family, too.  Yet, it seemed a bad time to put the company in a position of not finding someone to take my place, because who the hell would want to on Christmas?  So in the spirit of the season, I made no such fuss.  With any luck, and that might have gone out the window with so many assholes of the GOP voting to pass this gargantuan $1.7 trillion dollar spend-athon, I hope to be fully retired this time next year.  I hope.  I hope.  It's not my greatest hope in life, but right now, it ranks very high on the list.  I would likely be retired already if not for the many shit-for-brain Trump-haters who rejected him in the 2020 election.  But such is life, somehow, and here I am.  

But despite not even having my favorite version of "A Christmas Carol In Prose, Being A Ghost Story of Christmas" (1951's "Scrooge" w/Alastair Sim in the title role...also released as "A Christmas Carol") to watch, I'm not totally humbugged by my situation.  It's still Christmas, after all.  The tree's up and lit wonderfully, I've a glass of wine with my Christmas Eve frozen dinner and Bob the cat and I may still go a caroling.

Merry Christmas.  God bless us everyone.

What Integrity Actually Looks Like

While reading other things, I stumbled upon these two articles from a couple of weeks ago:

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-told-gay-son-against-same-sex-marriage-bill-1765723

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-lawmaker-vicky-hartzler-missouri-called-out-gay-nephew-anti-lgbtq-speech-1766090

As regards this issue, we have two examples, in these cases Republicans, of what integrity looks like.  A father of a "gay" son, and an aunt of a "gay" nephew who both, despite their familial attachments, voted morally on the fraudulent "Respect For Marriage Act".  These two people are to be applauded for their decision, which showed a real sense of righteousness as regards this vile issue.  Unlike those like Rob Portman and Dick Cheney, they did not eject their principles and morals upon learning of the disorder of their son and nephew.  At least as far as the GOP father goes, his love for his son has not diminished, as he attended the perv's "wedding".  Now, I would not attend such a mockery of the institution simply because my child is the one pretending to marry someone of the same sex.  A good Christian parent...or one who strives to be a good Christian parent...doesn't enable his child's immorality and disorder.  He stands firmly against it in love.

In the case of Hartzler, however, we see her nephew totally lacking in integrity which, at the very least for someone like him, would be an expression of tolerance for his aunt's opposing opinion of his choice of perversion.  Instead, the creep attacks her and mocks her for crying as she encouraged her colleagues to oppose the bill.  Typical.

In the case of Thompson, it's very likely he simply didn't like the bill as written, but would have otherwise supported the corruption of marriage, as he is said to have "welcomed" his son's "spouse" into the family.  While I wouldn't go out of my way to attack my "gay" child's "spouse"...were I to have one...,neither could I "welcome" the person into my family.  But for others to believe they're doing right by such a response, each must deal as each sees fit.  But as for me and my house, we will strive to serve the Lord, not the fashion of the day.  And certainly not this perverse fashion, that's for sure.

It's tough to support a child who indulges in wrongdoing.  It's tougher still to oppose one's child openly and publicly on immoral issues too many support because the culture seems to demand it.  I'm not sure how Alan Keyes-like these two are in their position on the issue, but to the extent they acted as they did on this farce of an Act, I'm calling it a display of integrity, which one rarely, if ever, sees from the left. 

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump: Sidebar

 Below are five parts of a series looking at Dan's list of "actual wrongdoing" by Donald Trump.  As I sought details for many of the points, I came upon a link to the very list Dan is using.  I hadn't perused the entirety of it, but found that it contains a great deal of what one can read in the five posts of mine which respond to them.  

What this means is that Dan didn't do jack shit to confirm any of it is true.  As so many are not actual examples of wrongdoing, it validates what I've known about Dan for a long time.  He doesn't care about truth and honesty where it concerns those of the right.  What's important to "grace-embracers" like Dan is the spreading of negative claims about those he hates.  If it's negative, Dan takes it for granted that it is a fact.  I believe this is called "bearing false witness".  What's more, Dan copy/pasting this list is a clear example of "gossip"...another evil Dan pretends to find personally objectionable.

I also want to acknowledge that of the very many from the "Dan lying" column, there may be some which actual Christians might find to be more true than not...at least as far as being an example of wrongdoing.  I would then argue such disagreement is over that which is not truly harmful to anyone but the tender sensibilities of fake Christians in Louisville who need to believe a man far better than they, like Donald Trump, is evil incarnate.  If we're going to dredge up examples of wrongdoing to support a premise of "corruption" or "unfitness" in a president, I would insist something more substantial should be identified, such as Biden's connection to foreign businesses from which he took money, Tony Bobulinski's testimony affirming Biden's corruption, Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified documents and her role in creating false dossiers about Trump, and of course the many scandals of Barack Obama (https://wentworthreport.com/2020/02/17/the-corruption-of-barack-obama/).  Liars like Dan do nothing to address any of that, preferring instead to repeat whatever he hears about Trump which he believes he can turn around as fact as if he did the heavy lifting of researching any of it.  The list presented over the previous five posts is testament to that.  But apparently that's what "embracing grace" looks like.  Contemptible.

And by the way, the list, which continues in subsequent comments, comes from a site Dan found.  I found what may be the very one called anobjectivepointofview.com.  There are a total of 228 points, so as you can see, I've not even hit half of them.  But here's the punchline at the end, 

" I did not write this. I wish I did, but I didn’t. I received it in my inbox. Author unknown. "

Who ever runs this site, like Dan, didn't do jack to research any of it, but only copy/pasted it like Dan did. This is how the left works. Liars all. Dan's the worst of them with whom I engage with any regularity. Disgusting people.

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 5.

 Truth=7/Dan lying=65

64.  "spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president"

While I can give Dan a point for lying about "an obscene amount of time" because Dan isn't the arbiter of such things, I'll simply give the Truth column another point because Trump did play gold a lot after criticizing Obama.  Now, given Obama looks like a dork when he's doing "athletic" things, it's hard to insist he was actually playing golf as much as insulting the game.  But more importantly, while Trump golfed as much as he did, he still managed to do far, far more good for the nation than Obumble did in twice the time.  And therein lies the real truth of it.  Obama deserved criticism for playing golf as much as he did because he was sucking at being president.  Trump was doing a good job.

Truth=8/Dan lying=65

65.  "falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote"

No...that's an opinion.  Just because published totals conflict with his opinion doesn't mean the opinion is "false".  Given the very real likelihood of illegal votes, and how the Democrat Party provides room for them to be cast, an honest count may very well have confirmed Trump's opinion.  Dems cheat.  We know this.  Trump knows it, too.  It is not wrongdoing to promote one's opinion, even if that opinion can be proven false, which this one never was.  Ever.

Truth=8/Dan lying=66

66.  "called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,”

Ah.  Yet another "insult" to pad Dan's list.  Thus, another point on the "Dan lying" side of the ledger for doing so.  Of course, Sadiq Khan is a loser of a mayor in the same way Eric Adams is proving to be, in the same way Lori Lightfoot has proven to be and in the same way other leftist mayors have proven to be (Pete Buttigieg) specifically here with regard to crime and terrorism.  He had the gall to suggest citizens of big cities ought to simply get used to terrorism.  Yeah.  The jerk's a loser.  Telling the truth is never wrongdoing.

Truth=8/Dan lying=67

67.  "falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year"

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-vs-time-magazine-disputes-president-s-person-year-claims-n823861

As the link indicates, he likely was under consideration for the "honor".  But how can one "falsely claim" to have turned it down.  It doesn't have to be true that he was tapped for him to turn down the possibility.  This is another barrel-scraping attempt by Dan deserving of the "lying" side, as I don't see how his turning down even that which might not have been offered rates as "wrongdoing".

Truth=8/Dan lying=68

68.  "considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions"

Within his authority, and as such not wrongdoing.

https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/commentary/trump-has-the-constitutional-authority-fire-mueller-heres-why

Truth=8/Dan lying=69

69.  "mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID"

Given how ineffective wearing masks are for preventing the transmission of any virus, this hardly constitutes wrongdoing.  Wrongdoing would be forcing people to wear the damned things, which still goes on in some places.  What's more, it's another bit of padding as it's just another insult at worst.

Truth=8/Dan lying=70.

70.  "locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials
by hiring acting ones"

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/trumps-staffing-struggle-unfilled-jobs-100991

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/16/donald-trump/why-trump-appointments-have-lagged-behind-other-pr/

This one seems true, but not a matter of wrongdoing given the trouble Trump had getting his nominees approved by Congress.  I'm giving it an "undecided".  That makes three so far.

Undecided.

71.  "used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,”"

The lie here is that naming a virus after its country of origin is used to demonize Trump as a racist.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/13/17-diseases-named-after-places-or-people/

Truth=8/Dan lying=71

72.  "hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser"

Of course the issue here is whether or not Trump knew anyone he hired or with whom he associated was "shady" as well as whether or not their alleged shadiness was a reason they were hired to allowed to remain an associate.  Dan lists this as if the worst is true without knowing one way or the other if it is.  What's more, he regards the people based on how they were treated by his own kind, as opposed to whether or not their actions were "shady".  

Truth=8/Dan lying=72

73.  "pardoned several of his shady associates"

Pardoning anyone because they were convicted on shady, partisan grounds is not at all wrongdoing.  Pretending it is is.

Truth=8/Dan lying=73

74.  "has promised to pardon the racist insurrectionists"

I was unaware that BLM people were involved in any insurrections.  WAIT!!  Of course they were!  All through the summer of 2020 and then some!  I'm surprised Dan regards this as wrongdoing.

Truth=8/Dan lying=74

75.  "gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories"

Obama gave the award to Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Springsteen and notable moron Joe Biden, who supported Obama and left-wing lies.  Talk about "batshit crazy"!!!  There is no limitations on whom a president can award this medal.  Thus, there is no wrongdoing just because some asshat lefty says so.

Truth=8/Dan lying=76

76.  "got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!)"

So what?  A heated exchange is wrongdoing now?

Truth=8/Dan lying=77

77.  "had a Secretary of State who called him a moron"

https://people.com/politics/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-president-trump-moron/

First, it now appears Dan wants to insist that Trump being insulted is wrongdoing by Trump.  Secondly, Tillerson did not confirm it happened.  Thirdly, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a press briefing that Tillerson did not call Trump a “moron.” And Fourth, lefties want to insist that despite Tillerson choosing not to dignify the story with a response, by such refusal, Tillerson is admitting it happened.  The left will lie about everything.

Truth=8/Dan lying=78

78.  "forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history"

Ah...a lefty favorite!!!  CROWD SIZE!!!  But I found nothing which states anyone was forced to make a claim known to be false.  Padding the list!

Truth=8/Dan lying=79

79.   "botched the COVID vaccine rollout"

It didn't "roll out" until after Biden was "elected".  That there was anything available which could even loosely be called a  COVID "vaccine" can hardly be called "botched" when Trump's detractors insisted nothing could be developed for years.  

Truth=8/Dan lying=80

80.  "tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him"

Just a lie.  He was banned because he's Donald Trump and the leftists running Twitter hate him like Dan does.

Truth=8/Dan lying=81

81.  "charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties..."

I've dealt with this issue recently and as I've again researched the issue, I find two problems which are as yet insurmountable:

a)  As is so common, leftist accusations against center-right figures...especially Trump...are regarded as true simply by the existence of the accusation.  In this case, a lefty made the accusation, a host of lefty media repeat it verbatim and searching the issue via lefty-controlled search engines provides only more lefty news outlets repeating the same crap.

b)  There are details for which I've yet to find resolution.  Namely, the scant response to the charges by Team Trump.  Thus far, I've seen only Eric Trump's response wherein he claims the prices mentioned are not for single rooms, but for all the rooms provided.  In the many lefty articles, I've not seen anything which speaks to the prices referring to individual rooms...such as, $4 billion dollars per night for one room for one Secret Service agent.  

So long as I continue to find nothing more about this story, I cannot in good faith grade this as true or false.  I can't believe the lefties, but I've heard no details from the Trumpers and no one seems to want to ask and provide.  Thus, this must remain:

Undecided.  I believe that's four of them.

This ends the second comment listing "wrongdoings".  The score as it stands:  Truth=8/Dan lying=81/undecided=4

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 4.

So on I go with Dan's nonsensical attempt to "prove" Trump is a worse person than Dan is himself.  The score is now Truth=5/Dan lying=46.

45.  "forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader"

A laughable lie, and one promoted by numerous lefty sites.  The actual video of this "force" shows no force at all, but simply letting those in his cabinet to speak about what was being done.

Truth=5/Dan lying=47

46.  "believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize"

 How this ranks as "actual wrongdoing" I'll never know.  Of course he did broker peace deals, so...

"Christian Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News on Wednesday: "For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other peace prize nominees."

Adding that he was not a big Trump supporter, he added. "The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts - not on the way he behaves sometimes.""

Truth=5/Dan lying=48

47.  "berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General"

Not wrongdoing if one believes one's criticism is justified.  But lefties will portray such criticisms by Trump as "berating" and "belittling" in order to demonize.  

Truth=5/Dan lying=49

48.  "suggested the US should buy Greenland"

More barrel scraping, and stupidly so.  How is this "wrongdoing"?

Truth=5/Dan lying=50

49.  "colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges"

Nominating and then working to see approved a president's judicial choices is not "wrongdoing" in any sense. 

Truth=5/Dan lying=51

50.  " repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,""

Telling the truth isn't "wrongdoing"

Truth=5/Dan lying=52

51.  "claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases"

A silly thing to say given we'd still have the same number of cases regardless, but hardly "wrongdoing" to say such a thing.  Barrel-scraping again.

Truth=5/Dan lying=53

52.  "violated the emoluments clause"

Not in any way, shape or form.  A common, but stupid lefty premise.

Truth=5/Dan lying=54

53.  "thought that Nambia was a country"

Leave it to lying lefties to insist a mispronunciation is "wrongdoing".  Does Danny-boy believe Obama engaged in wrongdoing by claiming to have visited 57 states?

Truth=5/Dan lying=55

54.  "told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then
downplayed it in public"

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/factchecking_biden_did_trump_lie_to_the_american_people_about_covid.html

Truth=5/Dan lying=56

55.  "called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution"

More accurately, ""You can either go down in history as a patriot," two people familiar with conversation quoted Trump as saying, "or you can go down in history as a pussy.""

Having a potty mouth is wrongdoing.  Misrepresenting what Trump said is lying.

Truth=6/Dan lying=57

56.  "nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-iran-s-rouhani-never-ever-threaten-united-states-again-n893566

I don't regard standing up to assholes as "wrongdoing" even if doing so leads to the assholes declaring war on us.  Iran is already our enemy and enemies are always at war, otherwise they wouldn't be enemies.

Truth=7/Dan lying=58

57.  " nominated a corrupt head of the EPA"

The left's hatred of Scott Pruitt is almost as deranged as their hatred of Trump:

https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/04/scott-pruitt-is-trumps-biggest-asset-thats-why-the-left-wants-him-gone/

Truth=7/Dan lying=59

58.  "nominated a corrupt head of HHS"

Accused of that which so many in Congress do constantly, but is only corruption when a Trump official does it.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/01/18/deny-tom-price-confirmation-keep-standard-for-democrats/

Truth=7/Dan lying=60

59.  "nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department"

Clearly the pattern here is Dan is parroting the allegations put forth by leftists who hate anything related to Trump.  Whether or not there is anything to the allegations is not the point, but merely, as is their way, the left simply accuses and the resulting problems for whomever is accused becomes difficult to overcome.  Dan has no proof of corruption by any of these people, but Dan merely needs to pad his list.

Truth=7/Dan lying=61

60.  "nominated a corrupt head of the USDA"

See above.  One is not corrupt because the left says one is.  Dan doesn't care because...you know..."embrace grace".  POS.  

As if that wasn't enough, how can Dan prove Trump nominated anyone with full knowledge they were proven to be corrupt?  Is he supposed to take the word of lying leftists?  I don't think so.

Truth=7/Dan lying=62

61.  "praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies"

A perversion of reality ignoring context.  

Truth=7/Dan lying=63

62.  "refused to allow the presidential transition to begin"

Truth=7/Dan lying=64

63.  "insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death"

Ah..."insults".  How many "insults" are required to pad this list?  What difference does it make if the "victim" of an "insult" is dead or alive?  The list would be smaller simply by saying Trump insulted people.  Thus, Dan lies to pad the list.  I won't give another "truth" because Dan listed another victim.  I will add another lie because Dan's hatred compels him to engage in his own actual wrongdoing.

Truth=7/Dan lying=65

That's it for today.  

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 3.

Moving right along, with the score Truth=3/Dan lying=34:

33.  "pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest"

Proven false already.

Truth=3/Dan lying=35

34.  " but balked at helping working Americans"

Far more working Americans as a result of Trump's policies than at any time since the 1960's, along with higher wages, lower prices on consumer goods (especially compared with now thanks to Trump-haters like Dan), etc..  A complete lie so typical of Dan and his kind.

Truth=3/Dan lying=36

35.   "incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic"

 Aside from the fact that such protests were actually incited by protesters being locked down by Dem policies, I don't see how supporting such righteous protests can possibly be considered "wrongdoing".  There was far more justification than for any of the BLM/Antifa protests based on lies and falsehoods incited by leftists.

Truth=3/Dan lying=37

36.   " withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords"

God bless Trump for this great move!!  I'm giving this one two marks in the lie column for Dan suggesting the deal was a good idea in the first place.  Returning to it is wrongdoing.  Pulling us out of it was not.

Truth=3/Dan lying=39

37.  "withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal"

I'm giving this one two marks in the lie column for Dan suggesting the deal was a good idea in the first place.  Thus, withdrawing from it can't be "wrongdoing".  Returning to it is.

Truth-3/Dan lying=41

 38.  " withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership"

 Even Dan's party hated this crap-sandwich.  I guess they're guilty of wrongdoing, too!  I think Dan's just listing anything Trump did as an example of wrongdoing, which is a lie all by itself.

Truth=3/Dan lying=42 

39.  "insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter"

 Apparently only Dan and the left can insult right-wingers.  Trump insulted all sorts of people and one can call that "wrongdoing".  But like myself, name-calling with an explanation justifying it is different, and that's pretty much what Trump does.  Nonetheless, despite the disingenuous addition of this point, I agree it's true that it is wrong to insult.  I'll give it to him.

 Truth=4/Dan lying=42

40.  " pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op"

Much ado about nothing.  But haters exaggerated the situation as they always to in order to further demonize Trump.  Bad optics, but no real wrongdoing.  Can also be suggested the dude inadvertently walked in front of Trump at the last minute. 

Yet, instead of being insulted, he took the opportunity to thank Trump for supporting Montenegro's membership in NATO. The small former Yugoslav republic is slated to become NATO's 29th member next month.

And in any case, Markovic said, "it is natural that the president of the United States is in the front row."

Undecided.

41.  "failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies"

 This Dan once again exposing his dishonesty.  This was a case of Trump being asked about our commitment at a time when he was pushing NATO allies to fulfill their commitment.  

Truth=4/Dan lying=43

42.  " called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries"

OK.  While Dan is quite cool with rationalizing his own use of profane and vulgar language...even comparing himself to the Lord to do so...it is reasonable to regard Trump's use of such language as "wrongdoing".  As such I will add to the truth column.  At the same time, Dan suggests Trump was wrong to disparage the countries in question, as if they are not worthy of disparagement, given the risk and expense people assume to flee them to come here.  So Dan lies while saying something true.  Quite a skill leftists have.

Truth=5/Dan lying=44

43.  "called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,""

Opinion can't be regarded as wrongdoing, especially in the context of degraded American cities like Baltimore.  Maybe it's not the "worst", but one's criteria must be laid out before pretending saying it is represents "wrongdoing".

Truth=5/Dan lying=45

44.  " claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas”"

Yeah...he needs to be executed for this one!  Jeez!  If Dan's scraping the barrel already to find wrongdoing, one can only imagine what's coming next! 

Truth=5/Dan lying=46

OK.  Three posts to respond to one comment full of Dan's delusional hatred.  As he said at the end of this one, "But wait. There's more..."

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 2.

The score as it stands:  Truth=1/Dan lying=22.  Let us continue  (keep in mind this is about "actual wrongdoing".  Thus, when Dan lies, it's about whether or not his point is a legit case of "actual wrongdoing" or not):

21.  "increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion"

Actually, it's more like $7 trillion, but what's a trillion here or there in this day and age, right?  Well, one more trillion makes Trump seem worse than he is, as if $7 trillion isn't bad enough.  But enough of that.  I give this one a "true" but with a caveat:  His promise of debt reduction was based on two terms.  He was robbed of the second one.  Also, the pandemic added about $4 trillion to Trump's previous total.  Still too much for my taste.  So despite the fact that he, along with Congress, spent money like a drunken Democrat, one must pump the brakes when considering what his intentions were for a second term.  Now we'll likely never know and we can't know if any of it would've reduced the debt like he promised to do.  Regardless of his otherwise stellar record of promise keeping, and my great distaste for his spending, I give this a mark on the truth side.  (Oh yeah...I consider spending my money an actual wrongdoing.)

Truth=2/Dan lying=22

22.  "had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history"

This is only "wrongdoing" if one believes trade deficits are a problem.  In this Trump is wrong.  But being wrong isn't the same as "wrongdoing".  

Truth=2/Dan lying=23 

23.  "called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers"

Four people, including big Trump fan John Bolton, were there where Trump was said by "anonymous sources" to have made the above charges and insist Trump never said any such thing.  Therefore, we have a "he said/she said" situation with no absolute confirmation one way or another.  The lie here, then, is Dan insisting it happened in order to add to his list of Trumps "actual wrongdoings".  Nonetheless, despite that being good enough to go in the lie column, I'm going to grade this as "undecided".

Undecided

24.  "coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist"

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/

Truth=2/Dan lying=24

25.  "refused to concede the 2020 election"

Truth=2/Dan lying=25

26.  "in 2022, STILL refusing to concede the 2020 election"

Truth=2/Dan lying=26

27.  "is calling to overturn the Constitution to reinstate him STILL"

https://thenewamerican.com/did-trump-really-call-for-the-termination-of-the-constitution/

This is two lies.  The first, that Trump actually called for the overturning of the Constitution, and secondly that Trump's actual words in any way constitute wrongdoing because it's based on his acknowledgement of the fraudulence which cost him the 2020 election.

Truth=2/Dan lying=28

28.  "hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House"

 Not "wrongdoing" even if they were indeed unqualified.  He can believe differently.  That's not "wrongdoing".  Dan saying it is is.

Truth=2/Dan lying=29

29.  "walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl"

This one is just stupid. 

Truth=2/Dan lying=30

30.  "called neo-Nazis “very fine people"

I almost want to give this two in the lie column.  Can a neo-nazi be a very fine person despite holding nazi positions?  Well, Dan believes homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and cross-dressing men twerking in front of small children are “very fine people", so why not?  If the sexual perverts Dan defends can be “very fine people" despite their perversions, why not neo-nazis?  Do they not love their children?  Do they not give to causes in which they believe and help out those they regard as needy?  So even if he actually said this, it would not constitute "wrongdoing" unless he was promoting the tenets of "neo-nazism".  Two lies.

Truth=2/Dan lying=32

31.  "suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID"

This is another two-fer.  First, he didn't say this, so that's a lie.  What he did say, in his clumsy manner, was related to medical reality regarding the use of disinfectants internally to treat disease.

Truth=2/Dan lying=34

32.  "abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey"

 https://www.startribune.com/the-kurds-are-not-our-allies-but-turkey-is/564064442/

As the above link informs, Turkey is our ally, not the Kurds.  But the wrongdoing is not in leaving the area and thus the Kurds to deal with Turkey, but collateral concerns...meaning the manner in which Trump did it.  I'm giving this to the truth column, despite the partisan but uninformed false description of the Kurds as our allies.  At the worst, we left two "allies" to settle the differences between them on their own.

Truth=3/Dan lying=34

That's gonna be it for now.  There's quite a bit more left of the first comment before I move the rest.  So far, it's looking really bad for Dan as he's exposed himself as the liar we know him to be.  

I have to point out, if readers haven't gathered it already, I've added to the lies column points for stating what has been demonstrated to be false, such as the bleach thing, in addition to whether or not wrongdoing by Trump was perpetrated.  I simply can't allow Dan to continue promoting proven lies. 

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 1.

In the comments section of a recent post at Craig's blog (http://jsmmds.blogspot.com/2022/11/youd-think.html), Dan spoke of "volumes of Trump's actual wrongdoing", to which I responded, ""Volumes"??? How about just a page, Danny-boy? Maybe even a paragraph from a page."  "Danny-boy" responded with an extremely long list of that which he thinks qualifies as "volumes of actual wrongdoing".  A quick scan (which is all I've given it) suggests that there's not all that much "actual" wrongdoing.  I could be mistaken, but I don't think so.  So what I will do now is go through each one to determine the truth of the claim.  It should be kept in mind that all of which follows is based on the claim of "actual" wrongdoing.

But a few points:  

I don't know if I will bother going through them all in fact.  I suspect there will be redundancies.  I hope to keep track of truths, lies and whether or not the "wrongdoing" took place during his presidency or had any effect on his ability to govern.  Not sure how that will look on the page, so we'll just have to see how things go.  Let's begin:

1.  "President Trump wasn’t that bad...other than when he incited an insurrection against the government,"

Wow!  Right off the bat Dan lies...twice!!  Trump not only "incited" nothing against the government, there was no "insurrection".  It was a just protest that got out of hand.  Liars on the left intentionally use the term "insurrection" so as to tie Trump to it in order to deny him any ability to run for re-election.  What Trump "incited" was peaceful protest.

Truth=0/Dan lying=2

2.  "mismanaged a pandemic that killed a million Americans"

It's a lie to say that Trump mismanaged what was a novel virus when in fact he marshaled the private sector to work with his administration to provide PPEs, develop a vaccine and close off travel to and from the country of COVID's origin.  To pretend he mismanaged requires drawing a specific line from any policy of his to deaths which resulted from it.  Indeed, there's been far more "mismanagement" from Fauci and various Dem governors than by Trump.

Truth=0/Dan lying=3

3.  "separated children from their families,"

Aside from Trump continuing a policy set forth by his predecessor, the impotent Barack Obama, the separation of children from their parents is a consequence of parental criminality, in this case, illegally crossing our border.  Thus, for children to be separated from their parents upon suspicion alone of a crime being perpetrated is not at all "wrongdoing" in any sense of the term.

Truth=0/Dan lying=4

4.  "lost those children in the bureaucracy,"

https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-fact-check-no-trump-didnt-separate-1500-james-barrett

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/illegal-immigrant-cages-bus-for-babies-lost-children/

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-didnt-lose-1500-immigrants/

Note:  I am not going to guarantee proof or evidence of any of my responses where I don't feel like doing so.  Why should I?  Dan's list is long and provides no evidence of any kind for any of it.  But should I feel like doing so I will completely at my own discretion and on my own volition.  

In any case, we see again that not only is Dan's claim false, it ignores a far worse example of what he claimed about Trump.  Also, as he tied it to the previous point, it counts as two lies since the "lost" kids weren't "separated" from their families or parents by any faction of our government.  Thus...

Truth=0/Dan lying=6

5.  "tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church"

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/09/ig-report-exonerates-trump-did-not-tear-gas-peaceful-protesters-to-clear-park-for-bible-photo-op/

Truth=0/Dan lying=7

6.  "tried to block all Muslims from entering the country"

While it is cool to say this is "wrong", the intention behind it was to protect Americans and came after yet another islam-inspired mass shooting.  Thus, I can grant a half point to truth here, given that many would disagree with a total ban on muslims, me not being among them.  I demand more serious vetting of all immigrants and visitors to the country, ESPECIALLY from muslim majority countries where American hatred is rampant.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=7

7.   "got impeached,
got impeached again"

I put these two together because he chose to add them separately, my point being that getting impeached is not "wrongdoing".  It's the consequence of possible wrongdoing, but not wrongdoing itself.  What's more, Trump was acquitted both times.  What's more, he did nothing wrong in the first impeachment, and in the second, he wasn't even president regardless of the false charge of inciting an "insurrection".  Thus, I could justly regard this as four lies instead of just two, but we'll let it go and see what comes down the pike.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=9

8.  "had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history"

This is a case of lefties playing with numbers again.  It is well known that the unemployment rate was at its lowest since the early 1960's.  How can one's jobs record be the worst ever with such a great stat?  What's more, even with the harm the COVID situation caused to the job market, mostly due to the policies of Dem governors rather than from Trump, the recovery was beginning before the 2020 election.  Also, when some wish to pretend Obama was doing great things economically, his own people admitted most of the jobs created during his failed presidency were part-time, government, low paying temp jobs.  Biden has been simply the beneficiary of people going back to work after the needless shutdowns.  In any case, unless Dan can point to policies intended to destroy jobs, it's ludicrous to regard a jobs record as "actual wrongdoing" so...

Truth=.5/Dan lying=10

9.  "pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden"

This is just a lie.  Period.

https://www.libertynation.com/transcript-of-trump-call-to-zelenksy-wheres-the-dirt/

Truth=.5/Dan lying=11

10.  "fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia"

This is just stupid, given the fact there never was any ties between Trump and Russia which should have elicited an investigation and those who initiated that investigation damned well knew it the whole time.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=12

11.  "bragged about firing the FBI director on TV"

Dan desperately needs this to be "wrongdoing".  It is not.  Reporting a move he made to fire a guy who never deserved the position in the first place is only wrong in that it took as long as it did to realize the guy was a cretin.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=13

12.  "took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community"

Except that he had legit reason to doubt the word of US intel leaders:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/trump-reluctant-to-trust-us-intelligence-because-of-comey-brennan/

So while it wasn't a good expression of his true beliefs, it wasn't "wrongdoing".  It was an indictment of what he called "bad cops"...the very type Dan loves.  Nonetheless, I'm going to give this one another half point for the optics, while giving Dan lying another point for pretending he meant something nefarious.

Truth=1/Dan lying=14

13.  "diverted military funding to build his wall"

 What is the purpose of the military if not to defend us against foreign invaders?  The Supreme Court agreed and found his use of the funds to be appropriate.  And while legit separation of powers arguments can be made in opposition to the move, the move itself was on behalf of the American people against the constant invasion of illegals and the many illegal activities which result.  That's only "wrongdoing" in the minds of Trump-haters, when the entirety of Congress should have been granting expenditures to secure our border, but wasn't.

Truth=1/Dan lying=15

14.  "caused the longest government shutdown in US history,"

The wrongdoing is by the Congress for failing to support his efforts to secure our border...unless Dan's referring to something different.  In any case, the point remains.  Is a difference between the executive branch and the legislative resulting in shutdown automatically the fault of the executive branch?  Can that be said without an examination of what led to the shutdown?  No.  Dan only seeks to portray this as "actual wrongdoing" because Trump was involved.  

Truth=1/Dan lying=16

15.  " called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate"

Speaking the truth is never "wrongdoing".

Truth=1/Dan lying=17

16.  "lied nearly 30,000 times"

Dan couldn't list 30 actual lies Trump told as president about his work as president.  He simply parrots what the liars at the Washington Post say, because liars stick together, especially when hating on Trump.

Truth=1/Dan lying=18

17.  "banned transgender people from serving in the military"

Not "wrongdoing" at all.  It's logical and necessary for unit cohesion to stop using the military as an experiment in social perversion.  Trump gets high marks for this move, as it is actually just and righteous.  Only pervs like Dan regard denying pervs to be a bad thing.

Truth=1/Dan lying=19

18.  "ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions"

That's just funny.

Truth=1/Dan lying=20

19.  "vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers"

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/06/30/trump-vows-to-veto-defense-bill-if-it-renames-u-s-bases-named-for-confederate-figures/

Truth=1/Dan lying=21

20.  "refused to release his tax returns"

Given there is no law or righteous reason to demand that any politician MUST present tax returns for public scrutiny, to call this "wrongdoing" is simply partisan crapola and thus another lie.

Truth=1/Dan lying=22

OK.  I'm going to leave it there for now, as there is so much left to review in just Dan's first comment listing nonsensical examples of "wrongdoing"...actual or otherwise, but mostly the latter.  I'll continue later.

Don't Have A Title For This One

I'm currently in the process of putting together a response to a list of "actual wrongdoing" Dan attributes to Donald Trump...a far better man than the moron Dan regarded (and likely still regards) as a better option for the 2020 presidential election.  (Yeah...he's that blatantly stupid) Given the number of "wrongdoings", it may take me another day or so (if I can get to it properly before Sunday morning), or possibly a few days longer.  In any case, I'll get to it.  But for now, something else came up.

I'm no fan of Alex Jones.  By that I mean I don't listen to his show, never did except for a brief period back in, I think, 2010 when someone suggested I give him a listen.  I wasn't impressed by anything he was saying, mostly similar stuff most every conservative was saying (I'm just referring to what I actually heard), and nothing particularly outrageous or notable.  As most people know, he was "strung up" for saying that the Sandy Hook school shooting was some kind of hoax or something, and "inciting" people to threaten surviving family members.  To my knowledge, no one has produced any audio or video tape of Jones suggesting anyone should seek out these people and threaten to harm them or to perpetrate any harm upon them.  I'm not even sure he spoke about the families at all as if they were guilty of some illegal or unethical activity, but only that there's reason to question whether or not the shooting took place.  

When I heard that he had these doubts, I couldn't believe it.  It was a truly moronic suggestion in my mind but I never paid it much mind.  Again, not a fan.  Lefties say stupid shit all the time and I don't comment on every utterance of stupidity they spew.  It wasn't particularly surprising that someone on the right, or said to be on the right, would say something stupid now and then.  It happens.  

But then the families accused him of causing people to make threats and causing all other manner of distress.  Now, I found this amazing as I can't imagine I would waste any time worrying about stupid things someone might say when the important thing is I lost a loved one and know how it happened.  Who cares if some radio guy has a theory?  (As it happens, I found a site which gave a list of reasons why anyone would take the position on Sandy Hook which Jones took.  I haven't scrutinized it.)

So, to cut to the chase, Jones was judged in court to be responsible for the duress suffered by these people to the tune of, I believe, something like $200 million.  Pardon me if the number is off, but I heard it was huge.  Enough to bring back any of the dead?  I don't believe so.  

Now, due to Elon Musk's take-over of Twitter, we're seeing all manner of info proving how information was Trabued...I mean...cancelled, shadow-banned and other forms of speech suppression on behalf of our Democrat-led government.  Watching some saved episodes of Tucker Carlson (while I binge on Yellowstone...I'm pretty much hooked and not sure if I actually like the show), Fearless host, Jason Whitlock proposed something extraordinary.  He cited the wife of David Dorn, murdered during the peaceful protests of 2020 and the owners of businesses destroyed as just as worthy of a massive judgement against these various social media platforms, as well as the government entities who worked with them, to suppress truth and promote lies...such as the racist cops murdering innocent black people myth.  People died because info regarding COVID was suppressed when it conflicted with the Fauci crap.  They, too, deserve redress.  What's more, unlike the families of Sandy Hook victims, who were not actually harmed by the stupid opinion of Alex Jones, thousands (at the utmost least) of people died as a direct result of leftist lies.  Those leftists need to be held accountable.  

The left cannot survive truth.  It is anathema to them.  But by suppressing it, cancelling it...by denying conflicting opinions which can be discussed and examined for truth or error...people have been severely harmed.  The nation has been horribly harmed by the suppression of information just to protect an abject moron who went on to become our president, and that harm continues.  Jones was screwed for his stupidity.  Too many on the left have been profiting by theirs.  And the nation suffers.  God help us and save us from the left.