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| Michelle Fischbach |
Nothing I say or demonstrate will matter of course. Nothing I say will sway our congressperson from her unswerving devotion to Trump and by extension Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House who represents a state of the old Confederacy.
One thing jumped out at me upon looking over Ms. Fischbach's Wednesday missive if you want to call it that. Remember this was the day after Trump's State of The Union (SOTU) speech. I just assumed Fischbach would start out with absolutely effusive praise of the speech. To help glorify the Orange Man with the highest praise. And then in the next breath, maybe criticize Minnesota's Democrat-flavored political leadership.
Every nuance in Fischbach's writing points this way, so nauseatingly political: Republicans are the nation's heroes. Democrats? To be condemned. She probably attends a Christian church on Sunday where all this gets reinforced. But actually, Christian worship across America is declining because of the stance of most churches.
You know, the Lutheran ELCA thought it might benefit by becoming an outlier. Following the gay ordination vote and the direction it portended, the leaders thought "young progressives" might start flooding the ELCA churches. Heavens, it did not turn out that way at all.
Who would have ever expected Morris' grand First Lutheran Church to go from being a leader in the faith to a virtual death spiral? That's what has happened. Two Sunday services during its heyday? Well-known (affluent) community leaders going there? A truly big "UMM Sunday" with its crowded potluck meal in the fall? I try pointing this out to some of the people I once knew there. They just sort of stare blankly. They don't want to think about it. Out of sight, out of mind. Maybe it is the well-known Morris MN apathy.
No, Congressperson Fischbach did not mention the SOTU in her Wednesday email dispatch. I could have fainted. Trump gave a speech so long it reminded of Fidel Castro. His followers everywhere are mesmerized.
But might that be falling off some? Fischbach despite her effusive statements in the past is, after all, a politician! Maybe this can actually trump severe and rock-ribbed political biases sometimes. You see, a true politician at some point has to reflect the will of the people, lest that pol be taken down at the polls.
Of course, Trump and his people are showing strong signs of neutering the election process anyway. Maybe the will of the people will no longer prevail. And let me rather shout in your ears: you will miss it when it's gone. Even the old guys who gather in the middle section of DeToy's Restaurant in the morning and glorify Trump and poke fun at Dems: they will miss it too.
DJT clearly wants to be an autocrat. We should be on pins and needles as we await to see if he can succeed.
I was not going to listen to the SOTU at all Tuesday. I fell asleep for a while in my recliner with the radio on, tuned in to a Fargo station which is all I consume from the radio. I woke up. And this was with the dangerous Trump's voice blaring at me. So I listened for a few minutes out of (morbid) curiosity.
And what did Ms. Fischbach say the next day about this? Incredible, absolutely incredible: she was silent. Does she as an insider know something that the rest of us don't know yet? Oh, and has she spoken out about the continued retribution by Federal authorities (under Trump's direction) toward Minnesota? Now it's the withholding of Medicaid funds. So a great many people in Minnesota will have a harder time accessing health care. What did they do wrong to deserve this?
You think "fraud" hasn't happened in other parts of the country too? Of course it has. But we're Minnesota which has a governor who was on the presidential ticket that opposed Trump and Vance. Has Congressperson Fischbach who was elected to be an advocate for Minnesota spoken out about this? She has made a statement about how Joe Biden "was found to be in possession of classified documents." Yes she made a point about that. BTW some of the documents had Biden's own handwriting.
But Congressperson Fischbach wanted to make clear that we should leave Trump alone. Leave him alone so he can keep rising to dictator status. I suppose that would make Fischbach's job easier - congressmen would have less of a decision-making burden and they'd still get the fantastic pay and perks.
But Fischbach was strangely silent on the Trump SOTU speech when she sent out her dispatch on Wednesday. I had expected her to use superlatives.
Many Christian churches already act like they think Trump has a divine element. I am flabbergasted. It makes me grow more skeptical about the Jesus Christ story. If so many people can be bamboozled by Trump and his minions today, who's to say the whole Christ story didn't grow in the same way: get the masses of rubes just wrapped around your little finger.
Of late I am inclined to think that Jesus Christ was not even a real person. He was a composite, a product of mythology propped up for political purposes by a ruling regime, and then it took on a life of its own.
I do believe in God. I have had conversations with God ever since I first became sentient. But the MAGA Christians will say I will spend eternity in hell. I suppose all the human beings on Earth before the crucifixion went to hell because they had not had the chance to accept Christ as their savior. Would a just God behave like this?
Real spirit of Easter
Let me just say, I will celebrate Easter with a chocolate bunny.
To repeat: Does Fischbach "know something?" Does she have knowledge about what will come rolling out of the Epstein files? Will Trump experience a "fall?" Well, so did Jesus Christ. So people will draw parallels. And then the literal worship of Trump will start.
I may be sent to a concentration camp.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minneosta - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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