Was President Biden’s poor performance during the presidential debate a Divine Intervention?

    I closely followed CNN’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s performance during the recent debate against Donald Trump. I heard CNN show hosts say what they think. I heard CNN guests say what they think. I heard President Biden give his take on it, including he had a cold, he felt bad, he had jet lag from his trip to Europe, he was exhausted, he wasn’t on top of his game, he didn’t fully understand how the microphones worked. And, at 81, he has the stamina for 4 more years in the White House. A CNN host said Biden had rested up for several days at Camp David before the debate. Biden told a CNN host that he would not take a cognitive test and release the results, because he takes a cognitive test every day at his job, as president. Biden said he does not believe that since the debate, he is behind in the polls, which show he is behind.

    As in the debate, I had to strain to hear what Biden said on CNN. I did not have to strain to hear what the CNN hosts or other guests said about Biden, who looked and sounded to me like he needed oxygen, as he did  during the debate. I didn’t see anything different from when he was at the debate and when he was on CNN after the debate, other than he didn’t have a 20 second lapse of memory on CNN, but he was only on CNN for a few moments.

    81, I wonder if I have the stamina to get me to next week? But I”m not the president, and I’m not on the November ballot. I”m a mystic, and because of that, I see things very differently. 

    Consider this text from a childhood friend yesterday, who calls Donald Trump the Orange Turd, and consider my response and where it went from there.

Him

So, as I understand it, Prez Biden can now declare the OT a traitor, declare him guilty of a sedition and order a military firing squad to execute him and be immune from such an an action. Once this is done Prez Biden will no longer need to run for a second term to save the country from the OT and his Klan, so he will drop out, and we can have likely the most interesting presidential race for the next 4 months the country has seen. Seems simple to me.

Me

From news reports I read, SCOTUs 6-3 majority INVITED Biden to order Trump executed :-), but I doubt US Military, FBI, Secret Service would do it. But maybe the CIA? I think Biden should drop out. Will he?

Him

He ran because he thought he was the only one who could be OT, but the debate made it look like he is the only won who can’t! 

Me

Consider America doesn’t need and God doesn’t want a Gaza massive war crimes criminal in the White House, and Biden’s debate performance was a Divine Intervention.

    In ABC News tonight, after I wrote the above: 

Biden dismisses concerns about fitness, would drop out if 'Lord Almighty' told him

President Joe Biden, in an exclusive interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, acknowledged last week's debate was a "bad episode" but pushed back strongly against broader questions about his age and mental fitness.

Stephanopoulos, over the course of 22 minutes, pressed Biden repeatedly not only on his debate performance against Donald Trump but also on reports that his lapses have become increasingly common these past few months -- and on what he would be willing to do to reassure the American people.

"Are you the same man today that you were when you took office three-and-a-half years ago?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"In terms of successes, yes," Biden responded. "I also was the guy who put together a peace plan for the Middle East that may be comin' to fruition. I was also the guy that expanded NATO. I was also the guy that grew the economy. All the individual things that were done were ideas I had or I fulfilled. I moved on."

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"Do you dispute that there have been more lapses, especially in the last several months?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"Can I run the 100 in 10 flat? No. But I'm still in good shape," Biden said.

Stephanopoulos followed up, asking, "Are you more frail?"

"No," Biden said, flatly.

Biden's sit-down with ABC News is his first television interview since the June 27 debate. ABC News reached out to Trump to offer him an equivalent interview opportunity, but his team declined.

The interview is part of a push from the White House and the campaign to recalibrate after Biden's halting debate performance left some Democrats panicked about his ability to carry out a grueling reelection campaign and a second term.

Looking ahead to a possible second term, Stephanopoulos said the question on the minds of many Americans is whether Biden would be able to serve effectively. If reelected, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term.

"Do you have the mental and physical capacity to do it for another four years?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"I believe so. I wouldn't be runnin' if I didn't think I did," Biden said. "Look, I'm runnin' again because I think I understand best what has to be done to take this nation to a completely new new level. We're on our way. We're on our way. And, look. The decision recently made by the Supreme Court on immunity, you know, the next President of the United States, it's not just about whether he or she knows what they're doin'.

"It's-- it's-- it's not-- not about a con-- a conglomerate of people making decisions," Biden continued. "It's about the character of the president. The character of the president's gonna determine whether or not this Constitution is employed the right way."

MORE: Biden won't commit to independent cognitive test when asked in ABC News interview

Stephanopoulos then pressed him, asking if in on a personal level, Biden was being honest with himself about his mental and physical ability to lead for four more years.

"Yes, I am, because, George, the last thing I want to do is not be able to meet that," Biden said. "I think, as some of senior economists and senior foreign policy specialists say, if I stop now, I go down in history as a pretty successful president. No one thought I could get done what we got done."

Biden declined to agree to have an independent medical evaluation that included cognitive tests and share the results with the public.

Biden also repeatedly brushed off recent poll numbers that show him behind Trump both in the general election and in specific swing states, as well as concerns voiced by some Democrats that staying in the race is not in the interest of the party or the country.

"If you can be convinced that you cannot defeat Donald Trump, will you stand down?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"It depends on -- on if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that, I might do that," Biden said.

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The Founding Fathers did not want the Nation’s government to be run by religion

 

    Today is the 248th anniversary of the signing of Colonial America’s Declaration of Independence, which begins:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America  

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    Then follows a l-o-n-g list of the Colonists’ grievances against the King of England, which I do not include here. 

    Then comes the the declaration of independence:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

    Then come the signatures of the men who signed the document.

    I highlighted in bold the 4 references to a Deity from which the signers of the Declaration of Independence drew their authority. 

    There is no mention of Christianity in the Declaration of Independence, whose principal author, Thomas Jefferson, was a Deist. 

    Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Free Masons. 

    The 4 references to Deity do not resemble Christian names for God.

    Amendment 1, US Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 

    The Founding Fathers were acutely aware of how governments in Europe and the British Isles had become one with the Church and had persecuted, imprisoned and killed “heretics”. The Founding Fathers did not want that to happen in America. Thus, Amendment 1’s, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.

    After the Revolutionary War, the “Give me liberty, or give me death” signer of the Declaration of Independence, Patrick Henry, became the Governor of Virginia. He tried to get the Virginia Legislature to pass a law that effectively would make Christianity the state religion of Virgina. Thomas Jefferson and another signer of the Declaration of Independence, James Madison, who would become known as the Father of the Constitution and America’s 4th president, led the charge to defeat Patrick Henry's law.

    Later, Jefferson cut out of his own Bible passages from the New Testament about things Jesus said, which Jefferson liked, and he made them into his own bible, which became known as The Jefferson Bible. The passages Jefferson liked were about living life differently, much easier to say than do.   

    Amendment 14, Section 1, US Constitution, made the Constitution and Amendments 1-10, known as the Bill of Rights, applicable to the States:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    Every anti-abortionist I have known was a religious-right Christian. In the law is the doctrine, res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself.

    Recently, Louisiana’s state legislature passed a law requiring The Ten Commandments to be displayed in Louisiana’s public schools. The Ten Commandments are part of the Jewish Scriptures and are in the Old Testament of Christendom’s Bible. How the 6 religious-right Justices on the US Supreme Court will rule on what Louisiana did is anyone’s guess.

    Once upon a time, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, a far-right Christian, had the 10 Commandments installed in the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery, the state Capital. During the Civil War, Montgomery was the Capital of the Confederacy after it was moved there from Richmond, Virginia.

    From Wikipedia:

Moore attended West Point and served as a company commander in the Military Police Corpsduring the Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School, he joined the Etowah County district attorney's office, serving as an assistant district attorney from 1977 to 1982. In 1992, he was appointed as a circuit judge by Governor Guy Hunt to fill a vacancy, and was elected to the position at the next term. In 2001, Moore was elected to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Moore was removed from his position in November 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing a federal court's order to remove a marble monument of the Ten Commandments that he had placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.

Moore sought the Republican nomination for the governorship of Alabama in 2006 and 2010, but lost in the primaries. Moore was elected again as chief justice in 2013, but he was suspended in May 2016, for defying a U.S. Supreme Court decision about same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges), and resigned in April 2017.^[4][5] On September 26, 2017, he won a primary runoff to become the Republican candidate in a special election for a U.S. Senate seat that had been vacated by Jeff Sessions.^[6]

In November 2017, during his special election campaign for U.S. Senate, several public allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Moore.^[7] Three women stated that he had sexually assaulted them when they were at the respective ages of 14, 16 and 28;^[7][8] six other women reported that Moore – then in his 30s – pursued sexual relationships with them while they were as young as 16. Moore acknowledged that he may have approached and dated teenagers while he was in his 30s, but denied sexually assaulting anyone.^[9][10] President Donald Trumpe ndorsed Moore a week before the election,^[11] after which some Republicans withdrew their opposition to Moore. Democrat Doug Jones won the election, becoming the first Democrat since 1992 to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama.^[12]

Moore's political views have been characterized as far-right and Christian nationalist.^[13] He has attracted national media attention and controversy over his views on race, homosexuality, transgender people, and Islam, his belief that Christianity should order public policy,^[14][15] and his past ties to neo-Confederate and white-nationalist groups.^{[16][17][18][19][20]} Moore was a leading voice in the "birther" movement, which promoted the false claim that president Barack Obama was not born in the United States.^[21][22] He founded the Foundation for Moral Law, a non-profit legal organization from which he collected more than $1 million over five years. On its tax filings, the organization indicated a much lesser amount of pay to Moore.^[23]

    Clinton McGee was my criminal law professor at the University of Alabama School of law. After graduating from that law school, McGee joined the US Army and was sent to Germany to defend Nazis during the Nuremberg Trials.He was so good at defending Nazis that he was shifted to prosecuting them and they didn’t get off. 

    Some years after I graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law, Roy Moore enrolled there. Professor McGee nick-named Moore, “Fruitcake”. 

    During my last semester in law school, my infant son died of sudden infant death syndrome, I was disheveled, unable to think clearly. Professor MeGee told me the law clerk of a US District Judge in Birmingham had quit in the middle of his term with the judge, and I might wish to contact that judge about being his law clerk. 

    I wrote the judge a letter. He replied, inviting me to come see him. I drove from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham and we met in his chambers and mostly we talked about ourselves and hunting and fishing. He offered me the job. I memorialized him in the first chapter of A Few Remarkable Alabama People I Have Known, “He used to drink moonshine.”

    Judge W. Clarence W. Allgood also cussed and did not attend church, and was the most Godly man I ever knew. His graveside service at  Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham was attended my more people than I ever saw at a graveside service.

    A Few Remarkable People I Have Known is a free read at the internet library, archive.org, which is run by American colleges. Here’s a link to the free read.

    https://archive.org/details/a-few-remarkable-alabama-people-i-have-known_202210

    It also can be read at this link: 

https://afewremarkablealabamapeople.blogspot.com/

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Bye bye Miss American Pie, hello Lucifer and 666’s US Supreme Court

    I woke up about 1:30 a.m. today, convinced the 6 Republicans on the US Supreme Court have destroyed America. 

    Even if Donald Trump drops dead of a medical event today, America is screwed because he turned the US Supreme Court into a right wing Christian religious sect that will be around a lot longer than Trump and Joe Biden.

    Thanks to Trump, if Biden somehow wins the election in November, there will be civil war, so the best worst scenario is for Trump to drop dead of a medical event before the November election. That will look like an Act of God to sensible people, although Trump’s base will twist it to look like murder, so they can make him a martyr. 

    Let me back up and start over.

    The 6 Republican religious right Christians on the US Supreme Court ruled each state can decide its own abortion policy, which ignored herbal abortion was common in Colonial America, evidenced by Benjamin Franklin discussed and promoted herbal abortion in his book, The American Instructor. 

    The 6 Republican religious religious right Christians on the US Supreme Court ignored the beginning of Colonial America’s Declaration of Independence, which acknowledges unalienable rights provided by Nature and Nature’s God:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America  

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

   The 6 Republican religious right Christians on the US Supreme Court ignored Amendment 14's requirement that each American citizen, regardless of gender or ethics origin, shall have life, liberty and equal protection of the laws, and they ignored abortion is a religious issue, and Amendment 1 says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Amendment 14 applies the Constitution and amendments thereto to the states.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    To those who might argue abortion is not a religious issue, I challenge them to do what I did and recall that the only antiabortionists I have known were conservative Christians. In the law is the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself. 

    The 6 Republican religious right Christians on the US Supreme Court ruled a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for his "official acts", even if they violate the US Constitution he swore this oath to uphold:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

From Reuters, July 1, 2024:

The US. Supreme Court analyzed four categories of conduct contained in the indictment. They are: his discussions with U.S. Justice Department officials following the election; his alleged pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to block congressional certification of Biden's win; his alleged role in assembling fake pro-Trump electors to be used in the certification process; and his conduct related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

The outcome gave Trump much of what he sought but stopped short of allowing absolute immunity for all official acts, as his lawyers had advocated. Instead the court specified that actions within the president's "exclusive sphere of constitutional authority" enjoy such a shield, while those taken outside his exclusive powers are only "presumptively immune."

The court found Trump was absolutely immune for conversations with Justice Department officials. Trump is also "presumptively immune" regarding his interactions with Pence, it decided, but returned that and the two other categories to lower courts to determine whether Trump has immunity.    

    Accordingly, this old lawyer, who clerked for a US District Judge that presided over every federal criminal prosecution in north Alabama, sees no point in him writing further about American politics, other than he will say what is happening in America's political/religious right is very similar to what happened in Germany leading up to World War II. 

    Few people know Adolph Hitler and his inner circle were infiltrated by a demonic entity, which enhanced and enabled them to be more powerful and persuasive, which led to the German masses, in the main, also being infiltrated by that demonic entity.

    Although I was trained by angels known in the Bible to recognize that phenomenon, a chilling book was written about how that went down in Germany: The Spear of Destiny, by Trevor Ravenscroft.  People actually walking with God will appreciate that book.

    People actually walking with God see the same thing progressing in Donald Trump and his political/religious base.

    People walking with Lucifer and 666 do not see what God wants them to see.

    People walking with God see something similar happening in Joe Biden and his political/religious base, but it is not as far along as it is in Donald Trump and his base.

    For example, all 9 US Supreme Court Justices ruled Amendment 14, Section 3 cannot be used to disqualify Donald Trump, or any subsequent US president, from being on the ballot.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

     Presidential Oath of Office:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. 

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