Trump Calls for Unity After Historic Iowa Victory
Breitbart,
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Bradley Jaye
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Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/16/2024 1:08:25 AM
Donald Trump earned a historic victory in the Iowa Caucuses Monday night, trouncing his competition so severely that the Associated Press called the race only 31 minutes after the caucus officially began.
“I really think this is time now for everybody — our country — to come together,” Trump said in a gracious victory speech. “We want to come together.
“Whether it’s Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, it would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we’re witnessing.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine 1/16/2024 1:33:59 AM (No. 1637236)
Good guy. Gracious in victory. If only the left would listen to his words. We know they won't.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/16/2024 2:23:31 AM (No. 1637242)
our President is talking conciliation and togetherness but the long knives are out even greater than they were before
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 1/16/2024 2:52:20 AM (No. 1637247)
Yes, we need to come together as a nation. BUT, that unity must be based on the same divine guidance & wisdom that made America great in the first place.
Biblical Roots for American Government
Robert C. Veil, JD
It is a fact that many U.S. Americans do not understand the nature and beauty of our three-branch system of government. Even more to be lamented is the fact that most do not realize that the inspiration for such a brilliant system is found in the Bible itself.
The federal government of the United States of America consists of three distinct branches: the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial. These are created and described in that order by the first three Articles of the U.S. Constitution: (1) “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” (2) “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” (3) “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”1 Thus, the vital powers of government are identified and described in the first sentence of each of the first three Articles of our founding document. What could be more simple and yet profound in the establishment of a nation?
Now, here’s a question: How did our founding fathers understand that there are three vital powers of government? Why not two? Or, as with many nations, why not only one? Could it be that they were familiar with principles enunciated in the Bible centuries ago?
In Isaiah 33:22, the Bible states, “For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us.” This text, written 700 years before Christ, envisions and clearly identifies the three essential functions of a fully operational government, namely the judicial, the legislative, and the executive. As our Constitution would later reiterate, God set forth the need for lawmaking, law enforcement or execution, and law interpreting. Isaiah wrote these lines by inspiration of the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21).2
So what we have in Isaiah’s 8th-century B.C. prophecy is divine guidance that was, whether intentionally or not, followed by the founding fathers of the United States 2,500 years later. They implemented in the founding documents of our nation profound yet simple principles laid out by God in the Bible ages before.
We are not surprised that our founding fathers would have taken note of this, for they were, by and large, extremely Bible literate. They knew and appreciated the great value of the Bible, and this is reflected over and over in their work. It is reflected in the common law which they inherited and in the vast array of both criminal and civil laws which they furthered and made possible.3 Many of these we take for granted today, not even realizing their divine source.
Every properly functioning government must provide for the three types of power discussed above, but it was a biblical deduction on the part of our founding fathers that these three powers could work together and keep each other in “checks and balances.” The remarkable unity of these three branches no doubt largely accounts for the longevity and great success of the American experiment.
When God the Father (the divine lawgiver) sent his Son to execute his will, Jesus Christ was acting as the divine executive. And the Holy Spirit, who provides order and clarity always, supplied the necessary judicial power for such an intelligent system to function smoothly. Working together in harmony and unity of purpose, the three persons of the Godhead remind us of the three functions of all legitimate and effective governmental systems.
Nations that follow God’s way tend to advance and succeed. And nations which depart from God’s way tend to fail, sometimes after much misery. U.S. citizens should be thankful that we live in a nation founded upon godly principles. May we ever appreciate and strive to prolong such freedoms and blessings, which are ours only by the grace of God. And may we always give glory and honor to Him whose wisdom inspires every good and successful work.
(https://apologeticspress.org/biblical-roots-for-american-government/)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/16/2024 6:28:50 AM (No. 1637277)
We need unity but before that can come, we need democrats to be held responsible for their corruption. We cannot move forward until the people can trust our government to be just. What the democrats did to President Trump cannot be smoothed over. It will require a reckoning. Our problems stem from the complete lawlessness of democrats and that has to have consequences.
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chance_232 1/16/2024 6:46:06 AM (No. 1637280)
Unity is a two way street. One election win and a nice speech isn't going to magically wipe away a year of viciousness. And I expect that the DeSantis etc supporters will be every bit as forgiving as the Trump supporters.
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chumley 1/16/2024 7:05:12 AM (No. 1637288)
We all know Trump from previous years. He is not a "gracious in victory" kind of guy. He is an "abuse the corpse" kind of guy. He must be listening to his consultants.
I'm glad he won and hope the trend continues. I'd love to see him get a 50 state landslide in the general. At the same time, be careful of consultant driven behavior. Its phoney no matter which party does it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/16/2024 7:53:49 AM (No. 1637304)
Unity is desirable, even necessary. But at this moment it is only the second priority of the nation. The most urgent need is to address the causes of what brought us to this state. Cleansing the poison that still has an illegal strangle hold on our government and our future must be addressed. THAT, iIMO is what Iowans (and people in many other states) are saying by this 'lop sided' victory.
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wayneright 1/16/2024 8:25:36 AM (No. 1637326)
I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.
(Act 1, Scene 2, lines 173–195)
Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespear
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/16/2024 8:34:13 AM (No. 1637333)
I don't know where you got that impression, #6, but Donald Trump did not make his fame and fortune by listening to other people except those like Fauci who were thrust upon him as "experts" and "scientists" and if anybody needs to be on the receiving end of punishment and vengeance, it's the Biden Cabal and the leftist leadership that has allowed our cities to fall into rot and for everything they have done to US. We have lost financial gains, safety in the streets and respect at the international level. We have become the target of fentanyl poisoning, murder and human trafficking. Somebody needs to pay for that.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/16/2024 11:03:42 AM (No. 1637453)
My cable cut out on me last night...so I didn't get to hoop and holler until this morning....so Whahoo!!...What a guy!!
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"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/16/2024 7:12:43 PM (No. 1637857)
We can talk about unity when half the uniparty is out of power and in jail. You haven't won yet, Mr. Trump.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/16/2024 9:29:29 PM (No. 1637908)
Wow…some real wet blanket posts on this thread. Good for you, Mr. President.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Harlowe 1/16/2024 11:47:40 PM (No. 1637937)
#3~ Thank you for posting a “refresher” for American patriots that needs to be restored to the curriculum of this country’s educational institutions. As an aside, to underscore the content of the excellent composition, is what is written in Romans 13:1-4 (Submission to Authorities): “13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD, AND THOSE THAT EXIST HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED BY GOD. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. ...”
Scripture also teaches that if man’s commands conflict with God’s commands, a believer must obey God. When Peter and the other disciples were commanded by the religious leaders to no longer preach or teach in Jesus’ name, Peter could not comply with this command because it was contrary to the Lord's command. Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29)
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