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The quote of Trump you posted was obviously from before the Heritage Foundation wrote up Project 2025, so how is it proof that he read it, or knows what it says?
I'm totally sure that Trump himself has not actually read the nearly thousand-page Project 2025.
You're correct that it doesn't mean what you said, but that leaves out any specifics as to what parts of it he agrees with and will implement. But all I've heard from Harris and her followers is "Trump's Project 2025" and that it's supposedly so terrible, even though citations are lacking to support the claims.
Oh I don't think it's coincidence at all. I think he knew they were working on something and becauae they are a conservative group he would like most of it. But, it's pretty naive to think he had read it all and agreed with evverything that was in it. That just goes against human nature. We don't all.agree with what's in the Constitution for Pete's sake.
We probably do. I agree with God's morality who had a 10% tithe on everyone, rich or poor. I think it's fair that the poor pay their fair share as well as the rich. The question always is, what's their fair share. That's the debate and just becauae we don't agree doesn't make you or I more moral than the other.
None of it needs to be implemented. Every part of it is a step toward creating an "Imperial Presidency" with no checks and balances.
The OT's "transfer of resources" from the wealthy to the poor was greater than just the tithe. As well, it also severely limited the ability of the wealthy to accumulate wealth at the expense of the poor for more than a generation. There could be no interest on a loan made to a fellow Israelite, and even that loan was cancelled in seven years or on the semi-centennial year of Jubilee. Any property gained by the wealthy had to be returned to its original family every Jubilee year. Preventing long-term debt and preventing permanent acquisition of land was intended to put limits on overall disparity of wealth...but clearly by the time of Jesus they had long since stopped obeying the Law.
No, no, no I was reading your comments until you came out with this. You're using a God Told Me This approach to make your case. which is an I'm right and your wrong without question for after all how can anyone argue against God. If you're going to make your case then make your case but don't stack your arguments with a sense that you're infallible. All it does it lead to others saying God told me why no one should vote for the Dems.
How could it possibly be a step toward anything if it wasn't even implemented?
What, do you think a operational plan is "implemented" instantaneously by waving a magic wand? "Presto!" and it's all done?
First off, you truly did earn my sincere respect for having the love and courage to say this. I love it. But I'm just saying what happened to me. Of course, no one can argue against love others as you would want to be loved; It's the foundation of all moral/immoral reasoning. But if you think I'm claiming God is on my side, you've got me all wrong.
I'm sure he hasn't. And he is probably in agreement with a lot of it. But no one really knows what he is in agreement with and what he isn't. I mean that large of a document is bound to have some things in it that most conservative would agree with and things that a lot of us wouldn't. Trump isn't a hard core conservative.
I honestly like a lot of this stuff. But my point was rhe morality of taxes to say that it's immoral to tax the poor. It's obviously not since God had rhe poor tithe as well as the rich and it was the same percentage. So it's not immoral. Thats all my point was. It wasn't to get I to the weeds of the OT law. Which I can do since my degree is in all of that stuff.
If you look at the specific instructions for the tithe, you see first that the tithe was from the "increase" of the land. A poor man had no land... the poor did not tithe the grain they gleaned from the rich man's fields. When animals were to be tithed, the tithe was explicitly every tenth animal...not the first animal. So, a man with fewer than ten animals would not tithe any of them. Essentially, the truly poor did not give tithes, they received tithes.
It started when she went out to shake his hand while he seemingly resisted and had to treat him like a child right in the opening moments of the debate. That set the tone of who was gonna be in charge that evening.
Do you want to get into the weeds on this because I can. Tithing was based upon what you had. It was a yearly tithe. Of course if you had nothing you had nothing to tithe on. But if you had something you tithed in what you had. Sure if you only had 6 sheep you wouldn't have paid a 10th on it. But you weren't wealthy if you had 10 sheep. Of course if you had zero income (crops, harvest or what have you) you wouldn't pay tithe. But you could be poor and pay a tithe of what you had.
Biden and Trump didn't meet each other and shake hands when they went onstage, so why would Trump expect that the protocol would be any different this time?
It’s called decorum. I know that’s a foreign concept on the right these days but it used to be a thing. Either way, she looked in control from the start. He did not.
