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Hillary 2020? Trump better hope not.
The Washington Post ^ | October 24, 2017 | Michael Brenes

Posted on 10/24/2017 2:51:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Oct. 16, 11 months after defeating her, President Trump tweeted another of his regular insults about his 2016 opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Sandwiched between boasts about his presumed role in the stock market’s rise and his rally in South Carolina, Trump wrote: “I was recently asked if Crooked Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2020? My answer was, ‘I hope so!’”

Putting aside the reckless braggadocio — and blatant sexism — inherent in such a statement, the entire scenario seemed absurd. Most pundits (and most of the American public) discount the idea of Clinton running in 2020, doubtful she could win the Democratic nomination, let alone the election, after her stunning loss to Trump. Clinton herself has stated that her political career is over, that she is more interested in speaking out against Trump as a private citizen.

Nevertheless, Trump should be careful what he wishes for. Clinton might not be a potential candidate now, but the political winds can change quickly. Recent American history is rife with presidential contenders who lost the primary or general election and then went on to become a candidate in subsequent elections. Dissatisfied with the politics of the day, lured by name recognition and preexisting loyalties, the public gave each of these candidates multiple chances at the presidency and handed several the keys to the White House....

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Comedy gold.
1 posted on 10/24/2017 2:51:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Putting aside the reckless braggadocio — and blatant sexism — inherent in such a statement,

Liberals - finding racism and sexism where there is none. And then they wonder why people just ignore that blather any more.

2 posted on 10/24/2017 2:53:07 PM PDT by dirtboy
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Please run!


3 posted on 10/24/2017 2:53:55 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Washington Post is one F-ed up newspaper. Bezos might want to turn it into a warehouse.


4 posted on 10/24/2017 2:54:06 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She could be the female Adlai Stevenson.


5 posted on 10/24/2017 2:54:14 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hilarious.


6 posted on 10/24/2017 2:54:20 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once you’ve been midget tossed into a van, it’s pretty much over.


7 posted on 10/24/2017 2:54:50 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She got stumbled.

Sorry, that's a sexist statement. I'm off to re-education camp.

8 posted on 10/24/2017 2:55:01 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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9 posted on 10/24/2017 2:55:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Naaaa....she’ll be lucky to still be alive by then.
I’m hoping that the Rat side of the UniParty is gonna run the MadMaxiPad with that dumb-azz, stupid-looking Lewis as her running mate. They are the two faces that best represent the insane libs and RATs.


10 posted on 10/24/2017 2:55:16 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Yeah go ahead LOL. These 2020 Dummycrat frontrunners are hilarious.


11 posted on 10/24/2017 2:56:33 PM PDT by beergarden
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Hillary needs to just save whatever little respect she has left and go away quietly.


12 posted on 10/24/2017 2:56:51 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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LOL! If WaPo is paying this jerk Brenes anything over minimum wage they’re getting taken to the cleaners, not that I give a whit.


13 posted on 10/24/2017 2:56:59 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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[PRESIDENT TRUMP isn’t going anywhere.]

Jonathan Cahn Unlocks Ancient Secrets to Modern Times

THE MASTER BLUEPRINT
Jonathan says a paradigm is a pattern or a template. He says there are paradigms which have appeared in Scripture, including the plans God gave Moses to build the Ark of the Covenant and the Tent of God’s Presence. Paradigms also appear in biblical chronicles of Israel’s history and are warnings and examples for generations. “Not only were ancient events recorded for the sake of future generations, but they actually happened for the sake of future generations,” says Jonathan. He believes the paradigm is that master blueprint behind everything that is happening now. “This metamorphosis taking place in our day is following the course of ancient transformation – that of ancient Israel,” he says. Israel is the paradigm nation that stands as the pattern for good or bad to the rest of the world. “Israel had been founded for the will and purposes of God,” he says. “But in time the nation began falling away from God.” America was also dedicated from its inception to the will and purposes of God, established after the pattern of ancient Israel. But in the mid-20th century, a critical metamorphosis began – a departure from God of its foundation. “The transformation was subtle at first but in time would become increasingly blatant and brazen.” The master blueprint gives not only the events but it gives exact times, years, dates, and even the hour. “It foreshadows the people who are leading today,” says Jonathan.

As it happened in ancient Israel, it is happening in the modern world – America and much of the West is turning away from God to embrace idolatry. The idols are not gods; rather they take on modern forms, like the idols of money, success, pleasure, prosperity, addictions, self-obsession and self-worship. The idea of “a nation under God” has eroded and culture has redefined what is true and real and right and wrong. In the early 1960s, America began driving God out of public schools, out of government and out of its culture. Bibles were removed from schools and the Ten Commandments ripped down from public view. American and Western culture has grown increasing harsh, crude, vulgar and profane. “It is no accident that the departure from God has witnessed a parallel erosion of marriage and the growing divorce of marriage from sexuality,” says Jonathan. Sex outside of marriage was virtually unthinkable and now has become the norm. Sexual immorality has proliferated and further weakened the bond of marriage. As in the days of Israel’s fall from God, when erotic images were everywhere, this is also happening today. “This is evident in the mainstreaming of pornography and in the pornification of mainstream culture,” he says. The next stage, as the apostasy deepens, is the divorcing of sexuality from gender. Jonathan says, “In the modern replaying, it has manifested in the mainstreaming and celebration of homosexuality.” As America dramatically began turning away from God and its biblical foundations, it also embraced the killing of babies. As in the ancient case, Jonathan says the practice of killing unborn children took place at first in secret and against the law. The priests of Baal were the ones who oversaw and participated in the sacrifice of children. “Their modern-day equivalents would be those who oversee the killing of unborn children in abortions,” says Jonathan.

THE KING AND QUEEN
In ancient Israel, King Ahab was a man divided and epitomized the nation’s fall. Jonathan reminds us that Ahab was the catalyst to accelerate the rise of a new pagan morality. Jonathan compares Ahab to modern day President Clinton. For most of the 20th century, Clinton’s career was linked to the culture war from the beginning of his campaign. “Clinton stood on the side of change and specifically for the overturning of tradition and biblical morality,” says Jonathan. He says Clinton was also a divided man: a talented politician but also a man of moral weakness and will. Both Ahab and Clinton were catalysts for national apostasy. “Both would operate as agents of societal change,” says Jonathan.

“Each would lead his nation away from biblical morality.” In each case, neither man acted alone. Jonathan says Ahab married Jezebel, a Canaanite woman born of the high priest of the Canaanite goddess Astarte. She attempted to change Israel into the image of her native land of Phoenicia. The Phoenicians worshipped a multitude of gods. Israel worshipped one God. The paradigm of Jezebel is Hillary Clinton. “If Bill Clinton is the Ahab of the modern apostasy, then Hillary must be the Jezebel of the same template,” says Jonathan.

During Ahab’s reign, the Assyrian king was Ben-Hadad who proved to be Ahab’s nemesis and ever-looming threat to Israel’s security. He plotted attacks, invasions and incursions in the land. At one point, God delivered Ben-Hadad into Ahab’s hands. Instead of putting him to death, Ahab released Ben-Hadad. “He let the man who posed the most present danger to Israel’s safety go free,” says Jonathan. Much like Ben-Hadad was the nemesis to Ahab, Osama Bin Laden was Clinton’s nemesis During Clinton’s administration, Bin Laden’s hatred for America intensified. The master blueprint says Ahab’s nemesis would come from a land east of Israel, from a Semitic people (and related to the Jewish people) and would declare war against the king’s land. Same for Bin Laden. He also came from the east and waged his war against the nation of his hatred. He was also Arab (Arabs are Semitic people). He also issued threats and plots against America. The master blueprint also says the name of the nemesis would be formed out of joining two Middle Eastern Words. In Hebrew, the word will consist of the letter bet (b) followed by the letter nun (n). Together they form the name Bn. “It’s hard to think of any person in the modern age known throughout the world by a name that shares those same properties with Israel’s ancient nemesis Ben-Hadad – other than Osama Bin Laden,” says Jonathan. Other elements of the template also came into play as Ben-Hadad not only attacked Israel but invaded the land and lay siege to Samaria, which was the nation’s capital and chief city. Same with Osama Bin Laden who threated American interests and attacked New York City and Washington, DC.

Ahab and Jezebel had a son named Joram. Jonathan says Obama took up where Clinton left off. He says “Obama was their heir.” As Joram continued his parents’ policies, so did Obama as he continued to oppose biblical standards and underlying moral values of Western civilization. “Not only would America become a less Christian nation,” says Jonathan. “It would become an increasingly anti-Christian nation.”

When Joram was king, a new one was being anointed. Jehu, son of Jehosophat, was anointed by Elisha to be the king of Israel. He had no royal lineage that gave him right to the throne. He was an outsider; a most unlikely ruler. Jonathan says Donald Trump was the most unlikely of figures in the history of American presidency. He was a man of controversy. In a dramatic turn of events, Jehu began his rise in power. He was a warrior and a man who had not lived his life for God. So too in the case of Trump, who lived a life that did not exemplify that of a godly man. In the master blueprint, Jehu had to come head-to-head with the former queen Jezebel. The template speaks of Trump and Hillary Clinton confronting each other. Jonathan says Trump’s victory could not have been without the votes of a particular portion of the American population: religious conservatives who were torn over Trump. His actions proved troubling and they wondered if he could be used for God’s purposes. Like Jehu who sought the support of the conservative people of his day. “See my zeal for the Lord,” Jehu told Jehonadab, the leader of the conservative Rechabites. One month before his nomination, Trump stood before a thousand Christian leaders at what would prove to be a pivotal meeting in New York City. In the ancient meeting of Jehu and Jehonadab, Jehu assured the holy man that he was on his side. Trump’s meeting with evangelical leaders made headline news: Trump Swears to Christian Leaders, “I’m So On Your Side.”

Jonathan says the paradigm has implications: God is real; He is over all things; He works all things for his ultimate purposes; He is involved in the events of the modern world; we are living in biblical times. “All things pass away,” says Jonathan. “So who was it who put it all together? There is only One.”

https://www1.cbn.com/jonathan-cahn-unlocks-ancient-secrets-modern-times


14 posted on 10/24/2017 2:57:18 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12")
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"She could be the female Adlai Stevenson."

or William Jennings Bryan.

15 posted on 10/24/2017 2:58:42 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Eddie01
If she runs, the democrats will descend upon her with long knives. Even they are sick of her sh!t.
16 posted on 10/24/2017 2:58:56 PM PDT by fhayek
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Recent American history is rife with presidential contenders who lost the primary or general election and then went on to become a candidate in subsequent elections.

Forget Clinton. Give us Michael Dukakis !

17 posted on 10/24/2017 2:59:15 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Michael Brenes CV -- as you would expect.
18 posted on 10/24/2017 2:59:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Compost is syndicating articles from The Onion now I see.


19 posted on 10/24/2017 2:59:38 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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“Hillary 2020? Trump better hope not.”

yeah, because Hillary’s three-decade history of scandals, theft and lies will suddenly all get better ...


20 posted on 10/24/2017 3:00:23 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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