KATHERINE S. writes:

I fear that we have been duped. Trump is looking more and more like a Zionist neo-con. His selection of Pence, Flynn, “Mad Dog” Mattis (and now Bolton?) signals American Exceptionalism and “Israel First” on steroids.

I wish that I had not voted for Trump. My original inclination was not to vote at all, in keeping with the conclusion that I reached in 1992, that the voting process in the USA is like gambling in a casino, where the house (i.e., TPTB/Deep State) always wins.

But Hillary was SO bad. It seemed reasonable to say, as you did: I dislike Trump, but I dislike nuclear war even more. However, seeing Trump’s chosen lieutenants, I fear that we will get that nuclear war with Russia, after all, via Iran, and for the sake of Greater Israel.

If Putin caves in, and Russia becomes a vassal of the US, we might be spared a nuclear war, but we can look forward to living, and dying, like the Palestinians, in ZOGUSA.

As for the CIA’s claim that Russia intervened in the elections to get Trump elected . . . Good grief! Doesn’t this help distract people (both pro-Trump and pro-Hillary) from the fact that Israel owns the Congress? (See the 12/12/16 TomatoBubble post for more proof!) To what degree does Israel own Trump? He has certainly pandered to Israel throughout his campaign.

Truly, I am feeling that it is hopeless. I feel like Mongol in “Blazing Saddles” — “I’m just a pawn.” One can read and read and read, but in the final analysis, what can one do to change anything? Besides pray, of course. I am a 70-year-old widow on Social Security — is it worth worrying about all this any more?

As for slaying the dragon, rather than serving it, it seems to me that we can operate only in our personal life. Right? Any suggestions?

I am considering a total media fast during the rest of Advent. It’s all just too depressing.

As always, however, God bless you for your excellent website. My best wishes to you and your family for a blessed Christmas.

Laura writes:

Thank you for your good wishes.

I hope to respond to some of your points soon.

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Tim writes:

I too share Katherine’s concerns that Mr. Trump appears to be selling out the voters who put him into office.

However, Paul Craig Roberts has a bigger-picture view of these appointments. So let’s wait and see, and should we have been indeed sold out, then we hold Mr. Trump’s feet to the fire.

Katherine writes:

Hold Mr. Trump’s feet to the fire? How?

The only bunch of people with enough clout to hold any politician’s feet to the fire is AIPAC.

Laura writes:

Trump has said that he wants to end foreign interventions. He would be a traitor to his base if he reneged on that promise. We’ve got to hope for the best and be prepared for the worst.

I can understand your being discouraged. You’ve taught yourself a lot of things about the world as it is today, and there need to be more people like you.

I think it’s remarkable that there are people like you out there, willing to grapple with these difficult issues and not fall into all the propaganda traps. Your just being there is a cause for hope. It really is. All of this is part of God’s plan. We need each other so let’s remain together in hope and prayer. In the meantime, the effort to delegitimize Trump’s presidency with unsubstantiated claims of foreign intervention proceeds and it is scary, it is so lacking in evidence and so manipulative.

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