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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:47:38 -0300
Subject: Nothing but the truth??? YEA RIGHT My fellow Gampy Bob
McKinney should tell me aother one I need lots of good laughs these days
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Nee I say I am laughing as Jamie Dimon and his old buddy Stevey Boy
Cutler try hard to ignore this email
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Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Jamie Dimon says Stocks could fall ‘another easy 20% while his old buddy Stevey Boy Cutler still plays dumb
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CNBC Now
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BREAKING: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon tells CNBC that the U.S. is
likely going to tip into a recession in the next 6 to 9 months
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LMAO @FBI AND EVERYBODY ELSE KNOWS WHY DIMON GOT RID OF HIS CO CHAIR
AFTER HE FIGURED OUT WHY THE RECORD OF THIS HEARING WENT "POOF" NOT
LONG AFTER HE HIRED CUTLER TO BE HIS GENERAL COUNSEL CORRECT?
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2:26 AM · Oct 11, 2022
Twitter, Instagram lock out Kanye West over antisemitic posts
Companies say the entertainer posted messages violating their policies
Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts have been locked because of posts by the rapper, now known legally as Ye, that were widely deemed antisemitic.
Spokespersons for Twitter and Instagram parent Meta said Sunday that Ye posted messages that violated their policies.
In a tweet sent late Saturday, Ye said he would soon go "death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE," according to internet archive records. That's an apparent reference to the U.S. military readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
Tweet pulled down
In the same tweet, which was removed by Twitter, he said: "You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda."
Earlier this month, Ye had been criticized for wearing a "White Lives Matter" T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week.
Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs posted a video on Instagram saying he didn't support the shirt, and urged people not to buy it.
On Instagram, Ye posted a screenshot of a text conversation with Diddy and suggested he was controlled by Jewish people, according to media reports.
Under their policies, the two social networks prohibit the posting of offensive language. Ye's Twitter account is still active but he can't post until the suspension ends, after an unspecified period.
Meta, which owns Facebook as well as Instagram, at times will place restrictions on accounts that it deems repeatedly break its rules. The sanctions may include temporary restrictions on posting, commenting or sending direct messages.
Back after almost 2 years
Ye had returned to Twitter on Saturday following a nearly two-year hiatus, reportedly after Instagram locked his account.
Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who last week renewed his $44 billion US offer to buy Twitter following a months-long legal battle with the company, greeted Ye's return to the platform before his suspension by tweeting, "Welcome back to Twitter, my friend."
Musk has said he would remake Twitter into a free speech haven and relax restrictions, although it's impossible to know precisely how he would run the influential network if he were to take over.
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https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-spiritual-lessons-of-a-christian?utm_medium=ios The Spiritual Lessons of a Christian Nationalist Military DefeatPower corrupts, Christendom clashes with Christianity, and brutality isn’t strength. On February 24, the world’s most powerful Christian nationalist went to war, at the helm of what many people considered to be one of the world’s most potent militaries. Russian President Vladimir Putin spent more than two decades—exercising more power than any American president could ever hope to possess—forging church, state, and culture into an (allegedly) mighty instrument of raw, anti-woke national power. And what have we seen? An incompetent army has raped, looted, and murdered its way across the Ukrainian countryside. Even its elite units lie in shattered ruins outside key Ukrainian cities, and a Ukrainian counterattack is breaking the Russian line. While the Russian elite cries for “holy war” in front of a listless crowd of state employees, the men who would be holy warriors run for the border, eager to escape conscription by any means possible. There are spiritual lessons here. When advanced nations collide in sustained combat, it’s not just armies that confront each other, but systems and civilizations. Hidden strengths emerge. Hidden weaknesses are exposed. And as we watch history unfold in eastern Ukraine—Russians retreating on the battlefield, Russians fleeing their own country en masse to avoid the fight, and a panicked Putin threatening a genocidal response—we are watching in real time a profound and meaningful example of the fatal weakness of Christian nationalism. It’s not a model of national renewal. It’s a blueprint for corruption, brutality, and oppression. To understand what I mean, it’s necessary to understand the modern Christian nationalist project. It has multiple salient characteristics. First, it begins with a case for extreme crisis, typically rooted in the argument that modern “wokeism” or the “globalist uniparty” has not only seized absolute control of every key cultural and economic institution, it also aims to wipe out the church and destroy traditional Christian civilization. Second, it declares that this existential threat can only be met and addressed with government force. The government—goes the argument—is the last institution still open to defenders of the faith, and it is to the government they must turn to, for example, “reward friends and punish enemies.” Third, government power should explicitly tie itself to a specific allegedly Christian moral vision. The hard version of this is Catholic integralism, which would create strong bonds between the Catholic church and the state. The soft version is slightly more ecumenical and embodied in the national conservatism “statement of principles” signed by all the leading lights of new right nationalism: “Where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted in Christianity and its moral vision, which should be honored by the state and other institutions both public and private.” Fourth, character isn’t just optional in the pursuit of power, character can be an impediment to necessary political victory. This last sentiment doesn’t just reflect elite nationalist sentiment, it also reflects popular Evangelical will. As our own Nick Catoggio pointed out last week, Evangelicals have gone from the American demographic allegedly most concerned about the importance of character in politicians to the least concerned. When you understand these elements, it becomes much easier to understand pre-war right-wing fascination with Putin’s regime and even the post-war rationalization of his brutal invasion. Putin has spent years tying himself to the Russian Orthodox Church and portraying himself as a defender of Christian civilization. All the way back in 2014, former National Security Agency analyst John Schindler was sounding the alarm about Putin’s “Orthodox jihad.” Putin forged an ideological “fusion” between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the FSB. The ROC even dedicated a church at the FSB’s Moscow headquarters. Here was Christian nationalism in the most formal sense, and the church went right along. Here’s Schindler:
Russia has even gone so far as to adopt a term called “spiritual security” which “gives the ROC a mission in defending Russia from negative Western spiritual influences, in partnership with Moscow’s intelligence agencies.” This rhetoric was constant from the Russian church and the Russian president, and American nationalists took notice. In 2021 my friend Rod Dreher praised a Putin speech that attacked western “cancel culture” and gender ideologies with these words:
In the run-up to the Ukraine war, Tucker Carlson condemned “hatred” of Vladimir Putin and famously asked, “Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?” In a podcast just prior to Russia’s invasion, Steve Bannon declared “Putin ain’t woke. He’s anti-woke.” His guest, Blackwater founder Erik Prince, said, “The Russian people still know which bathroom to use.” Even well after the war, the rationalizations continued. In a viral video (now viewed almost 2.5 million times) Jordan Peterson excused Russia’s invasion like this:
Moreover, parts of the right didn’t only like Putin’s attacks on the woke west, they also loved his masculine propaganda, especially in contrast with the “feminized” United States. We can’t forget how popular right-wing personalities (and even a U.S. senator) fell for outright Russian military propaganda. We can’t forget this bit of snark, posted the day of the Russian invasion:  Russian military recruitment vs military recruitment in the US
There’s a reason Putin doesn’t fear us How has the Ukrainian government defied expectations? And how could Russian Christian nationalism fail so badly? How could two decades of state power and indoctrination create a debauched army, a listless population, and a series of catastrophic, bloody military defeats? And if the west is so decadent, how did a liberalizing, westernizing Ukrainian military produce a series of military victories that have astounded perhaps even themselves? Why did Christian nationalists get Russian power so wrong? Historians will soon be debating and exploring these questions at book-length, but let me open with three simple explanations of Russian weakness and depravity. Power corrupts, christendom dilutes Christianity, and brutality isn’t strength. Power corrupts. If you speak to any close observer of the war, they’ll note immediately that the Russian military, Russian government, and much of Russian society is thoroughly corrupt. They’re corrupt to the extent that the Russian military that existed on paper was almost completely fictional. In reality, units were undermanned, underequipped, and improperly serviced. It’s a simple law of human nature that the more unaccountable power one accumulates, the more prone one is to corruption. That law applies to religious power (or Christian nationalist power) just as much as any other form of power. This is especially true when the alleged “emergency” of the moment not only makes character optional, but also scorns a commitment to character as evidence of “weakness” or “softness” in the face of the enemy. Yet combine power with vice, and you only compound the corruption that hollows out institutions. Corrupt leadership does not create healthy nations. Christendom dilutes Christianity. When Christian nationalists speak of the use of state power to advance and fortify Christian values and support the Christian church, they are truly talking about sustaining and protecting Christendom, not Christianity. Think of the distinction like this: Christianity is the faith, Christians are the believers in the faith, and Christendom is the collective culture and institutions of the faith. The danger of a focus on Christendom rather than the radical personal renewal and redemption that is the heart of Christianity is exactly what Søren Kierkegaard identified in his Attack on Christendom. In a series of essays, Kierkegaard aimed directly at the malignant impact of the Danish state church on authentic Christianity, and his complaint applies across other churches in other nations. I’ve written about this before:
And what is Putin’s Russia but an unchristian instrument of violent Christendom? Its citizens overwhelmingly identify as Russian Orthodox, but they don’t go to church, and the percentage of citizens who identify as “highly religious” (only 17 percent) makes Russia only half as religious as America’s least religious state. In fact, Christendom doesn’t just dilute Christianity, it can clash with it. Some of Christianity’s most famous martyrs were executed under the authority of corrupt Christendom. Even today, courageous and faithful Ukrainian Christians are on the front lines confronting Russian Christendom, and faithful American Christians are pouring humanitarian aid into Ukraine. Christendom is not Christianity, and we should stop pretending it is. Brutality isn’t strength. Nor is it masculinity. I should be surprised by right-wing gullibility in the face of “masculine” Russian propaganda, but I’m not. We’ve spent the last seven years watching the MAGA movement absurdly recast Donald Trump as a defender of American masculinity and Trumpism as an inherently masculine political movement. Bullies look strong. They strut and peacock. Russians bomb civilians. They rape women. They loot empty homes. They’re ruthless. They make commercials casting themselves as fearless, fearsome warriors. And now they’re fleeing by the thousands, thrown into headlong retreat by a far smaller nation, fighting with a fraction of the resources, in one of the most shocking military setbacks in modern times. Brutality is meeting courage, and courage prevails. Russia is not America. We have too many checks and balances for any person to assume Putin-like control over the United States. But those who see the left as an existential threat, who seek ever-greater Christian power to punish their enemies, and who believe character is optional (or an outright luxury) in leaders should look across the Atlantic. Fields of burning tanks, throngs of fleeing civilians, and shouts of “holy war” to listless crowds should remind us all that the health of the church is not rooted in the authority of the state. The failures of Putin’s brutal Christian nationalism serve as a terrible reminder that the cannonade contradicts the spirit of the cross, and that only sacrificial love can truly redeem a land that is lost. A preview of coming attractions … I’m going to be writing very soon about an absolutely fascinating survey of the beliefs and values of American college students. I would have written about it this week, but the news from Ukraine was simply too pressing. There is one statistic that stood out, and it’s this:
I’ve got a homework assignment for you. In the comments, tell me why you think this is true. I’m not familiar with parochial school culture, so I don’t have many useful thoughts. But I’ve been immersed in or adjacent to Evangelical homeschool culture my entire adult life, and I have thoughts. Before I share mine, however, I want to hear yours. One more thing … This week’s Good Faith podcast was one of my absolute favorites. We talked to James Choi, a professor of finance at Yale University, and it was just chock-full of practical financial and spiritual wisdom. The conversation starts with a survey of Christian self-help commentary about personal finance, and it ends with a discussion of Professor Choi’s decision, early in his adult life, to be very public about his faith even as he pursued a career in the elite academy. Give it a listen. You’ll be glad you did. One last thing … I live in the same neighborhood as one of my favorite artists, JJ Heller, and I run into JJ and her husband David all the time. They’re wonderful folks, and this new song is beautiful. It’s grounded in grace and begs us to see the humanity in our neighbors, even when we disagree. Enjoy:
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your own logic, Herschel Walker committed a murder for hire. If you
say, "people change" when he isn't even apologizing...what are you
broadcasting to the world? You're broadcasting, "I don't believe my own
rhetoric."
, for today's Dispatch Podcast: If you listen for it, you’ll hear someone say almost every day, “The government should be run like a business.”
The thing is, the government can’t be run like a business—or an engineering project—because it isn’t one.
-, in today’s G-File: Reporting
from Warsaw: Poland steps up its defense spending and military support
for Ukraine while Western European allies drag their feet
Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-SemitismUnlike many other bigotries, anti-Semitism is not merely a social prejudice; it is a conspiracy theory about how the world operates. By Yair Rosenberg  Ronny Hartmann / AFP / Getty Most people do not realize that Jews make up just 2 percent of the U.S. population and 0.2 percent of the world’s population. This means simply finding them takes a lot of effort. But every year in Western countries, including America, Jews are the No. 1 target of anti-religious hate crimes. Anti-Semites are many things, but they aren’t lazy. They’re animated by one of the most durable and deadly conspiracy theories in human history. This past Saturday in Texas, another one found his mark. According to the latest news reports, Malik Faisal Akram traversed an ocean to accomplish his task, flying from the United Kingdom to America in late December. On January 15, he took Colleyville’s Congregation Beth Israel hostage for more than 11 hours. When it was all over, Akram was dead and his captives were not. The hostages escaped after their rabbi engineered a distraction, drawing on security training he had received from the Anti-Defamation League and other communal organizations. Something else most people don’t realize is that many rabbis need and receive security training. Speaking about Jews as symbols is always uncomfortable, and that’s especially the case when bullet holes are still fresh in the sanctuary. But the sad fact is, that’s why the Texas congregants were attacked in the first place: because Jews play a sinister symbolic role in the imagination of so many that bears no resemblance to their lived existence. After Akram pulled a gun on the congregation, he demanded to speak to the rabbi of New York’s Central Synagogue, who he claimed could authorize the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman serving an attempted murder sentence in a Fort Worth facility near Beth Israel. Obviously, this is not how the prison system works. “This was somebody who literally thought that Jews control the world,” Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker told The Forward. “He thought he could come into a synagogue, and we could get on the phone with the ‘Chief Rabbi of America’ and he would get what he needed.” I happen to know Angela Buchdahl, the rabbi of that New York synagogue, and I think she would make an excellent chief rabbi of America. But no such position exists. Jews are a famously fractious lot who can rarely agree on anything, let alone their religious leadership. We do not spend our days huddled in smoke-filled rooms plotting world domination while Jared Kushner plays dreidel in the back with Noam Chomsky and George Soros sneaks the last latke. The notion that such a minuscule and unmanageable minority secretly controls the world is comical, which may be why so many responsible people still do not take the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory seriously, or even understand how it works. In the moments after the Texas crisis, the FBI made an official statement declaring that the assailant was “particularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” Of course, the gunman did not travel thousands of miles to terrorize some Mormons. He sought out a synagogue and took it hostage over his grievances, believing that Jews alone could resolve them. That’s targeting Jews, and there’s a word for that. The FBI later corrected its misstep, but the episode reflects the general ignorance about anti-Semitism even among people of goodwill. Unlike many other bigotries, anti-Semitism is not merely a social prejudice; it is a conspiracy theory about how the world operates. This addled outlook is what united the Texas gunman, a Muslim, with the 2018 shooter at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, a white supremacist who sought to stanch the flow of Muslims into America. It is a worldview shared by Louis Farrakhan, the Black hate preacher, and David Duke, the former KKK grand wizard. And it is a political orientation that has been expressed by the self-styled Christian conservative leader of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran’s Islamic theocracy. The fevered fantasy of Jewish domination is incredibly malleable, which makes it incredibly attractive. If Jews are responsible for every perceived problem, then people with entirely opposite ideals can adopt it. And thanks to centuries of material blaming the world’s ills on the world’s Jews, conspiracy theorists seeking a scapegoat for their sorrows inevitably discover that the invisible hand of their oppressor belongs to an invisible Jew. At the same time, because this expression of anti-Jewish prejudice is so different from other forms of bigotry, many people don’t recognize it. As in Texas, law-enforcement officials overlook it. Social-media companies ignore it. Anti-racism activists—who understand racism as prejudice wielded by the powerful—cannot grasp it, because anti-Semitism constructs its Jewish targets as the privileged and powerful. And political partisans, more concerned with pinning the problem on their opponents, spend their time parsing the identity of anti-Semitic individuals, rather than countering the ideas that animate them. In short, although many people say they are against anti-Semitism today, they don’t understand the nature of what they oppose. And that’s part of why anti-Semitism abides. This ignorant status quo has proved deadly for Jews, and that alone should be enough for our society to take it seriously. But it has disastrous consequences for non-Jews as well. This is because people who embrace conspiracy theories to explain their problems lose the ability to rationally solve them. As Bard College’s Walter Russell Mead has put it:
For an example, just look at what happened in Texas. An anti-Semitic gunman took a synagogue hostage in the false hope that its parishioners could somehow free a federal prisoner. That prisoner herself was sentenced to 86 years in jail after she tried to fire her Jewish lawyers at trial, demanded that Jews be excluded from the jury, and declared that her guilty verdict came “from Israel and not from America.” One hateful person after another was destroyed by their own delusions. And such debilitating delusions can reverberate outward. “Anti-Semitism has real impact beyond just hate crimes,” the civil-rights activist Eric Ward once told me. “It distorts our understanding of how the actual world works. It isolates us. It alienates us from our communities, from our neighbors, and from participating in governance. It kills, but it also kills our society.” Neither Mead nor Ward is Jewish. The former is a noted white historian and the son of a southern priest; the latter is a Black activist who fights white nationalism. Yet despite coming from different places, both have devoted much of their work to combatting anti-Jewish prejudice, and for the same reason: It threatens democracy itself. “Anti-Semitism isn’t just bigotry toward the Jewish community,” Ward explains. “It is actually utilizing bigotry toward the Jewish community in order to deconstruct democratic practices, and it does so by framing democracy as a conspiracy rather than a tool of empowerment or a functional tool of governance.” In other words, the more people buy into anti-Semitism and its understanding of the world, the more they lose faith in democracy. Numerous historical case studies attest to anti-Semitism undermining its adherents at a large scale, from the defeat of the Nazis, who spurned scientific advances simply because they were discovered by Jews, to European countries that hobbled themselves for centuries by expelling their Jewish populations. “The rise of anti-Semitism is a sign of widespread social and cultural failure,” Mead writes. “It is a leading indicator of a loss of faith in liberal values and of a diminished capacity to understand the modern world and to thrive in it.” Seen in this light, one attack on one synagogue is not just a hate-crime statistic. It is also a warning. The mindset of a madman in Texas might seem alien to us today. But if we do not find a way to confront the conspiratorial currents that threaten to overtake our society, we may find ourselves hostage to the very ideas that animated him. https://thebreakthrough.org/about About UsThe Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
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---------- Original message ---------- https://davidraymondamos3. Tuesday, 11 October 2022 Jamie Dimon says Stocks could fall ‘another easy 20% while his old buddy Stevey Boy Cutler still plays dumb https://twitter.com/ CNBC Now @CNBCnow BREAKING: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon tells CNBC that the U.S. is likely going to tip into a recession in the next 6 to 9 months https://cnb.cx/3rHs5zp https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/ David Raymond Amos @DavidRaymondAm1 Replying to @CNBCnow LMAO @FBI AND EVERYBODY ELSE KNOWS WHY DIMON GOT RID OF HIS CO CHAIR AFTER HE FIGURED OUT WHY THE RECORD OF THIS HEARING WENT "POOF" NOT LONG AFTER HE HIRED CUTLER TO BE HIS GENERAL COUNSEL CORRECT? https://banking.senate.gov/ https://scribd.com/doc/ https://davidraymondamos3. scribd.com Integrity Yea Right Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. 2:26 AM · Oct 11, 2022 https://www.cbc.ca/news/ Twitter, Instagram lock out Kanye West over antisemitic posts Companies say the entertainer posted messages violating their policies The Associated Press · Posted: Oct 10, 2022 7:50 AM ET https://www.
Nothing but the truth He’s written for well-known national publications and is a regular columnist for Time. He’s also an author whose most recent book, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, was released last year. And for a few days in 2016, he was considered a contender for the GOP presidential nomination after a nationally syndicated columnist floated his name as one who might slow Donald Trump’s momentum. Drawing on that breadth of employment and life experience, David French, who lives with his wife and family in Franklin, is now immersed in yet another day job. This time it’s as Senior Editor for The Dispatch, “a digital media company providing engaged citizens with fact-based reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture—informed by conservative principles,” according to its website The founders, Steve Hayes, former Editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, and Jonah Goldberg, a former editor at The National Review, recruited French as their third employee. In a recent interview, French said after hearing Hayes describe the idea of a new publication during a telephone conversation in the summer of 2019, he immediately “loved the vision.” The Dispatch launched later that year. That vision includes a departure from the “clickbait” model some outlets use, enticing readers with sensational headlines. Data collected on numbers of readers that follow a headline to a full story can be used to lure advertisers. The Dispatch, on the other hand, is subscription based, and only sells advertising for its related podcasts. In addition, said French, “we don’t chase the news cycle. There is a heavy emphasis on reporting and analysis with less raw opinion.” French says The Dispatch’s dozen-or-so writers, while leaning ideologically to the right and making no apology for it, are still fiercely devoted to non-partisan reporting, allowing no deference to either major political party. Anyone can read content from The Dispatch by going to the website. There are also various podcasts anchored by its writers, available to all. Readers can sign up for emails that include selected articles and newsletters.But to have full access to all the offerings (daily emails, articles, newsletters and podcasts), along with the ability to comment on content and engage in dialogue with other readers, a subscription (monthly or yearly) is required – and encouraged. “We hope that you’ll consider investing in our work and joining us with a paid membership,” the site reads. There are also periodic live online broadcasts for which subscribers receive an access code in advance. The most recent one took place following President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress. Good timing ust as it was the right time for him to join The Dispatch, French believes it is the right time for such a publication, a time when people — regardless of their political leanings — are looking for accurate reporting and analysis. Much of what is described as “mainstream media” has leftist leanings, French said, while “the media on the right have been under tremendous pressure to fall into Trumpism.” That pressure doesn’t sit well with French, to say the least. He makes no secret of the fact he left the Republican Party a few years ago. “I did not want to be a member of the party that nominated Donald Trump,” he said. Indeed, leading up to and following the 2020 election, much of The Dispatch commentary, including French’s, was critical of Trump. This has not made him and his fellow Dispatch writers popular with the far right, including media personalities from that camp who have taken occasional jabs at them.But neither French nor his colleagues are bothered by that, and he believes there is a niche for the type of content The Dispatch provides. This has been demonstrated, he said, by the diversity of its readers and subscribers who, as shown by their online comments and emails, have wide-ranging thoughts and opinions, but are able to discuss issues in a civil manner. That aligns perfectly with French’s personal belief in what he describes as “small ‘l’ liberalism,” under which citizens are united in a commitment to individual liberties such as those spelled out in the Bill of Rights. Those same people, he says, while sometimes – if not often — having ideological differences, don’t have to be enemies. French’s contribution to The Dispatch includes a podcast called Advisory Opinions in which he and fellow lawyer and Dispatch staffer Sarah Isgur discuss a variety of topics and break down legal issues. Isgur also hosts The Dispatch Podcast, in which French, Goldberg and Hayes participate in a roundtable format. In addition, part of The Dispatch lineup includes a newsletter French writes called The French Press. While midweek installments might have a summary of or comments on certain current events or politics, the Sunday newsletter always has a religious theme. (Each edition might also include personal remarks pertaining to French’s affinity for the Memphis Grizzlies or superhero movies, or his belief in the superiority of DC over Marvel). French said the weekly religious subject matter was Hayes’s idea, hoping to compensate for a “dearth of religious writing in media.” Faith is evident An Evangelical Christian, French is open about his faith in his writing for The Dispatch. At the end of the Sunday newsletter, he often attaches a link to a Christian song. Late last year, awaiting the birth of his first grandchild (a girl) who had been diagnosed in the womb with some serious complications, French asked his readers to pray for her, as well for his daughter who would be giving birth. His granddaughter was born in December, which he promptly reported. He thanked those who prayed and asked them to continue. He has subsequently informed readers that both baby and mother are now doing well. While writing from an Evangelical viewpoint, French is not afraid to call out his brethren. That would include those who vigorously supported (and still support) Trump despite his deep character flaws; those who have bought into conspiracy theories; and Christians who refuse to receive the COVID vaccine -- all topics French has tackled head-on in The French Press. On March 7th, he made the case for his fellow believers to get the vaccine, concluding that, “If every Christian can read and understand the biblical concept that ‘greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends,’ then we can also understand the lesser love—that sometimes we need to trust, to take a small risk, and take a shot not just for ourselves, but also for our friends, our family, and the country we love.” He has also written extensively about Christian organizations mired in scandal and controversy. Knowing how that typically hits a nerve and that he opens himself up to judgment and criticism in doing so, French stands firm in what he has written. He sees it simply as a quest for the truth, a central tenet of the Christian faith. Future of The Dispatch French believes the future is bright for The Dispatch. Although nearly all his colleagues are based in D.C., he plans to continue living here in Williamson County. He said he will, however, likely travel to Washington more often now that pandemic travel restrictions have been relaxed and new COVID cases are lessening. One of the most important things he and the founders have learned over the brief life of their news organization is that “there is a hunger for understanding of what is happening to our country, and a hunger for reasonable solutions.” French believes The Dispatch, tapping into that hunger, will continue to gain readers, and more writers will be added as readership grows. Plans are also in the works for onsite live events which have not been feasible over the past year due to the pandemic. “There are people who are disgruntled with the national media environment,” French said. “We want to give them a lifeline.”
Bob McKinney is a longtime Brentwood resident, happy husband and proud father, father-in-law and grandfather. Email him at bmac1018@yahoo.com.
Praying for peaceMarch 1, 2022
When I was in elementary school, I assumed I would eventually be drafted into the military and would go to Vietnam. In our school we had a music teacher, of all people, who would get all the guys worked up over it. She told us there were people watching us in public places (like athletic events) when the pledge of allegiance was said or the national anthem was sung, and if we didn’t stand straight with hands over hearts on such occasions, they would make sure we were on the front lines of combat. I don’t know where she got her information, who those people were supposed to have been or why they would have wanted seemingly disinterested speakers and singers fighting out front. But I took her admonition to heart and stood straight when the pledge was said or anthem sung, in hopes of having a desk job should I ever have to make that trip to Vietnam. Imagine my relief when I was in junior high school and the Vietnam war ended. By the time I graduated from high school and went to college, I no longer worried about having to go. Not that I would have shirked my duty if called upon. But from what I had seen and read about Vietnam at the time, it was not a place I wanted to visit. So yes, I was relieved when I learned I probably would not have to go. I would transition into my adult life without thinking much about war, as we enjoyed a time of peace post-Vietnam. Even the Cold War eventually ended with the fall of the Iron Curtain. Then came Desert Shield and Desert Storm in the 90s, and the eventual “war on terrorism” after the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. With the perpetual military action in Afghanistan (until the recent withdrawal) and all that has happened with Iran and Iraq, it seems there has been something going on “over there” for 30-ish years. That “over there” refers to the Middle East and it seems there is always some conflict, whether the U.S. is directly involved or not. But since the end of the Cold War and with the cordial relationship among North American andEuropean allies, the European area has been mostly peaceful. Although the worth of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) created in 1949 has been debated from time to time, it has provided a sense of security to the U.S., Canada and European countries. And you know where I am going with this. The “over there” where fighting is now taking place seems a little closer and makes us more uncomfortable as Russian President Vladimir Putin directs the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We have hoped and prayed for months it would not happen. In the Feb. 20 edition of his newsletter “The French Press” (part of The Dispatch news site), David French of Franklin said he was recently asked, “What are you specifically praying for today?” His immediate answer was, “I’m praying that God turns Vladimir Putin’s heart from war.” I can’t think of a more appropriate prayer. Although horrified by it, we should not be surprised by Putin’s actions. A few years ago, I read John McCain’s book “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations.” He wrote it when he knew he was likely dying of cancer, saying he had a few more things to say to Americans. It’s a great retrospective on his political life, particularly his time in the Senate and his unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2008. He also spent some time lambasting Vladimir Putin and warning readers what he was capable of. He was as direct as he could possibly have been, pointedly writing, “Putin’s goal isn’t to defeat a candidate or a party. He means to defeat the West.” I admit to a chill going down my spine when I re-read those words with the knowledge of what is happening today. And I would love to think McCain was wrong(although I’m hardly naïve enough to believe he was). President Biden has joined European leaders in imposing harsh sanctions against Russia, attempting to essentially cripple the economy there. We will experience inevitable repercussions here, with market volatility and even higher gas prices. Even the most optimistic of pundits say we are in for a bumpy ride as events unfold, while we continue to pray for peace. (We really need to pray.) Watching footage of Ukrainians fleeing their homes is heartbreaking. It is all too reminiscent of others doing the same in war-torn parts of Europe less than a century ago, folks like the Ukrainians of today who desire nothing more than freedom – but nothing less, either.  Bob McKinney is a longtime Brentwood resident, happy husband and proud father, father-in-law and grandfather. Email him at bmac1018@yahoo.com
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