Pat Kahnke is a former pastor and an evangelical but who has never voted for Donald Trump for president and has been putting out many videos in a systematic way that explain why it is so bad and dangerous for the Christian community to vote for the defendant. Pat Kahnke voted for President Biden in 2020 and will vote for President Biden in the 2024 presidential election as well. Prior to Donald Trump, he voted exclusively for the Republican candidate in every election except when the Republican Party's candidate was pro-choice and the Democratic Party's candidate was forced birther. He has moderated his stance a good deal on choice although almost all of us would differ with him on that one issue. He has put out about fifteen of these videos.
The MAGA pastor's post is insane in my view. I despise even reading and typing them but here it is:
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Sir, with all due respect, I think you are the one that is causing people to be depressed. The president is not our pastor. Donald Trump from what I know is not a Christian (sic) however, compared to Joe Biden, this is literally good versus evil, freedom versus Communism. You are judging Donald Trump as if he is a pastor and a Christian. When it comes to who we elect, we must elect the person, who promotes the right values for America. Such as law and order, close borders, freedom of religion, strong economy, strength through power just the name of a few (sic). I listen to a few minutes of you and you made me totally sick.
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Communism defined
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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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Socialism defined
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a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
"we want a real democratic and pluralist left party—one which unites all those who believe in socialism"
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In response to President Biden saying that he is a capitalist we get this non sequitur.
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Then make it so everyone pays the same percentage of their income. I shouldn't have to pay a larger percentage of my income because I've worked hard to make .
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a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
"his weird mixed metaphors and non sequiturs"
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The reason that this is a non sequitur is that this is not a requirement for capitalism. In fact, neither Former President Ronald Reagan nor Former President George W Bush nor Former President Donald Trump ever even tried to pass a tax system in which people at all income levels paid the same percentage.
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Tax Law Changes in 2003
The changes included: B Statutory individual income tax rates for the top four brackets declined to 25, 28, 33, and 35 percent (from 27, 30, 35, and 38.6 percent, respectively, in 2002). B The child tax credit rose to $1,000 per child (from $600).
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Income Tax Rates The top rate fell from 39.6% to 37%, while the 33% bracket dropped to 32%, the 28% bracket to 24%, the 25% bracket to 22%, and the 15% bracket to 12%.
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Donald Trump's 2017 tax bill was a failure for the middle class
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Failed to deliver promised economic benefits. Trump Administration officials claimed their centerpiece corporate tax rate cut would “very conservatively” lead to a $4,000 boost in household income.[5] New research shows that workers who earned less than about $114,000 on average in 2016 saw “no change in earnings” from the corporate tax rate cut, while top executive salaries increased sharply.[6] Similarly, rigorous research concluded that the tax law’s 20 percent pass-through deduction, which was skewed in favor of wealthy business owners, has largely failed to trickle down to workers in those companies who aren’t owners.[7] Like the Bush tax cuts before it,[8] the 2017 Trump tax cut was a trickle-down failure
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Donald Trump's tax legislation was unpopular with the American people
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The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is not turning out like President Donald Trump and the Republicans hoped it would -- at least, based on the public opinion data we have to date. Americans remain more likely to disapprove than approve of the law, with 40% approval and 49% disapproval in Gallup's latest update. Other recent polls confirm that the tax reform law is viewed more negatively than positively -- including surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center (36% approve/49% disapprove), Monmouth University (34% approve/43% disapprove), and Economist/YouGov (34% support/40% oppose).
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Another evaluation of Trump's failed tax policy
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Reuters had to fact check a Trumper trying to use taxes to get people to vote for the defendant
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President Biden has NEVER advocated for or supported communism or socialism. The truth is that the Trumpers/MAGA people don't know what these words mean. For them, it is just another way of saying somebody is a bad person.
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This talk about freedom from Republicans makes no sense to me. Where is the freedom in Idaho? Where is the freedom for the LGBTQ community? It's freedom for me, but not for thee.
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President Biden's record on reducing crime and creating law and order is exemplary!
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Americans are safer from violent crime today than a year ago. Today, an independent organization of police chiefs from the nation’s largest cities released data showing that, compared to a year earlier, violent crime declined across every category in the first quarter of 2024 and murders are down 17%. These decreases build on substantial decreases in previous years.
After the prior Administration oversaw the largest one-year increase in murders ever recorded, violent crime is at a near fifty-year low. This crime reduction is not an accident. It’s the result of extraordinary efforts from law enforcement and community leaders. It’s also the result of historic steps by my Administration to stop the flow of illegal guns and make the largest-ever federal investment in fighting and preventing crime because of my American Rescue Plan. Despite every Republican in Congress voting against it, that plan passed, and it has enabled cities and states to invest over $15 billion in public safety and violence prevention, putting cops on the beat for accountable community policing as well as interrupting and preventing crime.
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Donald Trump owns any border issues from January 27th on our because he scuttled the border deal that Congress and President Biden were going to pass.
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President Biden has done a great job managing the economy
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President Biden’s economy continues to roll along. This data is provided by Simon Rosenberg who founded Hopium which I subscribe to. There is a free email subscription for those in a state similar to mine, but for those who are able, you can get a deeper dive and support a great person and organization. Under President Biden, there have been 15.4 million jobs created. Under Presidents Clinton and Obama, 33.8 million jobs were created. Under Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W Bush and Donald Trump, 1.9 million jobs were created in total from the three republicans combined. This means that under President Biden almost half as many jobs were created in 4 years as the Democratic Presidents created in 16 years and more than eight times as many jobs were created in the last three Republican Presidents combined. The unemployment rate has now remained below four percent for 27 consecutive months. The last time that the unemployment rate stayed below four percent for this long was from 1967 to 1970 and then from 1951 to 1953.
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We recovered from the economic effects of the pandemic better than any other nation in the G7. Inflation is ubiquitous because it was driven by the damage the pandemic did to supply chains and the pandemic hit everywhere. Inflation was 9.1 % at its peak in July of 2022. For the next twelve consecutive months, the rate of inflation fell. Gas prices also went down. Inflation is now at 3.5% which while much higher than ideal (2%) is just a little over a third of what it was at its worst. The gross domestic product grew at a rate of 3.1% last year, greater than any year under the defendant.
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When Former President George W Bush left office, the GDP shrank by 9.4% and we lost 1.5 million jobs in the last three months of his second term. The unemployment rate was 7.8% when he left office. The economic indicators were all negative. This continued even when it was 1 pm EST on January 20th of 2009 and we had a new president because the economy doesn't change based upon magic. It is turned around by stimulus bills and the Federal Reserve Board can help if you appoint a good chairperson. After the stimulus passed, then it still has to work its way through the economy and it's a big economy, so it takes a while. Thus, it was still Bush's economy that led us to a 10% unemployment rate. President Obama signed The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 that a Democratic Party he led passed. Then we saw the longest period of peacetime private sector job growth that this country has ever known.
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Joey Politano posted the following:
US and EU GDP numbers are now in, which means another update to my G7 post-COVID GDP growth chart
Here’s each country’s cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic:
US +9.4%
Canada +4.7% through 4th quarter
Italy + 3.9%
France +1.7%
Great Britain + 1.0% through 4th quarter
Germany + .6%
Japan + .2% through 4th quarter
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This was 83 consecutive months of job creation. The point is that the defendant deserves and receives zero credit for merely inheriting a good economy. The defendant did not have to turn around a good economy. Under Former President Obama more jobs were created in the last three years of his second term than in the first three years of the defendant's term. The gross domestic product grew at a rate of 3.1% last year which is better than any year under the defendant. Nor does the defendant get a free pass on 2020 since he made the economic and health consequences of the pandemic much worse than they had to be.
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The defendant minimized and lied about COVID and stated that he would not follow the safety measures recommended by the CDC.
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Donald Trump said that that this is a new Democratic Party hoax
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Trump says the coronavirus is the Democrats' 'new hoax'
PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 28 2020 7:32 PM ESTUPDATED SAT, FEB 29 2020 3:14 PM EST
KEY POINTS
- President Trump says that Democrats are using the virulent coronavirus as a "hoax" to damage him and his administration.
- "The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," he said from a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. "This is their new hoax."
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Don't worry, the AP is here to fact check President Biden and defend Donald Trump.
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THE FACTS: The accusation and the selective video editing are misleading. At the rally featured in the video, Trump actually said the phrases “the coronavirus” and “this is their new hoax” at separate points. Although his meaning is difficult to discern, the broader context of his words shows he was railing against Democrats for their denunciations of his administration’s coronavirus response.
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The AP notwithstanding, Donald Trump did downplay the pandemic.
Politifact assessed the truthfulness of McEnany's claim that Donald Trump never downplayed the virus as 'Pants on Fire'
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Fact-check: Did Donald Trump downplay the coronavirus?
Jon Greenberg
PolitiFact.com
Kayleigh McEnany: Says President Donald Trump “never downplayed the virus.”
PolitiFact’s ruling: Pants on Fire
Here’s why: Confronted with a recording of President Donald Trump from mid March saying that he minimized the coronavirus in public, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the opposite was true.
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In fact, Donald Trump admitted that he 'loved to play it down '
Donald Trump in his own words 'loved to play it down'
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President Donald Trump, in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward, has admitted to deliberately minimizing the seriousness of the novel coronavirus to the public despite understanding its true danger, according to reports on Wednesday.
"I wanted to always play it down," Trump said on March 19, according to CNN, which obtained an audio recording of the interview, and The Washington Post. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
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NPR even gives a timeline of Donald Trump's minimization of COVID .
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The New York Times reports
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The regret-nothing approach
Just hours after his press secretary and two more aides tested positive, making the White House the leading coronavirus hot spot in the nation’s capital, Mr. Trump again dismissed the pandemic that has killed 210,000 people in the United States, telling Americans “don’t be afraid of it” and saying that he felt “better than 20 years ago.”
The words and visuals were only the latest ways Mr. Trump has undermined public health experts trying to persuade Americans to take the pandemic seriously. Even afflicted by the disease himself, the president who has wrongly predicted that it would simply disappear appeared unchastened as he pressed America to reopen and made no effort to promote precautions.
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Harvard University reports that experts were unhappy with Donald Trump's minimization of COVID
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Trump shouldn’t have downplayed coronavirus, say experts
According to journalist Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage,” President Trump deliberately minimized the danger of the coronavirus last winter to avoid causing panic. But Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health experts say that was the wrong thing to do.
“If accurate, this reporting suggests that the decision to avoid a serious response was deliberate,” said Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD), in a September 9, 2020 Boston Globe article. “We have lost 150,000 Americans and counting, and it increasingly looks as if others will have long-term health consequences of this infection. As a scientist, those are the facts. As a citizen, it is hard to know which is worse—that this was done out of ignorance, when there was so much clear information, or that, as this reporting suggests, it was done deliberately.”
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The Guardian evaluates our response and results to the pandemic
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The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record.
Almost 470,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far, with the number widely expected to go above half a million in the next few weeks. At the same time some 27 million people in the US have been infected. Both figures are by far the highest in the world.
In seeking to respond to the pandemic, Trump has been widely condemned for not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to combat the virus’s spread.
CDC study recommends double masking to reduce Covid-19 exposure
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At least 100 million people in this country have a pre-existing condition such as obesity, heart disease, asthma, HIV and cancer and their vulnerability to the pandemic is much greater than those without such a pre-existing condition. I strongly suspect that these people believed that Trumpers would intentionally breathe on them and increase their potential exposure to the pandemic just to be jerks and, considered returning to work and thought better of it and left the labor market as did those with loved ones in such a situation. I suspect they believed this based upon how Trump talked about the pandemic. Thus, fewer people were employed at the end of the defendant's term than at the beginning, the defendant being only the second president to accomplish that. He was, however, the first to (1) refuse to participate in a peaceful transfer of power (2) attempt a coup and (3) incite an armed insurrection. We were losing 3,000 people a day when this sociopath, thank dog, left office. The deficit spiked and the unemployment rate soared to 6.3% even though it was 4.8% when he took office.
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Good vs Evil and this dude thinks Donald Trump is the good person and Joe Biden is evil (. No human being is perfect, but Joe Biden, is a good human being and Donald Trump is evil personified and he did win 81 million votes. So, there's that.
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How is he calling this malignant narcissist who sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll and who is an open bigot and who violated the law by running his business corruptly and who attempted a coup by inciting an armed insurrection, who cost us an additional 400,000 American lives by minimizing and lying about COVID, and who has been indicted by four different grand juries and charged with 88 felonies a good person who represents good values?
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The former pastor's point is that Donald Trump is running for president in Jesus' name and his main base of support that gives him his political power are the fundamentalist Christians. In my view, they have irrevocably damaged their witness and their credibility and they have made their version of Christianity extremely unattractive. My best friends were devout fundamentalists who were such incredible friends and amazing human beings in that their words and their lives matched up and they showed love and kindness ... That's why I'm so flummoxed about this. I keep trying to figure out what happened. Was I wrong about them? Did they change? I am sorry but I don't see how a good person could support the defendant, especially not now. The truth is that I don't understand how they can be silent about the defendant and not speak out against him. How??? Donald Trump is obviously evil and clearly running as the fundamentalist's candidate and his main base of support is the fundamentalist church. That's why I don't understand how they don't feel compelled (by the Holy Spirit???) to speak out against this evil bigoted soon to be felon who attempted a coup and incited an armed insurrection???
It's baffling to me. To many of you, this makes sense. But my former friends really and truly seemed to be the sweetest, kindest people I had ever known and I knew several of them extremely well.
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In any event, this MAGA pastor's comment was ridiculous as I tried to show here. I am sure others could have done a better job at this, but I hope that this is helpful.
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