I just finished listening to Pope Francis’s audio book(audio.com) “The Name of God Is Mercy”. It was very motivating to hear the Holy Father’s soothing words that the first salvation is our necessity of trying very hard to forgive. To many it’s an almost impossible task to forgive the likes of Adolph Hitler or a child rapist. I believe what Pope Francis is trying to emphasize that we as a people must discover what the meaning of life is. I like many have been struggling with so many why this, and why me. For this seventy year old blogger, me, I want to stop asking and joy my remaining years and try to focus on the good things that the world has to offer.
A good start was to congratulate our newly elected president, Donald J. Trump. He won a hard election, and by many pulled off an unbelievable win. I can only hope that he can make America a Better place to live again. However, I don’t like his “Dislikes” to say the least, while I am trying to find something good on our planet Earth, I am hearing so much animosity from President Trump. It makes me want to make my own playing deck of cards, fifty-two different cards, one each representing something or someone our President has made reference to. I know that there are many people who will say you probably can make at least five decks of cards(260) that should of been used in one of Trump’s defunct casinos.
I am reading from the July 2015, online edition of The Washington Post “25 people,places and things Donald Trump has denounced” by Amber Phillips. Twenty people and places is almost a half of deck, so here goes.
- John McCain is not a War Hero.
- “Conservative pundits, Your Next President, Donald Trump, basically tweets like a 12-year old girl.”
- The Washington Post
- Arianna Huffington
- NBC
- All Media
- “Most undocumented immigrants fro Mexico”
- Hilary Clinton
- Barack Obama
- Former Texas Governor Rick Perry
- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
- Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s electoral record.
- Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s former Fox News Show:
- Mitt Romney
- Pollsters
- Presidential Debates
- Richard Nixon
- Drugs(marijuana)
- Wisconsin
- Mexico
- American diplomats
- Black bankers
- Vaccinations
- Communion
- God, himself, a little bit.
- former Miss Universe Alicia Machado (“The Daily Beast”)
- Susana Martinez (Governor of Mexico) “
- Gold Star Mother Ghazala Khan “
- Judge Gonzalo Curiel “The Huff Post”
- John Lewis “New York Times”
- Meryl Streep “
- Arnold Schwarzenegger “
- John O. Brennan “
- Obamacare “
- Saturday Night Live “
- Bernie Sanders “
- Jeb Bush “
- Chris Christie “
- Ted Cruz “
- Carly Fiorina “
- Lindsey Graham “
- George Pataki “
- Marco Rubio “
- Scott Walker “
- Joseph R. Biden Jr. “
- Cory Booker “
- Ben Cardin “
- Tim Kaine “
- Anthony D. Weiner “
- The cast of “Hamilton” “
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg “
- Rossie O’Donnell
I need to thank the New York Times for their online article, updated January 20,2017, “The 305 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List” I know they will have to update this article on a weekly basis, for me I just want enjoy all the wonderful and maybe not so many people that are not nice, and pray that President Trump can get out of the bad playing card business and see the goodness and the grace of God with the challenges that lie ahead of him.
Amen!