Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "ABC News" channel.

Do you WANT to know what happened, and what still happens, when those in religion use words from their books to insist that they know what is, and what is not … moral? From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner. “Liberty in the united states is verging fast toward licentiousness,” declared the Philadelphia minister Robert Annan in a passionate response to Rush’s arguments for abolition. “Religion, the only sure basis of good government, is entirely set aside … Humanity is become the popular cry!” The death penalty had been ordained by God, and it was presumptuous to announce that God’s provisions were no longer needed. “If capital punishments be such a crying iniquity as our author pretends,” smirked another of Rush’s critics, that “reflected very little credit on the justice and goodness of their God.”
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Catholics were always antisemitic, because they were taught and were determined to believe that Jesus “chose” to preach Catholic doctrine, rather than Jewish doctrine. From the book … The Library Book … author … Susan Orlean In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the pope ordered Jewish books to be collected and “cremated” (the choice of terms at the time) because he believed they spread anti-Catholic thought.
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As a President … Donald Trump is an enigma … in the sense that he is hard … but not impossible … to understand. All other Presidents wanted to unite their citizens under one union. For instance … Abraham Lincoln wanted the slaves to be freed … but even more important to Abe (than freeing the slaves) was to keep the union UNITED. Donald on the other hand is a DIVIDER. He thrives on encouraging citizens to fight against each other. If you are a supporter of Donald … you will tend to be angry at those who refuse (as do you) to idolize Donald. But if on the other hand … you want Donald exposed for breaking and remaking laws that no other President even wanted to break and remake … you will tend to be angry at those who continue to idolize Donald and his erratic behavior. Either way … Donald has won … because the bottom LINE is … he thrives on continually “stirring the pot.” And now his erratic behavior results in people all over the world being angry at each other … so he keeps on making up ridiculous plots that will reward him with disrupting any semblance of what otherwise might equate to that word … peace. *And we should all realize that he can’t be EXPECTED to quit such behavior … because he is TOTALLY ADDICTED to his own mirror image… reflecting back to him that he is … on ALL ACCOUNTS … a man of UNDEFEATABLE POWER. He made it plain to everyone … when even before the votes were counted … and he thought he was going to lose the election to Hillary Clinton … LIED that the election was rigged. He never did have any respect for The United States Constitution … and he proved it when (as a sore loser) he encouraged his renegade followers to ATTACK the very Capitol that he VOWED to protect when he first became President. It was SUCH a shame that his lust-filled supporters didn’t even notice that in the 2016 election … in the States where Donald WON the MOST votes … he didn’t complain that THOSE votes were rigged. His devout adoring followers … just kept on supporting his childish Tantrums … voting him into office in 2024 … and as a result … he is the very first DICTATOR to run the government of what USED to BE The “UNITED” States of America.
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@HooNami9 You might also be interested in the following ... that makes the same point. From the book … The Divider: Trump in the Whitehouse 2017 to 2021 by author Peter Baker and author Susan Glasser “Trump wasn’t trying to lead a unifying team,” said one White House official caught up in it. “He wasn’t trying to prevent the rivalries and squabbles and the knife-fighting. It was almost Apprentice-esque. He liked competition and infighting among the people below him. It’s like a competition for his favor. The result was an insecure president who fostered perpetual insecurity on his staff. As much as Trump talked about loyalty as a paramount value, what he meant was loyalty to him, never from him.
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Joe Biden was not elected to serve the dogmas of the Catholic religion, any more than Donald Trump was elected to serve the Protestant Christian right-wing groups. Religion is supposed to be separate from government ... and that means ALL religion.
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Envy over the material accomplishments of Jews hasn't anything in common with the "religion" of Judaism. Jews that thrive in the business world, were taught by their parents to work hard, get good educations, and be members of society that are then able to take care of their selves. Many young people that get into drugs, or alcohol, or young women that become pregnant must rely on "the system" for support, and many of these people are envious of the accomplishments of the Jews. That is not antisemitism. That is envy over the success of others, while viewing self as having failed "miserably."
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Mob violence does not accomplish anything, other than violence. If you think you have a case, take it to court. It might go all the way to the Supreme Court, where the judges will decide the ruling. That is how the system works.
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@lousassole6969 Anger often turns to violence. The longer these demonstrations go on, the more chance their will be of mob violence, as occurred in the United States January 6th, 2021. I hope it does not escalate to such insanity.
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Please don't delete this post. People are screaming "What is happening to our freedom speech?" ... while at the same time trying to silence Whoopi Goldberg for stating her own opinion! How about the term “polite correctness?” I suggest that the term should not be "political correctness." It should be "polite correctness." The word "political" makes the "government" the focus, and the supposed culprit of all the dissention, whereas the word "polite correctness,” puts the responsibility where it belongs, which is on the individual. Being that when we don't get our own way, we are such angry creatures, we should always be asking ourselves ... "Am I being polite," or "am I part of the problem?"
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When Planned Parenthood started, one of the founders, Margaret Sanger, believed that abortion was murder. She wanted women to be able to have access to birth control, so that they would not feel the need to resort to having abortions. As time went by, those that ran Planned Parenthood, realized that even birth control methods often failed, leaving the women pregnant, against their wills. That is when it was decided at Planned Parenthood ... that individual women should make their own choices, and that abortions on demand should be available to those who choose to have them. I have never had an abortion ... but I agree that it is better that women have their abortions in clinics, where trained doctors perform them ... because when and where abortion is illegal, women that are deprived of quality care during their abortions, keep dying. Let us not pretend to be the moral judges (over and above) those who are desperate to have abortions. If it was your daughter, or your mother, or even your grandmother, having an abortion ... would you not want her to come home safe to you?
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It is citizens that become offended by how words are used, which doesn’t have anything in common with government as in being "politically correct.” Case in point as follows. From the book … Silent Siren: Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician … author Matthew Franklin Sias As a new EMT and thereafter, I was taught to use the word “death” and “dead” when I had occasion to break the news to a family. To use euphemisms such as “passed away” would leave some doubt in the loved ones’ minds, I was told, as to whether or not the person really had died. Directness was best. I was taught the extreme opposite when I became involved in the funeral business, maybe because the mortuary industry is much more customer service oriented, and maybe because it was so completely obvious that because we, as funeral directors were involved, someone was dead. I learned this distinction between the languages of my two professions the hard way. When working at the mortuary removal service, I completed a residential call, representing Bonney-Watson funeral home. We were removing the body of an elderly man who had died peacefully in bed in the back hallway of his house. Before we had moved him to our stretcher, I needed some information for the form I was to bring back to Bonney-Watson. I asked the new widow, “What time did he die today?” It seemed an innocuous question, and a necessary one. The next day, I was informed by a supervisor that both the family and Bonney-Watson funeral home had complained that I had used the word “die.” Likewise, on our emergency radios in the ambulance, the subject of death is cleverly disguised, some might say avoided. In Tacoma, where I worked at Rural-Metro, calls to confirm death were dispatched as “signals,” i.e. signal 2 or signal 3. At skagit County Medic One, we are dispatched to a “possible unattended,” whether someone had witnessed the death occurring or not.
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@saraleigh5336 Whether old or new Christian ... religious Jews practiced and still practice only Judaism ... and to any Christian ... that is offensive. The "object" of the Christian religion was and is, to portray Judaism as being wrong, and Christianity as being right. I've conversed with many Christians that were taught, and believed, that without Christianity, Judaism could not be "completed." How ridiculous, being that the same Christians believed that Jesus was born PERFECT to a family of Jews that had faith ONLY in Judaism.
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@saraleigh5336 Christians always did believe that Judaism was nothing other than lies. The pope had some "nerve" to go to Israel; preach Catholicism at the Jews, as though he was doing them a favor. Religion is NOT good. What divides can't unite.
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Thanks for honoring free speech. Good for Joe Biden. When I asked Christians that support the death penalty the question if they believe that *Jesus supports the death penalty ... they clammed up immediately ... as though they were fully aware they had overstepped their own boundaries. The self-professed Christian Donald Trump LUSTS for the death penalty ... but NOT for *HIS family and friends. Before leaving the office of President last time … he put a RUSH on death … seeing to it that death sentences were “carried out” before he left office. Yet … as soon as he becomes President again ... he will release those renegades from incarceration that (at HIS request) … attacked the Capitol … causing the deaths of others … as though those renegades are INNOCENT of any crimes whatsoever. You voted for Donald ... and now … there won’t be any *dealing with him … as he just might rush YOU to death … if he thinks for one minute that you DARED to cross him. Meanwhile … maybe you Christian death-penalty supporters can convince your selves that Jesus really DOES support the death penalty … as do YOU.
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The first President of the United States, George Washington, under the question, Party, wrote, Unaffiliated. I suggest that Donald Trump also should have stated Unaffiliated under Party, because he didn't have any intention of following Republican policies, as he wanted to rule supreme with a heavy hand all his own making. The writing was on the wall, when Republicans became terrified of being fired if they dared to state their own opinions that disagreed with the opinions of "the Donald," and they are still afraid of the notion that if he wins the election in 2024, he will also fire them. Concerning her attempt to stop the complete dictatorship of Donald Trump, Liz Cheney is one very brave woman.
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