Vote Trump 2024
Concession
2016/2020
In 2016 Donald Trump won the presidential election against Hillary Clinton and she did not concede the election. You say, “Oh she did. She made a statement.” Sure. Hillary said something like all the lies characteristic of the Clintons, what turned since into its own vocabulary word: Clintonesque. She lied, what some might call “parsing words.”
Hillary Clinton, even before she lost, cooked up with the rest of the establishment, but led by her, the Russia conspiracy against Trump that impeded his presidency. She preyed on Trump’s inexperience in Washington, DC. John Durham in his special counsel investigation of the Russia hoax came to the conclusion
that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation against Donald Trump; that the FBI failed to follow up on intelligence reports that Hillary Clinton had approved a scheme to manufacture the Russia hoax and that her campaign funded opposition research to supply to the FBI and media with the false narrative; and that FBI leaders willingly subverted FBI policy, quashed investigations into Clinton’s potential violations of the law, and more.
Disqualification and a Fake Issue
That wasn’t the only signification that Hillary Clinton and the establishment did not concede the election. They treated his presidency as ineligible or disqualified and didn’t ever accept the results. The unelected administrative state cooperated with the Democrat Party in dozens of different ways to defy the electoral victory of President Donald Trump. As an example, James Comey, the head of the FBI under President Barack Obama, leaked sensitive information about President Donald Trump to the press that precipitated the appointment of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation.
Many arguing against Trump point to his unwillingness to concede. I don’t hear anything about the other side not conceding. Both Clinton and Trump may not have conceded either in word or action, but Clinton didn’t inhabit the White House in 2016 nor Trump in 2020. It’s ultimately a fake issue. According to my own assessment, Trump’s challenge of the 2020 election did not compare to the seriousness of what Clinton did in 2016 and following, helped along by President Obama spying on the Trump campaign.
My History
I have voted in all the presidential elections since 1980. Living in Wisconsin during my Freshmen year in College, I voted for Ronald Reagan in 80 and the same in 84. When I moved to California, I started voting there first for George H.W. Bush in 88, same in 92, Bob Dole in 96, George W. Bush in 2000, same in 2004, John McCain in 2008, Mitt Romney in 2012, Trump in 2016, and same in 2020.
This year I’ll vote Trump again in the state of Indiana in 2024. It wasn’t until 1976 that I really started considering presidential elections with the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter election. Even though I was alive for the 1968 and 1972 elections, I don’t remember them at all. The first political event I remember was Watergate, seeing it in black and White on our old tube television set. This will be my twelfth presidential election.
Every presidential election year from 1992 to 2020 I taught United States government in our high school. Five days a week I came into government class and commented on the election until it occurred the first Tuesday in November. I also taught jr. high history. The United States history curriculum for jr. high also included some government. The class read and answered questions about the United States Constitution.
Endorsement
Those for whom I voted president in the general election won six out of eleven times. This year could become seven. When Trump won in 2016, I wasn’t expecting it. I didn’t think he would win in 2020. Will he win this year? For the first time, I think he will. It’s hard to tell by the polls. Maybe some of you reading know about the quiet Trump voters. This affected the polls in 2016 and 2020. The pollsters and the media got the Democrat vote percentage about right. They underestimated Trump’s percentage both times. Maybe you’ve seen this data.
Nothing gets more negative commentary on this blog than a positive mention of President Donald Trump. Even if I intimate something positive about Trump without mentioning his name, I get a nasty comment. What does this do for or to me? Nothing. Easily, Trump gets far more foul comments than all the other subjects combined. Apparently these comments come from those who don’t like Trump’s meanness and nastiness.
The only hope for anything close to a Christian worldview is Trump. I’m not going to tick off all the reasons. They should be obvious. If they’re not, I don’t think there is much I can write here today that will persuade you the reader, which you haven’t already heard, watched, or read.
Information on This Blog on Psalm 12:6-7
Mark Ward and Psalm 12:6-7
In his last youtube video, Mark Ward mentioned my name again in reference to Psalm 12:6-7. He included a quote from me, which wasn’t the best one for me. I’ve written several thorough and good articles on the subject with many better quotations. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t even say the exact words he quotes anymore, partly because of a change I’ve had for ten plus years on the actual meaning of the word “miracle” in scripture. I’m much more technical about a miracle and I’d have to explain that more, but don’t want to do it in this post.
Ward put out a video on the meaning of Psalm 12:6-7, focusing on whether it teaches the perfect preservation of scripture, which is of course “no” to him. I had already reviewed his journal article on that passage, which is the basis for his video. Below I’m going to put links to articles I’ve written on that passage. Ward makes too much of the dependence on Psalm 12:6-7 for a doctrine of preservation. As an overall critique, he gets several things wrong in the video.
Steelmanning Not
You’ve probably heard of steelmanning. Here’s the meaning:
Steelmanning is the practice of applying the rhetorical principle of charity through addressing the strongest form of the other person’s argument, even if it is not the one they explicitly presented.
Mark Ward does not do that with our position on Psalm 12:6-7. When he doesn’t do something like that, he then also doesn’t allow direct conversation with him. He blocks criticism of his content. I think he and I could have a very decent conversation, but he doesn’t do that, even with all his protestations about unity.
I’ve written a lot on Psalm 12:6-7. We named our book, Thou Shalt Keep Them, after the words of Psalm 12:6-7. We don’t “proof text.” Historical confessions of Christianity used Psalm 12:6-7 among many other verses to defend a doctrine of preservation of scripture. I asked AI recently about this same doctrine using Isaiah 59:21, Matthew 4:4, and Matthew 5:18 about a doctrine of perfect preservation and AI reported those verses taught perfect preservation of scripture.
One of the reasons that it is popular and Mark Ward is careful not to mention (unless he’s just incompetent and uninformed) is the allusions to Psalm 12:6-7 in a multitude of various confessions. It’s obvious confessions that represent almost every true Christian in the world for hundreds of years refer in the language of the confession to Psalm 12:6-7. Crickets from Mark Ward on this. That wouldn’t make his presentation look good.
Pronouns
When Mark Ward makes his argument on the video about gender accordance or discordance in antecedent pronouns, he skips proximity as a guide for pronoun reference. He uses gender as the most important mitigating quality, when numerous examples of discordance exist. Those people in the modern version movement, who hop way back to the “poor and needy” to find a referent to “them,” won’t even mention proximity.
The presentation of Ward short shrifts the examples of purposeful gender discordance in the Bible and referred in Hebrew grammars and syntax. It just doesn’t help his cause of shooting down the biblical and historical doctrine of preservation. This is not steelmanning.
Preserved Copies
Ward uses a title for his video that says that men such as myself are defending the preservation of copies of scripture. I’m guessing I’m in print saying almost one hundred times that I believe in the preservation of words. Ward still twists it for his own purposes. It makes his opposition look crazy, but they don’t even take that position. Crazy is what he wants people to think.
I don’t know one person that I’ve ever met in my entire lifetime that believes God promised He would preserve copies of scripture. No one believes that or teaches that on planet earth. What should someone think about Ward’s expertise about the teaching of preservation when he says such a thing? His echochamber would approve. I too like setting up a row of bobble-head dolls and making statements to them as a measure of my competence.
Further Reading and Research
Besides the above, I could say much, much more, but I’ve been doing that, as seen below. I hopefully may not need to say such things much longer to Mark Ward if he follows through with his published plan of disengaging on this issue in 2025. Until he does, please consider the following one stop shop for Psalm 12:6-7, where you get much more context on the issue.
Further Details in Psalm 12:6-7 Elucidating the Preservation of God’s Words
Psalm 12:6-7 Commentaries and the Preservation of Words
Gender Discord and Psalm 12:6-7
Psalm 12:6–7 and Gender Discordance: the anti-KJV and anti-preservation argument debunked (again)
AI Friday: “Did God Perfectly Preserve Every Word of the Bible?”
I’ve done more than these, but these will suffice. Enjoy.
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