BoT

 https://abc7news.com/post/hanako-abe-elizabeth-platt-san-francisco-public-defender-seeks-diversion-2020-double-fatal-hit-run-case-troy-mcalister/17933699/

How is it possible that someone with 73 felonies on their record  is free to kill more people?

 https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusive-felon-released-by-biden-faces-new-gun-charges-after-drive-by-shooting/

This is fascinating, someone who's sentence Biden commuted was rearrested for another violent crime.   I know, I know, Biden's defenders will argue that Biden didn't know that the auto pen signed this particular document.    

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9k3FQERFQU

 

This fine, upstanding, father has a rap sheet that includes the following.   Can anyone make a coherent argument why he should not be deported?   Failing that, why he should not be in prison.   

 -lewd and lascivious acts with a CHILD -battery of a spouse -domestic battery -compensation for prostitution -felony reentry after removal

 https://x.com/jewsfightback/status/1983391713881391289?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-leaders-say-organized-networks-including-iran-drove-anti-israel-campus-unrest/

 "University leaders are finally admitting that the tsunami of “Palestine” insanity that swept through college campuses after October 7 wasn’t grassroots. It wasn’t organic. It wasn’t even student-led. It was imported, coordinated, and scripted by organized foreign networks, including the Islamic Republic of Iran. Vanderbilt’s chancellor: "It's more than a social contagion. They’re organized networks." Syracuse’s chancellor: “I really believe this came from Iran. There weren’t even many of our own students involved.” Avril Haines, the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, confirmed Iran provided financial support to these “protesters” Hostages held in Gaza say their Hamas captors openly bragged about working with their U.S. allies in the media and on college campuses. A lawsuit against Columbia students revealed they circulated a Hamas “Day of Resistance Toolkit” one day after the October 7th terrorist invasion. That toolkit praised the bloodshed and told students to keep the “resistance” going. This wasn’t activism. It was an international jihadist PR campaign. On American soil. Think about that."

 https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/1983688658046669175?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This sounds like they're planing an insurrection. 

 https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/1983692773955137705?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

The silence on this tragedy from the usual suspects is amazing. The resilience and faith of those being persecuted is inspiring.  

 https://x.com/thecjpearson/status/1983536807389081790?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I believe that his terms are acceptable. Whatever you think of the whole uproar about SNAP and other welfare programs, the data that we are seeing about who gets these taxpayer dollars and what they do with those dollars, tells me that the entire thing needs a huge overhaul.

Barbarism

 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/14/523917425/michigan-doctor-charged-with-performing-female-genital-mutilation-on-girls

 

 "Female genital mutilation constitutes a particularly brutal form of violence against women and girls. It is also a serious federal felony in the United States," Daniel Lemisch, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement. "The practice has no place in modern society and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law."

 

This is barbaric, and inhuman.  But the argument they are making is that they are very committed to their religion.    So a Christian family that wants to home school is evil and damaging their kids, but FGM is simply a benign religious practice.  

 

You (A Cat) Blinded Me With Science

 https://www.science.org/content/article/science-adviser-meet-larry-the-worlds-most-highly-cited-cat

For all y'all who worship at the alter of "peer reviewed journals" and the last word on all things scientific, this should make you rethink your commitment to the whole process.   The TLDR version is that some guy got his CAT cited multiple times in scientific journals and papers.   This isn't the first time, and the guy did it to highlight how screwed up the system is, but this blind faith in "Science" is simply another form of a religion.  

BVMLTT!!

 https://x.com/jokaqarmy1/status/1983645816985444770?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

BVMLTT!!!! 

 https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1983560409107026353?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Definitely listen to this one.  

https://x.com/vigilantfox/status/1983378802894876859?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 “Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government regulatory constraints…”

Well thanks for this P-BO. It's good that you are so up front about having government impose restrictions on the media.  

Real, Literal, Actual Genocide, Met With Silence

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/sep/11/videos-rebels-sudan-footage-courts

You know who's completely silent about this.

Greta Thunberg

 Mehdi Hasan

Cenk Uygur

Ana Kasparin

The UN

The MSM

Dan

Dan's parasite

The ASPL

All of the people who made excuses or supported Hamas (even as they torture and kill Gazans), attacked Israel (who engaged in a campaign under the most difficult circumstances, and still managed to have the lowest % of civilian casualties in modern warfare), supported/support the Muslim/pro Hams protests in the US, and those who stay silent on the literal rape and destruction of Europe, have no credibility at this point as they stand silently by and ignore the actual genocide in Africa.  

As much as I applaud Trump stopping wars and conflicts, I can't help but thinking that the US could eradicate the perpetrators of the genocide against Christians relatively easily.   That the rest of Africa and the Islamic world stands by and does nothing, simply demonstrates the how much of the narrative is simply a lie.  

Injustice Enshrined

 https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/juvenile-justice/kare-11-investigates-legislators-fail-legislative-juvenile-gap-reforms/89-c0b818bf-2f10-420f-bfbd-8eef5d9d32d1

I want to make two points with this story.

The first and most obvious is that states governed virtually exclusively by the DFL are rife with these kinds of incidents.   The families of the victims of this murderer should 100% be able to sue the state generally and possibly the judges/DAs individually for the entirely predictable results of their actions.   It is absolutely insane that this type of thing happens with regularity and yet people like Dan just keep voting for the people who bring us this carnage over and over again.   If harm reduction is truly the foundational principle of your moral code, and you're not outraged by this, then you have no moral code at all.  

The second and less obvious, is that we are seeing local news stations picking up the ball and run with it when it comes to the fraud, crime, and government malfeasance we have seen over the last few years.  While the MSM fawns over Walz and acts as if MN is a paradise, the local news people aren't afraid to  report on these stories.  Fair is fair, and acknowledging news organizations that aren't simply reading a press release from some left with group deserve props.  

 

 https://abc11.com/post/johnston-county-sheriff-reveals-timeline-murder-4-children-father-wellington-dickens-iii-charged/18085722

This is one more example of an individual with a long and violent criminal record being put in a position to cause more harm due to a "justice system" that is seriously screwed up.  

Matthew

 "While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples.  When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”"

I find it strange that when Jesus is clear about His purpose and  ministry, so many choose to deny or ignore His clarity.  

In this case, Jesus has called Matthew to be one of His disciples.   Jesus chose Matthew for His own reasons, which aren't clear from the text.  Yet what is clear is that Jesus CHOSE Matthew as one of  the 12 who would be the very foundation of the spreading of The Gospel.  As we know, tax collectors were despised and reviled due to the corruption that was part and parcel of their work.  By any measure Matthew, as a tax collector, was an agent of the oppressive Roman government who lied and cheated people for personal gain.   By any definition it seems safe to say that Matthew wasn't called as Jesus' disciple due to his personal holiness or freedom from sin.  It also seems safe to say that Matthew probably wasn't a "good" person.  It's almost like Matthew was chosen out of thousands of other people for a specific purpose, you could even say that he was predestined for his role.  

As a side note, it's strange to hear those who vehemently object to the very notion of Unconditional Election not object to Jesus (in the NT) or YHWH (in the OT) choosing or electing people for particular roles without condition or without regard for their suitability.

So, back to the calling of Matthew.   There doesn't seem to be any reason why he was qualified to be Jesus' disciple, yet Jesus elected him.   For some reason, Jesus went to Matthew's house for dinner (which suggests that Matthew probably wasn't particularly poor) and Matthew invited his friends and fellow tax collectors.   This seems much like a similar response to the Samaritan woman who, after her encounter with Jesus, told her entire village about this great "prophet".  Matthew seemingly wanted his friends to experience what he experienced.   

Obviously the Pharisees didn't like this, and were looking for dirt on Jesus.    Once again, Jesus has the perfect answer to their question.   He points out that He has come to call sinners to repentance, which clearly wasn't a priority for the Jewish religious leaders.   When asked, Jesus is clear that He isn't doing this to attract the (self) "righteous", but "sinners".     It seems clear in hindsight, that Jesus was pointing out subtly that the Pharisees were also "sinners", even as they believed themselves to be "righteous".  Strangely enough, nowhere in this interaction does Jesus mention the "poor and marginalized" which raises the bigger question of "Why not?".    

 

I suspect that it was because The Gospel He brought was equally valid and necessary for tax collectors, sinners, oppressors, oppressed, poor, middle class, and rich.   That The Gospel was even for Pharisees.  

Maybe Jesus was much more of a both/and when it came to The Gospel than some would like to acknowledge.  Jesus and The Gospel He preached was clearly exclusive to some, but maybe the lines Jesus drew were not based on political, social, or economic conditions, but on something else.  

BoT

 https://x.com/andrewkerrnc/status/1982832070763446777?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://freebeacon.com/democrats/inside-jasmine-crocketts-secret-stock-portfolio-and-failed-attempts-to-become-a-marijuana-magnate/

This seems like it is a bad thing, but I could be wrong.  To be fair, Crockett isn't the only one guilty of insider trading and getting rich from her elected office, but seriously... 

 https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/illegal_immigration_reform_and_immigration_responsibility_act

 Subtitle B: Deterrence of Document Fraud - Amends Federal criminal law and the Act to increase and establish criminal and civil penalties for specified immigration related document fraud offenses, including false citizenship claims and unlawful voting. 

If one takes a cursory glance at the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996, one would see Subtitle B, which makes false citizenship claims and voting 

 Subtitle C specifies the following penalties.

 

Sec. 344) Provides for exclusion and deportation of aliens who have falsely claimed U.S. citizenship.

(Sec. 345) Authorizes a waiver of exclusion or deportation for civil document fraud under specified family-related circumstances.

(Sec. 346) Makes an alien inadmissible for five years for student visa violations.

(Sec. 347) Amends Federal criminal law to provide for exclusion and deportation of an alien who has illegally voted. 

 

So, we literally have existing legal grounds to immediately deport any illegal alien who has engaged in "document fraud" (Fake SSN), voted, falsely claimed citizenship, or violated the terms of their student visa (Antisemitic protests from the last 2 years).

 My question is whether or not States, other jurisdictions, or individuals that facilitate any of the above violations can also be charged with a crime?  It seems like CA issuing CDLs (Real ID) to those who are not legally qualified to posses those, or MN which passes out drivers licenses and voter registrations like candy at Halloween, then assume some liability for the crimes (multiple murders recently) committed by those they've helped violate the law.  

 

 

 

 

Ye Olde Double Standarde

   

 

Remember when the ASPL told us that this was a NAZI salute? 

DFL Miscalculation

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/afge-largest-federal-workers-union-end-shutdown-rcna239767

As I've been clear, I oppose the existence of public employee unions as I believe that making huge financial contributions to the very people that you negotiate with is an inherent conflict of interest.

With that said, it's telling that the main federal employees union is calling for the DFL to pass the clear CR that they've voted against multiple times.   

For all of the ASPL whining on  social media about people losing SNAP benefits, I'd simply point out that the DFL voted against a bill that would fund SNAP and military salaries recently.  When a bill needs 60 votes to pass, and the majority party doesn't have 60 votes, it's the minority party's responsibility if the bill doesn't pass.  

The DFL completely owns this shutdown.    

Mea Culpa

 The sermon yesterday was on the 6th commandment, "don't murder" and it got a little convicting.  The pastor talked about an alternate translation which was "Don't treat other's lives as disposable", which I thought was interesting.  He went into some depth on the reason for this commandment which is grounded in our worth as beings crested in YHWH's image.  He also spent a lot of time on Jesus teachings in Matthew on the topic.  

As I listened to that part, I realized that I often allow my frustration for Dan to be expressed in ways which might not be aligned with either the 6th commandment or with Jesus' commentary on the 6th commandment.   For that I apologize.  I firmly believe that Dan is created in the image of  YHWH and as such has immense intrinsic value.  I do not in any way wish to convey that Dan's life is of less value than anyone else's, or that I believe that he should be disposable.  My disagreements and frustration with Dan stem entirely from the positions he holds, and not from my disdain of him as someone with no value.  I will admit that some of how I respond is simply responding to Dan based on how Dan treats others.   I shouldn't do so, but it is difficult not to on occasion. 

Going forward I will endeavor to moderate my tone, and to be more specific about my disagreements being with Dan's ideas, and not with Dan as an image bearer of God.  

BoT

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/1982472001399791886?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 “Women are animals created by Allah to be used by men. Women are no different from cows, sheep, horses, or mules. God made women resemble humans so they wouldn’t frighten men.” 

Nothing to see here, nothing at all. Muslims are our friends.  

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/24/jesse-mack-butler-stillwater-oklahoma-judge-susan-worthington-outrage/86820368007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z116701p118350n00----c00----e004100v116701&gca-ft=34&gca-ds=sophi

 https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1982466737573638216?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Butler initially pleaded not guilty to the charges but struck a deal with the DA, changing his status from adult to youthful offender. Butler was charged with 2 counts of attempted r*pe, 3 counts of r*pe by instrumentation, 1 count of s*xual battery, 1 count of forcible oral sodomy, 2 counts of domestic assault and battery by strangulation, and 1 count of domestic assault and battery. One of the girls was so badly assaulted that she needed surgery on her neck. The girl said she was repeatedly r*ped and strangled if she refused him. The doctor said she was about 30 seconds from being k*lled. Despite all this, Butler will avoid any prison time, thanks to the 'youthful offender' status."

Just one more example of our injustice system making rape a crime that gets under punished.  

 https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1982411601748857078?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Let's get this straight. The NAACP decided to back a white woman in a governors race against a b;ack women. What in the hell is going on?

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1982101402756514259?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 “ You rape a girl and you murder her. Is this not injustice to the girl who was raped and murdered? And I would say no. Because both the person who raped is undergoing a test in this world, the person who was raped also is undergoing a test. And let me explain to you that Allah has given guidelines to the woman that they should dress up modestly, they should cover the complete body, except those parts we can see, that is the face. If after giving all these guidance, that girl doesn't dress up modestly, she is dressed up immorally, which people get excited and the rape is done, who's to blame? Is the girl to blame.”

For NYC voters who are voting for Mamdani, this is what you're voting for.  I do appreciate the chutzpah he showed in flat out lying about his aunt after 9/11. But at least his comments were also incredibly tone deaf. 

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-kneecap-500-palestinians-in-brutal-crackdown-as-gunmen-target-hospitals/ar-AA1P7vtr?ocid=fbmsn

For all of the Hamas supporters, of blame Israel types, this is exactly what you are supporting. Israel could have eradicated Hamas in Gaza, but y'all whined about it, and now Hamas is going after their own. 

 https://x.com/bigsteve207/status/1980999743380816058?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

The wonderful human running for office in Maine, with an actual NAZI tattoo on his chest, was also training a socialist militia in Maine in  paramilitary tactics. Yet somehow it's "right wing extremists" and violence that is the bigger problem. This is one more example of a story that, if it was reversed (GOP candidate training a "right wing" militia) would be on the front pages and lead every MSM outlet in the country. Instead that DFL just makes excuses to keep supporting him.

BoT, Left WIng Havoc Edition

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1981897214260904311?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

So, at the same time they bitch and moan about the East Wing deal, CA (which is basically broke) is spending crazy money on their own project and has changed to rules for the project.   It's shocking that idiots like Dan will (theoretically) vote for Newsome if he runs in '28, despite the well documented corruption.   

 https://x.com/basil_tgmd/status/1981863822177546516?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

We've seen all sorts of performative grief, weeping and gnashing of teeth, and rending clothes, over illegal aliens being deported with their children, but the left can't muster up a tear for the victims of their immigration policies.   No marches for her, or the other victims, basically just crickets. 

https://x.com/jakecan72/status/1981174040565063819?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

What if the narrative about "fascism" being peddled by the ASPL and MSM is actually false?   

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1981395189517193438?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

We now know that P-BO care was a scam designed to enrich the insurance and pharma industries, by hiding the True cost of premiums behind insane government subsidies.  We also know that the DFL  could have fixed this years ago, but continued to kick the can down the road.    

 https://x.com/langmanvince/status/1981162960228925470

This CDL scam which is now literally killing innocent people has not gotten enough coverage in the MSM.   Blue state governments passing these thing out to unqualified immigrants is a tragedy.  I hope that some of the victims families can sue the crap out of these states, and that enforcement gets stepped up in the states that actually follow the rules. 

 https://x.com/thelaurenchen/status/19819 14795906576473?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

So we know from the holy DATA that Sweden could reduce rapes by 84% by enacting one simple policy.  Strangely enough, they have actually decided to do the opposite and reinterpret their law to keep rapists in Sweden.    Based on the holy DATA coming from Europe, it seems safe to say that DEI=RAPE.  

Just More Injustice From Countries With Lenient Immigration Policies

 https://derechadiario.com.ar/us/argentina/scandal-sweden-court-will-not-deport-the-refugee-who-raped-a-minor-because-it-did-not-last-long-enough

 

"The victim and her family reported the incident immediately. The court sentenced him to only three years in prison, but the tribunal ruled that the rape "did not last long enough" to be considered an "exceptionally serious crime" and, therefore, did not apply deportation.

According to Swedish law, refugees can only be expelled if they commit a crime considered "exceptionally serious" or if they pose a "serious threat to public order and security."

In its ruling, the tribunal stated that, although the crime was serious, "the duration of the attack" was one of the determining factors for not considering it within that category.

 "Rape, in many cases, is considered an exceptionally serious crime that could justify the deportation of a refugee. However, each case must be evaluated individually. Given the nature and duration of the incident, the court considers that it doesn't constitute an exceptionally serious crime that warrants deportation," the Court wrote in its ruling."

 

What in the hell is going on in Europe and parts of the US?   How in God's name can anyone justify only 3 YEARS in prison for RAPING A MINOR?   Let alone this bullshit abut it not being a "exceptionally serious crime" because it didn't last long enough.    Since when is rape mitigated by the duration of the crime?  Of course this animal is a "refugee" and they conveniently managed to tilt the scales of injustice so he didn't get deported.  

 https://www.startribune.com/prison-for-man-who-grabbed-12-year-old-girl-from-her-minneapolis-backyard-raped-her/601442301

Yeah, a Somali immigrant only got 12 years for kidnapping and raping a 12 year old recently.   

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/15/scathing-report-condemns-uk-police-for-victim-blaming-in-cases

In the UK, it is apparently normal to blame the victims when they are raped by Muslim immigrants.  

 

I'm sorry but it you are part of the Global Left, and don't harshly condemn these miscarriages of justice and immediately call for immediate deportation for any immigrant who rapes ANYONE, let alone a child, how can you possibly claim any sort of moral high ground.  Y'all made excuses for Hamas, and supported them as they raped and kidnapped innocent people and now this.   If you've ever complained about injustice, and are silent on this epidemic, you simply have zero credibility on any issues of justice or morality.  

Stupidity

 https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/10/22/graham-platner-tattoo-n2665305

In the last year or so, we've had the ASPL and the MSM claiming that Hegsteth's tattoo was  racist, complaining about a private text thread, and attacking a black woman running for governor of VA, who are not excusing one of their own candidates with a literal, actual, tattoo of the NAZI Death's Head symbol.   Not just any run of the mill NAZIs, wore that Totenkopf, but the freaking SS who were in charge of the killing of Jews and other undesirables.   Y'all are unhesitatingly supporting a candidate who wants to kill the children of his political opponents, and a candidate with a literal NAZI symbol tattooed on his chest.   Even if you want to excuse that hatred, violent rhetoric, and racism, how in the hell can you excuse the rank stupidity?  

In 2025 the DFL is supporting a candidates with the following issues. 

NAZI tattoo, and a history of providing military training to left wing groups.

A Communist

A Naval academy cadet involved in a cheating scandal

A guy who wants to murder children

 https://x.com/rapidresponse47/status/1981080971941187808?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Oh yeah, and a DFL representative who thinks that quoting her exact words is lying.   

 

TDS Overload or There is a Reason Why The Show Wasn't Called East Wing

 The hysteria over the addition to the East Wing of the White House is simply nuts.  Trump isn't the first president to make changes to the White House, and isn't using taxpayer money to do this.  Honestly it seems crazy that the White House doesn't have a space where large gatherings and receptions can be held indoors.  Because putting up a temporary tent for POTUS to entertain world leaders seems appropriate, doesn't it?  Hell, even from a security perspective it makes sense to have a hardened space for events. What's even crazier is the idiots who are clamoring for this addition to be torn down as soon as the next democrat wins the presidency.  Every time I think we've reached peak TDS, something like this happens, and makes it clear that the ASPL isn't even concerned about looking at things with even the slightest degree of objectivity or historical perspective.  I didn't hear any complaints when P-BO spent significantly more taxpayer money (really borrowed money that the taxpayers have to pay back with interest) for something less functional.  

This is seriously one of the stupidest complaints about Trump  since his first campaign.  

BoT

 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1980870200104010076?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

The fact that US politicians are unwilling to actually take the simple steps to drastically reduce crime is unconscionable.   That they completely lack empathy for the victims, is criminal in itself.  

  https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/obama-to-campaign-with-spanberger-in-high-stakes-viriginia-governors-race/4004507/

 https://x.com/dc_draino/status/1980273344042913874?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Let's get this straight.  P-BO is campaigning for a rich white woman, and encouraging blacks to vote against the black woman candidate.    But it's the GOP that is racist.  

 https://x.com/behizytweets/status/1980803774022402310?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I'm shocked that so many refuse to acknowledge that these cities are seeing improvements due to Trump's actions.  

 https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1980406149594902817?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Is anyone really surprised? 

 https://x.com/breitbartnews/status/1980614567387377674?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

When Stewart and Sanders agree, they must be right.  The DFL is on the hook for subsidies that benefit the insurance companies.  

 https://x.com/ianonpatriot/status/1980300084601585961?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 Lifetime contribution per immigrant: North America: +$573,000 Scandinavia: +$557,000 Oceania: +$476,000 Japan: +$525,000 UK: +$481,000 Somalia: -$1.1 million Caribbean: -$675,000 Middle East: -$624,000 Latin America: -$271,000 Sub-Saharan Africa: -$730,000 Central + North Africa: -$700,000 Source: IZA study (Netherlands, 2024)

 This bit of data should shock no one. 

https://x.com/aizenberg55/status/1980087965767303490?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 

 Wapo actually does some real journalism, and acknowledges the Truth.  

 https://x.com/nickjfreitas/status/1980498511364755810?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Do communists in America realize that they are totally free to live as communists in America with no legislative changes required? It's true. They can all get together, buy land, capitol equipment and own it all in common. They can “give according to their ability and receive according to their needs” and no one will lift a finger to stop them There's only one catch…they can't force anyone to join or subsidize them. But it turns out that's too much to ask, so they will continue to advocate violence against others because their ideology is not motivated by “equality.” It’s motivated by violent envy."

 

 

 

 

 

Confusion

 I mentioned this in one of my comments in a recent thread, but wanted to give it it's own post.    Dan insists that humans are "beloved", "accepted", and similar terms, but isn't particularly clear about what that might look like in practice.  

What I think is causing the confusion is that Scripture seems to indicate that there are at least two levels to being "beloved" and "accepted".

I think that the first is encapsulated in the concept of the Imago Dei.  The belief that humans are created, and bear the very image of YHWH, and as such have a high degree of intrinsic value and worth.   That YHWH loves and accepts His creation because we are created in His image, seems to be the baseline.  This love is shown in YHWH's reason for forbidding murder, that we are created in His image.  That YHWH loved His creation so much that He provided the means to reconcile the break in the created relationship caused by Sin.  "For YHWH so loved the world..." is an example of that sense of love or acceptance.  As human parents we should love all of our children regardless of whether or not they reciprocate our love, or they break the family relationship.   Our children inextricably bear the image of their family, sometimes in appearance, but always in their genetic makeup.  Nothing can totally sever the transfer of that image from generation to generation.   So, we absolutely love and stand ready to accept our children back into the fullness of the family relationship.   I should note that those who ascribe to a Materialist/Naturalist/Darwinian worldview will strongly object to all of the above.  Likewise someone who holds to the view that the Creation is somehow metaphorical, will also object to the above.   The problem with that, in this context, is that the concept of a high intrinsic value of humanity grounded in a Creator God is lost, and some substitute must be found that gives humanity an equally high value.  

The most obvious example of this is in YHWH's relationship to Israel.   YHWH created all humans, yet He had a unique and special relationship with Israel.  His plan was to provide salvation to all of humanity through Israel.   In Scripture it continually demonstrates YHWH's special love and care for Israel and her predecessors, and His desire that Israel remain separate from the societies that surrounded them.  

Which leads us to the second aspect of YHWH's love and acceptance.  

As image bearers of YHWH, who have had our created relationship with Him severed by Sin, YHWH stands ready to offer a redemption of those created relationships to those who "choose" repentance.   (I'm not a fan of the choose language, but can't think of a better option right now.)   This is what might be termed salvation by many.  It's what Jesus speaks of when He talks about being "sons and daughters of YHWH" or "inheritors of the Kingdom of YHWH".   Much like a child who's broken the familial relationship with their parents, is not functionally a member of the family or an inheritor, there are those who likewise are not "inheritors of the Kingdom of YHWH".    

Where I believe the confusion lies is in conflating the inherent worth, "love" and "acceptance" accorded to all who bear the image of YHWH, and the "love" and "acceptance" reserved for those who are "joint heirs" with Christ.   The problem, I believe, is that the terms can be interchangeable but that they describe a different type of relationship depending on context.  To use another family analogy, I we certainly have some degree of love for our extended family.  Yet our love for our immediate family, and their position as heirs, is different in kind or degree than for our extended family.    

A potential solution for the confusion might be in adapting the terminology.  To find a different term for the Imago Dei expression of love and the "joint heirs to the Kingdom of YHWH" expression of love.   This is a situation where we have a both/and instead of an either/or.   It would be foolish to deny that YHWH loves and accepts His creation at some level.  It would be equally foolish to deny that there is no division (think sheep and goats) between all of created humanity.  Saved/unsaved, elect/not elect, sheep/goats, the terminology isn't as important as the concept that not all will share equally in the fullness of the eternal aspect of the Kingdom of YHWH.  

Obviously some have argued that YHWH's love applies equally to all, and that all will "go to heaven", this raises questions of justice because it seems insane to posit that Hitler and  Mother Theresa are both treated in exactly the same way.   Likewise, some argue that life on earth is all that there is.   It seems strange to me that an eternal, all powerful God would create humanity and not share eternity with them.    

In conclusion, I fully agree that YHWH loves and accepts His Creation on a very basic level.  I also agree that when all of Creation is reconciled and redeemed, there will be some who will not share in that experience.    

It's Not A Democracy

   

If you were out marching for a democracy last weekend, you weren't marching for the  government that the founders envisioned.  In fact, you were marching for the type of government that the founders specifically wanted to avoid.  As I watch the political discourse of late, the Franklin and Jefferson quotes above seems particularly apt.  

 

   

   

 

 

ASPL Violence and Stupidity

 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1980053016008151522?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Train up your children...      This is how the ASPL are training up their children, and they seriously want to condemn right wing violence.  

   

 

 https://x.com/dailysignal/status/1979678995311657001?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/sweatem/status/1979948400771481991?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "“You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out."

 

Again, I'm not seeing anyone on the right saying this kind of thing.   

 https://x.com/thepatriotoasis/status/1979914255546687843?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Because we should absolutely trust the MSM.   

 https://x.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1980000043512840474?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 I've said something similar for a while.  The ASPL is continuing to embrace philosophies and constituencies that lead to negative population growth.  Eventually, they'll breed themselves out of existence.  

 https://x.com/1109patricia/status/1979810107270774975?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Where, oh where, are the ASPL protesters taking to the streets to protest the inhumane treatment of illegal aliens by Mexico?     They didn't protest "mass deportations" when P-BO was in office, and they don't protest them in Mexico, maybe it's not "mass deportations" that they object to at all.