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Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

Here's my honest take...

The racists they're referring to were always part of the coalition. (even back in 2016)

They're just much more vocal and visible now.


The reason why this wasn't as visible from 2016-2023? Internet/Social Media censorship.

I tried making this argument back a few years ago... the argument of "sunlight is the best disinfectant". And that "you're actually helping Trump by hiding his most radical supporters from public view"


And that's really the ironic part, it was the "We need to ban any and all offensive speech and microaggressions" crowd (that hates Trump the most) that delayed people coming to realization, on the basis of "needing to protect peoples' feelings online"

I think we can mostly agree that the catalyst behind this "awakening" moment some in the conservative movement are having, is largely due to Nick Fuentes content not being censored anymore and a lot of people on the conservative half are learning about him (and his views) for for the first time.

Had some of the BlueSky-type crybabies not demanded content censorship on the major platforms back in 2016-2020, this "realization" that's leading to a "MAGA fracturing" could've happened 3-4 years ago when it actually mattered -- BEFORE he got elected again instead of afterwards.

People having that realization now changes nothing. With or without a "unified MAGA", Trump is your president until Jan. 2029.
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Do the Ten Commandments still apply under the new covenant today?

And I wrote. Heb. 9 :18.

#1. WHERE UPON //. HOTHEN. is an ADVERB

# 2 NEITHER. // OUDE. is an ADVERB

# 3. THE // is a DEFINATE ARTICLE in the NOMINATIVE CASE in the SINGULAR

# 4 FIRST // PROTOS in the NOMINATIVE CASE n the SINGULAR

# 5 ( TESTAMENT ). WAS DEDICATED //. EGKAINIZ. in the PERFECT TENSE in the INDICATIVE MOOD in. the SINGULAR

# 6 WITHOUT // CHORIS. is an. ADVERB

# 7 BLOOD //. HAIMA in. the GENITIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR in. the NEUTER

This isbn why the OLD COVENENT. could could not save BECAUSE CHRIST BLOOD had not yet shed

ON THE CROSS and why Gentiles would never be saved

AS ATONMENT was what kept all SAFE with. the

The PRIEST

The ALTER

THE SACIFICE

THE BLOOD THAT WAS SPRINKLED ON THE ALTER

dan p
Yes you're right the old covenant could not save anyone.
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#37 in Christian persecution, Mozambique.

The rise of Islamist extremism in the north of the country, especially in regions such as Cabo Delgado, has had a devastating impact on the lives of believers. Churches have been burned down, pastors abducted and many killed. The objective of these groups is to, while church youth leaders are at particular risk from violent drug traffickers.

Meet "Pastor Mario"

In Mozambique, we Christians are targets of much persecution, many believers are raped, killed, several churches and houses destroyed.

PASTOR MARIO, CHURCH LEADER IN MOZAMBIQUE

What has changed this year?

Mozambique rose by two positions on this year's World Watch List. Islamist militants continued their hate campaign against Christians, which intensified after 11 Christians were executed in September 2023. In 2024, extremists launched a campaign targeting Christians called Kill Them Wherever You Find Them. Additionally, the fight against Islamist militants in Cabo Delgado was weakened after a multi-national peacekeeping mission withdrew their troops.

What does Open Doors do to help Christians in Mozambique?

Open Doors supports persecuted Christians in northern Mozambique by providing emergency aid, persecution survival training and economic empowerment projects.

How can you pray for Mozambique?

  • Pray for protection for believers in northern Mozambique as the region remains unstable and vulnerable to attacks from extremist groups.
  • Please pray that God will comfort and heal Christians who are severely traumatised because of the violent attacks.
  • Pray for Open Doors partners who work in Mozambique to be protected as they seek to strengthen the faith of believers.
  • Prayers
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Even images like this one are not showing the curve of a sphere earth. But is showing the land of a flat surface turning back toward the observer/camera, as the camera would show in a 360 view the earth as a circular disk.



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The fact that you can only see as far as about 370 miles to the horizon from that altitude proves the earth is a sphere.
Congratulations on your own goal.
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Border czar Homan says ‘Catholic Church is wrong’ on immigration

Mr. Homan is correct. There are legal pathways & laws to follow. I think sometimes people get this impression of Christ that He is trying to just be liberal & liked & thus allow every behavior. No He had a standard. We have trouble deciphering it. All nations must have border laws in order to retain sovereignty. We don't exist as a bunch of tribes on this planet in a vacuum where we can all sit down at the campfire. The reality is that all humans live in tension. I like so many people wait for a 2nd Coming that would dissolve this toxicity. But one has to understand the financial burden place on citizens from this huge transgression. The Democrats allowed this because they want a compliant people to come in & eventually get to the voting booth. This people will do what they're told which is to vote for the hand that feeds. It's Pavlovs dogs. Then you lose all control of society. If they can get freebies, then maybe John Q should not pay his property taxes. Or maybe John Q should go steal a bicycle or rob a bank. Society breaks down if you don't have a decorum. Its all too easy to want to be liked & look benevolent to the people. It's like better to be popular than right. Well being popular is not always correct. This is not a matter of 50 migrants. It's much more. Why should the American people redistribute their hard-earned income now to these people & bring down their own standard of living. They could jeopardize their own ability to eat, pay rent or mortgage, get food, etc. And please don't give me this but if you do great in heaven will be your reward. Tell that to a cancer patient. And the Church does not appear to have an answer to the drug problem, trafficking, & crime. It's like saying don't worry we have the money to pay for the cost on society for the fentanyl. don't worry if someone does too much charity & now can't pay the rent, we will send 2 loaves & 5 fish. It's also easy to see that church attendance has declined & it may appear that these migrants make for easy bait to fill the pews. So it appears everyone has a motive of exploitation. When a society lacks a standard & plays everyone gets a trophy, it degrades the standard. We have our own homeless, our own vets, drug addicts, mentally ill, poor, & even these days middle class.
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“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”How some of the state’s welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror group

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Somalia fraud story is the scale, with total costs running into the billions of taxpayer dollars. That raises the question: What happened to all that money?
The Somali fraud rings have sent huge sums in remittances, or money transfers, from Minnesota to Somalia. According to reports, an estimated 40 percent of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad. In 2023 alone, the Somali diaspora sent back $1.7 billion—more than the Somali government’s budget for that year.
Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of “hawalas,” informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab.

The Minnesota government hands out taxpayer money with little checking or follow-up.

Joe Biden Loses Cool When Asked Question

You downplay his actions and call it merely boorish, I'll call it fascistic when a single leader is demanding complete unchecked power while siccing the military on his own constituents and using his crypto coin grifts as slush funds for dark money and foreign government bribery, among a myriad of other crimes.
Call a man a Nazi long enough and people start believing it.
Maybe you missed the sarcasm indicator denoting the facetious nature of my comment but would you like you an actual prediction?
You predicted Trump family flees to Russia. You mean you think he won't?
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Why Zohran Mamdani won and New York will pay a terrible price

in my own experience it was a problem. They just went to another agency
I LOVE unions.

But dang if they do far too much to protect bad eggs.

(I don't see it as much as a teacher but when I was working as a counsellor at a govt. facility for youth, there were people being protected and coddled. I did not like that).
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What is the meaning of Total Depravity?

That is the logical consequence of the sovereigny of God (Ro 9:19-24).
Ok so God created them in a fallen state knowing that they are incapable of meeting His expectations unless He was to intervene and enable them, then punishes them for failing to meet the expectations that He already knew that they were incapable of meeting when He created them?
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Why do people hate ICE...

Nah, this us the garbage the Democrats have been feeding the blacks for decades. Much like the more recent claims of "the GOP is full if Nazis". Utter junk. Its a shame they've been able to bamboozle people like that.

So you are going to dismiss what I'm telling you about my own community? Democrats don't have to tell Black people anything. We have eyes and ears.
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US War Department mistakenly invades Mexico in dramatic escalation of tensions as Pentagon scrambles to contain the fallout: Daily Mail

Daily Fail reporting...

US 'contractors' arrived by boat on Monday at Playa Bagdad, driving signs into the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico [sic].

Alarmed witnesses quickly alerted officials and heavily armed Mexican security personnel rushed to the scene on trucks mounted with machine guns in a terrifying standoff.

The Pentagon, in a deeply embarrassing statement, admitted that its troops were mistaken when they landed on the beach.

The Mexican personnel watched as the Americans drove six signs into the ground, which said: 'Warning: restricted area.'

Written in English and Spanish, they claimed that the beach was the property of the US Department of Defense [sic] and had been declared restricted by 'the commander'.

The US Embassy in Mexico shared a comment from the Pentagon on Tuesday which confirmed that personnel had been sent to mark 'National Defense Area III'.

'Changes in water depth and topography altered the perception of the international boundary's location,' the statement said. 'Government of Mexico personnel removed six signs based on their perception of the international boundary's location.'

The Pentagon added that contractors would 'coordinate with appropriate agencies to avoid confusion in the future.'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared on Tuesday that the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), a binational agency that determines the border between the two countries, would arbitrate the dispute.

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