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A lot of people are asking why more politicians are not like Ben Sasse. Because voters will not elect them, that’s why. They may say they care about character, but most don’t vote that way. Instead they vote party line, ideology, self-interest, or out of pique against a perceived enemy. How can we expect our leaders to embody higher levels of virtue if a majority of voters don’t make personal character a red line? It looks like we get the leaders we deserve.

What this manifesto shows is that this was not a mentally unstable person in a psychotic fit. He is a thoughtfully, intentionally evil person deliberately carrying out the task left-wing media figures had convinced him would be necessary and heroic

NEWS: new info on the WHCD shooting suspect, Cole Allen, from the White House. I'll be talking with President Trump about all of this in 30 minutes on @SundayBriefFNC The suspect’s written manifesto clearly stated he wanted to target administration officials. He also had a ton of anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric on his social media accounts. ALLEN's brother had notified New London PD (CT) of ALLEN's alleged manifesto he had sent to his family members prior to the incident.   Secret Service and Montgomery County Police interviewed Avriana Allen, ALLEN’s sister, at their residence in Rockville, MD. The following highlights from the interview: •Allen said her brother had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do “something” to fix the issues with today’s world. •Confirmed ALLEN purchased two handguns and a shotgun from Cap Tactical Firearms and kept them stored at their parent’s home and that their parents were unaware that ALLEN was keeping the firearms in the home. •ALLEN would regularly go to the shooting range to train with his firearms •ALLEN was part of a group called ‘The Wide Awakes’ •ALLEN attended a ‘No Kings’ protest in California at some point

VIRGINIA OK, I am trying to organize my thoughts about yesterday's vote in Virginia. Here is my analysis from my capturing of the election night reporting data. There was an "f-curve" at 8:59pm that was actually preceded by a near f-curve at 8:43. These 2 updates wiped away what had been a decent lead for "no redistricting". Interestingly, at 9:16 there was another big jump for "yes". From my analysis, most of the votes from all 3 of these came from Fairfax County, one of Virginia's most reliable vote manufacturing hubs. My old pet peeve, totals going down rather than up, was way too frequent. 23 counties had at least one case of "negative votes", including Chesterfield's whopping 71,903 deduction at 10:45 this morning (April 22). Augusta had a 11,968 deduction at 10:18. A whopping 13 counties had deductions in the SAME REPORT at 7:41PM on the 21st (for a total of 18,476). This is not acceptable and needs explained. (Other than, "well these numbers aren't official". They are official enough to show on the news.) And, of course, the referendum was ultimately lost because of mail-in votes. About 10% of the total was mail-in, and about 73% were "yes". We have no way of knowing how many of these were real people casting a vote for themselves, but they added net 137,000 votes for "yes" and that is almost 50,000 more than the currently reported winning margin for "yes". (The same applies for the election of Commissar Spanberger) In summary, a completely preventable train wreck. I hope that the Republican leaders in Virginia are now convinced that mail-in ballots and machine counting are not our friends. I also hope they start asking the hard questions of counties like Chesterfield. It's going to be easiest to read this, shrug, and move on. Please don't. Please forward on, especially if you know people in Virginia. But the same thing will happen in every other state, eventually, if its not stopped. You can see the raw data for yesterday's election at votedatabase.com/2026 - select Virginia, unknown party, then statewide or whatever county you want to examine. I'm here if anyone has questions.

@glteel69 @pj_schreiner Fallen angels ≠ demons. And who’s to say that the progeny of the fallen angels aren’t still among us today? After all…”the Nephilim were on the earth in that day and also after” (i.e., the time of the Flood)

@pj_schreiner If the "fallen angels" having intimate relations with women in Gen 6 is correct, what keeps demons from attacking women today? You may be right, and I give to collective wisdom of you, John Gerstner and Heisler, but I have never heard a satisfactory answer to this question.

I held the "fallen angels" view of Genesis 6 long before I read Heiser and I'm still most persuaded by this interpretation.

@derekradney @pj_schreiner @trevorilaurence The world ‘elohim’ is only ever used to refer to divine beings in the Bible - never does it refer to human beings.

@pj_schreiner I just don’t see it. What are the main reasons for holding that view? My study suggests that a lot of weight is put on the meaning of the term “sons of god.” I found the arguments @trevorilaurence made here convincing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ser…

Because mail-in ballot fraud is a universally accepted problem except for blue and purple states in the USA. Why do we think the voting begins in September? Because time is needed to collect them from “low propensity” people who wouldn’t go vote otherwise.

This killing is more brutal than the far more famous Michael Brown shooting. The real scandal here is not just the violence, but the culture around it. In this video, you see a generation raised in moral chaos. Each one of these kids belongs to a family. What were they taught? What were they raised to believe? The crowd recording and taunting instead of intervening reveals a deeper rot. Where is the individual conscience? What we are witnessing are the internal failures that our white guilt racial order has long excused. Whites who have exploited blacks for cheap moral virtue all these years will never look this problem in the eye. They don’t want to see the horror they contributed to.

@MrRyanDrew @ConceptualJames Ok, legalist. I haven’t come across that in any Scripture where it says you can’t reference said Scripture if you don’t follow the unspoken rule when quoting Scripture. Weird take.

@ConceptualJames If you’re going to appeal to the biblical record of God judging the world for rejecting/disobeying Him at Babel, then you’re also accountable for how you respond to what Jesus did on the cross. Jesus is the only way of salvation, you must repent and trust in Him for eternal life.

Since we're all talking about Elon's fantasies of "Universal High Income" and thus about advances in AI, notably AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), let me talk about my current thoughts on the project, why it's the Tower of Babel, and what kind of disaster that means it is. It's becoming increasingly clear that AI "in silica" isn't going to be able to truly cross the general intelligence barrier, or so I hear. Maybe it can on its own; I don't know; but it's not the intention anyway. The way AI is meant to cross the "G" barrier and truly become AGI and Superintelligence is by merging with humans. In fact, the idea of the brain-machine interface and the connection to the internet (Internet of Brains/Bodies) is the part of the project that usually doesn't get talked about as an integral piece of the plan. Yes, that means Neuralink (plus Starlink), and, yes, I am completely aware of the good it (both of them) also can do and can bring (and are bringing already). My read on the situation now is that merging man with machine is necessary to get over a particular intelligence barrier (probably actual generative intelligence), so our own human essence, whatever the represents in terms of intelligence or even in theological terms, if those apply, is the missing ingredient to make the machine work. If that's the case, they're building a Tower of Babel, in Silica, and it's likely to work out the same way as in Genesis 11 (badly). In Genesis 11, God sees man building the Tower to Heaven to make a mark for themselves and such that nothing they do will be impossible for them, so he scatters them and confuses their language (and presumably knocks the tower over or something). Taken symbolically, not just as a literal story, this tells us something important: these project result in catastrophe, destruction, scattering, confusion, and separation. My guess here is that since one of the things AI is actually pretty good at is translating one language to another, and since Elon always says we won't have to talk after we're all an Internet of Brains and can just share thoughts as they are (YIKES!!!), we won't exactly see a scattering of languages as this project collapses. We'll see the scattering at the relevant layer of communication and its substrate. In the ancient world, we talked and languages could separate us; in the modern world, it will be the underlying mental state from which the thoughts arise. That's properly scary but seems right. As we start going into this will-be nightmare scenario, I'm willing to bet a lot of people will, in fact, go crazy because of it. Not a little crazy. REALLY CRAZY. And in ways we've likely never seen before. Their mental states will be confused such that they cannot communicate with one another, even hooked up to the Internet of Brains where communication might really be like direct transmission of thoughts. I'm given to that line in The Matrix where Agent Smith is explaining to a captured Morpheus that the first Matrix was a Utopia but the human mind rejected it. "Whole crops were lost," he says. So that means the attempt at AGI with its likely-missing ingredient (actual intelligence, human intelligence) will itself be contaminated by minds that have gone fully bonkers and likely in really bad ways. Imagine the craziest AI hallucinations you can manifesting out in every possible pathological state a human brain can end up in, including when on drugs and such, and that's your network substrate. So our first superintelligence is going to be superintelligent because it's built on the brains of a bunch of people who are going absolutely nuts in violently unpredictable ways, and that's the essential ingredient that lets it pass the Silica Barrier? Woof. Not good. No bueno. A la verga! That tower is coming down. The people involved will be scattered. Indeed, many will be destroyed in the process. Whole crops (of data providers) will be lost. I don't know if they'll make something like this work in the end, but I think Genesis 11 gives us a pretty important cautionary tale on what's likely to happen. I get it. The Tech Bros want to build a great Silicon Tower to make their mark so that they'll never be forgotten. They want to make all humans in full and perfect communication with one another at the speed of thought, such that nothing will be impossible for us. What could possibly go wrong besides everything?

Two years ago, Naomi Guzman doused her father in lighter fluid and tried to set him on fire, then broke into a church and threatened a priest with a knife. She was found incompetent to stand trial and released. Today, she abducted a toddler and stabbed him before she was shot and killed by police.

How ruthlessly effective is the Democrat machine? Eric Swalwell is asked to drop out of the race because a Republicans may actually win. He refuses. Party operatives tap into their pool of white liberal feminists and just like that, he's hit with not one...not two, but FOUR sexual assault accusations. Of course, none of the victims can remember any details, just that it happened. The exact Blasey-Ford and E. Jean Carrol playbook. Within an hour, the victim is being interviewed on @CNN. The email goes out. Almost immediately, the teacher's union is condemning him and Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries and every other Democrat on Twitter is calling for him to drop out of the race. Keep in mind, when Tara Reade accused Biden of forcibly sexually abusing her, they called her a liar and nobody called for him to drop out. This is all a coordinated attack because they've seen the internal polling that Steve Hilton may actually win this thing and they are sacrificing Swalwell because liberal idiots like him are a dime a dozen.

This animal was ‘competent’ enough to vote. He was ‘competent’ enough to get welfare. He was ‘competent’ enough to get public housing. He was ‘competent’ enough to get EBT. He was ‘competent’ enough to get free bus rides. He was ‘competent’ enough to acquire a murder weapon. He was ‘competent’ enough to slice a girls throat in an instant. He was ‘competent’ enough to immediately brag about murdering “that white girl.” This animal was ‘competent’ enough to stand trial for 14 (!!!!) previous violent offenses and be set free. But now that he’s facing the death penalty he’s miraculously ‘incompetent’ and cannot be judged. My blood is boiling. Impeach and punish the corrupt judges who allowed this violent repeat offender to be free to kill Iryna. Federal charges better stick and deliver the death penalty to this monster, who was caught on camera committing racial hate murder. Make it a public execution. End this madness. We cannot share a society with these people. Kill evil.

Realize. Where. We. Are.

The actual, official 2024 Democratic Party platform accused Trump of "fecklessness and weakness" for failing to go to war with Iran during his first term. Kamala Harris labeled Iran the #1 enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America's enemies and announced that she "will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel." There was no "plan" for avoiding this. Your people wanted this war as much as Trump and his handlers did. That's why they're doing nothing right now.

@thekyleyates Context (and common sense). And stop interpreting everything he says literally. Don’t let the TDS affect rational thought. He has no interest in literally killing Iranian citizens who are longing for the day to be out from under the oppressive theocracy.

He has to go. Now.

@DavidLimbaugh Recommend this book from the sources list (and the many others written by Dr. Heiser!)

I asked the AI study guide in Logos Bible Software about the term angel of the Lord in the Old Testament and why evangelical scholars interpreted that to mean a pre-incarnate version of Christ. I further asked it about the Jewish interpretation. I think the answer is interesting as it always is. Angel of the Lord > Many evangelical scholars believe that the term angel of the Lord in the Old Testament describes pre-incarnate appearances of the son of God. Why did they come to believe that God is not an angel his son is not an angel so how did Bible scholars come up with the theory that the term angel of the Lord was in fact a pre-incarnate Christ? Also, how did the Jews interpret that phrase and how was that phrase? translated in the Hebrew scriptures. Evangelical scholars arrived at the preincarnate Christ interpretation through careful textual analysis rather than theological assumption. The angel of the Lord identifies himself as Yahweh in accounts like Abraham and Jacob’s encounters, speaking both for and as God, while others identify him as God—as seen in Hagar’s and Joseph’s stories.[1] Although Scripture teaches that only God deserves worship, the Angel of the Lord accepts reverence and worship.[1] These characteristics—combined with the angel’s divine knowledge and actions—suggested a figure distinct from ordinary messengers yet possessing divine attributes. A crucial observation strengthened this interpretation: theologians noticed the phrase “the angel of the Lord” never appears after Jesus arrives in the New Testament, suggesting that once the incarnation occurred, this unique heavenly representative became obsolete because Jesus became God’s earthly, visible representative.[2] Unlike other angelic beings who refused worship because they were creatures, the angel of the Lord accepted it without rebuke, and unlike other angels who emphatically declared their creatureliness when people sought to worship them, the angel of the Lord did not.[3] Regarding Jewish interpretation, the evidence is complex. Jewish theologians prior to the New Testament era, observing texts featuring the Angel and other “dual Yahweh” language, developed a theology of two powers in heaven—a teaching Jewish authorities declared heresy after the second century AD.[4] In the Septuagint (Greek translation), only 33 of 56 occurrences carry the definite article, making it difficult to determine conclusively whether Alexandrian Jewish translators understood this “Angel” as having unique identity or as simply one of God’s heavenly hosts.[5] The Aramaic Targums, however, rendered Genesis 4:1 as “I have gotten a man, the angel of Jehovah” or “the angel of the Lord,” suggesting rabbis recognized something supernatural in the text.[6] [1] David J. MacLeod, “The Trinity and Scripture,” Emmaus Journal (2002), 11:2:195. [2] René A. López, “Identifying the ‘Angel of the Lord’ in the Book of Judges: A Model for Reconsidering the Referent in Other Old Testament Loci,” Bulletin for Biblical Research (2010), 14. [3] Douglas McCready, He Came down from Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ and the Christian Faith (Downers Grove, IL; Leicester, England: InterVarsity Press; Apollos, 2005), 180–181. [4] Michael S. Heiser, The Bible Unfiltered: Approaching Scripture on Its Own Terms (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2017), 67. [5] John M. Jr. Baze, “The Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament—Part II,” Conservative Theological Journal (1998), 2:4:66. [6] Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 115–116.

@thekyleyates Meanwhile…you got a Dem party that is adamantly opposed to anything having to do with Christianity, except for politicians like Talarico who unabashedly bastardized Scripture to legitimize things like abortion, aka…modern-day child sacrifice.

@thekyleyates Apples to tomatoes comparison, and if you can’t see that, then you’re just as blind as the Pharisees. That said, I do believe you worship the same Jesus as the MAGA ppl you implicitly impugn (presumably just bc of CN?). The D platform, however, has nothing Biblically redeeming…

Jesus was arrested by a movement that believed God was on their side of politics. He wasn't. He died refusing to let anyone use Him as a political weapon. That still applies. He never fit the mold of what people wanted Him to be...his mission was much larger than that. On this Good Friday, read Matthew 26-27 and ask yourself who is using Jesus today to further their own politics.

@MalcangiSarah Yep! The Church is not prepared for the depth of this deception.

I’m not surprised since I’ve read Genesis 6.

@ShadowofEzra It doesn’t matter whether or not aliens are legitimately real; it only matters that enough people believe they are real.

UFO expert Steven Greer warns that rogue actors inside the government are now on the verge of staging a fake alien invasion across the entire planet. He says the operation would be so advanced it could easily deceive most of the world, including top government officials. The goal, he claims, is to manufacture fear and justify a one-world government with unlimited power and zero accountability. “The ability to hoax an attack on our planet is real.”