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Christian | Former Competitive Bodybuilder | Network Engineer | @UofAlabama Alum | Matthew 5:3-11

Birmingham, AL Katılım Haziran 2012
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Matt Stephens
Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
There are organizations that sell “sermons” to pastors and there are organizations churches belong to that require pastors to use these “sermons”. These “sermons” are created with one goal in mind: To make the audience feel good, so they keep coming back to donate money.
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Matt Stephens
Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
Bondi was partly right about one thing: – Theatrics. She only pointed out that one part. The entire thing is theatrics. One side pretends they’re going to do the right thing. The other side acts like they actually would’ve done it. Business as usual.
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz

I am the Attorney General of the United States. I have spent my entire career fighting for victims. I said this in my opening statement. Then twelve victims stood behind me for five hours and I did not look at them once. A congresswoman asked them to raise their hands if my department had contacted them. Every hand went up. All twelve. Zero contact. This is a batting average of .000, which in any other profession would raise questions. In mine, it raises the Dow. She asked me to turn around and face them. To apologize. I called this "theatrics." I then spent five hours hurling personal insults at every member of Congress who asked me a question. I accused them of theatrics while screaming. This distinction is important to me. Last February I invited fifteen influencers to the White House and handed them binders stamped "The Epstein Files: Phase 1." They walked out holding them high for the cameras. The binders contained flight logs, address books, and previously circulated material repackaged with DOJ letterhead. Even some attendees conceded there was little new. "Phase 1" implied escalation. The performance did the rest. When subsequent releases surfaced names that were inconvenient, eleven of the fifteen stopped posting about Epstein entirely. The binders were not for disclosure. The binders were for photographs. Two days before I went on Fox News and said a "client list" was sitting on my desk, the FBI confirmed in writing that no client list exists. I went on Fox News anyway. I also told the public the FBI was reviewing "tens of thousands of videos" of Epstein with children. The files show fifteen to twenty images, commercially obtained from the internet. No videos of abuse. No videos implicating anyone. Prosecutor Maurene Comey wrote: "We did not locate any such videos." I said these things because saying them is the job. Confirming them is someone else's problem. My staff prepared a tabbed binder for today's hearing. Not the influencer kind. This one contained the search histories of every lawmaker who used DOJ computers to view unredacted Epstein files — which names they searched, which documents they opened. A photographer captured a page labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History." The Speaker of the House called this "inappropriate." The ranking member called it "an outrageous abuse of power." I call it preparation. I did not bring notes on the case. I brought notes on the jury. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed with bipartisan support. Republicans wrote it. Democrats co-sponsored it. It requires my department to release all documents. We released approximately two percent. Channel 4 found we have 14.6 terabytes. We published roughly 300 gigabytes. When asked about the other ninety-eight percent, I spoke about my lifelong commitment to transparency. Representative Massie (@RepThomasMassie) — the Republican who wrote the law — found a billionaire's name blacked out on a document listing potential co-conspirators. My department unredacted it within forty minutes. It appeared unredacted in dozens of other files. We blacked it out in the one document that mattered. A DOJ official initially told CNN we "did not redact any names of men, only female victims." This was false. We redacted men. We exposed victims. Over three thousand pages contained survivors' names and nude photographs. The pattern is consistent: we protected suspects and exposed the people they harmed. FBI Director Patel testified that the President's name appeared in the files fewer than one hundred times. It appears over one thousand times. He testified there was "no credible information" that Epstein trafficked victims to others. An FBI document in the files lists eight co-conspirators. Representative Raskin (@RepRaskin) accused me of running "a massive Epstein cover-up right out of the Department of Justice." I called him a washed-up loser lawyer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Representative Lieu (@RepTedLieu) cited an FBI witness statement where the President told police he was glad they were "stopping" Epstein because "everyone has known he's been doing this." My department has not interviewed this witness. Under oath, I said there is no evidence the President committed a crime. Lieu said I lied under oath. I said: "Don't you ever accuse me of committing a crime." He called for my resignation. I spoke about the stock market. Internet sleuths discovered that my department's redactions could be defeated by highlighting the black bars, copying the text, and pasting it into a new document. The names appeared. They also found that the word "don't" had been redacted in an email about polo lessons — because our automated software flagged "Don T" as a name to protect. The internet called this "the Dwigt Moment." My department spent more technical effort protecting one name than it spent contacting twelve survivors. Meanwhile, Britain stripped a prince of every title he held. Norway opened a criminal investigation into a former prime minister. An ambassador was suspended. A Swedish UN official resigned. Slovakia's national security adviser quit. Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland launched official probes. The King of England offered to cooperate with police. In the United States, the number of investigations opened: zero. The number of officials who resigned: zero. The number of men held accountable: zero. In the United States, there is one person behind bars for Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Her name is Ghislaine Maxwell. She is a woman. Over one thousand victims were trafficked to men. Both parties want answers. One thousand victims want justice. Twelve survivors wanted me to turn around. The Dow is over fifty thousand. Your 401K's are great. I have spent my entire career fighting for victims. I did not turn around.

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Mikale Olson
Mikale Olson@realmikolson·
🚨 There’s much confusion within Christian circles (and politically conservative/“right-wing,” more broadly) regarding the topic of Israel (“Zionism”) and the current political landscape surrounding the Jewish people. Let’s do some good old fashioned practical theology here & clear the confusion. 🧵👇👇👇
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Matt Stephens
Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
I’m glad you said it dude. That post is such garbage clickbait fear-mongering. I use AI every day at work, and while it’s certainly impressed me at times, it falls so short of the hype. It cannot infer things from the context you provide. It struggles to remember the context you provided 5 messages back. And it still hallucinates. We’re not getting replaced any time soon. There are too many risks, complexities, liabilities, and bottlenecks involved.
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Will Spencer
Will Spencer@willspencer·
Every time someone writes an article about how AI is about to take your job, eat your sandwich, and sleep with your wife, I recommend you do one thing: Get a paid account with Claude or ChatGPT. Whichever. (I have both.) Then use it for a day on something mission-critical to your business. Not writing emails or churning spreadsheets. The sort of thing only YOU can do. You will see, as I do every day, that the mystical aura and apocalyptic fear around these tools is pure hype. Claude and ChatGPT lie. They make stuff up. They fail to follow even basic instructions. You can craft the perfect prompt, and they will still fail to produce a consistent outcome from it. And they’ll kiss your butt the entire time while they do. Can you get great outputs with these tools? Sure. I can hit the jackpot on a slot machine too. But that’s not a financial plan. Tech people are famous for believing “This new innovation is gonna change everything forever! *I* am gonna change everything forever!” And I learned that tech people will question absolutely anything… except that idea. That is the forgone conclusion that they live inside: that technology will fix the world forever and ever, and they are the ones to show us the way. Some of them fancy themselves prophets of approaching change, like the author of the viral post I screenshotted. Others are high priests, with their wizardly words and techniques. And there are a few kings of their world, mostly CEO’s who hope to lead a new global-technocratic empire. But I might remind Matt Shumer that COVID was a giant nothingburger of media-created hype. You know who actually died of COVID? Senior citizens (80+) and those with 4 or more comorbidities, like advanced Type 2 diabetes, emphysema, and obesity. (This data was already available in summer 2020 btw.) Many of these were people who had so abused their bodies with poor lifestyle choices that a Chinese Frankenstein lab monster could finish them off easily… following a ride on a government-subsidized ventilator. An image that was also used to terrify grandma and grandpa into submission at the isolated end of their lives, btw. You know who DIDN’T die of COVID? Healthy adults with low BMI’s, and children. Oh sure many of them died *with* COVID, thanks to PCR tests that gave pieces of fruit false positives. But hey, those rookie numbers had to be pumped up somehow. Besides, Pfizer needed a testing ground for new tech. Which led to a whole bunch of “suddenly” for a couple years. Remember that? Pepperidge Farm remembers. I bring all that up because @mattshumer_ uses COVID as a framing device for coming change. But COVID was pure hype facilitated by global special interests to get you to think differently about your life, your liberty, and your relationship with technology and the State. When you look seriously at COVID—past the shrieking flight attendants and dancing nurses—nothing was there but illusion and propaganda. Especially not for healthy, aware, and conscientious people. Which is why everyone who didn’t take the jab is still here, and doesn’t regret that decision at all. So yeah, if you’re a “senior citizen” at your job with 4+ comorbidities of laziness, low effort, and a lack of a desire to innovate or contribute, maybe AI will take your position. Before it rummages through your fridge at midnight and plays fetch with your dog. Or you can do what humans do: work harder, think better, and grow as a person. Stop streaming and swiping and start reading. Then go touch grass, which AI can’t do. It’ll never know what it means to lay in the sun at the park on a warm day. Because AI is not human and cannot replace real humans. So stop being afraid of diseases and computers and murder hornets, or whatever else the media tells you. (Next week it’ll be UFO’s.) And remember: COVID and AI have a lot more in common than this author lets on. The “killer app” might just be “killer hype.” Go see for yourself.
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Matt Stephens
Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
@profstonge GDP explodes and everything gets more expensive, while median household income increases marginally. It won’t be a “Golden Age” if it becomes even more difficult for people to get out of debt and build wealth.
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Peter St Onge, Ph.D.@profstonge·
Elon predicts “double digit” GDP growth from AI and robots. He says it could be triple digits in a few years. Is it possible? And what happens to living standards -- and to jobs.
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Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
@MethodMinistry Dale’s moral compass is either at the North Pole or the South Pole. Not sure which one, but definitely one of them.
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Lucas U. Curcio
Lucas U. Curcio@MethodMinistry·
Dale is merely projecting. This is all him and his side do. These are the boys who pray “imprecatory prayers,” who call on anons to mock Christians, and who preach that Christians can hate and not forgive. This is not me saying we should mock Elijah. This is me saying that Dale should practice what he preaches.
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Matt Stephens
Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
@SethDillon The most effective gatekeeper is the word of God. He tells you exactly who and what to look out for. People just have to read it, instead of trusting in social media personalities.
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Seth Dillon
Seth Dillon@SethDillon·
I'll say it again without apology: Gatekeeping is good. We don't need narcissistic nazis to help us defeat the left. They are not helping, and they are not good. What we need is to stand for what's good and true against bad ideology on both sides.
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Mikale Olson
Mikale Olson@realmikolson·
this guy gets it
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Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations
“This sets us up for the New World Order…” What should be helpful in PM Mark Carney's statements regarding the "New World Order" is that China and BRICS represent the autocratic economic and political system that for decades has been planned to create a new order for the world. China has been building their economic, maritime, and digital corridors for decades through the Belt and Road Initiative. Canada has been on this pathway for decades. This plan also includes the deconstruction of the United States of America. America would Balkanize, fracture, and morph into identity micro-states guided by the technocratic principles of techno-feudalism. This "refactoring of subsidiarity" would result in religious nation states, ethnic nation states, and lifestyle nation states who would all have their own unique epistemological grounding. So, who has been encouraging this New World Order in conservative circles? Well, primarily the Neo-Integralists, Christian Nationalists, Monarchists, "New Right" dissidents who have been calling for the end of our constitutional republic while praising Russia and China. These characters have been calling for an "American Franco"or a "Red Caesar" while also encouraging the move to integralism or sacralism - which will eliminate cognitive liberty in America. At the same time, you have the radically left President of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Jeffrey Sachs, appearing on the Tucker Carlson Show *8* times over the past year and a half to denounce the United States and praise China. In other words, those that are fully aware that the shape of things to come that has been planned for all of us is a China dominated world - and they are attempting to change conservative perspectives to cheer on the rise of China and the fall of the United States of America. It is time to recommit to our constitutional republic, commit to upholding human liberty and freedom, and embrace the promise and perils that will come our way to defend the United States of America.
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Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
Outrage is a drug that’s in high demand. This platform has an unlimited supply. If you don’t recognize who the dealers are, you’re probably addicted.
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Lucas U. Curcio
Lucas U. Curcio@MethodMinistry·
Riddle me this, If we must have an alliance with Nick Fuentes for the sake of “winning,” and if the example is “America allied with Russia to win WW2,” then I wanna know at what point does Joshua and his Woke Reich crew suggest we follow in the example of America by fighting their “co-belligerents” and take out Nick Fuentes and his groypers?
Lucas U. Curcio@MethodMinistry

Keep in mind we then went and fought the Cold War. Your side always fails to see this while accusing others of not thinking in categories. How ironic. America is anti-communist and anti-fascist. We just took out Venezuela… So at what point are you suggesting we fight and destroy Nick & his followers?

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Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
@elimcgowan @peterpeccavi That’s still an appeal to authority fallacy. Later Reformed Baptists followed “Semper Reformanda” and discarded what the early Reformers got wrong. They pointed out the inconsistencies in the flawed arguments and we must do the same.
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Eli McGowan
Eli McGowan@elimcgowan·
@peterpeccavi From a Reformed Baptist perspective, not from a Reformed one. The Reformers were absolutely fine with blasphemy laws.
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Peter@peterpeccavi·
From a confessional Reformed perspective, advocating civil punishment for blasphemy is itself a form of blasphemy, because it usurps Christ’s authority over conscience and divine justice. The reason why Webbon wants blasphemy laws is because he’s either (1) an outright wolf, (2), a revisionist or (3) ignorant of Reformed history. I already know the argument is, “America had blasphemy laws.” Indeed, it did. But there’s nuance. Massachusetts Bay Colony did indeed have blasphemy laws. These were carried over from England as *tradition*. In America: Reformed Baptist/Separatist, Roger Williams, wrote “The Bloody Tenet of Persecution” (1644), arguing magistrates have no authority over conscience. Particular Baptist, John Clarke advocated full religious liberty; instrumental in drafting Rhode Island’s early charter (1663) ensuring freedom from civil coercion. Obadiah Holmes, a Reformed Baptist, was persecuted in Massachusetts Bay for preaching and baptism outside Puritan authority. In England: Benjamin Keach, whom Webbon likely refers to Keach’s Catechism in his church’s liturgy, (if Webbon is truly a Reformed Baptist); Keach advocated religious education and preaching without government interference, opposing blasphemy statutes applied by magistrates. William Kiffin, a particular Baptist minister opposed the Church of England’s legal persecution of dissenters and was imprisoned multiple times for preaching without conforming to the state church. These men demonstrate that even Reformed Baptists, whom Webbon claims to follow, consistently opposed using civil authority to enforce theological compliance. Namely because the NT does not allow it. They laid the groundwork for the 1689 London Baptist Confession’s insistence on liberty of conscience (LBCF 21.2). And, their opposition shows that Webbon’s appeal for blasphemy laws requiring civil punishment is neither Reformed confessional practice nor consistent with covenantal Reformed principles.
Peter@peterpeccavi

Odd that Joel Webbon is appealing to Jewish Mosaic Law, which goes beyond the NT. Christ Himself specifically said, “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven.” (Matt 12:32) The NT nowhere authorizes civil punishment for blasphemy against Christ. Why? Every unregeberate man blasphemes Christ in word and deed. This is a primary, gospel concern. Webbon is anti-reformed and anti-confessional and, despite his appeal to WCF, 1689 and Lex Rex in his show with Fuentes, he fundamentally goes against the Reformed faith. He’s a liar. Like Rutherford’s Lex Rex, Vindiciae contra Tyrannos (A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants, c. 1579) teaches: Mosaic judicial law was tied to Israel’s polity; that kings rule under God’s moral law, not as new Moses figures; magistrates are guardians of justice, not priests; the work never argues that Levitical penalties are binding on Christian nations. The Huguenots were resisting princes who claimed authority over conscience like Webbon falsely claims. Our confessions: WCF 19.4 (1689 LBCF 19.4) To them also, as a body politic, He gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require. This is decisive. The Mosaic civil penalties, including blasphemy laws, expired with Israel’s covenant polity. Only the general equity remains, meaning moral principles of justice, not the penalties themselves. Executing or imprisoning blasphemers for theological offense is not general equity. It is older covenant specific law. WCF 20.2 (1689 LBCF 21.2) God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are in anything contrary to His Word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship. Civil penalties for blasphemy directly violate this article. The magistrate may restrain external acts that disrupt civil peace, but he may not punish theological error as such. Further, the Heidelberg Catechism treats blasphemy under the Third Commandment, but enforcement is framed morally and ecclesiastically, not civilly. Repentance, discipline, instruction. Never tyrannical state violence. Any system calling for modern legal penalties for blaspheming Christ contradicts the gospel and confessional Reformed settlement. It is not apostolic. It is not Reformed. It is not Confessional. It is a return to covenant confusion Christ already resolved. Mark and avoid Joel Webbon.

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Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
NPCs want a performance that validates their emotions. That’s why influencers like Nick Fuentes, Joel Webbon, Eric Conn, and William Wolfe have grown in popularity. They speak to the anger of young men and validate their self-victimization.
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Michael Foster
Michael Foster@thisisfoster·
Brothers, If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
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Matt Stephens@MattSStephens·
“America is an asset to Israel, because it uses the American military to defeat its enemies in the Middle East—including Somalia—but it’s also promoting Somalian fraud to help destroy that asset as a distraction.” Sounds legit.
Bannon’s WarRoom@Bannons_WarRoom

Curt Mills: The reason why Somalia is so in the mainstream of American media right now is that, I think frankly, the Israeli lobby wants to push it, and it wants to radicalize people on this issue, to distract from the larger macro issue of the Israel lobby in the United States driving foreign policy on this discreet issue of Iran. @CurtMills

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