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@ConceptualJames Who exactly are you describing here? Remove the label “Woke Right” and your description may implicate the man in the mirror James.

We cannot lose sight of the fact that the Woke Right is, above all, Woke. It is the temptation to power and evil and tribe and hatred and revenge that make them as they are and with it the delusional sense that they're dispossessed, alienated outsiders who should be our kings.

@ConceptualJames You will know a try by its fruit James. Your fruit is bitter and fetid.

We have all messed up in life, but who among us has messed up so badly that the sitting President of the United States took time out of his day to publicly declare that you're low IQ and everyone, even your own families, knows it. And so much more.

@Cernovich So true

I never thought it would get so bad that I of all people am trying to get people on common ground. And a lot of people are being NASTY to me. This isn’t my nature, to suffer insults, but Democrats are so much worse than the worst person who voted for Trump could ever be.

@ConceptualJames Which Israel James? The current secular nation state of Israel? Or the spiritual family of God by grace through faith in Jesus Christ?

What kind of nation does America see itself as? A COVENANTAL nation. With Whom? The God OF ISRAEL. From Winthrop's famous "city on a hill" sermon from 1630. "We shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies…"

@KATUNews Embarrassing Oregonians is her greatest accomplishment. She is a fraud

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek is set to sign a series of bills aimed at strengthening protections around immigration status in the state. bit.ly/4vm9JU7

@Cernovich And the shameless gaslighting from Trump apologists is pretty irritating as well. Genuine Christians are ashamed of Trump’s recent behavior and I’m fairly certain he has irreparably damaged the trust they placed in him. It’s terrible because Leftists are far worse and on the way

I don’t regret my vote for Trump in 2024. The opposite. Still glad. People are in denial though. They don’t want to hear the truth. The Epstein files gamesmanship hurt but could have been mostly forgotten. The Iran war on top of that has been a disaster.

@ConceptualJames I guess you’re a pragmatist and not an actual Christian?

Gonna put this on my wall.

@ChristineDrazan @TinaKotek Kotek is a Marxist. Marxists engineer crises to induce dependence on the State. All of this dysfunction and chaos is by design because people like Kotek understand that most people have short attention spans and will blame whoever the mainstream media tells them to.

A new study just proved that Oregon has one of the highest tax burdens in the nation. This isn't by accident, @TinaKotek has been raising billions in taxes for years and she wants to raise them more. That means less money to pay rent, afford groceries and build the life we want for our families. Oregonians deserve better. As Governor I'll cut taxes and work to bring down costs so you can keep your hard-earned money. Read more: koin.com/news/oregon/or…

@spenm181 @hbrooks_coach I hope you are correct because that is where we are. Not every club is equal and many of the ECNL Seattle clubs seem to do a good job of development. But in the Portland/Vancouver, WA area, not as many options for clubs that prioritize development over profit.

@aimsdrew9 @hbrooks_coach That’s changing right now. I’m watching it. At least in the PNW.

The more and more I look into the football player development system in the USA , the more baffled I am. It is as nonsense as it gets. In every single aspect. The USA has some of the most talented young players u16 and under in the world. There is pretty much nothing done to make the most of that. And some things are such such simple fixes. Wild.

@WallStreetApes Fantastic! Next do Oregon and Washington.

Spencer Pratt announces if he’s elected mayor of Los Angeles, he will audit every single dollar that’s been handed out for the homeless with the IRS He says every single NGO will be audited “With auditing, I already have it set up with the IRS. First week they're gonna come in and they're gonna audit every single dollar, and we're gonna find all these missing hundreds of millions of dollars that in my mind, have been scammed from taxpayers. Audits can take months if not years. That's when it's an internal audit, not when you have the best team at the criminal investigation at the IRS coming in who are already well aware of this fraud. They just need one document from each of these NGOs. They know this corruption, It's happening.”

@ConceptualJames You mean authentic Christians James. Just say what you mean. You would label Jesus that same derogatory term. You may think you are winning some obscure battle, but you have lost the war.

I think the most demoralizing thing I've seen yet is the mass emergence of the American Right-wing Pussy.

@ImBreckWorsham I started saying that back during COVID and I haven’t changed my opinion

I used to feel like this country was falling apart. Now I feel like its a controlled demolition. Anyone else picking up on that vibe, or is it just me?

@ConceptualJames You’ve lost the plot man. You can’t take it when people disagree with you. Narcissistic rage is unbecoming.

These fat fucks...

@ConceptualJames It’s not “panican” to point out the vitriolic smut being spewed from the mouth of the President we support. We get to have a voice James. That’s what makes our system of government work. You need to consider the distinct possibility that Trump has lost the plot.

The part I just can't get past with the Panicans, blackpillers, and Woke Right idiots is all the whining and crying. Where are the men in the movement? All these guys are bedwetting crybabies. It's off-putting.

@dandinohill Controlled demolition of the economic system that was kicked off with COVID. The money system is failing and it was hoped that a COVID crisis could reset the system with minimal pain for the elites, but the masses weren’t compliant enough so now it’s war. It’s right on schedule

I'm 68 and I've seen some unusual things - but nothing quite like this. I believe many of our own elected "leaders" are intentionally trying to harm the country. They are probably being paid Big Money to do so.

@jeffreytucker His psychopathic rage is bursting out because things are not working the way he thought they would. Trump misunderstands radical ideology. He falsely believes that they will act in their own self interest, but they have a different worldview that rewards sacrifice. Pray for him

I had to check if this is real. It is. Easter morning.

@ConceptualJames @MarinaMedvin So, are we to conclude that you believe that Christianity is a Zoroastrian cult offshoot rather than the fulfillment of Judaism’s teachings?

@MarinaMedvin I've been being mocked for it for years as a result, too. 👀👀

A little note about the myth of Lucifer. Lucifer means "light-bringer" (or "light-bearer") and originally refers to the planet Venus when it is visible in the morning sky. It rises in the East before the Sun and can be bright enough to cast thin shadows. When Venus appears in the eastern sky ahead of the sun, it is sometimes referred to as the "Morning Star" or the "Day Star," and was regarded in the ancient world as a herald of the incoming day and light of the (true) Sun. This thinking precedes any mythological understanding of Lucifer as the proudest among fallen angels or his equivalence to the devil or Satan. That particular line comes from post-Exilic Judaic thinking, likely influenced by Zoroastrian considerations and myths but incorporated otherwise. We see this appearing in the book of Isaiah, in particular. In Isaiah 14:12-15, we read this, although it's actually about the King of Babylon and addressed to Jacob: 12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” 15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit. (The original Hebrew text says Helel ben Shahar ("shining one, son of the dawn" or "day star"). Of course, Jews would interpret this as a complete rebuke against and warning against the heights of human pride and the desire to establish any man as "Most High" (just ask any observant Jew why the men wear the Kippah). God will lay low any who believes he is elite enough to ascend above all others or God Himself (or reality itself, for that matter). One might recognize it as a rebuke of maniacal "elite theory," to use some modern language. Christian interpreters later drew from Luke 10 and Revelation 12 to interpret this portion of Isaiah otherwise and more cosmically: as the story of Satan's fall from Heaven and into Hell. So the myth of "Lucifer, the light-bearer," literally as the "Morning Star" or "Star of Day," came to be associated with Satan. Later Christians connected this idea of Lucifer as Satan to the Serpent in Eden in Genesis 3 and connected the idea of the "Morning Star" as a form of deception and invitation into false or hidden secret spiritual "knowledge" (gnosis, so Gnosticism). Venus as the Morning Star thus became associated in Christian mythological thought with Lucifer and, in particular, with deception into false enlightenment, in particular "awakening" on Lucifer's terms, not God's. Lucifer appears ahead of the true Sun and true light of day, that is, true belief in God, and offers a taste of that light while actually still in the darkness. It's a nice metaphor and potent image: waking up ahead of the true dawn to a little bit of dazzling light while still being in the dark. This myth goes on to be taken very literally in the Gnostic cults before they were put down (though they never really went away, did they?). God, the Creator, is interpreted as a liar and a demon in the Gnostic myths, and Lucifer, as above, is treated as the first truth-teller Man ever encounters. Lucifer, as "light-bringer" is the liberator who boldly dares to defy the tyrant God to bring "true" spirituality to Man (in open defiance of God). These Gnostic myths later got incorporated into all kinds of goofy things through the Middle Ages in Europe after being reintroduced in Provence in the 11th century after the First Crusade, eventually into the motifs of thought that inspired "philosophers" like Rousseau and Marx and the demonic fraud Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society. Many of the dumbest ideas of the 19th century in Europe are directly the result of this myth being taken in its Luciferian (Gnostic) inverse. In my reading, virtually all of the esotericism that is woven into what we call "Woke" today is precisely of this flavor. Saul Alinsky, of Rules for Radicals fame, made it explicit by offering the following epigraph in the introduction to that wretched book: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer." So, do I think that "Woke" is Luciferian? Yes, certainly, by organization and in intention, and sometimes deliberately by intention. Whether we read the mentality in the pride of the King of Babylon in Isaiah, interpret it as later Christian thinkers did and warned about, or recognize its esoteric but also deliberate and sometimes explicit embrace in the Gnostics through the Social Esotericists and Elitists we call "Woke," the Luciferian spirit is undeniably there. Woke includes the "saying in one's heart" that they will "ascend" through their superior "understanding" of human reality. It is a proud and false awakening where a little bit of dazzling light shines in darkness. It is an insistence that the world operates, or should be forced to operate, on one's own "awakened" terms. It is Sociognostic. And that's without attaching the (again, post-Exilic) Jewish interpretation of Satan to this same character: accuser, prosecutor, deceiver, and (especially to Christians) Father of Lies. That is, it is also evil, deceptive, and accusatory on false and contrived terms and tempting to indulge in our own worst impulses and consider it superiority. In conclusion, this is what "Luciferian" means, and, yes, absolutely, Woke is Luciferian. (JLWR)

@PDXReal1 If SF implements Marbut’s policies and PDX doubles down on stupidity, it’ll be a good contrast. My opinion is that all current Portland leadership should resign in shame and let some new leaders with wisdom, courage ans common sense take the reins.

In mid-March, Robert Marbut, the national advisor on homelessness, visited Portland to discuss with city, county, and state leaders the Trump Administration’s plan on reducing homelessness in major US cities. Mayor Keith Wilson showed up at the meeting half way through and spoke about his policy of creating citywide shelters as a solution to the problem. Portland’s homeless rates are still one of the worst in the nation. In attendance were also several stakeholders and service providers. Marbut has helped dozens of cities throughout the US using an “earned progress” model that prioritizes drug and mental illness recovery prior to housing. It offers job training programs and placement once the individual stabilizes, and then places them into housing. It’s a leg up, not a hand out program, as Portland’s failed Housing First model is. The local media responded as one might expect, considering that none of them were invited to the meeting. Jillian Schoene, director of the Multnomah County Homelessness Response System, in typical “no Trump mania,” lied to the press and claimed Marbut’s plan would pull funds away from those currently in housing. It won’t. In response, what did the county do? The county chair, Jessica Vega-Pederson hired Nathanial VerGow, as new director of Multnomah County’s Homeless Services Department. VerGow is a staunch Housing First advocate who most recently worked as the deputy chief program officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, where he grew that agency into a multibillion dollar per year monstrosity while LA’s homeless issues became worse. VerGow’s hiring still has to be approved by the other four county commissioners, but this will undoubtedly be a formality and be rubber-stamped by the county leadership. “Multnomah County’s vision of integrating homeless services with affordable housing aligns closely with my values and experience,” VerGow said in a statement. On the other hand, just a few days prior to visiting Portland, San Francisco received Marbut much more enthusiastically. SF’s Mayor, Daniel Lurie, has welcomed Marbut’s ideas and plans to create programs based on the successful programs Marbut has spearheaded in places such as Salt Lake City, Nashville, San Antonio, Austin, and Baltimore. Meanwhile, Portland will still blindly plow forward with the same harmful and failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place. JVP shouldn’t even be allowed to make such important decisions since she has decided to step down from the county chair position at the end of her only term. Her time in leadership has been marred by failed policy after failed policy. This decision will undoubtedly be no different.

@karmaGFY @kevinvdahlgren Yup. This is exactly the kind of perverse incentive structure that perpetuates the madness that is happening on our streets. Sensible, wise politicians need to be elected and allowed to reform the system before more damage is done.

@aimsdrew9 @kevinvdahlgren I worked in this sector - the outcomes they set forth are increased participation. The contract director told me she ended a contract because they didn’t meet the increased client demand she put forth - I told her well that means they were successful. I was targeted and fired

Multnomah County announced the hiring of Nathaniel VerGow as the new Director of the Homeless Services Department. VerGow comes from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), one of the largest homelessness response systems in the country, where he served as deputy