Will closing the Department of Ed, USAID, and other agencies actually lead to less government intrusion in our lives? Or will they be replaced by something more sinister?
If we listen to the conservative press, billionaire globalist technocrat Bill Gates is in “panic mode,” making the rounds in the corporate media to push back against Elon Musk’s latest cost-cutting move, folding USAID into the U.S. State Department. But is Gates, who seems to have President Trump’s ear, really all that worried?
It’s been widely reported that the shake-up would give Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversight of the agency, a scenario that could put an end to USAID’s lucrative funding pipeline for Gates’ pet projects.
Appearing on NBC’s Today Show, Gates insisted that USAID’s work is not at all politically motivated.
“Elon doesn’t understand the importance of USAID’s mission,” he said. “It’s about global development, not politics.”
Global development? Now that’s something that is music to President Trump’s ears.
While Gates may be concerned that he is going to lose some government funding, he can make it up elsewhere, no problem. And Gates’ Microsoft AI juggernaut is already listed as one of the beneficiaries of Trump’s Stargate project to blanket America with massive AI data-collection centers.
Gates, contrary to what many conservatives believe, is not on the outside looking in. As a billionaire technocrat, Gates is already part of the “in” crowd with this White House. He requested a meeting with the new president a few weeks ago and he got what he wanted, three and a half hours with Trump. His AI partner, Sam Altman of ChatGPT, then surfaced a few days later as one of Trump’s main partners in Stargate.
Trump, if we’ve learned anything from his first two weeks in office, is attracted to technocrats and billionaires. He likes to build things and he likes to be seen as on the cutting edge.
Trump, like his biggest billionaire technocrat backer, Peter Thiel, also prides himself in being a “disrupter.” While some amount of disruption may be needed in a country as wayward as the United States, too much disruption delivered too quickly will simply plunge the nation into chaos. And chaos can then be exploited by the very globalists Trump says he is against. If Trump ends up declaring martial law to rein in protests, the globalists get their way with him again. Just like they did in his first term with Covid lockdowns.
While I fully support the idea of reducing the government’s bloated footprint on our lives, we’d better be careful what we wish for. What if entire government agencies are shuttered, not to reduce the size and scope of government authority, but to replace that authority with a more efficient AI-driven surveillance system?
Who needs 2 million federal employees if AI is on the cusp of taking over their duties anyway? A government run by algorithm could be so terrifyingly efficient in its tyranny that we will one day wish we could bring back those old inefficient and incompetent bureaucrats.
Some of Trump’s policies also fly in the face of his campaign promises and appear more globalist than “America first.”
For example, Trump came out this week and said he will continue U.S. funding of the war in Ukraine as long as the U.S. can lay claim to Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals. So, the same bloody war he said on the campaign trail he would end within the first 24 hours of his presidency, he now wants to keep going, under the condition that the U.S. gets to take a spoil.
Also, Trump’s Feb. 4 announcement with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding the U.S. “taking over” Gaza is loaded with unanswered questions and fraught with risks. “We’ll own it,” Trump said.
The White House sent out a clarifying statement 24 hours later on Feb. 5 saying that Trump’s plan to relocate the Palestinians would not be permanent but would only be “temporary.”
This Gaza deal strikes me as a grave mistake. The art of the deal is sounding more like the art of destruction when you consider that any redevelopment project in Gaza must start with a military project. How else are you going to forcibly remove all the Palestinians, level the buildings and de-mine the land? This goes flatly against Trump’s long-stated policy of focusing on “America first.” Why spend years working to redevelop a war-torn strip of real estate overseas when we have places in America that look almost as downtrodden and desperate? Gaza was wrecked by kinetic war, bombs falling out of the sky. After decades of economic war waged by Americans against Americans, we have ghost towns throughout the American South and Midwest that have been hollowed out by disastrous NAFTA-type trade deals — deals that outsourced our jobs to Mexico, China, Vietnam, etc., leaving behind empty shells of industrial structures that dot the landscape like the decaying bones of a once-healthy person.
I predicted that 2025 would be a year of chaos and confusion but even I am having my mind blown by the pace of the news cycle these last two weeks.
Will Trump deliver just the right amount of disruption to fix our sick and dying republic? Do we just need to “trust the plan?” Or, will he go overboard, overstep the constitutional boundaries set for his office and be used to drive an already divided nation into the realm of chaos, with civil and economic upheaval? I’d like to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
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Trump has never apologized for 2020 despite the evidence it has wreaked great harm to USA economy and mass psyche. Trump loaded gun; Biden pulled trigger.
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Very true. He didn’t need to apologize either, and he knew it, because his supporters never demanded it. In fact, they never demanded the smallest semblance of humility from the man. Too many sycophants!
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He continued to promote the bioweapons he funded. Urging followers to “Get your Trump shot! I got mine.”
Since his followers believe he was sincerely mistaken and deceived why aren’t they more worried that DJT will develop heart disease or turbo cancer? According to the Donald he stays fully boosted.
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Really good comments, all worth reading. I agree that Trump will show us his hand if indeed we see an “Israel first” agenda. Nonetheless we are quickly racing towards the beast system and what we can do is evangelize everyone in sight and walk closely with the Lord Jesus. Talk to strangers and continually speak the name of Jesus. He will connect you to your assignments.
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All branches of government have gone way outside their constitutional boundaries. That is one of many fundamentals never addressed. Without addressing the fundamental problems in our system, lasting change will never happen.
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It’s debatable whether Trump’s taking a wrecking ball to so many federal agencies is a good tactic—it may be too much destruction, too fast—but for some agencies, like that which supports the deep state and subverts the Constitutional state, this would be a good thing. However, because all these agencies were mostly formed by executive branch fiat, those Trump takes apart can be resurrected by fiat in a later administration. Just shows that these un-elected, fiat-created, federal agencies are what actually run our government and make its laws and regulations, not the Constitutional portion (like Congress) which is so often by-passed as irrelevant. And it’s clear Trump is taking a certain amount of revenge on the deep state agencies—who can blame him after how they treated him?
Meanwhile, it’s more than a grave mistake that Trump has promised to take on Gaza. Could be a fatal one and will ultimately totally destroy our reputation for our actively contributing to a genocide and brazen land theft. Blame Jared Kushner (according to the Times of Israel) for authoring the masterful speech of truth-dodging euphemisms Trump read on this subject at the conference. Trump is vainly trying to cast this as a real estate development deal instead of the heinous and lawless act it is, but nobody rational and honest is buying this. Everyone can see the reason for total destruction of Gaza in the person sitting next to Trump grinning like a Cheshire cat. For the real policy is “Israel first”, not “America First” and that’s echoed through Congress as well, since nearly all of them are bought off by AIPAC.
However, Trump is taking on Gaza to relieve the IDF for their final assault on the West Bank, which has already begun. Bombs are falling there now, many thousands displaced. Miriam Adelson demanded that in return for her donation of $100 million to the Trump campaign that he would allow the eradication of the Palestinians from the West Bank. He’s obeying his masters. Israel’s long stated goal is to spread from the Nile to the Euphrates. The two blue stripes on their flag symbolizes what they consider their territory. We are to help them remove the Palestinians, then the Lebanese, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Iraqis—anyone non-Jewish who is in the way. That’s going to be our foreign policy through the Trump years. Looks like the only power in the area to challenge this is Iran (who is not spoiling for a fight), but mostly Turkey, which is quickly building airbases in Syria and has their own designs for the Levant.
And, as if to put an extra fine point on what Netanyahu, Mossad and their Likkud fascists demand, Netanyahu gave Trump two “pagers”. A regular one, and a gold-plated one. What a mafioso gift! It sends a message, don’t you think? “Cooperate with us and you’ll prosper (the gold pager), or we’ll blow your head off (the regular pager).”
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On a positive note, it is great to see an end to the war against women which has broken so many young girls hearts. I was reading an article just now and it was great to see a group of young girls being assured of their biological status and their safety in sports, both on the playing field and in the female changing rooms.
“Surrounded by dozens of young female athletes in uniform and women, Trump said: ‘From now on, women’s sports will be only for women. The radical left has waged an all out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,”
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And as soon as Trump was elected, many big corporations dropped their DEI programs that had placed so many incompetents in jobs they had no business in. Thank God for that too. Trump can do a lot of good, if only he had honest and decent people to advise him (especially in foreign policy).
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Even the liberals want their daughters to be safe in school and in sport. The Biden administration had gone way to far in their woke agenda. Trump has admitted that his stance on this topic helped swing votes away from the Democrats.
It’s a pity about the agenda which decides his foreign policy as you’ve alluded to in your other comment where you rightly name Miriam Adelson and also AIPAC
The American government has been hijacked by these people.
As if things weren’t bad enough, Trump has removed the sanctions which had been imposed on violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
And now there is no restraint on the violence being unleashed on innocent Palestinians who are being driven from there land and homes into refugee camps outside of Israel.
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Unibokk–
Wanted to express my thoughts and you’re the only one who seems to listen.
About 15 years ago the American wife of a Palestinian Orthodox priest (of a West Bank parish if I remember correctly) came to visit our parish. She came to talk about their parish, the ancient history of Christianity in Palestine, their parish’s trials and tribulations in Palestine, their spiritual life. This talk necessarily included some mention of the Israel oppressive policies towards all Palestinians (Christian or Muslim) and how difficult life was being made for their parish as a result. But she didn’t load her speech with any vitriol towards Anyone. Just told the facts of life on the West Bank. (I must wonder today if their parish still exists, if she and her family are still alive…)
At the time I was the newsletter editor for my church, so of course, in the next issue I included a little article about her visit with some pictures. A week later I got an hate-filled email from a Christian Zionist who saw my newsletter article online and proceeded to unload on my parish all his venom against the Palestinians. How dare, he said, that my Church wrote anything positive about these vermin (who were not a people), who had the gall to squat on the land given by God to the Chosen people. He went on and on like this. It was a staggering display of Christian Zionist arrogance and hatred. I did not respond—I figured it was useless to talk to a raging, brainwashed fanatic and I did not want to involve my parish in an online controversy with a nut case. But the incident stuck in my mind ever since, and whenever I see or hear Christian Zionists expressing the same murderous hate that the Zionists in Israel act out, it makes me sick.
All of the Americas have a long history of robbing the indigenous of their land and lives, and it still goes on, especially in Latin America. The colonists, being thousands of miles away from their homeland culture and monarchical oversight, became a law unto themselves (despite their nominal Christian upbringing) and so land theft, abuse, enslavement or extermination of the natives was the order of the day. The only defenders of indigenous rights were the early Christian missionaries, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant—which set them very often at odds with the colonials, who responded with persecution. But they ministered to and defended the indigenous anyway—the most famous of these missionaries was Bartolome de la Casas, who is honored by the indigenous today in Latin America. I read numerous volumes of the famed “Jesuit Relations of North America”. From these journals, I got the very strong impression these missionaries had a great sensitivity and sympathy for the indigenous as they detailed these people’s lives and trials in these writings, and often gave their lives for them.
An attitude you don’t find now. It’s appalling to see so many American Christians express so much venom towards the Palestinians, seeing them as some kind of Section 8 housing ghetto trash (as Trump seems to do) that need to be “cleaned out”, instead of natives rightfully living in their homeland. That they have been forced to defend it from attack by modern day rapacious colonists for the last 100 years is not their fault, but Americans refuse to study the history. Americans Christians (most being infected with Zionist racism) have no interest in the Palestinians, neither as missionaries to the muslims, nor as companions to the native Christians. Instead American Christians “missionary” efforts focuses on the Israelis, or rather the “Jews for Jesus”—an approach that reinforces Zionism flavored with heretical, nihilist Scofield doctrines. So instead of seeing the Palestinians as people made in the image of God, Americans are propagandized to view them as loathsome creatures unworthy of life, implacable enemies to be exterminated—every one painted a Islamofascist, regardless.
Maybe that’s indicative of how much Christianity in the West, especially America, has collapsed since the days of the first missionaries to the Americas, now replaced by a religion of blessed criminality which Trump embodies. We cannot escape the judgment of God over this.
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Well said Kayjae. I think just generally most (not all) Western Christians lack a crucial element of true Christ followers. And that one thing is humility.
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Hello Kayjae , my reply to you is being blocked. I’ll try editing it and see what happens.
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I have not blocked any comments. But comments that include links to other websites require my approval. Since I don’t have time to read or watch all the linked material I typically don’t approve those comments.
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Hello Leo , I think it’s the server. I removed the link for youtube and from my end the edited comment has not been blocked . Has it come up on your screen?
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Hello Anthony. Yes I saw all the comments. The one you posted without the link says it’s been automatically approved and so it should go live on the sight unless WordPress is somehow blocking it.
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The venom unleased against you and your newsletter must have been very upsetting for you. You did the right thing by not responding to it. Why give energy to someone who is so frenzied and blinded by rage and false doctrine.
Zionism has become a movement of frenzied zealots who have no mercy or compassion when it comes to achieving their goal of a Satanic Zion. And there can be no doubt that they have a colonist perspective when it comes to Palestine.
Whether it be in America , Palestine or Ireland , the colonists have employed the same tactic whereby they set about vilifying and dehumanising the indigenous population.
In the military, a person being shot is often referred to as the target. This language helps to depersonalise the person being shot and makes it easier to squeeze the trigger.
This type of psychology is being used by the Zionists who refer to the Palestinians as “terrorists,” “savages,” or “vermin.”
The same type of language was used by colonists to describe the native Americans and also the native Irish. And we know the slaughter that ensued.
Embracing this concept leads to a false justification for treating people as sub human and disposable and sadly this is what we see being played out in Palestine.
The Zionists have a notion that the Jews are the superior race who are being currently blessed by God when the evidence speaks otherwise. I remember posting a video on this site which showed a pastor teaching kids that the Jews were the superior nation. “The Jews are better than us” he said as he indoctrinated them. At the end of the video you will see them placing the Zionist hexagram over the cross. The cross is forced into the background whilst the hexagram is given priority. This sums up Zionism. I removed the video to avoid being blocked. but you can find it on youtube by searching “The Jews are better than us”
I believe that Scofield was an agent of the devil and also John Nelson Darby.
For the devil to succeed in setting up his kingdom in Israel, he had to hijack Christianity and plant a doctrine which was favourable to his agenda. He did this very successfully by employing Darby who was the son of a wealthy British colonist. He lived in Ireland and had access to upper class circles.
This new doctrine caught on and was embraced by lord Arthur Balfour of Balfour declaration fame. Balfour addressed the declaration to lord Rothchild.
And this made possible the creation of the Satanic State of Israel which is preparing itself to host the ‘man of sin’ . The current inhuman ferocity which we see being unleashed on the Palestinian people is but a taster of what is to come when the true church will be persecuted like never before. And I believe that this persecution will be at the hands of the apostate church, i.e., Christian Zionists such as the man who sent you that frenzied, hateful, e.mail.
Right now, the devil is courting the apostate Christian Zionist church to support his Satanic agenda and to supress the true Christian testimony . The nominal church has collapsed. The collapse of the church, is for me , the surest sign that we are in the end times.
May God bless you for exposing the evils of the Zionist movement and Satan’s cloak of lies.
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Humility and charity.
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Oracle database with SQL= AI. That’s the beginning. Data centers too might house new unregulated crypto currencies that create a bottom-up show instead of the Rothschild’s need to top-down all humanity to CBDC.
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In order to understand Trump we need to understand the forces behind him and their agenda.
It’s very simple.
Trump is first and foremost a Zionist puppet. Therefore he will put Israel first and not America. His first concern will be the Zionist agenda for Israel.
If we understand this then we will have a better perspective on Trump’s behaviour.
So, who was the first foreign leader to visit the White House?
That’s right. It was Benji Netanyahu.
Normally , Trump sees himself as better than anybody else, but not with Benji. When Trump pulled out the chair for Benji to sit on he was showing Benji’s status as the top man and Trump as his servant. And this will be the pattern , going forward.
America’s internal politics will be secondary to the Zionist agenda as Trump takes his orders from the Zionists. So, Trump will use America’s resources, including it’s military to ‘clean out Gaza”
The Zionists see the Palestinian people as vermin to be got rid of and they can’t do it without the support of the good ol’ USA.
Bibi described Trump as the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the white house
“during the joint press conference with President Trump on February 4, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump, calling him “the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House”“
Trump’s decisions on transgender issues is, in my opinion, just pandering to the Christian Zionists who are an important bloc of supporters for the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
I read an article which said that 100% of Christian Zionists are pro genocide.
So, I believe that Trump has made the simple decision to throw some sops to his fan base in order to keep them onside.
In 2025, I believe that the American proxy war in Gaza will end and be replaced with direct confrontation in Gaza where thousands of American soldiers will be sent into Gaza
So, what will be the fate of those American soldiers. Well if we look at how the Israeli soldiers are doing it will help give us some insight.
Since Oct 7,
“Approximately 800 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza, ” Not to mention the injured.
Any savings made by Trump’s cut back on services etc., will, I suspect, be used to fund the war in Gaza. There has been a significant upsurge in recruitment to the military since Trump took office. More fodder for the Zionist agenda.
So, these are some of my opinions. We will have to wait and if I am correct or not.
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You are more right than you could imagine about Darby.
Genesis 49
King James Version
49 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Last days…keep that in mind…same chapter…
Genesis 49:17
King James Version
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
John Nelson Darby, the father of modern dispensationalism, fell from a horse & was seriously injured in 1827. During his recovery is when he developed his doctrines that separate the church & Israel, thereby creating the modern spiritual tribe of Dan.
13 years later, he would give a series of lectures at Geneva Switzerland that would cement him as a legitimate prophetic voice. Biblically speaking, the number 13 is tied to antichrist (Revelation 13), Satan (Ezekiel 28 verse 13), the seat of Satan (Revelation 2 verse 13) and evil in general (Genesis 13:13 has 13 words in the KJB). Geneva Switzerland has 13 zip codes & is the present day seat & dwelling place of Satan. So Darby’s lies only took root after he spoke from his daddy’s throne.
In the OT, the literal physical tribe of Dan rejected their literal physical allotment of land (Joshua 19:47) because their “coasts went out to little for them. They instead, physically conquered a large land of plenty inhabited by Zidonian (Jezebel home land) immigrants known as Laish (Leshem). The thing that has been shall be & there’s nothing new under the sun.
In the NT, the spiritual tribe of Dan rejects their allotment within the Israel of God by teaching that the church is separate from Israel. They do this because the idea of the law of God being written in their hearts & minds makes these modern Danites “coasts go out to little”.
The NT Danites have used their heresies to spiritually conquer a large land of plenty inhabited by immigrants largely under the control of the Jezebel (Zidonian) spirit of feminism. This land is called America.
In Revelation 7, Dan has no inheritance (salvation) & is not in Israel’s “roll call” of the 144,000. This is not difficult to understand when we consider that the modern Danites doctrines violate the commands given in Revelation 22:18-19. And verse 19 promises removal from the book of life for those who take away from the book.
Thru their pre trib rapture heresy alone, the modern spiritual Danites (dispys) TAKE AWAY Matthew 24, Mark 13 & 19 chapters of Revelation from the church & just throw them in the proverbial trash can.
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I’ve previously predicted that America might end up stationing American troops in Gaza. This is now looking very likely.
Trump has doubled down on his intention to buy and own Gaza and to redevelop it. Trump said:
“I’m committed to buying and owning Gaza. “ As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it, other people may do it, through our auspices. “But we’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back.”
So, if America takes ownership then it will be up to America to defend it and also to pay for all the clean up and rebuilding of infrastructure and the redevelopment of Gaza.
So, does anybody want to hazard a guess as to how much this will cost the American tax payer, considering that rebuilding the hospitals, alone, will cost billions. Then there is the loss of American lives should the military be stationed there.
Trump’s agenda is to make Israel great again, no matter what the cost to America.
Those Zionist Christians who have supported the genocide in Gaza are guilty of murder by proxy and now it seems that they will soon be accountable for the shedding of American blood as they pursue their misguided agenda.
The true Zion is in heaven and Christ will NOT dwell on this earth again. Instead, he will dwell on a new earth created by God after this world gets destroyed at Christ’s second coming.
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PS. Trump also said :
“[It’s] a tremendous problem – the Gaza strip”, he stated. “We’ll own it. It’s totally demolished right now. It’s a demolition site. It’ll be reclaimed. It’ll be leveled out, and fixed up. There won’t be anybody there. Hamas won’t be there.”
” There won’t be anybody there. ” This is surely a reference to the Palestinian people being driven out of Gaza.
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Thank you, Leo, for stirring us up. Jesus warned us : ” Take heed, let no man deceive you “. He did NOT say : Let no one bully you. Bullying was “full blown” with Cain and Abel. Deception started sooner, back in the Garden of Eden, where there was “Peace and Safety”.
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As far as Gates of Hell’s comment about Usaid not being political, then why do they need government money? And another thought. I think Musk is out there exposing all this gov. fraud (which we all know has been going on in all government since there has been government) to say ” you know with digital currency we could make sure where all the money is going and stop the waste”. The beast system is coming. Honestly, the only reason I even voted this year and voted for Trump was the hope he would slow down this trans garbage they are destroying the children with. What’s been done to the children to me has been the worst of all this. What adults choose, well, everyone has to make their own choices and answer for them.This country is too far gone for anyone to stop what is coming and I don’t want them to honestly. I’m ready for King Jesus to rule and reign where we don’t have any corruption or evil doings. Come Lord Jesus!
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Leo, healthy skepticism is required, but your pov is verging on paranoia. Would you be happier to leave all these departments in place and just do a little trimming around the edges? Don’t you see the Lord’s hand in Trump’s miraculous ascent to the Presidency? He may not be a Christian but he’s at least a Cyrus. And we need to pray for his salvation. How can a man be so gifted, so determined, and choose the most stellar cabinet in history, yet you still think he can be gulled by Bill Gates? Try to look a little more on the bright side. Christians know how the story ends, but we don’t know what chapter we are in. In any case, you don’t doubt that the Lord has determined that “the man of lawlessness” will eventually have his day, right?
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I don’t think he “can be” gulled by Gates, he already has been. In his first term, he was swayed by Gates not to alter the vaccine schedule for children, he helped Gates get his mRNA shots to market through Warpspeed, and funded Gates’ GAVI global vaccine alliance to the tune of several hundred million US tax dollars. Now in his second term he is collaborating with Gates on AI.
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How does one complain about government then complain about change? If no one is willing to make changes then we stay in the same sewer of corruption. Trump is trying to change things for the better but doesn’t know the Biblical outcome of those decisions. Yes indeed, he may be bringing us closer to a great tribulation but then God puts kings in power and takes kings out of power for His purpose and timing. We have yet to see the Masters plan.
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