Becomes Trump a dictator?

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I was just saying that because boasting in your prep while looking down your nose at "others" isn't "following the Lord", and you know as well as I do that your plans can be flipped upside down at any second. Just truth, no need to get upset with me.
I want many others to prepare also. They just don't want to have a great life. My plans are from God and are in the process of being fulfilled right at this very moment.
 

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50 million going to Mozambique was public information.

Elon Musk is supposed to be looking at government information and correcting the false information in public.

By admitting that he was wrong and asking the public and press to hold him accountable, he is admitting that the public information we have is superior to the information he is providing.
Just theater to keep the people trusting ("oh look he admitted his error, he is a good guy") in the plan, imho.
 

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I want many others to prepare also. They just don't want to have a great life. My plans are from God and are in the process of being fulfilled right at this very moment.
If I may ask, can you share what you're doing to prepare?
 

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50 million going to Mozambique was public information.

Elon Musk is supposed to be looking at government information and correcting the false information in public.

By admitting that he was wrong and asking the public and press to hold him accountable, he is admitting that the public information we have is superior to the information he is providing.
You knew USAID had sent 50 million for condoms to Mozambique? Why weren't you outraged? Why didn't you tell us?
 

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The context of this discussion is the fatal flaw of DOGE so "our" is very clearly a reference to the United States.

If you agree that the US was blessed by God then it is only right that the US needs to be right with God.

Thanks for the context.

"Only right" according to who? Some Christians may agree. Unbelievers will likely disagree with the premise and the conclusion. Other Christians may well say God doesn't care about the US just evangelize. Are you suggesting that if I or anyone believes the US was blessed by God then we need to think it should become entirely Christian - out with the demons and in with Christ or left with a vacuum?

My initial point was that the current Admin including DOGE by eliminating the criminality and incompetency and all that goes with it are doing some form of righteousness by God's standards.
 

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Matthew 24:24
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24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Elon Musk was confronted by a reporter about the fact that $50 million was not sent to Hamas, but it was sent to Mozambique.

He said that “ some of the things I say will be incorrect”

That right there is a red flag because he’s supposed to be looking at information that we don’t see and correcting any false information that we have in the public. If public information can correct his information that he’s looking at on the governments end, there’s something off.

Does he really think this is reassuring? LOL
 

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Thanks for the context.

"Only right" according to who? Some Christians may agree. Unbelievers will likely disagree with the premise and the conclusion. Other Christians may well say God doesn't care about the US just evangelize. Are you suggesting that if I or anyone believes the US was blessed by God then we need to think it should become entirely Christian - out with the demons and in with Christ or left with a vacuum?

My initial point was that the current Admin including DOGE by eliminating the criminality and incompetency and all that goes with it are doing some form of righteousness by God's standards.
When the US was blessed by God it wasn't entirely Christian, so that question makes no sense.

However, there are very grievous sins the US has committed that need to be repented of. Personally I think the opportunity to repent of them has passed and judgment on the US is already determined and cannot be postponed any longer.

You don't get to kill 60 million innocent babies without repercussions. Child trafficking that we now know is carried out by the elites and even the US government helped, that will bring consequences as well.

6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
 

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When the US was blessed by God it wasn't entirely Christian, so that question makes no sense.
I'm attempting to understand some of your comments and what you mean by them.

I can tell that you think the US is doomed.

I guess we'll see.
 

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All the funds that the government appropriates are public information. You could’ve found this information yourself.

https://www.ghsupplychain.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/FY23 C and C report_4APR2024-Final.pdf
And you have no problem with such foolish spending. Why are you just bringing this to our attention now? Why weren't you sounding alarms?

Were the recent payments last week by FEMA publicized giving 59 million to house illegal immigrants in New York? No. Yet families in North Carolina could get no help. Where is your outrage?
 

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Where is your outrage?
Guess I've lost my youthful gusto. Just makes me want to go to sleep to not feel the sickness in my gut about how pathetic human beings can be. Imagine what our Lord sees and knows.
 

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And you have no problem with such foolish spending. Why are you just bringing this to our attention now? Why weren't you sounding alarms?

Were the recent payments last week by FEMA publicized giving 59 million to house illegal immigrants in New York? No. Yet families in North Carolina could get no help. Where is your outrage?

These decisions were made by our representatives. It’s your responsibility to research what the representatives in your district are doing. If a representative in your district is making financial decisions you disagree with it’s your responsibility to call or go down to their office and talk to staffers and voice your concern.

It’s not my responsibility, I cannot vote for you and I cannot speak for you.
 

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These decisions were made by our representatives. It’s your responsibility to research what the representatives in your district are doing. If a representative in your district is making financial decisions you disagree with it’s your responsibility to call or go down to their office and talk to staffers and voice your concern.

It’s not my responsibility, I cannot vote for you and I cannot speak for you.
Selective outrage I think.
 

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Guess I've lost my youthful gusto. Just makes me want to go to sleep to not feel the sickness in my gut about how pathetic human beings can be. Imagine what our Lord sees and knows.
I have no problem with people being outraged or not. What I find duplicitous is when people are outraged currently but not outraged by far worse actions recently perpetrated.
 

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Widespread layoffs are taking place not just in the Federal government but everywhere and this I believe is the beginning of the impact of AI.

Granted the situation is far more complex than a simple two letters, but AI is what Elon Musk and Trump and others see as the only way to get out of the huge debt the US is in. Yes, there are other tools and tactics they plan on using, but without AI to replace workers everything else they would do would fall apart.
 

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I have no problem with people being outraged or not. What I find duplicitous is when people are outraged currently but not outraged by far worse actions recently perpetrated.
We have a South African who is a citizen of a BRICS country and has strong ties to China, controls government operations and federal spending.

If you do not believe it is one of the worst things that could ever happen in America that is your opinion, and your choice.

However, I have the free will and freedom of speech to choose to be alarmed by this and speak my mind.

And you or Elon Musk cannot take that away.

Even if the constitution is changed so I do not have the freedom of speech. It doesn’t matter that right was endowed in me by my creator. That constitution only recognizes it as such.

So cry all you want I’m not going to bow down to you because my views hurt your feelings.
 

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So more than 59 million was given to house illegals. Good to know. Why aren't you outraged regardless of the amount? American citizens were unable to get help from an agency established to help them in emergencies because money was siphoned off for expenses it was not authorized to do. Why doesn't this anger you for these helpless people?

You are a classic liberal. You don't deny malfeasance. You simply say it is not as bad as what is reported. You have much empathy for law breakers, but none for lawful citizens.