Nothing is as It Seems…

Interesting times… I have stayed away from commenting on immediate events, so I will not comment on these while commenting on them.

Trump’s Assassination Attempt

There are so many aspects to this.  “Now he is guaranteed to win in November.”  This is one of the funnier lines I have heard in the days since the attempt.  That’s over three months away.  Who knows the news cycle by then, who knows what will be important to voters.  Who knows what shenanigans will be pulled.

“There is no way they can rig the vote now; the gap is too wide.”  Another funny one.  What happened four years ago was blatant, and we know that blatant only opens the door to something even more blatant.  Power doesn’t give up so easily (and settle down, I don’t find Trump to be an antidote to power.  He just is a representative of one of the many factions of power fighting for control). 

In other words, those who want Trump out aren’t going to take the next three months off.

Oh, yeah.  “Trump faked the whole thing.”  Look, anything is possible, and I have given up believing the first story about any significant event.  But if he faked it, wouldn’t November 3 or so have been a better time to do so? 

Meet the Hillbilly

All I know about J.D. Vance is he is considered an outsider, and some rather unpleasant characters are behind him financially.  One of these things is not like the other, and in such a case I know which one of these things wins.

Who Is in Charge Here?

This question is being asked often, since Biden has disappeared for several days.  But why is it being asked now?  And I don’t just mean since his election four years ago.  No president has been “in charge” since at least November 22, 1963.

There are many culprits we can point to as the answer to this question, and, likely, the ones we can point to aren’t even the ones in charge. Further, there isn’t such a thing as someone “in charge” – as if there is some hierarchy of deviants.  Instead, we have multiple factions each vying for some area of control or vying for a share of the spoils.

Who is in charge of what we refer to as the West, nominally led by the United States?  The CIA? The merchants of death?  Zionists?  The Chinese?  Whoever controls the Epstein client list?  Klaus Schwab?  The World Health Organization?  The Bank for International Settlements?  The list of suspects is endless.

All of these are, and none of these are.  But one thing is for sure: the president hasn’t been in charge, not for decades.  If it was the president, would we have had Obama or Biden?  Would Kamala be the next heir apparent?  Are any of these comparable to the leaders in other major countries today, or presidents from our past?  These are jokes foisted on us just to demonstrate that presidents are not in charge – and the plebes can go on fighting about who wins…as if it matters.

Conclusion

On November 6, we are going to wake up to a certainty: whoever wins the election (laughably, we will refer to it in this term), war wins, central banking wins, increased control wins.  This will continue to be true until the weight of the system comes crashing down on itself.

Somewhere in the back of our mind, we will remember a line from a song from over fifty years ago: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

A Time of Testing

 But when isn’t it such a time….

As we watch institutions of every type failing in the West, the same is true of the Christian Church.  Not to get into denominational particulars, but we have recently gone through – and continue to go through – some very meaningful failures in Christian institutions and by Christian leaders.

Just consider the last ten years or so.  The embrace of pride, of every alphabet soup, of every challenge to God’s creation of man and woman.  Countless churches and congregations openly embrace this culture.  A striking position given that man and woman were both made in God’s image; to consider that God was somehow mistaken in that which He made in His image is foundationally prideful.

Then we went through covid.  Again, countless churches – and certainly the large, institutional / hierarchical traditions – almost joyously embraced the closure of churches for months and years.  They embraced every made-up rule, every restriction. Accepting made-up rules in order to prevent the proper gathering together of the faithful.  What kind of Christian leadership is this?

There were men who stood tall during these times.  We know them either directly, or indirectly through an online presence.  Now we come to a third recent episode, and even these men are not immune to contagion.

The state of Israel is slaughtering Palestinians.  This based on the pretext of October 7 last year – an event that, while prompted by Hamas, now has been openly exposed by Haaretz as an execution of Israel’s Hannibal directive (those paying attention knew this nine months ago).  Large portions, if not the majority of those deaths that day were caused by the IDF, not by Hamas.

The Israeli army did deploy its so-called Hannibal Directive, which allows the military to use all necessary force to prevent the capture of soldiers, during the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel, resulting in the loss of both civilian and military lives, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has found.

Further, while the official death count has remained almost stagnant at just under 40,000, a new study places the likely number as something that will approach 200,000 – far more likely given the continual bombing for ten months.

The study pointed out that the death toll is higher because the official toll does not take into account thousands of dead buried under rubble and indirect deaths due to destruction of health facilities, food distribution systems and other public infrastructure.

The study said the death toll is expected to be far larger given that much of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed; there are shortages of food, water and shelter; and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has seen its funding cut.

But now, we have Christian leaders who stood tall under woke pressure and covidiocy crumbling under the weight of ethical (and, I would say Biblical) confusion.  This is present primarily, if not solely, in what is known as evangelical churches.

At my other blog, I recently wrote about the idea of reading the apostle Paul (and the rest of the Bible) through the lens of Jesus Christ in the gospels. 

So, let’s try it this way; read this: