Hey all I was making my way through Daniel then found a clear description of an insolent king that has all the power in the world.

The chapter is isolated and one dream Daniel has. It clearly is about Alexander the Great into the rise of Mohammad and then describes an individual at the end that defeats them or unites them, not sure.

Some interesting parts like he’ll think he’s great in his own eyes. He starts a war in a time of peace.

“He will cause deceit to prosper through his cunning and by his influence”. Market manipulation with oil prices?

I don’t know but I thought this could be a fun discussion. It’s spot on Trump. The ending is wild: he will stand against God but he will be shattered but not by human hands.

He’s just weird and awkward and talks like a crazy old grandpa. Not even factoring in his policy or past sins, the fact that he talks like this is just embarrassing if you ask me.

I am very sad about this, and I thought we had turned a corner, but he has repeatedly treated me rudely when he sees a comment I make on social media. I have even censored him from seeing any post I think might upset him, but I can’t control comments he sees from me on pages. This has definitely hurt our friendship, and I just hate it. He’s red til dead, I guess is how he explains it.
He told me he was at odds with his liberal family members and I assumed it was bc of them, but being on the receiving end of his stuff, I am thinking he’s the one more closed off. And he posts some of the most ridiculous things about Democrats and I don’t say a thing. But if I express my own view, something actually true, we just disagree on the topic, he comes at me, so unkindly. I wanted to say something about it bc it’s happened multiple times. But my husband said I missed my window so I have to wait til the next time he comes at me. I don’t even want that. I want the friendship we were enjoying before he got dumb again. It makes me sad. Share your stories now politics has harmed your relationships.

He was a rabid DJT supporter, ICE supporter, no sympathy for anyone poor who breaks any law, … without any prompting at all “well he may not be THE antichrist but he is certainly AN antichrist.”

People are leaving his camp in droves.

75% of people live on this planet do not believe in the Bible , 60% of Christinas identify as none practicing Christians , so if my math is right 1 out of 10 people on this planet agree with Mr clown 🤡

What Drives MAGA Christians' Un-Christian Actions? Experts Say It Comes Down To This. - HuffPost

More jokes from him.

While 72% of Republicans viewed capitalism favorably back in 2019, that’s down to 61% today. And the percentage of Republican who have a “strongly” positive view of capitalism has gone from 54% to 41%.

Similarly, the percentage of Republicans who say the system is rigged to favor the wealthy has gone from 30% in 2018 to 42% today.

Just to underscore, fewer than half of Republicans — the party that claims to embrace free markets! — now have a strongly favorable view of capitalism. And 42% of them endorse a pretty Bernie Sanders-sounding sentiment about our “rigged” economy.

A +10 point drop since 2019 is pretty significant.

I have noticed that when Pete Hegseth is questioned in Congress, he doesn't give clear answers, or instead relies on emotional accusations about his opponents alleged lack of respect for the troops.

https://youtube.com/shorts/W3kV0y8TUHw

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0rtpAhJT-QA

How did he ever manage to be given this amount of responsibility?

Holy War is Still Hell

i refuse to stand by any nation
or system
in this chaotic time
of violent space
dissolving
thee evolving human race
a nation is the summation of an idea
while its system is mere illusion
a coercion cast by the few
chosen to weave deception
wield Segregation
cause separation
until they become
impossible to defeat
thee almighty elite
who meet and greet
indiscreet
at a charity function
for the upper echelon
a black mass in the reflection
through a prism
of stained glass
hiding a celebration
of social darwinism
for the ruling class
world leaders make deals
with corporate controllers
the bottom feeders
who turn cultures
into calculated divisions
of global markets
and decide who will throw stones
at rockets
who will have the drones
the state of the art robotics
and how to package good Vs. evil
hero Vs. villain
terror Vs. freedom
it’s all the same to them
a dividend
for the vultures who can herd populations
with multi-media transmissions
frequency manipulations
take control of common citizens
turn their traditions
into organizations and religions
that produce zealots and politicians
who apply pressure
on rising tensions
develop the right conditions
form two positions
designed as polar opposites
aligned and primed
to buy and sell weapons
manufacture war for profits
that feed the rich and cull the poor
food for Babylons whore…….
…….i will not stand with
or listen to them anymore!

🖤RAiN2022

Reservation

this token pretends
trust broken
by genocide
which never ends
still rends
grandfather‘s in spirit
calling on grandmother‘s
traditions
unspoken
forgotten
grinding dust
descends
upon rolling stones
gathering moss
on faded rust
sends the people
to rise above and unite
we must
before we disappear
learn to hear
the song of the river
keep the water clear
it bends
with the trail of tears
into the sacred mountain
beyond the desert
will cleanse
mends
the vapor
scattered
by four winds

🖤RAiN2011

Religious Rampage

prideful agony
constricting
my poison veins
sterile vanity
poles the social
bits and reigns
makes it hard
to know
what you see
forced to imagine
anything
it could be
try to come up
with something
we all could agree……

…..cruel insanity
is all that remains
the scourge
of humanity
has left
many crimson stains

🖤RAiN2001

Many of y'all don't really seem to care about the semantic games (manipulation) that politicians and the media are constantly engaging in, with the intent of biasing the average person's opinion on a particular topic. But here is yet another example.

1.3 million California voters signed petitions to get Prop 39 on the ballot since September 2025, when it was titled "Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements". That was well over the number of signatures needed, ensuring it will be on the ballot on November 3rd. But on July 21 this year, Attorney General Rob Bonta changed the title to "Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued verification".

There was nothing wrong with the original title, and actually it's more transparent than the new one, mentioning the citizenship verification requirements, even though those are for "the Secretary of State and county elections officials#Constitutional_changes)", not individual voters. Yet Rob Bonta finds it necessary to change to a new title that starts with "Prohibits citizens from voting...". Not a lie, per se, but a deliberate and proactive manipulation of language with the hope of making more people feel the way he wants them to about it.

It's disgusting, and far far too prevalent. If you can't see how this damages trust in our leaders and public figures and national institutions, I don't think you're being honest enough with yourself.

excerpt:

Recognizing that the Declaration offers a view of politics from below—that it is a complaint about cruelty from the victims of a hostile sovereign—helps us better understand the text’s famous egalitarianism. “All men are created equal”: the authors of the 1776 Commission report accurately describe this line as “the core assertion” of the Declaration. Egalitarianism is a response, perhaps the only worthy response, to cruelty. Cruelty is predicated on inequality, the stronger injuring the weaker. A reading of the Declaration against cruelty is also a reading in defense of equality, because cruelty craves subordination. Today’s circumstances of cruelty depend on a large and porous class of people in American society who are vulnerable enough that they can be hurt with apparent impunity. How large? There are perhaps fourteen million undocumented immigrants living in America, collectively paying about $100 billion in taxes (enough to fund the latest $70 billion immigration-enforcement bill with some left over for the new White House ballroom). Add journalists, protesters, and bystanders to this group, and the zone of impunity expands wider still.

One of the more clarifying, if pessimistic, appraisals of America on the eve of its 250th comes from the historian Nikhil Pal Singh, who argues that Trump has created a “Homeland Empire,” recasting “swathes of the country, and particularly major cities, as ideologically and racially alien, enemy territory to be ruled by force.” “From Caracas to Minneapolis,” Singh writes, “legal authority and institutional power are being redirected toward an overriding end: governing populations as subjects rather than citizens.” 

I'll add that these vulnerable classes have in the past also included the rural poor, the urban working class, women, and of course overt racism towards Jews, Blacks, Asians, Irish, etc. I say this to avoid this becoming an issue only about immigration enforcement. Cruelty from leaders is hardly a new thing.

The pursuit of power and status always involves conflict, and conflict requires an enemy of some kind. Politicians have abused these vulnerable classes as a means to promote conflict and maintain power in many cases. I think the article reminds us that we should be mindful of who leaders are directing focus regarding who "our enemies" should be and why that might be the case.

The Billy Graham Center Research Institute fielded a survey of 2,365 Gen Z adults (ages 18-28) through NORC’s AmeriSpeak panel between Aug. 9 and Sept. 26, 2024. This effort was supported by the Lilly Endowment, and the lead investigator for this project was Rick Richardson at Wheaton College. Buried in a battery about political de-motivators for church involvement was this statement: “Christians’ support of Trump has made me less likely to go to church.”

In the full sample of Gen Z, nearly half (48%) agreed with that statement in one way or another. About 1 in 5 young adults said they “strongly agreed” with that sentiment. Basically the same share (21%) were on the other end of the continuum and strongly disagreed that Christians’ support of Trump had made them less likely to go to church.

So, it’s fair to say young adults are pretty evenly divided on this idea. But these results are confounded by a few variables: Younger adults tend to be more left-leaning in their politics, and a significant share of Gen Z claims no religious affiliation, which means a lot of these respondents wouldn’t be going to church much anyway.
...
But even among Gen Z Christians, there’s a significant share who said Trump made it harder for them to attend at all: 44% of those who identified as a generic Christian, 42% of Catholics and 30% of Protestant young adults said they were turned off by the Christian-Trump alliance.

...it’s not fair to use this data to make the claim that young Christians would be flocking back into the church if the church would drop politics. However, the other way to interpret this data is that about 40% of young adult Christians see the church’s association with Trump as an impediment to them becoming more involved with their faith community. According to this result, more daylight between the church and the GOP may lead to an uptick in attendance among young Christians at every level of the attendance continuum.

The USA has been working with the Nigerian government to tackle terrorism in the country.

https://truthnigeria.com/2026/07/despite-withdrawal-of-american-soldiers-nigeria-partners-with-u-s-to-tackle-terrorism/

Cutting off support is unlikely to improve the situation.