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ReformedRifleman retweeted
Why is Hegseth so important, and why do they want him out so much?
A Color Revolution is a kind of insurgency. An insurgency requires making people fear it more than the actual government.
Beyond being a decorated combat soldier, Hegseth was also a counter-insurgency instructor in the army for many years.
But it goes deeper. Hegseth is mediagenic and media savvy. He’s a charismatic communicator. And by all indications, a large number of troops love him.
In this way, he’s vastly more effective than an older SecDef who might have more political and policy sophistication.
This is important because with that level of support amongst the troops it makes it unlikely that any Deep State officers will be able to move their troops towards insurrection against the current administration.
Put another way, it’s not so much what he can get the military TO DO. It’s what he can prevent the military from doing.
And that’s why they are desperate to get rid of him.
Chocolate Knox is on point and on fire with this!
I really didn't want to do this, but you raised the stakes to this level...🤦🏾♂️
This statement is a poorly polished, snagged tooth rhetorical move, and a theological house of cards that collapses under its own weight once you look at the text.
Peter’s sword in Gethsemane was wrong for a very specific reason. Jesus rebukes him not with a general “earthly power is always the enemy of the gospel,” but with the necessity of the cross itself:
•“Shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?” (John 18:11)
•“How then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?” (Matt. 26:54)
•“Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matt. 26:53)
Peter was trying to interrupt the redemptive plan. The arrest was the doorway to the atonement. That is not a transferable principle that any use of earthly power by Christians puts something ahead of the cross. It is a unique moment in redemptive history. Treating it as a blanket prohibition on political engagement, just laws, or Christian influence in a nation’s life is a category error.
Your statement also runs on a strawman of what most people mean by “Christian Nationalism.” It assumes the position is “use the sword (or the state) to stop or replace the work of the cross.” That is not the actual argument of serious versions of this view.
The usual claim is narrower: nations exist under God, the magistrate bears the sword for justice (Rom. 13), and a people may rightly order their public life in ways that acknowledge the moral order God has revealed rather than pretending the state is religiously neutral. That is not the same thing as Peter swinging his sword to keep Jesus off the cross.
Jesus himself distinguished the means of his kingdom’s advance in that hour from the ordinary role of civil authority. He told the disciples to buy swords earlier that night (Luke 22:36), then forbade their use in Gethsemane because the time and purpose were wrong.
The sword has a place; it just did not have a place in opposing the cup.
Romans 13 still stands: the civil authority is God’s servant, and it does not bear the sword in vain. Collapsing those distinctions into any earthly power undermines the gospel is not careful theology; it is a slogan.
I do believe there is temptation to put power ahead of the cross. It is real.
But so is the opposite temptation: to spiritualize the public square into irrelevance and call the resulting silence faithfulness.
This argument only works if you define every form of Christian political engagement as the first temptation and then cite Gethsemane as proof.
That is why it feels artful and still reads as a strawman once the actual text and the actual claim are on the table.
Most people using the term are arguing about the magistrate’s role under God, the legitimacy of moral order in public law, or the possibility that a people may acknowledge the Christian heritage that shaped their institutions. They are not claiming the state should swing a sword at Malchus to keep the Messiah off the cross. Or assume the sword over the gospel. Equating the two is either willful misrepresentation or an inability to distinguish basic categories.
What makes it especially poor is that this comes from circles that advertise themselves as rigorous about exegesis and rhetoric. This move is neither. It is a slogan that borrows the emotional force of the cross while ignoring the actual teaching of the passage, the rest of the New Testament’s treatment of civil authority (Rom. 13), and the distinction Jesus himself draws between the means of his kingdom in that hour and the ordinary function of the sword.
This statement is not profound. It is lazy, and the pretension to care makes the laziness more obvious.
ReformedRifleman retweeted
Bukele is proving to the world how utterly useless all of our politicians are
ReformedRifleman retweeted
The first thing a North African does after being elected the first Muslim senator is to declare Michigan the capital of Arab America, carving out a capital for his co-ethnics and co-religionists.
All politics is identity politics.
I am convinced Q was a leftist operation to sideline conservative voters and prevent them from taking meaningful action. And I say this having family members who were Q followers.
This is exactly what Q was. “Sit back, relax, and trust the plan”. And then time ran out and people realized that nothing had been fixed and Biden was the president.
Ignore anyone who tells you to trust the plan. The only way things get fixed is if you take it upon yourself to run for office and fix them.
So join us, and help us save America.
ReformedRifleman retweeted
This is exactly what Q was. “Sit back, relax, and trust the plan”. And then time ran out and people realized that nothing had been fixed and Biden was the president.
Ignore anyone who tells you to trust the plan. The only way things get fixed is if you take it upon yourself to run for office and fix them.
So join us, and help us save America.
These accounts are everywhere. This one has nearly a million followers! And my assessment is that they’re wittingly or unwittingly part of a domestic or foreign information operation aimed at getting the presidents supporters to not activate politically. Because “trust the plan!”
Unfortunately, that indent work that way. Steven Miller is doing his best, and now that he’s COS, hopefully will have a few more levers at his disposal, but the midterm shellacking wasn’t some grand plan. It was just a loss in a long running political contest between communism and liberty.
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This is absolutely true. Nothing bonds men like working and training together. Can vouch from personal experience.
A note to churches, this means your men's ministry needs to primarily revolve around coordinating service projects etc, and maybe a few Bible studies.
ReformedRifleman retweeted
Laugh at the Europeans all you want but the second amendment isn’t stopping this
Muslims are conquering your country one city at a time, the GOP refuses to stop it, Dems are facilitating it
The invasion is happening one legal immigrant at a time
ReformedRifleman retweeted
SpaceX has officially announced that it is currently targeting November 13th at 5:45 PM ET for Starship's 15th flight.
Flight info:
"This flight is planned to be the first to return both Starship and Super Heavy to the launch site for catch. If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket."
• Flight will last more than 22 hours, completing approximately 14 orbits around Earth.
• Starship will orbit at an altitude of approximately 275 km (171 miles).
• First attempt to recover both Super Heavy and Starship at the launch site during the same mission.
• First return-to-launch-site and catch attempt for a Super Heavy V3 booster.
• Super Heavy will execute launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and return to Starbase for a tower catch.
• Starship will deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit before attempting its first return to Starbase and tower catch.
• The 26 satellites will provide capacity equivalent to approximately 10 Falcon 9 launches carrying Starlink V2 Mini satellites.
• Satellites will deploy antennas and solar arrays, establish radio and laser communications, and raise their orbits using onboard thrusters.
• Satellites could begin serving customers within weeks of launch following successful on-orbit checkouts.
• Three Starlink V3 satellites will carry cameras to inspect Starship's heatshield and transmit imagery to ground operators.
• Starship's heatshield will feature improved tile retention, additional protection against plasma intrusion, and expanded use of curved tiles to reduce heating between tiles.
• Starship will only attempt its return and catch if critical reentry, landing burn, and tower approach systems are confirmed healthy.
• Multiple predetermined ocean deorbit locations and a passively safe suborbital trajectory provide contingency options.
• A successful mission would mark the first complete recovery of an orbital launch system, a major milestone toward rapid reusability.
More info: spacex.com/launches/starship…
ReformedRifleman retweeted
Be warned, both the left and the controlled right are crashing out about Stephan Miller. Ignore them. He is quite possibly the single best and most suitable person Trump currently has for the role, and the louder they scream the more correct his choice was.
ReformedRifleman retweeted
"What future will i leave for my kids?"
Well, we're probably going to get massive ethnic ghettos, large voting blocks of Islamic Arab, Somalian, South American and Indians who work together and infight constantly to control the democratic Government. Americans will likely be 40% of the country in about 20 years, the Americans wealthy enough will start locking their doors and putting up barbed wire. The ones who aren't will show up on Twitter having been shot and killed by whatever criminal decided to rob them. Thats what happens in South Africa, it will start happening here.
Exciting world we have coming. Unless we do something very mean and dare i say even a tad racist.
ReformedRifleman retweeted
Blaming J.D. Vance for the failure of yet another stupid neocon war makes as much as sense as blaming the weatherman for snow.
The only time Trump’s popularity improved during the entire course of the war was during the ceasefire and MOU negotiation.
JD Vance’s stunning act of disloyalty by @marcthiessen
Republicans lost in part because the Iran war dragged on. The vice president owns that.
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