Two quick juxtapositions to contemplate:
Just accepting things as they are presented to be, without laying opinion on the table.
♦ Mr. Elon Musk is saying he spent $44 billion to purchase a platform without any prior knowledge the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was operating on the backbone of the communication platform he was purchasing.
Additionally, all due diligence that may have been conducted before the biggest expenditure in the history of social media networks, did not reveal this intelligence community operation, to him, until after the sale was complete.
Everything thereafter is based on this predicate.
♦ Mr. Ron DeSantis is saying he had no idea the apparatus of political constructs was creating a presidential campaign process over a period of two years that would require his ultimate approval and participation, during the period when he genuinely claimed to be running for reelection to be the 2022 Florida Governor.
Everything thereafter is based on this predicate.
Whether you believe these assertions to be true or not is entirely up to you.
However, with these two points in mind, what does that say about the current state of our national pretense?
Expand the discussion. I am very interested in how intellectually honest people view these assertions.
I call B.S. Any questions?
If Musk did know, then he’s doing a good job of playing dumb as he reveals what he already knew.
If he didn’t, then shame on him for not reading CTH, and good on him for not hiding it as he discovers it.
If DeSantis didn’t know, then he’s a doofus that allowed himself to be maneuvered all along without realizing the goals of his masters until they saw fit to reveal their plans for him.
If DeSantis did know, he’s a doofus for thinking we can’t see it and will forgive the pretending.
He also went to Harvard, just like the guy we’re stuck with here in PA, Fetterman. I guess Harvard isn’t what it used to be. Blessings
A vous aussi.
If Ron Desantis wants me to believe he had no idea the apparatus of political constructs was creating a presidential campaign process over a period of two years that would require his ultimate approval and participation . . .
He should know, without hesitation, neither is he believable to me nor do I want him to run for president. Without a doubt.
Mr. Musk spent $44 billion buying Twitter, a business model that in reality he says he had little idea how Twitter functioned. Again I do not believe the man. And my question is, was it truly your $44 billion you spent on the purchase not knowing what you were buying? If it was his money how do I know his Tesla software is reliable and on and on?
Neither man seems to have thought past the moment in giving their statements having no idea what was/did occur prior to now.
Last time I spent 45 billion I knew what I was buying.
Last time I ran for governor I knew what I was doing.
Me thinks they both are lying, but then they know more than most. I think I have become immune to intellectual honesty the number of lies crying to be heard are drowning the letctuals out
In the pretend world, there is no predicate for these two.
I live in the real world.
Jesus: “What is truth?” And “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.
Right now, Satan is the delegated ruler of this world. His time will end when he is cast out of heaven and Jesus comes back to harvest His people and kick off the Day of the Lord.
Meanwhile Satan’s greatest skill-set is LYING. He is in charge of the world, therefore the world-controlled communications are primarily LIES.
DeSantis is provably dishonest and bumbling, he can be immediately trash-canned.
Musk is giving us this coy cat and mouse theater. In the big picture, his present condition is heading him to the wrong ultimate destination.
It was Pilate, not Jesus, who said, “What is truth?”, or perhaps, “What is the truth?”
Satan has already been cast down from heaven. The “day of the lord” is a very violent time that comes before, not after, the return of Jesus.
Unscrupulous people always admit to ‘nothing’. “I saw it on the news like everyone else”.
John 14: 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Rev. 21:8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Remember these?
8 Times Obama Says He Was Way Out of the Loop:
https://sharylattkisson.com/2015/03/8-times-obama-says-he-was-way-out-of-the-loop/
Tools of State.
As you recall, Musk did want to back out until Twitter gave him more data. Musk was not given the time nor the access to do a proper investigation, regardless of how many people he had investigating. I think he is discovering many twists and turns as time goes on and did not anticipate what his investigations have uncovered.
DeSantis needs to concentrate on being a governor and get some more hands on experience. His campaign techniques are from pre Obama’s time. His advisors are old and just want to divide the GOP. I think DeSantis’ ego really thinks he can win. It appears to me that he is “waiting for the right time” like investing in the stock market. Does that ever work out? His ship has sailed for this election cycle.
They are both full of $#it.
The 2 words ”full of” may well both be omitted from your sentence.
Aye.
The biggest intelligence insult ever is that Biden won the election legitimately . It’s been proven over and over and over again that it was a mathematical and statistical impossibility for Biden to have won the 2020 election.
Links to these proofs please. The only one I know about is from Georgia. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4066008/posts
Read Mollie Hemingway’s book, “Rigged”, where she covers much of the evidence available that the judiciary refused to consider because of “lack of standing” and “untimely filing” or some such BS which derailed most of the suits (some of which are still continuing.
Such things as statistically impossible precint vote batch totals, and the coincidence of every key swing state shutting down the count on election might with Trump way ahead and somehow Biden took the lead with hundreds of thousands of votes dropping overnight and counted without observers. Audits revealed multiple copies of the exact same ballot forms signed with different signatures in one state. What about the thousands of sworn affidavits from poll workers of both parties about fraud they observed? None tbis was allowed to be considered by the courts. And much, much more.
Then there were the “2,000 Mules”. Remember them? The media claimed it was debunked because the GPS tower pings were not precise enough to prove the locations of the mules, but then the FBI found them quite accurate enough to pinpoint the 1/6 “insurrectionists”, didn’t they?
Then there is the less direct fraud, like the now proven collusion of the entire media, Big Tech, the Intel Community and the FBI/DOJ to prevent the voters from hearing about Hunter’s laptop. Subsequent surveys have established that up to 15% of Brandon’s actual, real live voters would have changed their vote.
Does anybody really believe that the doddering old fool who hardly ever left his basement and couldn’t get more than a dozen supporters to his “rallies” actually received 81 MILLION votes?
Fleccas found nearly 10,000 dead voters in and around Wayne County MI
The list: https://controlc.com/0e98b0bf
The video:
You can take names from the list and enter them and see that those dead people are still registered to vote.
At the time of the election you could put those names into the list and see the person requested an absentee ballot, received it, sent it back in and had confirmation from the county that the ballot had been received.
When the secretary of state was asked about it, she said they had checks in place to make sure that ineligible ballots were not counted. I call BS.
#2 is possible. Wouldn’t give a % guess. Makes me think of the film The Candidate with Robert Redford. Politicians are like Hollywood Elite Actors – their teams do everything + they remain blissfully ignorant.
#1 Not so long ago, I mentioned this topic here + got thumped on the head for it….
Corporate Espionage / Intelligence Gathering is real. They take it seriously. You get sessions on it in orientation prior to employment.
It’s not conceivable to me that the richest man on the planet involved in all kinds of Sensitive Industries does not have teams in the branches of his empire that — do counter-intelligence work to spot + prevent Intel Activity against his companies + intelligence teams gathering info on his competitors or whoever.
Musk would have had to be incompetent to buy Twitter while holding only the info Twitter willfully supplied him.
Twitter would have its security teams trying to prevent Data they didn’t want out from reaching Musk’s teams.
Given the # of employees Twitter would have had who knew something about the Gov-Twitter collusion, Musk’s teams would have gotten some informative data.
Add to that the % of Knowing Executives at Twitter who would have hoped to keep their jobs after the takeover.
Add to that any Patriot members of Congress or the Intel Agencies who dislike what Big Tech + the Establishment have been doing who might have reached out to Musk behind the scenes.
Add to that that many of the people on Musk’s intel teams would have been in the 3 letter agencies + have friends or contacts still in them.
The easy one first –
DeSantis absolutely knew he was being put on the hook for a presidential run. You don’t take in a couple hundred million dollars for a gubernatorial campaign that you won’t need or use, help the deep state with the Mar-A-Lago raid of the man likely to be your hardest rival, act coy and don’t answer when directly asked if you’re going to run during the gubernatorial election, call in a bunch of social media influencers and talking asses, and then get to claim ignorance.
If DeSantis is indeed ignorant of these facts, why would you ever want him for President?
Musk? A much harder call. I have no doubt he was aware that the feds were involved in requesting banning, he published those emails.
I do believe the engineers of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop were fully capable of hiding APIs and such that the Feds used to run the platform and change code.
It’s a fairly simple matter to hide back doors and APIs that are just a few thousand lines of code in a hundred million lines of code. Could hide that code easily in a library, compile programs, then remove the source code from the libraries until the next time it needs compiling, etc etc.
I do not believe he knew the extent of the Fed involvement.
From an accounting perspective, if he went over the books with the accountants and saw entries for server services, hardware etc, how would he know if it was the full bill of what Twitter was actually using or not? It’s not like Tesla or SpaceX is anything like Twitter, with the same throughput and intensive database requirements. I read he had some engineers from Tesla review the code, but what were they actually given to look thru?
I’m giving Musk a maybe, might have guessed, but just as the Swamp proved deeper than Trump thought, I believe the same happened to Musk.
Before the internet, I once had to figure out how an ex employee of a client was able to change code of a cable company system even tho all external access was closed. Guess what- he’d written a program that periodically rewrote some libraries and programs, recompiled, and moved them into production, all run based on a random number generator so you couldn’t find a pattern.
It’s tricky sometimes.
So Musk I’ll call a bit naive, but DeSantis gets no quarter.
“DeSantis absolutely knew he was being put on the hook for a presidential run.” He’s been talking through many states.
560 days until the 2024 election (who’s counting?) but the jockeying — both behind-the-scenes and in public on the campaign trail and TV screens – already starting; even of those dropping out. To do all this, they all need to have money.
Yet DeSanitized is not listed as a presidential hopeful when it comes to the war chests. Why is that?
I think you’re entirely correct about Musk being naive. The same thing even happened to Trump during his term as President. It’s very hard for an inherently honest, decent person to recognize pure evil. It takes awhile.
Great analysis, exactly what I think.
Desantis is ambitious like Cruz but was better at the deception until the strings started to show. Carl Rove was a dead give away.
Trump knew about the corruption. He got in to fix it but the depth if it was something he did not conceive at first. He quickly found himself surrounded.
I still think Musk’s world view and morals are a bit off. He seems squishy, realizing the consequences of the current path we are on as we go along and adjusting his views accordingly.
Trump on the other hand is rock solid in his direction. He knows right from wrong. The only thing is he has a good heart and gives too many people second chances when he shouldn’t. However. I think those days are done. A 500 million dollar lawsuit against his former attorney Cohen says it all. He’s angry. I believe he will rip the administrative state apart if given the chance.
I see Musk as more of an old fashioned liberal, even somewhat libertarian. He also has a good analytical brain, quite apart from his visionary capabilities.
He’s definitely not a Marxist and I don’t think he quite realized the lengths the deep state goes to secure power, as he has been more or less unwittingly in sync with the green agenda without being a fanatic.
Retired Magistrate here: I was raised to tell the truth, no matter what the consequences. Both parents repeatedly told me that a person’s word is their bond; if you can’t be trusted to tell the truth your word meant nothing.
These days it seems that telling the truth doesn’t matter; it does matter and it always has.
I don’t know the motivations for the two gentlemen of which you speak, but for myself circumspection of both sides always precedes a decion for myself and my family.
Why isnt Elon Musk suing the former board of directors for fraud?
He knew he could blackmail the people in power.
I’m not sure Musk would do that until he has a better grip and control of the code base of Twitter and which employees are still working for the feds.
Elon Musk has proven himself to be an international businessman by his ability to profit and deliver new ideas, concepts and products. DeSantos has proven himself to be a politician through his rise to the highest office in Florida. I choose Elon.
I do not believe them and will give no support to either.
Further, Elon can shove it with brainlink.
Those in power, or those who advise those that are in power, apparently feel that the majority of the population is either apathetic or downright stupid. Personally, I think they bank on the latter. They can tell you that the richest man in the world spends $44 with no due diligence about what he is buying. They can tell you that a political candidate was only on a book tour. They can tell you that an experimental gene technology vaccine is safe. They dan tell you that lockdowns are for your own good. They can tell you that you are the cause of climate change, etc. And sadly, it appears that a majority of the population seems to believe these things. We are now being herded into what will basically be the human zoo, as CBDC comes to control our financial lives, and people will believe that this is all for convenience, and not control. When we are called sheep, it is for a reason. In livestock, sheep are not very bright. And neither are we, apparently.
apathetic? perhaps.
stupid? maybe unaware.
but many, many people go along with the great pretending –
even though they know it IS pretending –
out of prudence,
to protect their jobs, their income, their grades, their families, their social circle, or their position in their communities.
behind closed doors with only their most trusted confidants is where the truth will out.
they exercise the truth anonymously,
or as close to it as they can get,
by voting, or donating to a candidate,
or with an exchange at the grocery store.
i think we are in the 100M + range,
many of whom do not consider themselves “political”.
we KNOW.
but the current climate is not favorable to the truth,
and not everyone can afford the high price of being publicly associated with it.
on the plus side, the secret handshake and code are still unknown to the opposition.
got pleasantly surprised the other day at a professional meeting
by someone i didn’t know was MAGA.
conversation was held in hushed tones after that.🤭
DeSanctimonious is playing the “I just fell off the turnip truck” card?
“I don’t think so.” – PDJT
I would tend to believe more of the African American’s story than Mr. Meatball’s.
DeSantis of all people should know that when you accept the devil’s money, he then owns you!
According to what I’ve read, similar donations got RDS into the House. This is not a new scenario for him.
And Ron voted for TPP while in the house. To me, that says a lot.
There is an old science fiction novel about a guy who got fed up with the lies the world wide computer system told. He went around inserting pieces of a worm program at various times and places, the final piece caused the computer system to report only the true facts to any query. It was about 30-40 years ago. i don’t remember the name of the book.
In the end, God wins.
Take NOTHING at face value.
Believe NO ONE outside your very close circle or those you have mentally put check marks next to their names.
TRUST in our Lord and Savior JC.
Ron DeSantis is what I refer to as “plastic”. He is easily molded… It was obvious some time ago that he was going to make a run – he was copying President Trump’s mannerisms, speech and stealing key phrases. This whole book tour is laughable – he is obviously campaigning. There is ZERO chance he will ever be President now. If he had just waited until 2028, he might have stood a chance – but once you see those strings…
As for Elon and Twitter – Jack Dorsey is his friend… and he asked Elon to buy the company. I think the weight of what the 4th Branch had done to his baby (some say Jack stole it) was too much. One wonders how much of a friend he was? Did he ever tell Elon the full truth? I think he had an inkling, but the shock for Elon was probably discovering the entirety of the parasite that had consumed the product. Thankfully, he exposed the rot! So, for that, I think Elon is trying to be the good guy.
As I understand it, Musk tentatively decided to buy Twitter largely on the strength of his outrage that the Babylon Bee had been banned. I doubt that he had any idea of unconstitutional government involvement until much later. Exactly when, I couldn’t say. If he learned it first via mere clues, then it was a gradual realization and perhaps even he can’t pinpoint it.
Therefore, I tend to believe him.
How long did it take you to come up with the idea?
A) Musk knew because Dorsey, who still has a $1 Billion investment in this company with Musk, knew. Jack’s investment implies that he has confidence that Musk can break free and reinvent Twitter. Most likely Jack is guiding Musk from behind the scenes.
B) DeSantis knew, but we are not sure of his motives. Either he intended to run or he intended to F the establishment donors. We may never know.
DeSantis’ culture warrior – ‘We’re are now over the walls’
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/chris-rufo-desantis-anti-woke-00088578
Back last December 04 ’22 in this article here: “A Baseline Understanding Mostly Missing Behind the Twitter Discussion – Govt Influence Over Social Media Influence and the Surveillance State” a reader’s post had the following question: “Just what is the purpose of what Musk is doing now?”
I answered as follows. Reading it over, I still see it the same way today:
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My answer (to myself) to that question has been that the “powers that be” are cogently aware that the issue of how “Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop” manages to “stay afloat” brings undesired scrutiny to both them and Twitter.
Musk’s role is to “clean up the place” and make it “profitable” so that “conspiracy theorists” can’t point out the “obvious” hand of Government on their scales.
Musk has “his way” of getting from “Magic Coffee Shop” to “profitable” – which may not be exactly how Government would want him to do it (or… maybe it is).
In the end, “Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop” will end up a forgotten concept (thus removing the “obviousness” of Governments hand)
That’s the purpose…
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POST LINK: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/03/a-baseline-understanding-mostly-missing-behind-the-twitter-discussion-govt-influence-over-social-media-influence-and-the-surveillance-state/comment-page-1/#comment-9390227
Yep. Bingo.
If that were true Musk would not be releasing the Twitter files.
Of course, we have yet to see the Fauci/CDC/FDA files from Twitter.
Sundance:
>>> “I am very interested in how intellectually honest people view these [two] assertions.”
Simple: Both beggar belief.
~ EM
Musk could not possibly have known everything foul that there was to know about Twitter before he bought it. After DeSantis ran for reelection as governor, he reported for duty as required and now serves in that post to the benefit of his state. Neither situation says anything about the state of our national anything.
DeSantis argues US should be like Florida ahead of 2024 bid
Yeah sure! Make everywhere overpriced, overcrowded, terrible traffic, hot garbage leftpuke population centers of the worst sort, 3rd most homeless junkies in the Country, more Illegals than you can shake a stick at, a higher overdose rate per capita than California, with unchecked destruction of unique ecosystems? Sounds great.
In politics, it’s more common to brush and floss a hen’s teeth than to hear the truth spoken. I doubt even the fast food menu boards in DC are truthful…
I would trust nothing that is coming from the DeSantis “team”. The man lies to himself. If he can do that, he WILL lie to others.
Sometime during the pandemic Desantis’s body language mimicked President Trump. THAT was the day he began running and I knew it!
During the summer of 2020 I took my family to Kennedy Space center and saw the Space X project and the scale plus security that surrounded it. When Mr. Musk “announced” an interest in Twitter my first thought was “He knows something and is going to capitalize on all the information he is purchasing.”
He knew what was in those databases. He most likely will use it for his protection and to keep others in check!
Yep, and bullshyt radar says the Glowbull agenda is not a communist plot of control and the US Justus department does not have a political agenda
We are living a joke, and the joke is on us.
It is just not funny.
And those playing the joke on us are not of the light….and are not our friends.
Sadly there are still too many that watch the enemy MSM and will regurgitate their crap (swamp narratives).
But, more and more I’ve seen poll numbers (I know polls are crap) that 84 +% get their news from other than the enemy MSM, networks or print.
I prefer to see this as a positive as opposed to people getting their news from “Social Media” and it’s forcing people to research and dare I say…read.
Elon doesn’t strike as the type of guy to buy a pig in a poke, nor does Ron strike as the kind of person, as a swamp rat that does anything without conferring with HQ/Rove, Bush the swamp.
Them not understanding what they are doing is, well, silly. “Trust but Verify” Let the Kabuki continue.
Sundance,
I suggest the dichotomy is very simple to understand and can be summed up thusly…
Unlike DeSantis, Musk has to say what he says.
If he did/does not, he could potentially be criminally charged by a deeply corrupt Biden DOJ with any number of charges relating to “national security” and “state secrets”.
Did he know about Deep State involvement in social media? Of course he did. His goal was to expose it to the public, but he has to play dumb in order to protect himself. As things stand, the DOJ would (will?) have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he absolutely knew and was intentionally exposing secret gov’t involvement in social media. This would be very difficult for them to do. But, if he admits it, they have him cold and dead-to-rights.
The real question in my mind is….is Musk working in coordination/cooperation with other unnamed entities who oppose “they”? If so, when exactly was he recruited? How long ago? Those answers likely beget many others.
As for DeSantis, you have him nailed. DeSantis truths are completely separate from the truths and question(s) around Musk.
Just my $.02
The republicans in Florida are fixin’ to get kicked to the curb in 2024, due mainly to DeSantis.
The GOP can ill-afford to put FL back in-play for the democrat-communists. There will be enough battle-fronts to fight in 2024 with all the swing-state election fraud.
DeSantis needs to focus on being the governor of FL as he promised the people of his state in 2022.
Yep.
I spent 20 years with a psychopath not knowing he was a psychopath. His main M.O. was playing dumb/naive/innocent. I believe nothing. I believe what I don’t see and assume there is much I don’t see. Watching and listening are my best weapons.
On page 3 of today’s Presidential Politics topic, you will find an essay I wrote today on Truth, along with excellent comments by others (q.v.).
We Conservatives believe – correctly – that we look at the evidence, no matter what our feelings might tell us.
If e.g. the evidence showed us that President Trump were mentally ill, I believe that most Conservatives would believe the evidence, and despite our deep feeling that it could not be true, we would admit that the waddling, quacking, mallard-looking duck in front of us was in fact a duck…and not an elephant.
Right now, a Leftist lunatic named Bill Palmer on The Palmer Report is reporting that President Trump is mentally ill, that he is “so far gone” that nothing will stop his self-destruction!
Palmer places a deliberately distorted photo of President Trump on his website as proof of this mental instability.
We look at such a “report” and shake our heads at how far away from the Truth it is…because the evidence (e.g. President Trump being interviewed on Tucker Carlson, or speaking at a rally) does not show any signs of insanity.
However, Leftists will read the same report, and believe every word of it, because – to them – it feels right and supports their beliefs.
The evidence to the contrary is not examined directly: they accept the “filtering” of The Palmer Report as fact.
c. 60 years ago in my Catholic, all-boy high school, we had a joke about debating methods: “Facts?! Don’t bother me with facts! FACTS CONFUSE THE ISSUE! The REAL issue is: you can’t send this poor boy to prison! Think of his mother!” *
i.e. Emotions vs. Evidence.
The reality is…some people will follow their emotions, not the evidence.
The Leftists’ “truth,” therefore, always has an agenda!
* In ancient Athenian trials, it was common practice to bring in the crying children or weeping mother to sway the jury. It must have worked at least some of the time!
Ron DeSantis was absolutely aware of his proposed Presidential run, he can’t run from the hundreds of millions of dollars donated for that specific purpose.
Elon Musk was likely duped by his own staff while they were scrambling to cover their tracks. It is entirely plausible that they did not tell him anything and the truth only came out after he brought in Tesla staff and purged most Twitter employees. Fortunately, someone appears to be telling him the truth now. For someone whose entire wealth building process is a direct result of government investment to come out publicly swinging against that government is pretty spectacular and it makes you wonder if there isn’t more that he is holding back to keep from completely burning bridges.
Can you imagine going to fundraisers for your Presidential Campaign while believing it is for your Gubernatorial Campaign?
How about keeping up the Presidential Campaign fundraisers after you won reelection as Governor? How do you keep up the false beliefs?
Do you think the donors would allow this?
Can’t even make believable lies.
The new rule for me when dealing with these types they are guilty until proven innocent.
I don’t believe any one of them any longer.
Fooled me once shame on you
Fool me twice shame on me
“I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again”
I believe neither, although Musk less than DeSantis.
Funny I remember about 4 or 5 “handwritten” letters from Ron asking me for money before we were allowed to reelect him. Not one of them mentioned his Gubernatorial Campaign. I even got one with a glossy photo of the family during story time. I wish I could go back and look at them but they all immediately went into the compost heap.
Sorry, I don;t buy the Sergeant Schultz defense.. I know nothing..
It says that Satan is the Marionette that you so often refer to. Remember? Once you see the strings, you can’t not see them?
All of the people playing the parts are puppets. They are paid well to be puppets or they are compromised and/or threatened to be puppets. This includes Musk, DeSantis, pretty much all of Congress and Senate, pretty much every SCOTUS, all world leaders, probably even Trump is a puppet. I don’t trust or believe anyone any more other than my precious Lord and His Word. This place where we live is nothing but lies and this world has nothing for me. There is nothing that I desire besides the Lord. Everything pales in comparison. He is coming soon and I, for one, am so ready! 🙏🏼🙌🏼
Disclaimer: at first I said that our government was the Marionettes until I read Stu’s response (above). He was spot on and I have to agree, Satan may be using our government as a Marionette, but Satan is the one in control of all of the evil and the lies.
Thankful for redos with ability to edit comments!
Stu is very confused about the Bible, although perhaps not about Satan.
Two things:
1) God appoints rulers over us. That’s a pretty scary thought. Also, in Job He allows Satan to mess with Job. Nothing is happening that God has not allowed.
2) In Matthew 24, when His disciples ask what will be the sign of His coming and the end of the age, Jesus says DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
I pray not to be deceived, to be discening. It is always in the back of my mind that only Jesus is my savior.
Half lie
Full blown lying out his a** lie
Hi all! It’s been awhile. I’ve been following but haven’t commented in a long time.
This is a really interesting thing to contemplate. I think in Elon’s case, a great deal hinges on where his sources of information came from, what they had access to, and how honest the parties were in the process. I think some general back of the napkin calculations could’ve hinted at the general unprofitability of Twitter, raising questions to it’s underlying structure, but it is hard to imagine he wouldn’t have known if he had a reliable team investigating the sale for him. However, it’s also hard to see why, if he did know, he would continue to reveal it. Seems promoting that the social network you just purchased is controlled by the government, without listing any detailed remediation steps, is not that great of a business model. In the end, I really don’t know with this one. My altruistic, emotionally blinded side wants to believe him, but it’s hard to imagine someone as seemingly intelligent and successful as Elon would spend $40+ billion on something he didn’t fully understand.
Regarding DeSantis, I think in he absolutely does know what’s going on, but in all honesty, my ultimate question is how far back does the knowing go? As advanced as the UniParty plans things out, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if his COVID response was part of building a “tolerable Trump”. Someone with lots of airtime and “chops” that they could use in the aftermath of the COVID election cheating to replace Trump in the next election cycle. Regardless though, even if he was authentic in his COVID response, and he didn’t know he was being groomed for president when he ran for governor in 2022, he does know now and is still defrauding Florida by pretending he isn’t running when he actually is. That alone speaks to a concerning lack of character.
Anyway, just some of my thoughts. Hope you all are doing well!