#in a record 38 days 9 days before an election

[hoodoo12]

1. middle names: starts with a C

2. age: 31

3. birthday: 9 january

4. zodiac sign: Western: Capricorn; Chinese: Rat

5. favourite colour: atm yello

6. lucky number: three

7. pets: currently two dogs, a Basenji and an Aust Cattle Dog

8. from: Ohio

9. height: 5'4"

10. shoe size: 10

11. pairs of shoes: several pairs of Crocs for work, a pair of boots, a fancy pair of boots I bought to wear for a show, knock-off Birkenstock sandles, and my favorite pair, a 'shoe' with a non-slip tread but the tops are like socks

12. last dream: recently I can't remember any

13. talents: sarcasm, quoting lines from movies or the Simpsons that no one else gets, laughing at myself, writing, placing IV catheters and ET tubes, talking to dog breeders when they're upset at the vet

14. psychic ability: nah 15. favourite song: I'm really digging Stan Rogers atm

16. favourite movie: Time Bandits, The Thing

17. ideal partner: lucky to have found him

18. children wanted: wanted is different than had

19. church wedding: it was a chapel

20. religious: The Satanic Temple is looking better and better every day

21. hospital visits: many due to horse-riding accidents and eye surgeries

23. legal trouble: no

24. celebrity encounters: yes, several

25. bathing preference: showers

26. current sock colour: none (I'm barefoot at the moment)

27. famous: nah

28. favourite music genre: Irish folk

29. want to be a big celebrity: I would like to be well known under a pen name

30. skinny dipping: yes

31. number of pillows: 1

32. sleeping position: side sleeper

33. typical breakfast: tea (hot or cold depends on the season), cereal, and a banana

34. fired a gun: yes

35. tried archery: yes

36. favourite clean word: obliette

37. favourite swear word: fuck is used most often, cunt when I want to really drive the point

38. sleep deprivation record: two days

39. scars: numerous

40. secret admirer: nope

41. good liar: yes

42. good judge of character: I don't even know any more

43. other accents: not well, no

44. strong accent: Midwestern American

45. favourite accent: I like Welsh

46. personality type: INTJ

47. most expensive piece of clothing: I . . . don't know

48. tongue curling ability: yes

49. innie or outie: innie

50. handedness: right

51. arachnophobic: no

52. favourite food: lychees

53. favourite foreign food: too many to choice from

54. clean or messy: messy

55. most used phrase: for the love of god

56. most used word: fuck

57. length of time to get ready: less than 30 minutes

58. ego: nah

59. suck or bite lollipops: suck

60. talk to myself: all the time

61. sing to myself: all the time

62. good singer: I think I'm pretty good in the car

63. biggest fear: losing loved ones

64. gossip: you just pull that chair right up beside me and we'll go through all the dirt you have and I'll tell you all the dirt I have

65. best dramatic movie: Twelve Angry Men

66. long or short hair: short but growing it out

67. name all 50 states: yes, plus the capitals

68. favourite school subject: writing

69. extrovert or introvert: introvert

70. scuba diving: NO

71. nervous about: the fucking state of politics in the US and the existential dread of the orange shit stain being re-elected

72. scared of the dark: no

73. correcting others' mistakes: I try to control myself but yes

74. ticklish: no

75. started a rumour: no

76. position of authority: no but I act like I do

77. underage drinking: nope!

78. done drugs: believe it or not, nope!

79. first real crush: I can't remember that far back!

80. piercings: yes

81. R-rolling ability: no

82. typing speed: not as good as I want it to be

83. running speed: In the immortal words of Gimli: "I'm a natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances, and my athleticism is wasted on cross-country."

84. hair colour: grey and loving it!

85. eye colour: stirred up silt at the bottom of a stagnant pond

86. allergies: penicillin, fools

87. journal: I keep track of the books I read. Does that count?

88. parents' occupations: mother was a nurse before she died, dad worked in local government

89. like my age: yeah

90. gets angry about: people who cannot trouble-shoot anything on their own. Assholes who mistreat animals. People who are proud they don't read.

91. like my own name: No. I dislike it so very much

92. thought of baby names: Yes, for future dogs

93. want a daughter or son: (see #18)

94. strengths: calm and take charge in an emergency, can cook/bake, hunting

95. weaknesses: my back hurts, sometimes get overcome by what happened in the past . . . wait, were the last two supposed to specifically be about surviving after the apocalypse?

96. how I got my name: I don't want to talk about it

97. royal ancestry: nah

98. scars: just because it repeats doesn't mean I'm going to trip up during this interrogation

99. bedspread colour: a pinkish kaftan quilt with birds and flowers of various colors

100. room colour: the room I am currently in is purple. Other rooms in the house are yellow, teal, ombre grey, forest green

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[garudabluffs]

Trump GETS STUNNED by Latest Development in CRIMINAL TRIAL

Apr 12, 2024 Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo break down all the recent developments with just a few days to go before Trump is On Trial in NY next week, including a key Trump witness being sent off to prison already; and Trump losing 3X this week in his efforts to stop the trial from starting.

the defendant Donald Trump

9:09 is charged with 34 counts of falsifying

9:11 business records in the first degree the

9:14 allegations are in substance that Donald

9:17 Trump falsified business records to

9:19 conceal an agreement with others to

9:21 unlawfully influence the 2016

9:24 presidential election okay that's how

9:27 the judge is characterizing this case

9:29 and the more I think about this case

9:31 popac and the more I really think about

9:34 what this is about the more I think in

9:37 some ways this case is equally as

9:40 serious if not just as serious as his

9:43 other cases right it doesn't sound like

9:46 it when you hear about it because of

9:47 course the other cases are so incredibly

9:51 shockingly serious right stealing our

9:53 nation's uh most coveted and and must

9:58 are secrets right are the keys to the

10:00 kingdom and and doesn't give them back

10:02 and doesn't protect them and has them in

10:04 bathrooms I mean it doesn't get more

10:06 serious than that right it's just that

10:09 that's that is something that is just

10:11 absolutely treasonous and the same with

10:13 the the Jan 6 cases right the those

10:16 cases were absolutely just stunning

10:19 right with with the people who lost

10:20 lives and breaking into the capital uh

10:23 and the fact that he he um tried to get

10:25 Mike Pence to to not certify the

10:27 election but when you think about this

10:29 case case Okay this particular case is a

10:32 case where he only won by 880,000 votes

10:36 in the swing States and that's a that's

10:38 a stunningly stunningly small number in

10:42 2016 he won by the slimmest slimmest

10:46 margin and the question we have to ask

10:49 ourselves is would if this information

10:52 had come out on the heels of the um on

10:56 the heels of the Access Hollywood tape

10:59 along with the suppressing the Karen

11:02 McDougall story The paying off the

11:04 doorman story and now this having an

11:07 affair with a porn star story would he

11:11 have gotten those votes obviously that

11:13 calls for speculation and we don't know

11:15 but what if this the fact that he did

11:17 this is the reason he won the 2016

11:20 election and our democracy has forever

11:22 changed at least currently as a result

11:25 of that election so I I want to

11:27 challenge anyone who says this is not an

11:29 incredibly serious case

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[ripplesofaqua]

please, for the love of everything good left in this county. for all the people who have been hurt and killed, and for those who will be hurt and killed if we don’t do anything. please, please vote, if you are in the US and able to, and haven’t done so yet. vote now, as soon as you can! don’t wait till election day. if you’re doing an absentee ballot, send it in tomorrow! and honestly, at this point, try and drop it off at a legitimate drop-box. or hand it in in-person to an election office. Who knows how long it will take to be received by mail, at this point

[politijohn]

The Stock Market is not the Economy w/ Dan Price

Airlines spent 96% of free cash flow on stock buybacks for a decade, then cut 90,000 jobs when trouble hit. Then they got a $50 billion bailout

GE promised its CEO a huge bonus if stock hit $19. It didn’t, so GE re-did contract so the bonus kicks in at $10/share The CEO cut 20% of aviation staff to increase profits and raise the stock to $10 His bonus: $47M. If it goes up again, he gets $270M

JCPenney - April: furloughed 85,000 employees, May 10: Gave CEO $4.5M bonus on top of $17M/yr in pay, May 15: went bankrupt, Oct: laid off 15,000 people, Dec: closed 150 stores, Now: CEO left with $4.5M bonus after stock fell 88% in her 2 yrs

Boeing spent almost all of its cash on stock buybacks over the prior decade. In the past year, it cut 27,000 employees. It also fired its CEO over 2 deadly plane crashes and ensuing coverup, and gave him a $81 million exit package

On Jan. 6, when the mob stormed the Capitol, the stock market went up 250 points to a new record, handing the richest 1% an extra $300 billion. Also that day, a new report showed employment dropped for the first time since April and a then-record 3,900 people died of covid

Albertsons, US’ 2nd-largest grocery chain: *Profit is up 256% in pandemic *Stock at record high *Owned by private equity *CEO made $29M last year *Fired all California non-union drivers to replace them with gig workers with no benefits/min wage

The stock market for the 500 biggest companies ended the year up 15%, among the biggest gains ever. Also in that span, those companies lad off a record number of people, and wait times for food banks hit a record high

As part of the first stimulus, the Fed pumped about $3 trillion into the stock market, which helped it soar to record highs. At the same time, a record 30% of small businesses failed and unemployment tripled

Since 2009, stock market is up 233%. Since 2009, the federal min. wage is up 0%

Coca-Cola - This decade, it spent $48B on dividends and over $20B on stock buybacks 2018: CEO got 58% pay increase 2019: CEO got 12% pay increase, to $18.7M 2020: Company makes $8.3B profit…and it just laid off 12% of workers

Among the biggest 50 companies, they spent 79% of profits on stock buybacks and dividends in recent years to enrich executives and mostly-wealthy shareholders. Last year, those companies combined to lay off over 100,000 workers

Disney stock is up 21% in the past year to a new record high. In recent months they laid off 32,000 people. One of our employees lives near Disney World. Recently there was a line of cars outside his house for a drive-thru food bank 7.5 miles away

In the pandemic, total stock value has grown by $16.6 trillion. $8.3 trillion of that went to the richest 1%, and they pay a lower tax rate than those who are unemployed and need help

Salesforce - In the last 5 years, it has bought 27 companies for tens of billions of dollars. It just bought Slack for $27.7B. Its stock is at record high, up 23% in the past year after revenue surged 29%. And it just laid off 1,000 people

In November alone, the average member of the top 10% gained an average of $200,000 from the stock market while 7M people plunged into poverty

On one day in November: *The stock market hit 30,000 for the first time *Elon Musk became first person to gain $100B in a year *A Census report revealed 6M people face imminent eviction

Uber + Lyft spent $200M on November election ads to convince Californians they shouldn’t pay drivers minimum wage or benefits. In the 2 weeks after passage, Uber stock went up 39% and Lyft stock soared 52%. In return, all drivers were denied basic benefits

Average stock gains over 10 years CEOs with above-average pay: stock up 160% CEOs with below-average pay: stock up 280% And yet CEOs are rewarded whether the stock goes up or down

AT&T - 2018-2019: bought Time Warner for $100B, cut 29,000 jobs May: gave departing CEO $64M pension ($274K/mo for life), laid off 4,700 more workers August: laid off 600 more workers, Now: laid off thousands more - news sent stock up 2%

Marriott - 2018-2019: made $3.1B in profits, spent $5B on stock buybacks April: furloughed most employees, paid $160M in dividends to shareholders, gave CEO a 8% raise and 200% bonus Sept: laid off 17% of HQ staff Now: made $100M profit

$3B: what Jeff Bezos cashed out in stock in one day, as Amazon profits tripled in the pandemic. $2.1B: cost to give all Amazon warehouse workers 2 weeks paid sick leave and a year of hero pay (they got none of either now)

84% of stock market value is owned by richest 10% “but what about 401(k)s” Half of Americans don’t have one The average 401(k) balance has *declined* $5,000 in 6 years after inflation, because employers put in less & people can’t afford contributions

MGM - Laid off 18,000 people while giving its CEO $700K in stock. The value of the stock doubled to $1.4M after the stock went up, partly because of increased profitability due to the layoffs

Wells Fargo made $10B in staff cuts, meaning tens of thousands of employees lost their jobs. Wells Fargo also made a $2B profit, did $24B in stock buybacks last year, and paid its CEO $36M

Black and Latino Americans make up about 32% of the population but own only 1.7% of all stock value

1948-1979: Worker productivity: up 108%, Stock market: up 603%, Worker pay: up 93%.  Since then, worker productivity: up 70%, Stock market: up 2,200%, Worker pay: up 12%. Corporations and workers used to get richer together. Now companies just keep the money

Deere - Construction sales are down 25%. Yet, it is posting a $2.25B profit as it cuts thousands of jobs. The result: Its stock grew 23% in a year to a record high. In the week after it announced job cuts, its stock grew 9%

Walmart - Stock is at record high, up 23% in a year. The Waltons have gotten over $20B richer in the pandemic. Online sales are up 74% and market share has grown…and it cut hundreds of corporate jobs

Macy’s - Its stock was down 60% in a year and they cut 3,900 jobs. So what did it do? Gave its CEO a $3.7M bonus, and gave about $1M each to 5 other execs

CEOs justify huge pay by saying they’re worth it. But there’s no correlation between profit and CEO pay at 61% of corporations. Since 1990, stock market: up 300%, CEO pay: up 550%

Stock for the parent company of Ann Taylor, Loft and Lane Bryant is down 75% in a year. It closed all 2,800 stores. So what did it do? Gave executives $5.5M in bonuses, including over $2M to the CEO

Where proceeds from stock buybacks + dividends went over the last 15 years: White people: $13 trillion, Black people: $0.18 trillion Hispanic people: $0.21 trillion When we talk about the systemic racial wealth gap, this is a pretty good place to start

Amid the early days of the pandemic, stocks grew 38%, the most ever in a 50-day span. At the same time, thousands of small businesses closed each day while thousands of people died from covid

Google - Stock at all-time high. $6.8B profit last year. Founders Page + Brin added $10B+ to fortunes in a year. Offered jobs to over 2,000 people and axed them w/ no severance before they ever worked a day - after they already left their prior jobs

Companies did $62B/year in stock buybacks in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Now they do $730B/year in stock buybacks. Worker pay increases are far smaller now than they were in the ‘80s and ‘90s

Chevron - Its CEO made $33.1M/year. 5 other execs made a total of $59M. It spent $13B on stock buybacks and dividends in a year then laid off 10-15% of its staff

Big companies don’t just spend profits on manipulating stock. They are a record $10 trillion in debt - mostly for stock buybacks + dividends to enrich themselves. When the bill comes due, layoffs typically ensue

In April, a record 30M people lost their jobs and small businesses lost 55% of their revenue. At the same time, the stock market rose the most since 1987 and billionaires gained $308B

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- Court Filings Sidney Powell’s Michigan Lawsuit Michigan Document 26/11/2020 11:35 AM Sidney Powell’s Georgia Lawsuit Georgia Document 26/11/2020 11:22 AM 1 - Voting Legislation 4 PA court rules against post-election vote curing Pennsylvania Court Ruling 12/11/2020 07:30 PM 4 2 Voting machine vendors are without regulation or security standards Nationwide Court Ruling 14/11/2020 04:51 PM 1 1 45 day after election, federal official assess if foreign governments had any effect Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 06:46 PM 4 2 - Illegal Votes 4! 2,689 fraudulent addresses used in GA and PA Wisconsin Material 24/11/2020 11:07 PM 4 4! 1093% more Indefinitely Confined granted (Covid not a qualification) than 2016 Wisconsin Material 24/11/2020 11:01 PM 4 4! 138,444 swing state votes were cast from voters with residence in another state Nationwide Material 24/11/2020 10:59 PM 4 4! 23.2% of absentee ballots returned by voters, were not received in swing states Nationwide Statistical 24/11/2020 10:56 PM 4 4! 27.4% of absentee ballots were likely fraudently requested in AZ, GA, MI, PA, WI Nationwide Statistical 24/11/2020 10:55 PM 4 4! 40,000 mail-in ballots were cast in the names of deceased voters in PA Pennsylvania Material 22/11/2020 07:59 AM 4 4 61% of signatures were found invalid after State Senator Obama initiated challenge Illinois Historical Context 23/11/2020 10:15 PM 4 4 Determining the legality of a ballot is "optional" for absentee counting boards Michigan Document 21/11/2020 12:54 PM 4 4 40,875+ ballots were cast in the name of another voter without their consent Pennsylvania Statistical 20/11/2020 04:09 AM 4 4 40 of CO's 64 counties have more voter registrations than voting-age citizens Colorado Material 19/11/2020 10:01 AM 4 4 353 counties in 29 states have more voter registrations than voting-age citizens Nationwide Material 19/11/2020 09:53 AM 4 4 834 counts of mail-in voter fraud prosecuted by OAG since 2004 Texas Court Ruling 19/11/2020 12:40 AM 4 4 9,500 dead people returned mail-in ballots Michigan Material 18/11/2020 10:17 PM 4 4 2,000 ballots found in single sweep, despite numerous prior sweeps Pennsylvania Material 18/11/2020 10:03 PM 4 4 Mail-in ballots were "returned" for counting before they were mailed Pennsylvania Material 18/11/2020 09:02 PM 4 4 223,000 intractable mail-in ballots sent to wrong addresses Nevada Material 18/11/2020 07:23 PM 4 4 8,000 voter application submitted by couple on behalf of homeless and the dead California Material 18/11/2020 06:33 PM 3 4 9,626 vote error discovered by recount monitor Georgia Witness 18/11/2020 03:29 PM 4 4 15,000 Nevada voters suspected to have also voted outside state Nevada Material 18/11/2020 11:36 AM 3 4 32.6% of 1706 sample received absentee ballots without their request Pennsylvania Material 17/11/2020 08:07 PM 3 4 6,000 illegal votes in NV, according to NV District Attorney Nevada Material 17/11/2020 05:11 AM 4 4 1,600+ voters born 1800 and 1900 voted by mail in NC North Carolina Document 17/11/2020 12:07 AM 4 4 Claim that Maiden name was used to vote in election Nationwide Witness 16/11/2020 11:21 PM 1 4 "X" used for signatures for in fraudulent voter registrations Pennsylvania Witness 16/11/2020 06:29 PM 3 4 132,000 "Change of Address" flags in single GA county Georgia Material 16/11/2020 02:03 PM 4 4 PA DoS removed signature verification from all mail-in ballots Pennsylvania Court Ruling 16/11/2020 01:49 PM 4 4 18,000 mail-in ballots didn't have a "Mailed Date" only a return date after Nov 3rd Pennsylvania Material 16/11/2020 12:40 PM 4 4 3,000 instances of alleged voter fraud filed with AG by Nevada GOP Nevada Witness 16/11/2020 11:14 AM 4 4 66% of dead registered voters, born between 1800 and 1899, voted Pennsylvania Material 15/11/2020 01:38 PM 4 4 Rejected absentee ballots: 3.5% in 2018 to 0.3% in 2020 despite 500% more votes Georgia Statistical 14/11/2020 07:08 PM 4 3 Upwards of 45% of Indefinitely Confined voters shown to not qualify Wisconsin Statistical 24/11/2020 11:05 PM 4 3 1.2% of newly moved voters had votes cast in their name without consent Nationwide Statistical 24/11/2020 10:58 PM 4 3 1.3% of newly registered voters had votes cast in their name without consent Nationwide Statistical 24/11/2020 10:57 PM 4 3 32,000 Michigan residents sign request for independed audit Michigan Document 23/11/2020 10:11 PM 4 3 149,772 vote batch is 96% for single canidate Michigan Statistical 23/11/2020 10:10 PM 4 3 143,379 vote dump at 3:42am had a 93% leaning towards single candidate Wisconsin Statistical 18/11/2020 11:44 PM 4 3 500 absentee ballots missing, never delivered by postal service Minnesota Document 17/11/2020 05:56 PM 4 3 1,298 proven instances of voter fraud with 1,121 criminal convictions Nationwide Historical Context 16/11/2020 12:11 PM 4 3 Jill Stein contested the results in 3 states 2016 for similar irregularities Nationwide Historical Context 16/11/2020 12:09 PM 4 3 95% registered voter turnout in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Statistical 15/11/2020 11:51 AM 4 3 1994: Judge rules Democrat stole State Senate election in Philadelphia scheme Pennsylvania Historical Context 14/11/2020 04:42 PM 4 2 Benford Analysis shows irregular Nationwide Statistical 19/11/2020 07:50 PM 2 2 139 unexplainable discrepancies in Clark County Commission race Georgia Material 19/11/2020 12:55 AM 3 2 Lowest recorded mail-in ballot rejection rate in swing states Nationwide Statistical 19/11/2020 12:50 AM 3 2 95% of Bellwether counties break voting pattern, creating statistical anomaly Nationwide Statistical 18/11/2020 11:56 PM 2 2 Statistical anomalies in multiple states have a time correlation Nationwide Statistical 16/11/2020 06:36 PM 2 2 Biden's Mail-in votes dramatically fail Benford Test Atlanta, all others pass. Georgia Statistical 16/11/2020 11:00 AM 2 2 782 more votes than than registered voters in Detroit from 2016 election Michigan Historical Context 14/11/2020 04:32 PM 4 2 NYT FLASHBACK: Error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises (2012) Nationwide Historical Context 13/11/2020 08:31 AM 3 2 PA Auditors Warned of Dead People, Duplicates on State Voter Rolls Pennsylvania Historical Context 12/11/2020 10:34 PM 3 2 US decried Ukraine election due to expelled observers, mail-in ballots and 90% turnout Nationwide Historical Context 12/11/2020 10:14 PM 4 1 Former Texas ivoting official certified fictitious ballot for Lyndon Johnson Texas Historical Context 23/11/2020 11:18 PM 1 1 Campaign offical ask for volenteers to track down ballot in PA Wisconsin Photo/Audio/Video 20/11/2020 10:47 AM 2 1 GA Secretary of State withholds ballot image from public viewing Georgia Document 19/11/2020 12:02 AM 1 1 Double mail-in ballots received by serval dozen voters Virginia Document 16/11/2020 09:20 PM 3 1 Double mail-in ballot received by around 1000 voters Virginia Document 16/11/2020 09:18 PM 3 1 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses from China seized by authorities Illinois Document 16/11/2020 02:14 PM 1 1 Joe Biden states he put together the most "extensive... voter fraud organization" Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 16/11/2020 11:57 AM 1 1 FL precinct reports more than 100% voter turnout due to UCF Florida Material 12/11/2020 10:47 PM 1 3 - Polling Place Irregularities 4 9 witness videos from Precinct 13: Congressman, Senator, Dominion employee Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 24/11/2020 04:46 PM 4 4 Recount monitors unable to track multiple tables with constant recount errors Georgia Witness 19/11/2020 01:08 AM 3 4 Poll Challengers were kick out for challenging suspect ballots Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 18/11/2020 10:27 PM 3 4 Observers forced to stand 30 feet away from ballot counting, despite state laws Pennsylvania Witness 18/11/2020 09:42 PM 3 4 Polling place illegally handed out handed out gift cards for absentee ballots Nevada Photo/Audio/Video 18/11/2020 07:50 PM 3 4 200,000 mail-in ballots cast with the unverifyable "indefinitely confined" status Wisconsin Material 18/11/2020 06:48 PM 4 4 2,600 new votes found in county's recount Georgia Material 18/11/2020 04:43 PM 4 4 Recount protocol breached by workers silently passing on ballots Georgia Witness 18/11/2020 03:27 PM 4 4 39% of 1137 Republican ballots never arrived for counting, despite being mailed. Pennsylvania Material 17/11/2020 08:11 PM 3 4 72% of Detroit's absentee ballot counts were off, Canvassers discovers Michigan Digital (aka Glitch) 17/11/2020 07:44 PM 4 4 70% of Detroit's 134 absentee counting boards had unexplained counting errors Michigan Digital (aka Glitch) 17/11/2020 07:43 PM 4 4 Poll observers forced to use binoculars to watch voting process, despite court order Pennsylvania Photo/Audio/Video 16/11/2020 06:45 PM 3 4 Pre-canvassing ballots in some counties weeks early, violating election laws Pennsylvania Witness 14/11/2020 05:19 PM 4 4 234 pages of sworn affidavits for election irregularities from single county Michigan Witness 12/11/2020 10:26 PM 4 4 500 sworn affidavits and 11,000 reports of irregularities Nationwide Witness 12/11/2020 12:47 PM 4 3 GOP Reps certified election on as an attempted to protecting their families Michigan Witness 19/11/2020 09:38 AM 4 3 6 recount monitors witness batches of ballots appearing to be marked by machines Georgia Witness 18/11/2020 11:09 PM 4 3 9,000 ballot counting error caught by recount moderators Georgia Material 18/11/2020 10:53 PM 4 3 List of poll watchers being denied entry Pennsylvania Photo/Audio/Video 16/11/2020 10:56 PM 2 3 Dominion IT worker submits affidavit describing poll workers signing ballots Michigan Expert Witness 16/11/2020 11:15 AM 4 3 Dems receive new election after affidavits show an absentee ballot scheme North Carolina Historical Context 15/11/2020 01:06 PM 4 3 89% failure rate with verifying signatures in Clark county Nevada Statistical 14/11/2020 05:11 PM 3 3 NV whistleblower describes Biden van vote factory Nevada Witness 12/11/2020 10:03 PM 4 3 State and Election Officials acted against ballot curing Court Order Pennsylvania Witness 12/11/2020 09:32 PM 4 2 Clerk signals that non-party workers may be in party worker slots Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 23/11/2020 08:11 PM 4 2 200,000 ballots counted without human verification Nevada Witness 18/11/2020 07:56 PM 2 2 Email from Election Official Stressing Issues with Voters Using Sharpies Arizona Document 18/11/2020 02:44 PM 4 2 2,349 undated ballots counted after Board of Elections voted 2-1 against Elections Code Pennsylvania Material 17/11/2020 08:33 AM 4 2 Poll worker instructed to adjust the mailing date of absentee ballot packages Michigan Witness 16/11/2020 06:35 PM 4 2 Detroit contracted poll workers from firm owned by key figure in corruption case Michigan Material 14/11/2020 06:40 PM 2 2 1 monitor for 10 tables of counters in recount Georgia Document 14/11/2020 05:07 PM 2 2 Memory sticks used to program Philly’s voting machines, stolen from warehouse Pennsylvania Witness 14/11/2020 04:54 PM 4 2 MI state senators request a full audit of the election Michigan Expert Witness 12/11/2020 09:56 PM 4 2 FEC chair believes there may be fraud since observers banned Nationwide Expert Witness 12/11/2020 09:02 PM 2 4 - Discarded or Destroyed Ballots 2 Ballot envelopes visibly identify the voter's party affiliation Florida Material 19/11/2020 09:39 PM 2 1 1,314 pieces of mail discard in wood by USPS working New York Material 19/11/2020 09:33 PM 1 1 18 mail-in ballots stolen from mailboxes Arizona Material 16/11/2020 09:01 PM 3 1 Found Navy ballot envelopes in the dumpster. Georgia Material 11/11/2020 10:20 PM 1 1 Discarded Mail-in Ballots Found Outside ATM California Material 11/11/2020 10:16 PM 1 5 - Voting Machine Irregularities 4 2,755 ballots found on memory card by recount auditors Georgia Digital (aka Glitch) 18/11/2020 11:30 PM 4 4 Scanning results incorrect and officials unsure if it was hardware or software Georgia Digital (aka Glitch) 18/11/2020 10:08 PM 4 4 15,000 ballots found on flash drive after first being rejection by software filters Virginia Digital (aka Glitch) 16/11/2020 08:51 PM 4 4 ES&S misrepresented their machines as EAC Certified to US officials Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 11:10 AM 4 4 CISA only did a critical product evaluation (CPE) on some vendor supplied systems Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 10:55 AM 2 4 Electronic voting unprotected, has little accountability and not transparent Nationwide Expert Witness 14/11/2020 07:33 PM 1 4 Electronic voting systems rely on abandoned operating systems in PA counties Pennsylvania Digital (aka Glitch) 14/11/2020 07:00 PM 4 4 Computer scientist proves voting systems can be hacked to steal votes Nationwide Expert Witness 14/11/2020 06:35 PM 4 4 Dominion manual states high risk vulnerabilities, remedy is invalidate election Nationwide Document 14/11/2020 06:22 PM 4 3 Voting machine "glitches" in Toronto election in Canada Nationwide Historical Context 16/11/2020 11:08 AM 3 3 Litigation Smartmatic “glitches” alleges impacted in two Philippine elections Nationwide Historical Context 14/11/2020 06:56 PM 4 3 CIA expert explains how most electronic voting isn't secure Nationwide Expert Witness 14/11/2020 06:42 PM 3 3 TX Officials rejected Dominion due to security concerns Texas Expert Witness 12/11/2020 09:37 PM 4 3 6,000 unofficial votes incorrectly show as votes for other candidate Michigan Witness 11/11/2020 10:10 PM 3 2 Vulnerabilities give access to change the "Official" Databases Nationwide Expert Witness 18/11/2020 09:28 PM 2 2 Votes erased from memory card and story withheld from press Maryland Historical Context 18/11/2020 08:19 PM 3 2 Dominion and Smartmatic have had contracts outside of public knowledge Nationwide Historical Context 17/11/2020 12:14 PM 3 2 Dominion licenses it's software to Smartmatic Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 17/11/2020 12:08 PM 4 2 1,127 ballots wrongly labeled through technical glitch Michigan Digital (aka Glitch) 16/11/2020 10:15 PM 2 2 93% of errors go unnoticed by users of ballot marking devices security Nationwide Statistical 16/11/2020 06:03 PM 2 2 Dominion Security Chief states he "made sure" Trump would not win Nationwide Witness 16/11/2020 11:47 AM 2 2 Confidential: Smartmatic is web of holding companies, suspected of fraud Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 10:27 AM 4 2 Voting machine firm states Venezuela election rigged "without any doubt" Nationwide Historical Context 14/11/2020 06:48 PM 3 2 PA DoS requested a function from Dominion to re-mark and re-scan ballots Pennsylvania Document 12/11/2020 10:20 PM 3 1 Chicago Election Board approved remote work for nonessenial employees Illinois Photo/Audio/Video 21/11/2020 05:16 PM 4 6 - General 4 30 times lower rejection rate for mail-in ballots than in 2016 Pennsylvania Statistical 16/11/2020 06:49 PM 2 3 MN disabled public verification of ballot status, despite official instructions Michigan Material 22/11/2020 03:32 PM 4 2 84,108 mail-in ballots were not counted or invalidated New York Material 18/11/2020 07:35 PM 2 2 Dem Rep intimidates GOP Rep by insinuating his kids will become a public target Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 18/11/2020 04:30 PM 3 2 20 seniors voted for a canidate under pressure from a care giver Wisconsin Witness 16/11/2020 09:23 PM 3 1 Zuckerberg-Funded ‘Safe Elections’ Project gave $18m to PA districts Pennsylvania Material 22/11/2020 11:10 AM 2 1 Google searches for ‘election fraud punishment,’ increased ahead of election Nationwide Statistical 16/11/2020 10:33 PM 1 1 2016: GA had evidence that DoHS IP address tried to hack voter database Georgia Historical Context 14/11/2020 06:12 PM 1 7 - Unverified (new submissions) Pollpad Wifi Available at Eaton Eletrical in Smyrna GA Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 08:14 PM 139 unexplained discrepancies in Clark County Commission race Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 05:41 PM Disavowed Smartmatic relationship with Dominion Voting systems is challenged California Historical Context 29/11/2020 05:31 PM Dominion employee (worked for Kamala Harris) worked at polls? Georgia Document 29/11/2020 05:16 PM PA Poll Worker Admits to Throwing All Donald Trump Ballots in Garbage Pennsylvania Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:43 PM Voting machine found dumped in the woods in Fulton County, GA. Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:35 PM I was kicked out of a polling station that wouldnt allow me to observe the count Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:33 PM Real Time Vote Data shows Deduction from Trump and Addition to Biden in Florida Florida Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:26 PM Macron has stolen the french election by using fraudulent voting systems Nationwide Digital (aka Glitch) 29/11/2020 04:22 PM Benny Smith expert on voting software fraud Michigan Expert Witness 29/11/2020 04:15 PM Software changing names, over 30+, no one voted as Rashad Texas Expert Witness 29/11/2020 03:55 PM Vote By Mail Fraud On Tape Texas Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 03:42 PM NH Govornor Chris Sununu wins overwhelming majority but same votes go to Biden!? New Hampshire Statistical 29/11/2020 03:30 PM Roughly Same Rep votes for Vermont Phill scott went to Biden Vermont Statistical 29/11/2020 03:24 PM Software Changing Voters - Dallas, TX Texas Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 03:16 PM Biden Campaign Operative, Texas State Senator Accused of Mail-in Ballot Fraud Texas Witness 29/11/2020 02:54 PM Service dog registered as human mail-in voter voted in election Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 02:36 PM WeChat Video of Chinese printing premade fraud ballots to ship to the US Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 02:30 PM Sequoia website w/hack videos & see Manufacturers Profile at bottom Arizona Historical Context 29/11/2020 02:24 PM X'S MARK 48 THEFT > 4% WORTH 5754 VOTES in Wayne County MI. SEE PNG,CSV,LOG. Michigan Statistical 29/11/2020 02:15 PM Nebraska Dist 2 Omaha "glitch" of 29,737 votes at 11-07 00:47:23Z per NYT Edison Nebraska Digital (aka Glitch) 29/11/2020 01:58 PM Michigan votes statistically suspect Michigan Statistical 29/11/2020 01:10 PM Host Steven Crowder registered in TWO DIFFERENT states. Someone else got ballot Nationwide Witness 29/11/2020 12:30 PM Detroit poll workers taught how to thwart poll watchers Michigan Witness 29/11/2020 11:41 AM Rigorous Statistical Analysis Points to Voter Fraud in Montgomery County Pennsylvania Statistical 29/11/2020 11:29 AM CA couple had ballots cast in their name California Document 29/11/2020 11:17 AM Anomalies in Vote Counts and Their Effect on Election 2020 Michigan

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Maximum Cultural War, Minimum Governance: How Jair Bolsonaro Runs Brazil

Brazil seems to be trapped in Bolsonarist rhetoric of hate against the Other. Is there is a way out for the country? A Brazilian academic is trying to find an answer by delving deep into the far-right mindset and their tactics.

Much of Daniel Silveira’s fame rests on notoriety. Last week, the parliamentarian from Rio de Janeiro went “live” on social media for his tens of thousands of followers. With his biceps bulging from the sleeves of a chest-hugging T-shirt, Silveira launched into a profanity-filled rant against the Brazilian Supreme Court, lasting 19 minutes and 9 seconds.

Dropping cusswords at the rate of 2.5 per minute, the former policeman went nuclear on the judges, abusing several of them by name. In the middle of his rage, Silveira turned his attention to Justice Edson Fachin as he called for public beating of judges. “If someone wants to hit his face with a dead cat until he [Fachin] meows, preferably after every meal, it is not a crime,” said Silveira, gesturing angrily at the camera.

Silveira, 38, who was a member of Rio’s military police till 2018 when he won a seat in the Lower House, unloaded on Justice Fachin because on February 15 he had condemned the former army chief, General Eduardo Villa Boas (retired), for revealing in a book that the top brass of the armed forces had jointly pressured the Supreme Court in 2018 to reject a habeas corpus plea of former president Lula da Silva, who was leading the opinion polls for the presidential election at the time. Reacting to the general’s admission, Justice Fachin called it “extremely serious and against the constitutional order”.

A close ally of President Jair Bolsonaro, Silveira, the congressman from Rio, is known for his thuggish behaviour. But on February 17, he broke all barriers as he called Justice Fachin “a brat, a spoiled boy, a bad character, a leftist militant” and reminded him of AI-​​5, a law enacted during the military dictatorship, which suspended all constitutional rights and paved the way for torture of people. “You were part of a communist alliance of Brazil, an idiot activist, lobotomised, who attacked the military along with Dilma [Rousseff], that thief…,” said Silveira, lashing out at Brazil’s first female president as he dared the judge to “arrest General Villa Boas”.

The video, which went viral on social media and landed Silveira in prison, looks like a meltdown of an unhinged man. But given his record and where Brazilian politics stands today, there was a method to his madness. It was the real picture of an authoritarian project that is haunting Brazil. “The level of verbal violence in the video just goes up by notches. The metaphor used by Silveira is that of lynching. All the terrible moments of persecution and mass murders in history have been preceded by a few years of increasing symbolic violence,” says João Cezar de Castro Rocha, historian and professor of comparative literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. “There was a debasement of the Jewish people in Germany before the Holocaust,” adds the academic, speaking to The Wire in an interview.

Much of Silveira’s politics rests on hate. After his six years in the police, during which he received 60 disciplinary actions and spent 26 days in prison, Silveira became known nationally when he tore down a street plaque put in the honour of Marielle Franco, a black, gay councilor who was murdered by the militia in Rio in 2018. At that time, Brazil was in the middle of a contentious election and Bolsonaro was using violent imagery to mobilise his far-right base. Jumping on the bandwagon, Silveira committed violent against an assassinated politician – and made it to the parliament.

“Daniel Silveira is part of an authoritarian project of Bolsonaro that is based on the symbolic and – if possible – physical elimination of everything that opposes him,” says Rocha, who recently released a book titled Cultural War and Rhetoric of Hate: Chronicle of a post-politics Brazil, which analyses the rise of the Brazilian far-right politics.

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It’s Over!  ( Biblical Update )

By Daymond Duck     Published  on: August 15, 2021

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come” (II Tim. 3:1).

Be aware that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (II Tim. 3:13).

The right of U.S. citizens to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to buy and sell, etc., is being challenged by the shadow government’s desire to restrict and/or control American’s freedom of religion, speech, right to buy and sell, etc.

Covid is a global medical crisis that the godless shadow government created to justify the establishment of a world government, world religion, and worldwide tracking system to enslave everyone on earth.

The public is being told that proof of vaccination (passports, I.D. cards, or whatever) is needed to bring Covid-19 under control when the truth of the matter is that Covid-19 and the variants are a tool that the rich and powerful are using to bring all people under their control.

It is possible and perhaps likely that this proof of vaccination will eventually be followed by the lockdown and persecution of Christian groups and institutions based on their support for Bible teaching and lack of support for the globalist agenda (the godless world government, godless world religion, abortion, gay rights, etc.).

Before the persecution reaches its peak, Christians will be removed (Raptured) from this earth, and the door will be thrown wide open for the godless shadow government to select a leader to take dictatorial power on earth.

Following his appearance, their so-called proof of vaccination will probably evolve into a data system that will be used to determine who can buy and sell, who can live or die, etc. (Don’t overlook the fact that some of the leaders that want to force everyone to be vaccinated are the same people that want to reduce the population of the earth from almost 8 billion to about half a billion; many support abortion, gay marriage, euthanasia, etc.).

God will allow these godless globalists to select a leader to rule for seven years, but God will ultimately cause them to regret what they have done for all eternity.

A reader recently sent an e-mail to this writer containing part of a message that Dr. Franklin Graham delivered at a Baptist Church in Florida.

Dr. Graham said, “The American Dream has ended.”

Readers need to understand that the one who said “The American Dream has ended” is one of the most highly respected preachers in the world, not a fanatic and not a prophecy teacher, but America must decline if the globalists are going to meet their goal of a world government and a world religion by 2030 or before.

Here is a repeat from the article I wrote last week: On July 27, 2021, former Sec. of State Mike Pompeo said, “Collapse from within is possible… Immigration without assimilation, illicit drugs, human trafficking, disputed elections, inflationary risks have become the tools to disassemble our republic in what must surely be an attempt at national suicide.”

I want to close my opening remarks this way: We are not seeing the Mark of the Beast yet (people are not being jabbed in their right hand or forehead; people are not taking the name, number, or Mark of the Beast; unvaccinated people can still buy and sell in most places; etc.).

On the other hand, we are seeing the global development and advancement of technology and policies that many excellent Bible prophecy teachers believe will lead to the Mark of the Beast (forced compliance, loss of one’s job, development of passports or passes, a demand for government databases to track people, a demand to prevent the unvaccinated from entering stores to buy or sell, the spread of anti-Christian rhetoric, etc.).

Also, keep in mind the fact that the Church will be Raptured a minimum of 3 ½ years (and perhaps more) before the global development and advancement of the technology and policies goes into effect as the Mark of the Beast (the Gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church).

Here are other reasons to believe that history is approaching end of the age Bible predictions and the American Dream is over.

One, when Jesus was asked about the signs of His coming, He listed famines, pestilences, earthquakes, etc. (notice that the words are plural as in more than one famine, more than one pestilence, etc.; Matt. 24:7).

Today, the world is trying to deal with Covid-19, the Delta (India variant), Lambda (Peru variant), and Epsilon variant (pestilences plural).

Two, on Aug. 6, 2021, California announced that a low water level caused by drought has forced the shutdown of the state’s second largest hydroelectric plant for the first time since the dam was completed in 1977.

The state will be able to get electricity from other systems.

More: On Aug. 4, 2021, the Dixie wildfire destroyed Greenville, Cal., a gold rush town of about 1,200 people (5 days later, Fox News reported that about 600 buildings have burned and about 13,000 are in danger).

More: On Aug. 6, 2021, it was reported that Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border, the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and Lake Mead in Nevada have hit record lows this summer.

FYI: Drought is having a devastating impact on crops, cattle, hog, and sheep production in the U.S. (a very large part of America’s food supply).

FYI: Unprecedented wildfires are also taking place in Greece, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, and Russia.

Three, during the Tribulation Period, the world will be divided into two groups: those that take the Mark of the Beast and those that refuse to take the Mark of the Beast.

Today, the world is being divided into two groups: those that have been vaccinated and those that have not been vaccinated.

Four, on Aug. 9, 2021, World Net Daily posted an article by Wayne Allen Root that said:

Republicans asked for “papers” from migrants who had broken into our country. Criminals. Democrats said, “No, that’s racism.”

Republicans asked for “papers” once every two years for federal elections to prove you have a right to vote. Democrats said, “No, that’s racism.”

Now Democrats want American citizens, not illegal aliens, not criminals, but patriots born in this country to produce papers 24/7. We’ll need papers to enter restaurants, bars, nightclubs, concerts, casinos, conventions, and hotels and to board a train, plane, or bus. We’ll need papers to enter a supermarket, or we’ll starve to death—all for the crime of being unvaccinated.

Note: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said the U.S. is at a crossroads, and he is urging U.S. citizens to ��resist the mandates, lockdowns, and the harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats.”

Five, on Aug. 6, 2021, Natural News reported that the U.K. has admitted that it is building storage areas for bodies in the 32 boroughs of London and the city itself.

These storage areas are being built because the government expects an increase in deaths over the next five years due to their attempts to force people to be vaccinated (some people that are not allowed to buy and sell will go hungry, get sick, etc.).

Writer’s Comment: It is common for some people to ask how bad will God let it get before He Raptures His Church. No one knows the answer to this, but the situation is worsening, and Christians everywhere need to pray about it.

Six, on July 31, 2021, the Carnival Cruise Ship Vista left Galveston, TX with everyone or board vaccinated (every guest, every crew member, every staff member, everyone vaccinated; no unvaccinated people on board).

On Aug. 8, 2021, it was reported that a small number of people on the ship have tested positive for Covid.

Seven, God promised to bless those that bless Israel and to curse those that curse Israel (Gen. 12:3).

On Aug. 4, 2021, the Iranian-backed terrorist group that controls Lebanon, Hezbollah, fired three rockets into Israel.

On Aug. 5, 2021, Israeli jets struck terrorist targets in Lebanon for the first time in 15 years, and Pres. Biden announced that he will give the terrorist government $100 million dollars in economic aid (borrowed money that will add to inflation in the U.S.).

On Aug. 6, 2021, Hezbollah forces fired 19 rockets from Lebanon into Israel, and Israel responded with artillery fire.

On Aug. 8, 2021, new hardline Iranian Pres. Raisi met with leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Houthis, and promised to support their terrorist activities until Israel is defeated.

Writer’s Comment: This could easily get out of hand and lead to the fulfillment of several prophecies (Psa. 83 if that is a war; the Destruction of Damascus as prophesied in Isa. 17; the Battle of Gog and Magog as prophesied in Ezek. 38-39; time will tell.).

Eight, violence is on the increase, and some politicians want to defund the police and take the guns away from law-abiding citizens, but the globalist goal is only partly to prevent citizens from defending themselves against criminals.

The globalist goal is primarily to prevent citizens from defending the U.S. against the shadow government’s takeover of the U.S.

For whatever it is worth, thousands of people have marched in Paris and other French cities four weeks in a row to protest the loss of their freedoms.

On Aug. 6, protests erupted in Turin, Italy.

Nine, on Aug. 6, 2021, a guest on Fox & Friends said the strongest outbreak of the Covid Delta Variant is in Texas and Florida, and those two states are where the Biden administration has taken the largest number of Covid-infected migrants.

Ten, concerning global pandemics and the Mark of the Beast, on July 25, 2021, The Times of Israel reported on a study that found that people vaccinated before Feb. 2021 are twice as likely to get Covid as those vaccinated in June 2021 for two reasons: 1) Their vaccine effectiveness decreases over time and is becoming less effective every day; and 2) The Delta Variant is more contagious than the original Covid-19, and therefore more able to overcome the resistance of their declining vaccination.

The doctor that headed up the study said, “We definitely need to think about a third vaccine.”

It is the opinion of this writer that the globalists will want people to take a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. vaccination until they bring in the Mark of the Beast.

Update: On Aug. 5, 2021, Moderna said data shows a noticeable drop in antibody levels 6-8 months after a vaccinated person’s second jab, so vaccinated people will need to get a booster shot this fall.

Writer’s Comment: Just a reminder to U.S. citizens that Pres. Biden said, “You’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccines.”

Eleven, concerning world government: it is widely known that the World Economic Forum (WEF) wants to establish a world government and eliminate private property ownership by 2030 or before.

The WEF even produced a video saying, “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.”

My article “Developing Now,” posted two weeks ago, quoted Tony Koretz who said, “A global medical dictatorship is rising.”

I added that “It is hard to deny that the shadow government is using unelected individuals to dictate policies to nations all over the world.”

On Aug. 3, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the U.S. government’s eviction moratorium, a document that allows renters in areas that have a high level of Covid to not pay their rent.

Put another way, property owners that have rented their house, apartment, etc., to someone else must make the mortgage payments (if the property owner has a mortgage payment), pay to keep the house, apartment, etc., repaired, and the property owner cannot evict the renter for not paying their rent (the renter can live in the house free, and the property owner must pay the bills).

The fact that the CDC (a medical group) can force private property owners to make the property payments and let renters live in the property free sure looks like a global medical dictatorship has taken over.

The real owners of the property are not happy with making the payments and receiving no rent.

Twelve, on Aug. 4, 2021, concerning a Mark on the forehead to buy and sell, it was reported that Amazon is now using palm scanners at 53 Amazon-owned stores, and it plans to expand the program to other stores in the U.S.

Customers can use a simple hand scan to pay, enter or I.D. themselves, and Amazon will give them a $10 promotional credit to sign up.

Before my final word, pastor Keith Watts asked me to include this paragraph in my article (something I can’t start doing for ministries all over the world): “I am asking all prayer warriors from around the world to join with us for a day of prayer, fasting, and repentance on August 16, 2021, for the sake of the Philippines and on behalf of over 110,950,213 precious souls. We will be fasting from the time we wake up until we go to bed, interceding on behalf of the lost souls in the Philippines.”

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession (AP) After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars. The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo. NASA’s rover, the cosmic caboose, will arrive on the scene a week later, on Feb. 18, to collect rocks for return to Earth—a key step in determining whether life ever existed at Mars. Both the UAE and China are newcomers at Mars, where more than half of Earth’s emissaries have failed. China’s first Mars mission, a joint effort with Russia in 2011, never made it past Earth’s orbit. All three spacecraft rocketed away within days of one another last July, during an Earth-to-Mars launch window that occurs only every two years. That’s why their arrivals are also close together.

Around the globe, virus cancels spring travel for millions (AP) They are the annual journeys of late winter and early spring: Factory workers in China heading home for the Lunar New Year; American college students going on road trips and hitting the beach over spring break; Germans and Britons fleeing drab skies for some Mediterranean sun over Easter. All of it canceled, in doubt or under pressure because of the coronavirus. Amid fears of new variants of the virus, new restrictions on movement have hit just as people start to look ahead to what is usually a busy time of year for travel. It means more pain for airlines, hotels, restaurants and tourist destinations that were already struggling more than a year into the pandemic, and a slower recovery for countries where tourism is a big chunk of the economy.

AP-NORC poll: Few in US say democracy is working very well (AP) Only a fragment of Americans believe democracy is thriving in the U.S., even as broad majorities agree that representative government is one of the country’s bedrock principles, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Just 16% of Americans say democracy is working well or extremely well, a pessimism that spans the political spectrum. Nearly half of Americans, 45%, think democracy isn’t functioning properly, while another 38% say it’s working only somewhat well. The poll’s findings are broadly consistent with how Americans graded democracy before the election. But there are signs that Trump’s attacks on the democratic process, including his repeated argument that the election was “stolen” because of voter irregularities, resonated with Republicans.

Schools plan for potential of remote learning into the fall (AP) Parents of schoolchildren learning from home shouldn’t necessarily count on reclaiming the dining room table any time soon. After seeing two academic years thrown off course by the pandemic, school leaders around the country are planning for the possibility of more distance learning next fall at the start of yet another school year. “We have no illusions that COVID will be eradicated by the time the start of the school year comes up,” said William “Chip” Sudderth III, a spokesperson for Durham, North Carolina schools, whose students have been out of school buildings since March. President Joe Biden has made reopening schools a top priority, but administrators say there is much to consider as new strains of the coronavirus appear and teachers wait their turn for vaccinations. And while many parents are demanding that schools fully reopen, others say they won’t feel safe sending children back to classrooms until vaccines are available to even young students.

2nd major snowstorm in a week blankets Northeast (AP) A major snowstorm pushed through the Northeastern United States on Sunday, less than a week after a storm dumped more than 2 feet on parts of the region. By early afternoon, 5 to 7 inches had already fallen in parts of northwestern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut. New York’s Central Park reported about 3 inches. The highest total was recorded in West Whiteland Township, west of Philadelphia, where about 9 inches had fallen. The National Weather Service predicted up to 8 inches of snow in New York City and 2 to 4 inches in Washington, D.C. Up to a foot was projected to fall on some areas along the Connecticut coastline.

Biden faces border challenge as migrant families arrive in greater numbers and large groups (Washington Post) President Biden’s more-welcoming message to immigrants is facing an immediate challenge along the Mexican border, where Central American families and children have been crossing in numbers that point to a building crisis. In recent days, U.S. authorities have seen the return of large groups of parents and children crossing the border in the darkness, a replay of scenes that occurred during the record influx of families who arrived in 2018 and 2019, overwhelming migrant shelters and Border Patrol stations. Republican critics of Biden say the new wave is the start of the crisis they have long predicted, invited by the new administration’s eager rejection of Trump’s deterrent approach. Yet Biden also inherited a highly improvised enforcement system from his predecessor that was already under strain and highly dependent on Trump’s diplomatic bullying of Mexico. Late last month, Mexican authorities in some areas of the border stopped taking back families returned by the United States under emergency pandemic health measures implemented last March. With the U.S. capacity to hold adults and children reduced by the pandemic and the temporary closure of the largest Border Patrol facility in South Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection began dropping families off at bus stations and shelters last week.

Ecuador’s election (Foreign Policy) Ecuador’s presidential election is set to go to a second round after early returns showed a split electorate. Leftist Andrés Arauz leads the count with 31.5 percent of the vote, while his closest challengers Guillermo Lasso and Yaku Pérez both received roughly 20 percent. As the margin between them is so tight, it’s not yet clear whether Lasso or Pérez will face Arauz in the April 11 runoff.

Brexit growing pains (Foreign Policy) Exports from the United Kingdom to the European Union fell by 68 percent in January, according to a trade group representing British truck drivers. The Road Haulage Association (RHA) attributed the drop to trade disruptions due to the end of the Brexit transition period, although the British government has said border friction has been “minimal.” The news comes as EU and U.K. representatives meet this week to discuss extending post-Brexit grace periods on the trade of certain goods.

‘Al desko’ (Foreign Policy) The French labor ministry says it will soon relax a ban on workers eating lunch at their desks in order to enforce social distancing regulations. France’s labor laws currently forbid employees from eating “al desko” and companies face financial penalties if inspectors catch them flouting the law. The country’s strict labor rights include a 2017 law that allows workers to ignore work e-mails outside of normal working hours. “We French and you Americans have totally different ideas about work,” Agnès Dutin, a retired Parisian, told the New York Times. “It’s a catastrophe to eat at your desk. You need a pause to refresh the mind. It’s good to move your body. When you return, you see things differently.”

Russia considering at least $6.7 billion spending package to ease discontent (Reuters) Russian authorities are considering a new social spending package worth at least $6.7 billion to address discontent over falling living standards before an autumn election, according to two government sources. The package, which one of the sources said President Vladimir Putin was likely to unveil in an annual speech to senior political figures in coming weeks, follows unsanctioned nationwide protests last month that hit the value of the rouble. The two government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media, told Reuters the spending package was meant to make people feel the authorities are aware of their financial concerns and are doing something to help them.

Myanmar junta imposes curfew, meeting bans as protests swell (AP) Myanmar’s new military rulers on Monday signaled their intention to crack down on opponents of their takeover, issuing decrees that effectively banned peaceful public protests in the country’s two biggest cities. The restrictive measures were ordered after police fired water cannons at hundreds of protesters in the Myanmar capital, Naypyitaw, who were demanding the military hand power back to elected officials. It was just one of many demonstrations around the country. Rallies and gatherings of more than five people, along with motorized processions, were banned, and an 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew was imposed for areas of Yangon and Mandalay, the country’s first- and second-biggest cities, where thousands of people have been demonstrating since Saturday. The growing wave of defiance—particularly in Naypyitaw, where such protests are unusual—was striking in a country where demonstrations have been met with severe force in the past.

Iran: US must lift sanctions before it lives up to nuke deal (AP) Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday urged the United States to lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to live up to commitments under its nuclear deal with world powers, state TV reported, but President Joe Biden says the U.S. won’t be making the first move. “If (the U.S.) wants Iran to return to its commitments, it must lift all sanctions in practice, then we will do verification … then we will return to our commitments,” state TV quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying, in his first comments on the matter since Biden took office. Biden rejected the idea in a “CBS Evening News” interview taped Friday and airing Sunday. Former President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. in 2018 from the atomic deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Biden has said he will seek to revive the deal, but insisted that Iran must first reverse its nuclear steps, creating a contest of wills between the nations.

Israel’s Netanyahu walks out on his own corruption trial (Washington Post) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told judges in a Jerusalem court on Monday that he is innocent of corruption charges before abruptly standing, saying “thank you very much” and leaving with his motorcade. Netanyahu quit the courtroom some 20 minutes after the start of Monday morning’s hearing, which continued on without him. The sessions kick-started the second phase of a precedent-setting legal procedure, which, for the first time, involves the indictment of an Israeli prime minister while still in office and campaigning for elections in the coming weeks—the fourth in two years.

Congo working to stop new Ebola outbreak in country’s east (AP) Health officials in Congo confirmed another Ebola outbreak in the country’s east on Sunday, the fourth in less than three years. On February 3, a woman died in Butembo town in North Kivu province, Minister of Health Eteni Longondo announced. This is the 12th outbreak in conflict-ridden Congo since the virus was first discovered in the country in 1976, and comes less than three months after an outbreak in the western province of Equateur, officially ended in November. The 2018 outbreak in Eastern Congo was the second deadliest in the world, killing 2,299 people before it ended in June. That outbreak lasted for nearly two years and was fought amid unprecedented challenges, including entrenched conflict between armed groups, the world’s largest measles epidemic, and the spread of COVID-19.

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93% of Muslim Public Officials Would Not Express Support for the Constitution They Swore to Uphold

Are the other 7% employing taqiyya?

A follow-up from the author of the book featured in Wednesday’s post, Stephen M. Kirby. via Jihad Watch

It’s more than just about having three Muslims in Congress. I think symbolically it has great value, but I won’t rest until 2020 we have five more members of Congress; 2022 and 24, we have ten more Muslims in Congress. In 2030 we may have about 30, 35 Muslims in Congress.  Then we’re talking about Madame Chair Rashida. We’re talking about Madame Chair Ilhan. Hell, we could be saying Speaker of the House Ilhan, Speaker of the House Rashida, Senator Rashida, Governor Ilhan, President Fatima, Vice President Aziza, Inshah’ Allah…Each and every one of us has a directive to represent Islam, in all of our imperfections, but to represent Islam and let the world know that Muslims are here to stay, and Muslims are a part of America. And we will, we will have a Muslim caucus that is sizable, that is formidable, and that is there for you.

U.S. Congressman Andre Carson at the CAIR Community Congressional Reception, January 10, 2019

People in public office at the local, state, and federal levels are required to take an oath of office that requires them to swear, or affirm, to support the U.S. Constitution. This is based on Article 6, Clause 3 of that Constitution (the “Oaths Clause”):

The Senators and Representatives [in Congress] before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution…

As David Shestokas noted:

This constitutional requirement is binding upon every government official in the United States from state governors and judges to members of city councils, police officers, firefighters or board members of mosquito abatement districts and library boards.[1]

The 2019 elections saw an increase in the number of Muslims re-elected and newly elected to public office across the United States, and as part of their oaths of office they each swear to support the U.S. Constitution. However, as I showed in my latest book Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials,[2] there are many core tenets of Islam that are in direct conflict with much of that Constitution.

In theory, however, one would think that after a Muslim public official had publicly taken an oath to support the U.S. Constitution, having to publicly choose between either following that Constitution or following Islamic Doctrine would be simple: a Muslim public official would abide by the oath of office and choose the Constitution.[3]

So I decided to put that to the test. In Chapters 10 and 11 of my latest book I provided a number of questions that could be asked of a Muslim public official and that require that official to choose between the Constitution and Islamic Doctrine. I put four of those questions into an e-mail and individually sent that e-mail to eighty Muslim public officials across the United States.

We shall first look at the four questions I used and then examine the variety of responses I received. I then list the Muslim public officials, by State, who did not respond to what, considering their oath of office, should have been simple questions to answer. This is followed by my concluding remarks.

The Questions

On December 9th and December 16th of 2019 I sent the following e-mail to eighty Muslim public officials across the United States who were either incumbents or who had been newly elected to office in the November 5th elections:

I am interested in your response, as an elected public official who follows the religion of Islam, to the following questions:

No. 1:  Will you go on record now and state that our 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech gives the right to anyone in the United States to criticize or disagree with your prophet Muhammad, and will you also go on record now and state that you support and defend anyone’s right to criticize or disagree with your prophet Muhammad, and that you condemn anyone who threatens death or physical harm to another person who is exercising that right?

No. 2:  Our 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of religion in the United States. As part of that freedom, anyone in the United States has the right to join or leave any religion, or have no religion at all. Will you go on record now and state that you support and defend the idea that in the United States a Muslim has not only the freedom to leave Islam, but to do so without fear of physical harm, and will you also go on record now and state that you condemn anyone who threatens physical harm to a Muslim who is exercising that freedom?

No. 3:  According to the words of Allah found in Koran 5:38 and the teachings of your prophet Muhammad, amputation of a hand is an acceptable punishment for theft. But our U.S. Constitution, which consists of man-made laws, has the 8th Amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment such as this. Do you agree with Allah and your prophet Muhammad that amputation of a hand is an acceptable punishment for theft in the United States, or do you believe that our man-made laws prohibiting such punishments are true laws and are to be followed instead of this 7th Century command of Allah and teaching of Muhammad?

No. 4:  According to the words of Allah found in Koran 4:3, Muslim men are allowed, but not required, to be married to up to four wives. Being married to more than one wife in the United States is illegal according to our man-made bigamy laws. Do you agree with Allah that it is legal for a Muslim man in the United States to be married to more than one woman, or do you believe that our man-made laws prohibiting bigamy are true laws and are to be followed instead of this 7th Century command of Allah?

I look forward to your responses.

Support for the U.S. Constitution

Only six Muslim public officials responded by specifically saying that they supported the U.S. Constitution. I emailed each of them and asked if each would be comfortable in being publicly identified in an article I would be writing. Three did not reply and one asked not to be identified, so I have not identified those four. The two that had no problem in being identified for their support of the U.S. Constitution were:

Mohammad Iqbal – Kane County Board, Kane County, Illinois

Shammas Malik – City Council, Akron, OH

Other Replies

I received various replies from seven other Muslim public officials:

Ilhan Omar – U.S. House of Representatives (MN-5): On December 16th I sent the e-mail to three different e-mail addresses I had for Omar. That same day I received a form response from Connor McNutt, Omar’s Chief of Staff, stating that he was out of the office but would be returning that day. On December 20th I received a form e-mail from Omar that started out:

Dear Stephen,

As your Congresswoman, I do not only want to represent Minnesotans, I want to govern with you…

Omar never responded to the questions I had sent her.

Rashida Tlaib – U.S. House of Representatives (MI-13): On December 16th I received a form response from Tlaib acknowledging receipt of my e-mail.  I have received nothing further from Tlaib.

Kaleem Shabazz – City Council of Atlantic City, New Jersey: On December 19th I received this reply from Shabazz:

As an elected official I support uphold [sic] and defend the laws of this nation state and city [sic] where I reside. Islam is completely compatible with the American laws. As president of the local branch of the NAACP and a member of the state Executive committee of the NAACP I support and speak for social justice civil rights and equality for all citizens [sic]. As President of Bridge of Faith an Interfaith group I try to being [sic] understanding of various faiths.

The next day I sent this response to Shabazz:

Thanks for getting back with me. I am curious about your statement that “Islam is completely compatible with the American laws,” especially in light of the glaring incompatibility between Islamic Doctrine and the U.S. Constitution/“American laws” shown in the four questions I sent you. How can you support “the laws of this nation” when such an incompatibility exists between some of those laws and some of the tenets of your religion? Are you saying that when there is a conflict between the two, our man-made laws are superior to the commands of Allah found in the Koran and the teachings and example of your prophet Muhammad? Do you mean that Islam “is completely compatible with the American laws” because when there is a conflict between the two, the Doctrines of Islam are subordinate to the U.S. Constitution and our other man-made laws?

I have not heard back from Shabazz.

Pious Ali – City Council of Portland, Maine: Ali responded on December 9th, simply writing:

The Inquisition ended in 1834

I replied that same day:

There is no “inquisition” involved. These should be very simple questions to answer because I believe your oath of office included a statement that you would support our U.S. Constitution and laws. Why do you hesitate to support the 1st and 8th Amendments to our Constitution, and our bigamy laws?

On December 10th Ali responded:

Where are you located again? I have taking [sic] that oath three times, It [sic] never says I should answer to bigots who live outside my jurisdiction, I hope your week is going well.

I replied that same day by pointing out that there was nothing bigoted about asking how he resolved fundamental conflicts between doctrines of his faith and the U.S. Constitution, and I asked why he was reluctant to answer.

On December 11th Ali responded:

I don’t think I have to answer you, for one basic reason there is a separation between faith and politics in America. Unless you have another question that is directly connected to my role as an elected official in Portland Maine. [sic] I will not answer any of your racist anti-Muslim questions. 

On December 12th I thanked him for his input. Later that same day he responded:

that is what I thought [sic]

I had not further exchanges with Ali.

Mustafa Al-Mutazzim Brent – City Council of East Orange City, New Jersey: Brent responded on December 12th, writing:

Please pardon my delayed response, it is neither deliberate nor intentional. Thank you for this timely and necessary discourse. Please feel free to reach out to me at your convenience, I will be happy to answer any questions you my [sic] have.

I replied that same day by pointing out that I looked forward to his responses to the four questions I had sent him. I have not heard back from Brent.

Abrar Omeish – Fairfax County School Board in Virginia: Omeish responded on December 9th with a form e-mail thanking me for contacting her and for everything I had done to help her to win. She noted that if the matter I was contacting her about was “time sensitive” I should send the e-mail again with “time sensitive” in the subject line. That same day I sent the e-mail again with “time sensitive” in the subject line. I have not heard back from Omeish.

Robert Jackson – State Senate of New York: On December 16th I received a form response from Jackson confirming receipt of my e-mail and stating:

We will review your email and do our best to provide feedback on the matter.

On December 17th I received the same form response again. I have not heard back from Jackson.

No Reply

These Muslim public officials did not reply:

California

Maimona Afzal Berta – Franklin-McKinley School Board

Javed I. Ellahie – Monte Sereno City Council

Al Jabbar – Anaheim Union High School District Board

Farrah N. Khan – Irvine City Council

Ali Saleh – Mayor of the City of Bell

Cheryl Sudduth – West County Water District Board of Directors

Ali Sajjad Taj – Artesia City Council

Aisha Wahab – Hayward City Council

Sabina Zafar – San Ramon City Council

Georgia

Sheikh Rahman – Georgia State Senate

Illinois

Bushra Amiwala – Skokie School District 3.5 Board of Education

Sadia Covert – DuPage County Board Member

Raabia Khan – Oak Grove School District 68 Board of Education

Sara Sadat – Lisle Board of Trustees

Indiana

Andre Carson – U.S. House of Representatives (IN – 7)

Iowa

Ako Abdul-Samad – Iowa State House of Representatives

Mazahir Salih – Iowa City, City Council

Maine

Marwa Hassanien – Bangor School Board

Maryland

Hasan M. “Jay” Jalisi – Maryland State House of Delegates

Fazlul Kabir – College Park City Council

Sabina Taj – Howard County Board of Education

Massachusetts

Afroz Khan – Newburyport City Council

Sumbul Siddiqui – Cambridge City Council

Michigan

Dave Abdallah – Dearborn Heights City Council

Mohammed Alsomiri – Hamtramck City Council

Sam Baydoun – Wayne County Commissioner

Nayeem Leon Choudhury – Hamtramck City Council

Abdullah Hammoud – Michigan State House of Representatives

Angela Jaffer – Northville School Board

Minnesota

Abdisalam Adam – Fridley School Board

Keith Ellison – Minnesota State Attorney General

Nadia Mohamed – St. Louis Park City Council

New Jersey

Alaa Abdelaziz – Paterson City Council

Assad Akhtar – Passaic County Freeholder

Mussab Ali – Jersey City Board of Education

Jamillah Beasley – Irvington Municipal Council

Adam Chaabane – Woodland Park Board of Education

Sadaf Jaffer – Mayor of Montgomery Township

Mohamed T. Khairullah – Mayor of the City of Prospect Park

Alaa Matari – Prospect Park City Council

Raghib Muhammad – Montgomery Township Board of Education

Salim Patel – Passaic City Council

Kamran Quraishi – Montgomery Township Committee

Denise Sanders – Teaneck Board of Education

Hazim Yassin – Red Bank City Council

Adnan Zakaria – Prospect Park City Council

Esllam Zakaria – Prospect Park Board of Education

New Mexico

Abbas Akhil – New Mexico State House of Representatives

New York

Charles Fall – New York State Assembly

North Carolina

Nasif Majeed – North Carolina State House of Representatives

Mujtaba A. Mohammed – North Carolina State Senate

Ohio

Basheer Jones – Cleveland City Council

Omar Tarazi – Hilliard City Council

Pennsylvania

Rochelle Bilal – Philadelphia City Sheriff

Nusrat Rashid – Delaware County Court of Common Pleas

Sheikh Siddique – Upper Darby Township Council

Virginia

Buta Biberaj – Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney

Ghazala Hashmi – Virginia State Senate

Haseeb Javed – Manassas Park City Council

Babur Lateef – Prince William County School Board

Harris Mahedavi – Loudon County School Board

Sam Rasoul – Virginia State House of Delegates

Ibraheem Samirah – Virginia State House of Delegates

Mohamed E. Seifeldein – Alexandria City Council

Lisa Zargarpur – Prince William County School Board

Washington

Riaz Khan – Mukilteo City Council

Varisha Khan – Redmond City Council

Conclusion

As I had previously noted, in theory one would think that after a Muslim public official had taken an oath to support the U.S. Constitution, having to publicly choose between either following that Constitution or following Islamic Doctrine would be simple: a Muslim public official would choose the Constitution.

The reality is quite different. Out of the eighty Muslim public officials I contacted, only six expressed support for the Constitution; it is interesting that of these six, only two of them agreed to be publicly identified. Seventy-four Muslim public officials would not even make a choice between the Constitution or Islamic Doctrine, even though each had publicly sworn to uphold that Constitution.

The fact that 93% of the Muslim public officials that I contacted would not express support for the U.S. Constitution is concerning and lends increased significance to the remarks of Congressman Andre Carson mentioned at the beginning of this article:

Each and every one of us has a directive to represent Islam, in all of our imperfections, but to represent Islam and let the world know that Muslims are here to stay, and Muslims are a part of America. And we will, we will have a Muslim caucus that is sizable, that is formidable, and that is there for you.

It would appear that 93% of the Muslim public officials I contacted give more credence to that directive than to their oath of office.

It is time to start publicly asking Muslim public officials to make a choice between the U.S. Constitution and Islamic Doctrine.

Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.

[1] David Shestokas, The US Constitution and Local Government, January 7, 2014, http://www.shestokas.com/constitution-educational-series/the-us-constitution-and-local-government/.

[2] Stephen M. Kirby, Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials (Washington D.C.: Center for Security Policy Press, 2019); https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2019/12/03/csp-press-releases-primer-on-islamic-doctrine-versus-the-u-s-constitution/.

[3] However, according to Islamic Doctrine a Muslim can break an oath with minimal cost, or even negate the oath at the time it is being made. A Muslim can also make an oath but at the same time mean something completely different.  For eye-opening details about this, see Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials, pp. 13-33.

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1053

1. What did you do in 2020 that you'd never done before? Other than the obvious getting-a-job and other adulting stuff, 2020 was the year of my first cigarette, the first time I had to use eye drops, the first time I got sick for longer than a day, and the first time I tried my hand in embroidery.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don’t make any because I usually get tired of maintaining them after a few weeks. But idk, last night I had an idea that I want to try a new restaurant by myself every weekend in 2021. It’s very self-care-y which is what I need these days, and it’s definitely feasible now that I have my own money. Given my track record with resolutions I’m not expecting too much, but I still hope I’m able to hold out for as long as I can.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? I know a co-worker became a mom this year, but I don’t consider myself close to her. We’re cool with each other, but that’s about it. Her baby is the cutest though.

4. Did anyone close to you die? One of my great-aunts passed away in April.

5. What countries did you visit? I stayed put here. It wasn’t like I could get on an airplane this year anyway. The Thailand and Vietnam trips are going to have to wait.

6. What would you like to have in 2021 that you lacked in 2020? Me back.

7. What date from 2020 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? March 10 (the start of the lockdown); August 2 (my university graduation); September 15 (the breakup and Angela’s birthday); November 9 (my first day as an employee).

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Being able to be strong enough to stay.

9. What was your biggest failure? Self-harm, or blaming myself.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Yeah I got a UTI early in the year, which gave me a week-long fever. I’ve also gotten hundreds of scratches and play bite marks from Cooper since we got him in June.

11. What was the best thing you bought? My embroidery kits! I bought them on a whim and seriously doubting if I’ll ever enjoy it given my previous hatred for anything sewing/knitting; but I’ve already done two templates and I just ordered two more to do during the holiday break. I haven’t gotten much for myself yet because my first paychecks coincide with Christmas lol, but once the gift-giving is out of the way I want to get myself games on the Nintendo Switch, Airpods, and candles.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Andrew has been incredibly supportive and patient, and has stuck by me through the whole year whether I was on top of the world, stressing out over our thesis, or in my inconsolable black hole of sadness. No clue where I’d be without them.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Gabie, at least by August. I don’t know anyone who consistently let me down in the last 12 months.

14. Where did most of your money go? Christmas gifts for others; for myself, Starbucks coffee and pastries.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Graduating college and sharing my graduation photo with everyone. I remember also having been super excited to work on my birthday gift for Gab, which was to make a short video for her using iMovie (which I had never touched before until then). I was the best fucking girlfriend. Also, getting Cooper!!

16. What song will always remind you of 2020? Not sure. Music wasn’t a big part of my life this year. Maybe Why We Ever by Hayley Williams? I put it on repeat too many times in 2020.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. Happier or sadder? A lot sadder.

ii. Thinner or fatter? Said sadness made me lose my appetite and a whole bunch of weight by the latter part of the year. All of my shorts and jeans have gotten loose around my waist, so I’ve definitely felt the weight loss.

iii. Richer or poorer? I’m richer now, but only because I didn’t have a job before and I do now. My family’s finances have taken a blow due to the pandemic, though. I try to help by chipping in for the electricity bill, and buying my family nice food every now and then. 

18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Love myself, appreciate myself, thank myself. All the self-love crap I didn’t think I deserve.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Tolerating bullshit I knew I didn’t deserve but kept going with anyway.

20. How will you be spending Christmas? We’ll be with my mom’s side on the 24th; having family come over to our place on the 25th; and will be going to my dad’s side on the 26th. Gonna be the most hectic three days ever and I’m PUMPED tbh lol. It’ll be the busiest we’ve been all year.

21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2020? Meh, I just hated the times I made mistakes at work as I hate fucking up in general and looking bad in front of colleagues.

22. Did you fall in love in 2020? I stayed in it.

23. How many one-night stands? No thanks.

24. What was your favorite TV program? The Crown was, until it got associated with painful memories and I had to put my viewing indefinitely on hold. My favorite show this year would be either Descendants of the Sun or Start Up; both are amazingly good.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I don’t think so. I don’t throw that word around a lot anyway.

26. What was the best book you read? Bret Hart’s memoir was a fun read.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Beach House and Chase Atlantic. ALSO, Twice lolololol

28. What did you want and get? My first job.

29. What did you want and not get? Commitment from the one person I asked it from.

30. What was your favorite film of this year? I didn’t watch a lot of movies this year. I actually think I just saw one?? which is really unlike me; but it wasn’t a big year for film anyway. I have yet to see Ammonite, which I already think I’ll love.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 22 and I just stayed at home with family while my best friend and her boyfriend sent over sushi for me.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? If I got to keep my relationship, which I thought had been faring well until she abruptly pulled the plug on everything.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2020? Casual and didn’t really evolve too much considering I didn’t go out a lot.

34. What kept you sane? Good Mythical Morning. I owe my life to them. And embroidery.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? I didn’t develop a crush on him until this month lmaaaaaaao but Kim Seon Ho is so so so so so dreamy.

36. What political issue stirred you the most? The shutdown of ABS-CBN early in the year and the US elections.

37. Who did you miss? My friends in my org.

38. Who was the best new person you met? The people at my workplace that I ended up having a great rapport with.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2020: From a tweet I retweeted: “You keep bad people around you and make excuses for their behavior because if you decided to hold even one person accountable, you’d have to recognize the offenses you’ve ignored and accepted. You’ll realize how much you’ve invalidated your own pain to ensure the comfort of others.” It was a harsh slap in the face, but I needed to hear it.

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3. Africa and the novel coronavirus.

Africa enjoyed a short bit of time before the novel coronavirus hit its shores. Here, however; the amount of time that lapsed till the first few reported confirmed cases made the world question whether or not we would be ready to handle a health crisis of this magnitude. Kind of ironic because the entire world including first world countries were and are still not equipped to handle a pandemic of this magnitude as we can clearly see from the numbers and how different areas have shifted to become the epicentre. But I digress. 

The first known and confirmed cases in Africa originated from Egypt, and was said to be someone who was not of Egyption nationality who had recently travelled to an area affected by COVID-19 and was reported on the 14th of February, 2020. The last African country to catch COVID19  was Lesotho who recorded their first case on the 13th of May, 2020. 

Then on the 5th of March, 2020 the first known and confirmed case was recorded / reported to South Africa. South Africa was ‘the 7th African country to  have a citizen test positive for the disease’. The person was said to be a 38 year old male who had travelled to Italy with his wife in a group of 10 people. Here, South Africa was held to be ‘one of 2 countries on the continent with reliable testing capabilities’. But testing capacity has since improved in other countries due to the rapid spread and severity of coronavirus and the need to  be able to take care of our people. Here, the rand was said to weaken against the dollar after confirmation of our first corona case. 

We watched the novel coronavirus spread rapidly across Africa in quite a short period of time. It almost looked, well, too co-ordinated. Was that just coincidence? I don’t know but again this takes me back to whichever theory you believe in about it’s origins; as that theory might have an answer that suits you. -sips tea- However, one must also take into consideration how much travelling was still allowed during the earlier days of COVID19 and how in general, mild cases have been allowed, in most cases to treat themselves at home - which means the potential for underreporting of real COVID19 cases  throughout the world; whilst some non-COVID cases have been misdiagnosed as covid cases potentially inflating numbers in some areas will cause problems for us when analysing what needed to be done, what has been done and what still needs to be done to fight COVID19. 

But here is what we do know: every country’s experience of coronavirus is different and as a result everyone has had to respond differently to try address the unique challenges facing their country. The one size fits all approach couldn’t be used to treat this virus, as it has been used to treat other viruses and we are seeing in some instances this difference in approach paying off in some countries whilst going wrong in others which has been both eye opening and scary as the entire world realises that the entire health system has been greatly neglected. 

However, despite having been praised for trying to get ahead of the curve by WHO and many others (and also praising WHO for their role in helping to combat COVID19) in our earlier days dealing with coronavirus, our numbers have since drastically shot up (currently sitting at about 23 615 as of the 25th of May, 2020 - Africa Day) and are expected to peak only around August / September/ Also, despite efforts by government to keep people calm and despite efforts by everyone to try and focus on the facts and the science of it all there have been some later decisions that have arguably taken us backward or caused us as citizens to question whose interests are best being served by some of the implementation measures introduced by government to combat / curve / reduce the spread of COVID-19. 

But with regards to my experience in South Africa, I would definitely say we tried to do the best we could with the cards that we have been dealt and as critical as I am of politicians, authority and structures I would say that some of the decisions that have been taken have been quite impressive actually, despite potential political, racial and class differences that the country is facing. Also I am very proud of our healthcare sector and how they have managed to actually also encourage us to stay calm by leading by example from our Health Minister, to doctors, nurses, lab techs, scientists, pharmacists, paramedics and other essential staff that work at the health facilities including cleaning staff, security, food suppliers etc. Everyone has just been calm in the public eye. Our response between mid-march up until early April definitely inspired a sense of feeling safe (health wise), albeit not physically; because the army & the police were unleashed on the people causing greater distress.

Some controversial issues raised were in relation to class and how lockdown impacted on the unemployed, underprivileged and working class in a society that is so deeply unequal - actually even known as the most unequal country in the world. Social media has opened the door for all these different debates, with many people openly questioning and criticizing some of the decisions taken by the government. Most notably, the open letters to the president written by Ntsiki Mazwai and Gareth Cliff which caused a stir. For which I will definitely say at the time Ntsiki raised some valid concerns even though her tone was harsh. Gareth’s letter stated nothing new, but then when he was questioned on it, on the popular South African tv show the Big Debate SA he didn’t really articulate himself well and quite frankly was quite rude and unfortunately played into critiques belief that he was clout chasing and seeking relevance (a story for another day). (This all depends on which side of the debate you fall on, I guess).

Meanwhile, round-about mid to late-April (21 April, 2020) Madagascar announced a herbal mix remedy called COVID Organics that is preventative and curative in nature. The remedy is said to contain Artemisia Annua, a plant used in medicines to combat malaria, for which it has been critiqued to say that this plant does not fight malaria in its plant-like state. Here, several African countries had opted to try it by mid-May, including: Liberia, Equitorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Tanzania, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Republic of Congo who have all ‘received some bottles’ of COVID Organics. The emergence of this remedy sparked growing debate around the usefulness / effectiveness in herbal and traditional medicine in combating COVID19 here on the African continent even though China has been exploring this option since February. This resulted in WHO cautioning against herbal remedies that are untested but criticism for the centering of Western medicine as the solution has grown. This led to a call to boycott WHO on social media which never really went further and was then resolved when WHO was rumoured to have agreed to look into COVID Organics but concerns were raised around the non-disclosure clause said to be agreed upon between the two (also rumour, as the sources on this are now more scarce). However Madagascar is still a member of WHO and supporting WHO. Madagascar was recently elected (22 May) on their executive board. 

Personally, I believe a combination of both forms of medicine must be looked into, because some homemade remedies have proven effective in combating or helping to boost our immune systems against flu and if flu is a virus that logic holds. But on the other hand, noting that respiratory illnesses like pneumonia require antibiotics and other inflammatory and other drugs as well as liquids, rest, and possible oxygen therapy a more impactful drug with organic properties may be what is needed. But again I am not a medical expert so I am merely stating an opinion based on my understanding - its not fact. Anyway, interestingly enough: Madagascar only had 121 cases and no deaths at the time of releasing COVID Organics. Now by the 25th of May, 2020 they had 527 cases (I stand to be corrected). This is still significantly less than most countries especially for a population of 27.6 Million people so they must be doing something right even if it might not be linked to medicine - it could just be that they have disciplined citizens who are taking care of their health by eating healthy and practicing effective social distancing and sanitization.

To date, Africa as a whole continent has had 111 812 confirmed cases of COVID!9, with 3 354 deaths and 45 001 recoveries as of 6am, (25 May, 2020). In blog posts to follow, I will continue to touch on South Africa as my primary example of what is happening (for obvious reasons as you can tell by the name of this blog) and I will then try to give examples of what has been done in other countries. 

*Disclaimer (again): images aren't mine. I just use pics from the net from the sources I touch on, for my posts. 

*Wrote this piece on Africa Day, but struggled to post it. 

*A reminder that  the blog posts in the 21 Conversation series are just bits & pieces of the COVID19 experience that I have found worth talking about touching on some facts, some opinion and some theories you may or may not agree with, I have linked some of the sources that speak to these issues in all the posts that range from news to stats and facts to blogs to youtube so take everything with a pinch of salt. But always keep up to date with coronavirus news through reliable sources and keep up to date with your country’s rules, regulation and other legislation through official government sites.  I hope lockdown is treating you well if you are in lockdown and if you happen to be reading this and your country isn’t on lockdown let us know how your country is handling it. Stay safe everybody. 

M.T.M

Sources:

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/egypt-confirms-coronavirus-case-africa-200214190840134.html

2. https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/world-news/first-coronavirus-case-south-africa-who-is-it-where-reported/

3. https://techcentral.co.za/first-case-of-coronavirus-in-south-africa/96364/

4. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/05/africa/south-africa-first-coronavirus-case/index.html

5. https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/2020/03/05/south-africa-confirms-first-case-of-covid-19/

6. https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/coronavirus-in-sa-who-boss-praises-south-africas-response-to-covid-19-pandemic-45923836

7. https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/2020/04/09/african-union-reaffirms-support-for-who-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

8. https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/who-again-heaps-praise-on-south-africas-response-to-covid-19/

9. https://mg.co.za/article/2019-11-19-why-sa-is-the-worlds-most-unequal-society/ 

10. https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-04-04-poverty-shows-how-apartheid-legacy-endures-in-south-africa/

11. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52125713

12. https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/396473/handling-of-the-covid-19-crisis-makes-mkhize-a-stand-out-leader-analysts/

13. https://www.cnbcafrica.com/africa-press-office/2020/05/12/coronavirus-south-africa-employment-and-labour-praised-for-prompt-payment-of-coronavirus-covid-19-temporary-employer-employee-relief-scheme-ters-benefits/

14.https://select.timeslive.co.za/news/2020-03-23-sa-states-response-to-covid-19-gets-a-huge-thumbs-up/

15. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52619308

16. https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/395685/extending-lockdown-would-not-delay-south-africas-coronavirus-peak-by-much-mkhize/

17. https://citizen.co.za/lifestyle/your-life-entertainment-your-life/entertainment-celebrities/2261937/ntsiki-mazwai-pens-scathing-open-letter-to-ramaphosa-opposes-lockdown/

18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPD2zj6DCE&t=6s

19. https://www.garethcliff.com/dear-mr-president/

20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8iGnW2cSYc 

21. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/madagascar-population/

22. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-madagascar-idUSKBN22K1HQ

23. https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/madagascar-launches-miracle-drink-for-coronavirus-infection/ar-BB12WZoM

24. https://africa.cgtn.com/2020/04/21/madagascar-president-backs-unproven-herbal-treatment-for-coronavirus/

25. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/coronavirus-madagascar-herbal-remedy-covid-organics-200505131055598.html

26. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52374250

27. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/who-to-study-madagascars-drug-to-treat-covid-19-/1840971#

28. https://africacheck.org/fbcheck/no-madagascar-hasnt-quit-world-health-organization/

29. https://www.africanews.com/2020/05/25/coronavirus-in-africa-breakdown-of-infected-virus-free-countries/

30. https://www.webmd.com/lung/understanding-pneumonia-treatment

31. https://www.drugs.com/condition/pneumonia.html

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Why You Shouldn't Support Joe Biden For The Upcoming 2020 Election

1. Led the fight against desegregating schools

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-president-busing-racism

2. Long history of creepily groping, sniffing, kissing women and young girls

source: https://twitter.com/RAMRANTS/status/930065838387863552

...he then issued a non-apology where he tried to justify his acts

source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/joe-biden-iowa-2020-campaign-teenage-girl-fence-warning.html

3. Intimidated a woman when confronted about his lack of support for reproductive justice

source: https://twitter.com/thelocalmaniac8/status/1138675278933348352

4. Voted for the disastrous Iraq War

source: https://theweek.com/articles/830438/iraq-war-should-2020-issue

...and still to this day says he'd do it again

source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk

5. Wrote a racist Crime Bill

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinLLham9gk

..that led to record-breaking mass incarceration

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons

..and bragged about writing the Bill

source: https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1124300911533350912

6. Horrible treatment of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearing

source: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/27/anita-hill-joe-biden-non-apology/

7. Led a disastrous War on Drugs

source: https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/joe-bidens-drug-war-record-is-so-much-worse-than-you-think

...still opposes cannabis legalization

source: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/joe-biden-weed-war-drugs-candidate-2020-827319/

...despite the fact that two of his children escaped consequences for drug use

source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-tough-on-drugs-policies-did-not-apply-to-his-childrens-marijuana-and-cocaine-offenses

8. Opposed equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community until very recently

source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/s280

9. Opposes Medicare For All

source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18515699/joe-biden-2020-presidential-campaign-medicare-for-all

10. Opposes meaningful action on the climate crisis like the Green New Deal, instead pursuing the “middle ground”

source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/443074-biden-crafting-more-centrist-plan-for-climate-change-policy-report

11. Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking Haitian refugees up in Guantanamo Bay

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00013

12. Voted to build border walls

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126

13. Supported sending military to the border long before Trump

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies

14. Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00242

...multiple times

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00108

15. Opposed amnesty for immigrants and supports requiring them to learn English

source: https://twitter.com/maryjanebern/status/1133587205308465156

16. Helped expand the system Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600%

source: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-deportation-machine-obama-built-for-president-trump/

17. Does not view abortion as a choice and a right

source: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/07/joe-biden-abortion-rights/

18. Worked to undermine the ACA’s coverage of birth control

source: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/05/joe-biden-worked-to-undermine-the-affordable-care-acts-coverage-of-contraception/

19. Opposed Roe v Wade

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-abortion-president

20. Still to this day opposes federal funding for abortion

source: https://gen.medium.com/bidens-middle-ground-politics-are-bad-for-women-704fdec0a1e7

21. Racist comments

source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1141753425362903040

22. Defends other fellow racists

source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1133814010103705601

...and more racists

source: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/everybodys-chum

...AND more racists

source: https://twitter.com/QueenInYeIIow/status/1141311792003596288

23. As part of his crusade against desegregating schools he was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two black appointees to the Department of Justice

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7

24. Lies about marching in the Civil Rights movement

source: https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1135737147095429120

25. Sided with banks to overturn Glass-Steagall and deregulate, leading to financial crisis

source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the_Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act

26. Defends billionaires hoarding wealth

source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/09/joe-biden-clarifies-hes-no-bernie-sanders-i-dont-think-500-billionaires-are-reason

...promises to ensure it keeps happening at the expense of everyone else

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6

...votes to slash the top income tax rate

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020_n_5c796502e4b087c2f295ba31

...and cripple the estate tax

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-push-269-bill_n_7061458

...resulting in $83 billion lost annually

source: https://taxfoundation.org/modeling-economic-effects-past-tax-bills/

27. Plagiarized fossil fuel groups' language in his woefully inadequate climate crisis plan

source: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-campaign-admits-lifting-section-of-climate-plan-from-fossil-fuel-groups/

28. Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies

29. Supports Israel's right-wing regime and apartheid in Palestine

source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk

30. Sides with Trump in backing right-wing coup in Venezuela

source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/01/biden-sides-trump-bolton-and-pompeo-backing-coup-effort-venezuela

31. Voted against abolishing the electoral college that undemocratically elected Bush and Trump

source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/96-1979/s161

32. Voted against enhancing labor protection enforcements

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00141

33. Says the CIA torture report is not a "black stain on this country" but a “badge of honor"

source: https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1137412059510050816

34. Is still openly courting Republican billionaires for donations, including John Catsimatidis, who's compared taxing the wealthy to Nazi persecution of Jews

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/billionaire-trump-donor-says-he-rejected-joe-bidens-request-for-fundraising-help.html

35. His administration awarded a $1.5 billion contract to his brother's construction firm despite his brother having no prior residential construction experience

source: https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/

36. Funded by lobbyists

source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/25/hours-after-entering-2020-race-biden-attend-big-money-fundraiser-hosted-comcast-blue#

...and partakes in general corruption

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-neoliberal-democrat-conservative-lobbying

37. Voted to deregulate the credit card industry while a credit card company was his top donor from 1989-2000 and then hired his son

source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/middle-class-joe-cozied-up-to-credit-card-companies-and-made-filing-for-bankruptcy-harder

38. Used Charlottesville as a prop in his campaign video despite never even visiting once

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlottesville-activists-dont-want-joe-biden-to-use-city-as-a-campaign-prop_n_5cc200d2e4b0e56130eeaafd

The worst part? He isn't sorry for any of this

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437582-biden-im-not-sorry-for-anything-that-i-have-ever-done

so fuck Joe Biden fuck anyone who supports him and fuck the party that backs him

[huahsu]

YEAR OF THE BUTTERFLY

previous years: A SONG THAT DEGRADES EACH TIME YOU PLAY IT :: 2018 A CHURCH AND JOHN LENNON’S “IMAGINE” :: 2017 SIKH DEVOTIONAL MUSIC :: 2016 SPOOKY BLACK :: 2015 this year: I’ve spent the past few months working on a book that I’ve always wanted to write but never figured I’d make the time for. At a really basic level, it’s about listening to music with friends. A couple weeks ago, I devoted a few days to reading a stack of books and articles about the emotional experience of music. They were written by philosophers, critics, cognitive scientists, historians. I took from them two overarching questions. First, what does it mean to assign a piece of music a feeling, like “happy” or “sad?” Is the song itself “sad,” or does it just model a kind of sadness proximate to how we feel? What elements of a song do this? The fraying of a voice? Minor keys? Tempo? Is it all a trick of memory? None of the answers really satisfied me, since music is such an intimate thing. A song makes us feel a way for reasons that are often either blindingly obvious or remote and mysterious. An expert can tell you that humans are wired to feel joy when a certain configuration of notes are struck in tandem, but maybe it just reminds you of looking at the front door.

The other question was whether music itself facilitates any unique emotional possibilities--a mode of feeling that we can’t get anywhere else. Music doesn’t mimic the real world, it doesn’t make arguments. One writer suggested that the thrill of music was its capacity to remind you, foremost, that music can thrill you. In essence, each time we hear something new and feel something, we are being reminded of all the times we’ve felt this way before. We’re living in the echo of a former enchantment. Maybe you’ll hear it again, process it, assign it a genre or context, and the mystique evaporates. But music is one of those things that doesn’t happen on our time. We don’t stand in front of it and train our gaze on this quadrant or that. We don’t flip back to make sure we didn’t miss something. You can’t slow it down as it is happening, you merely let it happen. 

In the spring, the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan showed “The Moon Represents My Heart,” an exhibition I worked on with MOCA’s curators, Herb and Andrew. The basic idea was to look at all the ways music had enriched immigrant life, from early opera troupes touring America’s Chinatowns to karaoke bars, church choirs, and after-school violin lessons, fifties doo-wop trios to garage punks and self-taught dance music producers. There’s no legible tradition of Chinese American music so we just wanted to present it as a textured and everyday thing--the experience of the fan could be as legitimate as that of a Mando-pop superstar. While working on the show, people would often ask me for a playlist, but I didn’t really have any to share. It wasn’t really about the music itself, which could sound derivative or amateur to some. It was about the fact that they sought to express themselves through music, in contexts that made them outliers and oddballs. I came to love all the music in our show because of that second-hand thrill--that sense that these moments had been deeply meaningful to everyone in the room. 

You can hear it in the voice of Stephen Cheng, who ended up being the show’s most memorable star. He put out a rocksteady gem in the sixties and then spent the next decade in New York trying to get the Dragon Seeds, his Chinese “folk-rock” band, off the ground. Cheng died years ago, but Andrew found his children, who brought some reels of unreleased music to the museum. I remember staring at them, wondering what was on them. It was a kind of anticipation and wonder that I often miss, when the operative feeling I associate with music-listening on the internet is the frenzy of opening and closing windows, clicking links, proving my humanity to a captcha.

Stephen’s singing wasn’t great, but it was perfect. His version of “Yesterday,” all warbly and over-the-top, has now supplanted the original for me. Somehow, we played some of Stephen’s songs on the radio, including one about butterflies and love. Somehow, one of the people listening was a butterfly expert, and he was about to marry another butterfly expert. Who knew such a song was possible, the groom-to-be told me. Stephen was too obscure to be properly forgotten. Or maybe his song was just dormant all these years. It awaited just the right listener, and now, over forty years later, he would get his propers, sandwiched somewhere between the vows and Kool and the Gang, a couple minutes of people scratching their heads, searching for the right smile, saying Can you believe this? to one another.

### TEENAGE DREAM

Warren Defever/His Name is Alive, All the Mirrors in the House

EXCELLENT USE OF “P.S.K.” Kindness feat. Robyn, “Warning” EXCELLENT USE OF A TELEPHONE Mavi, “Guernica” TECHNICALLY 2018, BUT TAIWAN’S ANSWER TO COIL, JOY DIVISION, ETC SEN, “The Cicada” SAME (2018) BUT TAIWANESE DREAMBOAT VIBES Linion, “Can’t Find” ANOTHER, KINDA BILLY BRAGG-Y Wayne’s So Sad, “Wanderer’s Guide to Taipei” SUMMER IN TAIWAN, AND SO I BOUGHT A LOT OF CDs, INCLUDING THE LIMITED EDITION SIGNED 9M88 DEBUT 9m88, “Love Rain” THEY ARE VERY INTO THE “FUTURE SOUL” THING Andrea, “You Better Kiss Me” THIS GUY HAS THE SAME NAME AS MY COUSIN Yo Lee demos LOTS OF BACKPACKS Hsien, Lately AMAZED TO SEE LIM GIONG REISSUES THERE, THIS IS THE DANCE ALBUM HE RECORDED IN 1994 IN THE UK BEFORE BRINGING RAVE CULTURE BACK TO TAIWAN Lim Giong, Entertainment World (IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH LIM GIONG, THIS IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER Lim Giong, “A Pure Person) AND HERE’S 9m88 COVERING “PLASTIC LOVE” 9m88, “Plastic Love” AIR SUPPLYERS Oso Leone, Gallery Love Sunset Rollercoaster, Vanilla Villa I ENJOYED THIS WHEN IT CAME OUT BUT HONESTLY FORGOT IT CAME OUT THIS YEAR, OR THAT I ENJOYED, BUT FOR THE LONGEST TIME MY “2019″ EMAIL DRAFT JUST READ “CHIEF KEEF HNIA KAIL MALONE (sic)” Chief Keef and Zaytoven, GloToven

ANOTHER DEVASTATING DUO Pink Siifu and Akai Solo, Black Sand

MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY Kali Malone, The Sacrificial Code Clarice Jensen, Drone Studies I AM A SLOW WALKER, BUT I NEVER WALK BACKWARDS Michael Vincent Waller, Moments ana roxane - ~~~ A THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT Caleb Giles, Under the Shade Medhane, Own Pace WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR Angel Bat Dawid, The Oracle Art Ensemble of Chicago, We are on the Edge READ JOSEPH JARMAN Joseph Jarman, Black Case I and II RESPECT YOURSELF Helado Negro, This is How You Smile Deb Never, “Swimming” LET’S DO IT AGAIN Tommy Holohan & Casper Hastings- RVE001 Eris Drew, Raving Disco Breaks LET’S DO IT AGAIN AGAIN, BUT SMEARED Burial, Tunes 2011-2019 OR PERHAPS YOU WERE THERE Callisto, Guidance is Eternal, Part I PERHAPS YOU WERE THERE FOR MICROHOUSE AND PEAK MEGO AND BLOGS Barker, Debiasing AT A WAREHOUSE PARTY, ABLE TO HEAR TOO MANY FLOORS, ROOMS, SOUNDS AT ONCE, IN A GOOD WAY Dies Smely, “Neptune Rises” AT A WAREHOUSE PARTY, BUT THINKING ABOUT PLUNDER, THE TRAIL OF TEARS, THE SANCTITY OF EARTH Kelman Duran, 13 Month A KIND OF BLUE Steve Hiett, Down on the Road by the Beach POSSIBLY MY MOST PLAYED ALBUM, 2019 Galcher Lustwerk, Information R.I.P. PRINCE, FOREVER AND ALWAYS Serpente, Parada Moodymann, Sinner Nelson Bandela, Purprain THE OPPOSITE OF “I AM A GOD” Nelson Bandela - “i'm mortal” YOU GOT ME Shane Eagle feat. Santi and Bas, “Vanya” HARD TO BELIEVE JAZMINE SULLIVAN REMAINS SO OVERLOOKED Kindness feat Jazmine Sullivan, “Hard to Believe” WATCH FOR THE HOOK Quando Rondo, “Gun Powder”

ANTE UP Polo G feat Lil Tjay, “Pop Out” “PANTS GON BE SAGGIN TIL I’M FORTY” Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, “Thuggin”

“WHY THEY LET THE TERMINATOR WIN THE ELECTION?” Sault, “Why Why Why Why Why”

HOLLOW BONES Showbiz and Milano, “Guillotine” LADI LUV, “GOOD TO THE LAST DUB” City Girls, “Act Up” MONEY BOSS PLAYERS Benny the Butcher feat 38 Spesh and Jadakiss, “Sunday School” Roc Marciano, “Richard Gear” WARP 30 (1989-2019) Droop-E, “The Droop-E Way” INTERSTELLAR SPACE, PROBABLY KILLER LIVE Blacks’ Myths, Blacks Myths II ALICE NEVER WENT ANYWHERE Sam Wilkes, “Sivaya” Alice Coltrane, Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972 RIYL: LYRICHORD, EFFECTS PEDALS Seungmin Cha, Nuunmuun RIYL: EFFICIENCY, INTERLUDES Solange, “Binz” “WHO HERE IS STILL LISTENING TO JOHNNY MAY CASH’S “DRUGS” IN 2019?” Playboi Carti, “Molly” “MOLLY” CZ Wang and Neo Image, “Just Off Wave”

YOU’VE SUBSCRIBED TO “UK STREETSOUL YOUTUBE PLAYLIST” Apiento feat Harriet Brown, “Down That Road” WHERE WERE U IN 2092? Jai Paul, “He”

LIL B, INNIT Voldy Moyo, Paper World SCREAMADELICA Vampire Weekend, “Harmony Hall” Humeysha, Nusrat on the Beach FOLKTRONICA Aldous Harding, “The Barrel” TOO PURE Springfields, Singles 1986-1991 MY AQUARIUM Rod Modell, Captagon ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Vagabon, Vagabon 4-TRACK TWEE BEDROOM COVERS OF BLINK-182′S DUDE RANCH Colleen Green, Blink-182′s “Dude Ranch” as Played by Colleen Green

KINDA AS THOUGH A PART OF MY 2016-19 LP PURCHASES FORMED THEIR OWN BANDS Anunaku, Whities 024 75 Dollar Bill, I Was Real Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society, Mandatory Reality

JUST 30 OR SO GECS Cool Fang, Sparring I’M A DEADHEAD BUT FOR STANDING ON THE CORNER SOTC Art Ensemble, SOTC Double Bass Ensemble * Merciful Allah Black Hole Theater * 4/24/19 SOTC Art Ensemble, Variation 9 * Merciful Allah Black Hole Theater * 4/27/19

SONG OF THE SPRING, SUMMER, WINTER, YEAR, STILL UNDEFEATED

[ol-musky]

Why You Shouldn't Support Joe Biden For The Upcoming 2020 Election: a thread

1. Led the fight against desegregating schools

source:

2. Long history of creepily groping, sniffing, kissing women and young girls

source:

...he then issued a non-apology where he tried to justify his acts

source:

3. Intimidated a woman when confronted about his lack of support for reproductive justice

source:

4. Voted for the disastrous Iraq War

source:

...and still to this day says he'd do it again

source:

5. Wrote a racist Crime Bill

source:

..that led to record-breaking mass incarceration

source:

..and bragged about writing the Bill

source:

6. Horrible treatment of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearing

source:

7. Led a disastrous War on Drugs

source:

...still opposes cannabis legalization

source: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/joe-biden-weed-war-drugs-candidate-2020-827319/

...despite the fact that two of his children escaped consequences for drug use

source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-tough-on-drugs-policies-did-not-apply-to-his-childrens-marijuana-and-cocaine-offenses

8. Opposed equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community until very recently

source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/s280

9. Opposes Medicare For All

source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18515699/joe-biden-2020-presidential-campaign-medicare-for-all

10. Opposes meaningful action on the climate crisis like the Green New Deal, instead pursuing the “middle ground”

source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/443074-biden-crafting-more-centrist-plan-for-climate-change-policy-report

11. Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking Haitian refugees up in Guantanamo Bay

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00013

12. Voted to build border walls

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126

13. Supported sending military to the border long before Trump

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies

14. Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00242

...multiple times

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00108

15. Opposed amnesty for immigrants and supports requiring them to learn English

source: https://twitter.com/maryjanebern/status/1133587205308465156?s=20

16. Helped expand the system Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600%

source: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-deportation-machine-obama-built-for-president-trump/

17. Does not view abortion as a choice and a right

source: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/07/joe-biden-abortion-rights/

18. Worked to undermine the ACA’s coverage of birth control

source: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/05/joe-biden-worked-to-undermine-the-affordable-care-acts-coverage-of-contraception/

19. Opposed Roe v Wade

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-abortion-president

20. Still to this day opposes federal funding for abortion

source: https://gen.medium.com/bidens-middle-ground-politics-are-bad-for-women-704fdec0a1e7

21. Racist comments

source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1141753425362903040?s=20

22. Defends other fellow racists

source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1133814010103705601?s=20

..and more racists

source: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/everybodys-chum

...AND more racists

source: https://twitter.com/QueenInYeIIow/status/1141311792003596288?s=20

23. As part of his crusade against desegregating schools he was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two black appointees to the Department of Justice

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7

24. Lies about marching in the Civil Rights movement

source: https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1135737147095429120?s=20

25. Sided with banks to overturn Glass-Steagall and deregulate, leading to financial crisis

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the_Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act

26. Defends billionaires hoarding wealth

source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/09/joe-biden-clarifies-hes-no-bernie-sanders-i-dont-think-500-billionaires-are-reason

...promises to ensure it keeps happening at the expense of everyone else

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6

..votes to slash the top income tax rate

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020_n_5c796502e4b087c2f295ba31

..and cripple the estate tax

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-push-269-bill_n_7061458

..resulting in $83 billion lost annually

source: https://taxfoundation.org/modeling-economic-effects-past-tax-bills/

27. Plagiarized fossil fuel groups’ language in his woefully inadequate climate crisis plan

source: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-campaign-admits-lifting-section-of-climate-plan-from-fossil-fuel-groups/

28. Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies

29. Supports Israel’s right-wing regime and apartheid in Palestine

source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk

30. Sides with Trump in backing right-wing coup in Venezuela

source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/01/biden-sides-trump-bolton-and-pompeo-backing-coup-effort-venezuela

31. Voted against abolishing the electoral college that undemocratically elected Bush and Trump

source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/96-1979/s161

32. Voted against enhancing labor protection enforcements

source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00141

33. Says the CIA torture report is not a “black stain on this country” but a “badge of honor”

source: https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1137412059510050816?s=20

34. Is still openly courting Republican billionaires for donations, including John Catsimatidis, who’s compared taxing the wealthy to Nazi persecution of Jews

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/billionaire-trump-donor-says-he-rejected-joe-bidens-request-for-fundraising-help.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar

35. His administration awarded a $1.5 billion contract to his brother’s construction firm despite his brother having no prior residential construction experience

source: https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/

36. Funded by lobbyists

source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/25/hours-after-entering-2020-race-biden-attend-big-money-fundraiser-hosted-comcast-blue#

...and partakes in general corruption

source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-neoliberal-democrat-conservative-lobbying

37. Voted to deregulate the credit card industry while a credit card company was his top donor from 1989–2000 and then hired his son

source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/middle-class-joe-cozied-up-to-credit-card-companies-and-made-filing-for-bankruptcy-harder

38. Used Charlottesville as a prop in his campaign video despite never even visiting once

source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlottesville-activists-dont-want-joe-biden-to-use-city-as-a-campaign-prop_n_5cc200d2e4b0e56130eeaafd

The worst part? He isn't sorry for any of this

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437582-biden-im-not-sorry-for-anything-that-i-have-ever-done

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The Last Shall be First

I want to share with you some thoughts from Derek Knox about the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, which is found in Matthew 20: 1-16.

Summary of the Parable.

The Kingdom of heaven is like a man who went to the marketplace at 9:00am to hire laborers for his vineyard. He made an agreement with a group of laborers they would work all day for a denarius.

The man went back to the marketplace at noon and at 3pm and 6pm, hired more workers and said he’d pay them what is right.

At 8pm the man goes back to the marketplace and finds more workers and tells them to go work in his vineyard, but there is no mention of payment.

At the end of the day (9pm), he pays the workers, beginning with the last workers hired.

They each received a denarius. The people hired in the morning complained that this was unfair. Those people worked 1 hour and received the same pay, but we were out here working in the heat of the day.

The master replies to them he didn’t do wrong by them. They had an agreement and he is honoring that.

Then it ends with the statement, “The last shall be first, and the first last.”

Derek’s commentary:

 All these people were waiting in the marketplace for work. It was a time of oversupply of labor and many people were unemployed, thus wages were suppressed. If they didn’t work, they likely didn’t eat.

The people at the beginning of the day and those still waiting at the end of the day needed that denarius (translated as “penny” in the KJV), their need was not any less just because they got hired at the end of the day.

The first laborers made a covenant for 1 denarius for the day.

The ones hired later in the day, the master didn’t specify what the payment would be other than he’d give them what is right.

The last group, those who were most desperate, he doesn’t even say he’s going to pay them. He tells them to go to the vineyard, and they go.

From Derek’s perspective, LGBT people are in this last group. We’re in the church without any guarantee of what our “reward” will look like.

The people who were hired in the beginning know the reward they’re promised.

All of these journeys are different and we should respect that.

At the end of the day, when the Master paid the workers, he didn’t start with those who had been there since the morning. If he had, they’d have taken their money and gone. The Master wanted them to see just how generous he was. All the laborers would have expected to be paid proportionally, so those who worked less time would expect to receive less. Instead, the Master gave each of them what they needed for their journey, what they needed to survive.

The morning laborers complained that the Master had made the others equal to them. Lesson here is that Christ makes us equal. He does this not in terms of our circumstances but by giving us what we need to survive and thrive.

And it may not seem fair to the people who worked since the morning, but that’s not the fault of those who were hired later. They had been at the marketplace standing all day, they were there at the beginning of the day. Through no fault of their own, they were left out. They were left out of the “covenant path,” but God made a way for them.

But those who were on the covenant path and knew what they were getting, what they were working towards, they complained. They checked all the boxes of the requirements. The response to their complaints was “pick up what is yours (the payment) and go.” He didn’t even hand it to them, either it was on a table or he’d tossed the money at them and told them to pick it up.

So yes, those people are going to get their denarius, but so am I. No one should ever feel inferior in church.

Let’s talk about the principal of the first shall be last. Right now people who are queer are pretty last in this church. There are a number of people who are marginalized in our church: women, people of color, people with disabilities, economically disadvantaged people, citizens of other countries. And among all of those groups will be some who are also LGBT. So those who are first should be careful in dealing with and talking about these marginalized peoples. Look at who’s on top in this church right now and look at who is not.

Many members of the church think that we have it all figured out. That’s because the covenant plan that they were told at the beginning of the day was spelled out. We have not gotten to the end of the day yet. We have not figured out what the landowner will surprise us with. It will be even more beautiful than we can imagine. It is going to be better than everything we hope for. The Last shall be First.

Here are examples in the scriptures of when the Last was made First

Number chapter 9 – This is the first anniversary of the original Passover. Several men were unable to participate in this important covenant ritual because they were unclean for having to deal with a dead body.

They went to Moses and asked why they should be left out? Moses didn’t say, “You need to get with the covenant path.” He told them to wait right here and went and asked the Lord. He received a revelation that said they should celebrate the holiday 1 month later. They were able to restore their place in the community, which they would not have been able to do if they had not asked that question.

This simple story teaches us 3 important things, something about God, something about the prophet and something about us.

God is our loving father and is more eager to give us what we need than we can even imagine. God is generous and compassionate and anticipates every need and every circumstance and is waiting for us to ask.

If they hadn’t had a living prophet, they wouldn’t have gotten the update. They’d of had to deal with the law the way it was with no way of achieving justice, no way of adapting to the situation that emerged.

It takes faith to go to the prophet and ask these questions. Almost every section of the Doctrine and Covenants came to be because of a question, either about a scripture or about a situation that emerged. These questions prompt revelation from a loving God.

This is an example of when the last were made first, because these men had been left out but then they got a holiday created just for them which is still celebrated today among Orthodox Jews—Second Passover.

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In the Book of Acts you’ve got 1 narrative that is repeated 3 times—the conversion of Paul. It’s in Acts chapter 9, chapter 22 & chapter 26.

And there’s another account that is recorded by 3 times, which is the conversion of Cornelius and it’s found in Acts chapter 10, chapter 11, and chapter 15. The conversion of Cornelius is another example of the last being made first because Cornelius was knew he was right with God. He got the vision before Peter did that he was part of the community. 

Cornelius was a God-fearing gentile who prayed, and his prayers were answered. Peter had to get the message from God 3 times before he would even consider that what God has declared clean, he should not call unclean. After that, Peter recognized the legitimacy of Cornelius getting to belong to the community and to not withhold baptism from him.

At that time, the covenant path was circumcision, keeping kosher, keeping the Sabbath, keeping the calendar, none of which Cornelius did. For thousands and thousands of years the covenant path was clear, yet somehow Cornelius got wedged in. This is like one of those who came at the 11th hour not knowing exactly how it would work out, but there was room made for him.

There was a way for Cornelius to join the Jewish faith, but Paul argued forcibly that wasn’t necessary, we’re unified in Christ. There’s neither male nor female, neither slave nor free. It’s a beautiful way of God surprising us by making the last, first. It probably disrupted the comfort of some of those people who were first.

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Romans chapter 8 has a special place in the heart of anyone who is marginalized or persecuted, which was Paul’s own experience.

16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us call things?

The logic is, if God isn’t going to hold back his son from us, then he’s not going to hold anything back from us, including all those blessings that those morning workers think we shouldn’t get. All those things that people think are only for the few and the first, won’t be held back.

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, Jesus. Not people’s misperceptions of us, not death, nothing. Do you not think that the Lord of creation will not tie up every loose thread?

One thing I love about scriptures is it’s about real people’s lives. And what seems to be problems are actually solutions. When there’s questions is when revelations can come.