OCTOBER 26 | IN THE CHURCH: THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST IN CONTROL

…Ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory.

EPHESIANS 1:13, 14

The nervous compulsion to get things done is found everywhere among us and right here is where the pragmatic philosophy comes into its own.

It asks no embarrassing questions about the wisdom of what we are doing or even about the morality of it.

It accepts our chosen ends as right and good and casts about for efficient means and ways to get them accomplished. When it discovers something that works, it soon finds a text to justify it, “consecrates” it to the Lord and plunges ahead. Next a magazine article is written about it, then a book, and finally the inventor is granted an honorary degree. After that, any question about the scripturalness of things or even the moral validity of them is completely swept away.

You cannot argue with success. The method works; ergo, it must be good!

The whole religious atmosphere around us is largely geared to pragmatic methodology. What shall we do to break its power over us?

The answer is simple. We must acknowledge the right of Jesus Christ to control the activities of His Church. The New Testament contains full instructions, not only about what we are to believe but what we are to do and how we are to go about doing it. Any deviation from those instructions is a denial of the Lordship of Christ!¹

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¹  Tozer, A. W., & Smith, G. B. (2015). Evenings with Tozer: Daily Devotional Readings (p. 324). Moody Publishers.

October 26.—Evening. [Or August 20.] | “God hath given him a name which is above every name.”

Acts 3:1–21

NOW Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. (They were interrupted on their way to their devotions! but it was a blessed interruption, for in the end they themselves were able to worship all the more fervently, and another was added to the number of those who praised the Lord. May we have grace to turn every incident we meet with to good account for promoting the glory of God. A beggar’s cry would not annoy us if we were looking out for opportunities of doing good.)

⁴ And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.

⁵ And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

⁶ Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. (Oh, the power of that name! If we did but believe in it as Peter did, we also should bless poor sinners, and be enriched ourselves with something better than silver and gold.)

⁷ And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.

⁸ And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. (His joy was too great for him to go at an ordinary pace. When souls are healed by grace they overflow with enthusiasm. If we remembered our obligations to the Lord Jesus for making us whole, we also should often tread his courts with rapture, and feel as if we must dance for joy.)

^{9, 10} And all the people saw him walking and praising God: And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

¹¹ And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

¹² ¶ And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

¹³ The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. (He points them away from himself and John to the Lord Jesus. This is very different from those Popish priests who bid us look to saints, and even urge us to seek blessings from their poor sinful selves.)

^{14, 15} But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. (He charges them with their sin. As the sharp needle makes way for the silken thread, so does conviction of sin prepare men for the glorious gospel.)

¹⁶ And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

^{17, 18} And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

See how he woos them, as a mother does her child, and interprets their wicked conduct as kindly as he can.

¹⁹ ¶ Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

²⁰ And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

²¹ Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. (Jesus will come again to restore this fallen earth; till then he reigns above.)¹

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¹  Spurgeon, C. H. (1964). The Interpreter: Spurgeon’s Devotional Bible (p. 637). Baker Book House.

October 26 Evening Verse of the Day

19:19 the kingdoms of the earth may know The desire for the nations to know Yahweh also surfaces in Solomon’s prayer (1 Kgs 8:43) and is a theme in Isaiah (e.g., Isa 2:2–4; 49).¹

19. The plea deliver us (‘save us’, rsv) can only be answered if asked for God’s glory. That you alone, O Lord, are God has been called a ‘standard recognition formula’ but need not be classified as post-exilic on the basis of supposed frequent use in Ezekiel, where the precise phrase is not used (cf. Isa. 37:16, 20; Neh. 9:6). This is the basis for asking God to vindicate his ways to man.²

Ver. 19.—Now therefore, O Lord our God. Hezekiah draws the strongest possible contrast between Jehovah and the idols. Sennacherib had placed them upon a par (ch. 18:33–35; 19:10–13). Hezekiah insists that the idols are “no gods,” are “nothing”—at any rate are mere blocks of wood and stone, shaped by human hands. But Jehovah is “the God of all the kingdoms of the earth” (ver. 15), the Maker of heaven and earth (ver. 15), the one and only God (ver. 19)—answering to his name, self-existing, all-sufficient, the groundwork of all other existence. And he is “our God”—the special God of Israel, bound by covenant to protect them against all enemies. I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand; i.e. “do that which this proud blasphemer thinks that thou canst not do” (ch. 18:35); show him that thou art far mightier than he supposes, wholly unlike those “no-gods,” over whom he has hitherto triumphed—a “very present Help in trouble”—potent to save. That all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God. The glory of God is the end of creation; and God’s true saints always bear the fact in mind, and desire nothing so much as that his glory should be shown forth everywhere and always. Moses, in his prayers for rebellious Israel in the wilderness, constantly urges upon God that it will not be for his glory to destroy or desert them (Exod. 32:12; Numb. 14:13–16; Deut. 9:26–29). David, in his great strait, asks the destruction of his enemies, “that men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth” (Ps. 83:18); and again (Ps. 59:13), “Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be; and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.” Hezekiah prays for a signal vengeance on Sennacherib, not for his own sake, not even for his people’s sake, so much as for the vindication of God’s honour among the nations of the earth—that it may be known far and wide that Jehovah is a God who can help, the real Ruler of the world, against whom earthly kings and earthly might avail nothing. Even thou only. It would not satisfy Hezekiah that Jehovah should be acknowledged as a mighty god, one of many. He asks for such a demonstration as shall convince men that he is unique, that he stands alone, that he is the only mighty God in all the earth.³

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¹  Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., Whitehead, M. M., Grigoni, M. R., & Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (2 Ki 19:19). Lexham Press.

²  Wiseman, D. J. (1993). 1 and 2 Kings: an introduction and commentary (Vol. 9, p. 300). InterVarsity Press.

³  Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed. (1909). 2 Kings (pp. 385–386). Funk & Wagnalls Company.

October 28 – Meet Baruch’s Brother! | VCY

October 28 – Meet Baruch’s Brother!

TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
  Jeremiah 51:54-52:34
  Titus 3:1-15
  Psalm 100:1-5
  Proverbs 26:18-19

Jeremiah 51:58 — From Ancient History Encyclopedia:

Nebuchadnezzar II (634-562 BCE) built three walls around Babylon at heights of forty feet and so broad at the top that chariots could race around them. The Ishtar Gate in the wall of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Babylon was claimed by some to be greater than any of the listed Wonders of the Ancient World.

Jeremiah 51:59 — Seraiah is the son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah. Who else is a son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah? Baruch! Yes, Baruch’s brother is the “quiet prince” (KJV). Commentaries suggest alternatives but the best guess is that he was an “advance man” for the king. Jeremiah was not without connections, and this helps understand Baruch’s concern (Jeremiah 45:5). Baruch was a man of influence, and he had been identified with the apparently treasonous Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 52:30 — So 4,600 people were taken away in three different captivities. The number is not excessively large, but this was the ruling class, the political elite, the “1-percenters” of Judaea.

Jeremiah 52:34 — This chapter provides a recap of the historical events, and this particular recap is also documented in II Kings 25:27-30. It is also recorded in the “Jehoiachin Ration Tablet.”

Titus 3:1-2 — Paul continues with his exhortations on relationships; he now addresses our relationship with authority.

Titus 3:4 — Paul identifies Jesus, our Savior, as God.

Titus 3:7 — Paul never got over what the kindness, love, mercy, and grace of Jesus did to him. The chief of sinners (1 Timothy 1:15), less than the least of all saints (Ephesians 3:8), is made an heir of God!

Titus 3:14 — Paul wanted Titus to be fruitful. How can we be fruitful? Through good works. Be careful to maintain good works (Titus 3:8).

Psalm 100:1 — Sing with Patch the Pirate this psalm!

Proverbs 26:19 — The one who attacks others and claims “just joking” is not to be trusted.

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Absolute Assurance | VCY

Absolute Assurance

He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.Hebrews 13:5

Several times in the Scriptures the Lord hath said this. He has often repeated it to make our assurance doubly sure. Let us never harbor a doubt about it. In itself the promise is specially emphatic. In the Greek it has five negatives, each one definitely shutting out the possibility of the Lord’s ever leaving one of His people so that he can justly feel forsaken of his God. This priceless Scripture does not promise us exemption from trouble, but it does secure us against desertion. We may be called to traverse strange ways, but we shall always have our Lord’s company, assistance, and provision. We need not covet money, for we shall always have our God, and God is better than gold; His favor is better than fortune.

We ought surely to be content with such things as we have, for he who has God has more than all the world besides. What can we have beyond the Infinite? What more can we desire than almighty Goodness.

Come, my heart; if God says He will never leave thee nor forsake thee, be thou much in prayer for grace that thou mayest never leave thy Lord, nor even for a moment forsake His ways.

Victor Davis Hanson claims Dems are abandoning Kamala’s sinking ship | WND

President Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024

Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson claimed Friday on his podcast that Democratic lawmakers are now “campaigning” as supporters of former President Donald Trump due to fears that Vice President Kamala Harris may lose this November.

Recent ads from several Democratic Senate candidates appear to praise Trump as their campaigns near an end. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” the senior fellow noted that recent polls now favor Trump, adding that the uptick in support for the former president is beginning to “worry” Democrats down-ballot.

“What’s worrying them now — cause why is [Bob] Casey, for example, or why is Tammy Baldwin or why are any of these Senate [candidates] … campaigning as if they’re Trump supporters? They all voted to impeach him to convict him in the impeachment trial of 2021. They hate him,” Hanson said.

“So it tells me that they don’t have confidence that she’s going to win and why is she doing the interviews when she wouldn’t get close to them? It tells me her internal polls suggest she’s not going to win. And why suddenly is it no longer ‘Trump’s weird,’ ‘Vance is weird’? Now it’s, ‘Unfit dictator — fascist.’ It’s really personal and it’s starting to, as I said before, it’s starting to have the beginning of a 1980 Jimmy Carter sure win mid-October to collapse,” Hanson continued. “That’s what they’re worried about.”

LISTEN:

 

Democratic lawmakers like Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin launched new political ads in October promoting Trump-era policies, such as increasing the use of American materials in domestic infrastructure projects, supporting fracking and opposing EV mandates.

Since September, Democrats appear to have become increasingly concerned about Harris slipping in the polls, with pundits warning that she is continuing to lose ground among the party’s key voting blocs, particularly Hispanic and black men.

Last week, RealClear Polling averages showed the former president leading in several battleground states. Additionally, the most recent Wall Street Journal poll indicates Trump now leads Harris by two points, with 47% to her 45%.

Source: Victor Davis Hanson claims Dems are abandoning Kamala’s sinking ship

Why Are So Many Christian Musicians (Like Casting Crowns) Performing At This Roman Catholic Music Festival? | Protestia

Why Are So Many Christian Musicians (Like Casting Crowns) Performing At This Roman Catholic Music Festival?

The Fest is an “Annual one-day event that brings people together from all regions to enjoy an inspiring day of faith, family & fun!” Designed to “Inspire and energize teens, young adults, and families in the Northeast Ohio region, the event features concerts, activities for children, food trucks, and fellowship, attracting tens of thousands of people each year.

The bands are one of the largest draws, and over the years, some of the biggest acts in Christian music have performed there, including Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, Jeremy Camp, Jars of Clay (ie Jars of Gay) , Casting Crowns, Big Daddy Weave, Switchfoot, Skillet, Third Day, for King & Country, Mercy Me, Matt Maher, Crowder, Toby Mac, Phil Wickham, We the Kingdom, and Chris Tomlin.  

The upcoming 2025 fest will be headlined by Casting Crowns, which will mark their fifth appearance.

Of special note is that Casting Crown’s lead vocalist, Mark Hall, is a youth pastor at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church, which is affiliated with the SBC and where he can be seen leading worship. Some other members of the group are reportedly attending this church and ministering there as well.

All in all, The Fest sounds like a good time of faith and fellowship, until you realize who is running the event, and why.

The Fest was founded by Father Bob Stec in 2000, who at the time was the Vocations Director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, which is still a major sponsor.

Initially called “Home from Rome,” Stec created the event to “Welcome the diocesan contingent home from their trip to Rome for World Youth Day,” but eventually changed its name to The Fest.

The event takes place on the grounds of The Center For Pastoral Leadership, which is home to Saint Mary Seminary & Graduate School of Theology, and Borromeo Seminary, two seminaries that raise and train Roman Catholic priests.

While the Christian bands, petting zoos, and face painting make it seem like it’s a denominationally neutral event, all the faith-based programming makes it clear that it’s an outreach for Roman Catholic people, places, events, and institutions designed to draw folk to them, raise awareness of the church and seminary, encourage folks to engage in papist-specific theological practices, convert the unconverted and entrench the faith of the doubting.

This is why there is also place called The Education Village, which is area “Specifically dedicated to promoting Catholic education to the tens of thousands of youth and young families that attend The FEST.”

Some of the faith-based events include Eucharistic adoration, where attendees can “spend a few minutes praying in the presence of Jesus,” a giveaway to children of the brown scapular, which “features an image of the Eucharist and the words Our Lady spoke to St. Simon Stock when she blessed his order with the brown scapular devotion” and explains that anyone who dies wearing it will not go to hell.

There is a time of confession, tours of the seminary, a familial blessing from a deacon, a large outdoor mass before the fireworks show, a prayer tent, a rosary tent, and a place for children to stop playing for five minutes and come and pray.

And Casting Crowns, with their Southern Baptist frontman, along with all those other professing Christian musicians either went or are just going along with this promotion of the false religion and false gospel of the Roman Catholic church like there’s not a problem in the world.

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PURE BRILLIANCE: Megyn Kelly Completely Demolishes Bill Maher When He Calls Trump a Fascist and Repeatedly Compares Him to Adolf Hitler (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

PURE BRILLIANCE: Megyn Kelly Completely Demolishes Bill Maher When He Calls Trump a Fascist and Repeatedly Compares Him to Adolf Hitler (VIDEO)

Megyn Kelly wipes the floor with Bill Maher on his own show when he compares Trump to Hitler. (Credit: Real Time With Bill Maher screenshot)

Perhaps no person in America has been red-pilled as much as Megyn Kelly on President Trump, as she has become one of his most effective advocates over the past few years. This was noticeable last night on liberal comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show.

Maher decided to invite Kelly to discuss the 2024 presidential election, but things quickly turned ugly when the HBO host called Trump a fascist, citing turncoat former Trump officials trying to sabotage his presidential campaign.

As one would expect, Kelly brilliantly responded to his nonsense by laying out some hard historical facts, which caused Maher to briefly switch the subject to the economy. But Kelly was once again ready, forcing Maher to admit defeat.

WATCH:

https://twitter.com/DogRightGirl/status/1850010656319168607

MAHER: I’m not saying you don’t have a point. I’m just saying it’s hard for people to understand why that, which is not democracy, that’s the border issue, and you’re right, they f**ked it up. Back to all the things that he’s been saying, and all the people in his administration who’ve said he’s a fascist, he wants to be fascist, his friends are all dictators.

KELLY: I don’t care about that at all. Not at all.

MAHER: Because?

KELLY: January 6th was not good.

MAHER: Wait, why don’t you care about that at all?

KELLY: Because they’ve been saying that about Trump for years, they’ve been saying that about Republican candidates for years. It has a long, storied history. If you are at all center or center-right, you are used to having your candidate of choice completely demonized, whether it’s the f-word, the r-word, the misogynist word.

They tried to tell us Mitt Romney was a raging sexist because of binders full of women. They tried to tell us John McCain was a raging racist, notwithstanding the fact that he adopted a daughter from Bangladesh. They’ve been doing this for every Republican, and they get to Trump, and we are no longer listening to them.

Trump has incendiary rhetoric, there’s no question, but we have four years to judge him by, and the country was going pretty well, unlike the four we’ve had with these two.

MAHER: Well, I mean, I could argue with that, too. If Trump had this economy, and I could go through all the stats, the stock market is through the roof, wages are up.

KELLY: Not as high as it was under Trump.

MAHER: Well, first of all, Trump inherited somebody else’s economy.

KELLY: That’s what Barack Obama would like us to think.

MAHER: Well, it’s true. Really, on day one, everything changed?

KELLY: So, walk me through it. So Trump has Obama to thank for his economy, but Biden can’t thank Trump for anything?

MAHER: Okay, let’s get off this…

Maher then went back to calling Trump a fascist, not only comparing to autocratic leaders in Russia and China but also Hitler. Kelly quickly flipped the tables on him by aptly pointing out that there was Middle East peace during Trump’s time in office.

She then correctly noted that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were the ones acting like fascists, citing their efforts to target Trump and ignore Supreme Court rulings.

After hearing this, a defeated Maher ended the interview.

https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1850012095909330990

MAHER: These are the dictator countries. There’s a very World War II feeling here when the dictators were getting together. I mean, in World War II, what did Hitler and the Japanese have in common? Nothing except they saw the world one way: Fascism.

They all had to do it in their own way. Iran is a fascist country. So is China, so is Russia, Saudi Arabia you could say also. Somehow, the world seems to be dividing between the good guy countries, the democratic countries, and these autocracies, and if your guy gets in, we are going to be on the wrong side of this one.

KELLY: Ok. If my guy gets in, I think we will go back to the time when he was president, which is the only time we did not start a war…Putin did not invade Ukraine until Biden took over.

We had the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which projected weakness throughout the world. People understood we were feeble; weakness is provocative.

Trump destabilized these people; they didn’t know what to expect from him…

MAHER: It’s what he might do to us that I’m more worried about.

KELLY: We had four years of Trump. Trump did not go after his political enemies with the DOJ. That was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

MAHER: Well, we had Hitler in the 30s and things were okay, and then we had Hitler in the 40s, and they got way worse. Just because we had him…

KELLY: Oh, I see; he hid his Hitlerism the first four years and is going to come out in full force the second four years.

MAHER: Well, he tried to do things like that. He tried to do dictatorial fascist things, and he was stopped.

KELLY: Joe Biden has flouted the law when it comes to these student loan giveaway programs.

MAHER: Really, you’re talking about…

KELLY: He’s flouted the law, Supreme Court opinions that openly told him he didn’t have the right to do it, and he openly said, “I will get around the Supreme Court.” He did it with respect to rent abatement programs, the same exact thing, and then he and Kamala Harris unleashed this Department of Justice against their political enemy, Donald Trump, their number one chief rival for the presidency. Is it funny? Because they did it. You want to talk fascism? That’s fascist.

MAHER: I don’t think history is going to be kind to your point of view, but I appreciate you coming on again.

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LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in State College, PA – 10/26/24

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks at a rally in State College, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, October 26, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. EDT. Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 1:00 p.m. ET.

Source: LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in State College, PA – 10/26/24

Trump reveals his biggest mistake | RT – Daily news by RT

The former US president has said that he picked some “bad or disloyal” people for his White House administration

Former US president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has told podcaster Joe Rogan that his “biggest mistake” was making a number of wrong personnel decisions in his time at the White House between 2017 and 2021.

During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Saturday, Trump insisted that he had a “great presidency” but pointed out that it could have been even better if he had surrounded himself with different people.

“The biggest mistake I made, was I picked… a few people that I should not have picked,” he said.

When asked by Rogan if he was talking about the neocons (neoconservatives), the former president said: “Yes, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people.”

“You are reading about them a little bit today. A guy like Kelly, who is a bully, but a weak person,” he said.

Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recently gave several interviews in which he claimed that, during his time in office, his 78-year-old commander-in-chief had praised Hitler in private and said “more than once” that the infamous leader of Nazi Germany “did some good things.” The accusations prompted Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to brand her Republican rival a “fascist” and a would-be dictator. Trump’s team has rejected Kelly’s claim.

His other questionable choice, Trump recalled on the podcast, was appointing arch-hawk John Bolton as his National Security Advisor, Trump acknowledged. “Bolton was an idiot, but he was great for me,” he said.

“He is a nutjob, and every time I had to deal with a country – when they saw this whack job standing behind me – they said: ‘Oh man, Trump is going to go to war with him,” the former president said.

Bolton “was with [US president George HW] Bush when they went stupidly into the Middle East [in 1990]. They should have never done it. I used to say it as a civilian,” he added.

Trump fired Bolton in September 2019 after 18 months in the job, saying that he “disagreed strongly with many of [the adviser’s] suggestions.”

Speaking about claims by former chief of staff Kelly with CNN earlier this week, Bolton warned that a Trump victory in next month’s election would be “dangerous” for America.

However, he rejected accusations of the former president being a “fascist.” According to the hawk, in order to be one “you have to have a philosophy. Trump’s not capable of that.”

Source: Trump reveals his biggest mistake

Trump names threat to US greater than North Korea | RT – Daily news by RT

The Republican candidate has branded his Democratic opponents an “enemy from within” and claimed they want to undermine the US

U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump. ©  Brandon Bell/Getty Images

“Really bad people” within the Democratic party pose a greater threat to the US than foreign adversaries, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has claimed.

With the November 5 vote fast approaching, the GOP firebrand and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, have of late been indulging in increasingly virulent personal attacks on one another.

Meanwhile, a Wall Street Journal poll indicated on Wednesday that Trump was two percentage points ahead of Harris, with the Republican’s lead within the survey’s margin of error, though. The latest polls by CNN and the New York Times also showed the two contenders running neck and neck.

Appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Friday, the former president recounted that “we had no problem with” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The Republican hopeful went on to claim that “we have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within.”

“We have people that are really bad people, that I really think want to make this country unsuccessful,” he went on to allege.

Trump has previously used the term with respect to his Democratic opponents.

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One in four Americans fears post-election civil war – poll

During an interview on Fox News’ MediaBuzz show last Sunday, the former president characterized Democratic Representative Adam Schiff and former speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi as “an enemy from within.”

Speaking during a CNN town hall on Wednesday, Harris replied in the affirmative when asked whether she believed Trump was a fascist. She went on to warn that if elected, the Republican hopeful would become a “president who admires dictators and is a fascist.”

She cited a recent report by magazine The Atlantic, which is owned by Democrat mega-donor Laurene Powell Jobs. The article in question quoted Trump’s second chief of staff, General John Kelly, as suggesting that his former boss had expressed admiration for the leader of Nazi Germany.

Responding to Harris’ attack in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, the former head of state charged that “Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly… so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind.”

The GOP nominee called his rival a “Threat to Democracy, and not fit to be President of the United States.”

As for the claims published by The Atlantic, the Trump team has dismissed them as “fabricated.”

Source: Trump names threat to US greater than North Korea

Trump: CBS Editing Harris’ Answers Is ‘Biggest Scandal In Broadcast History’

‘I think it’s the biggest scandal in broadcast history, what happened at CBS,’ Trump told Rogan. ‘This is election interference.’

Source: Trump: CBS Editing Harris’ Answers Is ‘Biggest Scandal In Broadcast History’

Kamala Booed After Beyoncé Bait-N-Switch | ZeroHedge

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

 

The Kamala Harris rally in Houston last night was billed as a Beyoncé concert. Everyone, including the media, believed the singer would perform after the announcement was made earlier in the week, but all she did was walk out and make a barely audible speech for a few minutes. Then the rally descended into complete chaos.

This is the extent of her appearance:

Beyoncé showed her support for Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally focused on abortion rights in Houston on Friday. https://t.co/0AX0WPM4as pic.twitter.com/BnNMlJLcB8

— ABC News (@ABC) October 26, 2024

Firstly, you can’t hear a word she’s saying.

What’s so difficult about taking a direct feed from the microphones? It seems some outlets got the feed but others didn’t. What a mess.

Secondly, 30,000 people showed up and waited in line because they believed it was a Beyoncé concert.

People were heckling Kamala like crazy all night…the secret service was stressed out pic.twitter.com/Dvk9zv960o

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) October 26, 2024

A million people tried to get tickets because they thought it was a Beyoncé concert.

More than 1 million have signed up for Kamala Harris’s Houston rally. What to know https://t.co/r5cwv3LfTM

— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) October 25, 2024

So when it wasn’t, people were pissed.

People were heckling Kamala like crazy all night…the secret service was stressed out pic.twitter.com/Dvk9zv960o

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) October 26, 2024

They were promised a Beyoncé concert. They got two minutes to hear her speak. Imagine their disappointment. pic.twitter.com/8AFYllP5Eq

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 26, 2024

The rally then descended into absolute chaos as some people left, while others kicked up a fuss about Beyonce not singing.

The media spun this as Trump supporters ‘protesting’, and Harris repeated a line about showing them the way to the “smaller rally down the road,” referring to Trump’s event.

JUST IN: Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston, Texas descends into chaos as she fails to control the rally attendees.

Boos and yelling were heard at the rally as Harris failed to calm down the rowdy crowd.

It’s unclear at the moment what exactly is going on. pic.twitter.com/9RIg7QIkf5

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 26, 2024

But the fact is, they weren’t Trump supporters, they were just pissed off that they’d been misled.

People were heckling Kamala like crazy all night…the secret service was stressed out pic.twitter.com/Dvk9zv960o

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) October 26, 2024

My friend went to the Kamala Harris rally with Beyoncé and as soon she Beyonce left people started walking out

Via Amir Odom on IG pic.twitter.com/DdzLZbG1KV

— Linda Catalina (@wakeupwithlinda) October 26, 2024

Perhaps the most hilarious aspect of this was that the performance they actually got was 91 year old Willie Nelson.

They came for Beyoncé and this is what Harris gave them 🤣https://t.co/iVzu0NlNLs

— WestCoast_Life (@westcoast_lyfe) October 26, 2024

When you think you’re going to a Beyoncé concert but end up at a country music festival with Willie Nelson pic.twitter.com/o62PsNFKQu

— A🪓E (@RealDealAxelrod) October 26, 2024

They haven’t learned their lesson from last time either.

Fans of pop star Beyoncé are annoyed that a rumour was spread early in the day that she would be a surprise guest at the finale of the DNC, with some fans accusing the Democrats of being “f***ing liars.” https://t.co/57bqvylPF1

— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) August 23, 2024

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Source: Kamala Booed After Beyoncé Bait-N-Switch

Iran issues veiled threats following Israeli strikes that left 2 soldiers dead — as Hezbollah fires rockets at IDF in Lebanon

Tehran’s hardline response came just hours after Israel launched a retaliatory strike against Iran.

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Trump Explains How 2020 Was ‘Rigged, Robbed, And Stolen’ On Joe Rogan Podcast

“Everybody always cuts you off, but I’m going to allow you to talk,” Rogan said, inviting Trump to discuss the 2020 election.

Source: Trump Explains How 2020 Was ‘Rigged, Robbed, And Stolen’ On Joe Rogan Podcast

Bill Maher praises Trump’s ‘brilliant’ McDonald’s visit, calls Harris snubbing Joe Rogan a ‘mistake’ | FOX News

“Real Time” host Bill Maher gave credit to former President Trump over his “brilliant” McDonald’s campaign stop and called out Vice President Kamala Harris for snubbing podcast giant Joe Rogan.

During Friday’s “Overtime” online segment, Maher read an audience question asking the panel what they thought of Trump appearing on Rogan’s program and whether it’s a “mistake” for Harris not to appear on it.

“Yeah, I think it is a mistake,” Maher answered. “It’s a mistake she didn’t do this show.”

“Did you invite her?” Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis asked.

“Of course!” Maher replied, adding “We would’ve rebooked you for her, I hate to say.”

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Polis went on to say he hoped Harris would ultimately appear on the popular “The Joe Rogan Experience” as she campaigns in Texas, insisting “the more people see of Kamala Harris, the more they like her” and that “she needs to get out there.”

Trump sat down for a whopping three-hour interview with Joe Rogan, which was released online Friday night. After it was initially reported that there were discussions between the Harris campaign and Rogan’s team to do an interview, a spokesperson for her campaign said she would not appear on the podcast due to “scheduling.”

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The HBO host then read off the next question, which asked the panel for its reaction to Trump’s stint as a fry cook at McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.

“I think it’s brilliant,” CNN contributor Van Jones responded.

“Yes!” Maher agreed.

“I think when you have somebody who is a world-famous superstar, who’s a billionaire, etc, etc, and they do something you don’t expect, it’s brilliant media,” Jones continued. “And I think we got to acknowledge that this guy is beating the pants off of us with these so-called publicity stunts. It gets into everybody’s feeds. And people who are not looking at politics will look at that. I think we just have to have more fun ourselves.”

“We were having a great time during the Democratic Convention. If we have more fun, if the Democratic Party is a party of fun, people will join it. We should be doing crazy stuff, too,” Jones added.

“One more thing… Don’t immediately just go to ‘I hate him’ for that,” Maher said. “But everybody I know here in Hollywood does that. And it’s like, first of all, you look weak. You look weak. You look like you’re so easily gotten. You know you look like you overreact to anything.”

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The HBO host went on to share his theory that he thinks politics stems from “personality.”

“You’re personality first. I know people who are conservative politically because I know them. That’s just who they are. They’re squares,” Maher told his liberal guests. “And there are people who just like- they think Trump is fun like that. I don’t get it, but I don’t get Taylor Swift!”

“I bet you would’ve bumped me for Taylor Swift too,” Polis quipped.

“Oh, in a New York minute!” Maher jokingly agreed.

Source: Bill Maher praises Trump’s ‘brilliant’ McDonald’s visit, calls Harris snubbing Joe Rogan a ‘mistake’

POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE! Storied Leftist News Magazine ‘The Nation’ Withdraws Endorsement of Kamala Harris: “Kamala Harris Does Not Deserve The Nation’s Endorsement” | The Gateway Pundit

“Kamala Harris Does Not Deserve The Nation’s Endorsement”: Interns at Storied Leftist News Magazine ‘The Nation’ Reject Editorial Board’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris, Calling It ‘Unearned and Disappointing’

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Kamala Harris, long considered a “rising star” among the far-left, has been abruptly stripped of an endorsement by The Nation, the storied leftist news outlet with deep historical ties to progressive causes.

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. It was founded on July 6, 1865, making it one of the longest-running publications in American history.

On September 23, The Nation endorsed Kamala, hailing her as a “visionary” leader with an admirable domestic agenda. But the endorsement’s optimistic tone quickly turned sour.

The leftist publication wrote at the time:

We also endorse Harris in her own right, as an experienced and capable leader with a vision for America’s future that—while not as progressive as we might prefer, particularly when it comes to foreign policy—represents a clear advance on the Democratic presidential nominees of the past half-century.

In her selection of a progressive governor, Minnesota’s Tim Walz, Harris also demonstrates an awareness of the need not merely to build on the many successes of the Biden-Harris administration but to go farther in the pursuit of economic, social, and racial justice—and the preservation of our planet.

Just weeks later, discontented editorial interns —yes, interns—at the magazine published an open letter in a blistering article.

“The Biden administration’s action, and inaction, in Gaza—and her support for those policies—should have been enough to disqualify her,” according to the website.

The Nation interns have penned a searing critique of Kamala, accusing her of complicity in policies that they claim “promote genocide.”

They slam her domestic agenda as hypocritical, insisting her talk of healthcare and housing rings hollow as crises escalate abroad.

Kamala’s so-called “sunny domestic proposals,” they say, are smoke and mirrors, ignoring the international devastation they believe her policies support.

The Nation reported:

We, The Nation’s current interns, find this endorsement unearned and disappointing. We have a different interpretation of the magazine’s abolitionist legacy, one that says a publication committed to justice must refrain from endorsing a person signing off on genocide.

We do not support Donald Trump, but to champion Harris at this moment is to ignore the atrocities that are being carried out with weapons supplied by the Biden-Harris administration.

The Nation’s endorsement notes that on foreign policy the “positive case [for Harris] is harder to make,” adding that “she has failed so far to offer anything more substantive to the millions of Americans…desperate for an end to America’s unconditional support for Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.” Yet it goes on to endorse her anyway—implying that domestic concerns are somehow more important. We disagree. On the grounds of Gaza alone, Harris should not have received The Nation’s endorsement.

In the 12 weeks since she effectively became the Democratic nominee, Harris has failed to differentiate her policies from Joe Biden’s blank-check support for genocide. Instead, she repeats the same bland pronouncements about the need for a ceasefire and uses the same passive-voice support for the idea of Palestinian “freedom and self-determination.”

Again and again, she has been asked by Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim voters, along with a broad coalition of Democrats of conscience, to offer an alternative, and again and again she has refused. She would not even allow a pre-vetted Palestinian supporter of hers to speak at theDemocratic National Convention.

We also struggle with the idea that Harris’s domestic agenda can offset the suffering her policies will inflict abroad. As we map even her sunniest domestic proposals against the contours of her foreign-policy program, we remember James Baldwin, a Nation Editorial Board member, who said, “Every bombed village is my hometown.”

The Nation’s retraction adds to a growing list of leftist publications expressing dissatisfaction with Kamala.

Earlier, outlets like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times declined to endorse her candidacy.

The backlash is real, and with polls slipping, Kamala’s path to the White House might just be hitting the ultimate detour.

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Russell Brand Says People in Hollywood ‘Terrified of Being Exposed’ for Their Sins

Comedian and cultural commentator Russell Brand — a recent convert to Christianity — said in a newly posted video that many in Hollywood are “terrified of being exposed” for their sins.

Source: Russell Brand Says People in Hollywood ‘Terrified of Being Exposed’ for Their Sins

North Korean Troops: Alarming Ukraine War Escalation

“It’s going to lead–if we are not careful to World War Three.” National security analyst Brandon Weichert, author of, “A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine” explains how the proxy war could easily spin out of control and how a settlement accepted by both sides to end the war was rejected by Western powers in mid-2022, four months after the war had started.

Source: North Korean Troops: Alarming Ukraine War Escalation

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