Are Trump and Musk a Threat That "All Christians" Should Oppose?

A friend of mine keeps posting these almost hysterical posts claiming that President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to create an authoritarian dictatorship. A true Christians, he and his progressive Christian friends say, should oppose Trump's efforts to clean up the government. It's an evil trick, he says. It continually amazes me that so many "Christians" are so opposed to the dismantling of the corrupt progressive deep state; a state that has robbed taxpayers to pay for its insidious power grab. They accuse those dismantling the machinery of power of trying to create some kind of autocracy. And further confusing me, they actually believe that giving power to a pro-socialist government that is so in the pocket of the real corporate wealthy "oligarchs" is a Christian thing to do. Instead, they accuse the tiny handful of wealthy people who are actually trying to defang the oligarchy of wanting to be dictators.

If you want to be a dictator the first thing you do is enlarge the government, make it more powerful, limit criticism of what you are doing by curbing free speech, and bleed off as much money as possible from the rabble so they are so poor that you can control them easily. And you keep promising them a worker's paradise and try to convince them you will give them positions of authority in the new world order. And among Christian religions, it's no accident that the head of the church that wants us all to come back under the "mother" church's authority is a socialist pope.

Of the 40 richest men in the world who could be called oligarchs only 4 that I know of could even remotely be called conservatives. It's not accidental that so few truly wealthy men are in favor of a smaller, less powerful, less intrusive government and more freedom. All four are thoroughly despised by the progressive left. 

And why in the name of all that's holy do "Christians" believe that progressive socialism and more powerful government will give us the man-made Utopia they promise us. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" and a large majority of us sinners have no interest in letting God make us better human beings. It's all about power and control in the end. That's what Satan said was wrong with the way God made Earth. All that free will, he argued, needed to be controlled. They needed a ruler....oh, I don't know. Someone like SATAN? Inevitably, kingdoms, empires or People's Democratic Socialist Republics are neither democratic, nor of the people, nor are they republics.They're almost never free.

Notice who sets up the loudest howl when you threaten to throw light on the corruption of any system of government. Who threatens real violence (hint - read the comments of Democrats and progressives objecting to DOGE)? Why do you think they tried to assassinate Trump two or three times already? Especially when they couldn't find a way to put him in jail. Kick over a rat's nest and watch the rats squeal and scatter. How is any of what's been revealed by Musk and Trump's teams in any way Christian? A couple of million dollars worth of condoms for Somalia or Yemen - someplace like that. . An LGBQT opera for Cuba? More millions for transgender surgery in Guatemala?.Anti-disinformation training millions for Kazakhstan to aid its authoritarian government in controlling what is said about it. How about more millions for DEI training in Middle Eastern countries? And tens of millions to terrorist supporting organizations around the world.

Meanwhile American disaster victims are left high and dry, relying on the goodness of their Christian neighbors to survive while FEMA doles out a pittance and claims to be helping. Really? We Christians should be supporting all that corruption because you say we should hate Donald Trump and Elon Musk? I far more trust those guys. They are wealthy and immune to bribes and manipulation. So, you say, we should support what - rich progressive oligarchs like George Soros and the majority of corporate CEOs who wear the progressive badge? Guys who buy corrupt district attorneys who protect them from the consequences of their actions and punish anyone who opposes them are to be our heroes? That's what you're telling me? Robber Barons who wage lawfare against elected officials. Justice Department lawyers they keep on their under the table payrolls to do their dirty work for them. Wealthy donors who buy huge tax breaks for themselves by pouring money into the coffers of pliant politicians? These are who we should trust and follow?

I remember that Jesus once turned over some tables when He found corruption in the Temple. He scattered the corrupt moneychangers with a whip! Can you say USAID? I suppose not, if you're a unrepentant Marxist progressive.

I'm not under any delusion that we'll ultimately win this fight. The Bible does not describe any such period of lasting peace at the world's end. On the contrary, we are promised that they shall cry peace peace and then sudden destruction comes upon them. "Progressives" will ultimately win their shot at Utopia and I suspect anyone who stands against them at that time will be the first (but not the last) up against the wall.

God may be sending those angels for a time to hold back the winds of strife long enough for us to complete the Great Commission and preach the gospel to the ends of the Earth. But once that's done, the rebellious choirmaster will rise in apparent victory and turn loose the armies of hell against God's children. At that time Michael shall stand up, Jesus our Savior, and He will come in the clouds to take us and the righteous dead Home with Him. As we leave the wicked remnants of Earth will destroy themselves in a frenzy of fury leaving the planet desolate for a thousand years, until the resurrection of the wicked, the final judgment and the second death of those who would be miserable living in the presence of God. And then the Earth will be made new and Christ will give our beautiful world back to us and we will live forever in peace and abundant joy.

Should Christians then attack Elon and Donald because they are upsetting progressive plans to seize more power and to create a human Utopia by fiat?

I don't think so, Skippy. Been tried too many times and left too many hundreds of millions of dead behind. Someone is coming to save us and our reward is with Him.

© 2025 by Tom King

Somebody's AI Can't Imagine Jesus

But the same AI will imagine Molech to whom some 20,00 plus
children were sacrificed annually in what is now Palestine.

If you've tried the picture-making AI of a certain social media site, try this. Ask for a picture of Jesus or Christ and see what it says. "Can't do it!" Then ask for Buddha, Confucius, or Zeus or Aphrodite or "the Egyptian God Ra" or Baphomet the Goat God. To be fair they won't do Satan or Lucifer either, but try Baal or Molech or Dagon and the AI will give you all three of the pagan gods of that region of the world we now call Palestine. Ask it to imagine Quetzalcoatl blood-thirsty creator god of the Aztecs or Viracocha creator god of the Incas. They are all there if you want them.

You have to wonder what went into the algorithm that prevents the primary deity of the Christian church while allowing gods from dozens of pagan religions. They won't draw Mohammed either, but even an AI probably has enough self-preservation code written into it that it doesn't want to be blown up for drawing a picture.

And in an interesting facet of the algorithm, it won't do the god of socialism, Karl Marx for some reason. Guess it's not afraid of leftists either. Won't do Trump or Ronald Reagan either.

Hmmmm. I find the AI picture-making utility handy for illustrating my blogs, just so I don't want a picture of the guy who told the world to "treat others the way you want to be treated." Ironic that the religious figure who never burned children alive, gutted virgins or made them serve as temple prostitutes, cannot be imaged.

© 2024 by Tom King

How Long Will Bureaucrats Continue To Treat Native Americans Like Children on Their Own Lands

On his way out, Joltin' Joe Biden seems intent on blocking drilling for oil on tribal lands in Alaska, even though old treaties gave the natives the right to make such decisions about their own lands. That right lasted till someone struck oil. First white progressives stole the land and gave the first peoples what they didn't much want and then when that land became valuable, suddenly the white men of the DNC decided they needed to protect the primitives from themselves.

Absolute balderdash if you ask me.

Nagruk Harcharek, the president of Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat, an organization that represents the interests of numerous native communities , said, "What we’re hearing from the administration is that (they) are the most tribally-friendly administration in the history of the United States, right?” Harcharek disagrees. “At least from our perspective, that’s not our impression. There was a lack of engagement, meaningful engagement (with the Biden administration over the rights of the tribes to allow drilling on their ancestral lands.) Oftentimes, Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat, we heard of policy changes in the news and not from phone calls from folks, even though everybody has our number. We are part of the environment. We utilize it for subsistence hunting, for our culture, and it’s extremely important to us. We don’t need to be protected from our own environment,We can make decisions and help administrations make decisions that are both good for the region and also good for the environment and good for the state, good for the nation. And that just wasn’t the case."

 

As a person of native American ancestry this sounds to me like more of that paternalistic white man talk the Indians got in the 19th century when white men were talking treaties it seemed that at least some of them had no intention of honoring. The attitude was often "Got to take care of the Injuns because they aren't capable of caring for themselves. Great White Father in Washington my fuzzy muscular buttocks! It's just one more example of progressive white folk lying to the tribes.

Sheila and I have waay more native American ancestry than Pocahontas Warren sitting up there in DC on her high horse. My great++++++ grandfather, Nemacolin, was a scout for George Washington (who is my 7th cousin 8 times removed) and together they cut the Cumberland Trail. Sheila's Great +++++ Grandfather, War Chief Hopothle Mica Bowie traveled to New York to negotiate a peace treaty with the new United States President, George Washington. Papa George gave the Indians a much better deal than Biden even though noted Democrat President Andrew Jackson and others later reneged on the deals. Lincoln and Grant negotiated some fair deals with the tribes only to have later members of a certain party come along later and screw the Indians over. 

To this day Indians can't even get home mortgages for homes on the reservation because the Bureau of Indian Affairs won't allow it in case the bank were to foreclose. If the feds would let the tribes truly manage their own affairs they might have better economies that don't have to rely on casinos and cigarette and firework sales. In the past, Indian tribes in Oklahoma that were allowed to contract with oil companies to drill on their lands have been able to seriously improve conditions among their people.

Among the Sea Peoples the states and the feds do give our native brothers a break on fishing rights that commercial companies don't get up here in the Pacific Northwest. Even so, there are still too many politicians who suffer from the "Great White Father" syndrome.

If you want to support Native American rights, make Washington stick to the treaties, give control of the reservations to the tribes, and stop treating Native Americans like children. That's way more demeaning than anything done by conservative Christian Americans.

© 2024 by Tom King