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[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@bonchieredstate And President Teddy Roosevelt had a boxing ring IN the White House so he could train in boxing and martial arts.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Our American flag has flown over battlefields, hurricanes, terrorist attacks, floods, wildfires, and some of the hardest days this country has ever faced.

Through all of it, one lesson remains true: America's greatest strength has never been a building, a government agency, or a piece of equipment.

It's people.

The neighbors who check on each other. The volunteers who show up. The first responders who run toward danger. The communities that rebuild after disaster strikes.

It is choosing to be someone others can rely on when things go wrong.

And despite our disagreements, challenges, and imperfections, there is still much to be proud of. A nation built on the belief that people should be free. A nation that has repeatedly risen to meet extraordinary challenges. A nation whose strength is found not in its institutions alone, but in the character of its people.

That is worth remembering today.

Happy Flag Day!

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

The United States Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller:

“The reason why those Americans in North Carolina, those mothers, those fathers, those precious little children, were left to die begging their government for help that never came is because the Democrats turned FEMA into an illegal alien resettlement agency.”

Meaning:

The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left fathers to die in Maui.

The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left mothers to die in East Palestine, Ohio.

The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left children to die in North Carolina.

BUT FEMA had an extra $1 BILLION to spend on illegals, including Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, and voter registration.

And, as a bonus, they complain that Elon Musk is now a trillionaire.

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

MY REVIEW OF DISCLOSURE DAY -- A DIRECT ASSAULT ON CHRISTIANITY (AND SPIELBERG'S WORST MOVIE)

Because of how intentional I believe this film is in attempting to deconstruct Christianity, and because I want to warn people about not seeing it, this will be a very spoiler-filled review. You have been warned before proceeding further.

This review will be done in two acts: 1) the worldview of the film, 2) the quality of the film. Neither will be positive.

Disclosure Day's Worldview
This is a rather blatant attempt to evangelize into a new religion. In many respects, the transition Steven Spielberg makes from his 1970s classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to now Disclosure Day, is very similar to what you see from a lot of the prominent UFO/alien obsession proxies like Dr. Steven Greer. At first they start off in wonderment about what else is really out there in the cosmos and whether we're alone in the universe (or Close Encounters), but they always eventually end up at the aliens are really our saviors to show fallible human beings the way to salvation (or Disclosure Day).

If you only see people like Greer or Luis Elizondo on cable news networks, you'd think they're just scientifically inquisitive and want "the truth to be told." But if you watch their documentaries, as I have, it becomes increasingly obvious they are really selling a religion. Greer is basically just a wannabe prophet of the non-human intelligence phenomena as deliverers at this point, and Elizondo is on his way there by angrily dismissing the possibility this is all just a demonic spiritual deception (as he did in last year's The Age of Disclosure documentary).

Here are some examples of how this film head-on intends to deconstruct Christianity (in chronological scene order):
--The main character's love interest, who is now his admitted fornication partner, is a former nun. She specifically tells him early in the film she left the convent behind because "I lost my belief that God is divine." Hold on to that language later, because it's going to put everything else I point out next in its proper context.
--When the shadowy agency conducting the decades-long coverup attempts to use alien technology to subvert the former nun's consciousness and turn her into a traitor, she grabs her crucifix and tries to invoke its power to resist the alien tech -- to the point she essentially stigmatas herself. However, the crucifix is rendered powerless in the face of the superior alien technology and thus she is given over to it.
--The entire story is unfolding under the backdrop of pending nuclear war and planetary annihilation (between the US and Russia, of course, because apparently it's still 1985). In other words, we are in the end of days and lost as a species unable to save ourselves. We need a salvation we cannot acquire on our own.
--We learn the aliens specifically chose a male and a female to be the "vessels" at the vanguard of this next step of our evolution. Which the aliens are here to guide for us, of course. It is eventually revealed the male is given mathematic revelation (or logic) and the female empathy (or nurturing) -- with the female's gift depicted as superior in its intensity. Or a divine feminine.
--The climax of the disclosure broadcast occurs when the largest of the aliens is brought in by several humans in what is basically a gestatorial chair, which he emerges from to pronounce blessings upon the new Adam and Eve with a priestly whisper in his native tongue of clicks and tones (I guess Latin would've been too on the nose). The whisper is translated for all of humanity into the final line of the film: "Listen." Some might say sort of like, "Let those with ears to hear let them hear."
--Though the film makes it clear the climactic day of disclosure is being felt globally, the only religion wrestling with it is Christianity. At the convent we see several of the nuns desperately clinging to their Rosaries looking for guidance, while the Mother Superior lets out a wry smile in approval of the coming syncretism. No other religion is even depicted, let alone shown to have to grasp with the significance of all this. Why is that? All the potential answers to this question are bad. Though I'd love that to be the case, Christianity is not the only global religion on this planet. Furthermore, the only Christianity depicted in the movie is Catholicism.
--Now, back to the smiling Mother Superior at the end of the movie, and the former nun saying she lost her belief that God is divine in its opening act. The movie says this at the same time it makes it clear humanity needs saving, and the former nun also makes the case that even though she doesn't believe in God anymore the world needs that belief to maintain any form of order. Enter the aliens, who check all the boxes of what is required. They are sinless, while we are not. They have knowledge kept secret, that we do not. They are the only ones who can share such revelation with us, we can't acquire it ourselves. And by embracing this singular truth mankind can be saved, because we can't save ourselves.

If all that's not a religion, I don't know what is. If all that's not a direct attempt to redirect Christianity, I don't know what is. Marcion, Arius, and Pelagius were more subtle.

Quality of Disclosure Day Itself
Thankfully, this movie is also not very good. Had it been executed better, we might really be in trouble as a people here. It's the worst movie Spielberg has ever done.

The film doesn't really have a plot, but is just one long chase scene of not believable things. Like we are supposed to believe a nerd who admits he was never in the field before this, is now able to suddenly drive cars at high speed through houses and evade the world's most effective private security firm that has successfully protected this secret for over 75 years. We are supposed to believe if you hide behind rocks just five feet from that same organization's operatives they won't look for you there, or hear you running away in the woods as you step on branches. In another scene the "good guys" use the alien's invisibility technology to escape, but for whatever reasons turn on the sirens of the firetruck they're in so now "the bad guys" know they're there. Finally, we are supposed to believe that same shadowy organization ejects and just angrily gives up at the end without a fight to permit disclosure day to happen, even though they could've just pulled out their guns and shot everybody there before the cameras went live.

You make these kinds of continuity and believability errors when you're more about the message than the movie. I recognize it, because it's why Christian movies were so bad for so long. More concerned with checking ideological boxes and shoehorning in favored tropes over telling the best possible story. Spielberg made mistakes with this film he would've never made before as possibly the greatest director ever. And we see a lot of left-wing Hollywood making this mistake nowadays. The industry has lost patience with subverting us with good stories over time, and it's now just knocking on doors and putting their pitch right in your face like the evangelists they are.

Consider it a blessing that America's greatest director cast his pearls unto swine by shrouding all this deconstruction and deception within a hot mess of a film -- otherwise we might've had a real birth of a dangerous cult on our hands. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Saturday Preparedness Challenge

Set a timer for 10 minutes.

That's it.

Try to knock out a few of these tasks:
✓ Charge your power banks.
✓ Update your emergency contacts.
✓ Take photos of any new insurance cards or documents.
✓ Confirm your family's meeting location if phones fail.
✓ Check the batteries in your flashlight.
✓ Make sure your vehicle has at least half a tank of gas.
✓ Review your evacuation route and an alternate route.
✓ Identify one neighbor you could help and one neighbor who could help you.
✓ Save an out-of-state contact who can serve as a family check-in point during an emergency.
✓ Make a list to restock any medications, pet supplies, or other essentials you rely on regularly.

Ten minutes today can save you hours of stress later. Preparedness isn't built in a day. It's built in small decisions made before they become urgent. The goal is never perfection. The goal is being a little more ready tomorrow than you were yesterday. Easy peasy!

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@sarahadams Thank you! Excellent list and it is simple to accomplish.

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@JBook_37 @BelowAverageOPS I will NEVER forget Ginn returning the opening Kickoff or a TD vs UFA in the Natty. He was the differenc maker in that game. His injury was massive.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

We must stand firm on our red lines, this is one. You do not seat a member of Al-Qaeda in the U.S. Capitol.

The 4th plane on 9/11 was slotted for the Capitol and American heroes including one from this exact district in New Jersey saved your damn lives!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just DROPPED A BOMBSHELL, she's releasing evidence of US TAXPAYERS funding BIOLABS abroad — "more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine"

"Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens and Biolabs can have, politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S. funded and supported Biolabs."

"Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth."

These likely housed DANGEROUS PATHOGENS and were vulnerable to attacks

"These Biolabs include labs in places like Ukraine, which could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War."

"In fact, the intelligence community had previously warned that a U.S. funded Biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage."

"Now, until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from you, the American people. Many of these U.S. government-funded Biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, and in some cases included dangerous gain-of-function research with very little visibility or oversight."

@TulsiGabbard thank you! 🇺🇸

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

We Found the Mortar Team. Nobody Came for Them.

Later today on @The_Watch_Floor, Dave "Boon" Benton and I continue our Back to Benghazi series as we return to the CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya.

Before that episode is released, I want to remind the public of a fact that should outrage every American: Not one member of the 10-man mortar team that attacked the CIA Annex on September 12, 2012, murdering our brothers Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty, has ever been brought to justice.

Read that again.

Not one.

Not a single member of the mortar team has been captured, prosecuted, or held accountable.

What makes this even more remarkable is that these men are NOT unknown.

The mortar team belonged to the Ali Hassan al-Jaber Cell, operating inside the Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade, an organization that emerged from the 17 February Martyrs Brigade. The group's leader was Mohammed al-Gharabi, a senior al-Qaeda commander in Benghazi at the time of the attacks.

And where is al-Gharabi today?

Still free.

He was briefly detained last year, but as has become standard practice in Tripoli, al-Qaeda-linked figures objected, and he was released shortly thereafter.

The terrorists on the mortar team were:

• Adnan Hassan Ahmed al-Awjali
• Ahmed Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati
• Musab Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati
• Abdul Qader Abdullah Ali al-Balqasim
• Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati al-Barghathi
• Salem Mahmoud Abdel-Ati al-Barghathi
• Zakaria Ramadan Mahmoud al-Barghathi
• Fawzi Nassif Hassan al-Sharif
• Ali Abdullah Ramadan al-Sharkasi
• Imran Hamad al-Sheikh

Fourteen years later, Ty and Bub remain gone. The men accused of killing them remain free. Not because they were never identified. Not because the FBI was never provided their identities. But because nobody made bringing them to justice a priority.

Today's episode is not just about what happened at the Annex. It is about what did NOT happen afterward. Justice delayed is one thing. Every member of the mortar team remaining free is another. That is not delay. That is failure.

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@buccocapital You’re missing Sturgis from Lititz. They started in 1861. Original building. Great pretzels! 🥨

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@FOXSports @FOXSoccer Mexico. Meh. GO GO USA!!! 🇺🇸

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@FIFAcom @MLS @FIFAWorldCup Mexico. Meh. GO GO USA!🇺🇸 @USMNT

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@ChristIsComing5 @GodlyAction 1) You know ancient Palestine was Philistine. A pejorative by the Romans.
2) Modern “Palestine “ has ZERO to do with ancient Israel. There is NO evidence that the modern “Philistines” have ANY claim to Israel.

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@FOXSports @FOXSoccer They were NOT ready to play in Mexico City.

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@FIFAWorldCup South Africa was NOT prepared to play in Mexico City. 🟥🟥

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@pstroybrewer @OliveTreeMin Just need to add “Genesis 9:13-14”

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

Love this SO much!

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

The story in the Bible that rattled me before I converted to Christianity from Islam:

The two thieves crucified next to Jesus. I never knew about them. Bro. They’re the whole Gospel in one scene.

Two men. Same sin. Same cross. Same dying breath. Same distance from Jesus — mere feet away on either side.

One mocks Him. One turns to Him and says, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

And Jesus tells the second man: “Today you will be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43.

That man did ZERO good works. He couldn’t. His hands were nailed down. He never prayed five times. Never fasted. Never gave to the poor. Never got baptized. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance toward Jesus.

And Jesus saved him... on the spot.

In Islam, that man was doomed. No time to balance the scale. No deeds to weigh. Game over. A horrible life with a horrible punishment ahead.

I wonder if that would be me…

Yet in the Gospel, that man was in paradise the same day — because salvation was never about his works. It was about WHO he turned to in his last moment.

Two criminals. Same cross. One simple difference: which one turned to Jesus.

That’s why the Gospel is offensive.

And Jesus asks everyone: who do you say I am?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Another Islamist massacre targeting Christians has occurred in Ethiopia.

At least 50 were slaughtered.

Where is the outrage?

[Brother Eric @BrotherEric16]

@meccaofbanter Smart move. 😎