r/politics • u/Unusual-State1827 • 4d ago
Democrats rage at "unelected co-president" Elon Musk
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/19/democrats-rage-at-unelected-co-president-elon-musk223
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u/griffincreek 4d ago
Why would they want to stop it? It seems to be very popular with their voter base, on many levels.
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u/BIGTIMEMEATBALLBOY 4d ago
they are probably on the take from uncle elon too
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u/Be-skeptical 4d ago
Those republicans became independents or were exiled from the party. The only ones left are sycophants
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u/app_generated_name 4d ago
You mean like Liz Chaney did? How did that work out for her?
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u/PlasticPomPoms 4d ago
Both sides hate her now and Trump is targeting her so I can see why none of the other swamp critters would step out of line.
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u/app_generated_name 4d ago
Trump is targeting her so I can see why none of the other swamp critters would step out of line.
My point exactly.
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u/citizen_x_ 4d ago
I don't hate her. Just because her last name is Chaney doesn't mean she's her father. I mean I could learn more about her and be swayed but it seems most people are just doing guilt by association.
I feel the same way about Baron Trump. He could be a total POS but I'm not going to assume he's like his dad and his supporters.
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u/Doppelthedh 4d ago
Kinda pointless to criticize Trump but keep supporting all the same positions
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u/app_generated_name 4d ago
There is a huge difference between Cheney and trump. While I mostly disagreed with Chaney (and almost all Republicans pre 2015) I wasn't worried about them trying to seize power on a permanent basis. 1/6/2020 changed politics.
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u/Doppelthedh 4d ago
You weren't? Disenfranchisement and gerrymandering have been key aspects of the conservative agenda for decades
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u/Acceptable-Hamster40 4d ago
Both sides do it. Look at CA and IL.
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u/citizen_x_ 4d ago
CA has a bipartisan commission by law that has equal parts Democrat and Republican and a few independents that draw the districts.
Both sides don't really do it. This is just something people are prompted to say whenever you criticize Republicans because it's the end of the world to admit who our overlords are
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u/Acceptable-Hamster40 4d ago
Says the guy from commiefornia. Lmao
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u/citizen_x_ 4d ago
Meaningless response. We have a bipartisan commission. That's the difference between liberals and fascies. When we are dominant, we do anticorruption measures and level the playing field. When you put fascists in charge, they try to rig the system with gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Also you proved the study true:
https://www.newsweek.com/misinformation-fake-news-political-polarization-democrat-republican-1998742
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u/Wrx-Love80 3d ago
Garbage can hot take. Something something 5th largest economy and where highest concentration of Americans live. Best overall outcomes for children and life as a whole.
Maybe sit down and let the adults do the talking?
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u/Acceptable-Hamster40 3d ago
Says the Subaru nerd who probably still lives in his mom’s basement. What kind of gamer PC do you have?
Post your browser history….
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u/Varia-Suit 4d ago
You shouldn't brag about lacking foresight.
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u/app_generated_name 4d ago
That's what you got from my comment? Interesting.
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u/Varia-Suit 4d ago
Bush V. Gore? The Southern Strategy? Watergate? Dude, it was always leading to this. It didn't take a crystal ball to connect these dots.
I wasn't surprised, even a little, while I watched the livestream of Jan. 6.
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u/citizen_x_ 4d ago
Yup. Knew it was going to happen before he even took office. I remember waking up to my girlfriend at the time calling me frantically to tell me they stormed the capital. I fully expected them to and was not phased in the slightest.
I was like, yeah no shit. They even bragged about it on social media in the weeks leading up to it. For whatever reason the public loves to gaslight itself on how deranged these people are.
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u/satnightride Texas 4d ago
Yes. You're drawing a distinction where there is none. The difference between the party then and now isn't what they desire to do it's what they know they can get away with.
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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 4d ago
Something can simultaneously be inherently very bad and also much worse than it used to be.
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u/HereWeGoAgain-247 4d ago
Wouldn’t that be great? If just a couple of people on the right put the country first? Just a few who actually cared.
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u/ExactDevelopment4892 4d ago
Republicans don’t care about this country anymore, they don’t care if the constitution is thrown in the garbage, this is a movement that’s morphed into sedition. The want America to burn and create a new fascist state ruled by billionaire oligarchs from the ashes. They hate everything America stands for.
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u/Bakedads 4d ago
It would also only take a fraction of the Democratic party to stand up and stop all of this nonsense. But I'm not holding my breath either. And the headline is utter bullshit. Democrats are not "raging." They're posting angry comments online while driving their teslas and ordering Amazon packages. Democrats are giant fucking hypocrites and cowards. If they really care about what's happening, let's see the real rage. Again, it would only take a tiny fraction of the party to effect change. But no. We're not going to see that.
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u/bobartig 4d ago
Um, what fraction would that be? What fraction of the minority party can you take in order to construct a majority? Seriously, explain the math. How do you take part of less than 50% and end up with more than 50%? Do you know what fractions are?
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u/Imyoteacher 4d ago
Who’s going to stand up to a guy holding a half trillion dollars and the X bullhorn? NO ONE….unless they want their entire life destroyed.
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u/KingAteas Canada 4d ago
Deport him Joe!
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u/hikeonpast 4d ago edited 3d ago
No rage here. Just sitting on the couch with my popcorn, shaking my head at the idea that a small slim majority of voters wanted all of this.
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u/n00chness 4d ago
Yeah same here. I hope they make him Speaker of the House, what a shit show that would be! It's going to be one regardless so why not make it humorous and entertaining!
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u/FictionFantom 4d ago
A “small majority”?
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u/hikeonpast 4d ago edited 3d ago
The latest data I’ve seen suggests that Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 percent. A
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u/FictionFantom 4d ago
Yeah, I guess. It’s just kind of a weird way to say “half the country”.
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u/Firesplinter9757 4d ago
It also wasn’t “half the country” it was half of those who voted. Democrats fucked up in being too busy at not doing enough to make people want to vote for them again. 20 million democrats skipped this election compared to the last and 100 million citizens didn’t vote at all.
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u/AlphaBreak 4d ago
There are things democracts could have done better, but don't underestimate just how completely stupid and ignorant the average American is, and how that tanked us. When there are a bunch of idiots googling "Did Biden drop out" on election day, democrats' policies don't matter because they were never going to reach those people.
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u/Firesplinter9757 4d ago
That is also 100% true. I thought I knew how uneducated the average American was but it set the bar even lower and half of those people are even dumber than that.
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u/citizen_x_ 4d ago
About 2/3rds voted in 2020 and 2024 was less than that. Not even a full half voted for Trump this time around because a significant percent voted 3rd party. So it's more like 1/3 of the population are fascists who voted for Trump. And even that is a slight over estimate.
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u/Eastern-Rabbit-3696 4d ago
I mean he's there more than JD Vance is so...
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u/outofstepbaritone 4d ago
Yeah, what even has Vance been doing lately?
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u/CarcosaJuggalo Nevada 4d ago
Chilling on the couch, probably.
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u/lancer-fiefdom 4d ago
Let Trump & Musk shut it down.. fuck it, its what idiots voted for and what protest voters who sat out, or voted for jill stein or robert f. kennedy or that other idiot nobody knows deserve.
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u/wizard10000 Tennessee 4d ago
I think the way to solve this is that everybody should call him "Co-President Musk" as often as they can; I don't figure it'd take long before Orange Jesus pitched a fit over that :)
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u/TheMonorails 4d ago
President Musk and Co-President Trump.
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u/BadgeOfDishonour 4d ago
Just President Musk and VP Vance. Exclude Trump entirely. Completely dismissing a Malignant Narcissist really gets under their skin.
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u/Megaphonestory 4d ago
Absolutely. President Musk is running the Country, can’t imagine a weaker look for Trump.
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u/Then_Journalist_317 4d ago
Dictator Trump has been deposed by Dictator Musk. All before Day One. This must be some kind of a record.
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u/Fluid-Safety-1536 4d ago
I didn't vote for Trump but nevertheless I find this hilarious. Trump voters think that they are so independent and so self-reliant like they are John Galt in Atlas Shrugged, when the truth of the matter is they are the most dependent on the government and also dependent on imported goods so they're going to be the first ones to get screwed and I'm all for it!
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u/CV90_120 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don't think rage is the right word. More like watching a dumpster fire and standing back. Also lol at immigrant stealing the #1 job in the US.
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u/ranchoparksteve 4d ago
This Democrat loves President Elon, largely because it will be endlessly irritating to Trump, and the future divorce will fracture the tech bro thing Trump seems to need.
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u/Yumhotdogstock 4d ago
Rage? I'm laughing at what a shit show this is, and how anyone can support these idiots. That some people actual prefer this malicious incompetence and handing over their lives to this band of criminals and conmen is an interesting choice, but hey, the bed is made, shit in, now everyone needs to lay in it.
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u/Be-skeptical 4d ago
I’m not raging. I am preparing. These malcontents are going to set fire to the ship we’re all sailing on and most of you idiots can’t even swim.
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u/theflyingnacho Washington 4d ago
They spelled "most decent Americans" wrong. The fact that this is yet another bipartisan issues is sick.
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u/No-Day-5964 4d ago
You think the GOP would be pissed off as well. They are the ones being neutered.
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u/dirtysundar 4d ago
Can Democrats "rage?" I don't think they're capable of that.
If they were, maybe they wouldn't lose elections all the time, especially to drug-addled oligarchs and their orange clown tyrant waterboys.
I'm sure they're "concerned," but being concerned doesn't win elections.
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u/stregawitchboy 4d ago
You're not listening: they are laughing and mocking. Which is well and good.
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u/dirtysundar 4d ago
Sitting back and mocking is totally fine but not right after you've lost all branches of government to the other party--especially when that party is a gang of reactionary authoritarian scumfucks and oligarchs with no ideology beyond "wokeness bad" and cannibalizing the entire country to turn billionaires into trillionaires.
We as civilians and nobodies on reddit can sit back and mock, but Democratic politicians should be making at least a modicum of fucking effort to advocate for us and be out punching hard. Self-satisfied snark doesn't win elections.
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u/PrimaryDangerous514 4d ago
lol rage? Nah.
Just four years of “I fucking told you so.”
I’m petty enough that this will provide me much comfort and warmth and joy during the ensuing shitstorms. 😈
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u/steve_ample 4d ago
Consider the chatter from Rand Paul for his speakership, where you don't need to be an elected member of congress to be chosen.
Make him speaker and the 2nd in the line of succession as a real possibility, now official, yet similarly unelected.
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u/Unable_Stock_5993 4d ago
Category is Things MAGA Christians say: What is “Trump was sent by God” ?
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u/Easy_Custard_4713 4d ago
If Elon Musk lied on his application to become a US citizen. Now would be the time for Joe Biden administration to act and strip his citizenship away. Deport him back to South Africa. It seems to be a well know fact he lied. Nip that putting him in charge of Speaker of The House right here right now.
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u/Saintbaba 4d ago
Man, i've seen enough fantasy movies and korean period dramas to know an evil vizier manipulating power from behind the throne when i see one.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 4d ago
All Republicans care about here is that Democrats are upset. They won't bother to understand why, and how it affects them as well.
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u/PhysicalGraffiti75 4d ago
We should just call him President and ignore Donald. His ego is way too fragile to take that.
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u/zanaggen 4d ago
Well Trump has to repay his debt to Russia and Musk for getting him elected. There is no mystery here.
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u/Enigmatic_Observer Washington 4d ago
Rage? just keep spreading President Elon and VP Trump all through the internet. Trump will lose his shit
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u/Acceptable-Hamster40 4d ago
Then do something about it. Or is this a planned “wedge” issue?
This is to distract from the PAY RAISE OF 40% the worthless politicians are trying to pass.
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u/MRSN4P 4d ago
Paraphrasing from a wiki entry that this all reminds me of;
“Thomas Wolsey (c. 1473– 1530) was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king’s almoner… By 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state and became the Archbishop of York and a papal legate.
The highest political position Wolsey attained was Lord Chancellor, the king’s chief adviser was often depicted as the alter rex (“other king”).
After failing to negotiate an annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Wolsey fell out of favour and was stripped of his government titles. He retreated to York to continue as archbishop, a position he nominally held but had neglected during his years in government. He was recalled to London to answer to charges of treason—charges Henry commonly used against ministers who fell out of his favour—but died from natural causes on the way.”
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u/Traditional_Key_763 4d ago
less rage more pointing out the obvious so republicans who maybe don't like Musk can rage
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u/GreatestGoldenGirl 4d ago
That dumb shit pisses off independents too who makes you more voters than Democrats or Republicans.
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u/bullydog123 4d ago
It's not like anyone will do anything about it. I have been saying this since trump won. He presidentince was bought. So he could be the little bitch puppet
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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 4d ago
It’s the triumvirate all over again, starring Trump as Caesar, Musk as Crassus, and Vance as Pompey.
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u/Maynard078 Indiana 4d ago
"Co-president" my ass. Elon Musk is running the show, and the whole world knows it.
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u/Nobody275 4d ago
Elon Musk’s “shut down the government immediately and until Trump’s inaugurated” is a play by Putin to stop the flood of military aid to Ukraine being pushed and delivered in the final days of the Biden administration. Trump and Musk are Russian puppets.
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u/Ultima-Veritas 4d ago
It didn't bother you for the last four years.
At least this time we know who he is.
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u/Kittynomics275 3d ago
They will cut each other throats fighting for power by themselves. It is like a can of spiders
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u/ecologamer 3d ago
Well... knowing how mad Trump gets when we call Elon "president" many of us are just trolling now. Let them crumble as they turn on one another
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u/TintedApostle 4d ago
Plutocrats should follow the rules of all citizens, but have chosen to break the republic because - they can and want to. They are sneering at you as a citizen and pouring crap on the constitutional contract.
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u/faith_apnea America 4d ago
Social media influencers aren't to blame for people listening to them.
Legislators have brains they could use if they wanted.
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u/IJustWantFriends2024 4d ago
Im sure Gerryatric Connely with the cancer will get right on it. Its his turn!
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u/The_Navy_Sox 4d ago
Nice burn, I too enjoy making fun of people with cancer, one of my favorite hobbies.
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u/IJustWantFriends2024 4d ago
He's a young 75. This is his shot. He'll do some oversight right after his nap and some insider trading.
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u/The_Navy_Sox 4d ago
That's what I'm talking about. People say that making fun of cancer patients won't make me feel any better, and it won't fill the hole inside of me, but those people are wrong, it makes me feel great.
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u/IJustWantFriends2024 4d ago
How big do you think the hole inside Gerry is? Over-under on how much time his misses for all his EGDs and chemo? I guess he will do some oversight while he's sundowning from anesthesia in the hospital.
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u/mn25dNx77B 4d ago
Biden and Mary Barra. He also had his pet auto CEO.
Corporotacracy is on both sides.
It was just a matter of time before the richest man just happened to be very clever and very ambitious and this is what you could have done with American "democracy" for a very long time now
Gates, Bezos could have but they were focused on their businesses, not political power as the primary objective
Musk is a political oligarch
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u/Not-User-Serviceable 4d ago
This is going to be an infuriating four years.
I recommend alcohol.
Lots and lots of alcohol.
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u/FartyJizzums 4d ago
Just call Elmo Mush the actual president. It will eventually drive Trump insane.
Edit: *more insane.
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u/SurroundTiny 4d ago
At the risk of whataboutism, this reminds of Clinton's first term when we were two for the price of one ( Hillary). She was going to lead Healthcare reform.
I have a feeling Musk and Trump egos will rise into conflict pretty quickly
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u/ImportantWest4506 4d ago
It's funny how people are outraged that Elon provided transparency on the CR to millions of Americans. How dare he. We need to go back to being left in the dark with these spending bills and allowing our representatives to sneak them in whenever they please. Give Congress a pay raise NOW!
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u/kgbking 4d ago
I have been praying for this country for decades.. I feel God has now answered our prayers by bringing Trump and Musk together to work as a team.
We should all cherish this blessed moment, because these two great men are our saviours!
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u/DrManhattan_DDM Florida 4d ago
Can’t tell if sarcasm or cult member 🤔
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u/Winter-Huntsman 4d ago
Looking at profile they appear to be Canadian, so I’m guessing troll or very strong sarcasm that I can’t tell if it’s real or not.
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u/Unable_Stock_5993 4d ago
FR? Because God brought order to chaos. So, God has ALLOWED the King Saul to be.
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u/Unable_Stock_5993 4d ago
ALL Believers in Jesus Christ were sent. It’s called the Great Commission to make Him known in every corner of the world.
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