The U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea

Not the only U.S. embassy that flew the homosexual flag and Black Lives Matter banner.

Once more, with gusto, and the truth…

It hasn’t been, and none of what is transpiring is the left vs. the right, liberalism vs. conservativism. And anyone caught in that snare refusing to open their eyes, open their ears, use the good mind that God gave them deserves what comes to them. Really.

All that is heard, all that is written, all that is read for the most part is leftist this, the left that, it’s the left, it’s liberalism, and blah, blah, blah!

That is all noise. All a smokescreen. All part of the diversion the delusion the collusion the battle plan of the Enemy and his legions of minions and ministers.

Divide and conquer. Not a new idea. But a very effective one throughout history.

And those professing to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ are truly divided within. Attempting to serve this world and adopt its attitudes, views, beliefs, philosophies, it’s rhetoric while also professing to be God’s people. Disciples of Christ.

Can’t be. Doesn’t work. Not according to me. According to the inerrant infallible living and active Word of God. Might try picking up THE BOOK and doing a daily, nightly in-depth reading, study, and meditation upon the God-breathed words within THE BOOK, the Holy Bible.

We cannot write nor speak as the world while contending for the faith, spreading the gospel — which is Jesus Christ — while being a light unto the world. If we sound and appear no different from the world.

What is the great fear in pressing onward in spiritual wisdom and understanding and speaking and writing of the reality of why things are as they are? And it isn’t because of a Democratic party majority in a house of Congress, or a Democratic party president sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office! It has nothing — NOTHING — at all to do with left vs, right, liberal vs. conservative, or any aspect of American politics.

It has EVERYTHING to do with God and His people vs. Satan and his people. It has everything to do with understanding a Biblical worldview, which only 4% currently possess according to the latest quantitative quality surveying of the hearts and minds of Americans.

Wake up! Become truly awakened to reality. The how’s, why’s, what’s, and therefore and wherefores.

Unless, until an individual arrives at the point of this reality and then ventures forward they will never get it. Never truly see. Never truly understand. They are existing and operate on faulty, erroneous misinformation. And any life founded and operating on faulty erroneous misinformation is no way to live now, is it?

Remain firmly ensconced upon the left vs, right path, American politics, elections, this politician, that one, this event in the world is what is most important, it’s those stinking leftists, it’s those stinking conservatives and see where that leads at the end of your journey.

Nowhere man.

Nowhere woman.

Nowhere young person that is either male or female and nothing else.

In the end, if you voted, what political party you aligned yourself with, how you viewed yourself won’t matter one iota.

All that matters — all that matters — is your relationship with God, with Christ, with the Holy Spirit, with the Holy Bible, and how God sees you. Not how you see yourself.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Friday, May 5th, 2023

The New Ugly Americans

How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried “American imperialism” are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.

May 3, 2023

By Victor Davis Hanson

Reprinted from American Greatness

The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.

But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down.

The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest American military humiliation in modern history. A billion-dollar new embassy was abandoned. Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new infrastructure at the huge Bagram Airbase was dumped.

We still do not know how many billions of dollars of sophisticated new weapons were left to the Taliban and now are making their way through global terrorists’ marts.

Yet, in our skedaddle, the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer flag still flew high from our new Kabul embassy.

A George Floyd mural was prominent on city streets.

And gender studies programs—to the tune of $787,000,000 in American subsidies—were showcased at Kabul University, in one of the most conservative Islamic countries in the world.

Rainbow flags and Black Lives Matter banners have hung from our embassy in South Korea.

Such partisan cultural activism is a diplomatic first.

The woke Left has now weaponized the country’s diplomatic missions abroad to advance highly partisan and controversial agendas that can offend their hosts, and do not represent the majority of American voters at home.

American foreign policy toward other nations seems now to hinge on their positions on lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer acceptance, abortion, climate change, and an array of woke issues from using multiple pronouns on passports to showcasing transgendered ambassadors.

The Biden Administration in January 2022 stopped the EastMed pipeline. That joint effort of our allies Cyprus, Greece, and Israel sought to bring much needed clean-burning Mediterranean natural gas to southern Europe.

Apparently, our diplomats felt it violated our own New Green Deal orthodoxies. So we imperialists interfered to destroy a vital project of our closest allies.

The White House manifesto called the “National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality” offers a blueprint for how to massage nations abroad to accept our values that are increasingly at odds with much of the world.

Do Americans really believe that embracing drag-queen shows at military bases, abortion to the moment of birth, transgendered men competing in women’s sports, and the promised effort to ban the internal combustion engine are effective ways to ensure good relations with the United States?

No wonder the Biden Administration’s new cultural imperialism is proving disastrous for a variety of reasons.

One, these imperialistic and chauvinistic agendas are pushed abroad at the very time the respect for the U.S. military is at an all-time low. It was humiliated in Afghanistan. It is now unable to recruit sufficient qualified soldiers. Its stocks of critical weapons are depleted.

The Pentagon leadership of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, along with Joe Biden, do not radiate competence.

But they do exude woke pieties.

While we offend Middle East oil exporters and Central Europeans, China allies with Russia and Iran. India and Turkey triangulate away from the United States. Sanctimonious hectoring while appearing weak is a bad combination.

Two, these warped standards are incoherent. Is an abortion-on-demand, totalitarian China therefore an ally? How can we damn supposedly non-woke Saudi Arabia as we beg it pump more of its non-green oil before the 2022 midterms?

Some of our most loyal allies are in Eastern Europe—Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania—have experienced traumatic histories on the front lines against Islamic Ottoman expansionism, czarist and Soviet aggression, and German Nazi bullying and invasion.

They are democratic and pro-American. Yet they are now targeted by our woke imperialists because they remain steadfast as the most religious and traditional of our European allies.

Yet these nations would be more likely to dispatch credible forces for NATO’s defense than many of our left-wing, woke, and militarily less capable Western European nations.

Three, most of the 7.9 billion people in the world are not woke. They are aspiring to obtain a modicum of the luxury and affluence taken for granted in America.

The rest of the planet worries whether it will have enough food, energy, security, and shelter to live one more day. For most, the incessant, woke virtue-signaling from affluent Americans comes across as the whiny bullying of pampered, self-righteous—and increasingly neurotic—imperialists.

Four, traditionally the party that controls the State Department does not politically weaponize its embassies with wedge issues that have not won majority support among Americans.

Such abject politicalization rattles and alienates foreign nations. They do not want to be drawn into the American Left’s internal propaganda efforts that they know are bitterly controversial inside the United States.

How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried “American imperialism” are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.

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