Im also not a fan of this. However, I have no idea what goes on behind the scene, or what possible diplomatic fallout it would cause to not accept the gift. Diplomacy takes many turns, which often can involve playing nice with those we don’t want to, deals with countries we dont like, in order to get deals we do like. Im glad I’m just an average Joe reading about items such as the OP, and not the one who has to curry favors, or launch missles at an enemy who was a friend.
Trump is the ultimate chess player, and we are not privy to all the information. For now, I will trust Trump will make the final call keeping our county’s best interest at heart.
Although i struggle with this a lot lol, I would like at this time to yield to this brother's perspective. I would say of all the views in our forum on Trump, i consider mine to be of the highest order. Not to flatter myself. In some ways i am sure that is damaging. But I do view him as a version of 1st seal imperial world class control power. I think the only greater view of Trump influence in our forum (aside from me) would be
@CharlesW who (like myself in the past) has had concern of Trump being the AC.
My view of the 1st seal is positive. To me it is a bridge seal between age of grace and tribulation age. I know we look at Rev 4 & 5 and often see this as a rapture metaphorical mirror. But unlike every pretribber i know, I believe the church is on earth during the first seal and raptured at its peak. Quite the insane opposite of the 1st seal more commonly understood as the AC.
I respect Andy's sense of ways in which a Trump era works. For it is one thing for sure if nothing else, an "anomaly." And in respect of that, I would have to concur with Andy on this one...as much as obviously i have expressed i would not like to.
President Donald Trump’s readiness to accept a luxury jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar for conversion into a presidential aircraft has
www.breitbart.com
So when Trump was in office before should he not have received income from those who stay at his hotels (those from foreign countries)? An interesting quagmire. I like what
@Tall Timbers did with the trojan horse theory. As i was making my trojan horse argument, and the peanuts dribbled from my mouth (from the peanut gallery) i thought there is no way the DOD would not be able to know all of what is in the plane. So i felt like it was actually kind of a puppet argument. But it did seem that insane, for me, for them to do that. The message it sends is bad, unless it is to troll. When Trump trolls he is usually, in my estimation, rather accurate at even so very radioactive levels. In some ways, to me, Trump is the world embassador for celestial sarcasm. I say it that way because i am not comfortable with saying that he is God's ventriloquistic lap dummy critiquing the world and its absurdity through absurdity (like a Rush Limbo or Ann Coulter but perhaps with a bit more divine motif). This is not the same as a prophet. Yet it would be my version of what a seal can be. A providential address to the world through one of its own, but on steriods with the ability to chastise clandestinely as a heap of fleshy gloppidy goo. A rhetorical device if you will for our age. A mascot embassador to the Laodicean era. And with it, all the complexity of how if so a literary device like that might even function and relate to the world. A study of its own perhaps.
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For Andy -- I bold this because i know Andy does not like long posts and i am trying here to super compliment his valor in political opinion. So i am bolding this. The DOD does billions of contract work every year with Qatar. And this would seem to be in the best mutual interest of both countries. At a DOD level.
Beyond that i would just say--It does appear to have a Trump-esque troll vibe (which for me is kind of like a truth meter...lol...i know, sick, right? lol). What has been going on for decades is the FED has printed supplying globalists with enterprise money. And central banking is globalism. And the FED is head of all of that. Ultimately we need to get away from a system that prints our money for us and charges interest for the mere existence of a paper dollar. With that there have been all kinds of gifts likely given to the political fat cats on that take. So to me, this is a discussion piece for a different theater. The theater of those who steal American wealth into a system that purposely defangs American sovereignty. As an example of money laundering that does that is to charge all other countries less for drugs and America as much as 5 times those rates. Opportunity to send monies to nefarious programs globally. In addition, it would seem to add value to socialism. Which is much of the Western European world syphoning off prescription drug monies from America. Maybe socialism works at all because capitalist America subsidizes that illusion. Using American prescription money to subsidize socialism as a workable ideology. Quite the magic trick.
It is these observations that lead me to conclude that there is enough of a trolling vibe for this to be not be an issue of impropriety. Please note it came from me, one who has held disdain to consider any of this. I believe we are challenged with how providence works in our day. I believe Trump is somehow involved quite a bit in that. Blessings.