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You are aware that this administration is talking about increasing our debt by 4 trillion dollars, right?

> Or the 50 million USD for condoms. As Elon said, that's a lot of condoms.

Right. Which is why you'd think he might realize that it doesn't make sense and maybe look again and realize it's not $50 million being spent on condoms [1]. He and Trump are supposed to be savy businessmen. If I can look at this, do some quick math based on the cost of a condom, and conclude that can't be right, surely these experienced business leaders should have at least as good instincts, right? So either they are lying intentionally or are not half as competent as they claim.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/some-of-the-things-t...

> the waste is going to collapse the country

What waste exactly? How do you know it's bad or will collapse the economy?

It might be real, but noting concrete is being pointed out. The attempts to do so have been outright lies, like the $50 million for condoms in Gaza. So far, "waste" is a boogieman used to justify purging suspected liberals from the federal workforce and contractor pool.

Trump is a rapist with children by three different wives. What does Christianity say about that?

Well, my answer to that is that it's been made clear that he's an instrument of the One True Living God Jesus Christ of Nazareth to enact His Will. Disparaging a sinner as somehow unredeemable is a doctrine of demons, that they are unworthy of Christ, which is what you're suggesting. Donald Trump needs Christ as much as anyone else. He does confess Christ which a big step and is in submission to Him which is why he is blessed, as it's impossible for the unrighteous to even do that. For example, Sacred Scripture states the antichrist cannot and will not confess Christ as Our Lord and God. He's working for peace in the world as well, and scripture says blessed are the peacemakers.

In regards to his most egregious sins. The faith is not a sanctuary for saints, it's a hospital for sinners. He has saved countless unborn souls, protects our women and our children from irreversible mutilation by the children of Satan. I pray every night for President Trump at 10:30PM when I do the Liturgy of the Hours with the Hallow app. I invite you to invite the Holy Spirit of Christ to live within you, and into your home and turn your life over to Christ submitting your will to His Will. Scripture says He will give you a new heart. If you haven't already. Christianity is true. The Lord has saved his life twice, and while bullets cannot harm Donald Trump, it's all due to the Lord's love and will, and we need to pray for our President's continued protection as he builds the kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

Most people who are not a child of their father Satan wants to believe and trust in Christ. If anyone here has questions about the evidence that Christ is God and deeply wants to submit themselves to Him, reach out and I will happily send you the evidence that changed my life once I approached it with a truly open mind and heart. Wash the filth from your eyes, purify your thoughts. I see you to live forever, and join us in worship of the Triune God.

You can talk about achieving smaller government while also rejecting the corrupt billionaire looting the federal government for personal gain while throwing around literal Nazi salutes

I've heard so much about Hitler and Nazis for 10 years now. If there is an actual Nazi around, no one would care any more thanks to incessant crying wolf. Which is a shame. And it didn't win the election, so it's time to drop it.

I would agree with you if anyone else had gone in to look at the books at places like USAID and other departments before now. No one else did it, Elon is competent and if he ensures the other 99,999 of grifters are off the books that were bankrupting him, and he gains in some way that's still a huge win. It wouldn't bother me if him and Trump received some form of financial reward, if they clean up this mess for us. It has to be stopped going forward at all costs and no one else did anything for decades while the country went bankrupt.

One thing I've learned in life, never let perfect become the enemy of better. Support Trump, support Musk, even if both men are imperfect.

You say no one would care about a nazi... have you seen the recent German tesla sale numbers, or for the rest of europe? Just because you dont care, doesnt mean that others will turn a blind eye.

this would all make an inch of sense if they actually cared about what is bankrupting the country. of course they are not in any way, going after USAID is just entertainment for the gullible (won’t use worse adjectives here…) people eating this shit up. not to mention going after CFPB which costs $800m to run while bringing in $15bn in return.

if they really cared about this and were not in the entertainment business while stealing every penny they can they would start at the Department of Offense :)

I don't buy your narrative that contracts that never stop getting paid etc are not a problem, but they are going to look at the DoD as well. We'll see.

why start in places with least impact that will fuck up tens of thousands of lives (those are also all voters who come 2026 can bring all this to a crashing halt much like Trump’s previous term he angered so many people that he got crushed at midterms and then absolutely demolished in general election in 2020). if you was really after cutting government waste (he is not) you don’t start where you have absolutely least amount of impact other than fucking up A LOT of people (and many of them who voted for him). he doesn’t give two shits about government waste, he is just here to entertain you while he is doing shit behind this facade

We'll see, but we've heard so much crying of wolf from his detractors that even if they are somehow after 10 years correct finally... no one is listening. Only the ones already dead set against him. When you throw the Hitler jab at someone for 10 years and they become the President, you screwed up. I quit paying attention during the Mueller investigations, I knew that if they had something- they'd just charge him. But they never did because it was all a sham. He was growing on me and then the assassination attempts happened, where I lost the "just a rich man's son" impression I always had of him. He has true strength and character. I follow true strength and character. You can't fake his reaction. He's worthy of our support and we should stand behind him.

Basically I don't think anyone else was going to do anything better than he is. Trump is the best we have. He's definitely worthy to be our leader though, and his opposition has been proven over and over again to be absolutely pathetic. Liars, cheats, and pretty much everything they call him.

> Elon is competent

You fundamentally misunderstand reality. The other wrongs of your comment flow from that.

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