Is our President a Dictator?

[Daedalus X]

I read an interesting article titled "10 Ways to Tell if Your President Is a Dictator". Here are the ten ways.

1. Systematic efforts to intimidate the media. 
2. Building an official pro-Biden media network.
3. Politicizing the civil service, military, National Guard, or the domestic security agencies. 
4. Using government surveillance against domestic political opponents. 
5. Using state power to reward corporate backers and punish opponents. 
6. Stacking the Supreme Court. 
7. Enforcing the law for only one side. 
8. Really rigging the system. 
9. Fearmongering. 
10. Demonizing the opposition. 

I think that we can all agree that Biden will never become a dictator due to his mental decline and his accusations of serious corruption, but the people that are pulling his strings could form a dictatorship.

Question for debate, how many of these ten warnings has the Biden Administration committed?

[oldbadger]

I did not twist the word, so let me be clear, when the word 'giving' is used in connection to the US AID the meaning is synonymous to 'bribe' or 'solicitation', it is not good giving. It is about executing unauthorized foreign and domestic policy.

Here is a response to the Pope when he got involved.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano: In the parable of the Good Samaritan, the man who is robbed by bandits and left for dead could today be an American robbed by an illegal immigrant, or a veteran beaten by a gang of teenagers. Bergoglio does not stop to help him, because he is too busy obeying his masters. The one who stops to treat him, who takes him to the inn at his own expense (and not with taxpayer money), is not a Jesuit NGO or a progressive charity funded by USAID, but rather the Samaritan whom the new doctors of the Law consider a heretic, and who today wears a red hat with the writing MAGA.

Even the Archbishop recognizes the concept of giving other peoples money is not really giving.

People seek safety from their own countries all the time. Some are accepted as genuine, some not.
I wonder how long it might be before Americans will be seeking refuge outside of your borders?
Even President Trump has gets things wrong, a fact which you agree further down, but for the wrong reasons!

Yes, Trump does get it wrong sometimes, his compassion is just too bigly. As for me everyone who crosses a border illegally is a criminal.

Time will tell. I keep thinking of the leader who once promised the German people that he alone could raise up his country to be great again, and they called him father.

The Southern churches knew that Trump was going to make the illegal immigrants go bye bye, so they have no reason to moan. And thank you for recognizing my pristine Christian values in the past and I hope to bring them back to the level you were accustomed to seeing.

Are you sure of that?
When a group of Christians can only think about themselves, what are they?

I agree, even the Bible says.
:1 Corinthians 3:13-15"]
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Yet another one quotes Paul for Jesus..

That is a great salvation. I don't understand why people would not want to seek God under those conditions, even if one would fail to produce abiding work he will be saved.

Withholding help from the poor, sick and starving is not good.

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to Daedalus X in post #1]

Now that some time has passed and new developments have emerged, here's a Christian writer who recently addressed the same question in even starker terms:

https://reformedjournal.com/2024/09/09/ ... l-you-why/

And now there's this:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2528069/tr ... st-message