Michele Bachmann says Gazans eat 3,000 calories a day. They do not

Lance Wallnau claims Trump is handing local churches $1.3 trillion in frozen USAID money so Christians can buy converts.

The self-described prophet pitches the workaround openly: build a charity that requires church attendance, and federal dollars follow the gospel through the door. Hemant Mehta's reporting on the Trump administration's $2 billion in faith-based grants traces where the money actually lands, from World Vision and Compassion International to Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse, which took roughly $94 million in past government funding and then walked away from a $300 million award after resigning from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. Michele Bachmann's new show Israel Live insists Gaza's population has grown and that Gazans eat over 3,000 calories a day, so no genocide is possible. Both claims get followed to their sources: the population figures come from old CIA World Factbook projections built on pre-war models, and the calorie number comes from an Israeli study measuring energy supply at border crossings between January and July 2024, divided by the pre-October 7th population. Aaron Zimmerman's UN resolution tally and the definition he reads aloud both undercut the argument he makes with them. A Christian camp evicted from Burning Man blames Satan, while the organizers, journalist Trevor Hughes and a parent near Kidsville describe filming without consent, tub baptisms and Jesus figurines pushed on children. An AI-slop Facebook page demands atheists explain six things, and its 40-year-old Michael Denton citation collapses on contact. Subscribe and leave a review.

0:22 - Lance Wallnau claims Trump is redirecting $1.3 trillion in frozen USAID money to churches
5:47 - Franklin Graham turns down $300 million as Wallnau promises the money buys converts
17:40 - Michele Bachmann's Israel Live claims that Gaza's population grew and Gazans eat 3,000 calories a day
21:48 - Bachmann's 3,000-calorie claim traced to an Israeli study that measures border crossings, not mouths
24:33 - Bachmann and Zimmerman's genocide-denial case: UN resolution counts and Gaza's growing population
39:13 - A Christian group gets kicked out of Burning Man and claims persecution
41:28 - Hemant Mehta's article: the camp was evicted for filming people without consent
44:10 - Trevor Hughes and SFGATE detail aggressive proselytizing, tub baptisms, and pressuring kids near Kidsville
48:44 - Shift the Atmosphere's exit videos: injury claims, "radical inclusion," and gear left behind
51:41 - "Christianity was never the problem": other Christians stayed, and the good-equals-Christian trope
55:48 - The "Intelligent Design" Facebook page's six things atheists must explain, rebutted
1:03:18 - "Evolution: a theory in crisis" and Michael Denton's 40-year-old book, debunked

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