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๐ŸšจNEW: Bill Maher BRUTALLY breaks down why Conservatives *CAN'T* align themselves with Left๐Ÿšจ "They see gender as only a construct and sex as assigned at birth. And they say, 'We're not doing that!' Transing kids by self-diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification and no acknowledgement of social contagion? Not doing it!" "Asylum now covers any reason for anyone to come to America โ€” not doing it! Homelessness is a lifestyle. Natural immunity doesn't count anymore. Whiteness is toxic. Penises in women's prisons. Welcoming the intifada. We're not doing it!" "Smug self-righteousness in the defense of some of the dumbest ideas to ever come down the pike is not a formula that's really working for you." Daily Caller
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๐ŸšจNEW: Bill Maher BRUTALLY breaks down why Conservatives *CAN'T* align themselves with Left๐Ÿšจ "They see gender as only a construct and sex as assigned at birth. And they say, 'We're not doing that!' Transing kids by self-diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification and no acknowledgement of social contagion? Not doing it!" "Asylum now covers any reason for anyone to come to America โ€” not doing it! Homelessness is a lifestyle. Natural immunity doesn't count anymore. Whiteness is toxic. Penises in women's prisons. Welcoming the intifada. We're not doing it!" "Smug self-righteousness in the defense of some of the dumbest ideas to ever come down the pike is not a formula that's really working for you." Daily Caller

Jason Cohen ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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Your faith was forged in people who would rather be exterminated than assimilated. A soft version of it, eager to be liked and desperate to fit in, is not the thing they died to hand you. So stop striving to be liked. Stop angling to be loved by a world that drove your fathers into the snow. That world would think no better of the gospel today than it did in 1838. Stop trying to file down every peculiar and glorious edge of the Restoration until the world finally finds you acceptable. It never will. And the wanting of its approval is the slow death of everything your people bled to preserve. I am thinking of the proclamation on the family, and of how many have quietly gone looking for a way around it. Some say it aloud now. Some march under the world's Pride banners and tell themselves it is only love. They have done the quiet arithmetic and concluded that if they give the world this one doctrine, the world will finally stop hating them, finally let them belong, finally call them good. It does not work that way. It has never once worked that way. Understand what the world actually hates, because it is not a single teaching about marriage that it cannot abide. It is the claim. It is the unbearable, scandalous claim that the keys of the priesthood were restored to the earth, that there is a prophet who speaks for God, that this and no other is the authorized house of the Lord. That is the offense. That is what it cannot forgive. You could surrender every doctrine the world finds distasteful, one after another, and you would not buy a single hour of peace, because the thing it objects to is not your position on this or that. It is that you claim to hold the authority of heaven, and it intends to see that claim humbled. The doctrine is only the doorway it is pushing on. The house is what it wants. Embrace the truth. Embrace the battle that has always come with it, because there has always been a battle, and there is one now. It is the oldest war there is, good against evil, light against the dark, and you were born onto its field whether you wished to be or not. You did not inherit a museum. You inherited a war, and a banner, and a people who never once surrendered it. You are a Mormon. The blood of the persecuted is in you, and the truth they died for is in your hands. You are not tourists. You are not spectators. You are the heirs of warriors, and the line they held is now yours to hold. So plant your feet on the ground they bled for. Lift the banner they would not drop.
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Your faith was forged in people who would rather be exterminated than assimilated. A soft version of it, eager to be liked and desperate to fit in, is not the thing they died to hand you. So stop striving to be liked. Stop angling to be loved by a world that drove your fathers into the snow. That world would think no better of the gospel today than it did in 1838. Stop trying to file down every peculiar and glorious edge of the Restoration until the world finally finds you acceptable. It never will. And the wanting of its approval is the slow death of everything your people bled to preserve. I am thinking of the proclamation on the family, and of how many have quietly gone looking for a way around it. Some say it aloud now. Some march under the world's Pride banners and tell themselves it is only love. They have done the quiet arithmetic and concluded that if they give the world this one doctrine, the world will finally stop hating them, finally let them belong, finally call them good. It does not work that way. It has never once worked that way. Understand what the world actually hates, because it is not a single teaching about marriage that it cannot abide. It is the claim. It is the unbearable, scandalous claim that the keys of the priesthood were restored to the earth, that there is a prophet who speaks for God, that this and no other is the authorized house of the Lord. That is the offense. That is what it cannot forgive. You could surrender every doctrine the world finds distasteful, one after another, and you would not buy a single hour of peace, because the thing it objects to is not your position on this or that. It is that you claim to hold the authority of heaven, and it intends to see that claim humbled. The doctrine is only the doorway it is pushing on. The house is what it wants. Embrace the truth. Embrace the battle that has always come with it, because there has always been a battle, and there is one now. It is the oldest war there is, good against evil, light against the dark, and you were born onto its field whether you wished to be or not. You did not inherit a museum. You inherited a war, and a banner, and a people who never once surrendered it. You are a Mormon. The blood of the persecuted is in you, and the truth they died for is in your hands. You are not tourists. You are not spectators. You are the heirs of warriors, and the line they held is now yours to hold. So plant your feet on the ground they bled for. Lift the banner they would not drop.

Kirk Rollins

30,483 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 1 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

Utopia is not the standard. Reality is. Every civilisation has sins if you judge it by todayโ€™s moral standards. You can build an entire career doing nothing but listing them. That is easy. The harder question and the only one that matters is this: compared to actual, existing alternatives, who has done better? I am not claiming the West is perfect. It is not. No society is. But if you are honest about measurable progress on rights, equality, and self-correction, it is still ahead of every other major system in the world today. So stop asking "is it perfect?" That is a childish question. Ask: "compared to what?"
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Utopia is not the standard. Reality is. Every civilisation has sins if you judge it by todayโ€™s moral standards. You can build an entire career doing nothing but listing them. That is easy. The harder question and the only one that matters is this: compared to actual, existing alternatives, who has done better? I am not claiming the West is perfect. It is not. No society is. But if you are honest about measurable progress on rights, equality, and self-correction, it is still ahead of every other major system in the world today. So stop asking "is it perfect?" That is a childish question. Ask: "compared to what?"

Konstantin Kisin

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๐Ÿšจ JUST IN: Speaker Johnson just exposed that Chuck Schumer is TERRIFIED of a Senate primary challenge from either AOC or a disciple of ZOHRAN MAMDANI "Chuck Schumer's been here for 44 YEARS. He is not the flavor of the month. And he knows that he's gonna get a challenge. If it's not AOC, it'll be another disciple of Mamdani or somebody like that." "They all know that. Ask Hakeem JEFFRIES why he has not openly endorsed Mamdani for the mayor of New York! He's in a real bind." "Because Hakeem Jeffries, while he's a far left progressive politician, he's not a communist. But you have to aspire, you have to say, you have to stand for the farthest left ideas." "Socialism, communism, Marxism right now to be in favor in the Democratic Party. This is not your grandfather's Democratic Party. They wouldn't recognize it." "And that's the dynamic that Chuck Schumer is dealing with, and that's why he's drawing the line right here. He had to show a 'fight', and everybody knows it. It is plainly on display." ๐Ÿ’ฏ
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๐Ÿšจ JUST IN: Speaker Johnson just exposed that Chuck Schumer is TERRIFIED of a Senate primary challenge from either AOC or a disciple of ZOHRAN MAMDANI "Chuck Schumer's been here for 44 YEARS. He is not the flavor of the month. And he knows that he's gonna get a challenge. If it's not AOC, it'll be another disciple of Mamdani or somebody like that." "They all know that. Ask Hakeem JEFFRIES why he has not openly endorsed Mamdani for the mayor of New York! He's in a real bind." "Because Hakeem Jeffries, while he's a far left progressive politician, he's not a communist. But you have to aspire, you have to say, you have to stand for the farthest left ideas." "Socialism, communism, Marxism right now to be in favor in the Democratic Party. This is not your grandfather's Democratic Party. They wouldn't recognize it." "And that's the dynamic that Chuck Schumer is dealing with, and that's why he's drawing the line right here. He had to show a 'fight', and everybody knows it. It is plainly on display." ๐Ÿ’ฏ

Eric Daugherty

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I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court Monday . Donald Trump has done real things for MAHA. I believe that. But when the Department of Justice shows up to defend Bayer and Monsanto against the American people, against the health of our children, I have to say: you got this one wrong. Liability protection for corporations that poison people is not a conservative value. It is not a Republican value. It is not a Democratic value. It is not an American value. It is the opposite of a free market. It is the government putting its thumb on the scale for corporations that are losing in court because their products are causing cancer. Every child in this country deserves to be healthy. That is not a political statement. That is the only statement that matters. So in the words of the President himself: we are going to fight, fight.
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I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court Monday . Donald Trump has done real things for MAHA. I believe that. But when the Department of Justice shows up to defend Bayer and Monsanto against the American people, against the health of our children, I have to say: you got this one wrong. Liability protection for corporations that poison people is not a conservative value. It is not a Republican value. It is not a Democratic value. It is not an American value. It is the opposite of a free market. It is the government putting its thumb on the scale for corporations that are losing in court because their products are causing cancer. Every child in this country deserves to be healthy. That is not a political statement. That is the only statement that matters. So in the words of the President himself: we are going to fight, fight.

Del Bigtree

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STRAWMAN: THE NATURE OF THE CAGE John K. Webster Here is a deep dive documentary that took 18 months of research to complete this film. No stone is left unturned. By the end of this film you will be well informed of the legal fiction that has been used to manipulate our society. โ€œA minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.โ€ โ€“ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
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STRAWMAN: THE NATURE OF THE CAGE John K. Webster Here is a deep dive documentary that took 18 months of research to complete this film. No stone is left unturned. By the end of this film you will be well informed of the legal fiction that has been used to manipulate our society. โ€œA minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.โ€ โ€“ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Redpill Drifter

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On Friday, Bill Maher asked me if what happened with Biden at the disastrous debate with Trump was the same story as the Emperor's New Clothes. Me: The story of the Emperor's New Clothes is a story about common knowledge, because when the kid blurted it out, he actually wasn't telling anyone anything they didn't already know. They could see the Emperor was naked. But he still changed their knowledge, because by blurting it out with an earshot of the others, now everyone knew that everyone else knew that everyone else knew that everyone else knew. And what that allowed them to do is change their relationship with the Emperor, from obsequious deference to ridicule and scorn. And the thing about common knowledge in the social realm is that it's what props up our social relationships. And so when something is blurted out, then it can change everything. It changes the nature of your relationship with someone. Maher: And we do have sort of a modern version of the Emperor parable, which is Joe Biden. I mean, he was the Emperor who everyone wouldn't say had lost his marbles. I mean, is that not really the same story? Me: It is the same story, because opinion polls showed that after that disastrous debate with Trump, the number of people who thought that he was cognitively impaired didn't go up by that much. It went up by a few percentage points. But before, a majority of people thought that he was cognitively impaired. The difference is, when it's on TV, where you're watching it, you know that the rest of the country is watching it, you know the rest of the country knows the rest of the country, it's no longer private. It's common. And that's when he was challenged. That was the end. Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher
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On Friday, Bill Maher asked me if what happened with Biden at the disastrous debate with Trump was the same story as the Emperor's New Clothes. Me: The story of the Emperor's New Clothes is a story about common knowledge, because when the kid blurted it out, he actually wasn't telling anyone anything they didn't already know. They could see the Emperor was naked. But he still changed their knowledge, because by blurting it out with an earshot of the others, now everyone knew that everyone else knew that everyone else knew that everyone else knew. And what that allowed them to do is change their relationship with the Emperor, from obsequious deference to ridicule and scorn. And the thing about common knowledge in the social realm is that it's what props up our social relationships. And so when something is blurted out, then it can change everything. It changes the nature of your relationship with someone. Maher: And we do have sort of a modern version of the Emperor parable, which is Joe Biden. I mean, he was the Emperor who everyone wouldn't say had lost his marbles. I mean, is that not really the same story? Me: It is the same story, because opinion polls showed that after that disastrous debate with Trump, the number of people who thought that he was cognitively impaired didn't go up by that much. It went up by a few percentage points. But before, a majority of people thought that he was cognitively impaired. The difference is, when it's on TV, where you're watching it, you know that the rest of the country is watching it, you know the rest of the country knows the rest of the country, it's no longer private. It's common. And that's when he was challenged. That was the end. Bill Maher Real Time with Bill Maher

Steven Pinker

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"..most of which with graduate degrees.. figuring out the logistics of the elimination of 25 million people." Do you remember thousands of bombings in America during the 1970s? No? Weird. No movies about that? No coverage? No constant reminders? You know, unlike sl*very, or l*nchings, or the h*l*caust... That's because our professional class, root and stem, has been infested with a Left that is not only intent on murdering Americans by the tens of millions but a Left that realized that it is now or never. This video details just a fraction of the horror the Left is willing to commit... cooly, calmly, utterly convinced of their own smug moral superiority as they do it. Everyone but everyone must see this. Now. Their insurrection is upon us and this is the fate that awaits the lethargic, the second guessers. The Clint Russell's and the Dave Smith's. The Joe Rogan's who refuse to understand that this is war. That this is it.
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"..most of which with graduate degrees.. figuring out the logistics of the elimination of 25 million people." Do you remember thousands of bombings in America during the 1970s? No? Weird. No movies about that? No coverage? No constant reminders? You know, unlike sl*very, or l*nchings, or the h*l*caust... That's because our professional class, root and stem, has been infested with a Left that is not only intent on murdering Americans by the tens of millions but a Left that realized that it is now or never. This video details just a fraction of the horror the Left is willing to commit... cooly, calmly, utterly convinced of their own smug moral superiority as they do it. Everyone but everyone must see this. Now. Their insurrection is upon us and this is the fate that awaits the lethargic, the second guessers. The Clint Russell's and the Dave Smith's. The Joe Rogan's who refuse to understand that this is war. That this is it.

BLACK DUMPLINGโ„ข

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The Christian kvetching over this clip is pathetic. Here is the full context. In the interview Spielberg is not calling for the abolition or subversion of Christianity or the Church. The film literally includes a cardinal, a nun quoting scripture, and believers wrestling with what alien life would mean for their faith. Spielberg's conclusion is not that Christianity is false, but that god would still have dominion over alien life just as he does over humanity. This is directly out of mainstream Catholic theology. His point is the opposite of what people are claiming. He is suggesting that the creator god shared by Jews and Christians rules the entire universe, and that aliens or other unexplained phenomena would ultimately fall under that god's authority and reinforce it. That is the psyop, not "Christianity is being destroyed/subverted." Jews are not trying to destroy Christianity. Enough of this insecurity and persecution complex. Even by arguing this it shows that you have no idea what is going on.
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The Christian kvetching over this clip is pathetic. Here is the full context. In the interview Spielberg is not calling for the abolition or subversion of Christianity or the Church. The film literally includes a cardinal, a nun quoting scripture, and believers wrestling with what alien life would mean for their faith. Spielberg's conclusion is not that Christianity is false, but that god would still have dominion over alien life just as he does over humanity. This is directly out of mainstream Catholic theology. His point is the opposite of what people are claiming. He is suggesting that the creator god shared by Jews and Christians rules the entire universe, and that aliens or other unexplained phenomena would ultimately fall under that god's authority and reinforce it. That is the psyop, not "Christianity is being destroyed/subverted." Jews are not trying to destroy Christianity. Enough of this insecurity and persecution complex. Even by arguing this it shows that you have no idea what is going on.

NeedMoreAmalek

18,305 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 1 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

This is something the Cabal propagandists will not show you. A stellar moment - one that will echo in eternity - of Hon. Edwin Mushoriwa Edwin Mushoriwa-Dzivaresekwa MP defending & upholding the dignity and sovereignty of our people. Instead, they will show you and celebrate the clown Susan, because under the Cabal's leadership, Zimbabwe has become a circus. Alas, those of us who have served with honour, loyalty, and respect have no problem taking off our hats to any truth and idea that pursues a better and brighter future for our people. What Hon. Mushoriwa has done here is commendable. It puts the Cabal to shame - if it still had any shame left, it would not show its face anywhere pushing for #CAB3. He stood & spoke of sovereignty - not as an abstraction, but as the lived reality of the people of Dzivaresekwa who elected him for five years, not seven!!! They gave their consent. He is bound by it. To extend that term without returning to them is not governance. It is theft by calendar!!! This is the core of constitutionalism: that the people are the source of all authority, and what they have not given, no parliament may take. The Cabal has forgotten this. Mushoriwa reminded the nation!!! He spoke of the Constitution as a shield - a document designed to limit politicians, not liberate them. The 2013 Constitution was a covenant. The people voted for it. They secured it with their hopes. And now the very politicians it was written to restrain are trying to rewrite it for their own perpetuation. That is not amendment. That is betrayal. Mushoriwa called it what it is: politicians limiting the Constitution instead of the Constitution limiting politicians. He spoke of accountability - the radical, dangerous, revolutionary idea that those who govern must answer to those who are governed. That elections are not inconvenient interruptions to development. They are the mechanism by which the people periodically renew or withdraw their trust. To cancel them is to cancel the people!!! To extend a term without consent is to declare that the people's voice is no longer required. Mushoriwa refused to endorse that declaration. And he spoke of the quiet tragedy at the centre of this coup - that the President, after 45 years of public service, may not want more years. It is the parliamentarians who have become the criminals surrounding him. The bought. The bribed. The Fortuner-driven. The envelope-collecting. They are the ones driving this. They are the ones who need the extension because they fear the voters they will face in 2028. The President is surrounded. Not by enemies. By courtiers!!! This is the politics the people deserve. Not the circus of the bought and the bribed. Not the spectacle of a legislator praising an interchange as though it were a constitutional argument. Principle. Sovereignty. Accountability. The Constitution as a shield, not a weapon. A parliamentarian who remembers who sent him and for how long. The Cabal will not show you this speech. It will bury it under empty press statements and misinformation narraitves!!! But the archive has it. The people have it. And history will remember who stood and who knelt!!!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ
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This is something the Cabal propagandists will not show you. A stellar moment - one that will echo in eternity - of Hon. Edwin Mushoriwa Edwin Mushoriwa-Dzivaresekwa MP defending & upholding the dignity and sovereignty of our people. Instead, they will show you and celebrate the clown Susan, because under the Cabal's leadership, Zimbabwe has become a circus. Alas, those of us who have served with honour, loyalty, and respect have no problem taking off our hats to any truth and idea that pursues a better and brighter future for our people. What Hon. Mushoriwa has done here is commendable. It puts the Cabal to shame - if it still had any shame left, it would not show its face anywhere pushing for #CAB3. He stood & spoke of sovereignty - not as an abstraction, but as the lived reality of the people of Dzivaresekwa who elected him for five years, not seven!!! They gave their consent. He is bound by it. To extend that term without returning to them is not governance. It is theft by calendar!!! This is the core of constitutionalism: that the people are the source of all authority, and what they have not given, no parliament may take. The Cabal has forgotten this. Mushoriwa reminded the nation!!! He spoke of the Constitution as a shield - a document designed to limit politicians, not liberate them. The 2013 Constitution was a covenant. The people voted for it. They secured it with their hopes. And now the very politicians it was written to restrain are trying to rewrite it for their own perpetuation. That is not amendment. That is betrayal. Mushoriwa called it what it is: politicians limiting the Constitution instead of the Constitution limiting politicians. He spoke of accountability - the radical, dangerous, revolutionary idea that those who govern must answer to those who are governed. That elections are not inconvenient interruptions to development. They are the mechanism by which the people periodically renew or withdraw their trust. To cancel them is to cancel the people!!! To extend a term without consent is to declare that the people's voice is no longer required. Mushoriwa refused to endorse that declaration. And he spoke of the quiet tragedy at the centre of this coup - that the President, after 45 years of public service, may not want more years. It is the parliamentarians who have become the criminals surrounding him. The bought. The bribed. The Fortuner-driven. The envelope-collecting. They are the ones driving this. They are the ones who need the extension because they fear the voters they will face in 2028. The President is surrounded. Not by enemies. By courtiers!!! This is the politics the people deserve. Not the circus of the bought and the bribed. Not the spectacle of a legislator praising an interchange as though it were a constitutional argument. Principle. Sovereignty. Accountability. The Constitution as a shield, not a weapon. A parliamentarian who remembers who sent him and for how long. The Cabal will not show you this speech. It will bury it under empty press statements and misinformation narraitves!!! But the archive has it. The people have it. And history will remember who stood and who knelt!!!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ

ZVAMAINGA MUHONDO

16,441 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 1 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

A very harsh threat, made by Netanyahu toward Iran. What is behind the heightened tone? It is not only harsh, it is also unusual. The event that took place in recent months was a paralyzing fear of what is called miscalculation. They will think that we will attack first, even though that was not the intention, and then they will attack, and the entire region will be dragged into another round of confrontation. In a region where there is fear of miscalculation, you are not supposed to announce this kind of thing in the Knesset. I just want to make that clear. Yesterday, Naftali Bennett promoted his press conference on the conditions of soldiers, okay? He gets six million views because the timing looks like a countdown and he is a former prime minister, so the Iranians are in hysterics that he is actually announcing that they are going to attack. Thatโ€™s the atmosphere. So when Netanyahu attacks like this and makes an unprecedented threatโ€”not only harsh but also unusualโ€”one canโ€™t help but think that for Netanyahu there is a message, or something more problematic than miscalculation. And he wants to warn the Iranians. Now, whatโ€™s the issue? The issue is that if the Iranians come to the conclusion that their regime is on the verge of collapse, there is one thing that might save them. And that is an attack on Israel. Because we saw during the war what is called โ€œrally around the flag.โ€ Even those who were in the opposition rallied around the flag when their country was attacked. It is not only the Islamic Republic that is under attack, but also the Islamic Republic of Iran. That is essentially the issue, and that is what Netanyahu, in my opinion, is trying to stop with the threat he issued after the security discussion.
1:27

A very harsh threat, made by Netanyahu toward Iran. What is behind the heightened tone? It is not only harsh, it is also unusual. The event that took place in recent months was a paralyzing fear of what is called miscalculation. They will think that we will attack first, even though that was not the intention, and then they will attack, and the entire region will be dragged into another round of confrontation. In a region where there is fear of miscalculation, you are not supposed to announce this kind of thing in the Knesset. I just want to make that clear. Yesterday, Naftali Bennett promoted his press conference on the conditions of soldiers, okay? He gets six million views because the timing looks like a countdown and he is a former prime minister, so the Iranians are in hysterics that he is actually announcing that they are going to attack. Thatโ€™s the atmosphere. So when Netanyahu attacks like this and makes an unprecedented threatโ€”not only harsh but also unusualโ€”one canโ€™t help but think that for Netanyahu there is a message, or something more problematic than miscalculation. And he wants to warn the Iranians. Now, whatโ€™s the issue? The issue is that if the Iranians come to the conclusion that their regime is on the verge of collapse, there is one thing that might save them. And that is an attack on Israel. Because we saw during the war what is called โ€œrally around the flag.โ€ Even those who were in the opposition rallied around the flag when their country was attacked. It is not only the Islamic Republic that is under attack, but also the Islamic Republic of Iran. That is essentially the issue, and that is what Netanyahu, in my opinion, is trying to stop with the threat he issued after the security discussion.

Amit Segal

41,392 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 6 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

The Vice President gave a sermon. About Lazarus. About a man who died while the Lord waited. About a tomb sealed with a stone. About a question asked not for information, but for witness!!! And the political class is now scrambling to decode what they heard. Let me tell you what they heard. Chiwenga stood before the congregation and asked: when was Lazarus buried? He asked as if he did not know. He asked as if the Lord of all creation needed the crowd to tell him the hour of interment. He asked, he said, so that the people would give their input. So that things would not just happen idly. So that the miracle, when it came, would be witnessed - not imposed. Now sit with that!!! The most powerful sermon delivered in this Republic since the coup that brought Mnangagwa to power - and it is about a man who waited for death to complete itself before he acted. The Cabal has buried the Constitution. They have rolled the stone over the tomb. The Senate has voted. The Bill awaits the President's signature. The process is complete. The death has occurred. The mourners have wept. The 42 in the National Assembly wept. The 4 in the Senate wept. The Generals who warned of enduring consequences wept. The invisible force that has always resolved this nation's deepest questions watched, and waited, and did not intervene. And now the VP stands before the nation and asks: when was he buried? He knows. He has always known. The question is not for him. The question is for you. It is for the people to say: the burial happened. The Constitution was entombed. The stone was sealed. We saw it. We witnessed it. We gave our input. And now - now that the death is admitted, now that the process is exhausted, now that every human agency has been tried and found wanting - now something else must happen. This is not a sermon about Lazarus. This is a sermon about Zimbabwe. This is the language of the Matrix - patient, coded, theological, and devastating!!! The General does not speak idly. He speaks when the moment is approaching. He speaks when the people need to recognise the moment when it arrives. He speaks when the stone is about to be rolled away - not by him, not by a faction, but by the collective will of a people who have acknowledged the death and are ready for the resurrection!!! The Cabal should listen carefully. The man who told them "whoever wins, wins" is about to discover that some victories are just burials in waiting. The man who equated his term with the people's survival is about to learn that survival is not the same as consent. And the man who chuckled at the rally is about to hear a question he cannot answer with a chuckle. The people know. They saw the Parliament vote. They saw the Ayes and the Noes. They saw the abstention. They saw the conveyor belt complete its final turn. They gave their input - in emails, in court applications, in parliamentary speeches, in bullets received and refused. The input is complete. The death is admitted. And now? Now we wait. Not for a faction. Not for a coup. For the stone to move. For the resurrection that follows every burial the Cabal thinks is final. For the Constitution to rise from the tomb they built for it. The Lord waited three days. The people have waited longer. But the waiting is not idle. It is witness. And the witness will be the record that history reads when the stone is rolled away!!! The VP has spoken. The question hangs in the air. When was he buried? The answer is already written in the archive. The resurrection is not a prediction. It is a promise!!! And the people - the true people, not the ghost submissions - will be there to see it.
2:15

The Vice President gave a sermon. About Lazarus. About a man who died while the Lord waited. About a tomb sealed with a stone. About a question asked not for information, but for witness!!! And the political class is now scrambling to decode what they heard. Let me tell you what they heard. Chiwenga stood before the congregation and asked: when was Lazarus buried? He asked as if he did not know. He asked as if the Lord of all creation needed the crowd to tell him the hour of interment. He asked, he said, so that the people would give their input. So that things would not just happen idly. So that the miracle, when it came, would be witnessed - not imposed. Now sit with that!!! The most powerful sermon delivered in this Republic since the coup that brought Mnangagwa to power - and it is about a man who waited for death to complete itself before he acted. The Cabal has buried the Constitution. They have rolled the stone over the tomb. The Senate has voted. The Bill awaits the President's signature. The process is complete. The death has occurred. The mourners have wept. The 42 in the National Assembly wept. The 4 in the Senate wept. The Generals who warned of enduring consequences wept. The invisible force that has always resolved this nation's deepest questions watched, and waited, and did not intervene. And now the VP stands before the nation and asks: when was he buried? He knows. He has always known. The question is not for him. The question is for you. It is for the people to say: the burial happened. The Constitution was entombed. The stone was sealed. We saw it. We witnessed it. We gave our input. And now - now that the death is admitted, now that the process is exhausted, now that every human agency has been tried and found wanting - now something else must happen. This is not a sermon about Lazarus. This is a sermon about Zimbabwe. This is the language of the Matrix - patient, coded, theological, and devastating!!! The General does not speak idly. He speaks when the moment is approaching. He speaks when the people need to recognise the moment when it arrives. He speaks when the stone is about to be rolled away - not by him, not by a faction, but by the collective will of a people who have acknowledged the death and are ready for the resurrection!!! The Cabal should listen carefully. The man who told them "whoever wins, wins" is about to discover that some victories are just burials in waiting. The man who equated his term with the people's survival is about to learn that survival is not the same as consent. And the man who chuckled at the rally is about to hear a question he cannot answer with a chuckle. The people know. They saw the Parliament vote. They saw the Ayes and the Noes. They saw the abstention. They saw the conveyor belt complete its final turn. They gave their input - in emails, in court applications, in parliamentary speeches, in bullets received and refused. The input is complete. The death is admitted. And now? Now we wait. Not for a faction. Not for a coup. For the stone to move. For the resurrection that follows every burial the Cabal thinks is final. For the Constitution to rise from the tomb they built for it. The Lord waited three days. The people have waited longer. But the waiting is not idle. It is witness. And the witness will be the record that history reads when the stone is rolled away!!! The VP has spoken. The question hangs in the air. When was he buried? The answer is already written in the archive. The resurrection is not a prediction. It is a promise!!! And the people - the true people, not the ghost submissions - will be there to see it.

ZVAMAINGA MUHONDO

22,103 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 16 ๅคฉๅ‰

Public Service Announcement: We Will Be Relentless Megyn Kelly! It is so ironic that Megyn Kelly artfully dissects the left's hypocrisy but is blind to her own failings. We are not harassing MK but pointing out the error of her ways! Oh by way, Carlson was summoned to the White House to address his rhetoric. Why did he not state this fact? As a Catholic Megyn Kelly, you would benefit from a consultation with your Priest, or maybe just maybe, open a Bible, or a history book! But no that is to much to ask for the propagandist actress. It is so ironic that Megyn Kelly artfully dissects the left hypocrisy but is blind to her own failings.
2:21

Public Service Announcement: We Will Be Relentless Megyn Kelly! It is so ironic that Megyn Kelly artfully dissects the left's hypocrisy but is blind to her own failings. We are not harassing MK but pointing out the error of her ways! Oh by way, Carlson was summoned to the White House to address his rhetoric. Why did he not state this fact? As a Catholic Megyn Kelly, you would benefit from a consultation with your Priest, or maybe just maybe, open a Bible, or a history book! But no that is to much to ask for the propagandist actress. It is so ironic that Megyn Kelly artfully dissects the left hypocrisy but is blind to her own failings.

Andrea Shaffer, Anti-Marxist Warrior

29,392 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 4 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

Do you think that by the folly of man, the glory of God can be diminished? . I tell you, no kingdom of this earth, no rebellion of heart, no blasphemy of tongue can ever tarnish the majesty of the Almighty. His glory is not made by the hands of men, nor is it undone by their defiance. . Consider the arrogance of those who refuse to kneel, who claim that their disbelief can unmake the Creator. They are like madmen in a darkened cell, scratching the word โ€˜darknessโ€™ upon the walls as though, by their crude mark, they could blot out the sun. But tell me, does the sun diminish because it is unseen by the blind? Does its light falter because a lunatic curses its name? No, my friend. The sun remains, burning with relentless brilliance, giving life to all who dwell beneath it, whether they acknowledge it or not. . So it is with God. His glory is eternal, unshaken by the denial of men. He is the architect of the heavens, the One who breathed life into dust and set the stars upon their courses. His majesty does not depend on our worship, yet it is we who are diminished when we turn away. For in refusing to see His light, we do not extinguish itโ€”we only cast ourselves into the shadow of our own making. . Know that to deny God is not an act of power but of despair. It is the rejection of hope, the refusal to see the beauty written into the very fabric of existence. A man who scribbles darkness upon the walls of his soul does not conquer the light, he only blinds himself to it. Yet even in his rebellion, Godโ€™s glory shines undimmed. For the sun does not cease to rise because a man refuses to look upon it. And God does not cease to reign because His children wander from His embrace. . If you ever find yourself in doubt, remember this: the defiance of man is but a whisper against the roar of eternity. The glory of God is as unyielding as the mountains and as boundless as the sea. It is woven into the sunrise, the turning of the seasons, the song of creation itself. You cannot destroy it. You cannot unmake it. You can only choose whether to bask in its light or to linger in the shadows. . Take heart, then and do not be swayed by the noise of those who mock the divine. For their words are as fleeting as the wind but the glory of God is eternal. Acknowledge Him not because He needs your praise but because your soul needs His light. Worship Him not as a favor to the Almighty but as a declaration that you see, that you understand, that you are humbled by the grandeur of the One who crafted all that is and all that ever will be. . Godโ€™s glory is not diminished by denial, nor is it amplified by praise. But you, my friendโ€”you are elevated when you bow before the Eternal. You are strengthened when you trust in the One who holds the stars in place. And you are transformed when you abandon the shadows of pride and step into the radiance of His truth. . Remember this always: the lunatic may scrawl his defiance but he cannot extinguish the light. The doubter may deny the sun but he cannot halt its rise. And the world may rage against the King of Kings but it cannot dethrone Him. Stand firm, therefore, as one who walks in the light of God. Let your life be a testimony that His glory endures forever, unshaken, unyielding and undeniable. . For in the end, my friend, it is not God who is diminished by our defiance. It is we. And it is not the sun that falters when we turn awayโ€”it is the world that grows colder in its absence. #ChristIsKing #WeAreTheStorm
0:23

Do you think that by the folly of man, the glory of God can be diminished? . I tell you, no kingdom of this earth, no rebellion of heart, no blasphemy of tongue can ever tarnish the majesty of the Almighty. His glory is not made by the hands of men, nor is it undone by their defiance. . Consider the arrogance of those who refuse to kneel, who claim that their disbelief can unmake the Creator. They are like madmen in a darkened cell, scratching the word โ€˜darknessโ€™ upon the walls as though, by their crude mark, they could blot out the sun. But tell me, does the sun diminish because it is unseen by the blind? Does its light falter because a lunatic curses its name? No, my friend. The sun remains, burning with relentless brilliance, giving life to all who dwell beneath it, whether they acknowledge it or not. . So it is with God. His glory is eternal, unshaken by the denial of men. He is the architect of the heavens, the One who breathed life into dust and set the stars upon their courses. His majesty does not depend on our worship, yet it is we who are diminished when we turn away. For in refusing to see His light, we do not extinguish itโ€”we only cast ourselves into the shadow of our own making. . Know that to deny God is not an act of power but of despair. It is the rejection of hope, the refusal to see the beauty written into the very fabric of existence. A man who scribbles darkness upon the walls of his soul does not conquer the light, he only blinds himself to it. Yet even in his rebellion, Godโ€™s glory shines undimmed. For the sun does not cease to rise because a man refuses to look upon it. And God does not cease to reign because His children wander from His embrace. . If you ever find yourself in doubt, remember this: the defiance of man is but a whisper against the roar of eternity. The glory of God is as unyielding as the mountains and as boundless as the sea. It is woven into the sunrise, the turning of the seasons, the song of creation itself. You cannot destroy it. You cannot unmake it. You can only choose whether to bask in its light or to linger in the shadows. . Take heart, then and do not be swayed by the noise of those who mock the divine. For their words are as fleeting as the wind but the glory of God is eternal. Acknowledge Him not because He needs your praise but because your soul needs His light. Worship Him not as a favor to the Almighty but as a declaration that you see, that you understand, that you are humbled by the grandeur of the One who crafted all that is and all that ever will be. . Godโ€™s glory is not diminished by denial, nor is it amplified by praise. But you, my friendโ€”you are elevated when you bow before the Eternal. You are strengthened when you trust in the One who holds the stars in place. And you are transformed when you abandon the shadows of pride and step into the radiance of His truth. . Remember this always: the lunatic may scrawl his defiance but he cannot extinguish the light. The doubter may deny the sun but he cannot halt its rise. And the world may rage against the King of Kings but it cannot dethrone Him. Stand firm, therefore, as one who walks in the light of God. Let your life be a testimony that His glory endures forever, unshaken, unyielding and undeniable. . For in the end, my friend, it is not God who is diminished by our defiance. It is we. And it is not the sun that falters when we turn awayโ€”it is the world that grows colder in its absence. #ChristIsKing #WeAreTheStorm

The Redeemed

56,357 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 1 ๅนดๅ‰

I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.
8:26

I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.

Kirk Rollins

77,958 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 1 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ SHOCKING TRUTH: JOHN THUNE IS NOT YOUR ONLY PROBLEM. THE MATH IS YOUR PROBLEM. I understand the frustration. I feel it too. John Thune sits in the most powerful seat in the Senate and too often it feels like he is running interference against the very agenda the American people voted for. That anger is legitimate. But I want to offer a different way to look at this, because I think we are aiming at the wrong target. Thune is a symptom. The disease is the math. Here is how a Majority Leader actually gets chosen. It is not a public vote. It is not decided by you or me. It is decided by the Republican Senate caucus, meaning every Republican senator votes for who leads them. And right now, MAGA is a minority inside that caucus. That is not an opinion. That is a head count. So when people ask why we cannot get a true MAGA leader in the Senate, the answer is brutally simple. The votes are not there yet. Think about what a slim majority actually means in practice. When you are working with two or three seat margins, a handful of globalist Republicans become kingmakers. They know it. They use it. Five RINOs in a slim majority have more leverage than fifty conservatives in a landslide majority. That is not an accident. That is how they survive. And make no mistake about what a RINO actually is. These are not just old school Republicans who like tax cuts and hate spending. These are globalists. They serve multinational corporate interests that have no loyalty to this country, its workers, or its borders. They oppose fair trade because their masters profit from cheap foreign labor. They oppose border security because multinationals do not see America as a nation. They see it as a market. They just happen to operate here. McConnell built that machine and ran it for decades. His influence is finally fading. That matters more than most people realize. But here is the hard truth. If we replace Thune tomorrow with another leader chosen by the same caucus, we get another Thune with a different face. The globalist bloc inside the Republican Senate conference does not disappear because we change the nameplate on the door. The real win is what is already happening. We have primaried out a number of RINOs this cycle. Real ones. And if those seats hold and the majority grows, the math starts to shift. A ten seat majority is a completely different world than a three seat majority. The leverage these people hold evaporates when the numbers move against them. Do not stop being angry. Channel it into the right fight. Grow the majority. Primary the globalists. And understand that the enemy is not one man in a leadership office. The enemy is a caucus that does not yet reflect the will of the people who sent them there. That is changing. Stay in the fight.
0:25

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ SHOCKING TRUTH: JOHN THUNE IS NOT YOUR ONLY PROBLEM. THE MATH IS YOUR PROBLEM. I understand the frustration. I feel it too. John Thune sits in the most powerful seat in the Senate and too often it feels like he is running interference against the very agenda the American people voted for. That anger is legitimate. But I want to offer a different way to look at this, because I think we are aiming at the wrong target. Thune is a symptom. The disease is the math. Here is how a Majority Leader actually gets chosen. It is not a public vote. It is not decided by you or me. It is decided by the Republican Senate caucus, meaning every Republican senator votes for who leads them. And right now, MAGA is a minority inside that caucus. That is not an opinion. That is a head count. So when people ask why we cannot get a true MAGA leader in the Senate, the answer is brutally simple. The votes are not there yet. Think about what a slim majority actually means in practice. When you are working with two or three seat margins, a handful of globalist Republicans become kingmakers. They know it. They use it. Five RINOs in a slim majority have more leverage than fifty conservatives in a landslide majority. That is not an accident. That is how they survive. And make no mistake about what a RINO actually is. These are not just old school Republicans who like tax cuts and hate spending. These are globalists. They serve multinational corporate interests that have no loyalty to this country, its workers, or its borders. They oppose fair trade because their masters profit from cheap foreign labor. They oppose border security because multinationals do not see America as a nation. They see it as a market. They just happen to operate here. McConnell built that machine and ran it for decades. His influence is finally fading. That matters more than most people realize. But here is the hard truth. If we replace Thune tomorrow with another leader chosen by the same caucus, we get another Thune with a different face. The globalist bloc inside the Republican Senate conference does not disappear because we change the nameplate on the door. The real win is what is already happening. We have primaried out a number of RINOs this cycle. Real ones. And if those seats hold and the majority grows, the math starts to shift. A ten seat majority is a completely different world than a three seat majority. The leverage these people hold evaporates when the numbers move against them. Do not stop being angry. Channel it into the right fight. Grow the majority. Primary the globalists. And understand that the enemy is not one man in a leadership office. The enemy is a caucus that does not yet reflect the will of the people who sent them there. That is changing. Stay in the fight.

Bill Mitchell

47,075 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 18 ๅคฉๅ‰

Another strong conversation in Red Deer was with a supporter who put his finger on something important: for a lot of Albertans, this is no longer mainly about oil or even economics. It is about freedom, rights, and whether Alberta still has a future inside a country that no longer feels like the one people grew up loving. He says it directly: this is not the Canada he fell in love with, and more and more people feel the same way. What makes this exchange significant is that it shows how the movement is maturing. It starts with the visible size of the line, the honking, and the energy on the street, but very quickly the conversation goes deeper. He argues that if people really understood what Ottawa is doing, they would be all over this. That is a revealing point because it frames Alberta independence not as some fringe impulse, but as a conclusion people arrive at once they stop assuming Canada still operates on the values it claims to stand for. We then get into one of the deepest issues of all: rights. He makes the argument that Canadians are taught to think they have rights, but in practice many of those rights function more like privileges that can be overridden. I respond by pointing to the first clause of the Charter and the broader constitutional problem that Canadians often speak as if they have American-style guarantees when they do not. That matters because once people conclude their freedoms are conditional, they stop thinking only in economic terms and start thinking civilizationally. What kind of country do we actually live in, and what kind of country do we want to build? He also makes a crucial point when he says this has gone way beyond oil and pipelines. He brings up unfair representation, the treatment of Alberta, and the feeling that the system has never really been fair to this province, only now it is being said openly and to our faces. That is one of the reasons the independence argument is broadening. It is no longer just resource frustration. It is about political dignity, democratic legitimacy, and whether Alberta is treated as a partner or as a region to be used. And the ending says a lot too. He brings it back to the kids, to affordability, to family formation, and to the people who are hurting the most. That is the deeper moral force behind this movement. For many supporters, Alberta independence is not mainly about anger. It is about creating a future where the next generation can still afford a home, raise a family, and live with real freedom and real opportunity.
6:09

Another strong conversation in Red Deer was with a supporter who put his finger on something important: for a lot of Albertans, this is no longer mainly about oil or even economics. It is about freedom, rights, and whether Alberta still has a future inside a country that no longer feels like the one people grew up loving. He says it directly: this is not the Canada he fell in love with, and more and more people feel the same way. What makes this exchange significant is that it shows how the movement is maturing. It starts with the visible size of the line, the honking, and the energy on the street, but very quickly the conversation goes deeper. He argues that if people really understood what Ottawa is doing, they would be all over this. That is a revealing point because it frames Alberta independence not as some fringe impulse, but as a conclusion people arrive at once they stop assuming Canada still operates on the values it claims to stand for. We then get into one of the deepest issues of all: rights. He makes the argument that Canadians are taught to think they have rights, but in practice many of those rights function more like privileges that can be overridden. I respond by pointing to the first clause of the Charter and the broader constitutional problem that Canadians often speak as if they have American-style guarantees when they do not. That matters because once people conclude their freedoms are conditional, they stop thinking only in economic terms and start thinking civilizationally. What kind of country do we actually live in, and what kind of country do we want to build? He also makes a crucial point when he says this has gone way beyond oil and pipelines. He brings up unfair representation, the treatment of Alberta, and the feeling that the system has never really been fair to this province, only now it is being said openly and to our faces. That is one of the reasons the independence argument is broadening. It is no longer just resource frustration. It is about political dignity, democratic legitimacy, and whether Alberta is treated as a partner or as a region to be used. And the ending says a lot too. He brings it back to the kids, to affordability, to family formation, and to the people who are hurting the most. That is the deeper moral force behind this movement. For many supporters, Alberta independence is not mainly about anger. It is about creating a future where the next generation can still afford a home, raise a family, and live with real freedom and real opportunity.

Jon Alberta Patriot

12,159 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 3 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

Elon Musk just described a future where money does not exist. Not reformed. Not redistributed. Gone. Musk: โ€œI think things will just be free in the future. If youโ€™ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met.โ€ Forget the sci-fi framing. Listen to what he is actually saying. The entire structure of human civilization runs on a single variable. You need something you cannot freely access. That gap is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. Your employer does not pay you because your work has value. Your employer pays you because you have no choice but to show up. Your government does not protect you out of principle. It maintains order because your dependency on the economy makes you governable. Scarcity is not a natural condition. It is the most successful control structure ever built. Musk: โ€œIf you can think of it, you can have it.โ€ Now ask what happens when that structure collapses. A population that does not need a paycheck cannot be managed by one. A population that does not need credit cannot be disciplined by debt. A population that has everything has no reason to comply with anything. This is not a conversation about free goods. This is a conversation about the largest redistribution of leverage in recorded history. But there is a second collapse no one is talking about. Most people have built their entire identity around the constraint. The career they resent is the structure that tells them where to be every morning. The bills they complain about are the exact reason they never had to ask a harder question. Musk: โ€œThere actually isnโ€™t money in the future and thereโ€™s abundance for everyone.โ€ When the constraint disappears, so does the excuse. The crisis of the coming century will not be material. It will be millions of people standing in total freedom. Discovering they have no idea who they are without the struggle. Every barrier will be gone. And you will finally have to face the one thing scarcity has been protecting you from your entire life. Yourself.
0:43

Elon Musk just described a future where money does not exist. Not reformed. Not redistributed. Gone. Musk: โ€œI think things will just be free in the future. If youโ€™ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met.โ€ Forget the sci-fi framing. Listen to what he is actually saying. The entire structure of human civilization runs on a single variable. You need something you cannot freely access. That gap is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. Your employer does not pay you because your work has value. Your employer pays you because you have no choice but to show up. Your government does not protect you out of principle. It maintains order because your dependency on the economy makes you governable. Scarcity is not a natural condition. It is the most successful control structure ever built. Musk: โ€œIf you can think of it, you can have it.โ€ Now ask what happens when that structure collapses. A population that does not need a paycheck cannot be managed by one. A population that does not need credit cannot be disciplined by debt. A population that has everything has no reason to comply with anything. This is not a conversation about free goods. This is a conversation about the largest redistribution of leverage in recorded history. But there is a second collapse no one is talking about. Most people have built their entire identity around the constraint. The career they resent is the structure that tells them where to be every morning. The bills they complain about are the exact reason they never had to ask a harder question. Musk: โ€œThere actually isnโ€™t money in the future and thereโ€™s abundance for everyone.โ€ When the constraint disappears, so does the excuse. The crisis of the coming century will not be material. It will be millions of people standing in total freedom. Discovering they have no idea who they are without the struggle. Every barrier will be gone. And you will finally have to face the one thing scarcity has been protecting you from your entire life. Yourself.

Dustin

41,736 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 2 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰

"There are no entertaining moments in 'Mirror' (1975). In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience." --- Andrei Tarkovsky Full Excerpt: "'Mirror' (1975) is an autobiographical film. The things that happen are real things that happened to people close to me. That is true of all the episodes in the film. But why do people complain that they cannot understand it? The facts are so simple, they can be taken by every one as similar to the experience of their own lives. But here we come up against something that is peculiar to cinema: the further a viewer is from the content of a film, the closer he is; what people are looking for in cinema is a continuation of their lives, not a repetition. There are no entertaining moments in the film. In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience. The purpose of 'Mirror', its inspiration, is that of a homily: look, learn, use the life shown here as an example. There are so many films now, and they are all so different, that very soon it will be impossible to plan for distribution to cinemas. That will be the beginning of a new phase in the development of film, which is after all the youngest art form, it is only about seventy years old. Films will start to be handed out as cassettes, people will take them home, every viewer will find himself face to face with the film he particularly likes. And what of cinema, the mass medium, you may ask ? Mass is not a criterion of quality. The same could be said about the number of people involved in the making of a film. Numbers are not the point. A small team working together is preferable to a large collective. Another question: What is going to happen to Mirror? We don't know yet. For the moment the film is only being shown in three cinemas, and they started with two. They are trying it out first, because the organs responsible for distribution are afraid it might be a failure. When they heard that people sat on and wouldn't leave, one of the highly placed distribution officials observed that normal people leave the cinema." [A talk by Tarkovsky in the Building Institute, 1975 about his film 'Mirror' (1975)]
1:42

"There are no entertaining moments in 'Mirror' (1975). In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience." --- Andrei Tarkovsky Full Excerpt: "'Mirror' (1975) is an autobiographical film. The things that happen are real things that happened to people close to me. That is true of all the episodes in the film. But why do people complain that they cannot understand it? The facts are so simple, they can be taken by every one as similar to the experience of their own lives. But here we come up against something that is peculiar to cinema: the further a viewer is from the content of a film, the closer he is; what people are looking for in cinema is a continuation of their lives, not a repetition. There are no entertaining moments in the film. In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience. The purpose of 'Mirror', its inspiration, is that of a homily: look, learn, use the life shown here as an example. There are so many films now, and they are all so different, that very soon it will be impossible to plan for distribution to cinemas. That will be the beginning of a new phase in the development of film, which is after all the youngest art form, it is only about seventy years old. Films will start to be handed out as cassettes, people will take them home, every viewer will find himself face to face with the film he particularly likes. And what of cinema, the mass medium, you may ask ? Mass is not a criterion of quality. The same could be said about the number of people involved in the making of a film. Numbers are not the point. A small team working together is preferable to a large collective. Another question: What is going to happen to Mirror? We don't know yet. For the moment the film is only being shown in three cinemas, and they started with two. They are trying it out first, because the organs responsible for distribution are afraid it might be a failure. When they heard that people sat on and wouldn't leave, one of the highly placed distribution officials observed that normal people leave the cinema." [A talk by Tarkovsky in the Building Institute, 1975 about his film 'Mirror' (1975)]

DepressedBergman

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Elon Musk just told you the real cost of going first. It isnโ€™t capital. It isnโ€™t physics. Itโ€™s permission. Musk: โ€œIt is actually quite difficult to get all the permits, and it requires a lot of effort and a lot of close cooperation with the authorities.โ€ That is the part everyone already knows. What they miss is the sentence that follows. Musk: โ€œOne of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.โ€ He is pouring hundreds of millions in concrete before the government signs off. Knowing that a bureaucrat he will never meet can deny the long-term permit tomorrow. Knowing exactly what that means. Musk: โ€œYour long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.โ€ And tear it down. Every wall. Every pad. Every foundation. Back to dirt. Most companies have a word for that scenario. They call it unacceptable. Musk calls it acceptable. Musk: โ€œMost companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.โ€ That is the only sentence you need to understand why the West forgot how to build. We did not run out of engineers. We did not run out of capital. We ran out of people willing to move before the system gave them permission. The regulatory apparatus was not designed to stop you. It was designed to make you wait long enough that you stop yourself. Delays compound. Capital gets redeployed. The team loses faith. The quarterly call happens. The board gets nervous. The project quietly dies in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon. Nobody writes a press release about it. That is the mechanism. It does not need to say no. It just needs you to believe that waiting is the responsible thing to do. Musk proceeds at risk. Not because he is reckless. Because he understands that time is the one resource you cannot raise in a Series B. You can find more money. You cannot buy back a year. Momentum, once dead, stays dead. The men who built the Hoover Dam did not have a decade-long permitting process. They had a deadline. And a consequence if they missed it. We replaced consequence with compliance. Then we stood in the wreckage of our own caution and called it prudence. Musk is not a rogue operator. He is the last man in the Western world operating by the original terms. You decide. You pour. You absorb the downside. You keep moving. Everyone else is waiting for a signature from a man who has never built anything. The signature never comes on time. It never has. It never will.
0:35

Elon Musk just told you the real cost of going first. It isnโ€™t capital. It isnโ€™t physics. Itโ€™s permission. Musk: โ€œIt is actually quite difficult to get all the permits, and it requires a lot of effort and a lot of close cooperation with the authorities.โ€ That is the part everyone already knows. What they miss is the sentence that follows. Musk: โ€œOne of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.โ€ He is pouring hundreds of millions in concrete before the government signs off. Knowing that a bureaucrat he will never meet can deny the long-term permit tomorrow. Knowing exactly what that means. Musk: โ€œYour long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.โ€ And tear it down. Every wall. Every pad. Every foundation. Back to dirt. Most companies have a word for that scenario. They call it unacceptable. Musk calls it acceptable. Musk: โ€œMost companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.โ€ That is the only sentence you need to understand why the West forgot how to build. We did not run out of engineers. We did not run out of capital. We ran out of people willing to move before the system gave them permission. The regulatory apparatus was not designed to stop you. It was designed to make you wait long enough that you stop yourself. Delays compound. Capital gets redeployed. The team loses faith. The quarterly call happens. The board gets nervous. The project quietly dies in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon. Nobody writes a press release about it. That is the mechanism. It does not need to say no. It just needs you to believe that waiting is the responsible thing to do. Musk proceeds at risk. Not because he is reckless. Because he understands that time is the one resource you cannot raise in a Series B. You can find more money. You cannot buy back a year. Momentum, once dead, stays dead. The men who built the Hoover Dam did not have a decade-long permitting process. They had a deadline. And a consequence if they missed it. We replaced consequence with compliance. Then we stood in the wreckage of our own caution and called it prudence. Musk is not a rogue operator. He is the last man in the Western world operating by the original terms. You decide. You pour. You absorb the downside. You keep moving. Everyone else is waiting for a signature from a man who has never built anything. The signature never comes on time. It never has. It never will.

Dustin

23,099 ๆฌก่ง‚็œ‹ โ€ข 2 ไธชๆœˆๅ‰