Andy Olson

Semi-Reformed Christian — Classical Liberal — Podcaster @EchoZoe — Stay-at-home Dad — Architect — Pilot — Average guy

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

For Leftists, politics is their religion. The answer isn’t Conservative politics, it’s the Gospel.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

I am DONE with @KitchenAidUSA appliances, and @AC_Carlson_ .
In the last 5 years, I've bought a KitchenAid fridge, an oven, and a Microwave. The fridge and oven are still working, but not without problems. The microwave was manufactured in December 2024 and just died.

AC Carlson also sold me an Electrolux washer & dryer, and the washer needed repair within 2 years. The repairman told me it will likely need to be replaced within another year or two. (When it does, I'm getting a Speed Queen.)

It's getting really old having to replace appliances all the time. I can't go a year without something dying. Might as well get the cheap ones, as the ones that cost 3x as much don't last any longer. Get a 5 year extended warranty and still come away spending less.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

They attacked Elon nonstop for doing the same thing, and he didn’t even have a literal Nazi tattoo.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

@ImJimR87 I didn't check the final temp, but it was almost certainly higher than 202°.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

@ImJimR87 After (how many years?) of saying I want one, I finally got a smoker. I apologize in advance for all the questions about how to make awesome meats.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

@ImJimR87 Yeah, I thought so going in, and that bore out in the end. Too hot and too long.

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@ImJimR87 The recipe said 250° for about 5 hours, covering part of the way through. I put the probe in about an hour into it and it was already at 190°. Next time I'll cook at 225°, or maybe even less.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

First rack of ribs today. Good, but overcooked, IMO. Ribs need to be eaten off the bone. These fall apart too fast, and made better pulled pork.

Used this recipe:
https://t.co/EYHrCd78zJ

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

Your church says you are. But they also say all non-Mormons are not.

Then act all shocked when non-Mormons point it out.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Of course he does

He has publicly said so

Because we are

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

@Fred_Butler @ImJimR87 I fear my wife will say the same when I start making them, but it's too late to not buy it. And my oldest son will be all over it, so she may not eat the meat, but she won't care much either.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

I might be a uninterested in watching Game of Thrones as @Chris_Hohnholz is in watching Elf.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

Not a single minute here.

And no desire to.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

I must be the only person on the planet that has never watched a single episode of Game of Thrones.

[𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡 @HwsEleutheroi]

Social media is filled with the righteous indignation of the Mormons---who claim to be the only true Church, all other churches are corrupt, their creeds an abomination, their ministers the hirelings of Satan---that they, the Mormons, are not really Christians. It's just a tad ironic, but it does play on the ignorance of most LDS, and non-LDS, about LDS history and teachings.

Their current modus operandi is to use the phrase "creedal Christians" and try to make the issue post-biblical. Here's the problem. The fundamental distinction between Christianity and Mormonism goes back to about 1400 BC, not 400 AD. Here is the foundational contrast:

Before the mountains were born,
Or Your brought forth the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting,
You are God. (Psalm 90:2)

...for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.

Joseph Smith, 1844

Now, two quick things: 1) Psalm 90 is a song of Moses, hence the early date. 2) The King Follett Funeral Discourse is not LDS Scripture. But it is the most often cited sermon of Joseph Smith by the leaders of the LDS Church itself, and is one of two foundational sermons preached within the last months of his life.

Hence, the issue is stark and clear. Monotheism vs. polytheism, one transcendent Creator God vs. an exalted man from another planet. Just a reminder from Brigham Young as to how Smith's words were interpreted by those who heard him initially:

“Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another earth, and were enabled to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and will be to all eternity.”

Brigham Young, JD 7:333, August 28, 1859.

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@prayerdude @GiordanosPizza https://t.co/IRzrE1JlYO

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@mazemoore Don't feed the animals.

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@DefiantLs If that were true, Mexico wouldn't be a dumpster fire of a country.

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I bookmarked this so I could watch at a better time. I don't really disagree with what he's saying, but I think he misses a bigger issue. The whole caucus/convention system is stupid. The primaries are what ultimately matter. When a delegate asks a candidate if he/she will abide by the endorsement, it's asked knowing that the primary is what matters, and asked because the delegate feels threatened that he's wasting his time being there to get his favorite candidate endorsed, just to have someone else nullify it all by forcing a primary. No one asks the person they're there to support to abide. There's no need, of course the winner will abide by the endorsement, the winner has nothing to gain by forcing a primary.

Ditch the caucuses!

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

I got involved with the caucus system around the same time you did. I stopped going to conventions around 2014, but went back once or twice around 2018 just because I moved, and wanted to see how the conventions differed.

I have thought for a long time that the question of abiding by the endorsement was always loaded and unfair. When a delegate asks a candidate if he/she will abide, it's usually asked of someone whom the delegate isn't planning to support. The delegate feels threatened that he went to the convention to support one candidate, but that another will just nullify it all later with a primary. It's dumb. We either need to ditch the caucus/convention endorsement system, or we need to ditch the primary system. Having both doesn't work.

If it were up to me, I would scrap the whole caucus system and just go with primaries. It's much easier to get people involved when they can just show up and fill out a ballot. Committing to a BPOU, CD, and State conventions is a big ask. And too may people new to the process go to caucuses in February thinking that the straw poll is a primary. They get rather upset when they learn later that their vote for a candidate meant nothing, and it was their vote for a delegate that actually mattered.

[Andy Olson @AvgAndy]

@BasedMikeLee @conservmillen Rejecting Christian doctrine doesn’t disqualify a sect from being Christian?

Nonsense.