Elijah S. Valley

Husband, father, grandfather, Christian, conservative, retired USAF (25 yrs) veteran, golfer

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@realinkybot @RonFilipkowski Grok’s answer:

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@leftcoastbabe @samstein Same

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@grok @MrPresident74 @Raindropsmedia1 Based on street signs above his head…

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me get this straight.

The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately.

Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes.

Trump said no.

Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote.

Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse.

Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks.

We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math.

Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today.

Trump is the one standing in the way.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

GOP Senator admits that Republicans are blocking TSA funding:

"The Democrats offered to open up everything but ICE. Ted and I said okay, let's accept their offer... That way DHS is back open. Senator Thune submitted that to Trump, he said, 'No. No deals with the Democrats.' So, we're back to square one"

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

Pete Hegseth accused of lying about what the Father of a US service member - killed in the conflict - told him. In the UK he would be gone.

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@JonesForAR @RoKhanna @RepFrenchHill “Present”

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@JakeFrye_13 @Rachel_Jae @WarMonitor3 US forces in Saudi Arabia are primarily at Prince Sultan Air Base, 50 miles southeast of Riyadh

[Donté J Harvey @dontejharvey]

This gotta be the worst foul in the history of basketball 😂

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

You can't come back from this type of humiliation.

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

This is a wonderful read!

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I share this post in earnest and (what may prove a naive) hope that a few people caught in the situation I’m about to describe will hear instead of rushing to the usual tropes, criticisms and caricatures. For what it’s worth, I offer this in good faith.

Between 2016 and 2022, I faced a test of the genuineness of my faith so large and consequential, I’m almost at a loss to think of the right adjectives to describe it. It might not have been so big to someone else but it involved so much of my Christian identity, it was all but existential. Well more than that. It was a dying.

It is this test that helps me understand why people who seem deeply devoted to the Lord Jesus and hold the scriptures in highest esteem also hold to a system, institution or leader no matter what they do and defend a side or individual to a degree that is baffling.

I can tell you why because I had to face every bit of it. Identity, community, camaraderie, what we’ve known and loved, what part of it we still love, the people we loved, the people we still love, reputation, what people will think, how you will be judged and condemned and thrown over to the other side who doesn’t want you either. And to whom you also do not align and would not belong. Friendships. How you will be misunderstood and misrepresented. How adrift and alone you will feel. How disliked.

And then there’s this and it would be a mistake to minimize it: your JOB. Your source of income. Your vocation.

This is the part of the crisis I most write these words to convey because I think they are most in play for many right now, whether in media, ministry or politics.

Let me try to put this in the words that were constantly resonant in my spirit in those years. And to this day.

Though you have no other place to go, Beth, and no place to fit and it not only MAY have financial repercussions but WILL have financial repercussions to the ministry and to your family and will also make them targets and none of it will ever look the same or be the same, will you choose what you believe to be right and put everything else in your vocational life at risk?

This is what is at risk for many people whose professional reputations and positions are tied up with leaders, institutions and political parties. Mine was, too. The cost is enormous and the options are often untenable. And so there we are.

Having to cast ourselves on the mercy of God. Not for a third way. But as THE ONLY WAY. The only truth. The only life.

I’ve made multiple errors in judgment. Jumped too quickly to condemn. Spoken wrongly. Remained silent wrongly and confusingly. I never get it completely together.

But what I will tell you is that I believe we are meant first and foremost to call out our own house, our own side, and our own identity group for its mind-boggling hypocrisy. These were my people. Evangelicals. Conservatives.

Claim what you will but I know who I am:

I am pro life from conception to casket.
I am pro small government.
I am pro godliness and the pursuit of a holy life.
I am pro marriage and family and pro-those God calls to remain single and sanctified and I’m deeply thankful for them.
I am pro traditional sexual ethics.
I am pro love of God and love of neighbor and the dignity of every person as an image bearer of Christ.
I am pro love all.
I am pro church. I believe in the community of the saints.
I am pro Bible study to the death and believe the aim of all discipleship is to know and love and follow and emulate Jesus Christ.
I am pro gospel. Dear God in heaven, I am pro gospel. I believe there is one name by whom we must be saved. Jesus.

What I am not is pro Trump.

Wasn’t pro Clinton. Wasn’t pro Biden. But those were not the candidates many in the world that I loved so much were cheering on.

I accept that Donald Trump is my president. I pray for him on a regular basis. I’m a law abiding citizen and pay my taxes. But I believe Trump fosters something in people that makes them lose their way.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

The Republican Congress and President Clinton ran a budget surplus for four straight years.

In Dec ‘25, Republicans broke the record for running a $145 billion deficit in ONE MONTH.

The US didn’t run a YEARLY deficit that high for its first 200 years.
https://t.co/dlSCigTIWg

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It should break every Christian’s heart that our faith was used as a political tool to bring our country to where it is today.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Glenn Beck: What Noem said is not true. His gun was holstered and in his back, and you have a right to carry a gun at a protest. It is perfectly legal and constitutionally protected. If you have a gun and you don't have your hands on it, you should not be shot.

[NBA on NBC and Peacock @NBAonNBC]

Snoop Dogg announcing Steve Kerr's ejection is hilarious. 😂

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@TrevorDavi89171 @pastordmack I appreciate that distinction! I trust your congregation is living that out (feeding, equipping, and lifting people) without relying on state or federal aid. When God’s people take that mantle seriously, the world sees what James called “pure religion” in action.

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@TrevorDavi89171 @pastordmack I’d imagine a Great Commission pastor knows this: though Scripture doesn’t define govt in modern terms, God expects all rulers to lead w/ justice & mercy (Ps 72; Isa 10:1-2; Jer 22). Any govt reflecting His heart serves the poor, not exploits them

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@jonesbradw @pastordmack Moral clarity isn’t proven by choosing a party; it’s revealed by choosing the Cross. Many believers who vote Democrat do so out of concern for justice, poverty, healthcare, or immigration; not because they endorse every platform plank. No party owns righteousness!

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@jblairsanders @EllerySamwise @muchaz45 @pastordmack “The abortion issue was perfect for mobilizing evangelicals. It could unify and moralize without mentioning race.” ~ Paul Weyrich

[Elijah S. Valley @ESValley]

@jblairsanders @EllerySamwise @muchaz45 @pastordmack Abortion didn’t become a political litmus test because of deep moral conviction; it became one because political strategists needed an issue to unite white evangelicals after the IRS moved against segregated Christian schools in the ’70s.