Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲

All about Spiritual Formation and Discipleship DMin, MATS, MPA @LibertyUDiv | @MaloneU | @KentState | #LGM | Azzurri 🇮🇹 | Sr. Pastor | Iron Chef | Barthian

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

Well, I officially passed my oral defense without edits!!! It's been a long 3yrs, but it is finished!!! All that's left is to submit my dissertation to the library for publication and wait to receive my official email and diploma. The doctor is in!

Thank you, Jesus ! ✝️

[espnW @espnW]

Hailey Van Lith is the only player to lead THREE different schools to the Elite Eight in NCAA history (men's or women's) 🔥

[Women’s Hoops Network @WomensHoops_USA]

Hailey Van Lith today 🔥

• 26 points
• 9 rebounds
• 4 assists
• 10/21 FG

[Mark Halperin @MarkHalperin]

Plenty of Democrats are steadfast in their defense of the conduct of their party’s members of Congress in the chamber last night during Donald Trump’s speech, mostly justifying what was done in protest by pointing to the president’s own conduct and policies.

Here is a different and striking perspective from a Wide World of News reader, a (now) former Democrat who gave me permission to print her email, without the sender’s name:

Hi Mark,

I watched the speech last night and 2 Way this morning. I’m a Democrat, my immediate family and siblings are Democrats, we didn’t vote for Trump.

Last night for me was my breaking point. I watched with my husband as fellow Democrats (ironically wearing pink for women) sat there either stone faced or seething with disgust while the family of Laken Riley was honored and a young boy with cancer became an honorary secret service agent. I’m switching parties. It’s been coming for awhile, but that was the moment for me.

I have a young family member that was the victim of assault, I have family in law enforcement, we have all been touched in some way by cancer, and I have not been able to come to terms with what I witnessed from Democrats last night. It was surreal. It was like an episode of Scooby Doo where they pull off the masks and show you who the villains are. I literally couldn’t sleep last night. I can’t believe I’m saying this. But I’m done. As a woman, a mother, as a HUMAN, I’m just done. When I heard Nicole Wallace’s heinous remark I said to my husband “who are these people?!”

They don’t represent me anymore, or who I am. I can finally admit to myself that despite my personal dislike of Trump, I begrudgingly admit I support some of what he is actually doing. I can’t think of much I support that the Democrats have been doing for a long time, and frankly I don’t even know what they stand for now except the right to choose ( which is no longer enough) and men having the right to invade what were once my personal spaces.

I admit… I actually smiled when I saw the First Lady. I cried when the boy hugged the secret service agent. I realized I have so missed this quintessentially American feeling of pride. Pride for my fellow citizens, pride for my country. I’m flabbergasted at myself but it feels like a relief to admit all of this. I can’t say I’m MAGA…. but I know now after last night I am no longer a Democrat.

Lastly, love the Morning Meeting, love Meghan and if the Democrats were more like Dan, I could say I still was one.Get some rest!

Best,

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[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@ZacksJerryRig Ukraine is Vietnam 2.0. No thank you, let Europe have a go at it.

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@CoffeyTimeNews We had our Vietnam experience and destroyed a generation of Americans. No thank you.

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@kiyahwillis No...the USA would fight for its country. We would expect so another country to fight for our country on our behalf,.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up

1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being “briefed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine’s as they feign.

2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agendas and ours are identical. So, he keeps insisting that he is fighting for us despite our two-ocean-distance that he mocks. We do have many shared interests with Ukraine, but not all by any means: Trump wants to “reset” with Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a 1962 DEFCON 2-like crisis over a proxy showdown in proximity to a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the deadlocked Stalingrad slaughterhouse for everyone’s sake.

3. The Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly of a new muscular antithesis, independent of the U.S. Promises, promises—given that would require Europeans to prune back their social welfare state, frack, use nuclear, stop the green obsessions, and spend 3-5 percent of their GDP on defense. The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO’s budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe’s commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes.

4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once deal-stopping issues to peace have been de facto settled: Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but will not be in NATO; and no president has or will ever supply Ukraine with the armed wherewithal to take back the Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two issues are a) how far will Putin be willing to withdraw to his 2022 borders and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by a commercial sector/tripwire, joint Ukrainian-US-Europe resource development corridor in Eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea-like DMZ; the second by the fact that Putin unlike his 2008 and 2014 invasions has now lost a million dead and wounded to a Ukraine that will remain thusly armed.

5. What are Zelenskyy’s alternatives without much U.S. help—wait for a return of the Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a Democratic House and a 3rd Vindman-like engineered Trump impeachment? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-earth minerals deal, invite in the Euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), and hope Trump can warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, not to dare try it again?

6. If there is a cease fire, a commercial deal, a Euro ground presence, and influx of Western companies into Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a successor transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western financial aid money went?

7. Zelenskyy might see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden Administration was far harder on him than Trump is on Ukraine: suspending arms shipments, demanding cease-fires, prodding for a wartime, bipartisan cabinet, hammering Israel on collateral damage—none of which Westerners have demanded of Zelenskyy. Yet Netanyahu managed a hostile Biden, kept Israel close to its patron, and when visiting was gracious to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never before the global media have interrupted, and berated a host and patron president in the White House.

8. If Ukraine has alienated the U.S. what then is its strategic victory plan? Wait around for more Euros? Hold off an increasingly invigorated Russian military? Cede more territory? What, then, exactly are Zelenskyy’s cards he seems to think are a winning hand?

9. If one views carefully all the 50-minute tape, most of it was going quite well—until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance firstly, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine-splaining to his hosts, and by his gestures, tone, and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same compliant, clueless moneybags Biden waxen effigy. And that was naïve for such a supposedly worldly leader.

10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv—but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob with the glamorous entourage. He has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022 and apparently even now when he does not in Spring 2025.

Quo vadis, Volodymyr?

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@ByronDonalds @HBO @RealTimers You were great on the show. Well done 👏

[Virgil L. Walker @virgilwalker]

The Puritans lived with eternity in view. While many today end their nights with mindless scrolling, the Puritans closed their day with devotion.
Here’s how they did it ⬇️

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@AnthemBCBS please work out a deal with Summa Healthcare!!!!!

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@danitreweek This guy is a buffoon. How does anybody seriously listen to him?

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@Jaboowins got my favorite player's jersey!!!!! Go Jameis!!!!

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

Check this out!! That's my beautiful daughter as the pirate!! I'm super proud of my girl!!

[Kent State @KentState]

Photo of the Week: “The Abduction of Figaro” is a comic opera presented by Kent State Opera Theater, playing at Kent State University’s Wright-Curtis Theatre on Nov. 16.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

It's amazing how an election loss, even as big as this one, still doesn't put a dent in the thinking that lost it.

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@natgrace79 This is sad new.

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@_celia_bedelia_ So if a job is redundant or unnecessary, do you keep the job in order to maintain taxpayers?

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

Finally!

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@Cluffalo Completely agree.

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

To the degree it's even real and not just the product of an overly sexualized culture that makes "preferences" endlessly niche, it's a combo of

1) attraction and
2) intentionally building compatibility with someone

We aren't designed to be "trying one another on" like outfits

[Vinny Maltempi 📚🧩🚲 @FairhavenVin]

@piyushmittal Plot twist: company finds a domestic supplier, pays no tariffs, helps Americans get jobs!