Gabe Jones

Husband, dad, Missourian • Striving for humility • Occasionally long-winded • Tolerably contented peasant • I use @TheOfficeNBC GIFs whenever possible

[Romi Bean @Romi_Bean]

This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today

(IG: Erosbrousson)

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@Joeinblack When the 17th amendment was ratified

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Russell Crowe on Gladiator 2:

‘They failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand what made the first film so successful: it had a moral core. Here’s the thing, most people want that. On the surface, they might go for entertainment, but if they’re going to love something and keep it with them forever, like that movie? …The love for that thing is because of its moral core. All guys want to be that man who can stay that strong, and all women want a man who can love them in that way.’

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@SenWarren You're a idiot

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

It is the official position of the Catholic Church that the sport is called Soccer. Total cultural victory achieved. 🇺🇸

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@MizzouHoops @MizzouAthletics Now make it annual

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

If you can find an example of a more evil thing on this platform than a man announcing his plan to murder his child for being disabled, go ahead and post it. I can’t think of one.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Clark may have paid the highest personal price. Almost nobody knows his story. Buckle up.

He was a New Jersey farm kid considered too frail for farm work, so he taught himself math, then surveying, then law. He never got rich from it because he kept defending poor farmers who could not pay him. His neighbors called him "the Poor Man's Counselor."

In the early hours of July 4, 1776, while Congress debated independence in Philadelphia, Clark wrote a letter to a friend with one of the most chilling lines of the Revolution: "Perhaps our Congress will be exalted on a high gallows."

He signed anyway.

Then the British made it personal. Two of his sons were officers in the Continental Army, and both were captured. They were thrown onto the prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor, the deadliest place of the entire war. More Americans died on British prison ships than in every battle of the Revolution combined.

One son got it even worse. He was locked in the dungeon and given no food except what other starving prisoners could push through the keyhole of his cell.

The British reportedly offered Clark a deal: renounce the Declaration, switch sides, and your boys go free.

He refused.

Here is the part that breaks me. Clark sat in Congress through all of it and never once brought it up. No special pleading, no favors. Congress only found out through other channels and threatened retaliation against a British officer, which finally got his son out of the dungeon.

After the war, he kept choosing the little guy. He fought for debt relief for struggling farmers and refused to support the Constitution until he was assured a Bill of Rights would protect ordinary citizens.

In September 1794, at age 68, the self-taught surveyor who outlasted the British Empire died of sunstroke after a long day working on his own farm.

No statue on the National Mall. No musical. Just a small town in New Jersey called Clark, and most people who drive through it have no idea why.

Some men signed the Declaration with ink. Abraham Clark signed it with his sons.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@PaulinusOfTrier What an odd way to avoid the issue.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@PaulinusOfTrier They will be if they consecrate bishops without approval of the Roman Pontiff.

Until then, it's something different. I default to what Benedict XVI said: they are in an "irregular" canonical status.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

Is this not widespread knowledge?

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.

Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@Warpscream Welcome! Vivat Jesus!

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

It will never cease to amaze me that in this nation, war dead get one day of remembrance a year.

But sleeping with the same sex gets you a whole month of adoration.

A fallen society. Backwards as hell.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

One of the things you might be missing in life (assuming you've already been listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtracks) is listening to the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks (1-3).

Just do it.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Exactly, and fundamentally AI doesn’t have and will never have intelligence.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@TradJackBurton You mean they're being obedient to rightful authority?

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@lucyshow11 What happened?

Widespread use contraception and legalization of abortion & no-fault divorce is what happened between 1965 and now

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

I'd love to go to dinner at a quaint place like @brasserieSTL, but I can't bring myself to support a business that openly advocates for gender mutilation and the murder of pre-born children. Such a shame.

[Gabe Jones @GabeHJones]

@xmuse_ Wait until you hear it in Latin 😉