Mike Youngquist

Christian - Husband - Father - GrandDude
Seeker of Truth living with intention in a culture of random pursuits
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[Elena @elenacute01]

A Baby Orangutan Tried to Help a Fallen Toddler, Then the Adult Orangutan Stepped In and Lifted Him Back to the Crowd.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Eleven years ago today, Donald Trump came down that escalator and changed the course of American history.

Since that moment, he has endured attacks that no modern president has ever faced. The media came after him. The political establishment came after him. The courts came after him. They impeached him, investigated him, raided his home, tried to remove him from the ballot, and after what many Americans view as a stolen 2020 election, they expected him to disappear.

He didn’t.

Instead, he kept fighting.

His first term delivered tax cuts, energy independence, record-low unemployment, rising wages, a rebuilt military, a stronger border, and the Abraham Accords, one of the most significant peace agreements in the Middle East in decades.

Then came the years of lawfare, political attacks, and multiple assassination attempts. Most people would have quit long ago.

Donald Trump kept moving forward.

Eleven years later, he’s still standing, still fighting, and still leading.

In my opinion, history will remember him as one of the most consequential presidents ever elected, and many Americans believe he will ultimately be remembered as the greatest.

Eleven years after that ride down the escalator, the movement he started is still here, and so is he. 🇺🇸

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We don’t have 60 votes for the House-passed SAVE America Act

But we do have a simple majority

Given the bill’s widespread bipartisan popularity, we could pass it with a simple majority—by debating it until it passes

I explain how in this clip

Share if you want this to happen

[Mike Youngquist @Mike_Youngquist]

@Robbservations2 @darwintojesus Your burden of proof is to show how nothing created everything. We'll wait...

[Mike Youngquist @Mike_Youngquist]

@JonHammond1701 @darwintojesus And we know every constructed model is the product of a mind.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Lara Logan just broke down a pattern that hits different once you see it.

They keep creating problems that can never actually be solved: racism that’s “unconscious,” masculinity as inherently toxic, CO2 as the enemy even though we breathe it out, and differences turned into permanent grievances.

The goal? Issues without end. Skin color can’t change. Breathing can’t stop. Masculine instinct doesn’t vanish. So the problems stay… and so does the control.

It’s not about fixing anything. It’s about keeping the fight alive so we stay divided and easier to manage.

Once you spot the tactic, everything gets clearer.

What “unsolvable problem” have you noticed getting pushed the hardest lately?

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Dear LGBTQ+ Americans:

We support your right to do anything you want to yourself or with consenting adults.

We have long been tolerant and accepting of that.

But somewhere along the way our tolerance and acceptance turned into YOUR hatemongering intolerance and bigotry against our deeply held religious beliefs.

The SF Giants hat controversy is just the tip of the iceberg. If you don't start tolerating us, the tolerance and acceptance we currently show you will vanish.

That reality is getting closer and closer.

You have been advised. Wise up.

Love,
The Rest of America

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

One of the reasons I find the argument from design compelling is that it starts with something we actually, directly know.

We know minds exist.

And we know what minds do, they generate information, specified complexity, language, codes, engineering, and intelligible systems. These are all things we directly observe minds producing.

What’s interesting is that when it comes to the world, atheists reason in the opposite direction. Instead of starting with the known, they begin by assuming nature is not the product of a mind. They say the world is “natural” meaning that it isn’t caused by a mind. Then, because the “natural world” contains information, complexity, and intelligibility, they conclude these things must be capable of arising without a mind.

This is totally backwards.

If we’re trying to determine whether something comes from a mind, we shouldn’t begin by starting with an unknown and assuming the answer. We should start with the only known source of information rich, specified, goal directed systems that we have direct experience with… minds.

Then we ask whether the natural world exhibits the kinds of features that minds produce.

And it does.

The atheist starts with the assumption that nature is undesigned and then concludes that information, complexity, and intelligibility must be capable of arising without a mind.

The design argument starts in the opposite direction by observing minds are the only known source of information, meaning, codes, and specified complexity. The world is filled with these things. Therefore, the most natural inference is not that minds are unnecessary, but that the world itself is the product of a mind.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE!!!

The Charlotte NC high school that painted over a student's tribute to Charlie Kirk, called the police on her, and then publicly branded the 16-year-old girl a VANDAL in front of her entire school...

...has just been forced to pay her $95,000!!!!!!

Her name is Gabby Stout, she was a junior at Ardrey Kell High School.

Days after Charlie Kirk was assass*nated, she got PERMISSION from the front office to paint the school's spirit rock, a tradition kids have used for years.

She painted a heart. An American flag. "Freedom 1776." And "Live Like Kirk ... John 11:25."

Within HOURS, the school painted over it.

Then the principal emailed the ENTIRE school calling it VANDALISM, claiming she broke the code of conduct, and announcing they had called LAW ENFORCEMENT to open a criminal investigation.

They pulled this teenage girl out of class again and again and then MADE HER WRITE A CONFESSION!!!!

They demanded her PHONE so they could search her call logs.

For painting a rock. With permission.

So her family sued. And they WON.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools now has to pay $95,000, publicly clear her name, and admit in writing she did NOTHING wrong.

But not only that... they were forced to adopt a brand new student free speech policy because of her.

THIS is how you fight back.

GOD BLESS GABBY STOUT!!!!!!

[Holly 💜 @Love_my_Ravens]

For those complaining about the money spent creating the event on the front lawn.
Most of the money went back into our economy. The electricians, welders, construction crews. The
$60+ million production was fully funded by the UFC and its parent company, TKO Group Holdings rather than taxpayers.

[Mike Youngquist @Mike_Youngquist]

Yet more brilliant out-of-the-box thinking from @BskiMike22802 . Thanks professor!

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

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[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Incredible.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Pourquoi les gauchistes sont les plus gros attardés du game?

Décorticage, point par point.

Premièrement, ils ne comprennent rien à l'économie. Strictement rien. Dans leur tête, la richesse est un gâteau de taille fixe. Si quelqu'un a une grosse part, c'est forcément qu'il te l'a volée. L'idée qu'on puisse fabriquer un nouveau gâteau, plus gros, à partir de rien, leur est physiquement inaccessible. Le jeu à somme positive, la création de valeur, ça dépasse leur firmware. Pour eux tout est à somme nulle: ta réussite est mathématiquement ma défaite.

Deuxièmement, et c'est logique vu le point un, ils détestent exactement les gens qui créent cette valeur. L'entrepreneur qui emploie cinquante personnes? Un exploiteur. Le mec qui n'a jamais créé un seul emploi de sa vie? Un grand penseur du travail. Ils crachent sur les contributeurs nets et vénèrent ceux qui ne produisent rien. Cohérent dans l'absurde.

Troisièmement, et c'est le vrai moteur: la jalousie. Tout l'édifice tient avec ça. Ce n'est pas qu'ils veulent que tout le monde monte. C'est qu'ils ne supportent pas que quelqu'un monte plus haut qu'eux. Girard avait tout expliqué: le désir mimétique, l'envie déguisée en morale. Ils ne veulent pas la justice, ils veulent ta part.

Quatrièmement, et là je laisse la science trancher: corrélation troublante avec le fait d'être profondément aigri, et, disons-le, rarement épanoui. On va pas se mentir. Le bonheur, ça se voit sur un visage. L'amertume aussi.

Bref. Une idéologie qui ne comprend pas la richesse, déteste ceux qui la créent, carbure à l'envie, et confond redistribution et vengeance.

Le plus drôle? Ils sont persuadés d'être les gentils.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

They spent decades systematically destroying the future of the men who built this country and they expected those men to just sit there and take it.

They flooded the job market with foreign labor until young white men were effectively locked out of the economy their fathers and grandfathers created.

They pumped poison into the culture until marriage and children became something to mock or delay until it was too late. They wrecked energy policy on purpose, drove up costs, and then lectured everyone about sacrifice while they got richer. They broke the family on purpose, turned motherhood into a punchline, and acted like the resulting collapse in birth rates was some kind of mysterious social phenomenon instead of the obvious result of their war on normal life.

This wasn’t mismanagement. It was targeted. They needed a population that was rootless, indebted, and too demoralized to push back while they looted everything that wasn’t nailed down. And for a long time it worked. The builders kept their heads down, paid the taxes, and watched their wages stagnate while everything they were supposed to inherit got handed to someone else.

But there’s a limit to how much you can steal from a generation before they stop seeing you as leaders and start seeing you as enemies who need to be removed.

These aren’t abstract complaints anymore. These are men who were promised a country and a future and got handed decline, replacement, and contempt instead. They built the roads, the houses, the systems, and the wealth. Then they were told they were the problem and that their replacement was progress.

The people who did this spent years laughing at how compliant everyone was. They’re about to find out what happens when that compliance finally breaks. And it won’t be polite. It won’t be reasonable. And it won’t stop until the people who spent two decades robbing the builders have nothing left to take.
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[Mike Youngquist @Mike_Youngquist]

Very well stated

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

[The Misfit Patriot @misfitpatriot_]

Wow, I actually agree with Ro Khanna here and I’m kind of shocked how spot on his assessment on the difference between the two parties is.

What I’m not shocked about is how he’s too stupid to realize how showing this contrast makes the Republican party look like the far better choice for voters who want a better life for themselves and their loved ones future in America.

The choices Ro Khanna just outlined are Capitalism under republican leadership, which has led to growth and prosperity in every single nation in the modern world. Capitalism created the Industrial Revolution, encouraged competition in the market leading to advances in technology, medical research, manufacturing, and innovation. Capitalism created hundreds of millions of jobs in this country making America the envy of the world, where people from all over the globe fled their own countries, many of them destroyed by socialism, communism, and anti capitalism for the chance to make it as a capitalist in America.

The other choice Ro Khanna offered is socialism under Democrat leadership, which has destroyed every single country it’s been implemented in. It only took 10 years for Venezuela to go from a prosperous nation under capitalism, to their citizens eating out of the trash under socialism. If Democrats are the party of free healthcare and education, why didn’t Obamacare make our healthcare better? Why has our education been in decline every single year since Jimmy Carter implemented the department of education?

I truly am impressed, because you absolutely nailed the basic difference between Republicans and Democrats. I honestly didn’t realize you guys actually knew what either party represented, because you’re always just regurgitating the latest talking points about racism or Trump bad.

Thank you for accidentally letting people know in a rare moment of honesty, they should vote Red in November. 👍🏼

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I'm a bit angry.

[Rang @Faustzme]

Maybe this will help Mormons understand.

Think about it this way.

Mormonism is basically trans-Christian. It was born outside of Christianity, put on all the Christian clothes, Jesus, salvation, scripture, gospel, and now insists it’s the real thing. Sound familiar?

Same words. Totally different meanings.

When a Mormon says “Jesus” they mean the spirit brother of Lucifer who progressed to godhood. When a Christian says “Jesus” they mean the eternal God who took on flesh. That’s not a small difference. That’s a completely different person.

When a Mormon says “salvation” they mean resurrection plus exaltation earned through covenants, ordinances, temple work and faithfulness to the end. When a Christian says “salvation” they mean Christ paid it all and you’re trusting Him alone. Again, not the same thing.

“Gospel” not the same. “God” not the same. “Scripture” not the same.

Every single load bearing word in Christianity has been gutted and restuffed with something else. But they kept the label.

Joseph Smith didn’t restore Christianity. He replaced it and kept the wardrobe.

That’s not a denomination. That’s not a different stream of the same faith. That’s a different religion doing a Christian cosplay.

And the crazy part? Most Mormons genuinely don’t know this because they’ve only ever been handed the redefined version of those words. They’ve never actually seen what Christianity really teaches.

[Mike Youngquist @Mike_Youngquist]

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[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?

Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.

They succeeded.

Please remember these heroines who saved lives: