Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔

Determined to find a healthy way to engage in social media.

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

21 years ago today:
Two days after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announces her intention to retire, Senator Joseph Biden threatens that if President George W. Bush nominates D.C. Circuit judge Janice Rogers Brown to replace O’Connor, Biden and other Senate Democrats will filibuster the nomination of the first African-American female to the Court.
Running for president fifteen years later, Biden will promise that his first Supreme Court nominee will be an African American woman, and when he nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in February 2022, he will take credit for the historic first that he acted to thwart Bush from achieving.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

[J. Whitebread @JWhitebread1]

Years ago, when Berniemania first hit, I remember a news story with Bernie and some reporter going through a store, and Bernie lamenting just how many different varieties of deodorant there were and how ridiculous it was and how it would be so much more efficient if there were only ONE variety. He even tried to insinuate that some kids go hungry because of it, as if the wide choice of deodorant somehow was the reason for poverty.

It revealed to me that in the socialist mindset, choice is waste. And the only way to stop waste, in their mind, is to stop choice. They want you to just accept the choice they already made for you. That's chilling enough, but it's also completely bonkers.

Any rational person knows that everyone of those deodorants reflects a customer's preference, a preference that many people work to cater to and compete for. All of those choices produce jobs, from the chemical engineers testing new products to the graphic designers who designed the label, to the guys stocking the shelves. All of those people have mouths to feed and dreams that are fed by CHOICE.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@TheBabylonBee ...and crushing those of others.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@mormonsNpapists @sister_slay I don't know of one member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who believes this.

[Troy Sariah @BlackBlessedLDS]

Bunch of nut jobs 🤣 but I’m here for it lolol

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@joyinbecomingp1 I agree that we shouldn't call out specific people, just false doctrines, teachings, practices, etc. I also agree we don't know her story and shouldn't judge her.

But I hope we can all agree that leaving the Church is very rarely, if ever, the best decision one could make.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

If you wonder what it looks like when somebody takes a position because they're paid to and not because they believe it, this is it.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Chris Cuomo (of all people) just effortlessly unmasked Tucker Carlson as a Russian propagandist.

Cuomo: “I'm a journalist. I'm not allowed into Russia. Why are you allowed in?”

Just watch how Tucker squirms.

[Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 @mathladyhazel]

This makes sense.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@BlackBlessedLDS @jesse_k_fox Thanks for posting this!

To me the difference is how we go after the one. When they choose to leave we pray and love from a distance. When they wander off and want to be reached, we go get them.

[María Benavente @merybenavente]

… and they say romance is dead.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides."

"When is a player offsides?"

"Whenever anything exciting happens."

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@KelseaJ112 Hanging with drunk people is the best. Saw a CFO and a Chief of Medicine get kicked out of a casino once. Best way to reinforce the magnificence of D&C 89.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@jesse_k_fox Personally, I think he told it because when I give myself the temple recommend interview that is the Sermon on the Mount, I don't fare well.

I imagine I'm not the only one, thus the talk.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@GrandpaJoeSux Wonderful post!!!

I think you'd see a reduction in suicide and there wouldn't be a population decline either.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@Apologetics941 This isn't what a Ponzi scheme is at all.

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@megbasham We should all write amicus briefs with all her lies documented and cross-referenced. And her mispronunciations.

"In a first for the American legal system, a single case has generated 20 million amicus briefs."

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@anniewe3 @PhilemonMerrill Thank you! Anything else we should be ready for?

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@anniewe3 @PhilemonMerrill 5 boys, 1 girl. Girl hasn't gone yet. Ugh...

[Yup, That's Me 🇺🇸 📟 🪔 @PedagogicalMess]

@FaithLikeAbish2 @EricCMeadows Have you tried Wiley Wallaby? My favorite licorice right now. I can't stop!