Purple Koolaid

“Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice." C.S. Lewis

[Purple Koolaid @PurpleKoolaid92]

@JoshDenny G-d love you. You are a gem

[Josh Denny @JoshDenny]

This post will be long, but it might be the most important one I ever make:

Some of you may know, my views on abortion have changed drastically in the last 15 years.

I spent my 20s as a “chill libertarian” with no moral position on the subject. I stayed that way until a podcast episode where a comedian I initially disagreed with made compelling arguments and changed my whole perspective. I will always be grateful to Adam Yenser for that day, even though he hates when I mention it.

By 2021, I had become a staunch pro-lifer. I had done enough research, heard enough testimony, and done enough soul searching to be fierce in my beliefs.

That year I stirred quite a bit of controversy doing so: my former employers at Food Network were so disgusted by my vulgar contempt for abortionists that they publicly condemned me. Feminists and left wing activist groups came for me, and did everything in their power to destroy my career. A lot of it worked.

I had friends I hadn’t spoken to in decades calling me out of the blue to argue and debate the subject with me.

Almost every friendship I had before then came to an end.

Tonight, a female friend of mine who has had a very rough life called me. She has battled various traumas and addiction since I’ve known her.

The call came with the news that she was 18 weeks pregnant with a son that she would NOT have kept if not for the influence of my journey and words (heard mostly through podcasts and social media).

She may have just been being nice, but her words were “I made this decision because of you.”

She’s miserable being pregnant. It’s painful and tough for her. We joked that she hated me for her making that decision.

I just tried my best to be encouraging but not preachy. She’s not religious (one thing at a time) - but I would never say “cheer” is my strong suit.

When we hung up, I was in tears.

I don’t know what kind of mom she’ll be.
I don’t know what kind of life that little boy will have.

But I would GLADLY give up 100 TV shows and 1000 friends again to know that little boy will at least have a chance.

Today was hard. The anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death had me feeling shitty all day.

And then God showed up tonight and reminded me that I have purpose. His purpose for me.

I will never be Charlie Kirk. He was a tall, handsome, brilliant, wholesome spokesman for God; and I’m a fat, loud, angry Vulgarian who has real issues with the concept of forgiveness.

But maybe there’s room for me too.

Maybe there’s room for all of us.

[My Friend Don @TheDonStein]

Lutheranism is an inconvenient anomaly for Roman polemicists because it introduces no novel doctrine; every teaching is traced to the early fathers. It is the conservative Reformation that Rome herself was unable to conduct.

Hence, the Roman polemicist has only a few fallbacks:

[Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire]

As I do every year on this day, I make myself re-read this and sit with it for as long as I can. And remember.

One of the greatest pieces of writing, on any subject, ever.

The Falling Man by Tom Junod
https://t.co/hdamIY4LQm

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Every 9/11 I think about my friend & fraternity brother, Brad Fetchet, who was killed in the S. Tower. During the attack, he left a voicemail for his mom, which somehow ended up as the intro to "Zero Dark Thirty."

[Purple Koolaid @PurpleKoolaid92]

@txsalth2o Come lord Jesus

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Ernest Armstead was an EMT with the FDNY and he was triaging victims on the ground that day. His story is in the NatGeo documentary "One Day in America" and this segment is very intense, but I think it's important to remember these people and what they went through and the horrors they witnessed. 🙏

https://t.co/cacgQvxqxn

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

I never want to hear a single one of you women out there who supports this ever say again in your entire miserable lives that men are the problem.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

We do not hate abortion enough

https://t.co/qVL8JHfXtA

[Purple Koolaid @PurpleKoolaid92]

@mkhammer @EdAsante77 Demons

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

Do people realize that 10 famous US colleges are now majority gay?

[Josh Hammer @josh_hammer]

Charlie Kirk was the Right's indispensable man. He maintained the coalition and manned the floodgates.

One year later, far too many still haven't learned the right lessons from this tragedy—namely, on free speech and human life.

Me for @NYPostOpinion 🖋️ https://t.co/GBBwDcpNM6

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

I read that the baby aborted for having Down syndrome by the YouTuber and his wife yesterday was done so when she was half way through her pregnancy, so I am going to describe in graphic detail what aborting a second trimester baby looks like. Read on at your own discretion.

At 21 weeks the baby is a fully formed miniature human being roughly 10 to 11 inches long from crown to rump weighing about three quarters to one pound. His skin is thin and translucent but covered in fine lanugo hair. He has distinct fingerprints eyelids that can open and close and functioning senses. He can hear your voice and external sounds taste the amniotic fluid and respond to touch. His heart beats strongly. You could feel it if you pressed a hand to the mothers belly. Lungs are developing with practice breaths and he kicks stretches turns and sucks his thumb in the womb. Viability outside the womb is possible with intensive neonatal care in modern hospitals. Many 21 week preemies survive with medical intervention.

A typical 21 week abortion is performed via dilation and evacuation. The process begins by forcibly dilating the mothers cervix over hours or days using laminaria or medications which causes cramping and pain as the body is prepared to expel the child. Then under ultrasound guidance in many cases the abortionist inserts forceps through the birth canal into the uterus.

The baby often still alive and moving is grasped limb by limb. The abortionist twists and pulls tearing off arms and legs one at a time while the child recoils and struggles inside the womb. The smaller bones snap like twigs the joints dislocate with audible pops under the instruments. Blood and amniotic fluid mix as the torso is wrenched apart. The spine is crushed or snapped. Finally the skull is gripped collapsed with the forceps sometimes after being pierced and the brain suctioned out to make removal easier and the remains are extracted piece by piece. The abortionist then reassembles the body parts on a tray to ensure nothing hands feet torso fragments is left inside to cause infection. The mother’s uterus is scraped clean with a curette.

This is not a procedure on tissue. It is the deliberate piecemeal dismemberment of a baby who can feel pain. Fetal pain receptors and neural pathways are active by this stage who reacts defensively to the invasion and whose only crime is existing. The mother carrying this child in her body for nearly five months feeling his movements, knowing his sex, and seeing his ultrasounds chooses to have him torn apart inside her. And in this disgusting case of psychopathic narcissism “for his own good”. She schedules the appointment consents to the crushing and extraction, rests peacefully while her baby is tortured to death because he wasn’t perfect enough for her, and she walks away while the baby’s tiny mutilated body is discarded in a “medical waste” sink to be sent for incineration.

Many women later describe the visceral aftermath. The sudden cessation of kicks the hormonal crash the haunting knowledge that they authorized the destruction of their own baby’s body. It is an act of profound betrayal by the very person biologically wired to protect that life. If the image of a tiny writhing child being methodically ripped apart limb from limb by cold metal tools then sucked or scraped from its mother’s womb does not disgust you regarding the “woman’s choice”, then the propaganda worked on your weak, pathetic soul.

[Jamie Reed Whistleblower @JamieWhistle]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this before publicly, but we should talk about it.

When we say that trans targets vulnerable populations- we rarely discuss the young people who are adoptees.

Rates of trans identification is high among teens who are adopted- especially when the adoption is international or cross cultural.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is one of the papers that economists frequently cite as having had a huge impact on their thinking about education.

The reason is:

The kids in these studies got better peers, better teachers, better schools generally, and they ended up testing no better.

That's powerful.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

Tour de force from @Ayaan, must read for its moral clarity, which is so missing today seemingly everywhere.

“Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point.
Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means.”

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

SCOOP: signs mocking Charlie’s ass*ssination on campus at University of Nebraska Lincoln @UNLincoln

I’m told there are lots more all over campus.

They’re also planning celebratory events.

This is VILE. Why is @UNLincoln allowing this on campus?

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

@glennbeck I am 17 high school student, listen to you everyday. I speak for local Tea Party's about debt and deficit. Fight Liberal bias

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

AARON RODGERS: “I'm on the phone with the head doctor at the NFL … I asked him, ‘If you get the vax can you contract or spread the disease?’ He said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Well, tell me this then … Five scouts are out with COVID — all fully vaxxed. How'd that happen?’ He called me a conspiracy theorist.”

[Purple Koolaid @PurpleKoolaid92]

@JohnDoyle @kevinnbass For real