Kathleen Anderson

Wife. Mother. Grandmother. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 🇺🇸

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@GasLight_HOF @elonmusk My brother mentioned in a family text that there was speculation the speeding driver had a medical issue and had died. News reports only say the driver was airlifted in extremely critical condition. That’s all I know at this point.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

My brother’s friend drives a Tesla. This is 3 videos of the same accident. The Tesla, on self drive, sees the approaching car coming from behind at excessive speed and moves out of the way. Driver of speeding car was killed. Amazing technology @elonmusk.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@Genyosai @Chiefs_SpaceX @elonmusk That is what I thought!

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@RobAndersonF15 @elonmusk It should!

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@Chiefs_SpaceX @elonmusk Then my apologies. 🙏🏼

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@Manhattva @elonmusk One will be our next car purchase.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@Chiefs_SpaceX @elonmusk Whatever. Pleasant Grove UT on November 4th or 5th.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@SirSardonic @elonmusk Idk. I’ll see if I can find out.

[Bloomberg @business]

Russia has effectively abandoned attempts to replace the dollar with China’s yuan under the pressure of US secondary sanctions, underlining the difficulties facing other nations looking for an alternative global currency https://t.co/mEDY8zxOPL

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

Feeding the cat today w/ my 3yo grandson.

Grandson: "What is Charley eating today?"

Me: "Fish. She always eats fish."

Grandson: "Clown Fish?"

Me: "No, not Clown Fish."

Grandson: "Nemo is a Clown Fish."

Me: "Definitely not Nemo."

😂😂😂

[Anne-Marie Baiynd, Trader @AnneMarieTrades]

Many years ago, my husband and I found this -though each of us has forgotten to do a few of these each day - we hold fast to it and it's been an anchor to forging our successful marriage. First and foremost, we hold Jesus between us- the rest is up to us.

[Lady Laughingloudley @blah_blablather]

Then plainly:

The indictment is not that progressivism occasionally tolerates vice. It is that much of modern progressivism confers moral legitimacy on things that injure people, then treats resistance to those injuries as the sin.

Pornography does not merely “liberate sexuality.” It trains men to consume women, trains women to accept being consumed, and then calls the resulting degradation freedom.

A sexual culture organized around male appetite does not liberate women when women still bear the greater risks of pregnancy, abandonment, coercion, violence, humiliation, and bodily vulnerability. Calling that liberation does not alter who pays.

Women do not gain equality when male claims are allowed to override female privacy, sports, prisons, shelters, language, medical categories, or sex-based association. When women are ordered to surrender those things and condemned for refusing, that is not inclusion. It is domination of women dressed as compassion.

Race discrimination does not cease to be racism because the target is white. If institutions sort, exclude, stigmatize, or morally burden people because they are white, that is racism. “Equity” does not sanctify it.

A religion does not become benign because its adherents are locally fewer in number. Nor does Christianity become uniquely suspect because it is historically native to the West. When one faith receives indulgence and another receives suspicion according to an identity hierarchy, that is not pluralism. It is favoritism and religious prejudice.

A criminal does not become more morally important than his victim because his biography is politically useful. Mercy without justice is not mercy. It is abandonment of the innocent.

Children are not owed affirmation of every desire or identity claim that adults place before them. They are owed protection, judgment, restraint, and adults willing to say no.

Gambling companies do not become public benefactors because the state taxes them. Pornographers do not become liberators because they use feminist vocabulary. Cannabis dependence does not become harmless because it is legal. Appetite does not become virtue because commerce and politics profit from it.

And the family is not an antiquated obstacle standing between the individual and freedom. It is one of the principal institutions by which men are bound to duty, women and children gain durable claims upon others, and one generation accepts responsibility for the next. A culture that destroys those bonds and then offers bureaucracy, therapy, medication, entertainment, and consumption as substitutes has not liberated people. It has left them alone.

That is the charge.

The lie is not merely that these harms are regrettable side effects. The lie is that the harms themselves are progress.

The woman who objects is called hateful.
The parent who objects is called ignorant.
The Christian who objects is called reactionary.
The white person who objects to racial discrimination is told racism cannot really apply to him.
The Jew who objects to antisemitism is told to account first for Israel.
The citizen who asks why his country’s inherited norms must continually yield is told that his wish for continuity is itself suspect.

And thus the trick is completed: the injured person is placed in the dock, while the ideology that injured him assumes the robes of the judge.

That is not merely foolish. It is a corruption of moral judgment.

Cicero would ask whether a republic can endure when law ceases to be common.

Seneca would ask what sort of civilization calls surrender to appetite freedom.

Epictetus would ask by what right one citizen claims possession of another’s conscience, body, speech, or boundaries.

Marcus would ask what duties we have abandoned while congratulating ourselves on our virtue.

And Tacitus would recognize the darkest part immediately:

the language has been corrupted so thoroughly that the name of the vice is now used for the virtue that opposes it.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@itsmyguess Meeting you was a campaign gift. ♥️

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

While I had hoped the remaining votes in Salt Lake County would be tallied today, they were not. Despite that, the margin is large enough that the outcome is unlikely to change. I extend my congratulations and well wishes to my opponent. I know he loves Salt Lake as much as I do.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Sanble gang yo pa vle goumen avè n… 🇸🇻🇭🇹

[Mike Carey @MikeCarey4CC]

"Is it good for the State of Utah?"

According to who? Because we didn't elect Natalie Gochnour, or Lincoln Hill Partners, or the MIDA board, or anyone else to decide what's good for the state of Utah, but they certainly inform many of the unpopular laws and policies of the last decade.

The public is telling you things alright: They're not happy because they've been ignored.

[Kathleen Anderson @RepubliKate]

@realDaveNoel @CherylKActon1 If your first accusation is true, why wasn’t that prosecuted during the 4 years of the Biden administration? The files were available then, too. In fact, hasn’t that info always been available? Why hasn’t any administration prosecuted it? Why blame one side when it infests both?

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

A staggering number of David’s Psalms circle a single, relentless demand: that God annihilate the wicked, and do it quickly. The man who prayed them would not have survived the answer.

He asks God to break their teeth, drag them into the nets they hid for others, and strike with terrifying speed. When heaven moves too slowly, he presses again: Why do the wicked prosper? How long, O Lord?

At the time, David’s moral geometry was simple. He was a fugitive hiding in caves while King Saul hunted him with the machinery of an empire. In Adullam, the lines were clean. David was the righteous victim; his enemies were the oppressors; his prayers were the desperate cries of a man begging God to level an impossible playing field.

Then David got the throne. And the geometry collapsed.

From the palace balcony, he becomes the very archetype he had spent years cursing. He spots Bathsheba. He takes her. When she becomes pregnant, he writes a murder contract, forcing her husband, Uriah, to carry his own death sentence to the front lines. Uriah dies. David takes the widow.

Then came nearly a year in which Scripture records no confession, no repentance, and no confrontation. David lived under the comfortable presumption of sovereign immunity. He had become the powerful man who crushes the weak and assumed heaven didn’t notice.

When Nathan enters the throne room, he tells a story: a rich landowner with vast herds steals and slaughters a poor neighbor’s single, cherished pet lamb.

David’s prosecutorial instinct detonates. He flies into a rage and passes sentence: The man deserves to die, and must restore the lamb fourfold because he showed no pity.

Nathan looks at him and delivers the four words that should haunt anyone in love with their own moral outrage:

“You are the man.”

David had laid his own trap. He declared a death sentence on himself, and the fourfold restitution he demanded became the currency of his family’s destruction. Four of his sons died untimely deaths. The sword never left his house. The pit David dug was the pit he fell into.

The great theological irony of David’s life though is that if God had answered David’s earlier prayers at the speed he demanded, David would have been dead before Bathsheba’s child drew its first breath.

If heaven operated on the hair-trigger timeline of human indignation, judgment would have struck the palace the moment Uriah fell. David would never have made it to Nathan. No space to confront his depravity, no season to mourn, and no life left to utter, “I have sinned against the Lord,” no breath left to write Psalm 51.

The very slowness of God that David spent years complaining about was the only reason he survived his own reign.

The cry of “How long, O Lord?” is not foreign to Scripture. The martyrs beneath the altar in Revelation raise it too. What Scripture never grants us is a stopwatch on everyone’s guilt except our own.

We are recklessly impatient in our prayers for justice. When wronged, we demand cosmic vindication yesterday. We treat God’s hesitation as indifference, or worse, incompetence.

We forget that if God answered our prayers for judgment with the speed we demand for others, none of us would survive our hypocrisy. The standard we want applied to our enemies would incinerate us when our private failures catch up with our public righteousness.

The delay of God is mercy with a long horizon: the terrifying, tender patience of a God who refuses to execute the wicked on our schedule because He intends to leave room for repentance on His.

Before you ask heaven to move fast against the evil in front of you, make sure you can survive the speed of your own theology.

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

the feeling is mutual.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

And less in property taxes after Tuesday’s triumph of Amendment 3!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality.

If you’re left wing and you can’t admit conservatives are way better at running cities and businesses and police departments, you’re not living in reality.

You step inside a beautiful coffee shop in the PNW and think “man, these liberals are great at this stuff…conservatives should take notes.” Then the moment you step outside and trip over a homeless drug zombie shooting up fentanyl on the sidewalk, you think “man these liberals are terrible at this stuff…they should really take notes from conservatives”

Communists make disgusting anti-beauty art, but classical liberals aren’t like that. Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional.

If you can’t accept that, you need to check your tribalism. We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance or else the communists swoop in and take everything from us while we quarrel over stupid bullshit…which is exactly what’s happening now.