Rod Thomson

Christian I Conservative I GOP Comms Consultant I Ghostwriter I Father of 8 I DeSantis Trustee @SCFnow I Writes at @HumanEvents, @ChroniclesMag, @PJMedia_com

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

The ongoing problem here is that @SteveDeaceShow and @AuronMacintyre keep conflating some individual Republicans with the Party. What Auron says is just ignorant. But bombastic gets clicks.

I work in the local party structure in Florida, and I can tell you the Republican party not only acts as a real party, but as far far more effective than the Democratic party. We conduct the voter registration year-round and GOTV campaigns that are very effective.

The problem with individual Republicans that Steve has been one of the few to sometimes point out, is that they’re chosen by Republican voters in primaries. Blaming the party for the dumpster fire that has been Mitch McConnell is aiming fire at the fun and easy target, but the wrong one. It’s Kentucky primary voters who keep sending him back.

I’m all in opposing this Senate border deal, and criticizing Lankford and McConnell. I’m as frustrated as anyone with weak Republicans, including in too many red states. But we keep doing this when we’re frustrated with individual Republicans, and leadership sometimes, and we want to set the whole party on fire.

But the corrections is by the voters. For conservative talkers, that means essentially criticizing listeners. Tough dynamic. But encouraging with Republican voters, to just sit back and throw stones at the party. When it does things they don’t like, just exacerbates the problem. Quite the opposite of solving anything.

Todd Erzen urges local action and has done it. Yes yes yes. That is more productive than just trashing the biggest, easy target.

The incessant trashing of the Republican party, and wondering why anybody would vote Republican anymore, has one certain impact: suppress Republican voter turnout.

If that happens in November, the same people will be trashing the Republican Party for not turning out their voters. But will they look at their own culpability? Experience says probably not.

And this becomes very frustrating for those of us on the ground, working to register Republicans and get out the boat during elections, Republican registration, and voter turnout.

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

If you truly want to understand the generational hole we’re in that we may never dig out of…if Lankford were to get this completely traitorous legislation into law, and then Fox News made him the 2028 GOP nominee, many of the same people complaining loudly today would be clamoring then we have to “vote for Lankford to save America.”

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is an admission that he lied to voters. Cool stuff.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

Latest at @HumanEvents: The job-pocalypse that Dems and their media kept warning us was coming any minute just isn't happening, much to their dismay and anger.

But it's great for Americans.

@KDCodyTN @libbyemmons

https://t.co/RYi4P8OV0O

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

You don't have to support Byron Donalds for governor to love this post. Because the truth of Christ's saving grace is infinitely more important than the next election. His is a beautiful story, one that is told a thousands times a day around the world.

I say this as a guy whose made a living in politics for many years, but who infinitely more importantly is also humbled and on a different trajectory by the grace of God in my life.

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Multiculturalism means embracing every other culture over the West’s.

Under the guise of “inclusion,” it acts as a Trojan horse that delivers the total erasure of Western culture in practice.

Every person and organization promoting it is an enemy of the West.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@JackPosobiec We must unite against this grotesquery.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

We must unite against this grotesquery.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Patriots across the West are holding memorials for Henry Nowak on June 6. This is no mistake

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

Latest at @HumanEvents Democrat grotesquery is Republicans secret weapon to making history in the midterms.

@KDCodyTN @libbyemmons

https://t.co/kzmEgrEDm1

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Jobs apocalypse narrative taking a beating.

[Tom Cotton @TomCottonAR]

It's remarkable that Graham Platner's rich mom is the only "customer" of his oyster "business."

What a lying fraud.

Platner is a trust-fund communist born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

Ah yes, the Soviet Union. Famous for cutting taxes and protecting private property rights.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

You can always tell the clueless.

It’s not governments’ loss. It’s taxpayers’ gain.

[Dara Kam @TheDaraKam]

. @GovRonDeSantis Prop tax proposal projected to result in $8 billion revenue loss in 2027-2028 and $14 billion in 2028-2029, per analysis by @myflhouse committee

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

Just what you would expect from propagandists.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

New York Times stories on Henry Nowak: 0

New York Times stories on George Floyd: 6,397

[Blaise Ingoglia @GovGoneWild]

Counties are posting all over social media trying to make their residents “aware” of the potential impacts of property tax reform.

They’re all getting ROASTED in the comments. Each and every one.

When we said Floridians wanted their property taxes cut did you think we were joking??

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Holy guacamole. Cannot believe this is real after so long and so much unjust pain/anguish. This case will go down in history as part of the cover-up of the 2020 election that was stolen. https://t.co/WumMTTKDD4

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LMAO!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

We are nearly $40 trillion in debt. Working families are stretched thin. And Washington is still sending federal benefits to people who entered this country illegally. 

My End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act supports American citizens instead of rewarding those who came to the U.S. illegally. This is basic fiscal responsibility, and it is long overdue.

[Kenny Cody @KDCodyTN]

Deuteronomy 6:5

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Happy Sunday, Christ is King! ✝️

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

On Memorial Day a veteran dies from being beaten to death for the way he voted.

In America.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Understand what these street shows are actually about. They have plenty of mosques to pray in. They are demonstrating their intention to infiltrate and take over our nation. They are so confident of our weakness, they rub our faces in it by doing this.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

Again, Americans genuinely do not understand how much higher our standard of living is than most other parts of the world. Yes, your rich high school friend loved his month in Europe at five star hotels.

That is NOT how most of them live.