Andre van Heerden

Leadership Coach and Author, ex-teacher, soldier, adman, into history, philosophy, & classic literature.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“A network of informants saturated the population. Secrecy and distrust permeated the people, so much so that any overt activity was perceived as a provocation. How many denunciations there were against one’s own close relatives or against friends who had fallen under the sword!”

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Not all cultures are the same

Have you heard of a practice called “taharrush gamea”, or group harassment?

Hundreds of Muslim men team up in crowds and cooperate to surround and sexually assault women they consider impure.

And if you condemn it, they’ll call you Islamophobic!

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“Virgin female prisoners should be raped before execution so that they do not go to heaven.”
-Ayatollah Khomeini
(founding leader of the Islamic regime in Iran).

I will never wrap my head around the fact that this is what Western leftists decided to side with.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Check the time stamp…

6 months ago I traveled to L.A. and exposed how California was going to rig elections using homeless people & mail in voting

Gavin Newsom viciously attacked me for investigating this

Guess what? We were right

They only attack when you’re over the target

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This is one of the most impactful speeches delivered by the Pope.

He just received a 7-minute standing ovation for affirming the dignity of human life, from the moment of conception to natural death, in front of the Spanish Parliament

"The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

Watch.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

A newly released 200-page report is putting Minnesota’s top Democrats under intense scrutiny.

The report alleges Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of major fraud concerns tied to programs like Feeding Our Future as far back as 2020, but failed to act on warning signs and, in some cases, retaliated against whistleblowers.

It also claims state officials worried that aggressively pursuing fraud investigations could trigger accusations of racism, @ChadPergram reports

Stop scrolling for updates and turn on live alerts. Get FOX One and get the facts.

https://t.co/sGGmtAeG3L

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

It has been almost A WEEK since California’s primary “ended." The votes are still rolling in and guess what? They're heavily favoring the Democrats! Who could have seen that coming?

And California officials actually had the gall to ask us to be patient because this is "normal" for their elections. No, California, NOTHING about how you handle your elections is NORMAL.

You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to smell the rot here. At the least, this is the appearance of corruption. And when it comes to our elections, appearance is EVERYTHING.

Voting is built on trust: Trust that the dead aren’t suddenly voting. Trust that a van with thousands of ballots doesn’t show up overnight and swing the election one way. Trust that non-citizens aren’t casting votes that are being counted.

Trump was right to demand transparency. But BOTH sides should be just as furious.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The magnitude & brazen nature of the government payment fraud is staggering

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

I used to believe in birth control as a means to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions, but I changed my mind. Here’s why.

In 1968, Pope Paul VI wrote Humanae Vitae and was mocked for it. He saw exactly where we were headed.

He predicted that widespread contraception would open the door to more infidelity, a lowering of moral standards, and men viewing women as something to use instead of someone to honor and protect. This is what happens when we separate sex from commitment and from the possibility of life.⁠
⁠​
Contraception didn’t reduce abortion; it helped build the mindset that made abortion inevitable and provided another opportunity to profit off women’s bodies.

When society is told that it is possible have sex without consequences, the baby is viewed as a failure.

A child is not a failure. We shouldn’t be surprised that a child results from a procreative act. 

We fail ourselves by dividing sex from the goodness God created it for.⁠​ We fail our children by viewing them as accidents.

[dejanira @dejanirasilveir]

🚨💥SE PRENDIÓ BERLIN 🔥ALEMANIA 🇩🇪 HA DESPERTADO 🔥

¡Miles de patriotas alemanes han tomado las calles en una de las protestas más grandes, "1 Millón de personas"! 🔥

Exigen un cambio de gobierno, que ha destruido Alemania a través de la migración masiva y la financiación de guerras extranjeras.

No lo verás en los medios de comunicación COMPARTE por todas partes 🔥

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Thoughts?

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

One of the most breathtaking train rides in the world.
The Bernina Express travels from Chur, Switzerland to Tirano, Italy on the Rhaetian Railway. It crosses 196 bridges and 55 tunnels, climbs over the Bernina Pass, and then descends into Italy

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

In 1942, C.S. Lewis predicted a future dystopia where:

-Education is leveled to a mediocre state to avoid hurt feelings
-The middle class is hollowed out, removing the primary champions of private excellence
-"Avoiding trauma" becomes the excuse to stop pushing students to their full potential

The obsession with perfect equality ends up destroying human greatness — and it’s fueled by state education, where schools become more like nurseries than academic institutions.

Seems like Lewis’s dystopia is already here.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

This is how Lebanon went from being a prosperous Christian nation to being ruled by Muslims. Pay close attention!

“As Christians, we opened our doors to Muslims, and welcomed them into our country. We wanted to be inclusive and even made them part of the government.

But due to having several wives and many children, Muslims became the majority. Once they were the majority, they thought they could do whatever they wanted, and began massacring the Christians who welcomed them.”

[Fox News @FoxNews]

More than a million people packed the streets of Madrid to catch a glimpse of Pope Leo XIV.

Aerial footage shows massive crowds lining the Spanish capital as the pope rode through the city in the popemobile before celebrating Mass in Cibeles Square.

Before the service, Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida presented him with the city's gold medal at City Hall.

[Rae ❤️‍🔥 @FiatLuxGenesis]

Your ancestors who built the West were not evil nor privileged.

They built civilization from the ashes. The philosophy of ancient Greece, the law and statesmanship of the Roman Empire, and the love of Christ.

For hundreds of years while barbarians swarmed Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, a remnant of Christians held onto mere rocky shores & islands off the coasts of Ireland. The craftsman in bands of men wandering the European landscape kept some semblance of a portable culture.

They were far from privileged. They persevered. They converted the barbarians or defeated them.

All civilization is born in war.
Your ancestors fought to survive because they fought for something that most people today cannot understand: Honor, duty, God.

We live in the shadow of their greatness.

The birth of Christendom. A flourishing of a beautiful culture: art, architecture, music born in this civilization.

No, they were not evil.

They worked. They earned. They built.

Evil is seen today in those who believe they have the right to destroy this civilization built by the sweat and glory of greater men.

Real privilege is sitting on an iPhone, attending a university, and calling for the destruction of a civilization that you didn't do anything to build.

There are two types of people in the world. Those who create and build.
And those who destroy what greater men built.

Tolerance of destruction is not a virtue. Cowardice is a vice.

Stop tolerating your replacement and destruction. It is your right to defend what your ancestors built. They were not evil. They were not privileged.

They were determined and courageous and were able to hew a life from the wilderness.

It is right and just to defend, fight, and restore what was built on the foundations of Christ.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once voting is this fraudulent, they can get whatever outcome they want, making a sham of democracy