Blake Goodman

Love God, Love People, Have a Blast

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Clay Travis nails the real reason so many leftists with expensive degrees hate capitalism.

It's simpler than you think.

TRAVIS: "This is so incredibly important. These highly educated young far-left Democrats hate capitalism because they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on degrees the country DOES NOT value."

"They spent $200,000 on a women's studies degree [meanwhile] plumbers and electricians are driving better cars and making MORE money."

"They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own. They should take a lesson... GET USEFUL SKILLS."

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

JOHNNY CASH: "Being a Christian isn't for cowards. It takes a real man to live for God, much more so than to live for the Devil."

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Lionel Messi on why he started crying after receiving the silver medal despite the World Cup final defeat to Spain:

“I wasn’t just thinking about losing a final. I was thinking about everything that brought me here… every sacrifice, every difficult moment, every time people doubted us, and every time this shirt gave me the strength to continue.

“When I heard the Argentina fans chanting my name after the defeat, that was the moment that broke me. We had just lost the biggest game, but they didn’t turn their backs on us. They didn’t see a silver medal… they saw the journey. They saw the heart, the fight, and the pride we gave them.

“I looked into the stands and I saw families who travelled thousands of miles, people who dreamed with us, people who cried with us. That love is bigger than any trophy. Football gives you many victories, but moments like that remind you why you play.

“I cried because I felt the weight of the shirt, the love of my country, and the responsibility of wearing this badge. A medal can be silver, but the memories, the connection with the people, and the pride of representing Argentina… those things are priceless.

“Sometimes football gives you the perfect ending, and sometimes it gives you a painful chapter. But I learned that greatness is not only measured by lifting trophies. It is also measured by how you stand when your heart is broken.

“And hearing Argentina sing my name after losing a World Cup final… that was a victory of another kind. I will carry that moment with me forever.”

—🎙️Mixed Zone

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Christianity is the most persecuted religion on earth.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

This is how you change culture:

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

-Joshua 24:15

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Bill Maher just said he's considering voting Republican for president in 2028 because Democrats are becoming communists

HUGE MISTAKE, DEMS!

"Yes, my vote is in play...I'm NOT living in communist America. The talking point, 'it's socialism.' I read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths, don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing! They say things like, take over key industries, THAT'S COMMUNISM."

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

Jesus is woven into every book of the Bible, here’s how:

Genesis – the Seed of the woman, promised from the start

Exodus – the Lamb whose blood covers us

Leviticus – the spotless Sacrifice, our High Priest

Numbers – the Serpent lifted up to heal

Deuteronomy – the Prophet greater than Moses

Joshua – the Commander who leads us to victory

Judges – the One who rescues again and again

Ruth – our Kinsman Redeemer

1 Samuel – the King anointed by God

2 Samuel – David’s greater Son

1 Kings – the King who reigns in righteousness

2 Kings – the King whose throne never ends

1 Chronicles – the King robed in glory

2 Chronicles – the Builder of God’s true Temple

Ezra – the One who restores what’s broken

Nehemiah – the Rebuilder of ruined walls

Esther – the Advocate standing in our defense

Job – the Redeemer who is alive

Psalms – the Shepherd who cares for His sheep

Proverbs – Wisdom in the flesh

Ecclesiastes – the answer to a meaningless life

Song of Solomon – the Bridegroom pursuing His bride

Isaiah – the Servant who suffered for us

Jeremiah – the Righteous Branch

Lamentations – the Man acquainted with grief

Ezekiel – the Son of Man

Daniel – the Fourth Man walking in the fire

Hosea – the Husband who stays faithful

Joel – the One who baptizes with the Spirit

Amos – the One who carries our burden

Obadiah – the Savior with power to deliver

Jonah – the Prophet who rose again

Micah – the Ruler born in Bethlehem

Nahum – the One who deals with evil

Habakkuk – the One who justifies by faith

Zephaniah – mighty to save

Haggai – the Desire of every nation

Zechariah – the One who was pierced

Malachi – the Sun of righteousness rising

Matthew – the Messiah, King of the Jews

Mark – the Servant who came to serve

Luke – the perfect Son of Man

John – the Word who became flesh, the Son of God

Acts – the Risen Lord building His Church

Romans – the One who makes us right with God

1 Corinthians – the Resurrection and the life

2 Corinthians – our Comfort in every trial

Galatians – the One who sets us free

Ephesians – the Head of the Church

Philippians – our Joy no matter what

Colossians – the fullness of God in a body

1 Thessalonians – the King who is coming back

2 Thessalonians – the Judge of all

1 Timothy – the Mediator between God and man

2 Timothy – the Witness who stayed faithful to the end

Titus – our Blessed Hope

Philemon – the Friend who sticks closer than family

Hebrews – our Great High Priest

James – faith that actually lives

1 Peter – the Chief Shepherd

2 Peter – the Lord who is coming again

1 John – love wrapped in flesh and bone

2 John – the Truth itself

3 John – the Way we walk in

Jude – the One who keeps us from falling

Revelation – King of kings and Lord of lords

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

Pray as if everything depended on God, but work as if everything depended on you.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

"You know why you're miserable? Because you're not following God's command. Stop being a boy, and become a man … This is how the Gospel was taught for 2000 years. The last 40 years, we decided to hyper-modernize it, and it's been a failure.”

-Charlie Kirk

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

This is the prayer George Washington said every day when he got out of bed:

"O eternal & everlasting God, I present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept my humble thanks, but to daily frame me more into the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ."

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

Wouldn't you have loved to have been on that walk with Jesus for 2.5 hours when He unpacks how the Old Testament points to Him?

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

Pray without ceasing for the men and women of the US Armed Forces tonight.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water that had somewhere to be.

A young woman walked between the cars taking orders on a small tablet, on foot, in the sun, smiling like the sun was her idea.

I said thank you.

She said, "My pleasure."

I did not think about it then. I should have.

At the window I thanked the young man for the food.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for the sauce.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for thanking me—

"My pleasure."

I want to be clear about what was happening.

This was a duel.

In Japan I trained in courtesy for forty years. Bowing angles. Seasonal greetings. The correct depth of apology for seventeen distinct situations.

I was a white belt in that drive-thru.

I escalated. I used my most formal English. I thanked him on behalf of my entire family line.

He said, "My pleasure," and gave me extra sauce.

Extra sauce. Unprovoked. A counterattack.

I returned the next day to reclaim my honor.

It was Sunday. The restaurant was closed.

All of them were closed. In the entire country. They close every Sunday, and they have closed every Sunday since the beginning, because the founder made a promise, and the promise did not expire when he did.

I stood in the empty parking lot and understood I had lost twice.

Once to a teenager with sauce.

Once to a man I will never meet, who kept his word so long it became a building.

In my country we say a samurai's word is his life.

I had never seen a restaurant say it back.

I returned Monday. I ordered. And this time I said it first, before she could.

"My pleasure."

She smiled and said, "It sure is."

America, I surrender.

It was my pleasure.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Meteorologist Bill Taylor of KENS 5 paused during a live broadcast to pray for those affected by the devastating Texas Hill Country floods.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I knew Jesus as “Isa.”

Here’s what nobody at the mosque could ever tell me: what does “Isa” mean?

Nothing. It has no meaning in Arabic. Scholars still debate where the Quran even got the form — it doesn’t match the Arabic Christians of that era were already using for Jesus (Yasu’).

Now watch the original.

His name in Hebrew is YESHUA. And Yeshua isn’t a label. It’s a sentence. It means “YHWH SAVES.”

That’s why the angel in Matthew 1:21 doesn’t just assign the name — he explains it: “You shall call his name Jesus, FOR HE will save his people from their sins.”

For HE will save. The angel puts YHWH’s job description on the baby. The name is the claim, baby.

Every time a first-century Jew said “Yeshua,” they were saying “YHWH saves” — and pointing at a carpenter from Nazareth.

And the Old Testament had already loaded the name.

Isaiah 43:11 — “I, even I, am YHWH, and BESIDES ME THERE IS NO SAVIOR.” God says salvation is exclusively His. Then He shows up wearing the name.

Islam gave me a Jesus with a meaningless name and a limited job — prophet, messenger, warner, nothing more.

The Bible gave me a Jesus whose NAME is the Gospel. Acts 4:12 — “There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

The name I was taught was empty.

The real name was the whole message.

YHWH saves. I’m the proof.

Praise the Lord, there’s POWER in Your NAME.

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Dear Norway fans,

Thank you & I’ll say it again… you have been, beyond any argument, the most extraordinary supporters at this entire tournament.

From a country of five and a half million people, you crossed oceans, packed out stadiums, dressed American streets in red and white and transformed every single fixture into a carnival of noise, pride and unshakeable joy.

Three decades away from football’s biggest stage, and yet you returned carrying no sense of entitlement: only pure, infectious energy.

Your team repaid every ounce of that devotion, reaching a first ever World Cup quarter-final in the nation’s history, smashing straight through the old ceiling of the last 16 that had stood since 1938 and 1998. a stunning knockout of Brazil to even get there (a nation Norway have somehow never lost to across World Cup history).

The Viking Row wasn’t just a celebration for your own players. It moved rivals. It captivated neutrals. It swept up the entire watching planet.

England brought the run to a close. But nothing can erase what unfolded here. The finest chapter Norwegian football has ever produced. Walk away with your heads held high.

Thank you, Norway. For the emotion. For the history you carved out. For the row we’ll be talking about for years to come. Unforgettable. 🇳🇴

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The world is very generous with religious tolerance until a Christian actually believes Christ.

It will tell us to respect every path, honour every belief, affirm every spiritual claim, and never speak as though one religion is false. But the moment we say Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father, the mask slips. Suddenly conviction becomes arrogance, truth becomes hate, and faithfulness becomes narrowness.

Jesus did not leave that door open.

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6).

Christianity cannot be reduced to one spiritual option among many. If Christ is truly the eternal Son of God, if He truly died for sinners, if He truly rose from the dead, then He is not asking for a seat at the table of world religions. He is Lord over all.

“And there is salvation in no one else” (Acts 4:12).

We are not called to be cruel, proud, or disrespectful. We must speak with gentleness and reverence. But gentleness does not mean surrendering the truth, and love does not mean pretending souls are safe apart from Christ.

“Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense” (1 Peter 3:15).

The world wants Christians to clap for every belief system while quietly apologizing for our own. But we cannot deny the only Saviour in the name of being accepted by those who reject Him.

If Christ is offensive to the age, then let the offense rest where Scripture places it. We are not ashamed of the gospel, because it alone is the power of God for salvation.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

The Liberty Bell is emblazoned with a text from the Bible:

“Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof.”

Leviticus 25:10