that guy

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[Lance Corporate @lance_corporate]

We just moved. Yeah it sucks to give up a good rate. What sucks even more is spending your kids’ entire childhood in a state of anticipation waiting for some highly optimized market scenario that may never come.

Homes are an investment, yes, but they are first and foremost a backdrop for the one and only life that is quickly passing you by. Don’t be dumb, but don’t let these real estate dorks paralyze you. Life is meant to be lived, not constantly overanalyzed.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Never forget when the Biden admin sent trucks to remove razor wire from Texas’ border so our country can be invaded

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

All military age males means it is an invasion

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Muslim invaders are now DESECRATING graves in Ceuta and THROWING Remains at Spanish citizens.

Pure evil.

This is exactly why you can’t welcome third world foreigners who hate your people into your country.

No military or police in sight.

Spain’s government is allowing this…

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

A woman who confessed to having anxiety attacks around white people wants to be the governor of Wisconsin, an 85 percent white state. If this doesn’t immediately destroy her campaign and career then we’re doomed as a country.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Really sad. “Once” is one of the only musicals I ever liked (if you consider it a musical, which I do). I discovered his music from that film and have been listening ever since. RIP.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Wow did you hear what those Republican congressmen said to that bad guy in the hearing? Lol man they really ripped him apart. It was so awesome. What’s that? Oh no the bad guy won’t be arrested or charged with any crime or suffer any consequences of any kind at all. No, there will be no follow up on the hearing, no relevant legislation passed in response to it, no changes of any kind made at all ever. But did you see that viral clip of that one senator? He even used a cuss word! A real cuss word! He’s so tough and brave. I’m so impressed. Aren’t you?

[that guy @capnchia]

When will you make these again

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

2/ When I was a teenager, my godmother bought me a beautiful smoking jacket. Not a costume smoking jacket à la Hugh Hefner on Halloween. A proper, premium smoking jacket. I've worn it countless times over the years and will have it for the rest of my life.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Actually, I was sarcastically suggesting that these are not in fact reasonable people with whom we can cut a wonderful deal. Because they aren't. No wonderful deal is available under current conditions. The worst available option remains a crappy deal. As it always was.

You and others (MBD, e.g.) ask what we should do, then. As I have said many, MANY times on the show, here are some options:

1. Ramp up economic and military pressure dramatically so as to achieve our interests, through their capitulation or otherwise. This could include taking out Kharg and South Pars, thus destroying their export capacity and removing their relevance to the Chinese -- and making them an obstacle to Chinese economic growth given that they will then be an oil-free irritant holding up regional oil flow. It could also include destroying Pickaxe Mountain, where they have apparently hidden their remaining nuclear program. We could then continue to radically ramp up our domestic oil production as well as oil production in Venezuela, and leave the issue of the Strait to the far more interested actors including the Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans, while maintaining our crippling economic sanctions.

2. Leave right now and simply maintain our economic sanctions on Iran. Declare, correctly, that we have crippled their nuclear program and missile and drone production facilities. And free the hands of our allies -- including Israel, UAE and Saudi -- to perform overwatch function on the Iranians. As for the Strait, same recommendation as the above.

I believe that (1) is better than (2) insofar as it prevents the near- and mid-term rearmament of Iran and puts the regime on extraordinarily tenuous footing for the foreseeable future; the only possibility of recovery becomes reintegration into the world economy, which we can stop. All of which would give us actual negotiating leverage, if there is any to be had. But (2) is still better than, say, a truly garbage MOU that hands Iran pretty much everything in exchange for pretty much nothing.

But thanks, as always, for your deliberately misleading analysis that relies on throwing around charges of "effeminate" posting. And Sean, I do have to say for the record that when it comes to passive-aggressive effeminate posting, you have no peer.

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

The replacement of “Homemaker” with “Stay-at-home mom” was one of the most subversive linguistic tricks they ever got over on the public.

[that guy @capnchia]

ICE pulled a passenger off my flight this week

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

ICE arrests at U.S. airports are reportedly increasing, with enforcement expanding to some travelers accused of visa overstays and other immigration violations.

[Boeing Airplanes @BoeingAirplanes]

737-10 flight test campaign ✅

With more than 2,000 flight hours, the 737-10 has completed its final planned certification flight test.

This extensive testing program validates hundreds of systems, demonstrates safety and proves performance of the largest 737 MAX family member. #TeamBoeing now turns our attention to finalizing reports for regulatory review.

See the 737-10's flight test team mark the occasion: https://t.co/m4HJhYIQNP

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Every atheist I've debated eventually lands here: if God is real, why can't we see him? I used to fumble this. Then I read 1 Timothy 1:17.

Paul is mid-argument about grace and his own conversion when he breaks suddenly into praise:

"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever."

"Eternal," "immortal," and "the only God" make sense as praise. But invisible? We don't praise men for being unseen. Why does Paul list it as something as glorious as the majesty and immortality of God?

Unless invisibility is not a limitation. Unless it is out of gracious design.

Paul met the unmediated light of Christ on the road to Damascus, he was knocked into the dirt, and blind for three days. He knows what the alternative to invisible feels like. It produced collapse, not worship. His praise is a survivor's testimony.

When people ask for God to be visible, they don't understand what full divine visibility would actually require.

God is omnipresent in essence. Therefore, total divine visibility fundamentally requires omnipresent visibility.

If God reveals Himself to the fullest extent of His capacity, He must be visible everywhere, at all times.

In the room you closed the door to. In the moment you spent your life believing nobody was watching. A visible, omnipresent God is not majestic; He is psychologically catastrophic. Nobody wants this, not even the devout.

Look at Isaiah 6. The prophet sees merely the hem of God's garment filling the temple, not the full glory of God, just the overflow. His response? "Woe to me, I am undone." A partial glimpse unmade him completely.

God isn't after bland empirical agreement. James already ended that: the demons believe, and tremble.
Intellectual assent is a bar the devil clears daily.

God isn't running a census of the convinced; He is seeking genuine love. And genuine love requires genuine choice, which requires that the object of love not be overwhelming.

This is why women despise love bombing. A man who floods your psychological space until refusal becomes impossible isn't loving you, he is eliminating the conditions for love. The "yes" he extracts is engineered by exhaustion.

God does the exact opposite. He veils His glory precisely so that you retain the dignity of saying no. The love bomber makes himself so large that you have no choice. God makes Himself small enough that you do.

Which brings us directly to the Incarnation.

The Incarnation is God making Himself visible enough to be known, but small enough to be rejected without fuss.

It is the most precise solution to the most precise problem: God doesn't arrive as a sky-filling terror, but as a baby in a manger in a backwater town. You can walk past a carpenter from Nazareth. You cannot walk past the throne of Isaiah 6.

The Bible is already clear that every knee will bow, a day of compelled reality as certain as the sun. But God is not eager for a forced crowd. Right now, He is seeking the single, freely given return of a heart in love.

When an atheist asks why he cannot see God, he is asking a better question than he knows. The answer is not absence. The answer is restraint.

Now one can finally understand why Paul says INVISIBLE, and means it as highest acclaim. It is not a limitation, it is a mercy.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognized their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.
 - F.F Bruce

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

I will be making a formal announcement tomorrow about the great state of Texas.
God bless the great state of Texas

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

What does it mean that every glance you take is a moral act—and that the world you see is literally shaped by what you're aiming at when you look? This lecture builds from a deceptively simple observation about perception and intent into one of the oldest and most unsettling ideas in the biblical tradition: that the spirit you bring to your decisions determines what reality reveals to you. Moving through the stories of Jacob's ladder, Elijah's cave, and the still small voice that turns out to be harder to hear than any earthquake or firestorm, Peterson traces the case that conscience, calling, and the instinct to aim upward are not three things but one—and that the God of the Old Testament is less a being to be believed in than a direction to be chosen, one glance, one word, one sacrifice at a time.

This lecture was filmed on December 2nd, 2024 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

How does a country make itself safe and productive?

Great Britain did it with Christianity—and by executing or imprisoning the worst males in every generation for hundreds of years.

By the 1960s, the country was so civilized that policeman carried nothing but a nightstick, everybody queued without a second thought, and newspaper boxes were left unlocked on the high street.

Britain had become a so-called high trust society — less euphemistically, an honest society.

Something similar—without the Christianity—transpired in Japan.

What happens to such a country if it forgets how difficult that was to attain?

The Brits found out. And then denied it.

https://t.co/xbdCHNknd3

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

I joined Michael Knowles on Theology Thursday. We broke down exactly what’s happening in our culture right now and why it matters so much.
(Daily Wire+ membership required.)
🎥 Watch the full interview: https://t.co/SJPXom2DrZ

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Bobbi Althoff: "How many joints do you smoke in a day?"

Wiz Khalifa: "I'd say like 30."

Bobbi Althoff: "Every day?"

Wiz Khalifa: "Mhm."

Bobbi Althoff: "Are there long-term health risks to doing that?"

Wiz Khalifa: "No. Just being cool as f*ck."