Catherine BondsPabon

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[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.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

I am in tears. Marco Rubio just posted this video celebrating how our Founding Fathers gathered on this day 250 years ago

CHRIST IS KING 🙏

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Listen to this kid sing the National Anthem

WOW!! 🇺🇸👏🏼

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

More of this please

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

Take a few moments for a good laugh! He’s spot on! 😂

[Ultra MagaBA🇺🇸 @Brookltnwilliw]

This is an Amazing Find

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

Today, Christians around the world observe Palm Sunday, which marks Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. (Matt. 21:1–11)

Welcomed with palm branches, He came not to claim an earthly throne, but to fulfill a far greater, eternal purpose. (Zech. 9:9)

Not a temporary victory — but victory over sin and death for ALL TIME.

Happy Palm Sunday!

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

This remains one of the most powerful lessons from the New Testament. And it's the greatest news you'll ever hear ahead of Easter 🙏

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗦𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 "𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬": 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗗.

The Iran war has done something no political consultant could have engineered. It has stripped the Democratic Party down to its bare operating principle — in front of everyone — in real time.

For years the hypocrisy was easier to hide. They could talk about human rights in the abstract. Democracy in theory. Women's rights as a campaign slogan. But the moment the United States moved to destroy a regime that has been murdering its own people since 1979 — a regime that k!lls women for removing their hijabs, that hangs teenage wrestlers in public squares, that has financed every major terror network on earth for 47 years — the Democratic Party had a choice.

Side with the Iranian people fighting for secular democratic freedom. Or side against Trump.

They chose against Trump. Which this time meant siding with the IRGC.

And people finally saw it.

Here's the ideology that produced that outcome. The Democratic Party's entire worldview runs on a single binary: oppressor versus oppressed. America is the oppressor. Therefore anyone fighting America is the oppressed — even when they are the ones doing the murdering and oppressing. The IRGC hangs protesters in the streets and the left categorizes them as victims because they are anti-American. That is not a political position. That is a moral illness.

The Iranian people are in the streets. They are getting shot. They have been sacrificing their lives for secular democratic freedom — the exact values the American left claims to champion. The left's response before the U.S. attacked: silence. The moment the U.S. attacked to help end the regime oppressing them: outrage.

That sequence tells you everything about what the party has become.

When your entire ideology collapses into opposition to one person, you no longer have an ideology. You have nothing. And the war with Iran proved it in real time — not because anyone set a trap, but because the moment demanded a real answer and the party gave the only answer it has left.

Whatever Trump does is bad.

Even when what Trump did was strike the regime that has been murdering Americans and oppressing Iranians for nearly five decades.

If you are a lifelong Democrat feeling politically homeless tonight — you did not abandon your party.

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: In a STUNNING moment, CNN was just forced to report that Donald Trump has 100% MAGA APPROVAL

100%. WOW 🔥

The kicker? The share of voters who call themselves "MAGA" is the *SAME* as when he won in 2024!

"You don't have to be a GENIUS to know you can't go higher than 100%!"

"Some Republicans disapprove...but they are NOT members of the MAGA movement."

Q: But are people leaving MAGA?

CNN: "In November 2024, 28% were MAGA. It's basically the SAME, 30%!"

"The MAGA base is NOT SHRINKING — it's the SAME SIZE! If anything, it's slightly larger!"

"That 100% that Trump has among MAGA GOP, is NOT an artifact of MAGA shrinking. It's just how strong Trump's grip is on the MAGA base!"

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

Joe Rogan Realizes This Problem! https://t.co/A7cBSNX5ty via @YouTube

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

@Shawn_Farash I love that guy! He’s the best thing CNN has and I often wonder how he still has his job 🤣 He must be married to someone pretty high up… 😆

He’s fantastic!!

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

The COLLAPSE of HOLLYWOOD is happening in real time.
This studio lot BANKRUPTCY is the first domino.
It all began when these WOKE companies stopped making entertainment and went into the propaganda and indoctrination business… https://t.co/7Ql6kXzOoH

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Sentiments of Venezuelans

I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.

If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing

Then shut the fuck up.

You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.

I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.

This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.

Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.

My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.

Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.

And everything died.

Not slowly.
Violently.

People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.

They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.

People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.

They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.

So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”

No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.

China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.

They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.

If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity

Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.

Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.

This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.

Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.

If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation

Then again
Shut the fuck up.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.

By Stephen Subero

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

@CornelWest @ShahidForChange A Venezuelan has something to say about this.

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

@MovitoPro Do these ship from the US? Would it be delivered in time for Christmas? I got scammed clicking on an ad to buy some clothes last month and to be honest, it has made me gun shy. 😞

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

@Shawn_Farash You nailed it! Every word! To the very end! Perfection. Being a Louisianan, I’m thrilled Mother Nature held up her end of the bargain and Trump is the great negotiator! 😂

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

This is brilliant! 🎯 To the very end! 🤣

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

TRUMP DECLARES VICTORY OVER HURRICANE SEASON!

Zero hurricanes in the GULF OF AMERICA!

[Catherine BondsPabon @cbondspabon]

This was before our current administration of @FBIDirectorKash and @FBIDDBongino
I’d love to see their position and find out if they are open to tracking the true statistics.

https://t.co/uh2IDStQlf