David Schmus

Jesus, ExecDir of @christeducators, 33 yrs married, 6 kids, foster/adopt, @talbottheology alum, taught APUSH, In-n-Out Burger, USCfb. Opinions my own, "Shmoose"

[David Schmus @dschmus]

@TrojanFBx Hopefully if he ever does that stepping over DBs trash, coaches will bench him. So low class.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

This is typically too partisan for me to repost, but couldn't resist this one! LOL! 😆

[David Schmus @dschmus]

Wow, I can't keep up. He got one out in the 9th and they took him out! Still, a great game by Yamamoto.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

I don't post a lot about sports, but hey, Dodgers' pitcher Yamamoto is 3 outs away from a no-hitter (just lost the perfect game due to an error).

[David Schmus @dschmus]

I think I jinxed it...lead off home run in the bottom of the 9th...bye bye no-hitter, bye bye shut out. He can still get a complete game win, and that's pretty special these days.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

This might be my favorite account on X!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

This country. A driveway. My neighbor Dale owns a truck, and I have discovered who actually defends this nation.

Monday, a family down the street moved. Dale's truck. Wednesday, a tree limb fell on Mrs. Carter's fence. Dale's truck. Friday it snowed, and an unspoken signal traveled the block, and Dale appeared with a plow blade like a one-man cavalry.

No one pays him. No one drafts him. He is summoned by need alone.

"Dale," I asked, "who do you serve?"

"What?"

"Who commands the truck?"

He thought about it. "Whoever's stuck, I guess."

WHOEVER IS STUCK. Eight hundred years of military philosophy in my bloodline, and this man in a hoodie has perfected it: a standing army of one, sworn to the realm of Whoever Is Stuck.

In my land, a lord keeps soldiers for his own gate. Dale keeps a truck for everyone's gate.

I offered him my loyalty. He offered me a beer. We were both confused by the other's gift and accepted anyway. That is diplomacy.

I asked what I could do to repay the block's debt to him. He said, "Help me load a couch Saturday."

I have never trained harder for anything.

The couch was heavy. I was not strong enough. I want to say I was. I was not. Dale carried his end and most of mine and said "good lift" anyway, which is the kindest lie in the language.

A man with a truck does not ask who needs him. He has already backed into the driveway.

I cannot buy a truck yet. So I have become the man who shows up when the truck does. Every truck needs a vanguard. Dale has not approved this title. Dale does not need to.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Wow.

Team USA holds a postgame prayer on the field after their World Cup win over Paraguay

Win or lose, give glory to God 🙏

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Team USA captain Christian Pulisic led America to win 4-1 in the World Cup opener.

He is a devout Christian, holds Bible studies with teammates, and openly credits God for carrying him through difficult times

Christianity produces excellence. ✝️

[David Schmus @dschmus]

Yes, Christian educators serving in public schools are part of what has made this nation so great!

[Christian Educators @ChristEducators]

Yes, there's a lot broken in this world.

But you faithfully show up every day as a difference-maker in your students' lives.

"You are the light of the world."
Not someday, but right now.
In that classroom.

Thank you for carrying that calling into your school.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

"I suspect we need to recover...the priesthood of all believers today. It needs to be battled for again, having been stolen not so much by men in flowing white robes sitting in confession booths, as much as by celebrities in Gucci jackets and $500 sneakers on stages."

Thank you @alanfrow for your groundedness and wisdom.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

@japan_nobunaga Love this so much!

[David Schmus @dschmus]

@alanfrow So kind of "truish"

[David Schmus @dschmus]

@alanfrow, is it really that bad? There are certainly places in America where this is not true, and I imagine there are places in SA where it is.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

You have to check this out…

This is literally unimaginable in South Africa

America is so Awesome!

[David Schmus @dschmus]

@awealthofcs I'm at 2.65%. 😃

[David Schmus @dschmus]

@IcyHollywood @EndWokeness I don't want segregation from anyone made in God's image and objects of His pursuing love.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

Praise the Lord

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING: Cleveland Clinic officially ENDS gender transition surgery for children, committing to investing millions into detransition care.

No child was born in the wrong body.

[David Schmus @dschmus]

Are the 50 million kids attending public schools worth it?

[Christian Educators @ChristEducators]

Help up raise up ambassadors for Christ in our public schools!

Watch this short video from our Executive Director @dschmus

[David Schmus @dschmus]

true that

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."