Gasman

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

“Mormons turned a swamp into a metropolis. Then they turned a desert into an empire. It’s the most American story.”

Their religious beliefs take them to Missouri. Neighbors learn they are anti-slavery and violently drive them out.

They go to Illinois and turn a swamp into a city that rivals Chicago. Only to have violent mobs run them out.

They walk toward Utah. Hoping to find a safe place to gather.

Jim Bridger mocks them. He bets $1,000 they can’t grow crops in Utah. They continue anyway.

The Utah soil is so hard it breaks their plows. So they engineer a way to water a desert.

Their crops grow. Salt Lake City sprawls. They expand. Latter-day Saints settle 500 towns across the West. A network of farms, commerce, and faith.

Their women become the first women to vote. They elect America’s first female state senator.

Their women organize themselves. With very little training, they create a system that lowers infant mortality to among the lowest rates in the country.

When the Depression hits, Latter-day Saints implement the most effective welfare program in the country. Decades later, Ronald Reagan studies it and calls it a model for the country. Its impact is seen today as Utah has the lowest usage of federal food assistance in the country.

The pursuit of knowledge and science becomes a hallmark. They start universities. They send their smartest men and women back east to learn the latest ideas and bring them back.

They are innovative. Technology that changes the world emerges from their culture. The television. The artificial heart. The weapons that won WWII. The beginnings of the internet.

The work ethic and cooperation that propelled them to develop the American West continues today. Their outsized influence on the world is famous.

They know religious persecution better than most. So they champion religious freedom for all, even those they disagree with.

Sociologists are obsessed with their outcomes. A Princeton researcher studied teens in America. She concluded that “Mormon teens are faring best.” Harvard data recently found that kids who grow up in Latter-day Saint homes are the most likely to say they feel loved by both parents. Other national studies consistently find them to be the happiest people in the country.

Gallup finds they are the most observant Christians in the country, a dedication to their faith that is unrivaled. Pew Research finds they know many Bible stories better than any other Christians.

A swamp became a metropolis. A desert became an empire. A persecuted people became the happiest in America. That’s the most American story ever told.

[Gasman @ewrigby]

@Awurabena2 Matthew 3:16-17; John 17:1-5; Luke 22:41-42; John 20:17 When Jesus said “I ascend unto my Father, what’s he ascending to himself? So bizarre how much the Nicean Creed doesn’t make sense.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Colombian fans respectfully stood in silence as one supporter sang the Congo national anthem alone at the World Cup.

Only after he finished, they erupted into cheers and joined the celebration.

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

The Boston Globe has dedicated a full page in today's edition to the Tartan Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇸

The letter in Boston's largest newspaper reads: "Dear Tartan Army,

"You came for the World Cup, but gave us something more.

"For a week, you turned train stations into singalongs, Fenway into a football ground, and an ordinary June into something we'll be talking about for years.

"Boston has hosted championships, parades, and celebrations of every kind. But we've never hosted guests quite like you all.

"Thank you for the laughter, the bagpipes and the memories. The World Cup will move on. So will the songs, but we'll never forget the joy you brought to our city."

𝘐𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 @SPARScotland

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan watches in disbelief as a video reveals America’s “nonprofit” hospitals actually rake in $45,000,000,000 in profit every year.

ROGAN: “Motherf*ckers.”

One CEO at NYU Langone paid himself $15,300,000 a year.

Other CEOs paid themselves $4,500,000 while nurses made about $70,000 a year.

P. DAVIS JONES: “A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as ‘hedge funds with hospital beds,’ and I was like, ‘I bet they are.’”

“The total revenues of nonprofit hospitals in America in 2023 was $1.3 trillion. Nonprofit hospitals were making $45 billion worth of profit.”

“A study that looked at almost 1,500 nonprofit hospitals found that 86% of them provided LITTLE TO NO charity.”

“It goes to executives, these CEOs getting paid about $4.5 million a year. Meanwhile, their nurses make about 70K.”

“Here’s a guy, Robert [Grossman], at a hospital in New York who paid himself $15.3 million a year. Nonprofit hospital.”

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This is what the left was doing in front of the White House in June 2020

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The majestic FIFA World Cup 2026 drone show in Mexico City.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dad helped his son pop the bubble in the most dad way possible

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

10 years. 10 years. I’ve listened to every Dem & never Trump pundit call Trump, Elon and anyone else who voted Republican a Nazi. And now they line up behind Platner, with an actual Nazi tattoo. Unbelievable.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why is it only pushed in the West?

[Gasman @ewrigby]

@HunterBiden @null30401025 You know that’s why we can’t afford Obamacare? We were supposed to take the money / profits earned from Federalizing student loans to help pay for healthcare spending? So forgiving student loans just puts us as a country further in debt and doesn’t help fund healthcare.

[Gasman @ewrigby]

@anish_koka Or maybe they are healthy 26 year olds just coming off their parents’ policy and don’t use the healthcare? Maybe wages for lower and middle class are going down and more people need the care?

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“They dumped BILLIONS into homelessness and somehow it all just disappeared.”

“The minute anyone said ‘show us the receipts,’ the audits got killed.”

David Spade says Newsom blocked audits of spending, vetoing bills that would’ve shown taxpayers EXACTLY where the money went.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act":
This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear."

The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds.

California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages.

This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional.

Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

Let’s make a deal.

All of us on the Right would be totally content if you went after these actually violent criminals with 1/10 the manpower and resources as you went after the January 6 people.

Does that seem fair?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Despite what Dr. Fauci wants us all to believe, we know taxpayer dollars were used to fund dangerous gain-of-function research.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bill Maher fires back at Billie Eilish and leftist “kids” who “don’t know what the f*ck” America is about.

“I want to… say something about Western civilization. Kids, you don’t know what the f*ck it is.”

“They think Western means white—and white means bad. First of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it, too. The Japanese before World War II and during World War II. And Genghis Khan, and I could go on and on.”

“The left is very down on America, very down on the West. And it’s ironic because the West has also given us everything that makes your life good here. Don’t ask Billie Eilish or Chappell Roan about what the Western values are, because they’ll just say it’s about oppression.”

“But it’s not about oppression. It’s about rule of law. It’s about respect for minorities. It’s about democracy. It’s about scientific inquiry. These are all good things that came from the Western world. I wish that schools would teach that again.”

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Fauci walked into a CIA briefing in 2020 and overrode six out of seven scientists who said COVID came from a Wuhan lab. This isn't a conspiracy. It's a convergence of interests. They funded gain-of-function research. The virus leaked. So they covered their tracks. @MattKibbe