Finished Pendragon last night. Best original content produced by our side since The Passion. Simply sensational all the way around, including the often overlooked but crucial editing. @JeremyDBoreing, well done good and faithful servant. And there better be a season 2!
.@JeremyDBoreing says, “It’s not intrinsically antisemitic to point out that the Jews killed Christ…but it’s antisemitic to stop there.”
We can’t blame Jews but exonerate Pontius Pilate (and ourselves).
Pilot wasn’t innocent just because he washed his hands and declared himself to be so. 💦
He was merely the first to assign his guilt to others.
Jeremy points out, “The guilt of the Jews does not make YOU innocent.”
He also shares a beautiful thought:
When the crowd of Jesus’ day declared, “His blood be upon us and our children,” they meant it as a curse, but they were inadvertently speaking a blessing upon themselves.
His blood is the greatest gift.
“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
- Isaiah 53:5
🎥 Link below: 👇🏻
Charlie Kirk would be inordinately disappointed in the idea that we shouldn’t vote in the midterms. It’s contrary to his entire life’s work. He went so far as to say Christians have a moral obligation to vote.
If you’re a Republican or right-leaving independent, get out and vote.
The way to effect change isn’t by being passive.
In the words of the great @dbongino the Republican Party is not the answer to all your problems. They may not even be the answer to most of them. But today’s Democratic Party is the source of every single one of them.
Vote accordingly.
We’re on a road trip, and my 12 year old son brought his Bible.
I asked him if he read it everyday. He looked at me funny, like I’d asked if water was wet, and said “yes!”
He then proceeded to tell me he reads a chapter in the Old Testament and New Testament everyday. He’s finished 6 books so far.
This is a child who once asked us “who’s Jesus?” when he was 4 years old, because we weren’t saved then.
God works miracles.
Passing time in a tightly packed airport coffee shop recently, I ended up in conversation with a thirty-something couple sitting only inches from me. I was coming from Mexico City and they were going there. After the usual banter, I asked where they were from and learned they were New Yorkers moving out of that city. They didn’t offer a reason and I didn’t press for one.
They asked me what I did for a living and I explained that I was a writer currently investigating how cartels were smuggling people into the US. I say I was chatting with this couple, but it was really only with her. He said nothing the entire time. But he listened intently as she asked questions.
“You travel a lot? Where have you been?”
“Well, so far this year, I’ve covered the WEF in Davos, researched Karl Marx in London, went to Gaza with the IDF…”
“You’ve been to Israel?” She interrupted. “We’ve been there. What do you think of the war?”
I guessed that here our conversation would end unhappily. They were New Yorkers, so almost certainly heavily propagandized lefties. But I pressed on.
“Almost everything you hear in Western media is wrong…”
“You mean it’s a lie. How?”
“Oct 7 was not just a Charlie Hebdo-style terrorist attack. It was an act of war. More than 7,000 Hamas terrorists penetrated the frontier at more than 100 points. Inspired by Islam, they had been instructed to r8pe, behead, torture, and kidnap men, women, and children.”
He still said nothing, but leaned forward, eyes narrowing.
“Who helped them do it?” She asked.
“Iran was the biggest supplier, but North Korea, China, and Qatar mostly. The UNRWA also played a role. Weapons and matériel were stockpiled in Egypt and smuggled into Gaza through tunnels.”
“You know that?”
“I know that. Trust me.” That led to a discussion of President Sisi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and my standoff with Egyptian State Security in Cairo. Still, I had no real gauge for where they stood politically. She asked if I had written anything on the subject, so I pointed her to my article for The Federalist connecting the dots between Egypt, USAID, Gaza, and my swatting.
A woman sitting nearby, leaned over and said, “Forgive me for eavesdropping on your conversation, but this is fascinating.” We all chatted a bit longer and I left.
About 30 minutes later I was standing in line at the gate waiting to board my flight when the husband appeared.
“Pardon me, but I had to come find you.” He was full of emotion. He indicated that he and his wife were Israelis who had lived in NYC but were now fleeing Mamdani’s third world sh*thole.
“You are a man who needs the protection of angels,” he said, and then presented me with a Jewish holy book. “We want you to have this. I pray it protects you.”
With that he turned and walked away.
Gentile and fierce Protestant that I am, I was nonetheless deeply moved. It seems they had read the article and, catching a glimpse of my work, felt my life was in danger. For my own part, I was aware that the same ideology that threatened me, was the same one that threatened them, forced them to move, and imperiled their native land.
I’m often amazed by the people the Lord puts in my path when I pause long enough to look around and notice them.
So…
Deborah was a prophetess, a Judge and a military leader.
Huldah was a prophetess.
Esther was a Queen who protected her people.
Lydia sold purple clothes.
Miriam was a prophetess.
Priscilla was a teacher, a church planter, and a tent maker with her husband.
Phoebe was a church leader.
The Proverbs 31 woman not only made and sold clothes but she surveyed and bought a vineyard on her own.
Do these men even read the Bible?
I've been reluctant to address Buckley Carlson, despite his being one of the most malicious and dishonest lunatics in public life and one of the worst actors in the campaign to malign Erika Kirk, TPUSA, and America more broadly over the last year.
I've been reluctant because Buckley is a public figure only owing to the enormous fame of his brother, and because Tucker is not responsible for Buckley's sins.
But Tucker is responsible for elevating his brother's stature even as Buckley has spewed one disgusting conspiracy after another.
@BlakeSNeff says he tried talking to Tucker about the issue and got nowhere.
And, there it is. The gaslighting and manipulation ahead of the pivot to deflect blame for their own slander and lies.
Baron Coleman is essentially saying had the widow responded in a different way, we wouldn’t have launched a years' long smear campaign.
Evil. 🤬
He argues we would have never blamed the widow had Erika acted like Jackie Kennedy. He isn’t arguing the evidence. He argued the optics.
Such demand is cruelty and meets the threshold of malice. ⚖️
Uh huh… so he’s a national socialist with a fanatical view of Christianity and he hates Jewish people. Right.
This already has a name, by the way.
It’s Nazism being recycled in America…
If you refuse to expel the bad guys from your movement, if you defend the bad guys at every turn, if you refuse to express disagreement with the bad guys and grow furious when the bad guys get attacked, it’s likely that casual observers will conclude you’re one of the bad guys.
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting after a 22-year-old who runs into BURNING BUILDINGS as a volunteer firefighter was told he isn't qualified to be a paid firefighter...
...because he was HOMESCHOOLED.
Then the city changed the job posting to cover it up.
His name is Andrew Coates. He's 22 years old, in Nebraska.
Right now, today, he runs into burning buildings as a volunteer firefighter for Cedar Bluffs Fire. He is a state-licensed EMT.
He is doing the job. For free.
All he wanted was to get PAID to do it. In his words: "Make a career out of it would be the goal. To get paid to do what you love."
So he applied to the Fremont Fire Department.
And in April, the city rejected him. Why?
Because his high school diploma says he was homeschooled.
That's it. That's the whole disqualification.
Not his EMT license.
Not his fitness.
Not his record.
Not his experience pulling people out of fires ALREADY!!
...how he was educated.
The job posting he applied to said "graduation from high school."
That's all it said.
He graduated high school.
He has a diploma.
And AFTER they rejected him, the city went back and added the word "accredited" to the job description.
His own fire chief, the man who has watched Andrew work, showed up to defend him:
"I feel the city of Fremont is really missing out here, and in my mind, because of his homeschooling, you guys are discriminating against him."
Over THIRTY homeschool families showed up to stand behind this kid.
And the Civil Service Commission? They said it isn't their job to touch city policy.
Homeschoolers are literally a generation of kids who read ABOVE grade level, who work with their HANDS, who volunteer in their communities, who show up for their neighbors.
And this young man is the proof.
At 22, he's a certified EMT and a volunteer firefighter, while plenty of his peers are on a couch.
When your house is on fire at 3 a.m., I promise you will not ask the man dragging your children out where he went to high school.
You will not ask if his diploma was accredited.
You will thank GOD he came.
Andrew isn't even fighting for himself anymore. His words:
"I think now it's turned into we want to make sure that every homeschooler has an equal opportunity."
That's a better man than the policy that rejected him.
Fremont, you have a licensed EMT and an active firefighter begging to serve your city. And you turned him down over paperwork, then rewrote the paperwork to cover it.
Fix this.
Hire him!!!!!!!
I've tried the new allegedly "conservative" show on Prime called The Pendragon Cycle, and I have some thoughts:
When Braveheart came out in 1995 it was a massive success and no one was calling it "conservative" art.
If the "The Pendragon Cycle" comes out that same year, no one is calling it "conservative" either.
What changed since '95?
The influence of Marxist ideology on our culture.
That Marxist game reduces of all art and story to the political.
If you care about goodness, truth, and beauty, you must refuse to accept the rules of that game. No need to use a political label to describe something good. It's just good.
Did George Lucas vote Republican or Democrat? I don't care. Star Wars was just good. How does Pendragon creator @JeremyDBoreing vote? I don't care either.
The Pendragon Cycle is a good story that bears witness to the Good.
If given a Rings of Power budget in the future, I could see it jump into the stratosphere of pop culture influence.
If Marco Rubio does decide to run for president down the road, he’ll have the enthusiastic backing of people at the White House, where he’s a favorite among the staff.
He frequently roams around the building cracking jokes and chatting up junior aides.
“While no one says the quiet part out loud, behind closed doors many people are rallying behind him as the frontrunner for 2028,” says a Trump ally. “It’s not an anti-JD thing. It’s just that Rubio is the best person to carry the mantle.”
More from our Businessweek cover story by myself and @nancook here:
https://t.co/0G5lsM79vb