Jeff Sparkman

Husband, dad, worshipper of Jesus.

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

@inacarif @SamirTabar I’m right there with you!

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

The RFK effect is working. I just heard from a Chick Fila owner, corporate is looking into beef tallow for cooking instead of seed oils. Game changer.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

@tphybrid @mcuban I believe in miracles.

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Every time I go into a Mardels I’m immediately taken back to Christian culture in the 90’s.
They were just playing Sandi Patty at my last visit. Who remembers going to Family Christian bookstores and listening to demo cds to figure out if you wanted to buy it.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

TRUTH.

1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Ceedee Lamb dropped that ball because a perfectly thrown ball in the bread basket really surprised him. He’s used Dak’s throws behind him so I think a good ball like that was a shocker

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Always encouraging when you are asking about a piece of equipment and the guy at Lowe’s who works that dept. says honestly man I have no clue, that looks like a good one. Then reads the specs out loud on the box #hugehelp

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Sarah and I are honored to be featured in Lucas Estate Life Magazine this month. Lucas has truly become our home, love this place. Shout out to @photogshanen for the great photos of our family.

#lucasestate... https://t.co/sZEqpq1nnG

[Brian Ming @brianming]

Great time ministering at Resonate Life Church with the brand new pastors @jsparkman27 and @sarahsparkman Good things are ahead for them!! https://t.co/5ew8mdXkWi

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Walked in to the living room with my kids watching the top 10 most dangerous amusement park rides. Their reasoning was so they know which rides to never ride. Great thinking!

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

New song idea Love Conquers all. https://t.co/Iy3TuusQdg

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

My kids have taught me the ultimate put down in the Minecraft world is to be called a noob. I was called that and I’m still trying to get over the sting.

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

New song idea, channeling my inner Jack Johnson. Song I wrote about me and my wife. https://t.co/GpAqULhQEa

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

So much fun at the FCA coaches camp this year. Several years ago I brought a full band and it was too much for the room so I started bringing a smaller team and using tracks to supplement. I love worshiping with... https://t.co/b8Uvgv0o2r

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

So much fun at the FCA coaches camp this year. Several years ago I brought a full band and it was too much for the room so I started bringing a smaller team and using tracks to supplement.… https://t.co/M7ErGzalt9

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Probably one of my favorite weekends of the year. I love the opportunity to lead worship for this event. FCA coaches retreat.

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#fca #fcastrong #latorreresort #lakeconroe #worship #retreat #worshippeader @ La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Working today on a song for a church that wanted me to turn an 80’s song The Midnight Cry into modern for a Fine Arts Drama. It was a challenge but a lot of fun. I’m excited where it’s going.... https://t.co/0XnAliuxdo

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

Even the chickens can’t stand this heat. https://t.co/mJUt2EKtOq

[Jeff Sparkman @jsparkman27]

My 7 yr old son just wrote a song, one line, “God you are more powerful than 5 million cavemen” because cavemen are stronger than humans he explained. Pretty cute.