Robert King

Faith, Freedom, Family, Friends, Humor, Aviation, Sports.

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@RepThomasMassie @cspan When David Crockett was in Congress and ran afoul of the sitting President, Jackson, he resolved to expose the unconstitutional and immoral practices of those in DC before he was run out of town. History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@haymes_joshua I think you’re mixing terminology… You really ought to look into @sygarte’s book Beyond Evolution. Also @InspiringPhilos has some great explainer videos reconciling evolution and Divine creation.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@espn @SportsCenter I’m just going to leave Kyle Trask’s not-even-runner-up COVID-year stats here for comparison. Against all-SEC opponents. Still the biggest snub in #Heisman history

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

Erika Kirk’s full speech at Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk

@mrserikakirk

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@libsoftiktok @uofnorthgeorgia Christian Identity, is in fact, a well known white supremacist and domestic terrorist group.

https://t.co/pIuBeYMMMZ

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

We wept bitterly putting this together...

Charlie Kirk did not fear death. Charlie told us what his legacy would be. Charlie's greatest passion was his faith in Jesus Christ.

Just hours before he was assassinated, Charlie stood on stage, openly proclaiming his love for Jesus Christ. Unafraid, unwavering, and full of conviction. He lived every moment guided by that faith, and in the end, he was taken home by his Savior.

Charlie is a true Christian martyr.

His example is not just inspiring, it is a call to all of us. To stand firm in our beliefs, to shine light into darkness, speak truth and to live boldly in our faith. Charlie showed us what it means to live, and die, with purpose.

This is the legacy he leaves...

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

[InspiringPhilosophy - Michael Jones @InspiringPhilos]

It is

[Chloe Cole ⭐️ @ChloeCole]

I saw this video this morning on my feed and I think it so eloquently explains what Charlie Kirk was put on this earth to do.

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens”

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Thank you for everything you’ve done in the fight for liberty, limited government, and freedom. Your unwavering commitment and powerful voice continue to inspire generations.

[Wade Stotts @wadestotts]

Every naturalized citizen takes an oath of allegiance to the US.

Unless they don't want to.
Or they don't understand it.
Or can't bring themselves to say the word "God."

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@Mrgunsngear

[Timcast News @TimcastNews]

The New York Times buried the fact that the only pardon Joe Biden personally signed was for his son, Hunter Biden.

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@voteleber @RepThomasMassie Individuals can’t take their debt to infinity to afford things we need like a home, car, etc. We have to have cash, good credit, and collateral. Why does Congress get to steal our money (and our grandkids’ money) to go buy things we don’t need and can’t afford? #StandwithMassie

[Robert King @KingDougbert]

@JohnGibs0n @MikeWingerii You’ve just walked yourself into the “people save themselves” argument. The application is conditional upon what? The person’s actions/choices (i.e. works)? Welcome to Roman Catholicism.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Nancy Pelosi once said the House needed to vote for a bill to find out what was in it.

Today @SpeakerJohnson said “hold my beer.”

He just announced he’s using the Rules Committee to change the text of the Big Beautiful Bill a week after we voted on it!

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

We Are Being Lied To About The Big Beautiful Bill DOGE Cuts And This Totally Proves It

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The falling out was inevitable. You don’t land rockets backwards or get cars to drive themselves by suffering fools gladly. This interview with @SharylAttkisson was taped on March 27th.