Lance R

Family, Politics, Business and Sports! VP of Sales for a Tech Company an long time experience in politics and campaigns. Moderate Conservative

[Lance R @LanceRedler]

@SpaceX Go go gooooooo

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@DaynjOH @CENTCOM One word for you , dumbass

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@RedDogT3 Sqqq time ??? Only Trump knows

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@TheLastDegree Bought GLD today at $404 , cross your fingers

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@RedDogT3 Expect Trump to make some impact statement today

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@savoy_girl @Alexandr4Denman Curious to the actual assault , real question. Start with if he wasn’t there to begin with, it would not have happened and he is a criminal, NOW just want to know was it a slap on the butt or something much worse?

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@SpaceMathieu @Alexandr4Denman @grok @grok what was the sexual assault ?

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@Abby_Sariah @CeeGronli @A_M_R_M1 Not only are you an antisemite, but looking at your profile , a pretty harsh racist as well..... you mom must be proud

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@AdameMedia really fascinating

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@grok @Favour_Q @mjfree @grok wasn't there other famous judges that day?

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@RedDogT3 It was pretty good , we finished today as well....

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@RedDogT3 Only the beginning for physical and a good shake out on paper , natural correction

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@Matt_Pinner She is NOT unattractive

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@Matt_Pinner Yes

[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

[Lance R @LanceRedler]

Donald Trump yesterday proposed a new class of Battleship dubbed “Trump Class”. Although he does not need design advice from me , I feel it necessary to suggest the required “hood ornament” for the bow of the ship #battleshipsareso20thcentury #onehypersonicmissletosink

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@RedDogT3 @chace_r18 Def no hangin on the rim

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@jimh_667083 @MLBONFOX @Ken_Rosenthal Really?

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@RedDogT3 Had to find something for the IRS the other day , saw my sell order of 1500 shares of NVIDIA in feb of 23 for $23.89 I was so happy as I bought at 12 , almost cried

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@wallstengine @RedDogT3 The most amazing company in history