Michael Shrout

[Ramin Ekhtiar @raminrealtalk]

Newsom is a pathetic clown. 😂⛽

His office just posted: “Californians, be sure to AVOID Chevron this holiday weekend… don’t let them rip you off.”

While HE is the one who destroyed CA refining with CARB, cap-and-trade, and insane regs.

• Valero ate a $1.1 BILLION loss just to flee his nightmare state
• 5 major refineries gutted in 5 years
• Gas already $8+ in places ($6.14 avg — $1.58 over national)
• 60%+ oil imported from foreign shitholes + Iran Strait chaos

He killed domestic energy, forced foreign dependence, then cries about pump prices and tells you where to shop like a dictator.
Absolute surrender.

Vote these failures out.

At your BBQ this weekend — ask 5 people if they’re registered and help them.

Who’s f$#$ing done with this? 🔥
#NewsomFails #CaliforniaGasCrisis #BoycottNewsom

[Vote Michael E. Gates for California Attorney Gen. @MichaelGatesESQ]

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[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I’ll never forget the shockwaves his 2015 maiden speech sent through DC amongst young conservative operatives.

It was the first time someone convicted us with such hard truths about the institutions we dedicated ourselves to so tirelessly but fruitlessly.

It rewired my brain.

[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

[Danny @Truth_matters20]

Wes Huff masterfully articulates the Trinity:

"The Father is called Yahweh God, the Spirit is called Yahweh God, and Jesus is called Yahweh God. There's only one Yahweh. How do we figure this out?"

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

“If I died right now, I have great assurance of being reconciled. Why? Because 2,000 years ago the Son of God died in the place of this wretched sinner.”

-Paul Washer

[Townhall.com @townhallcom]

Have you EVER seen this much passion from Secretary @marcorubio?

This is REMARKABLE to watch.

PREACH.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Senator Eric Schmitt OBLITERATES the “both sides bullshit” coming from the left in under 2 minutes.

The gaslighting about political violence ends right here. This clip says it all.

• Congressional baseball practice shooting? Left wing

• Burned down cities (Summer of Love)? Left wing

• Waukesha Christmas parade massacre? Left wing

• Lee Zeldin stabbing attempt? Left wing

•Covenant School shooting (Nashville)? Left wing

• Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Trump? Left wing

• Trump International West Palm Beach assassination attempt? Left wing

• Abundant Life Christian school shooting? Left wing

• United Care CEO’s murder? Left wing

• Tesla attacks (burned, keyed, firebombed)? Left wing

• Murders at the Israeli embassy? Left wing

• ICE facilities firebombed? Left wing

• Minnesota Catholic school shooting? Left wing

• Anti-white stabbing in Charlotte, NC? Left wing

• Utah News State firebombing attempt? Left wing

• Charlie Kirk assassination? Left wing

Fake NGO stats can’t cover up what people can see with their own two eyes.

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

This is a phenomenal exchange between and father and son with Charlie.

The father is a liberal and his son is a Conservative……..Charlie was so insightful.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Thanks

[Love Music @khnh80044]

This is THE best cover of this song I have ever heard! I love it!💓
Great performance from these beautiful girls, singer's voice is magic!🎵❤️

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Sinclair Ferguson at the #MacArthurMemorial cited David Clarkson’s words at John Owen’s funeral (1683):

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

John Piper today at the #MacArthurMemorial after having recited Psalm 19:7–11 … “John MacArthur loved the taste of the honey of heaven. He was *greedy* for the treasures of the Word of God. Some years ago, he told a few of us, ‘I have never ceased to be thrilled with the preparation to preach. I love to discover the truth of God.’ He loved the quest. He was a fulfillment of Psalm 111:2: ‘Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.’ He loved the quest. And he loved even more the Treasure, the seeking and the finding. It could never be said of John MacArthur that he was ‘always learning but never arriving at a knowledge of the truth’ (2 Timothy 3:7). He loved to learn; he loved to arrive; he loved to stand. Most of all he loved to preach, to herald the treasure he had found in the Word to others. A *shared joy* is a *doubled joy*. You *see* more clearly what you *say* more clearly. Commending a treasure intensifies the experience of its worth. And so he loved to preach. And he was good at it. Oh my! So clear, so textual, so precise, so zealous, so authentic, authoritative, practical, relevant, anointed. God made John MacArthur an extraordinary preacher. And at every level I was drawn in. Quest, discovery, treasure, heralding, anointing. Fifty years ago, that’s what I wanted.”

[Rabbi Shmuel Reichman @ShmuelReichman]

Another Masterclass by Douglas Murrray! 🇮🇱

I have literally never seen a more eloquent, calm, and decisive presentation on live TV.

Douglas Murray just fit 100 books and 300 podcast episodes into this 3-minute soliloquy.

He completely shut down Pierce Morgan’s argument, clarifying that Hamas, not Netanyahu, is the true obstacle for peace.

He criticized Hamas for using foreign aid to build tunnels and enrich its leaders, rather than improving Gaza.

But most importantly, he explained that peace with Hamas is fundamentally impossible, as they value conflict and death, not peace and life; thus, unless Israel is allowed to decisively win, the cycle of violence will continue ad infinitum.

Thank you Douglas Murray for being the absolute most important voice in the world right now to defend Israel and the Jewish People!

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

This Christian professor just destroyed Darwinian Evolution

[James Dorman IV @alfredsparks]

False zeal is against the sins of others; while he that has true zeal, exercises it chiefly against his own sins.

—Jonathan Edwards

[Herman Bavinck @Herman_Bavinck_]

The essence of the Christian religion consists in the reality that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God, and recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a kingdom of God.

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Western Europeans don't understand that the harm they have done to their countries is IRREVERSIBLE, and their children will not forgive them for it.

They thought they were building an open society. What they created was an unmanageable fracture. They replaced continuity with experimentation, identity with guilt, and cohesion with slogans. Entire generations were told that borders were immoral, that culture was oppressive, and that integration was optional. Now they are reaping the results — and pretending not to see them.

The cities are divided. The schools are segregated by language and loyalty. The police avoid entire zones. Judges are intimidated. Teachers lie to survive. Religion is ridiculed unless it's imported. The native population is shrinking — and afraid. Those who speak the truth are attacked by their own institutions, while those who undermine the country are subsidized.

Immigration was not the problem — it was the refusal to set conditions. It was the cowardice of leaders who wanted applause instead of responsibility. It was the moral blackmail of elites who despised their own people, and these people's submissiveness to their elites. What arrived was not just labor or refuge — it was a different civilization, with its own expectations, values, and plans. And no one asked it to adapt.

The damage is not temporary. It's demographic. It's territorial. It's cultural. It's encoded now into the next hundred years. Their children will grow up in a land their parents no longer recognize — and they will ask, not with anger but disbelief: why did you allow this?

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Newsweek: How Science Stopped Backing Atheists and Started Pointing Back to God

"First, scientists have discovered that the physical universe had a beginning. This finding, supported by observational astronomy and theoretical physics, contradicts the expectations of scientific atheists, who long portrayed the universe as eternal and self-existent—and, therefore, in no need of an external creator.

Evidence for what scientists call the Big Bang has instead confirmed the expectations of traditional theists. Nobel laureate Arno Penzias, who helped make a key discovery supporting the Big Bang theory, has noted the obvious connection between its affirmation of a cosmic beginning and the concept of divine creation. "The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses...[and] the Bible as a whole," writes Penzias.

Second, discoveries from physics about the structure of the universe reinforce this theistic conclusion. Since the 1960s, physicists have determined that the fundamental physical laws and parameters of our universe are finely tuned, against all odds, to make our universe capable of hosting life. Even slight alterations of many independent factors—such as the strength of gravitational or electromagnetic attraction, or the initial arrangement of matter and energy in the universe—would have rendered life impossible. Scientists have discovered that we live in a kind of "Goldilocks Universe," or what Australian physicist Luke Barnes calls an extremely "Fortunate Universe."

Not surprisingly, many physicists have concluded that this improbable fine-tuning points to a cosmic "fine-tuner." As former Cambridge astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle argued, "A common-sense interpretation of the data suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics" to make life possible.

Third, molecular biology has revealed the presence in living cells of an exquisite world of informational nanotechnology. These include digital code in DNA and RNA—tiny, intricately constructed molecular machines which vastly exceed our own digital high technology in their storage and transmission capabilities. And even Richard Dawkins has acknowledged that "the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like" — implying, it would seem, the activity of a master programmer at work the origin of life. At the very least, the discoveries of modern biology are not what anyone would have expected from blind materialistic processes."

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

BREAKING: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JUST POSTED A 3 MINUTE EXPLANATION OF #BITCOIN ON SOCIAL MEDIA

ABSOLUTELY EPIC 🔥