@becka_thompson@berkey God bless you. I left MSP in ‘06 returned briefly, then moved the rest of my family out in 2020. Haven’t been back since. Its appeal has been lost for some time but I admire your purpose to keep fighting for it.
@russwest44@Seankellytfm Hey Russ, you were always a fierce competitor and played with raw emotion and passion. The game is better for having you in it. Much love and enjoy your retirement!
@MattWalshBlog Matt, you probably pay $1ks in security and do not have to deal with the public on a nightly basis or work with people who disagree with your politics. Leave the poor girl alone. Calling her a coward says more about you than it does about her.
@MattWalshBlog Matt, you’re just as bad as the liberals on the other side. Maybe some of us don’t give a fuck about getting caught up in the political machine and just want to do our job. She’s clearly dealt with hate already and is excelling at basketball again now. Enough political bs.
Let’s be clear: The Biden administration censored conservatives on social media, suppressed the truth about the COVID lab origin, censored vaccine data, and silenced doctors who dared speak out.
They demonized Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, fired physicians, and had them removed from medical boards for trying to prescribe these treatments. They even shut down Florida’s successful convalescent plasma program.
This was medical tyranny. Americans’ choices were stripped away and replaced with forced compliance. Or lose your job.
Do not twist the history. These events happened in America. The Democrats may live in an alternate reality, but the rest of us remember exactly what occurred.
Let me say it loud for the retards in the back who keep rewriting history:
President Trump was advised to lock the country down for two weeks to slow the curve. He listened. Republican-led states reopened and got back to work. Democrat-led states stayed shut down for over a year.
Trump repeatedly pleaded with those blue-state governors to reopen their economies. They refused. Their goal was clear: tank the Trump economy so they could blame him for the damage. Millions lost jobs and livelihoods because of it.
Democrat governors chose to send sick COVID patients into nursing homes — a decision that killed thousands of our elderly. That was their choice, not Trump’s.
They lectured him: “Don’t tell me how to run my state, Trump! Don’t overstep your authority!” While encouraging people to snitch on their neighbors for not following the rules.
Operation Warp Speed happened under President Trump. The vaccines were developed a few years prior. Democrats originally scoffed: “I’m not taking a Trump vaccine.”
Then Biden and Democrats stole the election, forced vaccine mandates, and suddenly, it was “safe and effective” — take it or lose your job. Blue states cheered and reopened.
Don’t twist the history. Those of us who lived through 2020-2024 remember exactly what happened.
It’s quite simple. Christianity is the only religion that tells a prisoner the problem isn’t what he did. It’s what he is. The demand isn’t behavioral reform. It’s death. The old man must be crucified. You cannot discipline yourself into acceptability before God. You must be unmade and rebuilt from the inside out.
That is not a comfortable message, it is a devastating one. Especially to a man who has spent years constructing an identity around dominance, survival, and violence, and still, somewhere underneath it all, believes in that version of himself.
Islam, as it is typically preached inside those walls, offers something structurally different. Submit. Comply. Pray at these hours, face this direction, say these words, earn your standing through practice and belonging. The inner man does not need to be torn down and reconstructed. He just needs to be redirected.
A man who has controlled, taken, and dominated his entire life can find profound continuity between that psychology and a religion that rewards discipline, masculine structure, and community solidarity without ever asking him to grieve who he was. And perhaps it helps that the founder was himself a conqueror, a warrior, a man of many women and considerable violence. There is no biography there that makes a prisoner feel entirely indicted.
Christianity offers no such comfort. It looks the prisoner in the eye and says you must die to yourself. Not adjust. Not redirect. DIE.
And that is exactly why so many won’t take it. The gospel isn’t hard to understand. It’s hard to want.
@FightofFaith He’s a server at this cafe. He gave his testimony to us. Very healthy good looking guy. Said he lost his fiance and son about ten years ago in a car accident and then went into addition. Is now happily married with 2 girls and sober!
@FightofFaith Familiar with the streets, Devin didn’t recognize this man. He said “nice watch.” Thinking he was going to ask for it but he said “you know what they say, ‘when time gets tough it’s time to get going’”. He never saw that man again.
@FightofFaith …had just hired a Devin, there was! The man said God had told him to give him a watch and every time he looked at it to remember “when times get tough it’s time to get going” or something like that. Amazed, Devin walked home and on his way encountered a homeless man. Being…
Manasseh means ‘causing to forget.’ Ephraim means ‘fruitful’ because Joseph was fruitful in the land of his ‘affliction.’ When he revealed himself to his brothers he weeped so loudly he was heard in Pharaoh’s household - which would have been some distance away.
Before he trusted his brothers he manipulated them, lied to them, and tested them to see if their character had changed. I would say Joseph was affected in a major way by his trauma, and he certainly reflected and ‘ruminated’ greatly on it over the years. The names of his children and his actions towards his family initially prove that.
The lesson from Joseph is that he didn’t let his trauma break his trust in God or stamp out his hope that God had spoken to him through his dreams so many years before. ‘I would have despaired had I not believed I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.’ (Psalm 27)
@autocorrect2_0 He does kinda mess with his brothers though but in the end it’s out of love.
Also, Ephraim means “twice blessed” since he was his second son.
@autocorrect2_0 He tells the cupbearer to remember him after he interprets his dream to tell Pharoah that he is innocent. The Lord is with him the whole time which makes him shine and of value so you’re right he doesn’t bemoan it, he deals with adversity by following God.