Bonnie Smith

At least 37% unhinged

[Bonnie Smith @oncearunner_21]

“Where do you see yourself in ten years?”

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Women are increasingly going to excuse child murder because 25% of American women (at least) have blood guilt on their hands that they have never reckoned with. A quarter of American women have already murdered their own children. So it should hardly surprise us that they identify with the killer and not the victims.

[Lady Nimby, pregnant bigot @LadyNimby]

For everyone accusing women of being bloodthirsty animals wishing for infanticide/abortion:

1. More than 8 in 10 abortions are performed with full knowledge and consent of the father

2. A further 18% of women report the father was unaware. This leaves maybe 1-2% where there was either no information, or the father did not want it.

3. There is no hard data on the number of women who go through with pregnancies the father did not want, but raw data on single mothers would suggest that number is SIGNIFICANT and I would guess eclipses the number of abortions against the father’s will

Point: men equally, if not far more, do not want the responsibility of unwanted babies. A long human history of societally acceptable infanticide also bears this out. Blood is on everyone’s hands. Placing this solely at the feet of women is for the intellectually weak or dishonest.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Babies as young as 19 weeks have been delivered and survived. By 24 weeks - still the second trimester - babies have a very solid chance of survival.

You don’t have to be a doctor to understand the simple fact that late term abortion is never medically necessary. If the baby needs to be removed to save mom, delivery is the option. There is no reason to kill the baby first. In fact, the two-day abortion process is much riskier for women than an emergency c-section.

[Erin Callaghan @drerincallaghan]

There is no medical necessity for abortions in the third trimester, a delivery would suffice and is standard of care in emergent cases. Statistics also show that most abortions past 3rd tri are not for medical reasons. This isn't healthcare.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

it is rare when a law is such pure evil

this makes the number of late-term abortions, ~11,000, comparable to the total number of other murders, ~13,000-14,500.

[Secular Pro-Life @secularprolife]

Pro-abortion people continue to be incapable of defending abortion without also actively dehumanizing prenatal children.

Everyone who has grieved their miscarriage, everyone who has loved their children before they were born - we can all hear you.

[Bonnie Smith @oncearunner_21]

@agreatdayinnc I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Please know you’re not alone.

When we miscarried at ten weeks, we did a D&C. I was really worried about passing at home and the physical and emotional toll. We felt good (as good as you can) about the decision.

[Libertarian Party NH 🦔 @LPNH]

2 millennia ago, a man died on a cross so that all of humanity could be free from the bondage of sin. All historical liberty societies accepted this free gift of salvation.

That's not an accident. True freedom is found in Christ alone.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

CALL TO ACTION:

Tell President Trump, your Congressional Rep, & your Senators that you don't support American boots on the ground in Iran.

White House Comment Line:
[phone]

Congress Switchboard:
[phone]

This is how We the People make our voices heard. 🇺🇸

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

As always I only support military action anywhere, in any context, if it directly serves the interests of American citizens. It’s troubling that the arguments we’re hearing for this war in Iran, including from Trump himself, seem to revolve primarily around “bringing freedom to the Iranian people.” As Americans, the freedom of Iranians is not our responsibility. If a single American life is lost in the service of that goal, it will be a travesty.

What nobody has even come close to sufficiently explaining is how this war will first and foremost directly benefit American citizens. That is a case that needed to have been made clearly and convincingly before this move, and it wasn’t. We’re also told how this will benefit Israel, and I’m sure it will. But Israel is not America. What does it do for America? How does it help us? That needs to be explained to us. And it isn’t “panicking” or demonstrating “disloyalty” to demand those very basic answers about how American tax money, and potentially American lives, are being spent.

We hear about the danger of a nuclear Iran, but that’s odd because we were told that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had already been set back decades. We hear that this war will be over quickly and easily because Iran is powerless, which I hope and pray is the case, and maybe it will be. But that’s odd, too, because if Iran is such a paper tiger then how were they a danger to us in the first place? It seems hard to argue both that Iran is an existential threat to the United States and that we can topple them in 20 minutes with no casualties or negative downstream effects.

Also the political calculation really matters here. A huge majority of American oppose this. That’s just a fact. If it costs Republicans in 26 and 28, then, no matter how things work out in Iran, it will not have been worth it. A free Iran at the cost of Democrat rule here at home is a bad deal. A free Iran for an unfree America would be just about the worst trade of the century.

I’m praying for our great country today.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

There are no medical reasons to abort a baby at 34 weeks to save a mother’s life. You just deliver the baby. It is quite fast. What medical reason could there be to murder the baby vs just delivering the baby?

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Maybe we are all reading too much into Piper’s post, but for those who do use this passage to justify illegal immigration or to argue against deportations, keep this in mind:

“There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.” Exodus 12:49

If we’re going to use OT commands as the basis for immigration law today, then we’re looking at *far* stricter regulations than what we have currently. The tolerance for illegal migration in ancient Israel was 0. A sojourner had to follow laws about circumcision, food, marriage—all of them.

We can also see this persistent principle throughout the OT: wall-lessness = lawlessness. The book of Nehemiah highlights the prudence of a strong border as an edifice of protection and a symbol of God’s provision. Israel knew - as many nations after them have known - that you cannot love your nation or your neighbor while failing to protect your borders from enemies.

Jeremiah 29:7 insists that exiles should seek the welfare of the nation in which God had providentially placed them. Christians - who are also exiles on earth - are still called to do so today.

Remember, nations and borders and governments and laws were God’s idea. He is a God of order who created structures and systems for our good and His glory.

God placed us first in a garden - not a jungle. The difference between the two is order. “Working and keeping” the plot of earth God has entrusted to us means maintaining righteous order rather than encouraging lawlessness.

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

Realtors cannot tell buyers crime stats. Employers cannot use standardized tests. Certain races votes count for more. Christians cannot have their own towns.

One man is responsible for all of this. And our school systems tax us to teach young children that man is secular Jesus.

[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

[Keith Chvatal @chvattler45]

@tony_chapman76 I know a pretty great high school D coordinator that probably isn’t on your list but should be 😉

[Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa]

Political violence and terrorism are essential tools of the left.

If they aren’t using them, it’s because they’re winning.

[Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer]

Thinking *stereotypically* all the “feminine” traits and skills are things this exact type of men mock! They think it’s dumb to want pretty home decor. They think fashion is dumb. They think movies women like are dumb. They just like men more than women lol

[Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer]

She’s getting ratiod but she’s not really wrong. Like yes, a lot of men tell women to “be women” (ie: get married, have kids, submit to a husband etc) but then also have disdain for (or indifference toward) typically feminine behaviors/skills.

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

*Shooter targeted White Christian children

*Laura Loomer and others make it about Israel
*The left makes it about guns

[Zy @ZyMazza]

The whole organ donation thing is a perfect example of a principle I've noticed, which is that the state, or really any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy, will always implement the most evil version of whatever good you're trying to accomplish.

Organ donation is an incredible moral good. It costs nothing, essentially. When you die, instead of wasting your perfectly good life-saving organs, you give them away. Obviously everyone on earth should be in favor of this and absent really niche religious objections and some noetic sciencey concerns about *receiving* organs altering the personality, there's really no reason to push back on this.

I know it, you know it, and everyone knows it.

So then you ask yourself, "what's the worst case scenario if we move forward with this?" and it's hard to imagine!

So you think and think and you come up with this absurd idea that, well, the worst case scenario is that they start stealing organs. They just fucking kill you for your organs. Because you volunteered to donate your organs in advance, there's now an incentive for you to die because your organs are in play in a way that someone who hasn't preapproved organ donation isn't.

But that's so absurd. They'd never perform organ harvesting on a living patient.

But of course they do. This is the real world. There was a case recently of a guy literally waking up on the table and the doctors wanted to keep going because he was legally dead and they needed those organs.

It's sick stuff, but this is the reality. Whatever the messiest, most vile, just plain evilest implementation of your policy is going to be the one that's implemented.

I call this method of policy analysis "Zy's Eyes Review" because it rhymes and I want something named after me.

The state is a capricious djinn and you need to be very careful what you wish for and how.

More often than not, you're actually better off trying to achieve your moral goal on your own as an individual instead of rubbing the lamp of state power.

Good luck