Bob Cooper

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.

I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.

One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”

It knocked me back.

I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”

I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.

That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.

I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.

I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.

People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.

I'll tell you why.

Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.

I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.

In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.

The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.

You just have to stop running.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Vote them out

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@BasedMikeLee B

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Bessent exemplifies my favorite form of the political animal. He’s an articulate, clubbable, well-coiffed, bloodthirsty, savage beast. You love to see it.

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

Democrat Sen. Wyden: “Nobody is interested in the rambling of a capo in the most corrupt regime in American history.”

Bessent: “Your son’s largest investment position was Rick’s Cabaret. Did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money?”

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@therealroseanne @Polymarket LOL

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@SenJohnBarrasso If you don’t pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT your days in the Senate are coming to an end. The people have spoken on this and you can save America or destroy it. Pick a side Senator.

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@HowardKurtz No wonder Fox got rid of you too Howard. You were boring.

[Joey Jones @Johnny_Joey]

Firing an employee for insubordination is not retaliation.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@MJTruthUltra HELLO @LeaderJohnThune DO YOU SEE THIS SHIT?!!!!!!!!

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?!!!!!!!

WOULD YOU PLEASE PASS THE FREAKING SAVE ACT SO THIS CRAP DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE MIDTERMS?!!!!!!!!!

WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND YOU DON'T GIVE A SHIT!!!!!!

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@Cashloren I bet she quits.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

CBS has fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, and rightly so. He betrayed journalistic principles in platforming debunked science, in being closed-minded and dogmatic, and in behaving like a pompous ass. Good riddance.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Good morning. LMAO!

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@catturd2 It is a great morning. Glad to hear this news.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

For the last 2 years, an individual within the conservative movement has made it their mission to destroy me.

After their attempt failed, this person has been reaching out to people to have them speak out against me. Fortunately, several of the people the individual reached out to privately told me this was happening.

This person even tried to plant false, defamatory, and egregiously damaging stories with a felonious arrestee who — we’ll say — has problems of his own.

Yes, I know what happened to the confidant that turned against you.

No, I’m not going to call you out or name names. This has been a transformative year of elevation, growth, & development — I’m not going to allow you to take one ounce of energy away from me.

My mom said that the truth always comes out. It may not be tomorrow, in a week, or even a year from now.

The truth always comes out.

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@LangmanVince Just wait until Trump is.

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@SenateGOP @POTUS You better pass the Save America Act

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@SenatorLankford @POTUS You better pass the Save America Act. You will be primaried.

[Bob Cooper @rac363]

@LeaderJohnThune @POTUS How about the Save America Act knucklehead? How about you pass what 80% of Americans want.