Red State Sharpie

Chicago girl, sports fan, lover of fine art, freedom, and Jesus! My Tesla is awesome!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Gavin Baker: "The DSA’s voting base are wealthy, downwardly-mobile white liberals"

Communism is a *religion* of malcontents. Bitter, unproductive failures, seduced by the allure of FREE stuff, fueled by envy and self-loathing...with religious fervor.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

We need all the fraud investigation we can get of California. We are drowning in high state income tax, prop tax, increased gas tax and sales tax, etc, and yet we don’t have enough police or firemen, our roads are pitted with potholes, and trash is along every freeway and main thoroughfare.
Where the hell is the money.

[Jaime Lardis @JaimeLardis]

As much as I enjoy watching the WNBA, that was one of the most dangerous cheap shots I have seen since I started following the league. The contact from Alyssa Thomas on Caitlin Clark appeared intentional and had the potential to result in a serious injury.
It is unacceptable that the officiating crew did not recognize and address the play appropriately. Player safety must always be the top priority. If the league does not take action, whether through a fine or suspension, it sends the wrong message and raises concerns about the safety of players on the court.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Big update to the fraud we discussed in this video. The largest homeless NGO in LA, Weingart Center is under FEDERAL investigation and the court just REJECTED all of Weingart's attempts to dismiss the fraud and waste claims regarding their shady property deal in Cheviot Hills.

What happened? Karen Bass and Nithya Raman laundered YOUR tax dollars through the Weingart NGO to pay 2x cost on a homeless housing project from a scammer middleman; a $16M flip, for a dubious homeless project, all while evicting the seniors who lived there.

Big hat tip to Samantha Nussbaum for doing the leg work on this case and bringing some accountability to the rampant fraud in LA's Homeless Industrial Complex. Are you starting to see how the scams work?

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

.@SecMullinDHS on some of the missing migrant children smuggled and sex trafficked under the Biden Administration: “They were being RAPED 15-20 times a day. Day after day after day…what frustrates me the most is that this was preventable – and no one can argue that. This was 100% PREVENTABLE.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@spqr_sulla “There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program”

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

Tucker is pushing lies. God bless @RaymondIbrahim5 for this!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Potential name for the AI industry regulatory authority:

AI Associated Institute of America, Inc or AIAIAI, pronounced “ay yai yai”

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

This is an all-timer

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Griffin and Xavier 20 years ago

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤣🤣

[Red State Sharpie @SharpieState]

@elonmusk She’s never sounded so good!!!! LOL

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Texas

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Red State Sharpie @SharpieState]

@250YearsAgoLive That’s some crazy artwork!

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If I'm honest this has been a hard season for me lately. I've been struggling with trusting God's timing. I was reminded when reading Psalm 37 today that I am to be still before Yahweh and wait patiently. That Yahweh is good to those who wait for him and seek him, and it is good to wait quietly for God’s salvation (Lam. 3:25–26). This quiet waiting involves hoping in God’s word while the soul waits more intensely than watchmen awaiting morning (Psalm 130:5–6).

I was reminded that prior to preaching to thousands, for a season Peter went back to fishing after thinking he failed Jesus. That Paul sat in prison cells, Lazarus lay in a tomb, Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Hannah wept on the steps of the tabernacle, Joseph was locked in the captivity, and Moses stood in the fields of Median herding sheep. All before God made moves in his timing.

Times of waiting, while hard, remind us of the confidence we should have in God’s timing and character. When direction seems slow in coming, we're called to wait for it, assured it will come when the time is ready (Hab. 2:3). Yahweh himself waits to be gracious and show mercy, and those who wait for him are blessed, for he is a God of justice (Isa. 30:18). Rather than taking matters into their own hands, like I often am tempted to do, we are instructed not to repay evil but to wait for the Lord, who will deliver us (Prov 20:22).

Hoping for what is unseen involves waiting with patience (Romans 8:25), and through the Spirit and faith, believers eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Galatians 5:5). Waiting involves expectancy and hope regarding events and contingencies still in the future, it's the outworking of a spiritual posture directed at trusting God’s promises and timing rather than our own understanding.

Knowing all of this, writing here on X doesn't make my season of needing to wait any easier, but the consistent, inspired, inerrant testimony of scripture nonetheless gives me something solid to trust in. I am fickle, impatient, and finite. God is trustworthy, forbearing, and infinite. And his timing is right even if I don't know how or when things will happen.