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[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Hey Mark, you're worth around $35 million while continuing to land major Hollywood roles. You could donate $25-30 million tomorrow and still live an extremely comfortable life for the rest of your days.

At a conservative 4% safe withdrawal rate, even a remaining $5-10 million would generate roughly $200,000-$400,000 a year in passive income, several times what the average family earns. On top of that, you own multiple luxury properties, including a New York penthouse reportedly worth around $7 million, and you're still taking on film roles that pay millions.

Lecturing others while sitting on tens of millions yourself is peak Hollywood...

As for Elon, his charitable giving has far exceeded your entire net worth tenfold. And as for the idea that he can simply "solve world hunger" by writing one giant cheque only demonstrates your fundamental misunderstanding of how global hunger actually works. It's not a problem that disappears because one wealthy person transfers money into the system.

You need a basic economics lesson and a mirror, because your hypocrisy is matched only by your lack of self-awareness.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

BIG PICTURE: China/CCP collects massive amounts of data (buying, stealing or hacking) to exploit vulnerabilities.

President Trump said tonight the CCP's operations obtained 220 million voter records.

In 2015, 22 million security clearance applications, known as the SF 86 (it's a road map to your life) were hacked by China.

The threat comes from combining the data: weaponizing voter roles, health care records, and security clearance applications can build an entire profile of a US citizen.

This can be used for fraudulent voter registration, identity theft, targeting US citizens for recruitment by China.

[stuff @stangMnM]

@howertonjosh @TheLiveFreePod @ShawnRyan762 @ShawnRyanShow Oooof hope you can help steer him in the right direction. Use to love him but he joined the psychos after Charlie’s death.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

See, here's the thing: I don't really care about personal drama.

I've said repeatedly that Charlie and I weren't best friends. Maybe you were best friends with Charlie. Maybe not. I don’t know, nor do I care.

For ten months, you’ve been slandering Charlie's wife, his friends, and all of the people he worked with. You're working to acquit his murderer.

You're spreading conspiratorial poison for cash.

That’s something anyone of decency should condemn.

The fact that so many are unwilling to do so is demonstrative of widespread cowardice, stupidity, wickedness...or all three.
https://t.co/MBBTs8kJEJ

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

This is why I am pro Christians.... America is a Christian nation.... Its that simple.. Its a worthy hill to die on.

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

The Christian worldview is the only worldview that can justify and will maintain the human rights and freedoms upon which our nation was founded 250 years ago today. Islam won’t (sharia law), Hinduism won’t (caste system), Atheism won’t (no one is higher than the dictator, which led to 100 million murdered by atheistic regimes in the 20th Century).

Those other worldviews do not believe,“that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Our founders knew that rights can only come from God—not governments—but that good governments are supposed to secure those rights. That’s what Christianity teaches.

Reflecting back on the founding of our country, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1813, “The general Principles on which the Fathers achieved Independence, where the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite. . . And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity. . . ”

So whether you are a Christian or not, you should appreciate the principles that come from Christianity, including inalienable rights, and that governments are temporary institutions that are to protect the lives and liberties of beings that are eternal and made in the image of God—you and me.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

With some people (and pastors) objecting, I want to explain really quick why this week's LIVE FREE episode (and social media) is unashamedly about the United States.

I love my King of Kings more infinitely than any earthly ruler.
And there is an Eternal Kingdom that has infinitely more allegiance from me than any earthly country.

But...

In the Bible, God established 3 institutions for the good of the world:

– The Family
– The church
– The State (governments)

This means that a Christian man should seek to be...

- A family man
- A churchman
- A statesman

This week, we'll celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, and part of being a "statesman" is loving your country.

- A family never gets better unless the father LOVES his family.
- A church never gets better unless people LOVE their church
- A nation cannot get better unless people LOVE their nation

So, I do unapologetically love my country, thank God for the historically unique way Christianity played a role in the founding of our nation, and I'll have a BLAST this week unapologetically and enthusiastically celebrating it and working for its future good... not IN SPITE of the fact that I'm a Christian, but BECAUSE I'm a Christian, who is grateful to God for what He has done in the past and imploring Him to pour out his Spirit in our culture for the good of its future... and then I'm going to walk in this weekend and preach verse by verse through Exodus 3 and make Jesus real famous.

"But seek the welfare of the [nation] where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare."
– Jeremiah 29:7

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

This is the part of American history we no longer teach in our schools. George Washington's FIRST order as commander of the military is going to blow your mind 👇

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

At least 1,200 people died of heatstroke in France last Wednesday, mostly elderly people indoors.

Even crazier, about 70,000 Europeans die from the same every year, akin to a bi-weekly 9/11. Eurobros, please vote for leaders who will let you open your windows and install A/C!

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

We have to learn to think in categories. God has established 3 instititions with 3 different roles:

Family
Church
State

We then ask, “what is the role of an individual disciple and what is the role of the church in this situation?”

Great Commission. Easy. Love your neighbor. Duh.

Then we ask, “what is the role of the State and the role of the leader of the State in this situation?”

Bear the sword (Romans 13, protect the country). Easy. Punish the wrongdoer (enforce laws). Easy. Leaders have a responsibility to people under their care they don’t have to people not under their care. Therefore, the leader of a nation prioritizes what’s best for their nation. Easy. So, Christians should be ok w that.

Think in categories. Walk and chew gum. What you’re doing is conflating categories and imputing the role of the church and individual to the State.

It would be like saying to a father “the Bible says to love orphans, so you have to adopt 300 orphans into your family and harm your own children to do it, or else you’re disobeying the command.”

I can simultaneously allocate over $8M of my church’s budget to foreign missions, much to Islamic nations, rabidly share Christ and meet needs of Islamic families in DFW (my church does all of that), and oppose immigration policies that will longterm harm our country with 0 contradiction.

Gotta think in categories.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

@tselliottwave The general public has no idea the degree to which this is true, because it seems there has been a concerted effort to erase / minimize it from public memory.

"Rewrite the past to control the future."

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: "Americans have always deeply believed in the promise of Christ’s words in the Gospel of Matthew— 'with God, all things are possible.' That's why as we prepared to enter the 250th Year, last month, tens of thousands of patriots came together on our National Mall—and we officially rededicated America as One Nation Under God... We always have been—and we always will be." ✝️🇺🇸

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Before anyone freaks out and says this is “un-American”, Thomas Jefferson’s school board chose two books to be used in Washington DC public schools to teach kids how to read in 1805:

— The Bible
— Isaac Watts’ hymnal

*don’t know why I’m on a US history tweet-kick right now, think I’m feeling real “250”

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Every single Christian organization, pastor, ex MLB player and current Christian player should be speaking up right now, and loudly. You hold the cards. @MLB needs us to survive. Christian America made them rich. If they aren’t forced into major concessions here, we deserve it.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore

[stuff @stangMnM]

@StrozewskiAaron @howertonjosh @TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee “Asking you to respect that other people can make their own choices”. You fail to see the hypocrisy in your own words.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

@TheAthletic @GrantBrisbee Whoopsie daisy, you said it backward.

The GIANTS made a night supposed to be about baseball about something else entirely: forcing Christians to publicly deny their 2,000-year-old convictions

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

Last year, the SPLC added TPUSA to their so-called "hate map," placing us alongside neo-Nazi organizations and the Ku Klux Klan. The day before Charlie was murdered, they published a newsletter attacking him and Turning Point USA.

Today, they doubled down and stood by that designation.

They have to, because it's their real mission. As we now know thanks to the Trump DOJ, the SPLC itself funds violent extremist groups to stoke fear among the public, so they can stick organizations like Turning Point USA on their "hate map" and tar us by association.

Turning Point USA has, from the beginning, stood for open conversations and respectful debate regardless of creed or color.

All along, the real hate group is the SPLC, which recklessly sows hate every day with its lies.