Ragnar Danneskjold

Rand-y pirate.

[Ragnar Danneskjold @VABirkett]

The realization waiting for conspiracy theorists at the end of the temporal rabbit hole(s).

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

For the 1,000th time:

- America was founded as a Christian Nation
- Nations, families, and businesses can be Christian without everyone being regenerate
- It’s good to have the state support Christianity
- It’s impossible to have a secular neutral government

[Aleksander Ætelmann @ArchitectOracle]

Real

[Bitcoin B2B for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

If your boss cut your pay 7% every year, you’d quit on the spot.

The central bank does exactly that to your savings.

[Mark Mitchell, Honest Pollster @honestpollster]

This should be torches and pitchforks stuff.

$100B in economic benefit annually, wantonly bestowed to the third world by greedy corporates and their pet legislators.

[Max "Trevor Down at the Pub" Waters @MaxWatersNZ]

I can understand how people were fooled by Jacinda Ardern. Really. It's forgivable. She scrubs up ok, has that goofy smile and can actually act like a regular Kiwi when she wants to. Plus she had a global propaganda machine behind her. But if today you still think this low rent grifting apparatchik was anything other than a manufactured candidate, selected to ruin New Zealand and now collecting the payoff, then you're a moron. The money has been laundered through Harvard and a global publisher for a book no one read and lectures no one can remember. And now she can smack down 6.5 million for a mansion in Australia. She's no better than any third world dictator allowed to retire in Paris or Geneva and enjoy her spoils. Meanwhile in the country she did her best to wreck, people struggle with debt and a wave of third world migration.

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

Crazy but true stat of the day:

From 1800 to 1940 the annual inflation rate was just 0.2% per year

Prices were just 28% higher in a 140 year time frame

Since 1940 it's 3.7% annually or >2,200% in total

https://t.co/J4QeSCkhrY

[John Wright @johncwright2001]

I first realized that feminists were witches when I was in Law School.

I had no interest in politics at the time, and was neither particularly right wing nor left wing (as those terms were used then, i.e. pro big business versus pro big government).

I asked two feminists who were talking about abortion when the duty and right of the husband to protect and rear his children begins?

If the husband is required by law to feed and house, educate and protect his child below eighteen, below seven, below two years old, in what sense was he not required to protect the child before birth?

Was it not his child also?

Both women said the father had no right and no duty to love and protect the child before birth.

It was not his child.

His interests counted for nothing. The unborn baby was the private possession of the mother, for her to decide, in her sole judgment, whether to spare or to maim or murder, at any time for any reason or for no reason.

I realized I was speaking to insane bloodthirsty hags, enemies of God and Man. I backed away slowly from their staring, unwinking eyes, their foam-flecked rabid mouths, their maenad hair, groping behind me for a baseball bat or two by four wherewith to stun them should they turn violent.

The witch from Hansel and Gretel was not as despicable as these subhuman monsters.

THAT witch only wanted to cook and eat the children, strangers wandering by. who had nibbled on her house, and damaged it. She was not destroying her own beloved husband's child.

The freedom of which the feminists speak so proudly is only the freedom to be lonely, miserable, suicidal, evil, cruel, mad and murderous.

Feminism supports infanticide. Fascism supports genocide. Socialism supports euthanasia. Secularism supports all of the above.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

67 years ago today, ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single.

It went on to become the best-selling jazz single of the 20th century.

[Bitcoin B2B for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

- You: "My stocks went up 10%."

- Government: "Congratulations! That's taxable."

- You: "But inflation was 8%. I only really gained 2%."

- Government: "We tax the full 10%."

- You: "You tax the inflation you created?"

- Government: "Capital gains are capital gains."

- You: "So you profit from debasing my money twice?"

- Government: "You're not an economist."

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

A Christianity that always seems to NET out to…

“You’re not allowed to do anything at the political / cultural level to save your country from secularization, paganization, and being overrun by evil.

The church must stand generally aloof and watch the societal inheritance you hand your children, grandchildren, and the future Church in America become much, much worse… but you get to feel more holy because you stayed above the fray and never took any clear sides”

… ends up not being worth much other than to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. (Matt 5:13)

“Contend for the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”

— Jude 3

Share the gospel
Make disciples
Build Christian families
Plant churches
Oppose people getting in power who will advance NET “when wickedness rules, the people groan” policies

^all of the above

[Brandon Lansdown @BrandonLansdown]

My dear Wormwood,

You still think in terms of churches and arguments. That is why you fail. The churches can be left standing. What must be spoiled is the literature that taught the young to love the Enemy before they could define Him.

Narnia is one of the more irritating of those books. Children meet Aslan first as adventure and only later discover they have been handling Christ. That is dangerous. Direct attack only makes the stories more precious. So we do not ban them. We adapt them.

Give the Voice to a so-called celebrated actress. Leave the mane. Leave the pronouns. Then the thing that was a male Christ-supposition becomes a prestige performance. The story remains famous; the meaning becomes negotiable. In a generation the story will still be beloved, but the beloved thing will no longer be Lewis’s Lion. It will be the version that flatters the age.

That is how the Enemies literature is destroyed without the vulgarity of a bonfire. Keep the title. Change the sound. When the children hear Aslan, let them hear the present century speaking through Him. Once that habit is formed, the Enemies stories survive as brands. Their doctrine does not.

Do not call it persecution. Call it interpretation. The patients prefer that word, and it does our work admirably.

Your affectionate uncle,
SCREWTAPE

[Ryan B. Anderson @OldHollowTree]

Your children deserve an orderly home, your sober mind, and to see you be affectionate with your spouse.

Don’t forget that.

[Vox Virtutis @VoxVirtutis]

A civilization is a promise between the dead, the living, and the unborn.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

In hindsight, Woodstock was like a ritual sacrifice where boomers gathered to offer up their cultural inheritance at the alter of secular materialism in exchange for wanton hedonism.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

At the moment Jesus died, three of the four Gospels stop describing Golgotha and cut, without warning, to a scene half a mile away, inside the temple. Matthew, Mark, and Luke each record it with almost the same words: the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. No one on the hill could have seen it. It happened behind walls, in a place only priests could enter. And yet the Gospel writers considered it so important that they interrupt the death of the Son of God to tell you about a piece of fabric.

To understand why, you have to understand the veil. God's instructions for it go back to Exodus: a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it, hung to divide the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, the Holy of Holies, the room where the presence of God dwelt above the ark. The cherubim were not decoration. The last time cherubim stood as a barrier in Scripture was at the gate of Eden, with a flaming sword, after Adam and Eve were driven out. The veil was Eden's gate, rebuilt in cloth. It said one thing: you cannot come in here.

By Jesus' day, the temple was Herod's vast rebuilt structure, and the curtain matched its scale. Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, describes the temple's great veil as a Babylonian tapestry of blue, scarlet, purple, and linen, embroidered with a panorama of the heavens, an enormous hanging some sixty feet high. Later rabbinic tradition, recorded in the Mishnah, claims the veil was a handbreadth thick, woven from seventy-two cords each of twenty-four strands, and that it took three hundred priests to immerse it when it needed cleaning. Those numbers are probably rabbinic exaggeration, and it is honest to say so. But even discounting them, we are describing something the size of a building's wall, thick, heavy, and woven by expert hands. It was not a bedsheet. No man could tear it. And Mark is precise: it tore from top to bottom. From the top, sixty feet up, where no hand could reach, downward. Whatever tore the veil did so from God's side of it.

Now consider who was allowed past that curtain. One man. Once a year. On the Day of Atonement, the high priest, and only the high priest, passed through the veil into the Holy of Holies carrying the blood of a sacrifice, to sprinkle it before God for the sins of the nation. Every other day of the year, every other person alive, was kept out on pain of death. The high priest of the year AD 30 was Caiaphas, the man whose bones now lie in a museum drawer. That was the whole system: one mediator, one day, one room, and a curtain that stood every other hour of every other day announcing that God was here and you were not permitted to approach.

Then, at three in the afternoon on a Friday outside the city, Jesus cried out, "It is finished," and breathed His last. And in the temple, in the middle of the afternoon sacrifice, with priests at their duties, the barrier ripped open from the top down, and the Holy of Holies stood exposed to anyone standing in the Holy Place. For the first time since Sinai, a human being could look straight into the place where God dwelt, and nothing stood in the way.

The letter to the Hebrews, written to Jewish Christians who knew the temple intimately, explains what the Gospels only show. It calls the old system a shadow and says the high priest entering once a year with the blood of animals was pointing forward to something. Then it says this: "We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh." Read that slowly. The curtain is His flesh. When His body was torn on the cross, the veil was torn in the temple, because they were the same barrier being removed by the same death. The high priest brought blood into the Holy of Holies once a year, and had to come back next year. Jesus, Hebrews says, entered once for all, with His own blood, and then did something no high priest ever did: He sat down. There was no more work to do.

There is a strange witness to that afternoon from an unexpected source. The Talmud, the vast collection of rabbinic writings compiled centuries later, records that "forty years before the destruction of the temple" a series of ominous things began happening in the sanctuary: the lot for the LORD on the Day of Atonement stopped coming up in the priest's right hand, the crimson thread that was supposed to turn white as a sign of forgiveness stopped turning white, the westernmost lamp of the menorah kept going out, and the great temple doors began opening on their own at night, so that a leading rabbi rebuked them, warning that they were foretelling the temple's destruction. The temple was destroyed in AD 70. Forty years before is the year 30, the year of the crucifixion. This is a rabbinic source, not a Christian one, written by men who did not believe in Jesus and drew no connection to Him. It should be handled carefully, since the Talmud was written down long after the events. But according to Judaism's own memory, from that year onward, the signs of atonement in the temple stopped working, and no one could say why.

The torn veil pointed two directions at once. It announced that the way to God was open. It also announced that the temple's purpose was finished. Within a generation, in AD 70, Roman legions burned the building to the ground, exactly as Jesus had wept and warned it would be, and not one stone was left on another. There has been no veil, no Holy of Holies, no Day of Atonement sacrifice since. The system that ended on that Friday afternoon was dismantled by history forty years later, and it has never returned. What replaced it is a man, seated at the right hand of God, and a door that does not close.

People think that the cross is where a good teacher was killed by his enemies. But at the instant of His death, the one room on earth that God had walled off from humanity was flung open from the inside. Nobody stormed the temple. Nobody broke down the door. God tore the curtain Himself, and He tore it downward, toward us.

This is what it means for you. There is no longer a room you cannot enter and no priest you must go through. The curtain that separated you from God did not wear thin over time; it was ripped in half by His own hand, at the cost of His own Son's body. Hebrews draws the conclusion for you: "Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace." Not creep near. Not earn your way near. Draw near, with confidence, because the way is open and it is never going to close again.

The veil is torn. Walk in.

Jesus is the great High Priest who opened the way, once for all. Thank You, Jesus.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The GOP always mistakes a wake up call for an enemy

Bo French is not radical, he is the sane moderate voice warning you that something needs to change before things get radical

Bo is the moderate off-ramp, what comes after Bo will be far more extreme

Talk to any teen in Texas

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Squadron of armed men wheels a barely functioning invalid into the Capitol to send more money to Ukraine so their Minister of Agriculture can buy a Bugatti for his new mistress.

Just like the founders envisioned.

[Huff @Huff4Congress]

We had some fun yesterday goofing on t.u. and terrible Texan politicians at the expense of the Indian desi diaspora, didn’t we?

Let’s get serious.

Indian-Americans of previous generations earned their places the hard way: they came as professionals or the children of professionals, learned the country, and became part of it. They’d have been welcome even under the old Asiatic Barred Zone of 1917. The current concern is not “Indians exist.” It’s that a sudden, very large, poorly selected wave is obliterating the reputation the earlier waves built, and that a nativist backlash, if it comes, will not carefully distinguish third-generation Texans of South Asian descent from last year’s H-1B cohort.

To my Indian-American friends, I’d ask you to consider the following.

First, assimilation is not optional. People who immigrate to America should dress, speak, and live like Americans. Many recent arrivals do not, and they are arriving in concentrated numbers, all at once. No high-trust country - Texas, Britain, Germany, Sweden, Australia - can absorb a rapid influx of culturally distant migrants without consequences. It isn’t a neutral event. Housing tightens. Local labor markets shift. Social trust falls. Accusing natives of bigotry for noticing this is how you get much uglier politics later.

Second, public religious display is not the same as a household shrine. The United States protects private worship. It does not promise indifference to 90-foot idols or temple complexes built as civilizational statements in a still-majority Christian country. You can cite “freedom of religion.” Locals will still take it as a cultural statement on public space and react accordingly.

Third, social media ended the courtesy of not knowing about the sending culture. What people now see of “India” is not a few professionals in Houston. It’s mountains of garbage, a “holy river” used as a sewer, national “Poo in the Loo” campaigns because public defecation is common enough to require one, and eating slop off the floor with fingers. You can call that prejudice. You can also admit that hygiene and public order are part of why *you left*, and part of why Americans do not want the same norms imported at scale.

Fourth, the old stereotype of the high-skill South Asian professional is being replaced, in real time, by a mass labor-import story: call centers, IT shops, retail, student visas used as work permits. Firms are not doing this out of cosmopolitan virtue. They’re doing it because the labor is cheaper and more compliant. Every slot filled that way is a slot an American kid, whose family paid for the university and the roads, did not get. Skill-based immigration is defensible. Labor arbitrage dressed up as “talent” is not.

Fifth, norms travel with people. The earlier desi cohort largely adopted Western expectations around merit, contracts, and honesty. The operating system showing up now - izzat, jugaad, nepotistic family networks, visa mills, title and lending scams - is visible because social media and local experience made it visible. High-trust societies are rare. They do not survive if newcomers treat rules as obstacles to be gamed.

A solution doesn’t require hating a whole ethnicity or rounding up subcontinentals. It requires conceding that numbers, selection, and speed decide whether immigration is a societal gain or a political time bomb. The people with the most to lose from a crude purge are the ones who already assimilated. They should be the *first and loudest* to demand that these latest waves of co-ethnics meet the standard they met​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​, fairly, or go back home.

[zxy @zelinarxy]

> a level playing field

my country is not a “playing field.” being american isn’t a sport, it’s not something where you can “beat us at our own game” by studying and working harder. we are a people. this is our land. an inheritance for our children. dressing up invasion as …