SongBird

I believe @DataRepublican's conclusion below is sound. But I would add something important. Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly works through ordinary people who are willing to act with extraordinary faith and courage. And that brings us to a fundamental truth: God's help does not relieve us of our responsibility to act. James made that unmistakably clear: "Faith without works is dead." — James 2:26 One of my pet peeves is hearing people say they'll pray for God to solve a problem, then go right back to watching football or reruns of The Golden Girls, without any intention of doing something themselves. Prayer is important. But prayer should never become an excuse for inaction. Rather than asking God to solve our problems for us, we should ask Him to give us the wisdom to recognize what must be done, the courage to confront evil, and the strength and perseverance to see the job through. The Bible repeatedly teaches us to act with courage rather than surrender to fear. Consider what God told Joshua as he prepared to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land: "Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." — Joshua 1:9 Notice what God did NOT say. He didn't tell Joshua to sit back, pray, and wait for the obstacles to disappear. He told Joshua to be strong and courageous, and promised to be with him as he led his people forward. Joshua still had to lead. The Israelites still had to act. That's the lesson for us today. We face serious threats to our Constitution, our freedoms, and the future of our country. Whatever ultimately proves true about the material @DataRepublican has uncovered, the appropriate response is not fear, resignation, or waiting for someone else to rescue us. It is vigilance, accountability, and lawful, courageous action. We Are The Cavalry. We cannot delegate the responsibility for saving our country to God, to politicians, or to anyone else. We must accept that responsibility ourselves, while asking God to guide and strengthen us. America's future will be shaped by the choices we make, the principles we defend, and our willingness to stand up for what we believe is right. We can choose complacency and surrender, or we can choose faith, courage, and action. And if we truly believe God is with us, what reason do we have to be afraid? At Giant Slayers™, we've made our choice. With God's grace, we intend to act with strength, courage, and unwavering determination to defend our Constitution, preserve our freedoms, and save the country we love. Because faith should inspire action, not replace it. @realDonaldTrump @bannons_warroom @stephenkbannon @raheemkassam @nataliegwinters @maureen_bannon @gc22gc @charliekirk11 @JackPosobiec @CSalcedoShow @stinchfield1776 @WatchChad @SaraGonzalesTX @PasReport @laralogan @GenFlynn @brianeharrison #GiantSlayers

From the patriots at Giant Slayers™ GiantSlayers.net I’m tired of “LOOK WHAT THEY DID NOW!” journalism. You know the formula. Something outrageous happens. We see the video. We hear how terrible it is. We get angry. Tomorrow there’s another outrage, another video and another reason to be furious. And underneath every one of them is an unspoken message: “…and there’s nothing you can do about it.” That isn’t leadership. And after a while, it isn’t even information. It’s demoralization. What’s presented in this video isn’t new. We’ve heard these stories and arguments over and over and over again. Repeating them may generate anger and social media clicks, but what does it give the person watching the video to do? That’s the part we keep leaving out. FROM OUTRAGE TO ACTION Psychologist Martin Seligman famously studied what became known as learned helplessness: when people repeatedly experience negative circumstances they believe they cannot control, they can eventually stop trying to change them—even when opportunities to act become available. Think about what Americans experience every day: Crisis. Outrage. Threat. Scandal. Crisis. Outrage. Threat. Scandal. And then we wonder why millions of people have concluded: “What difference can I make?” That is precisely the mindset we need to break. Seligman later developed the concept of learned optimism—and that points toward a very different kind of leadership. Instead of constantly telling people what is wrong, give them something they can do about it. Make the action simple. Make it achievable. Show them that other people are standing beside them. Measure what happened. Show them the results. Then give them another opportunity to succeed. That’s how you begin replacing helplessness with agency. BRANDON STRAKA ALREADY PROVED SOMETHING IMPORTANT I give Brandon Straka enormous credit for creating the WalkAway movement. He didn’t merely complain about Democrats. He gave people an action: Walk away. That was powerful because it provided direction. I’d like to see that idea taken much further. Show us the numbers. Show us how many people are changing their minds. Show us why they changed. Show us what happened afterward. And most importantly, organize those people to accomplish something measurable together. Because America doesn’t need another army of people screaming at the other side. We need Americans working together to solve problems. AMERICA NEEDS LESS FEAR AND MORE POWER Americans already know we have serious problems. A mother shouldn’t have to worry whether her child will come home safely from school. A family shouldn’t have to choose between groceries and medical care. A single mother working two jobs in Chicago shouldn’t have to wonder whether gangs, drugs or a stray bullet will take her child from her. And parents watching autism diagnoses climb shouldn’t have to sit quietly and accept that we don’t have answers. The latest CDC surveillance found that at its California monitoring site, approximately 1 in 12.5 eight-year-old boys were identified with autism. Whatever is driving numbers like these deserves rigorous research, honest debate and answers—not political talking points, censorship or dismissal. Because these aren’t Republican problems. They aren’t Democratic problems. They’re American problems. And frightened, angry Americans screaming at one another aren’t going to solve them. Organized Americans will. THAT’S WHY GIANT SLAYERS™ IS BUILDING THE PATRIOT ENGINE™ For decades, political organizations have treated ordinary Americans primarily as an audience. Watch this. Read this. Share this. Donate to us. Vote for us. Get angry about this. Then wait for the next outrage. At Giant Slayers™, we’re building something fundamentally different. We’re building the Patriot Engine™ a digital solution that will give ordinary Americans something they haven’t had before: a simple way to combine thousands of individual voices into focused, measurable civic power. Think about that. You don’t need thousands of political professionals. You need thousands of ordinary Americans willing to do one small thing. One email. One phone call. One message. One conversation. One mission. The Patriot Engine™ organizes those individual actions, focuses them on the people who actually have the power to produce change, measures the collective effort—and then shows participants what they accomplished together. No single person has to save America. Thousands of people only have to do a little. That’s the breakthrough. We’re taking something that has always existed—the enormous latent power of ordinary citizens—and building the infrastructure to organize it, focus it, measure it and aim it where it can matter. Instead of giving you another reason to be angry, we give you a mission. Instead of telling you that your country is falling apart, we show you how you can stop it. Instead of wondering whether anyone else cares, you can see thousands of Americans standing beside you. Instead of wondering whether your voice mattered, we measure what happened and prove to you it absolutely does matter. And when the mission is over, we don’t want to leave you thinking: “Look what they did now.” We want thousands of Americans looking at the result and saying: “LOOK WHAT WE DID TOGETHER.” That’s the Patriot Engine™. That’s how you begin replacing learned helplessness with learned optimism. And that’s how spectators become participants—and participants become a force powerful enough to change things. America has confronted enormous challenges before. We’ve been divided before. We’ve been frightened before. We’ve been told problems were impossible to solve before. And Americans solved them anyway. We can do it again. 99% of the outrage cycle is noise—the shiny object demanding that you look at today’s crisis until tomorrow’s instead of joining together to target the people causing it. Giant Slayers™ is going after the 1% where focused citizen action can actually produce change. Find the pressure point. Find the decision-maker. Organize the people. Focus the pressure. Measure the outcome. Then do it again. There is tremendous power in numbers when that power is intelligently focused. If thousands—and eventually millions—of Americans decide that our country is worth fighting for, peacefully, lawfully and together, I believe we can win. Speak Up. Be Heard. Save America.™ The Silence Ends Now!™ It’s time to Speak Up! Add your email, become part of the solution. 👇 GiantSlayers.net