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This song is🔥 Louisiana HVAC worker Jason Bellard’s faith-rooted song “May God Bless America” (w/ Steve Gruber & The Freedom Project) hits #3 on iTunes. 💪 A blue-collar anthem of patriotism and conviction ahead of the midterms. GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸

Sozialismus ist das perfekte Geschäftsmodell für Politiker: Er erzeugt Abhängigkeit, und Abhängigkeit erzeugt Wähler. Wer vom Staat lebt – durch Transferleistungen, Subventionen, „soziale“ Absicherung, planwirtschaftliche Privilegien – wählt denjenigen, der die Hähne aufdreht. Der Politiker wird zum Versorger, der Bürger zum Klienten. Je größer die Abhängigkeit, desto größer die Macht. Deshalb lieben sie ihn. Nicht aus Ideologie, sondern aus nacktem Eigeninteresse. Kapitalismus hingegen ist für die politische Klasse eine existenzielle Bedrohung. Er belohnt Eigenverantwortung, Risiko, Innovation und private Initiative. Er macht Menschen unabhängig vom Staat – und damit unkontrollierbar. Wer seinen Lebensunterhalt selbst verdient, seine Entscheidungen selbst trifft und seinen Wohlstand selbst schafft, braucht keine Gönner in Berlin, Brüssel oder sonstwo. Jede Regulierung, die „den Markt zähmen“ soll, ist in Wahrheit ein Instrument, um Wettbewerb zu ersticken und etablierte Interessen zu schützen. Der freie Markt braucht keinen Politiker als Mittler. Der Politiker braucht den freien Markt als Feindbild. Deshalb die ewige Rhetorik: Kapitalismus wird als „gierig“, „ungerecht“, „unsozial“ gebrandmarkt – während der Staat, der mit Gewalt monopolisiert, umverteilt und kontrolliert, als moralische Instanz auftritt. Es ist die älteste Strategie der Macht: die Abhängigkeit als Tugend verkaufen und die Unabhängigkeit als Gefahr. Der Staat hat kein Interesse an freien Menschen. Er hat Interesse an Untertanen, die ihm dankbar sind. Sozialismus liefert die Untertanen. Kapitalismus liefert die Freien. #FreiheitstattKnechtschaft #SteuernsindRaub #Eigentum #Freiheit #ParasitenwegmitEuremZwang

QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!!!! Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’! I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!” Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes. And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it. Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner. Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes. And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush. When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived. The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story. Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent. Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why. Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work. They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on. So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard. Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week. It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle. Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth. It’s truth....God is Good, God is Great, I thank HIM for this day and everything I have!!

Less than sixty minutes. ​That was all the time left on the clock before an abortion appointment would have ended her story before it ever began. ​Her birth mother was 19, terrified, and waiting. Then, the phone rang. A Christian counselor stepped in, spoke truth into fear, and pointed toward adoption. ​A heartbeat was spared. A destiny was preserved. ​Today, that baby is Katie Zacharia: mother of four, attorney, uncompromising woman of faith, and the newly appointed White House Press Secretary. ​From the edge of an abortion clinic to the most powerful podium in the free world. ​Never tell me every life doesn’t have a purpose. Never tell me God can’t rewrite a story. Before she ever took a breath, history was waiting on her. ​Congratulations, @KatieZacharia. The mic is yours. 🇺🇸🎤

Atheists love pointing to horrors like the Holocaust as proof God cannot exist. But before we ask why God didn't stop the Holocaust, let’s ask a smaller question: why didn't God stop Cain from killing Abel? If you want to put God on trial for human evil, start where evil actually erupts in Scripture. Before looking into Cain, the upstream question is simple: why would a good God even create beings who, left to themselves, are capable of monstrous cruelty? To create a creature capable of genuine moral beauty, that creature must possess the terrifying headroom to fall. You cannot create a being capable of authentic love and righteousness without giving that being the real power to refuse those things. A programmed machine is not loving anyone, it is merely executing code. The exact capacity that allows a man to lay down his life for a friend is the exact same capacity that allows him to pick up a stone and murder his brother. Evil is not a tangible substance God manufactured. It is the deliberate turning away of a creature's will from the source of life. So how does God actually deal with that first evil? He does not remain silent. Before a drop of blood is spilled, God confronts Cain directly: “sin is crouching at your door, and you must rule over it.” This is how God confronts human evil: He hardwires moral knowledge into conscience. Deliberate evil requires actively suppressing an internal alarm we already know is ringing. An atheist will still ask: why didn't God physically step in and stop the murder? What are you actually asking God to do? Paralyze Cain’s arm mid-swing? Turn the stone into air? Mechanically delete his ability to carry out the act? The moment God overrides physical consequences whenever our intentions turn dark, moral reality collapses into a cartoon. Human choices are stripped of all weight. More importantly, where should God draw that line? Murder? Theft? Slander? The quiet malice in our own minds? If God eliminated evil by force, He couldn't stop at Cain; He would have to eliminate all of us. People don't want God to abolish evil; they only want Him to abolish the evil of other people. Then look at Abel. Abel walked faithfully with God, yet he ended up dead in the dirt. To secular eyes, this looks like an embarrassing defeat. Did Almighty God fail to protect the man He endorsed? Only if you assume reality ends at the cemetery. Cain had the power to destroy Abel’s physical body, but he had zero power to destroy Abel. God did not lose His friend. Physical death is not terminal oblivion; it is the relocation of an eternal soul from one room of God's reality into another. Yet God never dismisses the murder. He tells Cain that Abel’s blood cries out to Him from the ground. Injustice is real, and the blood of the innocent demands an answer. Instead of answering with a lecture from the clouds, God stepped straight into the dirt of history Himself when humanity followed Cain. In Christ, God took on human flesh and became the target of that exact same human malice. He was falsely accused, betrayed, and executed on a Roman cross. God did not shield Himself from the violence of the world. He absorbed the absolute worst of it into His own body, and then broke the power of death by walking out of the grave on the third day. The Christian answer is not that God should turn us into robots to prevent every Cain. It is the assurance that while Cain is allowed to swing his stone on earth, he never gets the final verdict. Abel’s blood cried out from the soil for vindication, but Christ’s blood answers for eternity. God does not prevent evil by destroying our agency; He enters our suffering, shoulders our guilt, and redeems everything our violence tried to destroy.

After thirty years of atheism, belief in God came soon after I realized that the love I felt for my wife and children wasn’t sufficiently explained by evolutionary pressures, a burst of oxytocin in my brain, or any other naturalistic account. There was something supernatural about this love that simply didn’t fit within a materialistic worldview. That realization opened me to belief. But it isn’t why I believe in God. I believe in God because I became convinced by the arguments. I read William Lane Craig, C. S. Lewis, Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, and others, and realized that the versions of their arguments I’d encountered through Dawkins and others were sad little straw men that never addressed the sophistication of what these thinkers actually argued. It was the most extraordinary experience of the scales falling from my eyes that I’ve ever had. I had made an idol of atheism and discovered it to be as false as the golden calf in the desert. So when I consider the atheist position now, and when I encounter atheists, I know where they’re coming from. I know how they feel and what they think. I know they can be good people even when they disagree with me. But I also know there are basically two things keeping them from seeing the light of God: a hardened heart or a lack of understanding. I don’t mean this patronizingly, and I don’t yet know how to help someone overcome either. In my own case, that opening came purely as a gift of God’s grace. The only thing I can say to those who don’t believe is that He is there if you seek Him. He is there in the love you have for your children. He is there in the kindness you feel toward strangers. He is there in your ability to make sense of the world. He is there in the logical consistency of mathematics. He is everywhere for those with eyes to see.

Capitalism is the legal protection of your right to freely pursue your own happiness by any means that doesn’t violate another individual’s equal right to do the same. Socialism reverses the principle: it turns another person’s life, labor, and property into an entitlement to be pursued through political force. Capitalism says: pursue what makes you happy, but earn it. Socialism says: if someone else has what you want, acquire political power and make them surrender it. One protects the pursuit of happiness. The other mistakes redistribution for its achievement.

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The Tax System Explained in Beer Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: - The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. - The fifth would pay $1. - The sixth would pay $3. - The seventh would pay $7. - The eighth would pay $12. - The ninth would pay $18. - The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball.  "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20".  Drinks for the ten men would now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes, so the first four men were unaffected.  They would still drink for free.  But what about the other six men?  How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share? They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.  But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay. And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% saving). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3... (33% saving). The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7... (28% saving). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12... (25% saving). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18... (22% saving). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59... (16% saving). Each of the six was better off than before.  And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20 saving," declared the sixth man.  He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar too.  It's unfair that he received ten times more benefit than me!" "That's true!" shouted the seventh man.  "Why should he get $10 back, when I got only $2?  The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "We didn't get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him.  But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important.  They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill! And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works.  The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.  In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier. For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Social media was one of the biggest scams ever sold. A perfectly happy woman can scroll Instagram and suddenly convince herself she’s living the wrong life. She sees influencers traveling the world, wearing designer clothes, carrying $10,000 handbags and stepping onto private jets. Suddenly her stable marriage feels boring. Her husband feels “cheap.” Her normal life feels like she settled. Then she starts picking apart everything he does. “He doesn’t take me anywhere.” “He doesn’t spoil me.” “He’s not ambitious enough.” “He’s not like those men.” Eventually, she starts wondering if she married the wrong man. But here’s what she forgets: She’s comparing her real life to someone else’s carefully manufactured highlight reel. The vacations are curated. The relationships are curated. The bodies are edited. The homes are staged. The lifestyles are sponsored by men who rent these “influencers” aka escorts strategically presented for attention. You are not watching reality. You are watching a performance designed to keep you watching. And comparison is the business model. Because a woman who is content with what she has is harder to sell to. But make her feel inadequate? Now she needs the new handbag. The new body. The new vacation. The new house. The new lifestyle. And eventually, maybe even a new husband. They don't need to convince you that your life is terrible. They only need to convince you that someone else’s life is better. Then you’ll do the rest. You’ll create the dissatisfaction yourself. The algorithm profits from your insecurity, your comparison and your constant need for validation from strangers. Stop comparing your real marriage to someone else's curated feed. Be grateful for what you’ve built. And before you let strangers on the internet convince you that your husband isn't enough, remember who actually lives that life with you.

Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. It is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered. I just described every female on earth.

After two former first round NBA draft picks declared for @wnba draft, the WNBA’s commissioner says the league will be meeting to review what a woman is for purposes of league eligibility. These meetings need to be streamed live. That’s must see TV. espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/495…

Life-changing realization 💯