Mark Reid

Thanks, Elon! Glad to be back.

“Remember that you are an actor in a play, the character of which is determined by the Playwright: if He wishes the play to be short, it is short; if long, it is long; if He wishes you to play the part of a beggar, remember to act even this role adroitly; and so if your role be that of a cripple, an official, or a layman. For this is your business, to play admirably the role assigned you; but the selection of that role is Another's.” Epictetus Enchiridion

This is absolutely insane Tell this to the 100,000s of English girls who have suffered the trauma of rape gangs Tell this to the Christians and Yazidi girls and women still suffering as sex slaves Tell this to the Christians in Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia et all being raped and murdered by Islamists conducting a genocide Tell this to the thousand plus Jews murdered on October 7th Tell this to the Israeli Jews and Arabs subjected to Hamas/Hezbollah terrorists attacks Tell this to the native citizens seeing their cultures swamped and destroyed by criminal invaders Its OK for Pope Leo, he's got 27/7 armed security, but ordinary people are experiencing the brunt of 21st century militant Islamism

We are living in a horror show in Virginia. HELP!!!

BREAKING - Outrage is erupting across Virginia after Abigail Spanberger signed HB965 into law, effectively rendering Virginians’ presidential votes null and void, with the measure handing the states electoral votes to the national popular vote winner regardless of states results.

@SenJohnBarrasso @TaxCuts If you don’t pass the SAVE America Act, we will have one of the biggest losses in American history this November.

So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left. And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing. All organically, I'm sure. I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne. This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports. But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity. Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm. The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue. OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing. But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president. The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.

🧵🚨 THREAD: Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Within TWO HOURS, leaders of 7 "bridge-building" organizations assembled on a conference call. Why so fast? Because UVU was THEIR campus. 🚨 This is Maury Giles, incoming CEO of Braver Angels, admitting on camera at the National Conference on Citizenship: "Within two hours of the assassination, a group of us, all Utahns, we gathered on a call. We'd become friends over the last 5 years through our work in the community. And we also happen to be leaders in seven different national organizations that work in civic renewal." Two hours. Seven national organizations. But this wasn't a spontaneous reaction to a tragedy. This was a network protecting its home turf. Because UVU wasn't just the place where Kirk was shot. It was the institutional center of the entire bridge-building / Dignity Index apparatus... and had been for years. And the kicker? These seven national organizations don't hide their own intent: replicate color revolution tactics in the United States. And, yes, that includes MWEG - Mormon Women for Ethical Government. I have the receipts... they all admitted this on camera. As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

They're Communists.

🚨#BREAKING: The woman who was randomly shot in the face 6 times and st*bbed to de*th while she was walking her dog in Atlanta GA has been identified as 40-year-old Lauren Bullis. The suspect, “Olaolukitan Adon Abel” was also allegedly in the process of se*ually assaulting her before neighbors came to the scene. Olaolukitan is charged with 3 other "completely random" shootings and the de*th of another woman. We do not have to live like this.

@ThatBobMadison Been there. Lovely place. Really makes you appreciate TR the man.

I would be ridiculously happy there.

@SenBillCassidy If Senate Majority Leader Thune does NOT pass the SAVE America Act by the end of April, I ask Louisiana Republicans to vote AGAINST Cassidy on Saturday, April 16th. Give us what we want or lose your seat — peacefully.

Wherever he is, Pope Clement VII must be amazed to see how popular he has suddenly become on X. 😄

@6Voodoo @neoavatara Could be. But it took centuries to defeat cousin marriage, and not just because the pace of change was slower. The business of the Church is the daily life of the people, not the politics of the moment. This is also helpful when the Pope turns out to be Clement VII or Leo XIV. 😉

@MarkMReidisback @neoavatara I think in this modern world people are less interested in small victories or 50 year old ones, they want at least a few bigger ones they can rally behind

Catholic Church has opposed assisted suicide for decades. You should learn how to use Google.

@ScottMcCreaWest Some get a kick from cocaine… 🤷‍♂️ Plainly the Cheech and Chong of the ‘30s.

You should see the trigger warnings on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Violence. Slavery. Human sacrifice. Cole Porter.

@LeaderJohnThune So, when are you going to lead your Republican Senate majority & give us the SAVE America Act?

@BulwarkOnline @BillKristol @EggerDC

A note to Catholics and non-Catholics alike, prompted by the recent episode of “60 Minutes.”  The Sacrament of Holy Orders (whereby a Catholic man becomes a deacon, priest, or bishop) conveys the ability to administer certain sacraments.  It does not convey some sort of magical omniscience in the field of theology, much less in other fields such as economics, immigration law, climate change, or geopolitics.  If you were clear-thinking before receiving Holy Orders, chances are you will be clear-thinking after.  Likewise, if you were mushy-headed before ….

@6Voodoo @neoavatara Well, Solidarnosc was a win. No? With a two thousand year career high points may be fewer, or at least more difficult to discern. But every day victories that the public doesn’t see ought to be allowed for as well. Accidental shootings avoided by gun group training are also good

@MarkMReidisback @neoavatara The church's past victories kept people in the church despite the failings of human organizations. Wins have a way of doing that

@classic575 I really liked it. Ignored it for years mistakenly believing it had a connection to the TV series. Surfed in one morning and was instantly involved.

Hugh Marlowe and Tyrone Power in Rawhide (1950) with the backdrop of the Alabama Hills, 18,000 acres of rugged scenery in Lone Pine, California. The location sits in the foothills of the Sierra mountains and served as the filming site of hundreds of Hollywood western movies.

@6Voodoo @neoavatara TBF, the Church has been around 8x longer than US, and had ups and downs (this is way down). Some victories you take for granted: no cousin marriage. The value of secular learning and logic. Respect for women. Opposition to witchcraft and Soviet communism. Etc.

@neoavatara Gun rights groups have opposed gun restrictions for decades. You know how we know? Because they have done things and gun restrictions have not expanded Now do the Catholic Church and any of their “core beliefs”