F. Allan Roth

@ArkansasAngie @SenateGOP I’m not sure we can “throw the RINO bums out.” Every election, we think we have found good, honest people to represent us, and every election we end up choosing another round of grifters to fleece us. The system is stacked against us.

You want an earthquake to shake up the @SenateGOP RINOs Turn out in droves in the upcoming primaries and runoffs. Only Around 20% of eligible voters typically turn out for US primary elections on average A 10% increase would throw the RINO bums out It is within our power to remove Cornyn, Graham, Cassidy, Capito, Collins and Rounds in the next 60 days

@fandompulse All my stories are about religion, and I don’t use cheap anti-religion stereotypes.

Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction: "In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in only two ways: the followers are ignorant and stupid and easily fooled, and the leaders are exploitative and cynical, manipulating others' faith for their private benefit. I know some people who fit those descriptions. But they are in a tiny minority. Most religious people I know are smart, well-educated, independent-minded, stubborn, honest, and generous -- at least as much so as the average intellectual, and usually more. The hostility toward religion among American intellectuals arises, I think, from a clear awareness that it was against a publicly religious culture that their own culture rebelled. Now that rebellion is completely successful in terms of capturing control of all the public instruments of transmission of culture -- the universities, the media, and the literature and art -- but it has become such a shibboleth of intellectual life to snipe at religion that, like the aging "revolutionaries" of the old Soviet Union, they mindlessly continue to "rebel" in order to defend their tight grip on the establishment. Indeed, those intellectuals are the establishment. And what was once a daring and rebellious stance is now just another example of lockstep conformists mindlessly echoing ideas that they haven't examined. That's when contemporary fiction mentions religion at all. Most of the time, in and out of speculative fiction, religion simply doesn't exist. Characters don't believe in God or even think about believing in God. Nobody talks about religion. Nobody belongs to any kind of church. Religion simply doesn't exist. ... This is, I think, a serious lapse, a dishonesty in our contemporary literature. It is most seriously dishonest because in fact, even the supposedly a-religious intellectuals behave exactly as religious people always have. That is, the behavioral and cultural patterns that we have always associated with religions are indistinguishable, except by vocabulary, from the behavioral and cultural patterns of the a-religious intellectuals. They band together with fellow believers, feel sorry for or hostile toward unbelievers, immediately punish heretics -- intellectuals who, having once been accepted in the 'faith,' dare to question its premises -- anoint their priests and theologians (psychologists and therapists being their ministers, scientists and, more usually, science popularizers being their doctors of atheology), and insist on their absolute right to put forth their religious ideas with public funding and the authority of the state behind them, while doing their utmost to silence or marginalize the beliefs of others. Most fiction has become, in short, an instrument of propaganda for the established religion of our time, which differs from other religions only in the particular content of the faith and the vocabulary used to describe it. Naturally, the true believers are sure that the real difference is that their beliefs are objectively true. But then, true believers have always believed that. This is not what distinguishes them from other established religions, but rather what makes them fundamentally identical to them. The honest depicter of human life will include the religious aspect of that life. This is not to say that stories need to be about religion, any more than stories about our contemporary culture need to be about cars. But the cars need to be present, at least by implication, and if a character doesn't know how to drive, we'd need to know why." Is this why Hollywood stopped adapting his books into films?

@stephenRB4 My mother. Isn’t that who teaches everybody their manners?

Who first taught you to say please and thank you?

@FiredUpCoug Heck, I’ll go you one better. I have noise in my ears all the time, whether I contract that muscle or not! (But yes, I can contract that muscle and hear the noise. I just didn’t know it was called the “tensor tympani.”)

Whoa, I didn't realize that not everyone can do this. If I contract that muscle it sounds like I have a white noise machine playing in my ears. Can anyone else do this?

@kate_p45 @LeaderJohnThune They are fighting against Trump, and they are fighting against the American people.

The only reason for the Senate to convene for a 30-second pro forma session and immediately gavel out after that is to stall and sabotage President Trump and the America first agenda from being passed. It's time to remove @LeaderJohnThune

@LatterDayDrPepr @Zachary__Keller @rob_ferney @Dstman1 @ScottABarton1 Following all. Thanks!

I have mutuals on X who consistently share light and encouragement. Some shine a little quieter, but just as bright. 🕯️ I’ll highlight a few as we build each other up… one brick at a time. @Zachary__Keller @rob_ferney @Dstman1 @ScottABarton1 #SaintsOnX #floodxwithtruth

@DrGregLittle2 You're right. It shows 0 on my end, too, but when I click on Following, lots of people show up. I haven't counted them to see if there 7,000, but there are lots more than 0. Help, @elonmusk!

@FAllanRoth1 Nothing unusual but it says you are following 0.

I just got notified that my account has a "label" affixed to it, because they think I'm sending spam. Can you see a label on my page? What does it say?

@cufarmer Writing endures for a night, But editing comes in the morning.

I've just written my longest uninterrupted chapter: 3100 words. I accept clapping, GIFs, and clever comments. Or, you may bow with sarcasm. Thank you.

@GadSaad But that couldn't POSSIBLY happen here! We're smarter than that.

Oh!

@TonyLaneNV gasguzzler

LET’S SEE WHO’S ACTUALLY SHARP 10 letters… Starts with “GAS” ⛽️ Most people miss this… What you got? ⬇️ 🇺🇸

@sciencegirl Chuck (as in "ground chuck")

What would you name this red tegu lizard

@Ravenismeee Pong

Without telling me your age… what was the very FIRST video game you ever played?

@GuntherEagleman Yes. @LeaderJohnThune should be removed and replaced with @BasedMikeLee

Should John Thune be removed as Senate Majority Leader?

@4thOfJuly365 I say jacks.

Some will say Legos. I say a Hot Wheels car.

@LDS_Liberty Our elders quorum president has full sleeves on both arms, and (I suspect) tattoos on his chest and back. "Man looks at the external appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." (Apologies if I didn't get that quote correct. My memory isn't all it used to be.

LDS folks - a buddy of yours, good guy, active, good family man, shows up with a 1/2 sleeve tattoo. Do you say anything? Would you secretly judge him?

@AllyMalinenko No. I am.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only writer either a) not finishing writing a new books, b) not making a deal annoucement or c) not releasing a new book. I swear I'm working on something new it's just...am I the slowest writer in the world?

@realtalkstruth How would I know? I might be a bot that has been programmed to think I am human.

Are you a bot? Be honest 🤖

@LarsLarsonShow I think we should require two years of universal military service for all young men and women. Exemptions should be extremely rare.

Should eligible young American men be automatically registered for Selective Service?

@stephenRB4 Yesterday.

When was the last time you held a door open for a stranger?