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@Ryan_Daigler Count of Monte Cristo vibes.

This really needs to be made clear: Narcissist parents must have a scapegoat child. They choose the child who threatens the narcissist’s ego the most. That is the honest child. That is the compassionate child. That is the genuinely good child who is capable of self reflection and emotional growth. The scapegoat child doesn’t do anything wrong. Nothing. The narcissist parents begin abusing the scapegoat child systematically, testing the child’s self-respect until the child stands up for their humanity. Then they are punished for that.

@KJP Happy April Fool’s Day!

We turned our forever home into our dream home! 🏡✨ Just a few 'little updates' with our local contractor ❤️🇺🇸☺️

@agonyhope1817 Beautifully written. Thank you!

*cracks knuckles* It's been a long day. Here we go: these men want to be with German woman because they have only ever seen white women in porn. They think that all white women are raring to go. Also, they see it as a marker of status. Integration through marriage, but since they see women as property, property they get to vandalize, it's more like luring a woman in to be treated just like the women in THEIR culture. And who would have predicted that women raised in a secular egalitarian society might shy away from men who come from places with cousin marriage, honor culture, and the real patriarchy? Not the pretend one we say is toxic here, but real toxicity. Deep and dark and boiling in rage that is backed by hatred for the woman's home country as well as for the woman herself. German women aren't "closed off" because they are bigoted meanies. They are exercising self preservation and preference. Women notice patterns. They file them away. Migrant rape scandals, migrant violence, migrants claiming they are going to enforce their laws while demeaning the countries they seek refuge in, we notice these things. Compatability cannot exist when one side expects submission while the other wants equality. And of course these men are open to it. They left all the women of their own country. Most are young. And they remain men, much the same as they were in their country of origin. Reciprocity isn't a welfare check. The governments give them our money, but they can't make us want them. Again, that's not bigotry. That is simple saying "no thank you." Where's the data denoting female refuge preferences? Where's the data tracking long term stability? Integration via romance is a story better left to Harlequin. Cultural and religious chasms don't just disappear because someone, somewhere wants to make open borders look like the veil of Avalon has been lifted. This isn't "asymmetry due to prejudice." It realism meeting ideology. Why does forcing intimacy, in the most intimate of spheres, require endless papers to explain why it fails? Western women aren't the breeding mares of our governments. We didn't sign anything stating that our bodies came with their welfare checks. So, no thank you.

@amymarierusso Miss your smiling face and perky personality on the WGNO 11 am newscast, Amy. Best wishes to you in your new newshome! Closer to your roots now, I see.

My first news story at WKMG in Orlando! Aluminum sulfate is being poured into Lake Yale in an effort to combat the increasing algal bloom, however some residents in the area aren’t too happy about it. What do you think? 🌊

@WhoDeanie589 Underrated tweet.

The Olympic closing ceremony is amazing this year. The Ceremony

@heelsrule1988 @NBCSports Agree wholeheartedly!

just finished watching the closing ceremony and... @NBCSports, i beg of you: never ever EVER stop doing the titans spirit closing montage to wrap your coverage of the olympics. it is one of my favorite things in sports and gets me emotional every single time. it is perfection

@TheJeffPutnam Is it April yet?

For all you city folks who have no idea where their food comes from, I snapped this pic in one of my pastures yesterday. These are bovine eggs, and if we’re lucky, we won’t lose but 2 to coyotes. As you can see, the herd is already forming their natural defensive posture around the nest while mom goes and gets water.

@ThrillaRilla369 Mikey likes it.

I dive anyone knows who this is but if you do you’re my people

@PecanC8 @DameScorpio Newt needs to crawl back under his rock. Profoundly disagree!

Newt Gingrich recently advocated for a "national conversation" on how to handle long-term undocumented immigrants who "obey the law," pay taxes, and integrate into communities. He argued that very few Americans would support deporting such individuals. Do you agree with this?

@WaltzingMtilda So very true.

You think it's stupid here? Try Facebook. Absolutely crawling with morons who believe everything the media tells them and who refuse to do ANY reading beyond the headline. And the worst part is you know them in real life.

@Biblicalman Thankful for your words. And tearful, too.

A man said "I accept Jesus Christ" on his deathbed. The church asked if he really meant it. I need to ask you something. When did we become the gatekeepers of grace? I've watched Christians dissect Scott Adams' final words like prosecutors. They parsed his phrases. They weighed his tone. They measured his faith against some invisible scale and found it wanting. "That doesn't sound like surrender," they said. "That sounds like a man hedging his bets." And I understand the instinct. I do. But there's a verse that haunts me. Not because it's obscure—because it's too simple. "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13) Whosoever. Not "whosoever truly believes in their heart of hearts." Not "whosoever demonstrates sufficient sincerity." Not "whosoever calls early enough in life that we trust their motives." Whosoever. The moment we add prerequisites to that promise, we've traded the Gospel for religion. We've smuggled works back in through the side door labeled "authentic faith." I know what some of you are thinking. But he admitted he wasn't a believer. He talked about "risk and reward." He said he hoped he'd "qualify." Yes. He did. And those words make us uncomfortable. They don't sound like the confident declarations we want from converts. They sound uncertain. Calculating. Human. But here's what I need you to hear: The thief on the cross didn't have time to develop mature theology either. He was a criminal. Hours from death. He looked at Jesus and said, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom." That's it. No profession of belief in the resurrection. No renunciation of his former life. No evidence of transformed character. Just a desperate man, reaching for a hand he wasn't sure would take his. And Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise." We have a problem, and it's not Scott Adams. It's us. We've internalized a law that God never gave us. A natural sense of fairness that says late arrivals should get less. That deathbed conversions are suspicious. That the math should somehow work out—more faith, more years, more sacrifice equals more standing before God. Jesus told a parable about this. We skip over it because it offends us. A landowner hired workers throughout the day. Some came at dawn. Some at noon. Some showed up with one hour left. At the end, he paid them all the same. The early workers were furious. "These who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day." (Matthew 20:12) And the landowner replied: "I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?" There it is. The scandal of grace is that it feels unfair. A man who mocked God for sixty years gets the same inheritance as the saint who served since childhood. A skeptic who hedged his bets at the last breath stands in the same kingdom as the martyr who gave everything. And something in us recoils. That's not grace rejecting us. That's us rejecting grace. Let me tell you what I see when Christians interrogate a dead man's faith. I see the older brother standing outside the party, refusing to go in. The prodigal came home reeking of pig filth and poor decisions. The father ran to him. Threw a robe on his back. Killed the fattened calf. And the older brother? "Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!" (Luke 15:29-30) He couldn't celebrate the return because he was too busy auditing the journey. Sound familiar? Here's the truth we don't want to face: We can't see hearts. We can only see words. And the words Scott Adams spoke were: "I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior." Were they perfect? No. Were they confident? No. Were they the words we would have scripted? No. But they were the words. And the God who receives those words is not checking for tone. He's not running sentiment analysis. He's not grading on a curve. He's looking for open hands. Paul wrote something that lands differently now: "Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand." (Romans 14:4) Scott Adams was not our servant to judge. He answered to his own Master. And the Lord is able—able—to make him stand. That's not my promise. That's Scripture's promise. The question is whether we'll submit to it. I know why we do this. I know why we parse and weigh and question. Because if grace is really this free, then we didn't earn our place either. If the deathbed convert gets in, then our decades of service weren't the price of admission. They were the privilege of knowing Him longer. And that reframes everything. It means the faith we've built isn't a resume. It's a relationship. It means our years weren't buying something. They were receiving something. It means we were never the workers earning a wage. We were always the prodigals coming home. So did Scott Adams get saved? I don't know. But I know what the Scripture says. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I know what Jesus promised the thief who had nothing to offer but a desperate plea. I know what the father did when his son came crawling home with a rehearsed speech that never even got finished. And I know what the landowner said to the workers who were angry that grace didn't do math the way they wanted. "Are you envious because I am generous?" The gate is narrow, but it's not locked. The standard is high, but it's not ours to enforce. The Judge is holy, but He is also the one who ran to meet the prodigal while he was still a long way off. Stop auditing the dead. Start marveling at the grace that let you in. "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Whosoever. Even him. Even you. What saith the Scriptures? That's the only question that matters.

@LinnyLooops @SirBylHolte Learned a lot of cool spy tricks from that show!

@SirBylHolte Anything before 2015 is probably your best bet. I used to watch a show on USA called burn notice. Last time I looked it was on tubing really good show. And when you watch it you going to be amazed how good TV used to be.

I like to spend my Sundays watching British period stuff, so I innocently chose “The Choral,” starring Ralph Fiennes and a bunch of other white guys. It was supposed to be about a small Yorkshire town choirmaster who recruits teenage boys to keep the local choral society going as the men enlist during World War I. 6 minutes in, here comes the BLACK British woman trying out for the choir. She’s played by a NIGERIAN English actress. She immediately becomes the best singer the choir ever had. Everyone acts like it’s perfectly normal. I turned it off. If I wanted present-day politics shoved down my throat, I'd just turn on the news. Next time I'll stick to Downton Abbey reruns or anything pre-2015—back when "period drama" actually meant period-accurate, not modern fantasy cosplay.

@BWLH_ Pat Tillman.

He was a Heritage American whose patriotism and love of America was weaponized against him during the GWOT. He asked after 9/11, “what have I done for my country?” The real war to reclaim Real America is denaturalizing those Americans who benefited from Hart-Cellar.

@gpatterson828 Yes. Go home and go through the process legally. Or, stay there and apply what you learned here to help your home country.

Do you want to deport them?

@zarahussain999 By leaving.

A crazy British national screams and shoots at Muslim men. She disgracefully tells them: “F off back to your halal country.” How do we resolve islamophobia in the UK?

@sciencegirl “Oh, no! There goes Tokyo.”

Apparently if you’re right-brained you see a rabbit, if you’re left-brained you see a turtle. What do you see

@BellaBaddie__ Peter Gabriel, “So.”

Name an album where you can listen to every song from the beginning to the end and not have the urge to skip a song?

@Geniustechw Always Whitney. This clip doesn’t do her justice. When her version comes on the car radio, I get goosebumps every time, then tears. We lost her too soon.

Who sang it better? 🎤🔥

@akafaceUS 3

Which one?

@CaseyBHead Sweet potatoes.

For Thanksgiving we are having turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, green bean casserole, brussel sprouts, succotash, brioche rolls, and pumpkin and pecan pie. I still have time, so what did I forget?