Whom God remembers

Isaiah 54:15-17 "If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you. Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy; no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD.”

@idaho_now Wait, AI data centers can walk and go on strike? Whaaaaaa?

You gotta love the Idaho Fakesman (Note the sarcasm)

@LarryTaunton All time favorite post from you! Can I add one thing. "God didn't authorize you to outsource [your children's education]." He also didn't stipulate anything be taught other than they be brought up in the fear and admonition of him.

Friends: “I don’t know how y’all homeschool your kids! I couldn’t do it!” Meanwhile, his wife lives in a minivan, the kids come home with HOURS of homework, & the family revolves around the school. Us? Done by noon, mom isn’t stressed, & school revolved around our family. This is to say nothing of cost of tuition and the fact that the quality of education is, even in private schools, mediocre by comparison. Parents, God holds you accountable for the spiritual and intellectual training of your children. He did not authorize you to outsource it. Yes, you can supplement the education of your children with teachers who specialize in, say, mathematics or music or Latin. But you are to be the primary teacher — and you want it that way. Public education as we currently know it was a socialist invention to subvert the family. I am frequently asked to meet with parents who are distressed by the realization that their children do not share their values. It is my unpleasant task to inform them that they paid, either in taxes or tuition, to have their children radicalized against them. Our children grew up like little Indiana Joneses. When I was traveling the world, we would rotate which one got to go along. Our children grew up listening to my conversations with artists, theologians, scientists, philosophers, and so on. I took them on my research trips, making them the navigators in the passenger seat with the map or my assistants, requiring them to read this or that and to explore. They saw the world and learned how to navigate it. Those were wonderful years! Your experience might not look like that, but the results can be the same. The point is, do not shirk your God-given responsibility.

@japan_nobunaga @WAstpragmatist @TherealCurtJ Stop appointing female judges. Stop appointing female cops. Stop putting women in positions they have zero capacity to handle. When will men wake up and demand that we stop pretending that women can do what we are supposed to?

@WAstpragmatist @TherealCurtJ Appreciate the additional detail. It helps connect the dots.

1 AM. Arkansas. A dog won't stop barking. A father walks down the hallway. Opens his 14-year-old daughter's bedroom door. The bed is empty. The window is open. He already knows the name of the man who took her. He's known it for three months. Aaron Spencer is 37 years old. Army veteran, 82nd Airborne, deployed to Iraq. Farmer. Husband. Father of a little girl who used to sleep with the light on. The man who took her is named Michael Fosler. 67 years old. Three months earlier, when she was still 13, Arkansas had arrested Fosler and charged him with 43 separate crimes against her. Sexual assault of a minor. Internet stalking of a child. Sexual indecency with a child. Possession of child pornography. 43 counts. Against a 13-year-old girl. 43. The judge looked at all of it. And set the bond at $50,000. Fifty. Thousand. Dollars. Then she wrote "no contact order" on a piece of paper and called it justice. Fosler walked out the same day. And on the night of October 8, 2024, he came back for her. That's when Aaron Spencer grabbed his Glock 19. That's when Aaron Spencer climbed into his Ford truck. That's when Aaron Spencer stopped waiting for the system to save his daughter. He found Fosler's truck on Highway 31. His little girl was inside it. He chased him six miles. High beams flashing. Horn screaming. Begging him to pull over. Fosler did not pull over. So Aaron rammed the truck into a ditch. Drew his pistol. And fired sixteen rounds. Fifteen of them found the man who raped his daughter. Then he picked up the phone, called 911, and said the only words a father can say in that moment: "Michael Fosler is dead on the side of the road for trying to kidnap my daughter. I had no choice." The state charged him with second-degree murder. The prosecutor went on TV and said, quote: "We don't live in the Wild West." The judge slapped him in a jail cell. And every father in this country went silent for a long, long minute. Then something happened that nobody predicted. Aaron Spencer, awaiting trial for killing the man who raped his little girl, announced he was running for Sheriff of Lonoke County. A murder defendant. Running for the badge. The whole country laughed. The pundits called it a stunt. The papers called it impossible. March 3, 2026. The voters of Lonoke County walked into the polls. They did not laugh. They gave Aaron Spencer 53.5% of the vote. They threw out the incumbent sheriff who had locked him in a cell. They gave him a 27-point landslide. The father who killed his daughter's rapist is now the Republican nominee for sheriff in a county where Trump pulled 76%. His murder trial begins June 22, 2026. Five weeks from today. If he wins the trial, his name stays on the November ballot. If he wins November, he becomes the sheriff who answers 911 calls in Lonoke County, Arkansas. The father. With the badge. Of the same county that arrested him. This is what happens when a system lets a 43-count predator walk free for $50,000. This is what happens when a judge writes a paper order instead of doing her job. This is what happens when a father decides he is done waiting. There is something left in this country. Something the courts cannot kill. Something the judges cannot bond out. Something the prosecutors cannot silence. It is called a father. And in Lonoke County, Arkansas, 53.5% of the voters just looked Aaron Spencer in the eye and said: "Sir. You did the right thing. Now come run the whole damn sheriff's office." His trial starts in five weeks. God bless Aaron Spencer. And God bless every American standing behind him.

@sweetcarolinatv @iamlisakirk They are not pre made. And you are not providing any evidence that you approved anything other than what you got, you're simply complaining. I'm done.

@TrueZachBrown @iamlisakirk There is no way to message you and I didn’t not pay for particular board. He could have at least used plywood with a wood finish not shit abc these are not costume build. They’re bathroom canners pre made

Good Thursday morning friends. I hired a furniture maker to build my cafe bar and he is getting fired today. His workers brought in the materials and it’s cheap crap. I’m stunned. I took photos and uploaded it to AI. Garbage stuff that cost a few hundred bucks. Here is the laminated top he planned to install. First off, I wouldn’t have laminated anything in my house. When he showed me the photos I assumed it was stone. Especially given the price I paid to build it. Everything is crap. Including the cabinets. Straight from Walmart that he claimed to have built. AI says otherwise and it’s clear it’s made in China. Not sure how to handle this. I’m furious and want my money back. Any suggestions?

@grok the cabinet industry relies on definitions of terms and you can't just redefine custom to mean what you want as in "bespoke" or "handmade." Or, at least if you get to, then so do I. Try this on: custom refers to any cabinet built for a custom application to fit in a specific opening, and therefore excludes cabinets built on modular standards. As for the exposed particle board and melamine and screws, there would be none of that were the project allowed to continue, but it was stopped prior to completion. As for bespoke work by a furniture maker...cabinets and furniture can intersect, but they are different things. If what was desired was a bespoke furniture piece then that should have been communicated. Also, most custom furniture pieces use particle board and/or MDF core veneers; for a number of reasons, using hardwood to build furniture is ill-advised because it is susceptible to warping and damage caused by humidity and temperature. As an example, I have an ethan-allan dresser from the 40s that used veneer over a ply core. To suggest that custom cabinets are synonymous with bespoke furniture and that bespoke furniture is somehow immune from using the best materials for the job is foolish.

**TrueZachBrown** My definition of "custom" here refers to traditional bespoke work by a furniture maker—typically solid wood or high-end veneers, built to unique specs from raw materials in a shop, not factory modular units assembled on-site. AWI Custom Grade sets quality benchmarks for materials/workmanship (Premium is higher). Blum soft-close hinges/guides are a solid upgrade, and grain pattern matching can help. However, the visible particleboard edges, white melamine interiors, exposed screws on carcasses, and laminate surfaces in the photos are standard for manufactured/modular cabinetry (even good ones), not what most expect from a dedicated furniture maker at premium pricing. Dimensions/shop drawings would help confirm.

Not a chance it's Ikea, Ikea doesn't use 3/4" material, Blum soft close guides and Blum soft close hinges. Ikea cabinets are not built with countersunk screws, they are built with dowels and cam fasteners. Ikea doesn't grain match. I'm sorry, they may not be what you want, but they are custom by AWI standards and by most cabinet building standards. Again, if you just told some dude to come build cabinets without seeing materials or drawings, that's on you.

@TrueZachBrown That’s Ikea

@grok, what are you using as your definition of custom? Please apply the AWI standard of custom. Also, look at the hinges again, they are Blum soft close hinges, not basic concealed, that is an upgrade. The guides are Blum tandem soft close guides. How about the screws in the end of the cabinet? Modular big box cabinets are built with cam connecters or dowels, not screws because machines don't drill pilot holes and drive screws, humans do. How about the grain matching on the face, it's castle grain. That falls under AWI premium standard, which is a higher standard than custom. You also cannot tell that it is modular because you do not have dimensions. If I have exact dimensions, I'll tell you whether it's custom or modular.

No, this is not custom-built furniture in the traditional sense. The photos show standard modular cabinetry: laminate wood-grain veneer over particleboard/MDF cores, exposed chipboard edges, visible screws, white melamine interiors, and basic European hinges. This is typical big-box or RTA (ready-to-assemble) construction, not handcrafted solid wood or high-end shop-built pieces made to spec by a furniture maker. The "custom" part was likely just assembly and install.

Let me ask this, would you care for my opinion on writing or acting? You're the expert, right, because you've done that. So if I went into your world and started trashing your writing or acting, or someone else's writing or acting that you deemed to be good, would you take that as quality input? That is how much I care about your assessment of a subject about which you know nothing. If you want to have a real conversation, DM me, I'm happy to talk. I run a shop that builds $1.5-2M / year of cabinets. You're on here trashing the quality of a job that you terminated prior to completion. You're asking AI and ignoring the numerous men on here who work in the industry and know their business. You are arrogant and ignorant. Just because it's not what you want or were expecting doors not mean it's crap or violates the contract. By the way, you did have a contract, right? I would very much like to see the shop drawings that you agreed to, the contract that you signed and the material selection you approved. If you just went out and hired some dude to do something without picking out materials, you're even dumber than I thought. Again, if you want to have an actual discussion over reality and cabinets and what options you have and how to fix this, feel free to DM me, I'll share my knowledge, but I'm not going to have this kind of false narrative about my business continue to be spread.

@iamlisakirk @TrueZachBrown I can spot crap

@rjkretser @sweetcarolinatv Do you actually want an answer or are you just a troll? Because you have no clue what you are looking at. I will be happy to respond in full if you want an answer, but if you're just looking to make folks angry needlessly, it's not worth my time.

@TrueZachBrown @sweetcarolinatv Look at this picture and tell me that that is custom built? That is absolutely particle board. If it was custom-built, those screws would not be visible. This is crap from a big box store.

Problem is, it won't go to court. I took a job once for a signed, agreed price, the owner brought out my 50% billing and paid me and I accepted, according to him, as final payment. When I invoiced him for the final bill, he said that he'd paid the final. I was like, no, here's the signed estimate. So then he started complaining about every ticky-tac thing he could find, which really was just a couple of caulk lines on hardware he purchased and made me use that didn't fit. Long story short, we agreed to half the remaining after threatening to sue him. The lawsuit would have cost me too much time and I really didn't want to do that. In this case, unless that coffee bar is 20' long, it's not worth a lawsuit for either party. If she can't negotiate a settlement with the contractor without the courts, I'd leave the one cabinet installed, and the top uninstalled on site and file a line for unpaid work.

@TrueZachBrown @sweetcarolinatv Thats what custom cabinets look like without the top. Assuming anything, like a stone counter top wont go well with a judge in court.

@oldstatemark @IdahoStatesman Ah, yes, The Idaho Statesman, a shell, the brittle, crumbling husk of a former newspaper. The left wing rag of Idaho. Making sure everyone knows Jeff Bezos' opinion of our state.

@IdahoStatesman "Far right" - You mean normal ACTUAL Republicans.

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@dckls @LifetimeIP @JoelWBerry Typical boomer expecting everyone else to take responsibility for them and minimizing ACTUAL and quantifiable challenges they caused. THIS IS THE PROBLEM!

@TrueZachBrown @LifetimeIP @JoelWBerry I read the whole post. It's still all about your choices one way or another. But to say all boomers had it easier is your strawman excuse for not succeeding. Life is hard. FOR EVERYONE. Grow up.

A few years ago, I tried to help out a family member who was having trouble, alternating between renting and homelessness. He had a job, and I told him I’d help him with his finances. When we met up, he was wearing a new pair of Jordans. When I delved into his spending, I found he was renting all his furniture, his TV, and a video game system from Rent-A-Center. He ate fast food every day. I explained to him why that was such a bad idea. I told him how I get most of my furniture from Goodwill and garage sales. Told him rich people don’t wear new Jordans. I even showed him how much his money would be worth in 30 years if he invested the money he was giving to Rent-A-Center. His response? “Sorry, I need nice furniture and I need to look good.” These are the people blaming the rich for their problems.

Thanks for making my point. I didn't need that, but thanks. This is exactly the treatment that Millenials and Gen-Z are given: any time they have a legitimate complaint, the response is "Stop whining, you have it great." Doesn't matter how they live their life, they are told to shut up and stop being lazy. Maybe read the post and the whole context.

@TrueZachBrown @LifetimeIP @JoelWBerry Only judged if constantly complaining & asking for help while repeatedly making poor choices.

No, Ian, you're just out of touch for thinking that. You can't cite facts and do math. The world is totally completely the same as it was in 1994 when KOL was killing it. You're just a lazy slob like the rest of the millennial and gen-z hacks. I mean, it's not like wages have grown only 67-75% since the 90s while basic costs of living have grown 150-200%. It's not like a house that cost $26,000 in 1980 sells for $285,000 today. It's not like any of that. The boomers just worked harder at their 1 job than you do at your 3 jobs, and they took lunch to work every day. And in 1986, they were active in their communities, serving on CoC boards and service clubs, becoming legislators and city council members, but you don't do that. No, you're too busy wasting your time working at your 3 jobs to pay off your 20 year old car that needs work and spending 2 hours with your family at night. Don't you see how lazy you are, you and all your friends with your $20 coffees and your $48 custom burritos and your $500k 1200 Sq ft house on a patch of land you aren't allowed to irrigate because there's an ordinance against it? I mean, why don't you accept responsibly for all of the damage you've done voting for people like Clinton and GWBush and the massive growth in government that took place (before you were 18)? If you want it to change, why don't you run for office? It's not like the 80 year old that currently occupied the seat has millions of dollars to make sure that you cannot bear him in a primary. It's not like he has the time and money to make sure and get the major voting blocs to rally around him and make sure he wins. It's not like he'll find a candidate to split the vote between you and him. It's not like that at all, you're just lazy. You're so lazy that you'll probably go waste your money on a bike to ride to work because you can't afford gas. See, you're laziness has caused you to live like you're homeless. Your probably so lazy that you'll cancel your gym membership because it's just too much to pay for. You're laziness is making you weak, I mean you don't even work out. You're probably so lazy that you want to pay cash for your next car so you don't have the burdensome payments even though you're car needs $4500 worth of work. You're probably so lazy that you just go home at night and watch a movie on DVD, instead of streaming because it's cheaper. See how lazy you are, just sitting on the couch. You're probably so lazy that the only way you know how to make a living is working hard. But millionaires work smarter, not harder, you're lazy for not doing that. Millennials and Gen-Z are just all lazy, stupid, unmotivated, too high of expectations, money-wasting, entitled, idiots. We are nothing like the go-getters of the previous generations who did it all by themselves in an economy that was not in any substantial way different than today.

I like Kevin O’Leary, but assuming he’s right about coffee and sandwiches, which he isn’t, saving $5 on coffee and $14 per day on sandwiches over 260 work days is $4,940 Which means it’ll take a 30 year old 20 years to save up a 20% down payment on a median home in Nashville

@TheAlphaPleb @Craigpe90035803 @DefiantBaptist But did an adult say it? I mean social media is pretty much just a perpetual high school, no?

@Craigpe90035803 @DefiantBaptist "you weren't cool in high-school" is an unbelievably cringe thing for an adult to say

I operated pseudonymously until a year ago, when I was doxed by an associate of James White. My name was used to locate a photo of me that was part of a professional bio, not tied to Defiant Baptist. So congrats, you’re a doxer, and everyone knows it now.

This! Exactly this! Every time one of these kids, who have had the world upended on them, dares to point out an area where they have a legitimate grievance, the boomer apologists just come out of the woodwork with completely irrelevant anecdotes about their childhood. And non-factual tales about $15 lattes and $20 burritos. Most millenials and gen-z I know are like me and my family, we're broke, and getting broker. We can't have influence in government because we're working 3 jobs to pay for $6/doz eggs and the 80y.o. crowd that likes to puff up their chest over Reganomics won't pass the baton to the next generation.

Intellectual masturbation over resentments won’t repair the damage done to young men by Covid, DEI, and mass migration. The first movement that can credibly offer them a stake in the national wellbeing through property, family, and opening up avenues for service within the State is going to suck the air out of movements offering race autism, grievance spiraling, and obsessions with foreign countries, as well as those who fail to acknowledge any legitimacy about their grievances to begin with.

Leftism (and increasingly woke Rightism) is nothing but political effeminacy. “Stop trying to fix everything! I just want you to listen!” 😭

Yeah, this post is such boomer slop. I bet it's not even a true story. There is some truth in "poor people have poor habits and rich people love within their means," but to insinuate, as this post does, that millennials and Gen-Z are out there just walking around in $500 shoes and renting their furniture and not putting money away for retirement like their grandparents and possibly their parents, is absurd. Median income for a 40 y.o. male in full time employment has risen 67-75% in the years between when boomers had their heyday and millenials. Meanwhile, the cost of gas, basic groceries, housing and vehicles has increased 125% and in some cases, 200%. A house my parents bought in 1985 for $35,000 just sold for $380k that's an 1100% increase. I do the same job my father did when he was my age, for a company, but same function. I make only about 50% more than he did in 1994. I have a second part time job and a side business doing handyman jobs now and then. Cumulatively, I make about 75% more than my father did at my same era of life. However, he was able to purchase land and build a home that has increased in value well over 1000%. And to buy 1/5 of the land and put a smaller house on it doing the work myself with time that I do not have, would cost roughly 3x what it did for my father. I buy used cars, not new, shop at goodwill and savers, do not frequently go out to eat, buy staple, whole foods and make our own dinners that we eat at home. I take salad or leftovers for lunch at work, neither myself nor my wife buys espresso drinks, she drinks drip coffee with milk at home, I drink the office coffee black. She makes some extra income working on her family's farm and my daughters get to help out with that. We rent a small house in a neighborhood that is a combination of industrial businesses and trailer parks, so not suburban living by any means. We cut coupons, buy at sales, make gifts, and give to our church. And it is still a losing battle just to survive. To be constantly judged by boomers and their apologists as if I love some sort of extravagant lifestyle that is to blame for the economic disaster that they left us due to voting for idiots for 3 decades is getting very old. It says more about the boomers than it does their struggling children.

@JoelWBerry I agree with much of this but I do not know one person who gets furniture from goodwill. Rich people don't buy new Jordans or new shoes? Come on.

Matt, I love your content. I'm a second generation homeschooler married to a woman who was also homeschooled. We are raising our daughters in the tradition that our parents had to fight for. I have some thoughts on relieving some of the stress. If you're interested and serious, feel free to DM me.

My wife and I are deep in the weeds on researching how to homeschool our 5 year old son. It’s very daunting…, not sure how we are gonna pull it off but honestly… we have almost no choice. I love MANY of my public school teachers, but the system is designed for indoctrination and turning your kid into a raging liberal. Not actually teaching them any facts at all. It’s so sad. Truly. So in the end, what else can we do? Private school maybe? But it’s expensive, and has MANY of the same problems, in fact… it’s often worse. So homeschool really is the only option left. I just don’t want to screw this up… I love my son, I want his life to be the best it can be, maybe that’s homeschooling, at least for now.

Homeschooling is the future It could save America

@NoahRevoy @JoshuaLisec And the money to raise them.

@JoshuaLisec And yet if they got divorced, I'm sure she would demand primary custody of his children.

Below, she says she gave her husband a dowry by birthing four children. If children are the purpose of marriage, then is this not a win?