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Having @grok build on my 10 year old iMac has been nothing short of amazing.
It helped diagnose random hangs, which eventually lead to a replacement 2TB Fusion / mechanical drive combo with a simple 2TB SSD.
I have a gorgeous 27" 1st Gen LG 5K external monitor to compliment my 27" iMac. Grok wrote a script which auto-adjusts brightness on the LG to match the iMac + 10% , whenever the iMac auto-adjusts brightness -- works a treat.
And, the bane of my existence: 5 independent spaces on each monitor, with custom wallpaper of my fave family times on each space, dedicated apps / windows placed just so on each workspace (8x terminal sessions included, 4x on each) and each screen -- can you imagine restoring this set up by hand each time the iMac would hang, or after a scheduled reboot?!?!
I put Grok to work-- it came up with a Hammerspoon / LUA solution (never heard of it), which waits about 45 secs after boot up and restores my sessions, including custom window sizes, correctly placed, on each space. And it wrote a boot up script to run before that to restore each of my 10x fave wallpaper images as well.
I mean, I am and have been a Linux plumber / admin for ages, but this coding stuff: next level.
I'm glad I can lean into Grok build and just handover the hard work I can't do / not willing to do, nor have the time for...
Thanks @elonmusk and team for an awesome experience, at the command-line!
…Selah 😔
A staggering number of David’s Psalms circle a single, relentless demand: that God annihilate the wicked, and do it quickly. The man who prayed them would not have survived the answer.
He asks God to break their teeth, drag them into the nets they hid for others, and strike with terrifying speed. When heaven moves too slowly, he presses again: Why do the wicked prosper? How long, O Lord?
At the time, David’s moral geometry was simple. He was a fugitive hiding in caves while King Saul hunted him with the machinery of an empire. In Adullam, the lines were clean. David was the righteous victim; his enemies were the oppressors; his prayers were the desperate cries of a man begging God to level an impossible playing field.
Then David got the throne. And the geometry collapsed.
From the palace balcony, he becomes the very archetype he had spent years cursing. He spots Bathsheba. He takes her. When she becomes pregnant, he writes a murder contract, forcing her husband, Uriah, to carry his own death sentence to the front lines. Uriah dies. David takes the widow.
Then came nearly a year in which Scripture records no confession, no repentance, and no confrontation. David lived under the comfortable presumption of sovereign immunity. He had become the powerful man who crushes the weak and assumed heaven didn’t notice.
When Nathan enters the throne room, he tells a story: a rich landowner with vast herds steals and slaughters a poor neighbor’s single, cherished pet lamb.
David’s prosecutorial instinct detonates. He flies into a rage and passes sentence: The man deserves to die, and must restore the lamb fourfold because he showed no pity.
Nathan looks at him and delivers the four words that should haunt anyone in love with their own moral outrage:
“You are the man.”
David had laid his own trap. He declared a death sentence on himself, and the fourfold restitution he demanded became the currency of his family’s destruction. Four of his sons died untimely deaths. The sword never left his house. The pit David dug was the pit he fell into.
The great theological irony of David’s life though is that if God had answered David’s earlier prayers at the speed he demanded, David would have been dead before Bathsheba’s child drew its first breath.
If heaven operated on the hair-trigger timeline of human indignation, judgment would have struck the palace the moment Uriah fell. David would never have made it to Nathan. No space to confront his depravity, no season to mourn, and no life left to utter, “I have sinned against the Lord,” no breath left to write Psalm 51.
The very slowness of God that David spent years complaining about was the only reason he survived his own reign.
The cry of “How long, O Lord?” is not foreign to Scripture. The martyrs beneath the altar in Revelation raise it too. What Scripture never grants us is a stopwatch on everyone’s guilt except our own.
We are recklessly impatient in our prayers for justice. When wronged, we demand cosmic vindication yesterday. We treat God’s hesitation as indifference, or worse, incompetence.
We forget that if God answered our prayers for judgment with the speed we demand for others, none of us would survive our hypocrisy. The standard we want applied to our enemies would incinerate us when our private failures catch up with our public righteousness.
The delay of God is mercy with a long horizon: the terrifying, tender patience of a God who refuses to execute the wicked on our schedule because He intends to leave room for repentance on His.
Before you ask heaven to move fast against the evil in front of you, make sure you can survive the speed of your own theology.
Michael Abboud retweeted
I just spoke to @VDHanson about what the midterm results mean for Trump, the Republican Party, MAGA, and 2028.
Here’s what he told me:
The Republican losses were predictable. Since 1900 the White House party has lost House seats in ~90% of midterms (Senate in ~75%). The size of this wave (dozens in House, 7-9 Senate) is the real outlier.
Trump has roughly 70 days to lock in judges, cabinet picks, and nominees before the new Congress arrives.
With a ~45-seat Republican Senate, Trump will have to keep all Republicans in line or face a “veto-proof” Democratic Congress.
Trump can and will act unilaterally on foreign policy and executive orders. Historical precedent is clear. “The imperial presidency operates as they wish,” Hanson says.
The “affordability” story was heavily media-driven. Inflation is roughly one-third of 2022’s 9.1%. Family income is up ~$14k, GDP is stronger, stocks are +20k, poverty is down. The real issue is the 21% cumulative price jump he inherited—and the administration never clearly explained how slower inflation + higher incomes fixes it.
Trump never explained in full why the Iran campaign was necessary. The first 38 days were a historic success; stopping short and endless talk of negotiations let Iran claim they stopped him. The messaging, not the campaign itself, was the biggest problem.
Unlike this Congress, the new Democratic majority will have iron party discipline. That contrast will matter.
2028 starts now. The Vance-Rubio pairing will face immediate pressure—many will want Rubio at the top of the ticket, but Vance can’t run as VP again. Democrats will jump in fast. Their nominee will almost certainly come from the left of the party.
The Republican path to recovery, Hanson argues, runs through results, not rhetoric. A strong economy in 2026-27, a finished Iran campaign, and visible progress on affordability give the next nominee a real chance. Without those, the structural advantages of the new Democratic Congress become decisive.
Michael Abboud retweeted
Muslims have a plan to make America a Muslim nation.
Marxists have a plan to make America a Marxist nation.
Secular Progressives have a plan to make America a Secular Progressive nation.
… but Christians seem to always have a plan to keep Christianity from further influencing our nation by discipling people into either:
1) Political apathy (“God is sovereign, back off”, “we don’t get political, just do evangelism”)
2) Political ambiguity (“Jesus isn’t a Republican or Democrat, neither Right nor Left” = primary application of gospel to culture)
If continued, this will have very predictable (and disastrous) results in coming years, and a few conversations with pastors in deep blue cities / states trying to build churches, pastor people, and raise Christian families will help you realize it.
Michael Abboud retweeted
"You Christians worship a God-man." Muslims say this as a gotcha.
Yes. That's literally the Gospel.
When I was Muslim, I used to think that was the ultimate criticism.
Now I think it's the most beautiful truth I've ever heard.
Christianity doesn't teach that God stayed distant.
It teaches that God came near.
The One who created galaxies stepped into His own creation.
Not to show off or dominate or to sit on a throne demanding more from us.
But to suffer for us, to walk among us.
To carry our grief, and bleed for us. To die for us and to rise again.
What finally changed my perspective was realizing that "Son of God" never meant God had a biological child.
In the Jewish world, it meant sharing the same nature.
The claim wasn't that ‘God had a baby.’ The claim was that God REVEALED Himself.
Bro, that's where Islam lost me.
I literally spent years believing God would never humble Himself enough to enter His creation.
Then I realized that's exactly what makes Him glorious.
Not that He stayed far off and away. That He came so very close.
Close enough to touch lepers: to weep. Close enough to suffer life men and close enough to die. So yes, Christians worship the God-man.
Because no mere man could save us.
And a god who remains forever distant cannot show us the depth of divine love. But Jesus did. Fully God, fully man and fully enough.
Michael Abboud retweeted
Nothing can prepare you for watching the love of your life become a father.
Parenthood ignited an even more intense fire in my husband than I ever imagined. It made him more dedicated to defending conservative values and fighting for Western civilization, knowing that the ultimate reward for his hard work was leaving a freer, more Christ-like country for our children.
So let me ask you… what kind of country are you committed to leaving the next generation with? One that upholds the vision of our founders, or one that concedes to those committed to its demise?
Michael Abboud retweeted
This is a must-read. Spread it far and wide
Anthony Albanese has done something no Australian prime minister has ever done before.
He's taken a free trade agreement — a document that is supposed to be about buying and selling — and he's stuffed it full of climate ideology until it's barely recognisable as trade at all.
This isn't a free trade deal. It's a climate agreement wearing a trade deal as a disguise.
Here's what his own government's documents admit. DFAT published a paper titled "Benefits for Trade, Environment and Climate," and buried in it is this line: for the first time in a free trade agreement, Australia has made a binding commitment to implement the obligations under the Paris Agreement.
Not a reference. Not a nod. A binding commitment. And the same document says the agreement can be suspended over serious violations of climate obligations.
So if a future Australian government — any government, Labor or Liberal — decides the Paris targets are too expensive, too punishing, too destructive to our economy, Europe can drag us before a dispute panel and suspend the deal. That's not sovereignty. That's a leash.
And Albanese knows exactly what he's doing. Ursula von der Leyen stood in our own Parliament and said she was proud to have made decarbonisation a defining pillar of this agreement. A defining pillar. In a trade deal. The woman running Europe didn't hide it. She celebrated it. And our Prime Minister sat there and smiled.
Now let's talk about what these targets actually mean for ordinary Australians. The 2030 target is a forty-three percent cut below two thousand and five levels. The Climate Change Authority itself admits emissions need to more than double their current rate of reduction to get there in four years.
The Institute of Public Affairs ran the numbers and found that meeting the twenty thirty-five target of sixty-two to seventy percent would require the equivalent of a two hundred and ninety billion dollar tax burden over a decade. That's not a rounding error. That's a generation of wealth confiscated in the name of a theory that Europe itself is quietly walking back as its own industries collapse.
And here's the kicker that should make every Australian furious. The European Union has told us point blank — once negotiations are done, they're done.
Don Farrell repeated it. There is no reopening. There is no amendment. Whatever is written in that text is written in stone, and it binds not just Albanese but every prime minister who comes after him.
This is a man who can't win a debate on climate policy at the ballot box, so he's outsourcing it to Brussels.
He's taking the most contentious, most divisive policy in Australian politics and locking it into an international treaty so that even if the people vote him out, the ideology survives him. That's not governance. That's entrenchment.
Why is any of this in a trade deal in the first place? Because the far left has learned that you can't sell climate destruction directly to voters, so you smuggle it in through the back door of agreements nobody reads.
You attach it to something people want — cheaper wine, more beef exports — and hope they don't notice the poison pill. And when the Coalition objects, Albanese calls them nativist and protectionist. He turns legitimate sovereignty concerns into a culture war so he doesn't have to answer the actual question: why should a future elected Australian government be unable to change its own energy policy without asking permission from Europe?
But before we get to the treaty, let's look at what the green agenda has already done to this country on its own. Because the damage isn't theoretical. It's on every power bill in Australia right now.
Household electricity bills are up thirty-five percent since the start of twenty twenty-two. Gas is up forty-nine percent.
Michael Abboud retweeted
A generation walking by sight. A church that doesn't know its Bible. Hatred for Israel is rising and almost none of the comments cite scripture.
Get back in your Bible.
Michael Abboud retweeted
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Michael Abboud retweeted
Hello Senator Thune,
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
Michael Abboud retweeted
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Michael Abboud retweeted
The Albanese government has quietly backed down on its Digital Duty of Care laws to exclude certain material from the definition of seriously harmful content for adults.
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
Michael Abboud retweeted
That's just inaccurate. In fact, the bill has only gotten worse:
— The sock puppet craziness is still in there. That means the censors at eSafety can run unlimited fake accounts and override social media platforms’ terms of service. It can do this with immunity from any civil lawsuit for things “done in good faith” lol. It does not require that it tell either users or platforms what it’s doing.
— The government added section 28A. That lets the eSafety Commissioner order any online service in Australia, from ISPs to app stores to AI chatbots, to give anyone she deems qualified “access to the service required” to inspect internal systems and “decision-making algorithms.” Creepy af
— The amendment some are weirdly claiming is a “retreat” in fact obliges every general service to keep lawful adult content from under-18s. Here’s the rub: no service can do that without checking everyone’s age.
Michael Abboud retweeted
When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote.
“Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.”
I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran.
Then I read it slowly.
The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…”
Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking.
Bro, then I found it.
Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD like four centuries before the Quran. Rabbis discussed why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” (plural) cry out and concluded: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world.
Insane that it was word for word, with the exact same context. Bro, the same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5.
What I thought was the most beautiful verse in the Quran turned out to be a rabbi’s classroom commentary...
Literally, that’s when the question changed for me. It went from “isn't this verse beautiful?” to: What the heck is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God?!
Because there are only two options. Either Allah quoted the rabbis. Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said...
The crazy part is, the Bible predicted men would do this. “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.” ( Jeremiah 23:30)
That was the start of my journey toward Christ. I stopped defending the borrowed word of the Quran.
I found the Living Word.
PRAISE MY KING JESUS CHRIST, I’M FREE!
Michael Abboud retweeted
Good Morning,
Please join me for a daily scripture break.
Psalm 92:14:
“They will still bear fruit in old age; they will stay fresh and green.”
There are major decisions you don't really consider in your youth like what I would do after I retired. I just hadn't thought about it until I got older then I realized- there is no such thing as retirement in the Kingdom of God! I will say it again; there is no such thing as retirement in the Kingdom of God. Please give me a couple of minutes to present my rationale.
Our culture begins at the beginning (with your first job). The government announces, “We are going to withhold this amount from your paycheck for your old age when you are retired." We didn’t give it a second thought because we were probably a teenager. So we work 30, 40, or 50 years or longer with the idea in our head that when we retire we can do whatever we want, and many of you are still operating under this assumption. Guess what? God doesn’t see it that way. God expects us to “bear fruit in old age”.
Now, God doesn’t object to you having a hobby or traveling the world when you decide to indulge in some relaxation time for you and your family. But we all have a holy calling. The Holy Spirit has been prompting me about this for several days so this message is for someone out there. We have discussed what a holy calling is, why it is important to who we were created to be, and understanding God’s Will/Intent for our lives. All of that is true. But the problem is Christians have allowed worldly thinking to infiltrate their Christian worldview. God wastes nothing. (John 6:12) Have you ever considered how much experience and wisdom that remains stagnant in our country like seeds cached in a storage closet awaiting the planting season? One of the greatest needs I've personally observed is young people don't have anyone praying for them. We all desperately need prayer. I recommend you keep a list of names of people you encounter for whom the Holy Spirit prompts you to pray; pull the list out during your prayer time. You may not know all of the details of their lives but every “retired” person should have a prolific prayer life like no other. Consider the tragic condition the world is in, we need to pray and we have more time to pray than Christians with young families. So if you can’t get out and about because of medical limitations, financial limitations or whatever the case may be; please remember the Kingdom of God requires us to faithfully pray for the Body of Christ and the evangelization of the world. There is no such thing as retirement in the Kingdom of God. Moses began his ministry at 80 years old.(Exodus 7:7)
Looking back in my youth, this is just something I never really considered because I just bought into the world’s rhetoric. Let’s review some foundational scriptures on old age and retirement.
1. Isaiah 46:4 - “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”
One of the major challenges of aging is the world wants to dismiss you and put you out to pasture; it has moved on to another generation. But God knows exactly where you are, what gifts/talents He bestowed upon you, your life experience, and what are the current needs of the Body of Christ. This verse proclaims God’s unmitigated commitment to the promises He made to you in your youth. He reaffirms His protection, supply, and care. For those who have lost spouses and dear loved ones this reassurance is priceless. For the young people who are following, you don’t have to dwell on these challenges but no one escapes aging. So it's prudent to settle some questions you might have with the Lord.
2. Philippians 1:6 - “being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
God doesn’t abandon you when you age; He endures with us until the end.
3. II Corinthians 4:16 - “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
Have you ever noticed how old and withered a person appears after decades of abusing their bodies with riotous living? Not true for a faithful Christian, as out of the heart springs the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:23 - "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”). We are also instructed "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2). So yes, everyone ages with time but God’s internal renewal continues to sustain us in our advanced years.
4. Ecclesiastes 3:13 - “That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.”
We don’t think about it often but there are many people who do not experience a sense of accomplishment for the hard work they expend in their designated professions. Yet, for Christians this is another blessing from the Lord to enjoy the fruit of our past labor.
5. Psalm 71:18 - “ Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.”
Amen.
6. Titus 2:2-3 - “Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
In the 2nd Chapter of Titus, Paul is giving Titus specific codes of behavior/conduct for the members of the Body of Christ. Everyone has an important role even the older members. God thinks of everything.
7. Proverbs 13:22 - “A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.”
If it is possible to leave an inheritance for future generations; it is a blessing to do so.
8. Psalm 37:25 - “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.”
Simply put, God doesn’t abandon His children of any generation.
9. Colossians 3:15 - “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.”
10. Proverbs 16:31 - “Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.”
God promises to be with us until the end and then welcome us into eternity with Him. We are to celebrate the blessings God has bestowed throughout our lives and with a joyful and grateful heart worship Him always. Pray to the Holy Spirit to guide you where you should go and faithfully use your talents for the Kingdom of God until the end of your life. Our nation needs prayer and its citizens to preserve its way of life. Humbly seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance on how you should pray. Some may disagree with this post. Some may feel they have worked hard all of their lives and deserve a peaceful rest. I would say, while God strongly advocates for rest in our lives; most of these proceeding verses clearly elucidate a Godly expectation of fulfilling your calling until death. Amen.
Please take a moment and pray II Chronicles 7:14 for our nation and if possible in the morning and evening. May God bless you.
Peace and be prepared.
Michael Abboud retweeted
I planned to watch the Chicks on the Right interview with Erika Kirk last night, but I was exhausted. I’m glad I waited until this morning because this conversation deserved my full attention.
I’ve never hidden my support for Erika, but I wasn’t prepared for how profoundly relatable she would be. In my eyes, she’s always seemed larger than life. The CEO of TPUSA, leading the organization Charlie built while raising their children under extraordinary public scrutiny.
But what struck me most wasn’t the CEO. It was the young widow.
And I suspect a whole lot of women who lost their husbands young will recognize themselves in this interview.
Widowhood is one of those things that shouldn’t be relatable. But when it is, it means something.
Watching Erika’s demeanor change throughout the interview was remarkable. When she discussed TPUSA, you heard the CEO. When she talked about their children, you heard the mother. But when she spoke about Charlie, her entire face lit up. You saw the wife who still adores her husband.
Nearly 20 years into widowhood myself, I recognized that immediately. Some things never change.
Then came the laughter, the sparkle suit, the absurd stories that only become funny afterward, and those little moments that fellow widows understand all too well.
“Joy and grief can live in the same household at the same time.”
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard our reality expressed more beautifully.
I was equally struck by her grace, faith, and perspective. She understands that strangers on the internet only know half the story. They weren’t there for the highs, the lows, or the private conversations between husband and wife. Charlie entrusted her with TPUSA, and she has every right to celebrate its success while faithfully stewarding what he built.
Her reminder that it’s easy to destroy but difficult to build, her call for discernment and judging people by their fruits, and her refusal to surrender her peace to those attacking her were especially powerful.
Her forgiveness isn’t an absence of pain. It’s a decision to surrender that pain to God rather than allow it to consume her life or her children’s lives.
And her faith is central to everything. From Charlie’s journals and his relationship with God to the memorial and the revival she believes it inspired, she’s navigating this journey with a foundation I deeply admire.
I also loved her optimism for America. Neither she nor Charlie embraced the black-pill mentality. They believed in building something better, and she’s continuing that work.
But beneath all of it is a mother creating new traditions, laughing at life’s absurdities, and making room for joy in a household that will always know grief.
The final question about where she sees herself in 20 years hit particularly hard. Here I am, nearly 20 years into widowhood, knowing I couldn’t possibly have imagined where life would take me when I was standing where she is today.
Her hope is to have faithfully stewarded Charlie’s legacy and passed it on to their children. There’s something absolutely beautiful about that.
And when she said she’ll tell her own story one day, but right now it isn’t about her, I thought that spoke volumes about her character.
I came into this interview admiring Erika Kirk as a leader. I walked away admiring her even more as a wife, mother, woman of faith, and fellow widow.
For those of us who’ve walked this road, seeing our experiences reflected in someone whose circumstances are otherwise so different is profoundly meaningful.
And Erika was absolutely right in her praise of Chicks on the Right. They gave her the space to be herself, and the result was a beautiful conversation.
Some interviews inform you. Others stay with you.
This one will stay with me. ❤️
Michael Abboud retweeted
I have had four pregnancies and birthed three children. My first was a miscarriage.
I breastfed all my babies.
I fostered 5 children, 3 of whom are a very special part of our family.
They now have families of their own.
My son is married and soon to be a father.
I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, auntie.
I am female.
My experience as a woman is because I am female.
No bloke in a frock, who is a eunuch or dependent on drugs for the rest of his life to pretend to be a woman can hold a torch to my womanhood or any woman.
You don't have to be a mother to be a woman, but you do need to be a woman to be a mother.
Michael Abboud retweeted
💥BREAKING NEWS! 💥
AUSTRALIA & NZ COLLABORATE TO SILENCE NZ PASTOR!
TWO NATIONS. ONE MAN. ONE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH.
On Tuesday, I flew to Brisbane with my family, where I was scheduled to speak at a Christian church conference.
But I never made it past Australian Border Force.
I was pulled aside at Brisbane Airport and subjected to over 12 HOURS OF INTERROGATION.
Australian authorities then cancelled my visa under Section 116 of Australia's Migration Act, refusing me entry into the country.
I was subsequently held in confinement under guard until I was put on a flight back to Auckland, arriving home last night.
SO WHAT WAS MY OFFENCE?
According to the Australian Border Force documents:
🔹 "...your social media statements have been inflammatory and concerning."
🔹 "...your presence in Australia may risk the good order of the Australian community, or a segment of the Australian community, namely the Sikh and Muslim communities."
🔹 "...made multiple statements online concerning his views of other religions namely Sikh and Islam."
I was travelling to Australia to preach at a Christian conference, not to commit a crime.
This maybe the first time that a Christian conference is put under a hate crime investigation in Australian history. This is a dangerous trajectory towards criminalising Christianity.
It’s within days of me facing three charges of alleged "racial disharmony" here in New Zealand, that I have been refused entry into Australia over my public statements about religion and mass immigration.
TWO COUNTRIES. THE SAME ISSUE. MY RIGHT TO SPEAK.
I want answers about whether New Zealand authorities shared information with Australia and what role, if any, that played in this decision. Mark Mitchell & the New Zealand Police need to be put under the spotlight here.
POLITICIANS ARE AT WAR WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE!
That's how I see it. Governments should be protecting the fundamental freedoms of their citizens, not treating outspoken people as threats simply because their views are unpopular.
Is this where we are heading? Where challenging religious beliefs can see a Christian pastor prosecuted in his own country and refused entry into another?
LET ME MAKE ONE THING VERY CLEAR.
I am fine. I am home. And I am more energised than ever in this fight to protect freedom of speech.
YOU CAN STOP ME AT A BORDER.
YOU CAN CANCEL MY VISA.
YOU CAN DRAG ME THROUGH THE COURTS...
BUT YOU WILL NOT SILENCE MY VOICE.
This is bigger than Brian Tamaki. It raises serious questions about freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and the rights of Christians to openly preach their beliefs.
FREE TO SPEAK!
TRUTH IS NOT HATE SPEECH!
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31 OCTOBER - GET THEM OUT!
12PM | BRITOMART SQUARE | AUCKLAND
Enough is enough!
STAND UP FOR FREE SPEECH. STAND UP FOR NZ!
THIS IS OUR LAND. THIS IS OUR STAND!
Michael Abboud retweeted
FINALLY the MSM have caught up!
For YEARS this was a conspiracy theory, I got 'fact checked' on FB for telling the truth, reputations have been ruined and careers have been ended because people dared to tell the inconvenient truth:
The BOM are a political organisation, not a scientific or meteorological one.
They don't 'make corrections', they lie with statistics. They don't adjust the temperate record to make it more accurate, they adjust the temperature record to make it more convenient.
We've known this for years. We've been punished for SAYING this for years...
But it's been true the WHOLE TIME.
'Conspiracy theorists' chalk up another win.
Michael Abboud retweeted
We had nothing left in South Africa. Not two pennies to rub together.
As a husband and father, I had almost given up. After we sold everything, there was nothing left I could do. Jobs were as scarce as snowflakes in summer, and the color of my skin was the only reason that mattered.
Then, the very next day, as God is my witness, we got the tickets. Everything flipped 180 degrees. Hope poured in. A light appeared at the end of an extremely dark tunnel.
When we arrived in the USA, the unknown felt like a whole new mountain. But it didn’t take long to see the truth: life was going to be better here. Every person we met treated us with dignity. Doors kept opening. Things kept falling into place. And with God walking right beside us, what started as survival quickly became a miracle.
I’ve got a fire in my belly now. America still has so much left to offer, and I’ve barely scratched the surface. This is the land where a man can rebuild what was taken from him not by handouts, but by work, grit, and the freedom to keep swinging.
We came here with empty hands and a broken past. We’ll leave our mark with strong backs, grateful hearts, and children who will grow up free. From the ashes of the old life, we’re building something new under the stars and stripes.
The tunnel is behind us. The future is wide open. And by the grace of God and the blessing of this great nation, the best is still ahead.
God bless America. We’re not just here.
we’re home.
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Michael Abboud retweeted
DEAR AUSTRALIANS‼️
I love your beautiful, rugged and unique country and culture. Literally EVERY Aussie I have met ALL over the world has an open mind, is adventurous and trusting in the goodwill of humanity. It is a wonderful trait that I admire and envy greatly.
But your ELECTED LEADERS continue to ABUSE your TRUST and YOUR GOODWILL by STEALING AWAY your LIBERTIES; YOUR FREE SPEECH, YOUR GUNS, and THEN allowing the IMMIGRATION of people who HATE WESTERN CIVILIZATION and have NO INTENTION of ASSIMILATING to your culture.
This is even a greater BETRAYAL than what your TYRANNICAL Government did to ALL Australians during the cruel and inhuman (and unnecessary) Covid lockdowns.
It is my sincere hopes that the people of Australia will WAKE up and reclaim your rights and VOTE OUT these AUTHORITARIAN ASSH@LES!
Good on ya,
Love
Rob
