Thomas Mann

According to Grok this is the probability that all 254 counties in Texas swung in the same direction in the same election cycle.

Good Morning, Please join me for a daily scripture break. II Chronicles 7:14: "if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” As many of you have been invoking this verse on behalf of our nation, today is Election Day in the United States. Thank you so much for offering this prayer to our Lord.  I encourage every American who is legally eligible to vote to do so. Please take a moment and review some of the foundational scriptures that surround our Christian duty to exercise the rights and privileges of our citizenship that so many fought and died for on behalf of future generations.  It is sobering to contemplate that God does all of the "heavy lifting", especially His glorious promises to us if we obey His Word.  As a Christian we should be informed of God’s promises, what our own Christian responsibilities are towards God’s gifts to us (including our homeland), and strive to fully understand those gifts despite the dismissive nature of the world towards God. And finally we must reflect upon the consequences awaiting a disobedient nation. I.  God Desires These Promises for His Children. 1. Psalm 33:12 - "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance.” 2. Psalm 37:3 - "Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.” 3. Psalm 127:1 - "Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.” 4. II Chronicles 20:15 - "He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s'.” It doesn't matter who the enemy is; it is God's battle to protect us and our nation. We must believe that because the world doesn't. 5. Psalm 46:1 - "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” 6. Deuteronomy 11:12 - "It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.” 7. Isaiah 54:17 - "no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.” 8. Psalm 121:7-8 - "The Lord will keep you from all harm— He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” 9. Psalm 67:4 - "May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth.” 10. Acts 17:26 - "From one man He made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.” II.  The Body of Christ responsibilities. 1. II Chronicles 7:14 - "if my people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2. I Timothy 2:1-2 - “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.” 3. Psalm 91:2 - "I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” 4. Deuteronomy 28:1 - "If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all His commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.” 5. Leviticus 25:18 - “Follow My decrees and be careful to obey My laws, and you will live safely in the land.” III.  The Consequences Awaiting A Disobedient Nation. Please pay very close attention. God doesn't ignore sin - unrepented sin has consequences and that applies to everyone, even Christians. 1. Isaiah 60:12 - "For the nation or kingdom that will not serve You will perish; it will be utterly ruined.” 2. Psalm 9:17 - “The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.” 3. Proverbs 14:34 - "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.” 4. Isaiah 1:28 - "But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.” 5. Jeremiah 2:19 - "Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the Lord your God and have no awe of Me,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.” 6. Deuteronomy 28:20 - "The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking Him." There are countries around the world who are completely oblivious to these warnings by choice or by ignorance. Moreover, those who abandon or reject the Lord will not inherit the Kingdom of God. No matter the results today, our nation will need us to pray; to intercede on behalf of our nation.  We have a responsibility to sincerely obey God’s Word with regards to the nation we live in and enjoy.  Keep God's promises to the faithful before your eyes. Pray these promises back to our Lord with thanksgiving and praise. Please retain this post as a reminder for us to pray as God asked of us. Praise the Name of the Lord. God bless you. Peace and be prepared.

So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right? 1

There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture. The wolf begged to be freed. “I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!” The shepherd cut the rope. The next night, three lambs were gone. Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness. By winter, half the flock was dead. An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?” The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.” The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.” That’s the lesson. Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.

This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues

On the morning of October 23, 1983, a suicide bombing carried out by Iran-backed Hezbollah destroyed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 299 people. The casualties included 241 U.S. Marines and Sailors, representing the Marine Corps' highest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima. WE NEVER FORGET! 🇺🇸

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"O Allah, count them, kill them one by one, and leave none of them." Here are 44 clips of imams from the Islamic Center of Detroit — where Abdul El-Sayed worships — promoting murder. The federal government has given the mosque over $45 million since 2017

EXC: A Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros funding has identified hundreds of American counties as destinations for migrants. 96.5% of selected counties are majority White . Residents would have no say. Its November 2025 immigration blueprint urges policymakers to “enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly.” It also proposes state visa programs and “incentivizing new arrivals to stay in specific states and regions.” Two weeks later, Niskanen published its Migration Match Index, assessing American communities for their capacity to accommodate more immigration. The report describes places with “aging, stagnant, or insufficient native labor supply.” It weighs factors including job openings, rental vacancies, affordability, unemployment, and age. The authors explicitly discuss using updated data to plan resettlement following “an influx of asylum seekers at the border.” They also contemplate applications to a future refugee-admissions system. Niskanen’s own funding disclosure lists $300,000 from Open Society Foundation for immigration work, covering the period when both documents were published. Other donors include the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Pritzker Family Foundation. The organization already has a record of helping turn private sponsorship into policy. Its 2025 annual report says it “helped conceive and implement” Welcome Corps, the private refugee-sponsorship program established under Biden.

You have a sign hanging outside your taxpayer-funded congressional office telling the public, including journalists, they need prior consent from staff to record. You’re allowed to set rules and limits on who can “do journalism” in your office, but the President can’t?

America is a constitutional republic. You vote. Then the Constitution tells the winners what they still CANNOT do to you.

Those who forget the past will be condemned to relive it. In 1557 the Crown chartered the Stationers' Company and handed a small group of established printers a legal monopoly on the press. In exchange, those printers agreed to police what got printed. That was the deal. Control for the Crown, a cartel for the incumbents, and both sides called it public safety. The Star Chamber decrees of 1586 and 1637 finished the job. They capped the number of master printers, limited how many presses a man could own, and confined printing to London plus Oxford and Cambridge. Notice what that is. It was never a ban. It was a licensing threshold that only the established houses could clear. Now go read what is being proposed for AI this month. Mandatory external evaluators. Review before release. Capability thresholds. A federal body that decides which systems are permitted to exist. Rules written so that four or five companies can comply and nobody else can, with those same companies helping write them. That is not a new idea. That is the Stationers' Company with better lawyers. And here is the part everyone skips. The Stationers were not victims of censorship. They were its subcontractor. They got rich. The licensing regime they helped enforce was the most profitable thing that ever happened to them and they defended it for 138 years. It did not work. England licensed. The Dutch did not. Amsterdam printed exactly what London banned and shipped it back across the Channel at a markup. The regime suppressed nothing. It exported the industry and billed English readers for the privilege. The harder case is the Ottomans. Arabic script printing was restricted starting around 1485 and the restriction held for roughly two and a half centuries while Europe compounded. One civilization paused a general purpose information technology. Its rivals did not. There is no coming back from that, and no serious argument that anyone was safer for it. That is the China question, answered 500 years ago with receipts attached. Now the honest part, because this case does not require dishonesty. The printing press was genuinely dangerous. Cheap pamphlets fed a century and a half of religious war. Real blood, real graves. The men who said this technology will tear the world apart were not stupid and they were not entirely wrong. Licensing did not prevent one hour of it. That is the real lesson and it is not the comfortable one. Restriction never stopped the upheaval. It only decided who held the printing patents while it happened. John Milton put it better in 1644, writing against the Licensing Order. A licensing regime requires a licensor who can separate truth from error in advance, before the work exists. No such man has ever lived. Every model review board on the table right now rests on exactly that assumption. It was wrong the first time and it is equally wrong today.