Knowles has kept himself pretty based. I listened to Ben for about 4 years, but the last years months I’ve been getting soured by his TDS. His handling of the election fraud was the final mail in the coffin.
He’s the typical whiny ass Republican that just wants to complain about social issues and socialism, but never put up any real fight to push back while crying about how Trump’s optics make him look mean to suburban white women.
Most of Texas is conservative with a few red cesspools here and there. The more rural you are, the better. The suburbs can be up in the air. Some of the once solid red suburbs are becoming woke.
Basically the more dense, the more liberal.
The further north you are, the less the heat is a concern. In DFW, there is only about 40-60 days that are high 90s, maybe a few days of low 100s. There was a freak year were we had 30+ days of mid 100s, but that is rare.
The rest of the year is pretty mild. Winters are very mild, only get a few days a year of below freezing, and it often does not last more than a day or 2.
The church that has the pedos is because they don't let the priests be married, regardless of what the Bible says. They often point to one bible verse that mentions being single (1 Cor 7:8), but then ignore the very next one.
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 1 Cor 7:8-9
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Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 1 Cor 9:5
Cephas, BTW, is the apostle Peter, that the RCC says is the founder of their church, not really though. A fisherman, who did not consider himself worthy of Jesus, did not go on to create a church where only a small privileged class of special men that wear fancy robes are the only ones qualified to "interpret" the will of God.
Sorry, most Christians in the country don't go to churches with priests.
I can tell you having grown up in that denomination (and leaving it shortly after becoming an adult, then years later actually getting saved), the vast majority of people at churches that have priests are not actual saved Christians. I can only think of 2 people that I remember from my whole childhood who actually lived like they put their faith in Jesus Christ. Everyone was all about their works and the ceremonies.
I was telling my wife this the other day. Your watching a podcaster talk about some seriously deep stuff, tectonic shifts in the world as we know it, and then a commercial interrupts to sell you a fantasy you can live out in a video game, a workout machine to have the perfectly carved body, or an RV to travel across a locked down country.
But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. Gen. Oliver P. Smith
I’m all seriousness, we have to fight on another day. The fight is going to be different now and what it should have always been, local local local. That is all.
All part of the local democrat machine comment. The fraud was combination of the mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, fake or invalid registrations, relaxing of signature verification rules, and good old fashion ballot stuffing, etc. If there was any fraud relating to dominion software, it was how local elections officials operated it, e.g. adjudication trump ballots for Biden, not resetting for jams like that sassy blonde gal from MI saw.
The rest of the state via their elected officials needs to put the metro areas in check. Let your state reps know you want election reform laws or you will vote them out.
No mail in ballots unless you prove you will be out of town, require a high level of proof.
Some simple laws like counting does not start until all counties have reported the number of total ballots. All ballots “found” after time are considered contested and can only be allowed in through some adjudication process with equal representatives of each party.
All results are withheld until all ballots are counted and simultaneously reported, maybe accomplish this through some type of cryptographic escrow.
Require explicitly that observers must be physically within arms reach of ballots and other election materials during all steps and they are required to be allowed to hand inspect them.
End-to-end ballot processing in one place for any given ballot, i.e., each ballot must be canvased, verified, counted, spoiled, etc. in a single location. You can have multiple locations that do this, but any given ballot should be handled in only in one. Not like what they did in Detroit where signature verification was done in one place, counting/scanning in another, and adjudication in another.
We also need big based dudes take some time away from beer drinking at the bar, and step up to be poll watchers with the little 70 yr old ladies so the democrat thugs can not try to intimidate them.
Use lawfare as much as possible. We need competent people who are not asleep when dems are bringing all these lawsuits against Secretaries of State.
Keep in mind, Desantis got elected with corrupt elections officials in metro centers in Florida. Then he fired some incompetent county election officials and cleaned that crap up.
The big key is local local local.
Sorry, you must have the religion. No statement like this is in the Bible. The problem with the American church is that it is so full of people that are only interested in helping themselves, that is why most congregations are never willing to do anything that requires personal sacrifice.
Jesus actually says quite the opposite.