Your tax dollars fund millionaires’ groceries because bureaucrats can’t be bothered to close an obvious scam. A millionaire in Minnesota collected $6,000 in food stamps. Multiple lottery winners pocketed taxpayer funded benefits. People with six figure assets are getting SNAP and it’s all perfectly legal This is what institutional rot looks like. Fix the damn system.

The classical definition of sovereignty is straightforward…supreme authority within a territory, with monopolistic control over the legitimate use of force. No external power exercises authority within sovereign borders without explicit, revocable permission that the sovereign can withdraw at will. By this standard, foreign military operations on your soil represent either a compromise of sovereignty or evidence that your government prioritizes interests other than those of its citizens. Washington’s Farewell Address wasn’t merely advice but a warning born from experience: “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence… the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.” Jefferson advocated “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” America itself has allowed foreign military forces and international alliances to operate on U.S. soil, which means either: 1. The U.S. is not truly sovereign, OR 2. The U.S. government is colluding with foreign powers against the interests of the American people

Suffering has a way of stripping everything else away. The career, the possessions, the carefully built life we think defines us. All of it fades when tragedy strikes or when we walk alongside someone in their deepest pain. If you haven’t faced suffering yet, now is the time to wrestle with why it exists. Not later, not in the middle of crisis when you’re gasping for answers. Build your foundation now. Understand the God who is sovereign over both joy and sorrow, who doesn’t flinch at our hardest questions. Don’t wait until you’re drowning to reach for Him. Come now, while there’s space to think and wrestle and know Him. Build your theology of suffering before you need it, so that when the inevitable comes, you’re not scrambling for meaning but resting in a God you already know and trust. Life is more fragile than we admit. The peace we need doesn’t come from avoiding suffering but from knowing the One who holds it all in His hands.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Gm ☕️ #Coffeechain #ChristAlone

Friendship is gold precisely because it resists commodification. It’s the last space where humans can be ends unto themselves rather than means to content, status, or extraction. In a world drowning in connections, loyalty is the scarcest resource.

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