Still_Small_Voice

My brother's side gig is messing with scammers and posting about them on YouTube. Family and friends are always calling him to ask if something is suspect.

Ooh!  Knife to the heart!  @mirkwood, @Traveler, and I are never speaking to you again!  (Unless our therapists insist otherwise...)

Those were terrifying. 

I'm a big fan of pulling evil out of the darkness where it hides, out into the light where everyone can see it.
News article with some good links to sources: https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/ruby-franke-arrested-aggravated-child-abuse-1235710571/
Both Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, were arrested and both were charged with two counts of “aggravated child abuse – intentionally or knowingly".  
Sometimes, the face of evil looks like an active happy Latter Day Saint woman, happily posting away on Instagram and blessing the world with good tips on parenting.

 
This is why I don't do human heroes.  (Other than Mr. Rogers, whose last episode aired 22 years ago yesterday, btw.)
 

He explains why he refused to release fire-fighting water for the fire departments.
So, basically, he wanted to see the entire island burn so Biden can expand the New Green Deal.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
He let about 1000 people die by fire so that we could have climate equity.

I hope Oliver Anthony releases a clean version of his Rich Men North of Richmond song.
TheTry That In a Small Town song was good as well.  I enjoyed it.

I really respect Jordan Peterson.  He said it would be best if the Republicans picked someone else other than Donald Trump as he was too controversial.  I agree.
But Trump will likely win the Republican nomination as a candidate for President.  
And NeuroTypical, a President cannot pardon himself.  He has no authority to do it.

You have not looked into the lack of security in vote by mail.  Who is ballot harvesting?  (Look up ballot harvesting and what it is along with ballot curing.)  Who is actually voting?  Where are all these ballots coming from?  Who is handling the ballots?  Most of these questions are answered by citizens showing up to vote with valid identification.  I am also for paper ballots as it leaves evidence versus just computers tallying votes.  I do not want voting machines connected to the Internet either as they can be remotely hacked.
Why only two days to vote?  Because it gives people who are trying to do voter fraud less time.  If many voting polls are opened on the day before election day (08:00 to 21:00 hours servicing everyone in line before 21:00 hours) and on election day people have adequate time to vote.
Why no same day voter registration?  Hello, my name is John Smith, and I am here to vote.  Same man moves to another voting poll.  Hi, my name is Jeff Jones, and I am here to vote.  Same man moves to another voting poll.  Hello, my name is Sam Smith, and I am here to vote.
All these safe guards were in place to help protect the integrity of the vote in the past and now many of them are gone in vote by mail months ahead of election day.  No system is full proof, but vote by mail is the least secure of all voting methods.

You have not looked closely enough at the 2020 elections then.  Election laws in many States were changed illegally.  Vote by mail looks like it is here to stay sadly, and it makes it a lot easier to do voter fraud when you do vote by mail and have weeks or months to pull it off.
I would have far more confidence in our elections if they only did vote in person, showing valid identification, only allowing two days of voting.  Absentee ballots should only be allowed by the military or people soliciting for an absentee ballot with a valid reason.
Edit:  No same day voter registration either.  People should be registered to vote at least 21 days before an election.

Um, @Phoenix_person?  Trump did concede the election on Jan 7 2021 at 5:10 pm.
https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1347334804052844550?s=46&t=X5qcMifsD8E7ppEtCxaqJw
 
I think part of why we are so divided, is we forget to take relevant facts into account when they don’t help our narrative. I don’t blame you for not knowing this, but I do blame you for your choice of news sources. (And of course I blame Twitter for censoring Trump’s concession speech until Elon bought the whole dang company and uncensored the video.)
Perhaps in your various circles, you could help spread the information that Trump did indeed concede the election? I mean, yes, he did it late, later than Gore did. But he did do it.

These are all good points that can be well argued. But @Phoenix_person  was claiming that Trump did not concede. And Trump conceded.
Again, I just posted a video with 24 minutes of Democrats, including former presidents and current Congress people, how many federal and state level, claiming conceded elections were stolen.  Many of them continue to endorse the “stolen election“ narrative, as long as it was politically advantageous to do so.  Yes, Trump did it. The Democrats do it a lot, across decades. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of them. Whenever it suits their purposes.

You have not looked into the lack of security in vote by mail.  Who is ballot harvesting?  (Look up ballot harvesting and what it is along with ballot curing.)  Who is actually voting?  Where are all these ballots coming from?  Who is handling the ballots?  Most of these questions are answered by citizens showing up to vote with valid identification.  I am also for paper ballots as it leaves evidence versus just computers tallying votes.  I do not want voting machines connected to the Internet either as they can be remotely hacked.
Why only two days to vote?  Because it gives people who are trying to do voter fraud less time.  If many voting polls are opened on the day before election day (08:00 to 21:00 hours servicing everyone in line before 21:00 hours) and on election day people have adequate time to vote.
Why no same day voter registration?  Hello, my name is John Smith, and I am here to vote.  Same man moves to another voting poll.  Hi, my name is Jeff Jones, and I am here to vote.  Same man moves to another voting poll.  Hello, my name is Sam Smith, and I am here to vote.
All these safe guards were in place to help protect the integrity of the vote in the past and now many of them are gone in vote by mail months ahead of election day.  No system is full proof, but vote by mail is the least secure of all voting methods.

You really shouldn't be eating out-laws, regardless what crime they've committed.   And I can't imagine why you would even consider eating your in-laws.  You must have a very different relationship with them than I had with mine.
 

Reagan won the Cold War without firing a single shot. The man deserves a Nobel Prize but will never get one. He’s also one of the main reasons why I’m a republican. I could go on. 

I don't want to offend but this is one of my favorite moments in a Reagan speech.
 
 

Operative word there, "was".  When I moved here 20 years ago, we were a good purple, sometimes leaning red, sometimes leaning blue.  Every year since, we've turned bluer.  Red folk are leaving for Arizona and Texas and Florida (Half a dozen from my stake and friend groups.)  As California empties out, they're coming to Colorado (I know personally at least two dozen recent Cali transplants, with more arriving weekly.  
I am the FotF CS crowd - that's El Paso county, the last populous red county in the State.  Lauren Bobert makes national news, but her 3rd congressional District covers half the state but only has ~12% of the population.  Our front range corridor from ColSpgs through Fort Collins is growing at something like 5-8% yearly, and they're all blue refugees from failing liberal places. 
Denver is like the whiny little brother to Seattle and Portland.  Those two get their safe injection sites and zero cash bond programs going, and Denver is running after them wailing "wait up guys I wanna come too".

Every Friday, I spend an hour with my workplace's Diversity Allies group.  I'm the only conservative there.  Guess what we talk about more weeks than not? 
I agree with you @Godless, that the gender issue is being pushed hard by the right, to willing audiences.  It'll motivate folks on the right who might not otherwise vote, to get outraged enough to vote.  But if you're trying to claim the left isn't doing exactly the same thing, for exactly the same reaons, well, please let me know if that's what you're doing, and I'll quickly come up with five major recent news stories on gender issues from five major left wing sources. 
By the way, this is what I mean by the "exact same thing":
Right: "The radical left isn't content with redefining woman to let hairy dudes molest women in locker rooms and win gold medals in women's sports.  They also want to groom your children by sticking sexually explicit children's books in every school, and teaching 10 year old boys how to twerk in drag shows!"
Left: "The evil right is trying to commit genocide on an entire class of people by making it illegal for our most vulnerable children to get medical care!"

Some of the greatest missionaries for Christ were Nephi and Lehi written about in the books of Helaman and III Nephi.  Here a small portion of an account given of their missionary labors in Helaman chapter 5:
17 And it came to pass that they did preach with great power, insomuch that they did confound many of those dissenters who had gone over from the Nephites, insomuch that they came forth and did confess their sins and were baptized unto repentance, and immediately returned to the Nephites to endeavor to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.
18 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did preach unto the Lamanites with such great power and authority, for they had power and authority given unto them that they might speak, and they also had what they should speak given unto them—
19 Therefore they did speak unto the great astonishment of the Lamanites, to the convincing them, insomuch that there were eight thousand of the Lamanites who were in the land of Zarahemla and round about baptized unto repentance, and were convinced of the wickedness of the traditions of their fathers.
After these missionary labors Nephi and Lehi went to the land of Nephi to preach to others but were captured and thrown into a prison.  After a miraculous spiritual spiritual experience in the prison about three hundred more people were converted.  These three hundred also began missionary labors.
 
50 And it came to pass that they did go forth, and did minister unto the people, declaring throughout all the regions round about all the things which they had heard and seen, insomuch that the more part of the Lamanites were a convinced of them, because of the greatness of the evidences which they had received.
51 And as many as were a convinced did lay down their weapons of war, and also their hatred and the tradition of their fathers.    
1 And it came to pass that when the sixty and second year of the reign of the judges had ended, all these things had happened and the Lamanites had become, the more part of them, a righteous people, insomuch that their a righteousness did exceed that of the Nephites, because of their firmness and their steadiness in the faith. -- Helaman chapter 6
The more part of the Lamanite nation after this laid down their arms and there was peace in the land.  The Nephites and Lamanites began to have free interactions with each other as recorded in Helaman chapter 6.
7 And behold, there was peace in all the land, insomuch that the Nephites did go into whatsoever part of the land they would, whether among the Nephites or the Lamanites.
8 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did also go whithersoever they would, whether it were among the Lamanites or among the Nephites . . .

Some of the greatest missionaries for Christ were Nephi and Lehi written about in the books of Helaman and III Nephi.  Here a small portion of an account given of their missionary labors in Helaman chapter 5:
17 And it came to pass that they did preach with great power, insomuch that they did confound many of those dissenters who had gone over from the Nephites, insomuch that they came forth and did confess their sins and were baptized unto repentance, and immediately returned to the Nephites to endeavor to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.
18 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did preach unto the Lamanites with such great power and authority, for they had power and authority given unto them that they might speak, and they also had what they should speak given unto them—
19 Therefore they did speak unto the great astonishment of the Lamanites, to the convincing them, insomuch that there were eight thousand of the Lamanites who were in the land of Zarahemla and round about baptized unto repentance, and were convinced of the wickedness of the traditions of their fathers.
After these missionary labors Nephi and Lehi went to the land of Nephi to preach to others but were captured and thrown into a prison.  After a miraculous spiritual spiritual experience in the prison about three hundred more people were converted.  These three hundred also began missionary labors.
 
50 And it came to pass that they did go forth, and did minister unto the people, declaring throughout all the regions round about all the things which they had heard and seen, insomuch that the more part of the Lamanites were a convinced of them, because of the greatness of the evidences which they had received.
51 And as many as were a convinced did lay down their weapons of war, and also their hatred and the tradition of their fathers.    
1 And it came to pass that when the sixty and second year of the reign of the judges had ended, all these things had happened and the Lamanites had become, the more part of them, a righteous people, insomuch that their a righteousness did exceed that of the Nephites, because of their firmness and their steadiness in the faith. -- Helaman chapter 6
The more part of the Lamanite nation after this laid down their arms and there was peace in the land.  The Nephites and Lamanites began to have free interactions with each other as recorded in Helaman chapter 6.
7 And behold, there was peace in all the land, insomuch that the Nephites did go into whatsoever part of the land they would, whether among the Nephites or the Lamanites.
8 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did also go whithersoever they would, whether it were among the Lamanites or among the Nephites . . .

Those girls are all smiling and clapping for him...no pushback at all that I've heard. This is what they asked for, so this is what they get. Feminists never cared about women's rights...it was all about power and exerting influence, just like the blm movement.

Dare I say this?  But before I do I realize that agency is the prime directive of G-d.  I just find it odd that it is socially unacceptable in certain circles to have a black woman on a syrup bottle but perfectly acceptable in the same circles to put a fake woman on a beer can.
 
The Traveler

Yep.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Freedom_(film)#Distribution
 
As for Disney, 

lol.
 
 
Also:  https://babylonbee.com/news/after-losing-to-mormons-at-angelstudios-disney-announces-indiana-jones--the-plates-of-nephi

 

This article cinched it.   I'm taking my whole family to see it tomorrow.   Can't wait to turn my back on all the visible suffering all around me in America (the poor and unhoused, the people brutalized or killed by police, victims of mass shootings, lack of healthcare, and climate disasters) in order to turn my far-right self to this sordid fantasy about godless monsters hurting children. Imma be the latest iteration of the the 1980s Satanic panic phenomenon, where I won’t even face the fact that most kids who suffer sexual abuse are harmed not by a shadowy cabal of strangers, but at the hands of a family member!   Imma be one of the thousands of adults who will absorb the vigilante fever dream that is Sound of Freedom, and I'll come away thinking myself better informed on a hidden civilizational crisis!  And better still, I’ll want to spread the word!
(Actual picture of me, taken tomorrow, after watching the show):