And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. Catholic, husband, and father of 3. Hoosier
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“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Well, well, well. Good for @StephenM!
Hey @RepStutzman I guess you can stop clamoring for him to be fired.
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One of the contributing factors in the GOP wipeout this election is the feeling among Americans that the GOP has done nothing to reverse the foreign invasion. Now we have the data to prove their feelings are justified.
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You cannot vote to kill babies then sing “Oh how I love Jesus” on Sunday.
Abortion is murder.
So you’re going scorched earth on everyone, huh? I mean we don’t know the facts on that bombing unless you trust Iranian media or NPR, & we know how honest they are. The Iran war will be debated, but I think this post is stretching it.
Locally it’s the same thing when a trailer park is expanded. Neighbors fight it but it still comes. Looks nice for a few years then in 10-15 years it’s an eye sore. Happened in Whitley county.
It’s pretty easier to see the negatives.
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There was no increased crossover vote.
NBC exit polls showed 5% Republican crossover in 2024 and 6% in 2026.
Republicans stuck to their guns. They voted the same.
20 million new Democrat votes materialized.
That is the story.
I started shopping at Aldi just this year and it definitely saves us money!
A woman spent about $280 a week on groceries at a big supermarket for her family of five.
She’d heard Aldi was cheaper, so one Saturday she finally tried it. She walked up to the carts and couldn’t get one loose they were chained together. Inside, the store was half the size she was used to. Products were sitting in their cardboard shipping boxes. She didn’t recognize most of the brands. At checkout, the cashier scanned everything so fast she couldn’t keep up, there were no free bags, and she had to pack her groceries at a counter by herself.
She almost didn’t go back.
Then she looked at her receipt. Nearly the same groceries. $171.
She told the story to her neighbor a former Aldi store manager who spent 10 years running stores, training staff, and explaining the “weird” Aldi rules to confused first-time shoppers.
The neighbor laughed.
“Everything that felt strange to you is exactly why your receipt was $109 cheaper. The quarter for the cart saves Aldi from paying someone to collect carts. No free bags saves money. Products in shipping boxes save stocking time. A small store with fewer products means lower rent and less waste. The fast cashier is a whole system designed to keep labor costs low. You didn’t shop at a weird grocery store. You shopped at a store that removed every cost you don’t care about and passed the savings to you.”
She walked her through 10 things over coffee.
The woman now saves around $100 a week more than $5,000 a year. She said: “I thought Aldi was cheap because the food was worse. It’s cheap because the store is built differently.”
Here are the 10 things her neighbor told her and how to get the most out of Aldi:🧵
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**“I stand for the flag. I kneel for the Eucharist.”** Fr. Chris Alar delivers a passionate homily about Catholic moral teaching, patriotism, and the responsibility of Christians to remain faithful to their religious convictions. Reacting to a recent election, Fr. Alar
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Interesting
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I get it if you don’t want to listen to republicans about @AbdulElSayed & what far left dems like him stand for. But please, for the love of God, listen to @VanJones68. And then buckle up, bc this is what you voted for.
Top Democrat strategist Van Jones,
One of Obama’s former aides during his presidency
Released this message to #Michigan on #AbdulElSayed
#Midterms
For those that don’t know @hickscber threatened Tony to a fight after the 2024 election. He also quit X and went to BlueSky…
Now you’re spewing IndyStar bull💩. Frankly I thought you were smarter than that, but maybe I was wrong.
Hey @RepStutzman your plan for amnesty is not popular with your base. It might be popular with your farming friends/business as it is cheap labor. But ICE is NOT the reason Republicans lost.
The crushing midterm wipeout and retirements have eliminated two-thirds of the 15 GOP legislators who cosponsored Rep. Marie Salazar “dignidad” amnesty-and-cheap-labor bill. trib.al/PmDudAO
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Two weeks after Obama won re-election in 2012, Republicans across the country felt defeated. I even remember how defeated the donor class felt.
About 10 days after the November 2012 election, a donor in Palm Beach introduced me to a young 19-year-old man named Charlie Kirk. No one really knew who he was then. He had only started his then-unknown organization a few months earlier.
Over the next 12 years, he built an incredible movement that altered the course of history during that decade.
Unfortunately, he was killed last year, but God sent us Charlie Kirk when we most needed him. I believe God will send us more people to help save this country again. The history of America proves it.
Here's the thing: Charlie did a lot of hard work behind the scenes and had a very humble approach to everything he was doing. He did not seek the spotlight. He just did the work, very hard work, long hours, unappreciated for many years. That's what it's going to take for patriots who want to step up and do the work.
There was only one Charlie Kirk. I don't expect another one to come along, but I do expect God to send us some patriots and some good people of faith to do the work that's required to save this country -- the last remaining hope for mankind.
Most Republicans and Democrats at the political level don't really seem to care about anything but themselves. We need people who care about something bigger than themselves like Charlie did. He gave everything. Even if he had not sacrificed his life on September 10, 2025, he had already made huge sacrifices of his life to work every day to return this country to its first principles.
America is never done if we believe -- and take action.
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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.