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Jason van Brackel retweeted
My latest at @dcexaminer
"These changes didn’t come out of nowhere. They are the logical end of a process kicked into motion when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015."
washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform.
@MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN
Three Giants pitchers wore Bible verses on their Pride Night caps during Friday’s game.
MLB has since issued a warning to them.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 14
Two somewhat related thoughts…
First, recasting Hitler as some misunderstood, persecuted, well-intentioned leader is false. It’s historical revisionism, and no doubt part of a broader effort to corrupt the way people think about evil, power, and history.
You don’t have to buy into every prevailing narrative about the twentieth century to recognize that. A society that loses the ability to clearly identify genuine evil is a society that becomes vulnerable to it.
Second, so much (which is different from saying all) of what has been going on in the online Reformed world over the last few years is a strange mix of proxy wars, bitterness from soured relationships, and influencers fighting one another over what they treat as a zero-sum audience. It’s a mess. The more things moved in that direction, the more I moved away from it. And I have no intention of getting pulled back into it.
Even posting this will bring out the “name names” and “declare your allegiance” crowd. You get it from both sides. Disavow this guy or declare your loyalty to me. If you don’t publicly denounce someone, you’re secretly with him. If you don’t publicly pledge your allegiance to another person, you’re not a real friend.
Oh well.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
CS Lewis for the win here
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 11
🧵The SpaceX IPO isn’t overpriced. The future is underpriced.
Fourteen years ago, Facebook’s IPO was mocked as a failure. I called it a Strong Buy. Those who listened made a fortune.
SpaceX is the same story — only much, much bigger. It's the East India Company all over again.🧵
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 13
Many people need to understand this.
Many of the activists and individuals responsible for spreading the claim that Karmelo was “attacked by four boys” are people on the ORR list who have actually viewed the Frisco ISD footage. These are the same people who have said vile things about Hunter, Austin, Jeff, and Meghan Metcalf. The same people who spent the last year trying to discredit me and my reporting. Some are felons. Some are predators. Some are simply detached from reality.
I’ve seen the footage too.
It does not show what they claim it shows.
In fact, you can barely see much of anything. But it does confirm one thing: this was never self-defense. It was a shove met with a stab. That is why the prosecution showed the footage to the jury.
These people live in a fantasy world. It’s one of the strangest phenomena I’ve ever witnessed online. I’ve said for a long time that this case is one of the oddest, deepest piles of rot I’ve ever encountered. There is something deeply disturbing about it.
When the footage is eventually released and you finally see what I saw, you’ll understand exactly what I mean.
And even then, they will continue to lie.
They will lie about the footage.
They will lie about what is right in front of your face.
Because that’s what they’ve been doing from the very beginning.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 11
Are Democrats still counting mail-in runs?
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You start thinking in iambic pentameter?
Just read Shakespeare and listen to classical music for a year. See what happens.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
My grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy. I once asked him what kept them pushing uphill and into the meat grinder, what kept them fighting? His answer absolutely floored me.
“We wanted Hatians to sell fake Gucci at the train station.”
Watching footage from WW2 makes me realize how brave this generation was and how pathetic the current one is.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Annapolis Bermuda Race 2026 is off!⛵️
Gitte and I were proud to cheer on our Offshore Sailing Team’s four Navy 44s: Integrity, Tenacious, Gallant, and Defiance alongside our extremely over qualified Hedgehog speed boat captain, VADM (Ret) Dixon Smith.
Sail fast. Fight hard.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 5
I’m seeing a lot of “Everyone aborts Down syndrome kids, it’s no big deal!” posts.
That is EXACTLY why it needs to be a big deal.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
As I've pondered this over the last few days, I keep thinking about something Clay Jones wrote. In his book, "Why Does God Allow Evil?", Jones points out that when we think of genocide, we think of demented psychopaths running around on murderous rampages. In reality, genocide is mostly committed by normal everyday people including moms, dads, and sweet grandmas who bake cookies for the bake sale.
Jones writes: "It has been fascinating to me that absolutely every genocide researcher I have ever read (and I’ve read a lot of them) and absolutely every genocide victim I’ve ever read—to a person—concludes that genocide is what the average person does...
Professor and Holocaust survivor Fred E. Katz sums up exactly what kind of person participated in the Holocaust. He wrote that 'only a tiny proportion' of the 'massive killings are attributable to the actions of those people we call criminals, or crazy people, or socially alienated people, or even, people we identify as evil people.' Rather, they were actually 'carried out by plain folk in the population—ordinary people, like you and me.'
Katz asks, Who carried out the plans of the 'Hitlers and Stalins'?
His conclusion: 'Ordinary people, like you and me.'
Then he asks, 'Who provides the intelligence, the brain power, the orderly thinking to translate crazy philosophies into a practical course of action?
Ordinary people, like you and me.'
Finally, 'Who provides the quiet sustained effort, the plain hard work it takes to carry out huge programs of murderous action?
Ordinary people, like you and me.'"
One of the reasons the post below is so chilling and horrifically evil is because it is so casual, ordinary, and "nice."
May God have mercy on us.
This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21.
The choice was not made lightly. We really appreciate all of the personal stories that you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans with no matter what we decided.
I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news. We are devastated. This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley.
She underwent the procedure earlier this week and is on the mend. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, but emotionally we are drained.
Trisomy 21, also known as Down Syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome. It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch. The odds of a baby having it is 1 in 1000.
When I first confronted this news, I was shocked but optimistic. If they’re a little slow intellectually, then we’ll make it work. I signed on to be a parent, come what may…but I just didn’t fully understand what Down Syndrome entailed.
Once we made it public, it became clear that MOST people don’t know what Down Syndrome entails (and no, it’s not the same as Autism):
50% of babies with DS have heart defects. 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems. Impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc…Sadly, the list is long, feel free to look it up…Down Syndome isn’t a “blessing”, it is objectively shitty from a health perspective.
I didn’t realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family…more often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.
The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse…they may never see the light of day and it puts Ashley further at risk.
We spoke with doctors, friends, family and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has Trisomy 21.
This was WAY higher than I expected, I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby. I believe that’s because most terminations happen privately, it feels shameful. A lot of judgment being cast.
You never think you’d be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change.
To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic who have Autism, Down Syndrome or any other conditions…we appreciate you. You matter a lot and we’re glad you’re here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward.
As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice.
It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome.
Love you guys & thank you for understanding. ❤️
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
A Letter from a Boomer to Gen Z
I read your letter. I hear your anger. You feel betrayed, and a lot of you have every right to feel that way.
You’re right that it got bad. But let me tell you how it actually happened from our side.
We switched parties more than once trying to get smaller government. We voted for politicians who promised to cut spending, secure the border, and put Americans first. We showed up at the polls. We wrote letters. We trusted the system.
The politicians did what they wanted anyway.
We never voted for open borders. We never voted to ship our factories overseas. We never voted to raid the Social Security lockbox or take the country off the gold standard. Those decisions were made by the generation before us and the permanent ruling class in Washington. They broke the deal no matter which party we sent to power.
We built the interstate system, the power grid, the early internet backbone, the satellite networks, and much of the physical world you live in today. You enjoy the benefits of that infrastructure every single day. We handed it to you in far better shape than we received it.
The suffering you feel, the wage stagnation, the housing crisis, the debt, the broken trust, didn’t fully hit until your generation and the one after. We watched it coming, warned about it, and got called every name in the book for doing so.
We didn’t create this mess. We inherited part of it and then failed to stop it. That’s on us. But pretending we wanted this outcome or voted for it is simply not true.
We still believe in hard work, self-reliance, and building something real. We hope you do too.
The country we grew up in had real problems, but it also had real opportunity. You deserve that same chance.
A Boomer who still shows up and votes every single time
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 4
For all the parents out there dealing with a decision... let me give you another perspective
In 2018 my wife and I went in for our 20? week ultra sound at Beth Israel in Boston... the rep was very quiet the whole time, something seemed off. My wife & I were first time parents... didn't have much context. The doctor pulled us into her office and told us our sons nuchal fold was abnormally large... she went on to say there is a significant increased chance of Down Syndrome and even Turner's syndrome... talked about options to terminate the pregnancy. My wife was inconsolable, rightly so ... even thinking about it now brings back a lot of heavy emotions because of how hard of a day it was... hard...
I did a lot of research on the topic ... my wife & I prayed non stop about it. All we could do. The doctors wanted to do an amniocentesis which has its own host of risks..run more tests...
We came to the conclusion, which was not easy... it didn't matter... no amnio, no more tests.... I felt in my soul the Lord's plan was perfect and if our son was going to have Down Syndrome we would love him and shepherd him through this world the best we could. We get what we get. Anything from the Lord was a BLESSING and I was not going to point my finger at Him
Fast forward to today... our son is going to be 8 in the fall. He is perfect. Just hit a homerun the other day... a much better baseball player than I was at his age. My best friend
I share this deeply personal story for nothing more than to give just ONE parent hope... the Lord's plan is perfect... stay the course
This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21.
The choice was not made lightly. We really appreciate all of the personal stories that you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans with no matter what we decided.
I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news. We are devastated. This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley.
She underwent the procedure earlier this week and is on the mend. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, but emotionally we are drained.
Trisomy 21, also known as Down Syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome. It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch. The odds of a baby having it is 1 in 1000.
When I first confronted this news, I was shocked but optimistic. If they’re a little slow intellectually, then we’ll make it work. I signed on to be a parent, come what may…but I just didn’t fully understand what Down Syndrome entailed.
Once we made it public, it became clear that MOST people don’t know what Down Syndrome entails (and no, it’s not the same as Autism):
50% of babies with DS have heart defects. 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems. Impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc…Sadly, the list is long, feel free to look it up…Down Syndome isn’t a “blessing”, it is objectively shitty from a health perspective.
I didn’t realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family…more often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.
The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse…they may never see the light of day and it puts Ashley further at risk.
We spoke with doctors, friends, family and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has Trisomy 21.
This was WAY higher than I expected, I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby. I believe that’s because most terminations happen privately, it feels shameful. A lot of judgment being cast.
You never think you’d be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change.
To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic who have Autism, Down Syndrome or any other conditions…we appreciate you. You matter a lot and we’re glad you’re here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward.
As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice.
It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome.
Love you guys & thank you for understanding. ❤️
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If the fraud rate is really as low as Democrats claim, why are they fighting so hard to hide the data? Why not just work with USDA to audit and validate where the money is going? Their resistance to us going after fraud is part of why these programs ballooned in the first place.
.@USDA has NEVER had access to State SNAP data. Not until this Administration demanded it.
That’s why every figure from years past is meaningless. From the 29 states that DID share data, we’ve already identified at least $3 billion a year in fraud.
Extrapolated nationwide: more than $10 billion. This isn’t “erroneous payments.”
This is FRAUD — and yes, @RepAngieCraig, I know the difference. Do you?
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 3
This is an interesting study in female “word casting”.
This woman’s tone and delivery are perfect. She’s also fluent in Christianese, where “gift from God” is the good-good word and “idol” is the bad-bad word.
In this moment, said woman feels good about young women pursuing careers, bad about young women waiting for marriage.
Therefore marriage (a literal sacramental gift from God) is an idol, and pursuing materialism in the marketplace (a literal idol) is a gift from God.
White is black and black is white, because this women’s isn’t communicating theology, she is communicating how she feels.
Jun 3
Singleness can be a gift that the Lord uses for your good and His glory.
Watch as Rebecca VanDoodewaard encourages single women to be fruitful with the time God has given them.
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Jason van Brackel retweeted
Jun 4
A notable problem here is the PCA's Larger Catechism teaches that the magistrate is to “oppos[e] all false worship” and “remov[e] all monuments of idolatry” (WLC 108).
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