Slade Briggs @SladeBriggs

Kamala brings abortion “doctors” on stage at her rally. Someone in the crowd has a medical emergency. The abortionists freeze, do nothing but say, “I think someone needs assistance.” They kill people for profit. They know nothing about saving lives.

WHEN I’M PRESIDENT THE MCDONALD’S ICE CREAM MACHINES WILL WORK GREAT AGAIN!

The treatment for an ectopic is a salpingectomy, salpingostomy or methotrexate. Not called an abortion. The treatment for a septic uterus is antibiotics & a D&C. Not called an abortion. The treatment for an incomplete miscarriage is misoprostol or a D&C. Neither called an abortion. None of these treatments are ILLEGAL ANYWHERE. Stop listening to rando Dem operatives who have no medical training or knowledge.

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People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America. I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen: 1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices. 2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices. 3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse. 4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity. 5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart. 6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms. 7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms. 8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so. 9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks. 10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities. 11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry. 12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding. 13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue. Hey wait a second

So you’re telling me we can accidentally send terrorists $239 million, but if I send my friend $14 on venmo I have 87,000 IRS agents watching me?

The Democrats pick a candidate, Crooked Joe Biden, he loses the Debate badly, then panics, and makes mistake after mistake, is told he can’t win, and decide they will pick another candidate, probably Harris. They stole the race from Biden after he won it in the primaries — A First! These people are the real THREAT TO DEMOCRACY! @realDonaldTrump Donald Trump Truth Social 06:05 AM EST 07/22/24

I never want to hear another Democrat whine about Republicans being a threat to democracy. Y’all tried to jail, kill and remove the leading candidate for President off the ballot and now Democrat leaders have removed the guy you elected in your primaries. Look in the mirror.

@cecsquared @PillarCatholic In short, yes. Most do. There are a lot of factors that play into the amount. Not every Diocese is required to pay the assessment.

Love this! Jerry Seinfeld: "Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have. I would like to take a moment to defend it!... We're embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrassed about!"

@jdflynn @amywelborn2 It seems as if everyone wants us to deny the right of a funeral to a person. Maybe more Catechesis needs to be done in this area? How the liturgy was conducted was certainly interesting, but to argue that this person does not deserve a funeral at a Cathedral is not ours to judge.

@Joeinblack And that is incredibly hard when you have a superior constantly looking over your shoulder - whether that be a parishioner or your bishop. Want the Church to grow? Stop micro-managing. Move from maintenance to mission. Cut the red tape, and let Jesus be Jesus.

@Joeinblack Priests are human. They make mistakes and they should face the proper consequences for their wrongdoing, but the reality is, cases of clerical abuse (regardless of type) are few. Many priests are just trying to live a life devoted to Jesus and His Bride.

“Soon we will have priests reduced to the role of social worker and the message of faith reduced to political views. But this prospect is followed by a message of hope: Everything will seem lost, but at the right moment, in the most dramatic stage of crisis, the Church will be reborn. It will be smaller, poorer, almost catacombal, but even more holy. For it will no longer be the Church of those who seek to please the world, but the Church of those who are faithful to God and His eternal law. The rebirth will be the work of a small, seemingly insignificant yet indomitable remnant that has gone through a process of purification. Because this is how God works.” Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), “Faith and Future” (1971)

Seminaries: "why don't seminarians trust seminaries?" Also seminaries: send questionnaires about applicants about how often and when they last used *checks notes* Skype, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Teams

POPE FRANCIS SAID: "Think of a single mother who goes to church or parish, and says to the secretary: I WANT TO BAPTIZE MY SON, and the attendant says: "No, you can't, because you're not married..." " Let's keep in mind that... This mom had the courage to continue with a pregnancy — and what is she finding? With a locked door! And so, if we continue on this path and with this attitude, we are not doing the people, the People of God, right. Jesus created the seven sacraments and with this kind of attitude we created an eighth: the sacrament of pastoral customs!. “WHOEVER APPROACHES THE CHURCH MUST FIND OPEN DOORS AND NOT PRISONERS OF FAITH.”. "We need saints without veil, without veil. We need saints jeans and sneakers. We need saints to go to the movies, listen to music and hang out with friends. We need saints who will put God first and stand out in University. We need saints who find time to pray every day and who know how to fall in love with purity and chastity, or who consecrate their chastity. We need modern saints, 21st century saints with spirituality embedded in our time. We need saints who are committed to the poor and necessary social change. We need saints who live in the world, who are sanctified in the world and who are not afraid to live in the world. We need saints who drink coke and eat hot dogs, who are internet users, who listen to iPod. We need saints who love the Eucharist and are not ashamed to have a beer or eat pizza on the weekend with friends. We need saints who like cinema, theater, music, dance, sports. We need sociable, open, normal, friends, cheerful, companions saints. We need saints who are in the world and who know how to savor the pure and good things of the world, but without being worldly." That has to be us!!!

If you opine publicly on clerical sex abuse, it should probably be only after you know the names, and faces, and stories of those who have been abused.

Hey @Ford I own a 2022 Ford Maverick that was damaged in a hail storm. My auto body shop ordered the parts and were promised an arrival date of last week. They never arrived, and the Ford rep said they may not get the parts for a month or two. What now?