Faith-based anything is a scam. Also, anything “for patriots” *
 Previous Message “Health Sharing Ministries” they are called. People pay in and the money gets distributed to pay people’s medical expenses based on what they collect and who they decide to send it to. If they don’t like what you had done or don’t have enough money, tough shit. It’s not insurance, so there is no guaranteed coverage for anything and it’s very loosely regulated. And don’t even try to get them to cover stuff like reproductive care, addiction treatment, anything where they can judge your morality. Of course it’s an exception to the ACA coverage requirement, because Jesus. Of course these are very for-profit operations.  Previous Message Brant Frost V, Chairman of the Coweta County GOP and First Vice President of the Georgia Republican Assembly (GRA), has marketed the company along with his father, Brant Frost IV, to be a faith-based firm in the financial world, promoting conservative, Christian values and claiming to be the answer towards funding the “Patriot economy” through funding local businesses. Records from the GRA show that they received a donation of $124,000 from an organization titled First National Investments, which shared an address with First Liberty Building and Loan. Fayette County School Board Vice Chair Randy Hough, representing District 1, was also involved with the company as a senior development officer. According to testimonies provided by the Newnan Times-Herald of individuals affected, many clients feel hopeless and panicked about whether they will see their money again. Judy Stanton and her husband, for example, have put $450,000 into the firm in installments from last October to this past April. Stanton noted that she believes the company knew they were in trouble while still accepting clients’ funds. Additionally, she saw that two weeks ago Brant Frost V had posted on social media photos of him and his wife vacationing in England, seemingly not in a panic regarding their company that would be completely in shambles two weeks later. Unlike traditional banks, First Liberty was not FDIC-insured or regulated by federal banking authorities. The firm raised their money through their clients- who they often had personal meetings with- and creating “First Liberty Notes” that advertised returns of 8-13% annually. These funds were then used to issue short-term bridge loans to local small and mid-sized businesses. https://thecitizen.com/2025/07/02/first-liberty-building-and-loan-collapses-leaving-clients-in-limbo/ On Real America’s Voice, a sort of online-only version of Fox News, right-wing media personality John Fredericks hosted Frost’s son, Brant Frost V, to tout “First Liberty Notes.” These notes were a new kind of investment product from First Liberty, in which listeners who reached a certain income threshold could buy a minimum of $25,000 worth of the, let’s call them, financial instruments. First Liberty promised purchasers hefty returns of up to 13 percent annually. All of this was presented as a way to build up the financial foundation to spread conservative causes themselves. In its relentless advertising campaign on talk radio and other conservative media formats, the Frost family promised to funnel the money it received into conservative businesses it billed as part of a Trumpian “patriot economy,” with additional money going to conservative religious and anti-transgender groups. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/another-blow-conservative-media-financial-foundation-shakeup-brant-frost-first-liberty-erickson-hewitt
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Week of 7/7 politics thread- Trump kills Epstein, then kills the investigation. - VIV July 7, 2025, 6:07:00
- Trump claims Biden's dog ate the Epstein evidence before being banished for biting secret service - illini222 Today, 15:54:57
- Ken Paxton getting divorced. Wonder what his wife's "recent discoveries" are - ATL Today, 15:07:30
- Trump nominates "Alpha Male" Nick Adams as ambassador to Malaysia* - ECEIllinois Today, 14:59:04
- Literal socialism: DOD to become largest shareholder in MP Materials, a rare earths company - ATL Today, 13:53:19
- I'm enjoying this Coloradoan newscaster. I expect we'll be seeing more of him. - complainant Today, 13:15:33
- Conservative darling non-bank lender (endorsed by Erickson and Hewitt) collapses in Georgia - ATL Today, 10:04:59
- So much winning - John Coctostan Today, 8:41:14
- Tok always - digs Yesterday, 23:25:59
- Clay Travis says Epstein wasn’t so bad - ATL Yesterday, 20:41:38
- Trump with 50% tariffs on Brazil, doesn’t like how Bolsonaro is being treated. - Carl Spackler Yesterday, 20:00:21
- Feds still denying disaster relief for California. Texas is a different story. - ATL Yesterday, 19:18:47
- He said no way, and I said way - Sounder Yesterday, 15:42:13
- Here’s a letter written by our president to an ally - ATL Yesterday, 13:42:26
- That can’t be real.* - voiceofreason Yesterday, 15:51:00
- TRADE* - VIV Yesterday, 14:11:19
- Just for the record, that country is the largest holder of US Treasuries* - Sounder Yesterday, 13:58:52
- With best wishes, I am, sincerely,* - Sounder Yesterday, 13:58:01
- Is it Prime Minister or His Excellency? Decide on one and go all the way. - timmer Yesterday, 13:47:44
- Jesus Christ, this is full idiocracy. - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 13:46:44
- Have you noticed his EKG signature is getting worse?* - Sounder Yesterday, 13:45:49
- Trump praising the Liberian president’s English and asking him where learned it is hilarious - CanHartlebHireSnider Yesterday, 12:57:46
- Speaking of bad responses to seemingly fair questions - UofIL6 Yesterday, 12:47:40
- What a bizarre and terrible response to the question. - ATL Yesterday, 12:35:43
- California is now the fourth largest economy in the world - Sounder Yesterday, 12:34:27
- These tariff threats are laugh out loud funny - Mrap24 Yesterday, 11:48:48
- Click to cancel appears dead - DocWalk20 Yesterday, 11:42:07
- Yikes. - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 11:29:54
- These tariff letters are really fucking stupid - Sounder Yesterday, 10:58:21
- X CEO to resign - Sounder Yesterday, 10:38:52
- LOL - Toonces July 8, 2025, 21:25:11
- Hegseth just workin on his own, gettin Ukranians killed for fun - assassin July 8, 2025, 19:02:08
- Elon just tweeted that "Bannon is in the Epstein files." - Warrin'_Illini July 8, 2025, 12:54:01
- Will I gold leaf the corners? - Sounder July 8, 2025, 12:44:25
- They deserve to squirm but it's painful just to watch the flunkies sit there awkwardly - RVA July 8, 2025, 13:09:40
- I almost feel sorry for Rubio - Sounder July 8, 2025, 13:13:17
- I don’t . He’s getting everything he wants. - CanHartlebHireSnider July 8, 2025, 13:13:59
- I don't believe that for a second - Sounder July 8, 2025, 13:16:06
- I agree totally. He fucking hated Trump. - uofi1998 July 8, 2025, 14:50:05
- There’s no long term price for being MAGA - snipes824 July 8, 2025, 13:29:07
- His face looks like he's holding in a giant turd - RVA July 8, 2025, 13:25:05
- I don’t see that all - CanHartlebHireSnider July 8, 2025, 13:20:15
- He's got an easy out: "I know Trump is bad but I thought I could do some good trying to push him - Warrin'_Illini July 8, 2025, 13:18:29
- remember when i said "stop taking the cheese on the meaningless bullshit"?* - VIV July 8, 2025, 12:54:59
- What a disgrace to the office* - UofIL6 July 8, 2025, 12:52:12
- "the greatest cabinet ever assembled to deliver much needed accountability" - Sounder July 8, 2025, 12:22:16
- Wind farms are killing the whales - Sounder July 8, 2025, 12:21:12
- Trump shuts down the Epstein discussion - Sounder July 8, 2025, 11:38:35
- Pam's doin' great! - ATL July 8, 2025, 13:14:40
- also, i love the MAGA cope that "the biden administration/deep state had the file cleared" - VIV July 8, 2025, 12:52:40
- the New York financier?* - ECEIllinois July 8, 2025, 12:46:17
- “We’re having some of the greatest success, but also tragedy”*
- CanHartlebHireSnider July 8, 2025, 12:19:35
- “Oil? Who said anything about oil, bitch, you cookin’?”* - Carl Spackler July 8, 2025, 11:49:21
- "are you still talking about jeffrey epstein?!" holy shit .* - VIV July 8, 2025, 11:45:20
- Well, I’m sure that’ll be the end of it. * - assassin July 8, 2025, 11:43:19
- In Spanish, the word for "non-binary" is "no-binario" or "no-binaria" depending on the person's gend - Sounder July 8, 2025, 11:31:19
- Our long national nightmare is coming to an end? - Sounder July 8, 2025, 11:15:42
- How could they ever get this idea? - larue33 July 8, 2025, 10:12:05
- This was a pretty good comment: - ibdoc July 8, 2025, 10:50:04
- I simply cannot believe how stupid a segment of us has become.* - uofi1998 July 8, 2025, 10:41:08
- Gerard Butler needs to stop making movies. Den of Thieves 2 was a disappointment anyway.* - Warrin'_Illini July 8, 2025, 10:25:58
- the dumbest timeline* - VIV July 8, 2025, 10:22:16
- What absolute fvcking idiots* - UofIL6 July 8, 2025, 10:15:16
- Can’t find any holes in this plan… - OB25 July 8, 2025, 9:19:13
- So...couple 3 or 4 things... - haighter July 8, 2025, 10:30:22
- Woke agribusiness with their DEI hiring of Latino immigrants.* - DT July 8, 2025, 9:51:06
- One count I saw says that there are only ~29M non-disabled adults 18-65 on medicaid. - gvibes July 8, 2025, 9:48:42
- I was picking blueberries near some professional pickers on Sunday. - gvibes July 8, 2025, 9:31:17
- The poor red staters in their red hats aren’t going to like… - SurfTheBoneyard July 8, 2025, 9:22:24
- I am looking forward to the investigation on why Kerr County didn't invest in a siren system.... - timmer July 8, 2025, 5:08:22
- Underrated plot twist: the Twitterbot known as DOGEai has become noticeably Trumpskeptical.* - complainant July 7, 2025, 22:08:43
- Oh good, churches can get more involved in politics. Just what we need - assassin July 7, 2025, 21:51:30
- Oh, JD - ATL July 7, 2025, 20:01:32
- Charlie Brown had hoes - snipes824 July 7, 2025, 15:43:31
- Grok makes me laugh and apparently just hates catturd - ATL July 7, 2025, 14:22:58
- "We need to adjust the formula so the output conforms to our priors" - RVA July 7, 2025, 19:25:47
- Hey grok, please show your work on how the cuts resulted in 50% less rainfall? - timmer July 7, 2025, 15:10:27
- I like how much 3YearLetterman shits on catturd* - ECEIllinois July 7, 2025, 14:48:07
- same* - EffinIllini July 7, 2025, 16:30:39
- I can't believe we live in a world where someone who calls himself Catturd - Sounder July 7, 2025, 14:27:19
- out of all the shit trump has said and done, this might actually cause him to lose some support - VIV July 7, 2025, 14:04:20
- just another masterful 11D chess move - Sammich July 7, 2025, 15:18:15
- I hope Bondi, Patel and Boingingago get the Pence treatment. If asked Trump will play dumb on the - Warrin'_Illini July 7, 2025, 14:57:33
- It still won’t matter but I do think that to whatever degree this has an impact… - OB25 July 7, 2025, 14:16:42
- what does he care. he's not running again* - ECEIllinois July 7, 2025, 14:08:29
- I guess but arguably this is just the 100th or 1,000th promise he's not kept - ATL July 7, 2025, 14:06:16
- When he walks down 5th Avenue shooting people - Sounder July 7, 2025, 14:05:32
- Trump just posted this - Sounder July 7, 2025, 14:04:12
- Just a tacit reminder that it's always been projection for these guys - ATL July 7, 2025, 13:56:37
- *bump for jjlocke** - VIV July 7, 2025, 12:53:24
- despite a congressionally ratified trade agreement with South Korea, Trump still gonna tariff em - assassin July 7, 2025, 12:33:49
- Semafor reporting that the Times was worried Chris Rufo was going to publish the Mamdani story - ATL July 7, 2025, 8:59:09
- Chapel Hill is now Chapel River - complainant July 7, 2025, 7:53:27
- Pam Bondi: “and you want to know what, JFK killed himself too.”* - Toonces July 7, 2025, 7:39:58
- Not really politics but the immense central Texas flood won’t even fill Canyon Lake. - opossum jenkins July 7, 2025, 6:43:41
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