SusanWMallory

If you haven’t heard, and even if you have, Jimmy Kimmel said this about Markwayne Mullin, former Senator from Oklahoma, and our newest Secretary of Homeland Security: “We have a plumber now protecting us from terrorism.” Apparently, there has been some backlash. Plumbers were offended, obviously, as were parents of plumbers, spouses of plumbers, children of plumbers, and millions of people who have had a plumber show up when they needed one. Comedians were also offended, (the funny ones, anyway,) along with a surprising number of terrorists - especially those with access to hot and cold running water. However, in spite of the ensuing kerfuffle, @jimmykimmel doubled down. “I’m not upset that the head of Homeland Security was a plumber,” he said, “I’m upset that he isn’t still a plumber." He further elucidated by adding, "I wouldn't put a plumber in charge of Homeland Security for the same reason I wouldn't call a five-star general to pull a rat out of my toilet, OK? We all have our areas of expertise.” Being offended is always a choice, and I don’t choose to be offended by a joke, even one that comes at the expense of the skilled tradespeople my foundation tries to elevate. But I am a tad butt hurt by the suggestion that skilled workers should never evolve into something new, and that competence is somehow limited to one vocation. Obviously, expertise and skill are important. If I need a new kidney, I’d prefer a doctor do the surgery, not a late-night talk show host. But if the doctor in question used to host a talk show, why would I hold that against him? Ten years ago, during one of the presidential debates, @MarcoRubio answered a workforce-related question by arguing that America needed to get shop class back into high schools. He concluded by saying, “What our country needs are more welders and fewer philosophers.” A lot of people on this page commented that Rubio and I were singing from the same hymnal, but in fact, we weren’t. At least not entirely. Because I don’t think the current shortage of welders has anything to do with an overabundance of philosophers. In fact, I think it’s a mistake to promote one vocation at the expense of the other. What we really need in this country, are more welders who can talk intelligently about Aristotle, and more philosophers who can run an even bead. More Generals, in other words, who can fix their own toilets, and more plumbers who can hold a powerful government job. This is what Mullin did. He was a private citizen who mastered an essential skill and then turned that skill into a multi-million-dollar company that employed a lot of people and served a lot of customers. That gave him the freedom to do other things with his life, including a career in public service which got him into Congress, where he’s spent the last eleven years doing whatever Congressmen do. Now, he has a very consequential position in the Cabinet of the current administration. Is that not the embodiment of the American Dream? I get that Jimmy Kimmel might have a problem with Mullin’s politics, but what possible objection could he have about the trajectory of his career, or his desire to do more than one thing with his life? The only sensible thing to do in the wake of a moment this tone deaf, is remind America that the skills gap is wide, and getting wider. The shortage of skilled tradespeople is now headline news and closing it is nothing less than a matter of national security. This year, my foundation has set aside $10 million dollars to help train the next generation of plumbers, and lots of other essential workers. I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of AI-proof, six figure jobs that don't require a four-year degree, waiting to be filled. The money is currently available to anyone who wants to master a useful skill at mikeroweworks.org. Apply today. As for those of you genuinely offended by Kimmel's comments, consider expressing your disappointment with a modest donation to mikeroweWORKS. Our work ethic scholarship is making a real difference, and your money will be well spent, I promise. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss, at mikeroweworks.org I’d love to chat but I’ve gotta pull a rat out of my toilet…

Mark Carney is echoing Nazi-style blood libels. Please share to expose him! He should resign. t.co/H62DNbCz4g While completely ignoring Iran’s cluster bombs that turned Jerusalem into a deadly minefield, Mark Carney is now leading a disgusting Nazi-style smear campaign against Israel. He accuses the Jewish state of preventing Christian freedom of worship, all because Israeli authorities had the audacity to protect worshippers and secure impact sites from unexploded munitions. This is pure blood libel dressed up as diplomacy, designed to satisfy his Muslim voter base. Mark Carney is unfit for office. He should resign immediately.

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I don’t know President Michael Kotlikoff personally, but one can only imagine: if university presidents over the past two and a half years had responded with similar moral clarity, far fewer Jewish students would have been terrorized and abused on their campuses. Our community owes President Michael Kotlikoff a real debt of gratitude.

Not. A. Fucking. Word. The barbarians of the Khamenei regime didn’t just kill a boy yesterday...they publicly hanged a 19-year-old prodigy, Saleh Mohammadi, bronze medalist on Iran’s national wrestling team, a rising star who bled for glory on the mat and dared to bleed for freedom in the streets of January’s protests. They dragged him to Qom Central Prison, strapped the noose around that young neck, and dropped the floor while the world watched. “Enmity against God,” they called it...torture-extracted confessions from show trials that would shame the Inquisition. This wasn’t execution; this was ritual slaughter, medieval psychopathy dressed in clerical robes, the regime’s pathology laid bare: terrified of its own vitality, it devours its strongest sons to instill fear in the herd. And the Western Left? Those pathological frauds, those soulless architects of selective outrage? Not. A. Fucking. Word. Where are the campus screamers who torch cities over “genocide” when a Hamas butcher stubs his toe? Where are the blue-check “human rights” clerics who flood timelines with keffiyeh cosplay and crocodile tears for every narrative that flatters their ideological masturbation? Crickets. Deafening, gut-wrenching silence. Because this atrocity doesn’t fit their Freudian script: the oppressor isn’t the white West or Israel...it’s their beloved “resistance” incarnate, a theocratic death cult that aligns perfectly with their inverted morality. Nietzsche warned us: Resentment poisons the soul until evil becomes virtue and strength becomes sin. The Left didn’t just look away; they enabled it with their philosophical cowardice, their postmodern relativism that excuses barbarism as “cultural,” their Marxist pathology that sees only power dynamics when it serves the tribe. This is the necrotic core of progressive hypocrisy exposed: they don’t mourn the hanged athlete because mourning him would require admitting their “allies” are the real monsters. They don’t rage because rage would shatter the fragile edifice of their self-deception. They are not compassionate...they are complicit cowards, psychological vampires who feed on manufactured victims while real ones swing from ropes. Saleh Mohammadi’s blood is on their hands too, every silent one of them. The regime’s rope is physical; the Left’s silence is the noose they tighten around truth itself. Fuck their performative piety. Fuck their selective tears. History will record this not just as Iranian savagery, but as the West’s moral suicide...willingly, gleefully, one hanged wrestler at a time. 🗡️💀🗡️

100% spot on.

Leave it to @NYCMayor to turn St. Patrick’s Day into an antisemitic attack. This guy is a disgrace. foxnews.com/politics/mamda…

הבוקר חיסלנו את עלי לאריג'אני. עלי לאריג'אני זה הבוס של משמרות המהפכה, שזה חבורת הגנגסטרים שמנהלת בפועל את איראן. אנחנו חיסלנו לצידו גם את מפקד הבסיג' - זה העוזרים של הגנגסטרים, שהם מפיצים טרור ברחובות טהרן וערים אחרות של איראן נגד האוכלוסייה. גם שם אנחנו פועלים; פועלים מהאוויר עם מטוסים של חיל האוויר, עם כטב"מים. אנחנו מערערים את המשטר הזה בתקווה לתת לעם האיראני הזדמנות לסלק אותו. זה לא יקרה בפעם אחת, זה לא יקרה בקלות. אבל אם נתמיד בזה - אנחנו ניתן להם הזדמנות שהם יוכלו לקחת את גורלם בידיהם. במקביל, אנחנו עוזרים לידידינו האמריקנים במפרץ. אני שוחחתי ארוכות עם הנשיא טראמפ אתמול בנושא הזה. יש שיתוף פעולה בין חילות האוויר וחילות הים שלנו, ביני לבין הנשיא טראמפ ואנשיו. אנחנו נעזור גם בהתקפות עקיפות, שמייצרות לחץ אדיר על המשטר האיראני, וגם בפעולות ישירות. יש עוד הרבה הפתעות. בתחבולות נעשה מלחמה. אנחנו לא נחשוף את כל התחבולות כאן, אבל אמרתי לכם: רבות המה. עכשיו, ביחס לדבר נוסף: הדבר החשוב ביותר לנצח במלחמה זה נחישות. נחישות, נחישות, נחישות. נחישות של המנהיגים, נחישות של המפקדים, נחישות של העם. אנחנו נחושים לנצח, ואנחנו נשיג את הדברים האלה. אני מבקש מכם פשוט להתעלם מערוצי הדכדוך. אנחנו בהישגים היסטוריים. אנחנו, בעזרת השם, הגענו למצב שאחרי ה-7 באוקטובר, שהיינו על עברי פי פחת, אנחנו עכשיו מעצמה אדירה, כמעט עולמית, עם הידידה שהיא ה-מעצמה העולמית, נלחמים שכם אל שכם. זה כבר הישג אדיר מול כל האיומים שיבואו עלינו. לאיזו מדינה עוד יש את היכולות הללו? כולן מותקפות כאן. למי יש את העוצמות האלה שלנו, של הבריתות, של צה"ל, של חיל האוויר ושל עם חזק? אז הישארו חזקים. אני רוצה להגיד לכם: אנחנו גם נעזור לכם. כל מה שקשור בפיצויים - הנחיתי להציג לכם את המתווה וגם להגדיל את המתווה. גם לעזור לצפון, וגם לעזור לכל מי שצריך, כפי שעשינו כבר בעבר ב'עם כלביא', כפי שעשינו קודם לכן בקורונה. נעשה את זה ביתר-שאת הפעם״.

My Final Chronology on the Mamdani-family ties to Jew-hating author, Susan Abulhawa. In trying to defend his wife’s collaboration, and rebuking @susanabulhawa’s words, he was a deceptive hypocrite.

Your Harvard/MassGen salary is several MILLION dollars per year. Yet you imply financial hardship by stating it took 7 years to pay off a modest apartment in Beirut (where the cost of RE and living are super low)?! And then…woe is me, Israel destroyed it? Spare us. Your antisemitism is showing with zero mention of Hezbollah in the building - the only reason it would have been destroyed at all. Blame your friends and neighbors, not Israel.

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

Katharine Hepburn, in her own words: "Once, when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. That family made a lasting impression on me. There were eight children, all under the age of 12. From the way they were dressed, you could tell they didn’t have much money, but their clothes were clean, very clean. The children were well-behaved, standing in pairs behind their parents, holding hands. They were so excited about the clowns, the animals, and all the acts they would see that night. From their excitement, you could tell they had never been to a circus before. It was going to be a highlight of their lives. The father and mother stood proudly at the front of their little group. The mother was holding her husband’s hand, looking at him as if to say, 'You’re my knight in shining armor.' He was smiling, enjoying seeing his family happy. The ticket lady asked how many tickets he wanted, and he proudly responded, 'I want eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets.' Then she announced the price. The wife let go of her husband’s hand, her head dropped, and the man’s lip began to quiver. He leaned in closer and asked, 'How much did you say?' The ticket lady repeated the price. He didn’t have enough money. How was he supposed to turn around and tell his eight kids that he couldn’t afford to take them to the circus? Seeing what was happening, my dad reached into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill, and dropped it on the ground. We weren’t rich by any means. My father bent down, picked up the $20 bill, tapped the man on the shoulder, and said, 'Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.' The man understood what was happening. He wasn’t being handed charity, but he gratefully accepted the help in his desperate, heartbreaking, and embarrassing situation. He looked straight into my father’s eyes, took my dad’s hand in both of his, squeezed the bill tightly, and with trembling lips and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied, 'Thank you, sir. This really means so much to me and my family.' My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 my dad gave away was what we had planned to use for our own tickets. Although we didn’t see the circus that night, we felt a joy inside us that was far greater than seeing the circus. That day, I learned the true value of giving. The Giver is greater than the Receiver. If you want to be great, greater than life itself, learn to give. Love has nothing to do with what you expect to get, only with what you expect to give—everything. The importance of giving and blessing others cannot be overstated because there is always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy through acts of giving." ~Katharine Hepburn

@Gabriele_Corno This is AI. Not real.

This is a story of mother cat who rejected her hairless kitten and then was adopted by a Dachshund

@Lissa4Maga @BloodyOy It’s fake news. Unfortunately. I wish it did happen but think about it. He’s in the Senate and she’s in the House. He could never address her directly.

Truth Bombs 💣💣💣 🔥🔥🔥FIRE ALERT IN THE SENATE! Senator John Kennedy didn’t just speak—he detonated truth bombs across the chamber. The debate was dragging… until he stood, ice in his veins, and said: “I’m tired of people who keep insulting America.” Eleven words. Silence so thick it could choke. Then he zeroed in on Ilhan Omar: “Especially those who came here fleeing danger, built fortunes on our freedom, then spit on the flag that saved them—while cashing $174k salaries and jetting overseas to bash us.” The room erupted. Omar’s face blazed crimson. Rashida Tlaib shouted “POINT OF ORDER—RACIST!” Phones dropped. Gavels froze. Kennedy? Unshaken. “Darlin’, if you hate this country, Delta’s got a one-way ticket waiting. Love it—or leave it. Patriotism isn’t hate. It’s gratitude.” C-SPAN surged. Social feeds exploded. The nation? Listening. The moment has everyone talking.

@Lissa4Maga @BloodyOy @grok did this happen?

His job (funded by his communist backers) is to undermine New York City. That conclusion is hard to avoid when you look at his hiring decisions, his initial tax plan, his proposed budget, and his repeated stances against America and the values we stand for. He even initially refused to condemn the terrorists who threw an advanced homemade bomb at NYPD officers. It’s time to push back. We cannot allow this kind of leadership to ruin financial capital of the world. 🇺🇸

𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗢'𝗥𝗘𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗟 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣'𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 If O'Reilly's reporting holds up, this fills in the picture considerably. According to O'Reilly, three things landed on Trump's desk simultaneously and forced the decision. The CIA, NSA, and UN intelligence all converged on the same conclusion: Iran was 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀. Not one. Ten. And the mullahs had deliberately 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 their nuclear capacity after the June strikes — spreading it out specifically to survive the next attack. Then Mossad delivered a gift. The Ayatollah and 25 senior regime figures were going to be in the same location on a specific Saturday morning. That window doesn't stay open. And then the Iranians themselves made the decision easy. After 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 of negotiations in Geneva, Iran's foreign minister walked into the room and told Steve Witkoff, the U.S. chief negotiator, essentially: we're not stopping our nuclear program. Not for you. Not for anyone. You had the intelligence. You had the window. You had the answer from the other side. What else do you need? O'Reilly is also honest about the stakes. This is a 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲. If Trump dismantles Iran's capacity to threaten the region and comes out of it with momentum going into negotiations with China, he locks in a legacy that nobody can take from him. If it goes sideways, Republicans pay for it in November. That's the calculation. Trump made it with eyes open. The mullahs were given every off-ramp. They chose the wall.

@BillAckman @NYCMayor He and his wife are just plain disgraceful, in so many ways and on so many levels.

.@NYCMayor Mamdani’s strategy appears to be to make NYC an unattractive place to live and to die.

@BillMelugin_ 100% agree, Bill.

Makes me sick. Survives all of that just to be murdered on US soil by a terrorist who should have never been on the streets. RIP.

@mcfc_son @Mr_Husky1 That is the opposite ask of real partnership. It’s both undermining her and looking to glom onto her successes and smart decisions to leverage them as his own by having co-ownership of them when he had no role in earning them acquiring them. He’s a POS.

Do it immediately. At 38, you don’t have time to haggle over a car and a house while a man who loves you is ready to build a life with you. Sell them, open the joint account and make him happy, otherwise you are just letting your chance at a real partnership slip through your fingers.

I am about getting married, my husband to be knows I own a car and house of my own, he insists I sell the car and house and we use the money to open joint account, or no marriage, I am 38 yes old already, what do you think or advice me to do. Credit - winnieaigbojie

@Mr_Husky1 RUN! As far and as fast as you can. He is both selfish and a parasite and to demand this before marriage is a precursor to the demands he’ll make POST marriage. RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!!!