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No one believes you.

@Sara_Varnholt Not in my car.

Men be honest: road trip date, I light a cigarette but roll the window down… is that okay?

@24_70xu We don’t admire and support rapists, woman abusers, terrorists and pedos. Sorry you’re wrong.

Iran has become one of the most admired and widely supported countries in the world.

@Megatron_ron This is Iran but ok.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Journalist Ana Kasparian says the Trump administration begged private satellite companies to hide images of destroyed US bases. The Pentagon was allegedly terrified the world will see how Iran completely humiliated the Trump's military.

This sounds like slander without proof.

@CliffW08950229 He looks great.

A sad day for Germany 🇩🇪. 5.000 US 🇺🇸 troops will leave my country. They defended us for 7 decades and they never misused their power (unlike the Soviets). They acted disciplined and friendly. They taught us a lot. The U.S. is like a big brother for Germany. But the U.S. administration is right: Germany can stand on its own feed nowadays. The U.S. needs its resources to deter China 🇨🇳. And one day, when we Europeans are strong enough we will do so as well. Thank you American soldiers for your service for liberty and peace in Europe. 🇩🇪 🇺🇸🇪🇺

North Carolina finds 34,000 deceased people on the state voter rolls, per Fox.

Sicko NYC theater teacher bragged about grooming kids, caught with trove of sick pics - now he's headed to prison trib.al/7nqFn9C

Dear Senator Sanders, Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment. The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything. Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register. Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it. And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth. When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed. Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont. You named. Two. Post offices. You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem. Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle. You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning. I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise. The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

Mockler thinks this is some kind of career game-changer. It’s not. It just confirms he’s another dime-a-dozen troll looking for clicks and relevance.

@StreetMoments_ Everyone saying the same ass shit in comments is embarrassing.

Vibes.

“Politics is the only profession where you can lie, cheat and steal, and you still be respected”. - Mark Twain

The Marine who got blown up by an IED, stood up, and flipped off the enemy. By his third tour in Iraq, Michael Burghardt had disarmed 64 bombs and destroyed over 1,500 pieces of ordnance. They called him Iron Mike. Burghardt was the man you wanted walking toward the device. That morning, he had just extended his tour. Hours later, he was called to a chaotic scene near Ramadi where a bomb had taken four American soldiers. A second device still needed clearing. Burghardt left the bomb suit behind. "You get tunnel vision in that thing, and you can't react to sniper fire." So he walked toward the crater in nothing but a helmet and a flak jacket. EOD men call it "the longest walk." Inside the crater, his knife hit something. A red detonation cora, running between his legs. "That's when I knew I was screwed." He barely had time to shout at his team to get back before the ground exploded beneath him. The blast threw him into the air. "I thought: I can't believe they got me." When he landed, he couldn't feel anything below the waist. For a moment, Burghardt thought he'd end up in a wheelchair. Then he wiggled his toes. "Good. I'm in business." Medics rushed in with a stretcher, but Burghardt refused. He had young Marines in his unit watching, and he wasn't going to let them see the team leader carried away. So he stood up, walked to the helicopter under his own power, and turned back toward the insurgents who had just tried to end him. He raised his middle finger. "I lost that round. But I'll be back next week." He was back disarming bombs in less than a month.

Chief Petty Officer Christopher “Chris” Kyle. United States Navy SEAL, and the most lethal sniper in American military history. A small town Texas kid born in Odessa and raised on a cattle ranch in north central Texas, Chris was the son of a Sunday school teacher and deacon who put a .30-06 Springfield in his hands at the age of 8. He grew up hunting deer and pheasant, working ranches, and chasing rodeo, eventually becoming a professional bronco rider. A serious rodeo accident in 1998 ended his career on horseback, and on August 5 of that year he enlisted in the United States Navy. He was initially turned away from the SEAL program because of his rodeo injuries. The Navy reconsidered after seeing his performance in dive training. Chris graduated BUD/S Class 233 in March 2001, just months before September 11. He was assigned to SEAL Team 3, sniper element, Charlie Platoon (later renamed Cadillac), and would deploy four times to Iraq between 2003 and 2009. His battlefield record across the invasion of Iraq, Fallujah, Ramadi, Sadr City, and Sadr al Yusufiyah is unmatched. Chris is officially credited with more than 160 confirmed kills, including a 2,100 yard shot near Sadr City that took out an enemy fighter armed with a rocket propelled grenade aimed at US forces. Iraqi insurgents called him al Shaitan, “the devil,” and placed an $80,000 bounty on his head. Through it all, his teammates, including Marines and SEALs whose lives he protected from above, simply called him “Legend.” He was shot twice in combat, survived six IED blasts, and helped lead the SEAL sniper community as Chief Instructor of the Naval Special Warfare Sniper / Counter Sniper schools after his deployments, where he wrote the first official Navy SEAL sniper manual. The US Navy’s official records confirm Chris was awarded one Silver Star, three Bronze Stars with Valor, the Combat Action Ribbon, and several other commendations. He was honorably discharged as a Chief Petty Officer in 2009. Out of uniform, Chris dedicated himself to his wife Taya, his two children, and his fellow veterans. He founded Craft International, a tactical training company, and partnered with the FITCO Cares Foundation to provide fitness equipment to disabled veterans struggling with PTSD. His autobiography, American Sniper, spent 37 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was later adapted into the 2014 Clint Eastwood film starring Bradley Cooper. On February 2, 2013, Chris and his close friend Chad Littlefield drove a fellow Marine veteran struggling with PTSD to Rough Creek Lodge near Chalk Mountain, Texas, in an effort to help him. The veteran, Eddie Ray Routh, shot and killed both men at the range. Chris was 38 years old. More than 7,000 people gathered at AT&T Stadium for his memorial. Hundreds more lined the 200 mile funeral procession to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. In 2015, Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared February 2 “Chris Kyle Day,” and he was posthumously awarded the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor, the state’s highest military honor. He died doing what he had always done: serving others.

I hate politics and I hate the obvious answers. - Charles Bukowski

“To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.” — Miyamoto Musashi

@ErikaC47 The classy response from Nate Morris, if only everyone could be like that ... looking at you ... MTG