🇺🇸🦅Average Joe🦅🇺🇸
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🇺🇸🦅Average Joe🦅🇺🇸
@AvgJoeOKC
Husband, dad, former medic, current ER nurse, TRUE patriot, NOT a MAGAt. Tweets reflect my opinion only. Not a parody account. This is really me…
Oklahoma City Katılım Mayıs 2011
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@AntiToxicPeople She didn’t want to get makeup on her white gloves
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@HQNewsNow When you’re too big of a POS for even this administration…
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@EnesFreedom @okcthunder Appreciate everything you said. From a retired EMSA paramedic
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To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.
I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.
I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.
When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.
I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.
Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.
But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.
He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.
What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.
So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.
There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.
They belong to children.
There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.
As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.
That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.
The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.
Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.
We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.
When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”
Then he said something I will never forget.
“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”
In that moment, basketball felt different.
Not smaller, but clearer.
Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.
From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.
On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
oklahoman.com/story/opinion/…
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@RonFilipkowski Jessica lies constantly!!! He is right once again
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@JustbnmeinOKC @RpsAgainstTrump You know she’s crying herself to sleep tonight
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@RpsAgainstTrump Since when isn’t he a fan of the 5th placer? Love seeing him shit all over Riley Gaines. I hope she learned a lesson.
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@SenatorLankford @TomColeOK04 nothing? Nothing to say about your dear leader portraying himself as Christ? This constituent wants answers. Condemn? Believe his BS excuse? What is it?
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@davidfholt Thank you for showing political leaders how it should be done.
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Today the City Council approved final plans for the Clara Luper Civil Rights Center at NE 23rd and MLK. We’ll break ground this summer. Through MAPS 4, this project has about $17 million in capital funds and almost $10 million in an operating endowment that will ensure it has a baseline of funding to remain operational into perpetuity. The Clara Luper Civil Rights Center will share OKC’s civil rights story with future generations.


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@SenateGOP @HouseGOP you did this. You own this. The genocide threat is on YOUR hands. @SenatorLankford @TomColeOK04 I’m esp angry at you. As a constituent, I beg you to stand up. Be statesmen. Be why your position exists. Stop this madman “president”
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What we experienced in the last 24 hours from the Left was nothing short of demonic.
While President Trump was working all day on a critical mission to rescue an American pilot, the left ran a massive campaign pushing the lie that he was dead.
We need a complete investigation into who paid for and coordinated these posts.
Every account involved should be fully demonetized on X.
They knew Trump had one mission: save the American pilot, not walk around and talk to the press.
They still chose to attempt a mass distraction from it with a disgusting lie.
If you need more proof the left hates America, you’re no better than them.

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No, harris would have not been worse.
Yes, trump has always been this terrible.
Yes, you are a chowderhead.
No, he was never going to do what you thought. He said anything and everything to get your vote. He used you to keep his ass out of prison.
Just like he used you on jan6 after spending months lying about mail in ballots while botching the pandemic that led to 1000s of americans needlessly dying.
Yes, Trump is compromised by foreign governments because he rapes kids.
You never noticed because you hate half your country men more than you actually love your country.
Yes, you have been brainwashed and radicalized.
Yes, the last decade of your life has been a lie.
Yes, you are useful idiots.
Yes, you are responsible for bringing an end to the america century.
Yes, everyone's life in the entire world is worse off because of you.
No, we will not forgive or forget what you've done to us.
Fuck you.
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@gentnerdrummond You know you’re losing even republican voters by sucking up to him, right?
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Doesn’t he have to be dead before he can get his big, fat, ugly face on a coin?
ABC News@ABC
The federal Commission of Fine Arts officially voted Thursday to approve a new 24-karat commemorative gold coin featuring President Trump, amid backlash from Democrats and other stakeholders. abcnews.link/ThoGtzG
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@RepOgles @usmc_colonel Check out the old phone books and high school year books in SoCal. The surnames Smith Brown and Jones are replaced as highest numbers of last names. Now it's Garcia Hernandez and Lopez.
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@KelliBruer It got us too. Wife and I saw it, were staying at my parents house and after the movie, sat out on their deck with the woods behind us. Some critter went rustling through the brush and we both RAN inside.
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@AvgJoeOKC Omg yes. I watched that whole thing and couldn’t walk into a dark room, as an adult, for decades after. It was like Jaws for me.
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In all fairness the other one would be that movie with Joaquin Phoenix having to “swing away” at the aliens. Whatever that hellish movie was named. Obviously not a fan of aliens. ✌🏼
Kelli Bruer@KelliBruer
Fire in the Sky
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