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A year ago today, I posted this and it has aged gracefully. America is a nation of idiots. I mean, if we aren’t the dumbest nation in the world, we’ve likely secured second place by a large margin. Now I know some people are probably all up in their feelings about what I just said so let me define precisely what I mean. First: do you see any other nations committing social suicide on these epic scales? Where else do people put up with mass shootings and limited to no access to healthcare? Who else wants to shred democracy for the sake of…feeling “great” again? Where else do people constantly, consistently vote against their own “best interests”…their own happiness, prosperity, safety, stability…so much so, so predictably…that merely trying to point out that they act like fools has become a whole subject of national debate in itself? Those things don’t happen anywhere — anywhere — else in the world. Also, America is one of few countries in the world where life expectancy, incomes, and savings are falling in tandem. Yet we’re also one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world. Both those things can’t be true…unless we have somehow become a nation of colossal idiots, who think backward is forward, up is down, and dumb is smart. #MakeItMakeSense

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Reese Werkhoven and his roommate Lara Russo were sitting on their recently purchased couch one night in April 2014, watching a Harry Potter movie, when the cushions started bothering him enough to do something about it. The couch was lumpy. It had been lumpy since they bought it at a Salvation Army store in New Paltz, New York, a month earlier for twenty dollars. He unzipped one of the cushions to see what was making it uncomfortable and found a small package wrapped in bubble wrap. He later described his first thought: it might be drugs, it might be money, they were getting scared about it. It was money. He and Russo called their third roommate Cally Guasti in, and the three of them started finding more. Envelopes, one after another, tucked inside the cushions and inside the arms of the couch. They piled everything on a bed and counted it. The total was $40,800. Their neighbours heard the shouting from their apartment and assumed someone had won the lottery. The three of them spent several days discussing what to do. They had real conversations about the moral question, and they admitted later that they considered keeping it. They were in college or recently graduated. None of them had much money. Forty thousand dollars was a life-changing amount. One of them said later that there were a lot of gray areas to consider. Then Guasti found a bank deposit slip inside one of the envelopes with a woman's name on it. Werkhoven called his mother for advice. She tracked down a phone number and texted it to him. He called the number, heard an elderly woman answer, and hung up. He called back and told her he had found something that he thought might be hers. She told him she had a lot of money in that couch and that she really needed it. He drove with his roommates to her home the next day. The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, was 91 years old. She was a widow with a recently broken hip. Her family had donated the couch to the Salvation Army while she was in hospital, not knowing what was inside it. The money was decades of savings — including wages from years of work as a florist — that she had been hiding in the couch at the encouragement of her late husband, who had worried about what would happen to her after he was gone. She had slept on that couch for years. When her back problems became serious, her family replaced it with a bed and the couch went to the charity shop. She cried when the three roommates handed her the money. She told them that it was her husband looking down on her, and that this was supposed to happen. She gave them a reward of one thousand dollars. They kept the couch. The three of them — Werkhoven, Guasti, and Russo — were college students and recent graduates in upstate New York who bought a secondhand piece of furniture because they needed somewhere to sit. What they ended up with was the specific knowledge that when it actually cost them something, they did the right thing. Werkhoven said simply: it's not our money. We didn't have any right to it. Guasti said: at the end of the day, it wasn't ours. There is nothing more to add to that. Share this with someone who needs a reminder today that ordinary people make extraordinary choices all the time, without cameras or applause, because it is simply what you do.

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Joe Biden hasn't been President for 14 months. trump bragged he'd lower prices on day one. He said he'd end the Ukraine War in 24 hours. He said he'd cut energy prices in half. trump said those things, you dipshits. Keep Joe Biden's name out of your mouths. Blame the guy who's busy starting wars and stuffing his own pockets while picking YOURS.

Keith Gill is cool.

The NCAA Tournament needs Fran Mccaffrey.

Only weak-minded people will follow someone so blindly.

Just to recap… Border was never “open” CBP under Biden didn’t let over 20M Illegals. 2020 election was not rigged Putin helped Trump in 2016 Elon helped him in 2024 Board of Peace is the grift of the century MBS is a murderer Netanyahu and Trump have committed numerous war crimes Iran was years away from a nuke Butler was staged

no it’s actually so cool that gas and groceries are the most expensive they’ve been in years or ever, no one can find a job, an untrained masked militia are terrorizing everyone, there is nowhere you can feel safe from guns, and it’s all run by p*doph*les. no notes!

This is how angry we should all be‼️

Shaquille O'Neal said, “My stepdad was a sergeant in the army—a serious, strong man of character. We had an excellent relationship. I once played at Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks in my first season in the National Basketball Association. I had a terrible game. Afterward, he called me and asked why I played so badly. He wondered if it was the pressure of facing Patrick Ewing and the Knicks. I told him I felt pressure. He said, “Tomorrow, I want you home at 7:00 AM. Pick me up—we're going to see a family that has no home.” On the way, we encountered a family in need. My stepdad stopped, gave them money for their next meal, and said, “That’s pressure. You have everything; you’re weak. There’s no pressure in playing basketball and earning millions of dollars. Real pressure is felt by those who don’t know when or where their next meal will come from.” He told me to get out and help that family. I got out and saw a man with his wife and two children who had just lost their home. The man was looking for work. He told me he was cutting grass. I called a friend and asked him to get this man a job. I called another friend and said I needed an apartment for a family of four, promising to send a check the next day. They needed help. After that, I never felt pressure in a basketball game again because that family had real pressure.”

If you watch anything today…. Let it be this. Repost it. Download it, and post it for yourself. I don’t care. Just watch it and make sure others see it. Thanks. 💙🇺🇸

EVERY. MOTHERFUCKING. WORD. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇

Trump is a fucking MONSTER. 😡😡😡👇

Exactly Why beat around the bush?

I've said this before, and so I say again.... When it happens, there will be a nationwide shortage of beer, liquor, wine, BBQ pits, brisket, fajitas, hamburger, shelves would be empty..... etc, etc, etc. It would be a worldwide celebration. This man speaks truth. 👇👇👇👇

Did you see what former Detroit Pistons great Isaiah Thomas had to say at Reverend Jessie Jackson’s funeral? You’re gonna wanna watch this. President Harris 😂 He’s gonna lose his ketchup.