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I grew up poor, raised by a man with an Ivy League degree. 3 luxuries matter: Home-cooked meals. A car that starts every time you turn the key. Two weeks of vacation each year. Everything else is BE. And yes, I said luxuries. We ate at one reasonably priced restaurant maybe six times a year. I didn’t even taste sushi until I was in college. Even those luxuries were limited. Every meal was made with store-brand groceries. The cars were reliable used cars. Ask AI for “the most reliable used car with the lowest resale value.” Vacations = free museums, state parks, beaches, battlefields, and camping. No Disney. Hershey or Six Flags maybe once a year. The essentials? Clothes: Salvation Army. Honestly, this one sucked, but today Walmart & Target make it easier. Fixer-upper: I’m talking serious problems. You need a solid foundation, walls & a roof. Everything else can be fixed with Harbor Freight tools, YouTube, and sweat equity. We literally bought an abandoned house in a good neighborhood. I live in rural Massachusetts. My neighborhood has $1 million homes. I bought an abandoned house and restored it, but just outside my neighborhood there are still homes for $300,000. Medical: Before settling down, one of you should get a government job with benefits or join the military before having kids. Time: This is the hardest part. My dad was a firefighter, so he’d work double shifts, then spend his days off repairing the house. Activities: Boy Scouts, Civil Air Patrol, church choir, church camp, etc. Sign your kids up for free or cheap activities. Education: Teach your kids everything you know. Read to them for an hour every night. DAD INTEL: This is the big one. Build a network. Know where to get discounted building materials, who has tools, who’ll loan you a trailer or skid steer. Firefighters, cops, National Guard members, tradesmen & church communities have always been great for this, but those networks are disappearing. Family: Live within three hours of relatives if you can. Someday you’ll need emergency babysitting or another guy to help lift something heavy. What to avoid like the plague: NO COSTCO: Unless you’re extremely disciplined, you’ll buy more than you need. NO HOME DEPOT: Lumber isn’t always the best value, tools are overpriced, and those marble countertops start looking “necessary.” Formica from a local building supply works just fine. NO FLIGHTS. We won a trip to London when I was five. It nearly bankrupted us. No flights anywhere. Fast food. This was my dad’s biggest weakness because it was cheap and easy. Again: NO RESTAURANTS. They add up fast, and you’re paying for convenience more than nutrition. No drinking or drugs. Bad decisions usually start with small compromises. No expensive hobbies. Your hobby is fixing the house, improving the yard, and coaching your kid’s Little League team. Fish from shore if you want a hobby. Dig for worms. You don’t need $15 lures. No subscriptions. You don’t need Netflix. I have plenty of money now and didn’t even own a TV until recently. You don’t need home security cameras if you own an inexpensive firearm. You don’t need Uber or constant Amazon deliveries. Now the big one: You’ll feel like shit. You’ll think you’ve failed as a dad. You’ll envy the families with nicer houses, newer cars, and bigger vacations. Don’t. This is not a competition. Your job is to be a great father, love your wife, raise capable kids, and become a productive member of society. The antidote is gratitude. Go to church. Every Sunday, thank God for what you have. Gratitude is critical. It also helps if your work serves the public: firefighter, police officer, teacher, construction worker, sanitation worker, military. Mental health problems? Start with the basics. Stay physically active, journal for 30 minutes a day & pray a full rosary. “But John, that’s extreme.” Maybe. But you’ll still be better off than 80% of Europoors.

The first rally for mass deportations in the nation. You will not want to miss it. @GregoryKBovino

@TheIACRL @VickieforNYC Great point. I have to agree what was said before by Alan Dershowitz, “Thank God for the Italians.”

Wonder if the 10 BILLION New York City has spent on illegal aliens could have went to preventing this? When Italians came to this city, we received ZERO in handouts AND built the infrastructure. Third-worldists are now destroying it.

@WallStreetApes They all claim to have PhDs, even the receipts to prove it. The scam used to be “I have masters degree in engineering” until it became a running joke. I once worked with a 3rd world “masters in computer science,” so lacking in knowledge an American clerical worker had to help him

A group of Somali in Ohio all tell you their education levels of having PhDs The comments were not what they were expecting…. It turns out Americans don’t care what their education level is, they want them all to go home and use their education to make Somalia great Every comment says the same thing, leave and go use your knowledge to help your own country, we do not want them here Deport all Somalians from America. We never voted to have these people imported here America should be allowed to maintain its own cultural identity without all these imported foreigners

Stephen Miller issued this chilling declaration: “You have no idea how determined we will be to save this Republic. We will DEFEAT the forces of darkness & evil. And we will stand every day for what is TRUE, what is BEAUTIFUL, and what is GOOD.” The forces of darkness are already inside the gates. They are organized, relentless, and actively dismantling everything that made America great. This isn’t rhetoric. This is a promise of total war against the evil trying to destroy us from within. The Republic is on the brink. The time for half-measures is over. If you still love this country… If you still believe in truth, beauty, and goodness… Then prepare yourself. The fight for America’s soul has begun.

It's DISGUSTING that nearly 8 in 10 new jobs have gone to foreigners since the start of 2020. No wonder Americans are suffering. Trump is trying to change that stat, but they aren't doing enough. The stat needs to flip - at a minimum.

@j_fishback This is the company with the arrogance to want tax incentives to locate in NYC. They would have hired H-1B invaders instead of citizens who had given the tax breaks. Glad some legitimate conservatives, unlike the elite WSJ types opposed it. @JDVance @RyanGirdusky @Grolier1

Amazon doesn’t want to hires Americans. Only migrants. As Governor, I’ll fine Amazon into oblivion unless they fire the migrants and rehire Americans.

@Will_Tanner_1 History, unless our successors ban its expression, will credit this great thinker with the accurate prediction of our civilization’s end. It probably is too late now. Demographics are destiny. @JDVance @AnnCoulter @DonaldJTrumpJr @RyanGirdusky @Grolier1

Pat Buchanan: Leftist “ideas have made Western elites apparently indifferent to the death of their civilization. They do not seem to care if the end of the West comes by depopulation, by a surrender of nationhood, or by drowning in waves of Third World immigration. Now that all the Western empires are gone, Western Man, relieved of his duty to civilize and Christianize mankind, reveling in luxury in our age of self-indulgence, seems to have lost his will to live and reconciled himself to his impending death.”

JOHN ADAMS: "As often as elections happen, the danger of foreign influence recurs. If the vote can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations."

@SketchesbyBoze our culture was once bound together by literature, poetry, and art that pointed towards God

@SketchesbyBoze What did OP do to Frasier’s voice? youtu.be/u4HRP10F_Rk?si…

This is an excellent poem and more people should know if by heart. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: ... How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, ... Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. ... We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 💪🫀

no offense to the point but he was a character known to do that kind of thing

A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name. 57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most Americans could not find on a map, the most infamous car accident in US history happened while the entire world was staring at the sky waiting for men to walk on the moon. Senator Ted Kennedy left a cottage party for the "Boiler Room Girls," the young women who had worked themselves to exhaustion on his brother Bobby's campaign the year before Bobby was shot, and he drove off with 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne around 11:15 pm. He said he was taking her to the ferry. Instead the car went off the Dike Bridge, a narrow wooden bridge with no guardrail, and flipped upside down into the black tidal water of Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out. Mary Jo did not. And here is the part history never forgave: he did not knock on the lit up house just yards away that had a phone, he did not call police, he walked back to the party and then he went to bed. He reported it roughly 10 hours later, the next morning, only after two fishermen had already found the car and her body. The diver who pulled her out, John Farrar, said she had likely survived for a while inside an air pocket and might be alive today if anyone had simply called for help that night. Two days later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and so the greatest achievement in human history shared the front page with a drowned woman and a senator who waited until sunrise. The punishment for all of it: a guilty plea to leaving the scene, a two month suspended sentence, not a single day served. He kept his Senate seat for 40 more years until he died in 2009, one of the most powerful men in the country. Strip away the famous last name and you are left with something painfully simple. A young woman trusted the wrong man to drive her home, and he chose himself. Say her name tonight. Not his. Mary Jo Kopechne.

While @NYCMayor and @GovKathyHochul lecture us about being in complete control, a modest rainstorm turns Soho into a submerged third-world slum. This isn’t climate change. This is decades of incompetence, graft, and failed leadership flooding the streets of America’s greatest city.

Notice how every American city is starting to look the same. They’re taking over Saint Louis now too. Indians are the second-largest foreign-born group in the U.S. behind Mexicans. This replacement is unsustainable. Stop the visa invasion before it’s too late. @CyberGreen09

Victor Davis Hanson was blown away by the fact that the actress playing Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s new film had never actually read The Odyssey. What confused him even more was that she began criticizing Homer’s epic for not having enough “feminist” characters, despite never having read it. HANSON: “Lupita Nyong’o, she said something, I couldn’t quite believe that…she got her master’s in theater arts at Yale, and she said she had never read The Odyssey before.” “And she’s 42…and I thought, well, how is that possible?” “Her undergraduate institution…was excellent. She went to Yale, but she’s never…” “I taught 21 years at Cal State Fresno, Humanities 10, Introduction to Western Humanities. We started with Homer, so I would either have The Iliad, but mostly I taught The Odyssey…” “So I had 2,000 students at Cal State University taking that class, and most of them were from families below the median income…” “My point is, they were not from old families and they weren’t at a privileged institution, and yet they had experience with The Odyssey…” “So when I hear this actress and she says that she has never read it before, well, that’s okay.” “But then she starts opining on what’s wrong with it, and she says that it doesn’t have enough ‘feminist’ characters.”