Rich W. ♥️🇺🇸

You're doing great work! God bless you!

Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence. Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.” Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll. Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels. He suggested they use excavators instead. Someone pushed back. “But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.” Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?” One sentence. That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government. The teaspoon is not a punchline. It is the actual policy. Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for. Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output. Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes. Teaspoons. The system doesn’t want excavators. Excavators finish the job. And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford. So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years. But this isn’t about laziness. It’s about control. A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better. Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan. Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging. Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions. That’s the point. The economy doesn’t run on productivity. It runs on the appearance of productivity. Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning. They know it. Their managers know it. The people who sign their budgets know it. But the teaspoon stays in their hand. Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon. And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place. That’s the thing the system can’t survive. Not unemployment. Free time. Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan. He described the longest con in modern governance. Keep them digging. Keep them busy. Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start. Friedman told that story sixty years ago. He meant it as a warning. The system heard every word. It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

Mike Rowe had his mother, best selling author Peggy Rowe on his recent podcast. After her daily morning swim, Peggy saw a woman's backside in the locker room. She had an unusual tattoo on her rear-end, so Peggy asked her about it. You won't believe what it was. 😂

Remember that time when HillaryClinton introduced her friend GeorgeSoros and his interest to get involved in US elections? The Internet sure doesn't. Why? Because it has been wiped from existence for the most part. Turns out I found a copy of the file I had archived years ago. Be a real shame if people save and shared this widely.

HEARTWARMING: A soldier returning from Afghanistan put on the other team‘s football jersey and surprised his son during the pre-game coin toss. ❤️ This is beautiful.

“Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)” by Looking Glass was released 54 years ago today.

Many examples of this plane bringing home the pilot safely while severely damaged.

Well done Germany 🇩🇪. In Germany, every healthy shelter animal gets a chance at life thanks to strict laws forbidding euthanasia without cause. Shelters must rehabilitate and find loving homes for each dog and cat, ensuring no pawed friend is left behind. This law reflects a society that chooses compassion and care above convenience. Shelter staff work tirelessly to meet each animal’s physical and emotional needs. From providing comfortable beds to ensuring proper nutrition, every effort is made to make animals feel safe and loved. These rules encourage responsible and humane shelter management. The impact goes beyond the shelter walls, inspiring pet owners and communities to advocate for animal welfare. Germany demonstrates that when the law and compassion combine, countless lives can be positively changed and animals can thrive in loving homes. 🐕 🐈 ❤️

lol. Rodney on Johnny!

This is epic! I love it!!! 👇🔥🔥 🔥

This. This right here. 👇👇👇

Only the worst people can hurt an animal

We sure did.

Facts

Associated Press Warns That Trebuchets Are Exempt From U.S. Gun Laws

Someone needs to tell this to the socialist politicians.

In 1974, Sylvester Stallone was walking around Hollywood with a worn script under his arm and almost no one willing to listen. It was Henry Winkler, then a rising star from Happy Days, who stopped and believed in him when everyone else had already dismissed him. At the time, Stallone was in a difficult situation. He was going from audition to audition without success, had very little money, and was desperately trying to sell a handwritten screenplay he considered his only real chance. That script was called Rocky. He had written it in just a few days after watching the fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner. Inside that story was much of his own life: struggle, rejection, and the feeling of constantly being underestimated. Film studios read the script and recognized its power, but they all had one condition: the lead role had to go to an established actor. Stallone refused every time. He would rather stay broke than see another actor play Rocky Balboa. One day, after yet another failed audition, he found himself in a casting office with the tired expression of someone who had been fighting too long without success. Henry Winkler noticed him almost by chance. At the time, Winkler was becoming famous for his role as Fonzie in Happy Days. He could have ignored Stallone like so many others did. Instead, he stopped to talk to him. Years later, Winkler said Stallone looked like one of those actors Hollywood had already decided to discard. But when Stallone began talking about the plot of Rocky, something completely changed. He spoke with a conviction that felt impossible to fake. Winkler asked to read the script. He took it home and finished it overnight. The next day, he called his agent, Jackie Lewis, telling her that this young man had something authentic and that she absolutely needed to meet him. It was a decisive phone call. Jackie Lewis agreed to represent him, and the script finally began circulating among influential people in the industry. It eventually reached producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, who immediately understood the story’s potential. Even then, however, studios wanted a big star in the lead role. Major names such as Ryan O’Neal and James Caan were considered. But Stallone kept saying no. He would only sell the film if he could play Rocky himself. In the end, the producers convinced United Artists to take the risk. They reduced the budget and agreed to give the lead role to an almost unknown actor. The rest is cinema history. Rocky won three Academy Awards and turned Stallone into a global star. In later years, Stallone often recalled how important Henry Winkler’s support had been at that moment in his life. He said that that trust came precisely when he was beginning to lose hope. And Winkler never publicly took credit for it. He simply saw something in a man that everyone else had stopped seeing.

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A couple were on their honeymoon. Lying in bed, about ready to consummate their marriage, when the new bride says to the husband: "I have a confession to make, I'm not a virgin." The husband replies. "That's no big thing in this day and age." The wife continues. "Yeah, I've been with one other guy." "Oh yeah? Who was the guy?" "Tiger Woods." "Tiger Woods, the golfer?" "Yeah." "Well he's rich, famous and handsome. I can see why you went to bed with him." The husband and wife then make passionate love. When they get done, the husband gets up and walks to the telephone. "What are you doing?" Says the wife. The husband says. "I'm hungry, I was going to call room service and get some food." "Tiger wouldn't do that." "Oh yeah? What would Tiger do?" "He'd come back to bed and do it a second time." The husband puts down the phone and goes back to bed to make love with his wife a second time. When they finish, he gets up and goes over to the phone. "What are you doing?" She says. The husband says. "I'm still hungry so I was going to get room service to get some food." "Tiger wouldn't do that." "Oh yeah? What would Tiger do?" "He'd come back to bed and do it one more time." The guy slams down the phone and goes back to bed and makes love to his wife one more time. When they finish he's tired and beat. He drags himself over to the phone and starts to dial. The wife asks. "Are you calling room service?" "No! I'm calling Tiger Woods to find out what's par for this hole."

Who else saw that coming?

Same guns. Different society. The problem isn't the tool. 💯