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@putzisbackbaby @mikeche1974 By the time I was 13, the fkn wheels had come off.

“That’s no moon,” says horrified Artemis II crew. More at 11.

@Armygirl67 Happy Birthday 🎂!! Enjoy a tub of fluff like a kitten! 🤣

It’s my birthday today. Not that anyone cares. It’s been a shit weekend and today has been even worse.

'Look Out!' Shouts Female Astronaut As Orion Gets Within 5,000 Miles Of Moon buff.ly/qcPH41F

@BeckyBex61 @the_dadchef Brave lady!! 🤣

@the_dadchef I’ve had my GE kitchen appliances (stove, fridge, dishwasher) for 8 years without incident. I hope they continue to hold up.

Never buying a Samsung again. Second time this has happened.

@johnkonrad They are reaping what they sowed. Time to shake the dust off our feet.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@0hour1 If there's a god, they'll leave her in McCamey Texas.

They moved the niece of the Iranian regime out of California into Texas to avoid leftist politicians from starting riots.

Well, I’ll be damned. It finally happened.

@dee_dempster @DeebsFLA Dad Joke Banger

@DeebsFLA When I ask You want a bag? if they say no, tell them I haven't even told them what's in the bag yet.

"Do you want the bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide in a bag, or want to carry it out by itself?", says the Publix cashier, immediately regretting it, knowing that I'm absolutely the type of guy that won't hesitate to reply, "No need-I'll drink it on the way out."

@DeebsFLA King of Quips, The Earl of Retorts, The Duke of Dad Jokes ..all titles that us smartasses wear with great pride! 🤣

@DeebsFLA This is the way. Gm ☕

Morning. How I reply when I'm messaged at 6am by a coworker, on a day off:

@BBGreatMoments Willy Strays

Give that dog a Gold Glove immediately 😂

Tarleton State's Victoria Cameron running wind legal 11.01 to win #TexasRelays 100m with Carleta Bernard second in 11.06

@BBGreatMoments New pitch: The Mudder Plucker

The pitcher clipped a chunk of dirt off her cleat mid pitch and it exploded.

Hey @elonmusk we seriously need a Texas flag emoji 🙏🏻 Repost this, Texas! 🤠

I cannot begin to tell you how much I want to tell the Japanese this is just how Americans mow their lawns

@AggieTheBarkeep Beautiful ❤️✝️

This was a joy to paint. I left it at church, where it found its way to a new home.

When all the egg-hiding is complete...