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Mario Arida 🇺🇸
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Retired VET. I love my country and I'm tired of seeing the degeneration of the USA.
Martinsburg, WV Katılım Ekim 2016
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19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points.
Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children.
He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself.
On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in.
His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted.
He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders.
His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.”
McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up.
When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”
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@michaelmalice It was a good show, I noticed it too but I'm not the kind of person that points that kind of stuff out. Maybe if he had a booger hanging from his nose I would say something. That kind of stuff is his own business. In my opinion.
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@angertab @MarioNawfal That is what Tel Aviv, or Haifa or Jerusalem would look like if Iran had nuclear bombs.
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@MarioNawfal Nope.
As a matter of fact, the reason Gaza looks like that is because of the support that Iran provided Hamas helping to orchestrate 10/07...
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@libsoftiktok @JeffcoSchoolsCo What state is this in? Half of the states in the USA have a Jefferson County.
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@IfindRetards I only had to listen to the first 30 seconds. Shame on him.
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@MahyarTousi We have all the cards, you have no cards to play!
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@JackPosobiec Wawa is not that great, they have wild gas price swings and anything inside their door is more expensive than sheetz.
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@catturd2 And there's not a damn thing anybody can do about it. If Donald Trump could have forced Thune, he would have done it by now.
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@JonathanTurley You have to have alcohol in your system to get like that.
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I have written about what I called the "age of rage" and how rage is addictive. What people rarely admit is that they like it...Until now (warning foul language) Cue James Carville: youtube.com/shorts/9DXYqoE…

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@LauraLoomer Trump needs to come to terms with the fact that he is dealing with a hostile Senate. They are rinos and definitely not MAGA. They will not go into recess for his appointments, and they won't pass the save America Act until it's too late, if at all. They need to be forced.
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