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@soran0312_ No 16

Most people will say 6 Only the sharp ones will get the real answer🤣🤣

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@data_republican They should just make a regular car, my new car loudly beeps at me if I do something wrong or if I am too close to a bush. All this gadgetry is making them super expensive.

Here's something weird about growing old... I'm starting to hear about events that will happen in the future but not-that-distant future, and I'm thinking I probably won't be alive to experience it. Take, for example, FSD cars are projected to be the only cars on the road by 2040. That seems a little far fetched to me, but I doubt that I'll be around to prove them wrong. I also heard that the USA may once again host the World Cup in 2038. It's just strange when it starts happening to me.

@johnkonrad Great post!

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.

@MichaelRCaputo I cannot tell you how much these people should pay!!!

This traitor would not leave my family alone!

@EdMartinDOJ @MichaelRCaputo Not long enough, if you ask me.

Going to jail.

I agree completely with everything you have said. I do not have a college degree but have a lot of common sense and discernment in all things. I had a nice career at AT&T but all the technology kind of started to be over my head. It doesn’t take a genius to know Communism is not a good thing.

RE: Credentialism I despise credentialism and believe it is a disease that is eating away at the soul of the USA in the same way that matters of class and nobility have festered in countries like England for centuries. I define “credentialism” as follows: A individual’s unwarranted belief that one is morally, physically and/or intellectually superior to others based solely on something written on a piece of paper (diplomas, resumes, etc.). When I speak on credentialism, I often have red herrings thrown in my face in a attempt to refute my position, so let me please make clear that there are two things that are NOT “credentialism”: 1. Indicators of basic competency are not credentialism. Certain fields require certain credentials to be trusted for a minimum level of competence. I WANT my dentist to have a DDS or a DMD. I WANT the guy servicing my A/C unit to have an HVAC certificate. I WANT my Army Infantry platoon sergeant to be a Ranger school graduate. These are all indicators of a basic level of competency in a chosen field, and a functioning society cannot exist without them. 2. Statements of lived experience are not credentialism. A survivor of a Nazi death camp possesses valuable views on the Holocaust that others do not. An experienced EMT has valuable views on the consequences of fentanyl addiction that others do not. An Olympic gold medal champion understands the discipline of athletic training better than most. When such people cite their lived experience to back up a claim directly related to that experience, this is not the same as credentialism. Credentialism eats away at our nation when presented as follows: -When a credential is presented as a marker of all-around intellectual, physical and/or moral superiority. -When like credentials are dismissed based on an unwarranted sense of superiority; i.e., a mistaken belief that a degree from Yale is somehow superior to a degree from Clemson. -When credentials are used as an unjust gating item to dismiss an otherwise highly qualified individual. -Credentials as exclusionary clubs—“Sorry dear, he’s not one of our kind.” -A mistaken belief that only one with a certain credential can understand certain things when knowledge about those things is generally available to all. -Dunning-Kruger credentialism: “Because I have credentials in one area, this makes me an expert in areas for which I have no credentials.” Put simply, credentialism is snobbery, and snobbery is antithetical to the American way of life. In America each of us can rise and fall on our own two feet based on what we demonstrate as INDIVIDUALS in our actual deeds, accomplishments and failures, and mere pieces of worthless paper do not change that. One last thing: nothing is more cowardly and despicable than the credentialist who trumpets their own credentials while dismissing the credentials they lack as being irrelevant. If one wants to commit the sin of credentialism, one also needs to accept that the credentials they lack are a mark against them, using their own standard. People who engage in such a practice are morally bankrupt, insecure, sniveling weasels. This was on my mind.

@CynicalPublius I just looked up some things about him and if true, I hope he is relieved oh his command very soon.

As you can probably tell from my posts over the last few hours, I'm hot on the trail of the recent WaPo op-ed by Brigadier General Kareem Montague, where he challenged SecWar's moratorium on senior military officers attending civilian fellowships in schools like Harvard. Putting aside for the moment that BG Montague appears in desperate need of a body fat analysis by an NCO not in his chain of command, I think it is a worthy time to resurrect my article below. Publicly criticizing your chain of command is not the same thing as publicly praising your chain of command. BG Montague, a serving active duty Army general, is sending an explicitly political and wholly public message implicitly challenging the lawful order of his superiors. How is this even possible?

@robert_spalding @nickshirleyy Isn’t that the truth!

The fact that @nickshirleyy is the one shining a light on corruption and not the agencies responsible for rooting out fraud should tell you everything you need to know about our government.

@walterkirn @RattlerGator Love that story, what an outcome.

My greatest accomplishment as a writer. I'll tell you. In 1990 I moved to Livingston, Montana, a town of about 7000. Not long afterwards, the federal government decided to close old downtown post offices across America and replace them with car-friendly facilities on the outskirts. Well, as it happened Livingston's downtown post office was the grandest building in town, with a wide marble outdoor staircase that functioned as a center for sharing news, miscellaneous socializing, and nonstop acts of courtesy as people helped others carry packages or negotiate the sometimes icy steps in winter. When I saw that our post office was marked for closure -- a grievous wound to our soul and our small commercial district -- I wrote an essay decrying the whole policy for Time Magazine. In short order, Montana's senior US Senator at the time, Max Baucus, swept into the Livingston post office with aides and made a scene. The kind of scene thst politicians serving their real constituencies should make. And not only was our local post office spared, the overall federal policy was changed, which benefited town centers across the country. As I say, best thing I ever did with written words.

@EricLDaugh I don’t believe this fit a second, we must need him in the Senate for now.

🚨 UPDATE: Scott Jennings says Sen. Mitch McConnell, hospitalized, called him and they had a 17-minute long conversation "Voice sounded strong. Sounded like he was keeping up with the news." "He said he was feeling OK, well enough to call me and talk to Barrasso and Thune." "We talked for about 17 minutes. We talked a lot about the situation with Iran, talked a little bit about Ukraine and what's going on in Europe. I told him I had been to the Teddy Roosevelt Library. We talked a little bit about the history of the vice presidency and how Roosevelt had transformed that and the modern presidency, little history of the Senate. I mean, it was a wide-ranging conversation."

@ScottJenningsKY Surely you are joking!

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

"The Supreme Court has already put the writing on the courthouse walls that this is not a prosecution that this court is going to let go forward. This indictment is dead." - Dane Ciolino, Loyola Law Professor

From Lineman to Millionaire: The American Knife Dream Montana Knife Company. Sweet, it’s so hard to get one of his knives. They are 100% handmade in the USA by Master Bladesmith Josh Smith, demand for Montana Knife Company blades is incredibly high and they frequently sell out within minutes of a release. What is the American Dream mean to you? 🫵 #shawnryan #montanaknifecompany #mikerowe

Alexander Bublik. Underarm ace. Saturday night.

@shipwreckedcrew Who are these people and what is their purpose?

So Kash Patel and Todd Blanche are behind this ... Or maybe Markwayne Mullins. Not coincidental that they reappear a few months after Mullins takes over DHS??? Hmmm.

@ProfMJCleveland Terrible, my state! I hope they pay a consequence for this stupidity.

Liz Murrill is Rep. AG in LA. After she pointed out New Orleans officials were violating state criminal law, local officials indicted her & set $400,000 bail bond. Yet another example of big city Dems in red state using rigged grand jury system to target Republicans. 1/

@RWMaloneMD Gorgeous horse, wow!

Lusitano stallion Jade is my wife's pride and joy. She rides him almost daily and he never fails to try his best. Jade has produced amazing and talented foals for us and others over the last decade.

@BreitbartNews Oh sure thing!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz on TPS: Florida has the largest percentage of seniors in the United States. Our elderly are nearly always cared for and allowed to live the last stages of their lives in dignity because of the incredible kindness and skill and commitment of Haitians.

Sweet!