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My wife, @m_a_simonetti , has published her third book in her Malibu Mystery Series, The Most Guilty. Enjoy! amzn.to/2ritc7u

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

Two weeks ago you told us that fraud claims were “ridiculous” and that there were “no missing homelessness funds.” I have the receipts:

France says they want to play a leadership role in the Middle East. Let them start in their former (Christian-majority) colony/mandate of Lebanon. France should disarm Hezbollah. Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East until Jordan threw out the radical, violent PLO, which took over southern Lebanon in the 1970s. It was called Black September and it led to a 20-year civil war between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon. The Muslims largely won. Then came Iran and southern Lebanon and much of Beirut became home to Iran’s proxy militia, Hezbollah. If France wants to be useful, Macron should send in his military to help the Lebanese Army disarm Hezbollah, as required by UN resolution 1701. Why should Israel have to disarm Hezbollah? France wants to play a leading role. France claims it has a strong military. This is their chance to do something other than issue a communique. Let France lead the fight. Help Lebanon and get rid of Hezbollah. (The sad truth is France is too weak to do it, no one trusts them, and they’d rather issue statements than do anything concrete.)

We are happy with Speaker Mike Johnson. We are NOT happy with Senate Majority Leader Thune. The House is doing its job — the Senate is not doing its job.

Every Senator that fled DC to get on a plane for home must immediately return back to the Senate to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security & TSA agents. You signed up for this job when you ran for the US Senate. This isn’t a game — get back to work.

@CAgovernor @JenSiebelNewsom Will you and the rest of your staff be taking this as well?

Brock Purdy just won and did it without all the fixings at the skill positions. PUT SOME RESPECT ON HIS NAME.

A more important question would be… Why do Republicans do NOTHING about the fraud discovered?

This year made one thing clear: Democrats are willing to side with criminals, foreign terrorists, and human traffickers instead of standing up for the American people.

Did anyone on Kamala’s team even vet Tim Walz?!? Or did he just pretend to know how to use a shot gun and that was that?

Eric Swalwell just said his number one job as California governor would be to “fight Trump.” How disgusting. My number one job will be to clean up the mess created by Democrats.

Gov. Newsom is such a bozo b/c he created task force to investigate oil & gas company price gouging in CA & the task force found no price gouging going on! They said that state taxes & regulations implemented under Newsom’s watch are to blame for CA’s high gas prices! @KFIAM640

Here is: The architect of ObamaCare, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, calling the Unaffordable Care Act a scam and the American voter “stupid” on multiple occasions. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” The Unaffordable Care Act was written in a way that deliberately and maliciously deceived, robbed, extorted, and blackmailed the American public. In other words: You have been Robbed. Deceived, Blackmailed. Extorted. And Defrauded by Jonathan Gruber, Barack Obama and John Roberts. And all of it captured on video tape.

@CAgovernor @realDonaldTrump He’s not using them against the American people. He’s using them to remove illegal non citizens.

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people. We implore the courts to reject @realDonaldTrump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

October 16, 1983 #49ers rookie Roger Craig's 71-yard jaunt through the Saints at the Superdome The longest regular-season run of the #FTTB legend's brilliant career

October 16, 1988 One of the greatest runs in NFL history Roger Craig's up-the-gut, tackle-busting touchdown for the #49ers in Anaheim #FTTB

Former racing star Danica Patrick has donated $7 million to Turning Point USA to support the upcoming “All-American Halftime Show,” following the organization’s announcement — founded by Charlie Kirk and now run by his wife — that it will host an alternative event to counter Bad Bunny’s official performance at Super Bowl LX on February 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in California. Patrick is also expected to appear live, calling it an act of “faith, freedom, and unity taking the wheel back from pop culture” on America’s biggest stage.

I’m sorry but we’re just never going to have a President named Gavin.

Dude, he just negotiated peace the Middle East, and you can’t even get a shack permitted in the Palisades.

He just released 20 hostages and has ushered in peace in the Middle East. What are you doing today, Hollywood? You will never be president and pretty soon you won’t even be in office.