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@RossKneeDeep She is the single worst candidate ever to run. I question anyone who could support her based upside her ability, accomplishments, or leadership potential.

When we look back on why Trump won this election, it won't be because he was a better choice. Kamala was more than qualified. She was one of the most qualified persons to run for office in a very long time. She offered Americans $25,000 towards their first home. She offered $50,000 to small businesses. She offered intelligence and critical thinking. Yet, Amerca decided to go with dimwitted criminal with 34 felony counts, a convicted sexual abuser, a fail businessman, accused of being a pedophile who tried to overthrow the government. As we look at the absolute chaos trump has caused in one year, the is was it worth it? Who's benefiting from Trump being the president? Why didn't Kamala win?

@FrankBr05713205 What a piece of crap. My Toyota is way better

If you think your car is expensive to service, consider this. If you own a Bugatti Veyron: An oil change typically costs between $20,000 and $30,000, primarily due to extensive labor (over 25 hours) and specialized parts required for the service. It requires removing multiple body panels, to access 16 drain plugs. Tires: $8,000 - $42,000+ per set of four. Wheels: $50,000 per set (recommended every 10,000 miles). Brakes: $118,000 for front brake discs, pads, and calipers. In conclusion. Over four years, maintenance, including tires, fluids, and specialized parts, can exceed $400,000 to $500,000 Crazy, isn't it?

@Mr_Husky1 I detect bs

"On a peaceful Sunday afternoon in June 1961, just months after leaving the presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower was tending his vegetable garden at his Gettysburg farm when he noticed a young couple had gotten their car stuck in the mud on the rural road bordering his property, and without hesitation, this 70-year-old former Supreme Commander grabbed a rope from his barn, trudged through the muck in his overalls, and spent forty-five minutes helping them push their beat-up Chevy back onto solid ground. What makes this moment so beautifully human is that the couple—newlyweds Tom and Susan from Ohio driving cross-country on their honeymoon—had absolutely no idea they were being rescued by the man who'd led the Allied forces to victory and served two terms as President, and Eisenhower never mentioned it, just introduced himself as 'Ike, the farmer next door' and asked about their travels while hauling on the rope with mud splattered all over his work clothes. When they finally got the car free, Eisenhower's wife Mamie appeared with a thermos of lemonade and homemade cookies, inviting this bewildered young couple to sit on their porch and rest, and for an hour they chatted about marriage advice, good fishing spots in Pennsylvania, and the best route to California, with Ike telling stories about his own road trips with Mamie decades earlier. It wasn't until Tom and Susan stopped for gas twenty miles down the road and showed the attendant a photo they'd taken with 'the nice farmer who helped us' that someone gasped and said, 'That's President Eisenhower!'—and the couple nearly fainted realizing they'd just shared lemonade and marriage tips with one of history's greatest leaders who'd treated them like old friends rather than starstruck strangers. Tom later wrote Eisenhower a letter thanking him for the kindness, and Ike responded with a handwritten note: 'The pleasure was all ours—Mamie and I love meeting young people starting their adventures together. Remember: a good marriage is like farming, it takes patience, hard work, and the wisdom to know some days you're just going to get muddy. Stay happy. Your friend, Ike.' What absolutely destroys you is understanding that Eisenhower could've enjoyed celebrity retirement, could've had staff handle every inconvenience, but instead he chose to be simply *Ike*—a neighbor who helped strangers, a farmer who got his hands dirty, a man who measured his worth not by past glory but by present kindness, proving that true greatness is what you do when nobody's watching and nobody knows your name.

@Houseofyogi Can't stand Mrs Goofy, she's a moron.

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

@TortolaDude @EchoesofWarYT Yes, so true.

Today, simply voting for President Trump and agreeing with his political positions divides brothers and sisters, children and parents, separating blood relations over political ideology! Personal loyalty is a character trait to be treasured; friendships must be nurtured and maintained. If you have such a friend, tell them today!

Ulysses S. Grant and James Longstreet had one of the more remarkable friendships in American history, made all the more striking because they ended up on opposite sides of the Civil War. They met as cadets at West Point in the early 1840s and became close friends despite their different backgrounds. Longstreet, a Georgian, was outgoing and physically imposing, while Grant was quieter and smaller, but they bonded over a shared dislike of military pretension and a love of horses. After graduation they served together in the Mexican-American War, where they fought alongside each other and deepened the friendship. The personal connection became family. Longstreet was related to Grant’s future wife, Julia Dent, through his cousin. Longstreet attended Grant and Julia’s wedding in 1848 and, by some accounts, served as a groomsman or best man. The two men remained close until the Civil War divided them, with Longstreet becoming one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders and Grant rising to command all Union armies. One of the most telling moments came in 1864, when Grant was given command of all Union armies and Confederate officers around Lee’s headquarters were dismissing him as a drunkard and a butcher who had only succeeded against second-rate Western generals. Longstreet, who knew Grant better than any man in gray, reportedly silenced the room by warning his fellow officers something to the effect of, “that man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.” He told them not to underestimate Grant’s tenacity, that he was a soldier of singular determination, and that the Confederacy now faced an opponent unlike any it had met before. History proved him exactly right, the Overland Campaign that followed was the bloodiest and most relentless pressure Lee’s army ever endured. What’s most touching is what happened after the war. When the two met again at Appomattox in 1865, Grant reportedly greeted Longstreet warmly, offered him a cigar, and invited him to play a game of cards “as if nothing had ever happened.” Grant later used his political influence to help Longstreet receive a pardon and restoration of citizenship. Longstreet then committed what many former Confederates considered an unforgivable betrayal: he became a Republican, supported Grant’s presidential campaigns, and accepted federal appointments from him, including minister to the Ottoman Empire. This earned Longstreet decades of vilification from Lost Cause writers, but he never wavered in his loyalty to his old friend.

@its_The_Dr I'll let the world die.

What’s your Choice?

@Camp4 Love it

💪 The Ultimate Flex Once a year for his entire adult life, my dad would go to Kmart and buy seven pairs of Rustler brand blue jeans—the kind of denim that takes months to break in. And every day—in every season—he wore those blue jeans with cowboy boots, a pearl-snap western shirt, and a trucker cap. Dad looked like a bumpkin, thoroughly unimpressive in appearance. The last guy you’d expect to have a PhD in physics. As a teen, I often wished he was “cool” like other dads, with their executive haircuts, dapper clothing, and high-dollar watches. But over time I noticed something… In a room full of elites—business owners, professors, doctors—Dad was the one who held court. Beneath his unassuming exterior was a brilliant mind. He was a deep thinker, gifted writer, and captivating storyteller. Dad was a paradox: Zero style, all substance. He was the real deal and people were drawn to that. How do you become a person of substance—the type of person people admire and listen to intently? —Master a craft —Read and write —Limit bad habits —Do unusual things —Embody discipline —Never engage in gossip —Don’t play childish games —Speak the unvarnished truth —Be comfortable in your own skin The ultimate flex is... not flexing at all. It's letting your substance do the talking.

@janninereid1 A stupid contest, but, let's be honest. Ivana is gorgeous. She's number one of all time.

First of all WHO'S POLL? ❓❓🧐 Second of all...this PROVES that the left just makes things up and spreads it as fact. I mean c'mon, NOBODY believes this, right?! 👇 Obviously a liberal made this meme. 😏 Am I only speaking for myself here?

@Ambar_SIFF_MRA Wow, that's something

>Lorna Hajdini, 37 >JPMorgan Executive >Used her power to abuse junior men >Forced married man into non-consensual sex acts >Allegedly drugged him with Rohypnol and erectile dysfunction pills >Forced non-consensual oral s*x while he cried and mocked him during the act >Engaged in facesitting, toe sucking and other acts >Used racial slurs calling him her "little brown boy" and made derogatory remarks about his wife >Threatened to destroy his career saying "I f**king own you" >Victim faced retaliation from JPMorgan after reporting the abuse >This is what feminist women do when they get power. >Imagine the outrage if the genders were reversed.

@its_The_Dr What?

What makes her so Sexy and Beautiful?

@GrundkeTravis @_The_Prophet__ That's so true. These a-hole politicians never learn.

@_The_Prophet__ This is precisely what happened in Cleveland from the late 1950s through the early 1980s. Leaders thought that steel and related heavy industry would never be able to relocate.

⚡️What is emerging is the collapse of the old urban elite bargain. For decades, New York ran on an unspoken pact: capital accepted punishment because the city conferred power. High taxes, brutal costs, political hostility, congestion, disorder, regulatory pain. The exchange still worked because New York gave access to the center of gravity. Deals, law firms, media, finance, culture, status, elite labor, philanthropic prestige, institutional validation. That pact is breaking. The new political class still wants the fruits of capital, but no longer wants to honor the status of the people who create it. It wants the tower, the jobs, the taxes, the donations, the office demand, the civic subsidy, the global prestige, then wants the builder to stand there and be morally indicted after delivering it. That is the deep contradiction. A city can extract from capital when capital believes the city is indispensable. A city can insult capital when alternatives are weak. A city can tolerate dysfunction when proximity remains mandatory. New York’s danger is that all three conditions are weakening at once. Capital is more mobile. Work is more distributed. Financial elites have alternatives. Florida is no longer a retirement punchline. Texas is no longer a provincial sideshow. Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas, Austin, Nashville, and global private networks now offer enough infrastructure for wealth to keep compounding without begging New York for permission. That changes the psychology. The old New York premium was: suffer here because the center is here. The emerging question is: why suffer here if the center can move? That is the part the political class does not understand. Prestige used to be New York’s moat. Now prestige is becoming portable. Capital can build its own rooms, its own conferences, its own private networks, its own schools, its own philanthropic channels, its own media, its own political machines. Once capital no longer needs the city to certify its status, the city loses its deepest leverage. The Griffin fight is a symbol of that transition. He represents a type of actor who should be treated as strategic infrastructure by any city that wants to remain dominant. A builder of institutions. A buyer of land. A creator of high-value jobs. A source of tax flow. A donor. A signal to other capital that the city still matters. If the city’s response is contempt, the message to other capital is clean: come build here and become prey. Deep deep down, this is the emergence of jurisdictional sovereignty inside America. The wealthy and productive are no longer merely choosing neighborhoods. They are choosing regimes. One regime offers prestige plus extraction plus moral hostility. Another offers lower taxes, friendlier politics, more space, and fewer rituals of humiliation. The old coastal model assumed talent and capital were captive. The new map proves they are not. That is why this matters beyond New York. This is the same pattern showing up everywhere: high-status legacy institutions still believe they own the future because they owned the past. Universities, media, cities, agencies, credential systems, old financial centers. They keep charging the old premium after the monopoly has weakened. That is how incumbents decay. They mistake inherited gravity for permanent gravity. The emerging structure is harsher: capital will increasingly route around contempt. Talent will increasingly route around decay. Builders will increasingly choose places that treat them as assets rather than tribute animals. Legacy cities will still matter, but their monopoly on ambition is cracking. The real truth is that New York is not fighting one billionaire. New York is testing whether a city can despise its own engine and still remain the center of the world.

@tanpukunokami My mom used to make this. It's delicious 😋

A follower showed me something called "Ambrosia Salad" the other day. …Is this real? Like, an actual thing people eat? Marshmallows. Whipped cream. Canned fruit. Coconut. …all of that? In one bowl? What is even supposed to go in a salad anymore? This is a salad?? I'm sorry, in what universe.

@0xlordmicky I can relate.

Sandra Bullock once admitted: “I found him so handsome that I couldn’t even take myself seriously around him. I think there was something about me that Keanu didn’t like, because we never went out together off set. Maybe that’s exactly why we stayed friends for so long, we never took it any further.” Years later, Keanu Reeves revealed: “Speed was an incredible experience for me. Working with Sandra was amazing. She’s funny, smart, and genuine. I had a crush on her… and she had no idea how much I liked her.” ❤️ They liked each other… but neither of them ever had the courage to make the first move.

@bodine_kris5245 @BillMelugin_ @BretBaier @FoxNews @davidspunt You can't threaten a federal employee. It's a serious crime, a felony i think

@BillMelugin_ @BretBaier @FoxNews @davidspunt This is dumb and counterproductive. Go after him again for something actually indictable, like lying to Congress.

BREAKING: @FoxNews colleague @davidspunt reports that former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again in relation to his "8647" seashell post on Instagram last year.

@JeffEisenach @BarackObama Yup. Well said.

@BarackObama I won't pile on to the vitriol in many of the comments on this post, but I will say it makes me both sad and mad to see the former president, who kept saying he wants to bring us together and end racism, dividing us again while bemoaning a decision that ends racist gerrymanders.

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

@Arkypatriot Yeah, solong as it's not a grope or something over the top

So this particular picture is causing a lot of commentary. Stay on topic or move along. If you take the post off the rails to trash Melania or Trump, instead of answering the actual question, you’ll be muted. Pretty simple. So. Is this acceptable behavior of your husband in public with you?

@sixxtoesbrah @EchoesofWarYT The Brooks Simpson biography was much better, I think you would like it.

@EchoesofWarYT I read a great book by Chernow entitled Grant. He was an astounding man, not much on business but a true warfighter

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

@McClarey2 @EchoesofWarYT Great post, we'll done.

Few men in American history have gone from complete obscurity to being a  central figure in the life of the nation faster than Ulysses Simpson Grant.  Known as Sam Grant by his West Point friends, his first two initials making Sam an inevitable nickname, Grant had an unerring ability to fail at everything he put his hand to, except for war, his marriage and his last gallant race against the Grim Reaper, as he was dying of cancer, to finish his memoirs and provide financially for his wife and children.  Most great figures in our history have known success more than failure.  Not so Sam Grant.  He would encounter humiliating defeats throughout his life, from beginning to end. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was a clerk, barely able to support his family.  Seemingly a dull plodder, but possessed of iron determination and an uncanny ability to never let the trees obscure the forest;  happily married and a firm believer in God, but subject to bouts of depression when he would grasp for the bottle;  the shabby little man who, most improbably, ended up winning the greatest war in American history. His men didn't hold him in awe as Lee's men did Lee;  Grant was far too common and prosaic a figure for that.  However, they did respect him, as this section of Stephen Vincent Benet's epic poem on the Civil War, John Brown's Body, indicates: "And, after that, the chunky man from the West, Stranger to you, not one of the men you loved As you loved McClellan, a rider with a hard bit, Takes you and uses you as you could be used, Wasting you grimly but breaking the hurdle down. You are never to worship him as you did McClellan, But at the last you can trust him.  He slaughters you But he sees that you are fed.  After sullen Cold Harbor They call him a butcher and want him out of the saddle, But you have had other butchers who did not win And this man wins in the end. You see him standing, Reading a map, unperturbed, under heavy fire. You do not cheer him as the recruits might cheer But you say "Ulysses doesn't scare worth a darn. Ulysses is all right.  He can finish the job." And at last your long lines go past in the Grand Review And your legend and his begins and are mixed forever."

@EchoesofWarYT A great man. And to think Clinton almost replaced him on the $50 bill. Please.!!

@TaraBull Love her, she's classy and brilliant.

Melania Trump, one of the greatest First Ladies in United States history >Born April 26, 1970 in Slovenia >Began modeling at 16 >First non-native English speaking First Lady >Speaks 6 languages >Met Donald Trump in 1998, married in 2005 >Had her first child Barron in 2006 >Has been attacked and threatened relentlessly and never once cowered "Don't be afraid to lose everything, if God is with you, you have everything you need to start over." —Melania Trump