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Don’t jump off the bridge Republicans. Let me map out the next 2 years. The Dems will go full throttle on Trump and ignore the American people. Absolutely nothing will get better for anyone. In 2028 the voters will say we gave you a chance Dems and you blew. Republicans will sweep 2028. Bookmark this
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BREAKING:WNBA ERUPTS FEVER GM CALLS AN EMERGENCY MEETING AFTER CLARK'S NBC ANNOUNCEMENT THIS IS HUGE
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A dump truck from the local quarry backed into my Indiana driveway on Saturday morning and dropped a mountain of crushed limestone right in front of my garage.
I stood at the bottom of the gray pile holding a single garden shovel and one metal wheelbarrow.
In my mind, moving rocks by hand was a quiet test of endurance, like a monk sweeping temple stones at dawn.
I had scooped exactly four shovels of gravel when the distinctive diesel rattle of an old tractor echoed from two houses down.
My neighbor Walt, whom the street calls Lawnmower Walt, came chugging across my side yard riding a green John Deere compact tractor with a steel front loader bucket.
"Put the spoon down, chief," Lawnmower Walt shouted over the engine.
Thirty seconds later, my other neighbor, a retired pipefitter named Culvert Carl, walked up the driveway carrying two wide aluminum landscape rakes and a four-foot spirit level.
"Who ordered number fifty-three stone without calling the street?" Culvert Carl asked, shaking his head at me.
"I did not wish to trouble anyone on a Saturday," I said.
"Watching a man shovel eight tons of limestone by hand is what troubles us, partner," Culvert Carl said, handing me one of the aluminum rakes.
From across the cul-de-sac, a third neighbor named Stump-Grinder Steve jogged over wearing work gloves and carrying a heavy steel tamper.
"Walt, feather the bucket on the high side by the drain," Culvert Carl called out, pointing with his level.
"I know how to grade a driveway, Carl, I did yours in oh-nine," Lawnmower Walt yelled back.
"Yeah, and it still puddles by the mailbox," Culvert Carl said.
"That's because you park your boat on the crown," Lawnmower Walt shot back, dropping the steel bucket and skimming a six-inch layer of stone across the dirt in one smooth pass.
"Steve, hit that corner by the concrete lip," Culvert Carl ordered.
"On it," Stump-Grinder Steve said.
For forty-five minutes, I was demoted from homeowner to apprentice raker on my own property.
Lawnmower Walt scooped and spread, Culvert Carl checked the slope, and Stump-Grinder Steve packed the edges until the driveway looked like a state highway.
When the last stone was flat, Lawnmower Walt shut off the tractor.
"Please let me pay for your diesel fuel and your morning," I said.
"You got cold beer in that garage fridge?" Stump-Grinder Steve asked.
"Yes," I said.
"Then the invoice is paid," Culvert Carl said.
We sat in lawn chairs at the edge of the garage for three hours drinking cold cans and staring at the flat gray gravel, because in America, the work takes forty-five minutes, and admiring the work takes the rest of the afternoon.
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If any of you are wondering how the passengers on the Lear Jet felt yesterday when it crashed in Florida, this video goes into graphic detail about what it's like to die in a plane crash. Trust me: THEY DIDN'T FEEL ANYTHING.
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She was 17, working as a Hooters waitress in Jacksonville, Florida, when the cooks walked out. She didn't know how to deep fry chicken tenders or fries. She went back to the kitchen and figured it out.
Two years later, Hooters asked her to fly to Australia to help open the first franchise there. She'd never been on a plane. She didn't have a passport.
She got the passport and went. By 26, she was a vice president. She helped grow Hooters from 100 locations to over 500 in 33 countries and from $300 million to $1 billion in revenue. She never finished her undergraduate degree.
At 32, Cinnabon recruited her to be president. She was the youngest CEO to ever appear on Undercover Boss. Under her leadership, Cinnabon added 200 bakeries, expanded to 56 countries, and approached $1 billion in annual sales through partnerships with Taco Bell, Burger King, and grocery stores.
She grew up on a $10-a-week grocery budget. Three sisters. Single mom who left their alcoholic father when Kat was nine. The family survived on her mother's determination and multiple jobs.
"Every year on my birthday card, my mom writes: 'Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you.'"
Kat was the first person in her family to attend college. She enrolled in an engineering program at the University of North Florida but dropped out to pursue her career at Hooters. She later earned her MBA from Georgia State University without a bachelor's degree, getting accepted through letters of recommendation from business leaders including Ted Turner.
After Cinnabon, she became Group President of Focus Brands (Cinnabon, Auntie Anne's, Moe's, Carvel, Schlotzsky's). Then in 2021, AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens) recruited her after the founder heard her on a podcast. She became President and COO, then CEO in 2024.
She's known for a practice she calls the "hotshot rule": every month, she asks herself, "If a hotshot took over my job today, what's the first thing they'd fix that I've been tolerating?"
Here's what Kat Cole's story makes me think about. She said yes before she was ready. Every major career leap, from the kitchen walkout to Australia to Cinnabon to AG1, happened because she said yes to something she wasn't qualified for yet and then figured it out in real time. "Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."
Most people wait until they feel ready. They wait for the degree, the experience, the credentials, the confidence. Kat built one of the most impressive corporate careers of her generation by saying yes first and learning second. Every single time.
I think about that in my own work. I've never felt fully ready to start any of the businesses I've built. The readiness came after the commitment.
"Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."
What are you waiting to feel ready for that you should just say yes to?
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My car wouldn't start in a Tractor Supply parking lot in Tennessee, so I opened the hood.
I know nothing about engines. In American movies, opening the hood is how a man calls for help. It works outside the movies too.
The first one arrived in under two minutes with a fifty-pound bag of chicken feed on his shoulder. No hello. He set the feed on my bumper, put his hands on his hips, and looked into my engine.
Then a man from a truck hauling fence posts. Hands on hips.
Then an older man came out of the store holding a receipt. He had not finished paying. Through the window I could see the cashier still holding his card. I think he heard the hood.
Nobody touched anything. Nobody asked my name. Three strangers stood around my engine like it was a campfire.
"Battery," said Chicken Feed.
"Could be the starter," said Fence Posts.
"It's not the starter," said Receipt.
Fence Posts made a clicking noise with his mouth to show what a bad starter sounds like. Receipt said that was the wrong click and did his own, and for a while two grown men in Tennessee just clicked at each other. I did not interrupt. It felt religious.
It was the battery. The terminals were crusted white. Chicken Feed walked to his truck, came back with a can of Coca-Cola, cracked it, and poured it on my battery.
"Has to be Coke."
"Pepsi works," said Fence Posts.
"Pepsi does not work, Ronnie."
"It's the same acid!"
"Then why'd God make Coke?"
I looked it up that night. Men have been having this exact argument online since at least 2004.
The sun was going down. Receipt said, "Somebody hold a light," and a flashlight was in my hand.
I pointed it at the battery.
"Not there. Where I'm looking."
I moved it.
"Where I'm looking NOW."
For ten minutes I chased an old man's eyes around an engine with a beam of light. I have trained with a sword for twenty years. Nothing has ever asked more of my wrists.
Then, without looking up, Receipt said, "Don't watch my hands, son. Watch my face. Took my daddy eleven years of yelling to teach me that."
So I watched his face. I saw where he was going to look before he looked, and the light was already waiting there.
He stopped correcting me.
The car started on the first try. Nobody cheered. Chicken Feed took his feed back off my bumper, Fence Posts said "There ya go," and in under a minute they were gone, the way they came.
I was closing my hood when a truck two rows over wouldn't turn over. Up went its hood. A father, and a boy of maybe nine.
I walked over with the flashlight. I did not ask. I put the light where the father's eyes were about to go.
He glanced at me. Then at his son.
"Watch how he holds it."
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As a gay man, I'll say what a lot of us are thinking.
We fought to be left alone. To marry the man we love, keep our jobs, and live a quiet life.
We won.
Then woke activists took our letters, stapled on a dozen causes we never signed up for, and started calling us bigots for saying sex is real.
That isn't our movement anymore.
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No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.
You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.
Bro.
You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
You live in a constitutional republic.
Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.
The modern left's definition of fascism:
You love your country? Fascist.
You want to enforce the border? Racist.
You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.
You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.
Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.
But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.
But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.
Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.
Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.
Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.
Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.
Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.
Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.
Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.
Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.
You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And they have you in the streets carrying their water.
The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.
No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.
Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.
The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.
Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.
That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.
Biden built a censorship machine.
Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."
They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...
Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
And it doesn't stop at speech.
The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.
The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.
Same playbook.
During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.
But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.
$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.
January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.
Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.
Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.
CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.
75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.
Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say.
Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.
One side talks. The other side screams.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched
Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism.
500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs.
The signs were ready before you were even angry.
AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power.
VOTE RED RED RED on November 3rd
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HE BUILT HIS MAILBOX LIKE A HOUSE FOUNDATION!!
Smart move, or a lawsuit waiting to happen?
He says his mailbox has been hit over and over, so this version is six by six posts sunk about four feet into two and a half yards of concrete, roughly 4,000 pounds by his count. He says he chased the last driver who hit it all the way home and their insurance paid. The clip opens and closes on a truck lying on its side next to it at night.
Part of me loves this. If you keep taking out a man's mailbox, eventually he stops building mailboxes and starts building bunkers. And nobody hits a mailbox sitting on its own post at the edge of the yard by accident eight times unless they're flying down that road.
The other part of me knows how this goes. Somebody's teenager swerves for a deer, and now a concrete block is the reason they're in the hospital. Plenty of towns have rules about what you can put that close to the road for exactly that reason.
I'd probably split the difference. Build it tough, put reflectors on it, and call the county about speed on that road. Then go get the mail like a normal person.
Either way, slow down on his street.
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The American left trained me for a generation to be a political activist and operative.
They absolutely LOVED me when I was on their side because I was EFFECTIVE. 30 years of experience and training, plus being an attorney? The American left loved it.
Now they want to vilify me because not only did I walk away from the Democratic Party, I walked away from trans.
I used to be their golden child. Now I’m their ultimate apostate.
When I speak about the American left and Democratic Party being corrupt and infiltrated by trans, I’m speaking from experience. I’m speaking because I was sitting in those meetings and rooms living it and watching it become captured.
I didn’t just read about politics on the internet either. I graduated from college with honors with a degree in political science.
I’m well read with a generation of real life political experience. You can attack and defame me all day, but I will be taking my time, training, talents, and energy elsewhere.
I will be taking all of that and fighting the very thing that took a generation of my young life.
They want to silence me so badly 🤣
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A video circulating out of Portland, Oregon shows a high school football player sprinting across the field and knocking down the kid carrying the American flag.
Friday night, Oct. 16. Grant High School at Jefferson High School, both Portland Public Schools. Grant ran out behind the flag. A Jefferson player in gold came in from the side, hit the flag carrier, and the flag went down. On camera, no adult steps in.
An Instagram account using Jefferson branding posted the clip with this caption: "This is what happens when you disrespect us... wasn't feeling that American flag 😂"
A laughing emoji. Over knocking down a kid holding the flag.
These are kids, so leave their names out of it. But the adults running this program owe everyone an answer. Was anybody disciplined? Has the district said one word about it?
If you want answers, contact Portland Public Schools and the OSAA and ask what they're doing about it.
H/t @tarenfeist. Video via Instagram.
