This list from Toby Rogers has been living rent-free in my head. It's not like "they" got a few things right and a few things wrong, they got EVERYTHING wrong, which means this was intentional.
You may ridicule Whiteness.
You may not ridicule Blackness.
You may ridicule masculinity.
You may not ridicule femininity.
You may ridicule heterosexuality.
You may not ridicule homosexuality.
You may ridicule the Right.
You may not ridicule the Left.
You may ridicule the majority.
You may not ridicule minorities.
This is not equality.
This is a hierarchy.
And pointing it out is the only real crime.
This country's been lucky lately, welcoming incredible people who bring new energy and perspective with them. It's a reminder of what makes this place special.
Opinions about America will always vary, but mine hasn't changed. I'm proud of this country, and I'm grateful beyond words for the men and women who fought to protect the freedoms we live with every day.
God bless this nation. 🇺🇸
@deaflibertarian My kid did this. Convinced his teacher his older brother Rob served in the Persian Gulf and received a Purple Heart. He's an only child.
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.
The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor.
The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers.
Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward.
Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos.
As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.”
Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress.
Time to choose your side.
To the absolute clowns in the United States Senate ... especially the ones who just packed up and fled town like it was a fire drill.
You wrote this law.
You created the Judgment Fund in 1956. You expanded it in 1961 to cover settlements. And in 1977 you got together in your infinite wisdom and removed every single cap, turning it into a permanent, indefinite, unlimited blank-check appropriation for the DOJ. No annual vote. No real oversight. Just an open spigot of taxpayer money both parties have been happily drinking from for nearly fifty years.
Then Trump settles his IRS tax-leak case, DOJ puts a “1776 Fund” label on a slice of that same giant pot you created, and suddenly everyone loses their minds. Democrats scream “new unconstitutional J6 slush fund!” Republicans have a collective panic attack so severe that John Thune kills the ICE and CBP funding bill and sends the whole chamber home.
You built the machine. You protected it. You benefited from it. And now you’re pretending it’s some shocking new scandal invented by Trump?
Spare us.
Memo to every single one of you: You wrote the law, idiots. Own it, reform it, or shut up about it. But stop torching the budget process and running away from your own creation like it’s radioactive.
The hypocrisy is actually embarrassing.
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