Apparently Anthony Fauci is now saying that his life is in danger because of all of the accusations that are coming from Trump supporters about his crimes during COVID...
My recommendation for him?
Just tell everyone to stay 6 feet away and he should be completely safe
A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below.
She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going.. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."
Tens of THOUSANDS of 9/11 Families DEMAND Mamdani Stay Home Home from 25th Anniversary Ceremony
Over 62,000 have signed a petition urging NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the Ground Zero memorial. Thousands of victims’ relatives joined, saying he doesn’t belong.
This is one of the most bittersweet moments of our lives.
Our son-in-law was laid off in Winnipeg a few weeks ago, his company closed down in Canada. He is 33, a software engineer, and he and our daughter have a new baby.
Now Roblox has recruited him to Silicon Valley. Our daughter will be able to stay at home with our granddaughter, which she would not have been able to do in Winnipeg, like most working parents we know. A huge plus, considering the woke goofball education systems everywhere in the West.
We are proud of him. He earned this. It is an extraordinary opportunity for their young family.
But my wife and I are crushed.
We spent our lives building in Manitoba. My wife ran a Lab and Imaging Unit. I ran businesses, farmed through brutal weather, survived terrible government policy, cared for aging parents, raised our family and contributed to our community. Farming was not merely hard. It was years of risk, sacrifice and uncertainty, with governments constantly making life more difficult for the people who actually produced something.
Now Canada is losing another highly skilled young worker because the opportunities are better somewhere else.
Mark Carney and Wab Kinew can talk all they want about growth, innovation and compassion. People live with the results, not the speeches. Winnipeg cannot compete for talent when taxes are high, productivity is weak, investment leaves, wages lag and essential services fail.
COVID was already more than I can forgive. Families were divided, businesses were damaged, children lost years, peaceful protesters were treated like enemies, and the politicians responsible still speak as though they acted with perfect wisdom.
Then there is healthcare.
My wife had a stroke. It took three years to find out what had happened. Vision problems. Three years of waiting, confusion, worsening symptoms and watching someone you love struggle while a supposedly world-class public system, that she worked hard in for 40 years, moved at a crawl.
That is not compassion. It is institutional failure.
So yes, this move is bittersweet. I am proud of our children and angry at the country they feel they must leave. They are going where talent is valued, work is rewarded and healthcare is part of the employment package.
Carney and Kinew should be ashamed of the country and province they are helping to govern. Their policies have consequences. Families pay them. Patients pay them. Workers pay them. Grandparents pay them.
We moved to Winnipeg from rural Manitoba to be closer to our daughters. A plane trip to our olderst daughter in BC and a walk down the street to our youngest daughters home.
We are allowed to grieve this. We’ll miss birthdays, spontaneous visits, and having our grandchild just down the road. At the same time, this move will give our daughter and grandson financial security that lasts for decades.
My wife and I spent much of our lives trying to give the next generation better choices than we had. Ironically, that success will mean watching them build their future somewhere else. We will miss our daughter, son-in-law and grandchild terribly, we could just walk down the street to see them… now it will be more flights.
And I will never forgive the people who helped make leaving Canada the only sensible choice.
To those clutching their pearls over The Unvaccinated who've expressed relief after years of being mocked, dismissed, and ridiculed...and, here you are again, lecturing us on how we must respond to being vindicated.
As a reminder...you wished that...
• The unvaccinated would be socially ostracized and shunned by friends and family.
• The unvaccinated would be publicly identified and "named and shamed."
• The unvaccinated would be prevented from gathering for worship.
• The unvaccinated would be barred from restaurants, theaters, sporting events, and other public venues.
• The unvaccinated would be prohibited from traveling by airplane, train, or other public transportation.
• The unvaccinated would be excluded from schools, universities, and campuses.
• The unvaccinated would lose government benefits or access to certain public services.
• The unvaccinated would lose their jobs.
• The unvaccinated would be forced to pay higher health insurance premiums or bear greater medical costs.
• The unvaccinated would face legal penalties or fines for remaining unvaccinated.
• The unvaccinated would be subjected to stricter quarantine or movement restrictions than vaccinated people.
• Hospitals would refuse to treat the unvaccinated.
• The unvaccinated would be sent to concentration camps.
• The unvaccinated would become seriously ill with COVID-19 or die, with people saying, "They got what they deserved."
Forgive me if I don't give a damn how you feel.
The COVID jab was never about our health, it was about control. They proved it the second they let millions of undocumented illegals into our country and didn't seem to care if they were vaxxed or not, but American citizens had to be.
Note to Alan Ritchson:
I am MAGA.
I voted for President Trump.
And I gave you 18 hours and 17 minutes of my life watching "Reacher."
And another 1h 47m watching "War Machine."
So how fucking DARE you come at me and people like me simply for existing and voting?
Where do you get off wishing that I would wake up in a pool of my own teeth and blood?
Who are you to lecture me, when all you are is a piece of shit actor?
You built your career on playing the tough, quiet guy who protects the weak and punches the powerful.
Then the second you got a platform, you turned around and started wishing violence on half the country because they cast a ballot you didn’t like.
You don’t get to cash MAGA checks and then spit on them.
You don’t get to play the righteous hero on screen while acting like a petty, hateful villain in real life.
We conservatives supported your shows.
We gave you our time.
And this is how you repay the people who actually showed up for your work?
Dood, you’re not better than us.
You’re just louder and MORE HATEFUL.
🖕YOU.
My story about pulling our son out of NC public schools to homeschool him reached far more people than I expected.
So I owe you the full explanation. Fair warning: it's worse than you think.
1) My son was in a class with many kids that could not speak the English language.
Zero English. None. Not a word.
You might be asking yourself... well, how did lessons occur in the classroom?
I'm glad you asked.
In fact, the way the teachers communicated with the Spanish-speaking only students was by using their personal iPhones as translators, speaking instructions into the iPhones, and the iPhones spitting out the Spanish instructions to the Spanish-speaking students, and then the Spanish-speaking students speaking Spanish into the iPhones, and the English questions/answers coming are read out for the teacher.
If you're exhausted just reading that...good. Now hold that feeling.
Imagine you’re an English-speaking student sitting in that same classroom, like my 5 year old son was.
Every lesson is interrupted while translations happen and naturally, the teacher’s attention is constantly divided.
The pace of learning slows DRAMATICALLY for everyone else.
The consequence is that the classroom stops being optimized for the students who can already understand the instruction and instead becomes an exercise in overcoming a language barrier that never should have existed inside an American, English-language classroom in the first place.
A place built to teach kids who are ready to learn quietly becomes a place mostly occupied with bridging a gap in language.
I don't think my five-year-old should spend one irretrievable year of his early schooling waiting at that bridge.
2) I saw the writing on the wall for the future of my county's school system and realized that not only was the future incredibly bleak, but downright aggressively woke in a way words fail to describe.
For multiple months, our school system allowed kids to:
a) Create Anti-ICE protest signs inside of the schools
b) Exit the school grounds, often WITHOUT SUPERVISION by ANYONE
c) Stand along busy highways and scream "FUCK ICE" for a few hours
Most shockingly, it was clearly encouraged by the schools, by leadership, and by many of the teachers.
That was political activism.
It gets worse... for years Buncombe County has forced biological girls to deal with biological males (who call themselves trans) to enter into girls locker rooms and bathrooms.
This has been happening for years and no one dared to try to change or speak up until very very recently... that should tell you a lot about what the school leadership believes and their political bent.
There is an evil lie that I see being spread by many that have condemned our decision to homeschool.
That lie is this:
“Public schools are neutral. By homeschooling, you’re only exposing your child to one side.”
This is a grossly evil lie.
In fact, the opposite is happening.
Schools are not neutral institutions simply because they are publicly funded; every school day has a limited number of hours, and every lesson taught means another lesson isn’t.
There is a finite amount of time in school, everyone understands this, which means priorities matter.
Every hour spent discussing political activism is an hour that isn’t spent on reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, or civics.
So when schools increasingly prioritize activism, identity politics, or current political causes... something else inevitably gets pushed aside.
Guess what? That’s not neutrality, that’s a choice.
What so many parents continue to discover is that their child comes home with a head full of ideas about the world that are purely one-sided because that's all there was time for.
Nuance is lost because nuance is time-consuming.
Is there TIME for nuance when half the class cannot speak English and you're speaking into a translator?
Of course not.
A child who can chant but cannot argue the other side hasn't been educated, they've been conditioned and the conditioners always, ALWAYS believe they're doing the child a kindness.
3) I'm fairly confident that today's school system is not designed for boys at all, it's purely designed for girls.
I'll give an example.
One of the schools in my area noticed that boys were throwing pine-cones (calling them grenades) and playing with sticks (calling them guns and swords).
This made the girls in the class uncomfortable.
So the school banned the boys from playing with sticks or pinecones outside, saying that the boys were playing "violent games" and should stop.
One group's nature (the girls) became the rule.
The other group's nature (the boys) became an problem... and once you see it, you see it everywhere.
Classrooms rewards staying still, staying quiet, non-aggression, obedience.
So ask yourself honestly... if you designed an institution that graded children partly on their ability to sit motionless for six hours, who would you expect to win?
Girls, of course.
Boys "get into trouble" FAR more often than girls, and the "offenses" are things like being too aggressive, not staying in line, fidgeting, or being "defiant" for staying buried in a book instead of the worksheet.
The punishment schools reach for first is often to take AWAY recess, which is literally the physical release every study says he needs, as the penalty for needing it!
At my table, he can stand up when he needs to move. He can go deep on the thing that lights him up instead of being dragged off it. He can build his imaginary armies.
He can be exactly the boy he is and have that be an ASSET instead of someone saying that's a problem.
4) No teacher, no matter how gifted, no matter how well-meaning, walks into that classroom knowing my son the way we know him, and no one ever will.
The single most important qualification for teaching a child isn't a degree or a curriculum or a district budget..
...it's just how much do you actually care whether this SPECIFIC kid makes it?
How far would you go for him?
How late would you stay for him?
How many times would you explain it again and again?
How completely would you refuse to give up on him?
And on that measure, the whole world loses to his mother (who will be homeschooling him), it's not even close.
Nobody on earth will ever love him more than she does.
Nobody will study him, root for him, ache for him, and delight in him the way she does every ordinary day.
There has never been anyone on this earth more qualified to raise my son than the woman whose love for him knows no depths and has no end.
Hope that helps clarify a few things.