All this "winning" is making me testy!

Politics junkie, tennis player, boat docker, Chargers fan (SD is better than LA)

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I doubt anyone could say it better!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

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No lies detected!

[Alleria 🇨🇦 Political & News Commentary @alleria_eh]

How to handle a rainbow crosswalk if you encounter one:

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No lies detected!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This gentleman is not wrong. 😂🤣👇

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@Cdub470 LOL! Now you're just reposting the same thing over and over. #magasnowflake. Bye Felicia!

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@Cdub470 @HistorianUSA1 @mcgmouton57 For you to comment on reading comprehension and then ask this question is gloriously ironic. Grok already provided it in this tread. You can also look at literally any Political Science textbook and learn that Nazi Germany was Fascist. #magasnowflake

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@Cdub470 @HistorianUSA1 @mcgmouton57 Typical MAGA: unable to comprehend evidence that contradicts or even questions your delusional/ignorant cult-based values.
#magasnowflake
#MAGAiswhywecanthavenicethings

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@Cdub470 @HistorianUSA1 @mcgmouton57 LOL! It's glorious to see a MAGA snowflake to flip out when faced with their own ignorance. For the record, you are the one who lumped NK in with the other countries as being socialist. Oh, and the USSR was "communist" the same way Hitler's Germay was. #magasnowflake

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@Cdub470 @HistorianUSA1 @mcgmouton57

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@Cdub470 @HistorianUSA1 @mcgmouton57 FFS, this is Fascist not Communist. It is legit crazy how many people use the word communist this way!

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@the_highlander @RoyRogers_HTMS Beat me to it! I was sad to see him not take advantage of the offer to go to rehab. I hope he's gotten better.

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@ihteshamali I learned how to learn when I started writing things down, problem is, I can't convince my college age child to do the same. Also, I have an honest question: does needing to "hunt and peck" when you type bright the proverbial gap between writing things down and typing?

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@SpencerHiggles I like it, but come on, how are Boobs not a #1 seed?

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@NFL_Convo Jets and Raiders straight up. Giants and Washington if injuries happen (again!) to their QBs.

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@TennisChannel He's more douche than icon. That he got absolutely destroyed was icing on the douche cake!

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@AlexTran677026 Between the lack of dialogue, the music - especially the uptick when we see Chingachgook and DDL start to chase Magua - and the overall action during those 3 minutes made this one of the most epic movie scenes I ever watched. Truly incredible!

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@krassenstein @darkseith You decided to sleep with one of the primary enemies of American democracy and justify it by asking if there was another choice for a self-driving car. Damn man, read the room and don't go out of your way to support those who support fascists!

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@Resypto @EBurdine @Jevrix9 I could be wrong about the nuance between open and notorious, but my recollection is that the to fulfill the "open" requirement, the original owner has to be aware that the property was his. He wasn't so I don't see an adverse possession claim here.

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@EBurdine @Resypto @Jevrix9 The Adverse Possession acronym may be the only one law school graduates remember: OCEAN
Open, Continuous, Exclusive, Adverse, and Notorious.
OP didn't know he owned the room so this is neither "Open" nor "Notorious". There's no adverse possession claim here.

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@krassenstein Real talk: knowing what we know about Elon, putting money in his pocket at this point equals supporting his agenda. This is truly a case of sleeping with the enemy!