Ben E

[Bengal @BengalYouTube]

Getting stiff armed through the turf straight into an instant reversal with the spinebuster is straight out of WWE

[Zach Bollinger @zachbollinger18]

Watching the Ravens enter the 4th quarter up 2 scores and end up winning by 3 scores instead of imploding.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way.

Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope.

All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously.

We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap.

Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table.

Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear?

"Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions."

No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism.

Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness.

Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that.

In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining.

This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.

[🔥🇺🇸 KC 🇺🇸🔥 @KCPayTreeIt]

Yo @GOP,

You worthless fucks. We the people, handed you back the White House with President Trump, a Senate majority, a House majority, the popular vote, and all seven swing states in 2024. All you spineless, self-serving bastards had to do was have the guts to deliver.

Pass the SAVE America Act. Prosecute those responsible for an intentional invasion of the United States. Go after those involved in Epstein Island crimes, including trafficking and sexual abuse. Hold accountable those tied to Russia collusion. Charge and deport fraudulent foreign actors who have been robbing U.S. taxpayers.

Mass arrests, followed by bank accounts frozen for those involved in the DOGE fraud. Seize their personal property, and liquidate stocks to repay the American people they stole from. Take down demonic Fraudci, Gates, and other health officials for the crimes against humanity leading to killing and mangling of millions of Americans from CONVID and the clot shots. Arrest those who allowed fentanyl to pour through our borders, poisoning our youth and destroying our communities. Take down the people who committed treason when orchestrating the stolen election of 2020.

This should keep you busy until 2028. Now get to work and do the damn job you were elected to do and are paid by the American people to do.

We will primary every last one of you RINO swamp creatures.

Sincerely,
The Majority 🇺🇸

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Boss said, "My team is burned out, but they're not even working that much."
The real problem was invisible.

"They're exhausted," the boss told me. "But most leave by 6 PM."

I'd seen this before.

"Tell me about their typical day," I said.

"Normal stuff. Meetings, projects, the usual."

"How many tools do they switch between?"

He started counting on his fingers.
Stopped at ten.

"How often do priorities change?"

"We're agile," he said. "We adapt quickly."

"How quickly?"

"Daily. Sometimes hourly."

"Show me one person's calendar," I said.

He pulled up his marketing director's schedule.
Seventeen meetings in three days.
Eight different projects discussed.
Zero focused work time.

"She's drowning," I said.

"But she's only here 45 hours a week."

"Hours aren't the problem. Decisions are."

He looked puzzled.

I explained.

"Research shows that every context switch can take over 20 minutes to recover mentally.
She switches contexts more than 15 times a day.
That's 5 hours of mental recovery time, every day.
It's only an 8-hour workday."

His face changed.

"Your team isn't tired from working.
They're tired from switching.
From deciding what's actually important.
From never finishing anything."

"What do I do?"

"Three changes:

First: One main priority per week.
Not seven. One.
Written down. Shared with everyone.

Second: Batch meetings.
All meetings on Tuesday/Thursday.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday for deep work.

Third: Pick three tools. Kill the rest."

They were using Slack, Teams, email, Asana, Monday, Notion, and four others.
Now they use three. Total.

Six weeks later:

"How's the team?" I asked.

"Same hours. Completely different energy."

"What changed?"

"Maria finished a project last week.
The whole thing. Start to finish.
First time in two years."

He paused.

"She actually smiled in our one-on-one.
Said she forgot what it felt like to complete something."

The truth about burnout:

It's not always about the hours you put in.
It's about where your attention is pulled.

You can work 40 hours and feel destroyed.
Or 55 hours and feel energized.

The difference?

Whether those hours are spent starting things.
Or finishing them.

Most leaders count hours.
The smart ones protect focus.

Because burnout doesn't come from hard work.
It comes from work that never ends.

[Ben E @Bensor3113]

@amibiaka @Simon_Ingari 100%!

[Carson Krow @carsonkrow]

If Congress won’t pass a bill that 83% of
US citizens are asking for— that means we have taxation without representation.

I do not consent.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Kelly McCarty @KellyLMcCarty]

This.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Taxation is direct government theft. Inflation, through the printing of money, is indirect government theft.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Correct

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Adam Sandler showed up at Andy Samberg's wedding dressed as Donny from "That's My Boy."

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

A history teacher once told me the Pilgrims invented Thanksgiving.

I asked her about George Washington's 1789 proclamation.

She had no idea what I was talking about.

October 3, 1789.

The Constitution is barely ratified. Congress asks the President to declare a national day of thanks.

Washington doesn't suggest it. He commands it.

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for His benefits."

Duty. Not option.

He called Americans to "sincere and humble thanks" for winning the Revolution. For the Constitution. For religious liberty.

Then he told them to pray.

To "beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions."

The Father of our Country. Publicly confessing national sin. Calling a nation to its knees.

The Pilgrims weren't even mentioned.

That story came later. Sanitized. Secularized. Safe for public schools.

The real first Thanksgiving was a President declaring that gratitude to God was the price of being American.

They don't teach that anymore...

[Freedom Rings @fr33domR1ngz]

@EricLDaugh if only we had a king?

[KJ @KJ22387886]

@EricLDaugh Here’s the truth

[Ingravenvids @IngravenVids]

😏this is my kinda math right here😈 #RavensFlock