JimmyRay

Prez of the City Rocks - Upstate NY's Nike Sponsored EYBL Team Managing Director UBS Financial Services

[Mike Alfred @mikealfred]

MESSI IS A MAGICIAN

[JimmyRay @cityrocksEYBL]

@Hoopss Delete your account - Fool

[CityRocksBasketball @TheCityRocks]

W in Augusta #CRFam 🟠

[CityRocksBasketball @TheCityRocks]

Here we go!! #CRFam 🟠

[JANDY @Jandystl]

Never forget that his Dad graduated from MIT and his Mom from Harvard. He would probably be curing cancer if he wasn’t so good at hitting baseballs far

[Dr. Sheila Nazarian @sheilanazarian]

I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?

Because I do.

My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.

You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.

You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.

You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.

You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.

You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.

You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.

I have.

And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.

[Kurtis Seaboldt 🇺🇸 @klseaboldt]

And so, the World Cup’s stay in Kansas City has come to an end. And it ended the same way it began 25 days ago, with an Argentinian celebration.

The greatest sporting event in the world outside of the Olympics came to our city and we did more than just hold our own, we dominated. We didn’t just host the party — provide the venue, the refreshments, the music — we did a stage dive right into the middle of it. And our guests took note. Teams, fans, media, everyone was over the moon about Paris of the Plains.

This was a transformational moment in the history of this place we call home. So many people fall in love over one summer with someone they never met before. I feel like we’re going to look back at this as the summer when the world fell in love with Kansas City.

[WWG1WGA🇺🇸♥️ @WWG1WGA_QQ]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Mark Poulose @MarkPoulose]

Met a man from Switzerland who is in Kansas City for the first time.

"Never thought about [KC}. Middle of nowhere, middle of America. Love it. ... It's all about love. It's all about people. It's like, we are all the same. No matter which color, no matter which age. That's it."

[Scottie Pippen @ScottiePippen]

Happy Birthday, son. Proud of the man you're becoming.

[Chris Collins @coach_collins]

Special Night in Vegas! @NUMensBball Family Dinner!! Super Grateful for this Amazing Group!

[Brian Reichert @_BrianReichert]

So many kids take plays off

So many kids don’t make the extra pass

So many kids are selfish

So many kids spend half the game complaining

So many kids leave their teammate hanging when they sub out

So many kids stare in the stands, listening to their parents

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Braxton & Jayde of Johnson,Nebraska who recently signed up for our 50-yard challenge received their starter pack in the mail which included their Raising Men and Women shirts, safety glasses, and ear protection. They are now fully equipped and ready to take on the challenge ! Do you have any words of advice for this dream team ?

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”

“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...

WITH NO RAIL.”

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Challenge Accepted! Noah of Coeur d'Alene,Idaho has stepped up to make a difference and accepting our 50 yard challenge , committing to mow 50 free yards for those in need in his community. This is what it’s all about. Welcome to the family, Noah !

[Handre @Handre]

Socialism has a body count, and it keeps meticulous records of everything except the graves.

The Soviet Union starved roughly 5 million people in the Holodomor of 1932-33 while exporting grain to prove the collective farm worked. Mao's Great Leap Forward killed between 30 and 45 million between 1958 and 1962, mostly by ordering peasants to smelt their cooking pots into useless pig iron. Cambodia under Pol Pot emptied its cities in 1975 and murdered a quarter of the population with hoes to save bullets. North Korea runs a hereditary monarchy that dresses in Marxist costume and let 3 million citizens starve in the 1990s while the Kim family bought cognac by the case.

Venezuela sat on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth and still engineered inflation of 1,000,000 percent by 2018, leaving surgeons scavenging dumpsters and toddlers dying of measles that vaccines had erased decades earlier. Zimbabwe seized productive farms in 2000 to correct historical grievance and turned the breadbasket of Africa into a nation printing 100-trillion-dollar notes worth nothing. Cuba froze its economy in 1959 and now displays 1958 Chevrolets not as nostalgia but as the only cars anyone can keep running. East Germany built a wall in 1961, then shot the people who tried to leave the workers' paradise, which tells you everything about who the paradise served.

Notice a pattern? Central planners cannot calculate what prices communicate. They compensate for that blindness with barbed wire. The intellectuals who designed these systems never suffered under them. Walter Ulbricht did not queue for bread. Nicolás Maduro does not eat from the trash. The state promises to abolish scarcity and delivers only the scarcity of freedom.

Every one of these regimes began with a moral claim: that men with guns could allocate resources more justly than free people trading voluntarily. Every one ended by pointing those guns at the citizens it swore to liberate. The coercion was the design working perfectly.

You were told these were accidents. They were the design.

[CityRocksBasketball @TheCityRocks]

We are back at 1:30 PM today for Day 3️⃣ of @NikeEYB Session 4️⃣ #CRFam 🟠

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Today, while mowing one of my lawns, I noticed there was some gravel in the backyard. I made sure to turn the mower off before going through that area so I wouldn’t risk throwing any rocks. As I was weed eating, I happened to notice a crack in the window of a vehicle parked in the yard. Even though I wasn’t sure where it came from, I wanted to do the right thing. I left a note for the car owner explaining that I had noticed the crack and that, if it had been caused by my mower or weed eater , I wanted to take responsibility.

Just a moment ago, she called to let me know the crack had been there before I arrived and that it wasn’t caused by me. I truly appreciated her honesty.

The lesson i want kids to know from this : always choose accountability. Even when you’re not sure, it’s better to be upfront, honest, and willing to take responsibility than to walk away wondering. Your character is defined by what you do when no one is watching.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This chart is insane.

Government-heavy sectors (healthcare, college, childcare) exploded in price... and got worse.

Competitive free market sectors (TVs, toys, phones, software) crashed in price... and got dramatically better.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Savannah of Port Jefferson,New York. She has proudly stepped up to take on the 50 Yard Challenge, committing to mowing 50 free yards for the elderly, disabled , single parents and veterans in her city . We’re so excited to have you in the family, Savannah —welcome aboard! Will your kids sign up next ?