Congratulations to Chris Gresham who is leaving the Erie County DA’s Office today after 25 years as an Assistant District Attorney. Thank you for your service.
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
Dr. Ben Carson reminded us that, historically, Democrats defended slavery, enforced Jim Crow, and opposed early civil rights. That history shaped how many Americans reevaluated party legacies.
Under President Trump, leadership prioritized law and order, economic opportunity, and unity—moving beyond past divisions. The takeaway: today's leaders should be judged by how they protect opportunity and safety for every citizen.
D-Day: Remembering Courage Beyond Measure 🇺🇸
Today, we remember the true heroes of #DDay — the Service Members whose bravery helped turn the tide of World War II and defend the freedoms we continue to cherish. Their sacrifice must never fade from memory.
#GreatestGeneration#WWII
I’m going to say something that may make some people uncomfortable, but at this point I don’t care.
I am tired of watching Black Americans refuse to ask the most important question in modern politics. For most of the last sixty years, Black voters have given Democrats somewhere between ninety and ninety-five percent of their vote. That’s not support. That’s loyalty on a scale few political parties in history have ever enjoyed.
So where are the results? WHERE?
When I drive through many of our neighborhoods, I don’t see the success we were promised. I see memorials on street corners. I see boys growing up without fathers. I see schools where a shocking number of children cannot read or do math at grade level. I see poverty that survives election after election while politicians return every few years demanding the same vote and offering the same explanations.
Before anyone changes the subject, blames somebody else, or starts reciting talking points, answer that question. Not with feelings. Not with corny buzzwords . Not with excuses. Answer it with results.
Because history is not a record of what Democrat politicians promised. History is a record of what actually happened. OUTCOMES.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
Good morning….there is a lot wrong with college sports right now….This is NOT one of them! So cool! Congrats to @WVUBaseball you guys are Super! #RoadToOmaha
Some classic Chevy Chase lines from Fletch, which is 41 today.
Under the laughs, it’s a tight, well-built detective story: drug trafficking, murder-for-hire, and a film-noir backbone; just brighter, with punchy one-liners.
Might rent it tonight. I’ll charge it to the Underhills.
I’ve noticed something interesting.
Whenever I ask Democrats to explain what happened to cities like Buffalo, Chicago, Baltimore, Portland, San Francisco, or Los Angeles, I rarely get an answer about those cities. Instead, I get BUT TRUMP... or a lecture about Trump.
I don’t live in Trump. I live in Buffalo NY.
When I see businesses boarded up, overdose funerals piling up, families leaving, taxes rising, and neighborhoods struggling, my question isn’t about a president sitting in Washington. My question is about the people who have been running these cities for years and, in some cases, decades.
If your policies work, then tell me how they work. Show me the city where ordinary working families are flocking in because life became safer, more affordable, and more prosperous. Show me the city where the results match the promises.
What I’m not interested in is another argument about personalities. I don’t care whether you love Trump or hate Trump. That’s not the discussion.
The discussion is OUTCOMES.
If a city improves, let’s talk about why. If a city declines, let’s talk about why. But constantly changing the subject to a national politician whenever someone asks about local conditions tells me you may not be comfortable defending the local results.
So let’s keep it simple. Pick the city. Show the numbers. Show the results. Leave Trump out of it for five minutes and make the case for the policies themselves.
I don't think such city exists.
#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove