Before I visited Pennsylvania, everyone warned me that Philadelphia people are the toughest, most impatient people in America.
I believed them until I walked toward the front door of a Wawa gas station.
I was still forty feet away in the parking lot, walking between rows of cars.
A massive construction worker in steel-toe boots, carrying a twenty-four-ounce coffee in one hand and a paper-wrapped hoagie in the other, pushed open the glass door to leave. Then he saw me.
He stopped. He planted his boot against the bottom of the door. And he waited.
Forty feet is a very long distance when a grown man is holding a door for you in the wind.
In Japan, to make a stranger wait carries great shame. So I broke into that awkward half-jog every man performs when he wishes to show gratitude without looking like he is fleeing a crime.
"Go ahead, boss," he said as I passed.
Ten minutes later, as I walked out with my own sandwich, I saw an elderly woman locking her car thirty feet away.
I planted my foot against the glass. I held the door.
Another man behind me held the inner door. Within seconds we had formed an impromptu honor guard of grumpy men holding glass doors in complete silence.
Philadelphia may boo Santa Claus.
But inside the three-foot radius of a Wawa doorway, they have the manners of the imperial court.
@Y192814512@vappa101@The__RedDot First off, the artist is a woman. Second off, you are a troll.
Thats it, im not gonna argue with a troll, id have better luck beating my head against a wall. Eat a dick ya miserable prick
JEPANG INI KENAPA MALAH DIROASTING RAKYATNYA SENDIRI? 😭🇯🇵
Lagi viral kompilasi kostum peserta ajang pria internasional. Negara lain tampil megah, kostumnya mewah, auranya kayak raja dari kerajaan antah-berantah.
Giliran Jepang muncul, LAH KOK MALAH KAYAK NINJA JADI-JADIAN DARI DESA KONOHA? WKWKWK. 💀
Kostumnya berasa terinspirasi dari ninja atau Hokage di Naruto, tapi netizen Jepang justru banyak yang kecewa.
Ada yang bilang kualitasnya kayak pentas seni sekolah. Ada juga yang minta Jepang tampil ulang pakai kostum samurai.
Gue malah heran. Jepang itu rumahnya Naruto, One Piece, sampai segudang anime legendaris.
Tapi begitu bawa nuansa anime ke panggung internasional, rakyatnya sendiri malah teriak minta remake. 😭
INI UJIAN CHUNIN APA UJIAN KESABARAN NETIZEN JEPANG? 💀
This has literally never happened, not once, anywhere, ever.
Teachers have to buy their own fucking erasers because the school won’t pay for classroom supplies. Who is paying for the hormones and surgeries?
Your kid goes missing for three days and you’re not filing a fucking missing persons report? That would actually be kidnapping. Not to mention there is no state in the US that allows kids to get HRT or gender reassignment surgery without parental consent.
I have no idea how anyone believes this is real.
The only thing schools are doing is respecting when a child wants to be called a different name. Just like if someone named Jessica wants to be called Jess or Jessie instead.
🚨 This Katie Zacharia story keeps getting more interesting.
Trump’s new press secretary reportedly has a law degree but no verifiable U.S. law license. She claims to have passed a bar exam in China, where foreign nationals aren’t eligible to take the Chinese bar exam or practice law in China UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Her LinkedIn bio says she worked at a Chinese law firm, Zhong Lun, while living there from 2011-2013. Foreigners can work at Chinese law firms for the purpose of advising on the law in the countries in which they are licensed to practice law. But she wasn’t licensed in the US, so what did she do at that law firm?
But wait there’s more.
Zacharia’s resume and Linked In claim she was GENERAL COUNSEL, from January 2024 to March 2025, for Fix California, a conservative political nonprofit founded by Trump ally Ric Grenell to advance Republican interests in California. The organization reportedly identified her as its general counsel, too. Yet no record of her admission to any U.S. state bar has been found. She’s definitely not licensed in California. 🤷🏼♀️
And, according to its 2024 tax filings:
👉 Fix California reported approximately $557,000 in revenue.
👉 It reported ZERO employees.
👉 Zacharia received $27,367 for in-person and fundraising solicitation, NOT LEGAL SERVICES.
She also claims to be fluent in Mandarin Chinese. 😂 I’d LOVE to see her hold a press conference in Mandarin. She had a hard time speaking English yesterday.
The Trump Temu administration.
Remember when an old man Trump supporter heckled Obama and he encouraged the crowd to beat him while they chanted USA and then he insulted the old man's weight before he had police arrested the beaten Trump supporter?
Oh wait, my bad.....
@samlymatters May his Primanti's be soggy and his fries always missing. May his Iron City always be skunked and his Yuengling be flat. May his scraple be served lukewarm and without syrup, forever and ever.
@Daddy_Azrael @WritesCoco Much like my toddlers, Erika has a propensity to climb onto things and its adorable until they inevitably fall over and crack their head open while simultaneously sending the contents of the table flying
People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
Can never love this guy enough. He's already so fun with his weapon knowledge and stuntwork but also confidently tells people off when they push harsh beauty standards on him and his partner.
And yep, TRANS RIGHTS BABYYYYY 💖💙🤍
@trigs_a To add on to all of this, the WTC was constructed in a way to maximize floor space. This involved creating a sort of exoskeleton + truss system to support the floors as opposed to internal support beams. That was a huge factor in how the collapse occured
@JoknobWoozy@alexboge You do realize the Titanic was engineered to withstand multiple hull breaches from objects more devastating than an iceberg right?
I asked Vice President Vance about the widow of an airman killed in the Iran war who says her family can’t get all of their benefits because it hasn’t been officially declared a war.