Exhausted Hockey Dad

Husband, Dad, NYC Teacher, Hockey & Sports video enthusiast. Retired Musician, loves the Disney Parks.

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@20th_Centurygal Metallica 1988 Monsters of Rock at the Meadowlands!!!

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@TheSports_Shift This duo! Classic uniforms!

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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

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."

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@Notwokenow My first experience with chimichangas and fried ice cream!!!!

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[PhillyGodfather ® Sports Bettor @phillygodfather]

The saddest part about the Chicago Bears leaving Chicago is the citizens of Chicago ironically are to blame because they kept voting in the Democrats.

The one thing the fans loved the most is now gone because the people you voted into office let it happen.

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@EchoOfVeritas @ClownWorld Oh she knows it. That's part of the plan.

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@PureCamai Show yourself some grace and keep trying. You got this. God bless.

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@HawkEmDownChris True. FOUR IN A ROW!!!

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

I despise the media for trying to turn NFL players and fans against Jaxson Dart.

It is despicable.

However much you hate the media, it is NOT ENOUGH.

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@disneytipsguy I don't know. I haven't seen any of them. 🥺 Dammit WDW Orlando!!! They are probably all amazing!!!

[C3 @C_3C_3]

NFL Crimes the last year and no one cared:

DUI/DWI
Animal Cruelty
Assault/Battery
Drug Possession
Reckless Driving
Domestic Violence
Obstruction of Justice
Fraud/Financial Crimes
Gun/Weapons Violations

But Jaxon Dart introducing the POTUS is causing outrage.

Think about that.

[Hunter Eagleman™ @Hunter_Eagleman]

NFL: “Stop Hate” on helmets?

How about “Stop Assaulting Women”?

Or “Stop Selling Drugs”?

Vague slogans are easy. Real accountability isn’t.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Here's what they've normalized and are trying to reinforce with the Jaxson Dart situation:

Black people can be offended by what white people believe. But white people can't be offended by what black people believe.

It's legal to love and worship Barack Obama. It's illegal to love and worship Donald Trump.

Unsustainable.

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@EJUnderTheRadar @postcrabcore 👆

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@otokyo @Kellyjdwyer2 Open the drain.

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@ThatMagicalFam @Disneyland @DisneyParks Always ride! Enjoy it a bunch. Yes, I wish it was still the Great Movie Ride but MMRR is still fun.

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@disneytipsguy Definitely a 9.