Chris Bradley

Retired, fun but a bit cranky when warranted, and mostly a Christian and proud American. Older, married, and generally do not DM.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Abdul El-Seyed deleted this post.

It would be a shame if it went viral.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

What a dork.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo entered this interview believing he was a new Socialist Star and Political Kingmaker, even having a say in the next US President.

Instead, he embarrassed The DSA, and sent journalists digging into his life story that turned out to be an entirely fabricated story.

Here is each lie from the interview.

He told Martha his family fled Peru because of American imperialism and the imposition of capitalism. They left during the Shining Path years. Maoist communist guerrillas.

His grandfather Manuel Gordillo was already a doctor in the US in and became a Citizen in 1964. Gustavo was born a US citizen. They did not flee American imperialism. They fled communist violence and came to the America, because his grandpa had already made it very comfortably here.

He says his parents had to work at Wendy's and cleaned houses. He leaves out the rest. Dad founded Draftpros, a telecom engineering firm doing tens of millions a year. His parents own a $3.1M house in Boca and another $3M place in Weston. They bought Gustavo a Bed Stuy row house through an LLC for under $1M in 2019. Now worth about $1.5M after they renovated it for another $1M plus for him. This same LLC paid his $2600/month Lower East Side rent before that.

The key thing he presents himself as is a Union Electrician even using the Handle @unionGustavo. This same Union said they terminated him from the apprenticeship in March for prolonged absence from work and classes. He was never even a journeyman and did it just to take some pics in a hard hat and gain a new line for his personality as a "Socialist Union Electrician". Very cool among the comrades to have a working class backstory right now, bonus points for made up persecution.

On Fox he said an immigrant run bodega deserves to go out of business to one of Zohran's government run grocery stores if they can't handle competing with a store using the treasury to offset their costs. He also said landlords have no constitutional right to double-digit returns. Same guy living in the house dad bought under an LLC for him, which is a great way to doge NYC taxes as well.

He made up a very cleverly crafted Immigrant struggle story, that was believed by all his Comrades and even The New York Times caught on to none of it, when they gave him a glowing profile piece.

Like Zohran, who claimed he was "someone from the third world", leaving out the part that his family lived in Uganda for 5 years of his life with armed security in a gated complex with mansion, staff, and a private pool.

They both grew up cushioned from the real world and never had to contribute to it. It's ok to grow up rich, but it's wrong to make up a lie, and fake victimhood complex.

They push the same “America bad” politics, with no gratitude for the country that gave them a more comfortable life than most Americans will ever have, including the people who actually built and maintain it, which they have never been and never will be a part of, no matter how much they play dress up.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

100% correct.

[George E. Pataki @GovernorPataki]

The @CBC refusal to call September 11 a terrorist attack is political correctness masquerading as journalism. Fear of being accused of Islamophobia cannot become an excuse for denying the plain truth. This is a shameful failure of moral courage.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

I don't know but I made my wife lasagne today because I'm going to be without her for our anniversary and her birthday. The cheese layer was supposed to be mostly ricotta but I only had half the recotta needed and subbed in burrata. I think I might get lucky later.

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I’m making pizza? What should I put on it?

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

I'll let you know if I make it.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

35 years in 9 days, unless she murders me.

[LadyValor @lady_valor_07]

They say the average MARRIAGE lasts about 8 years👀

Some couples make it a lifetime, while others take a different path.

How long have you been married?

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Well done gents.

[Chris Phillips @CPhilly19]

A massive upset on the first night of college football is so fitting.

Ladies & gentlemen, we’re back.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Completely loony.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This is a candidate for the United States Senate. Care to guess her party affiliation?

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

As a kid in the 70's, there were 3 albums that my friends and I were blown away by on the first play: this one from Boston, Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life", and Queen's "A Night at the Opera". Good times!

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Well done!

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

You Can See the Pride in His Smile 🥹

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

You Can See the Pride in His Smile 🥹

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Crazy idea, let's cut spending.

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

🚨JD VANCE JUST CONFIRMED IT ON CAMERA: SCOTT BESSENT HAS THE PLAN TO OUTRUN THE DEBT BOMB

VP lays it out clear as day:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been running a discrete plan — fully backed by President Trump — to get the American economy growing faster than the national debt.

“We are on track.”

They inherited a $40 trillion debt bomb from the Biden administration. Under that failed regime the debt was growing faster than GDP every single day. That was the crisis.

Trump’s team is flipping it. Right now. Every single day.

This is how you actually dig out of the hole the last crew left us in — not more spending, not more excuses. Real growth. Real leadership. America First economics in motion.

The debt is still too high. But the trajectory is changing.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

@GuntherEagleman Uhmmm. How about cutting spending?

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Make it viral.

[Skyler Duggan @SkylerDuggan]

Pierre Poilievre: “Any questions, anybody?”

Citizen: “I have a question.”

Staff: “From reporters.”

Citizen: “I’m a citizen.”

You genuinely could not script this better.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Respect.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

In 2013, Mariano Rivera announced it was his last season.

Every team in baseball lined up to give him retirement gifts. A gold record. A rocking chair made from broken bats. A fire hose nozzle from the FDNY.

He accepted all of it.

But at every single ballpark, he asked for something else first.

He wanted to meet the employees.

Not the executives. Not the owners. The ushers, the ticket sellers, the custodians, the grounds crew. The people who show up at 6 a.m. and leave at midnight and never get thanked by anybody.

The Yankees' media relations director helped coordinate it, working with each team to pull together a group.

And Rivera did it at stop after stop, all season long, in his final year, at 43 years old, while still closing games.

Here's what he told about 20 Rangers employees in Arlington:

"We would never have a chance to see you guys, and that's why I wanted to do this. That was important to me, to make sure to thank those that work behind the scenes. No one sees them."

In Cleveland, he sat down with 25 staff members for half an hour before a game.

And partway through, he stopped and asked a question.

"Where's the drummer?"

For forty years, a man named John Adams had sat at the top of the bleachers in Cleveland with a bass drum, pounding out a beat to start rallies. Every home game. Four decades. He bought his own ticket for the seat next to him so the drum could sit there.

Adams raised a drumstick from the back of the room so Rivera could find him.

Rivera's response: "Hey, you the man. Being loyal, being there day in and day out. I really respect that."

At Fenway, he finally met a man named Baz who had been a fixture in that ballpark for decades. Baz afterward: "Pretty special. I've got tears in my eyes."

In Anaheim, where Rivera made his major league debut in 1995 and got his first career save in 1996, he sat with longtime Angels staffers and listened to their stories.

At every one of these, he took a photo with every single person and handed each of them a signed baseball.

His explanation of the whole thing:

"I want to be remembered as a player that gave for others. It's not that I'm better than anyone else; that's not true. I have been blessed and treat everybody the same because I wanted to be treated like that. With respect."

And this wasn't a farewell lap by a guy limping to the finish.

He saved 44 games that season with a 2.11 ERA at 43 years old. He pitched a scoreless inning at the All-Star Game, which kept his career All-Star ERA at 0.00 across thirteen appearances.

He finished with 652 saves, the most in the history of baseball, and a 0.70 postseason ERA that will probably never be approached.

In 2019 he became the first player ever elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously. Every single ballot.

Not Ruth. Not Mays. Not Aaron. Mariano Rivera.

The greatest closer who ever lived spent his last season making sure the people nobody notices got to be noticed once.

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[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

@The_FJC Adriannnnnnnn!

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Truth.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

@RealJamesWoods Only someone who lives in LA would make this comment.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

@AmericaPapaBear She had brothers.

[Chris Bradley @HillsToTake]

Bro energy at work.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

J.J. Watt asked the internet for $200,000 to help Houston after Hurricane Harvey.

He hit that number in two hours.

He ended up with $41.6 million. The largest crowdsourced fundraiser in the history of the world.

August 2017. Harvey stalls over Texas and dumps an unfathomable amount of water on Houston. More than 300,000 structures flooded. At least 68 people dead. Entire neighborhoods underwater.

The Texans can't even get home. The team is stuck in Dallas after a preseason game, rerouted, watching their own city drown on television.

So from a hotel room in Dallas, Watt pulls out his phone and records a video.

He wasn't polished about it. He just said he knew the recovery was going to be massive and that a whole lot of people were going to need help getting back on their feet.

Then he put $100,000 of his own money in and set the goal at $200,000.

Two hours later it was funded.

And then it just did not stop.

A week in, it was past $18 million. Within three weeks, $37 million. Donations came from every state and dozens of countries. Kids sent lemonade stand money. Rival fanbases sent thousands. Corporations matched.

Late checks kept arriving after the deadline closed, and the final total came to $41.6 million.

Here's the part that separates this from a viral moment.

Watt didn't hand it to a single charity and walk away. His foundation spent a year distributing it across eight organizations: All Hands and Hearts, Americares, Boys and Girls Clubs, Baker Ripley, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, Save the Children and SBP.

Then they published exactly what it did.

More than 600 homes repaired and rebuilt. More than 420 childhood centers restored. Over 26 million meals distributed. Health care provided to more than 6,500 people.

Watt's own words about the responsibility: "There's a tremendous amount of responsibility that comes with the situation I was in."

And he went out and saw it himself. He described visiting a family in a house his fund had rebuilt, and then looking at the houses around it that were still wrecked.

He asked about the neighbors.

The answer was that they hadn't seen those people since. They'd just abandoned the houses and never came back.

That's what he took away from the whole thing. Not the record. The blocks that didn't get fixed.

His statement a year later put it on everyone else:

"The fundraiser that I started with a simple goal of $200,000 turned into an unbelievable outpouring of support from people all around the globe."

He was 28 years old. He had already won three Defensive Player of the Year awards. He was arguably the most dominant defensive player in football.

And the thing he'll be remembered longest for is a shaky phone video from a hotel room.

$200,000 to $41.6 million.

Because one guy who couldn't get home decided to ask.

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