Julien Fountain

Cricket, Baseball & Softball Coach | Follower of Christ | Phil 4:13 | 🇬🇧 but 💕 TX 🇺🇸 | #Texas | Pro Life 1A 2A | Represented by @ICAssociation

[Julien Fountain @JulienFountain]

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[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Welcome to Houston Freddy

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[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Have y'all seen any of the countless videos of Europeans in the U.S. for the World Cup that are flooding social media right now? They are the best, funnest things I've seen in forever. I've been brooding/depressed for the past couple of weeks, but seeing British people discover Buc-ees at 2:00 a.m. is just the absolute best palette cleanser. I just watched a young Dutch man who had rented a Dodge Ram truck and he's driving along, and he said "I've been driving for five minutes and I can't stop smiling. I'm driving a RAM pickup truck! In America! " And whoever is filming said "How sick is that?" and the young man said "FREEDOM FOREVER!" I watched a British couple who overnighted in Amarillo and the young woman was going on and on about how open and friendly Texans are. She said they were just walking down the sidewalk and they had three different conversations with various people. She said (paraphrasing)"That would never happen in Britain, where everybody is so reserved, almost depressed, and keeps to themselves."

Mind you, I'm not saying that everything in the U.S. is so great or anything like that, just that it really does my poor old Texas heart good to see this place through the eyes of others. It's easy to get bogged down in fighting with one another (over things that are unimportant or even made-up issues) and not see the forest for the trees. This young Dutch man who was driving a RAM pickup truck that he'd rented was on a wide open highway, driving a vehicle approximately three times larger and three times higher off the road than anything he'd ever driven before --- and was positively giddy over something that we Texans take for granted.

Watching these videos makes me feel a bit foolish, actually, for being down about some stuff that is ultimately inconsequential. Also, it appears that y'all are doing a really good job at making these folks feel completely welcome ---- which of course comes naturally to any Texan ---- to the point that some of them are saying things like "I never want to leave." When you think about it, tasty brisket sandwich at 2:00 a.m. is a pretty miraculous thing. Here's a little video that's sort of an overview of what I'm talking about.

https://t.co/8fFvXpGNu8

[Česká fotbalová reprezentace @ceskarepre_cz]

Česká reprezentace, která během základní skupiny pobývá v texaském městě Fort Worth, přijala pozvání městské samosprávy k návštěvě místní čtvrti Stockyards. 🇺🇸

Český tým navštívil také tradiční rodeo. Čtvrť Stockyards hrdě odkazuje na místní tradici kovbojství a Divokého západu. Právě zde se v roce 1918 uskutečnilo první halové rodeo na světě. Děkujeme za pozvání! 🐂🫶

[FH Group @FirstHand_Group]

Most organizations don’t have a strategy problem.
They have an execution problem.

Clear goals mean nothing without accountability, systems, and disciplined execution.

https://t.co/3VNo2OeTHl

#Leadership #BusinessGrowth #Strategy #Execution #Consulting

[FH Group @FirstHand_Group]

Organizations that adapt quickly will lead tomorrow’s economy.
Success today depends on more than ambition — it requires strategic clarity, operational discipline, and the ability to execute consistently in a rapidly changing business environment.
#AI #Transformation #Consulting

[Julien Fountain @JulienFountain]

@harveyspistols Wife just said “Wedding Anniversary’s coming up soon….”

[Harvey's Pistol & Pawn @harveyspistols]

Okay friends! This time the hold up is not my fault! Rascal's cousin was having to deal with a little riff raff in his backyard while he was out waiting for his grill to update. Rascal new a Glock 43X COA would do the trick for sure so he had to run one over. That got him to thinking one of y'all might need one too!

For this week's Harvey's Famous Weekly Giveaway Rascal has for you a Glock 43X COA 9mm handgun! The good folks over at @SummRidge have generously helped us out with the cost of this gun, again, so a big thanks to them!

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We greatly apprecaite you all and pray you have a great week!

Have a great start to grill updating season!

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I AM LIVING IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE — AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE WRITING THE SCRIPT

I have a confession.

I have been doing this — writing, posting, arguing, educating — for over a year now. Over 51,000 posts. I have seen a LOT. I have watched Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) hold up a giant letter of the alphabet like a kindergarten teacher who wandered into a Speaker's podium. I have watched Adam Schiff read fabricated phone call transcripts into the Congressional Record — on the record, in the United States Congress — and then explain with a straight face that it was "parody." I have seen things.

But this week? This week broke something in me.

Not in a sad way. In a "am I being pranked?" way.

--- LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT JUST HAPPENED ---

Democrats refused to fully fund DHS. That includes TSA. You know — the people standing between your grandma and her carry-on and the security checkpoint. Congress controls that funding. Article I. Section 8. That is not my opinion, that is the DOCUMENT. The Constitution they claim to love so much it hurts.

So the lines built. People missed flights. Airports started looking like the DMV on the last day of the month. TSA call-out rates at JFK hit FORTY-FOUR PERCENT. And who do Democrats blame?

Donald Trump.

The man who does not write the budget. The man who is not in Congress. The man whose job under Article II is to EXECUTE the laws, not write the checks. But sure. Him.

Now here is where I started looking around for Rod Serling.

ICE is funded. The same CR that left TSA short? ICE went through. So the president — and I want you to really absorb this — USED THE FUNDED AGENCY to fill the gap left by the unfunded one. Lines dropped. Average wait at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta fell under 40 minutes. Travelers were making their flights. Problem mostly solved.

The Democrats are FURIOUS.

No — really. Furious. That the lines got shorter. That people made their flights. That the plan to strand Americans in airport terminals and blame Trump for the chaos... did not work.

Quinn's Law Number 1: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. Every. Single. Time.

--- THEN CORY BOOKER SHOWED UP ---

Senator Cory Booker sprinted — physically ran — to an airport. Not to help. Not to push a funding solution through the Senate he sits in. No. He ran to a camera to deliver an impassioned speech about how ICE... is bad... at an airport where the lines just got shorter.

He did not mention Stephanie Mentor. He did not mention a single American family torn apart by criminal illegal aliens who were here because the border was left open for four years under Biden's Autopen.

He mentioned ICE. The agency that just helped people catch their flights. That one.

I want to be very precise here because precision matters: Senator Booker, you had the power to fund TSA. You sit in the building where that happens. You chose not to. The lines built because of YOUR inaction. The lines shrank because someone used available resources to compensate for YOUR inaction. And you are angry about the shrinking.

That is not a political disagreement. That is a man being upset that his plan to hurt people failed.

--- HERE IS THE PART THAT SHOULD MAKE YOUR BLOOD BOIL ---

This is not new. I need you to understand that.

Barack Obama. Government shutdown. Open-air monuments — places with NO roofs, NO staff, NO maintenance costs — were physically barricaded. They put CONES on freeway pulloffs so you could not even slow down on the highway to look at Mount Rushmore through your car window. No operational reason. None. The only purpose was to make the pain of a government shutdown as visible and miserable as possible, so the political blame would land on Republicans.

They spent money — actual taxpayer money and actual federal manpower — to make sure you suffered enough to demand the Democrats get what they wanted.

They did not hate conservatives. They hated you. Regular Americans. Using you as leverage.

Different year. Same party. Same play.

And here we are again. Same script. Different airport.

--- THE CODE PINK EPILOGUE ---

I almost did not include this part because I was not sure anyone would believe it.

The protesters who showed up OUTSIDE the Atlanta airport to rage against ICE — including Code Pink, the professional agitators — subsequently went on vacation. To Cuba. A communist country. Stayed in government hotels while actual Cuban citizens live without consistent electricity, cannot speak freely, and cannot leave.

These are the people who were just screaming about oppression at the airport where the wait time fell under 40 minutes.

I genuinely have run out of words. I tried to find them. They are not available.

--- THE BOTTOM LINE, AND I MEAN IT ---

The Democrats will not fund TSA. That is a choice they made. Congress controls the purse — Article I, Section 8 — and if you want to be angry at someone for the airport chaos, start THERE.

The president used the resources available. It worked. Democrats raged.

That is the whole story. I know it sounds too absurd to be real. I know it sounds like I am exaggerating for effect. I am a science teacher — exaggerating for effect is not actually my thing. Exaggerating for effect is what you do when you do not have the facts. I have the facts. Which is why I do not need to exaggerate anything.

They do not want a solution. They want you scared, stranded, suffering, and looking to the government — specifically THEIR version of the government — as your only possible source of relief.

That is the play. It has always been the play. And the only reason I am this angry about it is because it keeps working on people who do not know to look for it.

Now you know. Look for it.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher and former Army combat medic who, unlike most of the people causing this mess, actually reads Article I before forming an opinion about who controls the budget.

#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[ExposeIT⚡️ @RealWaKhan]

Feds Say North Texas ‘Visa Mill’ Dallas-area visa consulting operation spent 7years running what amounts to a visa mill, using phony job listings and sham payrolls to lock down H1B work visas & employer-sponsored green cards for noncitizens! https://t.co/tlbDONKGB7

[AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ @AwakenedOutlaw]

👀 4th Psychological Operations Group (4POG) Ghost Army logo.

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[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Check out the new White House webpage on the COVID-19 origins. It says all the quiet parts (about the origin of the virus) out loud:
https://t.co/Mtc0baVipB

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

The passenger’s claims are blatantly FALSE.

Sunny Naqvi, arrived at O’Hare at 10:21 a.m. on March 5, 2026.  CBP officers referred her to Secondary, for additional inspection based on law enforcement checks and conducted a baggage exam. Ms. Naqvi departed CBP within 90 minutes of her arrival to the United States.

Ms. Naqvi was not taken into custody or transferred to ICE for detention.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

6 years ago today Covid was declared a worldwide pandemic. It also marks the date video of Chinese people falling “de@d” on the streets from said virus, and being hauled off on flatbed trucks by men in hazmat suits. The greatest psyop of all time. Happy anniversary🖕

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

DEFINITELY DON’T VISIT https://t.co/nWMBrHOpHH 🤭

[Extra Innings UK: Baseball Around the World @ExtraInningsUK]

It took five days, but we finally met the @BallparkBugler, one of the highlights of #DaikinPark during the #WorldBaseballClassic. He told us he always loved the trumpets in Japanese baseball and wished U.S. baseball had them. One day he thought, 'Why not me?' Why not, indeed.

[Great Britain Baseball @GB_Baseball]

Great Britain requalifies for World Baseball Classic with defeat of Brazil https://t.co/FdWvFSp3w0

[Bat Flips and Nerds @batflips_nerds]

Realistically, there were 3 scenarios for @GB_Baseball

Go one better than last time - 2 wins
Secure automatic qualification - 1 win
Take a step back - 0 wins

GB led USA, out-hit Mexico, and led Italy, before picking up the invaluable win against Brazil.

Simply stunning, guys

[Great Britain Baseball @GB_Baseball]

Great Britain drops European Derby against Italy at World Baseball Classic https://t.co/p2koHyaVHq

[Great Britain Baseball @GB_Baseball]

Jazz Hands ✋ #allinGB🇬🇧
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