One reason the US is considering acquiring Greenland is to secure access to seafood that could potentially bring back unlimited shrimp at Red Lobster. - US official to the New Yorker
The "you didn't realize you can fix it" starter pack:
• Waking up at night to pee
• Dandruff
• Dark circles under eyes
• Struggling to get out of bed
• Sensitive teeth
• Gray hair
• Social anxiety
• Chapped lips
• Afternoon crash after lunch
• Cold hands & feet
• Migraines / headaches
Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.
Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.
So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.
But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.
Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.
He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.
And he loves it.
That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.
Crazy how the 40 hour work week is now maligned as ultra capitalism when in reality Henry Ford, a known neo-Nazi, popularized the 40 hour work week so his employees could have extra time with their family.
He also raised their wages because he believed ever Ford man should own a Ford car.
He was later sued from carrying out these pro-worker measures by these guys for "breaking fiduciary duty to shareholders"
An opinion that might have an edge to it: I don’t care how much “potential” he had or how he was a “good kid,” according to his family.
He murdered someone for practically nothing. A minor clash of egos that happens daily at schools around the world.
If he’s capable of killing someone for nothing, he is a danger to society. Period.
A proper society locks guys like that up for a veryyyy long time (or capital punishment) to prioritize the safety of others. A 19-year-old who can plunge a knife into a kid’s heart turns into a man who is capable of much worse.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Someone else’s life may have been saved by this verdict.
Lock him up. Give him a Bible. Pray for him. But do not ask me to have sympathy for the killer over his victim.
I’m glad Austin Metcalf’s family got justice and can begin healing.
Look at this. Just... look at it.
Dejontay Wings. Say that name out loud. Dejontay Wings. It sounds like the spicy menu item that replaced the McRib. Like an Applebee's limited-time offer. Like Dijon mustard achieved sentience and got a criminal record.
And that face. My God. The man has a face like a dinner plate. Perfectly round. Completely flat. The face of a man who has never once been in a hurry. The face of someone who looked at a Take 5 Oil Change safe and thought, yeah. That's the one.
A Take 5 Oil Change. He didn't rob a casino. He didn't hit an armored truck. He bypassed every possible target of sophistication in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and zeroed in on a fifteen-minute oil change franchise like a man following a divine calling.
The safe. There was a safe. At a Take 5. Guarding two hundred dollars. Two hundred dollars. That's not treasure. That's a Visa gift card you'd give to your mother.
He got arrested. Warranted. Photographed. Plastered on the local news for the whole city of Baton Rouge to absorb over their morning coffee.
Dejontay Wings committed a felony for two hundred dollars and that dinner plate face is going to live on the internet forever.
This is the funniest goddamn thing I have ever seen. I feel like I'm losing my mind.