Anthony Fauci is the perfect exemplar of why pride is the root of all of the seven deadly sins. He is swimming in an infinity pool of grandiosity and narcissism. His need for validation from the cool kids (Hollywood celebrities) was greater than his responsibilities as a public health officials. It is a tragic tale of astounding self-love.
Totally agree with @conservmillen here. It’s important to remember the words of Our Lord: “Salvation comes from the Jews.” We Christians disagree w/Jews profoundly, but they are our older brothers — and today, they need our support.
Why is Israel getting blamed for trying to protect its citizens from hezbollah attacks? Iran funds and arms hezbollah, encourages them to kill israelis in israel and then blames israel for defending its own citizens. We should be focusing our anger on the iranian dictatorship not on a democracy fighting to protect its citizens
Yesterday I volunteered at the elections in Las Vegas. I checked in voters. I smiled. I did my job.
Then a woman walked in wearing a white shawl draped over her shoulders — red and green stripes, very deliberate, very visible. Gaza colors. Hamas colors. And I had to check her in, smile, and send her off to vote.
I was born in Israel. I came to this country in 1985 at 15 years old with nothing but hope for a better life. I love America. That's why I was standing there volunteering my time — because I believe in this country.
But here's what that woman didn't know.
My family doesn't just live in Israel — they are woven into its very existence. My father was born there in 1940. My mother in 1944. They were born under British rule, before the State of Israel even existed. They lived through its founding. They built their lives there. My aunts and uncles did the same.
I have 13 cousins, most married, all with children of their own. My brother is there. His son. His wife.
In Israel, military service isn't a choice. Every man and every woman enters the IDF at 18. My parents' generation served. My aunts and uncles served. Every single one of my cousins has served. Some are active right now. Some are in the reserves, one phone call away from being deployed.
So when she walked in wearing those colors, she wasn't just making a fashion statement. To me, that scarf represents rockets, tunnels, and massacres. It represents October 7th. It represents people who want my entire family wiped off the map.
I couldn't say a word. I was on duty. So I just watched.
And then I come home and find out a man with a Nazi tattoo just won an election somewhere in the USA.
I still believe in democracy/people. I do. But today it cost me something to stand there in silence while my heart was 7,000 miles away.
I just needed to say that out loud.
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."
A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.
If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:
1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.
Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?
Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.
Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a “hospital.” Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimes… the usual script.
Then June came.
The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnel… a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.
Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, that’s where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.
The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.
Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.
Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.
This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.
How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?
The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.
A lot of people ask why Generation Jones insists on being its own thing.
After all, we’re usually lumped in with the Boomers.
The answer is simple.
We may have been born during the Baby Boom, but we did not have the same formative experiences as the older Boomers, and we did not have the same upbringing as Gen X.
We were the bridge generation.
The oldest Boomers remember where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. Many of us do not. Kennedy was buried on my first birthday.
They were old enough to remember the optimism of the early 1960s, the moon landing as teenagers, and the cultural revolutions as participants.
Most of us arrived too late for that.
Likewise, Gen X grew up with personal computers, video games, cable television, and a world that was already becoming digital.
We didn’t.
Generation Jones grew up in a world that was almost entirely analog.
We used rotary phones.
We looked things up in encyclopedias.
We learned the Dewey Decimal System.
We used card catalogs.
We balanced checkbooks by hand.
If you wanted directions, you unfolded a map.
If you wanted to know something, you went to the library.
If you missed your favorite television show, you missed it.
There was no streaming service waiting for you.
But unlike previous generations, we didn’t stay there.
We had to adapt.
We watched computers move from climate controlled rooms into offices and homes.
We learned on mainframes and Wang systems.
We used Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.
We fed giant floppy disks into computers that had less computing power than today’s coffee maker.
We learned email.
Then the internet.
Then cell phones.
Then smartphones.
Then social media.
And now artificial intelligence.
Most generations learn one world.
Generation Jones learned several.
That’s what makes us different.
We are one of the last generations that remembers life before digital technology became part of every waking moment, but we were young enough to adapt and thrive as it arrived.
We didn’t just witness the technological revolution.
We had to reinvent ourselves to keep up with it.
Every decade brought another transformation.
Every decade required new skills.
Every decade demanded adaptation.
Perhaps that’s why so many Generation Jones people are independent, resilient, and skeptical of anyone claiming the world has always been the way it is now.
We know better.
We’ve lived through too many versions of it.
Generation Jones isn’t defined by what we were born into.
We’re defined by everything we had to learn along the way.
This was Hamas’s own PR: an 8-year-old hostage begging for her life. But they still won the PR battle, with the full support of Western media. If you are wondering why that is, you don’t know much about Jew-hate.
In case you were wondering what the last 12 hours looked like for Israelis:
💥65 rocket launches directed at our forces
💥 14 rockets launched toward Israeli communities, including Kiryat Shmona and Nahariya, 4 rockets on the town of Carmiel
💥 10 UAVs launched toward our forces and Israeli territory - including at civilians going to the beach
💥 2 anti-tank missile attacks against our forces
💥 Combat encounters with terrorists within the defense area