M.

Cars & Music. Libertarian/Classical Liberal. Impressed by results not talk. American. Constitution. Freedom of speech. School Choice.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

"The bitterest pill to swallow isn’t physical pain. It’s the sudden absence of someone who genuinely wants to listen to you." 💔
​At 96, Clint Eastwood shattered our comfortable illusions about growing old, refusing to sugarcoat the harsh truth. He brought his trademark grit to a topic most people prefer to avoid, painting a stark, unflinching picture of what happens when a human being approaches a century of existence.
​"The light hurts your eyes, and even breathing can feel like hard work," Eastwood shared. "Your body just doesn't cooperate the way it used to, and every step requires a strategy."
​But the structural decline of the body is merely the surface. The real weight of extreme old age is emotional.
​Once you cross into your nineties, your social landscape undergoes a profound transformation:
​The people who shared your youth, your inside jokes, and your struggles have vanished.
​The circle of familiar faces shrinks to almost nothing.
​The phone stops ringing, and the pace of the days slows to a crawl.
​When the present becomes isolated, the mind seeks refuge in the past. Eastwood explained that navigating through old memories isn't mental weakness—it's a vital search for continuity.
​"You find yourself repeating stories, adding details, not to convince anyone, but just to feel like you’re still connected to something," Eastwood admitted. "You try to pass things down to the younger generation, even when you can see the boredom in their eyes."
​We live in a culture that treats longevity like a trophy, while totally ignoring the crushing loneliness that accompanies that survival. We praise the shiny, the fast, and the hyper-connected, leaving no space for the slow rhythm of the very old.
​Clint Eastwood may be a cinematic giant, but his words speak for every anonymous 90-year-old sitting at our family dinner tables. They are the living libraries of our history.
​The wrinkles on their faces aren't just signs of aging—they are a beautiful roadmap of a life fully lived. Slow down. Put away the distractions. It is a privilege to sit by their side and just listen. 🕊️✨
​#ClintEastwood #PerspectiveShift #GrowingOld #WisdomOfAge #HumanConnection #DeepThoughts #LifeLessons #EmpathyMatters #Loneliness #InspirationalQuotes

[M. @MingBlueTeaCup]

Inflation is when too many $ are looking for too much stuff. So value of stuff needs more $ to get.
Think of it as the score in a ball game. But in games it works out in the end. Government isn’t "printing" home runs.

[Scott McNealy @scottmcnealy]

Eliminate government schools and especially government sector unions.

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

They will not show you this on the nightly news: President Trump riding the Freedom Train, a full cavalry escort on horseback alongside him, celebrating 250 years of American independence. Pure patriotism.

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

Hmm, maybe the government shouldn't have gone all in on electric vehicles knowing the limits of the power grid.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I'd just like to remind people that the Constitution can be amended, there are direction for doing it right in the Constitution and everything

[Kailee Buller @BullerforNY]

I want to personally thank @johnrich for standing with Upstate New York and calling out the hypocrisy.

While elected officials like @GovKathyHochul and @JohnMannionNY22 remain silent, New York’s renewable energy mandates are destroying prime farmland, forcing unwanted solar and wind projects into our communities, and driving energy bills through the roof.

I stand ready to fight on the front lines with you to stop any further projects that hurt our farmers, our families, and our way of life. Thank you for having our backs while too many of our current elected officials fail us.

I have been, and will remain, on the front lines against New York’s destructive climate laws. Over the last month, I visited the site of the deeply unpopular Scipio wind farm, called for action, published an op-ed with my plan to fix New York’s state-created energy crisis, and released a 5-point plan to lower energy costs while making our energy supply more secure and less dependent on foreign countries.

Central New York deserves affordable, reliable energy and leaders who will protect our farmland, not sell it out to Albany’s agenda.

https://t.co/42VBGL0abF

https://t.co/Vpd1vPon90

[Bruce Blakeman @NassauExec]

The Hochul-Mamdani Team is the reason New York is unaffordable and unsafe.

I have a record of cutting taxes, lowering costs, and balancing budgets.

I’ll bring that same record of tax relief to all New Yorkers as Governor.

[M. @MingBlueTeaCup]

US Citizenship not automatic for children of citizens born overseas. https://t.co/j6BIiBfmUN via @YouTube

[M. @MingBlueTeaCup]

Obtaining U.S. Citizenship for a Child Born Abroad https://t.co/kbHQat3MG9

[M. @MingBlueTeaCup]

As of today…a child born to a woman who’s just snuck across the border illegally has "birthright" citizenship.
A child born to an American mother outside the US has to meet Congressional criteria to claim citizenship which could be lost if they spend too much time elsewhere. 👎

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

.@SpeakerJohnson,

Please attach SAVE America Act to the text of the National Defense Authorization Act.

This isn’t coming from just me — I’m speaking for millions of voters.

[Westchester Resident @Westchester_Res]

Great news!

Feds accuse New York of violating USDA standards over use of farmland for solar projects https://t.co/U5rL3GzTGj

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

This is the aerial footage ORES doesn’t want you to see.

This is what they’ve done to one rural Upstate NY town. Over 6,000 acres of land has been sited for commercial solar.

The Hamlet of Byron is only 400 acres in size.

And there are other solar complexes beyond the ORES monstrosities here.

The people from there write to me and tell me they’ve had to mourn their home. The graves where their parents are buried are now surrounded on 4 sides by Chinese solar panels.

The farmland is gone. The animals displaced. Roadkill by the perimeter fencing in every direction.

No one’s electric bills went down. All of ours went up. They are using the delivery charge to socialize the failed rollout of solar and wind.

What pathetic amounts of energy it generates in our northern climate isn’t for Upstate at all. It’s for NYC.

We’re districts in the Hunger Games, bled dry for those in costumes over in the Capitol that laugh as they give our best land to foreign corporations.

I will never, ever forgive these people. They are anti-human, anti-environment, and anti-God.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

$125 BILLION.

That’s what New York City government will spend this year.

If New York City were its own country, it would have roughly the 41st-largest government budget on Earth.

Where did your money go?

$41B for education, roughly $50,000 per public school student every year, among the highest levels of spending in the nation, yet student achievement continues to lag in many schools.  

$19B for health and social services, yet New York’s Medicaid system has faced audits identifying $1.2 billion in potentially improper payments, another $1.2 billion paid on behalf of possible out-of-state recipients, and repeated multimillion-dollar fraud schemes.

$13B for public safety, even as overtime keeps climbing and streets are less safe.

$11B for pensions and benefits.

$8B just to pay interest on yesterday’s borrowing. That’s roughly $25 million every single day, just to pay debt service on New York City’s debt.

$5B for homelessness and housing, while the crisis persists. With approximately 88,300 homeless New Yorkers, thats about $56,600 per person each year, or nearly $4,700 a month.

Government keeps getting bigger. Bureaucracy keeps expanding. Taxes keep rising. But the results never seem to catch up with the spending.

New Yorkers aren’t being asked to fund government anymore, they’re being asked to finance an ever-growing bureaucracy with too little accountability.

This is what a runaway government looks like.

I will audit the NYC government on January 1st, 2027

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Confirms what I’ve been saying:

Patriotism must transcend politics.

I’m deeply grateful and proud to be a citizen of this great country.

Happy 250th birthday to the best nation, now and forever. 🇺🇸

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Wait so the guy who's always screaming about taxes and oligarchs and 'hoarding wealth' lives in a $6m home with a four story elevator (that he's moving out of because he bought an even bigger one) and his pre-teen children own THREE golf courses and have a major stake in a $65 BILLION DOLLAR wealth management fund? And up to $73 million in irrevocable trusts that cannot be taxed?

All of which he inherited himself from his father who built an auto parts empire in Cleveland?

Once you understand that all of the socialists are actually just spoiled rich kids who hate everything, it all makes a lot more sense.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Some people's primary objective on Earth is to be miserable and to spread misery to others.

I recommend staying away from them.

[Elizabeth MacDonald @LizMacDonaldFOX]

Mamdani left out here the one-off gimmicks-$2.3 billion in deferring costs for four city government pensions and an $8 billion bailout from the Governor. And the “fiscal crisis” is driven by overspending. His adopted FY 2027 budget is approximately $125.8 billion, the largest budget in New York City history. It increased spending by about $10 billion (roughly 8.5%) from the prior year’s adopted budget of about $116 billion. It’s bigger than the entire state of Florida which has four times more people.