Patrick Flannelly

Husband, Father, Friend, Veteran, Athlete, Urban Warrior, Thinker, Doer...

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@iamrodneysmith @Vet4America1 @WhiteHouse @WhiteHouse needs an 🇺🇸 lawnmower!

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@elonmusk Well, TBH, I didn’t realize people still watched any of these award shows.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

That is the best answer to the worst interview question! At least you're honest. #Winner, and I don't even like #Oreos!

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

😂🍪 This dude just walked out of a job interview and immediately recorded this in his car.

He knew the “biggest weakness” question was coming… brain completely short-circuited… and instead of the safe “I care too much” answer, he hit them with:

“Oreos. I’ll eat ‘em until the milk’s gone. Could be two, could be twelve.”

The way he says it with that deadpan delivery and then just accepts his fate is SENDING me.

Man, I genuinely feel bad for the guy… but I’m also dying laughing. We’ve ALL had that one moment in an interview where your brain just yeets itself out the window. Kid’s still out here job hunting. Somebody hire this absolute legend before he stress-eats the entire Oreo aisle.

Who else has completely bombed a “what’s your weakness” question?

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

😂🍪 This dude just walked out of a job interview and immediately recorded this in his car.

He knew the “biggest weakness” question was coming… brain completely short-circuited… and instead of the safe “I care too much” answer, he hit them with:

“Oreos. I’ll eat ‘em until the milk’s gone. Could be two, could be twelve.”

The way he says it with that deadpan delivery and then just accepts his fate is SENDING me.

Man, I genuinely feel bad for the guy… but I’m also dying laughing. We’ve ALL had that one moment in an interview where your brain just yeets itself out the window. Kid’s still out here job hunting. Somebody hire this absolute legend before he stress-eats the entire Oreo aisle.

Who else has completely bombed a “what’s your weakness” question?

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

I hate how good this sounds

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Sentiments of Venezuelans

I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.

If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing

Then shut the fuck up.

You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.

I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.

This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.

Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.

My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.

Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.

And everything died.

Not slowly.
Violently.

People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.

They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.

People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.

They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.

So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”

No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.

China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.

They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.

If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity

Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.

Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.

This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.

Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.

If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation

Then again
Shut the fuck up.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.

By Stephen Subero

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@BoiledSports @CraigCartonShow @craigcartonlive I gave him a pass on the first one, but when he said it again I realized why I’d never heard of this guy.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

You don’t speak for the American people. Disagree all you want, but you don’t speak for me.

CDC data from 2021-24. 70,601 + 73,838 + 72,776 + 48,422 = 265,637 deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (T40.4) (the standard CDC proxy that “includes fentanyl”).

How did that improve life in our own country?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: This Venezuelan man is going viral for explaining to everyone why Maduro NEEDED to be toppled

The Democrats are clueless.

“Venezuela has already been invaded.” 🔥🇺🇸

He knows his country.

The people are ecstatic.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@sbell021 lol! They could have scored 140 if the wanted to.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@AdamSchefter Dang you @brockpurdy13 … trying to make me a 9er’s fan! And I was so mad at you for shredding our @Colts. #WellDone. Proud of you for paying your success forward and sharing with those who could use some help! 🇺🇸

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

One year after giving trucks to his offensive line, Brock Purdy gave nine vehicles to 49ers’ fans in need — military veterans and families with children battling pediatric illness.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@CBBAnalytics @BoilerBall @TCUBasketball @KentuckyMBB @KyleTucker_ATH @DerekSTerry @Killer_Frogs @mattcharboneau @aaron_breitman @JeffRabjohns @johnfreeman

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is asking Americans to dress “with some respect” while flying, as part of his campaign to restore civility to air travel. “Let’s try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport,” he continued. “I think that’s positive.”

Any chance we could add @Walmart to the this list? Asking for a friend.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@AlBuffalo2nite 2

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@TheFigen_ Definitely Godzilla.

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@DC_Draino Nope. Some good men in this post.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher drops a reality bomb on Zohram Mamdani voters with a brutal history lesson on socialism.

“We’ve run this experiment many times, and the results are always obvious,” Maher said.

He looked straight into the camera and delivered a blunt warning about Mamdani.

“Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it’s the Republican Party.”

“Here’s capitalist South Korea at night from space,” Maher presented, showing a country lit up and thriving.

“Here’s socialist North Korea,” he followed, with the map pitch dark.

“Yeah. In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet style economics, went all in on capitalism and now their economy is as big as Japan and people there have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes.”

“Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez’s socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism in the last century or any century, a f*cking mess.”

“It turned one of Latin America’s richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing. If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you’re in for a rude awokening.”

[Patrick Flannelly @OmegaFlan]

@NickAdamsinUSA @ThomasMHern Indiana IS doing the right thing.