Stephen L Dinkins Jr

[Stephen L Dinkins Jr @SLDinkinsJr]

I know 2 things. I am a great sinner and Jesus is a great Savior. - John Newton
@TruthForLife @AlistairBegg #grateful

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

A major reason soccer will never supplant America’s core professional sports is because we value physical bravery above all other attributes in our sports stars.

Curt Schilling’s bloody sock.

Ronnie Lott chopping off the tip of his finger so he could stay in the game.

Mark Bavaro dragging half the 49ers’ secondary while his broken jaw was wired shut.

Michael Jordan having the best game of his life with a 103 degree fever.

Willis Reed limping onto the floor for Game 7.

Lou Gehrig playing with ALS until his body said “no more.”

Dave Dravecky pitching so hard that his arm had to be amputated.

Kirk Gibson hobbling to the plate in the 9th.

Tiger Woods winning the US Open on a knee that days later required reconstructive surgery.

Kerri Strug sticking the landing on her busted ankle for the gold.

Sure, we have our LeBron Jameses acting like little babies, but the one thing I learned about futbol during the World Cup is that acting like a little injured baby is not only not frowned upon, it is ENCOURAGED as a strategic advantage.

Americans want stoic heroes who persevere through pain. Soccer ain’t that, at least not in the day-to-day elements of the game.

That’s why soccer will never be anything other than second-rate in the USA.

[Rich Lowry @RichLowry]

I know countless millions of people love soccer, and it can be a thrilling game, as we witnessed repeatedly during the World Cup, but it suffers from a fundamental structural flaw.

Because offense is in such short supply at this level, scoring is highly dependent on penalties.

This means that scoring often comes outside the normal flow of play, and incentives flopping and pretend injuries that are unworthy of grown men—you think someone rolling around the turf in agonizing pain is going to have to be transported immediately to the hospital, then you look up and he’s played another 45 minutes, no problem.

Then, there’s the courting of artificial penalties—a player steps in front of another, gets bumped, and proceeds to pretend he got shot.

Whatever the other merits of soccer, this stuff is a blight on the game and brings an element of low comedy to even the highest-stakes competition.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Sunny Hostin: "No one is above the law"

Sunny Hostin now: "How dare you arrest my son? My name is Sunny Hostin!"

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

"If your mom and pop shop can't compete with the wealthiest municipal government stealing 30% of your own revenue + tax $$ from 8.5 million people to undercut your prices, you shouldn't be in business"
Socialists are truly the dumbest people on earth.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This speech by @marcorubio mostly flew under the radar, which is really unfortunate.

Take the time to listen. This is Churchillian, this is Reaganesque. Our future is bright, America! #48?

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

The ignorance of the Left…
The Indoctrinated Leftist who calls the person who wants to have conversations a fascist and kills him is himself the real fascist.👇👇👇🇺🇸 https://t.co/7f5BPfI48P

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

One day people will look back at this brilliant speech by @StephenM and see it was a turning point. Only America has the will to restore beauty and order and normalcy, and if it happens it will be thanks to statesmen like this

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

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[ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸 @BarronTNews_]

🚨THAT WAS QUICK: The Pentagon has formally announced the IMMEDIATE lifting of the suspension for the South Carolina National Guard Apache pilots who went LOW FORMATION along the beach for America 250!
“Effective immediately, the suspension of all involved South Carolina pilots has been lifted.”
Pete Hegseth: “We’ll fix this. Carry on, Patriots.”
These warriors gave the crowds on the shore an unforgettable salute to America’s 250th birthday and the bureaucrats tried to ground them for it. Real leadership said NO.
This is how you support our troops and celebrate America First. 🔥
Who else is cheering these pilots on?

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Tanning Salon Don @TheSalonDon]

Everything that got more expensive is funded by the welfare state

Everything that got less expensive is a free market item

Absolutely insane chart

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The most Americamaxxing movie scene that was ever filmed. No contest.

[Stephen L Dinkins Jr @SLDinkinsJr]

What a blessing to be born in the USA. I’ve been watching the documentary on Netflix and reminded of how courageous our founding fathers were how much they valued liberty. Proud and thankful to celebrate America 250 🇺🇸!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Drone operator sends 2,500 drones into the air for a drone show celebrating America's 250th birthday in North Richland Hills, Texas.

"...For America 250, we celebrate in style!" said Sky Elements Drones.

Remarkable.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

"If you want to hate our country, turn on the news.
If you want to love our country, drive across it."

Inject it into my veins.

[BostonWriter @bostonwriter]

If this sort of thing doesn’t stop you in your tracks and make even the slightest twinge of pride rise in your soul… well… I feel sorry for you.

[Tom Ascol @tomascol @tomascol]

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, & humbly to implore His protection and favor.”

—President George Washington, 1789

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:

“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

“And what about our sins? Slavery was the original sin, and I won’t sand it down. The founders knew it. Jefferson knew it, and he owned slaves — the hypocrisy was staring right at them, and they kept kicking the can down the road. But here is what a poisoned telling of our history leaves out: the New England colonies began rejecting slavery before England itself did. And when the reckoning finally came, hundreds of thousands of men died on battlefields to make other men free. “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,” read the original lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. That’s propitiation. One man suffers so others go free. A nation that will bleed that much to right its own wrong is not an evil nation. It is a great one, straining toward becoming a more perfect one. We had a black president. We had a black vice president. Our Secretary of State is the son of Cuban refugees. Anyone telling you the story that nothing here ever gets better is selling you something.”

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