When’s the last time you saw a gym like this?
This is the gym my mom and her two dozen cousins and siblings played in back in the day!
📍St. Paul High School — St. Paul, KS (population, 600)
@cdotharrison You’re right, at least against this Duke team. With the way KU played in the first half without DP, I really would have loved to see this game with him.
POWERFUL: Trump’s new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says Charlie Kirk inspired him to pick up the Bible for the first time in years.
“I can tell you, having gone to space twice and looking back on our planet, looking at the stars around us, it is very hard not to be spiritual. But it was only recently, in the last couple weeks, that I was inspired for the first time in a very long time to pick up the Bible.”
“I'll tell you why. It's because of Charlie, and it's for Charlie, and there's millions others just like me.”
“I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I’m supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
“But we aren’t ‘one people’ are we? The truth is we haven’t been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was. We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
“I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a ‘threat to democracy’ for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect. And now the ‘effect’ is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
“I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is. It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews [The war between the eternal and immutable God Jehovah versus the transient and mutable god of religious secularism] that cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and the other side will lose.
“Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences. And the other side murdered him. Not because he was ‘extreme’ or ‘inciting violence’ or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone.
“And he did it at the very institutions that have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives. I don’t want to stand in ‘solidarity’ with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness … and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
- Nicholas Freitas
I’ve never cried for someone I’ve never met.
And I’ve never lost sleep over someone I’ve never known.
It was Charlie’s authenticity, and knowing that can’t be replicated.
He was a once in a lifetime figure.
No one can fill his shoes, and that’s the travesty in all of this.
I had some conversations recently with young zoomer men under the age of 25 that were insightful, this will be rambling
To contextualize-My 0-10 years were all in the 90s
I remember $1 gas, the dollar menu, and a general spirit of people getting along. The breakdown was decades away still.
The guys I spoke with, their 0-10 was 2000-2010, or even a bit later. They were a mix of white, white hispanic, and mulatto. All citizens born in USA and college educated
Their childhood was seeing $3 gasoline, the failures of GWOT, and having no memory of 9/11
For them, America at war meant failure, lost lives, and wasted $$
They came of age during peak SJW/CRT/ WOKE
Anti white racism was normalized. Boys falling behind girls academically while still being shit on was normalized. Their teachers being largely woman and liberal harridans was normalized
They have no fond memories of Obama, they had vague sense that a black president was supposed to America had moved past racism
Then they watched racism get dialed up 1000%. No one is happy about this, racial animosity makes everything ugly, but it gets pushed.
The white guys get the obvious brunt of it, their "radicalization" is to be expected, but then the straight black guys get called the white men of black people, the hispanics become aware that theyre considered a low income labor class. Everyone thats a heterosexual male is getting flamed somewhere
The young men start to hate this, because why wouldnt they
They didnt vote for Trump the first time, they werent old enough
They did watch all the adults, the liberal, very uncool adults, all lose their collective minds for 4 years
We dont need to recount the era of Woke and its disasters
It all compounds,
Now they are being turned "right wing". They dont care about this label, its funny that adults are upset that they wont buy into the gross shitlibbery ,
their beliefs by their own admission are more grounded in rebellion to the slop that gets forced on them every day
Then Biden came into office, maybe this would be different....
Nope, now they watched the cost of living skyrocket, and everything gets worse. Name something, anything, it gets worse,
These are guys barely out of HS, or college, still in college
They have never known a time when everything wasnt disgustingly expensive, They have never known a time when societal functions, from customer service to institutions, werent all steadily declining
Then they see unchecked immigration, A LOT of it
They are competing with seemingly the whole world for jobs, every job is a flood of applicants. Entry level work is competition with illegals, every job requires a connection, you can apply to 10,20,30 jobs and never get a call back
"just apply for MORE"
Why? This is what it takes now?
H1Bs get brought over for jobs, WTF??!! Theres really NO Americans that can do those jobs
They get told by boomers to work harder. Bootstraps, back in my day, the usual tripe
The kids are correct. Back in their day life was more affordable, they dont want to hear that shit.
In the midst of all of this, they see sclerotic, geriatric class of politicians who seemingly do nothing constructive.
Trump at least is FUNNY. Hes offensive, in the way they like that makes the harridans shriek.
Democrats are the party of women, uglies, and gay men.
The mention the effects of legalized weed, classmates that end up drugged out
sports gambling, its fun and what does it matter, no one has $$ anyways and you if hit a big you can have a fun weekend
Some came form places with fentanyl. Stories of their hometowns where every 4th classmate gets into drugs, overdoses, they are the most hard right by far
There are not set paths, there are no reliable careers, and the only people who seem to have fun and make $$ and arent slaves to the bullshit system are influencers/content creators
Theres no such thing as quiet money, they grew up with social media. Everyone watches everyone, if you want status, you got to show it
And the biggest thing they all harped on, the HOUSING
the fucking housing. Coming out of college and everything is a $1000+ a month
This isnt for apartments, its to rent a room
You want to live in A tier city, you are going to pay for it
So you got roommates, but owning at their age home seems like an impossible dream, how tf do people even do that? You gotta be RICH, theres no other way.
-Ill end it there. The dating market is its own subject.
My impressions
-They are much more grounded than millennials. They feel they got lied to, the adults (especially older adults) fucked everything up, and now its on them to navigate all this and fix it somehow
-They all love to workout. Fitness culture is huge. The gym is the one largely non partisan and sane environment people can go to
-OnlyFans radicalized a lot of them with women and they are more discerning with who they date. Marriage is seen as more aspirational, they saw enough "older" millennials and Gen Xers who are perpetually single to get turned off to it
-They do in fact want to burn things down (metaphorically), and all the old shibboleths of Liberalism and political correctness and Woke they give zero fucks about. None of it means anything to them. They live in its cultural ruins and theres nothing worth redeeming
Overall I was very impressed. They are more politically attuned than we were at that age, less naive, more scrappy, testosterone driven, and they want to FIGHT for something.
"Can we just go back in society where hard work matters and humility's not uncool?"
After Shedeur Sanders fell out of the first round, @ColinCowherd wants to remind you: stay humble
@bobfescoe We’ve got to be close in age….this was my childhood, and it was awesome. I hate that my kids won’t get to experience that fully. We live in a small SE Kansas town, so there’s still a little bit of that, but with every kid having a cell phone, it’ll never be the same.