He purchased an ice cream truck not for profit, but to create a brighter future for his children.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Joel Wegener, a father of ten, sought meaningful employment, self confidence, and independence for his two adult children with Down syndrome.
In 2021, he acquired an ice cream truck and launched Special Neat Treats, a family operated venture rooted in love, purpose, and community connection.
His children actively participate by serving customers at neighborhoods, schools, and local gatherings, gaining valuable work experience while spreading happiness to those they encounter.
Yet this initiative extends far beyond ice cream.
It represents dignity. It represents opportunity. It represents the belief that every individual deserves the chance to thrive. Customers arrive seeking treats, but they depart with something far more meaningful: the inspiring message that love can create more than a business.
It can build a promising future, one scoop at a time.
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
Here's another one for you, @JDVance
Since you're such an avid social media user, I can't imagine you missed your boss threatening legal action against a television network for bringing back a comedian who makes fun of him
https://t.co/eI6MR2VXnH
I think the suggested context in the community note says it all, Mr. Vice President.
Not sure why it's so difficult to give people the full story: detainees were murdered by a sniper, and "anti-ICE" was found on a bullet.
This seems to happen quite a bit with you:
1) "It is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far-Left." Not a statistical fact, not even what the single online poll you cited says.
2) You threatened George Soros' Open Society Foundation based on a lie that they funded a Nation article you didn't like. They did no such thing.
3) You got another community note after accusing the Wall Street Journal of fabricating the existence of Trump's birthday note to Epstein...because Congress obtained the letter.
4) You accused me of not reading a court document that you cited as proof that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a "convicted MS-13 gang member." He is not, the document didn't say that, and your tweet ended up as evidence in a trial the government lost.
I could go on, but you get the point. Have a blessed day.
@PlumberWesley@Acyn I'm going to hurt you a little. Your president has the lowest IQ of any president of any state in the world, since the word President has existed. Sorry. It'll take you a few years to recover, if you ever do.
Trump: You understand and we will be reducing drug costs over the next year by not 50 or 60% but by 1000%… Because if you think of a $10 pill -- it will be raised up from 10 to 20 because it's the world versus us, the world is the bigger place.. so it will go from 10 to 20… for them which is bearable. And it will go from 10 to 20 for us.
@Acyn #5. Trump retells the same dumb lies constantly. Repetition of the same things are called Korsakoff's Syndrome often associated with advanced Alzheimer's.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on today’s ruling: “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”
RETWEET if you stand with Justice Sotomayor!