Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸

Jesus follower. Lover of my bride of 33 years and my two rock star boys. UM & Detroit teams sports dork.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:

Do not blame the French people for this.

We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.

Here are the numbers your media won't show you.

70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.

That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.

So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.

In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.

It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.

What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.

The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.

So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."

The French never chose this.

They were forced into it.

If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.

If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@UofmUpdates247 Same question I had…then after watching the first quarter, I went to bed.

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@CSayf23 Of course not. That would make sense…

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@devingardnerXCI @TheBluePrintUM Bring it!!

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@GBM_Wolverine Yup…you’re crazy. I keep falling for it, but not this time. 😁

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@BriceMarich Truth!!!

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@VictorsDucky I still don’t think that he’s the issue. Same as Lindsey last year. They are handcuffed by our 5 Star QB. He doesn’t see the field and looks like he’s struggling to make the right reads…if he’s reading anything. They try to dumb it down for him. Time to move on.

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@m_bultman “Incompetence is, incompetence does.” - Forrest Gump

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@EmilyCWaldon @Padres Let’s go, @Padres! Take care of this gem!

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@NatSparbeck I care! Man…I had such high hopes for this year.

[Erik Aratari @_E_Rock_]

We won't have a winning hockey team with this guy as an owner. Very likely for the Tigers too.

[Jake @313Hockey]

How can Chris Ilitch say “we want to make Detroit a destination for players” when he can’t even make it a destination for guys already on the team?

[Honolulu Blues @HonoluluBlues_]

Chris Illitch really said “oh you hated how I run things for the Tigers….. watch this”

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

Dear Ilitch Family…
SELL THE TEAMS!!
You’re ruining this great sports town! Shame on you!

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@AnnieAgar @WhiteSoxJoy @whitesox If I have a chance to go to any game, I go! Hope you had fun!

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

🦋

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@RedWingDiehards I never was feeling good about it! 🤷🏻‍♂️ Sadly, I’m not surprised.

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@BentleyScotty Fail…

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@beckjason They had a chance to do something really good…but they chose a name that’s on Minor League parks. Swing and a miss, boys.

[Cliff Washburn 〽️🇺🇸 @doubleneves]

@HMAN84 Sadly, Coach Glenn’s time management was brutal.