Eduardo Delecto

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

This 1982 Miller Lite commercial with Rodney Dangerfield, Dick Butkus, John Madden, Bubba Smith, Deacon Jones & others cannot be topped

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

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[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@AOC Cut the fraud, waste and grift, cut the spending and get the govt out of healthcare and people will be able to afford inhalers. Giving money to an ex bartender will not solve the problem.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

.@ScottJenningsKY just torched the liberal meltdown over Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire:

“All day long, I've been listening to liberals, count and spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success. Why is it immoral? Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our capitalist system, in the greatest nation on earth, to go out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars, give internet to half the world, all the things he's doing? Why is any of this wrong or bad? Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we want to discourage anybody building anything?��

Exactly. Success isn't a crime.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Progressives say the income gap between rich and poor is one of America's biggest problems.

But it's not true, says economist Don Boudreaux:

“Look at the data ... that gap is due to a statistical illusion."

More on that and other economic myths here:

[The Michael Knowles Show @MKnowlesShow]

How Democrats Steal Elections In 4 Mins

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@RoKhanna @BernieSanders how about cutting fraud and waste?

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Congratulations @ElonMusk.

Thanks to SpaceX's IPO, he's the first Trillionaire.

He didn't TAKE money from anyone. He CREATED wealth.

He launched satellites that connect even the poorest, most remote parts of the world.

Our world needs more MAKERS like Musk; fewer TAKERS like:

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@chiou16601 @SenWarren The government takes in enough money, we need to cut the spending

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@SenWarren How many millionaires were created today? How many people have careers because of Musk’s companies. His personal wealth is a fraction of the wealth he has created. We need people in the Senate who understand how an economy works. We need to cut government spending

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@RichardHanania @wil_da_beast630 How about we admit that you are a moron

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@NCAAChamps2012 @RichardGrenell he was never a patriot, always a grifter

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

average left wing "NGO" 😂😂😂

[MAZE @mazemoore]

POV you're having a beer with Graham Platner.

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@KeaneyBlueBlood @WestPineBills I would buy this shirt

[Shakes, A Large And Particular Man @TheFatAmerican]

I want to comment on John Cornyn losing his primary because I go to DC parties where I meet establishment guys and I know how they think.

Senate Republicans think they are the reason Republicans won in 2024. They think they’re the GOP’s secret sauce.

You think the GOP rode Trump’s coattails. They think Trump road their coattails.

In this world, Republicans won because Democrats went too far. Woke was too crazy. Republicans were moderate and sensible. Now, they have to keep the party that way or Republicans will make the same mistake the Democrats made.

They think in very outdated terms. Republicans will lose in 2026 because the incumbent party always loses. This is a political “rule”. They are 100% certain Republicans will lose. Therefore, anything Trump does to try to win the midterms is actually cope. You’re talking crazy. Crazy is bad.

SAVE? Deportations? That’s crazy. Crazy is bad.

“But if you redistrict and pass voter ID Republicans will win!”

Senate Republicans are not thinking like that. They’re thinking you’re nuts.

Passing bills, making law? They think that whatever mandate they had was squandered by Trump over controversies like Minneapolis and posting too many memes on Twitter. The GOP looks too crazy now. Well try again next time.

They’re actually doing us a favor. By doing nothing they’re protecting us from our own excesses. They’re helping us not look crazy. We had better thank them.

When you think of MAGA, you think of Donald Trump and reindustrialization and deporting illegal immigrants.

When they think of MAGA, they think of Marjorie Taylor Greene. They think of Roy Moore losing Alabama in 2018. They think of “grab them by the pussy”. They think of “they’re eating the dogs”. They think of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz and Alex Jones. They think of crazy people doing stupid things.

So, in every election since 2016, and maybe even before that, it’s Establishment Republicans who have saved the ticket from the worst excesses of Donald Trump and the Republican base.

That is what Senate Republicans mean when they say they want to “govern”. They want to pass budgets and workshop foreign policy.

That is why they still won’t implement Trump’s agenda. They think it is deeply unpopular, or will become unpopular even if it temporarily polls well. They think Trump only won because they saved his bacon.

So, John Cornyn.

John Cornyn lost because the base is deeply unhappy with Senate Republican leadership. Republican voters would probably replace a majority of Senate Republicans if you simply took a straw poll.

Senate Republicans know this, but think that Republicans voters almost always “come to their senses” because we all know Republicans can’t afford to be crazy. Democrats lose when they’re crazy. Republicans will lose the same way.

Sometimes the base has to be coerced or told what to do. That’s why they have to spend $100M propping up Cornyn.

Cornyn’s loss is shocking to them because it doesn’t make sense:

* Trump has “no reason” for endorsing Paxton over Cornyn. It’s crazy for Trump to do this. Senate Republicans save Trump again and again and this is how he repays them.

* The voters are out of control. The base is “supposed to” vote for Republicans anyways, so they should know we have to support moderates who can win. The fact that the voters don’t know this is more proof that Senate Republicans are the smartest people in the room.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

If you think that you're having a bad day, watch this 👇

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

No Trump judges, no voter ID SAVE Act, 50 bills already passed by the house in limbo.

Pardon my language, but this guy is a worthless piece of shit. He’s worse than a grifter Democrat. Fetterman has done more for the Republican platform than this weasel. Treacherous rat.

[Eduardo Delecto @EdHslu87]

@Greegs99 @Frank_Cusumano @RoccSTL SLU is higher ranked, so it is all downside for them

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.

Almost nothing they know is the full story.

Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled.

The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end.

Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian.

They marched anyway.

And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument.

The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering.

For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass.

Then the Greeks were betrayed.

A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded.

He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came.

So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name.

The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it.

They lost.

Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home.

Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame.

That's the world they lived in.

The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws.

A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it.

We remember 300 of them.

There were always more.