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Fight, fight, fight! I will defend the innocent. 🇺🇸America first, always. Freedom isn't free. Proverbs 15:14. MAGA/MAHA/MEGA.Phukk the dumbsh*t.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@BamaSaltyMarine 👀 yes, they dew.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@army1325air Lessons.

[ARMY1325AIR @army1325air]

Comfort is the most convincing liar you’ll ever meet.

It whispers that tomorrow is a better day to begin.
It tells you to wait until you’re more prepared, more confident, more certain.

But tomorrow becomes next week.
Next week becomes next year.
Before long, an entire life can be built around hesitation instead of purpose.

Growth has never come from playing it safe.
Every breakthrough, every dream fulfilled, and every meaningful chapter begins with a decision to step into the unknown before all the answers are clear.

Fear will always offer a thousand reasons to stay where you are.
Courage only needs one reason to move forward.

The greatest regret isn’t failing.
It’s looking back and wondering what could have happened if the chance had been taken.

The biggest risk in life isn’t trying and falling short.
The biggest risk is never trying at all.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@sayitnspinit Quite an evil way to be imo.

[The Nasty Italian🍷🇺🇸 🇮🇹 @sayitnspinit]

That POS isn't attending the 911 memorial to mourn. He's attending the 911 memorial to celebrate.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@EricLDaugh One big problem in America==Democrats!
Second big problem in America ==Rinos!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WTF?! Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine just started PANICKING that ICE is preparing to deport more Haitian TPS migrants in Ohio

"They can't work, won't be able to make a living! It'll be a BIG blow to the community...they came here to FILL [American] jobs."

NO REPUBLICAN SHOULD TALK LIKE THIS

"They bought homes!"

"For them to be lost will be a big blow."

Get all Haitian TPS migrants out of America 🇺🇸

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

EXCLUSIVE: Libs of TikTok obtained the CITATION that was given to the Christian preachers by the Ft. Worth Police after they attempted to exercise their Free Speech

They were cited for "Disorderly Conduct: Noise"

This CANNOT stand. This is a violation of the 1st Amendment.

The police who cited them should be fired.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@attackdogX So when Trump said shi*hole country, he was right?

[Mrs B @attackdogX]

Let’s see how productive Somalis are in other countries, prepare to be wowed (not)🥴:

72% of Somalis in the entire UK live in taxpayer funded government housing (70% in Wales)

50-60% of Somalis in Canada live in taxpayer funded government housing.

80% of Somalis in the Netherlands live in taxpayer funded government housing.

I could go on, but no need. It’s clear they are just leeches wherever they go.

Scamming, stealing, sucking taxpayers dry, just like they do to us in America because they are incapable of being self sufficient.

There is no good reason why they are in our country. They produce nothing, they contribute nothing. They only take from us & further dilute our votes at the same time.

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

This is a Chicago benefits office.

These women are going completely off — screaming, cursing, disrupting the entire place like it’s their living room.

No shame. No self-control. Just pure entitlement on full display while the rest of us work and pay for it.

Decades of Democrat welfare policy didn’t create independence. It created this.

Chicago is a failed city and scenes like this are the receipt. This scene is probably playing out at every other blue city/state benefits office every day.

[Victor Bigham 🇺🇸 @Ravious101]

Jorge Cortez, a USMC veteran was also ordered to take down a Trump “I Will Never Surrender” flag from his classic car at M Special Brewing Company in Goleta, California.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran was kicked out of a car show and threatened with charges over the American Flag he had on his vehicle, with organizers saying the flag was political.
Cortez said that the brewery’s Santa Barbara location on State Street has a tr*nsgender flag at the front door, pointing out that politics are permitted when they match the preferred viewpoint.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@BadgedPatriot 🤣🤣👍

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@dogwoodblooms We must endure the idiocy and hypocrisy from weak minded fools. Truth prevails.

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

A lot of folks jumped into my comment section last night to call Jeff Hartman of All American Hot Dogs in Cumberland County a liar, question whether Tractor Supply would throw a guy off their property for being a Trump supporter, and accuse me of being reactionary.

Let’s address that.

Is Jeff Hartman a liar?

I don’t know him and can’t speak to his character. I checked his public Facebook accounts. Neither has many followers. His personal account isn’t filled with political posts or rants. His business account has zero political posts. Photos of his cart setup depict no political messaging.

This aligns with what Jeff said in his video.

What about Tractor Supply? Would they really boot a guy off their property for being a conservative?

Folks have short memories. In 2024, Tractor Supply had a DEI policy, a climate change policy, and funded left-wing voting campaigns and social activities—all against their customer base’s values. That would have continued without Robby Starbuck.

Notice the company hasn’t addressed these concerns on X? Don’t expect them to. They stopped using their X account a while back.

As for me being reactionary? You’re damn right.

Memories are short. Less than a year ago, I went mega viral after my daughter and I got a tongue-lashing because I dared to wear a Charlie Kirk shirt in public.

I had no idea that post would leave my small X following.

Next thing I knew, my face was splashed across the world stage.

People called me a liar.

The Daily Mail said they’d interviewed me but never reached out. They cherry-picked my X feed in an attempt to smear me. My community called them out in the comments.

I received death threats.

It turned my whole world upside down.

So yeah, I believe Jeff. I have no reason not to.

Yup, I hope Tractor Supply suffers for this.

And yes, I am reactionary about the way conservatives are treated.

Zero apologies.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@TheRealGameGod Oops!

[ARMY1325AIR @army1325air]

Sometimes the hardest part is not the pain.

It is realizing that the people you trusted the most became the ones who changed you forever.

Not because they were strangers.
Because they were family.
Friends.
The people you believed would never let you fall.

The anger fades with time.
The tears eventually stop.
But the lesson remains.

You learn that trust is earned, not assumed.
You learn that peace is more valuable than being understood.
And you learn that healing begins the moment you stop carrying what someone else broke.

Some scars never disappear.

They simply become proof that you survived what was meant to destroy you.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

My story about pulling our son out of NC public schools to homeschool him reached far more people than I expected.

So I owe you the full explanation. Fair warning: it's worse than you think.

1) My son was in a class with many kids that could not speak the English language.

Zero English. None. Not a word.

You might be asking yourself... well, how did lessons occur in the classroom?

I'm glad you asked.

In fact, the way the teachers communicated with the Spanish-speaking only students was by using their personal iPhones as translators, speaking instructions into the iPhones, and the iPhones spitting out the Spanish instructions to the Spanish-speaking students, and then the Spanish-speaking students speaking Spanish into the iPhones, and the English questions/answers coming are read out for the teacher.

If you're exhausted just reading that...good. Now hold that feeling.

Imagine you’re an English-speaking student sitting in that same classroom, like my 5 year old son was.

Every lesson is interrupted while translations happen and naturally, the teacher’s attention is constantly divided.

The pace of learning slows DRAMATICALLY for everyone else.

The consequence is that the classroom stops being optimized for the students who can already understand the instruction and instead becomes an exercise in overcoming a language barrier that never should have existed inside an American, English-language classroom in the first place.

A place built to teach kids who are ready to learn quietly becomes a place mostly occupied with bridging a gap in language.

I don't think my five-year-old should spend one irretrievable year of his early schooling waiting at that bridge.

2) I saw the writing on the wall for the future of my county's school system and realized that not only was the future incredibly bleak, but downright aggressively woke in a way words fail to describe.

For multiple months, our school system allowed kids to:

a) Create Anti-ICE protest signs inside of the schools
b) Exit the school grounds, often WITHOUT SUPERVISION by ANYONE
c) Stand along busy highways and scream "FUCK ICE" for a few hours

Most shockingly, it was clearly encouraged by the schools, by leadership, and by many of the teachers.

That was political activism.

It gets worse... for years Buncombe County has forced biological girls to deal with biological males (who call themselves trans) to enter into girls locker rooms and bathrooms.

This has been happening for years and no one dared to try to change or speak up until very very recently... that should tell you a lot about what the school leadership believes and their political bent.

There is an evil lie that I see being spread by many that have condemned our decision to homeschool.

That lie is this:

“Public schools are neutral. By homeschooling, you’re only exposing your child to one side.”

This is a grossly evil lie.

In fact, the opposite is happening.

Schools are not neutral institutions simply because they are publicly funded; every school day has a limited number of hours, and every lesson taught means another lesson isn’t.

There is a finite amount of time in school, everyone understands this, which means priorities matter.

Every hour spent discussing political activism is an hour that isn’t spent on reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, or civics.

So when schools increasingly prioritize activism, identity politics, or current political causes... something else inevitably gets pushed aside.

Guess what? That’s not neutrality, that’s a choice.

What so many parents continue to discover is that their child comes home with a head full of ideas about the world that are purely one-sided because that's all there was time for.

Nuance is lost because nuance is time-consuming.

Is there TIME for nuance when half the class cannot speak English and you're speaking into a translator?

Of course not.

A child who can chant but cannot argue the other side hasn't been educated, they've been conditioned and the conditioners always, ALWAYS believe they're doing the child a kindness.

3) I'm fairly confident that today's school system is not designed for boys at all, it's purely designed for girls.

I'll give an example.

One of the schools in my area noticed that boys were throwing pine-cones (calling them grenades) and playing with sticks (calling them guns and swords).

This made the girls in the class uncomfortable.

So the school banned the boys from playing with sticks or pinecones outside, saying that the boys were playing "violent games" and should stop.

One group's nature (the girls) became the rule.

The other group's nature (the boys) became an problem... and once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Classrooms rewards staying still, staying quiet, non-aggression, obedience.

So ask yourself honestly... if you designed an institution that graded children partly on their ability to sit motionless for six hours, who would you expect to win?

Girls, of course.

Boys "get into trouble" FAR more often than girls, and the "offenses" are things like being too aggressive, not staying in line, fidgeting, or being "defiant" for staying buried in a book instead of the worksheet.

The punishment schools reach for first is often to take AWAY recess, which is literally the physical release every study says he needs, as the penalty for needing it!

At my table, he can stand up when he needs to move. He can go deep on the thing that lights him up instead of being dragged off it. He can build his imaginary armies.

He can be exactly the boy he is and have that be an ASSET instead of someone saying that's a problem.

4) No teacher, no matter how gifted, no matter how well-meaning, walks into that classroom knowing my son the way we know him, and no one ever will.

The single most important qualification for teaching a child isn't a degree or a curriculum or a district budget..

...it's just how much do you actually care whether this SPECIFIC kid makes it?

How far would you go for him?
How late would you stay for him?
How many times would you explain it again and again?
How completely would you refuse to give up on him?

And on that measure, the whole world loses to his mother (who will be homeschooling him), it's not even close.

Nobody on earth will ever love him more than she does.

Nobody will study him, root for him, ache for him, and delight in him the way she does every ordinary day.

There has never been anyone on this earth more qualified to raise my son than the woman whose love for him knows no depths and has no end.

Hope that helps clarify a few things.

[Unpopular opinion. @Edsternc]

@army1325air Getting a criminal offense charge leads to them taking what I have. Its what they want. I won't live in a 2A unfriendly state.

[The White Rabbit @TheWyteRabbit1]

They are lying to you about Alzheimer's disease