๐ love yโall!! Welcome to Floor-duh. Tampa Bay sports fan.๐ Tax paying Patriot. I try to be kind, sometimes Iโm successful. Electric motor guru.
If you think Iโm trashing MAGA (whatever that is now) I really am sorry. I know for certain there are millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump that love this country and love their neighbors and love their families and struggle and succeed and fail just like me and you and everyone. And I donโt begrudge them their political affiliation in any way. I just abhor the hate. The meanness for the sake of being mean. No matter where itโs coming from. Iโm not your enemy man. Iโm really not. Theyโre trying to get us to fight among ourselves while they pick our pockets and piss on our legs and tell us itโs raining. Iโm not doing that to you and I sure as hell know youโre not doing that to me. What could we possibly gain by hating each other as they walk off with all the food on the table. We can disagree with each other without hating each other. We just all need to break the algorithm man. Itโs so much more fun finding a reason to love someone than it is finding a reason to hate them.
๐จ I-75 in Chattanooga just turned into an unscheduled fireworks show! ๐ฅ
A truck full of fireworks caught fire on the freeway near Ooltewah and started launching them everywhere like nature decided to celebrate early. No injuries reported, but traffic was wild.
Who else is glad they werenโt stuck in that lane? ๐ฅด ๐บ๐ธ
@HunterBiden Republicans have spent 50 years smearing good, honest people and accusing them without evidence of corruption.
But they ignore the real, widespread corruption committed by the most corrupt family in our history. In fact, they seem to celebrate it.
Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys โ the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice โ leaning on their bikes in the summer heat when they saw something no child should ever have to experience.
A man walked away with 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas. She was supposed to be playing outside. She was supposed to be safe.
And in that single, awful second โ while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up โ these two boys made a choice.
They got on their bikes and they went after him.
No hesitation. No waiting for permission. No "someone else will handle it." Just two pairs of legs pumping hard through the streets of Lancaster, eyes locked on a stranger who had a little girl that wasn't his.
They tracked him. They stayed close. They didn't let him disappear into the afternoon like something that was never going to be found.
And then they confronted him.
Two teenagers. On bikes. Against a grown man who had already done the unthinkable. They forced him to stop.
He let Jocelyn go.
"The entire thing lasted only minutes." โ Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised โ by someone, somehow โ to believe that other people's emergencies are your business too.
When reporters asked one of them afterward why they did it, he gave the most deflating, most beautiful, most teenage answer imaginable.
He shrugged.
"I just felt like it was the right thing to do."
No speech. No GoFundMe. No press conference. Just a kid who saw a little girl in danger and couldn't make himself look away.
Jocelyn went home. She was reunited with her family. She got to grow up.
Because of two boys on bikes who hadn't been asked, hadn't been trained, hadn't been paid โ and did it anyway.
ICE officers stopped by yesterday.
โWe need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,โ
โAlright, but whatever you do, donโt go into that field over there.โ
The officer in charge exploded.
โMister, I have the authority of the federal government behind me!โ he barked, reaching into his back pocket. He yanked out a badge and shoved it in my face. โSee this fucking badge? This badge means I can go wherever I want on ANY land. No questions asked, no answers given. Am I clear? Do you understand?โ
I nodded politely and said, โBe my guest.โ Then I went back to my chores.
About ten minutes later, I heard screaming. I looked up and saw six ICE agents running for their lives, being chased by my big, mean, old bull. And with every step, that bull was closing in. Fast. It looked like they were about to get gored for sure.
So I dropped my tools, ran over to the fence, and shouted at the top of my lungs:
โYOUR BADGE!"
"SHOW HIM YOUR FUCKING BADGE!โ