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[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/17/26:
SOC:
World Cup:
Croatia/England BTTS Y +111
Panama DC -145/Ghana
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[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

It’s amazing how quickly the gatekeepers of culture decide what’s acceptable.

In June, every logo becomes a rainbow. Every stadium, every jersey, every broadcast gets a political message.

But put a Bible verse on your cap? Suddenly that’s “controversial.”

Put an American slogan front and center? Suddenly that’s “divisive.”

The NFL had no problem painting political movements in the end zone. Major League Baseball has no problem turning every June into a month-long corporate activism campaign.

Yet the moment someone wants to celebrate faith, patriotism, or traditional values, we’re told those things don’t belong in sports.

Funny how the people preaching inclusion always seem to have a very specific list of viewpoints they’re willing to include.

If rainbow logos belong in sports, then so do Bible verses.

If political messages belong in sports, then so do messages celebrating faith, family, and country.

The double standard isn’t subtle anymore. EVERYONE sees it.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Stanley Kubrick demanded 70 takes from actors. He let this medically discharged Marine improvise.
In 1985, R. Lee Ermey stood on a film set in England with nothing but memories and a voice that could cut through steel. He was not supposed to be there. Not as an actor, anyway.
Stanley Kubrick had hired him as a technical advisor for Full Metal Jacket. The role of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was already cast with a trained professional. Ermey's job was to teach actors how drill instructors actually behaved.
But Ermey had spent years watching Hollywood get it wrong. He approached Kubrick with a request that bordered on audacity.
"Let me show you what a real drill instructor sounds like."
Kubrick was skeptical. This was a director who shot scenes 40, 50, sometimes 70 times until they were perfect. He controlled every word. Every gesture. Every breath.
But he agreed to watch.
Ermey positioned actors in formation. The cameras rolled. And he began screaming.
For two hours, he unleashed a torrent of creative, devastating verbal assault. Stagehands pelted him with tennis balls and oranges to simulate chaos. He never flinched. Never broke rhythm. Never repeated himself.
Because he wasn't acting.
He was remembering.
Ronald Lee Ermey had enlisted in the Marines at seventeen after a Kansas judge gave him a choice: jail or the military. He chose the Corps. From 1965 to 1967, he served as a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, breaking down civilians and rebuilding them as Marines.
In 1968, he deployed to Vietnam for fourteen months.
Then injuries ended his career. Medical discharge. Twenty-seven years old. No college degree. No plan.
He drifted to the Philippines, enrolled in university using his GI Bill, and stumbled into film work as a technical advisor. Small roles followed. A helicopter pilot in Apocalypse Now. A drill instructor in The Boys in Company C.
But nothing that changed his life.
Until Kubrick watched those tapes.
The director saw something no acting class could manufacture: authenticity so complete it became art. Ermey had produced 150 pages of original insults. His intensity never wavered. His knowledge was absolute.
Kubrick made a decision almost unheard of in his career.
He fired the original actor. He gave Ermey the role. And he allowed him to improvise more than half of his own dialogue.
Stanley Kubrick, the perfectionist who demanded endless takes from every performer, needed only two or three takes from a former drill instructor with no formal training.
Because you cannot fake what is real.
When Full Metal Jacket premiered in 1987, Ermey's performance became instantly iconic. Real drill instructors said it was the most accurate portrayal ever filmed. Veterans said it triggered memories they had buried for decades.
Ermey earned a Golden Globe nomination. He went on to appear in over sixty films. He voiced Sarge in Toy Story. He hosted military programs on the History Channel.
But he never forgot his brothers and sisters in uniform.
In 2002, the Marine Corps awarded him an honorary promotion to Gunnery Sergeant, making him the only retiree in Corps history to receive that recognition. He spent years visiting troops overseas, supporting veterans, and keeping the military spirit alive.
R. Lee Ermey passed away on April 15, 2018. The Marine Corps called him a great American and an even greater Marine.
Think about that journey.
A troubled teenager from Kansas. A drill instructor. A combat veteran. A medical discharge. Odd jobs in foreign countries. And then, at forty-three, convincing one of cinema's most demanding directors to trust him with creative freedom.
He did not succeed because he pretended to be something he wasn't.
He succeeded because he refused to be anything else.
That is not a Hollywood story.
That is a Marine who improvised, adapted, and overcame, all the way to immortality.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE!!!

The Charlotte NC high school that painted over a student's tribute to Charlie Kirk, called the police on her, and then publicly branded the 16-year-old girl a VANDAL in front of her entire school...

...has just been forced to pay her $95,000!!!!!!

Her name is Gabby Stout, she was a junior at Ardrey Kell High School.

Days after Charlie Kirk was assass*nated, she got PERMISSION from the front office to paint the school's spirit rock, a tradition kids have used for years.

She painted a heart. An American flag. "Freedom 1776." And "Live Like Kirk ... John 11:25."

Within HOURS, the school painted over it.

Then the principal emailed the ENTIRE school calling it VANDALISM, claiming she broke the code of conduct, and announcing they had called LAW ENFORCEMENT to open a criminal investigation.

They pulled this teenage girl out of class again and again and then MADE HER WRITE A CONFESSION!!!!

They demanded her PHONE so they could search her call logs.

For painting a rock. With permission.

So her family sued. And they WON.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools now has to pay $95,000, publicly clear her name, and admit in writing she did NOTHING wrong.

But not only that... they were forced to adopt a brand new student free speech policy because of her.

THIS is how you fight back.

GOD BLESS GABBY STOUT!!!!!!

[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/16/26:
MLB:
Min +114/Tex
LAA EV/Arz
SOC:
World Cup:
France/Senegal BTTS Y -105
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[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/15/26:
SOC:
World Cup:
Saudi/Uruguay BTTS Y +138
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[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/15/26:
MLB:
Col +180/CHC
LAA +116/Arz
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[John McAfee 🇺🇸 News @mcafeenew]

��TAMMY DUCKWORTH THE DISGUSTING WOKE CUNT JUST GOT CAUGHT BRINGING BIOLOGICAL MEN INTO THE CAPITOL BATHROOM WHILE A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS INSIDE — THEN HER STAFF TRIED TO BRIBE THE FAMILY TO SHUT UP WITH A FAT CHECK!

Follow @RedLivesMatterQ

This is beyond fucked up.

Senator Tammy Duckworth decided to pull one of her pathetic publicity stunts by parading biological males dressed as women into the United States Capitol — all while wearing a shirt that proudly declared “YOU CAN PEE NEXT TO ME.”The problem? There was a 15-year-old girl alone in that bathroom at the time.

The family was horrified. Duckworth’s staff immediately tried to shove a large check at them in exchange for signing an NDA so the whole disgusting episode would stay quiet.

The family told them to fuck off.“We’d prefer to be able to tell our story,” they said.

Duckworth didn’t just push radical gender ideology — she put a teenage girl in a vulnerable position inside the Capitol and then tried to buy her silence when it backfired.

This is the level of arrogance and degeneracy these Democrats operate with. They don’t care about women. They don’t care about kids. They only care about their twisted ideology and covering their own asses.

Tammy Duckworth just proved once again why these people should never be allowed anywhere near power.

Share this everywhere and let every parent see exactly what these sick freaks are doing in our Capitol!

Follow @mcafeenew for more drops.

[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

@theScore Thank you for adding Brazil Serie A

[OutKick @Outkick]

Japanese fans cleaning up after the game 🥹

[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/14/26:
MLB:
Bal -130/SD
Det -103/Cle
Phi -124/Mil
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[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/14/26:
SOC:
World Cup:
Japan DC -105/Netherland
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[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

No matter how much time passes, Jane Fonda is still the same despicable woman who posed next to North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns that were used to target men like my husband.
We will always despise this traitorous b*tch.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/13/26:
Additional WC Play:
Haiti +1 EV/Scotland
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[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

The Democrat Party’s real structure:

Antifa = Military Wing
Media = Propaganda Wing
ActBlue = Laundering Wing
SPLC = Targeting Wing
Soros = Funding Wing
Colleges = Indoctrination Wing

This isn’t a political party.

It’s an organized crime syndicate.

[Nature 🦜and Music 🎶 @GuGi263]

He was scared. Alone. Hiding in the corner of the clinic, because someone had hurt him before. But Dr. Thomas Hamilton knew what to do. No force. No sudden moves. Just patience and love. And slowly… the puppy started to believe in people again. This is what healing looks like. 💛

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Happy Heterosexual Pride Month!

The Texas Rangers are hosting Faith & Family Night on Thursday, June 18.

They are also still the only MLB team that does not host Pride Night.

Faith. Family. Baseball.

That is America.

[Bruno Souza @brunosouzasc]

Elon Musk criou, em um único dia, 4.400 novos milionários.

Quase 400 deles ultrapassaram os US$ 100 milhões.

Não são banqueiros nem investidores de risco. São funcionários da SpaceX: soldadores, técnicos, mecânicos e até funcionários da cantina. Durante vinte anos, a empresa pagou gente de todos os níveis com ações, não só com salário alto. Quem produziu colheu.

Juan Hernandez, imigrante mexicano, aceitou um emprego de soldador por US$ 28 a hora em 2015, sem nem saber direito o que era a SpaceX. Recebeu uma pequena participação de US$ 10 mil e pôde comprar mais por desconto em folha. Hoje sua fatia vale US$ 880 mil.

Trevor Hise ignorou os conselhos dos pais para pegar um emprego “seguro” na General Electric. Escolheu a SpaceX, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações. Ao preço da listagem, são US$ 13,5 milhões. Aos 37 anos, ele já pode se aposentar. Palavras dele: “A magnitude disso é ridícula.”

O detalhe mais eloquente veio antes mesmo da abertura de capital: mais de 100 funcionários se uniram discretamente para contratar uma gestora de fortunas capaz de cuidar de até US$ 5 bilhões. Muitos nunca tinham precisado de wealth manager na vida.

Há décadas os IPOs de empresas de tecnologia enriquecem programadores. Desta vez, o dinheiro chegou ao chão de fábrica. Isso é capitalismo de verdade: quem arrisca, quem trabalha e quem entrega valor colhe frutos proporcionais.

A esquerda odeia esse tipo de história. Porque ela prova que a verdadeira ascensão social não vem de dividir a miséria alheia, mas de criar riqueza que eleva quem tem coragem de construir.

[Systemplays @fitz_doug]

6/13/26:
SOC:
World Cup:
Morocco W +450/Brazil
Switz W To Nil -127/Qatar
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