Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me โ it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt โ 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles โ a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said โ you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance โ a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said โ you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth โ a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said โ you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio โ the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..๐๐ฝ
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
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Carmelo Anthony was just sentenced to 35 years.
Now before everybody starts calling each other racist and before social media turns this into another black-versus-white circus, I have a question.
What if it was your son?
Not somebody elseโs son.
Your son.
Your grandson.
Your nephew.
Would you still be standing outside with signs?
Would you still be posting hashtags?
Would you still be raising money for the person convicted of stabbing him?
Because thatโs the part I cannot understand.
A family buried their child.
A jury heard the evidence.
A judge handed down 35 years.
And somehow half the country is talking about race instead of the victim.
So โฆ I have questions.
I want to know how a person reportedly connected to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations ends up with a public defender.
I want to know how the jury was selected.
I want to know why people seem more upset about the sentence than they are about the young man who never got to go home.
Most of all, I want to know why every tragedy in America gets immediately sorted into racial teams.
Because if justice only matters when the person looks like us, then it was never justice we were after in the first place.
Letโs talk about it.
#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
This is Tyson Goodsell he was a WHITE 17yo football player who was EXECUTED IN COLD BLOOD by a gang of Somalis in Mankato, MN on May 23, 2026.
Ambushed and shot in the head.
Tyson was gunned down execution-style in his Hyundai at 11pm after leaving work.
His car smashed into a townhome.
His mother heard the gunshots from her own house.
Main shooter Abdikhadar Fakhi Mohidin (20, Somali)
Accomplices Ahmed Fuad Mohamud, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud, and Ryan Wolner also busted.
How many more young White boys get taken from their family before America wakes up?
Media blackout, open borders, soft-on-crime bullshit, and โdiversityโ flooding White areasโฆ.
This stops when we stop importing and tolerating it.
Deport them all.
"Taxpayers are getting ROBBED blind.
Congress shows up for just 133 days a year, pockets $174K salaries, and blows through $810 MILLION in staff allowances alone โ up to 18 aides per member plus massive operating budgets.
Billions flushed down the drain with zero results for the American people.
This isn't government. This is institutionalized fraud.
Time to drain the swamp for real. Term limits. Audits. Cut the waste.
Who's with me? ๐บ๐ธ
Drop your thoughts below๐!
Iโm fucking done.
Sixty years of grinding.
A four-year degree earned the hard way.
Raising good kids.
Paying every tax they demanded.
Following every rule.
Voting the way they told us to.
And for what?
A system that mocks us.
Politicians who lie to our faces on camera.
Empty promises of โbetter daysโ that were nothing but bait.
They cash the checks. We foot the bill.
We built this country.
We carried it on our backs.
We were the ones who still believed hard work would pay off.
Newsflash:
It doesnโt.
Not anymore.
Not for honest, working, middle-class Americans.
Weโre not blind anymore.
Weโre awake.
Weโre angry.
And weโre done staying quiet.
Who else is finished being exploited?
Drop a ๐ฅ if youโre with me.
This ends now.
Wanna hear something crazy?
I started drawing Social Security at 62, and I retired as a self employed carpenter just over 2 years ago. I have retirement investments, but I havenโt touched them yet.
Hereโs the crazy part: I pay more in income taxes now than I ever did when I was working. Make it make sense? I guess itโs because I no longer have business deduction write offs, not sure?
All I know is that I think it blows.
Taxation is 100% theft in my humble opinion.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.
I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it โ itโs a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
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