Genia Holmes Cole

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@arresteddev @bluthquotes

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

You can't save Social Security by raising the age to 70+.

You save Social Security by kicking out every fraudster STEALING from it.

Period.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

If anybody wants to know why Gen X is always mad, it's because they had to replace their record collections with a tape collection that they had to replace with a CD collection that they had to replace with an MP3 collection, and now they need a subscription to listen to music

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

While Obama, Hillary, and Panetta were at Andrews AFB on September 14, 2012 putting on the dignified transfer show for our brothers…

The Annex team and DS team was still in Germany. We got left there on purpose so we couldn’t be at that ceremony.

When we landed at Ramstein, the USO was waiting on the tarmac. They knew we left everything behind in Benghazi, so they had clothes, shoes, socks, and toiletries set up for us.
The Tripoli Embassy people who had all their luggage and plenty of time to pack went through the line first. As we sat there just watching, they took every last damn thing. Socks, Underwear, Pants, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Mouthwash, all of it. Looked like flies hoarding on a fresh pile of shit. They couldn’t get to the stuff fast enough. Nothing left for the guys who still had blood on their boots.

As the whole team from Benghazi just sat there looking at these flies, the @The_USO team came up, talked to us, and asked if we were the guys from Benghazi. They left and came back with a couple hundred bucks each on a card so we could go buy clothes and toiletries the next morning, thank GOD!

We got debriefed again in Germany and asked if we wanted to talk to the FBI. We looked at each other this was a terrorist attack. The military should be handling it, not treating it like some criminal case.

We learned about the ceremony and had to watch that whole thing from Germany. Then once their ceremony was over, they came to us and said, “You can go home now… but you got to find and buy your own plane ticket back.”

We watched the whole “it was a video protest that turned into a riot” lie from Germany as well and knew every word of it was bullshit.
That’s what we were doing while they put on the show.
Never forget.
Never stop telling the truth.
#alwaysmoveforward #benghazi #tig #13hours

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It’s very craży that 70-80 year olds are generally seen as unemployable due to physical and mental decline BUT we're allowing them to run our ENTIRE country.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas I was taken to a grocery store called H-E-B.

I asked what the letters stand for. My friend said, "Howard Edward Butt."

I waited for the rest of the name. There was no rest. The man built an empire on his actual name, and the empire did not flinch.

Inside, a woman in a red apron said, "Welcome! Finding everything okay?"

I had been inside for eleven seconds. I had found nothing. I had not begun to look.

"...I have only just arrived."

"Well, let me know if you need anything, sweetheart."

Sweetheart. From a stranger with a price gun. I held the cart handle with both hands and tried to proceed as a man who had not just been loved at the produce section.

The store was clean in a way that suggested someone cared about it the way my grandmother cared about her kitchen floor. Not for the guests. For the floor.

A man named Dale in the meat department was cutting brisket behind glass. I watched him work. He held the knife the way a calligrapher holds a brush. Each cut landed in the same place twice.

I bowed slightly. I could not help it.

Dale looked up. "You want a sample, boss?"

"...I was paying respects to your blade work."

He paused. Then he cut a piece, put it on a toothpick, and handed it over the counter.

"Well, that's a first. Most folks just ask if I got any ribs left."

I ate it. It was perfect. I told him it was perfect.

"Appreciate that. Twenty-six years behind this counter."

Twenty-six years. The same counter. The same knife. In my country we would call this man a living national treasure and put him on television. Here he wore a red apron and asked if I wanted it wrapped.

Then the storm came.

I do not mean this as a metaphor. A hurricane was approaching the coast, and I learned something about this grocery store that I did not believe until I saw it with my own eyes.

H-E-B has mobile kitchens. Disaster relief trucks. A full-time Director of Emergency Preparedness. Over a hundred and fifty thousand employees they call Partners, and when the wind starts to build, the Partners do not go home.

They drive toward it.

During Hurricane Harvey, this grocery store fed thousands. They sent trucks into flooded towns before the government arrived. Before the Red Cross set up. Before anyone asked.

A grocery store. With a meat counter and a bakery and a sign that says HERE EVERYTHING'S BETTER.

Texans have a name for H-E-B during hurricanes. They call it the FEMA of Texas. I have confirmed this. Multiple Texans said it to me without smiling, the way you state the name of a general who does not lose.

I asked Dale if he had worked during Harvey.

He stopped cutting. He set the knife down, which I had not seen him do.

"Drove in at four in the morning. Water was up to my truck doors. Store was the only thing open for nine miles. We made sandwiches till we ran out of bread. Then corporate sent more bread. Then we ran out again."

"...How long?"

"Sixteen days."

I stood there holding a package of brisket in both hands and tried to find the word.

"...You are not a butcher, Dale."

He picked up his knife. "Sure I am."

In my country, a man who feeds his village through a disaster is honored for the rest of his life. In Texas, he is called a butcher, and he goes back to the counter on Monday, and he does not mention it unless you ask, and even then he picks up his knife before he finishes the story, because the brisket is not going to cut itself.

The store was founded in 1905 by a woman named Florence Butt, who put sixty dollars' worth of groceries on a shelf on the ground floor of her family's home in a town called Kerrville. That was the whole store. One shelf. One room. Sixty dollars.

A hundred and twenty years later, the family still owns it.

I walked out with four bags. A boy in a red apron carried two of them to my car. I told him I could carry my own bags. He said, "I know you can. But I'm already here, so."

I did not tip him. He would not let me.

I drove home past the highway where the flood line was still visible on the guardrail, three feet up, and I thought about Dale, and the bread, and the knife, and the name Howard Edward Butt, who was not embarrassed by it, because the name is not the point.

The shelf is the point.

Florence Butt put sixty dollars on a shelf in 1905. A hundred and twenty years later, when the water rose and the power died, the shelf was still standing, and there was bread on it.

A store is not its name. A store is whether the bread is there when you need it.

The bread was there.

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@TeamTrump47 My kids have always waited in the dark for the bus🙄. Would rather them get out of school and have longer than an hour of daylight to do something outside!

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@todayyearsold What’s the difference in driving home at 4/5pm with complete darkness. I would rather have daylight in the way home than on the way to work

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Something I realized when I became a parent is there's a window of time when your parents are healthy, your kids are little, and everyone gets to experience multiple generations of family spending time together. Cherish this time and don’t take a single moment of it for granted.

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

Social Security is a fucking SCAM.

Let's use Lindsey Graham's recent death as an example. Graham died at the age of 71. This is way too early to draw enough benefit from Social Security to recoup the money he was forced to pay in during his adult working life.

If he had been permitted to deposit that money into a Roth IRA or various 401k funds he would have been able to select a beneficiary that those funds would go to upon his untimely death.

As it stands - No one gets that money. The IRS keeps it.

That's fucking criminal.

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@aloi_asaf 😂😂😂

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@FreddyLA7 Cades cove we usually see a bear or several in Gatlinburg around Anakeesta attraction. Enjoy! That drive from Gatlinburg to Cherokee is one of the prettiest!

[Gulfexplorer @Gulfexplorer1]

@AlexTaylorNews @RepLisaMcClain OK CAPITALIZE HARDER.

Or look at the facts

[AB @AB84]

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

Poor @FreddyLA7 . It all comes down to free kicks? That’s just crazy! Like gambling wins or loses the game. That was a tough loss for you guys. Have loved seeing your posts while in America. Please come back!

[Congressman Michael Baumgartner @RepBaumgartner]

Unfortunately Governor Bob Ferguson chose NOT to have Washington State officially participate in THE GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR, but I couldn’t let this stand, so I came down to man the nearly empty booth and show that not everyone in our state puts politics before celebrating our country. Fun to stamp the “passports” - as long as everyone said “Go Sea Hawks.” 🇺🇸

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@Carvana Thank you for the easiest car buying experience I have had in over 30 years! Never left my house and super happy with result! My new Honda Ridgeline truck! @Honda

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

@Milajoy My question is did he have an issue with Obama spending 35 million?

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@JohnCornyn If the SAVE America Act won’t work, then do a stand-alone bill for photo voter ID.

Do a stand-alone bill for requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

Do a stand-alone bill to ban ballot harvesting.

It doesn’t matter if it’s piece by piece, the American people expect action.

[Genia Holmes Cole @geniarcole]

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