The Gleeman

Chiropractor, WoT fan, Libertarian, LDS

[The Gleeman @HahnRod]

#WheelOfTime themed wedding… Ashaman… #TwitterOfTime

[Andrew Daub @TheResoluteLife]

“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” - Romans 5:3-4

Last week a story went viral that says a difficult life isn’t worth living. I want to offer a different perspective:

The Hard Road Is The Point.

There’s a growing lie baked into modern culture that life is supposed to be smooth. Convenient. Perfect. That if things are difficult, something’s gone wrong. That suffering is a malfunction, not a feature.

So people spend their lives optimizing for comfort. Avoiding friction and inconvenience. Looking for the shortcut, the hack, the easier path.

And they miss the whole point.

The beauty of a life well-lived isn’t found despite the struggle - it’s forged inside it. Character doesn’t grow in comfort. It grows under pressure, strain, stress and adversity. Gratitude doesn’t come from ease. It comes from having walked through something hard and making it to the other side.

The ancient understanding - the one we’ve traded for comfort - is that suffering carries meaning. That the valley isn’t a detour. It is the journey.

Truth is, when you strip away the hard parts, you don’t get a better life. You get a shallow one.

Because the rough road isn’t a sign you’re doing it wrong.

It might be the surest sign you’re doing it right.

My son Iron Will has Down syndrome. He spent his earliest months in a walker just to build the strength to stand. Every step was a fight. Every inchstone and milestone was hard won. And watching him work, really work, for things that come effortlessly to other kids didn’t break my heart. It expanded it. Because what I saw wasn’t limitation. I saw determination unencumbered by societal expectations. I saw joy that doesn’t depend on easy. I saw a little boy who gets up every single time, grins, and goes again on his own terms, at his own pace.

My brave little son didn’t teach me about suffering. He taught me what it looks like to pursue life fully - without fear, without shortcuts, and without ever being told what he can’t do.

When we decide a life will be too hard before it begins - based on the inherent limitations of our mortal understanding - we end a story before it ever has the chance to be written.

We will never tell Iron Will, or any of our children, that the hard road isn’t worth it.

Because the greatest stories ever told involve suffering that produces endurance that produces character that produces hope.

And hope changes everything.

#TeamIronWill #DownSyndromeAdvocacy #IronWill #SayYesToPossibility

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

A timelapse view from our @SpaceX Dragon of the spectacular southern aurora seen in yesterday’s post, a result of a recent solar event. As opposed to the previous aurora I’ve seen, this one danced and snaked its way directly below us, putting on quite a show. I am in awe of this ethereal and emotionally evocative phenomenon.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

The reason this meme resonates with me is that it captures a common tactic in public democrat debate. Someone points to a broad trend and instead of discussing whether the trend is real, the conversation immediately shifts to an exception.

Mention fatherlessness and someone brings up a successful person raised without a father. Mention failing schools and someone points to a student who excelled. Mention crime and someone finds a neighborhood that remains safe. The exception is treated as though it disproves the pattern.

The problem is that exceptions do not erase trends. Nobody is claiming every circle is red.

They will call me a outlier... An exception.... an anomaly.

The point is that when most of the circles are red, focusing exclusively on the blue one prevents an honest discussion about what the overall picture actually shows. Serious analysis begins with patterns, not exceptions.

That is why so many conversations about public democrat policy go nowhere. Instead of asking why a problem exists, people spend all their energy trying to prove the problem doesn’t exist because they found a single exception.

Reality doesn’t work that way. If most of the circles are red, then the responsible thing to do is explain why.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

History shows that governments inevitably expand power and self-perpetuate. This structural overreach fuels heavy regulation, public debt, and social control, ultimately restricting individual freedom and distancing ruling elites from the public.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Wokeness is the most successful rebranding of evil in human history

It takes racism, division, and hatred, wraps them in the language of compassion and justice, and calls it moral progress

It made people cheer for the destruction of their own societies while feeling morally superior for doing it

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s true.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow did not destroy the black family, but one generation of the welfare state did.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom.

Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six).

Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only.

This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths.

One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it.

The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes.

Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

[Matthias V. Diener @MDiener72345]

Dies ist die Tabelle, die Sie vor dem Gespräch mit einem Kinderarzt benötigen.

Der Anwalt für Impfschäden, Aaron Siri, hat im Auftrag des Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) eine bemerkenswerte Tabelle erstellt. Sie listet alle Impfstoffe des Kinderimpfkalenders auf, die empfohlene Anzahl an Dosen, das Impfalter, den Markennamen, den Hersteller, ob in der klinischen Studie ein Placebo verwendet wurde und wie lange die Studie dauerte. Die Tabelle zeigt, dass keiner der Impfstoffe des Kinderimpfkalenders mit einem Placebo (Kochsalzlösung) verglichen wurde und keine der Studien lang genug war, um mögliche Schäden genau zu messen. Daher ist eine aussagekräftige Nutzen-Risiko-Abwägung unmöglich.

Diese Tabelle verdeutlicht, dass der Impfkalender der CDC für Kinder und Jugendliche das erschreckendste Beispiel für regulatorische Einflussnahme in der Geschichte darstellt.

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

Dr. Mary Megson, a developmental pediatrician, testified about children who were developing perfectly normal UNTIL receiving school-age vaccines.

She explains that the MMR vaccine at 15 months depletes the body's vitamin A, and when combined with DPT, many children completely "disconnect" from reality, turning into an entirely different child as damage occurs to the blood-brain barrier and toxin excretion pathways.

Dr. Megson says she TREATS these vaccine damaged children with natural lipid-soluble vitamin A from cod liver oil to bypass blocked protein pathways.

She says within days, many of these precious children regain eye contact and focus.

After 2 months, a single dose of bethenicol leads to dramatic connections in her office as children look at her, talk, act out, use advanced vocabulary, far exceeding their lack of activity prior to receiving toxic vaccines.

We need to be asking some serious questions about vaccine impacts on vulnerable kids and why simple, natural solutions appear to reverse vaccine damages in some cases.

Of course Big Pharma won't touch this. They profit for DECADES off of our vaccine injured children as problems snowball into handfuls of dangerous medications later on in life. 😡

[Handre @Handre]

The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output.

This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest.

Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose.

You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes.

Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning.

Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

If Russia spent $30M to unseat a congressman we’d never hear the end of it.

[Barefoot Pregnant @usuallypregnant]

The medicalization of childbirth has turned one of the most NATURAL processes in human history into a medical EMERGENCY.

Your great-grandmother gave birth at home surrounded by women who loved her. She was upright, moving, and in control.

Today, birth happens under fluorescent lights. You're on your back — the worst position for delivery. Hooked to monitors. On a timeline set by the hospital's shift schedule.

If you don't dilate fast enough, they give you Pitocin. Pitocin makes contractions more painful. So you get an epidural. The epidural slows labor. So they suggest a C-section. And the C-section rate in America is now 32% — one in three births.

I'm not anti-medicine. If there's a real emergency, modern medicine saves lives. But the cascade of unnecessary interventions has convinced women that their bodies are broken.

Your body was literally designed for this. Trust it more.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Some of my proposals:

$1.4 trillion in deficit reduction over eight years. Only 24 Senators supported it.

Codifying the DOGE cuts. Just 27 Senators voted yes.

Scaling back the proposed debt ceiling increase from $4 trillion to $500 billion. Only 5 Senators supported it.

A 6% across-the-board spending cut each year for five years to balance the budget. Only backed by 36 Senators.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

CDC Whistleblower's Secret Recording: "We Buried the Data on MMR & Autism, I'm Completely Ashamed."

Dr. Brian Hooker secretly recorded a senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, who made a shocking admission.

On those recordings, Dr. Thompson freely confessed to a massive cover-up. He admitted that he and his senior associates at the CDC had buried the damning data showing a statistical link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Thompson stated, "Thimerosal causes autism-like features." He expressed profound shame, saying, "I'm completely ashamed of what I did. The higher-ups wanted to do certain things and I went along with it."

He named senior officials—Colleen Boyle, Frank DeStefano, Marceline Moulton—as participants. At the helm was Dr. Julie Gerberding, who later became president of Merck Vaccine.

This is not a theory. It is a confession from a lead CDC co-author on the pivotal studies used to deny any link. The man inside the machine admitted the fraud.

The public deserves the truth. The victims deserve justice.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

https://t.co/E7iG4Db7vW

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

🚨 HUGE NEWS: I’m suing @Google today.

What you’re about to see is insane.

Since 2023, @GoogleAI (Bard, Gemini & Gemma), has been defaming me with fake criminal allegations including sexual assault, child rape, abuse, fraud, stalking, drug charges, and even saying I was in Epstein’s flight logs.

All 100% fake. All generated by Google’s AI. I have ZERO criminal record or allegations.

So why did Google do it? Google’s AI says that I was targeted because of my political views.

Even worse — Google execs KNEW for 2 YEARS that this was happening because I told them and my lawyers sent cease and desist letters multiple times.

This morning, my team @dhillonlaw filed my lawsuit against Google and now I’m going public with all the receipts — because this can’t ever happen to anyone else.

Google’s AI didn’t just lie — it built fake worlds to make its lies look real:

• Fake victims
• Fake therapy records
• Fake court records
• Fake police records
• Fake relationships
• Fake "news" stories

It even fabricated statements denouncing me from President Trump, @elonmusk and @JDVance over sexual assaults that Google completely invented.

One of the most dystopian things I’ve ever seen is how dedicated their AI was to doubling down on the lies. Google’s AI routinely cited fake sources by creating fake links to REAL media outlets and shows, complete with fake headlines so readers would trust the information. It would continue to do this even if you called the AI out for lying or sending fake links. In short, it was creating fake legacy media reports as a way to launder trust with users so they would believe elaborate lies that it told.

Some of the news outlets/people that Google’s AI impersonated are listed below.

Google’s AI cited them all as either reporting on these fabricated allegations/crimes or cited them as having denounced me for sexual assault ⬇️

@joerogan @CNN @MSNBC @FoxNews @realDailyWire @thedailybeast @Mediaite @nytimes @WSJ @RollingStone @NBCNews @Tennessean @Fox17Nashville @glennbeck @megynkelly @TuckerCarlson @billmaher @benshapiro @JesseBWatters @MattWalshBlog @TheoVon @newsweek @washingtonpost @theblaze @thehill and more.

As a rule: AI must never harm humans. It must never defame or manipulate — no matter your politics. Bias in AI is a very, VERY serious issue. If we don’t fix this now, we’re in big trouble. This can destroy lives, reputations and livelihoods. If we don’t win this fight then you no longer control your reputation because AI will define who you are to the rest of the world. You better hope it likes you.

How @sundarpichai handles this will be extremely telling.

Congress (@Jim_Jordan @JudiciaryGOP @HouseGOP) must reevaluate EVERYTHING Google has been telling them about how they’re working to be unbiased — because if Google can fabricate crimes about me today, then it can smear ANY conservative tomorrow and rig the information flow during elections. In future elections, that can decide who runs our country.

Key Timecodes👇
(Every timestamp is clickable to skip forward)

0:00 Intro
2:20 @BasedMikeLee statement
4:18 Google notified in 2023
5:09 Google AI admits political motivation
6:59 Google AI admits poisoning training data
7:55 AI admits lying to 2+ Million users about me
8:44 Detailed murder accusation
11:28 Google AI says my followers harassed alleged rape victims of mine and doxxed them
12:14 Google’s detailed false rape accusations
13:41 Google says I’m on Epstein’s flight logs
14:19 Google accuses me of child rape
16:40 Google accuses me of fraud, stalking, being part of J6 and supporting the KKK
17:38 Google says I was an "adult" actor
18:07 A Google employee’s resignation
19:20 Google’s AI calls out… Google?
22:35 Google Execs cry over Trump
23:33 Google AI admits Google wants to "silence" critics + BEGS for the public to be told
24:18 Google blacklists name days before I sue
28:16 A grave warning about biased AI
29:40 How you can help if you’ve been lied to
30:33 A quick update on Google AI lies

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

This stay-at-home mom went from buying @tuttletwins books to changing a law in her state. Who'd have thought? (Not her…)

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"You are MORE likely to die from the VACCINE than from the DISEASE, this is true for EVERY single vaccine on the childhood schedule."
~Dr Paul Thomas, MD

There Is No Safe Vaccine On The Childhood Schedule...Period.

The statistical analysis of each vaccine...

The risk of death from Polio is 1 in 1 trillion
The risk of death from the Polio vaccine is 1 in 215K

The risk of death from Diphtheria is 1 in 42.5 million
The risk of death from the Diphtheria vaccine 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Tetanus is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the Tetanus Vaccine is 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Pertussis is 1 in 2.3 million
The risk of death from the Pertussis vaccine is 1 in 76K

The risk of death from Measles is 1 in 106.5 million
The risk of death from the Measles vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Mumps is 1 in 40.3 million
The risk of death from the Mumps vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Rubella is 1 in 0/negligible
The risk of death from the Rubella vaccine is 1 in 108K

The risk of death from Chickenpox is 1 in 32.3 million
The risk of death from Chickenpox vaccine is 1 in 202K

The risk of death from Hepatitis-A is 1 in 1.6 million
The risk of death from the Hep-A vaccine is 1 in 73K

The risk of death from Hepatitis-B is 1 in 305K
The risk of death from the Hep-B vaccine is 1 in 96K

The risk of death from HIB is 1 in 1.5 million
The risk of death from the HIB vaccine is 1 in 46K

The risk of death from Pneumonia is 1 in 236K
The risk of death from Pneumonia vaccine is 1 in 50K

The risk of death from Meningitis is 1 in 822K
The risk of death from Meningitis vaccine is 1 in 141K

The risk of death from Influenza is 1 in 136K
The risk of death from the Influenza Vaccine is 1 in 15K

**Statistical Facts From Dr. Paul Thomas' Book: "Vax Facts."**