Joel Bernasky 🇺🇸

Love never fails.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Kyle Bonn @the_bonnfire]

If there is anything the last week of World Cup content has taught me, it is this.

Europeans: Americans have a gluttonous culture and they are disgusting

Europeans experiencing rural America for the first time: oh my god this is incredible where has it been my whole life

[FADE @FadeAwayMedia]

“Mr McMahon wasn’t entitled to a Monopoly position in this Wrestling game”

“I wanted to go on Monday night because i wanted to go head to head with Vince”

"You can't beat anyone unless u get in the ring with them"

- Ted Turner.

[@jason @Jason]

Let’s do this Atlanta @WaffleHouse

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@Jason @WaffleHouse Yum yum

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@tyran_stokes Rock chalk!

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@HausenKS @grok @Big12Conference 12 win seasons?

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@CBBcontent

[Frank Mason @FrankMason0]

We’re Different Bud #Rockchalk

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@SethDavisHoops Melvin Council Jr. @KUHoops no doubt

[Mike Vernon @M_Vernon]

BILL TRYING NOT TO LAUGH 😂

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@interesting_aIl

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

Planet Earth cannot understand America unless it understands this first

[𝕁𝔻𝟞💫 @JalonDaniels6]

Rock Chalk! Jayhawk! KU!❤️💙

[Aint No Seats Podcast @AintNoSeatsPod]

JOHNNY FURPHY ARE YOU KIDDING ME😳😳😳

[david friedberg @friedberg]

it is vitally important for america that mamdani get elected mayor of NYC. he can help maximally and swiftly tax the rich, stand up govt-run grocery stores, eliminate the police force, freeze rents, and make public transportation free..

it’s unlikely that taxing the rich will cause them to move to other cities (collapsing nyc tax revenue), or that city-run grocery stores will fail to increase fresh vegetable consumption in the inner city, or that elimination of the NYPD will cause a rise in crime and decline in quality of life, or that freezing rents will drive landlords to dump properties (collapsing prices and property tax revenue), or that free public transportation will result in union-led kleptocracy. no way. i’m sure this time socialism will be different…

if Americans don’t want to learn the lessons of socialism’s failures elsewhere, we should aim to learn them here as quickly as possible.

let’s make sure one or two cities and states fall apart fast so the rest don’t have to.. elect mamdani!

after accruing $2 trillion in student loan debt, that they will never be able to pay down, it’s no surprise “the college educated in nyc are supporting mamdani 61-39”. the current system has failed them.

but the truth is, more government may not be the answer when too much government (indiscriminate federal student loans regardless of cost or quality of degree or institution) may have gotten them to this moment.

a gentle reminder, though, that an articulate ignoramus isn’t more correct than his less charismatic/authentic political rival. facts, data, truth still stand above theory, innuendo, and bullshit. socialism won’t work. if we have to re-learn that lesson the hard way, let’s do it fast and elect mamdani.

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@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXON

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@BryBryStrick 1 no doubt. No difference between Manhattan and Tribune.

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