jbailey

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

there’s a German guy named Freddy here for the World Cup

as far as I can tell his meals on Monday were:

Waffle House at 1 AM
Wendy’s for lunch
Chili’s for dinner & NBA Finals Game 3

little does he know he just earned his citizenship, that was the secret meal combo to unlock it

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

The World Cup tourists have discovered Buc’ees

[jbailey @jqbailey]

This is amazing. Everyone should take more than a moment to watch this and be humbly grateful

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“If you think the world is selfish and rotten, go to the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach. See what one group of men did for another on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.” — Andy Rooney

[jbailey @jqbailey]

Much respect

[Michael Hammond @michaelhammond_]

The first time I used the same ball for an entire round of golf, I bought a case for it and it now sits on my desk.

[Tee Rickey @OCRichardP]

"Life is hard...but it's harder when you're stupid."
~Sen. John Kennedy

[jbailey @jqbailey]

@adamcarolla @AdamCarollaShow

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Platner is on 100% VA disability.

Crazy you can be 100% disabled and endure the physical and psychological rigors of a highly contested Senate campaign.

[Aaron Torres @Aaron_Torres]

And after all that concern, for all those months .... Kentucky finishes with the No. 2 portal class in America this off-season, per 247.

As I said last night, Mark Pope has a heck of a team - and one much better suited to how he wants to play than a season ago

[MeManBoy @MeManBoy0]

Always been a huge fan of Jason

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[jbailey @jqbailey]

Just play this on a loop in Texas for the next 6 months……if Paxton can’t win this he needs to be deported

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go—through our words, our actions, and our systems. We don’t have to be showing symptoms—like a white hood or a Confederate flag—to be contagious.

[jbailey @jqbailey]

This is terrifying. Major nightmare material

[ABC7 News @abc7newsbayarea]

A terrifying roller coaster rescue is underway in Galveston, Texas Thursday. A car became stuck on a vertical track, leaving eight people dangling at the very top of the ride. Firefighters are using a long-ladder truck to reach the riders several stories above the ground. Crews are working to remove each rider from the ride by gently catching them and lowering them into the basket at the end of the ladder, before walking them down an incredibly steep structure to safety. Latest details: https://t.co/XaBDXkYktM

[THE OCpatriot™ @OCpatriot_]

Let's run a little experiment together.

First, let's agree on the math:
- There are about 900 Billionaires in the US with a combined net worth of $3.2 Trillion.
- There are 3.8 Million K-12 Public School teachers in the US.
- There are 100 Million Americans on some sort of federal assistance.

Let's start with teachers. How much of an increase to the average American K-12 teacher equals "playing teachers what they're worth"?

$1,000 a year bump is too low.

$10,000? Maybe. That's like $650 more a month. Not life changing but not nothing. But probably still not "what they're worth" so let's go much higher.

$50,000 a year? That pushes them into a new tax bracket but it's still likely an additional $2,500 a month on their pockets.

Now we're talking.

That's $190,000,000,000 a year. Assuming we give teachers a 3% raise every year to keep up with inflation, and that we don't hire any more teachers, we run out of billionaire wealth in year 15.

But we haven't yet touched the 100 Million Americans on federal assistance, healthcare, or childcare.

So let's hold some of that back for them.

Let's say we only fund those teachers with Billionaire wealth for 10 years, or $2.17 Trillion. We still have $1.03 Trillion for those other causes.

Let's start with childcare. There are 4.2M children in America today with inadequate child care because their families are at or below the poverty line and their parents have to work and can't afford child care.

The data says the very low end of childcare in this country costs $1,200 a month, so we'll use that. That works out to $60.48 Billion per year. Okay cool so we can fund that for 10 years at a cost of just under $605B from that $1.03T we had left after paying teachers "what they're worth"

Oh, but we still have federal assistance, and healthcare, and now we only have about $400B left.

We said earlier we have 100M Americans on federal assistance. Let's assume all of them need healthcare assistance too.

We also said we have $400B left. If we equally disperse that $400B across 100M Americans over 10 years to assist in Healthcare that comes out to... $33 a month in additional healthcare assistance.

Well that won't work. But that's all we have left.

And then in 10 years we're completely out of Billionaire money and the massive teachers raises, the free childcare, and the paltry healthcare assistance runs out of funding.

...And America's economy collapses because we took the richest, most innovative, biggest job creating captains of industry, and made them penniless.

Platner is insane.

[jbailey @jqbailey]

Old news

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

SHOCKING: A growing number of middle school athletes — mostly boys — are intentionally repeating 8th grade to delay their start in high school, giving themselves another full year to get bigger, stronger, and faster, which in turn dramatically boosts their chances at elite high school spots, college scholarships, and massive NIL deals potentially worth millions.

William La Jeunesse: “Of 8M high school students in sports only 7% will play in college.”

“On the other hand, the [likely] number one pick in this year’s NBA draft, [AJ Dybantsa], did 8th grade twice.”

CRAZY IDEA: How about we let more kids be kids!

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[jbailey @jqbailey]

In what world does Bruce or his handlers think he lives in when they think we want to hear this stuff at a concert, AND when he speaks about "rich white men" should we remind him his net worth is just shy of a billion? If USAID matters to him he could fund most of it himself

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Bruce Springsteen needed a teleprompter to give him his NPC talking points to attack Elon Musk and Donald Trump in Boston tonight.

[jbailey @jqbailey]

100%

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Reporter: “If everything you say is true, how does being part of that network justify being shot?”

Vice President JD Vance: “Well, being part of the network doesn’t justify being shot, but ramming an ICE officer with your car—that justifies being shot. Not a good thing, by the way, but when you force somebody to engage in self-defense, it’s almost a preposterous question.”

“You guys are meant to report the truth. How have you let yourself become agents of propaganda, of a radical fringe that’s making it harder for us to enforce our laws?”

“You just asked me a question that presumed this woman died while engaging in legitimate protest. She tried to run somebody over with her car, and the guy defended himself.”

“Next question!”

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

.@MarcoRubio has said, “We in America have no interest in being polite & orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.” Spot on.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

The promoters of “gender-affirming care” tried to quash scientific debate on its effects through name-calling and by designating as “settled science” the claim that it improves the mental health of dysphoric kids. It’s now clear why they feared open scientific inquiry.