@ClayTravis Here’s my soapbox, for what it’s worth: there should be an economics class mandatory to graduate high school. I agree with what you’ve put forth but I would add Econ. You can’t be an informed voter without it.
@CrazyVibes_1 I would absolutely do it! I’m 70 and I have two cats ages 3 and 2. They came along after our dog Maggie passed away. I couldn’t image being without them. One is an adoption from our vet, the other showed up in the backyard (cat distribution system IYKYK).
So Trump says of the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding: "As far as I'm concerned, it's over." OK. So now, is there really any need to "finish the job" in Iran? Remember what worked in the past. No sanctions relief, economic pressure, and not a penny from the United States. The nuclear program is kaput for some period of years, and the world's oil powers are moving away from reliance on the strait. So going forward, keep up the economic pressure and hit back hard whenever Iran attacks a ship in the strait. Forget about any sort of treaty or agreement. If more extensive bombing is needed in the future, do it then. There's no need for a neat, clean ending to this. Just keep up the pressure and move on.
Watching @RaysBaseball why do the Yankee batters look back over their shoulder when they walk back to the dugout after striking out? What are they looking at?
I have a really good friend who joined the Air Force at a relatively advanced age. He had a tough time going through both Officer Training and Undergraduate Pilot Training.
Not because of innate inability, but because he already had almost 1,000 hours and felt he had to put up with a lot of unnecessary BS. Which he did, but that is not the point when you're trying to become a military pilot.
He considered dropping out. I was gentle in my admonition that he shouldn't do that, because if he did, he would be a worthless piece of shit cowardly quitter.
So he stuck it out (not because of me), and texted me the day he was going to take his final check ride before getting his Wings.
So, he had his check ride. His text to me was, "I passed."
I went nuts. I said, "YOU GOT YOUR WINGS!!! YOU ARE ONE OF THE FEW!!! YOU SHOULD BE SO PROUD!!!"
He was. He just wanted to act cool.
Anyone who gets their Wings in any branch of the Armed Services is an exceptional human being who has put up with a lot of hell to reach that goal.
Congratulations to everyone who has, and to everyone who will.
Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.
The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.
Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.
Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.
They took until there was nothing left to take.
America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.
And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Not almost unprecedented.
It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.
The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.
Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.
That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.
Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.
No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has blood in its history.
But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.
It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.
When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.
By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.
Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.
The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.
They shaped the modern world.
AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.
1945 was the first test.
AI is the last.
That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.
The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.
The Rays have probably the best pitching coach and best manager. Their culture is unlike any other. They play baseball the way I grew up playing. @Raysbaseball
BLUE CITY CHAOS: SUCKER PUNCHED ON MICHIGAN AVENUE 😡
This man was walking home from his office in downtown Chicago when he got blindsided. He didn’t see the punch coming. Thought he walked into a wall. Blood pouring down his face. Two black eyes.
The attacker stood 2 feet away, fist clenched, taunting him: “What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?”
He’s in shock, screaming, snaps photos for detectives, calls 911. Attacker runs.
On a busy street? ONE person stopped to help — grabbed napkins from Starbucks to stop the bleeding.
Everyone else just walked right past a man with blood all over his face. No one asked if he was OK. No one stepped up as a witness.
He says it’s not isolated. Three years ago another guy got punched in the head, fell, hit the sidewalk, and died.
This is the new normal in Chicago after years of Democrat power.
Random violence. Total breakdown of basic decency.
How much more before we say enough?
People need to see what’s really happening.