At 10 AM, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference and announced that the Pentagon has “lost track of” $2.3 trillion, which is “unaccounted for.”
He goes on to highlight a number of other glaring inefficiencies in the Department of Defense.
“Imagine a government that totally destroys the country (which is criminal behaviour) and then criminalises complaining about it. And the point of that surveillance is not to keep you safe but to punish you for noticing what they are doing to your country.”
~ Tucker Carlson. 🎯
this is crazy because I was a young tech grad once from a pretty decent school and these companies were completely out of reach, elusive. seemed like they only took on top tier talent from Bay Area schools. turns out they had loads of openings for junior employees they just weren’t open to us.
“So you have cut out all unnecessary spending?”
“Yea.”
“And bought a beater?”
“Yup.”
“No vacations?”
“Uh huh.”
“And you still can’t afford a house?”
“Right.”
“Have you tried pulling yourself up by your bootstraps?”
It’s legitimately crazy that the richest country on earth just allowed phones to become unanswerable so that a handful of scammers overseas could defraud elderly people.
He’s 100 years old.
He fought in a war that most of us today can barely imagine.
He saw his friends, many just boys, go off to fight and never return.
He’s carried those memories for a lifetime.
And recently, on live television, he broke down and asked a question no veteran should ever have to ask, “Was it worth it”
When the men who sacrificed everything for freedom now look at the state of their country and wonder if that sacrifice still matters, it should make all of us stop and think.
Remembrance isn’t just a poppy on a lapel or a minute of silence once a year.
It’s a responsibility, to honour their legacy by protecting the values and freedoms they fought for.
Our culture.
Our freedoms.
Our sense of community and national identity.
If we stop respecting those things, if tradition loses meaning, if honour and pride are dismissed as outdated, then we risk forgetting what they stood for.
We don’t honour the fallen by remembering them once a year, we honour them by living in a way that keeps their sacrifices meaningful.
By standing up for our country, our values, and our way of life.
He wasn’t crying out of weakness.
He was crying because he remembers the cost of forgetting.
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Her emotions tell you how much pregame means to each and every one of us. Likely a senior who just marched her last pregame show at home. People on the outside of college band will never understand, but we all know exactly what she is feeling.