steviegotsoul

Recovering Political Junkie

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@amelia_tweetz Being White Amelia, duh

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@decadimitry This is sick. Hate has no place in our party or nation

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If I told my Board of Directors that I had a 300 Billion dollar deal and showed them a 1.5 page #MOU I would be excused from my duties.

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@shantelb_ Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck was the original name. Weck is the bread they originally sold.

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@ryenicoleh @iluvrp10s It was originally BW3

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@HQNewsNow

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@FITNESS__WINS 8 - 24 workouts down 10.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

There is no amount of messaging, studies, focus groups, donor calls, or fundraising emails that will fix our party. We need courage, fresh blood, and competition to ensure we have the best representatives possible. Young people “waiting their turn” need to realize our party and country are in a real crisis. Our generation has a responsibility to answer the call for action, not in 5 or 10 years, but now. Power is not given, it is fucking taken. And what's the worst that can happen? If the establishment is upset, they will handle us the same way they handle Trump: with a strongly worded fucking letter.

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@RepSwalwell Hungry kids are not cards!

[TMZ @TMZ]

#BREAKING 🚨 Diddy sentenced to 4 years in prison. https://t.co/zHsgx3t59f

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I bumped into an old friend here in Washington, D.C. @AOC

We have a few thoughts to share about the government shutdown:

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Dan Pfeiffer breaks down ways Democrats can win the messaging war.

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@Nibiru1000 this is so weird.

[John-Henry Westen @JhWesten]

BREAKING: Pope Leo today: "Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life."

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@GrageDustin yea whoever was president when this picture was taken is CRAZY oh @realDonaldTrump

[𝕻𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 @hippyresident]

Remember, it’s all a Democratic hoax

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@JohnStrandUSA WE MUST HOLD THE PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE WHO CREATED "OPERATION WARP SPEED" THAT RUSHED OUT THE VACCINE FOR POLITICAL PURPOSE. @realDonaldTrump

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Put this on a bumper sticker in #Youngstown:
“Culture” isn’t why your plant shut down. Corporate Greed is.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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@Real_Ames They are probably the same age #blackdontcrack

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@USA_Polling To draw attention to the problem