Phil Maniak

Risking it for the biscut

[Matthew Modine @MatthewModine]

Journey’s “Only the Young” plays as Louden Swain runs across multiple bridges spanning the Spokane River during the opening credits of VISION QUEST. Director Harold Becker used these bridges as a metaphor for his coming-of-age story where crossing a body of water symbolizes transition, rebirth, and leaving the past behind.

If you’d like to support the @FMJDiary project, you can bid on one of my original (and signed) VQ soundtrack cassettes here: https://t.co/FkPZDEHuO4

[Monika Wiesak @MonikaWiesak]

Those self-appointed generals & admirals who want to send someone else's son to war ought to be kept at home by the voters. - JFK

[Kevin Garnett @KevinGarnett5KG]

🐺👑😤

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Super Sky Point to Hulk Hogan, a man who revolutionized the pro wrestling industry twice. If you don’t remember Wrestlemania III, I can’t adequately explain what a cultural touchstone moment it was when he did the seemingly impossible by slamming Andre the Giant. He was the brightest light in a sky full of larger-than-life WWE stars. Years later, we saw that same childhood hero morph into the conniving “Hollywood” Hogan in WCW and his on-air villainy damn near put Vince McMahon and the WWE out of business. Monday nights became must-see television and it ushered in the attitude era. Wrestling’s popularity and mainstream acceptance ascended to new levels.

Love him or hate him, or maybe he made you feel both emotions, Hulk Hogan was always relevant. He knew how to make you care. He put asses in seats and in front of tv screens. That was his job. And he was damn good at it. Whatcha gonna do, St. Peter, when the 24-inch pythons run wild on you? #RIP

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Any political movement that requires you to excuse pedophiles in order to remain "true" to the movement is NOT a movement you want to be affiliated with.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Due to the deliberate government policies of the last 50 years, America can’t produce its own food, fertilizer, energy, weapons, medicine, vehicles, clothing, or computers. The architects of those policies, as well as those who’ve gotten rich off them, will look you dead in the eye and tell you it’s Actually Good to be forced to rely on your enemies for everything you need to survive.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

America has become addicted to cheap foreign baubles and easy money (i.e., fake fiat currency) at the expense of its long-term economic health. We allowed ourselves to be transformed from a cast iron economy which made things into a largely paper economy which depends on the good graces of foreign nations for its own survival. This is a recipe for civilizational suicide.

We don’t make our own weapons, food, machines, vehicles, plastics, medicines, or computers. The whole COVID insanity, with its shutdowns and shortages and supply-chain chaos, was a blaring alarm warning us that the economy we thought was so strong was shockingly fragile.

Imagine a prosperous farmer, now surrounded by enemies and competitors, who over time outsourced most farming activities to his neighbors because they could do the work and provide the materials more cheaply than he could. He sold off his equipment and laid off his farm-hands because it was just easier and less expensive for others to do the work and maintain the machinery. But one day, his neighbors said no more, and now he finds himself in the position of being unable to fertilize his land, or plow his fields, or harvest his crops. Even if he had kept his old tractors and implements, he sold off all his welding equipment and spare parts and raw materials, so repairing anything would be impossible. On top of that, he doesn’t remember all that much about repairing the equipment anyway because he hasn’t done it for years.

So now he finds himself in control of once-fertile and productive land that he can’t utilize, and the people he used to rely on for help now refuse to lift a finger, because they see an opportunity to bankrupt their old neighbor and business partner, allowing them to buy up all that land for themselves at fire sale prices.

That’s where America now is as a country. We stripped our economy down and sold it for parts, happy to have the cash in our pockets and ignorant of the possibility the good times could ever end.

Trump has understood these dynamics for decades, and is trying to reset our priorities to give us an economy that isn’t built on a foundation of paper. That requires resetting all of our trade relationships and recreating the conditions that built an economy and civilization that together were the envy of the world.

There will of course be some short-term pain as part of that process. Muscles must ache before they grow stronger. And addicts have to go through withdrawal before they can come out clean on the other side. In fact, the angry reactions from self-styled “free traders” who have gotten rich off of our leaders mortgaging our country’s long-term economic health for short-term cash resemble the drug dealer enraged that one of his best customers is about to go clean. “You’ll never survive the withdrawal symptoms,” he says. “You want what I’m selling. You need it. You can’t live without it.”

The reality is we cannot survive if we continue to remain addicted to cheap foreign crap. We cannot survive if we are unable to make our own food and medicine and vehicles and weapons and computers. A farmer who is wholly dependent upon his enemies to plow and seed and fertilize and harvest his land is a farmer who will starve. Likewise, a nation that depends entirely on its enemies to power its economy is a nation destined to become history rather than shape it.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Next time you watch some billion dollar prospect throw it 102 mph with a spin rate that gives every 21st century data nerd a boner before promptly getting cut open by Dr. James Andrews after 28 2/3 mediocre innings, remember this dude won 355 goddamn games.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Oh look at me I’m Josh Allen. I have a rocket arm. I run over the best athletes in the world. I make insane plays every week. I’m marrying Hailee Steinfeld. I’m the king of my city.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

If you even dream somebody went falsetto like this sweet bastard you better wake up and apologize.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“And nobody wins a goddamn thing, go get your dog castrated, I’ll see you motherfuckers again tomorrow.”

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

100% truth! 👇🏽

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“Tom, the album photo shoot is tomorrow. What are we doing?”

“I want to look like season five Mike Brady or Prince’s stepfather who taught him everything he knows about pussy. Fuck it, let’s go for both.”

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Hogan tried, brother.

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

Ozzie might be on to something...

"You can't pull fat. I remember guys having 12 Budweisers and 3 hamburgers, and they played all year long."

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

When Dick Butkus wasn’t sure who had the ball, he just tackled everybody to be on the safe side.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Whoever invented Kmart’s “Double Take” method has to be considered the fucking Thomas Edison of studio photography ...

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[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The First Ever Induction Into The Barstool Sports Internet Hall of Fame - The Leprechaun In Alabama @KFCBarstool @KFCradio https://t.co/02hQ9G94iD

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

13 years ago, Charlie Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men. This interview aired a week before he lost his job and title as highest-paid actor on TV.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“I’m Eli Manning, I’m Nice

Tom Brady is the GOAT. SIKE! I beat him Twice!”

@BarstoolNYC