Ron Repking

Love small business. Hardcore Illini and Bears fan.

[Ron Repking @repking]

Only in NYC

[Ron Repking @repking]

I guess Im a Knicks fan tonight.

[Ron Repking @repking]

AL Central is a joke. The whole division should get relegated.

[Ron Repking @repking]

Jordan back to NC? Could be the biggest comeback of all time. https://t.co/FEOPaxx3SP

[Ron Repking @repking]

B1G 10 with 3 in a row in football. Now need a basketball one next.

[Ron Repking @repking]

NFC North Champs. Check. #BearDown #NotDoneYet

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

Appreciate the wait Stephen...

There isn’t one cause. America’s division is the result of several forces hitting at the same time, each pouring gasoline on the others. Here are the big ones:

1. Social media rewired the country

Platforms didn’t just connect people — they radicalized them.
Algorithms reward outrage, conflict, and extremism because that content keeps people glued to the screen.
So the loudest, angriest voices get the most visibility, while moderate voices disappear completely.

Result:
People now live in different information worlds. Not different opinions — different realities.

2. Political parties realized division is profitable

Both parties figured out that fear and anger raise more money, get more clicks, and turn out more voters than unity ever will.

So political messaging shifted from:
“Here’s what we stand for,”
to
“Your neighbor wants to destroy the country — donate now.”

When politics becomes a war instead of a debate, your fellow citizen starts looking like the enemy.

3. Collapse of trust in every major institution

Government, media, public health, corporations, banks, higher education — trust in all of them cratered over the last 20 years.

Why?
Scandals, corruption, hypocrisy, manipulation, and blatant incompetence — across the board.

When no one trusts the referee, the game becomes a brawl.

4. The media abandoned neutrality for tribal loyalty

Outlets don’t even pretend to be neutral anymore.
They’re audience-targeting businesses.
So news isn’t designed to inform you — it’s designed to affirm your worldview and keep you locked in.

This creates two Americas:
•One that believes one storyline
•One that believes the total opposite

And each thinks the other is insane.

5. Economic stress made people angrier and more reactive

Stagnant wages, insane housing prices, medical debt, cost-of-living spikes, corporate consolidation, and the destruction of the middle class created a pressure cooker.

People under financial strain are more irritable, less patient, and more prone to blaming “the other side.”

6. Cultural shifts happened faster than people could process

Everything — gender norms, family structures, technology, entertainment, values — changed at warp speed.

Some people embraced it.
Some people panicked.
Some people felt erased.
Some felt liberated.

Rapid cultural change always produces backlash. Always.

7. Foreign adversaries exploited every crack

Russia, China, Iran, and others pumped disinformation into American social platforms to widen racial, political, religious, and economic divides.

They don’t need to defeat the U.S. militarily if the U.S. tears itself apart internally.

8. People stopped talking to each other in real life

COVID isolation, remote work, online communities, political bubbles — all of it reduced face-to-face humanizing interaction.

It’s easy to hate a caricature online.
It’s harder when someone is sitting across from you.

9. Loss of a unifying narrative

From WWII to the Cold War to the space race, America used to have shared goals and shared enemies.

Now?
No common project. No shared mission.
Just a lot of grievance and competing identities.

When a nation stops having a “we,” everything becomes “us vs. them.”

Bottom line

America’s division isn’t random and it’s not accidental.
It’s the predictable result of:

technology + political incentives + financial pressure + collapsing institutions + cultural upheaval + foreign interference.

You fix the division by addressing those root causes — not by attacking each other.

[Ron Repking @repking]

Just common sense.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

For years government buried the ideology of chronic disease because they didn’t want to offend the large industries putting harmful chemicals in our foods and pharmaceutical products. Americans are free to make their own decisions, but it is our duty to give them informed choices.

[Ron Repking @repking]

Best trade in Bears history? Not even close.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Panthers-Bears 2023 blockbuster trade is now final.

Bears receive:
🏈 WR DJ Moore
🏈 2023 first-round pick (OT Darnell Wright)
🏈 2023 second-round pick (CB Tyrique Stevenson)
🏈 2024 first-round pick (QB Caleb Williams)
🏈 2025 second-round pick (WR Luther Burden)

Panthers receive:
🏈 2023 No. 1 pick (Bryce Young)

[Ron Repking @repking]

Best NCAA Bball comeback since Illini-Arizona.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Dr. Mark Hyman explains how the keto diet can cure diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer, schizophrenia and more.

"It activates the brain's repair systems."

"It helps cognitive function at every level... from autism, to Alzheimer's, to schizophrenia, to depression."

"Sugar is really driving this big problem—sugar and starch... When you eat these foods, your body gets dysregulated. And when you use a diet that actually shuts off these cravings... it doesn't take long."

"In five or ten days, we get a 70% reduction from all symptoms and all diseases by people just changing their diet."

"[It's] incredibly helpful for longevity, it's helpful for reversing chronic diseases. And across all these diseases, we're seeing the same thing happen."

Credit: @drmarkhyman @TuckerCarlson

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

HOLY CR*P 🚨

- Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
- They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
- Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
- Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
- They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security Numbers

See graph in video:

“Then you'll notice there's a strange, what jumped out at us when we saw these numbers. We're like, what is this? In 2021, you see 270,000 people, it goes all the way to 2.1 million and 2024. These are non-citizens that are getting social security numbers.

This is a mind-blowing charge. This literally blew us away.”

“If I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from social security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, MAX PAY for these people and minimum collection.

We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs.

And then what was really, really disturbing us was why we're asking ourselves why.
So we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.

Who did vote? We found some by sampling that ACTUALLY DID VOTE.

We have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah. Already, already. That is already happening right now. The truly disturbing thing though, I just want you to know this, a truly disturbing thing to me, and the darkest thing about this, to me, the voter fraud is terrible.”

[MAHA PAC🗽 @MAHA_PAC]

RFK Jr: “There are studies coming out of Stanford and Harvard that show a lot of mental illnesses, including anxiety and depression, are related to food.”

“Food is medicine.”

“By changing your diet, you can lose some of those diagnoses.”

“This is a uniquely American problem.”

“This is not happening like it is here anywhere else in the world.”

[MAHA PAC🗽 @MAHA_PAC]

🚨WATCH: HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s first message to America.

“In our first 100 days, we’re going to examine every possible contributing factor to the epidemic of chronic disease.”

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

RFK Jr: The war in Ukraine is a money laundering scheme for BlackRock.

"They're doing this right in front of us. They don't even care that we know anymore, because... they have a strategy."

"And that strategy is an old, old strategy, which is they keep us at war with each other... They keep the Republicans and Democrats fighting each other, and black against white, and all these divisions that they sow."

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

Normally I summarize Executive Orders but this MAHA one is just too good- I have to share the whole thing.

It reads:

“Section 1.  Purpose.  American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years.  This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population.  Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have two or more chronic diseases.  An estimated one in five United States adults lives with a mental illness.

These realities become even more painful when contrasted with nations around the globe.  Across 204 countries and territories, the United States had the highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer in 2021, nearly double the next-highest rate.  Further, from 1990-2021, the United States experienced an 88 percent increase in cancer, the largest percentage increase of any country evaluated.  In 2021, asthma was more than twice as common in the United States than most of Europe, Asia, or Africa.  Autism spectrum disorders had the highest prevalence in high-income countries, including the United States, in 2021.  

Similarly, autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and multiple sclerosis are more commonly diagnosed in high-income areas such as Europe and North America.  Overall, the global comparison data demonstrates that the health of Americans is on an alarming trajectory that requires immediate action.

This concern applies urgently to America’s children.  In 2022, an estimated 30 million children (40.7 percent) had at least one health condition, such as allergies, asthma, or an autoimmune disease.  Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s.  Eighteen percent of late adolescents and young adults have fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent of adolescents are prediabetic, and more than 40 percent of adolescents are overweight or obese.

These health burdens have continued to increase alongside the increased prescription of medication.  For example, in the case of Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, over 3.4 million children are now on medication for the disorder — up from 3.2 million children in 2019-2020 — and the number of children being diagnosed with the condition continues to rise.  

This poses a dire threat to the American people and our way of life.  Seventy-seven percent of young adults do not qualify for the military based in large part on their health scores.  Ninety percent of the Nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures is for people with chronic and mental health conditions.  In short, Americans of all ages are becoming sicker, beset by illnesses that our medical system is not addressing effectively.  These trends harm us, our economy, and our security.

To fully address the growing health crisis in America, we must re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease.  This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety.  We must restore the integrity of the scientific process by protecting expert recommendations from inappropriate influence and increasing transparency regarding existing data.  We must ensure our healthcare system promotes health rather than just managing disease.”

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[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨RFK Jr. after getting sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services:

"For 20 years, I've gotten up every morning and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic."

[Ron Repking @repking]

So excited for the RFK confirmation. Let's start to get everyone healthy. Its gonna be a long road but at least we will start to make progress soon. LET'S MAHA!

[Ron Repking @repking]

@srrichey Boswell hurt or sick?

[MAHA PAC🗽 @MAHA_PAC]

RFK JR: “The guidelines they’re now considering for Ozempic will cost [taxpayers] $3 TRILLION a year.”

“For a tiny fraction of that, we could buy organic meals—three meals a day—for every man, woman, and child in this country.”

“If you are diagnosed with diabetes … the clinical guideline says Metformin and Ozempic. That’s all they’re gonna pay for.”

“In Europe … the guidelines that they hand out are not for drugs. They’re for changes in diet and exercise. Their national health ministries will pay for that.”