Retiredffmike

Husband, dad, Marine vet, retired career firefighter, & proud Christian Patriot

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans are shocked to find out they can make more working at a large gas station convenience store than they can with their college degrees

Breakdown of pay at Buc-ee's:

- Cashier, Gift, Warehouse, Maintenance, and Grocery Stocker: $20
- Food Service and Restroom Crew: $25
- Team Lead: $23 – $28
- Department Manager: $33
- Assistant Food Service Manager: $37
- Assistant General Manager: $125,000+
- Gift Manager: $125,000+
- Food Service Manager: $150,000 – $200,000+
- General Manager: $200,000 – $275,000+

There are also other perks mentioned on the advertisement in front of the location

[Jay Sekulow @JaySekulow]

🚨MAJOR Supreme Court victory for your privacy🚨

The government should not be able to track your smartphone.

The Supreme Court agreed with our arguments that Americans do not forfeit their constitutional protections in the digital age.

Read more:https://t.co/W0FaqouEak

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

A very high level source told me Mitch McConnell is officially brain dead and machines are keeping him alive, but he is a vegetable and “never coming back.”

So why is his wife @ElaineChao in China instead of by his side?

Is she a Chinese CCP spy? How does the wife of one of the most powerful US Senators just travel to China?

Is she coming back from China? Who is she meeting with in China?

Will she be the one to pull the plug?

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

American citizens across the country are physically cutting down Flock cameras as authorities are losing control as more people are viewing the technology as an unconstitutional form of mass surveillance.

The incidents are being described as part of a growing trend where cordless, battery-powered tools are used to quickly cut down Flock camera poles because they are highly portable, fast, and quiet.

Mass surveillance must be stopped everywhere.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

🤣🤣🤣Just watch it!!!
Tell me you didn't laugh at least once?😮

[Brad Zerbo @BradCGZ]

"Storms bring luck to whatever the occasion"
-President Trump

I couldn't agree more. Here's why I think Storms are good luck.

#Freedom250

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🇺🇸 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: The United States of America has broken the WORLD RECORD for the largest fireworks show in HISTORY

"BEST FIREWORKS SHOW, EVER! President DJT"

47 and Melania were spotted watching the ENTIRE THING with patriots on the National Mall all the way up to the end

850,000 SHELLS. Last year's DC 4th of July show was a mere 20,000

GOD BLESS THIS AMAZING COUNTRY! 🇺🇸

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

Legacy media has been endlessly criticizing Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair.

This is one of four entrances in 100°F heat right now.

I’m sure CNN and MSNBC will show this like they covered attendance 5 minutes after opening on random days for the whole week.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Consultant: "You've had a heart attack. To stop the next one, we need to talk about your diet."

Patient: "Go on. What's the plan?"

Consultant: "Less red meat. Whole grains. Butter swapped for a spread. Low-fat where you can."

Patient: "..."

Consultant: "Porridge is a lovely way to start the day."

Patient: "That is my day. Has been for thirty years."

Consultant: "Then we tighten it up."

Patient: "Tighten it? I was the model patient. Oats, margarine, skinless chicken, the lot."

Consultant: "And yet here you are."

Patient: "On the heart ward. Being handed the heart-ward leaflet."

Consultant: "It's evidence-based."

Patient: "So is the ward. It's full."

Consultant: "Just follow the leaflet."

Patient: "The leaflet's the menu I've eaten for thirty years."

Consultant: "..."

Patient: "Print one that ends somewhere other than this bed."

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States on the year of America 250, July 4th, 2026.

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

The 1970s 4th of July… when your parents would hand you a whole box of sparklers, Black Cats, and bottle rockets with nothing more than a casual “Don’t blow your hand off, now!” before heading back to the grill.
Sparklers for the toddlers (who immediately tried to write their names in the dark), potato salad that had been sitting out since 10 a.m., and the occasional bottle rocket that may or may not have been aimed anywhere near your cousin.
But the part that really gets me? The whole neighborhood dragging lawn chairs into the street, passing around cold drinks, and just sitting there together watching the sky. No phones. No schedules. Just laughter, the smell of gunpowder and charcoal, and that quiet feeling that you belonged to something bigger than yourself.
Those nights gave us more than we knew at the time — a little independence, a little trust from the grown-ups, and the kind of simple, shared joy that sticks with you for life. We learned how to be careful without being scared, how to look out for the little kids, and how good it feels when a whole street stops and looks up together.
As we head into another Independence Day, I’m grateful for those memories… and for the freedom that still lets us make new ones with the people we love.
If you grew up in that era, what’s one 4th of July memory that still makes you smile? Drop it below — I know some of y’all have stories. 👇
Wishing everyone a safe, joyful, memory-making holiday. ❤️🇺🇸

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

JD Vance nailed it.

America is not perfect.

But America is still the greatest nation ever carved out by free men, builders, fighters, mothers, fathers, workers, and believers.

The left wants you to see only the scars.
Patriots see the miracle.

On our 250th birthday, reject the hate.

Reject the guilt.

Reject the people who profit from dividing this country.

Be proud of America.

Always.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

Englishman SLAMS liberals in America who constantly bash the country.

“You all literally live in heaven on earth. I would give my left leg and cut off a hand to move to America. You have no idea how lucky you are.”

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Birmingham Police are now asking us all to stop sharing this video. Oops.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 AWESOME! The North Carolina Legislature has OVERRIDDEN the Democrat governor's veto, forcing a new law to take effect that BLOCKS taxpayer funds from going to illegal aliens in welfare and housing

It also requires state police to cooperate with ICE and help deportations 👏🏻

BIG WIN IN NC! Taxpayer dollars should NEVER have been helping illegals in the first place.

"Senate Bill 153, legislation that in part orders to agencies to ensure any and all beneficiaries of state services can prove citizenship."

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

Gives me absolute CHILLS looking at this 🇺🇸

[Warrior4Christ @MAGAPowerhouse]

Take a listen folks… 👂
this Norwegian releases profound simplistic WISDOM … 👀
Love this message!

[GP Q @argosaki]

BAKING SODA
BAKING SODA
BAKING SODA

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

🚨 TRUTH BOMB: TRUMP SAYS HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN FRAUD WERE STOLEN — AND WE CAN SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY!

President Trump just dropped the update patriots have been waiting for. Reports from AG Todd Blanche and JD show the theft on a scale unlike anything he's seen before.

No other administration would do what we're doing.

The previous mindset? "Just let it go. Everybody was getting rich."
Not on this watch.

This is real leadership — exposing the corruption while protecting the programs Americans depend on.

The Deep State’s gravy train is hitting the wall. Accountability has arrived.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There's a strange idea going round that a diet built on sugar is the natural one. The ancestral one, even. Let's have a look at that.

For almost all of human history, sugar was a rare event. A stroke of luck. You'd find a beehive a few times a year, get stung to bits robbing it, and that was your sugar quota for the season. Fruit turned up for a few weeks, wild and small and sour, then vanished for the rest of the year.

Nobody was waking up to a smoothie. There was no bowl of tropical fruit in January. No honey drizzled on everything, all year round, restocked from a shop. The idea of sugar on tap, every single day, would have been pure science fiction to every ancestor you've ever had.

So this picture of the paleolithic gourmet, lounging about gorging on raw honey and ripe mango daily, topping it up with the occasional fillet steak, is exactly backwards. The steak was the diet. The sugar was the rare festival, if you were lucky and quick and didn't mind the stings.

Year-round sugar is the single most modern thing on your plate. It arrived with the cargo ship and the supermarket, not the spear.

Calling it ancestral is like calling the aeroplane a traditional form of migration.