Shane Ahrens

I'm a husband and a father just cruising through this thing we call life. I love Texas A&M Univ., golf, MMA, Chelsea football & being able to carry a handgun.

[FairTax® Official @FairTaxOfficial]

An AFFT Board Member and PhD economist looks at REASONS why all political persuasions should support HR25 FAIRtax.

[Shane Ahrens @shanedogg97]

Goosebumps

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Ratings are off the charts, games have been awesome, huge, enthusiastic crowds, travelers from around the world falling in love with how awesome America is. And now a tiny island nation with a population of 158,000, Curacao, just scored on Germany. Put these games on and enjoy.

[Shaun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @shaunvlog_]

Singing Scotland’s national anthem at the World Cup in America is a memory I’ll never forget.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

UFC just dropped a killer AI promo for tomorrow’s White House event featuring Theodore Roosevelt boxing 🥊🔥

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

DALLAS IS ORANGE 🤯

The dancing Dutch are here and World Cup fever may be peaking 🇳🇱

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

The govt passed Obamacare and told us it would make healthcare affordable, yet the costs have spiraled out of control.

The govt has spent in excess of $22 trillion “fighting poverty”

Sounds like we need more of those who than can make trillions and less who waste trillions.

[Shane Ahrens @shanedogg97]

Man I love the World Cup!

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

THE DANCING DUTCH ARE TURNING DALLAS ORANGE BEFORE THEIR WORLD CUP OPENER 🧡

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Today I learned $1 Trillion in wealth is excessive but $40 Trillion in debt is totally cool… 💁‍♂️

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨TRENDING🚨🚨

This video shows what it looks like when a #NFL cheerleader gets married and all of her cheer teammates show up to the wedding.

The cheerleader and her squad surprised the groom with an unforgettable entrance.

This is crazy �

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

A bunch of drunk Scotsmen partying in the same harbor where the founding fathers dumped tea is what the World Cup is all about

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

One moment during the @USMNT's opener yesterday made both Thierry Henry and @Ibra_official emotional

[Shane Ahrens @shanedogg97]

@FreddyLA7 Trip of a lifetime just got even better. Wow!

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This clip of Charles Payne during Obama's second term is really incredible. Well done Charles.

In 2010 Obama put the federal government directly in charge of lending money to students. Eliminating private lending made the loans much easier to get, but they were not less expensive.

Before Obama took office, outstanding student debt was less than $100 billion. By 2015, outstanding student debt was approximately $800 billion and almost a third of the borrowers were in default. Of course the price of college continued to soar the entire time.

This is the best part. Payne predicted that someday the politicians would be promising to forgive student debt as a way to buy votes. He was spot on.

There are people like Ro Khanna on this site right now arguing that Elon Musk should be paying down the student debt when it's a problem that politicians created.

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🚨⛳️🇺🇸 #USA — Wyndham Clark showed up to the Rink at the Canadian Open with a USA Hockey jersey and the Canadian fans let him hear it after he birdied the hole 👀

“Boooooo!” 🤣

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

The US govt spends $7 trillion every year and they don’t solve shit.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon is not the problem…

There are 193 countries in the world and 177 of them receive US taxpayer money from Congress.

177 of 193.

Thats 91.7% of the world.

Its not Congress’s money.

Its your money, my money, our kid’s money etc.

Americans are being screwed.

Not by Elon…

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a young man at the coffee shop extended his FIST toward me, and I stood before it with no protocol whatsoever.

A closed fist. Offered gently. Hanging in the air between us. Patient. Expecting.

In my training, a raised fist has a short list of meanings, and none of them end in friendship. But his face was open and pleased — he had just handed me my order — so I understood this was a CEREMONY, and that I was failing it in real time.

I did the only correct thing I could think of.

I clasped his fist in both hands, as one accepts a precious gift, and bowed over it.

He laughed — kindly, I want that on the record — and said, "No man, like this," and guided me: knuckles meeting knuckles. One soft tap.

Then his hand sprang OPEN as it withdrew, fingers spreading, with a quiet sound:

"Pssshh."

THE EXPLOSION. There is an EXPLOSION at the end, America. Completely optional. Completely essential. And not one document in your entire country warns a foreigner about it.

In Japan, our greetings have been codified for centuries. Depth of bow, position of hands, duration — written down, teachable, examinable. Your greetings MUTATE FREELY between coffee shops, and every citizen somehow knows all current versions: the fist bump, which is respect; the high five, which is triumph; the handshake, which is a contract — see Kenneth — and the bro hug, which is a handshake that collapses inward into a single back-pat, and which I am told I am not ready for. I agree. I am not ready.

The fist bump is the haiku of the set. Minimal. Perfect. Two warriors touching armor.

A man does not ask the fist what it wants. He answers knuckles with knuckles, and detonates on schedule.

I returned the next day. Same young man. His fist came up immediately, eyebrows raised — a test and a welcome in one.

Knuckles. Tap. "Pssshh." Both of us. Full explosion.

He turned and announced to the entire kitchen:

"HE'S GOT IT NOW."

The kitchen CHEERED, America. Three strangers in aprons celebrated my education before the milk steamer finished.

I bowed to the room. The young man bowed back. Badly. With enormous heart.

Cultural exchange is complete when both men perform the other's ceremony wrong, together, on purpose, every morning at 7:40.

We are at that stage now. There is no higher stage.

[DAZN Football @DAZNFootball]

USA head coach Mauricio Pochettino talks about the big win and gives an update on Christian Pulisic 🗣️

#FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup