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[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@SNstats At $12 million a year he better be! As a NYR fan, it’s too much for one position. Hard to build a supporting cast, especially in New York, when everyone who wants to come here wants to make the most money possible. It’s good for them, but not for the team as a whole.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@Elex_Michaelson @CNNTheStoryIs Horrible headline by @CNN Trans athletes are NOT banned. They just need to participate with athletes from their same gender from birth. It’s their choice to play or not. They are not banned. Typical CNN misleading header.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@RedWavePress She just doesn’t shut up and let anybody actually answer her. She’s a mess.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@kimKBaltimore @MayorBowser Why? What happened in Baltimore? Serious question! 😀

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@LeVeonBell @WWE @LoganPaul I have an idea, if this is all about summer slam, then just do the fight there. Millions will be watching and I would even pump up that card even more.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@SInow 3

[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.

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[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@NYRangers Not my eyes!

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@Torala4 @NYRangers Get rid of him too. That contract is just as bad as this team.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@OhRyanMead Maybe we shouldn’t be saying sorry to Igor. A great goalie, but it’s that contract. It leaves very little room to sign others. Most teams that win, don’t do it with a goalie that makes that much money.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@stoolpresidente Can’t watch it. Senior is too much of a lib for me.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@AJ_Cats_ 💯

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@atensnut This must be an old map, because Long Island, NY is RED

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@MattWallace888 #MAGA

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@stoolpresidente @JoeBiden Sleeping. He doesn’t know yet, they didn’t wake him up from his nap.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@Robert_Iadanza @NYRangers 2 of 3 WITH home ice advantage.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@NYRFanatic U have no clue.

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@nypostsports Goaaaaal!

[Mikel @ShaolinMike]

@VallysView Let’s goooo!