My car wouldn't start in a Tractor Supply parking lot in Tennessee, so I opened the hood.
I know nothing about engines. In American movies, opening the hood is how a man calls for help. It works outside the movies too.
The first one arrived in under two minutes with a fifty-pound bag of chicken feed on his shoulder. No hello. He set the feed on my bumper, put his hands on his hips, and looked into my engine.
Then a man from a truck hauling fence posts. Hands on hips.
Then an older man came out of the store holding a receipt. He had not finished paying. Through the window I could see the cashier still holding his card. I think he heard the hood.
Nobody touched anything. Nobody asked my name. Three strangers stood around my engine like it was a campfire.
"Battery," said Chicken Feed.
"Could be the starter," said Fence Posts.
"It's not the starter," said Receipt.
Fence Posts made a clicking noise with his mouth to show what a bad starter sounds like. Receipt said that was the wrong click and did his own, and for a while two grown men in Tennessee just clicked at each other. I did not interrupt. It felt religious.
It was the battery. The terminals were crusted white. Chicken Feed walked to his truck, came back with a can of Coca-Cola, cracked it, and poured it on my battery.
"Has to be Coke."
"Pepsi works," said Fence Posts.
"Pepsi does not work, Ronnie."
"It's the same acid!"
"Then why'd God make Coke?"
I looked it up that night. Men have been having this exact argument online since at least 2004.
The sun was going down. Receipt said, "Somebody hold a light," and a flashlight was in my hand.
I pointed it at the battery.
"Not there. Where I'm looking."
I moved it.
"Where I'm looking NOW."
For ten minutes I chased an old man's eyes around an engine with a beam of light. I have trained with a sword for twenty years. Nothing has ever asked more of my wrists.
Then, without looking up, Receipt said, "Don't watch my hands, son. Watch my face. Took my daddy eleven years of yelling to teach me that."
So I watched his face. I saw where he was going to look before he looked, and the light was already waiting there.
He stopped correcting me.
The car started on the first try. Nobody cheered. Chicken Feed took his feed back off my bumper, Fence Posts said "There ya go," and in under a minute they were gone, the way they came.
I was closing my hood when a truck two rows over wouldn't turn over. Up went its hood. A father, and a boy of maybe nine.
I walked over with the flashlight. I did not ask. I put the light where the father's eyes were about to go.
He glanced at me. Then at his son.
"Watch how he holds it."
My fellow Americans,
Something broke in the Democratic Party.
Their love of country has gone missing.
Giving other people basic human dignity seems no longer necessary to them.
What is right and wrong now depends on who has committed the wrong and why?
Reason has given way to rage. Persuasion has been discarded for violent rhetoric and actual violence.
Fraud, theft and voting irregularities and illegal voting now seem acceptable to them. Even justified.
Leftists have more sympathy for criminals than for the victims of their crime.
Their empathy for their fellow Americans must only be given to those with the same political beliefs.
This unique American system of government with its checks and balances that has provided the greatest level of freedom and prosperity the world has ever known, they feel is now dispensable.
What they offer to replace it is a socialist nightmare that has been responsible for the deaths of over 100,000,000 people in the 20th century.
Perhaps even worse, the Left now flirt with the dangerous and Western Civilization enemy, Islam, which is completely incompatible with American freedoms, our constitution, women rights and gay rights, religious freedoms and free speech.
An actual Hamas terrorist supporter, supported by the designated terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is running to be the next Senator of Michigan and may very well win.
I remind my fellow Americans that our freedoms are inalienable and given by God and were fought and died for by patriots with their own blood.
While the Republican Party is far from perfect, they will keep our borders closed from people who intend to harm our fellow citizens. Unlike Democrats, they will continue to protect our God given liberties and our Constitution and our system of justice and government.
So I beseech you to do your duty and vote like your life, and your children’s life and freedoms depend on it.
Because they do.
God bless you and your family and God bless the United States of America! 🇺🇸
Love,
Rob Schneider
🟥 Prezydent @NawrockiKn przedarł się przez kordon policji i wszedł do Trybunału Konstytucyjnego‼️
Tak jak obiecał, mówiąc: „Nigdy nie powiem do Was: naprzód!, zawsze będę mówił: ZA MNĄ!” —
— Idzie pierwszy, walczy i prowadzi naród!
To jest SIŁA i CHARAKTER! 🇵🇱🔥
And now we understand the absolutely rabid obsession with destroying Pete Hegseth.
I’ve been in the Army since before 9/11. Served under many secretaries.
Only in the past 18 months have I experienced:
>politicians warning me not to follow illegal orders
>billboards outside military bases telling me to report war crimes
>the media attacking anyone who has a positive thing to say about the man, and defending anyone who hates him
>stunning volume of leaks from senior officials trying to undermine him, and the lionizing of the leakers by the press
>being called a war criminal myself, hundreds of times a day
>a sustained media narrative portraying virtually every firing or senior officer removal as a “purge”
>public efforts by retired officers, advocacy groups, and political figures to mobilize service members and military communities against administration policies
>influential “Americans” publicly cheering for Iran
This is just to name a few. I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this before. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that the concerted effort to divide the military from within was stunted when Hegseth took over. Anyone desiring color revolution needs control of the military. That’s color revolution 101.
Is it starting to make sense yet? Now you see the obsession over him in particular. It’s not a coincidence. And it damn sure isn’t because of his culture war.
It’s because by all objective metrics, he runs a military that snatches rogue leaders from their beds, destroys entire militaries, and successfully mobilizes assets to save one downed pilot in the middle of enemy territory by building an Air Force base… in the middle of enemy territory. Secures the border, dominates the hemisphere. Hunts drug cartels. The list goes on.
He is by all meaningful accounts, effective at wielding the machine. And that is why they drool at the thought of removing him.
In years past you’d be hard pressed to find a junior Soldier who knew the name of the cabinet secretary above them.
Every one of them knows Pete Hegseth.
Every one.
The EU globalists told us we had to give all our money to Ukraine because Russia was about to invade and take over Poland.
Turns out it was the EU globalists planning to invade Poland. https://t.co/W90sMm1JiU
Sin X nadie en Europa se habría enterado de lo sucedido en Polonia está noche. El jefe del gobierno Donald Tusk perpetró un intento de golpe de Estado aprovechando el viaje del jefe del estado Karol Nawrocky al extranjero. Asaltó el Tribunal Constitucional con la policía y pretendió destituir a presidente y vicepresidente del Constitucional con una juez leal sin competencias.
Pero no contaba con el presidente que enterado ordenó al avion dar la vuelta cuando sobrevolaba España. Volvió a Varsovia, entró por la fuerza por delante de sus escoltas en el edficio del TC pese al cerco de policias de Tusk y convocó a todas las máximasx instituciones de Supremo y Constitucional para restablecer el orden Constitucional.
Aunque la crisis continúa, parece claro que el gobierno de Tusk, el títere de Von der Leyen que jamás habría perpetrado este asalto sin permiso de Bruselas, tiene los días contados. Pero recuerden, los medios publicos y privados de toda Europa han sido cómplices del golpe de Estado silenciando toda la operación. Solo las redes sociales han alertado a polacos y europeos. Por eso quieren intervenirlas.
Potrzebujemy Waszego wsparcia. Ważą się losy ojczyzny. Wiemy, że to trudny czas przed dniem Wszystkich Świętych, ale dlatego Tusk wybrał ten termin, byśmy nie mogli bronić Polski. Przyjeżdżajcie, warto bronić Polski dla naszych dzieci! 🇵🇱
Ieri sera, profittando del viaggio presidenziale in Africa del presidente Nawrocki, il premier della sinistra europeista Tusk ha mandato la polizia a bloccare i lavori della corte costituzionale, impedendo al suo presidente, al vice e ad alcuni giudici di entrare nel palazzo. Il presidente della Repubblica ha fatto invertire la rotta al suo aereo, è tornato a Varsavia e si è diretto con la sua scorta al palazzo della Corte dove ha dovuto aprirsi fisicamente la strada a gomitate tra gli agenti di polizia mentre la folla lo acclamava. Una volta giunto ai cancelli ha ordinato la loro apertura, consentendo al vicepresidente della Corte di entrare nel palazzo.
Ora Tusk batte in ritirata raccontando di aver chiesto l'intervento della polizia per proteggere i giudici.
Il presidente della Repubblica ha convocato per oggi consultazioni urgenti con tutte le forze politiche.
Una breve spiegazione per coloro che non hanno conoscenze di politica polacca:
Un anno fa, il popolo polacco ha eletto un presidente della Repubblica conservatore, Karol Nawrocki.
La Polonia ha attualmente il governo Tusk di sinistra-liberal-woke-europeista che vuole frontiere aperte e altre stupidaggini europee ma che non controlla ancora la corte costituzionale.
Il governo Tusk sta tentando di prendere illegalmente il controllo dei giudici al fine di minare l'elezione del presidente Nawrocki.
Solo in questo modo l'europeista Tusk può assicurarsi il potere assoluto per sé. Tusk sa che perderà le elezioni del 2027, quindi sta tentando di minare l'ordine costituzionale dello stato e di rimuovere un presidente amato dal popolo polacco.
Preghiamo per la Polonia e il presidente Nawrocki.
PS. non credo che sentirete questa notizia. Facciamo girare.
PPS. immaginate se una cosa del genere la facesse la premier Meloni....
@claudiaaict A provocateur with a knife at the protests. He turned out to be a police officer.
The unmasked knifeman fled from the front of the Constitutional Tribunal and took refuge in a police car.