Steven J

Follower of Christ. vet. MAGA!

[Bert Mizusawa @GenBert2026]

Senator Mark Warner voted for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in 2021, a massive, clumsy spending bill that many economists say supercharged inflation by pouring too much money into an already recovering economy.

Virginians from the Shenandoah Valley to the beaches are still struggling with higher grocery prices and everyday costs because of the reckless Washington spending Warner backed.

It's time to send a strong leader to the Senate who will actually fight for lower costs and put Virginia first, not career politicians like Warner.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

On the night the Titanic sank, a 21-year-old college student watched his father die.

Hours later, doctors told him both of his legs would have to be amputated.

Instead, he got up and started walking.

His name was Richard Norris Williams.

And surviving the Titanic was only the beginning of his story.

In April 1912, Richard and his father, Charles Duane Williams, boarded the Titanic as first-class passengers in Cherbourg, France.

They were traveling to America so Richard could continue his studies at Harvard.

When the ship struck the iceberg on April 14, father and son made their way to the deck together.

Then disaster struck again.

As the Titanic sank, one of its massive funnels collapsed.

The falling structure hit Charles Williams and killed him instantly.

Richard was standing beside him.

He narrowly escaped the same fate.

Moments later, he was in the freezing North Atlantic.

The water temperature was around 28°F (-2°C).

Most people survived only minutes.

Richard spent roughly six hours in the water or clinging to one of the partially submerged collapsible lifeboats before rescue arrived.

When the RMS Carpathia finally picked up survivors at dawn, his condition was severe.

His legs were frozen from the knees down.

The ship's doctor examined him and delivered a grim verdict:

Both legs would need to be amputated.

In 1912, severe frostbite often meant gangrene, infection, and death.

Amputation was considered the safest option.

Richard refused.

He reportedly told doctors that he was going to need his legs.

Then he got out of bed.

Against medical advice, he began walking the deck of the Carpathia every two hours.

Day and night.

Step after painful step.

For four days.

By the time the ship reached New York, his condition had improved enough that amputation was no longer necessary.

He walked off the ship on his own.

Most people would consider that the defining story of a lifetime.

For Richard Williams, it wasn't.

A few months later, he enrolled at Harvard.

Then he returned to tennis.

In 1914, he won the U.S. National Championship, the tournament that would later become the U.S. Open.

In 1916, he won it again.

Over the following years, he became one of the best tennis players in the world, winning multiple major doubles titles and representing the United States internationally.

Then came World War I.

Williams served in the U.S. Army and distinguished himself in combat.

France awarded him both the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor for his service.

After the war, he returned to tennis once again.

At the 1924 Paris Olympics, he badly sprained his ankle during the mixed doubles tournament and considered withdrawing.

His partner, Hazel Wightman, refused to let him quit.

Williams played much of the tournament barely able to move.

Together, they won Olympic gold.

Over the years, he became a Davis Cup captain, a respected figure in American tennis, and eventually a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Yet people who knew him rarely heard him talk about any of it.

Not the Titanic.

Not the championships.

Not the war.

Not the medals.

Not the Olympic gold.

In fact, he disliked attention so much that later in life he had approximately 160 tennis trophies melted down into a single silver serving tray.

He used it to serve drinks to guests in his Pennsylvania home.

Most visitors had no idea what it was.

Or what it represented.

A Titanic survivor.

A two-time national champion.

A decorated war veteran.

An Olympic gold medalist.

A Hall of Famer.

All hidden inside an ordinary tray sitting quietly on a side table.

Richard Norris Williams died in 1968 at the age of 77.

If you had met him, he probably wouldn't have told you any of this.

And that may be the most remarkable thing about him.

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

Doomers must have mental whiplash at this point.
1. China kicked out of Panama
2. Venezuela secured and friendly without a war.
3. EU and Canada whimpering like babies
4. No Russian tanks rolling across Germany or the rest of Europe.
5. No ww3
6. China in a major deflationary event
7. Taiwan still free from China
8. Gaza ceasefire
9. Israel still standing
10. BRICS on the back foot.
11. Right leaning goverments being elected across central and south America.
11. Iran military defeated
12. The men who ordered the deaths of thousands of America
Soldiers in Afghanistan and iraq sleeping with 72 goat virgins.
12. Strait opening back up.
13. No forever war in Iran
14. No boots on the ground in Iran
15. No US recession
16. Gas prices falling
17. Oil prices falling
18. Jobs expanding
19. Flyover country is booming
20. Lower taxes
21. Secure southern border.
22. Deportations continuing
23. No empty shelves or empty oil tanks.
24. SPR isnt running dry.
25. Barnacles didn't end the world.
26. Trade continues with tariffs
27. Fraudsters being arrested
28. Millions no longer on food stamps
29. Redistricting happened
30. Gop tightened up the mid term races
31. Trump still in office.
32. ICE and border patrol fully funded for the rest of Trumps term.
33. Stock markets at record highs.
34. Do I need to go on? There are about 100 more domestic policy issues I could list...

And it hasn't even been 2 years.

At this rate, the doomers are going to need even more intensive mental health care.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@shipwreckedcrew And many others.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@RoKhanna Sixty years of history proves that the more our government gets involved, poverty increases, the nuclear family structure is destroyed, education worsens dramatically and all at the price of $40 trillion in over expenditures. Nice plan.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@shegone03 Weak and feckless leadership. The path of least resistance.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@CountryBear1974 @shegone03 Thought for the day: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@ktfuntweets Sarcasm can be a subtle thing.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@BasedMikeLee Mike, stop. With every post trying to defend the indefensible, you lose credibility. Please stop disappointing me.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@infantrydort @RobManess Great point! Jumping across the pond, Churchill disgraced himself as their Secretary of the Navy in his earlier years but redeemed himself.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@acampgraphics @kershaw_alex @WWIIMemorial What a legacy.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@pencheno @VoicesofWW2 Thanks for this reminder. I read these books many years ago and I think I’ll re-read them.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@gronko63 @VoicesofWW2 Excellent!!

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@vptharp @VoicesofWW2 I just ordered this.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@RubnIsRacing @VoicesofWW2 That is an awesome story and memory! Thanks for sharing. It’s important to preserve these memories and pass them down.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Federal prosecutors just charged an NIH virologist with smuggling biological materials into the United States.

His name is Vincent Munster. He's not a minor scientist. He runs the Virus Ecology Section at one of the government's premier BSL-4 labs.

This is bigger than a customs charge. Thread 🧵

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@shegone03 @MLB @notgaetti @BobFile @billdubs @iamrags @artofhitting @hittingguru7 @slider_sinker @SliderDom @low_and_outside The last time offense was this offensive, they lowered the mound.

[Steven J @sjohns58]

@Musings1945 @shegone03 Same