@LaNativePatriot You are absolutely right to defuse rather than escalate. Being respectful and owning one's responsibility for the encounter, (whether your share fault or not) should be the first reaction.
People who are angry can often change rapidly with the right response.
A guy was ready to drop $1,500 on a new OLED TV because his 3-year-old Smart TV was freezing up and took 5 seconds just to respond to the remote.
He unplugged it. Deleted old apps. Cleared the cache. The lag kept coming back.
He went to Best Buy to get a replacement.
The home theater installer in the blue shirt stopped him: "Before you spend a grand, let me show you something."
He grabbed a remote and shook his head.
"There are 8 hidden tracking settings throttling your TV's processor right now. Manufacturers turn them all on by default. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's fix this."
Here's what he showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵
This is Richard Webb. He's my father-in-law. He served two tours in Vietnam as a Marine Recon Sniper. He received two purple hearts for his service along with countless other medals.
This photo is seven years ago...
Today, Richard spends most days not knowing what the hell is going on because he developed type 2 diabetes from agent orange in Vietnam.
My wife has been fighting the VA for over a year to get Richard the care and benefits he needs just to survive. The process is a joke. The service is a bigger joke.
The VA case managers are absolute dog shit and treat our nation's heroes like garbage. They also act as if they're doing our vets a FAVOR for the most basic of care.
@SecVetAffairs, I've been to your headquarters building in DC, and have first hand experience dealing with the incompetent staff.
This is hands down the most embarrassing department in all of the Trump administration. If the Boss knew how horrendously our veterans are still being treated after you've had eighteen months to fix these issues, you'd be fired tomorrow.
I waited a long time to write this, but at this point I've seen enough.
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."
FRISCO: “I’m from Africa. I’m blacker than all of you”
Black man who came with a “White Lives Matter” sign at the Karmelo Anthony sentencing was told he wasn’t black for supporting Austin Metcalf
He quickly put all the crazy blacks in their place so they threatened to kill him
82 years ago today, over 10,000 Americans were either killed, wounded or missing after the D-Day invasion. They are the shoulders we stand upon. Their sacrifice is why we STAND UP for our Flag. I dedicate this song to them today. Here's "The Man."
@ZeekArkham Men go to work, period.
40 years of construction work here.
I've dug trenches, carried lumber, walked the plates, drove nails, hung sheetrock, painted walls, trimmed houses, run crews, was self employed and worked for small buisness.
Man is made to do what's hard.
Never quit.
There you go, better convert right away because it's only a matter of time before the whole country is under Islam's boot.
They don't deny it, everyone will yield or die before Islam.
Islamic scholar in California, Uthman Farooq, has a message to Americans:
“You can’t stop Islam in America. This is NOT your country, this is OUR country. This is the land of Allah. If you want to live in a place with no Muslims, I suggest you go to hell.”
Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
🚨EXPOSED: If you want to know who’s really helping Senator John Thune run out the clock on America First…
Look no further than these frauds in the GOP:
@TomCottonAR@SenatorLankford@SenJohnBarrasso@SenCapito
These are the SAME Senators who sat on their hands like statues while Democrats burned down our country for 4 straight years, laundered trillions in taxpayer money, putting illegals, Ukraine, and every foreign interest BEFORE American citizens.
And now? They’re actively helping Thune stall, sabotage, and slow-walk President Trump’s agenda… while blocking his nominees like it’s their full-time job.
Real “conservatives,” huh?
All talk. Zero spine. Pure Uniparty.
Call them out. Tag them. They need to be held accountable for their betrayal to their constituents.
cc:@ScottPresler@POTUS@elonmusk
Dear Sane America,
We are fucking done. We’re sick and damn tired of being force-fed this suicidal lie that every backwards, violent, or incompatible culture on the planet must be imported, celebrated, and protected....while our own is shit on, dismantled, and erased in real time. Our cities are turned into third-world shitholes by millions of unvetted invaders who bring their tribal hatreds, gang violence, welfare dependency, and medieval attitudes with them. Our schools brainwash our kids to despise their own heritage while waving rainbow flags for every exotic import. Our borders were wide open sewers. Our founding stock is told to shut up and die off quietly so the globalist parasites and their imported voting blocs can finish looting what’s left. They mock our flag, burn our history, tear down our monuments, and call our grandparents “oppressors.”
Meanwhile, we’re expected to genuflect to cultures that still practice female genital mutilation, honor killings, arranged cousin marriages, and religious supremacy that treats women and outsiders like cattle. But heaven forbid we prefer the culture that actually built hospitals, invented the modern world, and gave more freedom and opportunity to more people than any other in history. Call us racists. Call us bigots. We don’t give a shit anymore.
The experiment in “diversity is our strength” has been a catastrophic failure, written in blood, crime stats, collapsing social trust, and trillions wasted. Every honest study, every honest neighborhood that’s been transformed, every honest person who’s watched their town turn unrecognizable proves it. Multiculturalism isn’t enrichment, it’s replacement. And the people pushing it hardest live in gated communities far from the consequences. This is our country. Europeans, founders’ descendants, and assimilated Americans built it. We don’t owe the rest of the planet a damn thing except what we voluntarily choose to give. We will not apologize for wanting our children to inherit the civilization their ancestors created instead of some diluted, chaotic, low-trust slum. America First. America Always.
No more apologies. No more guilt. No more tolerance for intolerance aimed at us. If you hate this country and its native culture so much, there are 195 other nations. Get the fuck out. We’re staying, we’re waking up, and we’re taking it back...raw, unapologetic, and by any political means necessary. The sane are no longer asking nicely. A furious, wide-awake American who’s had enough of the bullshit.
I can relate to being so pissed that the destruction of the offending tool is required, but it's only when the tool refuses to function properly.
This failure is on the operator, so the tool shouldn't suffer his abuse.
Now the tree... annihilation!
Since the world is watching what’s happening in the UK, where law-abiding citizens are struggling to properly defend themselves…
Here is a list of supporters/sponsors for the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act (Red flag gun laws) and state level Red Flag laws:
Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) — Lead sponsor of Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
• Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) — Lead sponsor of multiple federal ERPO bills and grants
• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — Bipartisan co-leader on federal incentives for state red flag laws
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA, deceased) — Early sponsor of Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
• Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) — Sponsor of federal ERPO legislation
• Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) — Supporter and co-sponsor of federal bills
• Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO expansion bills
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO legislation
• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO bills
• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO legislation
• Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA) — Signed Massachusetts red flag law
• Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) — Pushed for and signed Ohio’s red flag law
• Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) — Supported Arizona red flag efforts
• Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) — Signed and strengthened New York red flag laws
• Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) — Supported Washington state extreme risk laws
• Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) — Championed and expanded California’s GVRO (red flag) law
• Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) — Signed Michigan’s extreme risk protection order law
• Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) — Signed expansions to Colorado’s red flag law
• Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) — Signed New Mexico’s red flag law
• Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) — Signed Virginia’s red flag legislation
• Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL) — Signed Illinois red flag law
• Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) — Signed Maryland’s red flag law
• Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) — Co-sponsor of recent federal ERPO expansion
• Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO bills
• Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO legislation
• Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO expansion
• Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO bills
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO legislation
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO bills
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO expansion
• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO legislation
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO bills
• Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) — Co-sponsor of federal ERPO expansion
• Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) — Supported federal ERPO efforts
• Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) — Supported federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act
• Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA) — Supported federal red flag measures
• Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL) — Supported federal ERPO legislation
They want every single law-abiding citizen on the list to take your guns away, including myself.
They are truly the enemy of the state.
Nothing like this would succeed without overwhelming support from the military. Vast numbers of officer class soldiers would have to seize control of Washington, with the goal of restoring strict constitutional parameters.
I predict that at some point in the next 5-7 years, millions of ARMED citizens will march through Washington DC to take our country back from these blood-sucking politicians and bureaucrats.
It’s going to be the bloodiest event in U.S. history.
Americans can only take so much of this bullshit.
People who say violence is never the answer are completely ignoring the entirety of human history.
Violence has always been the deciding factor.
The one that is best at it is the one to prevail.