Thomas Montes

Former: @ccsjbaseball @msjcbaseball

[Brendo. @6thPrestige]

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[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Tell yourself The Truth.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

How to End the Fed?

Since America's founding, we've had 4 central banks. We shut down 3. One to go.

The last time was Andrew Jackson, a firebrand populist the elite hated as much as they hate Donald Trump.

The central bankers fought back hard — and they fought dirty.

But once the public understand exactly what central bankers do, once they saw past the smoke and mirrors, they demanded Congress abolish it.

That day is coming, and Jackson gave us the roadmap.

[Markov @MarkovMagnifico]

me and the bae on our way to colonize a lifeless poisonous rock and turn it into the garden of eden

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

i dont think most people realize how fast disease is skyrocketing in just the last 50 years...

tesotsterone down 50%, obesity up 4 TIMES, sperm counts down 60%, thyroid cancer tripled, alzheimers deaths up 100%, strokes doubled in young adults...

we are being poisoned

[Jon Finkel📚💪 @Jon_Finkel]

Dads and 90s kids, here's a fact:

We had it so good with SportsCenter and we didn't know it.... How could we?

We didn't know what was on the horizon that would try to take it down: first, league passes and TiVo and DirecTV... then the Internet and social media and YouTube...

During that brief, bright spot in sports media in the 1990s, SportsCenter was the only way to get the day's highlights...

We had black and white photos and box scores and features in the newspaper...

We had brilliant writing and reporting and pictures in Sports Illustrated and Sporting News and ESPN: The Magazine...

But for the day's highlights...

To watch Ken Griffey Jr. make a diving catch or Jordan hit a game winner or Barry Sanders twirl through a defensive line...

If you didn't catch it live, the only way to see it was on SportsCenter (maybe your local news sports show - maybe)...

And into this void stepped Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Stuart Scott and Rich Eisen and Craig Kilborn and Linda Cohn and Robin Roberts and crew...

And all the catch phrases every kid in high school and college would repeat: "cool as the other side of the pillow"... Jumanji... En Fuego....

We'd watch SportsCenter at night then again in the morning.

It was a monolith. You'd show up at school and you'd have the same frame of reference for the highlights you saw. It was a shared experience.

It was awesome. And even though the show still exists and works, it's not a cultural touchstone anymore... it can't be... not with every highlight available from 1,000 sources across social media instantly...

And there are bright spots to be sure... My man and Top 10 Randy (@RandyScottESPN) is terrific. So are plenty of others.

But classic SC, man. It was a shared experience. By everyone.

These kids don't know... Sitting there, retweeting highlights, sharing reels, scrolling their feeds... Doing the work to find what they like with no commentary or context.

Times change. I get it. And we always glorify what we grew up on. Maybe that's all this is.

Still, I miss Stu Scott. He ruled.

If you agree, share this and follow me @Jon_Finkel.

Boo-Yah!

[Beyond PhilosophyX @Beyondphilosphy]

If you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants in a jar:

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

a good relationship with a good woman is 1000x better than any casual hookup

wild that this is controversial today

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Good friendships make life awesome.

[Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA @Budgetdog_]

Your best excuse is still an excuse 💯

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

All growth requires loss. A loss of your old values, your old behaviors, your old loves, your old identity. Therefore, growth sometimes has a component of grief to it.

[Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA @Budgetdog_]

It’s MY fault if I lose.

Not my circumstances.

Not the government.

Not my parents.

Not my ex.

It’s MY fault.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

I wish Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it and happy holidays to those of you who do not. I wish you all peace, empathy, wisdom, and joy.

[Jay Rock @jayrock]

It ain’t about what you got it’s about who you got… Happy Holidays!!

[Gordon Lamphere @Gordon_CRE]

If you're in doubt.

Your not good to drive.

Please be safe this Holiday Season.

The cost of a ride is not worth your life.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

109 years ago today, the Federal Reserve was created by a cabal of elite financial interests.

Since then, the dollar has depreciated by more than 96%.

[Steve Harvey @IAmSteveHarvey]

Truth is… I ain't never lost nobody I needed. The real ones still around 💯

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain." — Seneca