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I love the outdoors. Enjoy hiking, the river & spending time with my love. Kids are grown & Im always ready for an adventure. Hate dies in love.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Trump just spoke about Biden’s ban on certain offshore drilling saying “625 million acres. That's like the whole ocean!” For reference, the Pacific Ocean is 40.83 billion acres. We’re screwed.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

Wow! Did the model conman dad really misspell his son's name, or am I seeing things? How can you make that mistake?

That's hilarious! Classic...👀

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

We've got to stop treating this stuff like it's normal.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@Renmakesmusic All one can do is laugh cuz the reality is fucking tragic.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@3YearLetterman Folks are heading over to Bluesky.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@StephenKing Threads didn’t do it for me but Bluesky it’s got it all. Please check out Bluesky, if you’d like.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@StephenKing Please join BlueSky. I miss you & hate this place.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@traecrowder Are you in Bluesky?

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@smalls2672 I came here to ask if you’d joined BlueSky. Saw you did & I followed you! Can’t wait till all the awesome folks I follow are on Bluesky. It’s a great app with a working BLOCK feature. 😜

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@Renmakesmusic @YouTube @Renmakesmusic please join BlueSky! This place is 💩!

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

BREAKING NOW: TRUMP NAMES BOEBERT SECRETARY OF EDUCATION

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@theliamnissan I didn’t doubt this for a second. Then I saw who posted. lol

Sad part is you probably have a crystal ball & it’ll end up coming to fruition. 😩

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@RepJackKimble Ok I joined & your the first awesome Rep I’ve followed & the only person I’ve followed so far. So there is that.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

Not shocked!

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

MAGA admits it

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

So now everyone gets inc tax cut, corp tax cut, 0 taxes on Soc Secur, tips or overtime, car loan interest rates will be deductible, credit card int rates capped at 10%, 33% of budget will be cut, it will be balanced, 15 million migrants deported, & Ukraine war over in 24 hours?

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@RonFilipkowski @MeidasTouch Don’t forget the ACA eliminated. As a juvenile diabetic I’m f*cked. The no pre existing condition clause gone sure was nice.

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@mmpadellan @prolibshow I thought the endless smiling, in another clip I viewed, was the dead giveaway! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@RonFilipkowski She’s smiling waaaaayyyyyy too much to be Melania!!

[twztedtale @twztedtale1]

@RepJackKimble I LOVE your honesty! You give no f’s that’s why I’ve always voted for you! You aren’t a politician you just speak truth! Keep calling out the cheap a$$ LOSERS!