Chris

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

I don’t know, maybe the US should just host every World Cup

[Specter @DemonFramed]

The middle class is the real slave class.

Too rich for assistance. Too poor for loopholes.

Paying outrageous prices for health insurance, daycare, car insurance, mortgages, taxes, and everyone else’s mistakes.

The rich own the system. The poor survive it. The middle class funds it.

The best way to live life is either being rich or being homeless

[Occam's Razor @TeamZissou]

The @vademocrats & @SpanbergerForVA just made it law in VA that if the majority of the people vote for a Republican for President they will still hand over Virginia's electoral votes to the democrat challenger. YOU WILL HAVE ZERO VOICE.

[Prince William County Republican Committee @PWCGOP]

"I don't wanna be a lifelong politician. ... That's why I've said that if I'm elected to the Senate I will serve no more than two terms, because I think the value of our system is that it's constantly renewed by new ideas, fresh ideas, and fresh people."

@MarkWarner 1996

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger officially signs a bill handing over Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes across the whole country…

even if Virginians vote the other way.

Insane.

They rushed it through with mostly Democrat votes. The plan has 222 votes. It needs 270 to actually start working. Once it does, your vote in Virginia doesn’t matter anymore.

The Founders made the Electoral College so a few big cities don’t boss the whole country. This is a sneaky Democrat power grab to cheat that.

“Every vote counts the same”? Lies.

Virginians are pissed off, and they should be. They got played.

[Matt Morse @MattMorseTV]

Let’s just be honest — the bottom 1% is FAR WORSE for society than the top 1%.

[Baseball Vault @bsbvault]

Only after you’ve spent $10,000 this summer on travel ball will you realize what really matters is development.

[Stephenblaq @Steezehuman]

Hot take:

If businesses only pay taxes on profit, not revenue...

I should only pay taxes after rent, bills, and groceries.

[Josh Straughan @JoshStraughan1]

Travel ball is bleeding families dry. Tournaments fees. Hotels. Food. Equipment.

And now they charge parents insane amounts just to watch their own kid play. What’s next — pay-per-flush bathrooms?

Enough is enough‼️

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

In our H.S. program, we usually get 80–100 kids trying out. This year we’re in the mid-70s. Coaches across the state are telling me numbers are down everywhere. Some schools like us, with 2,500 students, have only 20–25 kids trying out for 3 teams. What’s happening to baseball?

[Nat 🇺🇸 @NatShupe]

Notice that welfare benefits never seem to run out of money. Never on track to become insolvent or at risk for massive cuts.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

saving 20% of my income so that in 30 years i can afford 11 months of assisted living. the math is airtight

[ROOZ @ROOZVA]

Democrats called it fake news.

They said it was fear-mongering.

But now here it is in black and white.

Dominion is already saying electricity bills will need to increase by 7.5% NEXT YEAR ALONE to cover $1.18 billion in RGGI costs.

Democrats didn’t have to rejoin RGGI. They did it anyway, and in doing so betrayed every promise they made about “affordability.”

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

“The concept of ‘social justice’ has been the trojan horse through which totalitarianism has entered.” - Friedrich Hayek

[Live Fully and Love Your Neighbors 💕 🏳️‍🌈 @Hokiefanshell]

A list of #Hokies who paid the ultimate sacrifice in WWII, especially those who lost their lives in Normandy. May they never be forgotten. 🧡🇺🇸

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Just a bunch of toxically masculine Christian Nationalists walking directly into Nazi machine gun fire to help save the world.

This is yet another reason why I will always be proud to be an American.

[Dave Scarangella @DaveScarangella]

Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord.

D-Day.

I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink.

Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended.

He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006.

His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything.

His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from.

He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss.

June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach.

In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it.

“No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.”

He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach.

No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all.

That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever.

It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back.

I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison.

So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days.

Rest In Peace...

[Tech Sideline @TechSideline]

BREAKING: Former Virginia Tech men’s basketball star Hunter Cattoor is returning to Blacksburg as an assistant for Mike Young!

#Hokies

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?”

— Thomas Sowell

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We just decided to stop teaching everyone math, in the hopes that this would make society equal because everyone would be equally incompetent