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Father, Husband, Chaplain, Writer, & IT Specialist striving to serve others with empathy, guided by integrity & faith.

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@MattWallace888 Looks like she’s having fun. Love her shirt 😁

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[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."

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann completely losing it during Melissa McCarthy’s improvised two-minute rant in a THIS IS 40 (2012) outtake remains endlessly rewatchable. Watching them fight to keep a straight face only makes it funnier.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

“Under Pressure” performed live by Queen on Saturday Night Live in 1982 ❤️🎶✨
A historic performance that marked their last appearance on a U.S. stage.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Imagine living in the 1970s and getting to see original Lynyrd Skynyrd

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

This song will transport you back to those wonderful years ✨

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@SpeakerWelchIL @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc Yet, you’re not bothered by the mistreatment of the @POTUS

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Steven Wright is the master of dry odd observational comedy

His one liners are forever classics

[Johnny B. Good @Cat5SMASHICANE]

This is such a special year for our country. I'm always patriotic but I feel it extra this year, especially now that summer is coming so fast. America's birthday will be here before you know it. It's good to know where our history comes from. Here's some very important info. 🤣

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@ABC7 I sincerely hope this is just a matter of California elections being incompetent and nothing unethical.

[IT Guy @ITGuy1959]

Dear legacy media journalists:

In light of your Scott Pelley lunatic antics; apparently, you all need a reality refresher. So as a public service to your cratering brand, here you go:

1- You do not run the company that employs you. The executive management runs the company, subject to oversight by the owners and/or the stockholders. You are not part of that oversight process.

2- The company that employees you does not owe you an explanation of everything they do, especially with regard to personnel matters. In fact, your own legal / HR department will tell you it is problematic to discuss personnel decisions beyond a need-to-know basis.

3- People don't care who reports the story - they care about the quality of the story. Reading a teleprompter put together by the production team that did the story isn't the galactic-level skill you may think it is.

4- This one should be obvious, but when journalists are the story versus reporting the story, you all failed.

5- When you run a story that is critical of an individual, administration, or institution; allowing the subject of the story to comment ahead of time is not "injecting political bias into the story." It's Journalism 101, which apparently is no longer taught in Journalism 101.

6- We really don't care what a "former producer" or a "former correspondent" thinks about anything. There's often a good reason they are a "former" something, and that reason usually undercuts their credibility.

7- This one also seems obvious, but you're subject to - and only subject to - the same employment laws that affect everyone else in every other business. When the First Amendment was written, the "press" referred to the printing press, not some special class of citizenry that is exempt from laws that affect everyone else.

8- When you have a show that suffered one of the worst scandals in journalism history - revolving around the literal forging of fake memos - don't tell us it's a gold standard that never had a blemish in its history. You just look dumb when you do that.

You're welcome.

[John Roberts @johnrobertsFox]

Filling in for @BretBaier on @SpecialReport tonight. @brithume weighs in on the recent turmoil at @CBSNews

Three things I have learned in my life.
1) no employee is bigger than the corporation
2) we are all just 'penciled in'
3) the graveyards of America are filled with people who 'couldn't be replaced'

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@IAmSteveHarvey If they want to be there or just feel like they have to be there.

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@EshaAA33 Dr. Ruth

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@MarcoFoster_ The only reason Jennifer Welch is known is because she's making a living being the anti MAGA shock jock with nonstop obscene soundbites. 🤣🤣🤣

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@maddenifico You're a bit late to the party. 60 Minutes hasn't been a reputable news program since the days of Andy Rooney. Remember the Kamala interview? 🤦‍♂️

[Love Music @khnh80044]

No autotune, no fancy lights, no tricks—just pure talent. So beautiful! 🎶💖 ✨

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Absolutely amazing!!!! I'm completely smitten!!!!
The chemistry between the two of them is incredible!!!! 😍

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@KhanSaba1278 I hope this is satire.
If not, is your name Karen? 🤣

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

Perfectly articulated.