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I’m a gypsy who never stays in one place for to long.

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Lol so like I’m a hot mess

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

OUR generation is supposed to be the change we wanted to see

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OUR generation was supposed to be the change we believed in

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

America is such a joke, what a ridiculous culture we’re forced to live in

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

How do woman even remotely claim to be American with pride

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

I love me so much, but if i had the opportunity i wouldn’t say no to meth. Idk if this is my ultimate cry for help or i just subconsciously give up

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

I don’t want anything to do with this life. Not suicidal but i hate it here.

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Packing up my entire life seems like the absolute right thing to do. All emotions shut off. I’m aware i don’t mean this but i hate my life.

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

I think I’m in an episode of manic or just fucking delusional. Over all i am not okay.

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Call me old fashioned, but i still believe in traditional gender roles. Cause babyyyyy ain’t no way im doin alll that

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Rather they were horrible or not, just not having them sucks

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Sometimes it’s so suffocating having no parents so young.

[FOX 13 Tampa Bay @FOX13News]

A man has been arrested and his dog, who troopers say was tied to a pole on I-75 in belly-deep water ahead of Hurricane Milton, is safe at a Tallahassee animal shelter. https://t.co/IDE4b9ZUBA

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Baby gator in a moment of bliss

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Prayers for the family

[IONTB.COM @IONTB]

11-year-old shot dead while in St. Petersburg home with siblings​
https://t.co/ThwOu4MQrP

[IONTB.COM @IONTB]

Fired probationary Clearwater firefighter arrested again for lewd and lascivious conduct
https://t.co/PhUoc8sdQf

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Bro tried to outrun horses, that’s wild 🤣

[WFLA NEWS @WFLA]

POLICE CHASE ON HORSEBACK: A suspect in a shoplifting incident tried to flee a group of police officers as they chased him on horseback. Fortunately, they were able to rein him in. Read more: https://t.co/HlunXCxq1f

[shark bait @xMAGNOxo]

Happy Monday ☺️