Cards are Portable Brain Weights

I follow you because people I love have MS and you are being open and brave. Does how I may have voted mean we no longer share this common cause? You are awesome! We are Americans. We can do this.

Tough audience

Same. Reminded me of when Carol Burnett entourage would start losing it. Sometimes the players breaking works to make it even funnier.

Some of the oldest gay slurs. Conflating homosexuality with pedophilia or it being a contagion.

Young, capable, accomplished, clearly missioned, and media savvy seems to be the new standard

How about some new stories instead of turning an old classic into something different? Have the imagineers lost their imaginations?

It feels like the duopoly’s fight for the low information voter, is morphing into an effort to turn everyone into low information voters.

I lost my best friend to cancer almost 25 years ago. Your post brought my mind rushing to a moment with him in college, introducing this episode to me as the best Twilight Zone ever. He was so right ❤️. Thank you for that memory with coffee 🙏

When the Levy Breaks

Polanski, Weinstein, Epstein, Prince Andrew, and Sean Combs. Power and influence apparently buys you the right to be a creep as an open secret.

Never again

There are more dollars spent on labor slowing it down than actually building it

My wife, a family friend, and I were just talking about this over coffee. A parallel: If you stop drinking alcohol, many friends cannot see it as a personal choice but somehow a judgment on them. It feels a bit like this same dynamic.

No do overs in moral clarity. You either possess it and are qualified to lead or you do not. They do not.

I never imagined in my life supporting any Kennedy, and yet I find myself a profound fan of civic consciousness of this man. Kinda really like him too.

This is a powerful and uncomfortable narrative. Over my adult life, I learned such views are a must-consume for growth. I will never forget the day John Murtha, in tears, withdrew his support for the war in Iraq. This was two years after a country band was “canceled” for speaking their mind. As the CEO of an innovative military company, I set up a team to track the names and causes of every American casualty in Iraq and Afghanistan. I felt we needed to keep ourselves close to the pain this war was inflicting to inform our products to save lives. The young employee we assigned the primary role was soon deeply depressed. I knew in my heart this war was wrong after initially supporting it. Most Americans were conditioned to act like it was a team sport, and the various media outlets and their parties were dividing us. These soldiers are the roots and fruits of families from the heartland and poor urban communities. The military-industrial complex was not cooperating to do our best; they were doing M&A, trying to capture revenue streams and secure effective monopolies. When I attended mixers, government employees’ conversations were about what programs would get them to retirement, people in uniform were networking for a good job, and contractors were gossiping about each other and who would win the next big program that would waste money feeding those paychecks with little regard for the people who were bleeding. I came from a small town of 5,600, which was the biggest town in one of the poorest counties in the nation. Last time I was there, the population was around 3,000. Silicon Valley (a national treasure) became so obsessed with scale and “engagement” that they profited from division and child abuse. Children were exploited for perverts… but stopping that was too big a hit to the bottom line. They built a vaulted palace of Olympus and ruined California with their high-income guilt. Families like the Bidens traded American interests for self-enrichment. The media, DOJ, and FBI covered for them. Let that sink in. I don’t know what is right, but it is clear to my eyes what is wrong. Everyday men cannot provide for their families with honor and the sweat of their brow. Addiction rages not because of the ease of drugs, but the loss of their dignity. Small towns have been hollowed out. Elites who never had dirt under their fingernails a day in their lives and are afraid to clean a toilet threw condescending labels on everyday people. Leftist governments elsewhere used U.S. productivity to pay for the comfort of their populations while making fun of “cowboys.” I'm glad my small town got gutted so they could have "free" healthcare and long vacations. Angry young men began shooting up schools. My high school had unlocked vehicles with gun racks. If you can gather courage, read this thread. Americans are best when we love, support, and will readily die to help lift each other. We are horrible when trained to hate each other. Families and communities have been destroyed by the elite class while they profited from it, and blamed our hardworking people for their own demise. The climate change bullshit was my last straw — it made me wonder if we even taught math and science anymore. The pandemic confirmed it. We have been dumbing down our population to believe whatever is being sold. I have traveled for business to the six continents of the world. I love and admire all people everywhere. Yet, airlines remind us in case of emergency, put the oxygen mask on ourselves before helping others. Whatever is happening today, my heart says needs to happen. This person's grandfather is everyone's papa. The people that built this nation believed in dignity and hard work. Education made us all better equipped to lift each other. PS- open your mind to the idea that your IQ is just a number and has nothing to do with anything other than stroking your ego.

Two hard working Americans that rose to the top of their profession. Both politically charged and opinionated men that openly express themselves in a free society. Why would any person of goodwill wish harm on either?

ChatGPT’s rendering

Are you saying your experience is that teachers want to harm children? Most school shootings have a teacher who used their body and lives to protect children. I trust teachers not to shoot children.

Thank you for loving out loud even when it as ugly.

Your follow is an unexpected kindness. Thank you.

This also conflates a parent building their kids academic knowledge, reasoning skills, and love of learning in the home with being skilled in teaching 15-30 kids at once. When did teaching elementary subjects to your own kids suddenly become hard?

“Get Together” - The Youngbloods

I struggle to see your dad say anything like this about a family member that aspires to public service, it’s not clear you share your father’s values either.

The science-industrial complex embeds institutional bias into narratives designed to terrify children about their future—and the fate of polar bears. What we’re witnessing isn’t science; it’s industrial-grade generational programming, fueling widespread anxiety that borders on mental illness. It’s time to end this cycle of fear. We must return to optimistic problem-solving and leave esoteric doomsday debates where they belong: in adult discourse, not in the minds of our children.

I’m rocking this perspective, but what makes movies truly memorable is sharing something with the first time with a crowd. I will never forget sitting in a packed theater sharing the opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. It is inexplicable seeing that shock and awe. That doesn’t happen on the couch. That scene was designed for the audacity of a theater experience.

The problem with common sense is it ain’t too common

Here’s the sheet music

Like the feeling of unusually low pressure right before a tornado

The child on the left was me. I am a language impeded learner. I have poor reading comprehension and struggle to retain anything from books. The picture reminded me of my sister who read easily. As children we shared what we learned with each other.

Fascinating the number of depraved human beings that think they know what happened and deride the mother and child. This sanctimonious and righteous indignation of “fans” and “stars” is what enables predators like Allen, Polanski, Epstein, and Weinstein to operate unimpeded.

Why did Howard Hughes pee in mason jars?

I have a feeling your dad was going to be great at whatever he set his mind to. He put light on many of the ugliest and broken spots of our personal moral fencings. He used art to take his audiences an entertaining 4th step journey of a fearless moral inventory. Truly remarkable.

❤️ 16 years, keep it going!

As I am in the safety of my armored vehicle, Jim is wrestling a 20 foot anaconda…

Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight

He’s is not credited enough as a poet. His introductions are rich in riddle and moral mind anchoring only to perturb and shock your spirit and consciousness with storytelling. A profound artist.

We played the album "What a Wonderful World" every Sunday while I cooked a big breakfast. Can you guess the song my daughter chose for our farher-daughter dance at her wedding?

Flashdance too

Nothing to see here folks…move along. DC corruption didn’t exist before 2016.

Pat Benatar

So sorry

If you gotta dumpster dive, that's a good one to target🤣

You were so out in front with Weird!!!

Takes a special kind of cruelty to make fun of a young girl you know nothing about. As the parent of a beautiful, generous, kind, and amazingly creative language impeded learner, we were panicked when she entered a beauty contest for this reason. This. People who do this. Be better man. Kamala is fair game, this young lady is not.

It’s a platform that feels like everybody has been snorting coke all night and talking over each other not caring to listen…

Engineers want to use both

What a cool story of resilience

Low Mane

RFK Jr. will be remembered for his deeds, she will be remembered for her name.

Indeed. Americans do deserve this. But if your very presence was a criminal act, what exactly is the due process you think they deserve. We are sending them home.

She’s back

Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Room 222, and The Odd Couple. You guys shaped millions of young minds Friday nights. You made a lot of people smile :)

Circular reasoning turns into spiral reasoning fast because it’s emotionally impervious to facts

Listen to the lyrics of Revolution. He was never a communist. Just an idealist.

This I can see as a wise and painful shortcut

Thank you. He was beautiful. I do miss him everyday. He was my first cousin and little brother. You gave me a big smile. He loved your dad’s skilled imagination too.

A decade ago my wife and I were in Sweden and hired a local wildlife photography guide. He fed us along and way. My wife and I had been traveling and both started talking about how we need to get healthy again. He said “What? You are literally the skinniest Americans I have ever taken on a tour.”

I tell my grandsons a wise man listens carefully to the advice of the good women in his life. There are moments when these women will be scared or uncertain, and that is the time to be a man. Face the danger and protect the ladies. Then, go back to being wise.

And resigning was considered the honorable choice in the old days.

High price to put a giant hole in the soul of an innocent child

All hate is learned at home

Were you already jacked or did you have a ton a physical prep?

Shit clickbait

I installed the most advanced tank gunnery trainer ever made, but my coworker and I would plow quarters into this game every night over beer at The Gold Vault Inn, outside Ft. Knox.

I love how you’re working this :) We all have been infected and reinfected with a derivative bioweapon.

68-78 (Hendrix to VanHalen)

We got cooked in 2000 (rightly so) and had the courage to upgrade. Same thing with wildfires in 98 and forestry management. We may be called Flori-duh because we learn the hard way…but we learn.

There ain’t no good guys, there ain’t no bad guys, there’s only you and me and we just disagree. -D. Mason

Talk to me boy

Brothers in Arms

Lots of them. Product Design. Event Planning. Architectural Design. Video Game Design. Carpentry. My personal favorite HR, where everyone who has never read the law is armed with simple fixes. Dunning-Kruger spans all places and ages. It’s not just for kids :)

How do you suppose he would feel about American taxpayers funding the global communism industrial complex?

Another way to see it

Nope. Impossible question!!! This ain’t Highlander.

Cosmonaut

Or the Flynn entrapment?

When you need access to a journalist, make sure your narrative matches their objective, or it will

Louis Armstrong

Maintenance person at an apartment complex

You miss the point. He’s not try to talk to you or her, he is talking to an audience through you. I sure wish the press would not ask middle school questions “so Sarah said this, what do you think about that word Joey.” Is that really civics? Tabloid news for sure.

This IQ thing has alway been fascinating to me. It's sorta like trying to correlate a max benchpress with athletic greatness in one sport. I've known many Mensa over the arc of my life. Its main predictive value was usually defining future ego size.

You can train hands, but hearts must evolve. It really is an allegory.

And strong draws in both male and female categories

Not without a teleprompter

Free speech ain’t always good speech, but I’ll take this crappy speech over the alternative

One infinity would weigh 50 times more though

Old Yeller

Feels like American healthcare needs some major structural reforms aligning economic incentives with health and wellness- not payment for illness.

Already on it. It was clear decades ago.

What’s this?