JohnHB84 retweeted
People think sobriety is just putting down the bottle. That's the easy part.
The real work? That's everything on this list. Reconnecting with yourself after years of numbing out. Setting boundaries for the first time. Learning who you actually are without alcohol in your system. Facing the stress, the emotions, the discomfort you spent years avoiding.
Four years ago I was drinking 12 shots of whiskey a day and ended up in a hospital bed with my liver three times the size it should be. I walked out with a walker and had to rebuild everything. My health, my confidence, my relationships, my mindset, my entire identity.
I didn't just quit drinking. I lost 100 lbs. I healed my body with real food. I reconnected with God. I became present for my family. I became someone I'm actually proud of.
That's what sobriety actually is. It's not just removing alcohol. It's rebuilding your whole life from the ground up.
Hardest thing I've ever done, but most rewarding thing too.
JohnHB84 retweeted
Socrates warned us 2400 years ago exactly how civilizations collapse — and the West is checking every single box:
When the stupid scream louder than the wise.
When the lazy get more than the people who actually work.
When the dishonest and corrupt are celebrated while the honest get crushed.
When people with no skin in the game lecture everyone else on morality.
When reputation and feelings matter more than actual character.
When kids are no longer allowed to just be kids.
When the criminals are protected and the victims are ignored.
When pure madness is forced on everyone as the new “normal.”
When politicians stop serving the people and start feeding off them.
This is not a coincidence.
This is the deliberate destruction of Western nations — open borders, soft-on-crime policies, broken schools, and elites who get rich while the rest of us pay the price.
History already showed us how this ends!!
JohnHB84 retweeted
Let’s talk about the election. The voting machines still do the voting, not you. Those machines were outlawed in all European countries back in 2009 because they could be hacked. The next year, Obama approved them for use in the United States. That is how the Democrats keep winning. I don’t really care what anyone thinks; I only know the truth.
Matt Shaw and Randy Arozarena. Will be the Cubs starting left and right fielders this year. Tell me I'm wrong.
JohnHB84 retweeted
To my fellow Democrats and Americans, this is why I want JB Pritzker gone.
He hit us with 63 tax and fee hikes since 2019. That’s about $86 billion extra taken from families and businesses. Doubled the gas tax from 19 cents to 38 cents and locked it to inflation forever so it just keeps going up. Seven of his eight budgets broke spending records, top one hit $55.9 billion. Illinois got the highest tax burden in America now, 53% higher than the national average. Highest combined state and local taxes and highest cell phone taxes too.
Truth in Accounting gave us an F on finances, worst unfunded pensions in the country. A Chicago taxpayer is sitting on about $79,500 in combined state and city debt. He signed a pension sweetener for Chicago cops and firefighters that adds like $11 billion more by 2055. Chicago’s pensions got over $50 billion in promises and only $14 billion in assets. We still got the lowest credit rating of any state.
He barely vetoes anything, under 1%, just 29 vetoes on almost 3,500 bills. Signed every single bill in the 2026 session, 395 of them. Promised to veto those partisan gerrymandered maps then signed them anyway. While he’s been in office 11 former state lawmakers pleaded guilty or got convicted, including Madigan on racketeering. No real ethics reform.
About 275,000 people left Illinois in his first term and took $35 billion in income with them. We’re on pace to lose a congressional seat after 2030. Private sector job growth basically nothing at 0.1%. Ranked 43rd in the country.
During COVID he dropped 119 executive orders. Extended the emergency 42 times and ruled by decree for 1,155 days, longer than 49 other states. Schools ranked 43rd for actual in-person learning. Auditor General found $5.24 billion in improper unemployment payments, $2.8 billion of that just gone to identity theft and never coming back.
Chicago Tribune linked him to Bahamas trusts that may have ducked millions in taxes while he was raising taxes on the rest of us. Cook County Inspector General said his family pulled toilets out of their Gold Coast mansion to get a $331,000 property tax break. His name came up on Blagojevich’s wiretaps too.
He’ll say 8 balanced budgets, 12 credit upgrades, bills backlog cleared, $2 billion rainy day fund. Those “balanced” budgets needed $86 billion in new taxes. The backlog got cleared with federal COVID money. That rainy day fund is nothing next to $90 billion in debt and the worst pension mess in America.
Elections coming. Read the receipts then go vote. We trying to fire JB Pritzker, man. This guy gotta go. That’s all we asking.
Why must the people continue to fault me for the person I was? I know I was a piece of shit. I hurt people. I don't need a constant reminder. Because believe me think about it a lot.
I made chili today at work. That's enough. Chili in that big pot to feed roughly 90 to 100 people. Today the boy's had Chili a baked potato and some cornbread.
Bears gave up a first and 4th round pick for 2027 and a second round pick for 2028.
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