If you can't say anything nice, come sit by me. | GoT nerd | Conservative, Female, USAF Vet, US History Teacher | God save the USA and Britain | #BravesCountry
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I'm surprised she wasn't already equipped with 3D printed ice cutters on her implants. There's not much biological matter left in Lisa's body; she has to be somewhere around 90% plastic and silicone.
My biggest problem with libertarians is they start with logical monetary policies ideas, and then drop them in favor of every ridiculous idea on the right AND left. They devolve into anarchists with narcissistic personality disorder and a love of weed.
My biggest problem with libertarians is how many of them treated conservatives in 2016 when many of us were not thrilled with Trump.
I was told I was unwelcome and to keep my ‘conservative, pro-war, anti-abortion preaching’ in my own tent.
Same year this guy was big news at their convention … well, that and weed.
Do I think all libertarians are the same? Nah. I would never do to them what they did to me in 2016; I did actually vote for Johnson that year.
Then Trump in 20 and 24.
Do I think they have a messaging and small tent party problem? Oh yeah.
These Gen Z "we'll get communism right this time" mental midgets would think Reagan was pro-communist because he was always cordial with Gorby in front of cameras. Can we get the Bond-villain commies back, or are we stuck with these Temu knockoffs?
A lot of people are commenting how "sad" he looks. Y'all...he's not sad. He's attempting Kate Moss' disaffected-heroin chic look. He's enjoying every minute of attention, probably more than his joke of an actress mother. It's a schtick.
Pro tip for all you MAGA mother fuckers.
When the oversized pile of orange shit is removed from the Oval Office….
When MAGA Republicans no longer have the Majority in the House and Senate….
We won’t forget who, and what you are.
And no…
We are not willing to compromise.
Pro tip for all you MAGA mother fuckers.
When the oversized pile of orange shit is removed from the Oval Office….
When MAGA Republicans no longer have the Majority in the House and Senate….
We won’t forget who, and what you are.
And no…
We are not willing to compromise.
That shit is long past fucking gone.
People are rapidly approaching this same point throughout the West. Would be nice if those gilded lillies we call leaders actually paid attention long enough to understand. I don't see things going gently into the night should this continue.
This story has broken me. It has unleashed a rage so strong I can barely express it, but allow me to try.
Above all, I am angry with the decades-long malevolent incompetence of the British state: politicians of all parties, the judiciary, the civil service. Their collective uselessness has shattered the social contract and made us all poorer and less safe. In just 25 years, they have led us from an affluent, high-trust society to a broken, low-trust one.
I am sickened by the growth in sectarian politics. I am appalled by the foreign ghettos in our cities and imported, bent voting practices and resultant corruption in some of our councils. I hate seeing the clothing of female oppression on our streets. I am sickened by the fact our Jewish community lives under siege.
I no longer wish to pay tax to support those who have come here illegally and should be removed immediately. It is to our shame that we have accepted mass immigration without insisting on integration. I am tired of being told that a British passport makes a foreigner as British as me. I assure you that the “British citizen” in this story is not. I am saddened that for so many people, the concept of “British” is essentially meaningless.
I am sick of the obsession with a minor war 2,500 miles away that barely affects us. I despise that £88m of our tax money is going to Hamas (because it will), when the tax burden is a record high, everything is expensive, welfare spending is out of control and we can’t even pay for our own defences when the global risk of conflict is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. And in spite of how much of our money the government steals from our pockets, nothing, at all, in this country works. Healthcare, transport, education - all broken.
It is a stain on our national politics that we have five Gaza MPs. It is our national shame that our government is intent on sucking up to the Palestinian entity which contains some of the worst monsters on the face of planet. It is a disgrace that our Foreign Secretary shook the hand of the representative of the Iranian regime that has slaughtered tens of thousands of its own people, and that he doesn’t seem to understand why that photograph will damn him forever. It is embarrassing that we had a Foreign Office minister dancing with and hugging the representative of the Palestinian Authority. The lack of serious statesmanship is mind-boggling and indicative of how far we have fallen.
They say the past is a foreign country, but my goodness, do I miss the country I grew up in. I feel so sorry for the generation that grew up after 2000 and will never know how good it was. It’s not coming back.
I have no time for the demagogues and grifters who exploit this anger. I know other people feel the same as I do, and my goodness, do I understand why people are angry. For decades, those we have elected to govern in our interests have instead run our country into the ground.
And to cap it all, now we are led by fatuous, asinine, deeply unserious airheads who think serious governance is a TikTok video about pork scratchings, as the last vestiges of a coherent society die under the weight of their malignant frivolity.
The worst part of it is that there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. I just want to live in a happy, stable, prosperous country like we used to be, instead of one that is run by a state apparatus that does nothing but beat us down, obsess over irrelevances, take our money, and leave us poorer and less safe.
Amen! I can't stand it, as a teacher, when a student tries to play the race card because I'm a white woman. Most of my favorite students have been black or Indian (dot). I'm teaching minds, not skin.
Some of y’all are really upset because I have WHITE children in my program. It’s been constant in my DMs etc.
And I’m not apologizing for helping a child.
You can debate race, privilege and politics all day. I’m dealing with actual children standing in front of me who need guidance, structure, skills and people who care about them.
When they walk through my doors, they’re MY boys.
They’re going to learn. They’re going to be challenged. They’re going to be corrected. And they’re going to be loved.
I’ve had to grow and challenge some of my own prejudices over the years too.
But one thing I know now: a child’s skin color will NEVER be my reason for refusing to pour into him.
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It’s hard to imagine what it must have felt like to sit in a concert hall hundreds of years ago and hear music like this for the very first time. The music of that era must have felt almost otherworldly, like stepping into another world.
Listen to Vivaldi’s summer through the mesmerizing playing of Mari Samuelsen: “Summer” from “The Four Seasons.”
I miss the days when the worst US troops dealt with in Britain was the crazy lady who jumped the fence at Lady Di's funeral also jumping the fence of the base because she was convinced Cold War nukes were still there. Can we go back to quirky Britons and not illiterate haji?
🚨NEW: The Telegraph reports a local farmer near RAF Fairford, driving home from a party in the early hours, came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country road. Confused, she turned her car around. As she did so, she saw a group of masked men in balaclavas scattering into the trees and across the fields towards RAF Fairford. She then accelerated away and called the police
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🚩 Top 10 State Flags Countdown: #1 - Virginia
Next up in my personal countdown & the only one that was ever going to finish first, the flag of my beloved Commonwealth.
Why? Because no other banner carries the Founding this plainly. Virtus stands over a fallen tyrant. The crown is on the ground. The chain is broken. The motto is four words that still mean exactly what they meant in 1776: Sic Semper Tyrannis. Thus always to tyrants.
Virginia’s flag is the state seal on a deep blue field. Virtus, dressed as an Amazon, rests on a spear, holds a sheathed sword, and plants her foot on Tyranny. Above her: Virginia. Below her: the warning every American should still know by heart.
That seal was not a later decoration. It was adopted on July 5, 1776, the day after independence was declared, by a committee that included George Mason and George Wythe (Founder of William & Mary’s Law school and signor of the Declaration of Independence). While the Continental Congress finished its work in Philadelphia, Virginia was already putting virtue over tyranny into official form.
The list of Virginians who built the country is not a footnote. It is the table of contents. Washington. Jefferson. Madison. Monroe. Henry. Mason. Wythe. The Declaration. The Virginia Declaration of Rights. The Constitution. Yorktown. Four of the first five presidents. Mother of Presidents. Mother of States.
America Made in Virginia is not a slogan. It is the record.
The flag itself was formally adopted April 30, 1861, using the Revolutionary seal that had already been flying for generations. The design was standardized in 1950. The message never needed updating.
Other flags are handsome. This one is a founding document with fabric around it.
What do you think of #1?
That’s the countdown. Virginia first. Always. 🇺🇸
Vinegar, no tomato is the only appropriate barbecue. I will die on this hill.
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To everyone visiting Japan,
Can I ask you one small favor?
Please don’t do dances or other performances like this at Japanese shrines just for social media.
A shrine isn’t just another tourist spot to us.
People come here to pray.
Families have visited these places for generations.
There’s a sense of respect that comes with being there.
I know you want to make a fun video. I get it.
But please don’t turn a shrine into a stage just to get views.
Japan welcomes visitors from all over the world.
We just ask that you respect the places that matter to the people who live here.
And yes, Japan does have laws covering openly disrespectful acts at places of worship, including Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and cemeteries.
Please have fun in Japan.
Just know where the line is.