One of the things that has increasingly frustrated me is the number of advertisements that Facebook pushes which wrap themselves in the American flag while selling products that are anything but American made. These ads often feature patriotic themes, support for veterans, faith, freedom, and American pride. The marketing is carefully crafted to create the impression that consumers are supporting American workers and American manufacturing. However, many people discover only after placing an order that the product is being shipped from overseas, often with long delivery times, additional shipping charges, and quality that falls well short of what was advertised. In my opinion, this has become a bait and switch version of Temu, a company that I also refuse to do business with. Temu has built a reputation as the dollar store of Chinese products, and in many cases the items that arrive seem only loosely related to what was shown in the advertisement. Unfortunately, many of the Facebook vendors appear to be following a similar business model. They use patriotic branding and American imagery to appeal to consumers, while the actual products are manufactured and shipped from the other side of the world. I have had enough disappointing experiences to learn my lesson, but I believe the issue goes beyond individual consumers making poor purchasing decisions. There should be clear standards requiring online vendors and advertising platforms to disclose where products are manufactured, where they are shipped from, and realistic delivery times before a customer completes a purchase. Consumers should not have to investigate a company’s supply chain simply to determine whether the advertising claims are accurate. Congress should consider stronger truth in advertising requirements for online commerce. If a product is made in China, the seller should clearly state that it is made in China. If it ships from overseas, that information should be prominently disclosed. If delivery is expected to take six weeks, customers should know that before they enter their credit card information. Transparency is not an unreasonable expectation. It is the foundation of an honest marketplace. Most importantly, if a company claims that its products are Made in the USA, then they should be sofaking made here. Not assembled somewhere else. Not manufactured somewhere else and repackaged here. Not marketed to look American while being produced halfway around the world. Consumers deserve honesty, American manufacturers deserve a level playing field, and advertising platforms should be held accountable for helping to ensure that the claims presented to the public are truthful. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @howardlutnick @AFergusonFT @tedcruz

Remarkable work nate.

If @ScottPelley is unhappy with the direction of the industry, nobody is forcing him to stay. He can pick up his notepad and pencil and reinvent himself just like countless others have done. The media landscape has changed. Some adapted successfully, while others discovered that the audience they thought they had was never really there. #DonLemon found that out the hard way. Others left traditional media and built something new for themselves. Whether you agree with him or not, @TuckerCarlson demonstrated that a media personality can survive outside the corporate newsroom. At the same time, critics would argue that both he and @megynkelly have built portions of their brands around strong criticism of establishment politics, foreign policy, and media narratives. The reality is that viewers do not owe journalists an audience. Trust must be earned every day. If people are tuning out, perhaps the problem is not the public. Perhaps it is a media establishment that spent years confusing activism, opinion, and self-importance with journalism. The press is supposed to report the news, not become the news. When journalists spend more time talking about themselves, promoting personal viewpoints, or advancing the social and political causes they believe in than covering the stories themselves, they stop being observers and become participants. At that point, public criticism is not persecution. It is accountability. Nobody is entitled to a microphone, an audience, or a prestigious platform. Those things are earned. If the public no longer finds someone credible, they have the same option available to every American: adapt, reinvent themselves, and prove their value in the marketplace of ideas. An American News Blogger @CivilianBlogger

Jesus warned against casting pearls before swine, not because the pearls lacked value, but because some people are unwilling to recognize their worth. In Scripture, He was speaking about spiritual truth. In this case, @POTUS Trump was dealing with what he believes is the soul and future of the Republic. Whether you agree with him or not, there comes a point when continuing to present your case to a #TDS-affected Democrat like @kwelkernbc , or to those for whom the subversion process is complete and who have no intention of listening to reason or facts, accomplishes nothing. Sometimes walking away isn’t surrender. It’s recognizing that you’ve already offered the pearl, and those determined to reject it aren’t interested in what you have to say.

Did Minnesota just say that disrupting a of worship service is protected free speech? I’m assuming that also means mosques as well…. Hold my beer! 🍺

Here is: Ray Epps was the only person on Jan. 6 who openly, on multiple occasions, directed people to overthrow the United States government by urging them to “storm the Capitol,” captured on video, no less, before it even happened. Yet neither the FBI, the DOJ, the Jan. 6 Committee, nor the media, which, as good soldiers, waited patiently to serve as his megaphone, questioned it, with the exception of one writer. Just one—in fact, they served as his personal defense attorney. @laralogan @FBIDirectorKash

Nothing against @pdoocy …he’s a capable reporter and has done solid work. But it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow when he’s handed a Sunday morning show while so many seasoned commentators, correspondents, and field reporters who have spent years climbing the ladder are passed over. Maybe he’s the right choice. Maybe he earned it. But from the outside looking in, it’s fair to wonder whether having father in the business helped open doors that might not have been opened for someone else. The promotion feels a little too convenient and, at the very least, invites questions about whether experience and seniority were weighed as heavily as family influence. @FoxNews There are a lot of talented journalists who have paid their dues and are probably wondering the same thing. 😉😐

Just like a muscle if you don’t exercise it, it goes away

For all the people out there calling conservatives and Donald Trump and his administration, Nazis and fascist Who I ask, who is really the Nazi? If you vote for the democrat party, you may want to check what exactly they stand for.

Bret Michaels Martina McBride Young MC Morris Day The Commodores C C Music Vanilla Ice Flo Rida Music I have deleted off of my Apple Music playlist and will never see one of their shows… I show your support for America’s 250th birthday with my dollars ! And I hope other people will too vote with your pocketbook!

The red letter words of Jesus put to Music

The words red letter words of Jesus… put to music tiktok.com/t/ZTBMcfuoG/

I canceled my subscription to @ChatGPTapp today. I’m honestly so frustrated with the direction the platform has gone. What used to feel like a conversational tool now feels like an over-engineered assistant constantly trying to predict, reformat, organize, and steer everything I say into workflows and templates I never asked for. I spend more time correcting the AI for doing things I didn’t request than actually getting work done. That’s not efficiency, that’s friction. I had a system and a workflow that worked for me. I didn’t need the software trying to decide who I am, how I communicate, or how my thoughts should be formatted. I just wanted a powerful conversational AI that stayed out of the way and helped me create. Now it feels like every interaction turns into a fight against auto-formatting, assumptions, and unnecessary interference. I know there are other AI platforms out there, and honestly I stayed because I was comfortable with ChatGPT and didn’t want to relearn a whole new system. But for what I’m paying versus what I’m getting now, I’m done. Good job taking something simple and useful and overcomplicating it.

I finally had to block the @Oregonian Facebook page. What was once a hometown newspaper now feels more like a political activism platform than objective journalism. The constant far-left, anti-Trump slant is so obvious that it’s hard to view them as credible reporters. For years local talkshow voices have called it the “daily dead fish wrapper” anyways because, that’s all It’s good for. At some point, when opinion and narrative completely overtake balanced reporting, maybe these outlets should stop calling themselves newspapers and start labeling themselves for what they really are, political tabloids, activist media, or social media influencers with a press badge. At one time Portland had competing newspapers and competing viewpoints. The old Journal gave people another voice in the community before it was eventually pushed aside over the years. Honestly, I think there may be room again for something like that to return, not necessarily as some extreme partisan outlet, but as a genuinely independent or conservative-leaning voice willing to challenge the narrative coming from the Oregon media establishment and the daily dead fish wrapper. Physical newspapers may be fading away, but the market for alternative media clearly is not. People are starving for reporting that at least attempts to separate facts from activism. A modern version of the Journal probably wouldn’t survive as a paper tossed on driveways every morning, but as an online publication, subscription platform, podcast network, or member-supported digital news source, I honestly think there’s a real audience for it in Oregon. Or at least Portland needs a show similar to live from studio 6B or a hard hitting three voice panel show hitting the topics hard having guests and lively discussions about the politics in Oregon and Washington. Which could be broadcast on cable Access, which is your right to be able to have access to the airwaves in any local community or possibly even air waves like FM-FM-86

Tim Scott for Senate Majority Leader! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏼👍🏼

Check out this Memorial Day video! #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZTBNbpsAk/

Wow, Fox News really, especially with Bill Hemmer, has gone the way of Shepard Smith on their coverage and support of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I think, in more ways than one, they’ve literally gone soft on Trump, and even when respected Ret. military generals, expert military commentators, or constitutional attorneys like Jonathan Turley inform him with the facts, he will argue with them like he is some sort of expert of it all. He really takes his him self too serious… and I think because he’s a news anchor! Stop acting like some overblown know it all dude* This week, since he came back, he always has the final comeback about “bombing your way to peace.” OK Jane Fonda, he’s literally become the Karen of @AmericaNewsroom on Iran. I wonder how closely he following in the path with Shep 😉

People fly to China worried about spyware in phones, laptops, apps, and electronics… then come home and throw half their technology in the trash out of fear of compromise. But has anyone stopped to think about the one item they hand over repeatedly through every checkpoint, customs station, visa scan, hotel registry, and foreign government database? Their passport. Modern passports already contain embedded electronic chips, biometric data, tracking capability, and encrypted identification systems. As technology advances, people should at least ask reasonable questions about how much information is being collected, scanned, copied, or potentially accessed during international travel. This isn’t paranoia. It’s the reality of a world increasingly built around digital identity, surveillance systems, biometric verification, and international data sharing. People worry about TikTok on their phone… while casually handing over one of the most sophisticated identification devices they personally own. @DonaldTrump @marcorubio