On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history. The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet. Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention. He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette. He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents. A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow. All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted.. THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite. Bam - homelessness solved. The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.

TAX THE TRILLIONAIRES! Here is why: If California would tax Elon 50% of his wealth, that would add $550 BILLION for the California budget (instead of going to Mars and build infinity intelligence, which is useless anyway because no one needs intelligence, duh). This could make a HUGE difference for Californians. Experts calculated that within 5 years, the state could * buy 2 homeless people a bed (shared) * complete 1 mile of high speed train tracks * buy 50 million pre-signed mail-in ballots, including on-time delivery for the next 2 elections. That's why we need a trillionaire tax. NOW.

Okay, so why do problems still exist? The U.S. government spends $7 trillion a year. Surely, every issue facing humanity was solved, right?

2 would win before lunchtime. Against 1 and 3.

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates. Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans. But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming. Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline. He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse. And he loves it. That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.

Merrill Hoge and Ron Jaworski would sit on ESPN and just teach you football. It was so sick

When COVID hit, Rick Hendrick refused to lay anyone off. Paid every employee 80%. His CFO said they had 90 days. It took 45. They came back stronger than ever. To this day, teammates stop him to say "you saved my house." 🎥 Full interview → youtu.be/MFSRxpYleJ8

Eating Buccees brisket sandwiches at 1AM on a stack of deer corn in Alabama is about as American as it gets. Hell yeah.

We should just take the Strait of Hormuz and rename it the George Strait

All of America watching Euros rave about Waffle House, Chilis apps, buying Combos at a rural gas station, floating the Chattahoochee, and ranch dressing on the internet:

FreddyLA7 has discovered bucee's

Readers added context: Misleading false premise and loaded question — “True or False” implies there is more than one possible answer, when in fact experts unanimously agree that @WKUBigRed is the undisputed GOAT 👑🐐

Absolutely wild to say that after a black guy literally murdered a White kid. Karmelo Anthony is alive and Austin Metcalf is dead, yet these race grifters still want to lecture us about how blacks are the real victims. Cry me a river. This spell worked for decades. Outside of an extremely small number of self-hating White Progressive liberals, it has no audience any longer.

Throwback to pro-life celebrity Tim Tebow hosting a red carpet event to humanize people with special needs, including children with Down syndrome. These people are valuable and worthy of life. 🤍

“We’ve seen the darkest side of humanity through this process” - Jesse Ridgway on TMZ The lack of sell awareness is astonishing. The “darkest side of humanity” is justifying the murder of your child because it would likely have Down syndrome, while monetizing off of it… You talk about fearing for your lives, when the most terrifying thing is being a child in a womb in America. Your wife nonchalantly said killing an unborn child is just a “common thing that happens”. That’s darker than empty death threats. (PS: No, I still don’t believe they should be receiving death threats) 🎥: TMZ

Just another day in the office 🤷 @WKUBigRed

Commissioner Kruse: Your county budget in 2020 was $1.54 Billion. Your 2026 budget is $3.58 Billion! Cumulative inflation since 2020 to present is 28.7%, but your budget grew by 132.5% during the same timeframe!!! How do you justify such outrageous growth in spending? You can’t. Frankly, you are incapable of providing steward for your taxpayers’ money.