Mr Pat O’BMW Father, trust science, US navy submarine veteran of the Cold War, No DMs! without asking #BlueWave, anti-racist, anti-Fascist #Smokefleet
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This is pure 🔥 🔥 🔥 from Tracey!! Absolutely love it!
Real patriotism the kind that built this country has always been proven in deeds: crossing oceans to start over, fighting actual wars for ideals, marching for civil rights when it wasn't popular, innovating breakthroughs that changed the world, or yes, training 20,000 hours to shave 0.01 seconds off a time so the U.S. flag flies highest on the Olympic pole. That's sacrifice. That's service. That's love in action.
Your version? A cheap verbal tollbooth at the entrance to national pride. Pay the performative lip-service fee or get turned away—no matter how many world records you've broken for the team, no matter how many kids back home are inspired watching you win.
It's the patriotism of the keyboard crusader: loud, low-effort, zero skin in the game.
Demand athletes bare their souls on command while you bare nothing but opinions from a climate-controlled studio. I
If that's the bar, then medals aren't earned they're rented to whoever kisses the ring loudest.
This isn't about loving America; it's about controlling the narrative of what "American" is allowed to look like.
Quiet competence? Suspect. Reserved focus? Disloyal. Refusing to turn private conviction into public theater? Borderline treasonous in your book.
That's not defending freedom; that's policing it. The Founders didn't spill blood so future generations could play loyalty-enforcement officer over elite sports.
They fought so people could excel without having to audition their inner monologue first.
So keep gatekeeping the soul of the nation from your microphone fortress. The athletes will keep doing the actual heavy lifting—carrying the flag physically while you try to carry it rhetorically.
If your patriotism requires mandatory declarations over measurable dominance, then maybe the problem isn't their love of country... it's your insecurity about what counts as enough without the soundbite.
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The irony is almost unbelievable.
For years, some conservatives warned that Obama would turn the White House into a celebrity playground, politicize every institution, and treat it like his personal brand.
He didn’t.
Now there’s a UFC event on the White House grounds, corporate sponsorships everywhere, and a cage fight being used as a presidential spectacle.
Trump did to the White House what his critics feared.
The joke wrote itself.
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The Art of the Deal? No wonder he's had six bankruptcies. We lost American soldiers because Trump hated Obama this must.
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If i was an irrational, conservative parent of a teenager that i feared might be on the verge of becoming gay, i'd prob be more worried about this image than any drag queen show. 🙄
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This is great!!
@asmartbrunette1
The spirit of JSB was strong at #bachfest a couple of nights ago! Here’s so more footage. I’m playing the famous C minor prelude!
Thanks to Joseph Stevenson for some great orchestrations and Simone Capitani at @AudioModeling for the amazing Camelot software which I used to automatically switch sounds and more!!
#bacharchivleipzig
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Tehran just kinged Trump's 5D chess and backed Trump into a corner.
The cost of this new "peace" deal? Total American capitulation: -$300B in US taxpayer cash paid directly to Iran
-$24B in frozen assets immediately unlocked.
-$12B paid upfront just to pay Iran to show up at the TABLE.
Toll booths on the Strait of Hormuz, forcing global shipping to pay Tehran directly.
"Art of the Kneel."
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I’m Celebrating another trip around the sun today!
He’s still alive though isn’t he?
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Laura Loomer wishing Trump a happy birthday. This is a classic!
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Of course, I am happy that the Strait of Hormuz will soon be open. That's a good outcome for the entire global economy.
But the Strait was opened before the war. We did not need a war to keep it open.
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Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.
The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.
The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.
Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.
"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.
It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.
"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.
I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.
In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.
And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.
You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.
The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.
I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.
Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.
"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.
Discipline is a journey.
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Pádraig O’Brien 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇪🇮🇪 retweeted
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Barack Obama Appreciation Day 2026‼️
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This just doesn’t make sense. What a loser in the White House.
Americans realizing they spend $80B to bomb Iran only to pay Iran $300B more to undo the damage
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Yep. Suckers
Americans realizing they spend $80B to bomb Iran only to pay Iran $300B more to undo the damage
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Well these kind of idiots are the same kind of trash that is f**king children probably at the White House tonight.
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Every circus needs a clown.
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When the idea of a military parade to showcase American power was raised, President Eisenhower gave a blunt response:
“Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”
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Grandpa was asleep again at his 80th birthday UFC Freedom 250 event.
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Guys this is absolutely a disaster
BREAKINGNEWS: Art of the deal. Iran says Trump agreed to 300 billion to rebuild Iran. 24 billion in frozen assets to be released. Iran claims some of that money has already been handed over. Jesus this is a mess. 🚨
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Pádraig O’Brien 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇪🇮🇪 retweeted
How does this even happen?
Trump appears to have fallen asleep at the UFC event at the White House?
25th Amendment Now!
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DOJ is 177 days past its legal deadline to release the full Epstein files.....
Just in case you were distracted by Trump's intentional war.
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