Eating cornflakes from the empty skulls of Leftists since 1974. Retired Interior Designer, Veteran, Hunter, Shooter and Avid Fisherman.
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“Find a job that fits my qualifications” seriously backwards. You must fit your qualifications for the job you want, a job that actually exists not the unicorn job of your fantasy.
🏫🌩️🌧️🤷♀️ : Shana Quesnel says the quite part out loud. She went to University & now is struggling because she took courses that gave her no in demand job skills.
🤡 Shana wants pipe fitters, miners, truckers & factory workers to pay taxpayer funded salaries for her & her friends, so a new $1 billion Youth Climate Corps can tell those hard working taxpayers, they're destroying the planet.
🪧 This is what happens when youth go to Universities, not for career training, but for activism indoctrination.
🏪 Shana is desperate because things aren't working out the way she hoped they would & is forced to work 2 part time jobs.
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Wow never saw this before. I did research years ago and the school had been closed due to asbestos for a few years. Used the way back Time Machine to Confirm the website had been dormant for a few years until the shooting was shown and then it had activity.
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She was 17, working as a Hooters waitress in Jacksonville, Florida, when the cooks walked out. She didn't know how to deep fry chicken tenders or fries. She went back to the kitchen and figured it out.
Two years later, Hooters asked her to fly to Australia to help open the first franchise there. She'd never been on a plane. She didn't have a passport.
She got the passport and went. By 26, she was a vice president. She helped grow Hooters from 100 locations to over 500 in 33 countries and from $300 million to $1 billion in revenue. She never finished her undergraduate degree.
At 32, Cinnabon recruited her to be president. She was the youngest CEO to ever appear on Undercover Boss. Under her leadership, Cinnabon added 200 bakeries, expanded to 56 countries, and approached $1 billion in annual sales through partnerships with Taco Bell, Burger King, and grocery stores.
She grew up on a $10-a-week grocery budget. Three sisters. Single mom who left their alcoholic father when Kat was nine. The family survived on her mother's determination and multiple jobs.
"Every year on my birthday card, my mom writes: 'Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you.'"
Kat was the first person in her family to attend college. She enrolled in an engineering program at the University of North Florida but dropped out to pursue her career at Hooters. She later earned her MBA from Georgia State University without a bachelor's degree, getting accepted through letters of recommendation from business leaders including Ted Turner.
After Cinnabon, she became Group President of Focus Brands (Cinnabon, Auntie Anne's, Moe's, Carvel, Schlotzsky's). Then in 2021, AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens) recruited her after the founder heard her on a podcast. She became President and COO, then CEO in 2024.
She's known for a practice she calls the "hotshot rule": every month, she asks herself, "If a hotshot took over my job today, what's the first thing they'd fix that I've been tolerating?"
Here's what Kat Cole's story makes me think about. She said yes before she was ready. Every major career leap, from the kitchen walkout to Australia to Cinnabon to AG1, happened because she said yes to something she wasn't qualified for yet and then figured it out in real time. "Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."
Most people wait until they feel ready. They wait for the degree, the experience, the credentials, the confidence. Kat built one of the most impressive corporate careers of her generation by saying yes first and learning second. Every single time.
I think about that in my own work. I've never felt fully ready to start any of the businesses I've built. The readiness came after the commitment.
"Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."
What are you waiting to feel ready for that you should just say yes to?
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BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates makes $445,000 a year.
She called school choice "racist" yet sends her kid to a private school.
Not a single child is proficient in math in 50 public schools in Chicago.
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DEMOCRAT AFFORDABILITY LIE
Did you know that 96 food processing plants were burned to the ground during one year of Bidens term in office? Why?
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The most dangerous part of the Democrats’ political agenda is how perfectly each proposed power grab sets up the next. Eliminate the filibuster, and suddenly 51 Senate votes can unleash a legislative wrecking ball against the institutional safeguards Democrats find inconvenient.
Then comes the real engineering. Grant statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, adding four senators and potentially strengthening Democratic control. Expand the Supreme Court, install ideological allies, and reshape the judiciary that would review the resulting legislation. Each maneuver creates opportunities for the next, while making the entire arrangement increasingly difficult to reverse.
And these arrogant jackasses expect Americans to applaud this calculated consolidation of power as a glorious triumph for democracy.
The implications extend far beyond Congress and the courts. Combine those structural changes with immigration amnesty, accelerated citizenship, rewritten election rules, and aggressive legal campaigns against political opponents, and the consequences become considerably more sinister. The same political faction could influence who votes, how elections operate, which laws survive judicial scrutiny, and how financially punishing political opposition becomes.
What a magnificent fucking coincidence that every supposedly principled reform also offers another opportunity to strengthen Democratic power.
And here's where the sanctimonious bullshit becomes absolutely intolerable.
These are the people who have spent years shrieking about authoritarianism, institutional norms, and threats to democracy. Yet they contemplate dismantling the very restraints designed to prevent temporary political majorities from accumulating permanent advantages.
The danger isn't confined to one election. It's the possibility of a governing party turning a narrow victory into successive structural advantages until the opposition faces an increasingly rigged political landscape.
Democrats love declaring that nobody is above the law. Apparently, rewriting the rules that determine who makes the laws is perfectly acceptable when they're holding the pen.
A party that wins an election earns the right to govern. It doesn't earn the right to redesign the Republic into its own fucking retirement plan.
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Twelve years ago, my wife sent one of her students to America for a year.
Shun was 16. Quiet. He had never left Japan.
He was placed with a couple on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Walt and Carol. Married 38 years.
Carol was the one who signed them up. She wrote the letters. She picked out his room.
Five months before Shun arrived, she died.
The exchange program called Walt to cancel.
Walt said, "She signed. We'll keep it."
At the airport, Walt was holding a sign. WELCOME HOME, SHUN. Carol had made it in January. He held it up with both hands, the way you hold something that isn't yours.
In the first week, Walt said eleven words. Shun counted.
Four of them were "Yep."
Walt couldn't cook. Carol had done all of it for 38 years.
So he drove two hours to the nearest Asian grocery and came home with a 25-pound bag of rice and a rice cooker. He read the manual at the kitchen table in his reading glasses, like a man defusing a bomb.
The first batch could have held bricks together. He served it anyway. They ate it in silence.
By Christmas, the rice was perfect. Shun found out why later. Behind the barn were four empty 25-pound bags. Walt had been practicing at night, after Shun went to bed.
Every morning: a peanut butter sandwich, crusts cut off with his pocketknife. Badly.
Shun asked him once why he cut the crusts.
Walt thought for a long time. "Carol always did."
Shun didn't like peanut butter. He never said so. He ate every one.
In October, Shun got homesick. He cried in his room with the door shut, quietly, the Japanese way.
Walt didn't knock.
In the morning, Shun opened his door and found Walt asleep in a kitchen chair in the hallway. Boots still on. He had sat there all night.
He never mentioned it. Neither did Shun.
At church that fall, Walt introduced him to the pastor:
"This is the Japanese."
By Christmas:
"This is Shun."
One night in April, Shun went out to the barn and heard Walt talking. Nobody was there but Carol's old horse, Dolly.
Walt was brushing her.
"He got an A in math. He eats everything I make. Even the rice. He's a good kid, Carol. You'd like him."
Then, quieter:
"I think I'm doing it right."
In June, at the airport, Walt carried Shun's bags to the counter and told the woman checking them:
"This is my boy. Take care of him."
Shun bowed. All the way down. The way you bow to your father.
Walt looked up at the departure board for a long time. Then he said, "Yep," and walked out.
From the gate, Shun could see the parking lot. Walt's truck didn't move for an hour.
Somewhere over the Pacific, Shun opened his lunch bag. One last sandwich. Crusts cut off. Badly.
Under it, an envelope. Inside, a copy of Carol's application.
He knew the handwriting. It was the same as the sign.
Question 9: Why do you want to host a student?
"My husband doesn't know how to be alone. Please send someone he can take care of."
Clipped to it, a sticky note. Handwriting Shun had never seen, because in ten months Walt had never written him a single word:
"Thought you should know whose idea you were."
Shun still didn't like peanut butter. He ate every bite. He cried all the way to Tokyo.
Shun is 28 now. He calls Wyoming every Sunday. Walt is 76. He still uses about eleven words a call.
Four of them are still "Yep."
Last month, Shun's son was born. He sent Walt a picture.
Walt wrote back. The longest message he has ever sent:
"Teach him to cut the crusts. Better than I did."
Shun says everything he knows about being a father, he learned from a man who said eleven words a week.
The sandwiches said the rest.
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#VerySadReminder
It’s been whopping 2225 days since Ashili Babbitt was murdered by Michael Bryd whom continues to walk around free . #Why?
Daily Reminder
It's been 2125 days since the murder of Ashli Babbitt and Michael Byrd is still walking around free.
@realDonaldTrump
@POTUS @TheJusticeDept
#JusticeForAshliBabbit
Fuck off. Defending yourself from bodily harm should be unlimited. Points on this video: 1, the cop should have been a man…fuck off again. 2, the taser should have been deployed. 3, when attacking the cop should have drawn the firearm and shot. 4, we have to feed this fuck.
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Americans, read this to the end. Then share it. Because if you don't understand what I'm about to tell you, you will lose your country the same way we lost ours.
You need to kill the EU. Not reform it. Not negotiate with it. Kill it as a political project. If you want to save Western civilization, there is no other way.
I know how that sounds. Let me show you why I'm not exaggerating.
Over the past few years, Brussels has built a complete architecture of control. The Digital Services Act to decide what you're allowed to say. Chat Control to read your private messages, including encrypted ones. A digital ID to end anonymity. A digital euro and a war on cash to see every transaction you make. Speech, private messages, identity, money. All four pillars of total control, built in plain sight, each brick sold as "safety."
But the laws are not the real danger. The real danger is the machine that produces them. And the one thing you need to understand about that machine is this:
It never stops.
In 2005, France and the Netherlands voted NO to the European Constitution. A clear, democratic no. Two years later, Brussels repackaged almost the entire text as the Treaty of Lisbon and passed it without asking the French people again. In 2008, Ireland voted NO to Lisbon. So they made Ireland vote again the next year, until it said yes.
Chat Control was rejected by the European Parliament. It came back. Rejected again. Came back again. Every new presidency, a new version, a new name, the same goal.
They don't win the argument. They outlast you. You have to win every time. They only have to win once. And once a power is transferred to Brussels, it never comes back.
Now here's what should keep you up at night. That same machine doesn't stop at Europe's borders. It will come for your institutions too. Not with an invasion. Step by step. Like a hacker probing a system for weak points.
First, through your companies. Brussels doesn't regulate European platforms. It regulates X, Meta, Google, Apple. It's cheaper to apply one set of rules worldwide than two, so the censorship machine built for Europe ends up running on your phone in Texas. That's how GDPR cookie banners ended up all over American websites.
Second, through NGOs. The DSA gives special status to "trusted flaggers," organizations whose takedown requests platforms must prioritize. When your State Department barred the architect of the DSA from the United States, it also barred people from organizations campaigning against "online hate" and "disinformation," some of them operating on both sides of the Atlantic. The network is already inside your house.
Third, through experts and academia. A whole industry of "disinformation research" produces the reports, the definitions, and the lists that regulators then turn into law. Same vocabulary in Brussels, London, Ottawa, Canberra and Washington. That's not a coincidence. That's a pipeline.
Fourth, through international agreements. Every summit, every treaty, every "global standard" on online safety or digital governance is another lever to make American rules converge with European ones. Quietly. Technically. Without a single vote of the American people.
Fifth, through patience. They are waiting for the next administration that agrees with them. One election. That's all it takes for every safeguard you built to be dismantled from the inside, with European legislation ready to copy and paste and a press kit that says "our democratic allies already do this."
You blocked them once. They will try again. And again. And again. With new names, new causes, new crises. It will never stop. Not as long as the machine exists.
That's why half measures won't work. You can't fine a cancer into remission. You can't negotiate with it. You remove it, or it spreads.
The EU started as a free trade area between sovereign nations. That Europe, I'd defend. What it has become is a supranational bureaucracy that no one elected, no one can fire, and no people can vote out. A machine designed to transfer power upward and never give it back.
So use everything you have. Stop treating Brussels as a legitimate rule-maker for American companies. Refuse any trade deal that accepts foreign censorship of American platforms. Deal with Europe nation by nation, not through Brussels. Make it clear that the price of exporting censorship to America is too high to pay.
America is the last great country with free speech written into its founding document as an absolute. If America holds, Europeans have something to point to, something to fight for, somewhere to look. If America falls, there is nowhere left.
Western civilization was built on free people saying what they think, owning what they build, and governing themselves. The EU, in its current form, is the negation of all three.
Kill the project. Everywhere. Or one day, it will have you too.
I'm writing this from France. I love Europe. That's exactly why I'm asking for your help.
Gee wizz, people like me have saying the “internet of things” was highly unsecure and someone ought to do something. Putting the temperature control on the open internet rather than just a warning alarm is well, STUPID!
Hackers pushed freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to 122 degrees. Now the Pentagon is asking whether the same thing hit U.S. military bases | Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune
The Pentagon’s criminal investigators are leading a joint probe into freezer failures at U.S. military commissaries in August, and four officials told Reuters this week that the Pentagon is treating them as a possible cyberattack. It comes weeks after hackers took over the refrigeration controls at hundreds of French supermarkets overnight.
There’s no proof yet that the two are connected, or that the commissary failures were a hack at all. But the same kind of target experienced the same type of outage within about two months of each other, which is enough to raise the eyebrows of Christopher Whyte, an associate professor of homeland security and emergency preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University.
“You’d be silly not to be suspicious,” he told Fortune.
For the stores, the damage can’t be undone: Two supermarkets, Intermarché and E.Leclerc, reported an estimated €270,000, about $300,000 in combined stock damages, according to local news outlet Sud Ouest.
“Refrigerators give an attacker a weirdly direct route…to financial loss that’s, with cyber, unusually irreversible,” Whyte said. “You can’t unspoil food or other products from these freezers. It’s just Euros and dollars down the drain.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military general who met an infamous defeat in Russia after overextending his supplies, is credited as saying, “An army marches on its stomach.”
The aphorism, also attributed to Prussian King Frederick the Great, refers to the necessity of food and basic logistics for a military campaign’s success. It’s not surprising, then, that refrigeration may be the next frontier of widespread cybersecurity attacks.
Earlier this month, hackers targeted hundreds of French supermarkets, raising the temperature of their refrigeration and freezer systems overnight to more than 122 degrees Fahrenheit, spoiling food and causing fires. The affected grocery stores included 80 Carrefour locations, about two-dozen Monoprix stores, and 150 Intermarche stores. The Paris prosecutor’s office called the outages a “large-scale” attack. Similar outages were reported across Europe.
The Pentagon’s investigation—and a partnership with French authorities to probe the French supermarket outages—followed a series of refrigerator outages across several U.S. military commissaries in August. More than a half-dozen commissaries were impacted by the disruption, including in Fort Irwin, California; Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island; Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas; F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; Robins Air Force Base, Georgia; and Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the Military Times reported at the time. Commissaries typically offer subsidized goods to those living on military bases, costing about 25% less than civilian grocery stores.
The Substack Signal and Silence was first to report the possibility that outages were a result of a hack.
The Pentagon confirmed the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the criminal investigative arm of the agency’s Office of Inspector General, is leading a joint investigation into the outages, but said in a statement to Fortune, “For security reasons, we do not comment on ongoing law enforcement investigations.”
Cyber incidents, particularly targeting corporations and government agencies, have been on the rise over the last two decades, including more than a dozen major attacks this September alone, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cybercrime is projected to cost the global economy $10.8 trillion this year, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, more than triple the $3 trillion it cost in 2015. Rapidly developing AI capabilities have made hacking more sophisticated, while the number of appliances attached to the internet have created more targets.
The cold, hard truths of the new era of cyberattacks
Cybersecurity experts believe it was only a matter of time before practical appliances like refrigerators became the target of cyberattacks. Nadiya Kostyuk, an assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, told Fortune it was an ongoing joke among her cohort to discuss when their home fridges would be hacked.
“I’m surprised that it took so long,” she said.
“A lot of these devices have a lot of really cool features, but the security is not the first priority for them,” Kostyuk added. “Hopefully future inventions will come with more security in mind when it comes to the design, and the existing ones also will be revisited to incorporate all the potential vectors of the cyberattacks.”
In the case of the outages in France, the vulnerabilities originated from access to the Danish-made Danfoss AK-SM, AK-SC series remote controllers for refrigeration systems, as well as Copeland xweb and Dixell xweb, according to an alert bulletin published by French authorities, and affected units were running outdated firmware hackers could exploit by accessing the devices through the internet.
More broadly, refrigeration systems present vulnerabilities because many of the devices are similar across commercial chains, and identifying an exposure in one means hackers can generalize that exposure to other systems, according to Whyte.
Beyond the accessibility of refrigeration systems, the consequences of outages yield practical consequences, which can make them appealing targets for hackers who want to make a statement or take a financial jab at a victim.
The U.S. military theater is vulnerable to emblematic attacks on supply stores as well. The USS Abraham Lincoln, which had a record deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea before it docked in San Diego earlier this month, became a symbol of weaknesses in U.S. military amenities. During its Iran war mission, the crew faced poor morale and mental health, including as a result of food and hygiene supply shortage.
Liberté, égalité, réfrigérite
Gregory Winger, an assistant professor of international relations and cybersecurity at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, told Fortune that actors from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea typically rely on cyberincidents that appear random but are actually connected.
Allied countries have built partnerships for the express reason of identifying and sharing the techniques of hackers, particularly NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium, which is the body’s cybersecurity headquarters. Significant attacks can trigger NATO’s invocation of Article 5, a collective defense that defines a threat against one country as an effective threat against the body’s 32 members. Regardless if the outages in the U.S. military commissaries were from the same actor as the French supermarket outages, the U.S. was strategic to launch a joint investigation with France purely from an information-sharing standpoint, Winger argued.
“Right now,” he said, “every future military operation is going to have a cyber component to it.”
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The Liberals are now communists, and they intend on staying in power forever to rule over the ashes.
The Architecture of National Erasure: Inside the Left’s Blueprint for Permanent One-Party Rule
Every broken border, gutted city, and crushed family budget is a deliberate feature of the progressive battle plan to strip away your independence, liquidate the middle class, and reduce free citizens to permanent wards of the state.
The modern left has abandoned the pretense of constitutional governance to wage a total war of attrition against the American republic. Their agenda operates in plain sight, driven by the arrogant certainty that institutional capture has placed them beyond accountability. They openly plot to pack the Supreme Court with ideological commissars who will rubber-stamp executive decrees and liquidate the Bill of Rights. They scheme to abolish the Electoral College, reducing the presidency to a prize awarded by decaying coastal megacities while relegating the American heartland to the status of a taxed, voiceless colony. Their push to manufacture statehood for Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico is a naked power grab for four permanent Senate seats, engineered to lock in a one-party legislative monopoly for eternity.
Across the southern border, they have executed a calculated campaign of demographic colonization. By halting deportations, paralyzing border enforcement, and demanding blanket amnesty for twenty million illegal aliens, they are importing a massive, dependent electorate to replace the citizens who rejected their platform. Turning Texas and Arizona into progressive strongholds is mathematical warfare designed to render conservative national victories obsolete. They mask this sovereign betrayal in the language of humanitarianism, yet the cold reality is electoral replacement on a continental scale.
Their economic doctrine is neo-feudal central planning wrapped in environmental hysteria. By mandating the death of the internal combustion engine, outlawing natural gas, and tethering the world’s greatest industrial powerhouse to intermittent windmills and Chinese-made solar panels, they are engineering energy poverty by design. Tripling electricity rates and normalizing rolling blackouts are features of a system built to break middle-class independence. While coastal elites lecture working families from private jets, they push national rent control policies proven to annihilate housing supply. Driving private landlords into bankruptcy clears the field for the state to become the sole arbiter of shelter, reducing self-reliant property owners to desperate tenants begging federal bureaucrats for a roof.
In the streets, they have unleashed a regime of calculated lawlessness designed to terrorize the productive class. Abolishing cash bail for violent predators, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, and installing rogue prosecutors who legalize rampant theft have turned once-thriving metropolitan centers into boarded-up wastelands. They release career criminals into your neighborhoods and prosecute the lawful citizen who dares to defend his family. Exporting this urban carnage to suburbs and rural towns is a deliberate strategy: manufacture unbearable chaos until a terrified populace surrenders its liberties in exchange for authoritarian state control.
Within the classroom, they wage a psychological campaign to sever the sacred bond between parent and child. Public education has been weaponized to inject racial grievance and gender ideology directly into the minds of the youth, conditioning children to despise their heritage, their country, and their own biology. School administrators secretly facilitate irreversible medical interventions for minors while concealing records from mothers and fathers. When parents dare to object at school board meetings, the federal security apparatus treats them as domestic insurgents. The nuclear family is the ultimate obstacle to total state loyalty, so the left seeks its systematic dissolution.
On the world stage, their foreign policy is a lethal cocktail of civilizational self-hatred and financial laundering. They appease the theocratic tyrants in Tehran with billions in unfrozen assets, leave Taiwan exposed to communist aggression, and subsidize regimes that openly plot the destruction of Western allies. They bleed the American military dry through aimless, unwinnable entanglements abroad while treating the domestic taxpayer as an infinite slush fund for globalist NGOs and foreign kleptocracies.
To finance this leviathan, they intend to confiscate the generational wealth of the American family. Taxing unrealized capital gains means the IRS will pillage your retirement accounts, your home equity, and your small business valuation before you ever sell a single asset. Punitive corporate tax hikes will drive remaining domestic manufacturing straight into the arms of Beijing, while a predatory wealth tax will force family farms and multi-generational enterprises onto the auction block upon the death of their founders. An economically independent citizenry resists coercion, which is why private inheritance must be eradicated.
Behold the final endgame of the progressive machine: the controlled demolition of a free people. Every policy is a precision strike aimed at stripping away your wealth, your security, your family, and your vote until all that remains is a docile, dependent population that ratifies its own servitude every November. They have laid their blueprint for tyranny directly on the table. The survival of the republic now rests entirely on whether patriotic Americans possess the spine to crush this agenda and reclaim the nation their ancestors built.
That rot begins in pre-school. Parents need to take control of school boards, prevent “educators” from being elected, made administrators and destroy teacher’s unions. Full background checks on all teachers and cameras in every classroom.
It is clear that higher education has been the breeding ground for radicalism, producing generations of anti-American revolutionaries—including children of immigrants like Kamala, Omar, Mamdani, El-Sayed, and others.
To save America, we must dismantle and rebuild our universities from the ground up.
Trump and Republicans aren’t fascists, if they were fascism would get a great refresher definition. We are on the brink of All-American normality with Communists screaming their insane little mindfucks.
