Father of 5, husband of 1, needer of sleep. 📕 Author: The Choreography of Customer Service 🎤 Speaker 🎙Podcaster 🕺🏼Arthur Murray Franchisee
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If any of my friends were wondering what to get me for my birthday… just hit the RT button and consider me grateful☺️ #NewBook #HR #CustomerService ——-> bit.ly/chris-lynam-book
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In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
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I attended a county fair and watched a child sell a pig.
The pig is worth, I am told, somewhere near four hundred dollars. I looked this up afterward because I did not believe what happened.
The girl is twelve. She walked the animal into a ring wearing a white shirt and a numbered card. She had raised it herself, from a piglet, for nine months, which I confirmed, and she had a binder of records because the program requires one.
The bidding began. Local men. A man from a bank. A man who sells tires. A woman who owns a restaurant I had eaten at the previous evening.
It did not stop at four hundred.
It stopped at three thousand two hundred.
I turned to the man beside me and asked whether the pig was of exceptional quality.
He said, "It's a fine pig."
I asked whether it was worth three thousand two hundred dollars.
He said, "No."
I asked why the price was three thousand two hundred dollars.
He said, "She's a good kid."
I stood up. I could not remain seated. I said, out loud, in a metal building that smelled of animals, that a market which knowingly and deliberately misprices a good in order to put a child through a university, and does so every year, in the open, with an auctioneer and a microphone, is not a market at all but a rite, and that I have never seen a province conduct one so cheerfully.
He said, "You want a lemonade?"
I said that I did.
Here is the part I had entirely misread. The men bidding against each other were not rivals. They were raising it together. The tire man bid, then the bank man bid, and the tire man nodded at him, and they were pushing the number upward on purpose, in public, in front of the girl. She knew. Everyone knew. The auctioneer knew. The rite requires that nobody says it.
Afterward the girl shook every buyer's hand. She writes them letters later. That is also part of it. She writes letters.
I asked the restaurant owner why she bids every year.
She said, "Somebody bought mine."
She is fifty-eight.
Chris Lynam retweeted
Do you feel the cultural shift?
The Left demonized Patriotism as racist.
The Left demonized Masculinity as toxic.
They told you America was inherently bad.
They did this so people would be afraid to fight back and to weaken men.
All so they could…
Destroy America.
Destroy American exceptionalism.
But due to President Trump…
Patriotism is cool again.
Masculinity is celebrated.
People are no longer staying quiet.
America is getting back to being America.
There is no apologizing.
The Left are the unhappy miserable outcasts and everyone sees it.
They hate America and what America stands for.
It started with USA Hockey and Jimmy’s Famous Seafood telling the Media to “Go F*ck Yourself”.
Then Trump making DC monuments beautiful again.
Then Team SpaceX launches standing proudly in front of American flags.
Then the US National Team standing Patriotically with hands over their hearts during the anthem.
Then UFC at the White House in its full patriotic glory.
Now Americans proudly celebrating the 250 birthday of the GREATEST country on Earth.
Pure unapologetic Masculine Patriotism.
They might seem like little things.
But they’re not.
Winning the Culture War will lead to saving America.
And America must be saved.
Save America to save the West.
Save the West to save the World.
God bless the United States of America!🇺🇸
Incredible 🇺🇸
There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Years from now, I believe people will look back on this moment as one of the greatest self-inflicted failures in professional sports.
The public was ready.
Fans were excited.
Millions of people who had never watched a WNBA game suddenly became invested in women's basketball.
The league had the rarest opportunity in sports... a transformational superstar capable of changing its trajectory for generations.
Instead of embracing that moment, the WNBA chose culture wars over basketball, politics over player protection, and ideology over leadership.
Rather than showcasing the game at its best, it allowed controversy, inconsistency, and internal division to become the story.
And the generation of young girls who finally saw the sport capturing the nation's attention, instead got to watch the league squander one of the greatest growth opportunities it has ever been given.
As a father of 4 daughters, it’s great to see an athlete that I can (sorry) point to as a great example.
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Mia Bonta’s 2021 Assembly campaign was bankrolled by straw donors tied to “Music Cafe,” an Oakland karaoke bar raided by state authorities for ketamine and ecstasy distribution, prostitution, and human trafficking.
Just months later, she abstained on a bipartisan bill making the commercial sexual exploitation of CHILDREN a serious felony under California’s Three Strikes law. She only reversed course after nationwide outrage forced her hand.
This is the same Mia Bonta who ran Oakland Promise without a valid 501(c)(3) determination. The Oakland City Attorney formally stated the organization “has not been a non-profit.” She filed IRS Form 990s using a duplicate EIN from another charity, creating conflicting tax returns for the same year. While operating this allegedly fraudulent structure, she collected base salaries of $160,625, $147,000, and $128,125 in different reporting periods.
Her husband, Attorney General Rob Bonta, aggressively “behested” hundreds of thousands from corporate lobbyists directly into the nonprofits paying her six figures — including a $25,000 transfer from his own foundation that he initially tried to disguise as a loan on tax filings.
When she ran for office, her official campaign headquarters was located at 1241 High Street in Oakland — the exact former address of Viridis Fuels, the failed biofuel company her husband secured a $3.4 million state grant for on behalf of political operative Mario Juarez, a key player in the same Duong crime network now under federal indictment.
Now Bonta has authored AB 2624 — already being called the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by critics. The bill attempts to criminalize journalists and citizens who document misconduct by taxpayer-funded nonprofits and government contractors. It would let the exact type of opaque organizations she once led demand the removal of public videos and impose massive financial penalties on anyone exposing fraud.
Mia Bonta is not a reformer. She is a product of the machine who used the nonprofit sector as a personal wealth vehicle, took money from trafficking-adjacent fronts, refused to punish child sex traffickers, and is now trying to pass laws to silence the journalists who document it all. – at Sacramento, CA
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We were told we'd be shot by ICE, we never saw them
We were told the police would be tough, they partied with us
We were told the Americans didn't want us, they embraced us like family
Stop listening to the 'media' trying to divide us! live your lives and make memories! 🧡
Chris Lynam retweeted
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. 🦋
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has spent nearly $500,000 of campaign funds on private lawyers to navigate an active FBI public corruption investigation tied directly to his major donors.
Those donors — the Duong crime family of California Waste Solutions — are now federally indicted alongside former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on charges of bribery, conspiracy, mail and wire fraud. Bonta accepted over $155,000 from them and their associates over the years. When the raids hit in June 2024, he returned the money “out of an abundance of caution.” His campaign then burned through $469,000 on one of the most expensive law firms in the state.
In May 2024, disgraced political operative Mario Juarez sent Bonta a letter warning him that Andy Duong possessed a “compromising video” of the Attorney General and had a pattern of secretly recording elected officials for blackmail. Bonta’s campaign spent hundreds of thousands more in legal fees after that letter surfaced.
This is the same Rob Bonta who, as an Assemblymember, personally intervened to secure a $3.4 million state grant for Viridis Fuels — a failed biofuel company run by donor Mario Juarez, a man with tax liens, a surrendered real estate license, and a history of stiffing business partners. That same address later became his wife’s 2021 campaign headquarters.
Bonta built a sophisticated pipeline that directed over $517,000 in corporate behested payments and direct campaign funds into nonprofits that employed and paid his wife six-figure salaries. He created his own foundation, took behested money from lobbyists into it, then moved $25,000 to his wife’s organization while initially trying to hide the transfer as a “loan” on tax filings.
While positioning himself as a national leader on data privacy and suing companies for far smaller violations, his Department of Justice leaked the full personal data of more than 240,000 Californians who held concealed carry permits — names, home addresses, dates of birth, and license numbers — in what an independent review called a catastrophic institutional failure. The breach happened days after the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, at a time when Bonta was publicly furious about the ruling.
He has used the Attorney General’s office to manipulate ballot language against tough-on-crime measures that later passed with nearly 70% of the vote, lost a 6-3 Supreme Court case for violating First Amendment donor privacy rights, and allowed foreign-linked money to influence high-profile litigation he then personally championed for political gain.
Rob Bonta is not the people’s lawyer. He is a compromised operator who has used the most powerful law enforcement position in America’s largest state to protect his donor network, enrich his family, and shield himself from accountability. – at Oakland, CA
Maybe @LeaderJohnThune is just postponing the Save America Act until the 4th of July as a way to honor our nation’s heritage on the 250th anniversary? Maybe? 🤔
