Momentum, the nega-Media Trump's speech to The Boy Scouts Of America
Let's be clear on this: Politics is part of the scouts world. Anything that helps shaping the future is part of the scouts world, that's how they grow. But that was not the place, and in my opinion, regardless of his position, he was not the person. A Jamboree represents the will to reach other scouts, to share experiences, music, games, stories. He is a president, he serves the country, and in respect to the spirit of scouting, and of that event, he should have had more Countenance.
Yes, I do not believe the scouts had what they deserved with their president's speech.
And in all these news against Trump I do not believe they are getting it either.
Media mentions Obama's absence only because it can use it against trump.
They do not show the immense crowd of young people willing to act on the scouts honor. Nope. The good will they have. Nothing. "But, think of the children!" - to play that card like this over and over again for political and clickbait reasons is low, scouts are not victims, they are children and young adults, but never victims, they should grow to become strong and reject the values that go against their experiences. Against the rudeness of their president if need be (who is the honorary chief of the scouts), and also against accepting being placed as the victim that, in this era of information, will be brainwashed just by a speech.
But The Boy Scouts deserved more, they deserved a good speech from THEIR president, which is for the time being Trump.
In a modest wish of mine, I took the liberty of cutting out all that shows little countenance from the original, or as I call it:
The nega-Media Trump's speech to The Boy Scouts Of America
to be noted that the bold parts are the one’s actually interesting for the speech in the view of a story telling and good message for scouts. And I say nega, cause common, open any news article beside fox news all other things besides him being egoistical and political are forgotten.
Thank you everybody, thank you very much, I am thrilled to be here, thrilled.
And if you think that was an easy trip you are wrong, I am thrilled. xix(?) Jamboree Boy Scout Jamboree wow and to address such a tremendous group, boy you have a lot of people here (...) it looks like 45 000 people, you set a record today, you set a record. That's a great honor believe me. Tonight, we put aside all the policy fights (...), and instead we are going to talk about success about how all of you amazing young scouts can achieve your dreams, what to think about, what I have been thinking about. (...)
There are many great honors that come with the job of being president of the United States but looking out at this incredible gathering of mostly young Patriots, mostly young. I am especially proud to speak to you as the honorary president of the boy scouts of America.
You are the young people of character and integrity that will serve as leaders in our communities and uphold the sacred values of our nation. I want to thank Boy Scouts president Randall Stephenson, chief scout executive Michael Servo, Jamboree chairman Ralph de la Vega and the thousands of volunteers who have made this a life-changing experience for all of you and when they asked me to be here I said absolutely yes. Finally, and we can't forget these people I especially want to salute the moms and the dads and troop leaders who are here tonight. Thank you for making scouting possible. thank you mom and dad. Troop leaders, when you volunteer for the boy scouts, you are not only shaping young lives, you are shaping the future of America. The United States has no better citizens then its Boy Scouts, no better.
The values, traditions, and skills you learn here, will serve you throughout your lives and just as importantly, they will serve your families, your cities and, in the future and in the present, will serve your country. The scouts believe in putting America first. (...) I'll tell you, the reason I love this and the reason I really wanted to be here is, as president, I rely on former Boy Scouts every single day and so do the American people. It's amazing how many Boy Scouts we have at the highest level of our great government, many of my top advisors in the White House were scouts. Ten members of my cabinet were scouts. Can you believe that? Ten. (...[1]...) (...) (...)
A lot of love in this beautiful place, a lot of love and a lot of love for our Country. (...)(...[2]...) (...) (...) (...) (...[3]...) (...) As we can see, just by looking at our government in America scouts lead the way and another thing I notice and I noticed all my life, there is a tremendous spirit in being a scout, more so than almost anything I can think of, so whatever's going on keep doing it, its incredible to watch, believe me.
Each of this ladies will tell you that the road to American success([4]), and you have to understand their American success and they are a great, great story was paved with the patriotic American values and traditions they learned in the Boy Scouts and someday, many years from now when you look back on all of the adventures in your lives you will be able to say the same: I got my start as a Scout. Just like these incredibly great people that are doing such a good job for our country, so that's gonna happen. Boy scout values are American values and great Boy Scouts become great, great Americans. Has the scout law says a Scout is trustworthy, loyal (...). (...)
But here you learn the rewards of hard work and perseverance, never ever give up, never quit. Persevere, never ever quit. You'll earn the satisfaction of building a roaring campfire, reaching a mountain summit or earning a merit badge after mastering a certain skill. There is no better feeling then an achievement that your earned with your own sweat, tears, resolve, hard work. There is nothing like it. Do you agree with that?
I am waving to people so small, I can't even see them. Damn,(...) that is so incredible (...) (...) (...) Thank you, I am honored by that, by the way all of you people I can't even see you so thank you. I hope you can hear.
Through scouting you also learn to believe in yourself, so important, to have confidence in your ability and to take responsibility for your own life, when you face down new challenges, and you will have plenty of them, develop talents you never thought possible, and lead your teammates through dare and trials, you discover that you can handle anything, and you learn it by being a scout, and its great. You can do anything, you can be anything you wanna be, but in order to succeed you must find out, what you love to do, you have to find your passion, and you know what? No matter what they tell you (...)
(...[5]...)
In life, in order to be successful, and you people are well on the road to success, you have to find out what makes you excited, what makes you wanna get up each morning and go to work, you have to find it. If you love what you do, and dedicate yourself to your work, then you will gain momentum, and look you have to, you need the word Momentum, you will gain that momentum, and each success will create another success.
The word Momentum. I'll tell you a story that's very interesting to me. When I was young there was a man named William Levvitt, Levingtton's you have some here (...) and he was a very successful man. Became unbelievably (he has a homebuilder), became an unbelievable success and got more and more successful. He built homes and at night he went to these major sites with teams of people and he'd scour the sites for nails and sawdust and small pieces of wood and they cleaned the site so when the workers came in the next morning the sites would be spotless and cleaned and he did it properly. And he did this for 20 years and then he was offered a lot of money for his company and he sold his company for a tremendous amount of money, at the time especially. This was a long time ago (...) and he had a very interesting life. (...) Oh, you're Boy scouts but you know life, you know life. So, look at you, who would think this is the Boy Scouts.
So he had a very, very interesting life and the company that bought his company was a big conglomerate so they didn't know anything about building homes, they didn't know anything about picking nails and the sawdust and selling it and the scraps of wood. This was a big conglomerate based in New York city, and after about a 10-year period they were losing a lot with it, and it didn't mean anything to them, and they couldn't sell it so they called William Levin up and they said, would you like to buy your company and he said yes I would. So badly he wanted it, he got bored with this life (...) you won't get bored right? Know, truthfully, you are workers. You'll get bored too, believe me. Of course having a few good years like that isn't so bad, but what happened is he bought back his company and he bought back a lot of empty lands and he worked hard on getting at zoning and he worked hard on starting to developed, and in the end he failed, he failed badly (...).
And he was now he was much older, and I saw him at a (...) party and it was very sad (...) I see, sitting in the corner was a little old man who is all by himself, nobody was talking to him (...) so I went over and talked to him and I said (...) Mr. Levitt, how are you doing? Not well, not well at all (...) and he explained what was happening and how bad it’s been and how hard its been, and I said what exactly happened? Why did this happened to you? You are one of the greats ever in our industry? Why did this happen to you? and he said, Donald I lost my momentum, I lost my momentum.
A word you never hear when you're talking about success, when some of these guys that never made ten cents, they're on television giving things about how you're gonna be successful and the only thing they ever did was a book in a tape but I'll tell you, I'll tell you it was very sad, and I'll never forget that moment and I thought about it and it's exactly true. He lost his momentum meaning he took this period of time off, long years, and then when he got back he didn't have that same momentum.
In life, I always tell this to people, you have to know whether or not you continue to have the momentum, and if you don't have it that's ok, because you are going to go on, you are going to learn to do things that are great. But you have to know about the word momentum. But the big thing, never quit, never give up. Do something you love, when you do something you love as a scout, I see that you love it. But when you do something you love you will never fail. What you are going to do is to give it a shot again, and again, and again. You are ultimately going to be successful. And remember this you are not working. Because when you do something that you love, like I do (...[6]...) But when you do something you love, remember this, its not work. So you'll work 24/7, you are going to work all the time and at the end of the year, you are not really working, your don't think of it as work. When you are not doing something that you like or when you force yourself in to do something that you really don't like that's called work and it's hard work, and it's tedious work so as much as you can do something that you love, work hard and never ever give up and you're going to be tremendously successful, tremendously.
With that, I have to tell you, (...) (...) (...[7]....)
We are indeed making America great again, what is going on is incredible (...[8]...).
In the boy scouts you learn right from wrong, correct? You learn to contribute in your community, to take pride in your nation and to seek out opportunities to serve, you pledge to help other people at all times. In the scout Oath you pledge on your honor to do your best and to do your duty do God and your country.
(...) But the words duty, country and God are beautiful words. Basically you are pledging to be a great American patriot. For more then a century, that is exactly what our Boy Scouts have been. Last year you gave more then 15 million hours of service to helping people in your communities. Incredible. All of you here tonight will contribute with more than 100,000 hours of service by the end of this Jamboree. One hundred thousand.
When natural disaster strikes, when people face hardships, when the beauty and glory of our outdoor spaces must be restored and taken care of, America turns to the Boy Scouts because we know that the Boy Scouts never, ever, ever lets us down. (...) We know we can count on you, because we know the values that you live by. Your values are the same values that have always kept America strong, proud and free. (...) (...) (.......) American hearts are warmed every year when we read about Boy Scouts placing thousands and thousands of flags next to veterans’ grave sites all across the country. By honoring our heroes, you helped to ensure that their memory never ever dies. You should take great pride in the example you set for every citizen of our country to follow.
Generations of American of Boy Scouts have sworn the same oath and lived according to the same law you inherit a noble American tradition and as you walk through your lives never cease to be proud of who you are and the principle you hold dear and stand by. Wear your values as your badge of honor. What you have done is incredible, what you done is admired by all. So I want to congratulate you Boy Scouts.
Let your scouting oath guide your path from this day forward. Remember your duty. Honor your history. Take care of the people God put into your life and love and cherish your great country.
You are very special people, your are special in the life of America, you are special to me. But if you do what we say, I promise you will live scouting’s adventure every single day of your life. And you will win(...) and help people in doing so. Your lives will have meaning and purpose and joy, you will become leaders. And you will inspire others to achieve the dreams they once thought were totally impossible. Things that you said could never, ever happen are already happening for you. And if you do these things and if you refuse to give out to doubt or to fear then you will help to make America great again. You will be proud of yourself, be proud of the uniform you wear and be proud of the country you love.
And never ever forget: America is proud of you.
This is a very, very special occasion for me (...[9]....) but this is very special to me, and I just want to end by saying very importantly, God bless you, God bless the Boy Scouts, God bless the United States of America, go out have a great time in life, compete and go out and show me that there is nobody, nobody like a Boy Scout! Thank you very much everybody. Thank you very much.
[1] mentioning who from his cabinet is/was a scout
[2] not sure about this bit but alas make it more about the community, or the actions of each individual less about the individuals themselves(unless it's BP)
[3] really sure about this part though ... common, Obamacare....?
[4] let’s say he said success instead of sex
[5] oh the Obama remark.
[6] reference to he loves what he does
[7] things about his win, common, fast-forwarding this part. not the place. not the place
[8] CHILDREN DO NOT UNDERSTAND STOCKS
[9] talking about himself too much again
All would have been great to the scouts if he had done just this, it would have been, personally, even better than Obama’s 2 minutes speech via webcam. This speech would encourage young people and not lose them with concepts they are far to young to understand and to make decisions upon. It would not draw the attention of the media to the Jamboree for all the wrong reasons.
I do not care of who Trump is or what he has said in other ocasions, today he, as the president of the USA, did not perform well his duty to the young ones.
One wouldn’t say it’s haunting but it has its interesting points on what happens when faced with disaster. It’s different from other stories because it actually tries to keep being realistic. It doesn’t put characters through unnecessary suffering but it does put them in real-life situations where shit happens and it’s not very nice.
The main characters are ordinary, no one has the cure for zombies or some special power. The situation is realistic, there is an earthquake and they deal with what’s happening in front of them. And that’s it. No magic twists, no messiah, no devil, no nothing.
People being jackasses. People being nice. That’s it.
I mean, one can tell the author wanted a little touch of all that could be associated to this kind of disaster [e.g. the cult] but then again, if he didn’t what would the story be?
Might not be your cup of tea, but at least it doesn’t have gigantic fillers. Like looking for a child, let’s call her Sophia, for 7 episodes or something.
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Yes, 3 years later and I still hold a grudge against Walking Dead.
Anyway, this little pearl... I stumbled on it after reading Happiness from the same author. Not great, but good, I’d say 51 Ways has enough worth to be the pick of the week.
[on doing Military Intelligence in World War II] When people say to me, you know, were you in this? Were you in that? Did you work in this? Did you work in that? I always used to say "Can you keep a secret?". And they would say "Yes, yes" and I would say "So can I".
Let it be known that your name is above everything. You courageous woman who stood up for your true self, unwavering in front of social conventions, all for true happiness!
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Is it though?
One word against Saint Caitlyn, and half of the world goes against you, you transphobic trash. One word in favor and the other half really gets pissed with you, you degenerated liberal (when I say world I might be overly exaggerating, for simplicity sake let’s just say the Internet).
And honestly, it’s just getting annoying.
I mean, sure, transgender people want representation. That is a fair request. But ANY representation will do, really? Any trans is a representation of the whole movement, and any attack against them should be seen as an attack to any brother-in-arms. Can Caitlyn symbolize the struggle, and be put on the pedestal people are putting her?
…I don’t know if it isn’t too soon to do that. In the last few years, the Kardashians have become the very definition of “famous being famous” they make their life a circus and honestly, from what I’ve seen Bruce being Caitlyn it’s probably far from the most unconventional thing happening there. But still, not being the most unconventional? Doesn’t deserve an award. Being socialites and getting more attention, and by that more money, from the media? Does the world really think a circus is a good place to deal with such a sensitive subject? Any place is good?
And this is a sensitive subject. A freakin’ sensitive subject. Do you know how many transgendered regret their decision later in life? Do you even know, how many commit suicide after making the decision that should make them feel happier in their skin? I didn’t. And honestly the lack of quality studies about this is the alarming thing. And yes, I blame it on society standards. And yes, a lot of transitions are not phisically perfect enough and that certainly doesn’t help. But not feeling comfortable in your body, feeling like your body is a stranger is a kind of disorder and needs a different treatment than this sugary attitude that half of the world is showing. Don’t get me wrong, being positive is good but this superficial nicety that doesn’t try to get to the core of the subject and is just happy projecting their own insecurities on someone else…doesn’t solve real problems, does it?
And what about the haters? Honestly, you can’t fix humans. You can help the most you can but you don’t get to fix others. Fix yourselves. That you can do. Besides what do you fix it to? As long as it isn’t harming anyone, why do you get to decide the right way of living? If you decide not to have as many children as you are able to support, aren’t you going through life failing at or even not fulfilling your Biological role? Yes, the answer is yes. Should someone try to fix you? No. “Buuut tha family, bruce iz so selfish”- you say, oh, what a big heart you have worrying that the Kardashians are going to get more dysfunctional than they already are. Besides, Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. “Buuut society is validating *this* unnatural behavior”, society is validating squat, time will tell what happens, for now the tabloids are feasting and society is arguing, and arguing means more money is going to be used to understand in which cases the transition helps (and how to do it right) and the underlying issues that should be taken care before starting to consider this.
I’m sleepy and I have to get back to my non-digital life, so as a sort of conclusion, in ten years, we’ll see whether or not Caitlyn deserves the title of courageous role model she has right now. If she indeed did something braver than going through surgery and coming out with a bang. You know, that little thing that is called “living the ordinary days with the weight of every decision you made”. That she has found a way, because of her transition, to bring herself and to the people she cares about happiness. That is the true example for everyone, the true badge of honor. Ten years. I’ll even bet. Time is ticking.
