This should make y’all smile!

The x-rays aren’t mine, but mine look similar. The solid white parts are metal and, in the gap, is a plastic plate to reduce friction.

I got my 38 stitches out and have had check-ups with my primary and with the ortho surgeon’s NP. Both were very happy with how well I’m healing.

My big job now is to “model” my scar tissue so it allows my new knee to fully bend and fully straighten. “Model” is a nice way of saying “rip out the scar tissue we don’t want” … over and over and over.” So fun! (not)

I’m posting this on Monday. By the time it appears, I’ll be in the OR, getting my bionic knee! If your someone you know is going to have this procedure done, I recommend the following YouTubes to help prepare.

In May of 2026, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. And we were declaring independence from such an extreme marriage of wealth and power in the state.”

Robert Morris would like a word. Morris, by most accounts, the wealthiest man in the country in 1775, was a Philadelphia shipping merchant who had built a fortune from nothing. He had come over from Liverpool, England, at thirteen and apprenticed his way into a trading partnership that eventually became what one biographer calls “the first national conglomerate.”

He signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, making him one of only two men to sign all three founding documents. The other was George Washington, who held the title of wealthiest American president in history for over two centuries, with an estimated net worth of almost $600 million in today’s dollars.

When the Continental Congress needed someone to manage the country’s finances during the war, they turned to Robert Morris because he was the only person with the business network and personal credit to pull it off. What followed was remarkable.

When Washington needed gunpowder, Morris smuggled it past British blockades. When the Continental Navy needed ships, Morris supplied three of his own. When Congress couldn’t pay its soldiers (which happened with alarming regularity) Morris issued what became known as “Morris notes”—personal IOUs backed by his own immense wealth that circulated as currency throughout the army for years. When Washington needed to move his forces south for the Yorktown campaign that effectively ended the war, it was Morris who came up with the money to make it happen.

For three years, Robert Morris personally financed the American Revolution out of his own pocket. His personal contribution to the war effort has been estimated at roughly $79 million of the total $101 million spent—numbers that are difficult to translate into modern equivalents but represent something close to everything he had.

Robert Morris died in modest circumstances in 1806, largely forgotten. The man who had funded the birth of a nation outlived his fortune by nearly a decade, but no evidence exists that he ever regretted his contribution.

And Morris and Washington weren’t anomalies. John Hancock, who presided over the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration in letters large enough to ensure King George could read it “without his spectacles,” was a wealthy Boston merchant whose fortune made him one of the most prominent men in the colonies. Charles Carroll, also a signer of the Declaration, was by some accounts the wealthiest man in America at the time of his death.

These were not desperate men with nothing to lose! They were men with enormous fortunes who looked at what the British Crown was doing and decided that natural rights, self-governance, and the principles of limited government were worth more than their own financial security or their lives—and then proved it!

The Revolution was about taxation without representation. It was about the right of a free people to govern themselves. It was about whether legitimate authority derives from the consent of the governed, or from whoever has the most soldiers. Those ideas came directly from John Locke, were refined by Jefferson and Paine and Madison, and were debated in pamphlets and town meetings for a generation before a single shot was fired at Lexington.

Wealth redistribution wasn’t a grievance in the Declaration of Independence. Punishing the successful wasn’t a principle of the Constitutional Convention.

The historical record on this is not ambiguous.

• https://www.tuttletwins.com/pages/history
• https://x.com/i/status/2052902774812123539
• https://constitutioncenter.org/signers/robert-morris-jr
• https://www.rmu.edu/about/history/robert-morris
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We thank You for our Polination community and ask Your blessings on each of us and on all of our loved ones. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

AMERICAN HISTORY: On May 11, 1816, the American Bible Society was founded in New York City. For 210 years, it has been translating, producing, and distributing Bibles and study aids, as well as supporting literacy, engagement, ministry, and advocacy efforts.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bible_Society

CALIFORNICATION: CLICK https://x.com/RealBrittHughes/status/2052878513401630738 [1:52] to hear how Gavin is greasing his contributors’ palms to provide a “free” service at taxpayers’ expense.

• https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2052813662058877054

EVERYDAY HEROES: In 1986, a critically ill man in Oklahoma desperately needed a heart transplant, but the donor organ was 1,400 miles away in California. Doctors had only a four-hour window before the heart would become unusable, and every conventional option failed: no commercial flight was fast enough, no helicopter had the range, and no ground transport could cross multiple states in time. With the patient’s life slipping away, the medical team made an unprecedented request to the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force said yes.

They loaded the heart into an F-111 Aardvark, a supersonic bomber designed to deliver weapons at extreme speed, not organs. The jet tore across the country at over 700 mph, completing the 1,400-mile trip in just two hours. When it landed, surgeons rushed the heart into the operating room and completed the transplant successfully. The patient survived because, for one night, a Cold War strike aircraft became the fastest medical transport in history.

Most people don’t know the Air Force crew had no medical transport protocol for carrying a human organ in a supersonic bomber, so the heart was strapped into the F-111’s tiny weapons-bay area using improvised padding and secured like classified cargo. The pilots also had to fly an unusually low-altitude, high-speed route to avoid turbulence that could damage the organ, and when they landed, the base medical team performed a “hot transfer” the engines still running because shutting down the aircraft would have cost precious minutes. The entire mission was treated with the urgency of a nuclear alert scramble, even though the payload was a single human heart.

• https://www.facebook.com/thehistoriansden/posts/pfbid0znsqCBr4uLNdh4QohaS5A45epGA8H1ZDpQPYb379m3EugunzKm1N2khQSVtvSvi1l

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://x.com/MAGACharlie2024/status/2053228688875872455 [:15] if you want to lose a few IQ points listening to AOC.

Grok says, “Even adjusting for inflation, no one in 1776 had wealth equivalent to $1 billion today. The multiplier from then to now is roughly 38x, so that threshold would require ~$26 million in 1776 dollars—far beyond what colonial merchants or founders like Washington held (his estate topped out around $500M in modern terms). The first U.S. billionaires emerged in the late 1800s/early 1900s with industrialists like Rockefeller.”

TRANS: [5:32] – Dr. Az Hakeem is a British psychiatrist and psychotherapist known for his work on gender dysphoria, mental health, and psychotherapy.

VAXXX: CLICK https://x.com/SenRonJohnson/status/2053140902831350203 [2:35] to hear Sen. Ron Johnson reveal how the Biden administration lied to force a deadly jab on us.

CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/2053200834364670092 [1:04] to hear Dr. Matthew Liao of the WEF explain how we could use Lone Star Ticks to make people allergic to meat, because that would be “good for the planet.”

VIRGINIA: Gov. Spanberger posted to X that the unconstitutional referendum has a “push back against a President who said he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress” and that she was “disappointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling.“

“Might I suggest not violating the Constitution next time?” ~ @MattMorseTV

“If you gave a crap about all voters making their voices heard, you wouldn’t have tried to silence our voices in the first place.” ~ @RealBrittHughes

“48.6% of Virginians voted no.” ~ @Lmvm71

The pre-existing map divides party representation in Virginia about 50-50, which reflects the population of Virginia. The one the Spanberger Dem’s tried to slime through would have switched it to 10 Dems to 1 GOP.

• https://x.com/GovernorVA/status/2052787210710114471