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Route66Kid

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Blogger @ reasonreststop.com Journal keeper Observer of life and times along Old Route 66 Sweat equity Rotarian @ willrogersrotary.org Oklahoma Sooners fan and OU alum U.S. Navy, retired

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From criminal justice law & order to the dilemma of an ethical hell hole. This case should prompt a moratorium and review of all capital punishment statutes nationwide. I'd still like to know what the final legal tab came to for the taxpayers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6LL...

Why is Christa Pike still on life support despite her death sentence?

YouTube video by FOX NASHVILLE

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You are not alone. youtu.be/1-JIAdCm6p4?...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Alone

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is becoming ever more apparent that $40 trillion in debt is going to be what ends US world hegemony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MH...

British Empire,s Final Mistake ; America is Repeating it in 2026.

YouTube video by H Singh

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Be honest, are you really better off now than you were two years ago? With all the "fake news" nonsense, partisan babble and purpose driven BS abusing the airwaves, one thing that never lies to me is my own financial bottom line! 😡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kU-...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Misery Index

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a cautionary tale of the consequences of carrying too much national debt, like $40 trillion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l0T...

How America Used Britain’s WWII Debt to Replace the British Empire

YouTube video by Wartime Mogs

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Twas a terrible sight for a sober fan, and not much better for the tipsy ones.😬

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heavy duty information. I will vouch that I did not choose this age to be alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbcU...

Every Civilization Dies the Same Stupid Way — Spengler Predicted Ours

YouTube video by Mindplicit

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtV...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: $5k

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For the record, Love's gasoline isn't even Top Tier.

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is tough feeling like the Team is done after a hard fought win.

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very sobering stuff. www.facebook.com/reel/1492027...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is truly amazing how quickly and dramatically life can change. Let us never forget. reasonreststop.com/9-11-2001-th...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For those of us who graduated high school that year, 1977 will always hold that special significance. It was for better or worse a year of many endings and beginnings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cBA...

The Year Everything Happened: 1977

YouTube video by Vintage America

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The tales of woe from the crew of USS Abraham Lincoln sure brought forth the memories of my time in the Fleet. However, I was NEVER underway for 286 consecutive days. reasonreststop.com/navigating-t...

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't know if this is a statement to how far we've come as much as it is testament as to what we've lost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLt...

Why 1970s High Schools Felt So Different From Schools Today

YouTube video by Forgotten America With Michael

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm a Boomer, I'm 67, I'm done and I approved this video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVEL...

I'm a Boomer, I'm 69, I'm Done

YouTube video by It Ain't That Bad - That Old Guy with a Guitar

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Excellent explanation of USA's decline. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Hce...

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The 1 and 0 Sooners looked promising last night.

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The ballot for the midterm November General Election is set! reasonreststop.com/oklahoma-run...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Like Navy recruiters don't have a hard enough job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSzv...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: America's Best

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nothing fails an individual as epically as faith. Compile that onto abuse of trust leading to a total loss of confidence in leadership and purpose, most folks arrive at the conclusion that they can do better on their own in terms of finding their own inner peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9S...

The Bible Belt Is Dying — And Nobody Wants to Admit Why

YouTube video by Professor Archive

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We are a Western nation with Western values and those values are not negotiable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKJK...

New Rule: Melt in America | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"History shapes people more than people shape history." Excellent explanation of why some of us born in the "Boomer" generation never really fit much of the description. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVo4...

Generation Jones: The FORGOTTEN Half of the Boomers

YouTube video by Austin Williams

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"The Illusory Truth Effect." Interesting stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qzM...

The MAGA Spell Is Breaking — Psychology Explains Why

YouTube video by Rebel HQ

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is an interesting take on my hometown. However, in my junior high Oklahoma History Class, we got one day of instruction on "The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAu...

Why Tulsa Makes No Sense as a U.S. City

YouTube video by GeoLogic

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Interesting analysis. I will believe this prediction when I see it happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxA...

My UNBELIEVABLE NEW 2026 Election Map Prediction!

YouTube video by Simply Elections

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It is amazing what values some people can abandoned without a second thought when they have an ax to grind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tyF...

New Rule: Fauci & Fame | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The July Jobs Report: www.bls.gov/news.release...

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4D...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Mourning America

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The cups don't lie. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bmw...

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Nobody has to be a fan of soccer, the World Cup or FIFA to admire and appreciate the amazing candor of people experiencing something that is completely opposite of what they were expecting." reasonreststop.com/the-real-ame...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Communists? Really? They have exhausted their supply of evil bogeymen to scare the undecideds into compliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5I...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Confessions of the Dear Leader

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Please, make a decision and stick with it. youtube.com/shorts/m9Zle...

Trump is sending your children to war

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The takeaway is that you cannot build a partisan message that "compromise is treason" and then screech to high heaven that Washington is broken because they can't get anything done. Really, the Democrats are not the Bolsheviks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=muex...

MAGA Republican CONFRONTS Obama, She Got SCHOOLED so Bad Her Fellow Republicans Started Clapping

YouTube video by Blue Side

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It appears that the late Senator Graham bequeathed upon his Senate colleagues quite a trainload of Sh!t www.rawstory.com/lindsey-grah...

Lindsey Graham's death reveals 'legislative train wreck' he left GOP: report

The death of Sen. Lindsey Graham has left Senate Republicans scrambling to untangle a mess that the late South Carolina Republican had been wrestling with as the chair of the Senate Budget Committee.A...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Whatever that performance to the nation was last night, informing the people was not its purpose. www.factcheck.org/2026/07/fact...

FactChecking Trump's Election Security Speech - FactCheck.org

In a July 16 prime-time speech that warned of "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," President Donald Trump cast doubt on the country's ability to hold "free and fair elections" bu...

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The United States has no real government at the moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqU3...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Mob Lawyers

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Squirrel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePku...

YouTube video by Lincoln Project Advocacy

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Studying history and understanding what was said by whom to whom two centuries ago isn't worth a bucket of warm spit if it is ignored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=coPY...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Lincoln's Warning

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

RIP Senator Graham. Let the fallout rain down. www.rawstory.com/lindsey-grah...

Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness'

Longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died at the age of 71 on Saturday night from a "brief and sudden illness," his office announced."On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham pa...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is indeed our test. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB1x...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Character

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The student loan business is a racket. www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysi...

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How the Threat of an 'Educated Proletariat' Created the Student Debt Crisis | BestColleges

The roots of the student debt crisis go back to a promise broken decades ago –– when politicians put the burden of funding higher education onto students.

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm sure I am not the only one that misses the GOP of Eisenhower. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcP...

The Only 3 Reasons Anyone Is Still a Republican in 2026

YouTube video by Know way no how

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I am forever grateful to have been around for the Bicentennial fifty years ago and today for the Semiquincentennial. Things weren't perfect in 1976 either. reasonreststop.com/celebrating-...

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

On this eve of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, let it be known the list of grievances that got the Colonials to that point in the first place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLoR...

The Founding Fathers Were Quite Clear

YouTube video by Robert Reich

Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

When this president is gone, he needs to stay gone. Strike his name from every tablet and obelisk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2q...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Suckers & Losers

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The great American Experiment has had some scary down-cycles. I just hope it can survive the current one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzgH...

NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Lincoln vs Trump

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Is this some country or what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=76UX...

New Rule: Hooray for the USA! | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It is one thing to bring a knife to a gunfight, but Democrats have got to quit being the ones bringing a covered dish! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bs4...

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Route66Kid @route66kid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fortunately, authoritarianism and autocracy are not sustainable over the long term. Many pundits have previously been wrong about the end of MAGA, but now there are actually visible signs it may be reaching the end of its functional life. www.rawstory.com/maga-collapse/

Firebrand who helped build MAGA claims movement poised to 'collapse under its own weight'

A former MAGA firebrand who helped build the movement now says it's going to "collapse under its own weight."Pedro Gonzalez, a writer and former New Right activist who broke with Trump, made the predi...

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