Today, half of the Internet learned that Jeep vehicles have hidden 'Easter eggs' on them. Apparently, the other half already knew but didn't bother to tell us.As Joel Feder of Motor Authority explains, Jeep vehicles have had these little surprises since the 90s. Michael Santoro, hired as a designer in 1989, decided to slip an Easter egg into the Wrangler TJ. Since then, pretty much every vehicle has included at least one Easter Egg. According to Mopar Insiders, the Easter eggs can be found on each of the brand's cars.Not everyone was aware of this fact, though, as a TikTok by jackiefoster40 recently revealed. The user discovered a spider hidden in his fuel tank and decided to share the Easter egg in a video. "So I bought my first car, and a fun fact about Jeeps is that they have a hidden animal which is called an Easter egg," the user said. "I couldn't find my Easter egg for the longest time, and one day I was pumping my gas, and I saw this spider coming at me, and I thought 'oh my god', and then I realized it was my Easter egg." @nkyrealestate ?JEEP WAS REALING TRYING TO GET ME.???? #fyp #jeepsoftiktok #spider ♬ original sound - Jackie Now, TikTok users have been looking a little closer at their jeeps to discover the Easter eggs hidden in their cars. Most of them posted jackiefoster40's original narration over their videos to explain what was going on.This user found a cute little lizard. @katepetersonn Bruh wut #fyp ♬ original sound - Jackie This user found multiple Easter eggs, including Bigfoot and a miniature grill in the headlights. @jazzy._.boo i never realized these were easter eggs? #fyp #jeeprenegade ♬ original sound - Jackie Others found jeeps on their jeeps among other Easter eggs. @katie.deren Shook #jeep #renagade #finalsathome #fyp ♬ original sound - Jackie This user found a dinosaur skull on their floor. @ellkayhey Wait for it... sorry it’s dirty? #YoplaitCupRelay #celebratenurses #cartooncharacter #finalsathome ♬ original sound - Jackie Some people have even found a tiny pair of flip flops on their cars. @micaelaaaraeee welcome home to the love of my life ???? #2020 #jeepwrangler #jeepwranglerjl #wrangler #jeep #jl #jeepeasteregg #orange #car #fyp ♬ original sound - Jackie Everyone is having a lot of fun trying to find their Easter egg. @kennedankk We searched the trackhawk for 30 minutes before I found it in the headlight ♬ original sound - Jackie So. Many. Animals.TikTok - Make Your DayTikTok - trends start here. On a device or on the web, viewers can watch and discover millions of personalized short videos. Download the app to get started. @sydneytirrel brooo what!!! I thought this was fake lol...I have a fricken lizard on my car!!! I need names for it?? #fyp #foryoupage #makemefamous ♬ original sound - Jackie If you can't find the Easter eggs in your vehicles, then NowCar.com put together a handy guide that seems to cover most of them.Hopefully everyone can have some fun searching their cars for hidden animals and objects.This article first appeared on 5.14.20

When it comes to parenting, the second most important decision—after whether to have a child or not—is choosing a name for the kid. Even though we live in times where parents are getting more and more creative about picking a name for their children, those with a more common name have a greater chance of being socially accepted than those without.According to Psychology Today, grade-school kids with highly unusual names or names with negative associations tend to be “less popular” than those with more “desirable” names. Later in life, people with “unpopular or unattractive” names have more difficulty finding romantic partners.A 23-year-old mother-to-be wanted to name her son Gaylord and had her family's full, passionate support, but her husband, 24, and his side of the family were firmly against the idea. The woman was looking for validation and posted about the dilemma on Reddit's AITA forum.“In my family, our genealogy is extremely important. The firstborn son since the 1800's has been given this name. I'm well aware it's a stigmatized name today, so that's why I have agreed to using a short form,” the woman wrote.Understanding that her son would be bullied for being called Gaylord, she decided that it would be his legal first name, but could go by Gail. Her family believed that it was acceptable for him to be known as Gail initially, but as society grows more tolerant, will be called Gaylord when he gets older.“They see the backlash over the name today as a fad that will eventually disappear, and I agree seeing how accepting each generation tends to become,” she continued. “When society stops being so immature about it, he can start using the full name.”The father wouldn’t even consider naming his son Gaylord, or Gail, for that matter. His family went a step further and said that naming him Gaylord or Gail would be “abusive.”"My in-laws are telling me that even Gail isn't an acceptable boy's name and that I need to 'get with the times' and choose something more appropriate," she continued. “What happened to respecting our elders and traditions? His family doesn't have any naming traditions, so it should fall to my family that does. How could I be expected to break a centuries-old family tradition?”The commenters were overwhelmingly against the mother’s decision."Use your imagination. A boy named Gaylord goes to his first day of school. The teacher does the roll call. ‘GAYLORD SMITH?’ Class breaks into giggles. Embarrassed boy says, ‘It's Gail.’ Class giggles some more, since Gail is usually a girl's name. Boy has no chance of fitting in with his classmates. His fate is sealed. He is a social pariah for life. Don't do this to him. Please,” one user wrote."Your name is the first thing people know about you. It’s the cover page of how people perceive you. Even if you think Gaylord will just appear on the birth certificate, you’re wrong. His legal name will have to be used on official documents, at school, on his license and passport. It will appear at the top of every resume he hands out. It’s not as simple as putting a name on paper. It’s how he is going to appear to the whole world. Gaylord is totally stigmatized and has been for decades. It’s not going away, sorry." Elinbeth added.“Some traditions reach the point where they are no longer suitable for modern times. This is 100% that time. Pick another name," CashieBashie wrote.After the post went viral, the mother shared that both sides of the family have tentatively agreed on a name.“We managed to work out that Gale Gaylord would be a reasonable compromise, with Gale being the complete first name, and Gaylord being the middle name,” the woman wrote. “My husband can then add a second middle name after Gaylord if he wants. Grandpa is especially not impressed that it's being demoted to a middle name, but he did say he understands the pressure I'm facing here.”This article originally appeared on 2.14.24

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Shocking, but not surprising. That’s the reaction of most of the people I interacted with Saturday afternoon following a near-miss assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. We’ve all seen this coming. We’ve all known that the political temperature in this country is and has been on a level recognizable from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, or the 1910’s, or even the 1860’s. It seems like roughly every 50 years or so America frays at the seams, and there is little question we’re fraying. The difference, at least compared to the last couple of flare-ups in which a president or presidential candidate could be shot without it seeming to come out of nowhere, is that while radical politics leading to assassinations have always been with us, they’ve never been truly mainstream.To the Left: shut up. We are not interested in anything you have to say. Consider the 1960’s. One could argue that decade boasted the most radical, destructive political winds of any in modern American history, the fact is that none of that radicalism really made its way into big-time politics. The major national political players — John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey — were quite conventional in their beliefs. Goldwater was sold as a radical, but he was a member of the Urban League for crying out loud. And in the 1910’s, when radical communists and anarchists spent a great deal of time making bombs and attempting to kill people in power, which ultimately led to the Palmer raids and some mass deportations of undesirable immigrants with unpalatable revolutionary tendencies, almost nobody was a “radical.” We on the Right would look at Woodrow Wilson as one of the most destructive presidents in American history, and his views on race and the Constitution were certainly radical by our standard, but Wilson was emblematic of the progressive movement at the time. It was stupid, and it was shameful, and so was Wilson, but he wasn’t “radical” in the sense that he was for political violence. Wilson had some 175,000 political prisoners at one point in his presidency; most of them were too far left even for the progressives. But now? Radical-left politics produces national political figures. One could argue that Barack Obama, who recent events have strongly suggested if not proved is the driving force behind both the Democrat Party and the Biden administration, is the most radical political figure ever to occupy the White House. Obama certainly hasn’t gone away. The Democrat Party and its media/propaganda allies at major newspapers and television channels have been pushing a radical agenda for a long time, and since Donald Trump came on the political scene they’ve also been pushing the narrative that Trump was everything they’ve shown themselves to be — lawless, authoritarian, unmoored by tradition and custom, and vituperative. This column, several times, has warned that something like Butler was coming. Hell, I had a scenario very similar to this — eerily, actually — in my new novel King of the Jungle, in which a suspicious security lapse leads to a shooter nearly taking out a Trumpian character. I’m hardly alone. We all saw this coming. We all saw the radical Left, the elected radical Left no less, doing everything they could to stoke it. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ top official, Tyler Barbieri posted this after assassination of President Trump. Democrats are deranged. pic.twitter.com/sLGzH1efi0 — I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) July 14, 2024 1. It’s A Miracle Trump Is Still Standing, And We Should Praise God That He Is Our Father, who art in heaven. That’s who gets credit for the fact the Butler Farm Show Grounds won’t go down like the Ford Theatre and Dealey Plaza as one of the most ignominious places in America. As of this writing we don’t know a lot about the would-be assassin. We know he’s a kid who had an AR-15 or some similar rifle and he was positioned some 130 yards from Trump as he spoke. We know the assassin got off several rounds before Secret Service countersnipers took him out, and one of those rounds hit Trump in the ear. We know that Trump had just turned his head when he was hit. Had he not had his head turned, that bullet would have driven through the side of his head, killing him instantly. Another one of the assassin’s bullets exploded the cranium of a bystander in the crowd, killing that man. Two other bullets seriously wounded other bystanders. The shot, from a rooftop dangerously well within range of that rifle, wasn’t a particularly difficult one. Deer hunters make shots like that regularly. Butler proved that God is watching over this country. But it also proved that the devil lives among us. 2. Such Ignorance As Not To Be Believed The fact Trump survived the assassination attempt and responded with defiance has idiots like this spinning conspiracies … Trump getting shot was completely staged. He wouldn’t stop looking in that direction. Obviously someone who could make that shot wouldn’t miss if they were intending to kill him. Then he got up and raised his hand. He would have shit his pants if this was real. Staged. — Cheesy Gordita Brett (@CreampieOrDie) July 13, 2024 There are tens of thousands of clowns like this on Twitter. And why? Because of this … Trump yelling “Fight. Fight,” after getting grazed by a bullet in the ear, an inch from ending his life. No panic. No crawling on his knees to safety. The man stands up, faces the crowd, and yells “Fight.” Historic footage. Just incredible. pic.twitter.com/9ERhGJaia0 — Lomez (@L0m3z) July 13, 2024 The theory, among the morons hiding behind computer screens, is that nobody who just took a bullet would rise up in a defiant pose like Trump did and yell “Fight!” to the crowd. These are people who have never faced physical danger before. They have absolutely no concept of what it’s like. I’m not going to pretend to have much expertise on the subject, other than to say I grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s when coddling your children was not the national American pastime. That said, I’ve had somebody try to kill me twice. The first time was when I was a freshman in college. A few of us were walking through a dormitory parking lot on the way to an intramural ball field for an early-morning intramural football practice, and we came upon a hoodlum attempting to steal a car. We gave chase, but were a little too late, and before I knew it the hoodlum had started the car and pulled out of the parking space, and he gunned the accelerator and drove right at me. I dove onto the trunk of a nearby car and the thief sideswiped it as he went past. Several years later I was shot at while driving on a busy road, and the bullet stuck in the side-view mirror. It probably missed my head by 18 inches or so. Both times, I can tell you, my immediate reaction as soon as I realized I wasn’t going to die was exactly the same as Trump’s: defiance. Adrenaline does that. Winston Churchill said it best: “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” Hell, Teddy Roosevelt took a would-be assassin’s bullet at a political rally and kept on speaking. None of these people have any such life experiences. They know absolutely nothing of the subject. And so to them, if Trump were to suffer a near-miss assassination and emerge defiant and with spirit, it has to be staged. The hatred, and the denial of his humanity, that underlies this contention is the clearest sign the devil lies in their hearts just as nothing of substance lies in their brains. 3. The Left Must Answer for the Hodgkinsonization of Its Base We’ve heard since 2008 that it’s the “extremist Right” who are the largest threat to “Our Democracy,” and this is a narrative which has been promoted not just among the media but by our intelligence community and federal law enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security, which should not exist for much longer as it has been an utter and total failure in every respect since its inception in 2001, has spent the past 15 years or more attempting to frighten the public about “extremists” who believe in such things as federalism and the Latin mass. This has been echoed by every propaganda arm the Democrat Party has. And when Trump came along as an alternative to establishment uniparty/complacent-loser GOP Washington Generals political leadership, he was cast immediately as the lead figure among the “extremist” Right. A man who had been given awards by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton was suddenly a “racist” and a man who allowed his political enemies to spend two years attempting to frame him on an absurd theory of Russian collusion spun out of thin air by professional liars in the Clinton campaign is somehow an authoritarian fascist. Just last week there was this … We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all … pic.twitter.com/x79Rkh86O1 — The New Republic (@newrepublic) July 7, 2024 And also this… President Biden, July 8, 2024: “We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Defend that. Go ahead. Try to defend that rhetoric after what we all just witnessed with Trump coming with a centimeter of being assassinated. — Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) July 13, 2024 Plus this … Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 28, 2024 And let’s not forget this … Democrat congressman Dan Goldman: President Trump “cannot see public office again … and he has to be eliminated.” pic.twitter.com/oTCDHanaqf — Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 14, 2024 The fact is, for all the bluster about the “extremist” Right, there have been two very prominent assassination attempts on major political figures in the past decade. Both of them were perpetrated on Republicans. And I’m not counting the assassination attempt on Brett Kavanaugh that didn’t make it to the kinetic stage. The first was the attack on the Republican congressional baseball team in June 2017, which almost killed then-Majority Whip Steve Scalise. Scalise’s attacker was a Bernie Sanders supporter named James Hodgkinson, a raging loser from Illinois who imbibed heavily Sanders’ campaign rhetoric about how America needed a “political revolution” and took it to heart. There was a nationwide outpouring of support for Scalise as he made a steady recovery from nearly perishing in Hodgkinson’s rampage, but Sanders was allowed to make an empty denunciation of “political violence” on the floor of the Senate and never bothered again about his rhetoric and tone. And now, after months of castigating Trump as Hitler, we’re supposed to excuse all of this? No. The entire campaign message of the Democrat Party has been the vile and monstrous lie that Trump and the GOP are trying to end democracy. This mammoth lie, this sinister poison, this terrible hate and defamation, must stop. It must stop. — Stephen Miller (@StephenM) July 14, 2024 To the Left: shut up. We are not interested in anything you have to say. We don’t believe you when you claim to abhor the political violence you’ve been stoking all year, and we have no desire to heed your calls for a turndown in the temperature. What we want from you is quiet. We want you to shut up. And we’re going to force you to take responsibility for your part in creating the environment that almost resulted in an assassination. It’s your crazies who are violent enough to take out political leaders, and you’ve done everything you could to radicalize them. Until you own that, there is no constructive dialogue to be had with you. 4. No, It Doesn’t Matter What Party The Shooter Was Registered To Of course, the new distraction is the fact that the Butler shooter, identified as one Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, apparently registered to vote in late 2021 as a Republican and voted in the 2022 GOP primary elections. Crooks made a political donation at age 17 to ActBlue, the Democrats’ engine for political contributions. But because he registered as a Republican this means that … Trump was shot by one of his supporters? The stupidity of this rankles. If you want to be credible, you’re going to have to accept the assumption (it’s a lot more than an assumption, actually) that people who support a political candidate do not shoot that candidate at his rally. There are a number of reasons why Thomas Matthew Crooks might have registered as a Republican. He could come from a Republican family and registered with the GOP because his parents influenced him to do so. He could have registered as a Republican out of an Operation Chaos motive. Pennsylvania has closed party primaries; Democrats cross over in an effort to influence the GOP nominee all the time there. Or he could have planned an assassination attempt against Trump or some other Republican political figure. If you put yourself in the position of a political assassin, it’s only natural to assume that your assassination will be bad PR for your side, and as such you might do certain things to disguise which side you’re actually on. No, it is not dispositive that this ActBlue donor is a Republican. He shot the Republican nominee on the eve of the Republican convention. It’s pretty safe to say that Crooks’ political motives are not MAGA. 5. After Assassination Attempt, Everything Must Change Specifically, we should have heads rolling at the Secret Service, which has demonstrated itself to be utterly incompetent and perhaps even a hindrance to candidate security. Lots of people are praising the Secret Service agents on the scene in Butler, and that’s explainable out of a sense that we want to hold onto some positives from what was otherwise a horrifying tragedy. And yes, there was evidence of effort on Trump’s behalf in the Secret Service team which rushed to him and whisked him away, at least eventually. Except there is the matter of the eyewitnesses who spotted Crooks on that roof just 130 yards away from where Trump was speaking, in a location it is patently absurd to believe was outside of the security cordon. Hitting a mostly stationary target with an AR-15 or similar rifle, prone, from 130 yards away isn’t really all that difficult a shot. And the Secret Service’s current director, Kimberley Cheatle, is a political/DEI hire who was head of security at Pepsico. And yet he was allowed to go up on that roof? How on earth could Crooks have thought he would be allowed to go up on that roof? He was carrying a black rifle! How was he even in the neighborhood of the Butler Farm Show Grounds toting a long gun? (READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five Quick Things: George Clooney, Sad Clown) The Secret Service’s countersnipers did a good job of taking Crooks out, but the question is how he managed to get off enough rounds to graze Trump, kill a bystander named Corey Comperatore and wound two other eventgoers before the countersnipers got him. One would think a rifle-toting stranger appearing on a nearby roof within sight of several civilian onlookers would have been taken out long before he could fire. Eyewitness tells CBS News that he warned police about a man on the roof with a rifle at Trump’s campaign event: “I seen a guy on top of one of the buildings, go in between one building and the next, went and told the officer he was up there.”pic.twitter.com/UG33sSSLOY — The American Conservative (@amconmag) July 14, 2024 BREAKING: Eyewitness informed Police officers and Secret Service about man on a roof with a rifle. They blew it off and ignored him. This is absolutely disgusting. The Cops and the Secret Service agents who ignored him should have their badges taken away and they be should be … pic.twitter.com/HKKaisdrwM — Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) July 14, 2024 Or at the minimum, his presence should have driven the Secret Service agents on the scene to rush Trump off the stage until he could be removed. Then there is the matter of the female Secret Service agents, one clearly too short to protect Trump from an overhead shooter and the other who couldn’t seem to figure out how to holster her handgun as Trump was placed in the SUV for a getaway. It’s been fairly well documented that the Secret Service is now under a DEI mandate, so we have hiring and promotion not based on merit in the federal agency charged with keeping our political leaders alive. Why are there girl Secret Service agents? pic.twitter.com/OhzNo3V3hK — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 14, 2024 Watch these female agents who have no clue what to do, or what they are doing. The Secret Service has been trying to raise the number of its female recruits to meet a 30% goal. This is DEI! pic.twitter.com/07S8g2NUD9 — Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 14, 2024 And the Secret Service’s current director, Kimberley Cheatle, is a political/DEI hire who was head of security at Pepsico prior to being named to her current job in 2022. Elon Musk tweeted that she was guarding Cheetos before getting her current job, and he’s correct both in fact and in an assessment of her qualifications. As of this writing, nearly 24 hours after an almost catastrophic agency failure, Cheatle — should we call her Kimberley Cheetos from now on? — had not addressed the media or the public about Butler. House Oversight Committee James Comer had already sought to remedy that by demanding she appear in front of the committee as it opens an investigation into the would-be assassination; one can imagine that isn’t going to go well … The DEI angle is an obvious issue. The other obvious issue is that it’s been reported the Trump campaign has repeatedly asked for more security assets as threats against his life have mounted and been repeatedly refused, and now it’s clear there was a hole in their coverage at Butler. You cannot allow would-be assassins onto rooftops within 200 yards of the candidate under your protection, and apparently that’s exactly what Cheatle allowed. The Secret Service used to be under the Treasury Department. Now it’s under the Department of Homeland Security, which means Cheatle’s boss is the old villain Alejandro Mayorkas, who has almost literally wrecked everything he’s touched. (READ MORE: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, and the Death of Stalin) Both of them should be fired by lunch on Tuesday. And the Biden administration and the political party it serves ought to be put under a white-hot microscope for having stoked and enabled this fiasco. The post Five Quick Things: A Most Expected Assassination Attempt appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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