Dave Ramsey advises a guy in $5k credit card debt who is not motivated to pay it
Caller: “I just graduated college 4 months ago I’m 26 years old I was able to secure a $77k career I wanted to know how I can stay motivated to stay out of debt for the next 4 years”
Dave: you can’t stay motivated in a way
Caller: “I have no student loan I have a paid of car thanks to my parents and I have $5k in credit card debt “
Such an important insight from @JeremyDBoreing on a common technique being used to deceive and mislead masses of people:
"And they're using the techniques that have been used by cults throughout history, which is, it is a weakness in the human being that when someone shows us that we've been lied to, we immediately trust them.
If someone comes along and says, 'You've been lied to your entire life,' your immediate thought should be, 'Man, I'm gullible. I should be careful what I believe.'
Instead it's, 'Now, you're who I trust. Tell me more.' So it's a very powerful tool, a very powerful form of persuasion to tell people that everything they believe is a lie.
It's a lie! Because everything you believe is not a lie, but of course it's true that you've been lied to."
As always I only support military action anywhere, in any context, if it directly serves the interests of American citizens. It’s troubling that the arguments we’re hearing for this war in Iran, including from Trump himself, seem to revolve primarily around “bringing freedom to the Iranian people.” As Americans, the freedom of Iranians is not our responsibility. If a single American life is lost in the service of that goal, it will be a travesty.
What nobody has even come close to sufficiently explaining is how this war will first and foremost directly benefit American citizens. That is a case that needed to have been made clearly and convincingly before this move, and it wasn’t. We’re also told how this will benefit Israel, and I’m sure it will. But Israel is not America. What does it do for America? How does it help us? That needs to be explained to us. And it isn’t “panicking” or demonstrating “disloyalty” to demand those very basic answers about how American tax money, and potentially American lives, are being spent.
We hear about the danger of a nuclear Iran, but that’s odd because we were told that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had already been set back decades. We hear that this war will be over quickly and easily because Iran is powerless, which I hope and pray is the case, and maybe it will be. But that’s odd, too, because if Iran is such a paper tiger then how were they a danger to us in the first place? It seems hard to argue both that Iran is an existential threat to the United States and that we can topple them in 20 minutes with no casualties or negative downstream effects.
Also the political calculation really matters here. A huge majority of American oppose this. That’s just a fact. If it costs Republicans in 26 and 28, then, no matter how things work out in Iran, it will not have been worth it. A free Iran at the cost of Democrat rule here at home is a bad deal. A free Iran for an unfree America would be just about the worst trade of the century.
I’m praying for our great country today.
My littlest godson, Josiah, is fighting a grave complication of the liver in the NICU. If you can spare a prayer for him and his family, it would be greatly appreciated!
This meme needs to die.
It comes from illiterate baboons who have never read the books and don't understand why using the eagles would be unfathomably stupid.
@isaiahrmartin Is this supposed to be an own?
An organization with a fraction of a fraction of the budget of the NFL still managed to snag millions of viewers away from the SuperBowl on their very first try.
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I’m sick of celebrities that live in 99% white neighborhoods with private security and a wall around their mansions telling me I have to tolerate illegal immigrants or else I’m a bigot.
Billie Eilish calls America "stolen land"
Ok, Billie. Your $14,000,000 mansion in LA is built where the Tongva tribes once lived. Any plans on returning it?