1990: One decent middle-class job paid for a house, two kids, a station wagon, Saturday baseball games, Friday pizza-and-movie nights, and a two-week family trip every summer.
2025: Both parents grinding full-time (often two jobs each) still drowning in daycare bills, can’t afford to purchase a house, and begging for a single day off without guilt.
We called the 90s “normal.”
They were peak luxury we never noticed.
A righteous man burns bright; his echo is louder than the assassin’s rifle and will forever be heard.
His message will live forever.
Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk. May God welcome you into His kingdom.
God bless.
My neighbors’ dogs used to shit in my yard all the time. I had a fence put in, and around that time I saw a huge drop in the amount of dog shit in my yard. I’m not sure why, I’m sure it’s a very nuanced and complex issue.
Wow...JD Vance 2028?
This guy's messaging is flawless. Just listen. A reporter pressed him on how Americans should react to tariffs if they "raise prices" - Vance flips it back perfectly.
"What I say to the American people is, look: the president ran on this, and he said very clearly that we're done being the piggy bank of the entire world."
"For 40 years in the same way that our European friends, I think, have neglected international security, for 40 years a lot of our friends all over the world have used America as a piggy bank... have used us to absorb all of their excess economic production."
"What does that mean for Americans? For Americans, that's meant manufacturing jobs declining, that's meant middle class wages going down, that's meant whole towns that have been hollowed out."
"Empty factories - and that means an America that is less safe, because our manufacturing isn't as powerful now as it was 30 years ago."
"I've got all these brave Americans in front of me and a few behind me too. We've got to send, if God forbid, we have to send Americans to war, we want them to have weapons, the best weapons in the world that are manufactured in America and not in China."
"The way you do that is to rebuild the American manufacturing sector. The days of America being the piggy bank of the world... the days of closed factories, the days of people not being able to get a middle class job in this country, they're over."
"And yes, that means we're gonna have to fight back even against some of our friends and their unfair economic practices. But the long term consequence of this is gonna be higher wages, more manufacturing, and more economic security for the American people."
@JDVance - MASTERCLASS.
Not wanting hunter safety taught in schools because “it promotes guns” is like opposing sex education because “it encourages kids to have sex.” Ignoring reality doesn’t help anyone.
America is not a nation “built by immigrants.” America was built by settlers. There’s a difference. Settlers ventured out into the wilderness to build a civilization from scratch. The modern immigrant comes to a place that is already built. Settlers planted the trees. The modern immigrant comes to eat the fruits. If you cannot see the difference, I don’t know how else to explain it.
Pay attention to the smear campaigns and hate propaganda that gets put out towards me in the next days and weeks.
All because I had an open and genuine discussion about publicly available information you can look up for yourself.
It will be very informative.
One of the trippy things about doing his
Podcast was me discovering that Theo Von lives 15 seconds from me and I never knew.
Living near the guy who said “I like raisins because they are grapes that have been through shit—nah mean?” feels like a neighborhood selling point.
"So in 1900 there were no seed oils. Most doctors had never even seen a heart attack. How do you get oil out of a sunflower seed? You have to extract it with hexane, which is contaminated with benzene. The average American eats the equivalent of five tablespoons of seed oils per day and it's being sold to you as it's safe and healthy."
@paulsaladinomd