my life changed the moment an old mentor told me this:
“stopping your worst habit would change your life way faster than starting your best habit…
fix the leak before filling the bucket.”
Some big names have shifted full anti-Trump. Others are full pro-Trump and insist that he can never be criticized and anyone who questions him or expresses any skepticism about anything he does is a traitor to the cause. Fewer and fewer prominent figures on the right are staking out the only actual sane position, which is that Trump is a politician who sometimes we will agree with and sometimes we will not agree with, and our right and responsibility as Americans is to be honest in either case.
“Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Wrong.
People just do not want to:
- Work 60 hours and still be broke
- Miss their kids growing up
- Get raises smaller than inflation
- Save in a currency printed out of thin air
- Answer emails on weekends
- Get replaced the second margins get tight
- Spend half their paycheck on rent
- Need debt just to survive
- Watch groceries, insurance, and housing go up faster than their income
People do not hate work.
They hate giving everything and getting nowhere.
My boomer dad retired at 62.
Full pension.
Paid off house.
Medicare at 65.
Social security at 67.
Told me at Thanksgiving, I just need to be more disciplined with my money,
I make $71,000.
Rent is $1,900.
I have $4,000 in savings.
I didn't say anything.
I passed the rolls.
But here's what i wanted to say:
Your pension was defunded by lobbyists your generation elected.
Your social security is solvent because mine is still paying in.
Your houseis worth $800,000 because mine costs $600,000.
You didn't build differently.
You just got there first.
He called you “historically illiterate,” which means you don’t know history. He didn’t call you literally “illiterate,” which would mean you can’t read, which might also be true. But you are clearly also semantically illiterate, as you don’t understand the meaning of words.
@StephenKing The left calls people on the right “nazis” or “fascists” when they have not even physically harmed another human being, let alone advocated genocide or war.
My actual views are pretty much those of a Democrat circa 2010, but I’ve been demonized relentlessly with the above slurs.
For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture.
Nobody dies to defend a “multicultural economic zone”!
American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for.
Some may not realize it, but that’s why people come here.
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Allow me to explain how per capita works, oh ye of low info.
Yes. It would make sense that whites would reflect a higher percentage in crime being that we are 75% of the population and blacks are only 13.6%.
Actual numbers:
- Kidnapping -
White arrests: 8,900
Black arrests: 4,800
Whites: 3.6 per 100k
Blacks: 11.7 per 100k
👉🏻 Blacks are 3.25x more likely to kidnap
Yikes. 😳
- Rape -
White arrests: 10,631
Black arrests: 4,677
Whites: 4.25 per 100k
Blacks: 10.39 per 100k
👉🏻 Blacks are 2.4x more likely to rape
Zoinks. 😱
- Mass shootings -
White arrests: 53%
Black arrests: 21%
Whites: 0.05 per 100k
Blacks: 0.09 per 100k
👉🏻 Blacks are 1.8x more likely to mass shoot
Eek. 😬
- Sex offenses -
White arrests: 10,233
Black arrests: 3,777
Whites: 4.1 per 100k
Blacks: 8.4 per 100
👉🏻 Blacks are 2.05x more likely to sex offend
Hide your kids. 🙈
- Solicitation -
White arrests: 4,876
Black arrests: 3,675
Whites: 1.95 per 100k
Blacks: 8.17 per 100
👉🏻 Blacks are 4.19x more likely to solicit
Whoa Nelly. 🤯
- Firearm Act -
Whites sentenced: 21.7%
Blacks sentenced: 57.0%
Whites: 0.69 per 100k
Blacks: 10.1 per 100k
👉🏻 Blacks are 14.7x more likely to break firearm laws
Everybody run. Jamal has a blicky. 🏃♂️ 🏃
(There are no federal data sets for incest by race, so I’m not even sure how you came up with that number.)
But let’s do murder in its place since you conveniently left that out 👇🏻
- Murder -
White arrests: 2,544
Black arrests: 4,358
Whites: 1.02 per 100k
Blacks: 9.68 per 100k
👉🏻 Blacks are almost 10x more likely to murder
IN CLOSING:
If I gave you two bowls of M&M’s, one bowl has 100 white M&M’s, one bowl has 100 black M&M’s.
Only ONE white M&M is poisonous but TEN black M&Ms are poisonous.
You have to eat one M&M.
Which bowl are you going to eat from?
That’s wtf I thought.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
SOURCE:
United States Sentencing Commission
2024 FBI UCR
FBI arrest tables