I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.
That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.
You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.
@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Oakland has highest taxes per capita among similar cities while services are among the worst. 44% of Measure E revenue goes to pre-approved union raises.
The pattern: wrap dysfunction in moral language, attack anyone who asks where the money went
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I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.
@IceJI@heyricharnold@rationalyankee Absolutely true for ultra wealthy individuals…. But this debate pertains to a business that employs thousands of people. People expecting cash in the bank every two weeks for their work - not a billionaire on a yacht outliving tax obligations
@heyricharnold@rationalyankee So if I bought a home in the 1970s for $50k that’s now appreciated to $3M on paper, I’m suddenly cash-rich? Bc my equity has appreciated, I can afford to spend lavishly? I should take out loans against my equity to fund my lifestyle? That’s nonsense, even in a hot market