Mostly peaceful lurker watching every village idiot with their microphone. Debilitatingly antisocial. Sarcasm is appreciated. Farm life. Crayon eater's sidekick
Personally I think all comments about how younger generations of Americans should live are off track considering the trillion dollars worth of fraud facilitating entire populations of immigrants. Until that is fixed be quiet.
I’m in Alabama with a family of four. We have a mortgage on a house that’s now valued at $320,000 the same house was worth just $160,000 in 2018.
The reality most people miss: We haven’t changed our lifestyle one bit in the last six years. We’ve lived responsibly. Yet every month we’re forced to cut back more and more. In our area plants/factories are closing all the time, good-paying jobs are disappearing, and most of the remaining manufacturing work around here tops out around $25 an hour. I’m getting my usual 2% annual raise while everything else keeps getting more expensive.
This isn’t about young people just starting out and learning to budget. This is about responsible, working families who were doing fine, paying bills, raising kids, living within their means and now having to live like we did in our 20s.
We’re watching the country head in the wrong direction, worrying about whether our children will even have a shot at the same life we had.
And the most frustrating part? We’re constantly told “the economy has never been better.”
That disconnect is real. We’re not asking for luxury. We just want to maintain the modest, responsible life we built, without having to keep tightening the belt every single year while being gaslit that everything is fine.
Does anyone else have political fatigue?
I am honestly anti-the entire system. I’m anti-government. I want the whole thing torn down wall by wall with a fresh start.
Democrats care more about protecting illegal aliens and giving them benefits than American citizens while Republicans care more about interests of foreign countries (thanks to lobbying that you are not supposed to talk about) than the issues here at home (e.g., high gas prices, high grocery prices, and cutting spending to pay down the debt and reduce inflation).
Democrats are weirdos that sexualize children and treat science like a religion that cannot be questioned. They also think that raising taxes and socialism will solve everything, which would further empty our pockets. Republicans just yap about economic burdens and then do nothing to ease them, which is why many young people turn to socialist ideology.
A giant reset button is in need because they do nothing but stick a big red, white, and blue middle finger to the American people every day. And, we continue to subsidize it with taxes.
Take the rose-colored glasses off and see reality for what it is.
Our founding fathers raised hell and then some over far less.
@justinamash@RepThomasMassie@RepThomasMassie Whatever you decide to do next, you have an incredible amount of support. And you know, you would make an excellent governor for KY. Thank you for representing us, always being thoughtful of your constituents' needs.
No deep state arrests.
No de-weaponization operation.
No accountability for Covid.
No Epstein accountability.
But God dang the whole machine came together to get rid of that one libertarian guy in Kentucky! 👊
@2senseless@TRHLofficial@grok Holy sh...I must have my head in the sand. I didn't realize it was actually this bad. But yeah, Trump gives out endorsements to some of the absolute worst candidates.
@TRHLofficial I don't watch TV but I'm getting flyers like crazy for both, mostly Gallrein. The feeling on FB seems pretty neck and neck as well. It seems more boomers are leaning Gallrein (except for my dad) but my gut says Massie wins.
A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat.
The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking."
Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people.
They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down.
Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure.
Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated.
At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?
@BtB1961@WallStreetApes This nearly exact scenario is happening here in KY. Here, they are buying up 2k acres of farm land just for phase 1. It's disheartening. They haven't broke ground yet but utility companies are beginning upgrades, causing utility prices to spike already.
Republican primary voters want a total and unrelenting political war to be waged on the Democratic Party, and they're done with feckless losers in their own party who do not understand what time it is.