I was talking to a friend’s little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were to be the President, what is the first thing you would do?’
She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’ ‘Wow - what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘You don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my sidewalks and driveway, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food or a new house.’
She thought that over for a few seconds ‘cause she’s only 6. And while her Mom glared at me, the little girl looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”
And I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party, sweetheart.”
@edzitron its been a wakeup for me - this week converting all my claude workflows to code. that way they only cost me once not become a monthly subscription. plus they ran like crap. agentic software is rubbish, slow and unreliable
A huge percentage of the country has said “We don’t care” to the sanctimonious bellends and it’s beautiful to witness.
Humans can only take so much before they go: “You know what? Fuck off.”
This sentiment is only going to increase from here on and I am completely here for it.