The cost of having children is worth the presence of children.
Full stop.
I am dumbstruck at how our society thinks of children as a costly, time-consuming drag. What an impoverished way to think.
No vacation will hold your hand in the hospital. No amount of mimosas at brunch can walk with you through grief. Double incomes cannot replace empty seats around the dinner table.
Elon Musk: "If you punish people too much for failure, then they will respond accordingly, and the innovation you will get will be very incrementalist
Nobody's gonna try anything bold for fear of getting fired or being punished in some way. So risk-reward must be balanced and favor taking bold moves, otherwise it will not happen"
Democrats don’t actually care about black voters being “disenfranchised”.
They really care about the fact that they won’t be able to benefit from the black vote in the South as much as they have been.
This about keeping a form of systemic racism in place to benefit democrats political goals.
On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.
They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.
Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?
Celebrated today's results in Hungary:
Alexander Soros
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Kier Starmer
Zelenskyy
Sanchez
Macron
Merz
EU
This should tell you everything
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Argentina’s right-wing President Javier Milei has HALVED extreme poverty from 11% to 5%, and poverty from 30% to 17%
He destroyed leftist socialism and his country is surging.
LFG! Milei is great! 🇺🇸🇦🇷
Exactly seven years two months and 26 days since Gavin Newsom became governor of California. California is:
#1 in homelessness
#1 in poverty
#1 in Retail crime
#1 in gas prices
#1 in illiteracy
#1 in wage stagnation
#1 in frivolous lawsuits
#1 in unemployment
#2 in housing costs
#2 in water bills
#1 in restrictions on workers
#1 in Anti-business regulations
#3 in energy/electricity costs
#3 in inequality
#1 in income tax
#1 in gas tax
#1 in budget deficit
#2 in educational inequity
#1 in COVID school shutdowns
#1 in COVID business shutdowns
#1 in COVID mandates
#1 in illegal border crossings
#1 in funding for illegal immigrants
#1 in People leaving state
Can you quantify what change? I’d be happy to hear you out.
California needs change because:
1. our cost of living is too high. The median home price is 3x what it is in Texas. Let’s not forget gasoline.
2. We are among the top 10 states for overall taxes paid.
3. Our education system sucks, we pay more per student for them to not learn. Compared to Texas we spend more and have lower scores.
4. Illegal immigrants get free rides to just about everything (healthcare, food assistance, education) when taxpayers pay for these things.
5. For the last three years we have lost population (many to Texas) because it’s expensive but also because of the crazy laws that keep restricting our freedom. We are not called commiefornia for no reason.
6. The state is very anti family and wants to play God. Most policies reflect it.
Those are some of the many reasons that we need to change leadership. I’m not saying that just because we have republican leadership, it will get fixed. I’m saying that it hasn’t been fixed in the last 15 years so something needs to change.
Ways to piss off the women of @TheView:
1. Get married.
2. Have kids.
3. Tell other people they should experience the joy of getting married and having kids.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
Something doesn’t add up in California.
Ask yourself these questions:
Why does California have the highest home prices, gas prices, utility costs, and overall cost of living in the United States?
If we are the richest state in the richest country in history — and we pay some of the highest taxes in the nation — why do we have some of the worst services?
California’s budget and spending have increased over 100% in the last 10 years.
Where have we seen a 100% improvement in services?
Roads better?
DMV faster?
Public safety improved?
Cost of living lower?
Benefits working better?
Where did the money go?
If California has had record revenue from personal income taxes and corporate taxes, why are elected officials proposing more taxes and saying they still don’t have enough?
These are the questions you should be asking when you cast your vote next year.
Everyone pays attention to federal politics, but if you want real change in your daily life, you need to pay attention to state and local government.
At some point, we have to stop asking taxpayers for more money and start asking where the money went.