Pet Parent and PEZ dispenser, Carnivore/Ketovore, right leaning libertarian, Retired Mil.
If Pro is the opposite of Con, what is the opposite of Progress?
A cow eats 25kg of grass per day.
That grass has already pulled CO2 from the atmosphere yesterday.
The cow burps some methane (made from that yesterday-CO2).
12 years later, that methane breaks down into... CO2.
Which grass absorbs tomorrow.
It's a closed loop. A circle. No new carbon enters the system.
Compare to your car: Burning carbon that was buried for 300 million years, releasing NEW carbon into atmosphere, creating actual accumulation.
One is a cycle. One is extraction.
But the cow gets blamed for climate change while you drive to the protest.
This is a masterclass in statistical deceptionโฆ and it collapses the moment you apply context.
Gavin Newsom is counting federal tax inflows generated by California based corporations and capital markets while ignoring where the money actually goes and who actually bears the cost. Much of that federal revenue comes from nationwide consumption, payroll taxes paid by workers who no longer live in California, and capital gains tied to markets propped up by federal policy. That money is not evidence of superior governanceโฆ it is evidence of legacy infrastructure and inertia.
Higher wages mean nothing when California has the highest poverty rate in the nation after cost of living is applied. A six figure salary that cannot secure housing, insurance, energy, or safety is not prosperityโฆ it is wage illusion.
Lower gun deaths is another sleight of hand. California simply reclassifies violence. Knife assaults, blunt force homicides, gang violence, and drug driven deaths explode while politicians cherry pick one metric to pretend streets are safer. Residents flee because they feel it daily.
Better health outcomes? California ranks near the bottom in emergency response times, has collapsing hospital access in rural and urban poor areas, rampant untreated mental illness, and the largest homeless population in the country living in public health catastrophe.
Blue states are not subsidizing red states. Productive taxpayers are fleeing blue states to red states, taking income, businesses, and families with them. Federal redistribution hides state failureโฆ it does not disprove it.
If California were actually succeeding, people would be moving in, not fleeing out. Capital follows safety, order, affordability, and stability. California is hemorrhaging all four.
This is not leadership. This is propaganda wrapped in accounting tricksโฆ delivered to an audience hoping no one checks the numbers beyond the headline.
#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
๐จ BREAKING: The U.S. federal government loses a whopping -97,000 THOUSAND jobs since President Trump took office in January.
In September alone, -3,000.
Did you vote for this or what? ๐ฅ๐ฅ
๐ต๐บ๐ธ Musk will earn more annually than ALL elementary school teachers in the US โ Washington Post
He is to receive $1 trillion bonus over the next ๐ years
*combined income of all American elementary school teachers in 2024 was $97 BN