“Middle class has become a trap-door.
You’re funding everyone else’s, life but your own. You work 50hrs a week to stay exactly where you are.
You’re too poor to have options, but make too much to get assistance.”
—Afnan Khalifa
Middle Class is taken for granted.
I was flying Southwest from Dallas to New York. Three rows ahead of me, there was a young soldier in uniform. He looked barely 18. He was staring straight ahead, gripping the armrests. He looked nervous. When the drink cart came around, the flight attendant asked him what he wanted. 'Coke, please,' he said. 'Heading home?' she asked kindly. 'No, ma'am,' he said. 'Deploying. First time.' The whole row went quiet. The flight attendant didn't say a word. she handed him his Coke. Then, she got on the PA system. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest in Row 8 today. Private Miller is on his first deployment to serve our country. Since I can't buy him a drink, I’m going to ask a favor. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, pass it forward.' I grabbed a napkin. I wrote: 'You got this. Stay safe. - A dad from Row 12.' I watched as napkins traveled up the aisle. Napkins, receipts, pages torn from books. By the time we landed, the soldier had a pile of paper on his tray table three inches high. He stood up to get his bag, and he was wiping his eyes. He carefully packed every single scrap of paper into his rucksack. 'Thank you,' he told the flight attendant. 'No,' she said. 'Thank you.' We all walked off that plane a little quieter, reminded that freedom is just a word until you meet the kid who is defending it.
Credit: Margie Lee
BREAKING - Democrats are furious after Elon Musk offered to personally pay the salaries of TSA agents nationwide during the DHS funding standoff, stripping what they see as their main leverage over immigration policy and accusing him of undermining their authority.
American has a few different ice creams in his freezer, he notices the Haagen-Dazs is hard as a rock but the Dreyer’s is very soft and not frozen
Haagen-Dazs is real ice cream
Dreyer’s is a “frozen dairy dessert” instead of “ice cream” because they don’t meet the FDA definition for ice cream. They use corn syrup and vegetable oils to make the ice cream along with and stabilizers/emulsifiers
This is why it doesn’t freeze. It’s a science experiment made out of seed oils and chemicals
History may call me harsh, or even a dictator, but it will never ask me,
“What was I doing on Epstein Island?”
- Kim Jong Un
(The Supreme Leader of North Korea)