The problem with fixing $20 burritos is every actual solution will get you called heartless.
Eliminate minimum wage? Cruel.
Cut entitlements and national debt? You want to kill grandma.
Mass deportations? Racist.
Teach people to be frugal? Out of touch.
The only “winning” political message will always be the Leftist proposal which usually amounts to “raise minimum wage to 1000/hr, start a U.S. Burrito Department, and give everyone a free burrito voucher,” which, by the way, is how you end up with a $150 burrito.
Welcome to conservatism. You’re the adult, and the “bad guy,” in the room. Get used to it and start showing the political courage to actually fix this stuff.
‼️MY REACTION TO @McJuggerNuggets TURNING HIS ABORTION DECISION INTO CONTENT:
The one thing missing from the discussion was the person.
The child.
The human being at the center of it all.
And I couldn't stop thinking about something.
What would a person with Down syndrome think reading that tweet?
Having children is one of the most selfless acts a human being can undertake.
You are voluntarily accepting uncertainty.
The entire journey of parenthood is an exercise in loving someone whose future you cannot control.
That's the deal.
But somewhere along the way we've started treating children like consumer products.
We ask whether the child fits our plans.
Whether the child matches our expectations.
Whether the child will provide the experience we envisioned.
And when a diagnosis arrives that changes those expectations, the conversation often becomes about whether the child still meets the standard.
That isn't parenthood.
That's consumerism.
And then there is one final thing I can't shake.
The need to announce it.
Not to close friends.
Not to family.
To the entire world.
To a bunch of strangers online.
Maybe that's the part that disturbs me most.
Because we've entered a strange moment in our culture.
Every private experience must become content.
Every tragedy becomes a post.
Every intimate decision becomes engagement.
Every deeply personal moment becomes public consumption.
And I found myself wondering:
Was today the day that aborting your child became content?
As Christians, we believe every person is made in the image of God.
Every person.
Join me tonight in praying for both this couple, and the sweet soul that they sent to Heaven way too early.
I think the past few months have just been the most blatant, desperate, and even criminally illegal effort in human history to deflect reality
Sending opposite signals to the market doesn't work long-term
It just sets you up for a much harder and longer crash out
Minnesotans lost $9B in taxpayer dollars to just 14 Medicaid programs under Tim Walz’s administration.
Today, every single Democrat in Rules Committee voted to block an investigation into that fraud.
Absolutely disgusting.
Let's also be clear about what happened with the legal process here. This child rapist was in the country illegally, and due to our sanctuary laws the DA -- smartly -- asked the judge to issue a desk ticket rather than remand to custody, because if he were taken to jail it would then be impossible to turn him over to federal authorities.
Let that sink in. The DA and judge had to engineer a rube goldberg plan for an illegal child rapist to walk out of the courthouse so that federal agents could pick him up on the street, because New York's sanctuary laws would protect him otherwise. A child rapist from Guatemala in the country illegally.
And Democrats are pledging to reinforce these sanctuary laws even further.
This is the world they're creating.
WIOAH 🚨 James O’Keefe went undercover in Los Angeles posing as homeless
‘On hidden cameras, petitioners admitted they are paid $7–$10 per signature — earning $1,000 or more per day’
🚨 The homeless are being farmed for votes and paid cash and drugs
I voted against the rule to bring this omnibus forward for a vote.
Here is a breakdown of some of the most ridiculous items included in the omnibus, and some America First items that were not. I offered amendments to correct these errors—all of which were blocked or refused🧵:
Unclear why 22 y/os should be paying social security $ to 75 y/o homebuyers.
It is a serious political question.
Young Americans are paying into a system they have no realistic expectation of benefiting from, given demographics & the government’s own financial forecasts.
ESPN basketball coverage is so hilariously bad. Mike Breen is washed, Doris Burke is terrible, and they follow it up in the morning with a rotation of Kendrick Perkins, the Morris twins, and a splash of Gilbert Arenas. Only redeeming quality is Scott Van Pelt on SportsCenter.