The Surly Bison

Just a guy with an opinion.

[The Surly Bison @SurlyBison]

This stuff? Tastes exactly like the marshmallows in a box of Lucky Charms.

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@PinoAmericano They used to call that resting bitch face.

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@WallStreetApes So… it’s just like “eat cereal for breakfast.”

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@GenoVeno73 @ScottPresler Regardless of how you feel about how well our system works, voter ID is a highly supported issue by US citizens (70-80% depending on demographic). And last I checked, our government officials are supposed to carry out the will of the people, not refuse based on how they “feel.”

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@SandyofCthulhu “Clearly, you’re a racist.”
- all the libtards trying to rewrite history

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@klara_sjo

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1000x this. Property taxes are just rent to the government.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

PROPERTY TAXES IN AMERICA HAVE GONE TOO FAR.

My parents paid off their house in 2005.

They are in their 70s.

They still write a $11,000 check to the county every single year just to keep living in it.

That makes no sense.

At some point owning a home should actually mean owning it.

This kind of burden is rare outside the U.S.

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@BrianNorgard Sure… What’s another $5 trillion? Plus the $50,000 per Mexican? Let’s just print more money. That’s always the solution.

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@MrDavidAngelo I know the whole thing about celebrities passing in threes. Does the same thing apply to politicians? I’m not saying I wanna see anybody die. I’m just curious if Lindsey Graham is the first of a couple. McConnell isn’t looking too hot either.

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@Queenlourdess @RealCandaceO @Villgecrazylady Are you freaking serious? Do you know how many offers I’ve seen to debate her in my X feed alone. Please… never challenge Candace… you sound like an asshole.

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@RobSchneider All because her crush said no when she took her shot.

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@MarkRuffalo @elonmusk Stick to playing pretend, Mark. You don’t do the real world very well.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Hey Mark, you're worth around $35 million while continuing to land major Hollywood roles. You could donate $25-30 million tomorrow and still live an extremely comfortable life for the rest of your days.

At a conservative 4% safe withdrawal rate, even a remaining $5-10 million would generate roughly $200,000-$400,000 a year in passive income, several times what the average family earns. On top of that, you own multiple luxury properties, including a New York penthouse reportedly worth around $7 million, and you're still taking on film roles that pay millions.

Lecturing others while sitting on tens of millions yourself is peak Hollywood...

As for Elon, his charitable giving has far exceeded your entire net worth tenfold. And as for the idea that he can simply "solve world hunger" by writing one giant cheque only demonstrates your fundamental misunderstanding of how global hunger actually works. It's not a problem that disappears because one wealthy person transfers money into the system.

You need a basic economics lesson and a mirror, because your hypocrisy is matched only by your lack of self-awareness.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Senator Sanders.

You are doubling down. After yesterday. AFTER getting lit up with more than FOUR TIMES your views and nearly FIVE TIMES your likes on my response... you walked right back out on stage in PARMA HEIGHTS, OHIO and did it again.

I think I deserve a reply. I genuinely do. But I understand — you have only helped one person climb out of poverty in your entire career, and I am trying to figure out who that is... actually, now that I think about it, there WAS one man you helped escape the gutter. Some fellow who wandered onto a Vermont commune in 1971, refused to do any actual work, got himself kicked out after 72 hours, and spent the next five decades accumulating a net worth between $2.5 and $3 million, three homes, and $550,000 in annual private jet receipts while telling everyone else the system is rigged. I think his name was Bernie too. Funny coincidence.

Now. PARMA HEIGHTS.

I live in Northeast Ohio. I know this community. The median household income there is $61,009 — which is BELOW the state average and significantly below the national average. The poverty rate is 13.9 percent. These are real people with real financial pressure who showed up to Valley Forge High School on a Friday night because someone told them a United States Senator was coming to fight for them.

And who showed up to fight for them?

A man who will not fly commercial because — and again, I am quoting him verbatim because no insult I could write does justice to his own words — "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?"

A man with a $575,000 lake house in Vermont.

A man who, in 35 years in Congress, passed eight bills. Named two post offices. Averaged 0.23 pieces of legislation per year. And is now asking Parma Heights — a working-class Cleveland suburb where people earn $37,555 per capita — to send him MORE allies to Washington so he can continue this extraordinary record of productivity.

The blatherskite stood in that gymnasium in front of people who cannot afford what he charges per HOUR on a private jet... and told them HE is their champion against the billionaire class.

That is not courage, Senator. That is not fighting for the working class. That is walking into a room full of people who earn less than your MONTHLY jet travel costs and telling them you feel their pain. If ignorance is bliss, you must be the most serene man alive.

You know what I kept thinking about? The rally rules said no signs, no flags, no weapons, no chairs, no bags larger than a fanny pack. You know what was NOT on that list? A $15,000-per-hour aircraft. That apparently was fine.

"Fighting oligarchy." I genuinely cannot decide if this is courage or if the belt just does not go through all the loops anymore.

Quick question — and I ask this as a science teacher who grades logic problems for a living — when the billionaires you are fighting LOSE their money... how exactly are you getting to the NEXT rally? You told us commercial flight is beneath you. So what is the plan? Because Parma Heights is only 25 minutes from Cleveland Hopkins. I make that drive on a teacher's salary. Just saying.

Quinn's Law Number Two does not take Saturdays off: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing."

The man screaming about oligarchs owns more real estate than most of the people in that gymnasium will ever see. He clings to that talking point the way a drunkard clings to a lamppost — not for direction, just for support.

America was founded by geniuses. Parma Heights deserves better than this.

IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it.

SHARE this — every share helps get the truth in front of the people that rally was designed to mislead.

COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with a lake house and a private jet budget larger than most Parma Heights households EARN deserves to call himself a champion of the working class? Tell me.

And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who actually LIVES in Northeast Ohio, supports a family of six on a teacher's salary, drives to work instead of chartering aircraft, and apparently finds it suspicious when a millionaire with three houses flies into a working-class suburb on someone else's dime to warn everyone about millionaires.

@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

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@ItIsHoeMath This was a really good explanation.

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@Microinteracti1 Phew. Good thing one random dude said it. Truth prevails again.

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@eagameover Everything is always an executive order because our congress is full of incompetence. But at least they’re focused on daylight savings…thank god.

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@RubinReport Coming from a guy that liked Contact. Ick. Nuff said.

[Skipster @FarRightSkip]

This you?

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@FmrRepMTG When are you going away?

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Ummmmm…

[Andreas Steno Larsen @AndreasSteno]

“China is leading the AI race”

Hahahahahahahaha