My dad retired at 59
I will not
He had a pension. I have a 401k I can barely fund.
He bought his house at 28.
I can't touch a down payment at 30.
He paid $90 a month for health insurance. I pay $430.
At dinner he told me I need to be smarter with money.
I nodded.
Didn't tell him his entire life was built on an economy that no longer exists.
Didn't tell him my generation is paying for his Social Security while ours gets gutted.
Didn't tell him the ladder he climbed got pulled up right after him.
Just passed the potatoes.
Make it make sense
Keith Lee tells Keke Palmer how important respect in his marriage is, explaining that he’ll only have more kids if his wife wants to because she’s the one who carries them 👀
“I’m done when she’s done… If she want 30 of them, we gonna have 30 of them… I’m not the one carrying them, that’s not my body going through the before, after effects.”
Ciara gets cheated on by Future, she’s blamed. Along comes Russell Wilson, a man who loves and respects her now he’s a “simp” and she’s “undeserving.” Cardi B gets cheated on for years by Offset, it’s jokes. She moves on, now she’s the problem. Megan Thee Stallion gets hurt repeatedly, she’s mocked. The men are celebrated. Now that Klay has hurt her, men somehow love him after he was just every goofy in the book when he “appeared” to be loving her properly. The list seriously goes on. A man cheats, people excuse it. A woman stays, she’s weak. A woman leaves, she’s the problem. A woman finds better, now she’s “undeserving” and the Man treating her right is a clown, goofy, simp. When Men speak up for women they’re labeled “pick me’s” or worse
This says to me that a lot of men are comfortable when a woman is disrespected but bothered when she’s valued. Why Tho? Who hurt y’all?
No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administration and everyone associated with them with stuff like this happening.
"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."
― James Baldwin
So businesses raised their prices to offset the tariffs, we the consumers paid those higher prices, and now those same businesses can get reimbursed from the government for tariffs we already covered for them by paying higher prices?? And *they* get a refund and we don’t??