Old Grey Squirrel

The greatest failure of all is the failure to try.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Love it. Pulled up to pick up supper tonight and saw a license plate DEVNUL. If you know...well...

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

This is a great story and we need more of it!

[Kimi⛩️ @Kimrm_1]

Más de un año desde la emisión de la 1ra temporada de las hermanas Mikadono y aún no hay información sobre otra temporada🥀

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Agreed. They finally found the lever that moved Trump and made him ditch his ideals and the MAGA agenda to play patty-cake with the Uniparty. He and the Republican establishment have betrayed the very voters that elected them and will learn the hard way we won't be fooled again.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Top ways MAGA dropped the ball since 2024:

-DOGE was popular

-Ending the wars was popular

-COVID accountability was popular

-Epstein accountability was popular

-Ending the Department of Education was popular

-Ending the IRS was popular

-Decreasing the debt was popular

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Block Flock

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

Here's a sentence that should terrify every politician in America:

People are financing groceries.

Milk. Eggs. Pasta. Dinner.

Buy now. Pay later.

We took something humans have needed for several thousand years and somehow turned it into a financial product.

Pretty soon Klarna is going to ask if you'd like to finance your Chipotle bowl over 12 easy payments.

If Americans need debt to eat, I don't want to hear another speech about how strong the economy is.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

The craziest thing about the cost-of-living crisis is how many people think they're failing individually.

"I must be terrible with money."

"I shouldn't have bought that."

"I should work another job."

"I should cancel something else."

Then you find out the engineer is struggling.

The teacher is struggling.

The single mom is struggling.

The family making six figures is struggling.

The 22-year-old is struggling.

The 61-year-old is struggling.

At some point, when everyone thinks they're personally failing at the same time then maybe it's not personal.

[Mark Mitchell, Honest Pollster @honestpollster]

Let me spoil the midterms for you...

No matter who wins:
> You will get no Americans First legislation.
> Foreign wars will continue.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

No lies detected

[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

Every man’s predicament: 

•  Work more, miss your family.
•  Work less, worry about money.
•  Put yourself first, feel selfish.
•  Put yourself last, feel drained.
•  Be strict, you’re too hard.
•  Be patient, you’re too soft.
•  Rest, feel lazy.
•  Keep pushing, burn yourself out.
•  Ask for help, feel weak.
•  Stay silent, carry it alone.

You wake up to go to war.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

There is a limit.

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

So much of the burrito discourse is about what Americans should reasonably expect. What they are in fact entitled to as Americans.

We should expect that burritos won’t cost $20 (or whatever, that fast food should be cheap). We should expect to go to a public library and not see drug addicts and homeless. We should expect to be able to buy a house in our 30s (at least). We should expect that a family can thrive on one income so a mother can stay home with young children. We should expect that everyone can speak English.

These are not luxury expectations or unreasonable standards. They are what every generation of Americans since WW2 have enjoyed. Mocking people for wanting these modest things is not going to work.

They are not going to shut up about it because they are entirely correct in their expectations and discontent: something has gone wrong in America, and it cannot be fixed by tightening our belts and working harder.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Except you can't unless you opened a high interest savings account when you were three because you're too busy living paycheck to paycheck to get a down payment saved up. For most of us keeping food in the fridge and the power and water on eats the earnings of a full time job.

[Bo French @bofrench]

50 years ago, a house cost about 3 times the average wage. Today a house cost about 7 times the average wage. But sure, work harder so your taxes fund an enormous welfare state for mostly foreigners and maybe you can afford a house when you are 40.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Testify.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

The middle class has become the most efficient budget cutter in America.

People have already canceled subscriptions.

They've stopped eating out.

They've delayed vacations, skipped new clothes, and put off buying cars.

At some point, there isn't anything left to cut.

The conversation has to stop being about spending less and start being about why working full-time isn't enough anymore.

[Majorian @majoriansmusing]

When the beefy 5 layer burrito was introduced at Taco Bell in 2009 it was .89 cents. It is now 5 dollars. Even adjusting for inflation it should only be about $1.39.

But nah foods not more expensive don't worry guys!

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Applies to both parties by the way.

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

“Burritos are expensive gonna vote for communism”

This isn’t how a voter thinks.

They’re thinking “I can barely afford anything and you’re mocking me for it”

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Yes, so by all means continue voting for the swamp scum that aided and abetted turning this once great nation into an overrun communist hellhole. Brilliant!

[NN @NnPnemck]

I don’t care how frustrated you are with Republicans.

There is no version of “teaching them a lesson” that’s worth putting the people who gave us an open border back in power.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Anybody else think that's the point?

[Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. @MaryRuwart]

Food for thought.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Me too little cat. Me too.

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

But by holy God you'd better tell THEM everything they ask of you. Can you hear my eyes rolling?

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports:

[Old Grey Squirrel @alter3d_c0re]

Well said!

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

Apparently, I'm supposed to be angry at Hollywood because they didn't "let me see myself" onscreen for 100 years.

Well I can't be angry about that - because they did represent me.

When Superman caught Lois in 1978, that was me.

When Indiana Jones fought the Nazis for the Ark, that was me.

When Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star, that was me.

When James Bond saved the world 20 times (before Daniel Craig), that was me.

When John McClane defeated Hans Gruber, that was me.

When Spider-Man stopped the runaway train, that was me.

When Neo stopped the bullets and defeated Agent Smith, that was me.

When The Terminator said "Come with me if you eant to live," that was me.

And when Ripley said, "Get away from her, you bitch!" - that was me too.

Because I'm NOT the color of my skin.

I'm the content of my character.

And my character is heroic, honorable, courageous, determined, and willing to fight against impossible odds.

That's who I USED to see on the screen.

Hollywood won't give us that anymore.

For that, I am angry.

[Scratch Point @Scratch_Point_Z]

When localizers aren't treating Japanese scripts as a platform to insert their politics, they're vandalizing it with goofy Western memes that don't match the original audio. Subtitles aren't supposed to be a blatant rewrite of the Japanese script, they're meant to faithfully present it in English.