Sheโs over 525 miles ahead of the record. Sheโs got less than 100 miles left!!! https://t.co/hJvE7SeSg8 sheโs about to beat the seven men and two women that have attempted it before. By a lot.
Isnโt it funny how Biden is out among everyday people, and NONE of the people actually meeting him are describing some confused old man?
They are describing someone humble, engaged, and fully present.
Doesn't match the bullshit media narrative, does it?
The press pushed that garbage. The loudmouths amplified it. The weak-minded bought it. And the country paid the price.
They should be shamed without mercy.
There must be accountability
I believe that; If abortion is criminalized, men should lose the right to walk away from a pregnancy, too.
I watched my friend who was born to be a doctor lose her entire future to unwanted pregnancy. She was buried in biology books, top of her class, and ready to save lives. One failed contraceptive later, her world stopped.
The guy? He laughed, said "that's a you problem," blocked her number, and walked away into a bright, uninterrupted future.
She knew she couldn't survive medical school with an infant. But her parents, devout church workers, cornered her. To them, her dying dreams mattered less than their reputation in the congregation. They threatened her with damnation and absolute disownment until she broke.
The day she packed up her anatomy books and gave away her stethoscope was a funeral for the woman she was supposed to be.
Today, she works two exhausting retail jobs just to keep the lights on.
The guy who walked away is an architect traveling the world. His life didn't even hit a speed bump.
She carries the entire weight of a two-person mistake. You canโt force someone to give up their body and their future while the co-creator gets to just walk away.
"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.
I was reviewing their annual performance data.
"Show me," I said.
She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."
"What's her actual performance?" I asked.
"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."
"So why the low scores?"
"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."
I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."
"Let me talk to Diana," I said.
"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"
"What happened with the pricing?"
"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."
"What else?"
"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."
"Are you still giving feedback?"
"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."
"But nothing's actually improving?"
"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.
I went back to the boss.
"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."
"That's not true."
"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"
Silence.
"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"
More silence.
"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."
A few months later, they redesigned the system.
Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.
Diana got promoted.
"What changed?" I asked the boss.
"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."
"And?"
"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."
Here's the truth about performance reviews:
Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.
The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.
The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.
You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.
And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.
They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.