Two things here:
1) This is a false choice. You can have plenty of disposable income while also having kids. You can even have “lazy weekends.” Maybe not quite as lazy but still pretty lazy. The idea that you have to give up one to have the other is a reflection of your own lack of imagination and ambition. It’s not some kind of law inscribed into the cosmos.
2) There is only one thing that will make you chronically miserable as a parent and that thing is selfishness. Immense joys are available to parents — a unique kind of happiness that non-parents cannot experience — but those joys do require you to pull your head out of your own ass for long enough to experience them. If you can’t, or refuse to, then yeah you’ll be miserable all the time. But the good news (if you want to call it that) is that selfish people are miserable no matter what they do, whether they have kids or not, so there’s still no need to feel regret.
@GavinNewsom It's that you brought it up in the context of saying you are "just like" your audience. Why do you assume your audience relates to your learning disabilities?
"F*ck ICE" is just the latest costume swap for "Free Palestine," "Defund the Police," "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," "Believe All Women," "I'm with Her," "No Blood for Oil," "I Can't Breathe," and "We Are the 99%."
The hashtag rotates, the outrage gets recycled, but it's always the same sanctimonious clowns, the same hysterical tantrums, the same useless street theater. New flavor of moral superiority every couple years, same cast of perpetual protesters, same zero actual results.
It's not activism. It's a lazy, taxpayer-and-foundation-funded lifestyle subscription for spoiled narcissists who want the cheap dopamine hit of feeling holier-than-thou without ever having to build a damn thing, solve a real problem, take responsibility, lead anyone, or produce one measurable win in the real world.
Same retards, different day.
So let me see if I’m following the logic correctly?
Trump posted a screen-recording of a video to his social media account that contained a tiny snippet of another video that started auto-playing next. The post has since been deleted, but I’m supposed to take this as clear evidence that I obviously should have voted for the woman who, among other things, pledged to enshrine Roe v. Wade into law, who celebrated the mutilation and sterilization of gender-confused children, who abused her power to try to prosecute David Daleiden for exposing the trafficking of aborted babies’ bodies, and who presided over the reckless and lawless border crisis that allowed multitudes of women and children to be raped and trafficked across the border?
Sorry, that’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
Minnesota resident was trying to go try a new burger restaurant
She says Minnesota ICE protesters stopped her car, they checked her license plate and won’t let people pass until their plates are ran
It’s insane that this is happening in America
“So now we need permission to drive from these people?”
This is what she said happened:
‘My friend told us about a dive burger place in Minnesota that we absolutely had to try. As we were driving in, we passed a small group of maybe 30 people holding large “F ICE” signs, spelled out. Many of the houses in the neighborhood also had signs saying “F ICE” and similar messages.
When we were leaving to drive back to the hotel, we passed the group again. At that point, the resistance group stepped out in front of our car and would not let us drive.
One woman appeared to be looking at our license plate and doing something on her phone. She was standing directly in front of the car, blocking us
— I cannot imagine being a sane person and living in this city. We were with my brother-in-law’s family, and they said that restaurants and other places are empty because of this, the resistance is out doing their thing, and the normal people are just staying home and not going out.’
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.
I am really glad I have never listened to the naysayers on X who say changing women’s minds on culture and politics is pointless and impossible.
What many people on here don’t realize is that there is a category of female voters who are not progressive or even moderate. They are conservative Christians who simply lack equipment and courage. They spend the majority of their time unplugged from politics and only pick their head up when their lib friends throw a fit over a story.
Those women need facts, they need the truthful, compassionate, biblical counter narrative to progressive toxic empathy, and they need to know they’re not alone
These women very easily get stuck in this cycle of being confident in what they believe until their beliefs are challenged by loud, progressive bullies who morally extort them out of their position on abortion, immigration, etc
My inbox is filled to the brim with women who are asking me, “But what about this?” “But what do I say to this?”
My goal is to get women out of that cycle and into a place of complete confidence in knowing what they believe and why. I try to give them critical thinking skills so they can deduce for themselves how to answer tough questions and persuade others
Edgy bros on X have their role, but it is not persuading these women
And I have seen their minds change - over and over and over again
To others with me in that fight, keep slugging 🙏🏼