Thanks to @Eric_NeffKC for the pics of this week’s craziness. Stripped field Mon/Tues, laser graded Tues/Wed, layed grass Wed/Thurs, rolled and painted a little on Friday and finished painting today.
Shoutout to @BushTurf for all the work. Can’t thank my staff enough. The BEST!
This is one of the consequences of the “trophies-for-everyone” upbringing of the early 21st century.
Basically, children were shielded from processing emotionally challenging experiences. My theory is that their parents were the first generation that en masse went to therapy, and learned that much of their negative feelings about themselves were due to how their parents treated them. Most of these parents did the work and recovered from that experience. However, they also vowed to ensure that their own children would not be on a couch in 20 years, having to recover from these parents themselves.
And so, these parents bubble-wrapped their kids’ feelings. They didn’t want them to experience defeat (hence trophies for everyone, and not just the winners). They eliminated the experience of a kid not being a guest and not the focus at a birthday party (by making sure the departing gift bags everyone got were full of items of greater value than the present they themselves brought). They eliminated the experience of the kids working out conflicts themselves (by the teachers at the schools insisting that the kids come to them immediately when a conflict with another kid arose). They eliminated the kid experiencing the poor results of not having done the class assignments (by parents calling teachers on the kids’ behalf to get a better grade (including college, btw)).
All to say, this was child abuse. These parents handicapped these kids by not letting them process defeat, disappointment, being left out, frustration, etc as children, so they could build those coping skills. And so, now you have a whole batch of adults processing all that for the very first time, with no practice, and no muscles in those areas. Truly handicapped.
Hopefully, these now-adults will learn these lessons on their own, but that takes guts. Now you know why this batch of kids created the Victim Olympics for their present-day adult selves.
“He has been there since I was a little boy, throwing batting practice to me every day. This isn't my moment, it’s my dad’s moment."
- Freddie Freeman on running over to his dad after his walk-off grand slam home run to win Game 1 of the World Series
Kamala Harris had to have a TelePrompTer for her Oprah interview. Which means everything she said was written by someone else. 😂
D.U.M.B. as a box of rocks.
🔥🚨BREAKING: Footage has released showing President Biden and Kamala Harris being met with silence when they enter a room full of firefighters, Donald Trump walked in behind them and was met with a standing ovation.
Unrealized capital gains 101:
You bought 100 shares of Zoom stock in Jan 2020 for $75 per share
Ends year at $350 per share but you didn’t sell giving you an unrealized gain $27.5k
Under Kamala’s plan you owe $6,875 in taxes (25% of $27.5k)
But you didn’t sell so you don’t have the cash. you pay taxes out of savings
You continue to hold until August 2024. Finally sell for $60 per share
You LOST $1,500 on the stock PLUS you paid the taxes on the $27.5k of “gains” you never actually received since they evaporated
The initial tax proposal is only targeting $100M+ but that’s just the start. It opens the gates to lower the threshold whenever they choose
Before you know it every person who owns a stock is paying this tax
People stop buying stocks. Companies have less capital to invest into new products and develop technology
Economy tanks. Jobs lost
What a joyful future