Zach Davis

Engineer/entrepreneur. SMB owner

#SMB acquired in 2020 and going strong

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@ConnorAbene Wrong

[Ragin' Cajun @Ragin_Cajun79]

I am not a jingoist by any stretch of the word. Moreover, my daughter is on the USS Lincoln as we speak. I have skin in this game.

I have read (and heard) a lot of BS about whether or not we should be in Iran.

Let me be clear... I've been a SME on Iran for 25÷ years. I speak Persian Farsi, Dari, Balochi, and Tajik. I've been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and yes... Iran. There are few who know Iran as "intimately" as I do.

The reasons for this war are nuanced and complicated, but one thing is clear as day... the Iranian people (by and large) are good people and they just want to have the same liberty and freedom we have. Their women and girls want to be able to go out into public without having to fear if they'll be arrested and beaten (or even killed) by the "Virtue Police".

If you cannot see that, and you cannot support the liberation of a people that have been brutally oppressed for 47+ years... then you have no humanity and you and I are not the same.

Our past with Iran is not a good one (Operation Ajax or Iran Contra)... but a vast majority of the Iranians (and Americans) today have no idea why the relationship between our two countries soured in the first place. A vast majority of Iranians have only ever known abject tyranny and Islamic brutally... they love America.

I will not debate this with anyone.

Either get on team America and support the liberation of a brutalized people... or STFU and continue to wallow in your miserable hypocrisy and enjoy freedom you never had to earn or fight for.

God Bless America.

God Bless our Men and Women in Uniform.

I said what I said.

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[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I need to get something off my chest because I'm genuinely LIVID right now.

I feed a family of SIX on approximately $120-130 PER WEEK. All fresh produce. Homemade meals every single day. Chicken Caesar salad, pasta with homemade tomato sauce, chicken tacos with fresh lettuce and tomatoes, the whole nine yards. Dinners run roughly $1.25-1.75 per person. Lunches? FREE because we eat leftovers like responsible adults.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, SNAP pays a family my size around $1,421 PER MONTH. My ENTIRE food budget runs about $520-560 monthly, and we recently INCREASED our spending after refinancing. We were even tighter before that.

Let me do some math that apparently nobody in government has bothered to do. SNAP recipients in my state are getting roughly $900 MORE per month than what my family actually SPENDS feeding six people REAL FOOD. Fresh vegetables every day. Chicken prepared seven different ways throughout the week. Fresh fruit for breakfast. Homemade everything.

When did "Supplemental Nutrition ASSISTANCE Program" become "Here's Almost Triple What Middle-Class Families Budget For Groceries" Program? The word SUPPLEMENTAL means to ADD TO something existing, not to provide MORE than families who work full-time and budget carefully can afford for themselves.

My kids don't know what steak tastes like. We shop at Aldi. We plan meals around what's on sale. We make chicken hotdish on Saturday specifically so we have two days of lunches covered. That's called BUDGETING. That's called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. And apparently, that's called BEING A SUCKER because if I just quit my job and went on SNAP, my family would eat BETTER than we do now.

This isn't assistance. This is WEALTH TRANSFER disguised as compassion. Quinn's 25th Law of Liberalism nails it: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money."

The 45 Communist Goals for America read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 included Goal #32: "Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture." Creating permanent dependency through overly generous government programs that exceed what working families provide for themselves? That's not a bug, that's the FEATURE. Keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises to keep the gravy train rolling.

Look, I'm SYMPATHETIC to struggling families. I really am. I worked my way through poverty and I know what it's like to stretch every dollar until it screams. But there's a difference between a hand UP and a hand OUT that becomes a hand AROUND YOUR THROAT.

So here's my proposal, since I'm not one to complain without offering a solution:

Partner with Aldi or similar discount grocers. Create THREE standardized weekly meal plans that feed families nutritiously for what food ACTUALLY COSTS when you're not buying lobster and energy drinks with EBT cards. Each week, recipients pick their meal plan and either pick up pre-boxed ingredients with printed recipes, or get them delivered.

Here's what a REAL week looks like at my house:

MONDAY: Chicken Caesar Salad with garlic bread - $1.65/person
TUESDAY: Chicken pasta with homemade sauce, fresh broccoli and cucumber - $1.40/person
WEDNESDAY: Creamy spinach chicken with fresh side salad - $1.50/person
THURSDAY: Chicken scampi with bowties and steamed broccoli - $1.47/person
FRIDAY: Chicken taco night with fresh everything - $1.65/person
SATURDAY: Chicken hotdish (feeds Saturday dinner AND two days of lunches) - $1.75/person
SUNDAY: Roasted chicken drumsticks with fresh vegetables - $1.60/person
(I have the full breakdown if you need it)

Breakfasts are English muffins, eggs, cereal, fresh fruit. REAL FOOD.

Recipients want free food? Fine. They get A CHOICE among meal plans, not unlimited choices to buy whatever catches their eye. You know what the military dining facility gives you? WHAT THEY SERVE. You show up, eat what's prepared, and say thank you. That's how assistance works when you're not trying to create a permanent dependent class.

Here's what makes my proposal DIFFERENT from every other welfare reform idea though: it's built on EDUCATION, not dependency.

Every box comes with printed recipes and step-by-step instructions. Families aren't just getting food, they're learning HOW TO COOK. They're learning what healthy portions actually look like. They're discovering that fresh vegetables aren't scary and that chicken can be prepared a dozen ways without a deep fryer. Kids watch their parents cook real meals and pick up skills they'll carry for the rest of their lives.

More importantly, families learn HOW TO BUDGET. When you see exactly what ingredients feed a family of six for a week, you start understanding what food ACTUALLY costs. You learn that meal planning isn't some middle-class luxury, it's how responsible adults have fed families for generations. When you're ready to transition OFF the program, you have the SKILLS to do it. You know how to shop at Aldi. You know how to stretch a whole chicken across multiple meals. You know that homemade pasta sauce costs pennies compared to that jarred garbage.

THIS is how you break the cycle. Not by handing people money and hoping they figure it out, but by TEACHING them the skills that self-sufficient families have always used. The current system WANTS people to stay dependent. My system is designed to make itself OBSOLETE by creating competent, capable families who don't NEED government assistance anymore.

And here's the part that should make fiscal conservatives AND bleeding-heart liberals agree: this new SNAP system could actually SAVE MEDICAID.

Think about it. What's driving Medicaid costs through the roof? Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. These are conditions directly linked to poor diet. When SNAP recipients can buy unlimited soda, chips, candy, and processed garbage, guess who pays for the resulting health crisis? MEDICAID. Which means TAXPAYERS.

With my meal box system, families eat fresh vegetables every single day. Lean protein. Whole grains. The kinds of foods that PREVENT the chronic diseases bankrupting our healthcare system. Kids growing up on these meals don't develop childhood obesity. They don't get Type 2 diabetes at fifteen. They don't need expensive medications and hospital visits that Medicaid covers.

You want to cut Medicaid spending? Start by not CREATING the health problems Medicaid has to treat. Every dollar spent on fresh broccoli in a meal box is a dollar NOT spent on insulin, dialysis, and heart surgery twenty years from now. This isn't complicated math, but apparently nobody in government connects these dots.

The current system CREATES sick people and then PAYS to treat them. My system creates HEALTHY families who don't need either program eventually. But that would mean fewer government employees, fewer dependent voters, and fewer excuses for expanding bureaucracy. Can't have that now, can we?

This approach eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse because there's nothing PROFITABLE to sell. You can't trade meal kit boxes for cash. You can't buy cigarettes with pre-portioned chicken breasts. And here's the compassionate part nobody wants to acknowledge: it takes STRESS off these families. No more agonizing over what to buy, what to cook, how to stretch dollars they're not stretching anyway. Just pick Plan A, B, or C, get your weekly box, follow the recipes, feed your family.

But this will NEVER happen because the current system isn't DESIGNED to help people become self-sufficient. It's designed to keep them dependent, voting for whoever promises to maintain their benefits.

SNAP benefits currently average $8.2 BILLION per month nationally. That's not assistance, that's an INDUSTRY. An industry that employs social workers, bureaucrats, and politicians who need the poor to stay poor so they can keep their jobs "helping" them.

I'm a teacher in a high-need, high-risk district where ALL of my students get FREE lunches at school. And here's the kicker that should make every SNAP defender's head explode: my family is DEBT FREE except for our mortgage. Single income. Teacher's salary. Stay-at-home mom raising four kids. We're not trust fund babies. We're not secretly rich. We BUDGET. We SACRIFICE. We make CHOICES.

And we do it on LESS than what SNAP hands out.

Let me say that again for the folks in the back: a family of six living on ONE teacher's salary with a stay-at-home mom, completely debt-free, spends LESS on food than what government assistance provides. This is DOABLE on a single salary if you're not buying garbage and actually cooking real meals.

I SEE the results of this broken system every day in my classroom. These aren't bad kids or bad families. They're trapped in a system designed to keep them exactly where they are. Generation after generation, dependent on government, voting for whoever promises more, never building the skills or habits that lead to actual prosperity.

Meanwhile, my family eats fresh chicken seven nights a week on a budget HALF what SNAP provides, and somehow WE'RE the ones who are supposed to feel guilty for questioning where all that money goes.

Quinn's First Law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." SNAP was supposed to SUPPLEMENT nutrition assistance, not REPLACE personal responsibility with government dependency. Mission accomplished in reverse, as usual.

#SNAP #FoodStamps #WasteFraudAbuse #TaxpayerMoney #PersonalResponsibility #WelfareReform #MAGA #Trump #Democrats #Liberals #Progressive #WelfareState #GovernmentDependency #BudgetingWorks #AldiForTheWin #FeedYourFamily #RealFood #TaxpayersUnite #BreakingNews #Viral #MedicaidReform #HealthyEating #TeachDontHandout

But what do I know, I'm just a taxpayer who feeds his family on half what the government hands out and has the audacity to notice the math doesn't add up.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@WallStreetApes Those are not B2s...

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

It is far easier to condone your privilege than to live up to the responsibility of using that privilege to its fullest potential

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

We need 100x more conversations like this in our society! Opposing views respectfully discussing their opinions.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

What does it mean to be an American? The Chris Cuomo debate.

(0:00) Chris Cuomo Admits Tucker Was Right
(8:46) Joe Rogan Changing the Media Landscape
(16:56) Andrew Cuomo vs. Eric Adams
(20:34) How Do We Fix New York?
(30:41) Debating Transgenderism
(42:44) Who Killed JFK?
(47:16) The Epstein Files
(54:03) What Are UFOs?
(56:45) Bill Barr’s Involvement in the Epstein Cover-Up
(59:51) Debating Elon Musk and DOGE
(1:10:36) End NATO?
(1:24:21) Is Ukraine Selling American Weapons on the Black Market?
(1:33:38) How Should Trump Handle the War?
(1:41:08) Billionaires and Mega Corporations Controlling Governments
(1:46:36) Debating Immigration
(1:55:32) DEI Is Destroying What It Means to Be an American
(2:07:51) Transhumanism vs. Christianity
(2:11:45) Is Trump More Divisive or Uniting?
(2:24:39) Debating Abortion
(2:29:51) Debating Freedom of Speech

Includes paid partnerships.

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

If you think the federal government should tax the rich more there is nothing stopping you from issuing a surplus payment to the IRS. I can guarantee they won't audit and insist you take it back. It's far easier to insist the law must change before you contribute your share...

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@profgalloway I've been a long time listener and appreciate the contrarian liberal perspective. Unfortunately, the TDS and EDS have reached such an extreme level, combined with the absurd claim of being a "moderate" that the podcast is unbearable. Let's stop virtue signaling.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth posting again lol

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@mostlypeaceful @Jason can you guys please cover this. What on earth...

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@mostlypeaceful This is unimaginably cringe

[Jamel Holley @jamelholley]

I encourage you to listen to this message from @RobertKennedyJr regarding the foods you eat!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United States.

Would be a shame if it went viral.

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@elonmusk #hackedagain

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The origin of the word “slave” is slav, which referred to white people taken as slaves

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@elonmusk Do you believe we have been to the moon?

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@ShaanVP time for a "who's playing the hardest game" contest. The pod needs to recalibrate from continuous fantasizing over the best models. I'll go first!@Myfirstmilly

[Zach Davis @ExZachDly]

@sbabmarks What do current terms look like for calculating DSCR? 10% down, 11% fixed for 7, 15yr amortization?

[Jason H. Karp @humankarp]

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