Erin Kelley

Professional jack-of-all, amateur of some.
Libertarian heart. Opinions 100% mine.🛩️💻🏋️‍♀️ 🏈 . 🇺🇸 🏖️

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

The squeeze is real. “Policing the narrative” won’t pay a grocery bill.

This didn’t start when the other team took the White House. Both parties spent, printed, zoned, and regulated prices up, then showed up every cycle to say only they can fix it. Government keeps feeding the cost crisis and campaigning on the pain.

Trust is the actual problem. The people preaching affordability don’t shop the same aisles, carry the same insurance, or live on the same wages. A TV host telling the country who feels it is the tell. If they lived it, they wouldn’t need a segment to explain it.

[Chili's Grill & Bar @Chilis]

NOT AT CHILI’S BABY

10.99 for a burger with fries, bottomless chips and salsa and unlimited drink.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

"Semester one didn’t go as planned and you’re moving back home?"Here’s the deal: This is a pivot, not a failure. Dropping out or pausing saves thousands over forcing a bad fit. But action cures anxiety. Couch-rotting will mess with your head. Treat home like a launchpad, not a landing pad.

​The "Roommate" Rules:
(1) ​8:30 AM Wake-Up: No sleeping till noon. Keep your brain in game mode.

​(2) The 40-Hour Rule: You need a full-time mix of community college classes + a job.

(3) ​Skin in the Game: Work + school = free rent + total ownership of household chores. Work only = pay $500/mo room & board (and maybe secretly set aside to give them later as warranted)

(4) Adult Courtesy: No curfews, but clean up after yourself and text if you’re missing dinner.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Honestly, seeing it play out in real life. I’ve known way too many people who refused to settle, got a second opinion, and literally saved their lives (not to mention their wallets). Between avoiding unnecessary, expensive procedures and dodging massive insurance coverage nightmares for treatments that weren't even right for them, it’s a game-changer.

Having a brother who’s an ER doctor helps, too! He’s 100% on board and always reminds me that no good doctor lets ego get in the way of patient care. If they balk, walk.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Imagine telling someone in 1970 that by 2026 you’d need six figures just to buy a modest house in many places. They’d be shocked—until you explained 56 years of inflation.

Now imagine telling them something stranger: that the federal government would eventually spend more than $7 trillion a year, carry more than $40 trillion in debt, and that housing, healthcare, and higher education—three areas subjected to enormous government spending, subsidies, regulation, and intervention—would still be among the biggest affordability complaints.

But perhaps most shocking would be telling them that after all that spending, debt, and rising costs, the central planners never lost faith in their policies. Every failure merely became evidence that they hadn’t intervened enough.

Government became vastly more expensive while promising to make life less expensive—and somehow the prescription remained more government.

[Jack @jackunheard]

I think instead of handing out $5,000 checks...

We should abolish income tax and property taxes.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Primary bedroom used to be master. Situationship used to be FWB. Unhoused used to be homeless. Unalived used to be dead. Bro used to be a bodybuilder, not every single stranger you meet.

​Primary is master. Situationship is FWB. Unhoused is homeless. Unalived is dead. Bro means "I don’t know your name."

​They rebranded the dictionary and called it progress

[Tim Sharp 🍊 🍊 🇺🇸 @realtimsharp]

I don’t think the libertarian party is the key to saving America. I think libertarian ideology is.

[Martha Bueno @BuenoForMiami]

Voting in America is like choosing between Pepsi and Coke, except both cans are diarrhea water in colorful packaging.

Red or blue doesn’t matter—you still get more inflation, more wars, more surveillance, and less freedom. Welcome to the American political system.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Agree. The no-public-funds part matters, but it’s bigger than that. Leave people alone on this, whatever you personally believe. You do you. Plenty of independents out here who sit in the middle and are fine with making the best decision for you and your family. Keep the government out of it.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

We don’t agree on much in policy, but sports is where bipartisanship still shows up. Good to see you backing a hometown team. Tried-and-true Broncos fan, so I wanted Denver to win. Still have respect for Kyle. His dad coached the Broncos, and that sticks with me. And as a part-time Arizonan, it’s good to see our hometown boy Purdy leading them. Congrats to Kyle on 167.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Zero overrides means they didn’t have the votes. It doesn’t prove they never tried. Getting to two-thirds means Democrats have to vote to override their own governor, and that is a hard ask on elections, school records, and sex-offender notice.

Passing the bills still does something. It puts those 541 vetoes on the record so voters can decide if they want a governor who will sign them. Building a coalition matters. So does showing people what was blocked.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Some of this is accurate. Some is not. What gets to me about our leaders is that listing problems is not a plan. Either party can propose the fix: end the strikes with a vote, cut the tariffs raising prices, and stop the debt from compounding. Stating the damage without a solution is futile.

Holds Up:
-Inflation was not stopped. It fell to about 2.3% in 2025, then rose to 3.4%. Core is 2.5%.
-Debt was not reduced. About $36.2 trillion at the end of 2024, $40.3 trillion now.
-Energy jumped: up 16.3%, gasoline up 27.4%.
-Diesel hit a record, past the 2022 peak.
The 30-year mortgage rate is 7.28%, highest since November 2023.
-No new arrests matching the lines on Epstein’s associates, a stolen election, the Russia investigation, or Hillary Clinton.

Does Not Hold Up:
-Unauthorized is not the same as illegal. Courts have not ruled the Iran strikes illegal.
-“No economic policy except debt” skips the 2025 tax-and-spending law. Debt rose under it, as it has under every recent president.
-“Better on every metric in 2024” is false.
-Unemployment is 4.2%, about where it was. Growth is slower but still positive.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Those costs are real. A party scorecard is not a fix.

The Iran strikes were unauthorized, not adjudicated illegal. Presidents of both parties have used force without a new authorization, and this Congress has voted repeatedly without producing an order the White House followed. Gas and energy jumped after the February strikes. Inflation also hit 9.1% under Biden, with gas over $5 in 2022. SNAP is down more than 5 million under a Republican law Democrats never replaced. Tariffs are a tax of about $1,100 a household.

End the strikes with a vote. Cut the tariffs that raise prices. Fix SNAP so ineligible cases come off and eligible families stay on. Talk from either party is not that.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

Arizona’s elections are run by county recorders, not by a union GOTV rally. Maricopa Recorder Justin Heap says your office has not passed along federal felony-conviction reports for multiple quarters, even though DOJ confirmed the reports exist, so counties cannot cancel registrations the law requires them to cancel. You called that gap “de minimis” and blamed Washington. Separately, you have refused federal review of the rolls for noncitizens, while Maricopa’s county attorney has already identified noncitizens who cast ballots. Arizonans decide the election only if the rolls are clean. That is your job. A slogan at a carpenters’ rally is not.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

@RandyGoat This is a huge issue. The last time the budget was not in deficit was under Clinton. Americans need to back candidates who will not keep adding to it and who will actually make strides to fix it, regardless of party.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

@EricSpracklen Yes. A few bucks goes a long way for the people actually making it. But ask first whether the employees get it, and make sure it isn’t ending up in a jar, a screen prompt, or a manager’s pocket.

[Erin Kelley @FlyGalAZ_1]

@skumWgmi USPS already has the monopoly and still lost $9 billion last year. A stamp is 82 cents and rising. Private carriers do not raise prices by existing. They compete, which is the thing USPS is legally shielded from. The $15 letter is a scare line, not a market.