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US Army Veteran. Patriot. AMERICA FIRST. μολὼν λαβέ. Brain cancer research histotechnologist.

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I #rescued an injured #cat that was hiding in my garage last week. He leaves today to finish healing with his medical foster. He has many more vet visits in his future and still needs to be neutered. If you are able, please donate to this kind woman's rescue organization to help with the cost of his continued care. If you are unable to donate, please share.

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@CynicalPublius My lap is never empty.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

This survivor of the Maduro regime should be required viewing for every American and it should be played on every news station in America before anyone forms an opinion about the Venezuela op.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

I once asked a high-performer why they stayed with their company for 10 years.

​I expected them to say "the salary" or "the bonuses options."

Instead, they said:

"A few years ago, I had a family emergency. My manager didn't ask for a doctor's note. They didn't check my performance. They just said: 'Take care of your family, we’ve got your back.'"

​Retention isn't a "perk." It's a feeling.

​If you want to keep your best people in 2026, stop looking at them as "resources" and start looking at them as humans.

Perks like free snacks and fancy offices are great, but psychological safety is what keeps the lights on.

[@luphumlongcayisa @luphumlongcayis]

You have to prepare for the reality of being alone. Maybe now. Maybe later. Maybe in your old age. As your children grow, they could outgrow you, maybe because you failed them, maybe you failed to meet their expectations or maybe because life pulls them elsewhere. Spouses leave. Friends drift. Romantic partners change their minds. Such ladies and gentlemen is life.

So factor it in. Properly. Don’t build a life that collapses when people exit the frame. Learn to sit with yourself without panic.

If you don’t make peace with your own company, you will always negotiate your dignity just to avoid loneliness. And that is a far worse fate than being alone.

[@amuse @amuse]

BEING MARCO: Rubio finding out he’s got to run Iran, Venezuela, Minnesota, and Hilton…

[The Cat's Meow @TheCatsMeowInc]

Zoro has been available for adoption for over a year in #LosAngeles

This 2.10yo gentleman is all dressed up and ready to go to his #foreverhome with you

Adoption info in 2nd pic

#pets #forgottensoulshour #AdoptMe #thursdayvibes #AdoptDontShop #cats

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The “DoorDash lifestyle” is an artifact of three massive structural shifts older generations don’t see because they didn’t grow up inside them.

Let’s break the illusion.

1. The marginal cost of money changed for Gen Z

For older adults, spending thirty dollars feels like spending thirty dollars.

For kids today, the psychological cost is closer to:

“three microtransactions worth of friction”

Because their financial environment is built on:
•instant digital payments
•low-commitment gig incomes
•parents transferring money fluidly
•side hustles paid in irregular small bursts
•stimulus-era normalization of cash flow volatility

Teenagers today often have:
•$30 now
•$0 tomorrow
•$50 on Friday
•$15 in crypto
•$70 in Cash App from someone they did homework for
•a $20 Venmo from grandma
•$60 from a weekend shift

There is no “budget.”
There is flow.

And in a flow economy, a $30 DoorDash order is not a “luxury”.
It is just another digital outflow in a stream of constant micro inflows.

2. Consumption is now social currency

Older generations spent money to solve problems.

Gen Z spends money to signal identity, reduce friction, and avoid emotional drag.

DoorDash is not about food.

It is about:
•eliminating effort
•eliminating planning
•eliminating discomfort
•eliminating logistics
•eliminating decision fatigue

This generation pays premiums to remove negative psychic load.

Food delivery is an anxiety-management subscription.

And they learned this from:
•Amazon Prime
•Uber
•TikTok dopamine tuning
•frictionless apps
•the collapse of effort-based value signals

Convenience is the default baseline now.

3. The middle class collapsed, but lifestyle costs decoupled from income

This is the part most boomers and Gen X don’t understand.

Kids aren’t behaving like they’re poor.
They’re behaving like people living in a post-middle-class economy where:
•ownership is dead
•savings are pointless
•buying a home is impossible
•college is a debt sentence
•inflation destroys the dollar
•wages do not map to adult milestones
•upward mobility is gone

So what happens?

They shift to a present-maximization mindset.

If the future is unaffordable anyway,
why not buy the burrito now?

Younger people are not reckless.
They are rational inside a broken incentive system.

The real truth

DoorDash is a symptom.

A society where:
•future stability is gone
•wages stagnate
•housing is unattainable
•attention is fragmented
•convenience is normalized
•friction feels archaic
•everything is mediated digitally

…will produce kids who treat $30 like a tap on a screen, not a financial decision.

They’re not “funding a lifestyle.”

They’re surviving inside the economy they were handed.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

The definition of righteous anger.

If anyone can find me this woman's contact information, I'm going to buy her a brand new smile for Christmas.

I'm not joking.

Nobody will ever tease her about her appearance again as she tries to make an honest living.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Too many MAGAs think Trump is the Government Fairy and can wave his magic wand, making everything you want happen all at once.

Those idiotic people are disappointed that in less than a year Trump has been unable to fully achieve one or more pet objectives of theirs, and they say stupid stuff like "I'm not voting in the mid-terms."

The Constitutional powers of the President are limited by design. Moreover, Trump faces unique challenges in an intransigent Deep State and an array of rogue judges, neither of which any other President has faced at this scale.

Nevertheless, in less than a year Trump has kept more of his campaign promises than any other President since FDR.

Some of you people need to wise up. There is no Government Fairy. It's a hard slog, and we're winning--unless YOU mess it up, Doomsters. Don't mess it up.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

As a general rule, Americans demand freedom and are willing to accept a loss of comfort as a result.

As a general rule, Europeans demand comfort and are willing to accept a loss of freedom as a result.

Americans are like wild animals.

Europeans are like domesticated animals.

We are not the same.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

X is currently full of Europeans trying to tell Americans how much better life in Europe is.

One of the constant refrains is "Our government makes sure we get XX days of vacation yearly."

Euros do not realize that is not the flex they think it is.

To us Americans it reeks of indolence, explains why worker productivity is so much lower in Europe, and it kinda pisses us off because that indolence was paid for by 80 years of American taxpayers' money defending their right to be indolent.

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@CynicalPublius Maine C00ns are very attached to their owners. Mine overgrooms and is completely matted when I return from an extended time away (3 days lol).

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@AJamesMcCarthy Starve.

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@DataRepublican Hopefully they performed the PU surgery. If not, get it done because he will continue getting blocked. Also, cats with this problem need to be on a very specific diet. I highly recommend @youngagainpets mature formula. Good luck!

[EBT of TikTok @EBTofTikTok]

Woman tells EBT recipients to stop buying “windshield lashes” this month so they can take care of their “raggedy ass kids.”

[David Santa Carla 🦇 @TheOnlyDSC]

There’s a civil war on TikTok that has working blacks attacking EBT blacks and I am here for it!

[Maddie Evans @EstieMaddie]

WOW 🤯 JUST WOW!!!!! 🤩

If you watch ONE VIDEO today about the SNAP and EBT issue, watch this one! 💪🏼

“Now you threatening us??? … talking about STEALING? You’ve BEEN STEALING HOE!!!”

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

This woman’s message to snap and EBT recipients who say they are gonna go rob and loot grocery stores is absolutely on point!

She said it perfectly!

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

The "Food Stamp" program changed when they switched from physical stamps to EBT cards that are to look like credit/debit cards issued by banks.

There was a social stigma attached to having to pull out books of stamps and hand them over to the cashier. They did not resemble cash and the person using them knew everyone around could see. The stigma was motivation to find a job -- or a second job -- and get off welfare.

Right or wrong -- there is no doubt that a segment of the working poor (along with lazy freeloaders) relied on food stamps to survive. That's why they were part of the social safety net.

BUT, when the payment system took on a form that was indistinguishable from everyone else in line at the grocery store, that stigma was lost.

And the food stamp program has done nothing but grow every since.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Are those Nazi salutes?