The math DOESN’T work anymore, and if one more out-of-touch guru tells a struggling worker to cut out their morning coffee to buy a house, I’m going to LOSE MY MIND.
As a financial literacy advocate, with ten years in the trenches, I am SICK of watching hard-working people get gaslit into believing their financial ruin is their own fault because they bought a $5 avocado toast.
When entry-level jobs pay $18 an hour, netting you a pathetic $2,600 a month, while basic survival demands $3,500 just to keep the lights on, a budget isn't a financial tool anymore, it's a starvation manual.
You cannot "Dave Ramsey" your way out of a BROKEN SYSTEM where housing, healthcare, and groceries have completely outpaced wages.
Sometimes the brutal, undeniable truth is that the math is flat out rigged, and no amount of coupon clipping is going to save you when the income literally doesn't even cover the cost of being ALIVE.
@enemyofsymmetry My dude I’m on your side on all this. I think most of America had woken up to the clear corruption of elites, government, big corps, and most certainly Israel.
Republicans are going to have a terrible night, and the simple reason why is that Trump has put up perhaps the worst *performance* this term of any president in a century or more.
Remember that he entered with an actual mandate: the House and Senate, a popular vote victory and a swing-state sweep, and 6-3 Supreme Court. Democrats were afraid enough to vote for mild but real immigration restrictionist legislation in the Laken Riley Act. Everyone wondered how far the "Vibe Shift" would go.
Trump managed to turn that into essentially zero durable wins whatsoever. He personally *hates* the very idea of legislation, the notion that he would have to spend time going back and forth with Congress, learning details and making compromises. So he simply didn't do it! He didn't make a compelling case for abolishing the filibuster. He didn't try communicating clearly to the public in support of popular bills to get to 60 votes. He just decided not to do it at all.
So they passed an unpopular tax cut, some funding for ICE, and a sop to the crypto industry, and that was basically it. Least productive Congress in decades, due to the tastes of one man.
Trump adopted one of the worst macro policies we've ever had: high deficits, high tariffs, and attacks on central bank independence. We managed to pay higher interest rates while still having high trade deficits AND weakening the dollar. Just a total failure.
On immigration, perhaps THE signature issue, Trump essentially min-maxxed effectiveness and backlash. Instead of trying to leverage the political moment for new laws and a self-deportation agenda (that is, walling off the economy to remove the benefit of irregular presence in the US), he opted for a maximally aggressive approach. The administration spent attention, funds, legal manpower on stunts like deporting random people to Salvadoran prisons with essentially no due process. ICE and Border Patrol were encouraged to be aggressive and confrontational, which helped contribute to the shooting deaths of American protestors. It turns out, that's extremely unpopular!
What about the approach of going after employers? The obvious vector? Trump hated that idea! He repeatedly has said he doesn't want to target businesses (especially farms) that use large amounts of illegal labor. This is just an incomprehensible position. Instead of charging a few dozen businessmen and removing the incentive for millions of illegal workers to be here, you arrest people off the street one by one at the cost of thousands of dollars in manpower per each, while their crying wives and kids post TikToks about it.
Upshot on immigration: electoral strength turned into a crippling electoral weakness in exchange for deporting maybe 6% of the illegally present population.
The tariffs were a total shitshow. Embarrassing rollout, no underlying theory of action at all. No targeted focus on key industries. Our country tariffed products we can't grow. We tariffed *inputs* of our own valuable exports. The schemes and amounts changed constantly, sending the stock market reeling and presenting scenes of chaos to the world.
Trump's messaging throughout has been generationally bad. While facing nearly 2:1 unpopularity, he spends his days posting AI slop, saying he'll rename New Mexico or invade allies, among other bizarre remarks. He brags about a ballroom and a pool repainting while gas hits records. At no point has he ever attempted any kind of message discipline.
Then there are the deeply unpopular attacks on rule of law, his "game-recognize-game" pardons for all manner of scammers and criminals, the crypto schemes that he and his family engage in, the evilly conceived and embarrassingly executed legal attacks on Comey, Jerome Powell, and others. With his monthslong stand on NOT releasing the Epstein files, he became maybe the first president ever to stake out a 99-1 issue on the 1% side.
That's not even getting into Iran, DOGE, his candidate recruitment choices, or countless other things. Simply put: Trump has managed to royally screw up virtually every single facet of his presidency. It's been undeniable, voters have noticed, and there's really no escape from it. This is what the GOP base chose in early 2024, and this is the world they're living with now. Where they handed the reins of history to a fat, vain, washed-up old man and let him drive.
This young man speaks and sounds like 70% of Americans. The fact congress can't even agree on daylight savings time means we are cooked. They don't work for us, they work on behalf of themselves and lining their own pockets. America has been sold out from within. Enjoy the ride, its gonna get worse
With the cost of living being absolutely ridiculous these days, staying home and enjoying your own space is a luxury AF.
A fully stocked fridge, a comfortable temperature, your favorite snacks, a cozy couch, no bills waiting at the door, and a few good streaming options.
No crowds, no reservations, no pressure to spend money just to have a good time.
Sometimes the real definition of being rich is being able to relax in your own home, have everything you need, and enjoy a little peace.
Honestly, that sounds like a pretty perfect life. ❤️
Tucker Carlson just declared in no uncertain terms:
“There will be a third party.”
“The majority will get its way.”
“Most people are opposed to … the Republican and Democratic parties.”
“We need an alternative.”
This is why we’re building a new party movement to take back our country on behalf of We The People.
And we’re building it from the ground up, not the top down.
This new party cannot be built by the same elites who gave us the crisis we’re currently in.
Skyrocketing costs of living.
Record levels of chronic disease.
Mass surveillance.
Endless wars.
Instead of relying on the same elites who got us here, we’re building a whole new kind of movement.
We are recruiting candidates across the country to run in local elections and fight back in our own communities.
Why?
Because that is the only proven way we can win.
Local organizing is how We The People successfully cancelled Flock surveillance contracts in communities across the country.
Local organizing is how We The People successfully shut down data centers in communities across the country.
Local organizing is how medical freedom fighters successfully banned almost all mandates in Idaho.
Our principles are simple:
We are anti-corruption.
Anti-mandates.
Anti-corporate monopolies.
Anti-money in politics.
Anti-war.
Pro-decentralization.
Pro-transparency.
Pro-accountability.
Join us.
@TuckerCarlson
A man who genuinely understands women... will never fall in love again.
Never.
Because once you truly see women, not the fantasy, not the filters, but the raw female nature underneath, something inside you dies quietly.
You stop romanticizing words.
You start watching behavior.
And behavior rarely lies.
You realize love, for most women, isn't about you.
It's about how you make them feel.
The moment those feelings fade, so does their loyalty.
You learn that her "forever" has an expiration date, and it ends when her emotions shift.
You start noticing patterns.
The same words.
The same moves.
Different faces.
Same game.
You realize women don't love men.
They love the experience of being in love.
And when that experience ends, they leave — mentally or physically.
That's when the man wakes up.
His heart hardens.
Not out of bitterness, but out of understanding.
He doesn't hate women.
He just knows the cost of loving one blindly.
And he refuses to pay that price again.