If your employer hasn't increased your pay by at least 16% since the beginning of 2020, you got a pay cut.
If you got a 17% raise, it's really a 1% raise at this point.
When I was a kid, everyone told me that when I grew up and started seeing taxes being taken out of my check, I would get more conservative but the opposite has happened because I look at my paycheck and I’m like “I pay this much in taxes just for people to be unhoused and unfed?“
The dedication and trust with which my parents watch Tucker Carlson is alarming. I had to go to my room because I was laughing about how absurd his claims and speculations were and they were hanging on his every word.
When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.