My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43.
I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000.
He said "so save up."
I said the down payment alone is $82,000.
He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces."
I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month.
He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet.
Then he said something I didn't expect.
"I put down $3,200 on our first place. I had it saved in eight months working at the plant."
Then he just sat there for a second.
"I always thought you kids were exaggerating."
That's it. That's the whole conversation.
He wasn't being cruel. He genuinely had no idea. Nobody ever showed him the number.
Most of them aren't defending the system. They just never looked at it.
Mitch McConnell has repeatedly voted against federal paid sick leave legislation. He voted no in 1993, 2015, 2020, and 2022.
He has currently been on paid sick leave for over 7 weeks (if he is even still alive).
You dont hate politicians enough.
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who'd like to take a moment to appreciate Joe Biden while he's still with us, although he's suffering greatly from cancer.
This is one of my favorite clips of him, so compassionate and caring. Amazing guy🙏💙🙏.
Praying for you, Joe.
To me, its not even about Mitch McConnell anymore.
We have a real problem when a Senator can just disappear for six weeks with only the vaguest of explanations & the whole institution just kinda shrugs it off.
Every other job in America would fire you for this.
I don’t know who needs to hear this.
Barack Obama is not the president.
Joe Biden is not the president.
Donald Trump is the president.
Everything happening now is his fucking fault.