Mrs. Murdersmith

♀️ Housewife with kids. Not around so much these days. In dire need of a better filter.

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

The most important lesson I learned as a teenager:

Life doesn't stop. It doesn't care how you feel about it. It doesn't care if you "can't handle it". It just keeps marching on.

By all means, complain about it....but don't expect it to care.

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

@CuriosityonX Ganymede.

[Lo-Ping @GamingAndPandas]

Hot take, but the primary function of prisons isn't rehabilitation but rather to separate convicted criminals from the rest of society.

[Pro America Politics @proamericapol]

In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 in the men's division.

So, little known and 203rd ranked men's player Karsten Braasch took them up on the challenge.

Braasch after a night of drinking and smoking with zero practice, destroyed Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.

The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.

It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't.

But, as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against.

That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with.

To even the playing field.

That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it.

[Michelle Barrett @muchtoocommon]

I don't think we should imprison them either.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

I calculated what it would cost to replace everything my wife does as a stay-at-home mom.

The answer: $131,130 a year.

Here's how I calculated that amount.

My wife genuinely loves being home with our four children. She homeschools them, manages our home, cooks for our family, gardens, and invests her life in raising our kids.

But every so often, she asks whether she should get a job to help financially.

Not because she wants a career outside the home, but because our culture can make stay-at-home mothers feel like they are not contributing unless they bring home a paycheck.

I always remind her:

“You already have a career. You work for our family.”

She may not receive a paycheck, but much of what she does saves us money we would otherwise have to earn, pay taxes on, and then spend hiring other people.

So I ran the numbers using typical rates in the Des Moines, Iowa area:

HOUSEKEEPER
12 hours/week × $20.74/hour
$12,942 per year

NANNY FOR FOUR CHILDREN
50 hours/week × $23/hour
$59,800 per year

HOMESCHOOL EDUCATOR
5 hours/day × 180 school days × $25.03/hour
$22,527 per year

PERSONAL SHOPPER
4 hours/week × $20.58/hour
$4,281 per year

PERSONAL CHEF
2 hours/day × $38.33/hour
$27,981 per year

PERSONAL GARDENER
3 hours/week × 30 weeks × $40/hour
$3,600 per year

TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPLACEMENT VALUE:
$131,130

This is not meant to be a literal salary calculation. Some responsibilities overlap, but that is part of the point: replacing what one stay-at-home mother does would require hiring several different people.

And this still does not account for sick children, overnight care, appointments, curriculum planning, discipline, emotional support, family scheduling, or the constant mental load of knowing what everyone needs.

My wife may not receive a paycheck, but she creates enormous value for our family every day.

A paycheck is not the only proof that someone is contributing.

Thank a stay-at-home mom today.

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 JUST IN: ICE has ARRESTED an illegal alien semitruck driver from India in Oklahoma, his ID said "no name given" - and ICE Director Todd Lyons is FURIOUS

"It's REALLY scary. To see that on a license? 'No name given?!' And there's a 'REAL ID' in the star in the corner!"

"I can't believe we're giving illegal aliens these driver's licenses, these sanctuary states, trying to make it 'welcome' for these people. And this is a CDL LICENSE, transporting hazardous goods, materials at times."

They are endangering the lives of Americans. Pull all funding.

[Handre @Handre]

The Cash for Clunkers program, which Congress passed in June 2009 and burned through its $3 billion budget in under two months, destroyed functional wealth on a national scale, and somehow they called it "stimulus."

The mechanics were simple: trade in a working car, receive up to $4,500 toward a new one, and watch government employees pour sodium silicate into the old engine to make it seize permanently. Around 700,000 vehicles got crushed. These were not rusted-out death traps. The eligibility rules required the trade-in to be drivable and insured. You were watching the state systematically annihilate usable capital because Keynesian demand theory told it that destruction generates recovery. Frederic Bastiat explained why this is wrong in 1850, in an essay short enough to read on your lunch break. Congress ignored it.

The ripple effect hit people the government never mentioned in its press releases. Mechanics lost repair work. Used-car dealers watched their inventory evaporate. Low-income buyers who depend on the sub-$5,000 market faced prices that jumped roughly 10% in the years after the program. Free market economists call this "seen versus unseen." Politicians only showed you the gleaming new Chevy Malibu driving off the lot. They never showed you the single mother in Akron who needed a $3,000 Corolla and found nothing affordable left on the lot.

Even the environmental justification collapsed under basic scrutiny. A 2009 study by Resources for the Future calculated that the program cost between $237 and $365 per ton of carbon dioxide reduced. The voluntary carbon credit market at the time priced a ton around $10 to $20. The government spent up to thirty times the market rate to achieve an environmental outcome the market was already pricing far more efficiently.

This is what central planning always does. It takes your money, destroys real assets, and transfers wealth from the poor to auto manufacturers and their financiers. The program's designers received awards. The Akron mother paid higher prices. The engines sat crushed in junkyards. Nobody in Washington answered for any of it.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Inviting a bunch of strangers into your home to eat your kids’ food and sleep in their bed doesn’t make you a good neighbor, it makes you a bad parent.

The same is true for governments who allow unvetted migrants flood their borders.

It’s the toxic empathy that feels good for a short time from a distance but hurts in the long run and up close.

[Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن @EveKeneinan]

"An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind."

No, it doesn't.

When tribe A starts gouging out the eyes of the men of tribe B, how do you think that ends?

It depends on what B does.

If B refuses to gouge out the eyes of tribe A in return, there's a good chance that all B will end up blind and enslaved by A.

If B does start gouging in return, them members of A might discover what B already know (thanks to A), that eye-gouging is bad, and it's a bad norm — and put a stop to it.

In other words, it seems that it is often the case that "an eye for an eye" is the best means to putting a stop to the eye-gouging cycle.

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

We spent years calling people misogynistic for saying “periods are disgusting” only to arrive at “pregnancy is gross.” Surely, this is what progress looks like.

[Fr. Cassidy Stinson @TheHappyPriest]

Look, I'm still not the kind of priest to say things like "they're putting demons in the robots," but the chainsaw-wielding black drones with eyeball horns are making it harder to argue my case

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

@ZainabSana2622 And? That isn't done anymore & a lot of men weren't even alive at a time that it was being done.

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

@filmsbylara Sometimes you should keep your thoughts & feelings to yourself for the sake of being polite. Many of my "natural responses" are rude too, but I'm an adult and have learned self control.

[bug girl @buggirl]

hating children and babies doesn’t make you edgy or cool it just kinda makes you a weird as fuck asshole. dehumanizing the most vulnerable population on earth and thinking they should be excluded from society is not the quirky take you think it is

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

@h3reallnight My son is autistic. There 3 types of autism parents:

The parent that uses the diagnosis as an excuse for everything.

The parent who is in denial/is oblivious to their child being autistic.

And the parent who tries to help their child have as many skills/tools as possible.

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

@moontruther34 All boys play a shit ton of video games. If their parents aren't setting limits, that's dumb of them.

My homeschooled son loves video games. He has a limited amount of game time per day though. Sometimes he'll do yard chores to earn extra time.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

We’ve got so many people out there going through multiple functional divorces before 35 and say they “dodged a bullet” by not getting actually married. Ma’am, the bullets are lodged in your ribs.

[Mrs. Murdersmith @Murdersmith]

@anisenot People who have never experienced severe PPD have no clue what it is like.

I thought about drowning my daughter in the washing machine. It was horrifying! And my doctor just threw pills at me & said "see you in 6 months"....pills that can make you WORSE. 🤦‍♀️

[MaryCate Delvey @marycatedelvey]

I’m INSANELY pro-death-penalty. I think we need to expand the list of crimes that qualify for rope. I think we should go back to making them public events. I have a lot of thoughts.

[Hannah Frankman Hood @HannahFrankman]

I do not think all women are meant to have children, or should.

I do not think having children is the only way to have a meaningful life (it’s not).

I do not think people who cannot have children are condemned to a sadder or emptier life.

But the older I get, the more I wonder: what is a greater use of YOUR potential than nurturing another human?

What is the point of YOUR potential if you don’t pass it on?

Everything in our biology is wired towards survival and building the future. The deepest meaning in our lives comes from fulfilling those biological directives.

No one will remember your professional work in a hundred years. But if you have children, and they have children, whole unique individual humans will be experiencing existence in a hundred years because of your work.

To me that does not seem like wasting your youth. It seems like transmuting it. It’s performing alchemy to make precious humans.

And at 70, 80, 90, what is more meaningful, looking at a resume of accomplishments or the humans you have loved and raised and who love you back?