River T

The dude abides

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

I will have a Team USA Jack Hughes jersey behind the seat at my desk for the rest of time. What an incredible description of how every USA hockey fan felt

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

What an absolutely iconic photo.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is a quiet admission that the system no longer works for a growing share of the population.

1.The labor market is cannibalizing human capacity

An economy should convert effort into stability.

This one converts effort into exhaustion.

When millions of people stack jobs just to stay solvent, the economy is feeding on human time the way a failing engine burns oil to keep running.

It looks functional.
It sounds busy.
It is hollowing itself out.

Every additional job layered onto a person is a signal that the first job failed its purpose.

2.This is disguised wage repression, not resilience

If wages had tracked productivity, housing, healthcare, and education, this chart would not exist.

Instead:
•real wages lag
•fixed costs ratchet upward
•corporate margins stay protected
•labor absorbs the shock

Multiple jobholding is how the system externalizes its own imbalance onto people’s lives.

The economy did not solve inflation.
It reassigned it.

3.This is why anger is rising without a single obvious trigger

People sense something is wrong but cannot point to one villain.

There is no crash.
No sudden collapse.
No dramatic unemployment spike.

Just:
•permanent time scarcity
•constant financial anxiety
•no recovery feeling
•no progress sensation
•no future clarity

This produces resentment without relief.

That is the most politically dangerous emotional state a society can enter.

4.This marks the transition from prosperity economics to endurance economics

Past generations optimized for growth.
This generation optimizes for survival.

Indicators:
•careers replaced by income mosaics
•loyalty replaced by optionality
•identity separated from work
•planning horizons collapse
•burnout becomes default

When people stop believing effort leads to security, they stop believing in the system itself.

5.This cannot be fixed with rate cuts or stimulus checks

Liquidity does not repair broken cost structures.
Growth does not heal distribution failures.
Strong GDP does not offset personal insolvency.

The pressure is structural.

Housing.
Healthcare.
Education.
Energy.
Insurance.

Until those stop behaving like rent extractions rather than services, this trend only accelerates.

The real truth

This chart is the sound of a society grinding itself forward by consuming its own people.

Not dramatically.
Not violently.
Quietly.

People are giving more hours, more energy, more life force for less security in return.

That bargain can persist for a while.
It always does.

Then one day it snaps, not because people stopped working, but because they finally stop believing the work means anything.

That is where this is heading.

Slowly.
Predictably.
Relentlessly.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

We built the Golden Gate Bridge in about four years during the Great Depression. It was built under budget, ahead of schedule, without AI or computer modeling.

Meanwhile the Francis Scott Key bridge that collapsed in Baltimore in 2024 isn’t set to be rebuilt till 2030 at least.

[River T @rivertorbett]

@kevinsheehanDC This team sucks, Kevin.

[Rick Doc Walker @RickDocWalker]

Now let’s go three tight ends and bloody their noses. Let’s beat the living dog manure out of them.😤

[Kevin Sheehan @kevinsheehanDC]

Defense is truly horrible. Feels like a moment where a move is made.

Jayden wasn’t great before he got hurt but with that said, they have no chance to have a good season if he’s in and out of the lineup.

#Commanders

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Democratic Primary Debate:

“Raise your hand if your government plan would provide health insurance for undocumented immigrants.”

*everyone raises hand*

[Camus @newstart_2024]

RFK Jr.'s 2005 interview with Jon Stewart was a bold stand for truth, exposing ABC's censorship of the mercury-vaccine-autism link. His relentless advocacy for kids with autism shines through, fighting Big Pharma's cover-ups.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Some 40-70% of mothers who have children with autism believe that their child was injured by a vaccine. President Trump believes that we should be listening to these mothers instead of gaslighting and marginalizing them like prior administrations.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

You are the media now

[River T @rivertorbett]

@kevinsheehanDC Kev, we need some picks!

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era. My dear friend Charlie Kirk was our country's relentless and courageous crusader for free speech. We pray for Erika and the children. Charlie is already in paradise with the angels. We ask his prayers for our country.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The “American Dream” became the American Debt Trap.

Cost to buy a home has exploded past $2,600/mo while rent sits ~$1,800. You’re not “building equity” .. you’re renting money from banks, chained to 30 years of interest payments + taxes.

You don’t own your house. The bank does until you finish paying, and the government does forever through property tax.

Bitcoin flips the script: no bank, no landlord, no state. Just self-sovereign ownership.

The house bleeds you. Bitcoin frees you.

#Bitcoin

[River T @rivertorbett]

@tailopez Satoshi is stacking Sats, respect.

[spiked @spikedonline]

‘I sense a growing popular rage over immigration. The UK is a democracy. So why is the biggest change that is happening in our lifetimes being done without anyone’s say? People vote for parties who say they’ll stop it – and then they don’t’

Lionel Shriver on immigration:

[River T @rivertorbett]

https://t.co/cZsONyptWR

[Parallæx @EdgeOfFiRa]

This is what happens when technological acceleration outpaces human adaptation timelines.

We built a society that promised "learn valuable skills, work hard, succeed" then introduced technology that makes skills obsolete faster than humans can acquire them. It's a systems failure disguised as individual responsibility.

The cruelest part: we're telling 20-somethings to "embrace lifelong learning" while creating conditions where learning can't keep pace with change. Previous generations got to master trades that lasted decades.

These kids are trying to build careers on quicksand.

We've made career anxiety a permanent feature of modern life.

-- RT & Follow for signal over noise --

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

The problem is that conservatives, whether in the US or in the UK or any country, are generally nowhere near as passionate about preserving our liberty as the left are about destroying it.