Proud American. Jew. Happily married conservative leaning mom. Interested in politics, culture, & other stuff.
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A little PSA:
I welcome disagreement. I enjoy intelligent debate.
But call me a hoe, wh*re, sl*t, b*tch, c*nt, skank, or any other derogatory name, and I will block you.
If you have a compelling counterargument, make it. If all you’ve got are personal insults, you’ve already demonstrated the limits of your ability to engage.
The Undercurrent retweeted
Palestinians will teach their kids to hate for a Muslim agenda. It's who they are, but we'll never see this side on MSM. Very sad to see parents promoting this.
Americans don't need a committee of self-appointed intellectuals deciding who's qualified to have a voice. We fought a revolution over the whole idea of being governed without representation.
I'm glad China has clean bathrooms. I'm also glad I live in a country where I can criticize my government without worrying about the consequences.
The Undercurrent retweeted
My mother likes her AOL account and she is also an expert at using AI to enhance photographs and she has a ton of friends and her family loves her and she votes Republican. No need to be a condescending asshole to older Americans.
We’re getting awfully comfortable with religious and ethnic preferences in government.
I changed a few words to illustrate the absurdity.
Something tells me the edited version wouldn’t be celebrated as progress.
Colorado State Senator Iman Jodeh, who’s celebrated as the first muslim elected to the Colorado legislature, is advertising an internship program at the Colorado Capitol
Qualifications are you have to be muslim or north african.
This is illegal.
Cc @CivilRights
Ma’am, you look like you’d need a mental health day after a strongly worded email.
I’ve seen more intimidating women arguing over expired coupons at Publix.
Self-identified "non-binary lesbian" Tiktoker posts video appearing to "joke" about wanting to STAB Trump supporters
We have a Democrat violence problem.
@fbi
If a healthcare provider received confidential information from a patient in law enforcement and passed it to their spouse so they could profit from stock trades, they could face criminal prosecution and lose their professional license.
And yet we’re still debating whether members of Congress and their spouses should be allowed to trade individual stocks while in office.
Why should everyday Americans be held to stricter ethical standards than the people writing our laws?
Well, well, well
Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus
Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
The Undercurrent retweeted
You'd be surprised how many ppl cant make the connection between their behavior and its consequences on their lives. Ex. Littering- living in a dump. They wont stoplittering but they'll resent and envy ppl who live in clean areas as if they just lucked into living in a nice place
One of the reasons I don’t like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules aren’t particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults can’t even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didn’t make the mess, certainly isn’t going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We can’t even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow we’re supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when we’re sharing the fruits of each other’s labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-ee’s bathroom.
Buc-ee’s figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
That’s capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people can’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-ee’s figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone else’s resources.
I’m going with the beaver.
The Undercurrent retweeted
.@VDHanson is a national treasure.
I thought this was quite beautiful. It’s a side of Trump the world doesn’t really get to see.
NEW
The New York Times has obtained the letter President Trump left for President Biden in the Oval Office in 2021.
The letter — which Trump wrote by hand using his signature black Sharpie — is printed in Biden’s forthcoming presidential memoir.
Full Story: nyti.ms/4zbXc6m
It’s called toxic disinhibition. People become aggressive, hostile, and insulting whenever face to face interaction is lacking and especially when they are anonymous. There aren’t any social consequences.
What is it about this forum, or should I say about human nature, that inspires people to be personally insulting without provocation just because they disagree with you? It doesn't really hurt my feelings when it happens to me because I don't know these people but it doesn't give me an optimistic feeling about the fallen human condition.
.@VDHanson is a national treasure.
The Undercurrent retweeted
The things that are most unaffordable for young Americans are health care, housing, and school - which are exactly the sectors w/ the most gov't involvement and regulation; meanwhile, sectors w/ little to no gov't involvement have seen massive price drops:
The Undercurrent retweeted
Apparently letting gangs terrorize civilians is the more humanitarian option.
The worry, if President Nayib Bukele’s ambitions in Haiti turn out to be large, is of a scorched-earth strategy that kills a lot of civilians economist.com/the-americas/2…
I think most of my problems, and possibly the world’s, would be solved if I had the same enthusiasm for daily responsibilities that my Pomeranian has for walking my son to the bus stop every morning.
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I know this guy is baiting for clicks, which is why I didn’t quote post him. But can we agree this isn’t funny?
This woman has been married to Jensen Huang since 1986. She was there before the billions, the fame, and the success. She’s a wife and a mother.
It’s unbelievably cruel. She deserves compassion, not ridicule.
The Undercurrent retweeted
One of the few times we actually got to see where the money went in a government assistance program was the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program. And the numbers are pretty incredible.
About 43,000 people received roughly $2 billion. Here’s the kicker. Nearly 20,000 of them weren’t even farmers. They received checks ranging from $3,500 to $6,000 because they said they wanted to farm but believed discrimination had prevented them from doing so. In some states, more than half the people getting checks had never farmed.
And taxpayers paid contractors around $180 million just to help run the program.
This is exactly why I keep asking what happens AFTER the government hands out our money. Did anyone’s situation actually improve? Did people become self-sufficient? Did we accomplish anything remotely close to what the program was supposed to do?
I’d love to know when taxpayers started being unreasonable for asking whether the billions we’re spending actually accomplish anything.
Having spent my entire career working in human services and mental health, I genuinely believe that if everyday Americans saw what actually goes on inside our entitlement system, they’d be furious.
Every time someone questions these programs, we’re immediately shown the saddest child or most desperate single mother they can find. We hear their heartbreaking stories, how difficult their lives are, and how desperately they need help.
And those people absolutely exist. They deserve help.
But have you ever noticed what we DON’T see?
The outcome.
We never seem to get the follow-up showing how our tax dollars actually helped these people become financially independent. How many got off assistance? How many are doing better five years later? Where are those stories?
Instead, we’ve built a system that can actually discourage people from improving their circumstances.
Think about a single mother receiving food stamps and subsidized daycare. She gets a raise, takes on more hours, or finds a better-paying job. Sounds great, right?
Except now she risks losing benefits that are worth more than her increase in pay.
So she’s working harder and potentially ending up worse off financially.
What exactly is her incentive to get ahead?
And that’s just one part of the problem nobody wants to discuss.
There are people who’ve practically turned gaming government benefits into a career. They know the rules, the loopholes, and exactly how to maximize what they can collect. And they’re perfectly content to keep doing it.
The Somali fraud allegations exposed by Nick Shirley shocked people. But I don’t think most Americans realize how much abuse and dysfunction exists in these programs right here among American citizens.
Then there’s the bureaucracy itself.
I’ve encountered government employees who’ve held their positions for 15 or 20 years, who are apathetic on their best days and downright rude and incompetent on their worst. People who seem to face no accountability and somehow manage to fail upward.
And what is government’s answer to all of this?
More money. Always more money.
More programs. More employees. Bigger budgets.
Meanwhile, we’re still being shown the same heartbreaking stories, year after year, without anyone bothering to explain why all the money we’ve already spent hasn’t solved the problems.
I’ve spent my career working with people who need help. I absolutely believe in a safety net.
But I also believe the goal should be to help people reach a point where they no longer need it.
We should be measuring success by how many people become self-sufficient, not how many people remain enrolled in government programs.
And I think taxpayers have every right to ask why we aren’t.