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@JesseBWatters How many times have we heard this about a “deal”…. I won’t hold my breath

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No, the point is he specifically said 70%. That’s the problem with politicians, they inflate numbers to justify themselves, then act like Americans are children who can’t handle even basic facts, like an actual support percentage. Ukraine polling hasn’t been in the 70s since 2022, so a sudden 75% next week is highly unlikely.

@JWritingD @RepDonBacon The bulk of Americans support Ukraine is the point and it is correct. We can check next week and support could be 60% or 75.

Memo to President Trump: 70% of Americans stand with Ukraine. We stand with independence, free markets and rule of law. We oppose a dictator who invades a neighbor. We stand with honor and right… and we oppose evil.

The fund is not exclusively a “J6 fund,” but it is absolutely tied to J6. The DOJ’s own rules are broad enough to cover people prosecuted and jailed for January 6, the acting attorney general refused to exclude violent January 6 offenders, January 6 defendants are already preparing claims, and Capitol officers have sued to block it on that exact basis. Calling the J6 connection “fiction” is contradicted by the settlement terms, DOJ statements, congressional testimony, and reporting from AP and Reuters. If that makes them losers…. What does that make you?

That mindset is exactly the problem. Just because you overcame something does not mean everyone else has the same ability, options, resources, health, timing, support system, education, environment, or psychological capacity to overcome the same thing the same way. That is not accountability. That is survivorship bias. Elon Musk can put rockets into space. Can you? A theoretical physicist can explain quantum field theory. Can you? A neurosurgeon can operate on a brain. Can you? No, because ability, access, training, opportunity, and circumstance are not equally distributed. So when someone says, “I did it, so anyone can,” they are confusing their personal outcome with a universal law. That is intellectually lazy. The issue is not whether mindset matters. Of course it does. The issue is pretending mindset is the only variable when people are dealing with different starting points, different burdens, different trauma, different economies, different health conditions, different family obligations, and different doors available to them. That is how generational and psychological conditioning works: convince people that every failure is personal, never structural. Convince them that if they struggle, it must be because they are weak, not because the system was designed to extract from them, limit them, or trap them. So no, “if I can do it, you can too” is not wisdom. It is arrogance disguised as motivation. A better lesson is: “Because I survived hardship, I understand why nobody should be forced through it unnecessarily.”

@JWritingD @lynn15382 @EliasGravesLit @Teflon93Wins The only thing that created my situation was myself. And anyone who has actually been in struggle knows that you and your mindset are the only difference, not a hand out or an excuse

Dear Gen Z: My mother ate LARD sandwiches when she was a girl. She lived in a dirt floor shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing. She wore dresses made from flour sacks. Fuck you and your whining about the cost of a mocha latte.

You just proved my point. If the system has been repricing the basics against wages for 50 years, and every attempted correction gets stopped by bailouts, rate cuts, liquidity injections, and political panic, then it is not temporary, it is structurally protected. The problem is not that prices can never fall. The problem is that the people who own the assets never allow the reset to fully happen. Housing is the clearest example. Since the 1990s, prices have risen far faster than ordinary wages, and today’s mortgage market is arguably worse for new buyers than 2007 in terms of affordability. Back then, the crisis was reckless lending. Now the crisis is inflated prices, high rates, extreme payment burdens, and a market where people are qualifying at dangerous debt-to income levels just to buy shelter. That is not a healthy economy. That is a housing bubble being protected because too many balance sheets depend on it not popping.”

@JWritingD @lynn15382 @EliasGravesLit @Teflon93Wins Just like it was permanent in the 70's and 80's, and you point out the conflict. Everytime we get close to flushing the system, somebody screams that "it can't be allowed". We never should have dropped our rates as low as we did and we shouldnt have bailed the banks in '07.

@NoahKingJr Strictly speaking, no country has achieved full communism as described by Marx: a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Most “communist countries” are better described as one-party socialist states governed by communist parties.

Name me one successful communist society. Lol.

Please show me a fence anywhere near the front of the runway. I’ll wait. This is less about my lack of appreciation for “critical defense” and more about your inability to use the part of your brain that does something other than scream conspiracy and propaganda. I get it , you want to turn everything into “America is under attack.” But we literally have a border fence people still climb over, dig under, cut through, or go around. So pretending a fence makes something impossible is not “defense strategy.” It is just bad logic. And what does national defense have to do with a deer making its way onto a runway on Kodiak Island a remote island in Alaska surrounded by water and wildlife? Deer can swim. Animals get onto airfields. Remote Alaska has wildlife. Not every deer near a runway is a terrorist plot. Sometimes it is just a deer and the real threat is people trying to turn basic reality into fear content.

@JWritingD @BLackgold_5 No, they had to climb a fence, the field is surrounded by fence. If you don’t understand that you must think defensively if you are to survive as a nation to protect our citizens, go be a librarian, you obviously don’t appreciated critical defense.

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 hit a few deer while landing at Kodiak Airport 737 vs deer on the runway 😳🦌

It is permanent because those higher prices are now baked into balance sheets. Your unaffordable rent is someone else’s projected income. Your overpriced home is someone else’s retirement asset. Your student debt is someone else’s financial product. Your healthcare bill is someone else’s margin. The system cannot easily lower the cost of basics without threatening the wealth, revenue, and asset values it built on top of them.

@JWritingD @lynn15382 @EliasGravesLit @Teflon93Wins It isn't permanent, nothing ever is.

Congratulations, and as someone who has been through hardship too, I would never tell someone to “suck it up” or “get over it.” Anyone who has truly experienced struggle should want to fix the systems that create those conditions, not excuse them away or turn suffering into some badge of superiority. Hardship should build empathy, not arrogance. Surviving a broken system does not mean the next generation should have to suffer through the same thing just to prove they are tough.

@JWritingD @lynn15382 @EliasGravesLit @Teflon93Wins And yes, from someone who has been homeless to where they are today, and been in very much worse conditions then any of these pitiful souls, I will tell them to suck it up instead of coddling them. Nothing is easy in this world nor should it be and complaining doesn't help.

Tell me how you know nothing about what your even posting: In Jan. 2017, CPI was 242.839. When Trump left office in Jan. 2021, it was 261.582. When he came back in Jan. 2025, it was 317.671. By Apr. 2026, it was 333.020. That means prices are about 27% higher than when his first term ended and about 37% higher than when it began. Yes, Biden had the inflation spike. But Trump is president now, prices are higher now, mortgage rates are over 6.5%, real hourly earnings are down year-over-year, and affordability has not come back. Wages also do not rescue the argument. From April 2025 to April 2026, real average hourly earnings fell 0.3%, meaning inflation outpaced wage growth over that period. Inflation slowing is not the same thing as prices falling.

Tell me again how expensive things are under Trump...

Who said it jumped the fence? The deer didn’t have to jump anything. Deer are very capable swimmers and can easily move from one area to another by water, which is completely plausible here, considering the land and waterway visible behind it. But congrats on turning this into a doom and gloom terrorist post for attention.

@BLackgold_5 Here’s the scary point, if a few deer can get over the perimeter fence so easily, do you think a few terrorist could?

@elonmusk @JdDelay5150 The exact line reported from Epstein’s daily schedule: “Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec.6 (is this still happening?)”

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IF SOMEONE IS CONVICTED OF RAPING A CHILD, EXECUTE THEM PUBLICLY. SAME DAY AS THE CONVICTION. NO EXCEPTIONS. I DON’T CARE WHO THEY ARE. I DON’T WANT IT TO BE HUMANE. I WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE IT. MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF THEM.

Nobody serious is saying the 1970s were easy. They were brutal: stagflation, oil shocks, high inflation, high interest rates, and recession pressure. Congratulations, you discovered economic history. But your argument falls apart because inflation-adjusting prices does not prove what you think it proves. Affordability is not just “what did it cost after inflation?” It is what did it cost relative to wages, debt loads, housing prices, education costs, healthcare costs, job security, pensions, and the ability to build a life. A high mortgage rate on a cheaper house is not the same as a lower mortgage rate on a house priced wildly beyond median wages. Cheap college plus inflation is not the same as modern tuition plus student debt. A bad economy with pensions, domestic manufacturing, and attainable housing is not the same as a bad economy with unaffordable rent, gig work, medical debt, and no retirement security. So yes, adjust for inflation. Then keep going. Adjust for wages. Adjust for housing-to-income ratios. Adjust for tuition-to-income ratios. Adjust for healthcare costs. Adjust for debt burdens. Adjust for the disappearance of pensions. Adjust for the fact that asset owners got rich while new entrants got locked out. The 1970s were brutal. But pretending today is fine because the 1970s were also bad is not analysis. It is nostalgia with a calculator app.

@NolteNC The 70s were absolutely brutal. Yet these kids that WEREN'T EVEN *BORN YET* spend a lot of time on X telling us "no, they weren't bad at all!..it is 'so much worse!!' now!" I especially 'love' all the posts that don't even adjust the alleged cost of things for inflation. Fun!

Inflation and interest rates were much worse between 1975-2000 compared to 2000-2026. The only difference is we didn’t let anything stop us while you crybaby and blame and DoorDash.

That argument cherry-picks inflation and interest rates while ignoring affordability. Yes, inflation and mortgage rates were brutal in parts of the 1970s and early 1980s. Nobody denies that. But high interest rates are not the same thing as today’s structural unaffordability. Younger generations have higher entry costs, higher debt loads, weaker pensions, inflated housing, expensive healthcare, expensive education, and wages that do not buy what they used to. That is the difference. The real question is: what could wages actually buy? In 1980, $1 had the buying power of about $4.04 today, so the dollar has lost roughly three-quarters of its purchasing power since then So no, “we had higher interest rates” is not the trump card people think it is. A bad mortgage rate on an affordable house is not the same thing as a slightly lower mortgage rate on a house priced six to eight times household income. A recession inside an affordable economy is not the same thing as trying to build a life inside a permanently unaffordable one. And the DoorDash insult is lazy. Gen Z did not create the housing market, student debt crisis, healthcare costs, national debt, pension collapse, or shareholder economy. They inherited it. Blaming delivery apps for structural economic failure is exactly how people avoid admitting the system they benefited from no longer exists

Absolutely and that’s the point older generations keep missing. Gen Z is not “lazy,” “soft,” or “dramatic.” They are reacting to the economic reality in front of them. They are not imagining a crisis. They are describing one. So when older generations dismiss them, they are doing exactly what they always do, confusing their memory of struggle with the current reality of structural collapse. Gen Z is sounding the alarm because they are living the early stages of what feels like a second Great Depression for ordinary people, not necessarily breadlines and bank runs, but unaffordable housing, debt dependency, collapsing trust, weaker mobility, and a future that feels economically closed before it even begins. And no, you do not have to be Gen Z to see it. You just have to stop pretending the economy is fine because asset owners are still comfortable.

@muddled_sage @JWritingD @EliasGravesLit @Teflon93Wins Great Depression 2 is starting now. That’s why Gen Z is so upset. They’re telling people what is happening and the older generations don’t believe them. And I’m not Gen Z, I’m Gen X.

Nobody is saying Boomers never experienced recessions. They did. The 1970s had stagflation, the early 1980s had a brutal recession, the early 1990s had another downturn, and the 2000s brought the dot-com crash and the Great Recession. But recessions are not the same thing as permanent structural unaffordability. The dollar alone proves part of the problem, $1 in 1980 equals roughly $4 today, meaning the dollar has lost about three quarters of its purchasing power since the early 1980s. CPI data shows the CPI rising from 82.4 in 1980 to several times that level today. But the real issue is not just inflation. It is inflation relative to wages. If wages had kept pace with the cost of housing, college, healthcare, childcare, insurance, transportation, and basic family formation, younger generations would not be complaining. The problem is that the essentials rose faster than ordinary pay, while assets exploded in value for the people who already owned them. Even median household income data is inflation-adjusted, and FRED shows real median household income at $83,730 in 2024, meaning the official income figure already accounts for broad inflation — yet that does not erase the fact that specific essentials like housing, education, and healthcare became dramatically harder to afford. Boomers had recessions. Younger generations inherited a cost structure. They struggled in an America where homes, college, healthcare, and retirement were still far more accessible relative to wages. Younger generations are trying to build lives in an economy where wages may have risen on paper, but the price of adulthood rose faster. So before telling younger people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” understand the difference between surviving a recession and inheriting an economy where the basics have been permanently repriced against wages. Boomers did not just leave behind a weaker dollar. They left behind a weaker dollar inside an economy where the essentials outgrew the paycheck.

@lynn15382 @JWritingD @EliasGravesLit @Teflon93Wins It's here and been slowly creeping in for the last decade. We went through it in the 70's and 80's, 90's were ok, then 2000's when it hit again. I can't remember the recession of the 60's but it was there. But they project that only they have to struggle and blame everyone.

Oh, cry me a walk uphill to school, in a snowstorm, wearing cardboard shoes, both ways. Boomers inherited the strongest economy in American history and then spent decades telling everyone else they just needed to “work harder” while they offshored the factories, inflated the housing market, gutted pensions, ran up the debt, financialized retirement, and turned basic life into a subscription plan. Here are a few facts: They were handed affordable homes, strong wages, cheap college, domestic manufacturing, pensions, and upward mobility. Then their political and corporate class chose deregulation, offshoring, shareholder value, debt expansion, asset inflation, and corporate consolidation. They didn’t survive hardship. They inherited advantage, monetized it, and called the aftermath “personal responsibility.” Since 1993, every elected president except Joe Biden has been a Baby Boomer. For most of the last three decades, the presidency itself has been controlled by the Boomer generation, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump, the same period when America accelerated offshoring, debt expansion, financialization, and the collapse of affordability. Let’s not forget Boomers didn’t just hold office. They held the electorate. At their peak, they were nearly one-third of eligible voters, and even today they remain one of the most powerful voting blocs in the country. The policies that reshaped America since the 1980s were not passed in a vacuum, they were elected, re-elected, and protected by the generation with the votes to stop them. So before telling younger generations to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps because I did,” maybe understand the economy you inherited versus the one you left behind. Stop mistaking inherited advantage for personal genius

Lots of passionate posts from younger people claiming that “boomers” and the elderly in general somehow had it easier than the average young adults today. Here are a few facts from my life that some may find amusing. I slept in a unfinished, stereotypical old fashioned attic from the age of 8 to 18. One hanging light bulb with a switch at the bottom of the staircase. No heat and the entire two story house was without air conditioning. The attic had a window at each end, one of which gave me access to the nearly flat porch roof where I often slept to find relief from the oppressive heat, despite the risk of rolling off in my sleep. We had one t.v with three channels, ABC, CBS, NBC, courtesy of an antenna on the roof above my attic sanctuary. Around 1981 when I was a high school freshman we got cable. A analog box with 30 channels and it was life changing in how we spent our free time. We ate “out” perhaps 3 times a year and it was McDs or Burger Chef and the free toy was a treasure. One pair of cheap sneakers, $12 Converse’s for the new school year. Maybe a pair of wrangler jeans. We got underwear and socks as Christmas gifts. One hardline phone and long distance calls were strictly forbidden so you had to date locally or write letters longhand in cursive. 80 kids in my graduating class and probably 5 owned a car. We walked more in a week of summer than most people today walk all year. I could go on forever but I think I made my point clear. Everything changed at lightening speed and it wasn’t all for the better. That’s my kid brother in the overalls. About 15 years after this pic was taken he was tried and sentenced to life in prison for murder. I’m in the stripes and 30 years after the pic was taken I made my first million after completing my military service. 2 boys from one attic and 2 drastically different outcomes. Life is what you make it. Stop complaining and get to work.

That only matters if the argument is that Boomers personally invented every financial mechanism. That is not the argument. The argument is that Boomers inherited those mechanisms, then became the dominant political, corporate, shareholder, and voting class that expanded them, protected them, and benefited from them. The political elite before Boomers may have built parts of the machine. But Boomers became the operators of the machine. They did not dismantle it. They institutionalized it. By the 1980s and 1990s, Boomers were moving into management, finance, Congress, media, academia, and the electorate at scale. By the 2000s, they were the prime-age leadership class. That is when pensions were steadily replaced by market-based retirement, shareholder value became corporate religion, financialization deepened, debt expanded, housing became an asset class, and affordability collapsed. So no, Boomers do not get blamed because they invented every bad idea. They get blamed because once they had the numbers, wealth, votes, offices, and boardroom power to change course, they chose not to. They inherited the framework, then spent decades defending the system that enriched them while hollowing out the country for everyone after them. Next….

@JWritingD @aj_inapi The Boomers didn't create those financial mechanisms. The political elite above them did. The Boomers were not in charge yet.

I don't want to act like I know, only because I don't live in America. Why are boomers being vilified in America and more so in the West? I see a growing trend of this online.