Scott Sissom

The greatest dread you can feel as an adult is when you've been ignoring a problem or situation for a long time with the unspoken assumption It's Probably Fine, then all at once you are forced to look at it closely and you are gobsmacked by the True State of It.

I’ve been going to the same local coffee shop we have here every morning since I was 16. They have by far some of the best coffee. I’ve been going there since I was 16. I’ve watched it change hands 3X now, and the 3rd owner turns out to be a hardcore leftist. And I know that because nobody on the right has stickers on their cars and in their stores that say, “I prefer ICE in my coffee!” In addition, he hired only rainbow mafia employees and has a “trans daughter.” The owner and I converse every morning. It’s always nice, pleasant conversation and has been that way for 2.5+ years. I just now thought about something. Myself KNOWING this, I still set it aside and support his business, and mind my own. However, if he and his employees EVER found out I am a Trump supporter, they’d likely spit in my coffee, vandalize my car, and tell me to never come back to their coffee shop again. This is why when we say, “we are not the same,” we mean it. We are not the same. And I know there are many of you out there in this exact position.

Wokeness is institutionalized feminism. Liberalism is politicized feminism. Transgenderism is sexualized feminism. Abortion is medicalized feminism. Mass immigration is nationalized feminism. Rebellious women are at the root of almost every modern evil.

Can @CNN explain why they have a random “Everyone Hates Elon” graphic in the upper right corner of the screen when he has nothing to do w/the segment or Met Gala? Who proposed & authorized this and for what purpose? Bizarre.

Sleep doctor explains why morning sex is way better than late night “Most people are intimate between 10:30 and 11:30 PM. But here’s what’s interesting: your hormone profile doesn’t look too good at 11:30 PM for having sex. In order to have successful sex, you want estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, adrenaline, and cortisol all to be high, and melatonin to be low. What do you think your hormone profile looks like at 10:30 at night? It’s literally the opposite” “What do most men wake up with in the morning? An erection. If that’s not Mother Nature telling you when to use that thing, I don’t know what is right. We discovered that people actually have greater connection and greater performance when they have sex in the morning. Now, do you have to brush your teeth and throw in a little mouthwash first? Yes, of course you do, let’s be fair to your partner here”

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

When my son got one of his first jobs with a manufacturing company, he complained how he was “doing all the work” making parts that sold for hundreds of dollars a piece while only making $20 an hour. “It’s unfair to the workers!” he said. “You sound like a liberal.” I said. He made a classic mistake I see people make over and over. They only look at the hard cost of goods and final sale price. They don’t understand anything in between. I pointed out that the company he worked for only makes an 8% profit. Their total profit on that $400 part was really only about $32. “There’s no way.” he said. “The bar stock only costs about $8.” To him, his argument was logical. Every day his hands turned $8 worth of aluminum bars into thousands of dollars of product, but he only got about $160 of that. That seemed unfair. I asked him “What about all of the other people in the company? The ones who aren’t making the parts.” He hadn’t thought about that. I explained that every hand along that product’s journey from creation to the customer is another person who has to get paid. The engineers who designed and tested it, long before you made it. The person who packed it in a box. The person who made the manuals that go with it. The person who answers the phone when a customer has a problem later. The people who order the materials and maintain the machines and sweep the floors and clean the toilets after you leave. The accountants and lawyers and insurance companies who keep the business organized, compliant, and protected if the part you made fails. All of those people are paid for from those parts you made. And all of them get their paychecks whether the parts are sold right away or not. On top of that, there’s the cost of the facility itself. The building, heating and cooling it, and every piece of equipment inside it. All of those costs are paid before the owner makes one cent. “At the end of the day, you’re actually making more money from every unit you make than he is.“ He understood it after that. Running a business is the hardest way to make money. Roughly 90% of entrepreneurs will fail. Don’t get me wrong, the reward can be great if you’re one of the 10% that makes it, but that results in a confirmation bias. You only see the winners. You never heard about the 90% that failed before they made it. You see the guy in the big office who looks like he doesn’t work as hard as you, but you never saw what it took to get there. You never saw the times he went without a paycheck so he could make payroll. You never felt the stress of being denied necessary capital, or losing an important customer, or under-bidding on a contract and losing money on every unit. You’ve never felt the repercussions of making the wrong call. If you mess up, one customer is marginally inconvenienced, and you can fix it with another $8 part. If HE messes up, you and everyone else have no job. You can be the guy on top if you’re willing to take the risks they took and do the work they did to get there. Or you can do your part and collect your paycheck while someone else worries about that stuff. And that’s OK too, because the world needs both. The beauty of capitalism is that you get to choose which one you want to be.

Actually, you misunderstand the purpose of the long shower. I'm not doing anything in there. I am literally staring into nothingness and using the sensory input of falling water to temporarily wash away some of the horror of corporeal human life.

Elon’s whole career is basically a revenge arc. Pushed out of PayPal? Ok, I’ll do rockets. Wanted to grow veggies on Mars, not for profit, just to make humanity care about space again. Goes to buy Russian rockets. Russians mock him. Ok, I’ll make my own rockets. Then Apollo astronauts mock commercial space. Ok, I’ll make commercial space real. Auto industry mocks Tesla. Ok, I’ll become CEO and make the most valuable car company. Wants to start a nonprofit for safe AI. Got pushed out / sidelined / mocked. Ok, I’ll make my own AI lab. California mocked and blocked him? Ok, I’ll move to Texas and make Star City. Democrats mock him. Ok, I’ll help Trump win. Maybe the fastest way to change something on Earth is to find people in charge of it and encourage them to mock Elon?

Many such cases

It’s never called unpaid labor when they are single mothers. Its never called unpaid labor when they are single It’s never called unpaid labor when they did it at their parents house while growing up It’s never called unpaid labor when they do it for their friends. guess when it’s always called unpaid labor? When they have a man . Dumb idiot.

🚨 Musk vs OpenAI's lawyer — the cross-examination exchanges William Savitt — Wachtell Lipton's lead defense lawyer, Supreme Court clerk, trained to break witnesses. Savitt opens with a misleading premise. Musk: "You're being misleading. What you're saying is false." Savitt tries again with a different loaded frame. Musk: "Your questions are not simple. They are designed to trick me." Savitt demands a yes or no answer to a complicated question. Musk: "If you ask a question where there is no possible simple answer, I must give a longer answer because any simple answer would be misleading the jury." Musk reaches for an analogy: "The classic answer to a yes or no question is not so simple. For example, if you ask the question 'will you stop beating your wife?'..." Judge Gonzalez Rogers cuts him off: "No, we're not gonna go there." The courtroom laughs. Savitt apologizes for the question. Musk: "I find it funny you saying it wasn't an unfair question since you're only asking unfair questions." Savitt: "I'm doing my best." Musk: "That is not true." OpenAI's lawyer came to break Musk. Musk wasn't having it.

Buddhist monks did not eat soy because it was nutritious. They ate it because it suppressed sexual desire. Soy is rich in compounds called isoflavones, particularly genistein and daidzein, which are phytoestrogens. They bind to oestrogen receptors in the human body and produce a measurable feminising effect: lowered testosterone, reduced libido, decreased aggression, suppressed morning erections. The monks were aware of this. The historical Chinese and Japanese medical texts describe soy as a cooling food, suitable for people pursuing celibacy, contraindicated for warriors and labourers and anyone whose work required strength or aggression. Soy was a monk's food. Specifically. Deliberately. Functionally. It was added to monastic diets in East Asia precisely because it made the practice of celibacy easier. It was, in modern terms, a chemical assistance to the vow. It is now in your bread, your protein bar, your meat substitute, your infant formula and your salad dressing. If you have wondered why young men in the developed world have testosterone levels half of what their grandfathers had at the same age, you can stop wondering. We are feeding the entire population a diet specifically formulated, in the 13th century, to prevent monks from having erections. It is working.

u gotta give Tesla some credit. they came out with shitty cameras and a weak computer (in comparison to HW4) and promised full self driving to the consumers. the FSD that was available 4-6 years ago was ass. but now? even a HW3 car can do a zero intervention drive across city and highway streets. I can’t be the only one that finds that incredible? Like I know its not Unsupervised FSD but guys, your potato computer and cameras were legitimately updated over the air to turn into your pseudo chauffeur. For no additional cost. Not only that, but now Tesla is offering you discounts and or hardware upgrades for NO ADDITIONAL COSTS (if purchased FSD in full) to bring you Unsupervised FSD. I don’t care how you feel or think but I promise you if this was up to Ford or GM or BYD or Mercedes or Kia to do, they wouldn’t give a shit about you all or even try to uphold or at least bring you an experience similar to what they said. Most companies can’t even bring concept cars into production, Tesla does it time and time again. Tesla cares about you guys, like alot. They make the safest cars on the planet afterall. ❤️

Careful lefties I hear Trumps got a punch card and after a 5th unsuccessful assassination attempt he gets a free 3rd term in office

They’re gonna freak out 😅

Feminists: Men are dangerous. Me: Yes, men are very dangerous, and you should be more careful about what kind of men you associate with. Feminists: You cannot tell me who I can and cannot associate with. Me: Okay, then when bad things happen, you will understand why. Feminists: That is just because men are bad and dangerous. Why are you and other men not stopping men from being dangerous? Me: We used to do that. We still do it to some extent, but if we did it the way we would prefer, the most effective way, you would object strongly and oppose it at every turn.

WEALTH TAX MAN: Hey California voters. Quick question. CA VOTERS: Sure. WEALTH TAX MAN: Do you hate billionaires? CA VOTERS: yeah some of them are annoying. WEALTH TAX MAN: Perfect. Sign here. CA VOTERS: What is this? WEALTH TAX MAN: Just a one-time tax on billionaires. CA VOTERS: Only billionaires? WEALTH TAX MAN: For now. CA VOTERS: What does “for now” mean? WEALTH TAX MAN: Do not worry about that. CA VOTERS: Is this a ballot measure? WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. Democracy. CA VOTERS: Great. So if you want to expand it later voters get to vote again? WEALTH TAX MAN: Lol CA VOTERS: Why did you laugh? WEALTH TAX MAN: Because we added a special little feature. CA VOTERS: What feature? WEALTH TAX MAN: The Legislature can amend it later with a two thirds vote. CA VOTERS: Without another public vote? WEALTH TAX MAN: YES CA VOTERS: Wait. So we vote once on “tax billionaires,” then California can keep changing it? WEALTH TAX MAN: Now you are getting it.. CA VOTERS: But they said this only affects a few hundred “billionaires”. WEALTH TAX MAN: That is the sales pitch. Who do we tax when they all leave? CA VOTERS: wait leave? I thought this would help pay for healthcare? WEALTH TAX MAN: First we establish that California can tax “wealth” then it applied to paying for everything. CA VOTERS: Okay… WEALTH TAX MAN: which allows us to establish the forms, the enforcement, the audits, the penalties, the valuation rules, and the bureaucratic engine to expand… CA VOTERS: expand? (deep breathing)... WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes exactly expand. The later, when the budget is broken again, we ask one simple question. CA VOTERS: Which is? WEALTH TAX MAN: Why stop at billionaires? CA VOTERS: You told us it was only billionaires. WEALTH TAX MAN: We said that during the marketing phase. CA VOTERS: Marketing phase? WEALTH TAX MAN: Every new tax has one. CA VOTERS: So who is next? WEALTH TAX MAN: Centimillionaires. CA VOTERS: Then? WEALTH TAX MAN: People with large stock portfolios. CA VOTERS: Then? WEALTH TAX MAN: People with paid-off homes. CA VOTERS: But homes are excluded. WEALTH TAX MAN: Today. CA VOTERS: Retirement accounts? WEALTH TAX MAN: Also excluded.. CA VOTERS: for now? WEALTH TAX MAN: Look at you. Getting good at this. CA VOTERS: So this is not really about billionaires. CA WEALTH TAX MAN: It starts with billionaires. CA VOTERS: But it creates the machine. WEALTH TAX MAN: Exactly. CA VOTERS: And once the machine exists, Sacramento just needs two-thirds to feed more people into it. WEALTH TAX MAN: We prefer the term “modernizing the tax base.” CA VOTERS: So “tax the billionaires” is the Trojan horse. WEALTH TAX MAN: No, no, no.. CA VOTERS: What is it then? WEALTH TAX MAN: A very “inclusive” horse. CA VOTERS: This sounds like how every tax starts. WEALTH TAX MAN: Correct. CA VOTERS: First it is narrow. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is temporary. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is an “emergency”. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is permanent. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is expanded. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then everyone pays. WEALTH TAX MAN: Eventually…everyone is rich enough to tax and not rich enough to leave.

California is set to vote on an Asset Seizure law, which is written in such a way that anytime California needs more money, they can seize your assets, your house, your car, your land, your business. Do you want to live in an authoritarian state?

When we got engaged, my wife had lots of credit card debt. She took a second job, moved in with her parents, and made her last payment the month we got married. Then she promptly quit her jobs and hasn’t seen a bill in 28 years. She swipes the card, and it just works. Likewise, I’ve never had to think about the kids’ basic needs or what’s for dinner. That stuff (and a lot more) just happens. This division of duties has made for a great life… but here’s the best part: 🤝 We both think we got the better end of the deal.