Donald Trump: I’ve never heard of Project 2025. I don’t know what it is. I’m not a part of it.
Also Donald Trump: Appoints Project 2025 authors to high positions in his administration, signs a ton of Project 2025 policies as EOs on Day 1.
Springer went the opposite direction. He was a lawyer and a politician, and after his career fizzled, he went into media. He was an actual news anchor before he got a national reputation for hosting a trashy TV show.
It’s not a requirement. It’s a political strategy. If the candidate is from a “liberal elite” coastal state, then the running mate has to be from flyover country. It’s pandering.
It’s called “Mar-a-Lago face” and I’m pretty sure it’s what tacky people think beautiful women look like.
What kind of driver thinks someone is going to pull over for anyone other than a cop?
That kind of driver is likely so unhinged that reasonable people should do everything in their power to avoid interaction. Reasonable people definitely should not pull over to talk with/fight with/be shot by that kind of driver.
Sorbo has been pretty open about his conservatism for a while. God’s Not Dead predates MAGA, too (2014).
According to the 2020 Census, there’s probably a good 12 percent of the population who might not care to refer to their ancestors as “immigrants,” since they were forcibly brought to the US. I think we should reject “new history textbooks in Texas”-level whitewashing of history.
But I agree with the general sentiment of your comment. Nearly all of the people crying about immigration had ancestors in another country, probably on a different continent. Some are only second- or third-generation Americans. They don’t see the irony.
GenX checking in. I know so many Boomers who got factory jobs with pensions out of high school and stayed with them for 35 or 40 years. They were able to raise families on a single income (or maybe have a spouse who worked part-time). They had nice homes, new-ish cars, and could afford to take their families on vacations. They built equity and were able to upgrade to McMansions in the late '90s and early '00s.
Meanwhile, my friends and I have advanced degrees and we have to look for new jobs every 5 years just to try to beat inflation.
Our parents climbed the ladder our grandparents built, and then they pulled it up after them. At this point, none of us can afford to quit working to care for them as they age, so anything we would have inherited will likely be paid to nursing homes.
Hooray for late-stage capitalism, I guess?
If you’re in the US and you or your coworkers are anywhere near retirement age, your employer is screwing people out of Social Security income. It’s based on the amount you make on average over a certain number of years of working. If the amount reported and taxed as Social Security income is less than your actual income, it can affect your payments.
If the system is still solvent when you retire, that is.
This is the correct answer. Notice that they have no compunction about punishing parents who secure gender-affirming care for their trans kids, but there has been zero discussion of holding parents responsible for their kids’ internet usage.
Far-right groups in the US have been crying “Big Brother” about everything for years because their whole plan has been to create a surveillance state where to gather information about dissenters. Every accusation is a confession with these people.
In “at will” states in the US, you can be fired without cause and without notice. So do your homework before you decide not to follow company policy.
I have a friend who works for a library. They still offer this service. I don’t think anyone under the age of 70 has used it in some time.
I have definitely worked jobs where I know more than the IT department, and that’s scary.
Five-year-old Nicki really wishes her staunchly Republican family had been exposed to this deep wisdom when she grew up on a farm.
Bathing was my least favorite thing at that point in time, yet I was still expected to do it daily.
This. Times 1000.
Kids aren’t born with internet-connected devices in their hands. Adults give devices to them and then walk out of the room.
Would you let the average internet poster or YouTuber babysit your kid? Because that’s literally what you’re doing.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s. My mom did her best to pay attention to the shows/movies I was watching, the books I was reading, the music I was listening to. And up until I was about 13, it was all very tightly controlled. It’s still possible to have that kind of oversight, but it’s more work than a lot of parents are willing to do.
I live outside the US now, and most of my elementary-school students have parents who very tightly control their screen time and actively monitor their usage. The kids have sports training, dance classes, and other activities that get them out in the world. It’s very, very different from the kids I used to teach in the US.