So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy a pound of sliced ham in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store-made salad in a plastic 1 tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won’t give me a plastic bag to carry at home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment?

A father of young girls who was confronted and harassed for bringing his daughters into an empty women’s restroom at a Florida gas station has shared a follow-up. He confirmed that police responded to the scene but quickly dismissed the other man’s complaint. He also expressed appreciation to the store employee who stepped in to de-escalate and support him during the situation.

Some people are criticizing JD Vance for bothering to go on The View. Republicans have the courage to do that sort of thing because they have answers to follow-up questions. You’ll never see a Democrat do that, and why should they when every news outlet but Fox News is happy to ask them what flavor of ice cream they like best? They’ll never do an interview where they get a follow-up question because they don’t have any answers.

This morning, Hakeem Jeffries said: “We don’t know what’s in the Iran deal yet, but it’s a disaster.” Let that sink in. It’s the ultimate own-goal: condemning an agreement before its full terms are even public. The emerging framework includes a ceasefire, reopened Strait of Hormuz shipping, and a 60-day window for nuclear and sanctions talks. Fair to scrutinize the details—verification, enrichment limits, proxy funding, enforcement—but declaring it a “disaster” sight unseen is pure reflexive opposition, not serious analysis. Judge the deal on its merits once we see it, not on partisan instinct.

Never forget, The richest man earned his money. The richest politicians stole yours. Why the hate for Elon and no accountability for them?

They want you to sit thru the Finance Manager’s pitch for you to add-on a bunch of crap that increases their margin on the car. I went thru this with my 24 year old son. I sat in on the pitch. I’m sure my son, if alone and not knowing, would have agreed to some of it. But he looked at me after every issue offered by the Fonance guy and I just nodded my head “No.” Pissed the guy off. Completely unfriendly when done. Took 45 min.

Let me explain what is actually happening with the left calling the current Supreme Court "rogue." I have four kids. When one of them does their chores, I give them a piece of candy. When my three-year-old sees that and loses his mind screaming "IT'S NOT FAIR," he is not making a legal argument. He is making a FEELINGS argument. He does not care about the chores. He just wants the candy. That is Quinn's Law #26 in a Halloween costume: liberals love the courts UNTIL the decision does not go their way. Here is something the dim bulbs on the left conveniently forget. Republican-appointed justices have disappointed conservatives REPEATEDLY. Gorsuch — TRUMP'S OWN PICK — sided with liberals on LGBTQ employment cases. Roberts saved the ACA. TWICE. Let that land. Sandra Day O'Connor preserved Roe in 1992. Reagan appointee. That happens because those justices are actually doing their job: applying the law to the text, NOT reverse-engineering the outcome they want. When have you EVER seen a Democrat-appointed justice deliver a ruling that disappointed Democrats? I'll wait. That silence you hear? That is not a coincidence. That is the tell. A court that never surprises you is not a court. It is a PR department with gavels. The left has that. They built it on purpose. And NOW — because they do not have it at the Supreme Court level — the whole institution is suddenly "illegitimate." FDR tried this in 1937. His OWN PARTY killed the court-packing scheme in committee. They called it what it was. Let that sink in: even Democrats in 1937 recognized naked power grabs when they saw them. The left does not want a Supreme Court. They want a super-legislature with lifetime tenure that ratifies whatever Congress failed to deliver. The Constitution is just an obstacle between them and what they want. And when that obstacle holds, they call it rogue. My three-year-old also calls things unfair when I enforce bedtime. He is three. What is their excuse? But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who actually read the Federalist Papers, including No. 78, where Hamilton called the judiciary "the least dangerous branch," not the most convenient one. @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman @JoJoFromJerz #MAGA #Trump #SCOTUS

Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet. The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.

.@JDVance explained some details of the deal to CBS. Many people are misrepresenting it maliciously, so let's clear some things up. NO the US will not pay Iran $300B IF Iran gives up all its nuke stuff then a fund for investment & reconstruction w/ Gulf & other $$$ is proposed. NO there is no agreement to unfreeze $24B now or at any point. IF Iran honors its commitments it will get sanctions relief. YES the US will be directly involved in verifying the nuclear material and program are destroyed. We may not be the ones who do the destruction but we will witness it and be part of inspections to ensure it is not reconstituted. There is no reason for all the caterwauling about reconstruction in Iran. Any deal was going to involve that and any money going in will be monitores. Of course the regime will steal some and we will be watching to ensure it doesn't get used for malign purposes. It's sad to watch so many people actively hoping this deal won't work and lying about what it comprises. As described this deal is a major victory for the US, the region and the world. If they follow through it could also be a return of Iran to the community of nations. If the regime doesn't abide by the deal they have made. Their days are certainly numbered. But this offers a real chance to secure the region and aim it toward prosperity.

Fascinating. The Baby Boomers, who truly were terrorized by their own government, earnestly believe they stopped the Vietnam War with tambourines and folk songs. And so, as Boomers took the culture, all protest came to be defined in terms of tambourines and folks songs.

This is the aesthetics of the Longhouse vs. the Arena The Biden era was dominated by the communal smothering of Longhouse culture - consensus, feelings, safetyism, and endless rainbow rituals under the Den Mother’s watchful eye. The Trump era is the pendulum swinging back to the arena - competition, ambition, risk, strength, order. It's a necessary correction. America is remembering how to be a nation of warriors and builders again.

The rice cake is the most honest thing the low-fat era ever produced, because it tasted exactly as joyless as the philosophy that made it. Picture the wretched thing. A pale, crunchy disc of puffed rice, near enough the texture and flavour of expanded polystyrene, sold to grown adults as a snack. You bit in and it shattered into a thousand styrofoam shards that stuck to the roof of your mouth and delivered, in return, the taste of absolutely nothing. It was the sound of dieting itself. A dry, hollow crunch echoing across an open-plan office at three in the afternoon, the unmistakable noise of a human being quietly punishing themselves at their own desk. They were adored because they were almost fat-free and very low in calories, and in the arithmetic of the time that made them practically a tonic. You ate one and felt you had been good. The trouble was that one satisfied nobody, so you ate four, and then you smeared something on them to make them bearable, and the something was a fat-free spread that was mostly sugar, and round and round you went. Worse still, the puffed rice behaved in the body almost exactly like sugar. Straight to the top of the glycaemic index, a clean spike of blood sugar followed by the crash that had you reaching for the next disc. The virtuous diet snack of the decade was, underneath the costume, a packet of sweets in beige. And the food that would actually have saved you sat in the fridge, accused of a crime it never committed. Two eggs cooked in butter would have filled you, steadied you for hours, and tasted of something a person could love. But the eggs carried cholesterol and the butter carried fat, and so a nation chose instead to gnaw polystyrene at its desk and call the suffering discipline. We were not getting healthier. We were getting hungrier, and lonelier, one hollow crunch at a time.

The asinine takes on Musk, while maddening, do help explain the financial mess this nation is in as well as the financial mess many individuals make of their personal lives. Just a clownish grasp on all things financial.

My boss is worth $100M He could house and feed the homeless in our city for weeks The only problem is he’d have to fire me, and everyone else at his companies, to access that “net worth” to then spend it on housing the homeless So then I’d be homeless instead, along with thousands of others that I work with Now you understand how “net worth” works for most value creators and entrepreneurs

Evlenirsen pişman olursun. Evlenmezsen de pişman olursun. Çocuk yapsan da yapmasan da pişman olursun. Kierkegaard bunu 200 yıl önce şöyle söylemiştir: "Neyi seçersen seç pişman olursun. Çünkü sorun tercihlerinde değil yaşanmamış bir hayatı romantize etmendir. İnsan her daim gidilmemiş bir yolu cazibeli ve gizemli bulur. Bu yüzden mesele en doğru seçimi yapman değil. Hangi pişmanlıkla yaşayacağını seçip karar vermendir." Sen neye karar verdin?

Bernie Sanders is crying about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire from one of his four mansions.

Graham Platner can shove his “Elon should be the last trillionaire” bullshit. While Musk is out there actually building rockets that land themselves, EVs that scaled an entire industry, satellite networks that reach the middle of nowhere, and AI that might matter, this clown shows up afterward with his hand out and a moral lecture. Platner didn’t build shit. He didn’t risk capital. He didn’t create jobs. He just decided other people’s success is a problem that needs to be punished. And the hypocrisy is disgusting. This anti-billionaire warrior is taking money from George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker, and Jennifer Pritzker. He wants to jail conservative billionaires but has zero problem cashing checks from the ones who fund his side. That’s not principle. That’s straight-up grifting with better PR. This is the same tired Bernie Sanders school of economics: tear down the people who actually make things so the professional parasites can feel righteous while they redistribute wealth they never created. Envy dressed up as policy. Resentment with a campaign logo. Musk created 4,400 new millionaires in one day. Platner created another speech about how unfair it is that someone built something valuable. One side moves humanity forward. The other side just wants a bigger slice of what they didn’t build. Fuck that noise. We don’t need more takers pretending they’re morally superior. We need more builders. Platner and his crowd can keep crying about trillionaires while the rest of us watch who actually delivers results. (article below)

Elon’s wealth is not money, I think most people understand that. He’s not a dragon sitting on a pile of gold, or a monkey hoarding bananas. No one has less food because his potential future cash flows are excessively priced. But the misunderstanding is worse than that. His wealth is capitalized, theoretical, future cash flow. If dipshits like Bernie confiscate potential future cash flows, and convert them into current consumption, and put it into the hands of people ready to spend it, a fixed amount of goods will be chased by higher velocity cash. There is only one variable that can create equilibrium: inflation. Confiscating equity value from billionaires, and now trillionaires, and forcing them to liquidate equity into cash, then distributing that cash to the masses, does not create more goods. In fact, it creates a deficit of goods, because less capital will be employed in producing goods. You can’t print food.

Growing up is realizing that Ayn Rand went through what we are going through. Everything she wrote was about that. Generations of "educated" people made fun of her. But she was right. She knew what was coming. The West laughed. It should have listened.