THIS

Good thread

"We have met the enemy and he is us" - Pogo

What's forgotten in this conversation - as always - is that when you pay the insurance company, you're not paying for healthcare, you're paying for insurance. Your insurance then takes your premium payments and pays for your healthcare based on whatever agreement they have in

The damage of inflation during Covid and the flooding of illegals into the country to boost blue states census numbers will be studied for decades….

Our biggest problem as human beings - mostly Westerners - is our refusal to simply step back and let people figure things out for themselves. We have to help. And that "help" invariably turns into doing something for them or giving them something. We simply refuse to understand

All of this

...from my cold, dead hands.

This is the adult version of a kid who wasn't thrown into enough lockers...

This is a perfect encapsulation of the problem in cartoon form. Pogo was right.

Nope

Anyone who doesn't see the game they're playing by now is NGMI.

"...put our grandkids in great, great debt." As if he's cared about this up to now, or as if anything any of them do will make a difference. Nothing stops this train.

Correction - this is a moron moment.

I see a lot of people out there - mostly influencers - who have taken to repeating Reagan's famous quip "The Debt Doesn't Matter" as if it were some mantra or wizard's spell. Less said, but just as important are things like "We owe it to ourselves," or the question "Who is going

It's the onions - I swear... If more people actually felt this way in their bones - that despite many of the dark stains on our history, we should be proud of the original idea of the United States and what we've accomplished, and we should focus on and use that pride to work

It's not that difficult to understand. Since 2020, every producer in the US has been doing everything they can to keep their products priced as low as possible. Why? Because if they are forced to raise prices too high, people will stop buying their products. This is why a 12 oz

In a political system where leaders are elected, every politician is an "honest product" of their constituents' beliefs. Which says a lot about those who supported Joe Biden as well... Or any politician, for that matter.

This is just a complete loss of awareness and common courtesy. It's been on the rise for years and every time I swear it's peaked, it gets worse.