Good job congressman!
https://mobile.twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/1183441421531045890
Brian Mast sucks. I cover a lot of the public meetings he speaks at regarding Lake Okeechobee, and he’s just insufferable.
This is especially laughable because Mast makes a big show of his military service. He lost both his legs while serving and he makes a point to wear suit pants modified into shorts so that everyone knows it.
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The thing that really gets me is how we dropped more tonnage of bombs on Cambodia than were dropped by all the Allies in all of WWII, including the atomic bombs, and I don’t think people are very aware of the scale of it. It’s like 10000 My Lais.
Ben really slipping. His latest cartoon has Biden kissing Obama’s butt. This is the one before that.
I would say even though there are not many labels here, it is a clear example of his over labeling. The USA is superfluous above the American Flag.
And I will add this for fun, because it is monumentally stupid.
I love the fact that our Forgotten Everyman Trump voter lives in a posh living room with his giant-ass TV while his hot wife Veronica strolls in carrying the groceries in REUSABLE SHOPPING BAGS.
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Not going to lie, without my glasses on I thought she was a cleaning lady and he was a maintenance man taking a break.
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Listen, Ben Garrison is 100% basing that character model off of Veronica from Archie Comics. Jughead traded his beanie cap for a MAGA hat and he’s living an angry unfilfiled life in Veronica’s mansion while she bangs Archie on the DL. Look at that smile on her face, she def didn’t just come back from the grocery store, she was fucking Archie behind MAGA Jughead’s back while he was distracted by Fox News.
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Unsurprising. American history classes have always been pretty sparse on details about recent events. I barely learned anything about Vietnam in my history classes.
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Students aren’t taught anything where America didn’t win bigly.
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This is it. We don’t learn history we learn what they want us to think history is. It’s propaganda designed to make sure that we can keep on doing the awful shit we did in the past. If you don’t know about your mistakes you can’t learn from them… and they keep the mistakes from us so that we won’t notice that it’s happening all over again.
Seriously a middle school American History textbook will have like 3 paragraphs about slavery, one paragraph about the trail of tears, and that’s literally it for bad stuff America ever did. Absolutely nothing on anything except maybe a paragraph about how child labor was bad and we got rid of it. Every one of those paragraphs is the intro to a larger chapter where they talk about what we did to end that bad thing as well… except the trail of tears which will just be mentioned in passing.
Then we make you learn a bunch of dates and names of dead white guys to make you feel like history is boring and shouldn’t be learned about lol. Maybe you read the constitution as a class one time. And done lol.
https://mobile.twitter.com/lomikriel/status/1183506567913713664
Tarrant County (Fort Worth) police/law enforcement having quite the week.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1183695636857622528
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1183726373619294215
Lady Usher of the Black Rod!
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Just ask Daniel, 36, a Manhattan corporate lawyer earning $270,000 a year, who told Suzy Weiss of the New York Post that he lives in New Jersey to avoid city taxes, lives on rice and beans, owns one patched-together suit per weekday for work, and layers up during the winter instead of turning the heat on — all so he can save 70% of his salary and retire early.
It’s working: He’s saved more than $400,000 and is set to retire in three years, Weiss wrote.
So assuming he didn’t just start making over $200k - it took him 11 years after law school to save $400k. He’s pulling in some $150k after taxes. Let’s him him a huge benefit of the doubt and say he’s going to have $700k in 3 more years. To retire on. At age 39. What does he plan to do for the next 40 years exactly?
J.P. Livingston, who runs a personal-finance blog called The Money Habit, built a nest egg of more than $2 million before retiring at 28. Livingston worked in Manhattan’s finance industry and earned $100,000 in her first post-grad job, she previously told Business Insider.
$100k job for ~3 years (assuming post-grad school). Save $2M. Math checks out.
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This is a godawful life plan.
I’m all for living frugally and retiring early, but the whole “retire at 35 with $1 million” thing is just plain stupid. You can’t afford to do much, health care is a huge uncertain disaster and you probably won’t be able to re-enter the work force at anything near your peak income.
Also almost everyone with this plan has not lived through a true bear market. Let’s check in with them after 3-4 years of portfolio decreases.
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Yeah plus there’s the fact that free time has diminishing returns like anything else. I’ve had significant multi month periods where I didn’t have much to do, and after a week or two of feeling pretty good it rapidly turns into depression and misery.
I know a LOT of people who have enough money to quit working and choose not to. I’ve also known a few people who retired (or even quasi retired) and died shortly afterward (always older people in their 70’s so death was never THAT far away but still).
This whole retire early plan is super super stupid. Even if it works it’s a great recipe for being unhappy for the rest of your life. This is why stay at home mom looks like the greatest gig anyone ever had on paper but was actually a recipe for mental illness for a whole generation of women.
People need work to feel like they are useful. Without that anchoring sense of purpose bad shit happens.
My basic life philosophy is that I’m not sacrificing my future to enjoy today but I’m also not sacrificing today for the future. I try to enjoy every day I live and I’m not going to scrimp and save aggressively to make future me richer than he needs to be. On the flip side I’m not going to go into debt, do unhealthy stuff, or take stupid risks that will screw me over in the future to enjoy today more than is sustainable. Balance is where it’s at.
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Two neighbors I know retired early and somewhat contrasting stories. One guy was a contractor and retired at like 50, but lived here until almost 90. Pretty happy. Big family there. He and his wife would live in their motorhome travelling like 6 months a year. He talked to lots of people in the neighborhood a lot, including me. (past tense because he moved out recently - needed more care)
Another guy, more like those stories, worked at microsoft, retired at probably like 40 with a shitload of money. He has 2 Ferraris, among other cars. He helped me install solar one time (was a good worker) and seemed pretty depressed, like “meh, I have nothing to do but exercise” (he rode his bike a lot).
Anyway, people are different.
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