Libertarian with a conservative lean. Orwell fan.

California, USA
Gen X in the house
This whole "blame the boomers" narrative is getting old. If the people you're complaining about are 46–61 years old, most of them aren't boomers. They're Gen X. And honestly, Gen X is exhausted from hearing the same complaints on repeat. We didn't get free college. Most of us never had guaranteed pensions. Housing wasn't magically cheap when adjusted for inflation, and plenty of us spent decades working, sacrificing, and starting from scratch. Every generation faces its own challenges. Ours did too. The difference is that we were taught that life isn't fair, nobody is coming to rescue you, and success usually comes from adapting, working, and pushing forward when things don't go your way. You don't have to like that message, but constantly looking for someone else to blame won't improve your situation. At some point, personal responsibility matters more than finding a new generation to be angry at.
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Go fuck yourself EU. Good luck against Russia without us.
🚨🇪🇺🇺🇸NEWS: Horrific Gold Statue of Donald Trump goes on display in the European Parliament Why would America ever help these people again? This is beyond pathetic
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Muh savior
Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010, guaranteeing you cheaper insurance, more competition, and the ability to keep your doctor. Premiums for individual plans more than doubled between 2013 and 2017. Deductibles climbed so high that millions of technically "insured" Americans still skipped medical care because the out-of-pocket costs were prohibitive. The government mandated what your insurance must cover, forced healthy young people to subsidize older high-risk pools, and then expressed genuine surprise when prices spiked. Prices always tell the truth. The 2009 stimulus, officially $831 billion, operated on the Keynesian assumption that government spending creates wealth. Government spending transfers wealth, first taxing or borrowing it from the productive sector, then routing it through political channels where efficiency is nobody's personal concern. The "shovel-ready jobs" Obama later joked about produced no measurable acceleration in recovery. The recession that followed 2008 should have cleared in 18 months, as previous sharp downturns historically did when left alone. The Obama recovery took a decade and delivered the weakest GDP growth of any post-war expansion on record. Dodd-Frank, signed in 2010, weighs 2,300 pages. Community banks spent compliance budgets they never had, and roughly 1,900 small banks vanished between 2010 and 2016. The big institutions that actually caused the 2008 crisis absorbed the regulatory cost with ease and used the new complexity as a competitive moat. Regulations written by large players consistently protect large players. The middle-class small-business owners who needed credit found fewer lenders willing to offer it. Obama also expanded drone warfare to seven countries, assassinated American citizens without trial, and extended the surveillance state through a reauthorized PATRIOT Act, which undermines any libertarian's case that the Democratic Party is less hostile to civil liberties than its competition. Then there was Cash for Clunkers, which destroyed 690,000 working cars in 2009 by crushing them with sodium silicate. Mechanics lost parts inventory. Buyers on a budget lost affordable transportation. Prices for used cars spiked. You paid more so dealers could move new inventory. A generation of voters watched the government spend $5 trillion across two terms, nationalize health insurance markets, regulate finance into oligopoly, and print money through three rounds of quantitative easing that inflated asset prices and rewarded those who already owned property. You paid higher premiums, earned lower real wages, and watched your savings earn nothing in a deliberately suppressed interest-rate environment. The bill always arrives later. You see the ribbon cutting and the document signing, but you feel the damage to your pocket only years later.
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Owned
"CDC finding: women rape men as often as men rape women"
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True story
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1903 had to pass a doctor’s exam that checked for diseases like tuberculosis and trachoma. In 1906, 12,432 people were turned away at the door. The ones who got in brought $25 MILLION in cash with them, because they knew nobody was going to hand them anything. There was no welfare, no food stamps, and no Medicaid. They had to actually work, or they were sent back. Also, Back in 1903 assimilation was the goal. Congress passed a law in 1906 requiring anyone who wanted citizenship to speak English, and companies like Ford ran their own schools to teach English, safety, and American history. A Ford English School diploma even counted toward a person’s citizenship application. Back when we were a proper country.. 💔💔
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Well put
American an European friends, I’m so ashamed, but you need to see what France has become. Don’t make the same mistakes we did. The only peaceful solution is to send them back to their countries of origin they love so much. We cannot coexist. It will be them, or us.
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Right?
We have pivoted from "Non citizens aren't voting!" To "Well. Actually, it's illegal for you to stop nonvitizens from voting."
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As usual...France surrenders
🔥🚨 HOLY SMOKES — France has been CONQUERED: Muslim migrants from Africa are surging into France with Palestinian flags and are RIOTING in Marseille. Schools on fire. Buses burned. Police assaulted. This is day two, and more than a thousand have already been arrested. About 400 schools are closed. Two high schools were set on fire. They did not come to become French. They came with someone else's flag and set the host country on fire. Islamism is not compatible with France. The goal on that street is a Palestinian colony, not a French city. France is LOST.
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Truth bomb
Patriarchy wasn't wrong about a SINGLE THING. Every rule, every restriction, every "oppressive" law they made for women was 100% VALIDATED by what women did the SECOND you removed it. 1. SEXUAL LIBERATION* Patriarchy said: If you let women fuck who they want when they want, you will create fatherless bastards and whores who can never pair bond. Feminists said: "My body my choice! Slut pride!" Result? Single motherhood EXPLOSION. Half of kids born with no father. 73 MILLION abortions a year. You are using abortion as birth control. Women more miserable than ever. Highest antidepressant use in history. Highest anxiety in history. You can fuck 100 men and you STILL aren't happy. Married women bored of their husbands who pay their bills, wet for Chad on Instagram who wouldn't piss on them. 2. HOUSEWIFE LIFE* Patriarchy said: Stay home. Raise your kids. That is your power. Feminists said: "We don't want to be slaves! We want CAREERS!" Now you have TWO FULL TIME JOBS. You work 8 hours for a corporation that will replace you tomorrow, then you come home to kids you didn't raise because daycare raised them. You pay taxes, you pay rent, you pay for food with YOUR OWN money, you are exhausted, you are burnt out, and you cry on TikTok about "the mental load." 3. VOTING* Patriarchy said: Women vote emotionally. Don't give them power. Now women vote 70% Democrat. They vote for open borders, tranny story hour for 5-year-olds, free housing for criminals, defund the police, no-fault divorce, DEI, and every other suicidal policy that is destroying the West. Every country that gave women the vote is dying. Low birth rates, high crime, high debt, weak men. You were not meant to lead. You were meant to support the man who leads. When you lead, the whole empire falls. Look around. 4. CUSTODY Patriarchy said: Father gets the kids. Father is discipline, structure, protection. Feminists cried: "The kids need their MOTHER!" Now look at who single mothers are raising. The WORST GENERATION IN HISTORY. 85% of kids in prison = fatherless. 90% of homeless kids = fatherless. 71% of high school dropouts = fatherless. School shooters, gang bangers, OnlyFans whores all raised by single moms who said "I don't need a man." You don't just fail as mothers without a man. You create monsters. 5. THE ASYLUMS Patriarchy said: These women are hysterical. Lock them up. Feminists said: "We were sane! You just hated strong women!" Now? Now we have to watch the news every week about a mother who put her baby in the trash can, drowned all 3 kids in the bathtub, stabbed her newborn because "postpartum depression made me do it." You murder your own kids and then blame hormones. If that's not insane, what the FUCK is? They didn't lock you up because you were strong. They locked you up because you were DANGEROUS without a man to regulate you. Patriarchy was never about hating women. Patriarchy was about knowing women better than women know themselves. And every year without it, you prove them more right.
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Steve Hilton
This is: The candidate the Democrats have chosen for the state of California. Xavier Becerra, in a leaked audio recording, confirms that he transformed HHS into one of the largest child-trafficking operations in U.S. history. He admits that trafficked children were being pushed through the system as fast as possible—like animals on an “assembly line”—with little to no vetting. And then he says the quiet part out loud: these children were, in fact, illegal aliens. “This is not the way you do an assembly line.” “We need to get discharges up — Every time we have to go to the Hill and explain why we’re spending so much money when most people are struggling to spend a little bit of money for their kids on a daily basis, we try to explain how we’re spending more than $1,000 a day for kids who may not even have the legal right to be here.” HHS whistleblower testimony. Sheena Rodriguez: “I met and spoke with a 10-year-old Honduran girl who arrived by herself carrying only a small piece of paper with handwritten phone numbers on it. She stated the numbers were given to her by a woman in an NGO along the route, who told the young girl the numbers were to her father, who she would be staying with—a man the young girl claimed she had never met or spoken to. “I am calling on Congress to investigate the actions of DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra, and Border Czar VP Kamala Harris to identify their role in facilitating the abuse of children through federal agencies and to demand that they be held accountable.” 📝 How is this human garbage, this child trafficker, not in prison—let alone running for governor? It is beyond me. If Steve Hilton is not elected, consider the state of California a rogue state.
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So true
You guys 😂😂😂
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As man has done for his entire existence
The next time a brain dead liberal tells you “You stole this land” show them this
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If we had voter ID and in person voting Bacerra wouldn't stand a chance. Yet here we are.
🚨California’s only gubernatorial debate happened tonight, and Xavier Becerra got destroyed. Joel Pollak called it a “total disaster” for the Democrat, and the tape backs him up. Becerra mentioned Trump more than a dozen times in one hour. Hilton asked him to name one thing he’d done to cut red tape. He couldn’t. Hilton asked how much money he’d taken from OpenAI and Anthropic. He dodged. Hilton quoted Susan Rice calling Becerra an “idiot” and Becerra wouldn’t even defend himself. The Democrat playbook is always the same: sue, sue, sue. As California attorney general, Becerra sued the Trump administration more than 120 times. It cost the state over $41 million. His office claims an 82% win rate, but most of those cases were still pending when he left. He sued Huntington Beach. He sued tech companies. But when it came time to put money into programs that lift people out of crisis, the train went nowhere. This is the man leading by 25 points. The man who won’t answer questions. The man who thinks “Trump, Trump, Trump” is a governing philosophy. But here’s the part that should scare you. Becerra is the whole Democrat establishment that broke California, wearing a new suit. Go back to when Republicans held a real share of Sacramento. A balanced slate. A different world. Safety. Security. Crime rates that were a fraction of today’s. Homelessness wasn’t even a topic in the news. It was a fringe problem, not a tent city on every corner. Hollywood was popping. Businesses were thriving. Now the studios are empty and companies are fleeing the state. Then came the one-party machine. And look where we are. The $18.5 billion deficit. The largest unsheltered homeless population in America. Insurance rates driving families out of their homes. Crime so bad people film it because “you will not get caught.” Becerra was attorney general. He was HHS secretary. He’s been inside the machine his entire career. He didn’t just watch California decline. He helped run it. And the record is ugly. As HHS secretary, more than 85,000 migrant children went unaccounted for under his watch. The New York Times found HHS couldn’t reach them on follow-up calls. The inspector general found sponsor checks skipped, children released before fingerprint results came back. Becerra told Congress he had “no idea” if the numbers were real. He compared the placement process to an “assembly line.” They’re just sucking up donation dollars, struggling for more power, leading California down this downward spiral. And I think we’re hitting close to rock bottom. This is no longer about party. It’s about survivability. California is falling into the abyss, and the people who broke it are asking for four more years to finish the job. Any sane Californian, regardless of party, cannot ignore what’s happened to this great state and the condition it’s in currently. We have to act now. Forget about your party. Do what’s right for California and your families.
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Owned
Victor Davis Hanson lays out that no one in America told Canada to import the equivalent of 45% of its population from non-assimilating sources, abandon its fossil fuels and pipelines, chase solar power in a frigid climate, accept the lowest GDP growth among industrial Western nations, or accept being $30–40k poorer per person/family than Americans. Nor did anyone force Canada to lead the world in assisted suicide as a cost-saving measure. Those choices—and the resulting inability to fund open borders, defense, or fair trade—came from Canadian leadership, not from Washington.
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Quite the endorsements
Those cheering on the Dems in the midterms: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, China, Carney, the EU and the Mexican cartels.
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Muh white male privilege
Just so we’re clear on who is subsidizing whom. White men are 36% of the population and 39% of the labor force. They pay 62% of federal individual income taxes, 50% of federal payroll taxes, 70% of taxable capital gains, and account for about 10% of all welfare recipients.
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The pattern repeats
Student loans are the perfect example of how socialists ruin the economy, then blame capitalism. 1. Obama nationalizes student loans. Everyone and their cousin now can take out 250k for gender studies degrees 2. They get no jobs. Demand we repay their loans. Say they were lied to. "Predatory!" 3. Trump ends loans for degrees that don't repay 4. Socialists lose their mind, demand they keep being able to take out the loans they claim were predatory. Same as Obamacare. Same as every big government intervention. Do you get it yet?
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Pepperidge Farms remembers
Remember that red lit Philadelphia speech? I do. Joe Biden stood there and painted millions of MAGA Republicans as extremists and a threat to democracy. That happened. He said it out loud, on national television. Never forget how ugly political rhetoric can get when one side decides ordinary Americans are the enemy.
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Based take
Feminism has taught a lot of women to be fiercely independent, have great careers, and how to protect themselves. But it forgot to tell them that in a relationship, you can't keep your guard up, and still want to be pursued. It taught them how not to need a man. It never taught them how to let one in without treating that as a loss of power. Independence can build a life. It cannot build intimacy. Because that needs interdependence. A relationship is not a career. It is two people putting the armor down.
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Muh white privilege
So… Households on SNAP: Black: 24.9% Hispanic: 18.5% Asian: 8.5% White: 7.9% People on Medicaid: Black: 29.0% Hispanic: 29.6% Asian: 17.4% White: 12.9% Estimated Federal Income Tax Paid: Black: 6% Hispanic: 8% Asian: 10% White: 75% Telling…
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