🚨One “Republican” reportedly BLOCKING redrawing race-based SC-6th District!
Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (Edgefield).
Office: 803-212-6330
Email: Shanemassey@scsenate.gov
At IBM Watson health I worked for a ridiculously talented and attractive female manager.
At a regional meeting 3 men showed up unprepared. We had been told in advance what was expected. When they weren’t prepared, she calmly asked them questions and met their lack of response with silence. It was painfully clear that all 3 were non-performers that until that point, had effectively hidden among the folds of bureaucracy and acquisitions.
Those 3 assholes then had the audacity to file a complaint with HR for a “hostile work environment” when HR called me because I was in the meeting, I let them have it.
This manager had faced countless instances of sexism, misogyny, and harassment in her career, and I argued that if she was NOT a woman there is no world where these middle aged below average men would have filed a complaint.
After the “investigation” HR sided with my manager, fired the 3 men, she then found a better gig.
Trip down memory lane curtesy the recent JP Morgan story.
I received a notification that my daughter missed her last class of the day.
My first thought was “sweet! Maybe she ditched.”
Nope, she was just in the testing center and had a sub that didn’t know she had accommodations.
😕
R to @txsalth2o: She’s such a good kid- I want her to have adventures.
This generation is way too safe.
While this is heartbreaking. It’s also beautiful and charming. Tragedy prefaced by a life of beauty, is still a tragedy. But at least it is absent of regret.
My condolences and prayers to you and yours. Thank you for sharing your feelings and your beautiful memories.♥️
Orwell & Huxley argued over the future. Orwell saw a boot, Huxley saw freedom surrendered for comfort.
In 1984 Apple released one of the most iconic ads of all time, channeling Orwell’s 1984.
The irony: Apple is responsible for ushering in Huxley’s Brave New World.
R to @txsalth2o: She did inadvertently give me a gift- one of the greatest songs ever is now stuck in my head. https://youtu.be/wtBc5ABgYEM?si=r9FnFo134MNq9ou4
Ever wonder why your health insurance bill feels like a second mortgage? It’s not the doctors. Look at this chart: since the ’70s, physicians grew modestly. Administrators? They exploded. This is the real story behind runaway healthcare costs.🧵🪡
I will be at the United States Supreme Court today to speak at "The People vs. Poison Rally." My remarks will begin at 9:30 AM. Tune in! https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1XxygmLpZoYGM
The day after my birthday is not my birthday, mom.
17 yr old: Mom you’ve given me so many issues!
Me: Welcome to the human race! We ALL have issues from our parents. I got issues from my mom, she got issues from hers. The key is to buck up and overcome whatever they are instead of living life in aperpetual victimhood.
We were there front and center.
That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government.
After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.
R to @txsalth2o: That and creepy “kids movies” that did not have happy endings.
80s video games are why 80s kids are far more resilient.
You got to level 9 of Super Mario and died? You’re dead- back at level one.
None of this soft starting where you left off or saving your game garbage.
You want to win? You have to start over.
Fourteen of the criminals Roy Cooper released in 2021 have since been convicted of murder (plus one attempted murder)
That's the number of convictions, not even including offenders like DeCarlos Brown Jr. who are awaiting trial or have been ruled insane
Follow @CooperReleased
Democrats are mad that racism wasn’t real.
Reminds me of when they were disappointed that no kids died of Covid when Florida opened schools.
R to @txsalth2o: The number of people simping for Somalian fraudsters and Congressmen in the comments is really quite something.
R to @txsalth2o: In "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins," Dinkins loses his football career & is disgraced after betting on himself to win.
Tracy Morgan makes a great case for WHY football players SHOULD be permitted to bet on themselves to win, and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than letting Congress trade stocks based on their intel.
I feel terrible for anyone who loses their job. I’m not trying to kick anyone while they’re down.
But these USAID and NGO workers are the least sympathetic unemployed people I’ve ever seen.
EVERY person in this story was making well into six figures:
USAID employee: $175,000
USAID contractor: $127,000
USAID-funded NGO employee: $272,000(!)
USAID advisor at the DOD: $195,000
USAID contractor: $200,000
There were 16,000 employees at USAID, and the New York Times was only able to interview one making less than $175k. Worldwide, there were an estimated 280,000 contractors.
ALL of these people were getting paid from our tax dollars. Many were making 2-4x the wage of the average American taxpayer ($65-70k per year).
Yes, USAID did some good work, especially during the Cold War. And, yes, many of the agency’s employees were hard-working Americans, with good intentions and love for their country. Again, we should take no joy in seeing thousands of people lose their livelihoods—this is not a case of justifiable schadenfreude.
But it’s not sustainable for an agency with so little accountability to manage tens of billions of dollars per year, enriching tens of thousands of NGO-industrial-complex managers living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia metroplex in the process. Even the NYT acknowledges that “there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion [USAID] managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure.”
Every last dollar that went to these highly paid employees was funded by an American taxpayer, the vast majority of whom make far less money than the people laid off from USAID. We have the right to demand accountability, and we have the right to expect that these funds will be spent in our interest, not theirs.
USAID and its thousands of employees, contractors, and NGO beneficiaries ignored that principle, and they eventually paid the price with their careers. I wish them all nothing but the best, but I won’t mourn that they will no longer be making $200k per year on the backs of American workers.
He literally chose and drew a district for himself bc he hasn’t been able to win otherwise.
What's happening in Virginia should serve as a warning to the rest of the country. Democrats gained power and the first thing they did was invest all their political capital into disenfranchising the conservative voters of their state. This is what the Democrat machine will do to all Americans if given the chance. And it's one of the many reasons I'm running to defeat their loyal soldier Susie Lee.
Could you imagine if the Republican Party had spent $100 million on ads explaining how evil the Virginia Democrat takeover is,
Instead of funding John Cornyn’s losing campaign against another Republican?
Reminder that Republicans in Indiana took the "high road" and didn’t redraw 2 Democratic seats in a state that Trump won by +19 pts.
Virginia Democrats say they aren't the bad guys, they're just responding to Texas gerrymandering. But Texas's proposed map (+21%) is less of a gerrymander than the maps of California, Washington (+23), and MD (+26), and is similar to NY (18%).
I had a bunch of people whining in my comments that Boomers can't afford a Tesla with FSD. So I did some digging....
No one will be surprised.
Today we see if Fairfax County gets to control 5 of the 11 congressional seats in Virginia.
BTW that's the same county that keeps releasing illegal immigrants with multiple violent felony charges back on the streets to murder Virginians.
How do you rig an election? You rig the question. Look at this ballot asking Virginians to flip a 6D-5R congressional map to 10D-1R, breaking up every region of the Commonwealth. Yet the ballot says “to restore fairness.” Rigged.
VOTE NO.
Property taxes are nothing more than theft of unrealized gains. This is a great post.
My 80 yr old mom is a dangerous driver.
I’ve been trying to get her to test drive a @Tesla for over a year.
Tricked her into taking a test drive last week.
She was cranky about it.
She reluctantly got behind the wheel, said “take me to the nearest McDonalds”
It drove her there and parked.
She acted unimpressed.
I mentioned the price of gas in CA.
And what it would be like to have the car drive to LA for her.
Once we left the dealership she started making plans on where she was going to put the charger in her garage. 🤣
Tesla needs to do a better job of targeting senior citizens with their marketing.
He got probation for shooting up a car outside a school.
Probation.
The left’s views on guns are totally contradictory. On one hand, they demand strict gun control laws. On the other, their social justice crusade requires not enforcing them.
A circle that can’t be squared.
The menopause version of me is scary.
If you think I didn’t put up with sh*t before oh man it’s so much worse now.
Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $246,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $246,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
So why does owning a home work differently?
Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
It’s about being charged for value you never received.
And people are starting to notice.
This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️
If you’re paying an 8% tax and they propose a “2% tax hike” to 10%, what they actually proposed was a 25% tax hike.
They’re betting most people are too dumb to understand that.
And they’re usually right.
9 of every 10 new American jobs since pre-COVID went to someone born outside the country.
Triple checked the data. It's real.
+4.3M foreign-born.
+471K native-born.
Meanwhile, 335,000+ American layoffs in 2026.
HOW DO WE ALLOW THIS?
Meta suspended my FB account because an Instagram account I haven't touched in over 12 months apparently doesn't follow some rule.
I'm told to log in to that account to appeal, but I can't; it's no longer there.
I don't have access to Meta Accounts until I appeal from the account I don't have access to because it's deleted.
This is a gift.
R to @txsalth2o: Me: these two things are going to happen- they both suck. I have no advice to give.
X: wHy aRE yOU gIvIng suCH tERRiBLe aDVIce?
If a family of 4 maximizes just these 4 taxpayer funded programs…
Food Stamps: $12,000
Cash Welfare: $17,000
Medicaid: $25,000
Housing: $25,000
$79,000
Incentive for people all over the World to get to America.
And a major contributor to America being bankrupted.
End it.
I wish Congress would fight for U.S. citizens like they fight for Haitians.
Hey uh I’d like to see Trump talk about the 6 Haitian TPS traitor republicans in the house the way he talks about Thomas Massie, can somebody on his team make that happen?
I used to think like this, then cities started legalizing weed and now I fucking hate it.