Let me be real personal and transparent for a few minutes, as brutally honest as I can be, given what's gone on this week over the life issue and my ongoing (I hope) righteous indignation over it.
The two most common responses I have received to what I'm posting and saying right now have been "you're helping the Democrats win" or "but you're still voting for Trump." These two responses are actually the same stimuli, just different reactions. Neither is looking at the broader picture, but just screaming "Cheeto Jesus Saves" and "Orange Man Bad" back and forth. Meanwhile, we've got problems, existential ones.
This isn't about Trump. Sure, both he and our enemies want it to be at all times. But this is about us, or at least should be, which is what I want it to be about.
We cannot sustain another four years of what is quantified in the chart I am sharing below. Sure, there's still enough pent up wealth in the country that many in the decisive suburbs still aren't feeling it now, but another four years of these trendlines (or worse) and it will be absolutely be felt in ways this generation hasn't before contemplated (and that's not counting other existential issues like weaponizing the DOJ to prosecute/imprison people for praying or protesting, leaving the border open for invasion, etc).
So here's where the personal part comes in.
Early last year I was invited to be on @Timcast show. The discussion we had there may have produced the most viral moments in my career thus far. My wife went with me, and was enamored with the setup they have there, and hoped one day we could have something similar for my show.
Well, last year our efforts were really blessed, so thank you to both all of you and the Lord. Last year we made about $400k pre-tax from the show, book royalties, speaking, political consulting, my wife's therapy work, etc. By far our most successful year yet. We were living paycheck to paycheck as recently as 2018. My lease is up next year in our current studio space, so we thought maybe we are making enough money now to have what Tim Pool does.
This month we went shopping for a house that could be what we want. Keep in mind we have been in our current home for 18 years, and it's now worth more than double what we paid for it then. So we theoretically have a nice nest egg there for a down payment on a new home.
But between how hard it is to find buyers for our current home, and current interest rates (which make new mortgages literally 100% more than they were before Biden came into office), we simply couldn't make the math work. You can't cash in on your own equity without a buyer, and then we were looking at mortgage payments above $5000k/month on the other end.
In other words, while earning in the top 5% of Americans, we were at best gonna be "house poor" but in a nicer house. So, given our current situation, if we can't make it work, how does the average American make it so? What about the young family that is now where we were 20 years ago looking for that starter house to embark upon the American dream? You know, like my princess @Anastasia_Hibbs and her husband @Steven_Hibbs_?
Most days, I cannot personally tolerate Trump's unrestrained narcissism/douchery/dishonesty/etc. I am never going to be invited into his inner sanctum, and frankly given what I've heard about what goes on there I don't want to be. I wanted a provably better man and a much more capable leader to be our champion. I sacrificed quite a bit professionally to make it so. I lost. The people have spoken. I wish we weren't re-playing the geriatric Olympics and taking one more "ok boomer" trip around the mountain. But it is what it is.
If you don't want to support Trump, it's not like he's not given you real reasons. I've read many of those myself, as in the notes from people still suffering from his unrepentant lockdowns and poison poke. I might be the only person on earth who has had a hand in writing two best-selling books about those cosmic failures.
I honestly don't know what to do. I am as confused and scared as everyone else, which is also why I'm turning more and more into theology on the show. I am actively trying to put more of my trust in the Lord, where it should've been all along.
But He does give us the freedom to make choices. As to this one, I am not confident about putting Trump back in there after he blinked and puckered before when we needed him most. I am also confident literal demons are in the White House as we speak and this can't go on one more minute. We are in a terrible place as a people, a hole we sadly dug ourselves. People of conscience can disagree, then, on what is the best way to put down the shovel.
As for me, I still think (and it's just my own opinion) despite all my current criticisms, the most righteous outcome is that Trump wins because the caliber of people he will likely empower to make most of the decisions are way superior to what is empowered now, if nothing else. Which is another reason why I am so mad at his selling out on the life issue.
He is pandering to a constituency that doesn't exist, and I fear he is losing the election right now by going down the same road the Mitt McCains went down before on this issue and then lost (by igniting their bloodlust base while stifling his own pro-life base by running from the issue). I fear he is playing right into our enemies' hands, just as he did when he handed the full power his office to a Karen in a bedazzled scarf and midget demon to wreak havoc.
Trump is making the conversation about abortion and not the matters itemized in the attached chart. And that's just what our enemies want, and precisely why their odds in the betting markets have soared as of late. Trump isn't playing 4-D chess, he's walking face first into Little Big Horn -- just as he did during Covid. Nor do I believe, on the authority of His Word, that God will bless His people turning their backs on what He holds most sacred.
This isn't about emotion for me, as it is for the Cheeto Jesus Saves and Orange Man Bad crowds, it's about pure math. It's not that I don't think Trump will win this way, it's that I think he cannot possibly do so.
I'll stop here. That's as honest and transparent as I can be. Do with it what you will.
The two most common responses I have received to what I'm posting and saying right now have been "you're helping the Democrats win" or "but you're still voting for Trump." These two responses are actually the same stimuli, just different reactions. Neither is looking at the broader picture, but just screaming "Cheeto Jesus Saves" and "Orange Man Bad" back and forth. Meanwhile, we've got problems, existential ones.
This isn't about Trump. Sure, both he and our enemies want it to be at all times. But this is about us, or at least should be, which is what I want it to be about.
We cannot sustain another four years of what is quantified in the chart I am sharing below. Sure, there's still enough pent up wealth in the country that many in the decisive suburbs still aren't feeling it now, but another four years of these trendlines (or worse) and it will be absolutely be felt in ways this generation hasn't before contemplated (and that's not counting other existential issues like weaponizing the DOJ to prosecute/imprison people for praying or protesting, leaving the border open for invasion, etc).
So here's where the personal part comes in.
Early last year I was invited to be on @Timcast show. The discussion we had there may have produced the most viral moments in my career thus far. My wife went with me, and was enamored with the setup they have there, and hoped one day we could have something similar for my show.
Well, last year our efforts were really blessed, so thank you to both all of you and the Lord. Last year we made about $400k pre-tax from the show, book royalties, speaking, political consulting, my wife's therapy work, etc. By far our most successful year yet. We were living paycheck to paycheck as recently as 2018. My lease is up next year in our current studio space, so we thought maybe we are making enough money now to have what Tim Pool does.
This month we went shopping for a house that could be what we want. Keep in mind we have been in our current home for 18 years, and it's now worth more than double what we paid for it then. So we theoretically have a nice nest egg there for a down payment on a new home.
But between how hard it is to find buyers for our current home, and current interest rates (which make new mortgages literally 100% more than they were before Biden came into office), we simply couldn't make the math work. You can't cash in on your own equity without a buyer, and then we were looking at mortgage payments above $5000k/month on the other end.
In other words, while earning in the top 5% of Americans, we were at best gonna be "house poor" but in a nicer house. So, given our current situation, if we can't make it work, how does the average American make it so? What about the young family that is now where we were 20 years ago looking for that starter house to embark upon the American dream? You know, like my princess @Anastasia_Hibbs and her husband @Steven_Hibbs_?
Most days, I cannot personally tolerate Trump's unrestrained narcissism/douchery/dishonesty/etc. I am never going to be invited into his inner sanctum, and frankly given what I've heard about what goes on there I don't want to be. I wanted a provably better man and a much more capable leader to be our champion. I sacrificed quite a bit professionally to make it so. I lost. The people have spoken. I wish we weren't re-playing the geriatric Olympics and taking one more "ok boomer" trip around the mountain. But it is what it is.
If you don't want to support Trump, it's not like he's not given you real reasons. I've read many of those myself, as in the notes from people still suffering from his unrepentant lockdowns and poison poke. I might be the only person on earth who has had a hand in writing two best-selling books about those cosmic failures.
I honestly don't know what to do. I am as confused and scared as everyone else, which is also why I'm turning more and more into theology on the show. I am actively trying to put more of my trust in the Lord, where it should've been all along.
But He does give us the freedom to make choices. As to this one, I am not confident about putting Trump back in there after he blinked and puckered before when we needed him most. I am also confident literal demons are in the White House as we speak and this can't go on one more minute. We are in a terrible place as a people, a hole we sadly dug ourselves. People of conscience can disagree, then, on what is the best way to put down the shovel.
As for me, I still think (and it's just my own opinion) despite all my current criticisms, the most righteous outcome is that Trump wins because the caliber of people he will likely empower to make most of the decisions are way superior to what is empowered now, if nothing else. Which is another reason why I am so mad at his selling out on the life issue.
He is pandering to a constituency that doesn't exist, and I fear he is losing the election right now by going down the same road the Mitt McCains went down before on this issue and then lost (by igniting their bloodlust base while stifling his own pro-life base by running from the issue). I fear he is playing right into our enemies' hands, just as he did when he handed the full power his office to a Karen in a bedazzled scarf and midget demon to wreak havoc.
Trump is making the conversation about abortion and not the matters itemized in the attached chart. And that's just what our enemies want, and precisely why their odds in the betting markets have soared as of late. Trump isn't playing 4-D chess, he's walking face first into Little Big Horn -- just as he did during Covid. Nor do I believe, on the authority of His Word, that God will bless His people turning their backs on what He holds most sacred.
This isn't about emotion for me, as it is for the Cheeto Jesus Saves and Orange Man Bad crowds, it's about pure math. It's not that I don't think Trump will win this way, it's that I think he cannot possibly do so.
I'll stop here. That's as honest and transparent as I can be. Do with it what you will.
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