TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉

We're paying extra to have the fat removed, then calling it healthier. Hunters across North America made pemmican by pounding dried lean meat into powder and binding it with rendered fat, a concentrated food built for long journeys. Trappers and Arctic explorers who tried living on lean game alone learned why the fat mattered, and they had a name for what happened to them: rabbit starvation. Now, when the 93% lean costs more than the 80/20, people pay the premium, go home and make a dry meatloaf that eats like beef jerky. I'm buying the 80/20, saving a couple bucks, and making a meatloaf my family actually wants seconds of.

Dismantling the libs' billionaire tax pitch. Oceanside's deputy mayor stood in front of a crowd and told them the president decided their lives don't matter so billionaires could get a tax cut. That's dead wrong, and here's why. The accusation is a smear. The biggest change behind the Medicaid projections is a work requirement asking able-bodied adults to put in 80 hours a month of work, school or volunteering, and parents caring for kids 13 and under are exempt. That's fewer hours than most working families already put in, and calling it proof your life doesn't matter has one job: stopping you from asking whether the deputy mayor's solution solves the problem. It can't. Prop 40 is a one-time tax aimed at medical bills that arrive every single year, so what pays those bills when the one-time money runs out? The union behind it promised $100 billion, and Stanford's Hoover Institution researchers estimate roughly 30% of the tax base is already gone, with billionaires leaving before the first dollar was ever collected. Then look at who's selling it. Prop 40 was put on the ballot by SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, a union whose members work where most of this money would land. They have a direct financial stake in the spending, and they're using sick people's fear to sell a tax that pours money into their own industry. The premise is the worst part. "They're not going to give it to you" treats someone else's wealth as already yours. Most of that wealth is ownership in companies, not cash in a vault. "They have it and we want it" sets no limit on how much government can take, and today it's billionaires' stock while tomorrow it's whoever Sacramento decides has too much. California has run this play before. Prop 30 was sold as a temporary tax hike on high earners, and four years later voters were asked to extend it through 2030 and did. The left has turned government spending into a measure of virtue: back the tax and you care, question it and you're protecting billionaires. Taxpayers don't have to prove their compassion by surrendering their judgment. The people demanding billions have to prove their policy works, and "it's not perfect, but we're going to pass it" is the opposite of proof. Calling your opponents heartless is what you do when you want applause without scrutiny.