The all-American working man demeanor of Tim WalzāKamala Harrisās new running mateālooks like itās not just an act.
Financial disclosures show Tim Walz barely has any assets to his name. No stocks, bonds, or even property to call his own. Together with his wife, Gwen, his net worth is $330,000, according to aĀ reportĀ by theĀ Wall Street JournalĀ citing financial disclosures from 2019, the year after he became Minnesota governor.
With that kind of meager nest egg, he would be more or less in line with theĀ median figureĀ for Americans his age (heās 60), and even poorer than the average. One in 15 Americans is a millionaire, a recent UBS wealth reportĀ discovered.
Meanwhile, the gross annual income of Walz and his wife, Gwen, amounted to $166,719 before tax in 2022, according to their joint return filed that same year. Walz is even entitled to earn more than the $127,629Ā salary he receivesĀ as state governor, but he has elected not to receive the roughly $22,000 difference.
āWalz represents the stable middle class,ā tax lawyer Megan Gorman, who authored a book on the personal finances of U.S. presidents, told the paper.
Wow, you are 100% dead-on right. Be prepared for downvotes though, because you claimed the existence of good religious people here!
Iāve met a surprising number of āgood religious peopleā, but itās not surprising most people think they donāt exist. I think this phenomenon transcends religion though
In the case of good Christians, the one unifying quality all of them have is they arenāt loud, and they arenāt pushy about it. They live their lives with a set of fundamental values and are always willing to go out of their way to help a neighbor. If it werenāt for the symbology in their homes you might never know.
I think itās the same with anything else. If youāve never met a trans person who doesnāt make enforcing pronouns their entire identity, itās easy to have your perspective skewed towards the obnoxious loud ones you see online. If you donāt personally know a cop or a black person, sensationalist stereotypes might be your internal idea of normal about them too. Etcā¦
Linux users thoughā¦ weāre all pushy weirdos. Not a normal good one among us :)
Actually now that itās been mentioned, have you ever tried Linux on the desktop? Itās really good these days. I do not use arch btw, Iām a Debian user myself.
The word for this is fundamentalism. When people believe itās their way or the highway and all others must conform.
However, in the case of trans folk, I think itās a bit different. Theyāre not forcing pronouns on others, just asking that they be shown basic human respect. If you were a straight man, Iām sure youād get pretty annoyed if someone insisted on calling you a woman nonstop. Sometimes, people need to be louder when theyāre facing an existential crisis as they are in the USA among other places.
This feels like a āyes, but actuallyā¦ā. That is kinda missing the point.
Not seeing many downvotes. I think people understand nuance more than you expected. :)
Iām loving being wrong!
its in to love carter now so not so sure on that.