#INDICT DONALD TRUMP RIGHT FUCKING NOW

[sweeneytodddemonbarber]

GRRR!!! I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE SIDING WITH THE GOP NAZIS ON OUR RIGHTS TO LIVE OUR LIVES, WHO TO LOVE, WHO TO BE, AND WHAT NOT!!! THIS ISN’T ABOUT PROTECTING KIDS BUT HARMING THEM BY PASSING THOSE BIGOTED BILLS—ESPECIALLY IN FLORIDA, AND IN TENESSEE WHERE DRAG IS BANNED!!!! DISMANTLE THE WHOLE REPUBLINAZI PARTY AND PUT A NEW GROUP IN TO TAKE OVER AND AGREE WITH DEMOCRACY!! I GOT INTO IT WITH SOMEONE ON INSTAGRAM ABOUT BEING TRANSPHOBIC AND SHIT!!! AND I BLOCKED HIM!!! 🖤✨🔥

Looks like ‘e messed with the wrong person.

DAMN STRAIGHT!!! HE FUCKED AROUND AND FOUND OUT WHEN I CALLED HIM OUT ON HIS ANTI-LGBTQ BULLSHIT!!! I SWEAR THESE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THE PHARISEES WHO KICKED OUT THE BLIND MAN DUE TO THEIR OWN IGNORANCE AND EGO!

Let ‘im choke on his own hate. Yeshua will handle him.

@iloveyoutoinfinity

[cyarskj1899]

Because Charlemagne’s name is on it I won’t be watching it simple. Tv shows, not watching. Songs, not playing. Movies, skip it not ticket. Ads, fast forward. Newspapers, avoid reading. Magazines, don’t buy. Social media platforms, unfollow and block.

I’m a simple girl.

[wilwheaton]

For some odd reason, moderator Jake Tapper told Trump in the beginning that he didn't need to answer the questions and that he could use the time however he wanted. Trump ran with that, essentially giving a rally speech whenever he had the floor and was unresponsive to the vast majority of the questions. He made faces and insulted Biden to his face, at one point calling him a criminal and a Manchurian candidate. If anyone had said 10 years ago that this would happen at a presidential debate they would have been laughed out of the room. After the debate when most of the country had turned off cable news or gone to bed, CNN aired its fact check. [...] Even had Joe Biden been at the top of his game, he would not have been able to parry all those lies and he shouldn't have been put in the role of being Donald Trump's fact checker. His choice was to either ignore the lies and let them stand so he could use his time to make his own case or spend the entire debate correcting the record. It was not a fair fight. It's obvious that Biden's terrible performance has caused panic among Democrats and liberal pundits and analysts. The calls for him to withdraw are loud and meaningful and it's going to be a very rough period in this campaign whatever happens. For me, this isn't really a question. As long as Donald Trump is on the ballot, I will vote for the Democratic nominee. If it's Biden or someone else, the calculation remains the same. Nothing is worse than another Trump administration and I suspect that at the end of the day Democratic voters will agree with that. So it's still a matter of those undecided voters in swing states, just like it was on Thursday morning.

CNN's debate was no fair fight

CNN, yet again, gave Trump a national stage to vomit an endless stream of unchecked lies, and today, CNN is telling itself and anyone who will listen that the network and its moderators did a great job. That’s just plainly false, and America is paying the price for their failure.

That doesn’t let Biden off the hook. Biden had a terrible night. He was so bad, it’s allowed the political press to completely ignore not just how much Trump lied, but what he lied about: January 6, all his indictments, his Covid response, and on and on. President Biden was a disaster, and his campaign should be at DefCon 1 to try and repair all the damage. I am terrified that his awful performance will obscure his surprisingly good record and leadership in the post-insurrection era, and give the political press an excuse to run with “Biden is old” in the face of Trump’s endless lies, his felony convictions, his pending trials, and all of his criminality. Someone at Salon said that Trump didn’t win, but Biden absolutely lost. I can’t argue with that, even if the facts are all on Biden’s side.

I’ve seen President Biden on TV today, and even last night after the debate, where he didn’t come across as an ancient dude who needs a walker on his way to some Matlock reruns. He looks and sounds like the SOTU Biden we all expected would show up last night. I have no idea why he was so awful for 99% of the debate (the campaign says he has a cold), and I have no idea why the guy who is showing up to speak to supporters today, and who delivered the SOTU didn’t show up last night to save America from Trump, again.

But we have to live with this reality now, and I hope like hell that the Biden campaign, the candidate, and the entire Democratic party apparatus scrambles like fucking crazy to get all hands on deck to fix this, and remind voters that

This isn’t about BIden vs. Trump. This is about America vs. Project 2025.

There will be no second debate where Biden can try to salvage something out of the wreckage of this one. Trump has everything to lose and nothing to gain. Trump will crow about how he won, and declare he has no reason to debate again, and he’s right. Biden had one shot and he absolutely blew it. The moderators did not help, but the campaign had to have known they wouldn’t, and it sure looks like they didn’t prepare Biden for what we all knew was coming. I don’t know how those same people stop the bleeding, and if they can’t, America and the world are in real, real trouble.

But we all have to remember that we have a choice to make in just a few months. Right now, and probably on election day, the choice is between Joe Biden and Democracy, or Donald Trump and Fascism. It’s stark, it’s clear, it’s binary, and I can not believe that it is even a question. I just hope that there are enough voters out there who will understand that we do have a choice. The options suck, but we do have a choice.

Please choose Democracy. Please choose America. Please choose the future world our children will inherit from us.

[polyacrylamidepensieve]

If you don’t vote for Biden, Trump will probably win. If Trump wins, we have someone as President who has said he will make it so that shoplifters “can just expect to be shot” when leaving the store. Trump bad is on a whole nother level. As someone who has lived in China before… yes. We do currently have free speech here in comparison.

He has plans in place to fire all of the people in government who check your food for safety and your cars for emissions, and replace them with people loyal to him.

If everyone who could stand up to him is replaced by a Trump loyalist, and if everyone who stands up to him is fired or locked up or indicted somehow on bogus charges, we’ll lose the ability to democratically oust him when his term is over.

Lots of things happened under him before that we never thought could actually happen.

As an asian american, I am going to be substantially less safe in a Trump presidency where white supremacists only get wrist slapped and then pardoned for violence like Jan 6th.

I’m scared. I’m angry as fuck at Biden for a lot of reasons. But I’m so so so scared of even the possibility of Trump winning.

It can get so much worse than the Muslim ban. He doesn’t care about the environment. He doesn’t care about humankind or human rights. He isn’t kind, and he isn’t afraid to use deadly violence to get what he wants. He wants to ban abortion nationwide. He wants to delegalize trans rights in the military.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Hemant Mehta at Friendly Atheist:

Last night was sickening. A replay of 2016. It’s hardly ancient history. We stepped on a rake years ago and we decided to do it again. This was a reminder that 2020, not 2016, was the year where the presidential election went sideways. The year of the pandemic was also the high watermark for the decade. The results are bad for church/state separation. Bad for civil rights. Bad for bodily autonomy. Bad for Ukraine and our foreign allies. Bad for Palestinians. Bad for science and the climate and common sense. Bad for just about every issue that matters to the type of people who read this newsletter. The worst people you know got pretty much everything they wanted. The people who have empathy and expertise—the people who care too much and want the best for others—lost again. A Trump without guardrails is a Trump who’s even worse than he was years ago, and he was really fucking awful years ago.

If the famous saying is “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” we’re about to be ruled by people who’ll do everything in their power to make sure we never learn about the past. The people who ban books, whitewash American history, and reject science have been given another chance to turn their ignorance into policy. We’re screwed in the event of another pandemic. Blue states will not be able to rely on federal funding in the event of a natural disaster because that will require Trump’s signature. When the economy collapses, Republicans will blame everyone but themselves and most people won’t know they’re being lied to. (The mainstream media can’t be expected to push back. They failed to meet the moment this time around, and they’re bound to get worse.) With the Senate now in Republican control and the presidency within Donald Trump’s grasp (the blue wall of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania have not yet been called), we’re on the verge of seeing at least two years of utter chaos with ramifications that will last even longer. At best, if Democrats manage to flip the House, they will still control a mere 1/6 of the federal government.

[...]

I don’t know how to beat back the firehose of misinformation that contributed to the rightward shift of the country. I don’t know what could have changed the minds of the half of the country that seems immune to reality. I don’t know what else the Harris campaign could have done to change the outcome. (There’s an argument to be made that she should have pushed back against Joe Biden’s policies, especially regarding Israel, but given the results, even if that helped her with Muslims in Michigan, it arguably wouldn’t have moved the needle everywhere else as much as she needed.) I also don’t believe Biden or a different candidate would have fared any better. It’s easy to feel like the past few months were just pointless. The debate that Harris won didn’t matter. The half-filled Trump rallies didn’t indicate a loss of support. The meandering ramblings of a man whose brain is clearly broken didn’t turn off enough people. The major endorsements for Harris—and the lack of big ones for Trump— didn’t change much. The overwhelming financial support for Harris didn’t overcome the billionaires backing Trump. The “vibes” didn’t match the other side’s arrogance. The Democratic National Convention, so full of joy, now feels like a last gasp rather than a new beginning. The Democrats’ superb ground game and the utter lack of one for Republicans still didn’t meet the “margin of effort.” Trump’s criminal indictments and impeachments and legal battles and mugshot and looming potential jail sentence (!) weren’t dealbreakers.

January 6 eventually led Trump to another term in office when it should have blackballed him from public life. Too many Americans are nostalgic for a utopia that never existed, and when they realized they’ve been conned, there are going to be a hell of a lot of conservatives eager to blame minorities of all stripes for all the problems they made worse. At the same time, as older generations of Americans understand all too well, the path to progress is never smooth and it requires constant vigilance. We knew that in 2016 and there were reverberations—in 2018 and 2020. We’ll now walk down that path again. It will likely be even more fierce this time around.

Last night’s election results were a gut punch for Americans opposed to the Orange Felon.

For the next four years, there will be horror show after horror show.

[anonymous-dentist]

"It's not that deep"

Yes, yes it is. It is that deep. Buying a Trump flag is that deep. I don't know if most of these Dream fans leftover in their echo chamber of a fanbase remember this, because they were probably kids, but the Trump presidency signaled the end of the world of minorities all across the United States. We're still feeling the repercussions of that today in 2022, almost two full years into Biden's administration. White supremacists are out in louder numbers than they have been in years. Antisemitism is on the rise. Abortion is being threatened in most U.S. states after the conservative-packed Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade this summer, a court packed by Trump and including Christo-fascists, racists, misogynists, homo- and transphobes, and literal alleged rapists and actual cult members. Anti-queer legislation is being pushed in a significant number of U.S. states and in the federal government by members of the legislature who have been emboldened by having a president that agreed with them.

The 2020 presidential election was huge- some of the largest numbers in decades- because people wanted this man out of office. And he's running again in 2024 despite having been impeached twice (the most for any sitting president in the history of the United States) and despite being under investigation for a bajillion federal crimes, including a recent indictment brought against him in response to him instigating, encouraging, and assisting an attempted insurrection and violent takeover of the government in January of last year. (You people might remember it for Doomsday on the smp; many others remember it as one of the most terrifying moments in U.S. political history.) He's running despite the several charges of campaign fraud and election interference brought against him. The Republicans might not be done with him yet, which is a terrifying thought. Even if they are and they're going with DeSantis for 2024, Trump is still planning on running, and he's bankrupt right now. He's broke. His company is broke. He is broke. The only income he gets now are from MAGA supporters buying his merch. Those funny little NFTs from last week? Those support him.

Know what else directly supports Donald Trump and his campaign? Flags. Buying flags.

Does this mean that Dream and Sapnap are Trump supporters for buying a Trump flag as a gag gift for their British friend? No, absolutely not, but the joke of 'lol look at this stupid idiot flag we got you' doesn't land when, A, the person giving the gift is a former Trump supporter himself, and, B, the person that the flag was bought from is a literal white supremacist and fascist who is friends with white supremacists and fascists who all want queer people to die, they want women to be silent or to die, they want civil rights overturned, they want to turn this country back into a shell of itself in the name of white male Christian supremacy

Dream's audience is young and vulnerable. Many members are queer. Many are POC. Most are young. They might not remember how fucking terrifying 2016 through 2020 were. People woke up in tears the day after election day in 2016 for a reason. The polls were flooded in 2020 for a reason. These audience members might not remember that because they were so young, or they might not realize the gravity of the situation. What does it say to them when their hero pulls out a Trump flag and says it's a gift? It's something to laugh at, yeah, but is it really? It shows people that it's okay not to take Trump seriously, and he and his followers are still a threat to America today. It's dangerous not to take him and his followers seriously. And since the Democrats don't seem to have anybody they're pushing for for 2024, it's especially important for potential voters (because that's what these fans are, many will be old enough to vote by 2024) to start to research and understand the opposition.

Oh, and this also alienates members of Dream's audience that do remember the Trump administration. Reminder, thanks to Trump and his buddies, being queer is becoming illegal again. POC are constantly under attack because of the racist remarks encouraged by Trump during his administration. Treating Trump as a joke could, and probably has, alienated a portion of viewers. It shows them just how seriously Dream thinks these issues are. It's all worth it for a funny joke that won't appear for longer than a minute on a several hour long stream train, one viewed by tens of thousands of people live and hundreds of thousands more via vods and clips in the 12+ hours that have passed since.

You'd think that Dream would know better with a platform this size and with a fanbase as unique as what his used to be, but I guess not. Critical thinking is vital in this industry, whether you're a fan or a creator. Do I think he meant any harm in this? No, I think he's just a moron. A terrible man, yeah, but not for this. For this, he's just a fucking idiot, and he needs to get a PR guy, and he needs to fucking think before he does things for once in his life. Because it could've been funny to some people, including himself, but there is a responsibility to be, well, responsible with yourself and your audience when you're a content creator. It's very easy to send the wrong message out. There's a certain level of critical thinking that needs to be put into place, and that clearly is not a skill that Dream has.

[anamericangirl]

There is a procedure when classifying and de-classifying documents. It is WRITTEN proof of said procedures. Trump did NOT do this. Period. You can't just think about doing those things and it's legal unlike Trump has stated. Stop being so fucking dumb!

I'm going to ignore your incredibly rude comments and what you think you know about how documents can be classified or declassified and make a statement about this situation that is the actual issue.

From what we know based on the information we have so far it looks like Trump did indeed mishandle classified documents.

BUT

So did Joe Biden.

So did Hillary Clinton.

And the DOJ set a standard with this occurrence when they didn't indict Hillary Clinton for not only mishandling classified information but also destroying it. They set a standard for it when they didn't indict Joe Biden for it. Joe Biden mishandled classified documents in the same way Donald Trump did. Hillary Clinton mishandled them in a more serious way. If you truly care about following proper procedures and people being prosecuted if they break the law and you're not just a crazy Trump hater who thinks he's the only one who should be held accountable then you should be furious right now.

If this is only going to be treated as a crime when a Republican does it, how is that ok in any capacity? If only Republicans aren't allowed to do it then this is just the DOJ being weaponized to go after political enemies and that is an atrocity.

And how convenient that Trump's indictment is going down and is all the fucking media is talking about right as we are finding out that there is strong evidence that Joe Biden has accepted a $5 million bribe from China and committed a serious felony. Why, I wonder, is Trump's, and only Trump's, mishandling of classified documents so important to you but everyone else gets a free pass?

[yeahiwasintheshit]

Wow!

Some much needed great news!

So somewhat recently, georgia republicans passed a law, for the first time in Georgia’s hundreds of years history, that the legislature can remove any prosecutor they want. Why would Georgia republicans all of a sudden decide that now, hundreds of years after it was founded, they would want to enact this clear abuse of power? Do you think it could be because one of the state’s prosecutors have indicted donald trump?

You’re goddamn right that’s the reason!

And they passed the law and that piece of shit governor, kemp, signed it. Of course it was immediately challenged in the states court system and finally made its way to the states supreme courtx, and last week, the night before thanksgiving the supreme court of Georgia ruled that that law was unconstitutional!!!!

So yaay! That’s the good news!

Bad news is that in their ruling they said that they can’t and won’t approve it “until lawmakers overhaul the measure” which means that the fucking republicans will in all likelihood try to rewrite it so that it can be passed. It’s to be seen whether the republicans actually decide to do anything... but they are shameless and power hungry, so it’s a good bet they will.

[variousqueerthings]

watched network and it's ofc very famous and the acting was very good, esp really interesting women in this one and it has some great moments and speeches, but idk. doesn't feel as though it has the same kind of heart to me as the other lumet films i've seen so far:

i thought it was interesting and worth watching, but both on an emotional and political level it seemed oddly disjointed to me in that way where it's abundantly clear that while it's meant to be satirising a whole swathe of ideas, some people have more innate humanity than others based on static identities (yes, the shadowy tv exec is a white dude, but so are almost everyone else. yes faye dunaway is giving a great performance as a cold, fucked up network person, but it's got great dialogue and there are other women in the film. black characters? well...) i don't even think it's anti-establishment as such, even though it does start there and probably wants to be and also could have been if it had been more focused

with parts that were tremendously good, especially the ex-wife speaking her part + the network executive describing the power of capitalist-fuelled "entertainment" in shaping peoples' opinions and how that plays now with especially american politics more shaped by that notion than what people have done politically a lot of the time, and other parts that were highly suspicious in their cold seemingly satirical dehumanisations, such as the depiction of a far-left liberation terrorist group based on the symbionese liberation army that is ultimately a hollow inclusion of leftist ideas (whether or not those ideas are positive it's just shallow) and certainly puts you in mind of what the fanatical ultra-radical hypocritical left looks like (and it looks like it's run by politically messy black people), or the anti-arab rhetoric that seems to come out of nowhere all of a sudden, twice! (and this without a single arab onscreen....)

that's it for me in the end -- where everything else I've seen so far of sidney lumet (12 angry men, dog day afternoon, serpico, running on empty.... so yes, i have a fair few yet to watch!) seems to be offering humanity within plots that have surface-level similarities, this one just seems very "throws ideas at a wall about being angry at... something, but it seems the people causing the trouble consist of a. the soulless network executives and capitalist CEOs (sure, yeah, ok) b. the shadowy arabs somewhere (huh?) c. the ultra-left, led by black people (.... wait) who ultimately will also cave to the great spectre of Ratings and d. literally everyone else who watches tv"

sometimes "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore" begs the question... who are you mad at, exactly? and this movie, in failing to answer that beyond a vague "... society? tv...?" kind of way rather than being more specific and direct, falls into some very biased obvious ideas, and also I think is at the core of why there are so many "woah this movie predicted everything!!!" type articles. it's a blank space that doesn't have a clear political idea and so people can fill that space however they want

i didn't really speak much to the "prophetic" nature of the movie, but that does also feel not-entirely-wrong-but-not-quite-right, I think people exaggerate -- it is resonant, especially today, but it's also based in the times it was made in: soulless network execs? they existed in the 70s. people doing extreme things that got a bunch of ratings? happened in the 70s. prophets on-air asking you to get mad? you got that in the 70s. like it wasn't ronald reagan and donald trump or the sheer amount of reality tv, but like. it's all structures being built in the 70s already

and I do give it a lot of reasonable doubt in intention, because as far as I know sidney lumet was always making movies with a clear idea about what he felt, and so I guess I can say who he is mad at, but the movie itself? feels more like an indictment against itself by trying to float a hopeless endless churn of soulless tv vs. the self-fulfillment that seemingly comes from pursuing a more wholesome (het, white, marriage-based, american) lifestyle that can "save" you from the trap of tv's ensnaring entertainment cycle. as if those two things aren't inherently connected

[corporationsarepeople]

“This is eye-popping,” said John Malcolm, a former federal prosecutor based in Atlanta who is now a constitutional scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, speaking of the contrast between the federal and state indictments. “What about the right — when you believe allegations to be true, or you have some evidence to support the allegations — to seek redress? And all of a sudden they’re perpetrating a conspiracy? I think that’s astonishingly dangerous.��

So what, John, you absolute fucking doorknob. They didn’t believe the allegations to be true. They didn’t have evidence to support the allegations. They were attempting to overthrow a valid election. They knew it, we knew it, everybody knew it. Not only that, it’s what trump was expected to do way back while he was still running in 2017 because he’s a total scam artist and crook.

Letting this slide would be astonishingly dangerous.

[johnnyrobish]

Trump Now Hawking $47 T-Shirts With a Fake, Photoshopped Mug Shot of Himself

It seems Donald Trump and his merry band of grifters have been working overtime, tirelessly trying to cash in on the former President’s indictment.  First, by having sycophants like Lindsey Graham and Rudy Giuliani hit the airwaves and beg MAGA followers to “Please send Donald Trump money!”  Now, after his arrest on 34 felony counts, the Trump money machine is now offering “Not Guilty T-Shirts” to those who make a $47 donation or more.  The tees sport an idyllic photoshopped mugshot pic of the former President.  Meanwhile, MAGA luminaries such as George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed up at the Manhattan Supreme Court to protest Trump’s arraignment, with Greene comparing Trump to Nelson Mandela and Jesus.

Soooo, it sounds like yet another grift is up and running.  Soon, we’ll have MAGA half-wits sending in all their beer, cigarette, and lotto money to this “billionaire.”  My, my, its Christmas in April.  Now, as far as the Jesus comparison goes, I don’t seem to recall Jesus ever telling his Disciples, “Now, go out and rough up protesters” and that He would “pay all their legal fees,” but what’ll I know?  I mean, where’s it read, “I bid thee, go forth and fuck up those damn Scribes and Pharisees.”  And, who knew that “The Passion of Christ” was all about nailing pornstars?  

The funny thing is, the folks showing up for these Trump rallies are some of the same folks who are really pissed about kids getting “participation trophies,” and yet they continue worshipping a dude who finished “second” in a friggin’ two-person political race.  Hell, I even read they’re claiming Trump is 6’5.”  Oh, hell yes!  Sure he is - if he’s standing on a pile of his indictments or on top of one of those boxes of classified documents he’s been hiding.

You know, Trump supporters love to claim he’s has accomplished more than any other President, and I have to admit they may be right.  After all, 34 felonies is one helluva lot of accomplishments, and it sure looks like there’ll be even more of these “accomplishments” coming down the pipe soon.  Why this has poor Fox News hosts popping Xanax like breath mints.  In all fairness, Trump did work hard to deregulate big corporations whilw he was president.  You know, like railroads and banking.  How’d that turn out?  Perhaps we should ask residents of East Palestine, Ohio, or investors in Silicon Valley Bank for that answer.

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[faulentzer]

This guy was a disgrace when serving as the US ambassador to Germany and now he’s running around on the loose further fucking US diplomatic efforts. He’s a twisted puppy on the wrong path. Makes me think of the homosexuals in Hitler’s early administration who fell in love with the “strongman” in order to protect their inner lack of self esteem. His religious fervor and attraction to people he sees as strong indict a deeply troubled and flawed man. The perfect fit for Trump world.

[thatstormygeek]

Like, I know we all know that right wingers lie all the time and every accusation is a confession and all that, but sometimes I still get so fucking pissed off by how blatantly full of shit they are.

“The now-former Representative George Santos’ actions were not only unbecoming of a member of Congress, but the facts reported by the ethics committee point to numerous violations of House rules and federal law, rendering him unfit to serve in this distinguished institution,” - Representative Ron Estes (R-Kansas)

"This [Donald Trump] indictment news from New York is absolutely unprecedented and appears to be about politics, not justice. The House has already started investigating Democrat DA Alvin Bragg to look into this potential abuse of his office against political opponents." - Representative Ron Estes (R-Kansas)

I am absolutely no fan of George Santos, but it is super interesting that he is the single republican who is to be held accountable for the bullshit so many of them pull.

And, just, I know railing against their bullshit doesn't change anything, but FUUUUUCK. It's so enraging.

Talking shit about "activist judges" and then doing obvious judge shopping:

The state of Texas joined the lawsuit under the direction of Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2022. The case was filed in Amarillo, an area without a Planned Parenthood facility – a jurisdiction that might seem an unlikely choice. There’s one good explanation, however: All cases filed there are heard by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. The Trump-appointed judge made headlines in early 2023 when he suspended the approval of a common abortion-inducing pill. Kascmaryk’s anti-abortion history on the bench makes him a strategic choice to rule on the case against Planned Parenthood.

Hell, my own mom told me she couldn't bring herself to vote for her neighbor for city council because he ran as a Dem. She knows this man. Likes this man. But because he's a Dem, she just left the question blank. She is the only person who would have known if she voted for him, and she still couldn't do it.

Blergh.

[returntosaturn271995]

Monday, August 14th: Can't talk- challenging myself

Today I surprised myself by easing into a productive day with zero complaints from my inner saboteur. This is likely due to the lack of alcohol consumed this weekend, so I didn't experience the normal amount of self-loathing that now comes standard packaged with any hangover over the age of 25.

I had way too much fun using Makenna's milk foamer and espresso maker to fill up the skeleton-smoking-a-cigarette to-go mug before my morning stroll. I sat at Palmy's and wrote some more stand-up material.

This was followed by me creating a "Talk Loopy" doc for work (Kellogg is a surprisingly fussy brand), doing a walk-through of the Fluency software (There is no social media software that isn't a total scam filled in by interns FYI), and looking into the US/Hispanic market for potential influencers.

This little productive boost was enjoyed in the new-and-improved backyard setup. I even made myself a little everything bagel with lox and bell pepper cream cheese with some iced passion fruit tea. The outfit of the day was a pair of Rollas cutoff shorts, high tops, a chocker with turquoise stone, and a white button-up shirt with a crop in the front and standard drape in the back.

After work tapped out at 3 pm (east coast hours!), I ran 25 minutes of intervals with my fastest hitting 7.33 miles per hour. Not a big deal, but it's actually a personal best. The wind was grey and refreshing and I stopped to go walk in the sand like I normally do. There was a really cute little boy rinsing his feet by the showers, he made sure they were squeaky clean before immediately getting them sandy again when walking back to the stairs. Symbolic of current and future beach bums everywhere.

After my run, I took a long shower and finished 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman (and goddamn did it take like 2000 weeks to fucking finish the damn thing. I get it! Time is finite.) Makenna and I then watched Drag Me to Dinner while poor Blue hid under her bed. Apparently, she got bit by another cat last night and isn't feeling her best. At least Hannah's a vet tech!

I did some post-run yoga (fucking ouch, my hips are bullshit), then listened to a meditation based on self-transformation that referenced Drake going from Degrassi to a rap career. Maybe Drake can help me transform my failing upwards rep into something closer to a savvy career woman?

Eh. Or not.

Now I'm sitting here, having definitely started from the bottom earlier this year, and considering whether I actually want to go on three dates this week. The hot Brit (Martyn) is going to take me on the back of his motorcycle on Saturday (here's hoping the limey bastard can stay on the right side of the road) and I currently have two other commitments. One for JRDN tomorrow with a guy named Micheal and one mini-golfing with a dude named Sam. Maybe I'm just tired right now but I'm not even sure it's worth the free food (and golf balls, I assume).

Surely I wouldn't cancel on a soulmate, right?

And surely my soulmate wouldn't take me fucking mini golfing.

Right?

At least for the real world: Donald Trump has now been indicted four times. Fucking four. One for each of the fucked up years he ruled this country with a tiny ham-colored fist.

In better news:

Last year, Massachusetts passed a four percent tax on people making over $1 million per year. Now, every public school student in the Commonwealth will have access to free breakfast and lunch. Small taxes on the wealthiest people being used to fund universally-beneficial programs? Sounds crazy enough that it just might work!

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

The new Hitler, Donald Trump!

Ya know,....... Trump is turning out to be the newer, smarter, better criminally educated Hitler is what's going on in America today.

Former President Donald Trump once complained to his White House chief of staff that his generals weren't "totally loyal" like Adolf Hitler’s during World War II.

“You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump asked then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Most Americans were never informed by any news media of this outrageous remark by former President Donald Trump.

WE KNOW THIS,.... After Trump became president, he is impeached — and acquitted — over allegations that he solicited foreign interference in the U.S. presidential election. THEN,.... Trump is impeached — and acquitted — a second time for incitement of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Because Republicans did not one of their own going down for what most of them supported, and they were the ones voting on it, NOT WE THE PEOPLE.........

Also,...Donald Trump is charged in two separate criminal investigations for sexual abuse.

Then,....Trump is indicted - in a historic first for a US president - over a Department of Justice investigation into the removal of classified material government documents from the White House, which were then taken to Mr Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after he left office, and people who were not given classified status by the FBI were allowed to see, and read these papers.

Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing and criticised the justice department's investigation, branding it "politically motivated" and a "witch-hunt-hoax".

Now these are crimes that YOU or I would be incarcerated for until we could prove our innocence, but Trump has yet to spend one hour behind bars for his crimes,...... because he's running for President AGAIN!

................ and he has millions of Americans supporting him!!!

This is astonishing to myself,........ but it's not to people who miss the old America where we had Black people as slaves and use to beat and kill those not subservient to the most prevailing religion that tells followers same sex marriage partners, transgender people, and women teaching men anything is wrong, forbidden, and even a sin against God.

This type of American is labeled as a neuropsychiatric personality, that has a lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior.

Which is exactly what we saw on January 6th, 2021 when Trump's supporters attacked the White House because Trump didn't win the election. Matter of fact it's Textbook neuropsychiatric behaviour.

But we are calling it Republican today,..... at least Trump is.

It's going to be interesting to see how the next presidential election unfolds, and will America go backwards in time and become more violent against those who are considered by Trumps supporters to be deviants,......... or will Americans once and for all put Donald Trump out to pasture right along with all his supporters.

And be done with the bigotry!

Just a thought given the current political arena..........

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