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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Ohman

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Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.”

Time Magazine has chosen Donald Trump as its Person of the Year. Although Time claims that its “person of the year” is not necessarily a designation of honor, it can be seen in no other light when the owner of Time issued this statement on Twitter:

Congratulations to President Trump on being named TIME Person of the Year 2024. This marks a time of great promise for our nation. We look forward to working together to advance American success and prosperity for everyone. May G-d bless the United States of America.

Reader Katharine H. shared a letter she sent Time Magazine about its choice of Trump as Person of the Year. I have included excerpts below:

Color me unsurprised that yet another formerly respectable publication has bent the knee to try and make us all accept the unacceptable and explain the inexplicable.

Your “Person of the Year” is a liar, a felon, an unapologetic white supremacist, a misogynist, a xenophobe, an adjudicated [sexual abuser], a bully, and a con artist.

Your “Person of the Year” embodies every single character trait I’ve tried to teach my three children NOT to have.

Your “Person of the Year” has broken countless norms of our democracy, including his refusal to accept the results of the free and fair 2020 election, and his incitement of an insurrection at the United States Capitol - the seat of our democracy.

[Y]ou are so fundamentally and inherently wrong to normalize the most abhorrent human imaginable, who has done immeasurable damage to our country, has corrupted its institutions, and is on a path to destroy its fragile and vaunted democracy all in service of his own disgusting and insatiable ego.

Your “Person of the Year” is an insult to millions of Americans like me who care about basic decency, democracy, and the rule of law.

Trump's statements in his Time Magazine interview

In his interview with Time Magazine, Trump admitted that he will not be able to reduce the price of groceries—as he repeatedly promised during the campaign. What a surprise! See HuffPo, Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices

Trump also said he would

allow Israel to annex the West Bank.

begin pardoning January 6 insurrectionists “in the first hours” of his administration.

use the military to deport immigrants

impose tariffs on countries that refuse to accept immigrants deported by the US.

President Biden announces 1,500 clemency grants

On Thursday, President Biden announced the largest grant of clemency in US history. The White House announcement is here: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans | The White House

Per the White House announcement,

The President is commuting the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities. He is also pardoning 39 individuals who were convicted of non-violent crimes. These actions represent the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo published a thoughtful article on Biden’s mass grant of clemency. See Talking Points Memo, Pardons and Unmerited Grace.

Marshall argues that clemency should be more broadly available and should be the norm rather than the exception, given the harsh reality of prisons and the over-sentencing that frequently occurs because of mandatory minimum sentences and federal sentencing guidelines.

Marshall writes,

In fact, much of what passes for pardons or clemency today aren’t really pardons at all. They’re basically fake clemency. . . . [I]n almost every one of these cases the recipients have already done their time! They took responsibility; did their time; expressed remorse and then went on to live an exemplary life. What they get is an almost entirely symbolic record wiped clean.

I recommend Marshall’s article to anyone concerned that Biden’s mass grant of clemency is unwarranted or unusual.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter] :: "The billionaire boys club surrenders in advance"

[littledangerouspie]

me, every time i think about Dave Lister

[xreloveutionx]

I wanna be in love, I mean really really really in love.

Fucking need it.

But life's testing me, it really is, I know that.

[walking-circles]

ate like seven peieces of pizza 😁😊👍

[justaellything]

What the f…?!

Ich hatte heute mit Japanern eine Besichtigung hier. Mein Highlight waren die drei Müllsäcke, die mir beim Wandschrank zeigen entgegen geflogen sind. Cool fand ich aber auch die Dreckhäufchen, die überall in der Wohnung verteilt waren.

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ If you look for small details in cartoons, you'll often be rewarded. The upside-down flag at half staff is a great symbol for this year.

As for Zuck's perm, nothing says "masculine energy" like a guy entering middle age adopting a fashion that was new six years ago. Maybe Mark will now be shopping for skinny jeans with the factory created slits over the knees.

BTW, if you are still using broligarch media (Twitter/X, the Meta platforms, etc.) you need to quit. You make these people richer and more powerful by remaining there.

[viviiyon]

Hi chat

[pup-pee]

hhhHHHHH

[nerdynumme-rp]

Rosanna smiled at his reassurance, it was nice to hear from someone in her own house that they didn't feel that way - at least not him, and he seemed like a harder one to crack, so it spoke volumes to her heart. At the offer of help her heart weeped, but happily, that was SO thoughtful! How nice! She had Schlatt all wrong, he was just quiet, he was just to himself, he liked his privacy, he was just a little cold to read, but what a sweetie! She hummed, and now she couldn't help but give the toothiest smile. "You really mean that?" she chirped, almost like a happy little songbird.

Springtide Stroll || Open

Spring was in full bloom, and normally Rosanna would be absolutely thrilled about it, but this year she was a red nose, puffy eyes, mess. Still she was trying to look on the brighter side of things, like how beautiful the campus looked, it's garden and green house in full bloom, or how lively the grounds were with people, or how happy her pups were to go out on walks now, without their little sweaters. With all that in mind, she decided she was going to try, in action, taking a stroll to the local cafe for a Spearmint tea, to hopefully unclog her sinuses, and treat herself to a berry and cheese Danish. As she began strolling along the campus, the trees were swaying happily with the breeze, dancing their vernal dance. "ACHOOOO" a loud sneeze bellowed across the yards, despite her tiny itty bitty frame, it echo'd loudly. "UGH!"

[woosome]

[smieska]

I love experiencing Dracula as an audio play omg

The beginning, you really feel Jonathan hanging on by a thread, JONATHANS FUCKING PISSED

but then fucking Dracula quoting an English saying in a perfect British accent all of sudden threw me way waaaay off. Creepy as hell. I love it.

[shotofchinaco]

Jack Ohman

[6okuto-moved]

actually losing my mind over vere + ais + mc like…. imagine how fun that would be. they would all get up to so much m

VERE/MC/AIS HCS

gn!reader | :3 hiii. these can be read platonically! it's mostly little moments i can imagine. for fun!

it's a fun dynamic where there can always be a duo making fun of one person and it switches every day, every hour. one person goes wow vere you're so horny what's your deal and the other joins in. later vere and mc find themselves making fun of ais for acting so tough and mysterious. mc getting bullied about Not having Gloves,

sorry i've been watching lethal company a lot but they'd be sooo annoying /affectionate. making fun of each other on the radio, pretending like they can't hear them. vere getting pissed off when you don't get his body. ais taunting all the monsters while mc is telling him to shut the fuck up. mc saying "bet you can't make that jump" and then getting them to fall.

the three of them show up at the wet wick and it's already bad enough with vere and ais but now the trio… will a fight start? will a fire be lit by accident? how many people from and outside the main cast have headaches

ais says he's bored and mc goes Start a fight or something and vere's like yeah ais just start a fight. and ais is like ? you guys suck ass. but also he Will start one. so

vere and mc watching ais in a brawl and they comment to the bystander next to them like. How much you wanna bet he wins? and it's a joke but i do think they could/would bet on ais at some point LOL

mhin thinks they might die btw. would rather die than be put in a room with them, even. their worst nightmare.

leander. ....vaguely jealous of mc/all of them even as they all taunt and tease him. somebody get this guy some friends please

i never thought about it but i do wonder what vere's relationship is with princess/ais's pets. i don't knowww imagine how cute it could be watching them jump on him or fighting over who they like most...

vere and ais (un)intentionally use inside jokes/references with each other so mc has a few choices of 1) staring at them 2) asking what they're talking about 3) making fun of them etc. if mc is genuinely bothered by it i'm sure they'd explain and stay aware of it. if mc is just like Ok Be a little less Obvious they roll their eyes and tease them too

moments where two are hanging out, the third appears and goes Wow, Hanging out without me? and the two are like What, Are you obsessed with us or something? Need to always be near us?

specifically thinking of ais coming up on vere and mc are sitting together. they start teasing and jokingly flirting with him as if he's a stranger and it starts unraveling when they ask who's his favourite like Oh??? Them??? after everything we've been through???

ais disliking isolation, vere and mc check on him every so often and behind his teasing remarks, there's a softness and gratitude in his gaze

one of them starts to absentmindedly brush vere's tail and then the other notices and joins in. vere trusting them but still threatening to like, kill them if they mess up his fur. mc and ais going oohh i'm gonna mess it up so bad and then his tail has never looked nicer

a lot of things are meant for 2 people sitting... on the bus or carnival rides etc etc so the odd one out gets chosen by like. rock paper scissors. or just some silly game. not always of course but it happens. "best out of 3" "ok wait fuck you best out of 5" etc

cute little moment where person in the middle leans against one's shoulder, and the one on the other side notices and leans on theirs. a train!!

[tomorrowusa]

Trump's response to the air disaster over the Potomac River which he indirectly contributed to is typical. He evades responsibility while spewing outright lies to distract attention.

Trump’s Racist Rants Conceal the Right’s Air Safety Failures

The number of air traffic controllers declined in each year of Trump’s first presidency. Then Trump plunged air traffic controllers (and other federal workers) into uncertainty during the 2018–19 government shutdown, which forced controllers to work without pay—a major blow to their already battered morale. That shutdown only ended, it should be remembered, when enough New York area controllers called in sick to ground flights on the East Coast. The Biden years saw a slow rebuild of controller ranks. But warning signs of a systemic crisis were growing. Training of new controllers was disrupted by the Covid pandemic, and staffing shortages continued. A spate of near-misses led the FAA to convene a unusual “safety summit” on March 23, 2023, to discuss solutions, and the office of Department of Transportation Inspector General Eric J. Soskin completed a 2023 audit that found that 20 of the FAA most critical facilities 26 (77 percent) were below the 85 percent minimum staffing levels and supervisors were mandating overtime and six-day work weeks to cover staff shortages. Biden’s FAA hired 1,811 controllers in 2024, and his 2025 budget sought funding to hire 2,000 more. Trump’s return to the presidency has already been a setback for air safety. He fired DOT Inspector General Soskin, who illuminated the extent of the FAA’s staffing problems. Trump’s White House alter ego Elon Musk succeeded in driving Biden’s FAA administrator, Mike Whitaker, from office even before Trump was sworn in, because Whitaker’s FAA had the temerity to fine SpaceX for safety violations. Musk even went so far as to claim that “humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!” That Trump’s FAA intends radical changes seems clear. Astonishingly, his letter encouraging federal workers to resign their positions and find private sector jobs went to air traffic controllers despite the continued staffing crisis at the nation’s airports. [ ... ] Trump’s “deep state” conspiracy theories and obsession with DEI are doing far graver harm, reducing the right’s anti-government discourse to authoritarian theater and farce. Make no mistake, these recent events are a harbinger of what is to come. Trump’s effort to deflect attention to DEI should not avert our eyes from the larger collision that threatens the very functioning of our government unless we make a course correction.

If you can avoid flying during the next few years, please wait.

A reminder of the true DEI...

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jack Ohman

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“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.” ― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

[wifeiy]

spoke in class + brothers' bday/xmas gift of the Arcane Art Book arrived. MAMMA MIA!!!