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Take notes. People demand to know if Shawn is gay. These are the people who will make him pay for it. His fan base is mainly composed of fifteen-year-old girls. There's a lot of anecdotals attached to Shawn. I hear a lot of: No One Cares If He's Gay. That is not true. Those young girls care a lot. The problem is that Shawn is writing about intimacy. And so are they. It's a double-edged sword. Everybody wants to be a Normal. Let's be very clear here. There are rules and acuterment to being a heterosexual. The red truck would be one. Teenage boys see Shawn as a threat. They stand in the background grimly. They tolerate him but barely. They think he's gay and just isn't willing to pay the price for it. All of this translates to clicks and hits. The paparazzi are all over Shawn because those editors know clicks, hits, and give us the dirt. I know these guys. Identity is a witch. They are waiting for the pictures of Shawn with another guy. In fact, they're drooling for it. The media vampires will take him in and spit him out. They will take his career and drown it. It's lucrative. Shawn is not the problem. Being eye candy is always a problem. They are pouring him into the great big box of fun things to stereotype him because he's unavailable. Sexuality is just another whipping post. The term, Mental Health, is code for gay. This is all stuff Shawn has talked about. Here's the bottom line. People would like to make love to Shawn Mendes. To be a fantasy has never been a calling.

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Tim Barrus and the New York Times

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Take notes. "But voters still trust his positions more than his opponent’s."

Don't tell me. Show me.

I do not believe it. There's a different standard for showing, and clinging to a narrative that is dubious at best. How do we know that Americans trust Trump more. Where are the figures and whose data are we talking about. What did you know and when did you know it. Criminality is culture, too.

Americans will opt to grab at the simple solutions. They're busy. They live in terror of losing their jobs. They're hung over. Nervous. Their kids are failing. They're in debt. But they get to vote. Yet Americans want to be controlled.

They are already controlled. That is what advertising is. You being controlled. You being told there is a god and you must worship him the way we tell you to worship period. Let us away to art.

1969: They Shoot Horses, Don't They. Gig Young was Rocky Gravo, the evil ring master of ceremonies. Rocky can sell you anything. The Bob Barker of 1934. Just keep dancing. Just keep dancing. Just keep the people entertained with who dies first. Just keep the people on their toes with who dies last. Rocky Gravo has to prove that he is not ordinary. Rocky Gravo is ordinary. Look around the dance arena and you will see the people we never see at all. They blend into the walls. Rocky Gravo is dog eat dog. Complexity is not his problem.

Immigration is code for Let's Make Them Dance. Come on down.

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Take notes. It was Armageddon. I am still clawing out of it. Even as my neighbors are just beginning to deal with the trauma of losing everything. The tourists are pouring in. A steady stream of tourism -- disaster porn -- didn't even flinch at another opportunity to see us struggle. I have not seen any evidence there even is a government. I have always known that the government doesn't really want to help us. So we become as self-reliant as we can. We cut our own trees. We dig the graves. When some power was restored last night, I am told they are still finding bodies in trees. I can't think of whatever else we might do to entertain the tourists. They do not arrive with chainsaws. No government. No food. No water. No hospital. Nothing. Do not show your tourist face to us. The humans hit hardest are babies. And they will be the ones who decide who gets to live where, and who will not live through storms like Helene. Because, it's all gone political. Remember what our fearless leader said: Global warming is a hoax. Homo sapiens are not going to care until some devil of a storm blows the doors off their hinges. I am now unhinged. Some door. Now guns. I am hundreds of miles from any ocean. You can only take care of yourselves. Where is FEMA. Even as the hurricane was furious, it had been decided by the business community to keep the T-shirt shops open. Someone might need a cocktail and a T-shirt. The videos are a pornography. In Appalachia, we are ruined. -- Tim Barrus

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Charleen lives down the dirt road from me. I will not dwell on trailer stereotypes. Charleen is poor. We read a lot about the poor poor. Charleen and her babies lived in the car that now sits at the side of the trailer in the thick nettle weeds. Charleen gets rides. Charleen is my entire poll. I want her opinion. She's pretty free with it. "I think I should be Vice President." I take her to Denny's and we talk. Charleen would be horrible as Vice President. Charleen has goings on back in that woods. Charleen has only been twenty-five miles from where she was born. Right here. Her mother sneaks them food. Her mother will babysit. Charleen does not approve of local politicians. "More crooked than a barrel of fishhooks." Charleen reads all the wrong things. The poor have no face in the media. You do not know how we live. We are not a novel. We are not a film. No one sees us. We're just the poor. We don't vote. We don't matter. We do not care because every day, we are just the bottom feeders. Trying to survive by the skin of our teeth. Charleen has a few teeth left. No one takes Charleen to Denny's. I explained that she cannot be President. "Why." I gave her my best Because You Are Nineteen Look. Oh. I get a bad case of sensory overload from too much East Coast Political Handwringing. Charleen likes Kelly because he went to the moon. I refuse to discuss that one. Charleen hides pregnancy. I have delivered her to the clinic on my dirt bike. She does not own her own body. Men do.

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Take notes. Trump wants to burn the constitution. He will write the new constitution. He already has. What I want to know is where are the tens of thousands of other people who have sworn to protect the constitution. Trump took this oath to protect. And so did every member of the military. I want to know why they do nothing. How can you take that oath and do nothing. America did not protect it. You gave it all way to a rapist psychopath. The right is filled with deep hatreds, and let's be real, how much does it to take manipulate Americans. Americans believe what they are told to believe. I proved that. All by myself. To think we should burn the constitution. It's the only piece of paper that protects us (from people like Trump, and the people who voted for him). They do not merit inclusion in society. We should overtly and with our own revenge, herd them. Do not draw blood because it's way too convenient. Marginalize traitors so fundamentally, they can't claw back. They are all a threat to the constitution. Every last one of them. We need to throw them all into the deep freeze of overt poverty, refuse to house them, refuse to feed them, refuse to work or sweat for your Republican masters, refuse them medical care, wish them babies and babies and babies. Target them with a resistance. Heap shame on them every minute of every day. Let him hear us every day of life left. Shame. What comes around, comes around. Adopt their tactics. Americans get what they so richly deserve.

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Take notes. All flights (to anywhere) on November 6 are filling fast. I have already got my family out. The trick is to know when to get out of Dodge. The American people simply do not believe Trump will do what he has pledged to do. The threat to execute people he doesn't like seems to be, to most Americans, overkill. He wants you to be afraid, and we are. What will we be in 2028. If we are left standing at all. We are worried about 2025. 2028 seems so far off we refuse to examine the possibilities. Exactly how does he trash the US Constitution. How do you trash something you have vowed to protect. Do you burn it. Or do you rip it up. Question: Where are the other voices who have sworn to protect the Constitution. Why can't those voices do what they have vowed to do -- protect the Constitution. From Trump. What would that mean. Civil war. When the Confederacy was defeated in 1865, Jefferson Davis was captured, arrested for complicity in Lincoln's assassination, accused of treason, and imprisoned at Fort Monroe. Trump and Davis share analogies. A commitment to enforced institutional racism. We never really ended slavery. We just call it other names. Black prisoners working for the man (suits) do not represent an antithesis to slavery. That is slavery. Selective punishment, revenge, and it placates white people who are threatened every other minute. We have never settled the War Between the States. Fort Monroe is a museum. Bit it could still contain one old man.

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Take notes. The despair is real. The hate is real. And the revenge that drives the beast is real as well. We don't talk about jealousy too much. This is a Culture World War. You will be told that it's more complex than that, and it is. But not to the threatened species that is homo sapiens. They recognize complexity, and they emerge rattled. Knowing how things work, is work. Politics is television. They are one and the same. Throw in some dancing, an orchestra, and french fries. It's Your Dog And Pony Show. I want to know why Americans talk the talk, but there is no way we are going to walk that walk. What are the institutionalists going to do. When the Politik twists toward blue. Who do you think the Gestapo is looking for.

They are looking for you. Here's how it works. Elon gives Trump the names and the data. Anyone critical gets a visit in the middle of the bad spy night. If you think that the lower class (I am lower class) wants to punish the class that has always had their boot pressed up against our throats, that is because they always have their boot shoved up against out throats, and this is their punishment. It's a little bit about a lot of things. Cross cultural warzones. It's still punishment. What else do they have. American indifference and American compliance. Trump knows where you live. DOJ gets the order, and ICE gets a green light. Your children get a barracks and tin foil. You know where you are marching to. And you never said a word.

Like no. — Tim Barrus

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Take notes. The historian and biographer Ian Kershaw described Hitler as "the embodiment of modern political evil". Under Hitler's leadership and racist ideology, the Nazi regime was responsible for the genocide of an estimated six million Jews and millions of other victims, whom he and his followers deemed Untermenschen (subhumans) or socially undesirable. The playbook works, but only if you have a population of compliant -- willing to do anything whatsoever -- people who are always ready to give up their human rights, like the right to live, and die for a cause whatever fearless leader wants to shove down any culture's throat. Hitler was impotent. The rage took everything and everyone. This piece is too prosaic. One journalist interviews another journalist. Come on, NYT. You can do better than this. There is nothing normal about Trump. There was nothing normal about Hitler. Both men found their victims, and that led them to a power based on hatred, revenge, and a blood lust that tore the world apart. When Trump comes to power, he will have lots of henchmen to carry out the orders (they will call it process), and comply. These are the guys who knock on doors late into the night. Interrogations will consume us. Hate will consume us (it already has). Revenge is a psychotic dive into the ugliness of the human race. You cannot talk about Trump and look for causation. His hatred means all bets are off.

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Take notes. Many of the Boomers with HIV are now elderly. HIV/AIDS affects many of the body's organ systems, including the brain and nervous system. HIV infection actually makes its way to the brain early in the disease process. HIV encephalopathy is an infection spread throughout the brain. The greater the spread of infection in the brain, the worse the dementia symptoms become. Placate. There are a thousand ways. Anecdotally, I frequently see Nursing Staff as impatient, demanding, authoritarian, and out of touch with reality. They are pressed for time, such and such has to happen at a particular time. Assistants are especially in need of retraining. The retraining has to be about more than a bag of tricks to fool the old people. Minimum wage. They have the worst jobs. The jobs no one else will do. Turnover is high. Often, the people who do this kind of work, have no health care themselves. Once you get plugged into the system, you do not get out. "Don't let them put you in a place like this," is what I am told by "the demented." I once worked in a hospital where we had adolescents with organic brain syndrome. When one of them went off -- complete meltdown -- you could hear it on the moon. The elderly have no corner on dementia. Doctors go for the pills. Calm them down. Zombies are more animated. Pills. Pills. Pills. Dementia and abuse are sisters. Someday, we will have more effective weapons to deal with a condition that cannot be approached by the facsimile of war.

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Take notes. I have been listening to the whole Let Us Have More Babies And More Babies. So that we can keep the status quo of growth at all costs, development at all costs, overcrowding at all costs, environmental disaster and bring on climate change at all costs, we will pay you to have more babies. Conservatives love this nonsense. What is a time loop. There is something strange about going back to 1950.

Let us away to 1950.

Someone needs to tell these sillies that 1950 is over. 1950 is never over. In 1950, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, begins operations. In South Africa, apartheid became the law. Briton recognizes Israel. The Korean War begins. 39 U.S. soldiers are executed after being captured in battle by North Korea. In 1950, six people have all the money. In 2024, six people have all the money. I am not one of them. The point is that, no one is. Winston Churchill supports the idea of a pan-European army, allied with Canada and the U.S. President Harry Truman sends United States military advisers to Vietnam, to aid French forces.

Good times.

1950 was a big ha ha. We did not know the future. You want our babies to fight your wars. 2024 is a meat market. The burden of overpopulation is exactly what got us here on the freight train. We already have 14-year-old boys mopping the floors of the slaughterhouse. Analogies abound. In 1950, smallpox, polio, tuberculosis were still still around. Release the doves.

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Take notes. There are two Americas. The rich tribe. And the poor tribe. Nothing of significance in between. The senate is the rich guys. They never go down without a blood feud. The House of Representatives is also with the rich guys. They do go down regularly. The bottom is never bottom enough. The Supreme Court is not a tribe either of substance or authority. There are two kinds of justices. The rich kind with their fingers in our face. And the rich kind with their fingers in our face. I would gleefully clap with joy if the justices had to go out into the real world and find a real job. I dare you to go out into the street right now. Take your bullhorn and ask the public one question: Who Thinks We Need These Rich Guys.

No one.

They are expendable. And they have a lot of help. A lot of help. They have minions who fetch books, coffee, and wash the dishes with soap. No rich guy sees himself or herself as expendable. What is it these people do. Beyond the free rides and the camping trips and the best, only the best, health care money can buy. Giving Speeches. But do people listen. We smile because we would like to give a few of those ourselves clocking in at 50K per speech. I want an RV, too. And flags. Little flags that their wives wave back and forth, back and forth. Guess who writes their speeches. Go over to your SCOTUS window. Open it. Put your head out there and scream: "We Need More Money, We Need A Raise." Listen up. You do not need a raise. You need validity.

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Take notes. I get a lot of Reader Flack from readers that strenuously resent: "Why do you always have to deal with dead kids. It's depressing us. Poor us." I write about children I know. Having been in Special Education, I write about what I know. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Multiple Sclerosis. Pediatric AIDS in South Africa. ADHD. Neurodivergence. Autism spectrum. Addiction. Are just a few. Bad things. Like organic brain syndromes. Longevity is relative. I read this stuff where writers talk about raising the average age people are supposed to live.

Unless something goes wrong.

Something will go wrong. The suicide rate for aging homo sapiens has been creeping up for decades. I call them the Happiness Heretics. They do not want to be among us, and it makes us angry. At them. They feel their lives were torturous as they lived them, and death is a security blanket. A promise. Who would want to live a life defined by pain forever. We make them live for us. But we can be circumvented. "Hold still, it's for your own good."

Living forever is not for anyone's own good. When someone can't speak, all the helpers step in to interpret. The helpers have their own message. "If you ask too many questions, you will be labeled as difficult, and we will have to call (authority) the doctor to get you some happy pills that sedate you so we don't have to have these kinds of conversations.

Articulate the quality of life you have right now. Why are you here.