#you cannot tell me people are happy with biden right now

[herefortayloronly]

On November 2024 they’re gonna cry about what went wrong and why did people stay home and refuse to vote and they’re gonna blame it on BIPOC like clockwork!!

[majoringinsarcasm]

Crying. About. Politics.

I try not to think too hard about anything otherwise I’ll lose my mind. And this is not a hopeless post. This is just me saying. I feel like. A lot of people are gonna vote for Trump. From your hardcore republicans to truly normal people who are like well Biden was bad we can survive Trump again. And I think about the policies and laws and regulations that have been Good that aren’t in the big news. And I think about how RIGHT NOW states are banning books and sex ed and queer people just living period. And I think about how if the state of things is this bad Now? What’s it gonna be like under a presidenr who Actively agrees with or will go along with this shit for votes.

“We survived Trump” says the people who are still here. “We can survive another four years” says the people who won’t be pushed to maybe not stick around for that long.

[anamericangirl]

For what it’s worth though, every democratic politician (that I’ve seen) has made public statements condemning the violence and wishing Trump well. Atleast the leaders of the party are speaking against the violence.

Yeah, some of them are but that’s the bare minimum they can do. But for real what do they, and you, expect to happen with the endless calls for violence they have made against Trump in the past decade? Please let’s not pretend their rhetoric doesn’t play a role in this.

Trump’s “rhetoric” was blamed for things like Charlottesville and Jan 6 even still to this day so democrats aren’t getting a pass on this. They have been calling him a tyrannical fascist dictator. They’ve been saying he’s as bad as Hitler. They’ve called him a threat to democracy and a traitor to the country. They’ve been relentlessly fear mongering about him for years telling people no one is safe with him and that Trump is the literal devil so what did they expect??

Like five days before this attempt Biden had said it was time to put Trump “in a bullseye.”

Prominent democrats, politicians and celebrities, have made numerous clear cut calls to violence specifically against Trump and conservatives and I’m not going to let anyone pretend it didn’t happen. Here’s a video of the violence the Democratic Party has been calling for for the last decade

You cannot convince me this kind of violent rhetoric and fear mongering had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Trump.

So yeah, Democratic politicians might be condemning it now, but they’ve been literally calling for it for a decade and they don’t get to escape responsibility for it.

So, tell me, if Trump is all the things they have accused him of being, why should they condemn this attempt? If Trump is a tyrant and a fascist dictator who is a threat to the lives of Americans, like they have been saying for years, why do you think this wasn’t ok and why should democrat leaders condemn the shooter?

If it had actually been Hitler and someone had attempted to put a bullet in him at a rally would you feel the same way about it?

Either the Democratic Party is going to have come out and admit they are liars and they are the party of all the bad things they’ve been accusing Trump and conservatives of being or explain why they are condemning an American for taking a shot at someone they’ve played up to be the devil himself and someone they’ve been telling Americans is an existential threat to their lives and their country.

So after pounding those vicious lies and calls to violence I need more from them then “oh wait but don’t actually try to kill him.”

People are even dismissing the death of an innocent man, Cory Comperatore, because he was there “supporting a fascist and a traitor.” They are uncaring and unsympathetic towards the death of an innocent fellow American just because he was there specifically because of the lies and vitriol that has been coming from leftists for years.

For all the times the left cries about the supposed “dangerous rhetoric” of the right, the left actually has dangerous rhetoric with explicit calls to violence and then they go out there and commit violence and I will not accept anymore brushing it off or explaining it away or trying to make it conservatives fault somehow and you shouldn’t either.

You and I have had a few interactions on the site and though we vehemently disagree on pretty much everything you seem more genuine than most leftists I have spoken to and are a pretty decent person and at this point any decent people, like yourself, who still align themselves with leftists need to ask yourself why. They aren’t good people. This is who they are. What they say in these moments isn’t representative of who they really are. What they say on the day to day is.

The ones happy about this attempt, the ones who don’t care that a man was murdered shielding his family from bullets, the ones who wish Trump had been killed are the epitome of leftist politics today. They are what the lies and propaganda that democrats have been pushing for years inevitably leads to. Anyone who still aligns with the party of hate and violence and condemns those things needs to walk away.

There is no excuse for supporting them in any capacity from this day forward.

[poorrichardjr]

An open letter to Congress

(I know only a small handful of people will ever read this, but I think more than a few Americans feel this way)

America has been a constitutional democratic republic for almost 250 years now, the age at which most such experiments fail. Part of the reason we have lasted this long has been because of the belief that our constitution would steer us in the right direction. One of the founding elements held within was the belief that no branch of government should have too much power. Checks and balances were put in place to keep tyranny or progressivism in check.

I have heard all my life that Republicans were the people who "loved" the constitution and the country the most. However, right now, all I see are a group of wealthy individuals lining up to kowtow to a man they have proclaimed the new messiah. They seem more than happy with installing a king and forgetting that their job is to represent the people and protect the constitution's checks and balances. More than a few congressmen are decrying longstanding practice of vetting executive appointees and the Senate's role of advise and consent.

These people are being as hypocritical as they can be. They would never let a democratic president pick whomever they wished despite not having qualifications for a position. No man should be in a position of power if they have no experience or knowledge of the duties of that job. I don't care how smart or how much they seem to love the new president. An unqualified applicant is still unqualified and therefore unfit for the role at which they aspire. You don't hire a welder to be a brain surgeon even if he is a great guy or smart as a tack. The person lacks a fundamental understanding of the task at hand. In the same vein you do not let a fox guard the henhouse. Sure, the fox is cute and playful, but if you want any chickens at all, you don't put someone in charge who is likely to violate the trust you put in them.

This is where Congress becomes involved. We already know that far too many congressmen are going to violate their oaths to the constitution and just do whatever the president tells them to. They are not taking their duties seriously. These people do not care about the country or the constitution. They are only there to get head pats and go on television to defend anything they are told to do. These people are simply loyal henchmen who have given up their own choices simply because they are afraid that the man in power is going to say something bad about them.

The rest of you, and I hope that is a majority, though that looks like an over estimation at times, need to hold fast to the principals of the constitution. We do not elect kings. A president, no matter how much you like them, isn't entitled to appoint any unqualified individual he wants to help him run things. Let me just point out a few of the biggest problems I see in the people he has so far chosen to help run things.

Tulsi Gabbard has been credibly accused of being too close to Vladimir Putin and Victor Orban. If you wouldn't trust Hunter Biden to run a foreign office because you believed he had ties that were too close to China and Ukraine, you cannot let someone like Gabbard into the position for which she has been nominated. Will she really be working for the American people or will she let slip important national security information to our global enemies because she just likes them?

Pete Hegseth has never been a high ranking member of the military and has serious problems of self control. His drinking problems and womanizing are just warning signs that the man doesn't have the experience or character to tell the people with the most powerful weapons in the world what to do on a daily basis.

Robert Kennedy Jr is supposed to lead a government office where science is relied on heavily, but he doesn't believe in many facts based on scientifically proven evidence. Linda McMahon has no educational experience, though she is going to be in charge of the department of education. I could go on and on about how almost every single pick for the cabinet is either unqualified or has massive conflicts of interest where their judgement in running that office would make a rational man question their every decision. And I am not even going to start with the DOGE run by Elon and Vivek simply because they cannot be vetted or affirmed by Congress, though their suggestions should be suspected almost immediately.

Almost none of these people should be in the positions they have been nominated for. Their only qualifications are that they are wealthy and are willing to do what Donald Trump wants. Those are not true qualifications, and you would not hire someone to run your own businesses if they were this unqualified.

So, the American people look to you to do your job. Do what is best for the country. Not your party. Not you personally. And not anything the president asks simply because he is president. You have a duty to uphold, and we are all waiting to see whether you will take those responsibilities seriously or whether or not you are going to be the cowards and cravens we all believe you to be. The people of this nation who worked so hard to help create and defend it are watching and judging your next moves. Will you be a Clay or Webster or will you be a McCarthy?

[damphexagon]

Fellow Leftists of Tumbler Dot Com ...

I come to you all with a confession, head bowed, filled with shame. I just don't know if I can go on if I don't get this off my chest. So here goes ... I like Kamala Harris. There, I said it. The thing is, I expected this year's election to be another thing to be crushed by. Even the last one that the lesser-of-two-evils candidate won a Pyrrhic victory in sucked shit. I'd emotionally steeled myself for an unwinnable rematch between Ancient Braindead Republican and Trump, followed by 4 years of degradation of civil rights, new mass deportations, worsening environmental destruction, and so forth. And now that... appears to maybe not be going to happen. I know people are not willing to like Harris, because a vote for her is not a vote for The Revolution. Pretty much by definition, you cannot vote a revolution -- after all, a system will never give you the tools you need to dismantle it. But it is a vote for something better, and not in the same way a vote for Biden was for something (only) better than a vote for Trump. You have a woman of color, the youngest serious candidate since Obama, who has promoted and voted for progressive policies for years, not just as something she adopted out of nowhere to get elected (to inevitably abandon immediately after). Within the constraints of what a two-party election can offer, this is what we've wanted. I know the big one for a lot of people right now is the U.S. supporting and financing Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people, which is a great tragedy and a national disgrace that should be ended immediately. What I don't get though is why it's making people hate the candidate that most opposes it. Trump is all in, and Biden weirdly maybe even moreso. On the other hand, you have a candidate who refused to attend what basically amounted to a party for Netanyahu, and instead met with him to tell him, from the sounds of the press release at least, get your shit sorted out for a withdrawal from Gaza. When picking a Vice-Presidential candidate, she could've picked the "moderate" Zionist who would've swung a must-win state and most likely won the election, but instead she went with the pro-labor pro-education progressive unknown. To me, that says a lot, about policies but also about personal integrity. I know some would like something more forceful and explicit, but you do need to keep in mind who the average USAmerican voter is and remember that winning does matter. And she is winning. Not by a lot, but steadily by a little more every single day for the past weeks. So I guess what I'm saying is... can you just let me, us, be happy? Maybe just a little bit? I know things are still bad in many ways and regardless of the results of this election the United States is likely to remain a force of destruction in the world. No election result is a substitute for revolutionary action. But as far as elections go, this is more than we could've hoped for in any election since 2016, except the DNC is on board instead of running interference. It's not a guarantee, but things from Medicare For All to the Green New Deal to an actual end of the Israeli genocide of Palestine are more likely now than they have been in a long time. And if nothing else, can't we at the very least take pleasure in Trump's impotent tantrums and visible suffering? I thought we could all at least agree on that. Let me have this. Harris/Walz 2024.

[markthekng]

Hey non-tiktok users on Tumblr, especially the non-Americans that want to be kept in the loop. Let me tell you about the bullshit going on cause I made the mistake of drinking two cups of coffee before bed and am livid.

For years, our government has been shouting about banning TikTok for being a Chinese app. Trump has been the one to start the argument, claiming TikTok was a security risk.

The United States Congress has been blatantly racist to the TikTok CEO, claiming Singapore isn't real because they've never heard of it and insisting that he is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. During this time, the CEO was also making posts about how he supported free speech and the world needed free speech.

We have been asking as soon as we heard the ban would take affect what would happen. We got nothing from the creators of TikTok. We had people theorize that it would slowly fade from existence, but no mention of what was actually to come.

On Saturday, January 18th, TikTok went dark, claiming that the ban was in effect and that the creators would be working with the future trump administration to get the app back. Two hours before the promised time. No one could get in, no one could do anything. We didn't even get to say goodbye.

Then, January 19th it's back up, claiming that "President Trump" brought it back. This is bizarre. Why? Trump isn't president yet, he has no power to bring back an app yet. Yet the pop up claims we have him to thank.

The pop up in question:

But whatever, everyone is happy to be back right? Wrong.

For starters, Lives are banned. We cannot access the part of the platform that encouraged activism and protests and allowed those who couldn't attend protests to show their support. It won't directly tell you you can't access lives, it will give you a pop up error and tell you to try later. There is no later, it doesn't work.

Then we get into the political aspect. The CEO is a bootlicker. Because as soon as we came back, he made a video praising "President Trump" for "fighting for Tiktok" he thanked the man who started the fire for putting it out. Then of course, meta platforms also seem to have accounts now on TikTok, and they are being pushed heavily to the users.

But how about the people speaking up, that's the thing, you have to tiptoe. You can have as many anti-biden or Kamala tags you want, but no longer can you create anti trump, Elon, Zuckerberg, or any fascist or CEO tags in videos. And as for the contents? Well, a lot of users have been getting shadow banned for saying things. Comments on videos speaking out against oligarchies and fascists are being hidden or deleted before the video creator can approve of them or delete them themselves.

This has affected me too. I made one video to a song with only text, no tags, and a caption about patriotism. This video had no problems other than the expected struggle with reach. The other, I made a joke about how everything feels forced and like someone is being controlled with the caption "Something ain't right, I'm going back to cat videos on xhs" and immediately the video was put under review.

The video, which never got the chance to reach the public:

The American public is being censored and propagandized. We do not support Donald Trump no matter what videos show up. Our fyp is soulless and refuses to show us anything that might stir an opinion against their funding principle. Billionaires are controlling our narrative and trying to rewrite it to make themselves look like the good guys. We are not okay and our main source of spreading social and political information is now being censored. The app is also slow and wonky , and anyone who deleted it during the "ban" isn't getting it back. No one is happy, but there's no one to listen.

[gryficowa]

Seeing how Poles easily swallow Zionist lies, the fact that they would believe the Nazis that Jews are evil would not surprise me…

We have simply dehumanized Muslims so much that it is fucking dangerous and it kills me so much

Poland known for the fact that most Poles saved Jews, the Poland that fought against fascists, today easily believes in being a Zionist and that's something I hate, in 2020 it spread harassment against LGBT+ people, and in 2021 - 2024 it antagonized people imprisoned on the Polish-Belarusian border

I really want to believe that Poland fought for people who were victims of fascism, but these are the remnants of hope in this country that has rotted from the inside

I see various countries striking for Palestine, and nothing is happening in Poland and it kills me

Why did I have to be born in Poland? The only bond I feel is with the Kashubians, but the fact that they belong to this corrupt country I cannot stand…

Why wasn't I born in the Czech Republic, but in Poland full of rotten people?

I hate this country, I can't love it when people do it, what good is it having nice places if the people are rotten?

I don't want to become like these Poles, I'm fighting to become a better version of myself, but for them I'm stupid and disconnected, because I've already come so far and it's killing me from the inside

I can't feel hate, real hate, I only hate hurting people and fascist propaganda, I simply can't hate anyone and that's why I'm stuck…

But this country is killing me, its whole history means nothing as long as there are people here who are for Israel, or say they are both guilty, or antagonize the Palestinians, yes, this country that was colonized and was a victim of the holocaust, now wants to be on the wrong side of history, it sucks

I have ASD, social phobia, second degree disability, I can't work and leave this country, I'm trapped in a country that hates me because I'm not a bigot like most citizens in this rotten country…

And then I'm attacked by Zionists because I'm from Poland, as if it was my fucking choice, these bastards use my origins to show that I'm anti-Semitic, I hate it

If I had a choice, I would have been fucking born in the Czech Republic

I'm simply tired of my country and the people in it, I would like to have hope for this country, but I don't have it, how can I believe that it will only get better when in Poland it will only get worse?

Poles are Islamophobes, anti-Semites, xenophobes, ableists, racists and all that other shit, how can I feel happy and have any hope for this country?

I feel no connection with a country that hates me, that hates others…

I can defend him for lying about the Holocaust, but I can't stand him for what a piece of shit he has become over the years

I feel helpless in this country, but I fight to prevent other countries from ending up like mine, because if all countries become fascist, will there be anything left in this world?

That's why I tell you in the USA not to vote for Biden or Trump, and for the third one, don't do the same shit as Poland, I'm begging you, only a change of government in the USA may have some percentage of light for my country, but I doubt anything will change, evertheless, I don't want you to get into the same shit as Poles

My generation is also rotten in this country, many are conservative and right-wing, so don't fucking drag your future ones into this shit

Probably this time Poland will be guilty of Holocaust 2.0 or 3.0, and I will be blamed for it like the Germans who did not support the Third Reich, but because of living in this country, are guilty…

I'm not surprised that Poles want to hide their origins abroad, because Poland is so rotten it hurts

This is not Poland, this is a shell of what Poland was, now ruled by fascists…

I lost hope that Poland and Poles themselves would come to their senses…

[path-of-my-childhood]

Taylor Swift: Pop Star of the Year

By: Jonathan Dean for The Sunday Times Date: December 27th 2020

Rather than hunker down, the singer put out two albums in 2020 and won over new audiences. She’s the pop star of the year.

Taylor Swift met Paul McCartney in the autumn for a big interview in Rolling Stone. The two would have headlined Glastonbury this summer. Who knows if they will do that next year. Anyway, both recorded albums in lockdown, working from home like the rest of us. When they spoke, though, Swift had a secret. As well as Folklore, released in July, she had a follow-up record in the pipeline — Evermore, which was released this month.

Swift noted that the former Beatle was still so full of joy. “Well, we’re just so lucky, aren’t we?” he said. “We’re really lucky,” Swift replied. “I can’t believe it’s my job.” And she is right. Being a pop star is an extraordinary way to earn the living she does. But rather than accepting luxury and letting this tough year tumble on, Swift is also keenly aware what music means. Sad songs soothe, happy songs make us dance, but as fans of most artists waited for something — anything — this year, this 31-year-old released two albums that broke chart records, were critically adored and introduced her to people who once thought that she wasn’t for them.

“I’m so exhausted!” she said to the American chat show host Jimmy Kimmel, laughing, a few weeks ago, when asked if she had a third new album planned. “I have nothing left.” In addition to Folklore and Evermore, she filmed a TV special and even started rerecording her back catalogue, after a volatile dispute over who owns her work. By October I’d just about cobbled together my first sourdough loaf.

A decade ago Swift moved firmly into the limelight thanks to a squabble with Kanye West entirely of the rapper’s own making. In 2009, when Swift — then a nascent country music star — won the best female video award at the VMAs, West stormed on stage, grabbed her microphone and said that Beyoncé should have won. Swift was 19 — West was 32 — and she looked scared. This wasn’t just about her biggest moment yet being stolen, but also about her position in the pop hierarchy being questioned, very publicly, from the off. She stood there as that man bullied her. Apparently she left the stage in tears.

Years later West released Famous, with its infamous lyric “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that bitch famous.” The alt-folk singer Father John Misty also wrote about sleeping with her. Every time that sort of thing happened, a powerful man in Swift’s industry was reducing a successful, talented, younger female to the level of a sex object. It was back-in-your-box belittling — as it was when a TV host groped her. (She successfully sued him.) While Swift herself would retort to West, as her music became less country, more slick pop, such retorts felt forced and gave the rapper too much of her oxygen. A nod to him on Folklore comes with the “Clowns to the West” line, but it is a sideshow now, not a headline.

Not that Swift’s life is entirely her own. She’s been one of the world’s bestselling female artists for a decade, coupled with curiosities such as a well-orchestrated relationship with Tom Hiddleston that kept her in the spotlight. Like many twentysomethings, Swift spent her youth apolitically, only to receive flak for staying silent during the 2016 US election. This year she endorsed Joe Biden, but what if she had wanted to stay quiet? Would the media have let her? She is under so much scrutiny that, after she made an innocuous hand gesture in a recent TV interview, similar to one women make to draw attention to domestic abuse, this headline ran: “Some people think Taylor Swift is secretly asking for help in her latest interview.”

Like many at the start of the pandemic she felt listless. The world we were used to was a wasteland, and we could only find the energy to watch Normal People. Swift’s ennui, though, was, well, swift. Stuck in LA, she emailed Aaron Dessner of the beloved beardy indie band the National to see if he fancied writing with her. No fool, Dessner said yes and, mere weeks later, the duo — with help from Swift’s regular collaborator Jack Antonoff as well as Justin Vernon, from the beloved beardy indie band Bon Iver — released Folklore. The gang just carried on working and, five months later, gave us Evermore.

Creativity is not on tap. Indeed, this year is not one for judging what others may or not have achieved. However, the silence of many big pop stars is striking because they know that even a single would make someone’s day; distract for a while.

Everyone needed to adjust to working from home, but Swift was one of the only musicians who did and, by eschewing the arena pop of recent albums for something more subdued, organic and folky, she gave the sense that she was letting fans in more than ever. She was at home, like us. This is who she is, and the first single from these sessions was so cosy, it was even called Cardigan.

“I just thought, ‘There are no rules any more,’” she told McCartney. “Because I used to put all these parameters on myself, like, ‘How will this song sound in a stadium?’ If you take away the parameters, what do you make? I guess Folklore.”

Maybe it is tedious, for a deft writer with a career of varied, brilliant songs — Love Story, I Knew You Were Trouble, Blank Space — to find respect from some people only when artists who appeal to middle-aged men start to work with her. On the other hand, pop has never been particularly welcoming to many until it sounds like something you are used to and, with delicate acoustics and gossamer-like piano, Swift’s two new albums recall, sonically, Nick Drake or Kate Bush. Thematically, lyrics seem to come from anywhere. Daphne du Maurier, for one. Even the Lake District and its poets.

Some songs are personal. She is dating British actor Joe Alwyn, and on one track she sings, “I want to give you a child.” Make of that what you will. But these records’ highlights are not about herself, but others. “There was a point,” she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music, “that I had got to as a writer, [where I was only writing] diaristic songs. That felt unsustainable.” Instead, she does what the best writers do and mixes subjective with objective. The Last American Dynasty is a terrific piece of writing about the socialite Rebekah Harkness, who lived in a Rhode Island house that Swift bought and was, by all accounts, a bit scandalous. Swift tells her story almost with envy. Imagine, she seems to say, that freedom.

“In my anxieties,” she said in Rolling Stone, “I can often control how I am as a person and how normal I act. But I cannot control if there are 20 photographers outside in the bushes and if they follow our car and interrupt our lives.”

Then there is Epiphany. The first verse is about her grandfather, who fought in the Second World War; the second about frontline workers in hospitals now. Sung in a high register, it is suitably choral. Marjorie, on Evermore, is even better. It is about her grandmother, an opera singer who died in 2003. “What died didn’t stay dead” is the repeated line, and it is eerie, gorgeous. Swift sings how she thinks Marjorie is singing to her, at which point some vocals from the latter’s recordings waft in. Touching, but the real power is in Swift writing about vague memories of a relative who died when she was young. “I complained the whole way there,” she sings. “I should’ve asked you questions.”

In person she is warm like this, and funny. When Kimmel told her there were far more swearwords on Folklore and Evermore than previous records, she replied: “It’s just been that kind of year.” She is also odder than people realise. In the way pop stars should be. Obsessed by numerology, she wrote, on the eve of her birthday when announcing Evermore: “Ever since I was 13, I’ve been excited about turning 31 because it’s my lucky number backwards.” When I turned 31 I just wished to be 13 again, with all that youth, but then, maybe, she is just joking. “Yes, so until I turn 113 or 131, this will be the highlight of my life,” she said. “The numerology thing? I sort of force it to happen.”

Swift, of course, is far from the first pop star to become public property, or have a close bond with fans. This year, however, she was one of the few to show that such adoration is not one-way. She is, simply, a fan of her fans — from planting secrets in her artwork and lyrics, to recording two albums of new music as a balm for them when real life became too deafening.

“One good thing about music,” sang Bob Marley. “When it hits you, you feel no pain.” The 80.6 million who streamed Folklore on its first day will attest to that idea. So will the four million who bought it. Swift is pop star of the year, no doubt — leaving her peers in her wake, on their sofas, rewatching The Sopranos.

[oh-mother-of-darkness]

Hello. I am, as you know, an American. I turned eighteen in 2014, voted in my first presidential election in 2016, and voted in my second presidential election last week via early voting in the state of Texas. 

I’m reflecting right now on the difference between those experiences. This is going to be a very self-indulgent essay. 

The 2016 election was in my third and final year of undergrad at Texas A&M University. At the time, I was living with a roommate who grew up in a town of 2,000, all of them members of her church. I loved her very much, but she was the most sheltered person I’ve ever met. 

I was only a few years ahead of her. My home growing up was deeply liberal about many of the things that counted, but deeply conservative on equally important things. For me, leaving for college was a radicalization speed-run.

I, a good Memphis girl, moved to Texas and encountered for the first time in my life white homogeny and everything that comes with it. I made most of my friends at A&M through a Christian orientation camp that I attended, then worked at. I went to school at a history department that was overwhelmingly male and war-obsessed. 

My second semester, I was randomly sorted into a writing seminar on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. There were eight other students in that class, all of them Texans. By day two I had gotten into a open fight with one of my classmates after he used the phrases “one of the humane parts of slavery” and “the secession declarations are moving and beautiful appeals, if you read them,” and “well I’m not going to criticize my own state.”

We got into at least one yelling match per week from that point forward. It was a formative experience for me-- not just him but the seven other students that took his side every time because they just couldn’t conceptualize anything outside of their own experiences, and frankly, I couldn’t either. 

It rocked my world to be surrounded by people who told me, among other things, that their high schools flew the Confederate battle flag or Lee was their all time role-model (because he actually didn’t want to secede! He didn’t believe in it, but Virginia did, so he put his own qualms aside and served his country, and that’s what we all have to do). I ran a survey once by knocking on every door in a dorm hall and asking the two people inside why the Civil War happened. 

I feel like you can guess the most common answer I got. Only two said slavery. Six didn’t know what the Civil War was. 

The last week of the semester, my class read a collection of recorded oral accounts of freed slaves during Reconstruction. My nemesis told me that he “didn’t realize black people actually had it bad.” At the same time, I was struggling with my sexuality, my relationship to my religion, my relationship with my parents, and a handful of newly-diagnosed but long-existing mental illnesses. I wasn’t having fun. 

Over the next three years, I tried my hardest to humanize the people that said disgusting things about minorities, poverty, and me personally. I barely won on that one, and I’m actually really proud that I did, even if it took me a few years. I can trace the biggest change in me directly to my nemesis from the history department, the kid that made me so mad that I started arguing back. I was too scared to do that before. 

By 2016, I was in full existential spin-out-- a very suddenly liberal kid fighting my whole family, all of my classmates, and most of my friends in an explosive political climate, the first I had ever participated in. 

I voted by Tennessee absentee ballot in 2016. On election night, I ordered takeout for me and my roommate, who I knew had voted red. Confident, like pretty much everybody, that Clinton would win, I was trying to show her that I didn’t hate her. She went to bed after dinner, also so certain that Clinton would win that she didn’t bother to stay up. 

I sat in front of my laptop sewing a birthday present for a friend (Kenza, actually), while the votes came in. I wasn’t super alarmed when the map turned red. I just figured the blue states hadn’t finished counting yet. 

The map didn’t get any bluer. By 1am, I knew what was about to happen. They called it an hour later, while I was sobbing on my floor. I threw up in the bathroom out of pure anxiety. I got two anonymous messages telling me the asker was going to commit suicide. Neither of them responded to my replies. I don’t actually know what happened to them. 

I remember riding the bus to class the next morning and distinctly seeing that most of the racial minorities there had swollen eyes from crying. The girl with the pride stickers all over her laptop didn’t show up that day, and I’m kind of glad she didn’t, considering the way some of our classmates in the back were loudly talking about “the gays.” Hope she’s okay.

My roommate came home completely unaware that Clinton lost. I was crying in my room when that happened. I remember showing her a demographic map of who voted which way. She got visibly upset when she figured out what races how. I think she really did feel guilty. 

That Thanksgiving, one of my cousins tweeted, “I can’t wait to go argue with my liberal cousin today. The wins. Keep. Coming,” an hour before he walked into my house. Inauguration day was January 20, 2017. I decided to go to law school a week later, the day the president signed the Muslim ban. That’s when I figured out for the first time just how much power the courts have. The last three years have only enforced that. 

I got angrier and angrier during law school, egged on by a few friends but more than anything just... finally conscious of exactly how the American system works and exactly who’s behind it. I still live in Texas, farther west now, and I’m working my first legal job. I’m going to be a licensed attorney next week. 

I went back and forth for months about how this election was going to shake out. I knew there wasn’t going to be an overwhelming red majority this time, but my big fear was an election close enough that the Supreme Court could take it. That fear doubled last month, at RBG’s death. 

I was hoping for a blue enough victory on election night that there wouldn’t be a week of uncertainty, but that was unlikely, and it didn’t happen. I obsessively refreshed my election map all of Wednesday and Thursday, aware that at least some states would flip after mail-in ballots came in, but unsure which would. 

Again, my great fear was a blue victory held down by only one state. Given (I would say “any” chance here, but I don’t mean “any” chance because genuinely jurisdiction or facts or legal merit don’t matter to the Supreme Court) an opportunity to make one (1) decision that hands over a red election, please know that a conservative supermajority would take it. I cannot emphasize enough how true that is and how important it is for all of us to grasp that. 

Watching Georgia flip was one of the best experiences of my life, and it’s a little hard for me to articulate why, but I’m going to give it a shot here. I’m southern. I’m from the South, and for this conversation it’s really important that I’m from Memphis, a black city and a center of black music and culture. 

When people think about the South, they think of the white South, and on some level, they should. It is absolutely essential to understand the white South in order to understand American history. Let me be 100% clear here. That is not a good thing. American majority history is not good. We are not a good country. 

It’s near-impossible to understand why that’s true without knowing exactly what happened in the white South and exactly what is still happening there now. With that, however, is another truth that most folks don’t get. 

The SouthTM is white and needs to die. The South as it actually exists is partially white yes, but it is also everyone else that lives here, particularly black folks. Southern culture is black, not white. Georgia flipped because the people that have always, always been there finally got to crack apart the conservative machine holding the South hostage. 

That’s amazing. It’s fucking mind-blowing. I watched it happen at 3:30 in the morning days after Election Day, and holy shit holy shit, Georgia flipped. Atlanta won. Holy fucking shit. 

I would be terrified right now if only Georgia flipped, because SCOTUS would have found a way to throw out a few thousand votes. Inevitable. Absolutely certain on that one. 

With a few states of buffer, I don’t think that’s going to happen. I really do think it’s over. 

I came home after work on Friday and immediately went to sleep because I hadn’t really done that since Tuesday. I woke up at noon today, checked the map, checked my messages, and saw what happened while I was gone. After that, I went back to bed until 5:30pm. I’m really just getting up now, after most of 24 hours asleep. 

I don’t know if I would say that I’m happy right now, but I am overwhelmingly relieved. I’m under no illusions that a Biden victory will solve everything, but I also do think this is a real thing to celebrate. I’ll take suggestions on how to celebrate right now, actually, since I’m finally awake. 

I’ll be angry forever, I think, but this is a good thing, and I’d like to enjoy it. If you’re happy right now, hey, tell me about it. I’ll be thrilled with you. I want to hear it. Congrats to all of us. Love y’all. 

[ahnsael]

I’m happy about Biden’s vaccine mandate that would require employers who have 100+ employees to require vaccines.

I’m not so confident that it will hold up through court challenges, though.

But when you sign your kid up for kindergarten, you have to show proof of vaccines for smallpox, polio, measles, and other preventable diseases. How is this different?

I had to throw a guy out of the casino last night because the third time I asked him to put his mask on, he got belligerent with me. He said that being six feet away from others was good enough, but the state mandate is that if you are indoors in a public space in Nevada (at least in most counties), you must cover your mouth and nose with a face covering.

My brother-in-law, as far as I know, is still in the hospital. If he was released yesterday as planned, my sis didn’t say anything about it. But he went in because of the effects of him having COVID.

I have had two coworkers catch it (one was gone for a month and is back, the other tested positive about a week ago).

So I wasn’t having this guy’s attitude. I told him to cash out and leave, and he kept playing. I told him to cash out again, and he said “once I finish my beer.” So I took his beer out of his hands (I was kind of surprised he didn’t tighten his grip) and told him that he WAS done with his beer, and that it was time to go.

He cashed out and handed me his ticket, so I took it to the nearest cash-out kiosk and brought him his money so he could get out. The ticket was for $54.95 so I gave him the $54, then when I tried to give him the coins, he said “keep it.”

It’s the first time I’ve ever been tipped by someone I threw out, even if it was only 95¢.

I’m DONE with the people who I call “maskholes.” And my boss has told me that he will back me up if I have to confront them so many times that I feel the need to show them the door (I even told the guy when my boss would next be in so that if he had a problem with me being the “mask police,” he could take it up with my boss). Because we get fined TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for each person not wearing one.

I despise being the mask police, but...I read a post on Facebook from someone this morning, where their dad had a terrible illness (not COVID) but no hospital could take them because they were full of COVID patients, after a couple days found an out-of-state hospital with an open bed, but it was too late to save them, and this person who posted this lost their father because of all the people who won’t get vaccinated or wear a mask.

And just to be clear: a vaccine is meant to PREVENT a disease; it is NOT a treatment for the disease. Once you have it, it’s too late for the vaccine. The first coworker who got it begged for a vaccine and the doctor told her “it’s too late -- you already have it. The vaccine is not a treatment, it’s a preventative measure and it’s too late to prevent what has already happened.”

And my brother-in-law, while improving but not out of the woods, is still in the hospital, and the family who is with him feels very fortunate that he was able to get help.

I’m SO done with selfish people who not only won’t get vaccinated (my sister and brother-in-law weren’t vaccinated, and she now wishes she had been, but I don’t know how her husband feels about it now that he can barely roll over in bed without getting exhausted), but these people also do everything they can to get around wearing a mask. Whether it’s keeping a drink nearby that they suddenly start drinking when the see me (they are supposed to wear the mask between drinks but know that if I’m coming by and they have a drink handy, the act of drinking it means I can’t say anything) or the chain-smokers, who cough a LOT, always keeping a lit cigarette handy so that if they see me coming, they suddenly decide to take a drag so I can’t say anything -- and these people TICK ME OFF because I know they’re just doing it to get around wearing a mask because they’re selfish jerks who don’t care how many people they could infect).

If they want to take their chances, fine, but they are in a public casino and CHOOSING to put other people at risk. And I just cannot take that anymore.

I thought about quitting over it, but any place where I work with the public, in this area, would just be more of the same. I deal with some of the most selfish people I’ve ever met (and I worked at Disneyland, where the “me-first” attitude is strong). I would have to find some place that actually enforces it (I can’t get swing shift employees, INCLUDING MANAGERS, to wear their masks half the time when I come in, and if they won’t wear their masks properly, and don’t say anything to guests who aren’t wearing them, then how am I supposed to enforce it with guests who see our own employees not wearing them?), and I go to the supermarket after work and see employees not enforcing it, our Sheriff refuses to enforce it because he’s an idiot, so I don’t know where I could do any better without the stress of being fined by OSHA or the Gaming Control Board.

I’m SO frustrated right now. And I don’t know how much longer I can take it.

The “Greatest Generation,” as I believe is a term coined by Tom Brokaw, had gasoline rations, saved grease, and bought war bonds for the WWII effort. This generation can’t handle a vaccine, or wearing a piece of cloth over their face, to save lives.But the thing is that I cannot pin this on a single generation, unless I blame baby boomer Republican politicians for spreading misinformation. But as for the general public, I have people from 21 to 80 refusing to do their part (the older of which are making me question the “greatest generation” tag that they have). At this point, I’m almost to where I feel like “let the unvaccinated and unmasked pay the price for their choices and let the rest of us wear masks and live our lives without having to babysit grown adults.” Wearing a mask is not hard, and most of the people I see speak against it are just wimps who can’t handle a little cloth over their mouths. If I can wear one 8 hours a day, you can wear one for whatever time you’re out and about (and obviously you don’t need to wear one while driving). I have zero empathy for people who complain about masks when the alternative is more people on ventilators.

I’m sick of these daily anxiety/panic attacks because not only do people not give a darn about their fellow humans, but they are JERKS about me trying to tell them not to be jerks to their fellow humans.

[josephloegering]

Many Hebrew sites went down with Facebook

Warning: The US and NATO and Zionist State Medias are run by Antisemitic Democratic Communist, fake Christians and fake Jews and fake Muslims, Criminal Stalkers and Computer Hackers,  violating US and NATO and Zionist State Court and Doctors Orders, and force vaccinating and force drugging their Victims with everything on their Allergy Lists, screaming that they have no legitimate Medical or Religious reason, to reject their Mandated Toxic Poison Vaccines, and Toxic Poison Drugs on our Allergy Lists, as all the the Medias lie saying is Misinformation, saying that we must suffer the consequences for telling the truth against their Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminal and War Criminal Soviet Communist Atheists and Homosexuals, lying claiming to be Jews and or Christians and Muslims, to mass murder the Religious Abraham's, like the Antisemitic Democratic Left Wing  Soviet Communist USSR Orthodox Russian Maccabees had done, attacking us unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding Jews and Samaritans in Warsaw, trapping us in between them and  the Antisemitic Democratic Wing Wing Fascist Nazi German Maccabees Catholics and Lutherans

The Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminals and War Criminals on the Antisemitic   Democratic Facebook and in the Mainstream US and NATO and Zionist State Medias, say that I did not follow Facebook's Standard or Hate Speech, for telling the truth against their Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminal and War Criminal Soviet Communist Atheists and Homosexuals, lying claiming to be Jews and or Christians and Muslims, to mass murder the Religious Abraham's, like the Antisemitic Democratic Left Wing  Soviet Communist USSR Orthodox Russian Maccabees had done, attacking us unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding Jews and Samaritans in Warsaw, trapping us in between them and  the Antisemitic Democratic Wing Wing Fascist Nazi German Maccabees Catholics and Lutherans, and like in Nazi German and Soviet Communist Pogroms, they refuse to arrest and try their Federal and  State and Privately Funded Antisemitic Hate Crime and War Crime Criminals, and refuse repeatedly to Redress our Just Grievances, like the Antisemitic  Democratic Dictators Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler

Repeatedly the US Police and FBI, seeing the Death threats sent through Facebook Chat, and sent to my Desktop by Hackers, sent from the Antisemitic Democratic Facebook's and CNN's Criminal  Stalkers and Hackers, that set me up to be force drugged, and disabled, and or murdered, on US Soil, because the letters were written in multiple languages,  the US Police and FBI, deliberately repeatedly  lied to me, saying Call Interpol,  saying that they had no Jurisdiction over Foreign Terrorists, not with more death threats from the US and Zionist  Governments' and Medias' International Criminal Terrorists, Interpol says:

"Report a crime

Criminal activity should be reported to your local or national police. INTERPOL does not carry out investigations or arrest people; this is the responsibility of national police."

https://tinyurl.com/38d9nbxt

The Antisemitic Democratic Soviet Communists run the 13רשת that hijacks your links, and computer, if you are an unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding Jew or Samaritan repeatedly trying to download Software, don't download it, it will hijack your enter Network for the Soviet Communism Ransom ware Criminals, nd CNN and Facebook had them lock me up, disabling me repeatedly, forcing upon me everything one that allergy list, and when I asked for a Hebrew Tanakh to read while force drugged and disabled me repeatedly for 9 months, saying that were Jewish Rabbis, they blocked me from Hebrew Jewish and Samaritan Scriptures, screaming, "What, you want a Hebrew Tanakh to Read? It would coast us tens of thousands of US Dollars, just to get you a Hebrew Torah to read", and they said that were not under Michigan State Court Jurisdiction, that an Ann Arbor VA Neurologist had order them not to give me any of the Vaccines or Drugs, so who is the Antisemitic Democratic Fake Jew Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminals and War Criminals?

Someone Hacked Facebook, and was targeting Jewish Scriptures Teachings, for the Communists in the Mainstream Medias, my Computer that runs in Hebrew,  was hacked at the same time, now as Facebook is down, as a cover for their Antisemitic Attacks, many Hebrew sites are down, and may other sites  no longer display Hebrew.

Many of Family Members and Neighbors were disabled and murdered by the Mainstream Medias' Flu and COVID Vaccines, that  have no positive benefits, they are fraud Vaccines, that  block none from getting infected by any Virus, like the real Vaccines for Mumps and Measles and Smallpox and Polio do, and the Antisemitic Democratic Communist run Medias and Corporations gave Jews no Medical Rights or Religious Right to reject their Toxic Poison Vaccines, that cause Autoimmune System like malfunctions, destroying diverse  body organs, as the eventually just fail, because the Mandated Toxic Poison Fraud Vaccines.

The ICIJ – an International Criminal Antisemitic Democratic  Network of Reporters and Journalists,  and International  Criminal Antisemitic Democratic Media Organisations, and the International  Criminal Antisemitic Democratic Mainstream Medias, and their  Criminal  Vigilante Computer Hackers, that took the Laws into their own hands, and without a public trial, saying that there must be consequences for People that threaten their Democratic Rule, and destroying the Free Speech, and the Right to the Free Press, of Multinational Peoples,   the afore mentioned International  Antisemitic Democratic Criminals installing the Communist Dictatorship, took down Facebook and many Websites, to silence Multinational Peoples Freedom of Speech, to force up us the Antisemitic Democratic Communist Dictatorship, that we voted not for, and gave them no consent to rule over us.

According t the Antisemitic Democratic Mainstream Medias, they took over Facebook because of the Whistle Blower, and they obviously  abused the Powers as Criminal Stalkers, targeting us unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding Jews and Samaritans, that they repeatedly disabled and or murdered, with the Toxic Poison Vaccines and Drugs, that lie calling Safe and Effective, to attack all that don't want in the Anti Religion Antisemitic Democratic  Dictatorship State, that we voted not for, and gave no consent to rule over us.

None of the Antisemitic Democratic Journalists are Jewish, they are Antisemitic Democratic Soviet Communists, forcing upon us unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding Jews and Samaritans their Antisemitic Democratic Dictatorship that outlawed the King mine Yahweh, and the throne mine David's as Antidemocratic like Democratic Nazi Germans and the Democratic Society Communists, bot did

As their Toxic Vaccines caused the rise of Autoimmune diseases and many other Toxic Vaccine and Toxic Drug and Toxic Food and Toxic Drink caused Diseases, are on the rise among 9/11 victims, and the first responders, and the General Public, but the Deadly dangerous Psychotic US and NATO and Zionist Governments, which runs the health-care programs hasn't acknowledged a link, preventing the Masses access to the things necessary to live among the Living, preventing the Masses access to Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness."

As Whistleblower against the Criminal Stalking and Antisemitisim done by the Mainstream Medias, controlling Facebook to repeatedly do their Antisemitic Hate Crimes, and blocking our Posts, violating our Rights to the Freedom of the Press, to hide their Antisemitic Hate Crimes, as they arm against us unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding Jews and Samaritans, as they arm our Soviet Communist fake Jew, and Al Qaeda and Taliban and ISIS  enemies against us, refusing to Redress even one of our Just Grievances, like the Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminal and War Criminal  former Vice President Joe Biden that gave our Medical Records and Treatments to our Antisemitic enemies, and paid them to repeatedly lock us up without a Public Trial, to force drug and disable and or murder us like Nazi Germans

Mr President Joe Biden

I am Joseph R Loegering, the King Israel's, the Torah's Messiah

Mr President Joe Biden, you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, are hereby under arrest, for your Internal Antisemitic Hate Crimes, and for your Internal War Crimes

You as Vice Prescient failed to Redress even one of Just Grievances, failing to get our Medical Records and Treatments, out of the Hands of our Antisemitic Enemies

We are unarmed Hebrew Torah and abiding Jews and Samaritans, with all just Issues being still blocked from the US and Zionist State Medias, as like my Jewish and Samaritan friends, and again Mr President Joe Biden, like when you Vice President, I am being Criminally Stocked by your Antisemitic Criminal Allies, and my 1st Amendment Rights are being Violated by an Antisemitic Democratic Fraud Jewish Maccabees Government allied with US President Joe Biden, that repeatedly Blocked my sound pure Science Posts and Religious Posts from Facebook, to set up and mass murder my Jewish and Samaritan friends, like Maccabees Nazi Catholic Hitler, and Nazi Germany had done, and we demand that the Nuclear and WMD and Heavily Militant Armed US and Zionist State Government Disarm and Resign from Power, and report the Hague for Trial

Warning: We will not choose death, by Vaccination, nor will we choose death by the Communist Left Wing's Government's Mandated Vaccines, from the Minority 48% that want to force death upon us Unvaccinated that cannot take their Toxic Poison Vaccines, with their Communist Left Wing's Government's Mandated Vaccines, like Left Wing Communist forced death upon us, by Soviet Communist forced Medications, nor will we choose death by the Fascist Ring Wing's Business Mandated Vaccines, from the Majority 52% that want to force death upon us Unvaccinated that cannot take their Toxic Poison Vaccines, with their Fascist Ring Wing's Business Mandated Vaccines, like Right Wing Fascist Nazi Germans, forced death upon us, by Nazi German forced Medications, and we demand all that necessary to keep the Uninfected Unvaccinated and the Uninfected Vaccinated from getting infected, by the Infected Vaccinated infecting the Uninfected Unvaccinated and the Uninfected Vaccinated, with their new Mutant Stains that the Vaccinated are Producing, because like the fully Vaccinated with two Pfizer COVID-19 Shots, in Zionist State, with Heart inflammation, and Swollen Lymph Nodes, and damaged Kidneys, and Shingles like Rashes, caused by as their Toxic FDA approved Pfizer Vaccine and Drug Additives, as the fully Vaccinated are being Hospitalized with Breakthrough Infections, and Dying in escalating numbers, because they were Vaccinated wearing their scientifically proven failing ineffective Masks, and were Vaccinated with FDA approved Toxic Poisons, vaccinating them with their scientifically proven Toxic Poison unsafe and ineffective Toxic failing COVID-19 Vaccines, and failing Toxic Booster Shots, and their Toxic FDA approved scientifically proven Toxic Poison unsafe and ineffective and failing Drugs, and their Toxic FDA approved scientifically proven Toxic Poison Foods, and their Toxic FDA approved scientifically proven Toxic Poison Drinks.

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern;

I am Joseph R Loegering, the King Israel's, the Torah's Messiah

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, outlawed our Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures' Dwelling and Hospital and Financial Systems, and replaced them with your Antisemitic Hospitals and your Antisemitic Usury Bankers and your Antisemitic Usury Bankers' Owned Dwellings, and Business, and Hospitals

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, violated and outlawed both the Pagan Democratic State's US Constitution's Gold Standard, and violated and outlawed Hebrew Jewish and Samaritan Torah's Silver's Shekel Weight monetary system, with your allied Antisemitic Democratic States' Paper Federal Reserve Notes and fake Jew counterfeit Paper Shekels call the New Israeli Shekels

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, outlawed our seven seventh year releases from Debts, and our Fiftieth Year's Jubilee's, and you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, violated and outlawed our Mishnah our Hebrew Calendar and Records, and our 49 Mishnah from our Mishnah seven sevens years, and our Jubilee's Census Mishnah done every Fiftieth Year since Adam as year one, in the Garden Eden, that your outlawed and replaced with your false Prophet Antisemitic Antichrist Maccabees Catholic Popes' Julian and Georgian Calendars

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, outlawed our Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures' Schools and Apprenticeships, and our Fuels and Trades, and replaced them with your Antisemitic Evolutionist and Alchemist Public and Private Schools, and your Military Complexes' Antisemitic Evolutionist and Alchemist Schooling

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, have reduced us to an absolute state of despotism with your Antisemitic polarized opposing politics, and have repeatedly caused us more, and more, and more harm and or death, because you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, have repeatedly refuse and failed to hear, and repeatedly refuse and failed to Redress even one of our Just Issues, on our many, and repeated Just Petitions

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies have repeatedly disarmed, us unarmed Hebrew Torah Abiding Jews and Samaritans and the Muslims, and have repeatedly armed against us our enemy Antisemitic Taliban and Al Qaeda and ISIS and Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and have repeatedly armed against us our enemy Antisemitic Democratic fake Jew Maccabees Soviet Communist Zionists, and have repeatedly given our Names, and Ranks, and Birth Dates, and our Social Security Numbers, and our Medical Records and Treatments, and our Private and Public Records, to our Foreign and Domestic Antisemitic Democratic enemies upon US Soil, and upon all the Soils of all Nations abroad, and keep repeatedly refusing and failing to adequately, and to timely Redress even one of our Just Grievances

Mr President Joe Biden: You as Vice Prescient failed to Redress even one of Just Grievances, failing to get our Medical Records and Treatments, out of the Hands of our Antisemitic Enemies

Mr President Joe Biden, and Mr Jens Stoltenberg, and to the NATO State Rulers, and to Mr Isaac Herzog, and to whom it may concern; you and your US Government and your NATO and Zionist State Allies, are hereby under arrest, for your Internal Antisemitic Hate Crimes, and for your Internal War Crimes

We are unarmed Hebrew Torah and abiding Jews and Samaritans, with all just Issues being still blocked from the US and Zionist State Medias, as like my Jewish and Samaritan friends, and again Mr President Joe Biden, like when you Vice President, I am being Criminally Stocked by your Antisemitic Criminal Allies, and my 1st Amendment Rights are being Violated by an Antisemitic Democratic Fraud Jewish Maccabees Government allied with US President Joe Biden, that repeatedly Blocked my sound pure Science Posts and Religious Posts from Facebook, to set up and mass murder my Jewish and Samaritan friends, like Maccabees Nazi Catholic Hitler, and Nazi Germany had done, and we demand that the Nuclear and WMD and Heavily Militant Armed US and Zionist State Government Disarm and Resign from Power, and report the Hague for Trial

Warning: While the Warmongering US Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Left Wing and Right Wing Politicians, and their Allies, and their Satan's synagogue Warmongering Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Left Wing and Right Wing Medias are in Power Struggle, saying that must survive the Midterm Elections that we vote not in, because our Hebrew Torah outlawed voting for Rulers that are not Yahweh's chosen and anointed and appointed King upon the throne mine Abraham's and David's, and the US Antisemitic Hate Crime and War Criminal Government and Medias and the Allies, are still deliberately failing to hear, and deliberately failing to Redress even one of Just Grievances upon our Many, and repeated Petitions, for Redress of Grievances, we demand that the US Warmongering Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Left Wing and Right Wing Politicians and Allies, and their Warmongering Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Left Wing and Right Wing Medias, be removed from Power, and Arrested, and we demand that they stand Trial in the Internal Courts, for their repeated Antisemitic Hate Crimes, and for their repeated War Crimes, and for their repeated their Crimes against Humanity

Warning: The Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Left Wing Maccabees Catholic President Joe Biden, is responsible for spreading the COVID-19 Pandemic using the Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Right Wing Fascist President Donald Trump's fraud COVID-19 Vaccines, that do not block People from getting infected by the COVID-19 Virus like a real Vaccine would, and the Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Left Wing Maccabees Catholic President Joe Biden and his Satan's synagogue Medias, are responsible for the Deaths caused by the FDA approved Additives, causing people to develop Cancers, and Heart Disease from the Heart inflammation, and Swollen Lymph Nodes, and Shingles like Rashes, caused by the Toxic FDA approved Toxic COVID-19 Vaccine Additives, as their Toxic FDA approved Vaccine and Drug Additives cause all the Leading causes of Death upon the whole Globe

The Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminals and War Criminals Joe Biden and the Democratic and Medias, criminally stalking, and setting up. targeting and force vaccinating and force drugging unarmed Jews and Samaritans like the Nazi German Maccabee, as they go deeper in War Debts, making all Slaves to their Antisemitic Democratic States National Party's Debts, as they destroy the Global Markets for their own Political and Economic Gains at our expense, don't hesitate to arrest them, if and when enter your City, spreading the Pandemic with their Political Campaigns, and their Political Protests and Riots,  at our expense, as they hide the truth, that all the Maccabees abuse of Children, was done by the Anti American Antisemitic Democratic Communist Maccabees Catholic Homosexuals, that Maccabees Catholic Antisemitic Democratic  Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminals and War Criminals in the US and NATO and fake Jew  Maccabees Catholic Antisemitic Democratic State and their Medias armed against us unarmed Hebrew Torah abiding  Jews and Samaritans and Muslims

Warning: Don't let the Criminal Vaccinators say that failing Banks and falling Wall Street were caused by the Unvaccinated, the Warmongering the Nuclear and WMD and Heavily Militant armed Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Murderer Tyrant Vaccinator Dictators caused them to crash

Here in North Dakota, with only 31 Unvaccinated Hospitalized out of 971 Unvaccinated Infected, and 130 Vaccinated with one shot Hospitalized, out of 3, 297 Vaccinated with one Shot, that Poisoned and Disabled them, and got them Infected, besides the ones the Fraud COVID Vaccine Shots Killed, the US Government and CDC and FDA, and Medias are deliberately lying to the Public, to mass murder their Religious and Political Rivals, to force upon us the Antisemitic Democratic Dictatorship, like Nazi Germans and the Soviet Communists did

4,268 New Infections, 3,279 Vaccinated New Infection, only 971 Unvaccinated with a New Infection, making it so that if you take the Shot, you are more likely to get infected, because the Toxic Poison  Fraud COVID Vaccines poisoned your Immune System, as out of 4,268 New Cases, the  Hospitalized is 161, minus the 130 Vaccinated Hospitalized, equals 31  Unvaccinated Hospitalized, and out of the 4,268  New Cases, 3,279 are the Poisoned  Vaccinated, that were  Infected, because they were Poisoned by the Deadly dangerous Psychotic Vaccinators, trying to open their Societies for their own Political Economic Gains at our expense, as the Deadly dangerous Psychotic Vaccinator Politicians, and Journalists, and Doctors, and Sports Athletes, and Hollywood and Bollywood fallen Stars, block from the Unvaccinated what we need to keep from being Infected by their deliberately Poisoned and Infected Vaccinated

My Brother had serious Adverse Reactions to the J&J/Janssen Vaccine, and my Mother had serious Adverse Reactions to Pfizer Vaccine, because the Antisemitic Hate Crime Criminals  say that we have no Medical or Religious Rights to refuse their Mandated Vaccines

Along with many they call Jews, many of the Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Right and Left Wing Soviet Communist Russians and Antisemitic Antichrist Democratic Right and Left Wing Soviet Communist fake Jew Zionist, were poisoned by the Toxic US FDA approved Toxic Additives in the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, and in the Pfizer Fraud COVID Vaccine and un the Moderna Fraud COVID Vaccine

With all the Politicians and Medias and Sports Athletes having everyone that they might have contact with, both Tested and Vaccinated, while blocking us that cannot take their Fraud Toxic Poison Vaccines that don't stop any Virus, blocking us from what we need to keep us and our Families from getting infected by their extremely contagious COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections, and their extremely contagious secondary Contagious Pathogen infections, while they only reveal a few of mass numbers of Breakthrough Infection, that they get and spread with non essential activities, of spreading and forcing upon us the Antisemitic Democratic Politics and Dictatorships, like what infected the Fully Vaccinated U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for a COVID-19 Breakthrough Infection. like what infected Brazil's health minister Marcelo Queiroga, that tested positive for COVID at the U.N. General Assembly in NYC, Infecting both Vaccinated Diplomats and Vaccinated US Vaccinated and Unvaccinated New Yorkers, with a Strain from another Country, is another example of the none essential activates spreading their extremely contagious COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections, and secondary extremely Contagious Pathogen Infections

Because of the Diverse Types of Contagious Pathogens, that they are spreading by their non essential activities, because they made a five to seven week lockdown essential to Isolate the Infected, from the Infected, because their non essential activities kept spreading their Diverse Types of Contagious Pathogen Infections, and because they are still doing their non essential activities, and are still Spreading the COVID-19 Pandemic, and their Diverse Types of Contagious Pathogen Infections, for their own Political and or Economic Gains, at our expense, because they are non essential activities, non essential to surviving the Pandemic, and because they are activities that spread the Pandemic, across the entire Globe, disabling and mass murdering Multitudes, during the Rest of the Pandemic, to stop people from being infected and disabled and or killed by the infections, from their non essential activities, any Politician traveling from City to City, for his or her Political Campaign, and any Political Activist traveling from City to City, for his or her Political Rally, and any Protester traveling from City to City, for his or her Protest, and any Soldier from the lowest to the highest Rank, traveling from City to City, for his or her War, and any Medias' Media Journalist, traveling from City to City, for his or her Story, and any Star traveling from City to City, for his or her Show, and any Sports Participant traveling from City to City, for his or her Sports event, while you Isolate the Infected from the Uninfected in your City, those participating in those non essential travels from City to City, they must be blocked from entering your City, and must be arrested, and be jailed in Isolation Prison and Trail Camps, outside your City Boundary, and they must be charged, and be tried, and be hung, for their Mass Murders that they did by spreading the Pandemic, across the entire Globe

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

The 50’s Are Back!

(Metaphorically)

July 3, 2021

Stephen Jay Morris

©Scientific Morality

It’s the day before the 4th of July, but I don’t feel very festive. It has been raining for two days now and I am not feeling very well. My obsessive/compulsive disorder is still with me. I have this compulsion to keep my half-acre lawn nicely cut, but my lawn mower has broken down. Each day, I look out the window and I see the grass getting longer and longer. Being a neurotic, my brain won’t shut the fuck up about it! Plus, I am becoming more forgetful lately and that scares the shit out of me! I’m afraid it might be early stages of dementia.

I think I have some masochistic tendencies. I am a news junkie. It always upsets me but, I watch anyway. The media is evil, but not because it leans Left or Right; it is because they are greedy, money-grabbing pigs who adhere to that proverbial slogan: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Bad news sells energy drinks; good news loses money and ratings. That is why the schmuck who used to be president is still in the news, constantly. The former host of a reality TV show has become a one-man reality show himself! Consumers just love the anti-hero, from Jesse James to Al Capone to Donald Trump.

Yeah, dudes! “The Fall of the Donald.” It is a very old, American fable. He couldn’t get wealthy the Horatio Alger way, or via the methodology of the Protestant Work Ethic, so he schemed and cheated throughout his life just to show his daddy he’s not a loser. How many fucking times do we have to repeat this story!? It makes the commoner feel happy when somebody at the top fails. That is why we have celebrity gossip.

Well, Conservatives, you got your wish! The 50’s are back! Well, not quite, but close. In Biden, we have another Eisenhower in office. The McCarthy era is upon us again. QAnon is the new John Birch Society. The gamers are the new Beatniks.

One glaring thing that doesn’t match up, however, is American culture. I don’t know why there is a so-called “culture war,” when there is no culture to begin with! Movies are practical and dull and formulaic. Sex and violence, though a boring cliché to me, may have a kick to a young kid. And, music...yeah, music is lame. Once in while, there emerges a novelty song that pisses off the good Christian folk, like Cardi B’s “WAP,” or Lil Naz X’s, “Call Me By Your Name.” Otherwise, there is nothing remarkable there.

Fashion is a mishmash of the past. A God damned tee shirt is the only “new” fashion statement you can make! Men’s hair styles look like the haircuts given to prisoners in the 1930’s. Women’s hair styles are simplistic, except for the unnatural bold colors seen over the last few years. Automobiles haven’t sported any notable design since the 90’s. Petropolitics has been over taken by Neo-Liberal scumbags. The way they cling to fossil fuel, you’d think gold was becoming extinct! They keep trying to rebrand it as “energy.” This is not Western Civilization, this is the White Capitalist American Empire dying! Like I said, now does not mirror the 1950’s exactly, but it is pretty similar.

I always wanted to do charity work, but I haven’t achieved my original mission. What is that, you ask? I can’t tell you; it’s personal, though not illegal or immoral. Doing charity work is egotistical however, it is positive egotism. Negative egotism is the Trump story. The ego cannot be eliminated, but it can be controlled and modified of one’s own volition. If you resent someone that is selfless, then that reflects your inferiority complex; i.e. you are resentful because you’re feeling guilty about not being a good human being.

My Aunt Norma said to me that everyone was neurotic during the 1950’s. Mental illness was hidden—a dark secret. If you had anxiety, you kept it to yourself. If a member of your family was mentally ill and living in the basement, your lips remained sealed.

America, today, has a screwed up attitude about mental illness. Most don’t really know what it is. Is it demon possession? A lot of people have this moronic concept of mental illness; they think it is equivalent to being eccentric. They will poop out platitudes like, “Everybody is a little crazy!” Mental illness is a diseased brain, not a behavioral condition. You know?

Let’s not go back to the 1950’s. Let’s go forward into the 21stCentury!

[dokkaebiking]

Pass the happy! When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the most recent people in your notifications!

Considering how 2020 has gone, this shouldn’t be a hard list to make as there’s not a lot that’s made me happy this year. I mean, this has been sitting in my inbox for far too long, simply because The Depresso™ has robbed me of the energy to do much of anything these days. However, Biden won the election, and although that cursed cheese ball shit bag currently in the White House is trying to undermine democracy, at the same time I know he ain’t gonna get away with it, so I feel lighter than I have in months, and I’m finally getting to things I’ve held off for too long. Not gonna tag anyone, but if you want to be tagged then I’m attacking you with psychic powers right now and tagging you spiritually >:D

1. Trash of the Count’s Family! I cannot overstate how much joy this Korean webnovel has brought me this year. I read the manhwa first, by chance, when I was cruising the “Isekai” tag, and after reading so many where a woman got sent into another world/was reborn in another world/took over the body of a side character in their favorite game or book or whatever/or otherwise transmigrated into a place that’s Not Here (and lucky them, amirite)...I was happy to see it happen to a guy. Not only that, but like the first chapter, aside from the prologue, was filled with so much fanservice of just this one guy that I was pleasantly surprised at the tables being turned. Especially since Isekai is very well known for it’s trashy female fanservice and gross harems that make no sense. CUE CALE HENITUSE COMING TO SAVE THE ISEKAI GENRE! 

He not only has no romantic interest whatsoever in the story, which is fantastic (doesn’t stop us fans from shipping left and right, but I love it when this type of protag just does not do romance at all), but he builds a harem that’s purely platonic and god damn it I’ve never seen Found Family done so well I wanna cry just thinking about it. Plus, Cale’s whole philosophy of “gotta create world peace so I can live as a slacker” is hilarious, considering how he just keeps being a Hero™ and hating it, but his dumb ass can’t stop. Also, there’s a baby dragon that he saves, sets free from a terrible torture chamber it began its life in, and rather than running off it decides to follow Cale around and basically Cale becomes a father of three kids, one being the dragon, and the other two being two precious (and very dangerous) cat kids. This story refuses to let the good guys die, which after GoT is refreshing as hell, but isn’t afraid to take bloody revenge on the bad guys, which is also hella refreshing. I’ll go on forever if I don’t stop here, but just look it up if you get the chance and any of this appeals to you—you won’t regret it.

2. KakaIru, easily, has been the stable foundation for me this year. The friends I met through the fandom before this year have only become closer, and more dear to me, and the new friends are just as lovely; these people are the only things keeping me sane, let me tell you. The @kakairuzine “Intertwined” was a big project that I was delighted to help mod for, and participate in as a merch artist, and I’m so thrilled that we reached all of our stretch goals, and then some! The @the-umino-hours server has brought me much joy during the year, as well as the forum @kakairu-rocks, participating in the @kakairu-mini-bang was a blast (and I’m working on the second part to that fic right now tbh), now I’m a mod (and participant) for the @kakairu-big-bang and am so excited for it. KakaIru has been with me since I was a kid, and it’s just so lovely that it’s still a fairly active part of the fandom, and still makes me as happy as it did when I was 14  (*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡

3. Spooky boys, like cryptids and folklore and eldritch horrors, are always a delight, but in a year that’s more horrifying than any of them could ever dream to be, it’s oddly cathartic to indulge in the monsters we imagine while surrounded by real monsters of our own making. Also, ever since I wrote my KakaIru fic Want Me Down to the Marrow I’ve had such a soft spot for the Gashadokuro, and still laugh at “Bone Daddy”. You’ll have to pry that title from my cold, dead hands.

4. “My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!” It was honestly this otome anime that led me down the path that eventually brought me to “Trash of the Count’s Family”. So I owe a lot to this series, and really the series in and of itself is such a delight. I bought the light novels on Bookwalker because I loved it so much~♥ Katarina (aka Bakarina), thank you for your service. Because of you I looked up other series of a similar strain as your story, and found the manhwa “Beware the Villainess!”, which is a fucking delight, and thus kept looking into that genre and eventually found my way to Cale Henituse’s whacky adventures.

5. “The Rising of the Shield Hero” has made me happy from the first time I watched it, but I rewatched it this year, and the announcement for the second season’s release came just like...last month I believe, so that spike of serotonin was highly appreciated. I have the light novels for this series up to volume 17, and let me tell you, the story just gets better and better and I cannot wait for it to be animated. Naofumi, I love you you cinical little shit~♥

[royallyprincesslilly]

I’m in literal tears right now. He sent me this long ass text defending himself. He doesn’t even like trump, but he dislikes Biden more so that’s why he’s voting for him. But I just don’t understand. Yes I love him but it’s not his rights that could be taken away. He’s a white cis straight man

😔Woooow. Hunny I'm so sorry.

I can imagine how you're feeling.

So he's voting over a like of a person over critical stances such as healthcare, women's reproductive rights, economy, environment such as global warming and the degradation and pollution of the oceans, etc?

So his vote won't impact him but can and will affect you and millions of others, and it is still about a like and or dislike for people?

If that were the case, I wouldn't vote, period, but that is not an option here.

Damn. I don't have the words to say to lighten this blow, and I wish I did. I also wish I could tell you to let go of this friendship and love them from afar, but I can't.

This is tough, and this truly is and has always been a country divided. It is just in plain sight now.

I'm praying for your peace of mind and happiness.

I am sorry for what I'm about to say I honestly cannot keep this in.

He can choke on a 🍆. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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[girlbossgaslightguillermo]

fuck the US. fuck yall. fuck your country and administration. fuck you so much. India is having such a terrible crisis people are fucking dying at insanely high rates. there’s no fucking oxygen our govt is trash Twitter has become a Covid helpline I cannot fucking explain to you how bad it is here. I really fucking can’t. It’s so fucking bad. it’s so bad. I’m so angry at first world countries, genuinely fuck you if you choose to ignore how the US oppressed other countries. fuck your pro American propaganda. today I saw someone’s plea for donation because they lost multiple working members of their family. they have no fucking source of income. someone I know lost two people to covid within the week. a few days ago, 200 people waited for the oxygen to run out in a Delhi hospital and thankfully were saved but so many hospitals are just running out of oxygen and everyone’s just waiting for it. knowing they’ll die when it happens. two doctors had to go back to work immediately after burying their relatives. being Indian and seeing how my country is suffering hurts. it really fucking does.

and the worst part? there’s going to be no outrage abt this. American media won’t talk about this. Americans don’t even know about how bad it is here. if ur American and you’re seeing this, please speak up. talk to your friends. educate yourself about how the US oppresses “third world” countries. you should be angry on our behalf too. it won’t do much. the situation is so hopeless right now. I’m not even asking you to donate (DM me if you want to though) I’m just asking for an acknowledgment and some reflection. If you glorify Biden Harris or think the US can be reformed just educate yourself because it really can’t. I can’t tell you how jarring it is to follow Americans rn because you guys are getting vaccinated and going back to normal and meanwhile everyone in my country is dying. it isn’t the fault of individual citizens, you are allowed to be happy about getting vaccinated. but please remember that while things are getting back to normal for you, countries like mine are suffering and your country is a part of that. don’t glorify the US for vaccinating y’all either. you have the best fucking vaccines in the world and surplus for no reason.

just. idk. this is just me ranting. I’m just so fucking angry.

[teachingtales]

Hey so what’s your opinion about Biden bombing Syria before giving out covid checks, and the fact that there’s more kids in cages at the border now than in the worst part of the Trump presidency

Personally? I think that sucks in ways that require me to use profanity to fully explain the depth of my anger. Even more angering was letting Saudi Arabia get away with literal murder. I’m sick and tired of the USA supporting Saudi Arabia. They’re killing people in Yemen. They oppress many groups. They still execute “sinners”...people breaking a “moral” law that actually causes no harm. Just another reason to push for renewable or nuclear energy, and energy independence.

Note: I’m not sure about the note on “more kids in cages”. While the detention centers were reopened for processing, they are alleged to be kept to certain health/safety standards. I do not know if they are telling the truth about this. I am not saying your comment is false, only that I cannot verify its accuracy at this time. If you have more info, I’m very happy to read it!

As a history teacher? It was to be expected. Politicians in many places, including the USA, are basically the same elite fools pretending they play on different teams to give the illusion of choice. We have seen in history when kings and emperors give their people something to do, be it court life (old time nobility social gatherings) or increasing taxes so the workers work more and can’t afford to take a day off to fight back.

In the case of the USA, it’s literally manufactured a media circus. The pandemic is a good example. While many other developed nations simply responded to the threat, those in the USA got an overly-sensationalized “ALL OR NOTHING!!!!??!??!!!” type of experience. The big problem is once the people felt lied to about the scale, many also assumed the safety protocols were also lies. That was an incorrect assumption, but honestly I cannot blame them too much for that. When your system sets itself up to be unreliable, they can’t act surprised when people stop accepting it.

Keeping the people busy with a false enemy (in this case, the other major political party) means the elite can maintain their dealings unchallenged. My students asked me what I thought would happen if Trump won in 2020, and I said there could be a rebellion because many of the items on the Rebellions In History checklist are marked off...but perhaps it will happen under a Biden presidency. Maybe it is more of a randomized BINGO card than a checklist.

The idea is that Biden should get away with bombings and Saudi dealings because he is “less extreme” than Trump was. This would be like if your previous teacher graded everyone so harshly that your entire class failed, so when a new teacher gives you barely passing grades, you’re grateful...but in reality, you deserve great grades for your hard work. If your boss slaps you three times a day, you welcome a boss that slaps you only once per day...but in reality, you shouldn’t be slapped at all.

Biden may not be able to hide this, though. People seem critical of him now because big promises were made and there’s a HUGE mess to clean up. It seems that right-leaning news outlets are hyping up the wrong things, though...like how ugly Biden’s dog is or how they blame “cancel culture” for the fact the Dr Seuss preservation folks voluntarily and without outside pressure decided to no longer publish six books due to racism. Those are not actual issues, but if we focus the people’s attention on the absurd, they ignore the tragic.

If we focus the people’s attention on the absurd, they ignore the tragic.

I repeat this because it’s important. If you see something on social media or hear something from a person that sounds TOO sensational, TOO extreme, TOO ridiculous...it likely is and was manufactured (deliberately overblown).

I saw this in the Marine Corps. I briefly worked in Intelligence. Nothing “high up”, but we had our interesting briefings that I still am not allowed to repeat. What changed my view of the news forever was an event that wasn’t. We were told it was nothing, we aren’t worried at this time. It was two sentences. Then, a few weeks later, the news started reporting it as “we heard but can’t confirm” and made it sound scary. Over the next several weeks, analysts and experts were featured as this story got bigger and scarier. People were whipped into a frenzy. When I told family not to worry, they called me “brainwashed by the military”. Then, the media revealed that wow, golly, we are all safe!! Thank goodness!! But people were long-term angry and distrustful of the target even some 15 years later.

I was shocked. THIS WAS NOT REMOTELY AN ISSUE, and by the time they reported it, the information had been weeks old! How could they do this and call it news? So I don’t read news from the US anymore unless I’m doing it to see how a story is distorted. Of course, other media can be faulty. It’s best to read reports, documents, studies, research papers...not the news. The news can give you an idea of where to start, but do the reading yourself.