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From what I've read there is nothing in the Constitution that bars a criminal from holding the office of President. That person might have had their voting rights taken away by a state for a felony conviction so they couldn't vote in that particular state, eg. Florida but could still be elected. Something our Founding Fathers never expected to happen.

No, they did not. And if they did, they assumed the voting public would require a certain amount of honor from their public servants that preclude them from supporoting a man who had none.

BUT, the 14th amendment DOES prevent a man who performed acts of treason from holding the presidency, and Jan 6, and the actions taken by the Trump administration’ in regards to trying to set up fake delegates as has been proven, should have precluded him from running again

The only thing that saved him was he’s loaded the court with political hacks who obviously are more interested in conservative values in the constitution.

And what is the result? federal troops on our streets? Open calls to jail people for a free speech that they didn’t like? Concentration camps, and the rounding up of individuals based on the color of their skin without due process.

All of this back by that same biased Supreme Court in all of it clearly in conflict with the meaning of not the exact letter of the word of the constitution

And it’s getting worse. Just days ago a mega supporter working for a right wing press here on Fox News proposed forcing lethal injection on American citizens for no reason other than the fact that they’re poor.

Yes, he apologized, but he still has his job. I saw no outrage from the right.

Imagine that gathering up millions of homeless and then forcing them either into detention or killing them with lethal injection

That is not the action of a free country. That is the action of a fascist state.

Part 2 of the Accidental Escort is now published. This chapter, Sexual Awakening continues Alicia's journey in her new life as a high end call girl

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/strap-on-sex/the-accidental-escort-sexual-awakening

And if you would like to read part 1, here is a link

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/money/the-accidental-escort

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I am sorry I wasn't clear. The comment (image one) and the like (image two) are completely unrelated to each other and made by separate people. The comment "What a great pic" was given to a forum post only. It had nothing to do with the media picture shown in the second image and should not be there. That is the error. If I close and reopen the media image, it disappears.

you were clear to people who had had the same issue. I’m not sure everybody is. I understood what you were talking about right away.

To make it stop, I have to actually close lush on my phone’s browser and reopen it and then I can go back in the comments won’t show up when I’m looking at statuses or other screens.

I don’t know what’s causing it, but it’s certainly a glitch of some kind

As is true for any content creator, building subscribers is critical to my success, so, as you have found your way to me personal promotion page, please subscribe to my stories by clicking ‘follow’.

As they say, its free and it allows you first access to every story I publish. And, it would be a great help to me as I rebuild my readership.

And don't forget to like my work when you feel it deserving. Your appreciation is my only reward.

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Bear, I will be waving as I go to have lunch with my sister in Livonia before I fly home tomorrow. I hope your visit to AA goes well. Please say hello to Lady Jay for me. 😘

Today is a mix of Grandma's school drop-off and pick-up service and attending a celebration at the school I helped open 25 years ago. Should be a fun day. 😎

Happy Hump Day, all y’all! 🥰

Have fun! and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do

Trust me that gives you some wide latitude 😂😂

Don't you just hate it when some prick cranks the juke box to 11 at the crack of dawn?

Good Morning Mr’s Lion and Bear Thank you for opening the joint

I'm just going to park over here and enjoy my coffee.::

Quote by KimmiBeGood

Hunting pics was always a fun part of stories for me. So, I’ll wish you a happy hunt, Milik!

I’m tired. Football season is keeping me up past my bedtime.

Sleep well. Its a loong season

Part 2 of the Accidental Escort is in moderation now. Its not the story I had wrote but that one is in the digital afterlife. But where it went still continues Alicia’s self discovery which is what they series is about.

I'm still considering details for part 3, but I got distracted by an idea thats been floating in my archive for quite some time. Peggy and the Basher is a short tale of revenge sex that feels timely in today's world. I'm about half way through it, so I expect to post it by the weekend. Maybe sooner depending on moderation time of the one I posted today

Now, Im off to find a picture of a 5 foot tall busty blond with a really serious mean streak and a warped sense of justice

Quote by Milik_the_Red

Thank you. Very few here know just how wonderful a and sensitive she was. It hurt watching her go. But at least I got her home before her final illness set in.

She had great friends here and she missed them a lot.

Now that I'm alone I have too much time on my hands and need something to while away the time. I was going through her unfinished work and found the last story we were writing together.

I'm finishing it now and when it posts I will include her as the contributing author. I think she would be happy I completed it

as an update on that story, I have been working on it, but I’ve been forced into a point where I have to write some of the sections that she was going to write that is proved emotionally hard to deal with

However, at one point it will be published. I just have to gather the strength to do it.

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Im so sorry to hear that Milik. I popped in here to find a poem of mine and somehow ended up here. My condolences to you and yours.

Thank you. Our home feels quite empty now.

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And it's fabulous! ❤️

I thought it quite good and very worthy of its RR!

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Oh that’s a bummer…. I hope you find a way to recover the data. I think most of us have been there, losing data… I remember losing the last two chapters of the first book I ever wrote when my computer went up in smoke, Yep, it caught fire. 🔥 Now I back up to cloud and an external drive.

No, it was gone.

I spent last evening rewriting 2000 words but now the secong have it the story is totally changed from what I had before. I'm in final edits now and I have a copy backed up on the site so I won't have that happen again

Quote by KimmiBeGood

Slumps into booth

It’s 90 today, but hot cocoa with plenty of minis, please.

Soooo glad today’s crap is over.

Good news is I won $1000 on a $2.00 bet on a slot machine at French Lick. Pays half my dental bill. :)

Karma can be kind to good people Congratulations on your win

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That truly sucks, Milik!!! I’m sorry!!!

And I’m in the middle of coding an acquired bank for my client. They need their geek and I’m cursed with a people pleaser thing. It’s a rough day, though. The more anxious I am, the harder tranquilizers seem to hit me. At least dentist thing is over. Really everyone our age can benefit from this procedure for a really healthy mouth.

I'm sorry your having such a bad day. I hope your evening improves

I've spent time rewriting the part I've lost and now the entire direction is changing. It seems Alicia is another character who refuses to behave her writer.

Ah, well. I do like where she's taking me

Quote by noll

I know what I posted 😄

That’s not what she said. You said you’d only talked about Trump’s library, which wasn’t true.

Oh, shit! I just discovered a flaw in Apples Pages writing program's save.

I had part 2 of The Accidental Escort completed. It was done and all it needed was an edit. I did that on my phone last night and this morning, half my story wass gone!

The entire sex scene, which was hot, Vanished in digital purgatory!

Grrrr…. Shit. Now I've got to rewrite another 1000 words or so.

Time to make my own back ups at the end of each writing session. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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At dentist — other half of mouth for tooth scraping, root planing. Took tranq. Have to then go back to work. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 Hope no work crisis arises that requires me to think fast.

Have never cocoa with minis ready in my corner, please! Snd And a soft pillow to squeeze. And a blanket to snuggle.

I have to hand it to you for not taking the day for self-care. You deserve the day off.

Quote by noll

The only thing I asked was whether Musk will support Trump's library. And that was only after your post.

It wasn't so much a question but a statement that the Dems protected Biden that I was responding to, and yes, I elaborate quite a bit, but I never mentioned anything about Trump and his library. I was talking about your statements on Joe Biden, and the Democrats as you can see from the screenshot I’m posting.

One of the things that drives me crazy here is that those whos rights are most likey to be lost wont go vote, or vote for the people who are telling them to their faces that they want to victimize

Woman make up 51% of our electorate yet 45% of woman voters voted for Trump.

40% of latinos who voted voted for trump

20% of blacks voted for trump

And millions more stayed at home.

The ONLY demographic that supported him were white men, and by now the rest should realize white men are NOT looking our for anyone but themselves.

I just don't understand what the hell they are thinking

Quote by noll

A long response, most of it not about what I said. But let's just see, if the cracks will get bigger, and how fast, or not. And will Musk be sponsoring Trump's library?

As for terrorism and the US being the problem, I didn't believe that. The US did provide many wrongs to point at though (IS may not have happened if the US had not invaded Iraq for instance, which they did under false pretences), but it was not the root cause. Backward religious dramaqueens were the root cause.

What's currently happening in Gaza though, or even in the Palestinian territories as a whole, that may be a different issue. Israel's genocidal actions surely make for a future terrorist breeding ground. And I'm sure the US' unconditional support (in large part based on backward religious ideas), without which Israel could not have gone on with it for as long as it has, will not be forgotten.

like I said, I’m not in agreement with any of this. I’m just telling you what the right is saying and what the problem with the left is which you did ask about

As far as the situation with Gaza had Harris once she could’ve had some control over it and the people who support Gaza here should’ve understood that

But instead, they stayed home and let Trump win and now we have a fascist government here that’s supporting the fascist government in Israel

Quote by noll

There are some cracks showing.

But it's not just a MAGA thing. It took the Dems a long time to admit that Biden was unfit to run for a second term too. And they might not even have admitted it, if it wasn't for the polls.

And there are a lot of democratic doners outraged by that. They are refusing to donate to his library over it.

Biden is being held accountable for hiding his condition and even running for a second term.

This is as it should be. Had he stepped aside and not run, we wouldn't be in this mess now.

But frankly, had the left been walking their economic ideals all along MAGA never would have risen. So, yes, this was a systemic neglegance and arrogance in the party that was typified with the voters when Debbie Wasswerman Shultz manipulated the party to ensure Hillery and her corporate cronies won the 2016 nomination

That effectively split the democrats between the progressives and what Americans consider centrists.

That split remains and can be seen by the progressives holding votes away from Harris in 2024 over the Palestinian issue even though it was obvious the Republicans were going to be 100% vassals to Netanyahu.

The left was fractured, and as a result simply failed to show up for Harris the way they did Biden in 2020.

The right, on the other hand has been unified by anger. Racist anger brought on by the election and success of Barak Obama. That had a much deeper affect on the right than most, from my observations, realize.

That bigotry was further inflamed by progressive polices toward protections to specific groups such as the Trans community and immigrants. Not just the undocumented, the Right will claim they’re only worried about those, but the truth is they just don’t want brown people coming into the country and we can see that in Trumps policies.

The isolationists in the right are only recently reappearing in force and they’ve managed to push out the Reagan Republicans who are pro NATO and pro interventionist and pro American power in favor of us abandoning our commitments over overseas.

This seems inexplicable to people who don’t understand where this ground swell came from, but after talking with conservatives for many years IN informal conversational settings, I know exactly why they’re feeling this way

And they have a point even if it’s completely misguided

In a nutshell, their argument is this, we’ve been fighting the war on terror for a generation and all we’ve gotten for it is condemnation from our friends and the international community

What we viewed as a noble effort, was turned on us as us being the problem

And so many in the right has simply said screw it. We’re not going to be the problem anymore.

Deal with it yourself.

I don’t agree with this opinion, but I’ve talked to people about it in their circles for a long period of time and in detail and many of their arguments are true on the surface

And there’s a certain arrogance that’s come from overseas. That’s only made this much worse.

The result of all this is, I don’t see the United States pulling out of this anytime in the near future I believe that Donald Trump is going to pass away before the end of his term and the Democrats will be able to take some control, but this schism and the American populous isn’t going away and the mismanagement brought on by the Republicans towards education and business practices regarding international relations and immigration are going to haunt us for decades

And that’s not good for us or the world because without the United States economically strong, the world loses its largest market without the American military to keep nations like Russia and China in check they’re going to start enforcing their will on the world and the only people who have the ability to stand up and stop it is Europe.

And I don’t think Europe has the intention of spending $1 a year on military expenditures nor do I think they have the will to carry on active intervention the way United States has. And the truth is the United States is simply not going to do it anymore.

Now, I don’t agree with any of this, but sitting here living in a red state now and having spent my working life in a very conservative area of a blue state, I know exactly where they’re coming from

And the Rams win! 33-19. 2-0 baby!

The Accidental Escort is the story of a young woman who is mistakenly propositioned after a failed date. Please take a minute and give it a look

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/money/the-accidental-escort

I'm here in Tennesee pulling for my Rams in a rematch of former Super Bowl contenders. I will be gettting this one live on Paramout + so I'm getting my snacks and drinks, hoping Stafford can lead us to 2-0

Good morning Rumps. Sorry about that lock, by the way. It seems to have suffered a failure of some sort

Anyway I was still up so I figured I'd help myself to that red head, I mean, a beer.

Now, where are the tokens for the jukebox…

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I don't feel any need to lie here. No one knows me or my real name. My sexual exploits are very tame but I don't bother to exaggerate them. That's why I write fiction.

When I had a career to protect, I kept my identity a secret. Now that I'm retired I don't give a single shit who knows what Im doing here. That why I use the same photo here as I do an Facebook.

Being old has its privilege

Why would I lie? Who am I trying to impress? In the forums I've always told it like it was even when it's gotten me in massive trouble with the site, and boy, it has

When commenting on a story, I am more respectful as I understand that no matter a writers skill, they are doing the best they can. Insulting their work is simply hurtful and accomplishes nothing. If I simply hate the story I wont vote or comment at all.

When I do, I try to point out what about it I found worthy of praise.

Rarely, ill find a writers that might benefit from advice, but I won't make that public. I'll send a pm and I've received those from others making the same kind of observations.

But always, I respect the craft.

The only thing I lie about is who I am. I'm not a 61 year old man. I'm actually a petite 18 year old girl and have been ever since I joined 16 years ago 😂😂😂

Seriously though, one can be respectful and still be honest on the comments. There is no need at all to lie

Quote by kistinspencil

This has been happening randomly for quite a while. I reported it at least a year ago. I have not been able to work out a repeatable sequence to make it happen. I had screen shots, but I have no idea where they are now. I will do some next time it happens.

I’ve had that happen to me enough to think that that’s what was supposed to work. It’s fairly annoying though.

Quote by deviantsusie

I took two different directions with watersports.. neither of which really involved sexual activity... Disco biscuits and pee stop but there are so many categories that shouldn't be here that the Omnium is an endurance test of writing stories we don't really want to.... Having said that, I'm trying to do a double Omnium with two stories in every category ... Just for a laugh

My hat is off to you! I'll make mine soon and I've probably got at least two in most genres but I've not got the will the try that!