All the right people getting thrown under da bus in Georgia investigations.

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The history of Ukraine didn’t start with the Russian invasion. Admitting fault in one countries colonialism isn’t condoning another.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-nato-helped-trigger-ukraine-war-its-not-siding-putin-admit-it

You're pushing the Libertarian points of view and they're not that much different from GQP points of view, which are aligned with Putin's point of view. The CATO Institute is a good place to find articles blaming Democrats for all that's wrong in the world.

Thanks for that!

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I am extremely pessimistic about the future political landscape in the USA. Barring a felony conviction, it really looks like that lying corrupt turd, Donald Trump will be going into The White House.

I currently don't think Biden has a chance. His obvious signs of senility and severe aging are making him extremely vulnerable.

Trump is picking up steam and gaining new supporters.

I hope l am very wrong.

I have yet to see this senility of Biden which ALL of the GQP are claiming he's afflicted by, and now some moderate republican anti-trumpers are even claiming this to be 'factual'.

I do see Trump confusing people (as he's attempting to cut 'em down verbally), making claims of all of HIS fantastic achievements the last time he occupied the Oval - as well as just being a demented old farthammer and totally fucking up the English language when he mumbles, yells, and makes unrealistic demands.

I think Biden is going to mop the floor with Trump - AGAIN.

Remember which political party made it a priority to repeal Roe vs Wade and has outlawed abortion all across America - in November, when you cast your next general election vote.

The same motherfuckers want to steer America back to the 1940s, remove civil rights, remove human rights, kill social security/medicare/medicaid, outlaw divorce and basically make all you women and colored folks nice, safe and controllably docile again.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-65-000-us-rape-120005672.html

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/resurrecting-countervailing-power

Resurrecting Countervailing Power (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 9)...

For the first three decades after the Second World War, America built the largest middle class the world had ever seen — and the most buoyant democracy.

The arrangement was far from perfect, but with the addition of civil rights and voting rights, subsidized health care (Medicare and Medicaid), and a huge expansion of public education, democracy was on the way to making capitalism work for the vast majority.

Then came a giant U-turn, largely courtesy of Ronald Reagan.

Deregulation, privatization, globalization, and the unleashing of finance created the Full Monty: abandoned factories and communities, stagnant wages, widening inequality, a shrinking middle class, political corruption, and shredded social support.

This is some scary shit -- We're poisoning ourselves with this civilization's prolific use of plastics.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/microplastics-like-asbestos-can-kill-4b9

A new study just published in Environmental Health Perspectives found over 900 chemicals, most associated with plastics, currently found in the US food supply with the potential to cause breast cancer. They found 278 that directly caused breast tumors in animals, and 642 chemicals that disrupt or imitate sex hormones and can thus be assumed to factor into breast, uterine, and prostate cancer (among others).

None are currently subject to any significant regulation, and every effort to do so by Congress is thwarted by the GOP.

Back in 2021, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats succeeded in passing a bill that would have subjected these often-toxic, cancer-causing chemicals to regulatory oversight. It died in the Senate in the face of a Republican filibuster.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jordan-petersons-astounding-ignorance-on-russia-and-ukraine

The self-help guru and right-wing culture warrior continues to get pretty much everything wrong about Putin’s war of aggression.

Republicans adore babies whose eyes are too close together. As long as other people are taking care of and raising them to young adulthood.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-the-epa-die-today-800

Republicans on the Supreme Court are, it appears, planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies, in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since it was largely created during the New Deal in the 1930s.

The vehicle for this radical transformation of America is a case that will be argued today, in just a few hours, before the Court: Loper Bright Enterprises v Gina Raimondo.

If they pull it off, these six corrupt Republicans on the Court could destroy the ability of:

— the EPA to regulate pollutants,
— the USDA to keep our food supply safe,
— the FDA to oversee drugs going onto the market,
— OSHA to protect workers,
— the CPSC to keep dangerous toys and consumer products off the market,
— the FTC to regulate monopolies,
— the DOT to come up with highway and automobile safety standards,
— the ATF to regulate guns,
— the Interior Department to regulate drilling and mining on federal lands,
— the Forest Service to protect our woodlands and rivers,
— the FCC to protect us from internet predators,
— and the Department of Labor to protect workers’ rights.

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Right?

I appreciate Elon using his mind and money to create and improve the world.

While minding his damn business and not trying to force politics and ideology on us (right Jeff Bezos?)

Thank you Elon, good to know there are still great men turning up through the generations.

You're thoughts everybody?

Yeah...Musk is one of the great men of history. I can imagine him sitting around using those spare neurons floating around inside his noggin, just dreaming up new solutions like this one -- for problems we simpletons didn't even know - existed. Where would we as a civilization be, without role models like this guy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-rights-groups-horrified-elon-193230017.html

Earlier this week, multi-hyphenate billionaire endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots.

"It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of  DIE," he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."

Civil rights groups were understandably horrified at the billionaire's racist comments.

"The only thing anyone needs to hear from Musk about diversity in the workplace is an apology," Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, told NBC News, calling his statements "abhorrent and pathetic."

How to give a guy a heart attack with criminal negligence

I prefer to fuck women who are 100%/180 degrees opposite of my social feelings towards the rest of the world.

They have always been the kinkiest. But, that was back in the good old days when abortion was legal in all 50 states, and SHE might have aborted the fetus and never told me later - cuz I wasn't a good enough catch.

I get along a lot better with women who see the world as I do. I enjoy sex with women who don't necessarily give 2 shits about starvation in Slovenia or Alabama. The more self centered THEY are, the better fucks they are.

Just my 2 cents.

It starts and ends with this worthless lump of unformed 13 yr old child.

A list of insulting comments which Trumplet thought of (all by himself) to slur Washington DC, the media and everyone else he has a grudge against:

https://www.thetrumparchive.com/insights/insults

Peaceful but slightly disgruntled American tourists confronting unreasonable armed guards inside the Capitol Bldg, January 6, 2021. Never before shown video - proves that day was a nothinburger. These are some of the beautiful people whom Trump pledges his love to.

The President Threw Us Under The Bus:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/embedding-with-pentagon-leadership-in-trumps-chaotic-last-week

Why was there a nearly 5 hour gap between the time a National Guard deployment was first requested, from the Capitol Bldg - and the time when Nat'l Guard troops began arriving and getting sworn in then joining the Capitol Police in securing the building and repelling all insurrectionists?

https://www.justsecurity.org/76113/investigating-jan-6-key-unanswered-questions-for-congress-and-media-to-ask/

https://www.justsecurity.org/76117/the-official-and-unofficial-timeline-of-defense-department-actions-on-january-6/

Still trying to figure out who put the kibosh on calling out the National Guard, 3 years ago - right about now.

1:49 Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. National Guard, receives a phone call from Steven Sund, chief of the U.S. Capitol Police. Sund communicates a request for immediate assistance. According to Walker, Sund’s voice was “cracking with emotion,” and he “indicated that there was a dire emergency on Capitol Hill and requested the immediate assistance of as many Guardsmen as I could muster.”

Immediately following the 1:49 phone call: Walker immediately calls Army leaders to tell them about Sund’s request. This call is not included in the public timeline DoD released. 

2:10 Rioters breach police lines on the west or Senate side of the Capitol.

According to the AP, Sund calls Walker again and asks for at least 200 guard members “and to send more if they are available.”

The new Trump video (exclusively on Truth Social) - but able to be seen via this twitter account.

God made Trump

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1743323978326790447

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You will lose all your bitches to MAGA alpha males

Hey, you can't expect to catch every female's eyeballs.

Besides, when you're MAGA, you can just stalk your victim until she gives in or calls 911.

bump

This was the 1st thing which crossed my mind, ten years after this subject was broached.

https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Underpads-Incontinence-Absorbent-Protective/dp/B081VRG3NK?th=1

Last wore out - and I wore them til the soles fell off - a pair of purple Converse All-Stars my senior year in HS and for the next 3 years after that. They are made for basketball floors and not gravel or asphalt parking lots. That canvass absorbs everything, so they are always dirty looking after 4 weeks of wear.

The Nike 3/4 high tops replaced Chucks in the early 80s and there's been no going back since then. Better rubber meeting the road. White leather is much easier to clean.

Just this morning I read these online articles about plasticized rocks being found 5 continents and several islands. Nearly every human on Earth at present (except for those starving people forced to eat grass and manure and bugs) has plastic molecules inside of our bodies.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a46181945/plastistone-sedimentary-rock/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/microplastics-are-in-our-bodies-how-much-do-they-harm-us

Anyone here seen the Matt Damon/Alice Braga 2013 movie: Elysium?

That's how I'd solve about 80% of our Earthly health problems. Yeah, I'd die a horribly painful death from gamma burst level - radiation poisoning - but I could help 100% of the people who really needed some life saving procedures. Kill 2 birds with one stone.

Back when I was ingesting an eighth to a quarter ounce of rocked up cocaine a week, I could get by with hardly any sleep a night. 10 hours a week, if I was lucky... Hard to fall asleep when your heart is pounding 4 times faster than normal - I was about 30 years younger then, but...

Lay out another pencil thick and ruler long, line of the premium powder, and I thought I was good to go. You can almost pull that off if you're also forcing yourself to drink 64 ounces of Power Muscle Builder whey protein ice cream shakes a day. Who needs actual chewable food when you're running on Peruvian Flake. Just keep up with the drain from your nostrils that looks like dried cum on your upper lip and you too, can pull it off! Invest in Kleenex.

A co-worker who'd come in to start his day shift, cornered me as I was about to leave the building after 12 night time hours and Mike said, "Hey, man... you got cancer or fucked up prostate or something - you've melted away to almost nothing but skin and bones." I didn't think he'd seen me in 6 months...

"Nah, Mike, I'm good - this job just drains all of my energy out of me and leaves not much to worry about."

"Your fucking hair is turning white, Jeff, and I can almost count your teeth through the skin on your face."

I looked at myself in the mirror at home about40 minutes later and thought to myself...."Time for a truckload of hamburgers, you gaunt, third-world nation, motherfucking Skeletor!"

I'd seen starving Ethiopian children on 1980s tv commercials, begging for a monthly contribution - looking healthier than the emaciated dumbfuck looking back at myself in that full length mirror. Back then, I felt sleep - was over rated.

These days, 6 to 7 hours is all I can stand before I have to drain my bladder. I haven't taken a power nap at 'the office' since 1996 when my boss caught me 'power napping' in the data center between a pair of enterprise 6509s - those switches fans would blow off some heat that kept that little area right comfortable. All my boss said to me was: "You're napping in my spot. In the future, you'll need to move over near those server racks and quit farting in MY chair." Cecil would then stretch out his 6 foot frame into a very comfy office chair ('They' do make those kind of chairs) and he'd take his 2 hour 'lunch' power nap as I'd relieve him on duty at 3am.

It's hard to stay awake between 7pm and 7am, 4 nights a week in your mid 30s. (without six or seven bumps (half a gram) of really good coke."

I also have a habit of over-sharing, by the way.

Next subject up for discussion - "How much nostril hair is too much nostril hair."

I bit my tongue in 2020 when the Dems selected Brandon. He was the 2nd to last guy I wanted to vote for. I felt Bernie or Elizabeth Warren would represent MY DESIRES better than Biden - but they'd have been swamped by Trump.

Guess what I did.

The same thing I did in 1980, 84, 88, 2000, 2004, and 2016. I swallowed a bitter pill and a few times I regretted it. I've never voted for a Republican since I came to realize what they actually stand for. And if none of you revolutionists want to do the same thing, then maybe in January 2025 - we can see the new normal for America.

Hey, it's a freshstart.

I don't wanna live in 1950s/60s East Berlin, but maybe the rest of you are yearning for some of yesteryear, like the dude above me.

A few words about voting and not voting, from Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-i-wont-vote-for-the-lesser-of

I once worked 4 tens for four days in a row. Then I got 3 days off. Then I worked 3 days at 10 hours and got four days off.

I hated that schedule, cuz none of my family nor friends had the same schedule - I was always the odd man out. Always felt sleep deprived. Of course, this occurred in my mid 30s. When I was off, none of my friends were.

4 Tens sucks as much as 4 Twelves sucks.

Management wants to push you to the edge when you can function just well enough to save them another $70k a year salary - by hiring another person to relieve you. And all the associated costs along with that.

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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are at fault. But the blame for this Third World shit hole status falls squarely on the shoulders of “we the people“

Bullshit. Are you an agent of the GQP?

These tactics - employed ONLY by the Republican corporatists eager to build up capitalism at the expense of the middle and lower classes in America. Here's a glaring example from the early 1970s -- unfolded onto our society by a recent (as then) Supreme Court Justice (who went to lengths to disguise his true leanings during his Senate confirmation hearing).

If you can read the following and think you can come back to this thread and throw blame for the world today onto the backs of We The People - you are definitely working against we the people.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-the-monopolists-stole-the-us

(...From Reagan’s inauguration speech in 1981 to this day, the single and consistent message heard, read, and seen on conservative media, from magazines to talk radio to Fox, is that government is the cause of our problems, not the solution. “Big government” is consistently—more consistently than any other meme or theme—said to be the very worst thing that could happen to America or its people, and after a few decades, many Americans came to believe it. Reagan scare-mongered from a presidential podium in 1986 that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” )

Give a little bit...give a lil bit of your luv to me...

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Listen, thanks for this brain horror to keep me awake. Could have gone without that.

But further question, how did this thread shift from a fucked up birthing story to the LA housing crisis and responses? I feel like a bunch of posts were deleted. How did you get here?

The thread is Jeebus Fucking Keriste. The initial post brought attention to the horrible birthing experience, the next post referred to a housing crisis in LA...the next post can be anything outrageous which might elicit a gasp of - OHYMYFUCKINGGAWD -or- JeebusFuckingKeriste - whichever string of adjectives you prefer to present to the rest of us - some situation, past, present or peering down the road at the inevitable fuckeduppedness about to unveil itself.

Do we need an OMG font too?

Yanno Rowan...the fucked up part of this whole thing is...by the time you've lived (as an attentive adult) through the previous 15-20-25 years of your life...and the drive to procreate is diminishing for you (or you've seeded 2 to 3 to 5 children with your partner (and she's doing all the heavy lifting) -- you begin paying more attention to which party is fucking you over the most - half of your rebel yelling life is over. You've got another 20 to 30 years left to speak truth to power.

This works if you're a pink Caucasian and never works if you're in the minority.

Let's create a powerful 3rd party!! We can suck votes away from the better of two horrible candidates and end up with Donald Trump in 2016.

Or George W Bush in 2000.

Or Richard Nixon in 1972.

Then let the Democrats clean up their fucking problems in the next 2-3 years after America has voted against more of the same.

Let's work on changing the system when we don't have to worry about a Trump or a Reagan or a Bush or a Nixon winning a national election.

Instead of bitching about how impotent the Democrats ALWAYS SEEM TO BE. Ignore congress and the role of Republicans (think Newt Gingrich) in outcomes for the benefit of Americans.

Blame it on Democrats as a whole.

Lazy fucking thinking.

Has never worked in the last 70 years.

Capitalism in California - https://www.propublica.org/article/los-angeles-orders-residential-hotels-to-stop-renting-to-tourists

Hey, Noll... how is capitalism working in the rest of the world? This is how it's swung around in California.

Fucking hubris and greed sickens most people. Except for those who are trying to squeeze every last dime from those who cannot afford to pay.

Let's vote for Republicans!!! They can fix it.