That’s a delightful ladybug. I have one that’s got a picture of a bandage on it…

Yep… Those executed citizens were within immediate reach. Can’t be close enough for the fuckers to catch you. Always have an escape route ready.

Yeee!

I got the shopping done - and put away the food and washed the dishes… but no laundry yet.

Ugh.

I do not doubt it.

When I was a kid - now we’re going back to the mid-70’s after the Vietnam War ended - there were public service ads on TV to avoid opiates all thr time, though I think it was mostly heroin or morphine.

Gotta thank the billionaire Sackler family for the mid-90’s wave of Oxy addictions that seems to have kicked off the current wave.

The real issue is US immigration law. It’s been a racist load of claptrap starting with the Immigration Act of 1924. Nothing’s improved so this one MUST be on the votes to fix.

So now it’s time to use actual cameras with stout telephoto lenses and have discrete pockets in your clothes for the micro sims to be hidden in (if it looks like one os going to get caught) and also use those parabolic dish microphones to record everything from a distance and if ICE moves towards the observers, they slip away and find safety. Old school. Cameras in phones mean observers have to get too close. Change up the equipment and how you deal with these shitheads.

This society has been taken down a very dark path for decades and it started with conservative media - first talk radio and then cable “news” and now internet podcasts and the like.

When I’ve had people my own age come to me and start on about hidden cities at the center of the earth and all of the sudden go off about it as if! they didn’t get the exact same Earth Science lessons in the SAME schools at the same time as I did…

I really have to ask:

1. “Did you hit your head recently and suffer brain damage?”

2. “Why did you become so gullible?”

And finally,

3. “When did you decide to opt in to superstition, ignorance and New Age, New Earth woo woo shit - the SAME shit that you and I BOTH made fun of when we were kids?”

(When did you decide to get old, boring and stupid, basically…)

It’s the Karl Rove effect in action, I guess. The conservatives just spew so much shit that the rubes that can’t shut them off for the terror of losing their made up “identity” just go soft in the head and believe lies that 30 years ago, they would not have.

Repeated lies… decades of them. Warping reality and making fearful people cling to the lies.

My laundry. Come hell or high water…

There are many things around the world that can be called into question, but the one definitive item in this world I will hold to - no matter how much the pot of obfuscation is stirred - is that Donald John Trump is a child fucker and sex trafficker.

That is ONE thing I know about the world and I will stick to it.

The thing is are they not all have prayer gatherings and laying hands on trump and speaking tongues.

I doubt that. Trump couldn’t get his ass out of bed early enough to show up at any prayer breakfast. They are early morning before government opens for the day. He’s probably still asleep, as most nights he’s up until the wee hours posting on Truth Social.

He’s famously non-religious, and just wears any piety like a cheap costume.

Dude was on TV for years, so he knows how to shuck and jive and play the part for the rubes.

I’m 52 and shocked by the number of high school classmates I’ve lost.

Oh man… I hear that one. I graduated in '82 and on the 40th reunion, I was shocked at the number of my classmates that had died who were fine on our 30th reunion. The 45-65 years seem to be when a lot of the “premature deaths” people fall.

LOL!

No. I’d much rather watch, than tell, stories.

Don’t I wish!

Religion really isn’t expressed or represented in the government though.

Trump and the current administration do nothing BUT break the 1st, 2nd,(why is “in God we Trust” on the currency if we’re obedient to Him?) 5th, 6th, (Trump’s an expert on breaking this one) 7th, 8th,(and HOW!) 9th and 10th (Greenland anyone?) commandments.

The tax exemptions were written to keep religion in it’s own lane as when religion enters government, the government then also enters into religion and inevitably it corrupts it, and that was the fear.

Religion isn’t the corrupting influence… politics is.

It aligns itself with the magnetic field of metal of the stove and starts a transduction of capicitive resonation that interferes with the polaritive vibrations of the planetary magnetic field.

This in turn creates a localized pulse of geomagnetic interference that the fan blades are sensitive to, and their shape works to create a single direction rotation that both pushes air and traps the interference and creates a perpetual motion at the same time.

Brilliant engineering, honestly.

One of my friends in school was super popular. She was in cosmetology, was always immaculately dressed and had a stabe boyfriend for years in school and after we graduated. Her family life was rock solid but in 1988 she went off the rails and into a super depressive mode, stopped talking to everyone and killed herself. NO one, to this day, saw it coming. It came out of the blue within 4 months. She was carrying something emotionally bad that ate her, or some sort of wild metabolic disorder sent her into a spiral… no one knows.

Hell of a path NO one saw coming.

It’s a former land where people from all over could share ideas and communicate, that fell to the dark forces of capitalism and greed. Now it’s a dank pool of political conformity and coprprate censorsship.

Oh and BTW… Steve Huffman blows donkey balls.

I was permabanned for saying mean things about Stephen Miller.

Welp… I would say that Pam Bondi who was lying and claiming on TV that there was a list, is now going to find herself open to furious defamation lawsuits brought forward by the people who are losing their jobs and suffering for being connected to Epstein.

If there really isn’t a list directly tied to sex trafficking, then Trump and his enablers - may of whom claimed there was - are in a ton of legal peril.

Lying sacks of shit or not… I hope they burn

Good PR spin on China buying up eastern Russia on a firesale.

NGL, I don’t think China will even “buy” it… They’re just gonna walk in once Putin’s tapped the country out to the point it can’t do a thing about it.