With respect to New Yorkers, looking in from the outside, it feels like they just vote for the person who promises to be the biggest asshole to homeless people and don’t seem to care about much else.

And this is where it gets you.

Love the idea. I don’t have much myself when it comes to donation money, so I just randomly picked an artist I’m friends with on social media and I send them $20-$40 a month as I’m able to. Can’t help everyone, but I can 100% help that one person I know needs it.

And I “lent” (meaning basically gave) my parents my car.

This reminds me of when Obama ordered a drone to assassinate a couple of American citizens in Iraq. One was a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda and another was his teenaged son, so at the time the outcry wasn’t what it should have been, unfortunately.

“Must” doesn’t figure into it. The outcome here is, sadly, predetermined and none of us have any power to change it.

Sadly, Israel’s getting their bombs from the US no matter what happens in November. It would take 51% of this country voting Green to put a stop to this.

Also, history textbooks are massively dishonest to you, and it’s a good rule of thumb to read history independent of what you’re taught in schools. There were so many things deliberately withheld from me in my high school education, like the Tulsa Massacre, the Battle of Blair Mountain, Haymarket Square, etc. etc. etc.

They didn’t even teach you that Columbus was plotting to destroy and rob the native people after their first meeting, and wrote about it in his diary. We’re very fortunate that Bartolome De Las Casas made a copy of Columbus’ diary or we may never have known.

It feels important to note that Harris and Trump don’t need your money.

If a candidate can sell $27,000,000 worth of favors off a single event in New York City, then remember that your friends, neighbors, and community are struggling and their mutual aid requests can use your $5-$10 donation much, much more than the POTUS candidates, both of whom have billionaires in their corner.

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You’re right.

Both Trump and Bill Clinton are connected to Jeffrey Epstein and the vast majority of the country love them both. There’s just something about that level of wealth that unleashes the worst aspects of a human being.

I kinda just assume that all celebrities are secret bastards, personally.

Happened a few times under Trump, like when the US redeployed from Syria, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, that is.

This is the stuff people need to remember whenever Congress and other federal politicians make exorbitant promises this fall. What they’re actually going to do is make your lives harder.

Thought we could all use a laugh today, so here’s a clip from one of the funniest shows I saw off-broadway last year.

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Dang.

Good for him, but isn’t he pretty injury-prone?

It’s been a pleasant surprise knowing my city is one of the few places with the courage to actually try and imprison a killer cop, but I’m about 99.9% sure that Mike Parson (our outgoing governor, who is termed out this year) will pardon him before hitting the bricks. He hasn’t done it yet because it will be a very unpopular move here in KC and potentially affect the election prospects of Republicans.

Justice, baby.

Dig it.

/s

I’ll give it a listen.

It just makes me feel hopeless watching people who care more about subdividing themselves or perceived cultural outrages than they do about the ability to feed their families.

Identity politics is perhaps the worst element of our politics, regardless of which side of the spectrum you subscribe to. It’s made it much, much easier to divide people and get them to oppose each other rather than focusing their ire on the real problem: the wealthy and their insatiable greed.

Bummer that they didn’t find him with some marijuana or something, a much, much more dangerous crime than committing actual treason.

/s

I had to share this when I saw that the AP had the gumption to finally use the ‘L’ word in the article’s headline, instead of some euphemistic bullshit like “misled” or “false claims”.

LIED, baby. Lied.

Finally.

The original Resident Evil was pretty revolutionary and terrifying for me, but the 100% scariest I’ve played is the original Dead Space.

More recently, The Outlast Trials is really good, and I would HIGHLY recommend any of the Dark Pictures Anthology games, but my favorite is Man of Medan.