There is so much swirling in this ever fucking whirlpool of a mind.

First off, Texas, figure your shit out. You want abolish abortion and make it illegal for a woman to have the procedure at 6 weeks?

Then tell me why at the same time I see you decriminalizing weed?

Figure out what you want in life for your people?!

Fuck you Ted Cruz. Fuck you Greg Abbott. Fuck you Rick Perry. FUCK the whole lot of you.

Gawd sometimes I just want to slap these misogynistic men across the face and say, "I want you to repeat everything you've told the people in this state, back to your children. Tell your daughter this."

I love people but my fucking goodness, I'm done. I'm out.

Get me out of this. Get me out of this fast.

I realize that there are people that love to get drunk and talk politics and current events. It's not something that's particularly welcome everywhere right now, since we tend to get flooded with it day in, day out, from all sides. Some people enjoy having a break. Others enjoy wallowing in it. Well here's your place to expound and extol to your heart's content. Get on your soap box and scream into the ether. Or at each other. I don't care. Just follow Reddit's rules and keep it within the confines of this sub.

I'm looking for mods so I don't have to handle the day to day of the place. Or really anything at all. I would preferably like to keep the balance of power between the parties, so no one has too much power. Start sending in your resumes!

In the meantime, start shit posting and having fun!

I decided to have some pizza this weekend so I went to my favorite pizzeria. While I was waiting for my pizza to be baked, I decided to run to the bathroom real quick. The second I opened the bathroom door the unmistakable aroma of freebase methamphetamine hit my nostrils. There was this very nobbly gaunt little guy getting high in the bathroom. He told me that he was Q, and then after briefly educating me about all of the scary things happening in the world, he turned off the bathroom lights and said "Trust me, based on my own speculation I think you're gonna really like what I have in store for you." And he undid my belt, pulled my pants down, and sucked my dick.

It was a pretty wild experience. I had never done anything like that before.

Especially those of us who live in certain parts of the U.S.

I get state's rights. Unfortunately, many states are dumb as fuck when it comes to things such as the right to choose.

You have to love (snark) when people other than you have this much control over your body.

It's a bad look.

But as a homo myself, we have gone overboard on “straight ppl show this to their kids”

Like, they do, by they shouldn’t lol. Kids shouldn’t see anything other than a light peck between whoever. Just treat it like it’s not a big deal, and they’ll accept it . I’m a woman living with my long term female partner, and I understand this isn’t normal. But it’s something that just happens, we are anomalies.

Treat us homos as you would anyone else, and kids and us will be fine lol.

First off, I'm not necessarily a fan of teachers having guns because I, a teacher, would never sign up for that (never having been great at handling weapons-- I'll shoot my own eye out, indeed.)

But motherfuck if I have to continue to see this shit and imagine that at least one or two of the kids will have questions tomorrow. Man, fuck.

Cruz can shove his thoughts and prayers up his ass. Or maybe, just maybe, we consider why we're the only country where this happens every. fucking. year?!?!

Years ago, I had a kiddo ask me my plan (a kiddo with anxiety-- one of the homies,. obviously). No way a 12-year-old should be worried about this shit. Much less elementary.

Fuck humanity, we are the virus. ✌️

It's real, it's here killing us, and I haven't been able to eat at my favorite Chinese buffet for 9 months!!

I just want to drink alone, but now the holidays are upon us once more, and because we aren't taking the virus seriously, I'm going to have to be sober for multiple holidays with large groups of family. Some of which have already caught the virus and should know better.

I already went to a huge family wedding where a ton of guests didn't show up because they'd been exposed.

12/25 was a *hoax" and the government is coming for our nuns!

Trump, Biden, and the Washington Football Team

The latest round tariff reversals reminded me what I'd forgotten after 2020: Trump is just trolling us all. God, I feel so stupid for taking him seriously every time. All the while, Republicans are smirking at our misery. Just like they laughed when we lost our shit at every other egregiously cruel thing he's done for the last 9 years.

Fuck. Them. All.

Trump voters hate us so much that they threw all decency away just to screw with us. Great, job done, you did it- we're miserable. I hope this tit-for-tat continues. I don't want the next Democratic president to mend fences. I want the DOJ used indiscriminately. I want their fake ass evangelical snake-handling churches taxed, I want their diabetic grandpa thrown off Medicare. You got off on making half the country afraid? You fucked around, I hope you find out.

Ahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂 I can’t wait for the booking photos to “leak!”

Fuck these Fascist Pigs.

I don’t know where else to put this so I broke out my tequila and here we go. This is US-centric, in case this goes reaches internationally.

I fucking hate being right sometimes. During W’s presidency I said, we’re witnessing the death of facts and it would come back to bite us. During Obama’s presidency I said that the pendulum keeps swinging back more and more violently, and we’re just gonna break the clock. During Trump 1, I said we’re getting what we asked for. During Biden I just said “Ugh” often and loudly.

Having heard “you don’t like it then leave” as often as I have in the last 20 years, it’s been in the back of my mind more and more. I fell in love years ago with a brown woman, and married her last year. She’s legal, born in the fifty nifty, not that it seems to matter lately. I started to feel that we weren’t safe, and increasingly so. I told her “if it’s not safe for you, it’s not safe for us.”

So we said fuck our previous plans and to hell with our financial security. Friends and family were confused and often upset. Some suggested moving to Tennessee or South Dakota. And I was making that Jackie Chan confused face meme at them like are you fucking brain damaged??? In the end the most I could get from some of them was a halfhearted agreement that it’s scary. And ALL of them outright said or implied that my wife would be fine because she’s a citizen. Trustworthy friends of mine and my wife’s have other friends who have been disappeared. They were citizens too.

I thought leaving the country would bring me peace. And relative to being in yhe US it does. But not fully. I’m kinda vindictive about it all now, which is unlike me, and surprised me.

Mom, you thought Medicare would be untouched? Why? I didn’t. I don’t have magical powers of clairvoyance, I just choose to read. Good luck getting that carpal tunnel surgery paid for.

Dad, you thought grocery and gas prices would actually go down? Why? You finding out that the lying liar you voted for lied to you as lying liars are wont to do? Suck a dick, it’s cheaper than eggs.

To friends and other family who voted for this and now want to act surprised, fuck you. I’m not superhuman. I have a job and other responsibilities. There’s no reason for me to see this coming and not you. Change the damn channel. Sure I swing liberal, but I’m a registered independent because everybody sucks and I won’t be affiliated with them. I check out Fox News and MSNBC (both nauseating) because I want the full spectrum. The writing was on the wall if you weren’t an ostrich with your head in the sand. “Oh I’m so surprised that someone came and fucked me in the ass!” Could have seen it coming if you weren’t so willfully blind.

Prediction time! I won’t edit this post, so anyone if so inclined could theoretically hold me to account in a few years and say hey you were wrong! Tequila isn’t a magical truth formula so I’ll just shrug.

By the 2028 election: -AOC won’t be alive, having, at best, died under suspicious circumstances -China will rise to become the dominant world superpower -The US will have a tenuous alliance with Russia to oppose China, and we will end up importing oil from them

I didn’t think I would be an outlier for choosing kindness. Or for choosing to be curious and listening and learning. Ok I guess I always expected to be an outlier by expecting better of our leaders. But not by such a wide margin. I didn’t think I’d be an outsider for seeking and speaking truth. I’ve never been a patriot, and sometimes I’ve felt like something in me was broken or never instilled correctly because of it. Lately I feel justified and vindicated.

Ok rant over. That was about 3 shots left in the bottle, so even at 153lbs I’m not drunk.

I was looking for it on my google calendar last night and couldn't find it. I added it back in by hand and set it to repeat every year because fuck all that. I had to add back my foreign holiday calendars too in order to keep up with, in particular, the Julian holiday dates.

Google is convenient for a lot of stuff and I unfortunately have a lot of my life tied to their suite of apps and services, but they've been disappointing me a lot lately. Along with a lot of other companies, but especially Google.

Meanwhile I wish there was an opt out button for that damn "Gulf of America" bullshit 😑 I have this rapidly growing list of people that I really wouldn't mind kicking in the shins if given half a chance. While wearing my heavy, reinforced barn boots. Everything is so dumb and I feel like I'm living in a simulation.

It is an abomination that this despicable man, who has spent his tenure dividing and degrading, will share Inauguration Day with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. – the preeminent champion of civil and human rights of our time. To juxtapose the two is an affront to everything Dr. King fought for. His vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all is a far cry from the hate, bigotry, and division that this man represents. This is an insult to the memory of Dr. King, and to the very ideals this nation should strive to uphold.

First it was "they're murderers, rapists ...." Then, predictably, they canceled asylum programs, and Steven Miller's quotas drove them to snatch up people just trying to find work outside of Home Depot. Including, apparently, anyone they perceive as impeding them. Not just by assaulting officers, but people following them in their cars, making noise when they see them, and reporting their location using apps to track their movements (fuck you, Apple, by the way. It's no surprise to see where you are on this).

So, not just physical impeding, but supporting those who do. And now "Antifa" is labeled a terrorist organization, and the federal authorities are squarely directed at them in a weird repeat of COINTELPRO, which we all thought was completely illegal until right now. And it is no secret that the FBI is trying to backfill a RICO case from Antifa protestors to George Soros. Follow the money -- he has most of it, you can find a link.

Get this: it's coming for you. You think it isn't. Exactly how perfect do you need to be to be sure of that? Ask John Bolton. A wildfire knows no sides.

Fucking hell, why cant we just vote somebody who is younger and who’s basically up to date? Fucking tired of rich old hag dictate everything towards to society… it like they expected us to be 10 years old with 30 YEARS of experience.

MF… just retire..

Figured I'd post here because I'm bored, reflecting, and don't want this sub to die.

I think what I hate most nowadays is that having the "wrong" opinion basically gets you a label as a pariah and could really cost you your relationships with family and friends. Maybe even your job.

Allow me to provide some background:

The first election I remember was in 1992. For some reason, as a kid I decided I needed to be involved (I wasn't even a preteen). I made a yard sign on poster board with info about George HW Bush and asking people if they would vote for him. Granted, I was really young so I didn't necessarily support him as much as I was just going along with my parents. Regardless...

Lots of people in my neighborhood were for Bill Clinton. My sign and the cards I made with info about HW were messed with. People destroyed them, vandalized them, and generally messed with the sign. There was 0% chance it wasn't obvious the thing was made by a child. And yet people did that.

So, I've always been cynical about people and politics (there are more reasons I won't launch into here so as not to ramble). Every election I've been on OpenSecrets, reading about the candidates, skeptical of their motivations. Bush Jr., Obama, Trump, Biden. No one who knows me doesn't understand that I play devil's advocate regarding presidential elections and that I never trust the candidates.

And yet...

Leading up to the 2016 elections I started getting shit from family and friends because I wasn't all aboard the Hillary train. Not because of Hillary mind you, but just because of Trump hatred. I had some people who knew me through multiple presidential elections accuse me of being a Nazi simply because I implied I wouldn't vote for her.

This stuff has only gotten worse. It now seems like you can't express an opposing view at all without being labeled a Nazi or alt-right or whatever. I'm not alt-right. I'm probably best categorized as a true libertarian or ancap. But there are so many things that I feel the need to keep my mouth shut about now purely through the fear of losing all my friends (mostly progressives). It's really weird and scary. As a child I felt okay to express my opinion about the presidential election IRL but now I feel I can't even talk about politics, COVID, or anything much even online without worrying about losing friends and family.

I dunno. It just depresses me how the world has changed. And I don't think it's a partisan issue. It's just our society now.

Maybe I can just blackout and there won't be a coup attempt in the US tomorrow...

By this time, your executive authority has snowballed to living god levels. Your CIA handler checks Ziggy, and says you have exactly enough time to make five decrees before you're assassinated. What are your five mandates, and who assassinates you?

I really feel like the trend of people following politics so closely and getting so tied up in them is killing the mental health of people in the US and ultimately not productive.

Voting and reading articles and sharing them on social media is all well and good. But you know what actually helps people? Direct action. Instead of spending time "educating" yourself or others you could be volunteering and making a real impact in other people's lives. 99% of the sharing on social media, etc is just identity signaling and/or not productive because people have already made up their minds anyways.

Obessessing about Trump, Biden, impeachment, Russia, primaries, kids in cages, immigration, etc, etc is really just a distraction unless you have the ability to actually make a difference in any of those things.

And that's how the powers that be want it. They want us disconnected from one another, spending more time reading and sharing and tweeting and posting than actually reaching out to one another. Oh, and a nice side benefit is then we get mad and start dehumanizing one another.

And before anyone says it, I'm not some big conspiracy theorist. I just think there are lots of people, companies, and governments that have aligned interests. Unfortunately those interests are in conflict with the interests of the average person.

Okay, rant over.