I have to remind my mother not to panic when my dad FaceTimes with his Russian penpals. She’s like “They’re the enemy!” Again, I eternally hate CNN for messing up my parent’s brains.

I need one of these.

UlyssesT after seeing the polls:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNv95dsDdQ

Why does he hate him so much?

He had such bad untreated diabetes. They already were cutting off some of his toes and he was only on his 50s. He kept brushing off advice from his doctor that he was on a course towards this happening. I’d like to imagine that in a world where people didn’t feel pressured by finances to avoid taking care of these serious health issues, that he might have had the liberty to be more cautious.

But, you all know what, what was also sad was seeing the rest of our predominantly black kitchen staff break down into tears when they told him he wasn’t going to come out of the coma his heart attack put him in. We were all talking about him making a recovery while serving lunch a couple of days after, the dinner cook has just come in. She is the sweetest lady any of you will meet, a real ally to any queer comrades, and she said to us “I’m going to give that guy the biggest mother f-ing hug when he gets out.” And shortly after, the head of the facility came in and told us, and everyone started to sob and cry.

And to tragically refer back to my starting point, which was disparities in black homeownership, he had just bought a home.

That particular policy is disgusting to me. Like, I understand stuff like the 2008 mortgage collapse hit black Americans the hardest in part because the loosening of loan regulations were sold to bodies like the Congressional Black Caucus in the 1990s as a way to reduce inequalities in home ownership that date back to the New Deal.

This crypto scam is even more egregious because, at least with the mortgage thing, black families got something tangible- a house, even if for some it was temporary. Here, they don’t even get to have that before the rug gets pulled from under them. Just an absolutely despicable way to treat marginalized communities. Selling them snake oil like that.

And then those neolibs are the same people who cynically told us that giving every person in this country healthcare was somehow racist. What do they know, have they ever seen a morbidly obese black coworker die of a heart attack on the job after doing two days of double shifts, no because they work at Institute For Instituting Policy Initiatives. These neolibs never have to see this stuff up close in everyday life and they probably offer thanks to whatever Moloch they worship that they don’t have to.

Batman too.

They forgot to mention the Daily Planet is also owned by Lex Luthor.

(I know nothing about DC comics but, that had to be a plot point at one point or another in one of their universes).

The ones said that they have to vote against Trump because he’s so mean. Even though Florida is no longer a swing state. Like they get and agree with me that this is an long-running campaign of genocide, they have come to detest the Israelis for their brutality but, Trump winning in 2016 just broke their brains enough that they can’t imagine doing anything but voting for Democrats, no matter how much they resemble the Bush era ghouls they hated.

When you confront them with it, the cognitive dissonance is there, and it presents itself as getting hostile when being confronted with their voting for people currently committing genocide. They try to avoid that contradiction by changing the subject as soon as they can. The TV really makes them think Trump is the source and only problem in this world, even though I’ve told them repeatedly it isn’t the case.

Hell, I remember when we were politically active liberals pre-Trump, and my mother displayed symptoms of what we now call Trump Derangement Syndrome, but, towards John Boehner of all people. She would talk with the same hatred every liberal has for Trump but, towards that guy, of all people, saying he was basically the root of all evil in this country. They always need, I guess, a Bonapartist figure to manifest their negative partisanship towards and I’m at a loss of how to break through.

My dad was the most crushing to hear, since his hatred for Putin as a scapegoat by the neocons for Trump winning, has made him invested in reading about the Ukraine war online. When I told him of my anger towards the Democrats on Gaza, he basically said that in the grand scheme of things, he doesn’t really care since the American political establishment will never change anything on that issue. My takeaway from that was, at least his vote can change whether the orange Putin man is in charge or not. He’s been that disillusioned ever since Bernie lost and showed the electoral system for what it is.

Anyways, we all voted yesterday.

Luke Skywalker

That’s who that is, I thought after squinting at the thumbnail for a second that had finally shaved.

They unironically doing the meme.

Truly is the cutting edge of 21st century fascism.

Good read. Thanks for the link.

Yes.

In the same vein, I’ve encountered people named after the site.

A perfect recipe for fascism preserving democracy among the returning veterans. Especially if the war ends in a stalemate.

We had Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally; what should we call this latest iteration of fascist thirst traps?

Also, who is the Zionist version of Lord Haw-Haw?

Good video.

I’ll say it once again: Gayest President since James Buchanan.

Now realize that when boomers reminisce about a time when “townspeople knew the local cop” that this never existed. They are literally just going off what they seen on the andy griffith show as a kid during their formative years.

To be be fair, I know a couple of old ladies that I work with for which this is true but, only because their fathers literally were the local cops.