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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jul 3, 2024 15:00:39 GMT -5
The party that runs pretty hard on the insistence that only a businessman can declare chapter 11 bankruptcy 6 times a tually has them bobbing their heads up and down drooling ceiling to floor agreeing that the bestest and onliest unified executive that can fix our corrupt government and have their gas prices lowered to under two bucks, is also a convicted felon. Until he beats that shit too!
Who could make this shit up?
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I mean outside of Orwell, of course.
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Post by minx on Jul 7, 2024 11:49:11 GMT -5
Meanwhile, the other party is insisting that the only person qualified to run the country is an 80 year old with a failing memory.
May God help us all, because it seems like no one else will.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jul 7, 2024 14:51:55 GMT -5
Take this for what it's worth- I have been hearing something I haven't heard in 8 years; 'it's sad that these two are the best WE can do'
...which given what I've been hearing for 8 years has been pretty much a good vs evil thing.
Maybe it'll be a battle of VPs playing the long game? Statistically they are both old white guys, and much to my chagrin we only last 77-78 years on average.
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Post by minx on Jul 8, 2024 13:37:56 GMT -5
What worries me are the asshole democrats who say they're going to sit this one out.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??? You'd rather let a deranged demi-god win and rip this country to shreds than vote for an 80 year old with memory issues?
My nephew is trans. His wife is binary. Wife says they don't intend to vote because why bother? Man oh man, that shit didn't fly with their husband or their MIL. Got ripped a new one and is now voting.
Same with the people who are sitting this one out because they're upset that Biden hasn't yanked every ounce of financial assistance from Israel and insisted that they immediately withdraw all troops from Gaza. As if Trump isn't going to double the aid, send every bomb we have and tell Israel to have at it.
Jesus.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jul 8, 2024 14:59:57 GMT -5
It's one of the unfortunate side effects of being unconscious to reality and worse, indifferent to it.
Reminds me of the guys we know for a fact, because there are millions of them, mostly much older folks holding on only by the grace of God and their Social Security/Medicare. They won't take food stamps because that's a handout and they'd rather eat what the dogs eat. Now off to the polls in their maga hats.
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Post by minx on Jul 9, 2024 10:14:33 GMT -5
When I delivered for Juan More Taco during the pandemic, one of my customers was an elderly man who was living in a dump of a house (truly should have been condemned).
Every week, he thanked me for his meal. Sometimes we would chat. Well, he worked hard for what he had and didn't believe in handouts, especially from the government. You should have to earn everything.
I didn't engage with him much expect to politely point out once or twice that we all needed to work together to succeed.
I did ask Maria about him once - she said that she prayed before accepting him as a client, but knew that if someone is hungry, they deserve food regardless of their beliefs. She is a better person that I am.
Did drive by the area a month or so ago, and the house and yard have been fixed up - looks like someone new is living there. Wonder what happened to him...
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jul 9, 2024 14:24:02 GMT -5
I was okay with that attitude until there was a young lady posting that she had no food for her kid, and was asking on Facebook for help. When she explained her situation and you can already guess the situation because it's an extremely common theme, I told her she could apply for SNAP benefits and that they can escalate your case and get you in the program in 24-48 hours. Well don't you know I got cussed out for insisting the government feed her child.
Never again.
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Post by minx on Jul 10, 2024 8:31:53 GMT -5
Yeah - this guy was probably in his late 70s and I suspected that the meal we brought over was probably the bulk of his food for the day, if not all of it. It was very sad.
I 'love' the FB and nextdoor posts for food where people want very specific brands. Can't have generic beans, has to be Green Giant - their kids can't eat generic. If they truly are in dire need of food, I feel very, very sorry for their kids.
At the very beginning of the pandemic my hours were cut back to 4 days a week, so I had Fridays off. Volunteered twice with F'burg city schools to hand out lunches. They set up a tent and tables. You picked up the food from the school and doled it out. Everything was all packaged, so you just asked the kid what they wanted and put it into a bag. They also got a little breakfast package. In the beginning anyone over 4 and under 18 could get a meal (we didn't check ages - if you had a 3yo, we'd give you a yogurt and cheese stick with a muffin). What always got me though were the teens, especially the older ones (16+). Both times they waited until we were close to packing up before coming over and asking for a lunch. The second time I did tell one of them that meals arrived at noon, so they could come over earlier. He responded that they had gotten together and they all agreed that it was more important to make sure the little kids got a lunch first and they could wait.
Whenever people say today's generation is going to hell, I think of those teens - they easily could have come first, but chose to go last for the good of the other kids.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jul 10, 2024 11:23:24 GMT -5
We really and truly need those types of kids and everyone like them to be the vast majority and stop the erosion of morals/principles of the ME society.
The family knows when we get together I will not even get up to get a plate until everyone has theirs filled. Once I had kids I started to understand the meaning behind it to him, and it was only a few years ago that I heard the phrase "Leaders Eat Last".
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