Narrator: it could

In the 80s and 90s it was possible to have faith in the country. That the current administration was just a bad actor and we’d get it right next time. That we all kinda wanted the same thing, a functioning government and to lead our lives happily and privately.

Maybe it was true then. Maybe Fox News actually did poison the well, and people who once were rational are no longer so. Fear and hate blight rationality and the media cycle feeds on it. The more angry we are, the more we engage with social media. The more ads we’re served.

It’s wild that we’ll have to explain around campfires and cook stoves in the aftermath to whatever generation follows us that this was all in pursuit of ad revenue.

Children are sex objects or racial slurs to Republicans. There is no in between and quite a bit of overlap.

BEARS!!!

“the first thing to do is to raise hell. That’s always the first thing to do when you’re faced with an injustice and feel powerless.”

-‘Mother’ Jones.

-Michael Scott

The Democrats have a long history of waiting until Republicans hold a majority in both houses to propose milquetoast change.

Keeps their name in the papers without actually having to do anything.

I think we know the solution then.

Be like pap paw

Teach your kids survival and weapons skills. Understanding politics won’t be enough to save them

Powerful men protecting themselves with idiots has never once lead to an assassination. NEVER. not once. Nope no sir. Hasn’t happened

One of my call center buddies was in charge of receiving requests for freight transport and asking his NCO to approve them. His NCO say directly behind him. So he’d stare at a computer screen until a request came in, turn around, ask for approval which would be framed, then turn back around and click the approve button.

“you agreed to display ads on your vehicles. This vehicle is mine. You may not display ads in it.”

Honestly I’d have a lawyer on the phone in a heartbeat. I’d be surprised if someone hasn’t already started a lawsuit.

I umm… I don’t think I wanna go to the library anymore

When it’s actual news, I’ll hear about it regardless.

I’m not going to perseverate over every headline, I have a life to live. The media is actively trying to piss us off, they’ll skew and distort and all but fabricate to keep us angry and engaged.

I’m not doing it. I can’t recall a single time in my life that keeping up to date up to the hour has actually improved anything for me. Sitting around just knowing stuff is happening isn’t going to change my life for the better.

I live in a safe republican state and a leans Republican district. I could send a letter to my senator, call my representative, spend hours of my time just worried about something, and still, they’ll vote how the party wants them to. Being informed and doing the things I’m supposed to do won’t change anything.

Mandatory reading

The single worst workplace disaster in US history.

Men were sent in to a mine with either no or inadequate breathing equipment, and slowly suffocated after contacting silicosis.

One man living with his mother had to be carried to bed. “Mama I tell you I cannot get my breath” were some of the last words he’d speak.

Silicosis is no fucking joke. It can take years before you notice you have it, there’s no reversing it, and you will not enjoy another moment of life once you do. It can take a long time to die and you will loathe every minute of it. That’s if your exposure is limited.

If you’re working around this shit all the time, or in the case of the Hawks Nest tunnel, your exposure is nearly constant, you’ll die over a matter of weeks, rather than years. You will die.

This is not a “touching this thing is extremely dangerous proceed with caution” scenario. This is a “if you breathe in this dust, it will kill you slowly and painfully” scenario.

I’ve seen a few episodes, I didn’t like them. I got this vive that I was being made fun of and didn’t really find it funny

Im starting to understand John Coffey.

¿Donde esta la biblioteca?

Does that not create a case for a prejudicial jury?

Yeah. Like make some of the best films in the last 40 years. DAMN YOU COCAINE

Isn’t there an “actually infuriating” community somewhere? Or maybe a “sounds like this will be used as evidence in the divorce but ok” type thing?