Let those peasants pull their bootstraps and find their own way home if it’s raining!

We’re fucked. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, medical research, public education. It’s all not going to exist.

“Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean” was almost the national anthem.

EDIT: One of its lyrics was “thy banners make tyranny tremble.” That wouldn’t work today, would it, considering we are under, well, tyranny.

Want to hear something that would be a hoot if it weren’t so depressing?

I asked ChatGPT “with no more birthright citizenship, how can i prove that I’m an American?” IT COULDN’T ANSWER. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that, and I use it a lot for work.

How optimistic you are, to assume that the token opposition party will EVER have any power, ever again.

Soviet military and intelligence efficiency was greatly exaggerated.

I really wish he would win. But I’m not hopeful.

Meanwhile, The News is giving us exhaustive coverage of a billionaire wedding, because some people are just better than we are.

MOAR BOOTSTRAPS!

So none of us will be able to prove that we’re citizens. How convenient for the Ruling Party.

“We don’t have any evidence and we’re not telling you who the suspects are, but we’re going to fuck them up.”

And when it happens, most Americans won’t bother to turn off Netflix.

Yep, it’s a classic Leopards Ate My Face. They got exactly what they voted for.

A couple I knew in college, basically they’d been together since childhood, moved to rural Minnesota, because conservative. They were militantly anti-mask and anti-.odern medicine. They refused the COVID vaccine and the whole family got sick several times. The husband finally died, on a respirator. His wife blames Biden. Sad.

Sadly, he’s going to lose by a significant amount. The media will smear him and social media will bury him in lies.

Be idealistic all you want, but we’re going to lose.

But we’re FREE from the tyranny of forced education and health care, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!

In other words, childhood vaccines will be outlawed,.with all vaccines soon to follow. We will.have to depend on home remedies and woo-woo witch doctors.

To answer, Tim is right–they have no rationale that I can discern. They’re the last surviving family of a woman I lived with for several years, and I’m barely in touch.

The United States is now a one-party dictatorship.

I suppose I could stick around for a bit.

Who’s going to stop them?

It’s hidden in Syria, right next to Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, the Holy Grail, and D.B. Cooper.