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At this time of night when you're on bottle #2 you need help.

At this time of night when you're on bottle #2 you need help.

You live in the same time zone as me lol. So we apparently both need help. Want to go together?

You live in the same time zone as me lol. So we apparently both need help. Want to go together?

LOL, last episode of BB on tonight . Seriously you need to go to AA or something.







Good Morning!

LOL, last episode of BB on tonight . Seriously you need to go to AA or something.


Good Morning!

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https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1658202608811798528?cxt=HHwWgMDT_Zafj4MuAAAA

Always the same people. The school to prison pipeline is a myth period, it all starts in the home they are raised in. Raised to act like a criminal

Long but interesting article by Andrew Sullivan

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-queers-versus-the-homosexuals-cfd

".....But when you examine the other issues at stake — public schools teaching the concepts of queer and gender theory to kindergartners on up, sex changes for children before puberty, the housing of biological males with women in prisons and rape shelters, and biological males competing with women in sports — you realize we are far beyond what the gay rights movement once stood for. It’s these initiatives from the far left that are new; and the backlash is quite obviously a reaction to the capture of the gay rights movement by queer social justice activists.

These activists, marinated in critical gender and queer theory, have picked several unnecessary fights and, especially since the convulsions of 2020, have pushed and pushed a woke revolution until a dangerous backlash was inevitable......Then the queers upped the ante and did something we gays never did: they targeted children. If they could get into kids’ minds, bodies and souls from the very beginning of their lives, they could abolish the sex binary from the ground up. And so they got a pliant, woke educational establishment to re-program children from the very start, telling toddlers that any single one of them could be living in the wrong body, before they could even spell.....

....Of course, since queers deny the natural basis of homosexuality, in their view, no real harm can come from transing gay children....."If a Christianist hospital was busy changing the sexes of overwhelmingly gay kids, so that they became straight, what do you think the gay rights establishment would say? But when a queer facility does exactly that, all the worriers are bigots......"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-anderson-republicans-america_n_5a58d5efe4b04df054f860a1

Old but good reading, not much has changed.

Why Do Republicans Hate America?

Why do Republicans hate America? No, really. It’s not a rhetorical question. Since consolidating its power in January 2017, the GOP has systematically set out to dismantle the economic strength of this nation, coddle predators, shield traitors, attack those who are working, and strip protections from the most vulnerable. Are these the actions of a party that loves the nation it has sworn to serve?

Consider the GOP’s attempts over the last year to blow up the U.S. economy and make life harder for its constituents. The Republicans’ first try at demolishing the economy as if it were nothing but an old abandoned building was their reckless attempt to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which housed and protected millions of American citizens. The GOP’s congressional leaders held no hearings, refused to even listen to expert testimony and were utterly unconcerned about the impact that dismantling a key component of the nation’s health care system would have on one-sixth of the American economy.

When the button jammed on that detonator, Republicans tried another, more powerful type of explosive, and this one threatens to be much more successful. In December, they passed a tax bill that adds an estimated $1.5 trillion to the deficit — with no significant investment in infrastructure, education or health care to show for it. And now, as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made clear, when the GOP-fueled deficit balloons, they’re coming after the retirement and medical social programs that he has demeaned and mislabeled as “entitlements.” Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, however, are hard-earned benefits funded, in large part, out of our paychecks. They provide much needed support to the elderly, the infirmed and those with disabilities.

For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-anderson-republicans-america_n_5a58d5efe4b04df054f860a1

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For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.

And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.

And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.

LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?

LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?

Ryan wanted to raise the age of getting the max benefit from 67 to 70 for those under 30 at the time (2011). Wouldn't have effected anyone over 30 (in 2011), and the age for getting the minimum benefit would have still been 62. Not a cut at all for those getting or nearing Social Security and it would have preserved it for those that were younger. Is that the 50% you are talking about?

So in about 10 years we actually will get massive cuts for those already getting it and everyone else.