it'll be okay

don will get a vacation
while joe will have to work

just think, no more scary ramps , helicopters messing w/his hair , no more 'wtf are you doing!" from military generals , hiding in basements ...it'll be like he was never the potus! no one, but the courts , will care he's not there.

so go enjoy the last days of the orange haze.

vegas will take bets if you think it's in the bag. bet what you can lose.

https://youtu.be/gtT4UwW_5oY?t=14 (only clip could find that worked)

😮

Oh, okay.

Sad how disappointingly unfunny the movie was. I really wanted to enjoy it. I even watched the whole thing.

Don't think I so much as smirked through it, sadly.

Okay all post descriptions should now be properly emojified.

🤞

Okay, they are now 1.5x as large as they were. Hopefully that helps!

the subliminal message @ 10:20 (ish)

another method of diffusing tension in an argument about ideas is to locate a cat.

if someone says, "no, you are stupid and i disagree," etc, you can say, "yes but hey look, a cat."

and they'll say, "wow, that is a good cat." and you'll say, "yes, i know. let's stop arguing and be friends." and it's possible they'll say, "yes okay"

it's also possible they don't like cats, but then that friendship was never going to last anyway.

have read a number of Lee descendants were okay w/removing his statues, too. by now, i'd hope, most folks know R.E.L. said statues weren't gonna be helpful.

“I think it wiser, not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”

of course, he was talking about a gettysburg memorial, so maybe he was reluctant to have a memorial at the site of his gravest error.

but the issue is like most things: complicated. like the lincoln emancipation memorial. get how the couchant slave is a downer, but the fact former slaves paid for its erection, the model for the slave was t.s. eliott grandpa's gardener, a former escaped slave, and is mohammed ali's direct ancestor - is kinda cool. maybe worth having around just to explain all the details around its history.

God Bless You -> America -> From Australia

May you all be okay.

I hope Simba's okay.

Holy cow.

That's frightening.

Thank goodness everyone seemed to be okay.

Don't mistake me, im not unreasonable. Im sure we probably could find someone who didn't add an asterisk and say "IF no one does anything" as an attempt to get ratings. As someone with extra time on his hands who was watching the news nearly constantly though, I didnt see that.

That said, still don't think the claim holds up. Even if there was halfhazard use of that study as a headline creator at times, he's using it as a justification to say basically that there definitely WERE going to be these deaths, and trump stopped them. That is simply not true. If even one single person decided to wear a mask, those numbers drop.

That and there are degrees of good and bad jobs being done, it's not binary.

Closing down the country? good.
Closing it down earlier? better.
Not restocking the emergency stockpilke when warned? bad
Blaming obama when he is the one who fired the pandemic team? asshole
Funneling money for small business relief into his own company and his son in laws? criminal
Opening too soon? bad
Finally encouraging people to wear masks? okay, but could be better

etc.

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my cousin just died
39, 5 kids
she had "fluid on the lungs"
but it's not determined yet the cause
like im saying my mom just called me 1 hour ago
im tryin to find a fucking picture of her on her husband's facebook
but all i can find is shit about not wearing masks and how obama is trying to stop trump from blah blah blah

Did donald trump kill my cousin? absolutely not.
Did he help spread propaganda that encouraged her to not wear a mask and break social distancing because 'MERICA!? yes And he's currently trying to force the RNC to accomodate 50k people in one small space, to boot.

She was 39, 5 kids

Uh why does this have the Asia tag?
It's clearly Australia.

Also we don't have a mandatory masks rule here because unlike some countries run by orange muppets, we're actually doing an okay job at stopping the spread.

The more you know!

Okay i'm about a half dozen listens into this song. It gets more enjoyable each time. Quite a lovely voice. I'm sure she will forever remember the day the internet found her (thanks to reddit*). *promote Su Lees special day.

*reddit post that blew her up on this day https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/gg69vl/this_is_basically_what_my_mental_breakdown_sounds/

Next one will be, "It's Okay To Be Brave."

I like to think I rarely get triggered, but their channel name ("It's Okay To Be Smart", gee thanks for permission) really does trigger me. I assume it's targeted at children, but it still annoys me.

The video is an interesting overview, though.