Dwain Northey (Gen X)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naacp-travel-advisory-florida-says-state-hostile-to-black-americans/
Remember the good old days when there were only travel advisories and or ban for, what some would call, third word countries? Well now because of the vile vitriol of one Governor Ron DeSantis the state of Florida, a vacation destination, has received a travel advisory by the NAACP.
The wannabe future President has made the climate so venomous in Florida the anyone who is a part of any minority group does not feel safe in the state. Black, Brown, LGTBQ+, these are all groups that are under attack in the Sunshine State. The majority Republican legislature and their fearful leader has passed laws that make almost everything a jailable offence and the fact that the state has very loose gun laws and a stand your ground law makes it more dangerous than being a blonde female in central America.
Florida residents are able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, means that anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida can carry a concealed gun in public without any training or background check. This with their ridiculous stand your ground law, ‘Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law was passed in 2005. The law allows those who feel a reasonable threat of death or bodily injury to “meet force with force” rather than retreat. Similar “Castle Doctrine” laws assert that a person does not need to retreat if their home is attacked.’ Makes it really sketchy to go there.
This in top of the don’t say gay rule and the new trans ruling that just passed.
“Florida lawmakers have no shame. This discriminatory bill is extraordinarily desperate and extreme in a year full of extreme, discriminatory legislation. It is a cruel effort to stigmatize, marginalize and erase the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender youth. Let me be clear: gender-affirming care saves lives. Every mainstream American medical and mental health organization – representing millions of providers in the United States – call for age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people.
“These politicians have no place inserting themselves in conversations between doctors, parents, and transgender youth about gender-affirming care. And at the same time that Florida lawmakers crow about protecting parental rights they make an extra-constitutional attempt to strip parents of – you guessed it! – their parental rights. The Human Rights Campaign strongly condemns this bill and will continue to fight for LGBTQ+ youth and their families who deserve better from their elected leaders.”
This law makes it possible for anyone to just accuse someone of gender affirming care to have their child taken from them this would include someone traveling from out of state. This alone justifies a travel ban to the Magic Kingdom for families.
Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned DeSantis holy war with Disney, the largest employer in the state. I really hope the Mouse eats this ass holes lunch.
Well that’s enough bitching, thanks again for suffering though my rant.
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Really
List 30 things that make you happy.
30 things…. That’s hilarious
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Comfortably Uncomfortable
I am sure I am not the only person that doesn’t even know what Joy is anymore. I have never done anything that gave me such a dopamine rush that I so much elation that I continue to go back to that activity to satisfy that feeling. I wouldn’t describe myself as unhappy but I not genuinely happy either but comfortably uncomfortable. I wish there was something that elicited for feeling of joy but I don’t think I have felt that since I was a small child. The world has beaten most of us down and joy seems very hard to find.
Please let me know if I am unique or if anyone else feels this way…
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2-tiered Justice… RICH & WHITE (light)/ EVERYONE ELSE (screwed)
Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)
We have not had many of our citizens that felt they needed or wanted to sell our country or its secrets. The ones that have been discovered doing such things have met different fates at different times in history. Currently we tend to lock them up and forget they are there, at least as far as the news is concerned. What to do with the current chop of traitors especially since the one most notable for his treason was once the President, what a sad day that was when he got elected.
Now we are entering another election cycle and the people that wish to run for office, especially President, are rather a scary bunch. We have the traitor running again, and then an idiot that considers that his position on everything is the path to be followed and that can only lead to one dark dirty place, up his ass. We also have the individuals that instead of telling us the positive side of their reason to run are telling us the negative side of the opposition if they have it right, which in most cases they do not.
The focus seems to be that if we tell everyone including ourselves lies long enough then we have a chance that everyone will believe and we will get our way. So tell everyone how bringing Republicans into office is going to help. The course seems to be set for ultraconservative values, no abortion, no assisted death, no time off for maternity leave, no assistance with day care, no school lunches, encourage your neighbor to spy on you and report your activities to authority for a reward of course. Have we covered most of the positives of Republican politics?
Woke fear is supposed to be the damning danger from Democrats, who are attempting to fix roads, bridges, and the like. The ones that help with homelessness, school lunches and women’s health issues, just to name a couple. They are not banning and burning books, telling you what your children should or shouldn’t read, or encouraging your neighbor to spy on you. Where would you rather live, in a country that allows for individualism or one that basically builds a prison around each individual and tries to keep you there for as long as possible?
The new indictment is on the books and it is only going after the guy at the top of the trash heap. With the track record of never being held responsible for anything this one has to be a very unpleasant situation. How will he attempt to talk his way out? Blaming his legal counsel as usual will be one of the games. Plead ignorance of the law, claim the tooth fairy or the bad hair guy told him to do it?
The need to make Trump accountable for his efforts to remain in office even though he clearly lost the election gets to be more necessary as days pass. His staff on Jan 6, 2020 were willing to go to violence in the streets to keep him in office and it seems that there are still people today that have that mind set. It would be a real blow to our democracy if it became necessary to meet these individuals with open hostilities but if we must we must. Trump is not loyal to anyone or anything except self. If people die to get him back in office then I am sure that may keep him awake for 10 or 20 seconds.
Some of the news programs are anything but informative about this entire proceeding. If he is going to be arrested then let it happen and hold him for 48 to 96 hours without allowing for bond or interview. His former position should not protect him from being subjected to the laws that affect everyone else. It is a hell of a thing to say but if the man that had done what he has done and keeps doing, the threats, the lies, the challenges to the legal system, was not white it would not fly.
Justice is supposed to be blind but fair, unfortunately justice is administered by quite a few people that are just plain stupid. They are in the legal profession to enrich themselves and the cost to others has nothing to do with how they handle a case, who they represent or the outcome of the preceding as long as they get paid.
The selection of judges by the president may be totally accepted in our system but somehow you have to wonder how they get picked, how are they known and who endorsed them to receive an appointment. The last lot of picks for the Supreme Court certainly prove that the screening process needs work.
More calls by Trump to create a threat to any and all that oppose him in any way. Telling a prosecutor in Georgia that they will not see Christmas if they continue to push their case. Giving out addresses of people that he feels are adversaries with the expected result of someone going to that address and harming someone. Mr. Trump needs to be put in a box that has no way to communicate and held until he goes on trial. That trial should also be mobile as conducted on a ship or moved from one location to another every night. All of this drama would not be taking place if he just was man enough to admit he lost an election and let it go.
The nation has been bombarded with this absolute nonsense beginning in 2015 and it still goes on. The amount of money people have put in the pot to either assist or resist this idiot is staggering. How many people living on the street are there because they put what they had on a losing horse.?
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Curiosity
What are you curious about?
I am curious about a lot of things most recently by the people that believe that there are alternative fact…. Facts are facts
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Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.
Filled up a guys gas tank… he did not ask me to was happy with just one gallon… afterwards he asked if he could give me a hug. That was completely unexpected
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What do you want them to see
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
I am a tall skinny short fat guy with blonde(ish) black hair and blueish brown eyes… I am an Olympic caliber runner with a very prominent limp… anything you want to know. 😳😜
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Jack Smith
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23839625-trump-indictment
So, for those of you that live under a rock, Jack Smith has handed down an indictment containing 4 counts against DJT (defendant) for his action in the January 6, 2021, attempt to subvert the 2020 Presidential Election.
Jack Smith isn’t screwing around this indictment should block Donald from ever being able to seek office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits anyone who has previously taken an oath of office (Senators, Representatives, and other public officials) from holding public office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States. Every State should disallow his name from appearing on the ballot. Unfortunately, the lemmings that are still in his camp will continue to decry ‘witch hunt’ and insist that their godking be elevated to a position of power.
Even his republican challengers for the nomination should be shouting this form the roof tops but only Chris Christy to this point has taken the orange menace to task for his crimes. Granted I would love to watch Donald fall again to attain or regain the White House but my joy in watching him spin out of control is secondary to my desire to strengthen our democracy.
I realize that if DJT isn’t the republican nominee it could be Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and he is deplorable as well. If he is the nominee, he certainly can’t run on his record as Governor. The national average inflation rate was 3%, but in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area, inflation rates reached 9%, according figures released by the Consumer Price Index this week. The Tampa-Clearwater metro area saw inflation rates of 7.3%, according to the CPI. Seriously, how can he go into a national debate and tout ‘make America Florida’ when under his charge Florida has a higher inflation rate than China and Brazil. Not to mention his fight with Disney or that he could be brought up on federal charges for human trafficking for his shipping immigrants to sanctuary cities, or banning books, I could keep going… This walking tumor should not be in the White House either.
So lets focus on the 3rd indictment of a former President and just hope that he has lost enough of his supporters so that there wont be violence in the streets.
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Traditions
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
Did not grow up having any kind of traditions and that is the path I have followed… is that a tradition?
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Day in the life
Was today typical?
I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photographHe blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of LordsI saw a film today, oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I’d love to turn you onWoke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dreamI read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I’d love to turn you onSource: LyricFind
Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney
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me(?)
I have a hard time writing stuff like this probably the main reason I refuse to go on any dating app.
I am your typical Gen X… sarcasm is my first language and a lot of the time when I am around other I have been described as a walking ‘eye roll’. Also like many of my generation I will do anything for another if they need me but I will never ask for help myself… I truly understand the meaning of ALONE and at this point it is a choice that I have made… Self sufficient I suppose that’s how I would describe myself to someone.