I appreciate your concern. I know what I’m signing up for.

All I know is, with as much withholding as the government has been doing, they aren’t getting a dime from me for my loans. Come and get it, if you still have enough of a functioning department to.

That’s more or less how I deal with any economic numbers these days. Just one mans salary. No big deal.

I can only speak for me, but I’m happy to keep making the state replace expensive cameras. More time focused replacing them means less new ones, and less uptime.

We can’t choose what they spend the money on, but we can collectively let them know when they fuck up.

You don’t need an ID to buy groceries, but you better have an ID to walk to the grocery store. Otherwise, folks with no ID whatsoever will kidnap you without due process.

Now wait a minute…I’ve been hearing all year that the need for military and national guard in the country is to protect federal buildings.

That is still the law, unless they have an imminent reason to enter, such as someone screaming for help. Can they make up a reason? Sure. However, we cannot just give our rights up, or the battle is already lost.

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, LET THESE THUGS INTO YOUR HOME WITHOUT A JUDICIAL WARRANT.

I just had a very similar conversation last night with some family and friends. There was a time when I would ignore shitty people’s opinions… After all, neither of us will change each other’s minds. However, that’s exactly how we got here. Those seemingly fringe, hurtful opinions now decide things for everyone. I’m not quiet any more.

Only a matter of time before we find out.

It did not have sand in the paint. It had the adhesive strips on top of the paint.

So there’s this daycare down the street from me. It has had a rainbow colored access ramp for as long as I can remember.

It’s now painted black.

It could be completely unrelated, but I highly doubt it.

Not anywhere they are interested in being.

Ah yes, but definitely close to an international airport.

This is like a group project in school. Is it your fault that another member didn’t complete their part and the project received a failing grade? Nope. Did you still receive a failing grade? Yup. We failed. All of us. I’m with you that regular people aren’t to blame for the actions of the state, but that changes nothing. Here we are…with an F on the report card. I didn’t earn this grade, and neither did you. Now it’s on us to drag that grade back up, as a group.

I still stand by my comment. Four years later, and we are still sitting in the bullshit for round two. We, as a country, failed the task at hand.

This is the point I keep reminding myself of. We had four years to do anything at all. We all knew version 2.0 would be back like deja vu but worse, and we (as a country) just let it.

I’ve stayed at that hotel before. I’m sad to say my room didn’t have that kind of cool ass art. I did eat at the GWARbar though, so I still got some good GWAR memories in on my trip.

Lemme try and feel sorry for my cartoonishly rich tech overlords real quick…