What do you feel like saying, right now?

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Back before these assholes showed up in our state, I’d ask my hubby if he wanted to go to the grocery store with me, and if he was busy working, he’d tell me to go ahead without him. Now, with this ICE drama, he won’t let me leave the house unless he’s with me because he knows I have a mouth, lol.

You have a good one. Y’all take care. I hate what is happening in your state.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Back before these assholes showed up in our state, I’d ask my hubby if he wanted to go to the grocery store with me, and if he was busy working, he’d tell me to go ahead without him. Now, with this ICE drama, he won’t let me leave the house unless he’s with me because he knows I have a mouth, lol.

LOL! I believe it. How are y’all holding up in all that craziness? You mentioned your high school reunion, when is that? You think you’ll remember folks or even recognize some folks?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

You have a good one. Y’all take care. I hate what is happening in your state.

Thank you, amIblue.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

LOL! I believe it. How are y’all holding up in all that craziness? You mentioned your high school reunion, when is that? You think you’ll remember folks or even recognize some folks?

We’re fine. We haven’t seen any of them, actually.

My high school reunion is in July. So, remember that guy I posted about… like a couple of years back? He recognized me and he told me his locker was next to mine? That guy. I had no idea who he was. I just heard my name, I turned around and I’m like (in my mind).. who are you? lol. I felt terrible that I didn’t remember him, especially with his locker next to mine. He goes.. “Yeah, you had all the Jimi Hendrix pictures in your locker..” He remembered details because the inside and outside of my locker were covered with Jimi. So, to answer your question, I have no idea, lol.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Thank you, amIblue.


We’re fine. We haven’t seen any of them, actually.

My high school reunion is in July. So, remember that guy I posted about… like a couple of years back? He recognized me and he told me his locker was next to mine? That guy. I had no idea who he was. I just heard my name, I turned around and I’m like (in my mind).. who are you? lol. I felt terrible that I didn’t remember him, especially with his locker next to mine. He goes.. “Yeah, you had all the Jimi Hendrix pictures in your locker..” He remembered details because the inside and outside of my locker were covered with Jimi. So, to answer your question, I have no idea, lol.

LMAO! He was probably like WTF? How do you not remember me and my locker was next to yours. In that “how popular were you?” thread, I remember you ranking yourself (whatever the highest number was) in high school as crazy high. That’s probably why. The popular kids didn’t socialize with the kids who weren’t popular. I was mid-grade level on the popularity spectrum, leaning toward popular because I lived in detention for always being the class clown and making people laugh at the teacher’s expense. But I was cool with everybody though. But those kids like you who were real popular, they only hung around other really popular kids. Did he look like he could have been a nerdy dude?

[Phrozen Sands]

https://youtu.be/20I9IEpmiSs?si=eR-VEHcK6--oHDJh

Why is this dude president?

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

https://youtu.be/20I9IEpmiSs?si=eR-VEHcK6--oHDJh

Why is this dude president?

Not due to me; it IS our nation's problem.

Sigh. 1077 days maximum to go....

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

LMAO! He was probably like WTF? How do you not remember me and my locker was next to yours. In that “how popular were you?” thread, I remember you ranking yourself (whatever the highest number was) in high school as crazy high. That’s probably why. The popular kids didn’t socialize with the kids who weren’t popular. I was mid-grade level on the popularity spectrum, leaning toward popular because I lived in detention for always being the class clown and making people laugh at the teacher’s expense. But I was cool with everybody though. But those kids like you who were real popular, they only hung around other really popular kids. Did he look like he could have been a nerdy dude?

I wasn’t like that. I was chatty and friendly with pretty much everyone.

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

https://youtu.be/20I9IEpmiSs?si=eR-VEHcK6--oHDJh

Why is this dude president?

Why? First off, why is anyone shocked? A racist country acting racist isn’t news? it’s consistency.

The United States puts slaveholders and white supremacists on its currency, teaches sanitized history, and ignores constitutional violations when it’s politically convenient. But suddenly people clutch pearls when the racism is blatant? Whatever.

Ya know what? This country doesn’t reject racism, it rejects racism that’s too obvious to deny. That’s the real issue.

I’m less concerned with the pompous asshole who never should’ve been on the ballot than with the fact that racism here is embedded, institutional, normalized, monetized, and memorialized. Then people have the audacity to say, “OMG! Apologize! Take it down! This is unheard of!…. “

Unheard of? Umm… we have bigots in office and a whole collection of them on our money and monuments. Fix that first.

[cheerfulgreek]

So let me get this straight. We have an ethnic cleanser on the $20 bill and a pedophile on the $2 bill. And now another pedophile sitting in the White House right now posting racists pictures of a former POTUS and a First Lady.

I swear, this country is a laughable joke, lol.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Not due to me; it IS our nation's problem.

Sigh. 1077 days maximum to go....

LOL @ Cheerio counting down each day. I hear you.

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Why? First off, why is anyone shocked? A racist country acting racist isn’t news? it’s consistency.

The United States puts slaveholders and white supremacists on its currency, teaches sanitized history, and ignores constitutional violations when it’s politically convenient. But suddenly people clutch pearls when the racism is blatant? Whatever.

Ya know what? This country doesn’t reject racism, it rejects racism that’s too obvious to deny. That’s the real issue.

I’m less concerned with the pompous asshole who never should’ve been on the ballot than with the fact that racism here is embedded, institutional, normalized, monetized, and memorialized. Then people have the audacity to say, “OMG! Apologize! Take it down! This is unheard of!…. “

Unheard of? Umm… we have bigots in office and a whole collection of them on our money and monuments. Fix that first.

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

So let me get this straight. We have an ethnic cleanser on the $20 bill and a pedophile on the $2 bill. And now another pedophile sitting in the White House right now posting racists pictures of a former POTUS and a First Lady.

I swear, this country is a laughable joke, lol.

PREACH! The “founding fathers” of this country are more like thieves than founders.

[cheerfulgreek]

Oh, absolutely! So, if a guy breaks into your house, shoots your dog, steals your TV, and then sits down at your kitchen table to write a really beautiful poem about "Liberty"... he’s still a thief and a murderer. The poem doesn't un-shoot the dog. This country is critiquing the poem. I’m looking at the dead dog.

And why are we counting down the days? I mean, seriously, why? That’s like thinking you’re safe just because you moved a sick dog out of the kennel. It’s like Parvo in the soil. The virus lives in the ground for years. You can bring in a brand new, healthy dog (a new president), but if the dirt is infected, they’re just going to catch the same disease.

And this is much, much bigger than people think it is. Why did they let a man with 91 felonies walk free and run again? Because to a large chunk of this country, racism is a stronger bond than the law. They are willing to overlook any crime, fraud, treason, and theft, just as long as the person committing those crimes promises to keep the “other” out. His voters didn't care about the felonies because they saw him as their bodyguard.

And here’s why the system protected him. He promised to restore the "factory settings" this country was originated with. The system we talked about, the one built by the “Founding Fathers” was designed with a specific racial hierarchy. Over the last 60 years, that hierarchy has gotten shaken up (Civil Rights, Obama, etc.). So, Trump came along and said… "I’ll put things back where they belong, and where they once were.” The system didn't see him as a criminal, it saw him as a restoration project. It protected him because he was trying to fix the "glitch" of equality. Know what I mean?

The reason he’s in the White House instead of a jail cell is because the country looked at his crimes and said… "We don't care what laws he broke, as long as he fixes the racial order." That’s all that matters. That’s exactly what this is ALL about.