This whole election is coming down to 3 issues and I don’t think democrats have answers to the 3 things American care about most?
1. Should we allow schools to change the sex of pre-schoolers without parents even knowing?
2. How will we save women’s sports?
3. Does the United States deserve first rate ballroom dancing?
@thestraygoose@midwestern_ope Must be a freaking mystery that things changed over 120 years and maybe Detroit/Novi are no longer the best options.
The Ionia Free Fair, in a rural town mind you, draws more people than the current MSF. It’s almost like location matters.
@thestraygoose@midwestern_ope Because Detroit is called The Motor City and Lansing has been the agricultural centerpiece of Michigan for a century. It’s just simple, Detroit isn’t associated with farming and agriculture.
I turn 79 today.
I don’t want any gifts. Instead, my team and I decided to revolutionize the fitness industry — and we’re doing something crazy to celebrate.
Here it is: https://t.co/qL6ECpWWYH
Between today and Sunday, August 9, when you join the Pump Club app and complete four workout programs in your first year, you pay nothing.
Zero. Nada. Zilch.
No fine print. If you show up and do the work, your first year is free. The payments are automatically sent back to your card.
If that feels shocking, then let me say it even more plainly.
Sign up for the app through that link. Try it free for 7 days. After your trial, pay $100 for your first year. Complete four workout programs. Get $100 back automatically: $50 after your first, and $50 after your fourth.
I know why everything sucks...
...and it's because everything is fake
We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything.
We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves.
Then they are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach fake education and they get fake jobs.
We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research.
We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products.
We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage.
We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real.
We are buying fake organic food that's just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that's just "cheese product" on fake burger meat.
We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments.
We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths.
We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that's actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn't quite any language, requires tools it doesn't include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months.
We are downloading fake "free" apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don't work, hidden behind a paywall we didn't see, protected by a privacy policy we didn't read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn't read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we've never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we'll never hear of, to build a profile on us we'll never see, to influence decisions we'll never know were made.
IT. IS. ALL. SO. FREAKING. FAKE.
And we all yearn for what was once real.
Don't you remember? Did you forget?
There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract.
When bread went stale because... well, that's what real bread does!
When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them.
When a family could live off a single income.
When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it.
When schools was HARD... and that was the point!
When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house,
When you bought something once... and it was yours forever.
When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad.
And now nothing is real, and that's why everything sucks.
@ReberBarba46802@FarmBoyJeff1 In Georgia, Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) ran for and became governor in 2018; current Secretary Brad Raffensperger is running for governor in 2026.
In 2026, other examples include Kansas Secretary Scott Schwab (R) running for governor.
Shit I’ve heard in the military:
AAR: This is too much to read.
EXSUM: Still too much to read.
Dashboard: I don't understand all these numbers.
Red/Yellow/Green: Are three colors too many?
Thumbs up/down: "I fear we're missing the nuance."
Can’t wait to retire. 🖕