@pete666guitar@SupraTico95@MbarkCherguia Rode the Gravitron many times, remember it being fun.
That being said, I quit going to the carnival after a classmate flew out of The Zipper...
@jclavel@4thOfJuly365 Seems diesel is similarly priced in SW Florida as well. If prices stay elevated, I predict deletes & tunes will become MUCH more prevalent. It's crazy how much the emissions reduction systems negatively affect fuel economy. I wonder if burning 40% more fuel is dirtier?🤔
@ScottPresler I believe I speak for many of us when I say "we appreciate you Scott"! If even 1/4 of the Republican party worked as tirelessly as you, we'd never lose another election. The world would be a better place for it IMO.
🚨 Hear me out…
I’m sick of pretending this is a functioning country with a functioning government.
Congress is not “divided.” It’s not “gridlocked.” It’s not “just politics.” It is a criminal class of 535 people who have spent decades selling this country piece by piece while lecturing the rest of us about democracy, values, and the rule of law.
They pass spending bills they don’t read. They pile debt on people who weren’t even born yet. They take money from foreign interests, lobbyists, PACs, and industries they regulate, then act shocked when anyone calls it what it is: influence-peddling.
They protect their own. They investigate their enemies. They never investigate themselves with the same hunger.
The worst part isn’t even the money. It’s the moral rot. A government that can lecture parents, churches, and working people about morality while shielding predators, burying files, redacting names, and treating elite sex-crime networks like a scheduling inconvenience has no moral authority left. If the same evidence, the same flight logs, the same sealed names, and the same “we can’t comment” stonewalling applied to anyone outside their class, those people would already be in prison. For this crowd, it becomes “complicated,” “ongoing,” or “not the right time.”
Foreign interference isn’t some abstract threat they discovered last week. It’s a business model. They take the money, take the trips, take the talking points, then wrap themselves in the flag and tell you anyone who notices is a conspiracy theorist.
They will fight harder to protect their donors and their secrets than they will fight to protect the border, the budget, or the people who actually pay for all of it.
I don’t hate “government” as an idea. I hate this government, the one that treats citizens like a revenue stream, treats accountability like an attack, and treats the most disgusting crimes as a club you only get punished for if you’re not connected.
No more polite language.
No more “both sides” anesthesia. If Congress had a shred of honor left, they would open every sealed file, name every protector, cut the foreign cash pipelines, and submit themselves to the same laws they impose on everyone else. They won’t. That’s the point.
They are not public servants. They are a protected class. And the country is rotting under them.
- B
@FireNewz Everything you said is spot on!
The rub is that it will never change without serious conflict, and the entire ecosystem we live in is built to make sure we never reach a critical mass of people believing in the same reality. They purposely keep us in 'manageable' tribal groups.
@RetroCoast No, what's "childish" is the former PM of Canada and Katy Perry dancing with a plunger at a hardware store in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
Typical 'look-at-me toddler behavior.
Trump is likely just being a d!ck.🤣
@ZeekArkham NY cop eah? When we first moved I lost my wallet at a Home Depot. Within 9 hours, a Sheriff's deputy emailed me saying he had my wallet. Turns out he was a former NY cop who'd moved here a year before us. He found me through a Gamestop receipt. 1st time I ever got a wallet back!
@ZeekArkham Speaking as a former New Englander who fled to Florida right after Covid, I can say the availability of familiar products depends heavily on 'where' you choose to settle here. In my region, we can get just about everything we could up North within 30mi, including fresh mozz'.
@Hunter_Eagleman If they 'appear' to, it's because they're talking through their teeth.
But honestly, from what I've seen, they generally hate themselves, so they likely hate each other as well...🤔
@stopthecultorg@ScottPresler False!
I'm a "white Christian" and work my a$$ off every day outside in the Florida sun. Did it in New England too. I get on roofs, pour concrete, lay block, build walls, drive equipment, and do generally everything else you'll try to list.
I don't complain about it either.🤨