Hope the kids (adult(s)?) are ok?

Signed teddy bear, kid’s handprint school art. Hope nobody was seriously ill.

No.

Blame the abstainers for being complicit in their silence.

And, only 32% of the country voted for trump.

Self hatred?

Self preservation. The worm that sides with the bullies in order to protect itself and be close to power.

Written like the crazy dictators he claims to want to remove from power. Conservatives become what they hate.

If he was getting better and getting out they would have said so.

He’s not getting better and not getting out, maybe even brain dead, so they say nothing rather than outright lie about his condition.

Absolutely nothing will happen to anyone says says they spoke to him and in fact didn’t.

Bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans might be an entry point, especially if some critter crawled into the duct and died.

Such a failure of intelligence and mental ability. Incredibly conservative. Just keep beating up your opponent and being harsher and harsher until they fold and comply. Do it to your kids, do it to immigrants, do it to a country. The only tool in the empty mental toolbox.

Thing is, Iran is fully capable of punching back, and the big senile oaf trump absolutely cannot understand someone dishing back some pain - especially when trump personally is unaffected by it, just the rest of the countries and the people in the US.

The problems causing drug abuse reflects on the speaker’s treatment of people and the people close to them, it makes them responsible for the fallout of their actions or lack of action.

Blaming the user absolves themselves of any responsibility.

You can apply that to pretty much any social ills, like poverty, homelessness, etc.

IOW, the person blaming the user: may have abused the user in some way as a kid, voted to end substance abuse education in schools, voted to end afterschool programs that might’ve kept kids away from abusive situations or drugs in the house, voted to limit or end food programs that would have allowed people to not become completely destitute and take to drugs for escape, and so on.

There’s the endgame right there.

There’s no reason to downvote you, you’re correct. The only issue I have with this reasoning is that it doesn’t take into account that those accepting the flooding aggressively reject outside information no matter how it’s offered.

We can all be wrong because we want something to be true for whatever the reason, that’s understandable. The rejection of truth otoh is problematic, especially when that rejection rejoices in harm to others.

100%

The “I can’t breathe” crowd.

It won’t.

The democrats won’t allow anything that makes the establishment neolibs look bad.

E: lol downvotes. I hope y’all prove me wrong, but the Dems are still mostly shit. I’ll vote blue, but they no longer represent pulling us back from the edge to me. They’re “don’t upset the apple cart” and “we can’t undo anything, it’s water under the bridge.”

All these people act like kings, barons, and counts wanting to die on the throne.

Yes it does. It wastes more time and is deliberately designed to make you stay in the store longer and hopefully spend more money.

Yes, but not just parties. Parties using red cups are historically going to be drinking parties for younger people like “keggers.” Red cups are fairly ubiquitous for lots of events like picnics, cookouts, birthday events and the like.

I can’t say they’re used at all parties, but they’re pretty common.

Comparing this guy to LaGuardia? Hope not.

And if he got elected Prez he’d drop the national one.

Just more virtue signaling bs by a useless establishment neo-lib.

Just saw a report on my feed here that said something like 80 60% of TikTok is AI crap and over 20% of Facebook is. So that means that sites like Threads, Instagram, X, or any other social media is going to have a large percentage of bots, AI and real trolls, and corporate shills over and above those numbers.

On top of the unaffiliated trolls and shit-stirrers already out there.

So it’s well on the way to happening.

Edit: it was 60%

Is there a word stronger than “sycophant”?

Probably just thanks to insurance companies yet again

Doctors don’t get to make their own decisions anymore, they’re paid more like car mechanics and get a “job rate”.

Change a tire? It’s billed at $28 bucks. Doesn’t matter if it takes you 10 minutes or an hour. Air and balancing is included. Anything extra you don’t get paid for.

Gotta put in an IUD? You get $500 for the job, included is one shot of pain meds, the IUD, and one set of sterile equipment. Pain meds not working so great on this patient? Insurance doesn’t pay for extra, outpatient center doesn’t get paid for it or has to fight insurance for it.

Same for novocaine in dental work.

Insurance is terrible.