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This is #brilliant (from Democratic Socialists of America USA)

“I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally #toxic and depraved he is.

“I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

“If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy.

“If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in #humiliation and #conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.

“If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, #bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy.

“If wh*** #grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If #warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If #empathy feels like weakness and #dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.

“If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them.

“That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

“It was never really about him. It was about the #Validation. The #absolution. The #permission. He didn’t invent the #resentment he amplified it. He didn’t create the #cruelty he #normalized it. He gave millions the #intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest #impulses echoed back at rally volume.”

https://www.dsausa.org/

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Steven Saus [he/him]Nov 21

(20 Nov) Ohio House passes bill that would ban intoxicating hemp products, revise state’s marijuana laws

A marijuana plant in a flowering room, August 17, 2023, at PharmaCann, Inc.’s cultivation and proces...

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/vfy2b

#brian-stewart #business #federal-hemp-law #intoxicating-hemp #marijuana #ohio-intoxicating-hemp-federal-ban #ohio-marijuana #ohio-marijuana-bill #politics-&-gov #sen.-steve-huffman

Steven Saus [he/him]Oct 23

(23 Oct) Ohio House passes bill regulating intoxicating hemp products, changes state’s marijuana laws

Intoxicating hemp products and various candies at an Oct. 8, 2025 press conference. (Photo by Megan ...

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/zpm38

#brian-stewart #business #intoxicating-hemp #marijuana #ohio-gov.-mike-dewine #ohio-intoxicating-hemp-ban #ohio-marijuana #ohio-unregulated-intoxicating-hemp #politics-&-gov #rep.-tex-fischer

Claudia Zahn Jul 5, 2024

The poison garden of Alnwick Castle in #Northumberland, #England. Behind these menacing-looking black iron gates of this medieval castle is a garden filled exclusively with hundreds of #toxic, #intoxicating, and #narcotic plants where visitors are explicitly told not to stop and smell the #flowers

Claudia: Do they have a gift shop?

#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer