Something I keep bringing up but never see in these open letters is: why are politicians exempt? Are there no child predators in the ruling class? I think the Epstein files have shown that these people need to be under surveillance just as much if not more as the people. Otherwise this just means: become a politician and you get immunity to having auch material.

Of course the argument is national security, blah. But somehow that trumps protecting children. If there are exemptions, it is not about the children.

It is not transactional. Trying to weigh something good against the realities of everyday life is not helpful for enjoying the good thing. You have to go through all those everyday things anyway. Best enjoy the things that are simply ejoyable.

Love for me. Nothing better in life than having mutual love be it romantic or friendship.

Also stories of all kinds are pretty great.

Someone I know who really drank the Russian propaganda kool aid keeps insisting that NATO in fact keeps provoking Russia into a war.

No matter how badly they might be doing with boots on the ground, they are readily winning the propaganda war. It is disheartening to see.

To the surprise of absolutely no one. What a god damn farce this was. Cannot wait for the day the scattered remains of MAGA tries to do the same with his bloated corpse.

They know what they’re doing when it comes to funneling money into their own pockets, I agree here. But they’ll do it in such a hamfisted way, that it will bring down the entire house of cards, because they don’t understand or bother to understand the systems they’re pilfering. Though, this might very well be part of what they want to accomplish anyway.

If Trump takes over the FED, the US economy will go into an absolute tailspin and depression. The only reason inflation has been sort of brought back under control is the FED. Trump has no fucking clue what he’s doing on a monetary level and neither does any of his ghouls and cronies.

That is so damn cool.