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Wait until you get into tenses.

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I probably need to separate the shitlist into two sections. One for passive retribution, meaning I will take an opportunity if it presents itself when someone is foolish enough to put themselves in it, and one for proactive retribution for the priority people. I categorize the Trump administration and supporters and insurrectionists as priority folks. People telling me platitudes about how to be benevolent without ever prioritizing my own self care, or giving me unreasonable advice about good/bad morality, are on the passive list. I totally get that it’s almost reflexive for some people to say such things, and that they often live in hypocritical states of delusion until tasked to follow their own advice, so I give a little extra rope.

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In 4th grade, my elder child was writing Anne Rice pastiches, when not inventing her own RPG loosely based on V:tM. Yes, she's a smrt kiddo, but tR*** would have a ways to go to catch up.

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My current reaction to anyone trying to say that thinking from a desire for revenge or retribution is wrong and bad, is to tell them they are getting added to the shitlist on my wall. If we don’t see some major players receiving consequences that are proportional to their crimes, what’s bad is that over half the country is gonna give up on the government. That’d be really bad. We need some scumbags locked in some cages.

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THIS^^^

I honestly think it would kill us if the Rona got you. So take care.

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AND, before 9-11, Vice President Gore had suggested new airport safety gudelines to Congress that republicans rejected as "too expensive".

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It's not bad so much as completely subjective. Imagine that that is the face of a woman who has worked her entire adult life to find ways to help reduce the number of dogs and cats killed because there was no one to adopt them. A vocal advocate. A person who has paid out of her own pocket for neutering hundreds of pets. Look at her. See the determination?

The problem with her isn't what she looks like. It's who she is that is the problem.

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Here's the simpler, truer explanation:Republicans (Conservatives) in charge.Same as it ever was.

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She heard a lot of good things about you and was jealous.

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I prefer to think of them, in ghostly form, visiting Abbott and DeSantis and Noem. All of them.

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I saved an article from the paper on my bulletin board for years.

Headline: "Michigan children Forbidden to Breathe Deeply in School"...Similar outrage in East Lansing over relaxation techniques and yoga because UNCHRISTIAN!!!!11!

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I am being careful.

I am prioritizing electability over ideology.

Would you have called Biden progressive before the election?

Upstate NY will NOT elect a progressive, and there's too much at stake to play games.I do not want a spoiler to help get a GQP candidate elected, that will then pardon T****.

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We all were pretty much expecting some of that after all those sudden new people in various places in the Pentagon. We didn't know what it was, but we knew it was coming.

Now we know.

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Yes, getting that balance is HARD!

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My ex was born in Lenggriess, which is south of Munich and is, I am told, a small town in the mountains near the Austrian border that was, in the past, a major smuggling hub. No relevance at all. Just one of those thoughts that occasionally pop into my head.

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