Though it’s not without a certain pitiable quality.
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Well, gosh, I guess my guilltine toys won’t meet your expectations! It is a universal truth that not all coping mechanisms will jibe with others’ expectations.
The rethuglicant death cult isn’t funny, despite its being “run” by clowns.
That 100 or so obscenely rich corporations are determinedly destroying our world isn’t funny, and the results of reasoning with them isn’t meeting my expectations.
That a handful of people are controlling 99% of the world’s wealth isn’t funny, and reasoning with them? See above.
rethugs are arguing that some of the most vulnerable among us have no right to even fucking exist, and reasoning with them gets their fans pointing guns at people who disagree with that nazi bullshit.
Don’t ever try telling anyone how they should express online their frustration with that group of people who want to take our homes, our food, our water, our work, our very planet and our fucking lives. Especially when it’s a broke ass Detroiter like Your Humble but Ranty Narrator, who has witnessed the gutting of all her state’s security nets for our vulnerable and broke ass residents. Our darling Big Gretch has made leaps and bounds, but it ain’t nearly enough.
I started life as a liberal, but the bullshit the absurdly wealthy began pulling even before I was born - like planning the kidnapping and assassination of FDR so we could become nazified - and continue to pull made me more and more radical.
I’m not just furious b/c my BF and I have become reliant on food banks, I’m an empath. My fury extends all across this world, for every being who suffers because of the wealthy’s evil, thoroughly destructive greed, and the flaming, searing pain of the injustice of it all.
Hence fake guillotine toy adverts.
And an almost constant prayer.
Mother, Father, God, thank You for providing all needed healing for my World and her beings.
/rant end
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I’ve been replying by email so didn’t see them. You didn’t reply to me until now - feel free to vent how you want - I am allowed to not like it, you don’t have to change for my benefit. The rest of your rant though - spot on.
Thanks for giving me permission, I guess???
Uh, yeah. I’m not a nazi.
And my most heartfelt thanks for your permission once again ???
I am not entirely an insecure adolescent.
I have absolutely no intention of changing to please random internet denizens. Those who, given half a bloody chance would happily burn me and my sisters and brothers at the stake AGAIN, deserve all the savagery my little heart and keyboard can muster.
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It’s like the people so very desperate to be heard by everyone never seem to stop to think how they actually sound to other people.
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People are hard.
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Time to revoke these colonial privileges.
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She wasn’t a ruler, she was a mascot. She was a good mascot because she did and said nothing of consequence
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From my native home in California, I have crossed into Canada and many Central American nations, showing only my California driver’s license. I suspect that Yankee dollars are appreciated.
The regulations requiring a passport to visit Canada are over 10 years old. I go every summer and have never been waved through without the document.
When I lived in San Francisco, California long ago, I sometimes loitered around the consulates and spotted diplomatic license plates. When I hung out in Antigua Guatemala, the (very) old regional capitol, I often saw vehicles with UN plates from the peacekeeping forces stationed there.
Lesson: Diplo plates are where you find them.
Guatemalans may be quite proud of the quetzal, their national bird (and namesake of their currency), but quetzal stew is still on the menu in some places. You thought that street vendor sold you fried chicken? Hah!
Had President Polk been in the Donner party, would he have made a tender morsel?
What a load of nonsense.
Do you think the Pope goes through customs and shows a passport?
When the President of the United States of America visits Canada, does anyone imagine that someone is checking his passport.
When the President of the United States goes anywhere in the world, he’s accompanied by people carrying guns.
The Secret Service has no jurisdiction in Davos Switzerland. By law, they are “visitors” or tourists. And yet they are carrying weapons.
If the President of the United States visits your country, he’s carrying the football. That means he he’s armed with nuclear weapons that he could aim anywhere on the planet.
Stop with this bullshit that only 3 people in the world travel without passports.
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A simple Google search…
Does The US President Have A Passport? | President Passport
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Yes, Obama has a passport and an Australian official accidentally e-mailed out the number
His staff may take care of the formalities for him - but he does have and needs to use a passport.
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Yes, actually.
They don’t stand in line with the chumps at Terminal 4, but the laws still apply to them.
That’s the whole point of democracy, you see. Nobody is above the law. The US has been struggling a bit with that notion lately, but it still holds.
Diplomatic reception teams meet them on the tarmac and absolutely the pope and president’s passports get checked. It’s done quietly by the respective staffs on both sides, but it happens.
As for things like carrying guns and such, that’s all negotiated with terms. A visit by a head of state is a huge event that takes months of planning. Every detail is worked out on both sides, and it’s negotiated like a trade deal. Secret service are usually permitted to carry guns as part of that, but if they aren’t, the president would cancel that visit.
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