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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • Practically every controversial thing trump has done would’ve gotten anyone else into scalding hot water. With him, it almost strengthens him. The absolute only way things could’ve been sensible is if “grab them by the pussy” would’ve ended his political career. I feel pretty confident it strengthened his popularity by a lot. Even women were defending him. Listening back to some older podcasts recently where they’re talking about that, it was bizarre how people explained that shit away. “It clearly was locker room talk, he just was saying women liked him” 🤮

    People actually defended him on the “they’re sending their rapists and murderers” speech too, saying it was a lie that it was racist. If he had decades of being a normal human and never saying anything racist, I could kind of see a possibility he used bad language and didn’t mean it that way, however the context of Trump is he’s been known to be racist for decades and he literally did zero things to back off of those comments. He doubled down on the racism and almost always has…

    I don’t know what the future holds, and the actual damage done is awful, but the precedents set may be actually worse.



  • I would never want to go to an office again. Maybe it’s just me, but the social anxiety I feel by constantly being surrounded by strangers in tight quarters really weighs on me. There’s constant pressure to fit in, to do small talk, to ignore annoyances like that group of coworkers who never seem to be working and are always laughing loudly. The distractions, the social anxiety, and then there literally getting sick because someone comes to work sick as fuck. So many times I would hear people sneezing and coughing 15-20 feet from my desk and then within a couple of days I would also be sick (for weeks). Even at companies who encouraged wfh if sick. Ridiculous.

    I do miss grabbing a beer after work with the select few coworkers who I actually bonded with, but then again even that often came with being forced to talk to a few people who kinda grated on my nerves.

    I also enjoy being able to take walks and do chores from home without fearing being judged or reprimanded. I honestly probably get more work done at home anyway. In some ideal world where I’d go into an office with like < 10 people who I actually like, with a short or enjoyable commute, 3 days a week, I’d probably enjoy that a lot. But none of those conditions have been present at any job I’ve had or maybe even have heard of.

    It’s also shitty for pets to be gone most of the day all week. So yeah, fuck an office. Can’t even wear the most comfortable clothes there, and my last office situation was extremely lax about the dress code. The negatives outweigh the positives several-fold for me.



  • My partner said this also, but personally I find her the least interesting person in history. I really doubt there’s much to her life besides her using her looks to manipulate her reality. She randomly met the right rich loser and used him for his money. Then his psychopathic personality led him to the white house. If they did make that documentary I would watch it, but I feel pretty confident I would be disgusted by a terrible person getting humanized and being reminded by the awful destruction of the United States that weighs literally zero on her conscience.

    There is no way to square her actions with anything but a soulless money-hungry void where a human is supposed to be. She may be most remembered by her explicit choice to wear a jacket reading “I really don’t care, do you?” When visiting a prison for immigrants. And if that turns out to be the case, it would be fair. She’s a fucking monster, and every day she doesn’t kill or divorce Trump is a day she proves that