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You vent and I feel better. Thanks.

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I think she does that for all of us. I thought I had a sailor's vocabulary. She puts mine to shame. Has to be a Jersey girl. JoJo reminds me of this server at WH that talks like her. She's from Jersey too. The most sarcastic woman I've ever known but she makes me laugh. 😆

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Us Jersey girls ARE special! ;)

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...and us (former) Jersey Guys KNOW IT!!

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The intentional blindness is the part that really confuses me.

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🦊”news” must have subliminal messages they are filling these folks up with, cause there is no other explanation for the loyalty of the most ignorant people in the U.S.

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Well, he did say he likes 'em good & dumb. SMFH 🙄

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According to Merriam Webster: Subliminal: existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness. Usually we think of subliminal as something coming from outside the body, i.e. subliminal advertising. Sometimes, though we generate our own subliminal stuff in our own minds. Some examples from history: Bonnie Prince Charlie will return and drive the English interlopers from Scotland; When Britian really needs him, Arthur will return and fix everything; The South will rise again. Putin will restore Russia to its proper place in the world. These are all yearnings by the losing side to help assuage the pain of what they have lost.

Trump has figured out how to zero in on those yearnings, yearnings for a white, Protestant, patriarchal country. That vision may even be what the Founders thought too when they put together the Constitution. The flow of history in America has not always been white, or Protestant, or patriarchal. However, that yearning has been alive and well for 300+ years.

Then in 2016, Trump came down the escalator and promised to fulfill every racist, Christian, mysoginist, wish. I'm guessing that many Americans were not aware of those wishes, that they were, indeed, "below the threshold of consciousness". Many, to this day, deny those subliminal yearnings and vote for Trump because he is Charlie and Arthur and Robert E. Lee all rolled into one convenient, visible, supportable, votable, incarnation of what they think they have lost.

So, yes, it is subliminal but not all from the outside. Not from ignorance either, just not overly self-aware or self-reflective. That may not be fixable in the short run. Or maybe even the long run.

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One of the most important jobs of childhood is learning how to learn from your mistakes. It starts early and produces "Oops" moments that stick in our heads for life. The goal of education is to limit those Oopsies moments going into adulthood. The way to make that work is to deprive the child of something it cares about. A favorite toy, activity, dessert, parental approval, all work over time with some children. The catch for parents, teachers, pastors, is figuring out exactly what that one child cares about and then using that effectively to guide the child's behavior. The part I haven't figured out is how so many people over many generations have learned to care about meaningless things, i.e., plastic straws. South Pacific (Thank you David) had it right. "They have to be carefully taught...". Not sure where I am going with this, but is seems that somehow we have to teach caring for meaningful things. How to do that, I have no clue.

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Sorry to differ...but I thought that was "South Pacific". Just checking.

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Damn, you are so right, David. Looked it up. I was sure it was The Sound of Music. When I look at my memory of that song, I see mountains and snow and Nazis hunting. I'll fix it. Thanks.

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The day after the election, I was ADAMANT that there was no reaching across the aisle to this pile of shitcrackers. They bought the ticket to the implosion of democracy. Sit back, watch your IQ drop even further ( less than zero comes to mind), and choke on your KFC and Big Macs, while the bird flu chokes your lungs in the ER parking lot because there are no beds available. I'll be sitting back with my mask, reading a book, watching the world burn because you never thought to read a history book.

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Shitcrackers!😂😂😂

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🤣😆🤣

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Keep up the great work. Foul language!? FuckingYEA! Here in Seattle everyone is so polite; 4-way stops can be absurd as everyone waves the other thru. Fuck that. I grew up east coast & know how to swear. Frequently!

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I thought I had a sailor mouth, but damn I am envious of JoJo's vocabulary!

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First time I was in a car in NYC, those drivers scared the shit out of me. I was a kid. We had to get to the airport fast, and the traffic was backed up downtown. So, what did the taxi cab driver do? He took off down the sidewalk and drove through Central Park. He was cussing, honking, and acting a complete fool. I looked at mama and just shrugged my shoulders as she looked perturbed. My sister was giggling next to me. He got us to the airport on time, though. Hahahaha. 😂😂 Oh, I'm from the Midwest. Never saw anything like it.

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Love reading your writings!! Thank you for expressing how sooo many of us feel!! Love you!! 🫶🏼🫶🏼

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🎉💗😂💞🎉🥰

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Brilliant as always. You paint a perfect picture of snarling, coughing, pus-spewing hatred wrapped in a rhinestone bedecked American flag.

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The all-time world record self-own! (Two hyphens, wow!😂) What sucks is that these Neanderthals will be the death of all of us. Fuck being nice to these imbeciles! "American Idiot" describes them to a tee. Keep pitching inside, girl!💪😘

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Absolutely, but what frightens me is getting caught in the crossfire (figuratively and literally). My wife works in the space industry. I’m a special education teacher. It’s only a matter of time before both of those positions are deemed unnecessary. We are damn good at our jobs but that won’t matter when entire departments and whole swaths of quasi government workers are indiscriminately cut.

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I get it and I’m so sorry. Fuck all of this. And fuck them.

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Keeping you and your wife in my thoughts and hope at least one of you is spared. It's really way beyond time for people in this country to start protesting, demonstrating, or at least repeatedly calling their elected representatives and saying this is all inexcusable, immoral, undemocratic, and undoubtedly illegal (not that they care, but in volume they can't be ignored).

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Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for expressing the thoughts of sane, rational people - so beautifully profane. Fucking genius!

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The fucking straws…. Mouthfeel is such a priority issue.

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This is an awesome reply!!! And it made me laugh! Love you, peaceful Mary T!

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Speaking of plastic straws and turtles, Jojo….a new Bureau has been announced in the Department of Defense to address those exact issues (satire)….

https://open.substack.com/pub/stephaniechurch44/p/the-new-bureau-of-straws-at-the-department?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=4naqww&utm_medium=ios

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What a great article. I just subscribed (unfortunately for you, I got the free version, but maybe someday my finances will improve. HA! Not with this administration) Anyway, the blog was priceless and it gave me a good laugh! I'm old enough to remember paper straws as the norm. I hated them, too, but I just learned to drink faster and always ask for a 2nd straw for a backup. I like turtles better than plastic straws, and also would prefer to have less nanoplastics in my organs.

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Excellent, thank you, Jo. And yet I can't help but hold out for that eye-opener or smack upside the head delivered just right such that the MAGAverse and the ignorant (not necessarily the same people) wake the fuck up. Unfortunately, history tells us that this is usually a war, depression, or some major fuck-up like making a bunch of vaccines during a pandemic and then telling everyone to shoot bleach instead. So what's it going to take this time? I think the most likely is a serious recession if not depression. But I fear that it could end up being the body bags that will pile up because they fucked up foreign policy so badly that some dictator jagoff is gonna start something really shitty. Poland? Taiwan? South Korea? Fucking Greenland? And the prick-in-chief (I hate saying the bastard's name) will fiddle with his ketchup while the world burns.

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Watch Malcom Nance's video that dropped today.

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Again, great stuff JoJo❤️❤️🤠

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It’s just so incredibly stupid and self destructive. I live out among the cotton and peanut fields of the Deep South. I just drove into our little town and parked on a brand new pad in front of our tiny little hospital is a shiny new medevac helicopter… paid for with grants. We really needed this. The closest big hospitals are 60 miles away. Do you think those funds will continue when Melon Musk finds out about this’gross fraud’? Melon doesn’t have an empathetic bone in his plump body.

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"Cheers dipshits! Love you guys!"

Damn... it's only Saturday. Now, I'm confused. I may even have a sympathetic owie. Gawd... and hoping I just missed a paragraph break somewhere. I'll re-read when my betahood feels its safe to come back out.

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You’re not the dipshit 😂😂😂

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Hahahahaha

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Love you Jo…

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Love you back!

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The cathartic vent that I look forward to every time!!! Still waiting on the thesaurus!

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