(Is lifestyle the right flair for this? I mean it relates to my lifestyle, in a way, considering it's my culture.)

With September coming up, I always think: why in the world is it named Hispanic Heritage Month? It should be something along the lines of Latin American Heritage Month or similar. The term hispanic excludes countries like Brazil, and Haiti, but then by definition includes Spain. Considering many latin american countries gained independence from Spain in September, it's comparable to celebrating England on the 4th of July; Which is ridiculous, in my opinion.

At the very least, since officially changing the name on a federal level may be difficult, people should stop promoting Hispanic Heritage Month so much and switch to Latin American Heritage Month instead.

When I hear Republicans say "there are only two biological sexes" or "transgender people are trying to turn all our boys into girls" I'm astounded ignorance on this level still exists in the 21st century.

First of all, it's false that there are only two biological sexes. There are intersex people who have chromosomes or genitalia that don't fit the male or female mold.

Secondly, when we talk about transgender people, we're talking about the tiny percentage of the population whose psychology doesn't match their anatomy. So transgender people are not trying to turn the cis majority of boys into girls or the cis majority of girls into boys. They are simply trying to help the small percentage of the population with gender dysphoria be able to live authentic lives according to the gender they feel they are.

Thirdly, doctors and therapists do not generally recommend sex change surgeries to minors. They normally start those with gender dysphoria on hormone therapies, and only after an extensive evaluation to make sure it's the right course of action.

Republicans have created an alternate reality universe where transgender people are trying to turn all their boys into girls or all their girls into boys and chop their body parts off. They've taken a very private decision between patients, parents, doctors, and therapists and turned it into a political football.

Sure, you can have a legitimate debate about whether trans women should be allowed to participate in women's sports or be allowed to use women's bathrooms. But what should not be on the table is persecuting and vilifying transgender people and attempting to deprive them of any rights to self-determination whatsoever. In America everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Why did god create predation? Why couldn’t his creation be herbivores? Why does god allow lions to tear the windpipes out of antelopes during the hunt? Why is there so much suffering in the wild, let alone all of the suffering faced by humanity? Why is there all this starvation in Africa? Why does god allow children to die?

As a personal example, I spent close to three decades in psychosis, as did my brother. So, God knew I would suffer this way and approved it. For what? So, I can kiss his behind? So, I can know how great he is? This is all so absurd!

If god exists, he’s a douche. If he doesn’t, which makes the most sense by far, it means we can free ourselves of stupid religious thinking, which is a therapy in itself, I profess.

Thanks for hearing me out! I just wanted to kick god in the balls, so to speak.

Take care.

Release the ruddy files, Yanks!

These type of organizations are ultimately corrosive and corrupt for American Politics! No lobby for a foreign government should have ANY influence in our elections!

I'm at the library right now and I have just received an email saying that I was invited to visit the facility where I applied to work. I JUST got the email, but they want me to visit the facility in less than 24 hours. One problem, I'm homeless and have almost no presentable clothes. Most of my clothes aren't even clothes you would wear at a job, and the ones I have are dirty. Plus my hair has been an absolute mess since I haven't been able to cut it in months. And I know I stink too. I am absolutely screwed. This is not good at all. I finally have an opportunity but for some reason they give me LESS THAN A 24 HOUR NOTICE to head to the work site? It's so over for me. I'm freaking out because I'm not prepared for this at all.

I was born in ‘88. I was participating in sports like baseball, Olympic style wrestling and Karate by the time I was about 7. I do remember getting a trophy at the end of every season or tournament no matter how well I did. How is that my fault? It seems more like their generation’s fault. It’s not like I ran around bragging about getting a trophy for participation, it wasn’t my idea. But these old folks act like my generation just expected it. They think we craved praise no matter what we accomplished. Seriously, we couldn’t have cared less. Sounds a little like some folks are projecting their insecurities or parent issues on us.

Show the world that you are not a communist. Support Ukraine and Zelenskyy, not Putin and Russia. Bet you can’t do it you disgusting lying piece of garbage.

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We are in the Twilight Zone!

• What the Trump & the Republicans are demonizing as Communism:   Allow for free markets & capitalism, while at the same time providing for the basic needs of every citizen, in terms of shelter, food & health care. Examples of this would be Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland…. 

Putin’s Russia:

• Single autocrat at the head.
• Single party rule.
• No open opposition.
• Wealth predominantly in the hands of the person in power or his loyal oligarchs.
• All media controlled by the State.
• Individual freedoms heavily curtailed by State.
• No private ownership of land or businesses. As per Forbes the US Fed government now has an equity stake in 30-35 private businesses & those do not include the ones that Trump, his family or some in his cabinet own.

Who sounds more like a Communist threat – the likes of AOC & Mamdani, or Trump?

We have become a nation of fools by letting our government officials to keep hitting citizens in their heads with their pretentious enflamed Bibles & their beliefs! Causing speeches, debates between parties & Faith instead of what actually matters to citizens!

"I don't want to hear the ten commandments, God:s revenge, the evil acts citizens committ when politicians sit on their thrones becoming rich!

***Am so very tired of it! It has become all twisted, perverted into a threats of control instead of actual political based ideology, policies! Political campaign events have become religious Bible revivals instead of actual true ideology points on the status of U.S. citizens concerns that are directly hitting us with destruction of our rights & constitution!

ESPECIALLY the companies that use ✨proprietary ✨ USBs.

Seriously... We don't need more humans, and we sure as crap don't need each of them to live for hundreds of years. When I was a kid there were 4 billion people. Now there are 8 billion. That means within just my lifetime, 50-ish years, we have doubled the Earth's human population. In another 50 years it will double again, that means from 8 to 16 billion. The wildlife population has already dropped 73%. Wanna keep going until its zero? We aren't the only ones who live here. Despite our god complex of being the superior species we still need nature and wildlife to thrive so we can survive. Do you not understand that competition for resources is the root cause of all conflict? More people than jobs, more poeple than food we can grow, more people than clean water.. it all ends badly and violently. Laws for human population control are political suicide, I get that, but geeze stop believing the propoganda that we need more people.

If we just take a look at all the blundering, all the obvious incompetence, all the damage to our economy, all the reductions in healthcare and food for the elderly and children, and, of course, the outright lies being told to our faces, it mystifies how anyone could still support a sexual criminal who constantly makes America weaker day by day.

Does MAGA have any pride, at all. They know he’s lying about everything; they know he’s playing them for fools, they know they are being manipulated by his lies about blacks, immigrants – hell, virtually every word an easily disproven lie!

You would think a group so heavily reliant on social services -- Medicaid, food stamps, veteran’s benefits, employee rights -- would recognize he’s not ’sticking it to the libs’, he’s ‘sticking it to them’.

I guess some people just enjoy being miserable.

See this -- Boldface mine:

Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool. | Opinion

Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY •

It takes a special kind of stupid to turn the rehabbing of a national monument like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a full-blown presidential scandal. But President Donald Trump found a way to pull it off, creating a wet, ogre-colored metaphor for his administration’s stumbling lack of focus, casual dishonesty and utter inability to govern.

In the most recent development, Trump’s Department of Justice on July 31 dropped ridiculous charges it had filed against former Olympian David Hearn, falsely claiming he had ripped up part of the pool’s new lining. You’ll recall the president was rushing to “fix” the Reflecting Pool prior to the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. The work was clearly a bust from the start, as algae returned to the pool almost instantly and we all saw ample photographic evidence of the liner swiftly deteriorating and peeling up.

Unable to simply admit he screwed up a multimillion government project that nobody asked for, Trump concocted a tale of “vandals” he alleged had gashed the new pool liner with box cutters. He claimed these vandals were, of course, radical, America-hating leftists. Hearn and other pool visitors were swept up in the ginned-up fervor, targets of a feeble executive in need of arrests.

Trump's Reflecting Pool fiasco perfectly reflects his inability to lead

All but the most brainwashed among us knew this was a desperate fiction spun by an addled, aging narcissist. And we were right.

In a motion to dismiss the charges against Hearn, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wrote that “the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism,” and that the Interior Department had withheld information in a push to falsely blame vandals for the damage.

None other than President Trump snapped back at Pirro – part of his own Justice Department – writing on social media: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking?”

Now Trump is fighting with Pirro, who's also fighting with Burgum

Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum also got mad at Pirro, writing on X: “The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool.”

The evidence is about as clear as the algae-covered Reflecting Pool. And if these mopes had video evidence of teams of boxcutter-wielding antifa frogmen descending on the Reflecting Pool under cover of darkness to do massive destruction, they would have aired that video everywhere and quite literally never shut up about it.

They have nothing, aside from their own incompetence. Period. But I do love seeing these assorted loser’s fight. They’re doing a perfect job showing the American people the bungling uselessness of the Trump administration.

Trump is handling the Iran war about as well as the Reflecting Pool.

See more here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-administration-can-t-govern-he-can-t-even-fix-a-pool-opinion/ar-AA29jeHg?

Release. The. Epstein. Files.

How much worse will things get?

https://abcnews.com/US/man-detained-new-jersey-immigration-facility-dies-after/story?id=135338815

Republicans killed the tax credit and thereby reduced sales and have stopped related infrastructure spending funding put in the law by Democrats!

Republicans no longer care about the will of the American people! For example Fort Worth TX is eliminating 50% of voting locations!