Seems about right.

I’m playing the final fantasy 7 remake and the materia vendor in wall market looks like Robert. That’s all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1hnmyhq/protestors_protesting_the_omni_hotels_decision_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Unlike the Henry Kissinger book Neither are signed but my grandma was a big donor to Robert F Kennedy’s anti vaccine foundation and she hates diversity that book is forwarded by Denis Pragur😭😭😭😭

Anyone else ever been told by a mental health professional that they should stop consuming news and history? I’ve had a Psychiatrist and a therapist both tell me to log off. Not just for a break but for good. I listen to Democracy Now and the Majority Report every day and various other podcasts when I have time (on the media, BTB, Some more news, stuff like that). I’m sure it gives me anxiety and some degree of hopelessness but when I don’t I feel alone and disconnected. Not to mention guilty. I realize that I’m lucky to have mental health care at all (no it’s not covered and no I can’t afford it but I could afford it before I had insurance). I also realize I’m in a place of great privilege in that I can (at least for now) stick my head in the sand. I know that my brain is physically defective. I take at least 7 pills a day to try to maintain a somewhat normal life. I think I’ve started rambling here. I was just kind of wondering if anyone else feels like anxiety and depression are the rational response to reality.

Edit to say I’m actually supposed to be working right now but I wanted to say what a great community this is and that I’m going to come back and read and contemplate all of these comments.

Edited again to say. Wow what a community. I want everyone to know I’m ok. I’ve had some very dark periods in my life and this honestly is not that bad in comparison to some of the others. I was out of therapy for a long time because I was doing really well but a few years ago I went through some hard times and went back. I’m really very lucky that I do have so much support. I’ve got a very good and accommodating work situation. My family is pretty supportive and my immediate family at least are not fascist. I’ve actually got a wife and our relationship is healthy. The one thing that has come up over and over again in the comments is getting more involved in my local community. I think that’s a very good idea. I don’t know exactly what yet. I’m in a pretty small very conservative town in South Carolina so I might have to get creative with it. I’ll figure something out though. Helping people has always been good for me. Thank you all. Even the cynical bastards who see the world for the dumpster fire it really is. Game recognize game.

I can't believe Robert Evans didn't mention this song by Woody Guthrie about Donald Trump's slumlord father. For all of his faults, Guthrie was something of a prophet of our modern era:

https://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Old_Man_Trump.htm

Was listening to the Woody Guthrie episode and I thought I'd do this mock-up of what he'd look like as a liberal.

I don’t even want to be alive anymore.

Is anything ever going to get better

The internet fucking sucks, especially social media. It's all just racism and spam ads now. Al is going to grow until it becomes indistinguishable from reality.

Trumps going to crash the economy with tariffs

The government programs that I rely on are going to be cut because of DOGE

Im a 20-something year old living with my parents.

I cannot endure another 4 years of budget cuts. I rely on these government programs and musk is going to cut all of them.

I will literally die if I don't have Obama care, and that looks to be on the chopping block

I fucking hate Elon musk, Donald Trump, all of them. I hate the people that voted for him and I hope to god that if trump succeeds in his budget cuts, that it hits his voters the hardest.

I hope every last one of his voters get 100% fucked over. Homelessness. Medical bankruptcy. Starvation.

Because im fucked if these programs get cut. 77 million people looked me right in the face and told me to go fuck myself.

There's no hope for a nation that voted for this.

I would like to think that it would have been easier if I lived in XYZ country, but the cost of living crisis has hit every corner of the earth. Everywhere is fucked.

Everything is about politics these days. My ResistLib mom always wants the news on and I can’t stand it. She’s constantly yelling at the tv or in an argument with my dad about whatever trump did.

And I have to do another four years of this shit. It’s been 9.5 years already since he came down the escalator and I can’t do this anymore.

The fascists won. I’m never coming out of the closet.

I go back and forth of whether this godforsaken nation is really just fucking stupid for sincerely believing trump would lower prices, or if this is like the 1980 election in which it was a backlash against civil rights of the 1960’s and 1970’s (this time being trans rights)

I really don’t feel like living at this point.

Boss Tweed is romanticized by many but was a real corrupt POS who stole millions of money from NYC during his reign in the 1860-1870s.

A hard line comparison can be made to him and trump on many things, but the recent flurry of memes of Musk shown as trump's handler/owner/babysitter that has impacted the MAGA world, has some great echoes of how Tweed was eventually taken down.

During Boss Tweed's reign Thomas Nast, deemed the father of political cartoons, made his famous cartoons as Tweed being a fat oafish swindler. His drawings not only got under the politicians skin but turned the tide of Tweeds public opinion.

“Let’s stop those damned pictures,” Tweed reportedly said. “I don’t care so much what the papers write about me—my constituents can’t read, but damn it, they can see pictures.”

Nast started his drawings of Tweed in 1869 when the bastard was still in full power/control of the city, with every scandal coming out Nast added more and more cartoons, eventually creating over 160 images highlighting Tweed & his cronies as swindlers, bullies and vultures. The cartoons were a hard definite aid in taking down a bastard.

Just curious for no reason. Shut up I’m not crying you’re crying.

He could be worked into every episode and I’d enjoy the story every time. I know gangsters aren’t good and I try not to romanticize them. But I’m not immune to the appeal of a Robin Hood character.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Did I miss a mention of Woody Guthrie's ties to Fred Trump, or did that not make the episode? When Margaret mentioned being rail companions with Ryan Harvey I assumed we would be hearing Old Man Trump, but if it was played I missed it.

https://youtu.be/TmZnlGBhwKg?si=KvydY5v7lKQLGtnt

This song that Woody wrote, along with the lawsuits, have been my go to when MAGA people argued that Trump being racist was a new accusation. Donald was working for his dad's company at this time and defends the practices that they were sued for.

Or is this too well known, or just common knowledge that it needs not be mentioned again?

The plaque makes SOOOOO many excuses for him.

This was back in 2021, turns out that bashing ice as a hobby doesn’t make for sticker longevity, but it was nice while it lasted.

Strap yourselves in everybody. We might well be dealing with this pandemic horseshit again, but worse.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-america-lost-control-of-the-bird-flu-and-raised-the-risk-of-another-pandemic#:~:text=%E2%80%9CEven%20if%20there's%20only%20a,United%20Kingdom%2C%20referring%20to%20COVID.

Robert must consume trucker pills to keep his outlaw blood in check