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💉 We must END the Opioid Crisis!!!! 💉
The opioid is a tremendous emergency, what's going on there. National emergency on drugs. So many "people" dieing. And, so many young & beautiful lives -- and others -- totally devastated.
We’re doing everything to empower ourselves so that we can keep this poison out of communities and away from our children. We will not let up, we will not give in and we will never ever give up on saving American lives. We will end this terrible menace. We will smash the grip of addiction.
Some countries have a very, very tough penalty, the ultimate penalty. And by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. So we're going to have to be very strong on penalties. Hopefully we can do some litigation against the opioid companies.
What the doctors can do. You know, opioid is prescriptions, and it's doctors and it's pharmaceutical companies, and they’re getting a little nervous now because we’re coming after them, and what they were doing is just terrible.
Now, Therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim April 27, 2019 as National Proscription Drug Take Back Day. Do your part today by participating at over 4,000 locations across the Country! DEATakeBack.com
The Democrats are going to lose in 2020
One part of it, and unfortunately the part with all the real power and money, is the corporate wing of the party, the ones who call themselves "moderates" and who, by the standards of any civilized nation, are a center-right, corporatist clusterfuck. These are the dynastic politicians, the Clintons and the Pelosis and so on. Notably, they are what the Republicans used to be until about the mid-90s, and Clinton's so-called "welfare reform" has done more to harm the poor than anything the GOP had done from the Depression up until that point. These people *are* Republicans, and modern Republicans are basically the Christian answer to the Taliban, except too weak and obese and low-testosterone to grow facial hair.
On the other side, we have the ones who are triggering all the RWNJs who infest this site like a bad case of bedbugs: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and so on. You can tell they scare seven shades of shit out of our "friends" on the right wing (wrong wing) because of how much barely-disguised panic they elicit in the form of almost obsessive insults and smears. Make no mistake, the Fox crowd is shitting their Depends (well, more than usual I suppose...) at the idea of them taking over.
Now, because the corporate wing owns the Democratic party, and because they've been fighting the same election campaign battle (1972, if you're curious) for goddamn near half a century, they're going to miscalculate. They're going to run the "safe" choice, Biden. And they're gonna get fucking clobbered. Why? Because the data leading them to even consider Biden as "the safe choice" are massively skewed, ridiculously out of date, and not in line with reality.
The guy's a senile, creepy old ignoramus, and he does not resonate with most of the Democratic voters. I am not one to dump on someone due simply to low Charisma scores, if for no other reason than that I'd have to drag on myself all the damn time. But Biden is toxic. Not just because he's apparently a gross toucher, but he's like Bob Dole and post-Alzheimer's Reagan rolled into one and then given a good beating with the Schlemiel Stick. The corporate wing wants him in charge because he'll keep the gravy train going; he's essentially Dubya for the donkey team. He will obey his handlers, one of whom will likely be Hillary Clinton doing a damn good Dick Cheney impression. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
I predict this is going to come to a head in 2020 with a massive GOP win as the Democrat voter base splits along age and income lines. Honestly, this is nothing more than a reflection of the fact that the corporate Dems are, as I said before, basically Republicans, and this election season is going to make that quite clear. We may, assuming there's anything left to preside over, have a chance in 2024, but who knows what the country will look like by then? Who knows if there's even going to *be* one? This is karma.
Joe Biden's #MeToo Adventure Continues
Anita Hill says she wants 'real accountability' from Joe Biden
A woman who accused a Supreme Court nominee of sexual harassment has rebuked White House candidate Joe Biden, who chaired the 1991 hearings.
Anita Hill said Mr Biden must show "real accountability" for his handling of her complaints during Clarence Thomas' confirmation in Congress.
Ms Hill told the New York Times the former vice-president had called her before announcing his presidential bid.
But she said his apology was not enough without "real change".
Joe Biden Declines to Directly Apologize to Anita Hill for His Handling of 1991 Hearing
In his first sit-down interview of his presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Friday repeatedly declined to directly apologize to Anita Hill for his handling of the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings, instead delivering a broad statement of remorse for how she was treated during the combative questioning she faced from an all-male Senate committee that he led.
Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” which is heavily watched by women, Mr. Biden was asked by one of its hosts, Joy Behar, about his reluctance in recent months to offer a straightforward apology to Ms. Hill for his own judgment and leadership during the hearings. Ms. Behar suggested that Mr. Biden should say, “I’m sorry for the way I treated you, not for the way you were treated.”
“I’m sorry for the way she got treated,” Mr. Biden responded. “If you go back to what I said, and didn’t say, I don’t think I treated her badly.”
Biden Gives Bumbling Apology as ‘The View’ Confronts Him on Creepy Touching, Anita Hill
Biden was initially greeted by The View hosts with a very warm welcome by the panel and extremely friendly audience. But the tone shifted halfway through the chat when co-host Sunny Hostin brought up recent accusations from multiple women that he invaded their personal space and made them feel “gross.”
“We’re in a different time now,” Hostin asked. “We’re in the #MeToo movement. Are you sorry for what you did? Are you prepared to apologize to those women?”
The former veep replied that “everybody has to be more [aware] of the private space of men and women” before awkwardly asking the all-woman panel if he can hug them, noting that he wasn’t sure what to do when he walked out.
'He gave me permission': Joe Biden jokes about touching complaints
Joe Biden has twice made joking references to complaints from women that his physical behavior made them uncomfortable.
The former vice-president’s comments on Friday came during his first public appearance since the allegations began to surface last week. Taking the stage in Washington at a gathering of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Biden was introduced by the president of the union, Lonnie Stephenson. Biden quipped: “I just want you to know – I had permission to hug Lonnie.”
The crowd, which was mostly male, erupted in laughter. Later, Biden made a similar joke after inviting a group of children onstage and putting his arm round a young boy. “By the way, he gave me permission to touch him,” the former vice-president said, again to laughter. “Everybody knows I like kids more than people,” Biden said.
Lucy Flores isn’t alone. Joe Biden has a long history of touching women inappropriately.
Democrat Lucy Flores was preparing to give one of her final stump speeches in a race for lieutenant governor in Nevada when she felt two hands on her shoulders. She froze. “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?” Flores wondered.
Flores recounts her experience with Joe Biden in a first-person essay for New York magazine, describing an incident in 2014 when Biden came up behind her, leaned in, smelled her hair, and kissed the back of her head.
“Biden was the second-most powerful man in the country and, arguably, one of the most powerful men in the world,” Flores wrote. “He was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job. Instead, he made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused.”
[...] Flores’s experience isn’t unique. It is no secret in Washington that Biden has touched numerous women inappropriately in public. It’s just never been treated as a serious issue by the mainstream press.
Sleepy Joe or Creepy Joe?
⚔️ Thank you King Salman!!!! ⚔️
Very strong, very smart move by King Salman of Saudi. Who gave the Thumbs Up to "execute" 37 Radical Islamic( or Islamist ) Terrorists. Alleged Terrorists. It's known as Death Penalty, folks. We need to bring that one back. Saudi Arabia, they have very few problems with crime. Because they have Death Penalty. I'm working very hard to bring it back for the Federal. But, we need it in our States too. California, Nutty Governor Newsom canceled all the Death Penalties. And crime there has gone totally and completely out of control. It was already very high, now it's OFF THE CHARTS. Time for a Total Recall of that guy!!!! foxnews.com/world/saudi-arabia-executes-people-terrorism-allegations
NIN Year Zero Album: a techno game of BRILLIANCE!
Year Zero (our year 2022, the year the United States is 'reborn') was (and will be?)(is?) a dystopian vision of a future in which your government worked against you.
...or... a game and technology and music...
...or a technological Easter Egg hunt...
...or ... a concept album that i would call brilliant!
September 2006, Trent Reznor (THE guy of NIN unless touring) decided to shake things up a bit. He decided that music and marketing would work brilliantly together if worked in a fun, interesting and puzzling way (not marketing, but an "artistic concept"): what he got was a thriller and marketing he couldn't have expected.
He hired a company called 42 Entertainment to help promote his coming album by giving out clues to a larger puzzle.
The first piece of the puzzle were tour t-shirts (the With Teeth tour) with highlighted letters that spelled out "I am trying to believe".
"This phrase was registered as a website URL, and soon several related websites were also discovered in the IP range, all describing a dystopian vision of the fictional "Year 0"."
---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)
USB keys were left in bathroom stalls at tour venues. Clues left on web-sites, clues leading to web-sites, phone numbers, email addresses, videos and mp3's.
Phone a number found from one of the clues and you are left with a message telling you "By calling this number, you and your family are implicitly pleading guilty to the consumption of anti-American media and have been flagged as potential militants."
Another clue told fans to not drink the water because the government had drugged it, but other clues led to a phone number that when called, a message said simply "I am drinking the water, so should you".
Leaked songs gave clues: The Great Destroyer, when played in mono, gave clues saying "Red Horse Vector". Was there a website for it? You betcha!
Finally at the release of the Year Zero album, fans discovered that the black CD cover when warmed, exposed a string of binary numbers that when translated into ASCII read "exterminal.net"
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0110 010 1011 110
00011 101 00011
00101 0111001 00110110
1011 010 010
1101110011000
010 11 011 0
0 0 01 0 1 1 1 00 110
1 1100 1100 1 01 01
11 0 1
0 0
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The Year Zero story takes place in the United States in the year 2022; or "Year 0" according to the American government, being the year that America was reborn. The United States has suffered several major terrorist attacks, and in response the government has seized absolute control on the country and reverted to a Christian fundamentalist theocracy. The government maintains control of the populace through institutions such as the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano, as well as increased surveillance and the secret drugging of tap water with a mild sedative. In response to the increasing oppression of the government, several corporate, government, and subversive websites were transported back in time to the present by a group of scientists working clandestinely against the authoritarian government. The websites-from-the-future were sent to the year 2007 to warn the American people of the impending dystopian future and to prevent it from ever forming in the first place
It's an interesting 'total package' concept, and there's 2 more years to go: but has this dystopian vision already arrived?
Help to not overflow our landfills
When the vacuum cleaner bag becomes full, attach it to a leaf blower, with a filter so that only the fine dust can be evenly distributed throughout the living space. The larger vacuumed up bits and crumbs will remain in the vacuum bag. If the vacuum bag is mostly empty, it can simply be re-attached to the vacuum cleaner. If the vacuum bag is too full after blowing out all of the fine dust, then its remaining contents can be:
* added to fireplace
* used as pillow stuffing
* added to garden soil
* leaf-blower disbursed into back yard
* mixed with used chewing gum as new form of play doh
* ingredient in cigarettes
* food additive, using a suitably complex ingredient name
Pop Star's "Illicit Kiss" Memed by Hong Kong's Government
Pop Star’s Illicit Kiss Becomes Fodder for Government Ads in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong government does not usually weigh in when the tabloids catch a pop star cheating.
But this week, after the city was riveted by the scandal of a married singer caught on video kissing an actress, some government agencies were criticized for using it as fodder for jokes in public service announcements.
Government officials expose their own lack of workload.
What France Has Money For
A journalist sarcastically asked Philippe Martinez, the leader of a major labor union, whether the flood of donations was evidence of trickle-down economics. “Money doesn’t trickle down for everything,” Mr. Martinez answered, adding that the outburst of generosity from French billionaires only exposed the inequalities that divide the country.
Such gifts aren’t just a private matter; they cost the state, too. For one thing, and certainly in the eyes of some Yellow Vests, these philanthropists are offering only a small fraction of enormous fortunes they have amassed partly by avoiding taxes otherwise needed to fund basic public services. And since their proposed gifts are destined for France’s national heritage, the bulk of them could benefit from major tax exemptions — up to 90 percent if a proposed bill presented this week were to pass.
Notre-Dame’s Safety Planners Underestimated the Risk, With Devastating Results
Unlike at sensitive sites in the United States, the fire alarms in Notre-Dame did not notify fire dispatchers right away. Instead, a guard at the cathedral first had to climb a steep set of stairs to the attic — a trip Mr. Mouton said would take a “fit” person six minutes.
Only after a blaze was discovered could the fire department be notified and deployed. That means even a flawless response had a built-in delay of about 20 minutes — from the moment the alarm sounded until firefighters could arrive and climb to the attic with hundreds of pounds of hoses and equipment to begin battling a fire.
✡️ Happy Passover to all!! ✡️
Including to my many enemies and those who have fought me with TOTAL BULLSHIT and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!!! pic.twitter.com/h3wgLZ4mxS
Camelot? Or Babylon?
Europe is looking forward to seeing a new influential player in the legal entertainment industry.
A second round of the Ukrainian presidential election will be held on April 21. According to public polls, amazing candidate Volodymyr Zelensky, who does have no experience in politics, economy, social sciences and management, will likely achieve a victory. However, he has a wide range of abilities that would allow him to turn Ukraine into a new European dreamland. These are not the behooved origin or business or political links, but rather the ideas that would allow an explosive growth of the Ukrainian economy.
The key of these ideas are the legalization of prostitution, gambling and soft drugs.
