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Maybe they should name it “when the playing field is level Texas will fuck your shit up” trophy.
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Our preferred gay travel company does an eygpt/cairo/nile river cruise I’d love to do. I’d have to think about Oman and Jordan if not with a group. I think they did a Jordan one a few years ago.
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Love your neighbor as yourself is about as toxic as you can get man, don’t you know?
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I’ve always been a little sad the Middle East is a “dangerous” place to visit. Tehran from the way before times even Kabul, Afghanistan in the way before times coulda been epic. Far from a Middle East country but we are going to Morocco for my 50th.
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Non sequitur. In fact I was day dreaming about ladies beach not that long ago.
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Happy Father’s Day to all you miserable sons of bitches, not sure why your kids love you but they (probably) do.
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The medical community has flatly ignored the power of diet on your immune system function when it comes to patient care for most of my lifetime. Yeah if you are over weight and don’t exercise you’ll get a mild lecture to go with your statin script. That’s true. That’s hardly the preferred way here. Heck 20 years ago the brain gut connection was considered fringe science and only for the granola kooks. Oops. medical establishment including medical schools are to blame for much of the backlash.
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whether it is or isn't the current motivation it has been the genesis of the conflict that has remain unresolved for 50+ years. the conflict can migrate to take on a life of its own apart from the original motivations making it just that much more difficult to untangle. no doubt today its about radicalism, proxy wars through terrorism and nuclear capability, but hey if the West could solve those three, I suspect the West would do so AND strong arm their way into a deal for natural resources, say some oil and gas and some rare earths as well.
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argo fuck yourself.
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this is absolutely the way. maybe the only sure way.
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100% but don't dismiss where some of this is coming from. medicine has done amazing things, and the medical community and the political side of public health (for decades and decades) has been and is also failing us big time.
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People asking what they can do to keep this going, protests are awesome do them. But the playbook is pretty simple… 1. Stay informed - BUT only enough to be informed. Do not let news consumption drain your resources because consuming news does nothing in and of itself. 2. Strengthen your community - building and strengthening relationships among friends is critical to a movement. Go out, have a good time, learn about one another, give to one another, and add more to your community. This becomes critical when it’s go time - see below. 3. Go to local candidate fundraisers and give money (if you can) - online giving is better than nothing but go to the in person ones and make new friends, these are critical for building community and also funding the operation. The opposition passes the fucking plate on Sunday essentially to raise money it’s in their DNA. We have to understand we will win the war when every dog catcher in America is a people (and dogs) first elected official. Dems are terrible at down ballot. We have to do better. You don’t have kids or don’t have kids in school anymore? It doesn’t matter. That local school board election might be the single most important election in your community and galvanizing around candidates in your community only races benefits the state wide and national races. 4. Take breaks, find and appreciate beauty in your life - gratitude and beauty are things we must have to recharge. Find them, cultivate them. From here with a strong community you are ready for game time. 5. Fight back by voting - this seems like the duh part BUT do you know many of your friends might not vote for this or that reason? Remember the build community part? Now it’s time to call on your community and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. 35-40% of those that vote will never change from the republicans for whatever reason. These elections will always be won on turnout. Text or call everyone you know encouraging them to vote and asking if they have a plan. Ask them to call and tell their friends. And know it is because you cultivated and strengthened your community that you have the right and authority to hold them accountable. When a strong community holds itself accountable the people will be heard. The END GAME when it comes to building community is to ensure our voices are heard at the ballot box. Keep the end game in mind. we just did this to take back the LTISD school board from MAGA assholes. We did it by brining new people into our community and then saying hey let’s vote and get this done. I texted and texted my relationships not some campaign text banking shift but texting those I know and for the first time felt like I was actually effective in moving the needle (and I’ve done plenty of phone banking). Organic, community led accountability is what will truly lead to saving this country.
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Photos of the protests from the atlantic… https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/06/photos-no-kings-protests-america-trump/683195/ Here are only a few of the pics… Without a subscription you can’t see all of the photos - I grabbed the link outside of my Apple News script so I could let folks go see the article. There are pictures like this from everywhere.
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This is probably for a discussion with academics as the nuance here is probably quite subtle in part because how erroneous the theory is, but I am fascinated by the chasm between the pharmaceutical approach to medicine and the natural approach to disease and illness. On the one hand, you have an approach that at best pays lip service to baseline health and its impact on the immune system - almost like to avoid getting sick is just pure luck. This faction ignores the importance of eating a very nutritious diet full of vegetables and fruits, whole grains and avoiding added sugar and animal saturated fats, environmental toxins, and yes even toxic air. Example just this morning a well respected publisher had an article in my feed that titanium dioxide is in 11,000 foods in the US and is a known cellular oxidizer and is banned in Europe as a food additive. that’s insane. Food quality is so effing important. This camp wouldn’t even consider weight training and racket sports as foundational to immune system wellness or cognitive health. They wouldn’t for a minute tell you the quality of your marriage or the enjoyment of your hobbies- especially the outdoors ones - will be as effective of a defense to illness as anything else. They will admit sheepishly these things matter, but will in the same breath ignore a mass population deficiency in vitamin D while saying if you eat a balance diet (who does that?) then you don’t need supplements. Have you ever tried to plan a diet to hit just the USDA recommended on all your vitamins and minerals on a daily basis? It’s absolutely impossible. And so without a serious focus on your foundational health it’s a simple fact your immune system is functioning less than optimally which then allows the germs to win. But then this faction just ignores all of it. On the other hand the natural approach faction would tell you diet will cure cancer and that antibiotics impact on the gut biome is far worse than sepsis. And obviously the pin prick from a MMR vaccine is beyond dangerous and that the immune system is perfect and beyond need of assistance if we simply feed it oat straw and milk thistle or whatever the fuck. That gap is really interesting to me, and the return to this magical thinking is so devastatingly wrong but it’s not without causation and just like thinking the air had some toxic quality that caused illness that led to cleaning up raw sewage my hope is that we can at least use this wild ass dark ages thinking - and the aversion to pharmaceutical interventions to start turning to the foundational aspects of wellness as the first and primary and if your body responds yes the only line of defense needed for the luckiest. but the responsibility to do this right will be on the scientists - the adults in this conversation and the primary communicators of this will be the doctors and the schools that train them. The fact is well before pharmaceuticals, the human body needs optimal (1) nutrition (including supplements), (2) weight training and hand eye coordination athletic type activity (like hunting for our ancestors and racket sports for modern humans), (3) sleep, (5) distressing activities and moments, and (6) quality relationships. I’d bet less than 3%-5% of the population focuses on these 6 things like their lives depend on it. And make no mistake, our lives DO in fact depend on these six factors more than anything else. And doctors I’ve talked too barely pay lip service to the foundation. I guess I’m saying the MAHA movement is kooky as the freak show at the county carnival but it’s not borne from nothing it’s borne from a failure of medicine to pay attention to the most foundational aspects of health. The germ theory is obviously correct but not all immune systems are operating equally. As a society we need to focus on both medical intervention and improving foundational health that has nothing to do with pharmaceutical solutions.
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Yeah you way out kicked your coverage there brisket. Not sure what else to say, she mighta been your best accomplishment. It’s ok. I’ve done that twice, caused two high quality women to fall for me so don’t take that as a critique that isn’t also levied against myself. Kudos.
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Did he really say that shit?
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This parade - as it was handled by the military - did way more good than harm.
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Oh sweet Jesus he doesn’t have a tattoo of Calvary Hill on his arm does he? smdh.
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I have a slightly different view here - the 250th was in the works for the Army, not a parade mind you but something. Trump wanted a parade but he wanted the North Korean, Soviet style parade, instead he got a 250th anniversary parade of US Army history - NOT a show of power parade. My dad was in the military, we would sometimes go to events where the kids could climb all over old decommissioned tanks etc and that’s actually what this looked like to me. I kinda think the military pulled a fast one on him and gave him his parade but didn’t give him what he really wanted which is that idiotic show of force parade.
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My teen age boys slammed the fuck out of theirs.
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I’d be better off with that but “we” made fried chimichangas for a Saturday night. Rotisserie chicken, green onion, salsa verde, Monterey Jack, refried beans and topped with homemade cilantro jalapeño ranch dressing and homemade guac and pico. HEB fresh made burrito tortillas are a godsend.
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Are you talking about the small crowds? Or are you talking about the “lack” of protesters …?
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