You ask that question, in a lot of rural areas the small walmart in town is run down and doesn’t get as much stock. It reduces slowly over time until shopping at that walmart is a waste of time and people go to the next one. So Walmart closes down the “Underperforming” walmart forcing people to go to the bigger one few towns over, centralizing and cutting the amount of staff/delivery locations walmart has to deal with, making them more money.

The Waltons were major named donors to the Heritage Foundation.

I’m a pessimist and past few years have been showing how it can get worse even when I can’t imagine how much worse it can get.

There’s only one guarantee, as long as there are two people on the planet, it CAN get worse.

It’s a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys… it’s bleak down there…

We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they’ve swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn’t a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.

Seriously… if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature… but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity… there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.

Live in a right wing state…

They’ll still call it the “Liberal media” any time it says ANYTHING against their world view. Fox is “liberal media” around here.

Look… I’m more on board with this than not… but at this point betting on this administration to cook the goose that lays the golden eggs is the best bet. Sure… a goose dinner is nice, but in the process legit destroys what made the goose amazing in the process.

IE: Don’t worry, they’ll fuck it up somehow

Honestly way I’ve been listening to NPR it seems like they had gotten sick of things last Trump administration. I was shocked when you had a senator trying to fight the Green New Deal because “gonna stop cows” and the reporter kept pressing him for where that was until she read it outright to him. Of course the little gremlin couldn’t be bothered to answer after that but expecting anything out of the right is impossible.

Bunch of hospitals in my state getting close to shutting down, all in districts that voted heavily Trump. I feel bad for the anti-Trumpers out there… but most of the communities that are crying as they’re also worried about this and losing their farms voted for him and this shitstick of a state government and my sympathy level is at the point of a Nelson laugh.

Always have been. They just have to be in control.

The antichrist is the communism we made along the way.

We’re right before the “Madagascar Solution” part of history.

We all know where this is going.

I keep saying it over and over again. 160 years later, the confederates won.

As a leftie who moved to a red state a decade ago, welcome to the suck. It only gets worse.

He bankrupted a casino. That’s all you need to get.

The problem is the big hungry bears are looking at y’all trying to figure out how to divvy your area up, and only thing keeping the Trump one from just cozying completely up to the other is his inability to stick with a thought process for more than five minutes.

I left iphone because of a walled garden issue, was thinking about working with my parents off of iphone so I can actually assist with them because I’ve been off of it for decades.

Instead may be the other direction because at least iOS has a modicum of privacy by at least telling the US government to make their own back doors instead of just licking the boot like google does. I’m not a fan of apple by any stretch of the imagination, but at this point of the falling apart world fuck it, I gotta figure out what the least evil is, even if it’s only marginal.

I’m not 100% convinced this isn’t the new eugenics.

39. I’m scrabbling and doing everything to stay alive for my parents so that they don’t worry. When they pass, fuck it, I’ll probably help the statistic along.

It’s Trump, the guy who bankrupted a casino and regularly doesn’t pay people he contracts.

If he started paying people and keeping anything without going to insolvency I’d think he’d been killed and a lizard was wearing his skin suit.

Oh no, you don’t get to drop something like that without further context!