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The fuck we do, you seen how shit our public schools are? The events I was never taught about American history, but should've been, could constitute its own college course. And they're only getting worse!

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20 years ago things weren’t so shit

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honestly, I like my Seiko mechanical watch, but there would be periods I wouldn't wear it and then have to re-set the time often enough that it irritated me and I got a Citizen Eco-Drive, and I fucking love the thing. It does everything I need from a watch: tells me the date, tells me the time, has an easy way to switch on/off DST, even automatically accounts for leap years and has a few functions like a stopwatch and a timer that I never use; but it doesn't play stupid games like modern tech and it never needs winding.

Having said that, seeing the winding mechanism through the clear back glass of my Seiko is magical in a way you can't get from any electronic watch.

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And Obama! And Hilary! And... And...

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I won't deny Obama is the one who inspired him to become president -- that correspondents dinner was absolutely the catalyst -- but Donald Trump never ran and lost against Obama. You think the temper tantrums he throws over Biden or Obama now are bad, I cannot fathom the temper tantrum he would've had if he lost to a black man (let alone the one we would've, could've, should've gotten to see if he lost to a black woman).

But the one thing Trump hates more than anything, more than every racist, sexist, -phobic prejudice he has, is losing to people. He views every interaction as a competition (look at the way he shakes hands, he has always done that), and the more public, the more humiliating the loss, the worse of a tantrum he throws over it. Look how hard he pissed and moaned all throughout Biden's term. Look how hard he's fought to not pay E. Jean Carroll (it's not about the money, he can afford it; and it's not about the reputation of being a rapist, he knows his reputation is garbage outside of his base). Think of how much time he spends playing golf and ""winning"" tournaments at his own golf courses. Losing, at anything, is the one thing that really, truly gets under his skin. And to Biden he lost the most public kind of competition a man can lose.

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Log Cabin Republicans announce they no longer support trans rights

and I'm sure when they've run out of brown people to put in concentration camps and trans people to bully out of the public eye, and the Trump regime needs a new scapegoat because gas and groceries are still or even more unaffordable, us gay people will have Absolutely Nothing To Worry About. I'm sure Republicans have forgotten all about the years they spent calling AIDS a plague from God to punish the gays, one that we deserved, that Reagan was happy to watch happen until straight people started dying too.

Surely.

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I don't think anybody did, least of all him, but he certainly didn't have very strong opposition. I don't remember meeting anyone that was genuinely excited to vote for Hillary at the time, just this sense of "well, duh". In his mind, he probably can't lose a competition he never planned to win, and this is partly why he doesn't pay much lip service to Clinton anymore (from what I'm aware, anyways, I try to avoid listening to his drivel at length), hell he probably gets a warm, fuzzy feeling when he thinks of 2016; and even Obama who he talked a lot of shit about and still sometimes does, he gets less blame these days I've noticed; but that senile, egotistical old fuck will never forget the man that beat him in the most public, high-stakes big-money popularity contest in America.