Refineries are releasing tons of toxic chemicals due to Harvey

Hey, you know what happens when you flood a solar plant or wind farm? Not THIS, that’s for sure.
The winds of changes are blowing…Time to defy #BigOil and move beyond petroleum products; move further into a better future. #AlternativeEnergy is so much less toxic to our world. Why fight a good thing? ‘Free’ power that harms the Earth LESS seems like a no brainier to me.
#HurricaneHarvey #ToxicSpill #Texas

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Refineries are releasing tons of toxic chemicals due to Harvey

Hey, you know what happens when you flood a solar plant or wind farm? Not THIS, that’s for sure.
The winds of changes are blowing…Time to defy #BigOil and move beyond petroleum products; move further into a better future. #AlternativeEnergy is so much less toxic to our world. Why fight a good thing? ‘Free’ power that harms the Earth LESS seems like a no brainier to me.
#HurricaneHarvey #ToxicSpill #Texas

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Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – August 30, 2017 at 06:28PM

World so fast, it flies past. Nothing to say, no interesting way. Just how fucking wrong all this bullshit cast. ~jg #quoteme #jfs #gomh

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Bernie Sanders Is Right: The U.S. Should Copy Denmark

What’s so fucking awesome about Denmark? Just saying.
We need to focus on The Real, here. Denmark won’t work for The USA. We need a uniquely American solution.
One that doesn’t discriminate by religion, race, nationality, gender or orientation…and, most importantly, one that doesn’t discriminate by WEALTH on the 5 basic necessities of life. Every American deserves these equally, and no human should ever be deprived them.
#Food. Staples should be cheap or free if you can’t afford them.
#Education Awesome education for ALL. Let parents choose.
#Medicine. No necessary remedy withheld regardless of “insurability”
#Clothing. It’s all about socks, man. People need socks! Seriously.
#Housing. Vacant properties should be “loaned” to homeless. Period.
Call it #FEMCH (there’s gotta be a better acronym we can snag) but it means liberty for all. It means the pursuit of happiness for all. Not just those who never have to worry about pursuit of their next meal. It’s about the real meaning of #America, not #Denmark. I hate to argue with Bernie Sanders on things, but fuck Denmark. Learn from them, then do it BETTER. THAT’S the #AmericanWay.
So with respect, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I disagree with you.
On this. Just a little. ~jg

#politics #BernieSanders

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Jon and Dany have been beaten in our final ‘Game of Thrones’ power rankings

The months will be long until the next…and final…season. A long, dragon-less void, indeed, before disappearing into TV history, forever.

#GameOfThrones #GoTS7 #GoT #dragons

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Trump on North Korea: All options are on the table — except talking

So, #Trump just said, “I'm done talking!” regarding #NorthKorea …followed by “all other options are on the table”. As if any of the ‘other’ option has the possibility of a positive outcome where nobody dies and peace abounds.
Really think about what this means, folks. It’s really hard to walk back from the brink of war if you refuse to talk. Every other option ends in a strong Air Cavalry front and 90% chance of heavy storms of smart bombs raining down, with a moderate chance of small to medium mushroom clouds, and 100% chance of casualties on all fronts.
Talk is not cheap…Unless it comes from some Cheeto-In-Chief that's mouth never stops running. This could get ugly fast.

#CheetoInChief
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How to end the scourge of gun violence? Open dialogue (Opinion)

Regulations won’t stop the violence. Gun violence has little to do with law, and much to do with mental well being. Discontentment, stress, and pressures of our polarized society, leave little room for individuals who don’t quite fit the norm, pushing them instead to the fringe of society, where things get very lonely and confused.
We are going out of out way to push the boundaries of mental wellness, embracing life on the edge of sanity, as our culture is assailed by continuous, rapid change in the well-connected modern world the we live. For many people, it’s simply too much, and when they reach their breaking point, anything can happen.
America’s gun problem has little to do with guns, and everything to do with people feeling hopeless, useless and deserted by our leaders and the rest of society, looking for answers and finding only pain. It’s a societal sickness that will not be healed by removing some of the guns. Other tools of destruction will be found…cars, knives, bombs…people get pretty creative when they have nothing to think about except how miserable they are.
It’s time to deal with the misery. It’s time to mend the hearts and minds of Americans, and force our Government to serve All the People, and not just the elite.
#GunViolence is just one form of violence. All violence comes from the same places…mostly desperation and angst…for normal people, sociopaths aside, thanks. To end ALL violence…that should be our goal…violence needs no weapon to be destructive.

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Houston’s flooding shows what happens when you ignore science and let developers run rampant

Much of the flood damage from #HurricaneHarvey to #Houston is due to direct disregard for wetlands preservation. How does saving the beavers and pond critters save you from floods? Well, it probably doesn’t completely, but paving over the wetlands, which are awesome at absorbing flood waters in their natural state, creates a big, big problem when it comes to a major storm like this. Flood waters have nowhere to go…no place to absorb them…no buffer zone, except the Houston Underground and everybody’s basement.
So hey…let’s have less regulations, and allow people to keep building in river valleys and on lake shores. Let’s run pipelines through everywhere and pave over everything as fast as possible. Yeah, OK.
Look, it’s not just about oil spills and saving the owls…it’s about building smart, and with forethought and responsibility. It’s about loss of life and property, that could’ve been prevented with some educated planning, rather than unbridled urban sprawl.
And ps. It’s about #ClimateChange.

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North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan in ‘Unprecedented’ Act

This really can’t be a good thing…
#NorthKorea #missile #japan

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anywhere, a playlist by Jamie Gray on Spotify

Now on #Spotify!
Listen and Add my EP Anywhere on your Spotify list. Enjoy…more to come soon. ~jg

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Scientists, Artists, and Smash Mouth Tell Us What Music They’d Send Into Deep Space

What music would YOU send into space?

#music for #extraterrestrials
#MusicForExtraterrestrials

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How Booming Israeli Weed Industry Is Changing American Pot

#News420 Maybe we can get some actual scientific data from Israeli researchers?
Not that our government will allow an Israeli scientific study to influence their drug prohibition policies, and the ability to arrest citizens for no reason, except their choice of recreational drugs. Alcohol is not safer. Tobacco is not safer. They are both legal. Meanwhile any study that shows usefulness or relative safety of cannabis is dismissed and ignored. Just like they ignore any “illegal” study, done in one of the States that has legalized cannabis.
Typical obstructionism. Don’t like the results of the study? Ignore it. Lie.

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Studies Show What Happens To The Human Body When We Walk Barefoot On Earth

My entire life, I have always tried to walk barefoot as much as possible. I’m barefoot right now, and just about every day, all year long. I hate even wearing socks in the winter.
I’ve never made any scientific connections about it before reading this, it just feels “better”, more “connected” to the Earth…and wearing shoes makes your feet sweat…and stink. It makes sense though, if you think about it, that we are supposed to be electrically grounded to the planet.
Unless of course there’s a lightning strike nearby, in which case, bad things happen to grounded people. Just saying. #balance #grounding #earth #health

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Fuck White Supremacists. Charlottesville Prefers the Grateful Dead.

As tensions remain elevated in #Charlottesville, surviving members of the Grateful Dead hope to bring some peace and tranquility to the region. Jerry passed away in the 90s, but the #GratefulDead never really died. Now, surviving members Bob Weir and #PhilLesh are hoping to bring some positive energy to a very negative situation in […]

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#DigitalMusicNews #MusicNews #IndieBrew #IBR

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What Angry Big City Drivers Can Learn From The Rest Of Us

That’s all well and good. Sure.
Until you are stuck behind a driver on a one-lane road with no passing zones, who has been doing 5 mph under the 25 mph speed limit for the past 2 miles, who then goes to make a left turn from the far right side of the lane so there’s no room to get around them, as they sit and let opportunity after opportunity to execute their turn pass, because they aren’t sure their piece of shit korean crapbox will make it (though most humans could CRAWL across the lane twice in the same amount of time).
After this happens just about every single day, you can’t help but get angry.
-Angry at the blatantly inconsiderate asshole in front of you, who obviously never took the time to actually LEARN how to drive.
-Angry at the DMV, for giving them a license, when they should surely be relegated to Taxi Passenger Ad Infinitum.
-Angry at all the serial killers in the world who have gone after the WRONG people
OK maybe the last one is just me.

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Not Exactly Penpals: Governors Debate Marijuana Facts With Jeff Sessions via Snail Mail.

“The mark of a true asshole is a mind closed to truth and reason.” ~jamie gray

Why snail mail?
“The answer seems to be simply that they can’t get a meeting”.
Shocking. #JeffSessions, like #Trump and the whole Trump administration, simply chooses ignore anything he doesn’t agree with or like. News flash: It won’t go away no matter how much you wish it, Mr. Evil Racist Keebler Elf
#News420

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Devin Townsend: What Makes My Latest Album ‘Transcendence’ Different from the Rest

#Transcendence really a great album. A Prog-CrossGenre classic. #ProgXGen

You can hear Transcendence and other tracks from #DevinTownsend and #DevinTownsendProject every day on Indie Brew Radio! http://bit.ly/2wmbMNk
#DTP #IndieBrew #IBR #music #radio #CommercialFree

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State Department science envoy’s letter of resignation has a hidden message for the president

Another resignation. The Trump adminstration is a submarine with a revolving door, and the rats are rapidly bailing from the sinking SS Trump.
IMPEACH. That’s the acrostic message spelled out from the first letters of the 7 paragraph resignation letter, and it says it all:
“I used to to work for you, but now all I can hope is that YOU get a #PinkSlip from the American People”
#MakeAmericaGreatAgain -> #ImpeachTrump

#impeach #resist #NotMyPresident

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Man Choked Driver Who Cut Him Off, Danbury Police Say: Report

I swear it wasn’t me!
Though seriously, if people don’t start learning how to fucking drive, it someday could be. Learn how to drive, or get a ride from somebody. Simple.
Brought to you by:
#LearnHowToFuckingDriveAsshole

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Here’s A Map Of Everyone’s Movements On “Game Of Thrones” Season 7

It get’s confusing right? I mean, the map they show during the opening just doesn’t really help you understand Westeros, much less where the hell all these people are/were/will be.
Help is here!
#GameOfThrones #westeros #map #Season7 #GoT #WheresWaldo?

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Harvard researchers just developed self-healing rubber

Self healing rubber you say?! Sounds pretty cool to me. No more flat tires!

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Trump-shaped ecstasy pills seized by police

This is your brain on Trump. Just say NO.

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Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – August 21, 2017 at 03:13PM

Where do we go to see the #eclipse from #space? Without rockets, preferably. Asking for some internetz friends thanks ~jg
#jfs #gomh

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“We do not have long to act”: Elon Musk and others warn the UN about autonomous weapons

I’m just gonna say it… autonomous weaponry is a really, really, very, very, extremely bad idea.

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‘Game of Thrones’ actor: The ice is melting

Jamie Lannister says global warming is fucking up his vacation home in Greenland. Winter is a relative thing. In some places all it means is rain without end. This summer sure sucked. But hey,…#GameOfThrones is on tonight, so who cares, right? #climatechange is real.
#GoT

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Obama, Biden animated series in the works?

I’d watch it.

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Researchers say you might as well be your own therapist

You are your own best shrink. Unless you’re REALLY crazy.
But seriously. Most therapy is just about helping you figure out what corrections you need to make to your perspective that minimize pain and maximize well being. Because for some reason you can’t see what is causing the pain. Hint: Usually it’s because you don’t want to see.
Therapy is about change. We don’t handle change very well. Some of us will always need help, but most of us would do well to take the whole therapy thing ‘in house’ and stop letting outside forces manipulate our psyches.

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What Is YouTube TV, and Can It Replace Your Cable Subscription?

Not yet. @NaveenAlexandra and i tried it and went back to cable before the trial ended. If Google keeps working and gets it right, it probably could be.

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Powerball winning numbers announced for $535 million jackpot

Damn it! We didn’t win. Again.
But neither did anybody else…
#powerball #winning

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Please enjoy all these hedgehogs being washed with toothbrushes

Hedgehogs. Because you deserve it.
Who doesn’t love #hedgehogs?!?
Enjoy.

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Where Confederate monuments end up

Relics and monuments of the #Confederacy belong in museums, not in front of courthouses and city hall, but nevertheless a persistent reminder to future generations of the costs of injustice. Well some of them. Some I’ve seen are ugly as fuck and should just be destroyed for sure.
We should never forget the past, but must move forward with lessons learned…and that sometimes means purging old memories from view, the message received, our evolution already part of our history, a permanent, cautionary record of our more primitive roots.

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Dashcam catches unprovoked police officer attacking a man in Ohio

Why does this keep happening? Because the cops think they will get away with it. They see it happening over and over, and most times the guilty cops never pay for their actions. They figure there’s no worry about getting in trouble. How fucking stupid or brazen or both do you have to be to not realize you’re on your own dashcam?
Will ANY of these criminals disguised as “public servants” ever pay for their crimes, or will prosecutors and fellow officers continue to protect, and thereby tacitly condone their racist and unconstitutional actions forever?
Speak up. Demand action. #resist

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Trumps to skip Kennedy honours to avoid ‘distraction’ – BBC News

Trump already flipped the bird at the arts by cutting funding, and his Commission on Arts & Humanities just quit. He’s REALLY skipping the event because it would be like Hitler as guest of honor in Israel.

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This Is All So 19th Century

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” ~Emma Lazarus

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Marijuana Critics Describe What It’s Like to Have the World’s Best Job

Right? How do I get to be a #CannabisCritic?
Obviously, this is THE stoner dream job, which must be performed ONLY by the ultimate stoners. But, I think I can handle this one. I mean, I am far better qualified than almost EVERYONE in the #Trump administration is for their jobs. Hell, by Trumpian standards, I’m so, extremely OVER-qualified, since #NoRelevantPriorExperience is the Oval Office rule of thumb. #News420 #MarijuanaCritic

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A Brief History Of Toilet Paper: Why Some Countries Use It, And Other Countries Don’t

Toilet paper simply sucks once you’ve used a bidet. I’m no longer lucky enough to have one, but my ass remembers. Just saying.

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Why It’s Dangerous to Condition Your Hair After a Nuclear Attack

I guess we’re doomed to a future of split ends and dandruff, if Kim-Jong Un-Reasonable decides we need a nuking.

That’s right. Conditioner can bind radioactive material to your hair, making your fro one big fluffy bundle of doom. So, let’s hope somebody talks some sense into Agent Orange before the silos start emptying, because I’m not ready for a life of frizz and flakes.

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These Stickers Tell You If Your Kid Has a Fever So You Don’t Have to Wake Them

How cool is that! No more waking up the kids to stick the thermometer up their ass!

Wait. What do you mean “under the tongue”? “Under the arm”? “Behind the ear”? Are you kidding me? #WhoKnew?

Just kidding. I mean, does anybody actually do rectal? These are STILL really cool even if you DON’T probe their little butts for thermal discrepancies.

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Justice Department at odds with DEA on marijuana research, MS-13

#News420 Sure. Doing everything possible to protect the #Catch22 that keeps cannabis illegal at the federal level. It’s illegal because it has no medical use and is dangerous. Because it’s illegal, you cannot do any research to prove medical value or relative safety. Of course, any research done illegally doesn’t count, so preventing approved LEGAL research prevents #legalization…and it doesn’t matter how many illegal studies are done in states which have legalized.
#JeffSessions is a dinosaur, out of step with the Nation and even most of his own party. But he is a skilled obstructionist…he’s been a #GOP Senator thru the #Obama administration, some of the least productive, obstructionist Congresses we’ve ever had. It’s like he doesn’t know how to do anything else.
What a fucking asshat.

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Oregon counties see influx of cash from cannabis industry beyond sales taxes

#News420 Turns out, that when you start up a whole new industry, things like construction expands, real estate booms, and the whole service industry is fueled, making everyone…and the government…lots of money. Can you say #EconomicTurnaround?

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Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms

Turns out you might be prescribed pharmaceutical #psilocybin in the future…because science says tripping on shrooms seems to help relieve stress and pain and anxiety and addiction and…well, the list keeps growing.
Maybe it’s time we learn how to unlock that part of our brain that they desperately don’t want you to know exists. Maybe it’s time we learn that nothing can replace a sense of well-being, when it comes to our health and happiness. Some substances exist that can help you create, foster and maintain that positive sense of self, so that it cannot be broken by an angry, selfish world. #Shamans around the world use #MedicinalPlants to evoke #hallucinogenic experiences for the purpose of healing and spiritual awareness and wellness. Perhaps it’s time we break out of unconstitutional “Prohibition” laws based upon #ReligiousTaboo and #racism, and learn to freely embrace the search for true self awareness and spiritual, as well as social evolution as a race.
Sitting here on the brink of a possible #WWIII, I think maybe we need to look into a wee bit of #SocialEvolution. I mean, the only ones winning in all of the wars around the planet are #Raytheon, #LockheedMartin and the likes. And of course their ever wealthier shareholders.

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Anonymous Declares ‘Operation Domestic Terrorism’ Against the Alt-Right

Hack the fuck out of them, and expose the racist nazi fucks to the world.
Darkness cannot persist when exposed to the light of day. Leave them with nowhere to hide and no secret unexposed.
#Anonymous

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New York Welcomed Trump Home with a Massive Protest

Of course, the mainstream media didn’t bother to cover it. Not that I saw.

Just about ALL of the mainstream news is total bullshit, propagandist profiteering, meant to manipulate the viewers and cultivate polarized divisions within society. But mostly just out to make fuck-tonnes of money for wealthy shareholders at the expense of objective reporting and unbiased journalism.

You all suck. Some of you suck more than others. Some may be trying to improve.
Still you all suck. #FakeNews #FoxNews #CNN #MSNBC #ABC #CBS #NBC #WashingtonPost #NYTimes

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How to Deal With Your Apocalyptic Anxiety

Worried about the end of life as we know it?
Working your panties into an ultra-tight wad of sweaty death inside your jeans over North Korea and the big orange idiot in the Oval Office? I say chill out. Worrying ain’t gonna help you.
I mean, it’s not like you can do anything about it. Or can you?

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[OFFICIAL VIDEO] Imagine – Pentatonix

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us, and the World will be as One”

Seems more appropriate now than ever. ~jg

#Imagine #John Lennon #Pentatonix

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City worker dies after falling from seventh floor of London Stock Exchange

When people fall from the sky near the NY Stock Exchange, it’s usually not an accident, but in London…

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SMART Bill Reintroduced in Congress

#News420
This bill prohibits state-sanctioned marijuana consumers and businesses from being prosecuted by the federal government. #NORML

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Tehran to send fleet to West Atlantic, says Iranian rear admiral

How will you feel when those ships you see off the point at #Montauk are Iranian destroyers? Will you say #ThanksObama or #ThanksTrumpy?
I already feel violated. #Iran

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Flea: Removing Music Education From Schools Is ‘Child Abuse’

Take the art out of school and you take the heart out of our children. It IS #ChildAbuse. Abuse by deprivation. Why not take away sunlight and recess while you’re at it. A well rounded education MUST include music, art and sports…and Everyone has a fucking right to an excellent, well rounded education in an open, democratic society. Capitalism doesn’t have to mean cruelty, people. Don’t believe the lies.
IF we truly had one person / one vote in this country, our children would have the best education, everyone would have affordable health care, and poverty would be next to nothing. But as long as we let corporate interests steer public policy, money is power and The People come last. The voice of Lockheed Martin, JP Morgan and Aetna drown out the the vote…the voices…of thousands of Americans. We ALLOW the suffering of our fellow Americans with our silence, as the polarity in America is leveraged to maximize profit for the wealthy.
Time to put up or shut up people. I’ll never shut up.
#Resist #vote #EndCitizensUnited #TermLimits
#REALLYDrainTheSwamp #NotTrump

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Trump’s campaign launches ad blaming Democrats, the media, career politicians

Wow. He’s already ACTIVELY Campaigning for 2020. Just fucking wow.
Never have I ever seen a sitting President campaigning for reelection already, after only 6 months in office…accomplishing just about NONE of his stated goals, other than a mish-mosh of semi-legal to illegal executive orders that have little effect, other than creating confusion and stress. No wall. No repeal/replace Obamacare. No tax reform. No infrastructure.
No real progress at all…other than bringing the country to the brink of war with a Third World WannaBe power controlled by a semi-sane spoiled adolescent tyrant.
And Trump’s backers think that it’s a great idea, going to war with North Korea, actually improving his approval rating. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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humansofnewyork

Aren’t we all a little afraid of exactly this? Seems like it used to be easier to give life meaning…back when we embraced the Arts for their intrinsic value, not just their worth in dollars. But then we’ve cut funding to our schools, who routinely choose sports programs to receive funding, over art and music programs, leaving our children deficient, for generations, in any way to value themselves, other than wealth and fame. It’s kinda sad.
I’ll likely never be famous or rich. Someday, maybe the world will discover my artistic endeavors, or maybe they won’t. In either case, I will always know that my life hasn’t been useless because of my creations. ALL of them, regardless of their perceived value to society. THAT is what Art and Music education taught ME.
Some things just have intrinsic value that you can’t hang a price tag on. I guess I’m lucky I’m old enough to remember when a “decent education” included art, music, AND sports, so that nearly ALL students could seek self reward in something…that SOMETHING that helps make us feel whole.

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