I am US based so any and all comments, criticisms, jokes, opinions, etc. will be colored (SEE NO U) with that as my lived perspective.

That said, I really and truly wish you have had an at least OK day today. If not, maybe tomorrow will be better eh?

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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • This story is from April, 2021… so yeah nothing new here.

    Gaetz showed nude pictures of women on House floor, per report

    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Florida Republican Representative Matt Gaetz allegedly bragged about his sexual escapades with women and showed his colleagues in Congress nude pictures of the women he slept with, according to a new report from CNN.

    Gaetz is under investigation after allegations surfaced he had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl in 2019, per a report in the New York Times. The probe includes a Justice Department inquiry into potential violations of federal sex trafficking laws. Authorities are looking into whether the congressman paid the teen to travel with him across state lines.

    According to sources with CNN, Gaetz allegedly showed nude images with leaders on the House floor. A source told CNN one image showed a naked woman with a hula hoop.

    Gaetz denied the accusations. “I have a suspicion that someone is trying to recategorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more untoward,” Gaetz said in a statement to the New York Times.

    Gaetz also claims he’s the target of a $25 million extortion plot involving an attorney in Pensacola who used to work as a federal prosecutor. The law firm, Biggs & Lane, in Pensacola, called the claims, “False and defamatory.”








  • (I am US based and this is my US based argument - please do not EuroTroll me)

    But herein lies the problem. “Progressive” often means new or novel. Conservative mostly means “preserve the status quo.” (I’m over simplifying for the sake of making a point, I know).

    Conservatives are willing to sit on the status quo and work against change as they can. Progressives want to right wrongs NOW and make effective changes for the future. Unfortunately, because our society grows and changes quickly, and what is right today can be wrong tomorrow and the target moves, so progressive goals also move. Meanwhile conservatives are still plugging away at keeping the status quo.

    I’m trying to say that the nature of progressives is to change goals and make things better, which makes it harder to coalesce around one goal for 10, 20, 40+ years. When your target is the past, its easy to keep that in sight as you go forward.