@duglop That's good! Glad the supervisor looking out for you!

@duglop I've been trying to get my RW friend to react to sections of it. He regurgitates Trump's line that it has nothing to do with him.

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No doubt they want to but they don't always have the facts when they come up with these schemes. Still, it makes good meat to throw out there for the MAGA hoard.

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Isn't that a bit like wanting to kill benefits for non-citizens that they already can't qualify for? I'd be surprised if the FCC actually 'funds' any of those.

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I forget who said it first—but, Project 2025 is our "Mein Kampf"

@duglop The last church we went to was a storefront nudged between a bar,a motel and the liquor store. The deacons always sneaked over to the liquor store with the offering money to buy some Wild Turkey and to place a bet on the Rams every Sunday during football season(the liquor store owner was also a bookie). All the kids would sneak out during the sermon to buy candy and ice cream to keep from being bored😂😂 And you could SMELL the booze on the pastor when he felt the "spirit".

@duglop Our religious class on Tuesdays was more like Sunday school. Happy and less than an hour. I didn't like going to church at the Holiness or Missionary Baptist Church my stepfather went to. You had to stay there all damn day and all night,even on Sunday night and Wednesday night during Bible study and Thursday night choir rehearsal,and Friday night prayer meeting. We would be there past midnight. Ugh. 3+ hour sermons. Boring.

@duglop Just like now in 2024,there weren't any "gifted classes" for kids of color in the poor part of town,so I was stuck with the neighborhood school,and my mom and grandma didn't listen to the principal's suggestions that I get skipped to 3rd grade instead of kindergarten in 1966. They didn't think I was "ready". A mistake,maybe. I was already hanging around adults and older kids by age 3. I don't think religion would have helped at all with my behavior issues. (2/)

@duglop I should have never been in any organized school. Period. I was reading before 18 months old,which kids in Black and Brown neighborhoods didn't do, especially in poor areas like where we lived in Boyle Heights and then across town in South Central. Then being a neighborhood "celebrity" and forced into stuff like acting etc instead of being a normal kid? That caused a lot of jealousy and bullying. At some point,I started acting out and getting into trouble. (1/)