I am a strong person but I have no idea how anyone can stand to listen to his voice for more than 3 seconds.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

And they stand still & watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; & in the eyes of the people there is the failure; & in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.

And coroners must fill in the certificate - die of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed.

A million people hungry, needing the fruit - and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.
And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.

How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be.

This is just so insane.

Thanks for coming over! From what I've gathered so far, the platform is ever evolving so hopefully the limit won't be too confining.

I think many people heard that and said " that number seems off," but none of us would be permitted to work in DJT's admin.

Unfortunately, it feels like all of TTPD was written to help us through the next (hopefully only) 4 years.

I just found you via Instagram. I'm working on packing my bags to leave and live here on Bluesky. My thought is that many are following suit.