A high only matched by the low of struggling to get back to sleep in the same instance. May it be never so.

Meme has never been more hollow when the current admin is publishing hype reels of blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean after Biden brought drone strikes to their lowest level since their introduction to the American arsenal.

Create an internalized version of yourself that wants you to succeed and is upset at you putting yourself down.

The "Cool Zone" is essentially a state of internecine violence (triggered by admin violence, state rebellion, whatever), described as such ironically because it would be very Not Cool to have a civil war rip the country apart.

Leisure and hospitality lost jobs, so that's probably part of why.

Also, compared to the last 3 Octobers, these numbers are down ~148,000 jobs on average (though this figure is seasonally adjusted).

Themperor Shit.

(Men can also cure their loneliness by better socializing with other people in a non-romantic context and not all solutions to the male loneliness epidemic are about getting laid)

Like what the fuck are we supposed to be when Biden's signature achievement in office was literally called the "Inflation Reduction Act" and every commentator ostensibly on our side keeps pretending he nominated Ru Paul for Fed Chair.

You brew espresso at home for the same reason you brew beer at home; love of the drink.

It is probably important that I resist the urge to literally yell at these people when I meet them IRL, but God is that a hard thing to do.

Note this is the same Sen Johnson who, when informed that seniors in his state (WI) were upset that DeJoy's attempts to kill the USPS were resulting in them not getting their prescriptions on time, basically said those upset seniors simply weren't real.

No idea why WI votes for this chucklefuck.

Also the fact that everyone seems to have not known Trump's policies, even though he and people associated with his campaign stated them all the time (but also lied about them just as often, granted).

The fact that no one can remember or knew at the time about Harris's incredibly popular policies (per polling) despite her mentioning them constantly in speeches and TV interviews is so obviously a bigger problem than choosing more popular policies at the margins.

This is why some people are betting the shutdown ends after the off-year elections but not really any other time, imo. Either the elections in VA and NJ go so horribly for one of the parties (most likely GOP) that they feel there is no option but to surrender, or...? No other obvious scenario.

Like, we might have dodged the productive years of fascism where they still have enough people who are craven but effective around them, a la Germany in the mid-late 1930s or Russia in the earlier Putin years, and skipped to "can't save themselves by virtue of being themselves."