More like Puerto Rico. Statehood for American Samoa is an INCREDIBLY complex topic.

https://pasquines.us/2022/10/17/why-doesnt-the-government-of-american-samoa-want-us-citizenship/

I almost want them to do it because +1 Congressman and +2 Senators. Annexing Greenland won’t go the way they think it will.

You can’t make a $3 meal with meat. I can do it in my kitchen right now, but meat is going to put it over the top.

10 minute farro - $1.99 (can be $1.79 on sale)

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/10-minute-farro-094506

Bag of frozen veggies - $0.98

Butter, salt, and pepper add negligible cost. But I also like pie spice on mine which is a little expensive:

https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/pie-spice/c-24/p-3079/pd-s

I’d prefer adding in a handful of dried cranberries, but that’s also going to kick over the $3 limit.

Oh, and I hope you’re OK with plain water to drink.

I guess you could say “fuck it”, add the pie spice, add the cranberries, add some meat and bring the cost closer to $6, then divide it into 2 meals to bring it under $3 per meal.

Edit I take it back, it can be done with meat. Checked the pantry:

Campbell’s Chunky New England Clam Chowder - $1.99

1/6th of a box of Club Crackers - $0.66

“Mural of Flavor” spice. (Makes it taste like Chicken in a Biscuit).

https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/mural-of-flavor/c-24/p-219/pd-s

Again, hope you like water to drink. 😉

In addition to this, the Epstein Files are, collectively, everything that was reported about Epstein to the feds.

Say we released “The Obama files”. Everything the feds collected about Obama. You’d find Larry Sinclair, who claims he did cocaine and had gay sex with Obama.

It’s utter bullshit, but the feds still collected the reports on it.

Just because somebody said it and the FBI collected statements on it, doesn’t make it factual. All they recorded was “hey, somebody said this.”

Citizens ARE standing up for themselves now, that’s what the protests and elections are for. 😉

“More people” = < 20 vs a civil war with tens to hundreds of thousands dead? 🤔

The last civil war we had killed 600,000 to 700,000 and that’s without modern weapons.

That’s the only recourse short of a revolution or a civil war which would be 1000x more destructive.

After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.

Latin class… We were translating the Aeneid and hit the word “uxorious” which wasn’t in the dictionary.

The professor explained:

“It’s an insult, it means ‘your wife makes all your decisions for you’ but that doesn’t carry the full meaning of how insulting it is. There is no equivalent in English.”

So I raised my hand. “You mean ‘pussy whipped’, yeah, pretty sure every language has a variation on that.”

What lie would that be?

I’ve been alive through this before…

1969-1976
1981-1992
2001-2008
2017-2020
2025-2028

There have only been a few Democratic breaks:

1977-1980
1993-2000
2008-2016
2021-2024

It will likely flip back in 2028, but we have to flip the House back in 2026, ideally the House and Senate but that’s unlikely.

That’s the way politics works, you get another election and vote them out.

Organizing and voting is the action.

A revolution is a pipe dream, it’s not happening.

Getting people organized is the first step, getting them to actually vote is the second. That’s where we’re at in 2026.

If they succeed in motivating people to vote out the Republicans, that’s all it takes.

According to this, the US imports $421B worth of goods from Canada every year.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/canada

30% of it various oil related products.

Means nothing as long as Republicans control the House and Senate, it’s all for show.

Organizing 7 million people to protest on the same day was a huge feat.

To put that in perspective, the margin between Trump and Harris was only 2 million.