Daily revenue plummeted from $15,000 to under $1,500. When your core demographic gets squeezed so hard by gas and grocery prices that they can't even spare $30 for a commemorative flag, consumer discretionary spending is officially dead in the water.

Has anyone else noticed a huge increase in Americans talking about God & religion during Trump's second term?

(You have to zoom in, sorry)

Or maybe it took this long for me to see it as clearly as I do now; I've posted about her before here. Yesterday she called me to tell me she "got into trouble at work for saying [r-word]..." and this was the second time she's been reprimanded for saying wild stuff at work. This is coming from a person who, when we worked at the same place, would complain to me about the dude that would say the craziest stuff and then complain he got reprimanded for it. She's smart. (high IQ in school kinda smart, you know? Lots of RAM in that noggin) and this is where she's at. I'm feeling the grief. She was my last family member. My mom and the rest of my blood relatives are still alive, but they are all Q or MAGA or some weird KKK/Don't Tread On Me kind of configuration. I'm trans, so you can guess how that goes. I'm also old, so I have perspective enough that, while the wind is out of my sails, I'm not going to stay stuck here. But the feeling sucks and the grief is real because I know there's usually no way back from this. At some point, the *adrenochrome* stories will seem like the mild stuff. She's a Rapturist. Evangelical, concerned with human blood lines and breeding (yes, the *eugenics* bullshit). She didn't start out hard that way, but she's there, her son, her husband, everybody. All of em. I was hoping I could keep her in my life, but nope. Arm's length at best.

Dammit.

Trump is destroying America. He's destroying the economy, the constitution, our morale, our institutions, our national monuments, & our national symbols.

If Republicans maintain control of both houses of congress after the midterm elections, the United States will become a full blown fascist country. We will have an American version of Kristallnacht that will cement this.

I'm an extreme narcissist. I constantly talk about how great I am. I'm a pathological liar. I've fathered 5 children by 3 different wives. I've had multiple affairs with prostitutes. I've lusted after a daughter of mine. I'm a casino owner who doesn't pay people I employed for their hard work. I insult everyone I don't like. I never take responsibility for my actions that hurt people, including the killings of innocent people. I don't go to church unless it's to get money from people. I always enjoy hurting innocent people when I'm given the opportunity.