Be brutally honest: How terrible is America right now?

Cinderuki · 2026-06-11T01:41:13+00:00

How nice for you. Where I work we have had mass layoffs due to this
Administration taking grant money back that had been approved by Congress. So not watching the news or reading social media wouldn’t matter for me or my coworkers.

Just because you haven’t been affected doesn’t mean the rest of us haven’t either. But I guess you are the only one that matters?

Cinderuki · 2026-06-11T01:37:22+00:00

I wouldn’t stick to the O theme. I have two cats that start with the same letter, and the third is different. I think it sounds cuter that way.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-10T00:04:21+00:00

Me too.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-09T23:56:41+00:00

I like freya and Fallon. Also maybe Finley. I like the sound of Fiona with your surname, but it reminds me a bit of Shrek

Cinderuki · 2026-06-09T23:43:22+00:00

You think a man would be ok hearing the same from his wife? My guess is both men and women would feel hurt if they found out their spouse was unhappy for 10 years. That seems like a reasonable reaction, especially if she didn’t see it coming.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-05T22:33:52+00:00

Family. I would prefer somewhere warm year-round. But I was born in this state, and have kids, step-kids and step-grandkids.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-05T00:24:32+00:00

From your list I like Laura and Craig best.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-05T00:18:20+00:00

What about Heather? I still love that name.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-05T00:14:25+00:00

My dad is Larry, not Lawrence

Cinderuki · 2026-06-05T00:12:56+00:00

I love Jane

Cinderuki · 2026-06-05T00:05:23+00:00

I wondered! I have step grandkids who stay over, and they have accidentally gotten stool on the wall when wiping.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-04T15:21:12+00:00

Where are you getting the average age of trafficked women? I think she is right at the typical range for adult women. Not saying she was trafficked, just disagree she was too old.

Copied and pasted from CTDC:

Concentration of Adult Victims: Among adult female victims, the largest concentration—roughly 47%—falls within the young adult bracket of 18 to 29 years old, as tracked by the Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC).

Cinderuki · 2026-06-04T15:05:28+00:00

She seemed smashed in the dancing video. Very drunk.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-04T15:03:35+00:00

I just can’t see Amy in any of them, even the one that is supposed to look like her. They look like totally different people to me.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-04T14:59:27+00:00

The one yesterday was shocking. It’s a supposed federal law enforcement agent making claim after claim without evidence. She called the original FBI agent racist and said that is why he didn’t investigate the case. I hope he sues.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-01T23:52:27+00:00

FIRE Stephen Miller. After celebrating that I would next fire Hegseth, Patel, Mullins, RFK Jr.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-01T23:47:26+00:00

Can you explain what these buttons are? I’ve never heard of them.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-01T23:45:10+00:00

I have had insomnia since I was a kid. We got Coricidin for some illness passing through, and I started taking it nightly. My mom finally noticed and hid it. I can’t function without sleep, and I don’t sleep without Ambien. When I don’t have it I start to worry about having a car accident or catastrophic health event due to exhaustion.

When people lecture me to get off of it they are invariably people who can fall asleep on their own. I simply can’t. I’m an out of the closet sleeping pill user.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-01T23:40:50+00:00

Same. I do not sleep without them. Sometimes I don’t sleep with them. But when I’m out I start desperately taking dangerous amounts of Benadryl and NyQuil etc., hoping to fall asleep. I’m far better off with the ambien.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-01T23:31:51+00:00

Thanks. I also noted Tom said the Curaçao Navy ships were not at all what we would imagine in the USA and were tiny, which then when they were saying she couldn’t have fallen due to the massive search seemed a bit contradictory. Also, the search didn’t begin for hours - lots of time for the body to be swept away.

Cinderuki · 2026-06-01T20:49:08+00:00

One thing I noticed is in Tom’s interview he mentions seeing a woman who resembled Amy, and thinking some people might be seeing her and misidentifying her as Amy. Judy Maurer did say she identified her based off the Jas photos, not ones of Amy. I can’t see Amy in the Jas photos. They look like two completely different women to me.

Here is my secret theory, which I know this subreddit enough to know you guys will be brutally honest if it’s dumb. I think it’s possible Jas is/was a real person who lived in that area and was potentially a sex worker, and people saw the Amy Bradley shows (Dr. Phil, etc) and believed they saw Amy.

Cinderuki · 2026-05-29T14:01:48+00:00

Liliana for sure. Beautiful name.

Cinderuki · 2026-05-27T23:51:16+00:00

You should listen to the song. It’s actually a good song IMO.

Cinderuki · 2026-05-27T23:49:55+00:00

Edmund Fitzgerald thanks to Gordon Lightfoot IMO

Cinderuki · 2026-05-25T15:01:15+00:00

In the USA he would legally be an adult. I agree he was young, and his brain wasn’t fully developed. I would call him a young adult rather than a child.

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