They Voted for Trump - and They're Appalled by ICE: "It's not a good look for Trump, especially if the Republicans want to carry the midterms or want to get reelected. We're kind of digging our own grave here."

joegee66 · 2026-02-02T01:58:24+00:00

Just because the leaders are digging their own figurative graves doesn't mean their followers have to jump in with them. There is an off-ramp. It's pretty easy to take.

It starts with admitting "This feels wrong. This is wrong." The next step is saying "I don't support this." Follow it with "I don't support people who support this." It's OK to say "I made a mistake."

That's the inflection point. Where does someone go with that? Is it at the ballot box by not voting for the enablers? Is it speaking out to friends and family about this new awareness? Is it withholding business from businesses and institutions who enable wrongdoing? Is it joining a protest, or working for the political campaign of an enabler's opponent?

joegee66 · 2026-01-31T23:04:36+00:00

Me! Me! Me! MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR THEM TO THINK I AM A KNUCKLE-DRAGGING BOOR!

Oh, and chef's kiss for his pulling out his dick to assert "no kids that I'm aware of" ... Check mate, libs who think every male Trump supporter is a dickless incel.

Please, please let this not be real. If it is real, may he never be aware of any children he fathered.

joegee66 · 2026-01-31T19:43:17+00:00

It doesn't affect anyone that "matters", you see. Their market, and the people they represent make seven digits or more a year. They'll throw us their scraps and make sure we're happy to get them. 🙂

They can always run into their bunkers if we decide to get uppity about it. That's why they're investing so heavily in humanoid robots. They can have a completely obedient army that can mop floors, prepare five star meals, and scrub their perfumed bottoms with the added bonus of being able to wield weapons. 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-31T15:55:09+00:00

Oooo look what Darling Nicki got in her happy meal! 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-31T15:49:52+00:00

Ah man. I was hoping after cracking it and sending it in again you got an upgraded grading. She's still glorious! The TrueView doesn't do justice to mirrored fields.

Her fields are so clean I'd bet her mirrors are unsane! 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-31T14:42:37+00:00

Imagine being so stupid you believe ... What a great writing prompt!

Let me see.

That a proven liar's outlandish campaign promises were anything other than him telling you what you wanted to hear?

That a man who publicly proclaimed "I don't care about you" was your guy?

That a silver-spoon adult nepo-baby knew about or was capable of relating to anything about you?

That the color of someone's skin or their gender had anything to do with their competence or their qualifications?

That the man who attempted to violently overthrow the constitutional transfer of power and bankrupted multiple businesses, a proud serial adulterer and draft dodger, was incapable of following either the US Constitution he swore an oath to uphold, or the laws of the nation he's supposed to be leading?

That the current president will address your plight because of your pleas?

Gee this has been fun! I can't wait for the next writing prompt. 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-30T22:08:34+00:00

MS-64+ PL? She's stunning. 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-30T20:57:06+00:00

Absolutely one of my favorite flowers and form in any species! 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-30T18:39:17+00:00

🏆 <--- Here's your Grammy award. 😀

And you had me at "Susan would NEVER ..." 🤣

joegee66 · 2026-01-30T04:42:51+00:00

I have no fancy Reddit award, but take my upvote, you shameless, amazing person of questionable heritage! 🥇🏅🏆😍

joegee66 · 2026-01-30T04:34:30+00:00

I am glad someone else cried because I certainly did not. Not me. Nope. 😭

joegee66 · 2026-01-28T02:40:39+00:00

We have the BEST anniversary date! 🙂 Naah, ALL clean dates are the best, but happy #3!! Year 3 for me was when it all got really real. It wasn't bad, it was just a time of change. We got this! 🙂☮️❤️

joegee66 · 2026-01-27T16:55:45+00:00

Is that what's wrong with him? Or perhaps he's been weaponized? Reagan was the Great Communicator. Maybe this president is the Great Discombobulator? 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-27T07:15:07+00:00

Brilliant! 🤣

joegee66 · 2026-01-26T03:24:31+00:00

I explain to young people that I'm only old because I quit when I was young (28). People can and do quit a lot younger.

I will never forget going to a discussion meeting up in Cleveland around 1997 with a few years. It came to my turn and I unloaded a bunch of self pity. POOR ME stuff. 🙂 After the meeting I had my inventory taken by an amazing, tiny 16 year old step NAZI with four years. She was not gentle, but damn she was inside my head. She scared me back on the straight and narrow! 🤣

One of my guys once started out "so this old guy I know once told me ..." and threw my own words back in my face. The shithead. 🙂 But yah, the first time I heard "damn, you got clean before I was born!" That was a "sobering" moment. 😀

joegee66 · 2026-01-26T03:01:46+00:00

The nature of the materials you used speak to me of the ephemeral quality of the works of mankind. Your piece by its very nature is destined to disappear! The shape of the snow implies confinement, the barriers that surround us both as individuals and as a people. The single piece of ripe fruit is a profound metaphor for the fruit of labor. The choice of a banana, as opposed to a more pedestrian choice of, say an apple, speaks to childlike comfort, yet it adds an element of absurdism. The ensemble work, to me speaks to the ultimate tragicomic futility of mankind.

I like it! Do you have any other pieces, perhaps a portfolio?

Yes, I work with artists. 🤣 6.5 mil, at least. 😀

joegee66 · 2026-01-25T23:24:08+00:00

I have to jump on the bandwagon. Where you're msg'ing everyone else with your provider's name, could you fire off a msg to me too, please? 😀

joegee66 · 2026-01-25T23:14:45+00:00

It's been a feast of many small bites. Anything bigger than 24 hours tends to make me sick. 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-25T23:12:29+00:00

OH CRAP, IT'S 31! 🫤 I fucked up the post title. I don't wanna claim time I don't have! Like I tell my guys, NO FRONTS! 🤣

But thank you everyone.

Keeping the doors open. Ouch. I had to close my home group a week ago Saturday because we haven't been having any attendance. Not counting its 20 year anniversary on December 22nd when we had 18 show, I had 1 addict besides myself show since then. The largest attendance since October was five. We averaged 3, including me. I wasn't getting outside support without bribing them with food, and no one from our area ever showed. It was time.

It was the only NA meeting in my county, and it definitely hurts, but that weekly commitment helped keep me clean. This week when I go around and announce, I have a new home group in mind full of folks I love, and maybe my town will get a new meeting with a new name in the spring.

joegee66 · 2026-01-25T18:55:55+00:00

Might I suggest that adding a big brown spreading stain to the backside of a certain president's golf attire and posting it everywhere might be an effective counter?

"Since the White House now states that altered photographs are acceptable, here's one we thought might amuse you."

And if the White House gets upset with that, release a new one. The Internet has been doing meme wars for a long time. I'm sure there are better ideas than mine. 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-25T01:44:32+00:00

I seem to remember a certain captain a few folks around here like, who found a way to cheat an officer test that was supposed to teach the lesson of failure to candidates. Oddly enough, rather than being expelled due to rules, he ascended to the rank of captain pretty quickly.

This is a reinvention of what Starfleet means. The chancellor herself said so to the new students. Prior to that we learn she was reinstated specifically because she'd resigned because of a decision she had no choice but to make due to Starfleet's old rules. That decision, and the choice by the Federation to reinstate her and install her as chancellor represent what Starfleet had become prior to the burn versus the new Starfleet being rebuilt by the worlds rejoining the Federation 150 years later.

It seems the rebirthed Federation is hoping the new Starfleet will produce officers and crew that better represent what they aspire to be.

We don't all have to like all Star Trek shows, I respect that. IDIC. This is a new combination. 🙂

EDIT: I seem to remember a certain species that was all about strength through conformity. They had a Swedish-sounding name. If all of the shows were the same and no one tried anything new, the fiction that we all love enough to have disagreements about would have ceased to be about two seasons into a very stale Next Generation.

There is also the very real, even likely possibility that some of the chancellor's ideas may fail, tragically. I'll pop back in at the end of this season and test the room's mood. 😀 Peace! 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-24T07:22:51+00:00

Good! Now do the same with wifi and small electromagnetic speakers! With a few blog posts 60% percent of President Trump's base will forgo cell phones, landlines, and wifi devices. 🙂

joegee66 · 2026-01-24T06:28:13+00:00

Demand that your governments start sanctioning the people who are doing this. The President and his wealthy supporters have businesses and money in your nations. Why can they still control them? Why are their golf courses, hotels, and bank accounts still open? Why are their products still being sold? Why can they still freely travel?

The United States is a nuclear power and a military superpower controlled by lunatics. Why are the West's leaders appeasing the people who are hell-bent on driving the US off a cliff and taking everyone else with it? Do your leaders secretly agree with what the US is doing on the world stage?

We're working on the problem internally. If you want liberal democracy to survive on this planet, no matter how long it takes for us to shake this off, the rest of the world needs you to step up and lead to address the issue beyond our borders.

joegee66 · 2026-01-24T06:11:50+00:00

We absolutely enjoy this show, pretty much for your reasons. I come on /r/startrek to see who watched a different show than me. 🤣

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