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...sometimes it does feel like this.

Haven't heard this song in a good, good while until I was at the grocery store today where it was playing overhead.

Apparently, I'm "this grocery store is playing my jams" years old haha.

By old-timey names, I mean ones that you don't typically associate with anyone alive or younger than like 70.

Examples being:

• Burl
• Mildred
• Herbert
• Agnes
• Evelyn (not as rare at the others, but getting there)

I've always liked the name "Opal" but I've only ever known two in my life. I was like 10-12 at the time, and they were both pushing 90.

Note: Post image is the avatar for @sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works . Noticed their avatar on another post, and now I can't stop thinking about what Dr. Phil would be called in the Collective.

Bullshiteous of Borg?

Secondary Adjunct of Daytime Unimatrix 08?

(Dr. Phil aired on channel 8 in my area.)

Cross-posted from "Donald Trump vows to be protector of women ‘whether they like it or not’" by @HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works in !news@lemmy.world

Donald Trump took his frequent habit of describing himself as a “protector” of women further on Wednesday night in Wisconsin, when he declared he would protect them “whether the women like it or not” if he wins a second term in the White House.

“I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it, whether the women like it or not,’” Trump said. “I’m going to protect them.”

There have been dozens of claims of sexual misconduct levelled at the Republican candidate over the years, including a fresh allegation last week. Trump denies them all. Last year a judge ruled that a rape accusation against Trump was substantially true.

The Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt responded: “Harris may be the first woman Vice President but she has implemented dangerously liberal policies that have left women worse off financially and far less safe than we were four years ago under President Trump.”

Cross-posted from "Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala Harris: ‘I will always be an American before I am a Republican’" by @Powderhorn@beehaw.org in !politics@beehaw.org

“I will always be an American before I am a Republican,” he wrote. “That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognise our country. And you are right to be furious.”

Cross-posted from "Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s" by @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de in !music@lemmy.world

Trump supporter and RNC official Valerie Biancaniello was cuffed and escorted out of line after multiple complaints she "harrassed" voters at a polling place.

Source: https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-trump-fan-cuffed-and-dragged-out-of-line-after-complaints-she-harassed-voters-at-polling-place/

Trump's narcissism knows no bounds.

It’s no secret that Donald Trump is a big fan of himself. Countless mental health professionals, and even fellow Republicans, have diagnosed the former president as a raging narcissist. But new photos that have been circulating on social media probably demonstrate Trump’s narcissism in the most direct way possible. Trump’s iPhone wallpaper is just a photo of himself.

For context, the photo is from the height of Trump’s family separation policy for migrants, which forcibly separated children from their parents at the border, placing them in the same kind of camps Trump has sworn to bring back. When the photo was taken, Trump’s lawyers at the U.S. Department of Justice had just argued in court that the U.S. government had no responsibility to provide kids in custody with soap or toothpaste. They also argued that it was unnecessary to give migrants beds or cots while they slept on the ground in overcrowded government-run cages. You know, the good old days of Trump.

"Backsass dampeners are offline, Captain!"

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