One thing that, uh, amuses(?) me is that apparently there's still a national emergency from 9/11: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/03/2025-16941/continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-certain-terrorist-attacks

You know how Hitler rose to power by abusing a national emergency regulation? You know how there was worry of Trump doing a fascism, back when Obama handed over to the guy? You know how Trump literally announced beforehand that he'll do a fascism, when Biden handed over to him?

Both could've chosen to terminate the national emergency. Neither did so.

https://www.courthousenews.com/biden-extends-9-11-state-of-emergency-by-a-year/

Injured people trying to escape from ambulance crews.

Shoes on at home.

we show you a price, then charge more at checkout

it's easier to get a gun than a doctor's appointment

tipping

pharmaceutical commercials

casually having the largest prison population in the world and pretending it's normal

violence on tv is okay, but no cussing or sexuality

I was just watching an old rerun of some generic tv drama, and a judge was signing a warrant, and saying "One day we're going to have to explain this to government sub-committee," and I thought, "IF that happens, and that's BIG IF, nothing will happen."

The Epstein Files will be released in 2126 to ensure that all guilty parties cannot face justice.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

I have a co-worker who fought in Vietnam. I showed him the thing about the Pentagon straight up admitting that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was bullshit, but he refused to accept it. Still feels that we had to fight that war because if we had allowed the communists to win, it would have meant that communism would have taken over the world ... even though we actually did lose that war.

My daughter sent me a TikTok about the government using counterintelligence techniques against left wing groups. I sent her the wikipedia page on Cointellpro with the comment “Sadly this is not new”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

They have guns up the wazoo to ensure no tyrant will ever rule them, and a tyrant rules them.

When you’re watching adverts and a snippet of a tv show interrupts you.

My favorite weird thing about American culture is that it is so aggressive. Aggressive food (PopTarts, Big Gulps, etc), aggressive games (football), aggressive national anthem (literally about war), and so on. We are an oddly aggressive people.