It is so awesome that Dakota Fanning and Denzel Washington starred in Man on Fire together when she was really young. Then they reunite in Equalizer 3, she’s a young woman, 29. That is cool. I’m jealous. I’d love to know Denzel, even a little behind the scenes. Man on Fire makes me weep, truly weep. I’m a big weeper though. Jude Law in the “Holiday” says he is a big weeper. “I cry all the time… A good book, great film, a birthday card, I weep. I’m a major weeper.” Classic. I like that movie a lot. It’s has taken a long time but I think I have finally embraced my status as a romcom, “chick flick” whatever other misogynist crap they say fanatic.
The Comorra people in Equalizer 3 get all sad when someone they like dies, and they “pray” and are “religious”. But they torture, kill, and viciously assault people constantly and say it’s just “business”. Well how about I jam a corkscrew up through your jaw and say “it’s just business”. Just imagining that scene from the first Equalizer makes me want to watch it. In Man on Fire, another badass Denzel flick, the baby killers kept saying “I’m a professional. I’m a businessman”. Oh fuck off. In Equalizer the dude complains that Denzel “suckered him”. Uhhh.. you’re a corrupt cop. So not only will I “sucker” you, I will also punch you in the face straight on. How about that? It’s just business. Yes, it is a movie. Yes, this sick shit happens in real life. Why am I justifying typing shit that I and maybe 1 other person will see?
I read “The Family Game” by Catherine Steadman *spoilers ahead* and it was a fucking wild ride. At times I hated the main character with a passion, but I loved the ending. A favorite. I absolutely love a stressful, thrilling, twisty, shocking psychological thriller. It’s interesting. I like contemporary romance and psychological thrillers. Right now that is what I read exclusively and I still read women authors 95% of the time. My cat is sitting on my chest, on my arm as I type on my laptop, which is on my lap. Good god, we never want to snuggle at the same time. None of them, we’re always on the wrong schedule. Drives me absolutely bananas.
The main character in “The Family Game” keeps insisting the entire time she is a hideous, evil-on-purpose person, or the sense I got. We finally discover that when she was 11 years old, her and her parents were in a car crash. Both her parents died, in front of her, she saw their lifeless bodies hanging in the seatbelts. It was a drunk driver. She lights his car on fire with him inside. The gas and fire was available, right there. So you are 11 years old. Experience a car crash, parents dead, you live, guy is drunk and you see the tools and go for it. Trauma anyone. Do I think an 11 year old that does that should be punished as an adult? No. When I live in a country where rich buys innocence and 1/9 executions are of an innocent person, no I will not ever think that a 11 year old is some cold-blooded calculated killer, who her fiancé turns out to be, in the book. At some point she does acknowledge we are not the same type of killers.. something like that. There was also another book that had a murder that I was like “so what they deserved it” and the character was racked with guilt. I definitely think I see things differently from the normal. Normal, stupid, pointless word in this sense. Maybe all sense.
I get sick and tired of know-it-alls babbling about over-medication and that depression isn’t real. Yes, of course there are always outliers. As a mental health professional, I can assure you that there are some things you can’t just exercise and vegetable away. But I know for a fact and fully support healthy lifestyles changes. Not dieting, ever. We are in a different world. The “good ol days” are fucking over, so shut the fuck up. “Back in the day” is fucking over. Every motherfucker out there has a computer in their head. Can google check anyone and be an expert. We have to change the way we see things. Evolution. Kids can be porn addicts by typing porn in their computer phone. But wait, they can have parental controls.
Anyways, “because I said so” and screaming “no” while having no input on why or education, factual information has never worked but now it’s just truly pathetic. Even if the direct access is absent, like many who lack the resources, internet access is everywhere. If I had gone to college and graduate school “back in the day” I’d own my own house, car and not have college debt, probably no debt. Masters degrees get you paycheck-to-paycheck pay $20,000 in childcare annually, best you can for working class. But hey— just get a better degree, one worthy of decent pay— get a better job— get better parents—move—learn job skills—get some role models—leave. Last 5 years I made at least $30,000 once. 2020 was a loss, thanks quarantine and joblessness. With a graduate degree and jobs in a field that is needed, overworked, underfunded and breaking the NASW code of ethics every single fucking day. However what can we do? Oh right, just move, get a better job, blah blah blah. Thanks dickweed. I forgot everyone’s experience is the same as yours.
Adverse childhood experiences. I think I maybe have a 1? Over half my clients have 8-10(the max). Think of the extra steps that takes. Yes, not everyone needs help, resiliency, yes, I’m not a fucking idiot, but one person’s 10 is another’s 1. If I had the thing happen at age 13, like a client did today, I don’t think I’d even be here. Not because I have Bipolar. I’m not a diagnosis. Not because I’m weak. I’m not weak. Not because I’m not resilient. I am resilient. But because I’m a person and who I am is what would cause that. So fuck off. And when you see client after client and see the statistics, you know the truth. You know the facts. Do they listen to you? No. When I read my umbrella corporation’s “We will be investigating… looking into why we are seeing the results or solutions and work harder to overcome” (while later a report comes out about administration committing fraud). You know why it is not working. We all do. Do they listen? no. They think they’re experts in fields they have zero experience in.
You know what decreases abortions? Access. Education. Healthcare. Birth control. Family planning. But what do I know? I just spent years doing scientific research into it, was a professional sex educator and now a licensed social worker for a decade. But yeah old, white guys with economics degrees probably know better than me. The red mist rises. While health insurance companies administration staff make double digit millions. Spare me the fucking lecture on why universal healthcare is more costly and complicated.
Oregon wants to scale back on their decriminalization despite it being so fucking brand new it’s ridiculous. Hundreds of thousands killed in the middle east conflict that spent $1 trillion only to have the Taliban take over immediately. I guess that is also too complicated to understand and I’m just some naïve hippie socialist who doesn’t grasp the intricacies of war. Fucking spare me. Shit ain’t working and y’all had centuries to figure it out. Anywas, Oregon. Making a stupid, fucking decision. Truly makes me physically ill.
Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance:
It is Oregon leaders that didn’t work. Measure 110 is delivering on its promise even though lawmakers blocked its full potential by failing to effectively implement or improve it along the way. Despite the misleading disinformation they peddled to the public, there is not a shred of evidence supporting claims that Measure 110 increased homelessness, overdose, or crime rates. The real cause of the heartbreaking public suffering in Oregon’s streets is lawmakers’ chronic underfunding of affordable housing, effective addiction services, and accessible health care.
Recriminalizing drugs is a false promise of change to distract from politicians’ incompetence as they approach reelection.
Criminalization will not solve the issues on the street because it does not address why people are homeless and unsheltered. Many people cycle in and out of jail, ending up back in the street after an arrest without meaningful connection to support or care.
Criminalization also increases overdose risk, increases racial disparities in the criminal legal system, disrupts treatment for those who seek it, and saddles people with criminal records that are lifelong barriers to jobs, housing, and so much more.
Criminalization has long played a contributing role to what we are experiencing on the streets in the past and today. We cannot arrest or punish our way out of this problem. And we can’t leave people to suffer on the streets.
Lawmakers are doubling down on their failed leadership by criminalizing people who need care, not handcuffs. HB 4002 abandons a health approach by treating drug use as a crime. Under the bill, possession of small amounts of controlled substances is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. And many people will not have access to jail deflection programs (community-based pathways to addiction services and supports) because HB 4002 does not require deflection to be offered in every county. Oregon judges have already warned that the courts can’t handle the caseloads that will come from this flawed bill. As a result, the most common scenario is that people will be arrested, the court will dismiss their charges due to lack of counsel, and then people will return to the street without any connection to services or treatment. This bill will not do what Oregon lawmakers said it would, it’s just political cover.
Fuck you out of touch, selfish, greedy, short sighted, blind, ignorant, apathetic, biased, Oregon decision makers.
But again, what do I know. What does that organization know? Nope, the privileged leaders, whose buttholes tighten when they’re called that, are too fucking stupid to open their eyes. Plus they have to suck the donors dick especially if they have some “dark secret”. This policy doesn’t work they say, so let’s shut it down. But let’s keep forcing working class Americans to pay millions in corporate welfare to the rich. That policy is working. The private sector is working. The trickle down is working. Homelessness and poverty no longer exists because the private sector solved the problem that the governments useless policies didn’t. It is not the government job to serve the most vulnerable, despite their cruel and selfish policies not working has caused this, it’s the generous private sector’s responsibility. It worked! Prolife! But only until it leaves the body. And by body I mean government property.
How does a website like this exist? Getyard.io? But it has the perfect clip I’m looking for.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate commercials? A fiery passion that has been blossoming since adolescence. I used to make my own commercials begging companies to stop pandering to me. Amazon prime forces you to watch commercials, I told my dad to cancel after the billing cycle ends. Fuck you Amazon. Fucking greedy motherfuckers. I guess just another thing I don’t understand. Advertisements and profits! Ugh, don’t make me barf.
Well ciao.
I guess I just don’t get the complexities of the extremely effective and superior system I live in. Don’t you dare call me un-American, bitch. Just a quick reminder. At 18 you can buy a shot gun or an assault rifle, get shot at by people the rich deem the enemy, get the weakest training in the globe and be handed a gun to be a cop. Cannot buy a cigarette, beer, gamble in most states, rent car, get hotel some places…