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…there are at least three of us!..

…i thought little people lived in my parents’ radio and television who put on shows for us…

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…the f*ck is ‘US News News - Times Now’?..

…i ate a fifteen-year-old bag of craisins sunday night; they were good!..

(my bowels disagreed monday morning, though)

…wendy’s has frosties; whataburger has dr. pepper shakes…

…they say we die four deaths: first with the end of our own life, second with the memories of those who knew us, third with tales forgotten by people we never knew, and finally as our mark on the world crumbles to dust…

trinkets sing on the desert wind behind here
where ghosts have laid their final claims to rest
of who they were and what they thought they’d stayed for
has crumbled in their last dusty caress
they were blind

…if you’re specifically talking about modern malic-acid flavors, that technology wasn’t developed until the mid-seventies in east asia and wasn’t imported stateside until the early nineties, but it was an immediate hit and quickly swept through the domestic sour-candy market, with most brands offering ‘extreme’ variants of their existing products…

…i can’t recall any time when sour candy wasn’t a major product sector and a quick perusal of candy history essays shows it dating back nearly as long as manufactured candy has been a thing, with a history of sour preserved confections before that…

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/history-of-sweet-tarts/

…when were you a kid?..sour candy was a thing before i was growing up in the seventies and ever since, so, like, since at least the mid-sixties…

…i don’t know, man: i’m sticking with george the lesser for now…

(trump was a tabloid train wreck but his first term was comparably benign incompetence)

…ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me…

…y’all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country…

…my grandparents punched fascists; it’s a mark of civility that we only call them names…

…i held my nose and voted democrat in the face of imminent fascism, and i’ll never forgive the fascists for forcing my hand…

…that hard choice wasn’t enough, though, and i don’t blame you for that…

…rather presumptuous that non-voters were democrats…

…this is the crux of it: bernie’s time was eight years ago, and even though i absolutely respect his lucid resolve, the movement needs fresh figureheads to sustain its momentum…

https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-definition-of-fascism/

…the progressive movement held our collective noses and reacted to an existential crisis for the preservation of american democracy in the face of imminent fascism, and the coalition succeeded at that goal for a short while, but only just…