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Signal boost again

Hey everyone,

My BF's store is really struggling right now and could use some business. So if you are in need of a new Board Game, D&D supplies, Warhammer, figuring painting supplies, Trading Card Game cards (Pokemon, Digimon, MtG, etc) check out his online store. They ship in the USA!

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Start: 11/28/21 - 215lbs

"End": 8/29/22 - 160lbs

#lee's life #weightloss #optavia

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i know musical matilda is technically canonically cis but that’s fake. she is trans 

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Tapering down off an antidepressant medication in order to switch to a different one SUCKS

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i really love the phrase “with all due respect” because it doesn’t specify how much respect is due. could be none. bitch.

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I’m almost scared to ask. What happened with Bush v Al Gore?

If you're interested in the full and sordid details, you can read the Bush v. Gore Wikipedia page, but here are the major points:

The 2000 presidential election was the closest in American history and the outcome was not known for over a month, thanks to election administration and ballot-issues fuckery in, you guessed it, Florida!

Al Gore won the popular vote by 0.5% (48.4% to George W. Bush's 47.9%), but third-party candidate Ralph Nader ran again and got almost 3 million votes, which took those critical numbers away from Gore;

Both candidates launched extended legal battles centered around the disputed election in Florida, where Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris had hurried to formally certify Bush as the winner before all counties could be recounted or the lawsuits completed;

The case eventually reached SCOTUS, where they had to rule on whether the Florida Supreme Court could order the results recounted in either a few select counties or statewide;

Justice Antonin Scalia urged his conservative colleagues (as SCOTUS was then a 5-4 conservative majority) to immediately order the recount stopped, which would have the effect of preserving Bush's 537-vote lead, giving him Florida's 25 electoral votes and thus the presidency;

Said conservative SCOTUS then granted the halt, 5-4, in a decision where every single liberal justice wrote separate dissents;

The recount was stopped, Bush's lead was preserved, and he won the presidency despite losing the popular vote;

Later analysis found that a full statewide recount would have almost surely revealed that Gore was the real winner of Florida and thus the presidency;

SCOTUS ordering the recount halt thus directly (and illegitimately) handed the election to Bush, as Scalia and his conservative colleagues deliberately intended to do;

Bush then mishandled 9/11, started the War on Terror, invaded Iraq, nominated Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court, crashed the economy, let Dick Fucking Cheney run things, etc etc

Good thing a conservative SCOTUS intervening to totally fuck us over and put their thumbs on the scale to electorally benefit Republicans never happened again!

(Wow, I feel old now. So yes. This is me sitting on a rocking chair on the porch, yelling at passing youths to LEARN SOME HISTORY.)

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I love my family but I am so ready to not be Auntie Lee for a bit. 4 kids, even with 4 other adults around, are a lot to handle.

#lee's life #lee is tired #children are exhausting

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Absorbing all* the sun (*almost none since I'm covered in SPF 50)

#vacation #lee's life

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Happy birthday darling! Wishing you a fabulous day and sending you tons of love!

Thank you!!!!!

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Happy Birthday!!! 🏵️💓💌🌺🎉💗💖🧁🎂🎶🎁🎂🎊🍾🎉🍹🎁🎆✨💌🥳😘🥰

Thank you!!

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A joyous Juneteenth to everyone celebrating today. <3

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My contribution.

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i’d like to think i’m funny 

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alex hirsch going rogue… king shit

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Hey everyone,

My BF's store is really struggling right now and could use some business. So if you are in need of a new Board Game, D&D supplies, Warhammer, figuring painting supplies, Trading Card Game cards (Pokemon, Digimon, MtG, etc) check out his online store. They ship in the USA!

#gaming supplies #please buy things #help a small business #signal boost #dungeons and dragons

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I miss my demon kitty.

Here he was the morning he died, just chilling in his litter box.

#ares kitty #demon kitty #i miss him #lee's life