Val

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Just a girl from the bayou who loves books, music, theater, movies, food, smart people, the Saints ⚜, the beach and the mountains.

May you get all you deserve.

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I swear, I enjoy the conversations on this platform, for the most part. But I just scrolled past 25 posts that didn't include one sentence I could understand. Oh, they were in English, but they were about – I don't know – something? I feel like I've been beamed up somewhere.

America can't get enough of cults, apparently. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mans...

When there's too many cults to keep up with! www.britannica.com/topic/Rajnee...

Rajneesh movement | History, Beliefs, & Factswww.britannica.com The Rajneesh movement is a religious sect founded by the Indian mystic and spiritual leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. Rajneesh first initiated people into his order of neo-sannyasins...

When you can't get enough of cults. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

How NXIVM Seduced Hollywood Stars and America's Most Powerful Elite Into a Barbaric 'Sex Cult'www.esquire.com Season 2 of HBO's 'The Vow' will follow the downfall of the organization and its leaders.

Way too much about cults. wacohistory.org/items/show/176

The Branch Davidians | Waco Historywacohistory.org Often confused with the Davidians, the Branch Davidians are a splinter group organized in 1955 by Ben Roden following the death of Davidian founder Victor T. Houteff. Houteff had founded the Davidians...

And even more cults. www.britannica.com/topic/The-Fa...

The Family International | Christian Commune, Controversy & Historywww.britannica.com The Family International, millenarian Christian communal group that grew out of the ministry of David Berg (1919–94) to the hippies who had gathered in Huntington Beach, California, in the late 1960s....

Perhaps our most famous cult ('til now). www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

The Peoples Temple in Guyana | American Experience | PBSwww.pbs.org Jonestown was meant to be a utopia and, for a while, it was.

More about cults. www.britannica.com/topic/Order-...

Order of the Solar Temple | Cultic Practices, Occultism & Esoteric Beliefswww.britannica.com Order of the Solar Temple, small New Religious Movement that was founded in Geneva in 1984 and is best known for the murder-suicide of 74 of its members in 1994–97. The Solar Temple was founded in Gen...

Not sure MAGA is a cult? Let's look at other cults. www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Heaven's Gate cult members found dead | March 26, 1997 | HISTORYwww.history.com Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased—21 women and 18 men of vary...

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geoffrey

Shades of every cult ever

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Peter Gleick

Yeah, it's a cult meeting, not a political convention.

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Joel יואל يويل

Yippee kay yay!

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The white supremacist gunman who murdered 23 people going about their day in El Paso five years ago next month had been obsessed with an alleged “Hispanic invasion” of Texas. There is no pivot, or softening. This is the Trump Republican Party. They keep telling us who they are, so believe them.

Lake also warned of the "Bidvaion" reference to the replacement theory that smashes the claim that Biden is intentionally facilitating a literal "invasion" of the United States, before leading the crowd in the nativist "build the wall" chant.

Obviously I screwed up my life. I just watched a couple, after "saving for a while," spend half a million dollars on a SECOND home, a beachfront property. WTF do these people do for a living to be able to own two properties? I've never been able to afford to go on vacation for two weeks a year!

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Seth Cotlar

Unfortunately, those brains weren't in great shape to begin with, or they'd never have considered TFG as a potentially viable candidate in the first place.

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Tawhiri223

I'm not sure who these folks are. I'm exploring NZ as a possible "new home" if things so badly in November. Should I know who your pests are?

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Anthrodiva

Actually, it's up! You're in W. Va. I'm in La.

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Aletta

That's a very apt description. Maybe he should just go to work for American Air Lines and not keep trying to foist those tired designs on the public.

My day was already shit. THEN: • I heard that obscene version of the anthem by Ingrid NoTalent. • I saw Roseanne's demented video. • I saw that Dr. White House Drug Dealer says he "treated" TFG's wound. • I read about the UTTER BS coming out of Milwaukee. My day just got shittier. HELP ME!

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Among the many reasons a second Trump term poses a serious threat to American democracy: Vance is not a Pence-type VP www.vox.com/politics/360...

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Aletta

They're gorgeous. I was, once again, disappointed at the absolute garbage Ralph Lauren "designed" for American athletes. Just another retread of his very tired designs from yesteryear. I say we need a Project Runway level competition to decide who gets to design U.S. Olympic uniforms.

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Anthrodiva

What time do we eat? (This looks yum.)

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Gay Decider

It's actually James Donald Bowman.

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Erin Biba

My slumlord refuses to do regular maintenance on the HVAC, so it breaks down periodically. His response? Here's a window unit. He's put way less than $1000 a year worth of maintenance and/or improvements on this house in the 17 years I've lived here.

They're eating their own.

I honestly doubt McConnell cares but it is hilarious that he is probably the man most responsible for giving these craven weirdos everything they want and they hate him

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Chron.com

That's OK. There's a special spot in hell reserved for him and his ilk.

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Mitchell Epner

From the Jambalaya Val post: I would ban JD Vance from being anywhere in public, holding any public office, having any contact whatsoever with any public official or being around any female through the year 2085. And he can't be served at any restaurant that's not a Chick-fil-A.

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Proof of Burden

That'd be like a Cajun dropping a sack of crawfish on their foot.

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Trump-Vance isn't designed to win over more voters, but ensure the next coup attempt proceeds more smoothly

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...