Tough Christmas yesterday as the wife and I spent our first Christmas abroad. Which sounds really cool cause we were not stuck in America with all the fascists and racists, but is tough as hell cause our kids and family have all stayed there. Everyone has a choice to make.

Well damn, we just got our long term visas for Portugal approved this morning! Look at us being all legal!!! Started the process right at a year ago and now we are settled in and legally allowed to stay here! It's cool when you accomplish something big.

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” Patel reportedly just used an FBI jet to visit his girlfriend.

Happy to be in Portugal right now. Pretty cool new home.

So John Bolton was indicted for his handling of classified documents. Apparently he screwed up and didn't store them in his bathroom as is required when you steal classified documents! Jeez John! Come on! Do it right!

Watching the first Highlander movie and just wondering why they didn't cast.....anyone, anyone else as Conner McCloud. Like, I would have taken Micheal Douglas or Kurt Russell or maybe a bag of potatoes with some googly eyes glued on. Just awful. It's better in the old scenes, barely.

Has everyone seen this??? Where is all the coverage? Where is the GOP with all their outrage???? This is why we are leaving. Two Men Found Hanging From Trees in Mississippi on the Same Day share.google/xIjWqJIYx4XS...

So Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University, according to multiple sites. Not much information as of yet. Just confirmation it happened. Hate to suggest, but is this like the tRump assassination attempt or is this actually real? Seems real so far, but hard to trust anything from them.

Is there a better song while sitting at a bar during this summer than The Strokes Endless Summer? Especially in this heat wave. Curious to hear what other people like to hear while drowning their sorrows!

Hulk Hogan died. I'm not saying it cause I'm upset. I'm guessing all the steroids finally wore out his racist ass body. See ya, Hulkamaniacs!

The wife was placing a grocery order for pick up. She compared receipts from last order, little over a week and a half ago. Prices had increased on multiple items. Been shopping Publix, but switching to Kroger now. But costs on groceries are growing right now. Anyone else seeing it?

I don't post a lot on Bluesky, I usually read and respond more. But today I gotta post this, the wife and I just had our visa request approved by Portugal!!! Holy shit! We decided after the election that it was time to get serious and started the process in December or January. Finally done! Wow.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/15/b... I am in the mortgage industry. This is dumb. The mortgage industry treats these collections like they don't matter, anyway. All they do is drag down a person's credit score. Which of course is what affects their approval, even though we ignore the collections.

youtu.be/Q8QI2v51p4A?... This is why I say the people in Texas that vote for the same leaders every year, even after obvious poor leadership after major events like Uvalde, Santa Fe, or the power grid failures, will just keep voting for the same leadership. Over and over.

Posting this for no particular reason.

Please make this go viral,

Some nefarious "jokester" posted this on the other site. Deplorable behavior. Please do not spread this.

The wife and I spent 8 days in Portugal in April. We are working on a visa to move there. The shock of the cost difference for food is startling. I now keep looking at any restaurant bills to see if tip was included due to the high amounts. Sad to say, no. It never is, but is always expected. Dang.

It's weird to think the dystopia type books from Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman are coming to life in America. How long before we see The Long Walk reality TV show? Noem and her nazis wanted a show were immigrants fight for citizenship. Or maybe The Running Man made real. It's coming. MMW.

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Marietta square in Ga. One guy on the corner of a red state making a point.

Wow, I was just in a Jersey Mike's to eat lunch and there was a homeless white guy in it mumbling and moving around the store. It was so weird because not one person put him in a choke hold and held him till he passed out from lack of oxygen. I'm guessing him being white had nothing to do with it. 😐

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Well well well. The “Subsidizing a Private School Education for Families Whose Kids Already Attend Private Schools” Act is really doing a number on the overall budget. These things need repealing in the worst way!

This is a bridge in Portugal between Barcelos and Barcelinhos and it was built and has been in use since 1325. Can someone explain why we have bridges failing in the United States? And why the GOP does not care? Seems weird we don't build things to last here.

Happy to finally see our new place in Portugal. So pretty here! Still waiting on our visa approval. Few months to go.

I block so many robo calls I'm down to my wife's numbers and two others that can actually ring through.

We live north of Atlanta, about 40 minutes north. My wife is black and a veteran. She sports her bronze star tag. She was driving to grab my prescriptions a week ago Sunday when four young white guys in a jacked up truck yelled at her to go back to Africa. We're actually going to Portugal, morons.

So we are seeing the GOP's grand plan after deporting undocumented workers happening in Floriduh. They are now looking to loosen child labor laws to make up for losing the undocumented workers. The ones they are actively getting rid of. Surprised? Not at all. Disgusted? Quite.

I watched The Electric State because I believe bad movies need love too! And bad wigs. Bad wigs need love too!

So I guess the cease fire in Gaza is over. Wow. That's some serious lasting peace. Who'd it wouldn't last?🤔

I got one for everyone out there. The wife and I completed our visa application for Portugal Friday!!! We can no longer abide living in a country that is so far from our values anymore. And it was packed when we were there making the application. This country can keep all the racism and guns!

Riddle me this. If Trump is suing all these news agencies over frivolous crap, and getting paid his hush money, why is Biden and Harris not suing Faux Newz for all the slander against them? They have told countless lies. Play the game.

So maybe when I was in high school there could have been an elective choice "How to Survive the Loss of Democracy" or "Best Ways to Escape Your Fascist Country" instead of "Typing 1" or "Intro into Drafting." I may not have spent a semester in one, but at least I could have had the option.

THIS is the person that we need on the WI State Supreme Court! Someone that will uphold the law and the constitution! VOTE Susan Crawford April 1.

Ok, so I am relying on everyone out there on the other social media platforms to post all the crazy MAGAt whining after the stunt on freezing all federal grants goes into effect at 5 pm today! How many of their college kids will be affected? I suspect quite a few. Medicaid also.

Question: I see these ICE raids kicking off, why are they not just hunkered down in Texas and Florida for the month? I mean, between the two states, you got probably close to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Easily. Trump could do an entire Netflix series on deportations in those states. 2 seasons

I always kind of laugh when I hear people say our country has had "open" borders the last four years. If the borders were so "open," then why do immigrants have to sneak in via trucks and vans? Or swim across rivers with barbed wire? I mean, just walk across a bridge. It's a lot easier.

I don't think we can share the side-by-side of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute next to Nazis doing the Nazi salute enough.

Looks like Trump's white house remodel got started already. I mean, how can you not like rounded edges, right? And being able to submerge in a swamp is always a plus when visitors you don't care for come to call, like Canada and shit.

So will the first deportations be the fire fighters from Mexico and Canada that came to help in California? Asking for a friend....

Reminder to anyone who voted for him believing he will lower their cost of living:

Thanks MAGA'S.

Yep

Hmmmm. Let's see. Today is Jan 6th. I didn't hear of any chaos at the Capital. Isn't this the day they certify Dump? Where's all the Antifa militias???? No one is storming anything???? What????? Weird.

I will never forget this day. Till my days are done, this one will always eat at me. The day I saw exactly what a portion of our country was much more clearly. It broke my wife's heart. It also set my determination to find someplace better. We probably have about 6-8 months before we leave.