bootlicking idolatry

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There’s a homeless man who lives in a tree in back of a bar here in New Haven, CT. I think he drinks Brut aftershave (there are empty bottles). I gave him my sunglasses and a dollar and he asked for a photo.
I was going to hand him a $20 but Lisa, who's from Manhattan, pulled me aside and told me that “the most dangerous time for a homeless person is the couple of days around when they get their monthly checks, because many drink (or drug) themselves to death that week. So small $1 donations are safer.” City girls know these things.

bootlicking idolatry He’s a peculiar star he comes from TV ambition is his sphere and his every line is a trick all know him a notorious liar whose business is schadenfreude but many curry his sweet favour for he has the cowards furry and an actors need to be flatter'd He has no quality worthy of entertainment but we must see him every hour for he is an hourly promise-breaker for rashness, superfluous folly and thievery the world has noted, he has no historical equal In moral retreat, he outruns any jockey the treasures of his idolatrous worshipers he straightway began to strip away, by tariff too late their despair they will proclaim but the misery will be well earned . . Fool by bôa TROUBLE (feat. Nikki Williams) by Parov Stelar Who Let the Scat out of the Bag by Tape Five . Webster: Schadenfreude = enjoyment at the troubles of others. .

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Tom Woody

Date: 3/5/2025 5:51:00 AM

Touching in a twisted sort of way

Anais Vionet
Date: 3/5/2025 6:21:00 AM

Thank you *taking a bow* =]

Keith D Trestrail

Date: 3/5/2025 1:11:00 AM

Lol!

Chris Conn

Date: 3/5/2025 12:05:00 AM

Asif.

Chris Conn
Date: 3/5/2025 9:31:00 AM

Don't matter who is president. Inflation is part of the economic cycle. The ruling class is the problem. As for your photoshopped art, I was guessing the destitute tree dwellers name could be Asif, like when Cher is heading into school and that loser snuggles up beside her.

Anais Vionet
Date: 3/5/2025 6:28:00 AM

Here you have a president that (1) is creating his own unemployment, (2) his own guaranteed inflation (Canada, Mexico, China don't pay tariffs - YOU do) what if everything at WalMart costs 10% more - (3) is bowing to Russia and pissing off our every ally and (4) wants to trash social security and medicare. Yeah, Asif. The US will be the new Venezuela.