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August 17, 2023

Greene speculates on political future as Georgia senator, Trump's VP

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has not made up her mind on whether she’ll run for Senate in 2026, but she did express interest in the vice presidency in an interview Wednesday with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“I haven’t made up my mind whether I will do that or not. I have a lot of things to think about,” she said. “Am I going to be a part of President Trump’s cabinet if he wins? Is it possible that I’ll be VP?”

Greene, a bombastic congresswoman who has vehemently defended Trump since before she was elected in 2020, said she would be “honored” to share a ticket with the former president and would consider it “very, very heavily.”


More bullshit from Georgia's most annoying asshole


Can this horsefaced redneck barbie just slither back under its rock?

It wants to run for GA Senator. Everyone in and around Atlanta will vote against it. If it doesn't carry the countryside 80-20, it will go down in flames. Being a douche only works in small states without major metropolitan centers.

BTW, redneck barbie, Agent Orange doesn't like to be upstaged.
August 16, 2023

Quora.com is now CCP foreign shill, wu mao haven.

All these dumb "Xi Jinping. Good or Great" and wu mao defending the indefensible.

Without my VPN, Quora is blocked, but the CCP troll farm use it for propaganda, just like they use all non-Chinese social media that they block in China.

Fuck the CCP.

And fuck Winnie the Flu.

August 16, 2023

I'm going to quote Harry Chapin's song "Song Man" for this song I wrote for you

And I hope that my mean shines through.

"Leon wrote a song for his special girl
And Elton and Bernie did too!
But you've been mine for such a long time
Baby
It's my turn to write one for you
And this is the best
That this poor boy could do.

August 14, 2023

White House reporter sues Karine Jean-Pierre after losing press pass

Source: AOL News

A member of the White House press corps has filed a lawsuit against White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the Secret Service, alleging they wrongfully revoked his press badge.

In his suit filed Thursday, African journalist Simon Ateba argues that the White House policy for revoking press access violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution. President Biden's White House announced new rules in May that – for the first time – allowed for rescinding a press badge.

"Defendants violated Mr. Ateba’s First Amendment rights by changing the criteria for hard pass credentials to intentionally prevent Mr. Ateba from obtaining hard pass access," the lawsuit reads.

"Defendants did so by adopting credentialing criteria specifically designed to exclude Mr. Ateba from eligibility. Such discrimination amounts to a content-based regulation and viewpoint discrimination against Mr. Ateba in violation of the First Amendment," it continues.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/white-house-reporter-sues-karine-185418025.html



It's from Fox (unfortunately) but it's on AOL News, so I posted it.

Two things:

1: This is not a reporter. He is a propagandist
2: Fox with another hit piece on Biden.

This will get laughed out of court.
August 13, 2023

Dealing with mental illness: Two steps forward, one step back for a lifetime because we deserve it

Yes, I have been very open about myself on this website.

It started when my wife was denied entry into the country because of whatever reason CBP invented at SEATAC. It continued with my struggles to get my wife her green card and the fact I had to give up teaching in the US and my attempted run for AZ House because I couldn't bare dealing with being separated anymore because of the US Government.

It dictated how all of that broke me emotionally and psychologically and I suffered a suicidal nervous breakdown because of it. I am bipolar (severely). I am Asperger's. I have body dysmorphic disorder after being called fat, ugly, and disgusted by most EVERYONE I have come in contact with, including family. I suffer from extreme PTSD from childhood abuse, intensity bullying, anti-Jewish violence, and workplace bullying/abuse.

I have stated many times when there is a mass shooting that being an asshole isn't a mental illness. Mentally ill people normally direct their trauma inward and attack themselves. The most common:

1: Bipolar - we are crap in our own eyes and the only way we can deal with how low we are is to abuse ourselves because we deserve it.

2: Borderline - our personality was stolen from us before we developed it so we attach ourselves to whomever says they love us even if it destroys us, then we will push you away and hope you will stay but we know we deserve to be hurt and abandoned because we deserve it.

3: PTSD - we can't process the trauma we've encountered, so we abuse ourselves because we deserve it.

4: Eating disorders - we can't process the trauma we've encountered, so we take it out on our bodies because we deserve it.

5: OCD - we can't process the trauma we've encountered, so we isolate ourselves and push people away because we deserve it.


We are substance abusers because it's an escape. We end our lives because it's an escape for those we know we are destroying.

And we deserve it. After all, according to society, all we need to do is get over it, grow up, get help, and we'll be fine. It doesn't work that way. We are always fighting that monster in our heads that controls us. We hear it louder than anything else. We hear that monster's words and ideas louder because it's how we see ourselves when we look in a mirror.

Compliments are fake. They aren't real. The monster told us that and we listen. Praise is just a way to set you up for failure. The monster tells us that and we listen. The monster controls us. I know in our world of "free will" and "you decide for yourself" that society rejects this idea, but as someone who has bipolar run in his family, as someone who has attempted suicide a few times, as someone who has pushed almost everyone out of his life because he doesn't deserve happiness, I am here to tell you that free will doesn't exist in mental illness.

The monster says it, we believe it. The monster controls us, we do it. Medication, therapy. . .all wonderful, but to be honest, it doesn't do much. The monster is still there because mental illness is just that. . .mental. We don't know anything about it. Medication either stabilizes you, makes you a zombie, or deals with symptoms, not the cause or root. It's like cold medication. No cold medicine cures the cold, it just deals with the "cold symptoms."

As I write this, I feel myself sinking into another depressive episode. I feel it coming on. I feel the anger. I feel the hopelessness. I see the darkness growing. I am on medication, but it isn't stopping it. I am on cymbalta, paxil, trazodone, and ativain.

Mental illness isn't about "getting help." It's so much more. But thanks to how we treat mental illness in the world, we are looked at in the simplest, easiest ways possible:

1: you like feeling this way because you're used to it.
2: you want to feel this way because you just want sympathy
3: you refuse to get over it because you're weak
4: you just want drama in your life because you feed off it
5: you are a man. act like one.
6: you don't have a problem. you are the problem
7: you're too much negativity. go away until you can put a smile on my face
8: you're an adult. deal with it like an adult will.
9: shut up and suck it up. everyone has problems.


So, next time someone claims mental illness when someone does something horrific, remember that those of us with mental illness destroy ourselves.

As I write this, the darkness is growing. I feel there is no escape. The monster has control now. And it's telling me how to think and feel. And it tells me I deserve it all.
August 13, 2023

too liberal v. too conservative in the media

Notice how candidates are non-starters when they are too liberal.

Yet, when you have Republicans trying to out-Nazi and out-fascist each other, they are electable.

We have no friends on the left.

August 7, 2023

If Trump committed 'a technical violation of the Constitution,' it's not a crime, his lawyer says

Source: NBC News via AOL

If former President Donald Trump committed a “technical violation of the Constitution,” it doesn’t mean he necessarily broke any criminal laws, John Lauro, Trump’s criminal defense attorney, argued Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press."

Lauro appeared to signal how he’d defend the former president in a trial that will stem from the four-count criminal indictment returned last week by a federal grand jury that had been examining Trump’s possible role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Pressed by NBC's Chuck Todd about Trump's alleged pressure campaign to get former Vice President Mike Pence to reverse the election, Lauro claimed that Trump and Pence had merely disagreed over whether a vice president could constitutionally take actions that could lead to a presidential election’s being overturned.

“A technical violation of the Constitution is not a violation of criminal law," Lauro contended, saying it was "just plain wrong" to suggest that Trump had pressed Pence to break the law.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-may-committed-technical-violation-152653127.html



Is this Agent Orange's "what is the definition of "is" is" moment?
August 4, 2023

I just got banned from replying to news articles on AOL.com

I never say anything rude. I just show the RW tools how wrong they are and show their idiocy and hypocrisy.

I just tried to post a reply. It got automatically denied for "violating community standards."

RWers yap about cancel culture, then work to ban things and people that challenge them. Ugh, these people make me sick.

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Name: Aram Katz
Gender: Male
Hometown: Sullivan County, NY
Home country: USA
Current location: Phuket, Thailand
Member since: Tue Mar 23, 2021, 11:44 AM
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About AZLD4Candidate

Demoralized, depressed, and destroyed by American immigration law written and pushed for in 1952 by two xenophobes determined to keep people out at the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War.
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