Hot weekend, lukewarm movie.

Apparently “Sinners,” released around late spring, was one of the big summer movies, only prestigious, y’know. So I decided not to read anything about it, and try to have one of those rare experiences, wherein we can take in a work of art without knowing anything, or much, about it.

I knew it starred Michael B. Jordan, and there were vampires. That’s it.

So I averted my eyes from the headlines that speculated it might be an Oscar contender, although that made me want to watch it more. An Oscar-worthy vampire movie? Count me in. It finally came to HBO a couple weeks ago; Friday was the night to watch.

And, sadly, I was disappointed. It wasn’t that great. Points for locating the vampire plot in a new location (a ’30s juke joint in rural Mississippi). Points for some great music within. But the rest? Meh.

Jordan plays two characters, it turns out: Identical twins. There’s no story reason for making them twins, they could just as easily have been non-twin brothers with a second actor, but oh well. There’s a couple-three references to cunnilingus that suggests the brothers were masters of the art, but again, it didn’t really pertain to the story. I had high hopes the vampire clan, who started out all white, might thematically suggest what white people did to black music of the Mississippi Delta, but he didn’t really explore it. There’s a tacked-on KKK mini-plot that seemed to exist so the audience could get the thrill of watching a while klavern mowed down with a machine gun.

I’m not much for horror, but vampires are at least interesting monsters. These vampires…were not.

In a summer of brutal weather, starvation in Gaza and a full-on assault on American democracy, this doesn’t count as a tragedy. Just a disappointment. But it’s always good to see cunnilingus get a free public service announcement, I guess.

And the brutal weather continued. It’s about 90 as I write this, and will stay that way for two more days.

Also: A man randomly attacked 11 people with a knife in a Traverse City Walmart, which then exposed idiots who cannot use a map and understand that the northern Michigan resort city is not Dearborn, and a suspect by the name of Bradford James Gille is unlikely to be Muslim. In fact, he sounds like one of the many, many mentally ill souls in this country, having self-published a book about his revelation that he is, in fact, Jesus Christ. He hails from Afton, a dot on the map and still a bit of a drive to TC, about 90 miles to be exact.

Good thing the president just signed an E.O. requiring homeless people to be involuntarily committed to the scores of nearly empty mental hospitals that exist throughout this great land, just waiting to be filled. Mr. Gille will be right at home there.

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31 responses to “Hot weekend, lukewarm movie.”

  1. Brandon said on July 27, 2025 at 8:34 pm

    There’s no story reason for making them twins, they could just as easily have been non-twin brothers with a second actor

    Michael B. Jordan probably took on the dual role to demonstrate his acting ability.

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  2. Heather said on July 27, 2025 at 9:03 pm

    I liked Sinners, although the last third did turn into pretty standard horror-movie fare. What I would like to see next is a movie about the Native American vampire hunters.

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  3. Suzanne said on July 27, 2025 at 9:49 pm

    I don’t have any interest in watching a horror movie; reading the newspaper gives me horror enough.

    Also, RIP Tom Lehrer.

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  4. alex said on July 27, 2025 at 11:09 pm

    But it’s always good to see cunnilingus get a free public service announcement, I guess.

    This site is still the best for a good knee-slapper. That was exactly what I needed given my current mood.

    We had a great weekend hosting out-of-town company. But today we went to measure our rental house for carpeting. Our tenant of 11 years is vacating in a few days for a new job out of town, and we have to get it ready for people who want to move in right away.

    So we were astonished and a bit perplexed to see that there was painting going on over there, and not in a good way. A horrid color in a semi-gloss finish going onto bedroom walls. So we texted her and asked her to stop. It’s going to take a lot of stain-killing primer to erase that mess and put on a new coat of something attractive. She texted back that, oh no, she was going to patch and paint everything and leave the house spotless because she expects her security deposit back.

    I didn’t slam her bad taste in paint, but instead I ticked off a litany of things that burned up her security deposit a long time ago. We paid her utilities when she first moved in and she never paid us back despite all kinds of promises. We ended up having to hire a property management company in order to collect the rent which she was not so good at paying and it cut into our profits. When they filed evictions on her every so often, we had to pay the court costs which we never asked her to pay back, $500 a pop. When she said she was taking in a dog for a few days and it ended up being a few years, and the dog was left alone to piss and shit all over the carpets, she decided unilaterally to tear out the carpets and throw them in the yard. We had to pay the garbage dump to accept them and we decided to let her live with the consequences of her actions. Then we felt sorry for her because the bare floors stank and looked atrocious, and she was ashamed to have company over, so we recarpeted her living room but still left the bedrooms bare. And now she has the audacity to demand her security deposit back and act like a Karen when we answered “You’ve got to be fucking kidding, right?”

    We have been nothing but nice to her. Took pity on her when she was down and out and let her have some dignity. And the thanks we get is not just ingratitude but an attitude of entitlement and hostility. I’d be half tempted to drag her ass onto Judge Judy. It’s true, no good deed goes unpunished. No more Mister Nice Guy when it comes to this part of our business. We’re going to be completely dispassionate. I’ve been upfront with the new tenants already. “Stiff us once and we’re hiring a property management company, and believe me you’d much rather deal with us.”

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. This is a lady who’s all about maintaining appearances while she robs Peter to pay Paul, so this isn’t a shocking revelation. I just hoped it would end on a better note.

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  5. David C said on July 28, 2025 at 6:23 am

    I couldn’t be a landlord. Going through half the things you’ve gone through would eat me alive. I don’t know how you’ve managed to do it without becoming a huge misanthrope. Good thing you caught her before she painted everything. What a horror that would have been.

    I’m feeling like shit because the real estate agent who sold our house told us we’re not allowed, by law, to remove the picture hanging hooks and touch up our walls. She said they’re attached to the house and we can’t alter anything attached to the house. The young couple who are buying it are really great. We gave them most of the gardening and yard maintenance stuff in the garage. We don’t need it anymore in our condo. Even though we gave it to them, last week a check from them for $500 arrived in the mail. Imagine young people who write checks. I didn’t know such a thing existed.

    So Wednesday is move out day, and Thursday is move in day. Temps in the mid-70s for both, thank you weather gods. We started packing a month ago and it’ll probably take us at least that much time to get unpacked. I’m so damned sick of looking at and tripping over boxes.

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  6. ROGirl said on July 28, 2025 at 8:16 am

    I watched 2 movies this weekend, one of which was OK but too long, and the other one was disappointing (neither had any cunnilingus ). The first one was Drop, about a woman on a first date whose phone is taken over by someone who has sent a killer to her house to kill her little boy unless she murders her date with poison. I fast forwarded to the climactic events, which were suitably violent and bloody. The other movie was The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson’s latest. The quirk factor was off the scale and the main character was repellant.

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  7. Deborah said on July 28, 2025 at 9:24 am

    Whenever I’ve moved I try to get unpacked as soon as possible. But when we moved into our current place we had to keep everything in boxes for a month because we had to move out of our former place a month before our new place was finished being renovated. Of course it was supposed to be finished at the time we had to move out of the former place. Anyway that was not fun, having to get up early every morning so we could leave when the workers came and find stuff to do out in the city all day. Our mattress was on the floor that whole time and we had to prop it up against the wall before we left so they could walk around to do what they had to do.

    Alex, what a nightmare, I hope your new tenants are better.

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  8. alex said on July 28, 2025 at 10:08 am

    On this date in 2019, we had quite the lively discussion of Wexner and Epstein and one of the commenters eerily predicted that Epstein would likely end up dead in his jail cell before ever going to trial. See it here: http://nancynall.com/2019/07/28/different-from-you-and-me/

    At the very least, I was hoping for cooperation from my tenant but now I’m worried that she’s going to cause serious damage. There are missing closet doors and shower doors and draperies and I need to know where those are. She took out the shower doors and put up shower curtains because she was too lazy to put salt in the water softener and change the whole-house water filter, so the well water put iron stains on the shower doors. The fixtures too, but she couldn’t live with those shower doors. Maybe we should have just entertained her delusion that she was entitled to her security deposit until she was safely out of there.

    She still holds it against us that we didn’t buy her a new clothes washer after she destroyed two of them. She would overload them with blankets and towels and way too much clothing and then complain that the machines weren’t working and when we’d explain that you can’t do that she would insist that she had always done that and never had a problem. The last machine wasn’t even a year old when it went kaput. Her son was working at a foundry and was washing his filthy work clothes in it and the foundry dirt gummed up the sensors and voided the warranty. That’s when we told her she needed to get her own washer or go to a laundromat.

    Some fucking brass balls on that bitch.

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  9. Courtney said on July 28, 2025 at 10:42 am

    My son and I saw the Fantastic Four yesterday and we thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to see the characters again in the next Avengers movie. We are nothing if not loyal, lol.

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  10. Deborah said on July 28, 2025 at 11:29 am

    I haven’t watched a movie in quite a while. I’m currently watching Yellow Jackets, I’m about halfway through season 2, I’m not enjoying it, just waiting to find out what happens and now I hear there will be a season 3. It started out fine but has gotten enshitified as so much else now-a-days.

    I’m about to start reading The Empire of AI, it’s our book for the next book club meet-up. My husband read it first and was quite depressed by it, I’m kind of dreading it and I might skip the meet-up and since I’ll be joining it via zoom, it won’t be the same as being there.

    I read Molly Jong Fast’s How to Lose Your mother, I liked it but I know it has gotten some criticism about what happens to people with dementia and how to deal with it. Now that I’m working on this dementia center project I can see why some people are critical of her book but I found it emotionally authentic from the perspective of a much conflicted daughter about how badly her mother parented her. I’m still behind on my book a week during the Trump term.

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  11. nancy said on July 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Alex, my sympathies. This is the place that’s next door?

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  12. FDChief said on July 28, 2025 at 2:07 pm

    The “homeless” EO is even more ridiculous that the usual Trump idiocy. The only real effect will be to choke off federal funding to any “non-carceral” sort of homeless-mitigation in the states.

    Portland has been roiled for quite some time on the subject of urban pioneers. We have a LOT of – and visible – homeless people, and the associated issues (particularly the truly astounding amount of trash and debris that seems to pile up around the camps. Dude! You’re homeless! How many bicycles, bags of clothing, metal parts, and box springs do you need?).

    And we’ve tried the “harass them” approach, the “hand out tarps” approach, the “try and fund shelter beds” approach, the “arrest them” approach and…guess what; the fundamental problem is that places to live are expensive and lots of people are poor.

    The other stuff – drug/alcohol abuse, health (physical and mental) problems, personal problems, just bad luck – just contribute to the whole “too poor to afford a room” problem.

    So you’d think that the commonsense solution would be “build and maintain places cheap enough for poor people to live in”.

    But, then, you wouldn’t be a MAGAt.

    No…if you were you’d think “Let’s find the most expensive, least useful, most worthless option – what amounts to prisons for hoboes – and do THAT!”

    Frankly, I think that Trump & Co. would really like to do this with (ahem…) special shower rooms for the smelly poor people.

    But ZyklonB is SO Old School. Surely they’ll have a 21st Century alternative…

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  13. alex said on July 28, 2025 at 2:42 pm

    Yes, Nancy, next door. And she’s got her hackles up because I pointed out that, even if she had not forfeited the deposit under the terms of our original lease when I had to hire an agent to go after her for nonpayment of rent, that the amount of damages well exceeds the amount of the deposit many times over.

    And I was perfectly willing to call it even just to get rid of her.

    I asked the rental agent to let her out of her lease, as I have people lined up who want the house immediately, and we wouldn’t be missing any rent. I parted ways with the agent because he wanted to advertise and choose the applicants himself. Now I understand why. And I’m half tempted to call him and have him pursue her for damages and work with him on his terms, even though I made a promise to some people and we’re supposed to be signing a lease tomorrow.

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  14. Dexter Friend said on July 28, 2025 at 2:49 pm

    One of the first orders Reagan issued was to close mental hospitals and “asylums” and turn the residents/patients to the street. I had planned a train trip to a Chicago baseball game, taking our kids and few of Carla Lee’s baby-sitting kids, then the players went on strike, so we went to the Lincoln Park Zoo. We were shocked…Sunday, people picnicking, and men were scrounging the waste bins and sucking on chicken bones, and scores were begging on the streets, and many were wailing to the sun. Tens were passed out on grassy areas, wearing heavy clothing on a 90 F day.
    I was thinking this shit ain’t right. Now Trump is filling up the old asylums and “hospitals”. What comes around….
    Best of the weekend: Netflix has Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore 2”. Slapstick hilarity, many cameos, fun fun fun.
    Also, a crime show on Netflix that’s been around but I just found it: “High Town”, based in Provincetown, so guess what we see a LOT of. Right. I never sought out lesbian porn but this show throws it in your face, also a smattering of hetero sex. And a great crime/drug theme. Very Interesting.
    Gambling in sports is fucked. Every inning, bets are dangled to us by the telecaster crew, ads between innings. And the players can’t resist dipping their beaks.
    Emmanuel Clase, superstar closer for Cleveland, is on the hot seat now, being investigated for gambling. WTF did MLB think was going to happen? There are several players already who have tarnished their careers, and for what? “Just a little bit of money.” Thanks, Marge Gundersen.

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  15. Deborah said on July 28, 2025 at 4:30 pm

    The arroyos (dry creeks that flash flood when there are torrential rains) in Santa Fe have camp sites throughout the city. It’s amazing as FDChief mentioned how quickly they fill up with junk. When we walk to the shopping mall near us we have to cross one, there’s a walking bridge over it, it’s skeevy, but where else do they go? There are a couple of shelters, one is dangerous with lots of violence and of course there are many NIMBYs who don’t want “those people” anywhere near their homes.

    We live a block away from the Santa Fe river, where the homeless hang out under the bridges.

    Santa Fe has started arresting the homeless from their camp sites. They did construct an area where they have a few of those tiny homes for them and lordy the howls about it from the neighbors is deafening. There’s an empty Boys and Girls club over the fence from us that seems like it could be put to good use but it would probably be horrendously expensive to bring it up to code for that purpose and I can’t imagine what the other neighbors around it would do if it ever came to be low cost housing.

    There’s an ordinance that it’s illegal to pan handle on the islands on city streets, but they’re always out there for hours in the intense NM sun, it’s brutal.

    Finland has come up with a process that works, making homes for the homeless and allowing them to live there for much less than it costs to incarcerate them, can we not learn from that?

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  16. alex said on July 28, 2025 at 5:17 pm

    Finland has come up with a process that works, making homes for the homeless and allowing them to live there for much less than it costs to incarcerate them, can we not learn from that?

    We can learn from it and someone did… learn how to monetize it, that is. The prison-industrial complex is pretty tapped out at this point, and I have no doubt this is a crony capitalist plot to goose expansion.

    The renter is now threatening to continue serving out her lease through November if she can’t be released without a penalty and I told the rental agency to go ahead and hold her to it.

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  17. nancy said on July 28, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    Dex, he’s not filling up the old asylums and hospitals. Many of them have been torn down or repurposed to other functions; the one in Athens, Ohio, is now an art center, I believe. (I wish I had seen that in its glory days, when the grounds were intact. Sigh.) Anyway, even if they were intact, you’d still have to staff them, and that would be impossible now. So prison it is for many of these poor souls.

    I do remember when the big release events happened. I had just started my career in Columbus. I always thought that was a perfect example of the worst impulses of the left (people shouldn’t be medicated and warehoused against their will) and right (cut public spending, by any means necessary) dovetailing to effect real calamity on people who couldn’t take care of themselves. “Community mental health” centers were wholly inadequate to the task of caring for people who didn’t like to take their medication. Few were suited for even sheltered-workshop work. And overnight, they appeared on the streets of downtown Columbus. One guy, dubbed Rooster Man for his preferred vocalization, lasted a while and got hit by a car. Others froze, or just wasted away. Churches tried to have shelters. One guy opened a place he called the Open Shelter, and started beefing with the authorities almost immediately. It was a mess. I’m sure it still is. I read about encampments along riverbanks in Columbus now, and the usual tiresome arguments over whether people have a right to live there.

    Even Traverse City had a tent encampment for a while. A journalist friend who lives up there described it as absolutely feral conditions. Children were living there.

    The answer, in PART, is cheaper housing, but many of those folks need a lot more than an apartment. However, Housing First is the only policy I’ve seen that works, even a little bit. Bottom line, we’re a cruel country.

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  18. Julie Robinson said on July 28, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    Not being able to get utilities in your own name is a big red flag, and one we should have realized in our one and only rental experience. We only rented because we’d been unable to sell the place and it took us another two years to accomplish that, even at a loss. By that time we just wanted it to be over.

    Our tenant got his paychecks cashed at a bar so someone needed to be there right away when that happened to get any money at all out of him. He owed us thousands when we finally sold the house, and I wasn’t allowed to see it because the damage was so bad.

    Did I mention he was my husband’s nephew?

    The folks who bought the place fixed it up nicely but it appears subsequent owners trashed it again.

    David C, hope your move goes well. Let us know on the other side.

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  19. Deborah said on July 28, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    Our condo bulding has 5 units and only ours now is inhabited by owners, and there are two vacant units now. One has been vacant for the whole 13 years we’ve been here, the other is vacant since the end of June, that one was inhabited by the sister of the owner and before that the father of the owner. Now the owner wants to sell. The owner of the one that has long been vacant wants to keep it and move back in when she retires, but it’s on the second floor with an outside stair, her wife is quite overweight and I can’t imagine haveing traverse those stairs all the time as an elderly person.

    When we had the windows on all the units replaced a couple of years ago I had to go into each unit with the window replacement people and photograph the existing window conditions of each unit at the time. I was appalled how trashy the two rented units were kept by the tenants. Just dirty and smelly. I get how people feel when they rent and don’t own, most of them don’t lift a finger to do anything related to upkeep, which blows my mind how they can stand it. When we rented we always kept things neat and tidy and did a lot to maintain and improve the outdoor areas because we wanted to enjoy them. Not everyone feels that way, for sure. Eye opening.

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  20. Sherri said on July 28, 2025 at 7:09 pm

    Yes, some homeless people are addicted and have mental illness, but mostly the cause and effect runs the other way: being homeless leads to more drug addiction and mental illness.

    Congregate shelters are not a solution to homelessness, because people usually people have to leave every morning. It’s not a stabilizing environment, generally not a step toward permanent housing. That said, it can keep people from freezing to death.

    We zoned away many solutions, like SRO housing, because much of it was substandard, but we didn’t produce anything to replace it for the very low income. Even with incentives and tax breaks, the market won’t produce units for people below 50% of the area median income; to get lower than that pretty much requires government funding. Even when the funding can be found, it’s an uphill battle to build the units, because the neighbors don’t want formerly homeless people near their children, and want all sorts of ludicrous restrictions placed on the housing. (Seriously, I heard some doozies when we were modifying the zoning code to allow these units, like requiring no visitors. I kept reminding people that the word for the residents of these units was “neighbors”.)

    The only solution I know is to keep chipping away at the problem by building more housing. Nobody is happy with that solution; it’s never fast enough to reduce homelessness, yet current homeowners will complain bitterly. Developers aren’t happy either, because you have to make them build at least some below market units, and they will tell you that if they have to build below market units, nobody will build anything. Yet somehow, units get built, even when interest rates go up, even when we required them to build more and more deeply affordable units. Still not enough.

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  21. alex said on July 28, 2025 at 7:16 pm

    Deborah, I have a Chicago friend who’s recently retired. We both met at our first jobs out of college. He grew up in Santa Fe and is looking for a place to rent there in the near future. He inherited his mother’s house in Santa Fe and intends to move into it eventually, but has to wait for his mother’s husband to be done with it under the terms of the will, and the husband is still living there independently for the foreseeable future. My friend’s father/current wife also live in Santa Fe and are aging and he wants to be close to them as well but has no interest in living with them. He plans on renting out his condo in Chicago and using the income from that to pay some of his living expenses in Santa Fe. Anyway, if your building is looking for a tenant, he’d make a good one and I could put you in touch.

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  22. Jeff Gill said on July 28, 2025 at 7:26 pm

    Many good comments today; no need on my part to add or agree. Just got done moving my mother into a shared room, as her current room will run out her money by Thanksgiving, but the relocation within the facility gives us to April. Then it’s up to me & my sister. We’ve started the Medicaid paperwork to the degree that we can, but it’s clear that paying our brother to stay with her daytimes on weekdays for a couple years means we’d be waiting at least a year and a half after her assets are gone for any aid anyhow. So we brace ourselves for that possible expenditure, while we wait to hear from staff how she reacts to having a different room after supper tonight. That’s how they recommended we do it; it looks as much like her former room as we could manage. The former woman would have hated having a roommate; as she is now, a) she may not notice she’s in a new room, and b) this person may actually like it. I guess we’ll find out . . .

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  23. Deborah said on July 28, 2025 at 10:11 pm

    Oh Jeff G, so sad, I hope things work out for all of you.

    Alex, I would say it might be ok for your friend in our condo building but both of the people who own units that are currently empty have unreasonable ideas about how much their units are worth, if you ask me. Home costs in Santa Fe are sky high now and have been for a few years, shortly after we bought our unit, thank goodness we got in before it blew up. I will be happy to pass on the info, one unit will be for sale as far as I know and the other may eventually be for rent but who knows?. They are both on the second floor and I’ll be honest it gets hot up there because of poor insulation, in the summer unless they put in air conditioning. Also it’s an historical area so if you want to renovate you have to go through permits that can be time consuming and frustrating. Just trying to be honest, it’s not all peaches and cream, for sure. The condo assoc. is currently going through a permit process to put a new roof on the building and they just completed all new stucco and windows. Daily upkeep on the grounds aren’t great, LB and I do most of it for free because they don’t have money for it in the budget because of the major items that have had to be done because of prior neglect. We do all of the yard work etc because it’s important to us.

    Having said all of that, Santa Fe or Northern NM in general has fantastic weather and a lot of interesting culture so if you’re willing to put up with the less great stuff it can be fabulous.

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  24. Deborah said on July 28, 2025 at 10:32 pm

    OK obviously they made a spectacle of this as they hope it would take some heat off of Trump and the Epstein files. Homeland security barged into the cockpit of a plane when it landed from Minneapolis to San Francisco https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/business/delta-pilot-arrested-san-francisco-federal-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.6s7Q.j1yRUlP-b_Ej&smid=url-share gift article.

    They wanted to make it look like they really care about grown men having sex with children while they meanwhile ignore the Epstein scandal and are ok with a pardon for what’s her name, Maxwell. This is all so transparently gross. If this pilot guy was guilty which he very well may be why did they even let the plane take off with him on it? They had been investigating him for some time. It’s all such a charade, a made for TV reality show instead of real care for anyone. They don’t care about babies after they’re born, they don’t care about children who need to be on medicaid, they don’t care about children who aren’t getting proper nutrition because they’ve taken away SNAP, they don’t care about children who are starving in Gaza, they don’t care about children who get separated when their parents are undocumented, They don’t care about children who need special education, they don’t care about children at all, they pretend they do, anything to get votes. How stupid do they think we are, OK there are a lot of stupid people who fall for their lies but there are a heck of a lot of us who can see right through this. So maddening and disgusting.

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  25. Dexter Friend said on July 29, 2025 at 1:30 pm

    Vancouver, BC, was the 2025 site of AA’s every-five-years convention. Since I have only been to one, the Minneapolis 2000 convention, I considered flying out there, but stopped looking when I saw the miles-long street of homeless encampments on a video, with commentary how free condoms and needles were given out every day. I decided to be an ostrich and stick my head in the sand and stay away from that scene, although Vancouver is a huge city and the drug and homeless area may have been far from the convention hotels and arenas. I remember how depressed I got in Las Vegas to see homeless drug people in tents in 114F heat a few years ago. We have a homeless center here 1/2 mile from me called Dad’s Place, a Christian-based retreat that has garnered national attention because of landlord problems, fire captain issues, that sort of thing. I drive past every day a few times; its right on Main Street around the corner from the big court house. People come, they go, repeat.

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  26. Sherri said on July 29, 2025 at 4:17 pm

    Derek, Vancouver does have a large homeless population, not because of the harm reduction policies, but because it is one of the most expensive housing markets in the world, ranking just between San Jose and Los Angeles. Every west coast city has high housing prices and high homeless rates.

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  27. Sherri said on July 29, 2025 at 5:12 pm

    Here’s my depressing thought for how Trump’s going to get around the Epstein conundrum he’s created. He’s going to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, who will say, Trump? Never saw him with Epstein. But, she’ll say, Bill Clinton, he was there all the time, raping little girls. So, Trump will have the DOJ prosecute Bill, and Hillary for covering it up, and Obama, too, for the “Russia Hoax”.

    Red meat for the base, and they’ll forget Epstein ever existed.

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  28. Suzanne said on July 29, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    Sherri, that’s my fear, too. And it will work.

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  29. Deborah said on July 29, 2025 at 9:43 pm

    This is a juvenile thing for me to say but boy that Bove guy who just got approved for a federal judgeship sure looks like a vampire doesn’t he? I realize he can’t help the way he looks but he also acts evilly so the comparison isn’t so far out.

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  30. Little Bird said on July 30, 2025 at 1:36 am

    Bove looks like a marginally better fed Miller, maybe that’s why he looks like a vampire.

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  31. alex said on July 30, 2025 at 7:03 am

    Bove looks like a menacing goon, doubtless the only qualification Trump considered when hiring his losing defense team for the criminal trial in New York.

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