There’s a whole lot of different takes here already, so I’m just going to plug this very excellent book: Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life and bounce.

This dude is genuinely a nightmare. He’s an outspoken evangelical jesus freak who is explicitly using his position to maintain a deeply unjust water monopoly for his home-town farming community. Every part of his biography reads like he was cooked up in a Reagan-era laboratory somewhere to be the ultimate Republican. In the four years he’s been in his position he’s already completely dropped any pretense of working for equitable water rights. He’s a fully committed weapon for a specific, tiny, hateful little community full of water-thieving land-barons who derive those very same water rights from treaties that they reneged on with the local Native Americans. I hope he stubs his toe on every chair and table he ever passes, for the rest of his natural life.

Please do not solicit medical advice from the internet. If you are concerned, go to a minute-clinic or other doc-in-a-box. It’s much cheaper than the ER, and they’ll tell you if there’s anything to worry about.

Yup. I left at the end of June, and would have left immediately if they had fucked with old.reddit at any point. I only see the site now when it comes up in search results and seeing what Reddit looks like now instantly assuaged any doubts I had about leaving.

You will definitely never see me defend Clarence Thomas, I just needed to point out that this isn’t a partisan thing in this one specific instance. Democrats are frequently bad politicians too, it’s just not a solid requirement like it is for the GOP.

Nah, Menendez is actually corrupt, this isn’t the first time he’s been in trouble for this. New Jersey politicians in particular seem to be just shamelessly corrupt, regardless of party affiliation.

If you are in a situation where needing to barricade your door to prevent your parent’s entry is a regular occurrence, it is probably time to involve child protective services. You don’t need to give details of your situation to strangers on the internet, but I would highly encourage you to go to a trusted friend or family member’s home and contact the authorities.

The tipping point is that he tried to get the party to pay for the coverup for his crimes. He was spending their money instead of raking it in, and they decided to turn off the tap.