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Allegedly, the National Holiday is actually Riolu Day
3 months ago
Over on Bluesky I read that today is somehow Riolu Day. Now, seeing as Charmander Day was a huge letdown but I'm marking it on my calendar, if this is also a thing I'm gonna do that too because Independence Day is fucking lame; hell ya'll stuck in the US reading this might not even celebrate it any more in a few years with the State of the Union.
I fucking despise what the government of the US has managed to become with such a small amount of time. We're not even six full months into this shitshow, I want you to consider that. We don't hit month Six until the end of this month; two and a half weeks from now. Oh and those Tariffs are still coming in hot, since the 90 day pause Trump enacted is expiring and either (1) TACO happens and they needlessly put the US on the backfoot internationally for all trade negotiations this entire year, or (2) TACO doesn't happen and we all get to find out what happens when you put a 300% mark-up on everything coming out of China that doesn't have silicon components or becomes a finished product in the US.
Recently, the Supreme Court has ceded loads of oversight actions in favor of giving the Dictator in Chief a pass on his illegal crackdown of migrant labor who WERE PAYING TAXES, WERE REGISTERED, WERE DOING THE RIGHT THING. If you call ICE on someone? You're SWATing them. But even worse, they won't just get mag-dumped by some jacked-up cop with a funswitch AR-15; they'll get beat, thrown into a holding cell with THOUSANDS of other people, then sent to a random fucking country they aren't even from. It only gets worse from here, IDK what the fuck we are all doing at this point, I don't think anything short of mass violence against ICE and MAGA is gonna be able to reverse course.
The best we can do is show the DNC they're still not interested in what actual Americans want. This new fella in New York's mayorial race by simply existing has shined such a bright light on the corruption and bullshit of the Duopoly between collaborator DNC establishment and the RNC's Trump-huffing bullshit that it might as well be one big party of fucking retards (pardon my french) running the goddamn country, eagerly waiting for the King to tell them what to do. I think it's hilarious that people are unironically thinking this guy is a full blown Communist, that somehow he's an Islamic Extremist and Antisemite, like bro, he posted materials for his pre-primary lead-up in YIDDISH in New York to reach the Jewish Community. That isn't something you just do to spread bullshit, that's real campaign strategy by someone trying to reach a very niche population.
The whole rotting structure is coming down and the worst is yet to come. The recent budget bill is offering such incredible benefits to the average American that about $100/mo in Food Stamps is being cut and $700/year in additional taxes are coming to the lowest earners in the US. This is without accounting for insurance rates spiking, medical coverage being dropped, new work qualifiers for coverage under Medicade/ACA (which btw cut counter to the low income requirements), and broad defunding of rural hospitals. We had a wimpy parade on Trump's birthday showing off how fucking lethargic and under-prepared our military is for conflict whilst also giving people more and more reason not to feel any fucking passion for the country.
If you're stupid enough to celebrate Independence Day given the current state of affairs in the US, I pity you. There's nothing about this country to celebrate, except its accelerating decline into an oligarchical non-democracy the likes of which only our peers in Russia can fucking produce.
Thusly, it's Riolu Day for me.
I fucking despise what the government of the US has managed to become with such a small amount of time. We're not even six full months into this shitshow, I want you to consider that. We don't hit month Six until the end of this month; two and a half weeks from now. Oh and those Tariffs are still coming in hot, since the 90 day pause Trump enacted is expiring and either (1) TACO happens and they needlessly put the US on the backfoot internationally for all trade negotiations this entire year, or (2) TACO doesn't happen and we all get to find out what happens when you put a 300% mark-up on everything coming out of China that doesn't have silicon components or becomes a finished product in the US.
Recently, the Supreme Court has ceded loads of oversight actions in favor of giving the Dictator in Chief a pass on his illegal crackdown of migrant labor who WERE PAYING TAXES, WERE REGISTERED, WERE DOING THE RIGHT THING. If you call ICE on someone? You're SWATing them. But even worse, they won't just get mag-dumped by some jacked-up cop with a funswitch AR-15; they'll get beat, thrown into a holding cell with THOUSANDS of other people, then sent to a random fucking country they aren't even from. It only gets worse from here, IDK what the fuck we are all doing at this point, I don't think anything short of mass violence against ICE and MAGA is gonna be able to reverse course.
The best we can do is show the DNC they're still not interested in what actual Americans want. This new fella in New York's mayorial race by simply existing has shined such a bright light on the corruption and bullshit of the Duopoly between collaborator DNC establishment and the RNC's Trump-huffing bullshit that it might as well be one big party of fucking retards (pardon my french) running the goddamn country, eagerly waiting for the King to tell them what to do. I think it's hilarious that people are unironically thinking this guy is a full blown Communist, that somehow he's an Islamic Extremist and Antisemite, like bro, he posted materials for his pre-primary lead-up in YIDDISH in New York to reach the Jewish Community. That isn't something you just do to spread bullshit, that's real campaign strategy by someone trying to reach a very niche population.
The whole rotting structure is coming down and the worst is yet to come. The recent budget bill is offering such incredible benefits to the average American that about $100/mo in Food Stamps is being cut and $700/year in additional taxes are coming to the lowest earners in the US. This is without accounting for insurance rates spiking, medical coverage being dropped, new work qualifiers for coverage under Medicade/ACA (which btw cut counter to the low income requirements), and broad defunding of rural hospitals. We had a wimpy parade on Trump's birthday showing off how fucking lethargic and under-prepared our military is for conflict whilst also giving people more and more reason not to feel any fucking passion for the country.
If you're stupid enough to celebrate Independence Day given the current state of affairs in the US, I pity you. There's nothing about this country to celebrate, except its accelerating decline into an oligarchical non-democracy the likes of which only our peers in Russia can fucking produce.
Thusly, it's Riolu Day for me.
Other than that I am european so yayyyy Riolu dayyyyy