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my hellenistic wiccan ass: YES. HE DID. WHY ELSE WOULD HE PASS RIGHT AFTER JD VANCE. HM????

Now I'm not saying that JD Vance killed the Pope, per se. I just think his actions raise some questions, like for example: Did JD Vance kill the Pope?

IT’S RELEVANT, IT MATTERS.

My uncle, regarding the accusations of sexual harassment and assault against Donald Trump: “Well, there’s no proof. But even if he did, so what? Most politicians have done bad things. It’s not relevant to his capability as President.”

It’s not relevant, hm? (I did not know how to convey to him how awful and scary it was that he said this.)

It doesn’t matter that the President, a person in a position of major power, has been known to abuse that power to hurt women? It doesn’t matter that he’s a predator – and predators are selfish and thrive on the fear of their victims? Those girls that he hurt, they don’t matter? Their pain doesn’t matter?

What if it was me? The niece you’ve known since she was a little girl? If he, or any man like him, hurt me, would that not matter? Does my unfortunately extensive experience with sexual harassment not matter?

(Though thankfully it’s never escalated to assault for me. But it has for so many others.) Why isn’t human pain something that matters?

Quando minha mãe estava em coma, as personagens de séries me faziam companhia nas noites frias na UTI.

Essa profissão importa. Importa muito.

"Well I think that we all just need to carry on doing what we're doing, because it really is company, for so many people." - Sarah Lancashire, Royal Television Society Programme Awards, March 2023