Just got one of those recorded “Great News! Your loan has been approved!” recorded calls. So I pressed 2 to speak to “an agent.” Then I pressed 1; I guess they don’t want their time wasted as they do mine. One “Adam” answered and I told him to stop fucking calling me twenty times a day. He hung up.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
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Just so painfully dumb. "Once being wrong counts as evidence that you’re right, there’s nothing left in the world that could talk you out of it." www.readtpa.com/p/imagining-...
NB: I have a phone running this OS. A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
Normal stuff. “Dr. Fauci’s lawyer, David Schertler, tried to speak on his client’s behalf. ‘Another word and you’re gone,’ Mr. Paul warned him. Moments later, after Mr. Schertler spoke out again, the chairman ordered a security officer to escort him from the hearing room.”
The whole thing is vile. Trump and his ilk hate women. All women. But especially women whom they rightly perceive they could never have.
No honor among thieves. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...