Reality check - it’s absolutely bizarre that a country you live and work in as a functional member of society would decide that you are now banished to a foreign land that you have no knowledge of. As American, imagine being drop-shipped to a small village in Uzbekistan with no money, clothes or google-translate. This is wicked-fucked up torture.

She waited 72 hours. The last living rescue was less than 24 hours after the flood.

We don’t pay government to provide services, we pay government to support political functionaries and their appointed staff in their role as thieves of our taxes.

Small government for ®'s is no spending on services. Small government for (D)'s is no limits on spending for things we all agree we need (with all of the overhead of the R’s).

I guess I would rather have the one where I get some basic level of service from my government but I can’t claim to like it.