Rush Limbaugh Is Dead, Good.

 

Rush Limbaugh died this week and I had no intention of posting about it. My good friend BOB posted a rant about people trolling and celebrating his death online, a pointed out one of our flaws as humans, especially in this digital age where it's so easy to shit on people. I agreed with his post. I hated Limbaugh, I still hate him. People will always tell you hate is wrong, but how can you know love, if you don't know hate and vice-versa. But I thought, why pile on. I know the pain his loved ones are feeling, they don't deserve that.

Or do they? As I saw Republican politicians and "conservative"/"right wing" media praising this man and celebrating his "accomplishments" and showing my sympathy and respect to him than they have for the 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID, or for the Capitol Police Officers who lost their lives from the attack on January 6th, I started thinking about what he actually did. What he said. Who he really was. He was an awful fucking person.

Why shouldn't people celebrate Rush's death. In the 90's, this fucking scumbag had segment on his show, where he read off names of gay people who died from AIDS, while playing bells, whistles and horns, celebrating their deaths. Hate and division were his art and he made millions off of it. 

"You're a foreigner. You shut your mouth or you get out."

"Blacks are 12% of the population, who the hell cares!?!"

"Let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work."

"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals look like Jesse Jackson?"

"Holocaust 90 million Indians? Only 4 million left? They all have casinos, what's to complain about?"

"We need segregated buses."

"The NAACP should get liquor stores and practice robberies."

"Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier."

"Take that bone out of your nose and call back" (said to a black female caller)

"If ant race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians."

"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."

Those are just a very small number of examples of Rush Limbaugh's sexism, racism and hate.   

Limbaugh lead the charge when it came to bashing "The Elites." Wait, what? Yeah, Millionaire, cigar smoking, on the best golf courses, pill popping junkie, five days a week rallied his ignorant listeners to hate "the elites," ignoring that he was one of them.

Republicans and Christian Conservatives gave Limbaugh great praise when he came out swinging and telling people Trump "wasn't a Republican." That was quickly followed by Rush, Christian Conservatives and the vast majority of the Republican Party laying down for Trump like a $10 Russian whore. Limbaugh carried Trump's "Birtherism" lie. He was a vocal COVID denier. And yes, he was one of the many loud voices pushing Trump's "Big Lie" about the election as well and a full throated supporter of the terrorists who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Maybe somewhere in his personal life, Rush Limbaugh was decent, but we never saw it and I find it hard to believe it was there to be seen. I don't want him to rest in peace. He can burn in hell. This bastard brought nothing good to the world and I don't think we should all place nicey-nice now that he's dead. He was a horrible person, fuck him!

Maybe I shouldn't have written this and stayed on the high ground. Does he win by his hate drawing out my anger? No! I've spent the last year using this blog and socially media (mostly) to call out lies, bullshit and hate and speaking truth. Sometimes that means getting in the mud, and I'm fine getting dirty.

What's Bigger in Texas? The Bullshit!

 

Texans love to use that old line, that "Everything is bigger in Texas." What's actually bigger in Texas is their, arrogance, their hypocrisy and their lies...Their bullshit!

For two days now, Republican lawmakers/politicians in and from Texas have been trying to cast the blame of their failures onto, "liberals," AOC, who's from New York, as well as President Biden and Vice President Harris. They are trying to say "green energy" is why millions of Texans have no power. Governor Abbott and Congressman Dan Crenshaw being the two loudest voices, along with Republican news network, FOX NEWS.

What they want you to ignore is the facts. Things that are public record, for anyone to see, as long as they actually want to see and know the facts. They are counting on people to 1. trust them and 2. be dumb or 3. both.

These lying bastards have been telling everyone that the mass power outages brought on by a historic (for Texas) Winter storm is because of the failings of "green energy." Wind and Solar being their top targets, as well as nuclear. What they aren't telling you is 88% of the power in Texas comes from coal and natural gas. Twenty hours ago, wind, solar and nuclear were all back online, while the coal and gas are not. 

They made a big stink about wind turbines freezing up and needing to be de-iced. That right there is what got me looking into this, because up north, wind turbines never stopped working. For example, 14 degrees in Toronto and those things were still going. So what happened? Texas being greatly opposed to government regulations did not choose to implement the de-icing regulation when they put up their wind turbines. As a matter of fact, the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized and taken of interconnected networks to avoid federal regulation. Yet here they are trying to blame the federal government for their failures.

Funny how Republicans who claim to be the party of "personal responsibility" are always looking to blame someone else for their fuck-ups!

Let's also not forget the the many Texas Republicans like Ted Cruz who spent a great deal of time shit talking California for having power issues and rolling blackouts during this past years wildfires. Cruz along with fellow Texas Senator, John Cornyn voted against sending California any federal aide. Both also agreeing with Trump that "Blue States" shouldn't get help, ignoring the fact that "Blue States" carry the bulk of this country's economy. Yet both Senators Cruz and Cornyn were asking for Federal Emergency Funds this weekend before the storm even got bad. The majority of those Federal Emergency Funds come from tax revenue from Connecticut, Massachusetts,  New York, New Jersey and Washington.  

So maybe next time Ted Cruz bitch, moaning and complaining about the evils of SOCIALISM, lets all tell him to shut the fuck up with his LYING and fear-mongering.

I have friends in Texas and I hate to be shitting on their state and hope they don't take it personally, but people, we have to call out the lies. Stop letting the Politicians, their corporate interests and Fox News lie to you.

Ted Cruz is a Lying Fucking Idiot

 

Last night, President Biden signed Executive Orders, reversing Executive Orders Trump had signed into place and of course, suddenly Republicans are against the use of Executive Orders. Odd, since they didn't mind Trump using Executive Orders 218 times in 4 years. Trump and Republicans often bitched about President Obama's use of the Executive Orders. President Obama used it 276 in 8 years compared to Trump's 218 in 4 years. Showing off that lovely Republican hypocrisy I have written about quite a bit since August.

 "It is what it is" right? But then there is Traitorous, lying Ted Cruz. I want to remind you all that Ted Cruz continuously helped spread the Trump lie that the election was stolen and fraudulent, with absolutely NO PROOF! Ted Cruz signed onto a lawsuit and asking the Supreme Court to throw out the Votes from the State of Pennsylvania. He support all the Trump challenges to throw out votes from large black population centers, including here in Pennsylvania, aimed at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. So imagine our surprise here in PA when Ted Cruz tweeted this out last night.

With this statement Ted Cruz has made one of two things very clear...

1. Ted Cruz is a clueless, fucking idiot who has no idea what the Paris Climate Agreement is.

Or

2. Ted Cruz officially announced his plan to be Trump 2.0 and is courting the love and votes of the Trumpism Cult, knowing that most of them are clueless, fucking idiots that don't know what the Paris Climate Agreement is.

Or it could be both which would actually very much like Trump.

So, for Ted Cruz and the idiots, this is the Paris Climate Agreement:

"The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties (countries) at COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016.

Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.

To achieve this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century.

The Paris Agreement is a landmark in the multilateral climate change process because, for the first time, a binding agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects."

Other than the name, because it was signed there, it has nothing to do with Paris. It's about the entire planet, you jackass! 

Ted Cruz would like people to believe that Southwestern PA is still all coal mines and steel mills. That Pittsburgh is like drab, dank scene from "The Deer Hunter."  (side note: a great deal of that movie was shot in Ohio as well as PA, WV, WA and Thailand) 

Yes, Pittsburgh still has manufacturing jobs. Pittsburgh 5 leading industries are Advanced Manufacturing, Healthcare, Financial and Business Services, Information and Technology and Energy. Cruz wants dummies to believe that only means gas and coal, but it's just as much about Solar, Wind, Nuclear and Intelligent Buildings. Pittsburgh has been changing for many years now. As far as "Rust Belt" cities go, it's been well ahead of the curve in adapting and changing with the times. When the housing market took a shit a number of years back and the economy went in the shitter, "Rust Belt" cities got wrecked. But the housing market in the Pittsburgh area held strong and didn't go in the tank, because the region had already started adapting and drawing White Collar industries and companies there.

Having been born and raised in Cleveland, I hate having to defend Pittsburgh, but facts are facts and Ted Cruz and Trumpism doesn't want you to know facts. Including the fact that he wanted every single vote from Pennsylvania thrown out. But suddenly he is pretending to be the great defender of PA from Texas. The same fucking guy from Texas that filed a lawsuit against PA to throw out our votes.

I have repeatedly asked Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley and many other Republican Assholes to come to PA and tell me to my face why my vote and the votes of millions of Pennsylvanians shouldn't have counted. They won't. He won't. Because he knows he's full of shit. Because he's a coward. Trump said Cruz's father killed JFK. Cruz took it. Trump said Cruz's wife was ugly. Not only did he take it, he became Trump's bitch and carried all his lies, misinformation, and treason. 

Every move Ted Cruz has made in the last year and every move he continues to make will be solely to get Trump's support and the support of Trump's cult to back his run for the Presidency in 2024.

Don't trust him. Don't believe him. Don't support him.

Fuck You Ted Cruz!

Sincerely, 

Angry Pennsylvanian 

Hey Erie...Hey Pennsylvania...Trump Doesn't Care About Us

 

Trump came to town this week...They had attendees for the rally at the airport stage at the parking lot of Waldameer Park, not far from my home...Beside the idiotic Erie residents that support this orange faced, lying clown, they also has bus loads of people brought in...This has been a typical Trump campaign move going all the way back to his 2016 campaign...In typical fashion all local stations were masturbating all over this visit, while when Biden was here, only one station broke in and covered his speech....

Trump's speech was his same old song and dance, full of lies, and misinformation and hate...Yes, he pushed his racist claims about saving the suburbs...Which any adult not wearing Trump colored glasses knows, that means, 'Let's keep those Blacks out of your neighborhoods'....But besides his normal, bullshit, he also made it clear he doesn't care about Erie, PA...He just wants our votes and will go back to ignoring us regular, middle-class, (and lower) blue-collar folks as soon as he can...

Hey Erie, this is how little Trump thinks about you...

“Four or five months ago when we started this whole thing, because you know, before the plague came in, I had it made.” Trump said to the crowd in Erie, PA...

“ I wasn’t coming to Erie. I mean, I have to be honest, there was no way I was coming.”

The lunacy continued, “We had this thing won. We were so far up. We had the greatest economy ever, (lie) greatest jobs, (lie) greatest everything. (Lie) And then we got hit with the plague and I had to go back to work. Hello, Erie, may I please have your vote?”

"Had to go back to work." This fucktard thinks campaign rallies are going back to work...Listen you kid fucker, work would have been slowing down the spread of COVID...Not lying about it and letting 221,000 (and counting) Americans die from it...Work would have been getting together with bot parties and getting a real relief bill together instead of one that paid huge corporations, including some of your friends and your own businesses....Fucking Kanye is a legit billionaire and you let his criminal ass have COVID relief money...Fuck Donald Trump!

Trump didn't make America Great...He made a shithole! He didn't drain the swamp...He is the fucking swamp...

#WakeUpErie

#WakeUpPennsylvania

#WakeUpAmerica

Say No! Vote home out!

#VoteBidenHarris2020

Trump Taxes, ND-SCOTUS, Headlines Being Ignored

 

Yes the Trump Tax news has broken and has people excited and angry...Angry would be the proper response, but of course Trumpers and Fox News are still out there defending the Trump for being a criminal fuck!  Luckily plenty of people are pissed and speaking up...not that we will convert the Trumper Cult...

And while Trumpers defend him for not paying taxes, the fact that he doesn't pay taxes goes against so much of the bullshit he gets them all revved up about at his cult rallies...

And we may as well continue to hit the Trumpers with more facts since they are still trying to push the narrative that all the bad shit going on now, IN TRUMP & MCCONNELL'S AMERICA is what "Joe Biden's America" will be like...

The lies and bullshit are maddening and never ending...And there are just sooo many Trumpers that eat it up....I no longer have the ability to feel any sympathy or hope or have any faith that these dolts will learn or change...I have no room in my heart or soul for racists, homophobic, transphobic, Traitor Flag wavers and idiot cult members...They don't want to learn or unlearn...Trump has made it acceptable to proudly be a liar and an idiot and to be proudly and openly racist and hateful...And the Senate has enabled him...

And don't even get me started on that Handmaid's Tale Supreme Court Nominee...You want to know how people view her...She is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School, and ND kind of has a boner about having a graduate on the Supreme Court...But they also no she's bat-shit, cult crazy, so their social media posts pumping her up and patting themselves on the back, they disable the comments...They knew the shit that would be coming their way...

Sports side note: University of Notre Dame has 39 players in quarantine this week, up from 17, because of COVID...You know, because Trump said it's going away...

There is a ton to unpack in the trump tax info, but there is other stuff going on as well...Other big headlines like the "IRS Chief Makes More Than $100,000 Per Year Off of Trump Property"

Or, "Major Hospital System Hit with Cyber Attack, Potentially Largest in U.S. History"...

There is so much coming at about Trump's shady dealings that people are missing a huge Russian hack and forgetting that he lied to us and continues to lie about COVID...That he trashed fallen U.S. military...

Oh, another headline...Juror Says AG Misled in Breonna Taylor Case

UPDATE: New Headline just broke about this...Breonna Taylor case grand juror: We weren’t given the option of indicting the two cops who shot her

 

WTF!?!

We can't stop fighting for real justice for Breonna Taylor and so many others...

As for the debate tonight...I will not be watching...I don't need to be yelling at the TV all night...I know Trump's playbook and I'll just be pissed...I know Biden's playbook...I fear the moderator won't be able to control the back and forth and won't fact check the lies...Nothing said will change my mind...Trump is a criminal, lying asshole...I'm going to pour myself a drink or two and listen to some wonderful music...

Monday Moaning : Meme Nation

 

I've spent the last week in yet another Twitter suspension...What did I do? I called James Woods and Travis Tritt rednecks...Didn't even call them fucking rednecks...These two clowns promote hate on there but I'm not allowed to return fire...Besides that, fucking Trump is still on there every day, spewing misinformation, hate and outright lies...These fuckers running Twitter drive me nuts...

During this past week I started collecting memes and some of those great quick hitter quotes overtop of a image...For a long time politics has been all about the soundbite...Then Twitter came along with 'you've got 140 characters to say what you want to say'...Thankfully that was increased but still, it has promoted dumbing the public down...A tweet is a soundbite...and memes are the same too...It's easier to read a tweet over a full article...Easier to checkout a couple  memes instead watching a documentary or reading a whole book...We should have woken up when morning "news" shows started segments each day with "What's Trending" and started reading Tweets on air...

 And while I hate Trump, he's a master of the Twitter soundbite...So many of us get enraged by his bullshit....So 1. He's getting his rocks off by pissing us off...

Trump knows he's full of shit in that tweet, but he loves that he got attention...He loves that people got pissed...And he just distracted some from the other criminal shit he's doing by talking about his horseshit "jobs numbers"...But 2. He's not tweeting at us or for us...He plays down to the lowest common denominator...his base is 37-40% completely ignorant fucking people (most are also racist) who believe anything he says...They aren't his friends or members of his Golf Clubs...They're the idiot Joe Average Six Pack...And he doesn't give a fuck about them either, he just knows they'll be loud and vocal for his bullshit....

You know exactly who Howard and I are talking about...These are the same people who aren't made that he lied to the public about COVID and are still showing up to his mask-less rallies...Some of them are in lock-step with his lying, whore, Press Secretary and say he didn't lie, even though we have it on tape...

Yeah, I had plenty to say about that lying bitch last week...Here's a LINK...Couple of good memes in that one too...

So, this blog is probably getting too wordy for this day and age...So let me just give you some of those quick hitters to make sure we're all caught up on the news...

.....

Yes, the 19th anniversary of 9-11...We had to have everyone tell us "Never Forget" and show how patriotic they are...But they all don't seem to give a fuck about the nearly 200,000 Americans that have died from COVID...Many because of Trump's lies....They also conveniently forget everything else 9-11 gave us...

Also, NEVER FORGET that your beloved President Donald Trump's administration secretly stole at least $4 million from the 9/11 First Responders fund...I don't have a meme for that...Just plenty of articles...Here's ONE...

Oh, we can't forget about Mr. Pro-Life, Mike Pence when we talk about the COVID lies!

But as we pointed out before, the idiot Trump Cult will follow their masters into death...

We can't forget about the terrible devastation going on with the wildfires out west...Just awful...Luckily we have those Militia boys who love to protect strangers property...

Oh yeah, FOOTBALL SEASON started...

Yes, there are just a large number of football fans that are racist...Their mindset is simply 'You're here to entertain me, I don't care if the justice system treats you differently or if a cop kills you...As long as it's in the offseason.'

More Lies Trump is spewing...

This has been a Republican talking point as long as I've been alive...Well, 44 years later and I have never seen any Democratic President kick in anyone's doors and take their guns...It's a fucking myth...There are a lot of fucking dummies that need to go back to a high school government class...

And we all should be concerned and pissed about this....

Hey, even though the Republican President Donald Trump has repeatedly belittled the sacrifices of our military members, let's not forget that the Republican party loves the troops....

And can you dummies stop screaming about Socialism....

If it wasn't for "Socialism" you wouldn't have roads, bridges, schools, fire departments, Police Departments...Those nifty checks you get each month after you retire and so much more...Grow the fuck up!

Since I mentioned Police departments in that quick rant...Let me hit you with a some more facts...The Thin Blue Line flag breaks Flag Code...It's un-American...It's disrespectful...If another group altered the American Flag for the same people who fly this one and wear this one would lose their fucking minds...

Okay, lets end this with a bit of humor....

The best humor is the humor that's honest...

Have a week..

America, Trump is a Lying Asshole (Mail-In-Voting)

In a previous post I showed the 14 characteristics of fascism to help you see that it was the playbook Trump was using...You can see that HERE...

I had a couple other posts you can see on the sidebar digging into Trump ignoring the CONSTITUTION, violating our 1st Amendment rights and how he doesn't plan on LEAVING OFFICE...But now I feel I have to point out more of his bullshit, because there are some really stupid people in this country that buy into and believe every thing he says...

 Mail-In-Voting...Don't let his word games fool you...Mail-In-Voting and Absentee are basically the same thing...They are both mailed in...

• An absentee ballot is generally used in every state to refer to a ballot filled out by a voter who cannot, for various reasons, physically make it to a voting location on Election Day...And is mailed in

• A mail-in ballot is used more broadly to refer to ballots sent through the mail, including in all-mail voting states and some forms of absentee voting.

 He has been saying how Mail-In-Voting leads to cheating and fraud and isn't safe...Yet yesterday after encouragement from the GOP, he said it's safe and ok to use mail-in-voting in Florida...one of the reasons, Trump uses mail-in-voting to vote in Florida...Side note, his primary vote this year in Florida was technically voter fraud as he screwed up the form, and while voting in Florida by mail he used his New York address instead of his Florida address...In 2017 he also committed voter fraud putting the wrong birthdate on his mail in voting form...His Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany made a similar mistake this year while voting by mail...She has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years...

Wait, what? but he said it's not safe and shouldn't be allowed...Yeah, seems odd...Just like it's odd that Vice President, anti-LGBTQ closet case, Mike Pence has said Indiana's vote-in-mailing isn't safe...Yet Pence and Mrs. Pence both vote by mail in Indian...

Melania Trump votes by mail...Ivanka Trump votes by mail...Jared Kushner votes by mail...

Attorney General William Barr who has lead this charge against Mail-In-Voting with Trump, voted by mail in 2019 and 2012...Trump Campaign Strategist and former Campaign Manager Brad Parscale voted by mail...

Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar votes by mail...Wilbur Ross, his Commerce Secretary voted by mail 15 times in 15 years...

Education Secretary, (this idiot bitch) Betsy DeVos has "permanent absentee" status in Michigan...Kellyanne Conway votes by mail...

RNC Chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel voted absentee in Michigan in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020...Trump staffers, Michael Glassner, Bill Stepien, Nick Ayers all repeatedly vote by mail...

This is typical Trump and his administration spreading lies and misinformation and not realizing this shit is public record and easy information to get...They are openly saying the American people are stupid...They are playing the "do as I say, not as I do" game...

Then you have Trump's Post Master General, Louis DeJoy, who was a huge donor to Trump's campaign, that made it clear he intends to slow down postal service...That's just another move to suppress mail-in-ballots from being counted and/or to deter people from voting by mail and hoping they just stay home on Election Day

DON'T be fooled...DON'T stay home!

VOTE...This Lying Asshole is killing our country!

We Need Politicians to Feel the Pain of COVID19

It is time...There are far too many politicians that refuse to take COVID-19 seriously...And it starts at the top...The White House...This idiot Trump keeps spewing his bullshit lie that COVID "will just disappear"....Child fucker, please!

Now as he has ordered that all hospitals' COVID data be sent directly to his administration and not to the CDC...This is just another move to continue feeding lies and misinformation to the American public...Even worse, to give no information to the public...

Yes, there is a ton of talk about the White House's attack campaign against Dr. Anthony Fauci...It's a bullshit, dick-move, but completely expected from these dolts...The Trump administration takes no accountability and will always try to throw blame on anyone else...Honestly, I don't care a whole lot about the damage done to Fauci...The guy is smart enough to know what the fuck he was getting into, being part of this asshole administration...went along for the ride quietly and never spoke out against the administration when there was no pandemic but they were fucking plenty of shit up...So I got no tears for the guy...

Today it came out that Georgia's idiot Governor, Brian Kemp is overruling local governments' orders that require people to wear masks in public...Kemp said mandating wearing mask in public is "a bridge too far."  WTF!!??!!  This all while cases in his state and all across the country are going through the roof...More and more states have ICU's hitting their breaking point...

Florida, which has lead the charge in stupidity, thanks largely to idiot Governor Ron DeSantis...This guy is a full blown idiotic Trump believer...first refusing to shut anything down...Then when they were forced to, they lead the charge for rushed reopening's...Now they are leading the charge along with Trump and stupid, ignorant whore Betsy DeVos, that schools should be open and fully stocked with our kids come the Fall...While this is going on, of all the children tested for COVID-19 in Florida, 31.1% have tested positive!

This virus that so many talking heads, and corrupt politicians say doesn't affect kids, or has little affect on them, is hitting plenty of kids...31.1% of just those tested in Florida...It has been proven that those who recover are left with permanent lung damage...Some with permanent heart damage...Autopsies show blood clots in multiple organs ass the virus turns blood into sludge...This thing is evil and seems to morph or just has a fuck load of effects...And these assholes want to put kids into schools, where it can easily spread amongst them and school staff, then be carried home...

They expect teachers to not only teach kids but stay on top of them to make sure they are following the guidelines...Think about just the insanity of trying to keep a class of 20-30 kindergarteners to keep their face masks on...Christ we can't get fucking "Karen" to wear one to Trader Joe's or Walmart....

My son's High School has over 2,000 students...How the fuck do you expect that many kids to follow the guidelines...To not goof off, not fuck, not be kids? How the hell do you expect the staff to keep a school that size disinfected every single day?

Then you have the good Mayors, Governors, and other elected officials...The ones like Governor Mike DeWine in Ohio who tried to be proactive right from the start...He has been bashed for trying to keep people safe and save lives...He had to go on TV last night and plead with people to wear masks...

This meme right here, perfectly sums up the ignorance of so many people here in Pennsyltucky as Governor Wolf has tried to battle COVID...

Thanks honey for making us move here! 

So, the way I see it, we need some of these idiotic, stupid ass politicians to suffer from COVID...They need to catch it...Their wives, kids, grandkids, sorry but they need it too...They need to to feel the pain...They need to personally be impacted by COVID-19...Some need to fucking die from it...Then, maybe...Maybe they'll take it seriously...They'll suddenly care about our families if only because they care about theirs...

Yes, even if it impacts Trump's family, he won't give a fuck...He only cares about himself, and when will be the next time he can stick his tiny, orange cock in Ivanka again....


Drink up...it's the only thing getting me through this shit!