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Gotta say I got a letter from the IRS today. Got freaked out a bit, I just figured I did something wrong reporting crypto and they were coming to arrest me. So I opened it up and it was a letter from president Biden telling me he put money in my account for the stimulus thingy. Didn’t people freak out and say “how dare” when the last president did that? I don’t give a shit either way tbh. I am giving a portion of my stimulus to a homeless shelter and a food bank. Selective outrage again, maybe Joe wrote it nicer than whoever the president was that created the uproar sending out the other checks. At least Biden isn’t a racist. As long as you don’t dig into his history and listen to a few of his speeches in the senate. But people don’t do that anyway, it’s obvious Joey has not a racist bone in his body. I’m putting the rest of my stimulus on that special olympics dude running up the stairs

I must've missed all the uproar about who did what or put whose name on whatever checks.

Silly me... I tend to get distracted by more trivial matters like inciting violence on the Capitol and spreading bogus election steal rumors.

BTW... good on you for putting your stimulus check to humanitarian use. Mother Theresa would be ever so jealous.
And cute with the mother Theresa comment good one. You should add Florence your buddy Beanerschnitz. He liked that one but for whatever it’s worth I’ll tell you my thoughts on that. I hear quite often, and I include myself in this, why doesn’t the government do something about this and then all the BS talk starts about which party snd how much money etc. it’s seems to be a regular thing which I am guilty of myself. And so easy to point and say what is wrong with what. One day I asked someone I was having that type of conversation with what they themselves do to help the situation. They said, “I pay my taxes it’s not my job.” Then i posed the question to myself and honestly I wasn’t doing much either. Unfortunately I can’t be a professional philanthropist but I could do much more than I was. After working at a homeless shelter I saw how much they can do with a fifty dollar donation. Quite frequently I’d be working by myself, someone would buzz the front door and drop off 10,20,50 bucks or a pack of socks or a pound of coffee. I thought it was really cool and I felt kinda bad I didn’t take the time to do do stuff like that. Maybe the answer to some of these problems are simpler than we think. What if everyone in town who could dropped off 5 bucks a month? I mean you don’t have to give a lot. Those small donations were much more consistent than the big checks. So yeah I changed a few things so I could do a little more rather than just bitch about things. I wish I could say I give a lot but that would be a lie. That shelter is now redoing three floors that they have been unable to do because of asbestos. I wish I could write a check cover the whole thing. That is actually housing for forty people if my math is correct. So yeah my wife and I have a side gig selling stuff online. We picked a percentage to donate every month and if we end up with a little extra from trading or in this case joe joe Biden’s stimulus wtf, add some more. I have a feeling we the people can make a much bigger difference if we do a little something about all the shit we bitch about. Volunteer work to which I’ve done, sometimes a few hours put in is more needed than money. That gets difficult managing time but it’s not impossible. It’s not about being mother Theresa, people who are willing to dismiss their lives for others don’t come around that often. It’s just doing at least a little something, but with all the racists around it doesn’t happen much.