Stegget

Five years ago I could get a foot long spicy italian combo with chips and a drink for less than $10.

... and by putting himself in contention for public office he has elevated his position in society to require actual malice for purposes of a defamation legal suit. The bar would be lower if he was not running for public office.

As a public figure he would need to prove actual malice to win his defamation suit.

Clone Teddy Roosevelt.

I'm you but still on the dating apps. So glad I got out of my marriage to that insane excuse for a woman, but man is the current dating landscape an absolute shitshow.

When the world has gone to shit sometimes you gotta focus on the only shred of fun or respite you can get. I too am looking forward to the distraction of football, if only for a few hours every week.

Modern dating apps are my personal hell.

Z U N E

She abused me for 15+ years. I feel no sympathy for her.

I'm happy to say I'm in a much better place, more stable with the brightest outlook I've had on life in years. Getting divorced from her and her bad choices has sent my life in an upward trajectory. My only lament is that she is a pitiful mother to our son, who deserves so much more than she can offer him.

Equal parts narcissism, bad company, deteriorating mental health and poor decisions. I had a whole thing typed up, but I've aired this shitshow elsewhere before. The short version is she has been a problem at every job she ever held, so she opened her own bakery and proceeded to drive it into the ground within about six months. She hung out with some shady people who did shady things, and got wrapped up in her own wants and desires. She eventually walked out (after hitting me on camera) when I wouldn't give her my car so she could go "work" (i.e. swing by her crack dealer's place). She stayed away voluntarily for about a week or two before I found out about the crack usage; after that I told her she couldn't come back and filed a police report for the domestic battery in order to protect myself and our son from her. Took me a while to admit to myself that I was stuck in an abusive relationship for 15+ years.

Or sometimes they already have a good life (house, kid, spouse, dogs, x2 cars and stable support) and instead they decide to burn it all down in favor of a two-week crack bender. She drained our bank account, caught a DV charge and we are now divorced, thank fuck.