Jared Klickstein
@JaredKlickstein
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Semi-literate. Writer. Ex-cretin. Order my book Crooked Smile
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My book is finally available for pre-order! If you've ever wondered what it's like to grow up in a crackhouse, get adopted into a rich neighborhood when you're 12, then become a chronically homeless drug addict criminal for 10 years, then escape it, and then outline a plan on how
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Last night I had dinner with a bunch of rich Bay Area neolibs and they thought the debate was fine. I told them young people and minorities are in a lot of pain with this economy, and they said groceries have never been cheaper and there's an abundance of jobs. I said young
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@HamasakiLaw
Try to normalize the disintegration of life-quality in the most expensive city in the country, and when people push back, attack them and blame the victim for not accepting a level of crime and disorder you deem appropriate. Interesting, ghoulish strategy, sir.
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I am an ex-drug addict. If heroin was found in my dads house, it would make sense to jump to the conclusion that it was mine. I wouldn’t be offended for such an assumption. It’s far from ridiculous to suspect Hunter, bud. But your odd defense of sensible accusations only aids the
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I was arrested in this library for fighting another homeless guy over Panda Express leftovers in 2016, and now they have my book in their catalog. Life is insane. Anything can happen.
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That’s about 150k per homeless person. Could have bought em all luxury airstream trailers and given them 50k cash, not that that’s a viable solution for the ones that are mentally Ill and/or addicted, but it beats a free meth pipe. Where does all the $ go?
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5 years ago today I did my last shot of heroin in a parking garage on 7th and Maple on Skid Row. As a result I now get to sleep inside, not have a constant staph infection, maintain relationships w friends/family, and be a net-positive on humanity. Gonna re-up for year 6
❤️🙏❤️
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@elonmusk
@manofbert
@DavidSacks
Just a few years prior in the same city, I was charged w/ felony assault for defending myself against a mugger by brandishing a knife. Did 6 months in jail/charges dropped. This guy rushes a celeb w/knife - misdemeanor. The DA doesn’t seem to be lenient on victims, I should have
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@nypost
I'll admit this is disturbing, however, I'm still writing Hunter in for president in 2024 like I did in 2020
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@lwoodhouse
None of this is happening, according to my very wealthy friends that live in the Oakland hills. Nice try bucko
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This guy was on fire yesterday. I watched him nail the failures of Oakland’s leadership for a solid hour. His house almost burned down because of a homeless encampment fire that the city still hasn’t responded to months later. “You tax is but don’t represent us”. Great footage
More on the corruption of Oakland's political machine.
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@olivermarks
Yes exactly, it’s just so weird to be that out of touch with the economy. Yes, it’s not terrible, but groceries have gone up a ton, owning a home is near impossible for young people, and yes there are a lot of jobs, but they’re for service positions that will barely cover the
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@BadgleyJason
I told them that most of the people I work with are voting for Trump, and that most of them were also minorities and they gasped that there were even any people in the Bay Area that would consider not voting for Biden
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My Dad passed this morning. Terribly tragic, but I got to be by his side for his last day on earth, which I’m eternally grateful for. He was not perfect, and led one of the most chaotic lives of anyone I’ve ever known, but he was a good man. Loved and respected by all that
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Hello
@ShellenbergerMD
. You’re doing amazing work. I was homeless in SF and later on skid row for years due to drug abuse. So was nearly 100 percent of everyone I ever encountered.
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My new piece for the
@nypost
about the radical transformation of Harm Reduction, the Homeless Industrial Complex, and Gavin Newsom calling in the national guard to SF:
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I was able to get and stay sober for 3.5 years now. I’d love to discuss with you my experience of homelessness in CA. You are 100 percent nailing it, people NEED to know
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@SecBlinken
@POTUS
My family came here from Ukraine in the early 1900's, about a century before it became the managerial class of America's money laundering playground. Just know that we don't do it to protect democracy. We do it to protect the stash house, at the cost of 100,000's of lives, while
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Got laid off yesterday, but todays a new day. Remain positive, and you might find yourself under the wing of a pimp on a blimp
@alexstein99
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Call me crazy, but grandmothers smoking crack shouldn’t be normalized. It’s not a cute image. Crack destroys, it destroyed my childhood. It destroyed my family. And it destroys most family’s that are unfortunate enough to have it enter their lives. This is not beautiful.
A beautiful OPC moment:
In one smoke-room, two 60+ y/o women using crack, laughing & sharing pics of grandkids. In the other, a group smoking weed & playing music w/ a disco ball.
At the injection tables was a lively convo about tucking & chest-binding.
All in 1 room ❤️
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@elonmusk
@DavidSacks
My Dad bought a house at 18% interest before he was 30 as a junkie carpenter. It wasn't an issue because he bought the house for about 1.5X his yearly wage. While wages have nearly stayed the same, that same house has gone up over 10X in value. Why? Is it because we now have to
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@tim_cook
A company defined by planned obsolescence has updated their newest unnecessary phone model to be more “green”. Thank you for your service to the planet, Tim Apple.
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@DavidSacks
@fangpenlin
💯, but why is he doing it? What is the goal, in your opinion? Btw I’m Jewish and it’s absolutely disgusting to call critique of a bad person that just happens to be Jewish anti-semitic. Being critical of Bernie Madoff isn’t anti-semitic, why would Soros be any different?
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@DailyGrail
@elonmusk
@manofbert
@DavidSacks
I mean he assaulted a person. I did not. I literally got sucker punched and mugged and pulled out a knife to prevent further attack and ask for my stuff back. I had half a year of my life stolen from me, whereas this guy got released immediately. Just an anecdotal comparison
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@SenecaSpeaks21
Piedmont lol, listen, all good people, and they hate Thao/Price, but on a national level they’re really out of touch. One of them literally said groceries have never been cheaper. What does that even mean?
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@DeanPreston
Or just instill consequences for bad behavior and punish criminals. You being a landlord, imagine rewarding those that didn't pay rent and punishing those that did. What do you think would happen?Humans react to incentives, and the recent phenomenon of "punish good behavior and
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OPINION: spending millions to give alcohol to homeless alcoholics is insane, actually
OPINION: "San Francisco’s managed alcohol program served its vulnerable population quietly until it blew up on Twitter and Fox News," says Chronicle editorial writer Nuala Bishari.
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@HinsonSaburo
@bett_yu
@KPIXtv
A lot of people are a stolen car away from long-term financial ruin, regardless if they get a check from the insurance company after a couple of months. This guy was a tourist, but for many, not having their car means they can’t get to work and if they can’t get to work for a
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@michelletandler
I was a homeless junkie in SF and Skid Row. I needed to be incentivized to quit. Not only w/ rewards, but consequences.
Build infrastructure for shelter/treatment first, outlaw camping/doing drugs in public, offer mandated treatment/shelter or jail, arrest/deport fent dealers
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@bettersoma
@TheFnVoor
Over my ten years of debauchery, I probably got 24k in food stamps. A generous estimate would be that 80% of it was traded for drugs. That’s about 21k of tax money straight to the cartel, from one person. That’s not even including the General Relief money, which is even more. I’m
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Oakland had a short renaissance period in the 2010's, but was then colonized by failed UC Santa Cruz humanities grads who couldn't live with the guilt that their "education" infected them with for being the most privileged people of a generation. Bay natives on track to inherit
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@NatSecMulligan
All my friends that have dedicated their lives to serving in the intelligence community are deep undercover, and actively trying to put me in a work camp. They won’t even be honest with who they really are, let alone check on ME. I have rough days too.
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@nytimes
I’m Jewish. It’s not antisemitic. He’s a real person who holds an incredible amount of power and it’s ok to be critical of what he’s done with that power. Is it antisemitic to be critical of Bernie Madoff? You’ve watered down this term into absolutely nothing.
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@shellenberger
"I need you to tell me what we need to do" as he walks away with no intention of listening to an actual resident affected by the problem. Nice of him to drop back in CA though, he's been on the road scolding other states for a while now
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@garrytan
lol yeah they only focused on Trump not answering the questions and lying and didn’t seem to notice or care to comment on Biden looking like he was about to let out a death rattle. So odd. But these are people worth millions who pay a couple grand in prop taxes a year and haven’t
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Once you get addicted to meth, a major fork in the road develops for most users. “Obsessed with Hitler” or “I’m gay now”. Occasionally, a true hero emerges that somehow traverses down both paths. I’ve seen it happen 3 times and its as majestic as it is terrifying
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@elonmusk
@zerohedge
It's the best money we've ever spent in Graham's eyes because we're protecting the money laundering playground him and his friends have been playing on for the past decade
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@SenFettermanPA
“If they let us print a trillion dollars to do regime change in Russia I will wear pants”
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My latest piece for
@nypost
about Oakland, California and the impact of a broken voting system, incredibly inept leaders backed by outside money, and radical criminal justice reform.
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@martyrmade
Please do a podcast series specifically on Weimar. Loved “The Anti-Humans” episode.
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@unheard_of_
@elonmusk
@manofbert
@DavidSacks
Full disclosure, I was actually homeless and on drugs at the time, but got clean shortly after for good and am a very productive member of society now. But I got mugged inside a Panda Express and took out a knife to get my phone back and it was on camera and that was that
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@GraduatedBen
How could this be if most major media outlets are reporting the Allen Texas shooter was a far right white supremacist? Would they just diabolically spread misinformation in unison to encourage division? Is that what you’re telling me?
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6 years sober today, that's right, 6 years and 1 day ago was my "not homeless" anniversary, and today is my 6 year sober anniversary. Do with that information as you will.
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@DeanPreston
When I was on foodstamps and General Relief in SF I didn't even hold onto my card, my drug dealer did. It would have been awesome to have gotten an opportunity to go to treatment instead of SF tax $ getting funneled to the cartel while I slowly killed myself in the gutter.
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@lwoodhouse
I've been to drag queen shows. Have friends that are drag queens. They were fun, edgy, non-PC, underground, naughty, adult, comedic, dirty, and awesome. I don't get why anyone would want to mainstream this sub-culture anyway? Wasn't that part of the magic?
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@NicKeaney
I’m a former professional shoplifter. Baby formula is mostly stolen in bulk for the purpose of reselling it to fences, along with teeth whitener, Rogaine, beauty products, and toiletries.
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I went to go help my dad last week and take him home from the hospital (he’s ok). My dad first shot heroin when he was 12 years old, and stopped at age 58. He abused drugs and alcohol for decades, and despite finally cleaning up, his health at age 70 is not great because of the
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My parents after their wedding, Boston, 1976. RIP. Both reunited🙏 I love both of you and will honor you until the day I die❤️ and I love this picture so I wanted to share it with the world.
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Thank you
@shellenberger
. Mandated detox/long-term, comprehensive treatment with psychiatric care and job training for homeless drug addicts that commit crimes and have no agency to help themselves. They deserve a second chance, like me, not a free-pass to die in the gutter.
People think it’s cruel to arrest people whose addiction has led them to break the law, but it’s not. It’s often exactly what they need to get into treatment, say a growing number of recovering homeless addicts including
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@DeanPreston
Are you letting your tenants skip rent? It’s been 3 years. There is no reason for this. The diminishing returns of coddling some of society for no reason for so long will have devastating consequences for many years. And also keep rents high due to the need for landlords to
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At first I was excited to learn that the city of Oakland didn't enforce street sweeping parking tickets on my block. But it turns out that it's because they gave up on street sweeping. Now there's permanent pools of rotting leaves and dogshit water flooding in front of my
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6 years of working construction, spending my nights writing my little junkie memoir. Years to get an agent, more years to get a deal. Rewrite after rewrite, the memoir eventually turned into a public policy book. Thank you
@shellenberger
for believing in me🙏
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@shellenberger
@elonmusk
@georgesoros
I guess I need to start a coalition of other Jews to explain to mouth breathers that being critical of someone doing bad things that just happens to be Jewish is not "anti-semitic"
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My old Skid Row buddy finally got a year sober. He’s thriving. Has a good job, back with his family, and getting his life back together. I wonder what finally helped him?
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As of today, I’m officially not a convicted felon anymore.
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@nytimes
Makes total sense that banks would sacrifice mass amounts of profits to be...racist. Good reporting
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@TheMarinaTimes
@DeanPreston
@christinevans
If you scratch beneath the surface of most local politicians consistently ruining everyone’s life, they seem to be rich kid guilt-ridden landlords. People who know nothing of actual work shouldn’t be entrusted to solve everyday problems.
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One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen was a group of about 100 people at
@SenecaSpeaks21
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@NTOakland
rally, all races, laughing and hugging one another, while a handful of masked "progressive" whites weakly stood in opposition. One ghoul attempted to lecture two Black
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Alameda County (Oakland, CA) is the most pro-gun county in America. You can literally rob someone with an illegal firearm, get caught, and the repercussion is typically an unaccountable diversion program that if you bail on, there's no consequences.
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Some of the greatest authors right now also happen to be some of the greatest comedians in the country
@mikerainey82
@TallentSam
@mattwritesbooks
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8 years ago I wrote a pretty long suicide letter. It somehow turned into a 304 page, relatively funny and positive book. A few people believed in me and today that book comes out. I slept outside on 8/9/2018 for the last time. Now I'm a published author. Only in America🇺🇸
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Many thanks to the
@WSJ
for reviewing Crooked Smile. Blown away by this. It appears they gave it a positive review to boot 😉
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@RobertKennedyJr
As a former homeless drug addict, I think this is a great idea. Have formerly homeless drug addicts consult on housing and drug/addiction policy. Who knows better about what works/what doesn't work than people that got out of it themselves
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@guyfelicella
@bettersoma
@TheFnVoor
Guy, it's called incentives. Like the way you keep cashin' that check and spouting garbage. If the money stopped, it's not like you'd stop spouting garbage overnight. But you'd be a lot less inclined to do so. It's a process, Guy.
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@lwoodhouse
I worked with an adult child like this once, who wanted to abolish prisons. I said what about child rapists? What do we do with them? He said people only do that due to mental illness brought on by capitalism. I said what about a racist person? He said we'd just execute them on
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@LondonBreed
@GavinNewsom
@SFPD
I walked down mission last week. Tons of tables set up selling stolen merchandise and used power tools stolen out of the trucks of hard working laborers. Arrest them. Stop incentivizing bad behavior, and punishing good behavior. It’s literally that simple.
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@shellenberger
I'm not allowed to believe this until Jon Stewart officially says it's fact 😉 thank you, once again, for some real journalism
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Unreal. Brother, how great is our God?
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This is my Aunt/Uncle that adopted me, saved my life, and due to me being a real shithead, didn’t talk to me for 13 years. Last September we rekindled our relationship. The book is dedicated to them, and I owe everything to their sacrifice. This is my life-defining picture.
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This is my high school English teacher that blackballed me from taking AP English. I appealed multiple times to my principal but she vetoed saying “I wasn’t AP material”. She wasn’t wrong; I was a knucklehead. But now I’m her first former student to become a published author.
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@buttonslives
I left CA cuz they shut down AA meetings for Covid but when 50,000 people protested/rioted down Hollywood blvd, the experts said it didn’t spread the virus. Moment of clarity. Plus I like having a catalytic converter
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@CoffeehouseT
Well they actually didn’t say much about Biden’s performance, they just kept saying Trump lied the entire time and wouldn’t answer the questions asked. I mean, maybe that’s true to some extent, but no comment on Biden’s performance at all
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A lot of the younger privileged progressive class want to LARP as working class, which could easily be done - even nobly - by picking up a hammer and working labor. But that would require actual work. So they go into union administration or politics and destroy cities instead
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Got to see the goat this weekend. Although he doesn’t do drugs anymore, the damage from decades of abuse have taken a toll on him physically. Eternally grateful that I got off drugs and am able to be useful to him as opposed to addicted and only cause him stress. He wasn’t
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@lwoodhouse
Why is Tucker the only person still reporting the fucking news? There's 6 real journalists in America, thousands of fake ones, and for some reason Tucker is the only talking head that will have the real journalists on to report actual fucking news once in a while.
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@Jason
@LondonBreed
Being a formerly homeless person in the TL and permanently escaping homelessness and addiction in 2018, I hope leadership is ready to listen to people who lived it, got out of it, and have a rational solution. We’ve been ready to help and look forward to it.
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@LizzyStarrrdust
@shellenberger
Yeah, I actually agree. My point really was to arrest homeless drug addicts that. commit a crime, then quickly transition them into mandated, long term treatment facilities (that haven't been designed yet, but should. Immediately)
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@BadgleyJason
Yeah I mean I don’t work with anyone “Pro-Trump” but I do work with a lot of Asian and Indian people who have half-heartedly told me they’re voting for him. They only anti-Trump people at my work are white lol
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@Cernovich
Through my years of drug use, incarceration, and then sobriety, the amount of veterans of that war I encountered that fell into chronic alcoholism, heroin addiction, and incarceration due to trauma was nauseating. Viet Nam even worse. And those are the ones that lived.
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We made fun of Marion Barry. We made fun of Rob Ford. We called them bad mayors. We didn’t know how good we had it. RIP to both.
🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Investigation reveals Oakland has been publishing misleading crime data for years as Mayor Sheng Thao repeatedly claims crime is down while she is under investigation by the FBI.
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Thank you to the 🐐’s
@mattwritesbooks
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@Shanemgillis
, and
@TallentSam
for giving my book a shoutout on the pod yesterday. Much love❤️
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@ClownWorld_
We’re only a few million free meth pipes away from solving the problem. If only we could give each of them a free studio apartment and a meth pipe, they’d instantly desire to turn their lives around and become the best version of themselves.
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Since getting laid off due to writers strike, I'm really thinking about devoting all my effort into starting a non-profit long term rehab that emphasizes recovery but also sensible job training. Welding, coding, IT, etc. Goal is to leave treatment with a few paychecks and a
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The people we're dealing with are in another dimension of reality. Just take the L. Have some humility. It's very simple, In-N-Out is leaving Oakland because of the crime. It's ok to admit this and take the L. Everything isn't a Blue-Anon corporate conspiracy.
@OakSmith2018
@HellaLuvOak
Lol yes In N Out jacked their prices artificially high so they could close a profitable location in order to...get free advertising? In N Out is literally cheaper than all the other fast food restaurants and notoriously relies on almost no advertising. Who was your Econ teacher,
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@BillAckman
"He was only on Epstein's island twice! And the second time was just to retrieve his blackberry that he left by the kiddie pool!"
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Some people, namely those that are making a pretty penny off of the death and suffering of thousands, are NOT going to enjoy my book. But hopefully the rest of you will.
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I voted for this measure when I lived in Oregon because they said the money would go to building detox and treatment. They haven’t built one new detox in Portland since, but they are building “sobering stations” for addicts to hang out in when they’re too whacked out on meth, and
Analysis: Measure 110 provided Oregon with the funds needed for drug treatment programs - but experts and lawmakers say the issue is tracking down where the millions of dollars are going.
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We live in a Circuit City circa 2006. The managers are stripping copper and loading their PT-Cruisers with stolen office supplies. The FBI is HR, but they're in on it too. Grab a few staplers before you get laid off!
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