i had my shop vac delivered today; canadian tire. it was like 70% off, so i paid the $10 delivery fee. it's still cheap.

i went to sign for it. i'm wearing a little red tank top, and the guy looks at me,

here's your shop vac.

he's laughing at me. hot tranny wants a shop vac. is she working on her corvette down there?

i bought a vacuum and i bought it to clean my dirty basement, because it needs it. you fucking dick. 

but i want to actually take the opportunity to address this, and this really goes out to the cis-ladies more than anything else.

you have been taught to use your sleek lady vacs, with their curvy attachments and their slender bodies and you know the truth - they often don't work. you've been frustrated with these things, repeatedly. admit it.

is a shop vac a boy vacuum? is it for vacuuming like a man?

that's fucking stupid.

a shop vac is a high powered vacuum for very dirty spaces, for wet spaces and for messes that have larger items that you'd have to pick up with your dainty hands, no doubt in gloves, if you use your dainty lady vacs.

trust me, ladies - if you get a chance to use a shop vac, you should jump at it. if you have one in your garage, go get it. use it right now. it's the best fucking vacuum you'll ever find. you'll never go back. you'll be using it to suck up all that shit in your doorway and around your kitchen in no time.

and if some loser wants to challenge your femininity over it, you should kick him in the balls.

you know the one.

there is no such thing as somalia.

somalia does not exist.

somalia does not exist because the somalis do not want it to exist.

stop pretending otherwise. adjust to reality and create reality-based policy positions.

somaliland exists, it is a democracy and it should be recognized as such and supported by the west.

the status quo in east africa is unsustainable. claims of "somalian territorial integrity" are laughable. the closest thing to a government in somalia is the brutal, bloodthirsty islamic/fascist terrorist network, al-shebaab. 

i do not recognize the legitimacy of al-shebaab and i reject the territorial integrity of any islamic fascist group attempting to administer itself as a state.

somaliland declared independence 35 years ago. it's a sovereign country with a functioning democracy.

instead of blathering about "territorial integrity", the united states should be arming somaliland. the west should be picking a side in this war (which is dormant, anyways), but we won't do it, because we're beholden to the fascist governments in the region. they can go fuck themselves.

this small democratic enclave needs our help and we should have given it to them eons ago. we now have the opportunity to make the right choice and be on the right side of history, but we will fail to do that, as we have continually done since dhimmi joe biden flushed the foreign policy legacy of barack obama down the toilet in a startling display of orientalism and racism.

the old song gets it right.

if you arm eritrea then you won't have to pay her and everyone can go home.

we should not just recognize somaliland, we should arm it and even send it troops to help it fight the islamic fascists off and restore democracy to the region.

but we won't.

the underlying implication is that these muslim dictatorships are in full support of the fascist terrorist groups fighting to keep somalia in the dark ages.

the unstated context is that the arab world uses somalia as a source of slaves and that any sort of government, democratic or not, would upset the remaining arab slave trade, which continues to act as a source of necessary cheap labour in the gulf area.

israel is a taking a bold step, here, to advance democracy and human rights in the region and i would hope that canada would recognize somaliland in solidarity, but i'm not holding my breath.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-security-council-to-convene-emergency-meeting-on-israels-somaliland-recognition/