Here’s Lefty, who is a dwarf gourami, pictured with some neon tetra friends lurking in the background as well as a panda cory acquaintance:
He’s called “Lefty” because his political identity is based on opposition to whatever nominated or elected Democrats and their supporters do. If you took his policy wishlist and made it the party platform, he’d just keep moving the goddamned goalposts. Don’t even try to bring him into the fold — this fucking fish will never be satisfied because he doesn’t derive satisfaction from political victories but rather from feeling morally superior to the likes of grubby, compromised you.
Nah, I’m just kidding — the fish is named Lefty because I have two male dwarf gouramis (not recommended), and they dislike each another. In a manner that is remarkably mature for fish, they divide up the tank between them. One fish, Right Side Fred, lives on the starboard side of the tank, and Lefty lives on the port side.
The photo doesn’t fully capture the beauty of his colors, but trust me, he’s gorgeous. And yes, I am aware I have a snail issue. Open thread!
LAO
I read that as “Right Said Fred” which was confusing but I thought extremely funny.
Anyone notice the RW twitter meltdown over the Vogue cover and Statute of Liberty?
Its super funny.
West of the Cascades
But, damn, your first explanation was spot-on.
efgoldman
The ad to the right is
That Susan Rice – she’s a wiley one.
Amir Khalid
Guess what earworm I’ve got now.
Victor Matheson
@LAO: I bet Right Side Fred is too sexy for his tank.
LAO
@Amir Khalid: You are not alone!
bystander
Heather Nauert alert: She’s condescending live on MSNBC right now. I’m going to watch imagining a young Catherine O’Hara doing this on SCTV.
Geeno
@LAO: I don’t get it. Why don’t they want the Statue of Liberty on a magazine cover?
Jeffro
I am seeing AP reports that Trumpov has (at a press conference? some other speech?) said, “You can ask the question” of whether or not McConnell should step aside as majority leader(!!1!) Now THAT’S strategic…not.
LAO
@Victor Matheson: Obviously.
efgoldman
@LAO:
Obligatory
rikyrah
Lefty looks cute :)
Nicole
I love gouramis! I had oodles of them in my fish tanks as a child. Their inner ear developed into a sort of lung, which is why they need to breathe at the surface (due to natural habitat being slow-moving water). I think that’s cool.
I think a lot of so-called extreme leftys are pretty racially prejudiced; they just don’t want to admit it. Ergo why they are content to demand an impossible ideal- because letting the perfect be the enemy of the good keeps them on top.
I read a comment somewhere yesterday on how the Democrats lost after RFK’s assassination, when they gave up on the economic populism and embraced the cultural shifts as their main focus and blah blah blah, and I thought, “No, you dumb shit; they lost when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, because this country is fucking racist and so you get punished for doing the moral thing.”
LAO
@Geeno: Neither do I, but they are really, really angry about it. The replies are genius, though.
Major Major Major Major
Can anybody explain to me the Sanders/single payer shitstorm that I’m sure is soon to swamp my social media feeds? He’s doing like an official, name-taking litmus test?
Jeffro
Love the fish Betty but now I’m going to have Kevin Kline’s “Otto” voice in my head all afternoon…it might turn out okay, though…
burnspbesq
@LAO:
No kidding. They do have them some thin skins over there, don’t they.
bystander
Meme alert (while I’m on alert): Bill Clinton’s gift of nuclear reactors to North Korea is the reason we are on the brink of war. It is surpassing the story about Hillary’s sale of 20% of the nation’s uranium supply to her pal Vlad.
efgoldman
@Nicole:
And in fact LBJ said so, straight out “We’ve lost the South.”
LAO
I cannot stop laughing about this. I can’t wait to read the Douthat column about it.
Quinerly
Apologies if this has been posted. Longish Rolling Stone piece on Gorka: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/sebastian-gorka-the-west-wings-phony-foreign-policy-guru-w496912
Yarrow
@LAO:
I’m sure that’ll go just as well for them as the wingnut comedy industry.
lamh36
Hmmm i may have to stay up late for Colbert on Monday? or someone at BJ can so we don’t have to ??
Stephen Colbert On Anthony Scaramucci Booking: “We Set Out A Mooch Trap” – Update http://deadline.com/2017/08/stephen-colbert-books-anthony-scaramucci-monday-late-show-donald-trump-1202145974/ via @deadline
Major Major Major Major
@bystander: I was wondering how this was going to be a Democrat’s fault.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
It’s like the old standard of Freudian psychoanalysis, when it was always the mother’s fault.
TenguPhule
More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson’s effort to scale back North Korea red line
These idiots are going to get a lot of people killed.
LAO
So-called leader of the free world:
Chyron HR
GO TO JAIL.
TenguPhule
@bystander:
George Traitor to his Country Bush just disappears down the memory hole.
drkrick
@efgoldman: LBJ was optimistic. He said we lost the South for a generation as the last few Baby Boomers were being born.
rikyrah
@Jeffro:
He’s so phucking clueless.
The Turtle has been doing blocking for him. He really doesn’t get what would happen if the Turtle took his thumb off the scale and said ‘ get at him’.
No.damn.clue.
tobie
@Major Major Major Major: If–by magic–we switch to single payer, will employees see their wages rise immediately as employers put the dollars they used to spend on the company’s health insurance plan into salaries? I doubt it…which means that for 70% of Americans single payer will mean a really nasty tax hike. I feel like I’ve been saying this till I’m blue in the face but why won’t any Dem talk about the Bismarck model of health insurance, used in Germany and Switzerland? It would be the easiest way for the US to transition to universal health coverage with minimal disruption to the economy.
Betty Cracker
@Jeffro: Jeebus, hadn’t seen that! But Trump has been dragging the Senatortoise on Twitter, so I’m not surprised. I’m sure it’s just a super-brilliant negotiating tactic, kinda like how threatening the planet’s other nuclear-armed loon is a brilliant opening gambit to achieving world peace.
@Nicole: I didn’t know that about gouramis’ inner ear/lung! How bizarre! I do know they dislike currents and prefer to hang out at the surface. The flow from the filtration system creates a bit of current in the middle of the tank, and that seems to form the dividing line between their territories. They do encounter each other when chasing food flakes, and they’ll charge and chase, but no serious fights, thank dog.
gene108
@LAO:
It is interesting right-wingers now hate the Statue of Liberty.
If I was in a better mood, I’d laugh ? ?
dedc79
Should’ve gone with Nina.
Mnemosyne
@Nicole:
I just linked to a tasty rant on exactly that subject. It’s a keeper.
Roger Moore
@Geeno:
Because she’s pro-immigration, and Democrats had the nerve to point that out.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Major Major Major Major:
The Manafort raid is driving all the guilty parties into distraction and deflection behaviors.
Frankensteinbeck
@Betty Cracker:
What’s funny is, I’m pretty sure the Republican Senate caucus hates McConnell by now, but they’re still going to be infuriated by Trump trying to tell them what to do. It might help McConnell keep his job.
different-church-lady
No batlight here. None at all…
Major Major Major Major
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: This started earlier.
@tobie:
Because “single-payer” is a shibboleth, not a policy.
Mnemosyne
@LAO:
I want this Twitter commenter to be my new BFF:
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Too bad they’re not going to be included.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@tobie:
That was the model the ACA provided, until SCOTUS allowed the red state governors to block the expansion of Medicaid – the government subsidies for the poorest – because it would hurt “those people”. Leftists are a bunch of low info idiots who haven’t a clue about what single payer means, and how it bakes in 2nd class citizenship for women as long as abortion isn’t allowed. Also as if somehow the all white male conference to write the health care bill for women wouldn’t also be making decisions on what gets covered under single payer.
gene108
@TenguPhule:
Yup
Calouste
@Jeffro: “Now that my friend is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain’t gonna be me.”
tobie
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m going to keep that line handy for future use. Thanks.
Calouste
@Roger Moore: Good thing they didn’t point out she’s French.
Alain the site fixer
This post reminds me of an old goldfish I had in a pond. Upon arrival, as I was acclimating him, I put the bucket on the table and went to get my smokes and came back, and he’d jumped out and landed on the hot brick patio. I hurridly grabbed him and put him into the pond. After a tense minute or two, he began to swim. “Phew,” I thought as he descended a bit oddly.
I assumed he was still shaking off the drop/splat onto the brick. But no, he never recovered. He could only swim in corkscrew patterns and so we named him “Sideways Guy”. He was a hoot – plucky, healthy, and as large and happy as the other two similar goldfish. Sadly, I returned from a work trip one afternoon to find a neighborhood cat had speared him with its claws, just about to start eating him. I chased kitty away, but Sideways Guy was not for this Earth. So I buried him in the garden.
LAO
@Mnemosyne:
Different topic — but similar sentiment:
gene108
@drkrick:
Dems didn’t really start losing in the South until the 1980’s, which picked up in the 1990’s.
There was a generation of inertia in the system that kept Dems in office in the South throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s.
We are really looking at one generation of Republican rule in the South.
TenguPhule
@rikyrah:
Trump has avoided any real consequences for his actions his entire life.
This needs to change.
tobie
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I still think the ACA can be made to work, if some fixes are allowed, but the Republicans will never hear of this and the left will brand you a neoliberal shill for suggesting this. Sigh. I just heard Trump on N Korea and it’s so alarming that hardly anything else seems to matter at the moment.
gene108
@tobie:
Because the German / Swiss model will not lead to the utter destruction of for profit health insurance companies, which is the first step towards the glorious social$ist revolution.
Seems for some lefties the destruction of for profit health insurance is as much a goal as universal coverage.
Walker
@gene108:
Virginia is nearing solid blue, Georgia and NC are turning blue. In NC’s case, with a lot of kicking and screaming.
SC is probably hopeless for the long term, as are the gulf coasts.
TenguPhule
@LAO:
Its a sad testament to the times we live in that this would be a vast improvement over the current situation.
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: I’m getting “THIS IS NOT A TYPICAL DATING SITE!”
Yeah, tell me about it…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This is bewildering to me
I gather FoxNews is already all over this– and McLaughlin’s responses are all ODS ranting and raving, of course– but I don’t understand Obama- (and trump-, TBF) hating paleocon Nichols’ comment– I assume the “revenge” is for Flynn? or Obama trusting the CIA estimate over theirs? Leaving him aside for the moment: the new theory is that Obama knew about the nukes in 2013 and ignored them. Only the DIA knew, not those peaceniks at the CIA, not the South Koreans, the Japanese, nothing leaked out from China or any other Pacific powers, and then then the DIA kept them secret until trump’s approval ratings dropped below 30. Anybody get out of the boat in Fox waters ?
rikyrah
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Obamacare was the largest expansion of the American Social Safety Net that DID NOT IN ITS DESIGN..(unlike Social Security and Medicare)
Exclude huge swaths of the American populace.
It took the John Roberts Court to do that.
Ocotillo
Listening to right wing radio yesterday, so you don’t have to. Hannity was calling for Turtle’s head for his failure to get Skinny repeal through. Said Mitch should have taken chairmanship’s from Murkowski and McCain, no mention of Collins for some reason.
Focus on the Family is besides themselves that the filibuster continues to exist. It’s not in the constitution you know. They also were on the Judge Roy Moore for Senate bandwagon.
Call it undue optimism but I think there may be a genuine case of Republicans in disarray going on.
Matt McIrvin
@Walker: GA and NC can probably cheat, gerrymander and vote-suppress that transition away for a good long time, though.
Major Major Major Major
@tobie: the lefties in question will brand you a neoliberal shill for using a brand name Kleenex after sneezing, once democrats are back in power we can fix the ACA and their opinion will be less valuable than a warm bucket of spit.
Matt McIrvin
@rikyrah: And a whole lot of state governments.
Fortunately, the effort to use the people in that hole as evidence that Obamacare is a failure and therefore everybody else must be thrown into the same hole has not worked well so far.
different-church-lady
@LAO: Does anything get more “Telltale Heart” than that?
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: “Does anyone know where I can get facial tissues that are gluten free?”
catclub
@LAO: One more word and I am STOPPING THIS CAR, NOW.
Miss Bianca
@LAO: My God, that is hilarious. And the hits just keep on coming! Do these guys ever delete tweets out of sheer embarrassment? Or is that too much self-awareness to expect?
LAO
LAO
@Miss Bianca: You need to follow the thread to see exactly how deep a hole he dug himself.
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
was that when most of their underground nuke tests were still failing? Actually I think they said one was a tiny yield on purpose – which was not considered believable.
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
shauna @goldengateblond
·
Amen.
catclub
@bystander:
Funny how George W Bush’s fuckups get so quickly forgotten. I would have blamed Carter.
A Ghost to Most
I’m a bit surprised that Right Side Fred didn’t toss Lefty out and take the whole damned tank for hisself.
The BernieBros were holding purity court in WaPo comments today; I was wondering why.
different-church-lady
@Nicole:
I think they’re just clueless, sheltered, and utterly UTTERLY blind to systemic racism. They don’t hate minorities, they just don’t have any in their social circles and won’t even try to identify with them. And then concoct narratives that cover for it. The world consists solely of their personal experiences and all their political theories are based on that.
Betty Cracker
@Walker: Florida isn’t hopeless — at least not for the prospect of Democratic governance, I mean, though the wingnut interior and panhandle will make it tough to achieve a Democratic statehouse.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
“Rand Paul says we can sidestep Roe vs Wade. SIGN THIS PETITION”
Cole, you need better ad sponsors.
The Moar You Know
@drkrick: LBJ was pretty much the last person anyone would accuse of being an optimist, but in this case he was – I think we’re on Gen 3 of Unrepentant Southern Racist Fuckers and they’ve gotten worse, not better.
rikyrah
@Matt McIrvin:
Without that decision, the only thing those states would have done was submit waivers for the different kinds of Medicaid programs that they were going to set up. Not IF, but WHAT KIND of program they would set up.
MILLIONS were denied healthcare because of John Roberts.
catclub
@tobie: Thingle-payer?
Brachiator
@LAO:
Yes! Sometimes followed by “Blame Hillary.”
Miss Bianca
@LAO: oh, I have been, believe me. Which is tricky at work, because I’m totally wanting to LOL.
AnonPhenom
The “You don’t live in this house, shut up! If you don’t show up to help me with house chores when I want, you suck!” strategy seem to be working as expected…
Good luck with that.
tobie
@different-church-lady: I was recently at a breakfast joint where someone asked for a vegan, gluten-free breakfast burrito. I’m not sure what that would be.
Ian G.
Lefty is the name of my father’s sun conure that I’m trying to get the in laws to take, mainly because I don’t want to have to take on a pet when I’m about to become a father, and because my in-laws are nearby and retired and would like a pet. I just need to convince them of the joys of bird ownership.
TenguPhule
I hate these stupid fuckers so damn much.
A Ghost to Most
@rikyrah: Ramen as well
Why do “conservatives” hate America?
LAO
@Brachiator:
Seriously — I should get back to work, but:
ETA: Must click on pic, to fully appreciate.
gene108
@Walker:
I think SC had at least one Dem Senator until either 1996 or 2002.
Georgia had a Dem Senator until 2002.
Alabama had a Dem governor in 2001, before he got in legal trouble.
Edit; not that long ago Dems got elected in the South
TenguPhule
@tobie:
Corn tortellia with beans and rice.
Miss Bianca
@different-church-lady:
I think this is actually one of the most cogent explanations of Lefty-Whiteyness that I’ve ever seen. And their blindness to systemic racism – and their utter, knee-jerk defensiveness when it’s pointed out to them – is part and parcel of the system. Le sigh.
kindness
I put a Loach in each of my tanks and that took care of the snails. One Zebra & one Clown. The Zebra Loach is better at it.
trollhattan
Gouramis are beautiful and interesting, being anabantids and building bubble nests. Dwarfs are relatively mild-tempered compared to others and I’ve found do best in trios or larger numbers in heavily planted tanks.
I’m sad because today I lost Darth, my favorite and one of my oldest koi at roughly nineteen, older than my kid. He/she (one seldom knows except around spawning time look for who’s chasing who) was looking pale and not his exuberant self–Darth was always the first in line for chow, the first to explore some new pond situation and the others always followed his lead. They’ll have to find a new leader of the pac…school now.
Mike in DC
The Nation has a new article citing “research” that “confirms” that the DNC wasn’t hacked but it was, instead, an inside job. Curious about what actual cybersecurity folks think. My BS detector is pinging loudly though.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
I’m enjoying the “right-wing fashion spreads” that one of the commenters keeps posting to the thread.
Mnemosyne
@Mike in DC:
If it was an inside job and the worst they could come up with was that some staffers were getting slightly impatient with the Sanders campaign, that’s even more pathetic.
Sadly, I’m assuming the article is by a Seth Rich Truther trying to prove the DNC murdered him to prevent John Podesta’s risotto recipe from being revealed to the world.
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: I agree, at least, this is dead-on for the ones I know.
@Mike in DC: That article reads as so much fucking flim-flam, just on a prose level. I haven’t had time to read it read it yet, but it’s oddly fixated on Guccifer not doing it, which is just debunking something nobody thinks happened.
A Ghost to Most
@TenguPhule:
Think of it as money wasted by them, right into the site.
SFBayAreaGal
@rikyrah: It would be so fun to see that happen
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: for some reason, I’m particularly partial to this one.
ruemara
@dedc79: That donuts and water debacle needs to be front pages. It’s repulsive. I am sick of Nina Turner and every Bernie Bro/Our Revolution asshat.
@different-church-lady: They know minorities. 1. Of each type. They’re close, have similar views, economic classes and educational levels. So they’re convinced they don’t have bias’ or bigotry. Lately, many white liberals I know are learning I’m not just their black friend, I’m a fully fledged person who doesn’t agree with them and is sick of their fuckshit. The left needs a massive reckoning slap. You’d think a goddamned NeoNazi autocrat would be one, but nooooooo. Also, fuck Nina Turner. She’s another Cynthia McKinney and I left the Greens over her nutcake self.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
That’s the American Dream, baby. The American Dream.
But good point. Even saying that Trump is privileged would be insufficient. And his ability to avoid consequences is matched by his arrogance, infantile insecurity, and clear signs of mental instability. It is also telling that he abuses presidential authority to construct an even bigger wall against consequences for himself and his immediate family.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
John Larson (D-CT) on MSNBC taking about (bipartisan?) move to expand Medicare buy-in down* to fifty. I think this is a winning issue (and I turn fifty next month, so….)
ETA: *Stabenow’s bill from last week, with half a dozen co-sponsors, called for buy-in to start at 55.
different-church-lady
@dedc79: Whiniest Revolution EVAH!
trollhattan
Oh FFS.
different-church-lady
@dedc79:
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: That is a hell of a recipe. I know I could get stabby over my lemon pepper seasoning recipe getting out. Or my orange sake smoked tofu.
Kay
Isn’t Tillerson amazingly…unimpressive?
CEO’s are taking a real beating the last 10 years, I must say. WILDLY over-rated :)
There’s some false bigotry of low expectations going on here, or something. We need a skills gap review of our human capital, pronto. Starting to think the problems are mostly at the tippy-top of the wage scale.
germy
So now I learn that “Diamond and Silk” (the anti-Hillary duo who are often featured on Hean Shannity) were paid by the drumpf campaign.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker:
Well remember he “…is like, you know, a smart person”. Best words and all that.
germy
You come at the Senatortoise, you best not miss.
Mnemosyne
@Miss Bianca:
Here’s another person who needs to come sit by me:
Jeffro
@Calouste: LOL. “When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room…accept no substitutes.” Love that!
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyne:
That was every known flavor of delightful. Thanks for linking.
Mnemosyne
This shirt from TeeFury is topical again thanks to the alt-morons.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Now, I am going to #expressmyunpopularopinion and say that there is something very, very odd about sending out donuts and water. If all you have is water, no coffee, you don’t send out donuts, just the water. I said it, I don’t care who reads it.
That said, Nina Turner has gone nuts. She lost the Ohio SoS race, by more than 20 points, to an R who is one of the most ambitious vote suppressors in the country. Maybe take the fight to him?
also, too, this is apparently sincere?
Good to see Ellison’s got priorities, too.
Immanentize
I’m not trying to hijack this thread, even though it is proving wide open, but I have not had a chance really to be around to update my situation. For those interested, Mrs Imm has now moved from active therapy to pure palliative. It has been a weird week in which everything went in the wrong direction. Cancer is wicked smaht. We are hoping she can be stabilized for home hospice care which, thank Dog, s a well oiled machine in the Boston area.
The Immp is coming home from Texas this evening and much discussion will follow. Everyone here has been so kind, supportive and constructive. Thank you all.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Have you selected an onion for your belt yet?
Betty Cracker
@ruemara: Didn’t Turner lose her last election by more than 20 points? Why does anyone give a shit what she has to say about politics, doughnuts or anything else? Instead of running her mouth, she should run for office somewhere, WIN, and then come back with something worth hearing.
A Ghost to Most
@The Moar You Know: Not just the South. I could introduce you to some people in WNY that would scare the hell out of you. McVeigh wasn’t from the South.
Jeffro
@Mnemosyne: That is sweet – thanks for the link!
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
You — and every commenter of color on this website — have my full permission to invoke me as your One White Friend who disagrees with those white people and thinks they’re morons.
(Edited for clarity about who the morons are.)
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@Mnemosyne: Thanks! Bookmarked for later.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“Be sure to ask Mr Trump about his chocolate cake”, said one White House staffer
ETA:
Ha! Still deciding between a sporty red and a more cosmopolitain Vidalia
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: Oh damn, I am so very sorry to hear that. Please know that you are in our thoughts, and if there’s anything we can do to help, just ask. Will be thinking of you.
schrodingers_cat
@Mike in DC: Nation has been carrying water for the Russians/Putin, see Cohen Steve.
lollipopguild
@A Ghost to Most: I think deep down they want a right wing version of the old soviet union. One party(them) running things and having total police state control of everything. Freedumb!
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@Immanentize: (hug) I am so sorry.
schrodingers_cat
@Immanentize: {{{{ }}}} Hugs to you and yours.
Mnemosyne
@Immanentize:
I’m so sorry. It’s a terrible diagnosis to have to come to terms with. Lean on your friends and family, including us.
I wish peace for your family and a pain-free transition for Mrs. I.
raven
@Immanentize: Oh I’m so sorry to hear this.
TriassicSands
Do tell, Betty, how did you determine the bow of the fish tank?
Jeffro
@TenguPhule: @LAO: Oh good, glad to see the GOP Klown Kaukus is weighing in and egging Donnie on.
I guess they haven’t figured this part out (and it’s not really complicated):
– Trumpov rants and keeps threatening
– DPRK decides to show it’s serious and lobs a single nuke at/near Guam, or Hawaii, or L.A., or as far as it can (doesn’t even really matter)
– Trumpov gets wound up and decides its time to light up DPRK (conventionally, nuclear, doesn’t even really matter)
– DPRK launches everything it has (conventional and nuclear)…10 million South Koreans and the world’s 11th largest economy go up in smoke…10 million Japanese and the world’s 3rd largest economy go up as well…
And that’s all if we’re lucky, and China and/or Russia don’t launch.
It’ll be unthinkable right until it happens.
rikyrah
@ruemara:
I hear you. BOY, do I hear you. Every inch of the mockery being thrown her way is deserved.
Immanentize
I’m really not ready for this, but what the hell, not much to do but experience the ride.
rikyrah
@ruemara:
THIS.
If what you see before you since January 20th doesn’t convince you..I ain’t got shyt to say to you.
Major Major Major Major
@Immanentize: So sorry to hear that.
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
50 would be amazing. The number of people it would help……A lot of people in that age group and a bit older, are staying at their jobs because they don’t want to wind up like my sister- retired, but paying the equivalent of a luxury car note monthly for health insurance until she turns 65.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@rikyrah:
There was one group deliberately excluded — undocumented immigrants. Immigration reform would have fixed that, but thank you, Marco Rubio.
germy
from wikipedia:
eclare
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry.
A Ghost to Most
@lollipopguild: Yep, and a theocratic one-party at that
trollhattan
@Immanentize: Oh my word, please accept my fondest thoughts for your entire family.
Miss Bianca
@Immanentize: Oh, Imm, so sorry to hear it. I was so hoping for a good outcome for Mrs.Imm and you. {{{ }}}
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Immanentize: my wishes for peace to Mrs Imm, you and your family
rikyrah
@Kay:
Don’t know if it’s fair to judge CEO’s by him….Dolt45, yes…but the Secretary of Exxon?
It’s not like he actually wanted the job.
I will NEVER believe that he expected to be in this job 6 months later. I simply don’t believe that.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: This Trump the coward here; likely he gets it so he’s attacking McDonald as a bluff to hide Trump’s fear. Remeber in Trump world there are only WINNERS and SAD low engery betas, no allies.
rikyrah
@germy:
Black folk knew that they were coons on the pole…no shock in the least.
rikyrah
@germy:
You come at the Senatortoise, you best not miss
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Sorry to hear her therapy wasn’t effective, we’re never ready for that ride. Feel free to lean on us as needed.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
So sorry, Imman…
Sending your family positive prayers.
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: Not much else you can do except try to be strong for her and the Immp. And don’t forget to take care of yourself as best you can. You’re in our thoughts, friend, and we’re here night and day.
LAO
@Immanentize: whatever you need, from a faceless, nameless stranger on the internet, just ask. Because everything you and your family is going through, is the worst. Just the fucking worst.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
My god. Norah O’Donnell promising a “really stunning” flow of words from trump on North Korea, Iran and other subjects. Iran not living up to the “spirit” of the nuclear agreement”. “Let’s see what [Kim] does with Guam”–, so our policy is, “Oh yeah? dare ya!”
Riley's Enabler
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry to hear this, Imm. Sending white light and peace to the ImmClan for the duration. Safe travels for the Immp as well.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Immanentize:
Oh no. OH NO. So sorry.
ruemara
@Immanentize: This is no threadjack. I am so sorry. Blessings and love to you and the Immp. Sweet passage to Ms. Imman. Tremendous sympathies.
A Ghost to Most
@Kay:
When I started my career, the average CEO made 20 times the average worker. Now it is 400 times.
I’d like to see the estate tax upped from 40% to 80%, to claw back some of the ill-gotten gains.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker:
That is comforting. And a bit scary….
Everyone has been so helpful.already. J, my wife, and I have a tight bond and we have been able to work through this together pretty well so far It’s our son we fret about. He hasn’t done anything to deserve the hurt he is about to experience.
Gravenstone
@Geeno: At a guess, they’re pissed off because their soulless messenger boy Stephen Miller let out their little racist secret about how they really view the Statue of Liberty (symbol of white power). So now they get embarrassed when they think they’re being called on it.
Shana
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry to hear that. My thoughts are with you at this difficult time. Hospice can indeed be a good and comforting thing.
A Ghost to Most
@Immanentize: Here’s hoping Mrs. Imm can be kept comfortable. Remember to take care of yourself as well.
dedc79
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
If they had provided lobster: “You think we can be bought off with lobster?! How insulting!”
If they had provided just plain water: “You ask us to show up and all you give us is water? No food?! How insulting!”
If they had provided beer: “You think we’re here to get drunk?!? How insulting!”
Alain the site fixer
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry to hear that. I’m entering my own family cancer issue. Thoughts and prayers with you and yours.
lollipopguild
@A Ghost to Most: Yes, they would make sure everyone worships their gods of gold, guns and unborn babies.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh God, what if he invokes the “Christmas Story” double-dog dare?
SiubhanDuinne
@Immanentize:
Imm, I am more sorry than I can say to hear this news. As with greennotGreen, you are extremely generous to share Mrs. Imm’s condition and your family’s tough decisions with your BJ community. I hope your wife is granted much pain-free time, and I wish you, Mrs. Imm, and the Immp all strength and comfort. Gentle {{{{{hugs}}}}} to all of you.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alain the site fixer:
Very sorry to hear that, Alain. You and your family are in my thoughts.
Alain the site fixer
@SiubhanDuinne: thanks. Nothing like Imm’s case, but still, the big C comes ripping into your family, doesn’t it?
efgoldman
@Immanentize:
Nobody is, really.
Shit.
Aimai
@Immanentize: I am so, so, sorry, Immanentize. You will both be in my thoughts.
efgoldman
@Immanentize:
Nobody, but nobody, even the nastiest evil people, “deserves” it. Nobody asks for it. Nobody. He will do what he has to do, which probably will include some acting out. Hugs and patience all around.
rikyrah
@Alain the site fixer:
Alain. So sorry. Your family is in my prayers.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Summer in Washington DC is hot and humid. Water was probably the best idea.
Yarrow
@Immanentize: Oh, gosh. Just saw your comment. So sorry to hear the news. Wishing strength and love for you and your whole family.
Sloane Ranger
@Jeffro: But only foreigners will die, and brown ones at that, so it’s all good. In fact it gets rid of economic competition so it will help MAGA.
Ok, there will also be massive casualties among US troops in Korea but they’re all volunteers and will willingly give their lives to the cause because the troops love me – Trump.
Snark, just in case there’s any doubt.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alain the site fixer:
It does indeed. Fuck cancer.
Sloane Ranger
@Immanentize: My thoughts are with you.
satby
@Immanentize: I’m so sorry it’s been a bad week of results and news. Our best wishes for comfort and pain free days to Mrs Imm, you, and the whole family on this journey.
spudgun
@Immanentize: Extremely late to this thread, but I just saw your comment right now so hope you see this – I am so, so sorry…coming out of lurkdom to send you big internet hugs.
Argiope
@Immanentize: Another lurker here to send you and your J and Immp much Light and energy for the time ahead. Immp will of course be changed for a lifetime through this experience—but perhaps not entirely for the worse. My family lost a parent when we kids were just barely into our 20s. We still hate it that it happened, 21 years later, but the manner of its happening–at home, with hospice–left a lifetime of love and a lessened fear about dying. The love and connection and resilience that you adults have for one another does filter into the yoot. Loving, gentle care to you all. We jackals are rooting for you.
Mnemosyne
@Immanentize:
If I can tag onto what Argiope said just above me, in an odd way your Immp has an opportunity to really make peace with his mother in a way most people never get to. My husband and I lost our fathers within 6 months of each other and we each have lingering questions about the past that will never be answered now.
So I would (gently) urge both your wife and the Immp to have that difficult conversation they’ve been avoiding about whatever lingering hurts and resentments they still have between them, because this is a chance that very few people get, and most of us regret missing it.
And, needless to say, you should take the same opportunity to make sure that nothing is left unsaid between yourself and Mrs. I. It will make both of you feel better.
Argiope
@Alain the site fixer: Sorry to hear this, Alain. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better verb than ripping in this context; it’s so apt. We’re doing the cancer thing again too, and it can be so, so hard. Know you aren’t alone.
StringOnAStick
@Immanentize: I am so sorry, I had hoped for a better outcome for your whole family. Peace be with you and yours.
Nicole
@Mnemosyne: That was a good rant. Thank you for sharing it.
tybee
@Immanentize: damn
Denali
@Immanentize,
So sorry to hear this.Wishing you and your family strength and peace.
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
I came back to this thread in the morning and read your sad news. You’re all in my thoughts, and I hope you find the strength to deal with what comes ahead.
J R in WV
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J R in WV
@Immanentize:
I’m late to B-J today, heavy rain killed our Internet service till after dark, so I’m late to your update.
I’m so sorry to hear your news.
We’re all with you in spirit, please keep us informed.
Hospice is a miracle of compassion, so I know they will be a huge source of support for all of you, and especially for Mrs Immanentize.
Best wishes from WV !
TaMara (HFG)
@Immanentize:So late seeing this, but let me add my support during this time. And you should feel free to look for support any time in any thread over the next few days.