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  1. 4 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

    It's not that discussing the shooting's politics is wrong, though it's possibly premature.

    It's that I do not want slews of terroristic events to truly have clear political undertones.  Maybe "denial" is the word for it.  When we live in an America where this happens and our President can't resist stoking division, I don't know what comes next.

    Oh, I know what comes next.  I know very well.  Not to go all Brisket here, and I certainly haven't been vocal about it on this site, but I have called every fucking step of the deterioration of this country since that asshole got elected.  The only thing that surprises me is how fast it's all happening.  I've promised my husband to wait until after the midterms before having my next meltdown but I'm not hopeful.

    And oh yeah, this synagogue in Pittsburgh is my SIL's home congregation and I am dreading like hell having to call her.  Chances she knows the victims hover right around 100%.

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  2. 15 hours ago, Nivek said:

    You presume too much.  Trumpkins hated ObamaCare but loved the Affordable Care Act.     They cannot be reasoned with.  They don't have any idea what those words mean.  

    You know sometimes when I want a laugh, I ask a Trumpkin to please explain to me the definition of one of the following concepts:  "liberal", "communism", "conservative", "collusion", "socialism".  Or where Venezuela is and why we don't want to turn into them.  

    But not too often.  Because the answer usually makes me more depressed than anything.  Also, try asking one of them who Soros is.  They don't know, except that he is someone who makes them very, very, very afraid.  

     

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  3. Some goddam asshole motherfucker took my rainbow Beto bumper sticker off my car.  I hope whoever did it receives the full negative karma reserved for those who take rainbow Beto bumper sticker off cars.  Fuck you, asshole.  

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  4. 7 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Austin morning radio has been harping on the olds to get out and vote, and not be complacent.  Scaring them by insisting that the millenials are going to vote en masse, and take away their medicare and health care choices.

    You know what's really, really, really funny about that contention?

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  5. 59 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    Small matter of her driver for like twenty years being arrested as a Chinese spy plus the possible leakage of Blasey-Ford's name for starters.

    Meh.  What's a spy among one's closes confidants and advisors, much less drivers,  when one is high up in the federal government.  What else ya got?

  6. Client of mine was crowing yesterday about how much he liked Trump because he was a "hell of a dealmaker".  Despite the fact said client is a pecan farmer whose business is destroyed this year because of tariffs.  This client is an (allegedly recovered) alcoholic without two brain cells to rub together but still.

    I see Feinstein has moved into "lock her up" territory.  Has anyone explained why she should be locked up?  Other than the fact that she is a Democrat?  And a female?  Sorry, I'm out of the loop on that one. 

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  7. 3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    The wild card for the country would be if someone cunning enough can sweep in to take the Trumpite reins and keep the country's future in a tight downward spiral.

    This has been my fear all along.  I mean, Trump is an absolute moron and he's got more than 1/3 of the populace.  Get someone in there with half a brain and it could get really, really bad.

  8. I am not gruntled.  Maybe it's the eternal pessimist in me.  But like Troph, this Kavanaugh thing has me rattled.  I mean, how in the blue hell could that cluster have COST the Democrats?


    No don't answer that.  I already know. I see it every day.  It's kind of not fun walking around and knowing that statistically, 1/3 of everyone I see would consider me a liar, a con, a freak, a Soros shil, a loony, a liberal propagandist operative, and a fraud if I told my story.  Anyway we'll find out in a few weeks.  Operation M12/M12BH pop-up office is in full swing over here.  

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  9. 51 minutes ago, horncyclist said:
    1 hour ago, M12BH said:
    Beto popup office people are invading my home as we speak.

    How many will you have?

    Well this is going to be going on 9PM to 6PM five days a week, and they will be phone banking and organizing block walks.  So I think it's going to be variable.  Right now we just have an organizer here - apparently they have more offices than they do volunteers and it will take them a few days to catch up processing volunteers.  If you know anyone who wants to work out of the 360/2222 area in Austin, ping me and we'll get you over here.  Special bonus attraction, the office is my music room that's been temporarily converted.  So if anyone is musically inclined we can jaw at my guitars and maybe drag out some of the amps.  I wouldn't be opposed to a little after hours jamaroo if anyone is so inclined.   

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  10. Was out last night wearing my Beto pin as usual, and had people come up to me as usual, wanting to know where I got it, how to get one, blah blah blah.  The sentiment behind the conversations carried a lot more gravitas yesterday.  Especially with the women.  Several of them were crying when they told me that they too supported Beto and that they wanted to get involved in his campaign, and that the last week had been intolerable.  I knew exactly what the deal was with them.  I could see it in their eyes and I know they could see it in mine.  They are galvanized.

    But here's my biggest concern:  I am still in shock and disbelief that the Kavanaugh thing has given a bump to the Republicans. I don't know why I'm shocked. You'd think I would have learned by now, but I keep waiting for that one thing that is going to cause them to turn.  I think it has finally sunk in emotionally as well as intellectually that 1/3 of our country would break the law, ignore the constitution, protest the holding of elections - whatever their orange cheetoh god commands.  Because liberals and democrats are worse than Russians, they are worse than Nazis, they are worse than terrorists, they are worse than anyone.  So if we have to keep kids in cages and lie about it and ignore the Supreme court, that's OK.  If we have to keep women down by whatever means to protect our boys, then it's OK.  Kick them out of their jobs if they are a threat to men. Mexicans are all rapists and leeches.  No more Latinos in this country.  Muslims are all terrorists.  Can't be Muslim in the U.S. anymore. Two term limit gonna endanger making America great?  Ignore that rule.  I believe 100% that Trump's minions would support these positions.  And get enough crooked and biased judges and crooked, power-hungry Congress members, and it's not so farfetched that these things could happen.  Not tomorrow or next week or next year, but certainly within a generation, two at the outside. 

    Couple these positions with the elimination of the social safety nets, which is the stated goal of many Republicans, and the continued gutting of the public school system, which is already happening, and the possibility that a great many citizens will not be able to afford healthcare, which they are trying like hell to make happen and who knows where we go from there.  I think it's something of a coin toss between a new Facist regime or a new pre-revolution France. And oh yeah, there's the anti-Semitism part.  I told M12 as far back as Trump's campaign that sooner or later it would come around to the Jews because it always does.  Then of course on Friday we got the Trump Soros tweet and the Grassley reinforcement.  Does Trump believe that shit about Soros?  Maybe not, but that's not what matters.  What matters is the neo-Nazis are now ecstatic that the President of the United States has validated one of their narratives about the wealthy left-wing Jews secretly pulling the strings behind the scenes.  Yep, right on schedule. 

    OK I kind of got off on a tangent there, but that's how important I think these midterms are.  It's now or never.  Our spare bedroom Beto popup office opens today, and we already have some campaign people here. They are all so young and confident.  I feel very old and tired and jaded.  I've never felt this threatened or helpless before in my entire life.  Maybe some of it is the re-experiencing of what happened to me (it's in the Trump thread if you missed it, I'm not gonna repost it here).  But I think most of it is not fear of the past but fear for the future.  These next 31 days are, I think, going to tell us the direction our country is going to move for at least the next 50 years.  And, like I always say when I go on a rant like this:  I hope to hell I'm wrong.  But to drag out another old tired analogy, we are the frogs in the pot of water that is just starting to warm.  I don't want to be in it when it starts to boil.

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  11. 10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, I'd guess it's one of two things -- misogyny or anti-intellectualism.  Both hallmarks of the right, both reprehensible.

    Anyone who is somehow so unaware as to doubt the legitimacy of a PhD should be shunned.  I guess there's a slight chance they were mocking the field of study, but that's only one step less damning.  Plenty of people equate psychology with "counseling", though, in a negative way.  You know, maybe slightly more rigorous than "African American Studies".  #ivorytower

    Yeah, I was too busy screaming at him and telling him to go pound sand before I blocked him so I didn't follow up on that particular line of thought.  I was just so shocked.  I've known this guy for two decades and though we've always had different politics, we've remained good friends.  Now it seems he's gone all in on the far right Fox/Rush/Hannity koolaid but in a mean way.  Among other things he told me I needed a lobotomy.  Nice, huh?  And posted a picture of some women grafitti-ing Kavanaugh's house and held me responsible.  Nice, huh?  And you know what, "MERRICK GARLAND DIDN'T GET HIS HOUSE GRAFITTI-ED, SO HOW'S THAT FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS YA DIZZY BROAD, WHY ARE THE LIBTARDS SO RADICAL???"  Ugh.  Good riddance. 

  12. 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

    for real, though, thanks for sharing. we may all be a bunch of assholes around here, but we care about each other, mostly. 

    my ma has told me stories about being literally chased around her desk by her boss in the 80s. i'm sure she has worse stories, but she's reached an age where she sadly says things like "what did she expect?" 

    we need to get past that mentality first, i really think. yes, sometimes women find themselves in compromising situations. okay. so what? that doesn't mean that they are less a victim, because a man presses an advantage. that's the first milestone we need - to empower women into thinking they did nothing wrong when they are victimized, because that is the biggest specter over the whole issue, imo. 

    it's the guilt the victim feels. 

    Oh, fuck the 80s, for lots of reasons.  Something else that set me off - I posted my thoughts on the Kavanaugh testimony on my Facebook page and was immediately reminded why I stay away from politics in that cesspool.  A guy I've been internet friends with since the AOL days immediately went off on me to the point that I unfriended and blocked him yesterday.  One of the things he said that caught my eye was referring to Dr. Ford as "a so-called doctor, and I use that term loosely". I've seen that characterization a few other times in the last couple of days.  I mean, what the fuck? Because she came forward with a story about sexual assault, that somehow negates her PhD from the University of Spoiled Children, and her research and publishing work at Stanford?  Can someone smarter than me please explain?  What does any of this have to do with her credentials?  Are words like this meant to denigrate her further, to say that because she dared to be a slut at 15, and to ruin a choirboy's life during the pinnacle of his professional success, that she shouldn't be referred to by a title that she has earned by both education and profession?

    Seriously.  I don't get this one. Someone please splain.  

  13. 9 minutes ago, sachick said:

    So much this. This resonates with so many women. We can accomplish so many things but still be treated like a sexual object or less of a person that a  man.  It's just the lack of respect and it's so infuriating. Thank you for sharing. I think the more women share their stories, the more men in our lives will realize how prevalent the problem is.

    I consider myself "lucky" in that I've never been raped or assaulted if you don't count that time my cousin hugged me a little two long in a way that wasn't very cousinly, or that time I drank too much and had already passed out/"went to sleep" and a guy I was crushing on joined me in bed and we started making out and stuff. I didn't say no but I wasn't exactly all there either. There's also all the times I've been grabbed in clubs and bars. For women, that's just a given. So I'm not really in the statistics of women who have been assaulted but I know a lot of women who have been assaulted and I can empathize. Women aren't going to make this shit up. There's also a lot of us with grey stories like mine. Was it assault when my cousin touched me? Was it assault when some guy came to do things when I obviously wasn't all there? But I do know it was morally wrong.

    Holy hell if I counted the times I've been groped in clubs...well I might have an easier time counting the stars.  Yeah, I know, I played guitar in a rock band, I dressed like a slut, I sang dirty lyrics, blah blah blah.

    Yeah it's the lack of respect that is the worst.  I was brought up to do and be anything I wanted, never mind the fact that I am a female.  I have a very strong, very ahead-of-his-time father, who absolutely would not let me put up with any shit from any stupid stinking men. I was instructed to kick them in the balls, figuratively for sure and literally if needed, and stand up for myself and do what I wanted.   I think it's no accident that my profession and avocations are all in male-dominated areas, nor is it an accident that my sister is a surgeon, a job that is still a bastion of men.  But today none of that matters.  Today I'm less.  Because I my privates go in rather than out.

    I guess I should mention the good guys. My dad.  My husband.  One of my two brothers.  They guy who almost took my virginity until I chickened out at the last minute and I was so embarrassed and apologetic, and he said it was ok and then took me out and bought me french fries at McDonald's.  I'm ashamed that I don't even remember his name (told y'all, I'm old AF).  I know y'all are out there.  But today you don't matter.  I'm sorry to have to say that, but nothing much does matter today. I'm having to force myself through work, which involves finalizing a financial plan for someone who has jillions of dollars. I may have to actually take some time off today and reschedule our meeting.  I can see it now.  "Hello, Mr. XXX, I'm sorry I have reschedule our appointment.  You see, I'm having a mini-breakdown today brought on by past sexual trauma that is resurfacing because of the political atmosphere in this country".  Yeah, that will go over great.  Actually this client is a gay man so he might be a little more sympathetic than I would think.  

    But seriously.  I know most of y'all are assholes n shit but you are helping me today.  Thank you.

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  14. 9 hours ago, troph said:


    So wanted to go to this, had a client invite me too but we’re out of town this weekend and some shit gone down with my kids and my baby other momma so it didn’t happen. Glad y’all made it though. Missed Lord Huron at Stubbs too, grrrr.

    Oh bummer, especially about Lord Huron.  Hope things settle down for ya.

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