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  1. On 4/22/2021 at 4:33 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    Something happened to cause him to completely let himself go. 

    My guess is it would be depression related. His off-putting personality would seem to be a fairly clear indication he’s got a pretty lonely existence.

    He still should have been booted from the senate for what happened on January 6th and again for high-tailing it to Mexico while his constituents were freezing to death, but I wouldn’t wish depression on him or anyone else for that matter. 

  2. 41 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

    Most are reachable.

    The ones who cannot be reached probably carry Cluster B personality disorders. Our mental health system creates negative externalities. 

    I will maintain until the day I kick the bucket when it comes to mental health. Every single person in this country needs to have access to a mental health professional at least once a week. If you cannot afford it our government needs to pay for the visit. For those that are wealthy enough to afford it they should still be given a discount on their insurance for going. How many of our domestic terrorists that went off the rails and on shooting sprees were actively talking with a therapist every week? When you have someone that you know you are going to speak to each week that is there to help you it completely changes the mindset of the person. So much of what is wrong with our country is the lack of speaking to one another. We have got to take mental health seriously and providing everyone, regardless of age, the ability to visit a therapist will do wonders for the overall mental health of America. This is not a cheap solution, but it is one we should be pursuing and I think we eventually will do this. You may not be getting a 1000 dollar an hour therapist, but having access to a professional in the field of psychology is something we ALL should have had access to years ago as a country. 

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  3. 18 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

     

    As nice as this contribution is from the congressman, I think he needs to be garnering support in the halls of Congress to find ways to impose fines and penalties on a news station like this one that is telling more lies each hour than a Trump press conference and faces no repercussions for doing so. If you are a news organization, and I do not care which one is guilty of intentionally lying, you have a responsibility to tell the truth. If you are unable to do that you need to start paying some seven figure fines per lie. If that doesn’t deter the propaganda then shut them down so we can fully engage those whose mind has been warped by literally two plus decades of this channel. I may not agree with the opinions of a person who takes all of this in everyday, but I do think they deserve help. Getting accurate news as well as being able to live a normal life that doesn’t revolve around a cult leader is a good start down the road to normalcy.

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  4. 2 hours ago, BBQ2Bayou said:

    I'm going to start seeing a therapist of some sort, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for and there are a lot of different kinds of therapists.  Mid level anxiety and depression, relationship problems, reacting problems and recovering alcoholic. I'm on citalapram now for anxiety and it helps, but I think I need to start seeing someone and I'm not sure which direction to go that would help best. Psychiatry, psychology, other types, that sort of thing. 

    I think you perhaps should think about looking around and see which therapist connects with you. I have been blessed to see a therapist who has over three decades of experience for almost a year now. He works with a variety of folks and his understanding of my life and how autism fits in is invaluable. There is nothing I can tell him that his adult son that is autistic has not encountered.

    Be patient and you will know when you have the right person. There will be a connection and that makes a world of difference in a therapist being able to guide you to a better and more purpose-filled existence.

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  5. 5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I've never been fishing in a place that could realistically have dangerous wildlife (bears) so I could see wanting to have a weapon in those cases.

    I have fished a decent amount I believe in places where the wildlife might be deemed dangerous if you come into contact with them. I never carried a gun. My stance was I am in their neighborhood and I am going to respect the wildlife I encounter. I almost never saw any though when I was fishing. 

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  6. 8 minutes ago, d2o said:

    Sometimes peace of mind is better than money.   He knew this was going to be the ultimate result when he signed that big longterm contract to stay in CLE.  

    I am sure he wanted his final big payday, but man the cost mentally seems to have beaten him down. I feel bad for most anyone when you can tell they are not happy. It can be a homeless person I pass on the street or a multi-millionaire athlete struggling mentally like so many of us have during the pandemic.

    I would imagine if someone offers Cleveland ten cents on the dollar in value to take him they’ll do it this off-season. 

  7. On 4/23/2021 at 6:42 AM, Bookman said:

    For months now, one of my college-educated friends and I have been having a cordial discussion about if massive, massive voter fraud changed the election results. She is in the Lindell/Powell/Guiliani camp.

    We had it out yesterday. There is nothing I can ever say to convince her that speculation is not "evidence." She has her feelings, and she will never, ever, ever change them.

    It's pretty fucking sad.

    Stay positive. People who are convinced they are right while also belonging to a cult are not going to go down without a fight. She did not just one day up and decide to believe lies. It will take awhile, but have patience and think good things in this situation.

  8. 12 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    It’s possible to do it, but oh boy is it going to be extraordinarily difficult to do, especially in police departments like this one. You have to keep pushing for reforms so that cops who do this are out on their backside as well as serving some serious jail time for assaults like that.

  9. 3 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Um wut?

     

    Okay that’s humorous, but you know that mentally the season has worn on him. He is playing with young guys who as yet have not learned how to win. He apologized to his teammates after the game. Takes a big person to do that because some pride is being swallowed.
     

    I think Love should ask for a game or two off so he can mentally get things in order. He has been as open as any player has about mental health awareness and losing is clearly taking a toll on his mental health.

  10. 43 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    that vaping cunt Hannity. 

    What I would find interesting is seeing Hannity actually fight someone. He fancies himself an actual tough guy because he has done martial arts training for many years. I am well past wanting to hit someone. However, Iron Mike is not so put him in the Octagon or ring with him. Let’s see how that goes.
     

     

  11. 2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

     

    I did not worry about Trump a whole bunch, but his presidency was a toxic mix of ugliness towards fellow citizens combined with racist beliefs put in the storefront window for all to see. That toxicity will weigh on a person’s mind and it caused this general cloud of unhappiness to form over the country as a whole. 
     

    Now I look around and see that hazardous toxicity gone for the most part thanks to Trump having no social media outlet. Biden, in comparison, is boring. Boring is an amazing trait for the leader of the free world to have. I’ll gladly enjoy more boring and I suspect most of the country does as well and that includes a lot of people who voted against Biden because they will vote team R no matter what.

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  12. I have very little advice to offer here because your dog was unique to you and your family. I am sure you are taking care of everything even though you and your family are really hurting. Process your grief in the best way you feel that you can and think of all the wonderful memories you have to hold onto.

    I remember having to bury my father’s dog a little over two years after my dad had passed. My parents got her after a doctor messed up a routine procedure and left my father 100 percent blind for the last nine and a half years of his life. That dog never left his side. She would sit with him all day long. When I had to pick her up off my mom’s bed after she passed away during the night from a very brief illness I lost it. I had to take her into the woods where my family buries almost all of the dogs we had over the years. My mom gave me my dad’s favorite t-shirt to wrap her in with some bedding as well. I will never forget how hot it was that morning and how hard it was to say goodbye. 

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  13. On 4/16/2021 at 7:07 PM, Mach 1 said:

    Thanks to whomever recommended Endeavor up thread.  Great show.

    The actor playing Morse is outstanding.  I like how his character doesn't take any shit from anyone professionally, but seems pretty vulnerable in his private life.  Character has a lot of layers I wasn't expecting.  

    Example end of Season 4

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    He's trying to help Thursday's daughter get sorted, and kind of approaches it methodically, then blurts out "Marry Me!"  Wild.  Then she dismisses the poor bastard and he has to swallow it and move on.  Kind of sad.

    Starting off I expected him to be some whiz bang super sleuth that figures out complex cases that no one else can touch.  But that's not really so; he eventually puts the puzzle together but it's with help from others in the department.

    Every episode is creatively different but does follow the same formula, so it's not a binge show, but one you watch once/twice a week.  Highly recommend, along with Line of Duty above.

    It might have been me that recommended it. It’s such a good show. I said it when I first started watching, but the chemistry between Morse and Detective Inspector Thursday is great. It’s like a father/son dynamic. I am looking forward to the last season whenever they decide to release it. Roger Allam is a fantastic actor. I wish I had found him sooner in his acting career. I will likely go back and watch the whole series again at some point. 

  14. 6 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    The only bigger group of pussies is Texas High-School football coaches...who are probably right-wingers anyway. 

    I know a few of these guys. The overarching theme I have always taken from them and their culture as a whole is that they have this mythical belief that they are some combination of Viking warriors on loan from Valhalla combined with an air of self-importance that crosses right over into the level of a psychopath.  I remember one describing himself years ago as being special because he coached high school football in Texas. It's a pretty impressive level of narcissism considering no one outside of Texas, and most people in Texas for that matter, do not care that they coach high school football. The exception of course is if you live in Rotan or Happy or some other town that time forgot.

  15. I’m on my way from East Harlem to get my 2nd vaccine shot this morning down in Queens Village and the bus I connect to in Queens has a person on it whose mind is clearly gone. When it comes to our mental health this is one of the most disappointing things I encounter here. They were having a stream of consciousness conversation about nothing. It was like a Seinfeld episode of every line was a random one pulled from another episode that had nothing to do with the sentence before it.
     

    I see that and just cannot help but wonder how that person’s mind made it to that point and why are they not somewhere receiving help? We have way too many folks who slip through the cracks of society when it comes to mental health issues. We have got to do better as a country to take one of the biggest issues affecting our society head-on. Not caring enough to help those who are all but begging for a lifeline cannot be what we do anymore.

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  16. Satchel the apprehension you have about schools right now I believe is completely warranted. I do not believe any minority family willingly wants to send their child somewhere that can either expose them to racist rhetoric on a consistent basis or perhaps even physical danger. 
     

    I believe that what you might have to eventually reckon with is that there are places where the racism has a far higher concentration amongst the local community than others. I would also say to you though that it can still be found anywhere. It does not matter if you send your child to LSU or Harvard or Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship (A scholarship named after one of the most egregious perpetrators of colonial era racism and destruction of the lives of native southern Africans as a whole).
     

    You are going to find it, but I would say the best thing you can do is trust that wherever your child chooses to go is a place they feel comfortable at and one that you do as well. The world, despite evidence to the contrary in recent years, is becoming a better place and the youngest generation in college right now is part of the solution to stamping out rampant racism. They are just not putting up with it and I think that’s awesome how vocal they are about attacking racism in all its many forms in society. 

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  17. Alright let’s get the process started on getting them admitted. Start the public campaign in the media ASAP and resist the urge to respond to the toxic floor speeches and committee hearings, unless of course the response is you F’d around and now you are once again finding out to those who are against this.

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