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Gatorubet

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  1. Rules. Dammit man!!
  2. Tariffs speech in Oval Office about to drop
  3. Why is the dog crying?
  4. I don’t think that Trump would ever try the VP president scam with JD Vance. Vance would tell him to go fuck himself - he’s the president now! The problem with Trump not having any loyalty to anyone is that he naturally assumes that no one will be loyal to him. He wouldn’t be.
  5. Oof! Certainly not the consult news you were hoping for MIA. I think a second opinion is always a good idea. But I do not think a second opinion from some local oncology surgeon should trump advice from MDA. Maybe Sloan-Kettering consult or some such? it is hard to comment because you had to have asked him or her what the chances were if you did or didn’t, and the percentages and so forth. If you mentally tuned out the second he mentioned amputation - then maybe you should write down some questions and get some of those details worked out before you see a second doc.
  6. There are many many different chemotherapy drugs. Each one of the individual drugs has different side effects. As always, people react differently to the same medication. And then there is the fact that individual dosages will vary as well, as the dosage can change symptoms. I did my chemotherapy mostly by pill, so for several weeks I would take them twice a day. I felt generally tired and had horrific diarrhea on the pills.. Every three weeks I would get the ox infusion which would lead to cold sensitivity in my hands that was so great I had to put on gloves to get things out of the refrigerator. The first time I felt it I was at the freezer section of the store and when I grabbed whatever I grabbed, it was so blindingly painful that I dropped it on the floor. And my jaw would cramp up every time I started to eat. Then it would go away after you were eating a while, but if you stopped eating (like - to listen to a conversation), the next time you took a bite your jaw would cramp up again. And sometimes your throat would feel like it was closing and you were choking, but that was a false sensation Because your throat and airway passages were not actually closing and you could simply ignore it until it went away
  7. to me the unfortunate tie in between Christian evangelicals and MAGA smooth brains is the way they so readily completely abandoned the need for critical thinking. I’m going to use a Mormon example, so maybe not evangelical but it perhaps shows the example better. Even though Joseph Smith was not writing things down 2000 years ago, but during a time of Americans knew him and wrote about him and what he said and did, the need to believe in an inherent truth of his teachings is the same as need “The Bible says it, I believe it, that ends it! “ for LDS people, they are absolutely prohibited from going online or reading books that discuss some of the verified truths about the book of Mormon. For example, they have the original one, and they have the one they hand out today. There have been hundreds and hundreds of changes. One of the biggest ones is removing some of the plurals when Smith talked about “Gods” - where the reference is now singular. Mormons are essentially a polytheist religion, but that is not emphasized because it’s hard to get someone from another Christian denomination to accept that. My small point is that when you are simply not allowed to read other sources to determine what you think is true, then you cannot be said to be a critical thinker. All of the MAGA people who refused to read a word of the Washington Post or the New York Times or anything other than a few select conservative news sources leads to the same problem. When your leader tells you, you are not allowed to read other things, it is impossible to be a critical thinker. Evangelical religions and conservative GOP politics right now are hand-in-hand in adamantly prohibiting and discouraging their followers from seeking out other sources to determine what is true on their own. TL; DR. We are fucked
  8. You have to admire a man with a focus.
  9. When your doctor advises you to eat bacon wrapped bacon, just do it…
  10. Well, paternity is certainly established.
  11. I have no idea, but I guess it’s possible that they might have a contract with some sort of extra stipulated damages (costs and attorneys fees/exemplary damages, etc), so it’s possible that the original amount owed was less. Don’t care. The my pillow thing is deader than disco.
  12. Cross-posting, as maybe it goes better here.
  13. I missed this happy note. DHL was only suing Lindell for $700K. Pillow Dipshit owes $9,000,000.00 to FedEx. Mike is probably wondering about now how much crack he could buy with that. Trump used and discarded him. Surprise!!
  14. I know I told everybody that I had spots on my liver that they were sure were cancer, and MDA figured out they weren‘t literally two days before I was going in for surgery to cut a hunk of my liver out. For two years after that, every MRI or CT showed spots on my liver. Every time the radiologist said it was indicative of metastasized colon cancer - possibly. And then after a while, whatever the hell they were bid us adieu for good (hopefully). Which is all to say, there are good spots and bad spots. But of greater importance my friend, every spot is not a bad spot.
  15. Hopefully Condon’s ankle will fully heal in a week. This does not excuse all those points in the paint by tech - they were annoyingly competent in that regard. But he was clearly not at 100%.
  16. Which one of you perverts replied in X?
  17. And despite all of the negative press, Elmo gets to control Donnie
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