It’s “cultural anxiety” now. Still bullshit, horse shit, batshit and monkey-poo, but the rebranding has begun.

It’s not like we didn’t know Mango Mussolini is a Big Ole Troll. And Trolls keep everything in the toolbox.

Yeah, this is the territory of massively mixed emotions. He should have a) never been hired, b) been fired years ago, or c) been fired when he opened his goddam mouth in October over email and kept it closed over Flynn-Russia-FISA-Trump Tower Gambling rings-WTFery... but being fired now, by the very people his agency…

Jinni covered amyloid plaque above; the other major variety of dementia (vascular) means the brain is not getting enough oxygen due to blocked arteries, so the brain is literally dying of hypoxia. When the hypoxia reaches the brainstem, that’s game over. So yes, people do die of dementia complications.

And we wonder why his daughter and his wife seem to find him physically repellant. Makes me wonder what Evening with Daddy sounds like. (Not really. I grew up with that species of Asshat. Your last sentence nails it.)

Goddammit. The only silver lining I see is UKIP getting their asses handed to them, but since the Tories are building a crappy addition onto their garden party tent for the Junior Blackshirts Auxillary, even that lining looks pretty tarnished.

I have an idea.

Sounds familiar. I admit I still watch Pump Up the Volume when I’m in need of a boost to my oppositional-defiance or feeling especially powerless.

Looks like. Possibly also in pajamas and taking a toothpaste speckled mirror selfie. Which is epic.

Not even with Mitch McConnell’s dick.

Hey, cry when you need it. I wish we had something like a doula system for end of life families, because there’s a lot of mutual aid we can offer each other. Some emotional, some practical; end of life is a process and it comes with a lot of fiddly details about things we Don’t Discuss. If you haven’t read Roz Chast’s …

More stars for this, please. Right there with you.

I am so sorry. Please let me know if I can help, even if that’s just being a pair of ears who hasn’t heard it this week, and I’m always available via DM/pm. It’s so hard — emotionally, financially and on every relationship. The only thing I can really advise at this point is make sure she’s got a DNR, and have a…

I’m so sorry. No flames from me — attention is the worst addictive drug there is, and it’s really easy to see how the addiction goes bad, fast, in Bernie Sanders.

Yes. Fuck them like it’s a chore. I’m so sorry.

Cry if you need to, but stay angry. Turn that anger on the closest Member of the House who voted for this. Give them hell, and let them know you’re watching, donating to their opponent, knocking on doors for their opponent, baking cookies for their opponent’s staff, registering new voters and swinging their district…

My grandmother died on Boxing Day. She had dementia and was in a nursing home for the last year of her life. Since 2012, when she had her first stroke and her health started to fail, I have been grateful every day that she had Medicare and a Medicare Advantage plan.

It feeds into the Calvinist notion of God’s Elect, and lets these rat-bastards who are convinced of their own Electedness keep getting their vicarious, sadistic jollies watching everyone who isn’t obviously Elect get tortured. Because if they were Elect, then God wouldn’t send them cancer, heart disease or asthma,…

Argh - so sorry. I looked it up, because I knew I didn’t know which it was, and I still got it backwards. Apologies to both you and HRH Charlotte! (I have a name that gets mistaken often for another one, too, and it does get old. Sorry, too late to edit.)