Hugs, Aimée. I know all these feels too well and I’m sitting here ugly crying over the comments because I have felt so alone all day despite been with other people almost the whole time. And it’s not just lack-of-relationship loneliness, but lack of feeling truly connected to anyone loneliness. Like, I don’t even know…
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And there’s a mechanism for that. It’s called Elections. We could have a complete turn-over in congress within 5 years. That’ll take training and vetting candidates, finding broad political support for them, building new coalitions, and getting every possible voter invested and to the polls 3 more times. Saying that…
Talking in hypotheticals? No, that’s long-term thinking. What happens after we ‘get the bastard’ and feel good about that for a little while? If you don’t understand how the right would use this to advance their agenda, you’re naive
FFS, take a deep breath. If you’ve got the necromantic knowhow to get Paul back in the race, I’m there for that. Not holding my breath, though. And, if you’ll recall, they parachuted Mondale in to take Wellestone’s seat and that didn’t work out so well, which is why Norm Coleman was there for Franken, who grew up in…
That would be nice, but that’s that fantasy progressive wonderland we want to live in but don’t live in. Burning it all to the ground is not actually an option. That will not result in a functional government. Should we elect better people going forward? Yes, absolutely. But that’s not going to happen all at once. Nor…
When you routinely grope enough to have developed that David Cop-a-feel line to use so that you can brush any negative reaction off as somebody not being able to take a joke, you know that what you’re doing is not ok. That and the reactions of the people around 41 to these incidents points to a longstanding pattern of…
Keith Ellison’s got a job. and if he got appointed, who takes his spot in the house? Kitties Stars and Glitter makes an even better point about this below...
If Franken resigns, the right will spring accusations (which don’t even need to be true) after ballots are finalized for the midterms but before the vote. This will cause the dem to drop out/resign due to Franken’s action being the bar leaving what amounts to an unopposed GOP ticket in a hotly contested purple…
That no men in Congress can clear the bar of “have never sexually violated another person” is evidence that the house needs cleaning, not that there’s no point addressing it.
Minnesotan, here, who is finding it hard to get too worked up about Franken. Does what he did make him an asshole? Sure. Does it make him a predator? I don’t think it does. That picture is the work of a jerk who thinks he’s funny because he’s blind to his male privilege. The grab-ass... that’s more creep-ish, though I…
Mr. President?
I think a well-stocked spice cabinet is the key to life. You can make anything tasty without adding salt, fat, or sugar if you can find the right jar of magic to sprinkle on things. When I was a kid, my dad used to make a ratatouille that i hated. It was the worst. Just a few years ago, I found out that his ‘recipe’…
Is this real life? Like, you’re sure this isn’t a dispatch from the universe where they filmed Footloose? I... How...? What....?
Adding to the recs... If you’re looking for something really good that you haven’t seen, it’s probably worth dipping in to things with subtitles.
*pushes glasses up nose* Erm, I think you mean ‘whence’. Whither= where+to. Whence=where+from. I was expecting this to be about him having mysteriously disappeared from the show for Hollywood intrigue reasons or something.
Yeah, that confused me a bit too... They/them are the only acceptable pronouns to use? Not all non-binary people use they/them. For example, the person at the end of the article who uses ze/per. Schultz’s preference was for they/them instead of the other posibilities they could have chosen. That’s how I read the…
I mean, it’s not really. As a fellow not-clean person, I do get where the OP is coming from. Part of it is just about tolerance for chaos. That pile of clothes that has drowned the chair that they get tossed on every night that needs to get sorted for laundry? Honestly, I just don’t care that much. I’ll get around to…
I’m not saying that’s what you’re arguing for, but that’s what’s going to happen. Closing rural OBGYN services means that women who can’t readily get to a big city aren’t going to have any care at all or they’re going to wind up getting care from people who are even less well trained to handle their situations than…
Wait, babies die in low-volume maternity hospitals so it’s better to have no reasonably accessible maternity wards? More babies will live that way? Because that’s the actual alternative here.