Me, too. We’ve never been able to get the stupid thing to stay connected. It’s fun but the lure was being able to remotely control it. I’m thinking of submitting a claim too. The fun part is going to be trying to find the purchase info since we got it at a convention.

Both. I think that Trump wants to The Man, the Alpha Wolf making decisions left and right and watching minions scurry to do his bidding. But because he thinks he so smart and pretty much only listens to sycophants and ‘advisers’ like Steve Bannon, he never listens to anyone who actually knows anything about policy,…

I’m of two minds about this. On one hand, I feel for teachers. Teaching is an under appreciated, underpaid profession in this country and many teachers go above and beyond to help their students. They deserve better and have every right to strike/demonstrate especially in the face of an administration that seems…

That’s all well and good but it doesn’t really help the people who had to scramble for childcare options or were forced to take off to stay home with their kids. It also doesn’t help the kids who rely on schools for meals or safety. Follow up protests aren’t really going to help pay people’s rent or utility bills. I…

I’ll be at work. I didn’t feel right about using my PTO to take off from my fairly cushy office job while my other co-workers - mostly women - come in and spend 10 - 12 hours mostly on their feet providing a life sustaining treatment. I’m wearing red and won’t be shopping. I’m also donating to Planned Parenthood. Good…

Offer a ride to work for someone who takes public transportation or make a meal to share. I think there’s always a bit of resentment with these types of protests because so many women legitimately don’t have the option to go on strike.

Oh I totally agree. I just tend to stuck on the fact that these people seem act like anyone who puts forth logical, realistic points about why people can’t just go get ‘better jobs’ is making excuses. I think that people like this really don’t want to fix the bottom at all. They want to know that there’s someone under…

This. People really need to let go of that idea. A smartphone and the internet are basically necessities these days. You need these things to apply for jobs, apply for benefits, and to stay in touch with everyone. You definitely need those things to get an education. There are no more pay phones and landlines are…

Because there’s always a mythical better job out there to these people. They refuse to acknowledge that these better jobs require education and training that costs money and time to obtain.

It’s the ‘worthy poor’ vs ‘unworthy poor’ all over again. The worthy poor are those nobly suffering, multiple part-time job working people who wear thrift store clothes, live on beans and rice, and forego all luxuries including cell phones and brand name cereal. Anyone who dares to have a smart phone, a non-rusted out…

That’s pretty much all they hear. Despite all evidence to the contrary they’re convinced that these things will benefit them despite the fact that they are 1)not wealthy and 2) stand to lose the most all the way around. It’s more of that weird way of thinking that also tells them that people on Medicaid or food stamps…

I’ve seen something similar in action and it is terrible. About 10 years ago I worked for a Medicaid waiver program that helped seniors stay in their homes. At one point, Medicaid regulations changed so that the value of the person’s home was included in their assets. I had several clients lose their eligibility…

He may already be wrestling boys outside of the local HS wrestling system. Lots of athletes at his level train and compete in other settings. I can’t speak to the specifics of the university level but considering that there are areas where mixed gender wrestling is fairly common, it may not matter as long as he can…

Why should he? This is something that he is good at and something that may possibly help him get into college. Why should he bow out because idiot adults refuse to allow him to wrestle boys? Maybe that’s not showing good sportsmanship behavior but why should he sacrifice his goals?

Which is why he should be competing against boys which is what he wanted to do. But transphobic people would rather put him in a position where his options are 1) don’t wrestle or 2) wrestle girls despite the fact that therapeutic process he is undergoing gives him an advantage. It’s not fair to him and, honestly,…

Definitely not new, unfortunately. People have been dying due to religious fuckery for a very long time and pretty much every part of the world.

My weakness is clothes. I’ve curbed my spending a lot since the beginning of the year but I’m going to crack down on window shopping - get off of mailing lists for catalogs or stores, immediately throw away catalogs, stay away from my usual impulse shopping sites. The one benefit of being plus-sized is that I can’t…

Dressing up is fine but dressing professionally and for the occasion is even better. Ivanka and Melania look more like socialites which is pretty much what they are. They look like they are dressed for a cocktail party, not a political event. In this setting, it looks a bit out of place. I don’t think it’s…

And they’re the first people to deny that white privilege is even a thing.

Of course she wouldn’t walk up to an actual black person on her own and say racist bullshit. She’s too chicken shit to do that. People like her only do shit like that when they’re part of a group. Then they can say ‘it wasn’t me! It was everyone else around me.’ Or ‘I was just caught up with the crowd’. They’re…