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i’m so sorry that happened to you. my best friend got into a car accident years ago that compressed his spine, causing him to be a full two inches shorter and in near-constant pain. he’s also fat. he was getting treatment for his back issues from the date of the accident, and it’s still always been attributed to his…

I also don’t like it being “between a person and her doctor” because most doctors (#notalldoctors, lol) are fucking useless at weight loss advice. I went in for a checkup and the doctor tut-tutted about my weight (wow, I’m fat? Gee doc I never noticed!) and instructed me, in one sentence, to “get more excercise and…

I have terrible knee, hip, and back problems. I’ve been told repeatedly that I should lose the weight to make things better and that my weight is the cause of my problems.  No doctor has listened to me when I have told them that I have had knee issues since I was a skinny 12 year old or that the hip and back problems…

I’ve been not fat, I’ve been fat, I’ve been all over the ED spectrum. I’ve never been treated with the amount of incredulity, dismissal and disrespect as I was when I was fat. The actually serious medical problems I had were chalked up to my weight over and over, and I was sent home without any further investigation.…

So, next steps for her are simply to go to the media around election time. 

I don’t know if it’s been called out here yet but...get the fuck out of here with this disingenuous ‘she hired a lawyer back in August’ bullshit. That was last fucking month, but he tries to make it sound like it was just aaaaages ago and she’s had soooo much time to prepare. Fuck that and fuck him.

I’ll never treat any Republican with anything but the contempt they deserve, ever again in my life.

They’ll sit there and let her talk and look at their phones while she does.  Even if they don’t have phones, that’s what this will be.  They don’t care what she has to say because they don’t think that what he did was bad.  Nothing has changed and nothing will change.

Not just them. The US has some of the lowest voter turnout in the developed world. As long as almost half of the eligible voters continue to not vote, not much is going to change. 

All of this is true, and horrible, and utterly predictable, and HE FUCKING PERJURED HIMSELF AT LEAST 4 TIMES. JESUS.

Same.

Susan Collins is included here. John Oliver nailed it months ago.

At this point I feel like the GOP is purposely trying to use this as a metaphor for how they feel about women in general.

A big old fuck you to all the assholes who didn’t vote in 2016 because “both parties are the same”.

But but they want her to be heard... so they can call her a liar and dismiss her claims and feel good about themselves for “listening”.

I’m torn between being terrified she won’t go on Monday, meaning the GOP won’t budge about the deadline and will force a vote to confirm him, and the fact that this poor woman and her family had to leave their home because they are receiving death threats, and of fucking course I can’t blame her for not playing their…

No, these things are important and we need to rush to fill vacancies on the court as fast as possible. Just ask Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland.

I told my boss yesterday that I just knew they’re going to find a way to screw this up even WORSE than the way they treated Anita Hill. Twenty-five goddamn years later and things have only gotten worse.