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In my observed experience:

Thank you! I had surgery and am two years cancer free.

Well that has to fucking suck- I hope you are now in remission.

Honestly, when I was diagnosed with cancer it was one of the first thoughts I had. My fucking cat is going to outlive me.

One of my dogs is a stray that was given to me after the owners were never found, so I sometimes wonder what he thinks about losing his old family. I don’t know if they can feel abandonment, but I’m sure they feel anxiety, fear, and maybe even sadness. It sucks that they can’t understand the situation, but on the plus…

I doubt they think anything one way or the other. But  they for sure feel the sadness of not having their owner around.

Something hits me especially hard about someone’s dog outliving them. Does he know what happened to Carrie? Or does he just think she abandoned him?

I’m old, so I can be ageist. What the Fuck is Great Grandpa Goldblum doing having babies!?!? He’ll be doddering by the time they reach their teen years.

Carrie would have wanted it that way.

Very good boy!

Central and western KS are full of very religious conservatives who will never vote for a democrat (gay marriage and abortions) over a republican (Jesus! Creationism!)

Night and day compared to my experiences w/the Obama folks.

Wow, they won the most votes in 6 out of 7 elections? I guess that makes up for the fact that 33 states are in Republican hands, that a con-artist sexual predator who was once the laughing stock of the late night circuit was able to defeat the doyenne of the Democratic Party and that the political landscape has slowly…

Why are you assuming the presidential election is the only one ‘the game’ is played for?

Yes, it does. If the Democrats don’t reform and fast, there is no hope of defeating Trumpism. Corporate-friendly centrism may have worked in the 90s but it has led to the near-destruction of the party and a vast right-ward shift, even when Democrats hold power; Clinton-style politics has not only demoralized the…

Look, I don’t think Perez is a bad guy, and I don’t think he’s a Republican. I’m sure that at the very least he’ll be an improvement over Kaine/DWS/Brazile etc., but there was literally no reason to pick him other than as a rebuke to the left — remember, he was pressured into running by Democratic leadership because…

Yes, which is how I got to see firsthand how unenthused and poorly-directed the campaign was at local levels, and in a hotly-contested swing state at that. Night and day compared to my experiences w/the Obama folks.

No, by drafting and voting for a candidate who won’t alienate the Democrats’ donor class over a popular grassroots figure who would better have been able to bring disaffected voters into the fold. Perez isn’t a bad man, but this was another foolish choice made by the same people who seem to specialize in losing power.