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applegrove's JournalThe MAGA Republicans don't want subsidized
daycare in the US despite a generations Quebec study that showed whatever the subsidies cost was more than made up with in increased Government tax revenu. It seems letting mothers study and work and young kids getting socialized early makes for greater outcomes for both. This leads to better jobs for both. It seems kids were meant to be in a pod of 4 or 5 at least to learn from each other I say. Also the MAGA Republicans don't want the government to have increased revenue because I guess that could translate into power for the people.
Excuse me but it was a political deal Biden made with
Jim Clyburn. It was about elections and horsetrading. Clyburn gave Biden support, Biden picked from a number of highly qualified African American women. Kamala now is mostly looking at white males. Why? Not DEI but because that is the group Democrats most need under their big tent to win an election. Not DEI but political. Frankly saying a political deal was DEI because the deal happened to involve a black woman is racists and sexist. It is about the power of votes. It is about political power. Shame on you.
Nothing wrong with DEI hires. But when you label political power that way it is because you can't see. Your eyes are blind with rot.
I'm an alcoholic. My family's interventionn worked
for 4 years. Then I began to drink one or two beers at a restaurant and no more. I did that for two years. Maybe two times a week. I only drank near beer at home. Had a crisis where I drank for a few days. I was going through a very stressful/painful situation all along (being targetted by evil people). Those few days I drank I was in a dire situation. Quit.
Then after 5 years, I allowed myself I drink a day and I was obsessed with it. I would plan all day what that drink would be. I should have quit then. I binge drank 3 times all totalled during that period. The rest of the time i had one drink.This lasted 8 months or so. The last time I drove drunk. I hit a fence and not anybody else thank God. Quit for good.
Went to AA. I was thankful my family didn't abandon me or make me pay for the car i totalled. The third chapter in the AA book, where you hand your power away to a god (in my case nature and my ancestors), because in fact you have no power over alcohol, and it worked. It spoke to me. And so did the judge who insisted I go to AA. And my relief at not hurting anyone.
I like going out with people who have a few drinks. They get so sweet and I enjoy the sweetness.
Your family loved you, cared enough to know you, and may have saved your life. Be thankful for that. And try AA. It works for lots of people. The little book goes into what worked for many, many people and hopefully you'll find something in that mash-up of experiences that speaks to you.
As to interventions, my brother lived in Japan for 30+ years. He liked to go out with the expats and drink. He met a lovely lady there and stopped going out so much.with the boys. They adored each other. When he would come home to Canada to visit he would drink moderately. Often not at all. So he was quite in denial about his health and during covid when he was isolated from his girlfriend (they lived in different cities in Japan, their relationship was in flux) he was drinking a lot. And we didn't know. And he was so sick. I burdened him with some of the facts of my trauma. That caused him more anxiety.
He emailed us and sounded stressed out and not coping well with covid and the online classes he was teaching but was on the other side of the world. He ended every email with I love you. One of the last times I talked with him by email about seeing a psychologist to deal with his anxiety, he was open to that and was planning on that, to get medication. I had no idea he was drinking anything at all - still.
That step to seeing a psychologist was probably accepting he had to quit because he would have been having symptoms in his gut that scared the hell out of him and it is well known psycholigists would ask him to quit drinking. He was probably terrified.
I thought he was in lockdown and had no access to going out. Then he died. He just bled out. Turns out he wasn't someone who presented as drunk when he drank to excess. His huge group of friends said that. His girlfriend said had they been together she would have stepped in but they were not. He wanted to drink. He did. He fooled himself. He was terrifyed. Then he died at 59. He would have had a two a beers a night in the 10 years he lived with his partner. He hid his bad health well.
That is my greatest regret that we did not intervene. He died an agonizing death. It took his workmates a few days to get worried when he was missing from the classes he taught. We were devastated. I wish we had taken the reigns and intervened! Neither my parents nor my grandparents were alcoholics so we had little experience with the issue.
After the first intervention for my drinking problem, there was an idea I read about that was from a doctor that said "alcoholism is when drinking causes serious problems in your life and you keep drinking".
My family we able to take care of me with the intervention. I take care of them with the things i have done and do. That is love and worth forgiveness. You would not want them to live with the regret of losing you. Interventions are care.
Hope that helps.
Trump and some of his MAGA politicos as well as
some politicians championing him are psychopaths or narcissists. Trump needs to defend from that truth so he projects a cartoon version of a psychopath, Hannibal Lecture, onto Democrats by claiming they are letting psychopaths from all over the world into the country at the border. It is deflection. Projection. It is to defend the psychopaths all over MAGA and fool their cult followers into thinking evil psychopaths are a Democratic issue.
It was a political deal Biden made with Jim Clyburn
in 2020. (I think it was Clyburn) Biden got CBC support and AA voter support and Biden would pick a 'black woman' for VP in 2020. Same as any political deal. Like 'white men' only being in the running for Kamala Harris' VP. Not DEI. It is about power.
Heritage is where he gets most if not all his policy.
He doesn't have any policy in mind other than staying out of jail, ruining NATO, cozinging up to dictators and giving them what they want, mass roundup of undocumented people and their deportation, inflation causing import taxes, and a few things to please/control the base, tax cut for billionaires. Heritage knows this. The agenda is way open to anything think tanks on the right can think up. And think up they did.
I think it is the billionaires who are unhappy with Democracy. Cat ladies
work to strengthen it along with other democrats. The destroyers are the unhappy ones. And they have to hide who they are: look at all the Hannibal Lector talk a Trump events. They have to make up a story about Democrats welcoming narcissistic psychopaths from Latin American asylums to deflect from Trump, the Republican billionaires, Trumps authoritarian friends around the world, some Republican politicians and many MAGA politicos all being narcissistic socio/psychopaths. Projection as always.
THIS IS WHO THEY ARE J.D. Vance called VP Kamala Harris a "childless cat lady" who is "miserable" with her life because
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"J.D. Vance called VP Kamala Harris a "childless cat lady" who is "miserable" with her life because she does not have children. Story..."
Applegrove ~ childless cat ladies are not to be confused with rich billionaires who support Trump and Project 2025. These last are so desperate to fill the hole in them with money that they destroy democracy, personal freedoms and the strength of the middle class, and good lives everywhere over shit thought up by other billionaires, who can't make enough money to fill the hole in them with money that they destroy democracy, personal freedoms and the strength of the middle class, and good lives everywhere over shit thought up by other billionaires, who can't make enough money to fill the hole in them with money that they destroy democracy, personal freedoms and the strength of the middle class, and good lives everywhere over shit thought up by other billionaires, who can't make enough money to fill the hole.......
Meanwhile childless cat ladies, like other women and men everywhere, are concerned with their communities and fight for that and feel very connected that way. And this fight, it's all free.
No amount of money will satisfy the Republican billionaires. They are on a sad and desperate path to nowhere canibalizing the middle class.
The GOP's Big, Mysterious Enemy: 'They'
The GOP’s Big, Mysterious Enemy: ‘They’
July 18, 2024 at 5:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/07/18/the-gops-big-mysterious-enemy-they/
"SNIP..............
Axios: “To Trump supporters speaking here, ‘they’ are responsible for Trump’s convictions in New York, his federal indictments, his multimillion-dollar fines in civil lawsuits, record illegal border crossings — and even the attempt to assassinate Trump last weekend.”
“In Trump’s MAGA world, exactly who ‘they’ are usually isn’t defined.”
“But it’s typically some combination of Democrats, the federal government, what the former president’s supporters call media ‘elites,’ and other shadowy forces.”
.............SNIP"
Applegrove ~ less of a verifiable conspiracy theory if they keep it vague. Also people get to fill in the blank with their favourite sinister entity. Allows for more unity.
"The paradox at the heart of modern conservatives is the need to be seen as masculine and dominant while simultaneously
/?xmt=AQGz2_NOch2zTB30LNfkkmS88nY3Dh_WsyuEMRxbzhiaaA"The paradox at the heart of modern conservatives is the need to be seen as masculine and dominant while simultaneously playing the victim".
Applegrove ~ so true. Germans were told they were victims by Hitler too. Deep State means I am being victimized by the deep state. They are victims of fake crime statistics, fake immigrant crimes that happen with less frequency than at the hands of natural born citizens, women voting and living their best lives, etc... When in fact they actually are victims of climate change, victims of the 40 year attack on the middle class by the Republicans, victims of the legalized corruption that big money has sunk into so many parts of the system warping it: the Supreme Court and the assembly line to stack the courts. The Sackler family too and the drug epidemic they created. And that doesn't even cover the martyr Trump is because he has been arrested multiple times for things he actually does like Jan 6th. He is the biggest victim of them all.
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