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cyclonefence's JournalCousin Clare is at it again
Has anybody else heard about Donald Trump's clone? That's the bad Trump who is doing all these horrible things. I asked Clare where the real Trump was, and she didn't know.
If it weren't for Clare, I wouldn't know that Sasquatch can walk through walls. That's how he steals food off your table.
I don't like the person I'm becoming
As friends and relatives begin dropping like flies, I find myself angry that other people will be alive after I die. I'm pissed off that buildings and trees were here before me and will be here after me. I resent the fact that our house, which is in pretty much a state of decay--that's too grim a description; it's an old farmhouse that requires constant maintenance in order to stand--is going to be here--*even my decrepit old house*--after I've shed this mortal coil.
And while I have for a long time despised Trump voters, no compassion for them no matter how "misled" they claim to have been, I was not brought up to hate people I don't know. I have never had no interest in feeling compassion for people who are suffering, yet I am happy when Trump voters find out they can't afford health insurance. I delight in every bit of pain any Trumper is experiencing, and this is not my nature.
I became aware of this about me just the other day when I said "good" when I learned that Bret "Farve" has Parkinson's. That's *terrible*, to be happy when someone gets sick.
I think I'm as bad as Trumpers, who rejoice at owning the libs, and I don't like it.
Is anybody else feeling this way?
Our cohort is dying/dementing
My husband's younger brother died unexpectedly right after Thanksgiving. He was 75 and the only member of the family who seems to have dodged the asshole gene (my husband was only slightly affected and has too many other good qualities to be the asshole the rest of them are). He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton, and his senior thesis, on Samuel Beckett, was published. He was funny as hell and a joy to be with.
We had husband's older brother (81) for Christmas and it's a miracle of Jesus' birth that we didn't murder him. He is losing his marbles as well as physically deteriorating. We had him come to us by train (he lives about a 5-hour drive away) because his wife died in September, and we didn't want him driving alone. She was 93, and we didn't realize how much he relied on her until we got him here without her. He broke our Stair-Lift (we got one for him after his wife died because he kept falling down the stairs, and now I wonder if his stair lift works) and wouldn't stay out of our 8x10 kitchen so we could prepare Christmas dinner. He drank a bottle of vodka and a bottle of Canadian Club (he was here for five days) and argued with me about where the sports channels were on our TV.
I had diarrhea from the day he arrived until the day he left. Their sister, 75, drove him back home. No more train because when he arrived here, he wandered through the station for an hour before we could find him.
Despairing for the world because the young folks don't seem to care enough to protest *anything*. They're upset because they can't afford to buy a house. They don't seem to care that there are people in our community who don't have any kind of shelter, much less a house they own, or even enough to eat. While young folk order everything--even toilet paper--and pay outrageously for food they could make at home, they don't understand why they can't get together enough money to make a down payment.
But happy new year, everybody. I wonder for how many of us this is our last year.
What Pete Hegseth and these other chest-thumpers don't seem to understand
is that rules of engagement work both ways. Don't they see that if we start killing people who pose no threat--people who are drowning--we don't get to complain if *our servicepeople* are tortured, mistreated and killed when they are hors de combat?
Typical of conservatives, who are unable to imagine themselves in any situation other than what they imagine themselves to be.
Re-education camps for conservatives: force them to read novels.
Trump has always been drowsy
but now he's flat-out falling asleep in public. I wonder if the old rumor that he sniffs crushed Adderall has anything to do with this. We know he's been diagnosed with some kind of cardiac problem, and one of the worse things to take when you have a heart problem is a stimulant like Ritalin or Adderall. Maybe he's been abruptly deprived of the one thing that was keeping him awake.
As Belle of the Ranch says, "It's just a thought."
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Yep, that's us.
So angry I can't see straight.
Thanksgiving coming up; who's denying food to needy Americans? REPUBLICANS
Thanksgiving coming up; who's fucking up air travel on the busiest air travel day of the year? REPUBLICANS
Big increases in Obamacare premiums just about to burst on the scene, whose fault? REPUBLICANS
Judges beginning to force Trump's hand on SNAP *and* on invasions of blue cities by ICE and Nat'l Guard--whose loss? REPUBLICANS
Massive voter support for Democracts just days ago--whose loss? REPUBLICANS
WTF is wrong with us? Why couldn't we have held out? What do we have left to bargain with?
I wanna be sedated.
I'm signed up for the No Kings protest on the 18th
I'm going to take a card table, buy a big platter of cookies, and my sign will read "ANTIFA BAKE SALE." I'm rather proud of myself for thinking that one up.
(cookies will be free, of course--George Soros will reimburse me)
An encouraging phone call to my (Republican) representative
Brian Fitzpatrick represents my part of PA and was one of ?2 Republicans to vote against the Big Terrible Bill, after his office was deluged with phone calls.
I called his office on Friday and said to the young lady who answered--yes, a real person, not a recording--that I wanted Rep. Fitzpatrick to be courageous and compassionate and vote to have the full Epstein files released. I told him that these women deserved some kind of justice, and that it was within his power to help them attain that. I did not chide or tell him to grow a backbone, which has been the content of my previous calls.
The woman I spoke to was very, very interested in what I was saying and asked me to repeat it slowly so she could write it all down. I think his office is beginning to understand that he represents a purple district and that he'd better start paying attention to what we want, although I bet release of the Epstein files is important to the red part, too.
Anyway, want to encourage us all, especially those of us too decrepit and too broke to do much else, to use that phone at least a few times a week. I think it helps.
ICE Hires
Suggestion: organize brown-skinned Democrats with Hispanic-sounding last names who are certified American citizens to apply for jobs with ICE. Work on the enemy from within.
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