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Post by Liiisa on Feb 15, 2024 15:20:48 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I’d put money on that bet
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 15, 2024 15:50:22 GMT -5
He only recently became anti abortion - it's a vote winner amongst the deranged.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 15, 2024 15:57:09 GMT -5
As I noted above, exactly
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Post by psw on Feb 15, 2024 16:02:29 GMT -5
And he doesn't dare stiff the doctors the way he does everyone else! If they quit on him he'd be in deeper shit. Gotta be cash on the spot, untraceable, leaving no opening for blackmail or a lawsuit.
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Post by lisamnz on Feb 15, 2024 16:41:35 GMT -5
I am so absolutely horrified seeing the news and images out of Gaza today. It feels surreal sitting here at my computer on a peaceful sunny day with all that going on.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 15, 2024 18:36:03 GMT -5
lisa me, too it was a sunny clear day, too & the tourists were lugging their designer bags, drinking kombucha or tumeric lattese
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Post by lisamnz on Feb 15, 2024 19:16:57 GMT -5
it's so weird. I guess it's always been this way, but we're now just more aware of it because we see what's happening in real time, and it's all over twitter, instagram, etc - and there's no filter, so some of it is super graphic.
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Post by lisamnz on Feb 15, 2024 19:17:33 GMT -5
sorry it doesn't have anything to do specifically with american politics as such but this thread has gone off track a bit anyway.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 15, 2024 22:04:56 GMT -5
we can do this as elections 2024 bc there's indonesia, mexico, india
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Post by kneazle on Feb 15, 2024 22:07:21 GMT -5
And the UK.
There's soemthing like 20 major elections in the world this year.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 16, 2024 0:03:20 GMT -5
Very pleased for New York. Especially as a by election usually goes against whoever has most power. The anti-immigrant/anti-EU politician in the UK is married to a German (and their children have Brit and German passports), the anti-immigrant politician here is married to a Hungarian. Ah yes, but they are the right sort of immigrants. :eyeroll:
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 16, 2024 0:45:49 GMT -5
And Bush seems like such a reasonable guy now! Heck, even Reagan... nah, I still hate Reagan I remember mum saying at the time Reagan was President he should have stuck to acting even though he was never a first rate actor!
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 16, 2024 3:42:49 GMT -5
Very pleased for New York. Especially as a by election usually goes against whoever has most power. The anti-immigrant/anti-EU politician in the UK is married to a German (and their children have Brit and German passports), the anti-immigrant politician here is married to a Hungarian. Ah yes, but they are the right sort of immigrants. :eyeroll: I get your point - but the anti immigration politician in the UK was anti EU, busy removing the right of freedom of movement in the UK for millions of people too young to vote while his kids had it via their mother's nationality.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 16, 2024 6:41:35 GMT -5
Definitely agree with your mom there Phar! It's tempting to think of him as a statesman compared with the current crop, but he laid the groundwork for a lot of this nonsense.
The immigration thing here is absurd at the moment; the Republicans refused to pass a bill that might address some of the things they complain about, mostly because Rump told them not to so that he could continue complaining about it.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 16, 2024 7:06:43 GMT -5
Rump is like a drug for the US media.
Part of the reason he behaves like a jerk is that it gets coverage which is free publicity, but it seems the media haven't worked that out yet.
The courthouse press conferences are getting pretty old pretty fast and I think he's run out of competent representation by now so it's getting more stupid.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 16, 2024 12:18:41 GMT -5
I saw the media reaction described as "normalcy bias," that they just can't get it into their heads that it's all as weird as it is.
I've subscribed to the LA Times again, which is refreshing compared with the New York version, at least on the op-ed page. Plus it has comics.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 16, 2024 15:10:34 GMT -5
I saw the media reaction described as "normalcy bias," that they just can't get it into their heads that it's all as weird as it is. I've subscribed to the LA Times again, which is refreshing compared with the New York version, at least on the op-ed page. Plus it has comics.[/quot' my hometown paper love the comics!
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 17, 2024 8:54:15 GMT -5
Ah ha ha ha so I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't stay way up in Logan Square in Chicago since that train often runs late, so then I'd have to figure out how to get up there in the middle of the night - so wouldn't it be easier to just stay near the train station. But when I tried to see which hotels down there had availability those couple of days that I'll be there, NONE of them did.
Why? Oh. Because that's the week of the Democratic Convention
Oh ye gods this train adventure just became a lot more adventuresome
ETA oh wait, the Kimpton has a room. $2200 for two nights, you say? Um no
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Post by tzarine on Feb 17, 2024 12:16:56 GMT -5
Ah ha ha ha so I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't stay way up in Logan Square in Chicago since that train often runs late, so then I'd have to figure out how to get up there in the middle of the night - so wouldn't it be easier to just stay near the train station. But when I tried to see which hotels down there had availability those couple of days that I'll be there, NONE of them did. Why? Oh. Because that's the week of the Democratic Convention Oh ye gods this train adventure just became a lot more adventuresome ETA oh wait, the Kimpton has a room. $2200 for two nights, you say? Um no covered a dem con in my cub reporter days. utter madness in terms of logistics what a deal @ the kimpton!
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 17, 2024 12:54:14 GMT -5
I texted my friend who lives there and she said "well the food in Logan Square is going to be much better than anything you can get downtown," so that makes me happy.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 22, 2024 21:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by psw on Feb 23, 2024 0:33:28 GMT -5
The latest from Alabama:
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 23, 2024 5:10:25 GMT -5
Absolutely enraging.
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Post by kneazle on Feb 23, 2024 5:16:32 GMT -5
Also this week I learnt that babies strip the calcium from their mothers teeth in uterio. (From a colleague who has dental issues probably from her very much wanted toddler)
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 23, 2024 6:49:52 GMT -5
Obviously these people are idiots who don't understand IVF. Oh so what, you're supposed to implant all the embryos? So then all the "children" die, so what's the point.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 23, 2024 9:14:34 GMT -5
Also this week I learnt that babies strip the calcium from their mothers teeth in uterio. (From a colleague who has dental issues probably from her very much wanted toddler) There's an old old saying that a woman loses a tooth per pregnancy.
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Post by psw on Feb 23, 2024 9:23:11 GMT -5
So, it's tax season, so I'm asking: Are all those "children" dependents?
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 23, 2024 13:04:19 GMT -5
My former boss just texted me a photo of a chicken egg that said "Alabama thinks these are chickens" Ha psw! Edited that because I forgot I t was actually “chickens”
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Post by tzarine on Feb 25, 2024 0:09:25 GMT -5
south carolina primary today
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Post by scicaro on Feb 26, 2024 11:43:59 GMT -5
Also this week I learnt that babies strip the calcium from their mothers teeth in uterio. (From a colleague who has dental issues probably from her very much wanted toddler) There's an old old saying that a woman loses a tooth per pregnancy. This is the reason that in the UK*, dentistry was free during pregnancy and for a year after. *Almost certainly not the case any more and assumes you have an NHS dentist which is unlikely these days.
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