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Post by Merge on Jul 26, 2024 14:05:56 GMT
As gun-happy as many of his supporters are, you'd think they'd know that. But if it just grazed it? I think it was debris or it was just barely grazed. That's not what the Trump campaign has been claiming, though. And it's obviously why no legitimate medical record was released. In the America the NRA and Trump party have created, merely being shot *at* is no badge of honor. Thousands of school children, concert-goers, grocery shoppers, and others can say the same. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 26, 2024 1:51:42 GMT
DH’s cousin was on the women’s Olympic ski team in the 80s. I have no details.
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Post by Merge on Jul 26, 2024 1:50:24 GMT
Definitely helps my nails. The only thing that’s helped my hair is oral minoxidil and finasteride.
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Post by Merge on Jul 26, 2024 0:27:07 GMT
No bandage and no visible wound on his ear today or yesterday - but we're supposed to believe a bullet went through it? He had what looks like a bandaid on it. If a bullet from an AR-15 hit his ear, part of it would be missing. There’s no way that injury was from a bullet. As gun-happy as many of his supporters are, you'd think they'd know that. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 26, 2024 0:17:55 GMT
Great song. Love Keb' Mo'.
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Post by Merge on Jul 26, 2024 0:04:09 GMT
No bandage and no visible wound on his ear today or yesterday - but we're supposed to believe a bullet went through it?
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 18:22:54 GMT
Another vile aspect of the "women who haven't given birth aren't real mothers," is these are the same people who think the answer to unwanted pregnancies is adoption. So one side of their mouth is spouting, "there are so many people who want to adopt," and the other, "but that doesn't make you a real mom." Right! There are many many kids sitting in foster care today wanting homes. But if course they are not the white christian nationalist chosen ones!! Thirty thousand in Texas alone. But the Trump party only wants healthy, white infants for their members to adopt. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 18:22:08 GMT
Mayor Pete went to town on the childless comment. Vance managed to royally piss of step parents, adoptive parents, infertile couples, childless by choice Unsurprising, since Project 2025 wants to put forward the traditional nuclear family as the only acceptable kind. I want to ask him or some other Trump party person - you keep saying that a woman needs to be married and under a man's protection, producing as many children as she can squirt out. Did it occur to any of them that women fought for financial and reproductive independence in part because so many men are shit at the protection part? |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 16:20:29 GMT
Kerstin has something to say about the Vance childless comment... Who is Kerstin? She is the ex of 2nd gentleman Doug Emhoff!! The former wife of Doug Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris, is defending the Democratic nominee for president from Republican attacks against her lack of biological children. “These are baseless attacks,” Kerstin Emhoff told CNN in a statement. “ For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present.”Kerstin Emhoff was married to Doug Emhoff for 16 years, and the couple had two children together. After marrying Harris in 2014, Harris embraced her new stepchildren, even adopting the moniker “Momola.” "I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it,” Kerstin Emhoff's statement said.www.rawstory.com/doug-emhoff/Getting the endorsement of your husband's ex as a stepparent is a pretty strong point in her favor. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 15:30:57 GMT
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 14:43:13 GMT
Of course. Vance just sees this as a way for Christian conservatives to have more votes. He's ridiculous. IF this can be confirmed this needs to get out there more. It's being widely discussed on Twitter and Reddit. He says in the video that I posted that children should have a vote, but that their parents should control that vote. So a couple with eight kids would show up at the polls and have ten votes between them. Who in this country still has that many kids? Hmmm. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 14:26:29 GMT
Just thought of something. All those childless people, by choice or not actually contribute MORE percent toward schools and all other services/taxes because they don't get deductions. They pay for the others' childrens' education!!! Of course. Vance just sees this as a way for Christian conservatives to have more votes. He's ridiculous. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 14:18:24 GMT
Made me think of this thread. I bet a lot of us can relate.😂  |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 2:59:10 GMT
Not to mention how he famously mocked a disabled reporter. You think that would have been enough right there. Most who vote for him think that kind of mockery is funny and appropriate. And we wonder why we can’t all get along. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 2:47:27 GMT
Not to mention how he famously mocked a disabled reporter.
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 1:47:50 GMT
GenZ frequently calls strangers king, queen, baby, honey, dear, etc. Especially if they're part of the LGBTQ community. I wouldn't think too much of it.
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 0:03:48 GMT
Vance has another issue coming out .. the man who cares so much for children... Or so he says, no he says women should all be home while the men work.. no need for childcare?? A bipartisan bill that would provide much-needed federal assistance to moms-to-be, which was being hammered out between the staffs of Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Tim Kaine (R-VA), stalled out because the man Donald Trump selected as his running mate cut off talks. According to a report from the Washington Post's Jeff Stein, the bill would have limited childcare costs by reining in insurance companies slamming parents and new mothers with "co-pays or other expenses related to childbirth." As the report notes, at about the same time that the Donald Trump campaign began serious vetting of possible running mates, Vance's staff quit returning calls from Kaine's office, putting the bill on hold. Stein is reporting, "Vance’s team started working with the office of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on the bill in June 2023, talks stopped this June and have not resumed, leaving the fate of the legislation unclear after Vance’s nomination to the GOP ticket, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations." www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-women-2668808094/Pretty sure he's a democrat. Indeed. He was Hillary's VP choice. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2024 0:03:15 GMT
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 23:39:03 GMT
Don’t make us come over there and sort you all out! Is there a hint of infighting, Merge? 😂 I'm sure you're all much too well-mannered to do any such thing. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 21:57:13 GMT
I don't want to be pushy Lesley but it has been a few hours now... Oh I think you know who it is Lainey. 😁 Don’t make us come over there and sort you all out! |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 20:52:14 GMT
Trump party will contest the outcome no matter what. Buckle your seatbelts.
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 20:51:19 GMT
OMG I love him!
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 17:40:44 GMT
My vent is companies that make it darn near impossible to unsubscribe from or cancel their service. If I can easily sign up online, I should be able to cancel the same way.
I'm actually enjoying this situation right now. Years ago I signed up to donate $20 to Save the Children. Great, fine, whatever. Turns out I was signing up to donate that amount each month, not one time. Irritation number one. When I tried to cancel, you had to call and the number was always out of service.
Several months ago, we changed banks and the card that the auto-withdrawal was coming from is no longer valid. So the monthly donations stopped. Now they're calling me all the time, presumably to get me to give them a new card number. Nope. And I'm fixing to block the number they're calling from.
I was trying to help out a charity, not sign them up for a lifetime annuity from me.
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 17:35:58 GMT
1. I'm all caught up on all Housewives except Dubai. So I'm reduced to watching this show, set in the worst waste of water and electricity I've ever witnessed. It's Las Vegas with human rights violations. 2. I ALWAYS pick the slowest line at McDonald's, no matter what it looks like when I pull up. Every. Single. Time. Listen, it's a pretty limited menu, it shouldn't take your passenger spending five minutes looking at the board to decide what they want. GO INSIDE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT. Oh no. Order through the app and pull up in a curbside spot. You get deals and it's generally quite speedy. My kids taught me that. This also works well when you have a dog in the car who loses her shit at the drive through window every. single. time. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 16:57:34 GMT
Clearly they need a crew of public school teachers in there. Most of them manage presentations with electronics every day.  The Democrats used A/V during the impeachment hearings... Oh but that was the Senate. Maybe the House is impaired or stuuuupid... IIRC, they hired a technology firm of some kind to deal with all of that. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 16:46:05 GMT
Does congress not have the ability to project slides to support its speeches? The poster boards are funny but kind of ridiculous. Otherwise, hard agree. It does seem kind of crude but then again I literally have never attended a gathering where they haven’t had trouble with the A/V equipment. Clearly they need a crew of public school teachers in there. Most of them manage presentations with electronics every day. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 16:31:37 GMT
I saw something on Twitter to the effect that it's nice to see the medial now consistently referring to a woman in her 50s as 'young.'  |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 16:31:02 GMT
J.D. Vance is Trump's Sarah Palin. And we all hope she will have the same effect on his campaign. We almost certainly would have had president McCain if not for her - which was not what I wanted at the time, but seems a darn sight better than any Republican in the current candidate pool. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 16:21:06 GMT
Yep, I'm the family oddball. I told my brother this past weekend that I'm embracing my role as the family idiot, just like he and our dad always believed I was (and our sister agrees now), and he rolled his eyes at me but didn't deny it. Being the idiot gets me out of a lot of things that cause me stress, so bonus there.
I'm a loner, struggle with social gatherings, don't care to camp/hunt like the extended family does at reunions. That's all setting politics aside.
It's actually painful for me still because all my self-worth as a kid and teen was wrapped up in being a straight-A student and musician. Now I'm the idiot and not a particularly great musician. Just OK by trained professional standards. My real talent is in doing music with young kids and those on the spectrum. Who would have thought? Hard to be the flighty, bleeding heart liberal artist in a family full of business majors and engineers, KWIM?
Trying not to get all in my feelings about it too much, though. I like who I am even if not everyone else appreciates it. I have friends who are like family who get me, and that's all that matters.
(ETA: liking others' posts on this thread means that I'm sympathizing with you, not that I like how you've been treated.)
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Post by Merge on Jul 24, 2024 14:17:27 GMT
Does congress not have the ability to project slides to support its speeches? The poster boards are funny but kind of ridiculous.
Otherwise, hard agree.
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