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calimary's JournalWelcome to DU, Blue Streak Science.
Thanks for this note. I cannot imagine what this is like! Had a couple of close calls here in SoCal but nothing like this. I hope Hekate comes through this okay. In the short term as well as the long run (like you did, Blue Streak Science).
Btw - I like your version of "when life gives you lemons"! I might adjust my version to "Make a Lemon Velvet Putting Cake!"
Aw damn. We've had the local news on all day.
But all you need to do is step outside. The air is fetid with smoke. The sunlight is weird-looking - a dull yellowish. You feel uneasy breathing too deeply. And we're not near there. But I know people who live in that area. Worried about them. AND their animals.
Welcome to DU, SeaDoo77!
Yep. Party Over Country and definitely Party FUNDERS Over Country. Selling their souls for a tax cut. And climbing into bed with an accused pedophile. Just spiffy, 'eh?
Welcome to DU, honest.abe!
Nothing honest about these "sons and daughters of 'The Party of Lincoln'." Nothing. Honest Abe is surely rolling in his grave. No. Not rolling. Not nearly. Probably more along the lines of Olympics-level gymnastics.
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It will be interesting to see how many of the GOP holier-than-thou hypocrites still stick with him as this grotesque aberration falls apart. Some of them will. They'll go down with his ship. ANYTHING to avoid having to admit you were wrong, or worse - that you've been royally HAD.
I saw that, too. WICKED Cool!
It's about time this fucking crook is exposed. Crooked Donald. Yeah, we're all still waiting to see your tax returns, Donald. HAND 'EM OVER, Dammit! I bet those tax returns tell one whale of a story! And as soon as we see 'em, it'll probably be abundantly clear why he's been hiding them.
If everything's on the up-'n'-up, Donald, then what's yer problem? If you've done nothing wrong, then you should have nothing to hide, true? Mind if we don't just take your word for it?
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I'm afraid I'm about to lose a good friend since grammar school. Gone over to the Dark Side, voted for trump because she just couldn't see herself voting for Hillary ("I just don't trust her..." - something I am completely and thoroughly unable to understand), and she really liked Mike Pence. 
She's kinda turned on trump but she still loves Mike Pence, and she still hates Hillary, even though she tries to deny it. I KNOW she hates Hillary. I've seen her texts. I've seen the names she calls HRC, which I'm sure must come from Pox Noise or Alex Jones or Breitbart or some hate radio lout. I've heard her snide "'course, she LIED the WHOLE TIME..." comments to others in the room when she didn't realize I was within earshot, the morning after the Gowdy-Howdy-Doody Benghazi hearing. And when I confront her on these things, she denies it. "'Hilldebeast'? I never heard that before!" "Um... do you want me to show you the text YOU sent ME, using that pejorative?"
Then after Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, she texted me about her friend losing a coastal vacation home, breathlessly adding - "but this has NOTHING to do with climate change!" Seriously. I just couldn't let that go. I texted her back - "Hon, this has EVERYTHING to do with climate change." And I went on to explain to her that, since I joined Indivisible and got more active in other groups last year, I've joined a number of climate-crisis groups and I now hang out with oceanographers and climatologists and lecturers from USC and people who work at JPL (which is as nerdy as you can get), and told her there's no way on earth that she'll ever convince me this stuff "has nothing to do with climate change", so she might as well just save her breath. And THEN, she texts me back with "oh, I know!"
Sometimes these folks we love and try to keep loving - are just freakin' CRAZYMAKERS!!!!!!
I'm REALLY trying to save this friendship. She claims she doesn't want politics to come between us. Neither do I. We've been through schools, broken hearts, betrayals, sicknesses, financial reversals, births, deaths, and other disasters. But I've gotta admit - as this nightmare continues, I find my opinion of people I know who somehow STILL support trump is dropping. Little by little, I find I'm now feeling much more disappointment, with a growing sense of being disgusted. I'm not happy about that. But I'm not happy about seeing these souls deliberately marching themselves right down the drain, either - when the truth is right there, staring them in the face every single day.
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Yeah. They always seem to want to bring feather-dusters to gun fights. I've been complaining about this, most definitely, since bush/cheney stole Al Gore's White House. The only way these fiends can win anymore is if they cheat. Lucky for them that they can always count on Democrats to "take the high road." Which, in politics, has been repeatedly proven to lead you straight over a cliff.
Morals anymore seem to be so yesterday.
But I'll say it right here - I'm still chafing from Nancy Pelosi announcing that impeachment was "off the table" back after the Dems clobbered the enemy in the 2006 midterms, and took back the House, which made her Speaker, and put her in a position to do something about it. She better not be saying that next year at this time!
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Wasn't that a great quote?! Epic! Who's having the last laugh now, donald?
One other thing I feel compelled to point out: consider how adult her response has been. How measured, and thoughtful it is. Even presidential. She's been a genuine class act through all of this and hasn't stooped down to the mud-wrestling level that has long been trump's default position. I keep finding myself thinking - "gee, who's the grown-up here?!"
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All roads lead to the CONman-in-Chief.
It just occurred to me that there sure are a lot of open references to "impeachment" and "obstruction of justice" peppering the talking head world right now. It's about damn time!!! But it's nice to see these memes and framings popping up on the air so frequently now. That's what we WANT! AND what we need. We need that thinking articulated out in the open, in the public forum of TV/cable as well as social media. The more common it seems, and the more ubiquitous it is, and the more often it pops up on the air and on the record, the sooner the notion will be more comfortable and easier to get used to. This helps lock it in. You don't want this stuff to go unspoken. You want it OUT THERE in the public arena, where the masses can hear it.
Perception management. It's EVERYTHING.
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