Strange to think my daughter will lose her rights and her affordable health care by the end of next year. And neighbors who watched her for years walking down our street, headed to school or the park, will celebrate. Hell, we could lose our health care, or see it whittled away to nothing, replaced by a “market-based” plan that will cost more than the pre-ACA plans did, and won’t cover anything anyway.
Rolling back fluoridation. The ignorance is breathtaking, isn’t it? To believe RFKJr’s lies about that, you’d have to believe the EVIL fertilizer industry had an EVIL problem, i.e., where to dispose of its EVIL waste, and some Snidely Whiplash in the C-suite said, “I know! Let’s add it to the nation’s drinking water!” and a plan was hatched to bamboozle the nation’s dentists, and it was successful, and all the EVILLLLL fertilizer guys cackled and rubbed their evil hands together in glee, and backed their dump trucks full of POISON to the nation’s reservoirs and poured it in, probably charging ratepayers for shipping and handling.
Because EVIL.
Well, I know what evil looks like, Pilot Joe. Sometimes it comes dressed in ignorance, but evil is as evil does, and a whole, whole lot of evil will be going on in the coming years. Because peanut butter is more expensive than it was a few years ago, and a suspiciously tall lady with a prominent Adam’s apple peed in the next stall at the coffeehouse, and oh my what could have happened.
I don’t have much to say today, except fuck it all.
Sherri said on November 6, 2024 at 3:06 pm
RFKJr thinks I should be in a work camp instead of taking antidepressants.
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Jason T. said on November 6, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Jeff Bezos is happy. I take solace in the knowledge that Jeff Bezos is happy … speaking of someone who looks like Dr. Evil.
I cancelled my Washington Post subscription last week, and cancelled Amazon Prime and my Amazon store card today. I know it won’t affect Baldy at all, but there’s no reason to give him even a penny of my money if I don’t have to.
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brian stouder said on November 6, 2024 at 3:20 pm
Nancy – well said. Truly. If this was a movie, I’d say ‘that would never happen’…….but here we are. Serious question (on a long list of questions) – what comes next? Retribution? Geo-political and/or financial chicanery? Judicial chicanery? Or – what I’m afraid of – All of the Above?
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Icarus said on November 6, 2024 at 3:27 pm
Hey MAGA: If Pence had the authority in 2021 to reject Biden Electors and make Trump president, shouldn’t Kamala Harris have the authority to reject Trump Electors and make herself president?
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brian stouder said on November 6, 2024 at 3:41 pm
Forgot to mention – loved your closing line! Being a Formula-One fan, it immediately reminded me of the governing body of F1, the FIA.
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Colleen said on November 6, 2024 at 3:50 pm
I was listening to Progress on Sirius this morning, and the host said something that resonated with me. Trump is a mirror. He is mirroring American society. A society that is racist, misogynist,xenophobic.His horribleness is a feature, not a bug. When Puerto Rico was called garbage, his fans weren’t horrified–they were cheering. The uglier he is, the more they like it. The cruelty and the hate ARE the point.
And I don’t buy “not all Trump voters…” Him being a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, racist, sexist,cheating grifter isn’t a deal breaker. It’s allll ok with them.
But Kamala has a weird laugh, so…
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Sherri said on November 6, 2024 at 4:37 pm
What’s depressing to me is just how much hate there is in this country. I said it eight years ago, and I still believe it, Trump is popular because he hates all the right people, and he gives his supporters permission to express their hate and not feel bad about it. He tells them they are the Real Americans, not the racist, misogynistic, xenophobic bigots that they are, and it’s those other people who are the problem.
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Deborah said on November 6, 2024 at 4:38 pm
I walked 9 miles this morning, and I’m up to 11.3 now. I could walk more but I feel like I’m in the self destruct mode. I’m defying every car stopped at a pedestrian striped walkway to run me over, me, the 74 year old lady with white hair, go ahead try it. It’s time for me to quit for the day. I have to get up extremely early tomorrow morning to fly to St. Louis again for more meetings and spending the night there, then Friday I’m riding in a car for 3 hours to more meetings, then Friday afternoon I take the train back to Chicago from Springfield, IL. I’m glad I have that all to distract me from my disgust with the American electorate. I realize there are millions of good people in this country but right now I’m having a hard time thinking of where they are and how we can work together for some kind of common good.
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Joe Kobiela said on November 6, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Pretty simple, the working class got tired of being pissed on by the condescending elites and being told it was raining.
Pilot Joe
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Sherri said on November 6, 2024 at 5:26 pm
Joe, I will not be lectured on what the working class thinks by someone who flies private jets for a living.
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brian stouder said on November 6, 2024 at 5:36 pm
I’d say Sherri just grounded Pilot Joe!
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Heather said on November 6, 2024 at 5:46 pm
Damn Sherri!
I never understand this whole thing about liberal elites when people like Peter Thiel, Leonard Leo, and the Koch brothers have been steadily setting themselves up for years to amass more and more power and money at the expense of working people.
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David C said on November 6, 2024 at 5:53 pm
The working class has a right to be pissed off. They are getting shit on. But it’s the people they just elected who are shitting on them. Most of the spending from the CHIPS and Science Act is happening in red districts. Most of the spending from the infrastructure bill is going to red districts. The monopolization of agriculture that’s wreaking havoc on rural America is being done by Republicans. The working class has been screwed over by Republican union busting and outsourcing. They’re really going to get screwed over if Trump imposes 20% across the board tariffs like he says he’s going to. We all will. No matter what he says, the exporting country doesn’t pay them, consumers do. Like they say “Be careful what you wish for”.
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Joe Kobiela said on November 6, 2024 at 6:33 pm
Sherri
The reason I fly is because I put in 31yrs in a hot stinking factory from. 11pm till 7am, I paid for my ratings myself. I didn’t take loans and if I would have I would have paid them back myself. I worked a heck of a lot of overtime to help pay for our house and to help my kids college so F.O.
Pilot Joe
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Sherri said on November 6, 2024 at 7:08 pm
Fuck off, yourself. I worked my way through college so I wouldn’t have to have working class jobs like my parents. I didn’t take loans, either, and went to a state school where it was cheap.
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Suzanne said on November 6, 2024 at 7:21 pm
Many of my relatives did the same, Joe, but they made good wages and had a pension which are both rare now unless you work at GM. Today, many of those factory jobs pay maybe $30,000 per year, not enough for a family to live on, even with OT. $30,000 is roughly what the average pay was in the Gary area steel mills when we lived near there in the early 1980s when a new house cost maybe $50,000 to $60,000. The best paying factory in the Indiana small town we used to live near pays about $20.00 an hour. We paid over $200,000 for a 35 year old house in 2023.
What you did was laudable but much less possible now.
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Joe Kobiela said on November 6, 2024 at 7:22 pm
Yea Sherri wouldn’t want to have to hang around those working class folks, plumbers, welders, iron workers, truck drivers, fire fighters, so much less intelligent than you and of course lower class. You know your the smartest person in the room right? You just can’t figure out why us working class folks don’t think your the smartest person in the room.
Pilot Joe
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Julie Robinson said on November 6, 2024 at 7:36 pm
Well Joe, you’re certainly not it. And you probably won’t understand that.
Our poll workers were all fantastic, but one conversation left me scratching my head. I casually commented about what a shame they sent us so many ballots; it was enough in case no one had voted early. No problem, she said, they were recycled. Still, I said, there was cost and energy in making the paper and printing the ballots. Oh no, she said, just as long as they are recycled everything is good.
At that point I made my all-purpose hmmm sound and backed away. When I mentioned it to our daughter, she told me that woman was our Republican. There must be at least one of each party among the workers.
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Sherri said on November 6, 2024 at 7:36 pm
No, it wasn’t because I didn’t want to hang out with working class people, it was because most working class jobs are shitty jobs, especially if you’re a woman in the South, where there aren’t many unions. I went to college because I hung out with real working class people and saw what their lives were like.
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Dorothy said on November 6, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Julie they gave us too many (paper) ballots, too. We had 63 voters come to our table. Why did they give us 500 ballots?! We put the unused ones into the Unvoted green zippered bag and when we closed it, the plastic security tag cracked.
Why does that idiot keep coming back here to get his ass handed to him over and over again? The fact that he feels it necessary to post “Pilot Joe” after the sentences he types has always mystified me. His full given name is already atop the comment box. I should not be tempting an engagement with him as I know this will cull some sort of strangled response from him. But I made up my mind about him years ago because he just doesn’t come across as a fair minded, balanced person. Exactly like the puss filled bag of sh** he worships.
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Jim G said on November 6, 2024 at 7:57 pm
I’m an election worker in Maryland, and our voting place had 1,250 fill-in-the-bubble ballots, plus I’m not sure how many marking-machine ballots. We have just over 2,000 registered voters, which says something about what the Board of Elections expected the turnout (or the number of people who wanted to fill in bubbles) to be.
But they weren’t wrong: We ended up with just shy of 600 voters for the day.
That’s when I suspected we were screwed. It reminded me of 2016, when turnout (in Pennsylvania, where I lived at the time) was also surprisingly light.
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Joe Kobiela said on November 6, 2024 at 8:07 pm
Well bless your heart Dorothy.
Just remember every night when you go to bed and every day when you get up for the next 4yrs, who the president is.
Sleep well
Pilot Joe
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Sherri said on November 6, 2024 at 8:10 pm
As well, the aviator demonstrates precisely the point I made earlier, about men that can’t handle it when I puncture the illusion that they’re smarter than me.
The aviator made a choice way back when to work in that hot stinking factory, rather than go to college. I’m going to assume we both came from working class families, where our parents were not college graduates. I made the choice to go to college. That doesn’t make me magically elite and the aviator the working class whisperer.
Let’s also note that a number of those working class jobs that the aviator thinks I sneer at weren’t even really options for a young woman in 1980 when I graduated high school. Women weren’t exactly welcomed as firefighters and welders and truck drivers and iron workers.
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