Well, you pretty much nailed it even in a short time.
Hope your visit with your daughter brings you some peace in your grief. My wife passed over two years ago and I am still trying to figure out how to live with my grief—I don’t expect to have figured it out in my lifetime. I’m told that grief is a measure of how much you loved and were loved—small price to pay for a great love of 53 years. Sorry, didn’t mean to go off on a tangent but your daughter’s visit struck a familiar chord of treasured family ties.
I’m very lucky to have Mrs Mild for going on 45 years. After we got married she had ileostomy surgery, and the surgeon told her that, while necessary, would likely take 10 years off her life. She’s also survived breast cancer twice, and a few other health crises.
Our birthdays are coming up this week (she is 24 hours older than me). She asked me what I wanted for my birthday (she doesn’t drive anymore). I told her that all I wanted is her with me.
I completely understand. My childhood (and only) dog died over 50 years ago and I still cry sometimes and have never gotten over her either. ❤🙏 It's why I never got another one even as an adult (I'm almost 70) Couldn't go through it again. 😥
Makes me cry Kristy. 😭 I hope you had Peabody for many happy years. 🙏 My little girl was 5 and she died 9 months after my mom…and they were each other’s lives…inseparable. We think she died from a broken heart. I went away for 6 weeks that summer and was only home a week, she wasn’t well, was at the vet when she died. I slept with her sweater for weeks and just cried non-stop. They get in our hearts…non-animal people can’t understand how we can communicate and love and give and get unconditional love. I have been every family/friend dogs’ “aunt”over these years and loved them all, and mourned them terribly when they died. But they weren’t mine. Just thinking about it brings back unbearable pain all these years later. I admire people who can open up their hearts again and again after loss. Sadly, I am not one of them.
I've been through THOSE losses a few times Ann and they're just devastating...know exactly what you mean. I also lost my Dad in 1987 and still grieve for him. :'(
Sorry for your loss, Rob. .. lost my husband 28 years ago. It takes time to heal.. but it never is the same.. we just learn to live with the good memories made with our mate.
Rob- been through that here with our son- it’s been tough but today is a good day. It takes time- day to day. Hope you have lots of pictures and videos to see and hear her speak. Take care and remember all the good laughs and family times all together. ♥️
Well, that made me cry. What a sweet tribute. Grief is one of those facts of life nobody can possibly prepare you for. Words can't describe it, they aren't big enough. Hope you and Jeff are both finding ways to ease the hurt. ❤️
you're exactly right about the ways grief may affect us.
the experience that gutted me was when my first husband, the love of my life cheated. we divorced & I moved on. but it was 6 months before the lump in my throat went away. and it took years until the loss no longer mattered to me.
I'm happily married now - to a man who loves and cares for me every bit as much as I do him. Yay!
Pain slowly repairs itself in its own time, in response to small, unexpected moments of joy and to the kindness of others.
Yes. Hard and never ending but you are right about moments of joy the kindness of others. For me they offer respite from the pain of loss and the “quiet house”.
for me, the tiniest and least expected moments of joy came from a random, brief, friendly conversation while waiting in a checkout line at the grocery store.
on a day when there seemed to be no joy in life, it was the highest moment of the day. and I took note of that - because it mattered
Rob, I wish I could offer you the hope that your grief has an expiration date, but it's true that the more you love and are loved, the deeper the loss. My soul mate died in April 2002, and I still feel the hole in my heart he left. He is still the main character in my dreams at night, and because I never imagined any other future than the one that he occupied - the one that had us growing old together - my life stalled out for a long while. For the last 10 years I've been better reconciled to solitude, and I am more comfortable with it, but I still cling to the idea that we are "growing old together". I have to admit that I am, perhaps, more attached to my cat than is considered 'normal'.
Thanks. Your story is poignant. We got to grow old together and my wife suffered before she passed, so it was a bittersweet blessing that God took her home. And still I wasn’t prepared to have to go on alone.
I would only say that staying engaged with life, family and friends is a great source of solace. I hope you and your cat can do that. Blessings. R
Fwiw Paula, MY animals (should I end up alone) would be more than what I need to remain connected to pure love. I've raised so many cats (36 at last count) who lived out their full lives here, so being down to my last one plus the two doggos is just fine. I've never minded solitude. My main worry is them being left adrift so have made plans for them to go to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (OR be taken care of by my lovely nephew) just in case. He doesn't yet know he'd get a paid-off home into the bargain IF he chooses to move to our area. IF I did live longer and sadly lost all of my fur babies, I'd likely look into foster care for older cats who're much less likely to be permanently adopted but need and show love AND are monitored by Shelters so no fear of them being abandoned. Loving your cat IS perfectly normal. I adore mine and while for years was considered 'the crazy cat lady' somehow I was the one everyone came to with questions about and for their own cats. Now, with the several more cat lovers in our area, I'm no longer unique.
I am so sorry, Rob. My dad, who lost my mom and his wife of more than 56 years this past November, is navigating life as a new widower as well. My sister and I are thankful that he is going to move closer to us; it is so important to have family and loved ones close by. Sending you continued healing and light. 💕
I am sorry for your dad’s loss—really tough after 50+ years even though our loved ones get to go to their heavenly homes.
Picking up on Jesus’ message that “there are many mansions” in heaven, I like to imagine my wife has a white colonial with a big columned porch overlooking the heavenly sea and enjoys entertaining family and friends there. Weird I know, but it brings a smile to my face.
I am thankful for family and friends down here who help fill the void and am happy for your dad that he has that. Take good care of him.
That's lovely IF there are family and loved ones close by. We've lost every single one of those who used to live nearby. Luckily, my newest next-door neighbour has become what she calls my 'adopted daughter' after losing her own Mom soon after moving her into her own home. She's a lovely girl and super intelligent - we connect on a rare level which works for us and she always worries about my wellbeing. She too is an animal person so it's great to have her here. For my money, I'd rather choose 'family' than be forced to be with certain birth family members who were abusive for years. Life's a lot better now.
😭🙏. I'm so sorry Rob. Queen Elizabeth once said something very poignant and similar. "Grief is the price we pay for love". You and Jeff had something very beautiful...long, happy marriages. And I'll tell you something very personal. My parents were childhood sweethearts and my mom passed away when I was young and so was she (50). My dad was a young widower at 52 and they had been married 25 years. He remarried twice. He lived 16 more years, and until the day he died he still cried for my mother. Life may go on for those who are left, but the love never dies. ❤
I didn't mean to make you teary (and I come to Jeff and Andy Borowitz to get some laughs) but Jeff's loss and yours and others today sharing their stories have moved me so much. I was very lucky to see my father the night before he died then spoke to him the next morning and told him again how much I loved him. (I always tell everyone before I hang up the phone or send an email or text that I love them). He and his wife of 12 years were going back to Fla for the winter the following week. Ironically we were all together for a holiday, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance to see him and hug him one last time, but he and I were alone talking, and he cried for my mom (as he always did when he and I were alone together) and then out of the blue he said to me "sweetheart, if anything happens to me, don't cry.. I've had a beautiful life" and I was stunned. I said don't even think like that...he had just turned 67 two months before. The next day he was gone. I screamed when I got the phone call that night, and he is buried next to my mother where he wanted to be...forever. I will be with them one day too. My mom was sick and suffered for a couple years, and he was so sudden. It's been 38 years and I still cry and grieve for him,, and for my mom 54 years later...and I will be 70 in a couple of months. Those of us who have had great love in our lives are the lucky ones, which is why the loss and grief and sayimg goodbye is so hard. Now I'm crying. 😭
Claudia Long (Jeff's wife) was a writer in her own right. Had her own substack and he let us know just a month ago about her passing. He's been sorely grieving ever since while still trying to keep all of us entertained. While his mourning her gives others the opportunity to discuss their own losses and for us to commiserate, his 'mental health breaks' are ALL about his having to take time off to deal with this most awful loss.
I have a daughter Katie, too! She played a large part in keeping me from total despair after my husband died, and she is still my best friend in the world. Children are the best medicine for us as we age and suffer all the inevitable losses, both physical and emotional. Such blessings!
Enjoy your visit with your daughter. I know it’s for a sad reason but I hope you both find some time to laugh too. I’m sure Mrs Spouse had a LOT of funny things to say. As our former president, Old Handsome Joe Biden likes to say, I hope the memories bring more smiles than tears.
Sadly on point as usual. What can one say? Maybe Kegsbreath and Roadkill warrior can distract us with another topless episode at the gym and creepy stuff in a hot tub. While we are busy recoiling from these images, maybe we won't notice all the dead bodies piling up, including children in a girl's school. Jeff, go have a great day with your daughter.
THAT wasn't the short little post I thought it'd be! You always give us so much more than you imagine. Hope you've already collected Katie and are having a lovely and (obviously we all know it'll be very emotional) time together. Make the most of EVERY SECOND she's with you. Soak up every thought, mention and memory of your dear, sweet Claudia. WE will be fine and not a single one of us isn't feeling the joy of your having your daughter there. After reading Rob, Mr. Mild and Ann's posts about their own losses - there might be a place for all of you to 'gather together online' to share? Keep it to those who've walked in your shoes and belong here, perhaps? Use pseudonyms if you must - but even if not, it might be very cathartic to share with likeminded others.
Joining others urging you to take a healing break when spending time with your daughter. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like chaos will go anywhere. It'll be here.
Kinda glad you didn’t have to note Kegstand’s bonkers Dominionist presser this morning. It nearly made fatfuck seem coherent. It is all so very shameful. The hell we and the Netanyahu regime have unleashed upon the Iranian people… I am so deeply saddened. It’s hard to accept the wreckage we are strewing in this world.
I suspect Jeff feels obligated to those signed up for 'paid' subscriptions. Fwiw, I don't give a flying fuck HOW much time he needs to take off to mourn his Claudia who inspired him so much. The heart and soul need what they need to begin to heal and I believe everyone who's here cares so deeply for him that we're going to hang in for the duration, no matter what. I know I am.
I've noticed the orange fuckwit hasn't singled out Lawrence O'Donnell who is free with HIS insults and truth-telling every night, openly and on the air. I think he's terrified of someone like Lawrence who has the receipts.
Just saw a video of the orange 💩 saying that girls have to be of age. Around 6 years old according to the child rapist. I haven’t found context but it doesn’t look like AI.
It’s about getting special voter ID if in the dystopian future one might be required, and using a six-yr-old to navigate the complexities is supposed to be a selling feature.
This war is an “excursion” in the same way that J6 was a “tour of the Capitol.” Enjoy the time with your daughter. I’m sure her visit will be therapeutic for both of you! 🥰
I would have to say “baggage is not enough it’s an entire row of dumpsters on fire and spreading in all directions” Trump ran into a rat trap and is getting the eating of his life in the Middle East. He better leave fast, it may be too late to save the country and I mean the USA.
I laughed so hard about walking around with no legs that I peed a little. You just can’t make this shit up. Why in the hell are the legislators sanewashing his lunacy?
Sorry for your loss, John. My dad had a rare form of leukemia, lost his eye, and eventually his life, to melanoma caused by Agent Orange exposure as a SeaBee in Vietnam. Just goes to show the 🍊💩🤡 doesn’t have any humanity that he says such things.
Oh yes Agent Orange, voluminous quantities not in the country we were at war with, war crime, it was the Ho Che Minh trail where ‘millions’ of Chinese soldiers followed it hidden by jungle, but were then in the open, it didn’t work, it was Laos. The subject came up yesterday on a Substack and I said nothing, today I say it was just one of the burn piles of the military that people died from and still do . Officially and originally said to be safe for our troops. Just a few examples of a military that doesn’t give a shit.
yeah- 'supposed' to remove the thick foliage so 'OUR' troops could see 'THEIR' troops hiding in the Jungle. What it DID was kill off ALL the foliage AND heavily damage ALL people, animals BEINGS it came into contact with (along with that foliage which it poisoned). MY husband is still, now - fighting against the effects of HIS exposure in Combat there. Every year they up his 'designation' a bit more. After coming home and working a REAL job at a Major Corporation (Middle level Project Manager) for close to30 years, he's now being designated 100% disabled from that vile stuff, originally due to the chlorachne he developed in Country but now has multiple other pain and issues (and just had one toe amputated with circulation problems and osteomyelitis) which is upping his designation yet again. Where do you go from 100%? Oh I know, it's donnymath: the sky's the limit. Burn pits only give you 'liddle headaches' in donnyspeak (while the sufferers are screaming in pain from horrific head pain) JUST so he can insult Joe Biden's dead from brain cancer son Beau. Orange fuckwit is not only repulsive, he's monstrous -along with every single one of those around him and who prop up HIS rotted and nasty brain.
That is so sad about your brother John. The government and military spent so much time gaslighting soldiers who were exposed to agent orange it was absolutely disgusting
I hate to say it but, as a HVAC technician I repaired a system at the home of the guy that invented/created the deployment system for agent orange. He had passed away but his wife was still here and was very proud of his work. I only knew he was the one because she told me. It was a badge of honor for her. I did not disparage her husband or agent orange. She was in her 80’s I think. I always wondered if agent orange shortened his life. If it did she wasn’t about to admit it.
When I think of agent orange I can’t get out of my head the photo of the little Vietnamese girl running down the street screaming with her clothes hair and lips burned off. If you don’t hate war and agent orange after looking at that something is wrong with you.
that was NAPALM which burned that little girl. I will NEVER forget (or forgive) US for using that horrific stuff on the people of that Country - along with Agent Orange - which I believe is why that woman felt 'proud'. Wasn't Agent Orange supposed to defoliate the jungle just so they wouldn't continue to use napalm? I don't think any of them had a single clue about what it would do to people and their food/crops for generations, poison-wise, but did they do tests to see? No. The optics were far better than that photo which went Global. donny would LOVE using something as vicious as napalm. pretty pink; sticks to everything, continues burning right through clothing, skin, bone...ugh, ugh, ugh
Because the alternative is too scary, they're paralyzed with fear. They desperately want somebody to take it out of their hands so they don't have to do the dirty work.
Everything is a tradeoff. They know that every minute of this travesty that goes by digs (whatever is left of) the Republican Party deeper into their hole. When the backlash gains momentum and washes back over them no one will have the slightest regard for their credibility. Some will go to jail.
Yes George. You’re right. I remember after Nixon and the Vietnam war that the Republican Party was really in the crapper. They crawled back out like gollum and resurrected themselves with Ronald Raygun. That’s how he was referred to in California; and, it was a well deserved nickname. He almost single handily eliminated the middle class. I’m embarrassed to say I voted for him the second time.
I don’t know if they can come back from this and they know it and you know it and everybody knows it (as poopy pants would say) and that’s why they are dead set on trying everything to steal this election. They’ve spent 20 years shitting all over everything that they said they held dear to their heart
They can’t erase this from history or their consciousness
they're not only trying, they're DOING! They're rewriting history books (which I'm sure will be full of typos such as the 'reigning down' the malevolent fuckwit posted the other day - instead of 'raining down' (talking about our bombs on Iran). The ADOLESCENCE involved in their incredibly stupid 'epic' ads to try to sell this 'war' to the rubes is beyond anything I'VE ever seen. Part commercial, part video game, part gameboy, part scenes stolen from movies, ALL dumb as dirt. You KNOW one of these 10 yr olds game up with the 'epic fury' stupidity of a name. donny had forgotten to name their midnight attack on Iran so came up with that after the fact: equally dumb. They're CHILDREN playing at 'War' (I swear every time I write 'war' I hear it in my head the way SouthPark does kegsbreath's voice...TOO funny). Him with his 'no one's going to be allowed to take BAD photos of me'. WTF? I swear, this is a clear case of the lunatic CHILDREN running the asylum.
You know what it’s like? It’s like the republicans are watching this really bad movie (maybe Melanoma is staring). And instead of walking out they’re whistling past the graveyard thinking “this is going to get better…this has to get better right?…it will won’t it?
You just keep whistling republicans. Because that’s about all you might be good at…
The best option (though it won’t happen until Holy Mike Johnson is shipped back to Louisiana) is impeachment, trail, and conviction. Clear all the bastards out.
It will need a massive blue wave -- a tsunami -- to succeed as it will need at least 67 votes to convict. If the gutless MAGAts couldn't convict after Jan. 6, how many will change their minds?
Felon47's 1st order of business in this 2nd round of hell was smashing all previous guardrails. He hasn't eliminated all of US, yet, though, even though he sure seems to be trying.
The sooner we face that the better. God knows none of us wanted to believe the sheer insanity of that, but I spent my whole life making it work, not understanding what I lived & making the best. My dying wish is to see all us all...not to understand evil, but know it for what it is & stand together against it. It may be hard to get a handle on a moving target, but there is no not knowing what we know.
Stupidity on display . There are innocent Iranians , including school children , who hate their dictator as much as the Western world does ; some are dead , some horribly maimed . It's all a joke to Trump .
I think the idiot discombobulated another idiotic comment by Markwayne Mullen to Kaitlin Collins explaining that even though we had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capability, they could reconstruct it the way people who lose their legs can just insert steel rods and continue walking as usual.
His speeches are like a crazed combination of Norm Crosby and Foster Brooks, for those of us old enough to remember. But they were comedians, doing exaggerations as their schtick.
What an inspiring show of bravery and patriotism it would be if Cankles himself took a little "excursion" on an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. He claimed he would have run into a school to confront an active shooter, so I'm sure he "has the guts" for it.
Mark, can somebody lash him to an oil tanker mast along with Brian Kilmeade ala Kate Winslet style in Titanic. We'll see how brave and patriotic they really are.
See, now THIS is an idea we could ALL get behind. Banners made up - millions of people in the streets ALL calling for 'el presidente' to SHOW his 'strong and manly' presence at this stage of his life doing what he's challenging our troops to do - (and what Zelenskyy routinely does) go to the 'front lines' and BE BRAVE, show the world just how 'manly' he is. (lolol) First, he'd shit his pants. 2) they'd call it an 'emergency medical condition' which prevented him from going at the last second. 3) so we could make the switch to his ELIGIBLE SON at the last second: SEND BARRON, SEND BARRON, SEND BARRON< and so on. Works for me.
Now that's just nasty. I'm not gay myself, but they certainly deserve more respect than have Little Miss Priss as one of their most visible representatives. RuPaul would like a word with her. Out back.
South Carolina is the first state to have TWO closeted gay senators. And that's sad. If they were Democrats they'd be the first state to have two OUT gay senators, because at least Democrats don't have to hide who they are.
I posted yesterday afternoon that he would say he won, well sort of because the gas prices were blowing a hole in the roof and the stock market was tanking and I was right. He stood up barely to make a speech that he won. That they took out the capabilities for a nuclear weapon and their Navy ships are sunk and everything was great. He forgot to mention the new leader in Iran is the son of the man he murdered. He also murdered his sons wife and their and their kids....so think again you useless pile of shit....there is Gigantic Mark on you and your family. We are all still waiting for the Epstien files
the Trump administration has implemented significant, systematic, and, in some cases, final restructurings of major U.S. national security, foreign aid, and intelligence-related agencies. The Intelligence Community (CIA/NSA): Reports indicate "arbitrary firings" and leadership turnover, including the removal of the director and deputy director of the NSA.
So if an Iranian "sleeper" DOES manage to get trump - it will be all down to trump.
Putting incompetent, corrupt, traitorous idjits like Patel, Gabbard, and new Dept. of Immigrant Brutality Markwayne (Too Many Names) Mullin in place may not work out well. Jes' sayin'
Yep. That's becuse crazy people create their own self-fulfilling prophecies. They will never understand that blowing people up in order to prevent another 9/11, or whatever Moose-Lamb apocalyptic attack is the fear du jour, only raises the likelihood of it happening.
Just heard about an AFGHAN Special Forces Soldier who WORKED WITH OUR TROOPS while there, legally evacuated to the US with many others. NOW 41 years old, married with six kids. Was grabbed up by 'ice' thugs AS he was taking his kids to school. THEY were in the vehicle and witnessed their Dad being taken. NO reason given - he was just disappeared. Then he called his family to say he felt very ill and had been taken to Dallas Parkland Hospital. They let his family know the next day that he was DEAD! No reason given. I swear, these fuckers need to be hauled up on WAR CRIMES, even right here in the good ol' US of A. There are many others who've also conveniently died while in their 'custody'. I wonder how that works?
It works like it has in every authoritarian gov't that's come before. Until/unless bodies are piled up like logs and the rest of the world is bombing the shit out of our major cities, there is no reason for it to un-continue. People are commodities to the rich, powerful, and bigoted.
I don’t know what makes anybody think that dopey fat fuck is the man to end this war. It will be Iran of course that playground has lots of blood to account for and he won’t be the one to get peace it’s far too late for that.
By now, don't the frump family (excepting Mary and her brother) now number around 2,000? jr alone had 5 or 6 kids. Not that I'm suggesting ANY of them should be targeted - but what IF that's the plan of the new Ayatollah whose entire family was murdered by frump and his goons as he sees it? An 'eye for an eye' means exactly that! And for what it's worth, having 'private security' or secret service around you does NADA against drones focused on you as an individual. His entire immediate family should immediately get as far away from HIM as they can. It's HIS war, let him bear the brunt. It would be richly deserved, the stupid dumbfuck who probably has already forgotten why he attacked Iran in the first place and THAT is on vance and every single one of those chickenshit 'aides' and republicans around him who didn't yet exercise the 25th Amendment they were supposed to by now! I just don't want any innocent civilians caught up in HIS mess.
LOL I know...if there was only a fund to knock them all out. There sleeper cells inbeded in the US and actively being aggressive and I hope they take the hits necessary
This entire thing is going to blow up and mean blow up, yesterday was just a band aid to calm the market and the economy. It won't last and if you live with fear, you don't live.
I especially find his pee-wee german too-tight suit hilarious and pathetic. What on earth did he think he looked like? Rachel Maddow with Alex Wagner on 'Crooked' this weekend did this bit about him actually using an American Flag as a handkerchief (Rachel was comparing his too-tight suit to another's) - and then specified to Alex : 'what do people use handkerchiefs FOR, whereupon they both groaned about how disgusting that idea was. Alex's comment: 'you're not supposed to let it touch the GROUND let alone blow your NOSE in it! Ugh!"
Who runs American foreign policy? The Clown Prince of the Apprentice? Little Marco? The great American Oligarchs? The court Nazi, Stephen Miller? The Xenophobic Fever Dreams of Sen. Lindsay Graham? The Criminal Overlord of the once great Nation of Israel? The Book of Revelations? Our lethality warlord?
It quite a mystery. We know who doesn't run it..The Interests of the American People.
I don't believe in demons. it's what they call US democrats over and over and over so makes my skin crawl. Sorry. It's a desperation ploy by their pseudo-christianists to make US the 'bad guys' while convincing their magat cultists of jebus' coming - and in the form of or alongside that disgusting orange critter. They somehow believe that their rapture is upon them (the sole reason they support Israel - useful only as a means to an end, otherwise they're purely antisemitic) and I KNOW these morons imagine they'll all rise up to the 'heavens' just as they are, makeup fully intact, hair perfect, in their best finery - with the orange fucker leading the way - where they'll be greeted by jebus himself. What comes after? Who the fuck knows - they don't think that far ahead. What happens to those left behind? Who the fuck knows OR cares - they certainly don't since they also imagine they're taking all their riches with them and if they don't have a LOT of riches, they'll get what they need on arrival.
It's a pattern we've seen all along, these sewer clowns claim authority without taking any responsibility, all their greedy fingers in the pie. It doesn't work that way. Kick the bums out!
Of the leader of the Party that Doesn’t Take Responsibility for the Shit it Does wants to say Iran blew up it’s own elementary school girls. And it did so after it started the war by bombing itself.
Much as I’m a fan of Old Handsome Joe Biden (OHJB), his two biggest mistakes, IMHO, were allowing Clarance Thomas’s nomination to proceed to the full Senate, and picking (and keeping) Merrick Garland as AG.
it's a shame I had to give Donny's presser such short shrift and use only two clips, because the whole thing was wall-to-wall bugfuck nuts. oh well
Well, you pretty much nailed it even in a short time.
Hope your visit with your daughter brings you some peace in your grief. My wife passed over two years ago and I am still trying to figure out how to live with my grief—I don’t expect to have figured it out in my lifetime. I’m told that grief is a measure of how much you loved and were loved—small price to pay for a great love of 53 years. Sorry, didn’t mean to go off on a tangent but your daughter’s visit struck a familiar chord of treasured family ties.
I’m very sorry for you loss, too, Rob.
I’m very lucky to have Mrs Mild for going on 45 years. After we got married she had ileostomy surgery, and the surgeon told her that, while necessary, would likely take 10 years off her life. She’s also survived breast cancer twice, and a few other health crises.
Our birthdays are coming up this week (she is 24 hours older than me). She asked me what I wanted for my birthday (she doesn’t drive anymore). I told her that all I wanted is her with me.
I can't imagine the pain of losing a spouse, my dog died four years ago & I still can't get over it. 💔
I completely understand. My childhood (and only) dog died over 50 years ago and I still cry sometimes and have never gotten over her either. ❤🙏 It's why I never got another one even as an adult (I'm almost 70) Couldn't go through it again. 😥
Peabody was my only dog.
I'm 74.
Makes me cry Kristy. 😭 I hope you had Peabody for many happy years. 🙏 My little girl was 5 and she died 9 months after my mom…and they were each other’s lives…inseparable. We think she died from a broken heart. I went away for 6 weeks that summer and was only home a week, she wasn’t well, was at the vet when she died. I slept with her sweater for weeks and just cried non-stop. They get in our hearts…non-animal people can’t understand how we can communicate and love and give and get unconditional love. I have been every family/friend dogs’ “aunt”over these years and loved them all, and mourned them terribly when they died. But they weren’t mine. Just thinking about it brings back unbearable pain all these years later. I admire people who can open up their hearts again and again after loss. Sadly, I am not one of them.
I've been through THOSE losses a few times Ann and they're just devastating...know exactly what you mean. I also lost my Dad in 1987 and still grieve for him. :'(
Sorry for your loss, Rob. .. lost my husband 28 years ago. It takes time to heal.. but it never is the same.. we just learn to live with the good memories made with our mate.
Thanks. You are so right! The good memories are treasures to recall often.
Yes, you are lucky and blessed. Your wife must be a very strong and loving woman.
Yes, she is thank you. She was very determined to beat cancer the first (and second time) soo she could see our kids grow up.
She’s a much stronger and determined person than I ever was or will be.
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Enjoy the time together. I understand more than you will ever know. Sending love to you and Mz. Mild.
Rob- been through that here with our son- it’s been tough but today is a good day. It takes time- day to day. Hope you have lots of pictures and videos to see and hear her speak. Take care and remember all the good laughs and family times all together. ♥️
Mr. Mild, that sounds like the perfect birthday wish showing you have life's wisdom.
Thanks, it only took about 70 years to get there.
You are there. Trump veered off the path on the way to that understanding, which is why he does not have anyone he cares about like that.
Have a lovely celebration. 🎂
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Take care, Rob. I’m sorry for your loss.
Well, that made me cry. What a sweet tribute. Grief is one of those facts of life nobody can possibly prepare you for. Words can't describe it, they aren't big enough. Hope you and Jeff are both finding ways to ease the hurt. ❤️
Thank you for your kindness. Can’t speak for Jeff, but for me there is solace in staying busy and staying connected to family and friends.
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you're exactly right about the ways grief may affect us.
the experience that gutted me was when my first husband, the love of my life cheated. we divorced & I moved on. but it was 6 months before the lump in my throat went away. and it took years until the loss no longer mattered to me.
I'm happily married now - to a man who loves and cares for me every bit as much as I do him. Yay!
Pain slowly repairs itself in its own time, in response to small, unexpected moments of joy and to the kindness of others.
I feel your loss too. I lost the love of my life in 2017. It is now 2026. I still try to come to grips with things. It is hard.
Yes. Hard and never ending but you are right about moments of joy the kindness of others. For me they offer respite from the pain of loss and the “quiet house”.
for me, the tiniest and least expected moments of joy came from a random, brief, friendly conversation while waiting in a checkout line at the grocery store.
on a day when there seemed to be no joy in life, it was the highest moment of the day. and I took note of that - because it mattered
Very kind. Thanks!
Thank you for your kindness.
Rob, I wish I could offer you the hope that your grief has an expiration date, but it's true that the more you love and are loved, the deeper the loss. My soul mate died in April 2002, and I still feel the hole in my heart he left. He is still the main character in my dreams at night, and because I never imagined any other future than the one that he occupied - the one that had us growing old together - my life stalled out for a long while. For the last 10 years I've been better reconciled to solitude, and I am more comfortable with it, but I still cling to the idea that we are "growing old together". I have to admit that I am, perhaps, more attached to my cat than is considered 'normal'.
Thanks. Your story is poignant. We got to grow old together and my wife suffered before she passed, so it was a bittersweet blessing that God took her home. And still I wasn’t prepared to have to go on alone.
I would only say that staying engaged with life, family and friends is a great source of solace. I hope you and your cat can do that. Blessings. R
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Fwiw Paula, MY animals (should I end up alone) would be more than what I need to remain connected to pure love. I've raised so many cats (36 at last count) who lived out their full lives here, so being down to my last one plus the two doggos is just fine. I've never minded solitude. My main worry is them being left adrift so have made plans for them to go to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (OR be taken care of by my lovely nephew) just in case. He doesn't yet know he'd get a paid-off home into the bargain IF he chooses to move to our area. IF I did live longer and sadly lost all of my fur babies, I'd likely look into foster care for older cats who're much less likely to be permanently adopted but need and show love AND are monitored by Shelters so no fear of them being abandoned. Loving your cat IS perfectly normal. I adore mine and while for years was considered 'the crazy cat lady' somehow I was the one everyone came to with questions about and for their own cats. Now, with the several more cat lovers in our area, I'm no longer unique.
Sorry for your tragic loss Rob. It’s 💔. Sadly Ye just learn to live with it….Hard though it is!
Best of luck to Ye. 💚
Very kind as well. Thanks!
I am so sorry, Rob. My dad, who lost my mom and his wife of more than 56 years this past November, is navigating life as a new widower as well. My sister and I are thankful that he is going to move closer to us; it is so important to have family and loved ones close by. Sending you continued healing and light. 💕
I am sorry for your dad’s loss—really tough after 50+ years even though our loved ones get to go to their heavenly homes.
Picking up on Jesus’ message that “there are many mansions” in heaven, I like to imagine my wife has a white colonial with a big columned porch overlooking the heavenly sea and enjoys entertaining family and friends there. Weird I know, but it brings a smile to my face.
I am thankful for family and friends down here who help fill the void and am happy for your dad that he has that. Take good care of him.
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We will. Thanks and much love to you.
That's lovely IF there are family and loved ones close by. We've lost every single one of those who used to live nearby. Luckily, my newest next-door neighbour has become what she calls my 'adopted daughter' after losing her own Mom soon after moving her into her own home. She's a lovely girl and super intelligent - we connect on a rare level which works for us and she always worries about my wellbeing. She too is an animal person so it's great to have her here. For my money, I'd rather choose 'family' than be forced to be with certain birth family members who were abusive for years. Life's a lot better now.
😭🙏. I'm so sorry Rob. Queen Elizabeth once said something very poignant and similar. "Grief is the price we pay for love". You and Jeff had something very beautiful...long, happy marriages. And I'll tell you something very personal. My parents were childhood sweethearts and my mom passed away when I was young and so was she (50). My dad was a young widower at 52 and they had been married 25 years. He remarried twice. He lived 16 more years, and until the day he died he still cried for my mother. Life may go on for those who are left, but the love never dies. ❤
So true. I get it—grief never goes away. You dad’s story is bringing tears to my eyes 😥
I didn't mean to make you teary (and I come to Jeff and Andy Borowitz to get some laughs) but Jeff's loss and yours and others today sharing their stories have moved me so much. I was very lucky to see my father the night before he died then spoke to him the next morning and told him again how much I loved him. (I always tell everyone before I hang up the phone or send an email or text that I love them). He and his wife of 12 years were going back to Fla for the winter the following week. Ironically we were all together for a holiday, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance to see him and hug him one last time, but he and I were alone talking, and he cried for my mom (as he always did when he and I were alone together) and then out of the blue he said to me "sweetheart, if anything happens to me, don't cry.. I've had a beautiful life" and I was stunned. I said don't even think like that...he had just turned 67 two months before. The next day he was gone. I screamed when I got the phone call that night, and he is buried next to my mother where he wanted to be...forever. I will be with them one day too. My mom was sick and suffered for a couple years, and he was so sudden. It's been 38 years and I still cry and grieve for him,, and for my mom 54 years later...and I will be 70 in a couple of months. Those of us who have had great love in our lives are the lucky ones, which is why the loss and grief and sayimg goodbye is so hard. Now I'm crying. 😭
I'm right there with you.
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I'm so sorry for the loss of your wife. I hope your family will continue to share memories to keep her ever present in your life.
Thanks. My family and forever friends have indeed been my solace
Likewise. I just realized that Jeff lost his partner, too.
Claudia Long (Jeff's wife) was a writer in her own right. Had her own substack and he let us know just a month ago about her passing. He's been sorely grieving ever since while still trying to keep all of us entertained. While his mourning her gives others the opportunity to discuss their own losses and for us to commiserate, his 'mental health breaks' are ALL about his having to take time off to deal with this most awful loss.
Heartfelt Rob. Makes us reflect on what’s really important in life
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You gave us the priceless gonads v gravity clip and that one never ages
You and Katie have a lot of happy memories to catch up on. Don’t worry about us, enjoy your time together.🫶
I have a daughter Katie, too! She played a large part in keeping me from total despair after my husband died, and she is still my best friend in the world. Children are the best medicine for us as we age and suffer all the inevitable losses, both physical and emotional. Such blessings!
Please have a great time, this will be wonderful self-care!
Heather Delaney Reese gave it lots of space in her Substack published about 2 am today.
Take Care Jeff. Have a lovely time reminiscing with Katie.
We’re Always Here For Ye. 💚
Enjoy your visit with your daughter. I know it’s for a sad reason but I hope you both find some time to laugh too. I’m sure Mrs Spouse had a LOT of funny things to say. As our former president, Old Handsome Joe Biden likes to say, I hope the memories bring more smiles than tears.
Enjoy your daughter’s visit.
Family first, Jeff.
Sadly on point as usual. What can one say? Maybe Kegsbreath and Roadkill warrior can distract us with another topless episode at the gym and creepy stuff in a hot tub. While we are busy recoiling from these images, maybe we won't notice all the dead bodies piling up, including children in a girl's school. Jeff, go have a great day with your daughter.
Beautiful weather for the start of your daughter's visit. I hope you two have a wonderful time, and that she can stay for a while. Enjoy!
THAT wasn't the short little post I thought it'd be! You always give us so much more than you imagine. Hope you've already collected Katie and are having a lovely and (obviously we all know it'll be very emotional) time together. Make the most of EVERY SECOND she's with you. Soak up every thought, mention and memory of your dear, sweet Claudia. WE will be fine and not a single one of us isn't feeling the joy of your having your daughter there. After reading Rob, Mr. Mild and Ann's posts about their own losses - there might be a place for all of you to 'gather together online' to share? Keep it to those who've walked in your shoes and belong here, perhaps? Use pseudonyms if you must - but even if not, it might be very cathartic to share with likeminded others.
Jeff enjoy the time you have with Katie!!! You both deserve some time together after the loss of Your Wife & Katie’s Mom.💕💕
There'll just be another equally nutso one tomorrow.
By the way, Jeff: 'wall to wall bugfuck nuts' was GREAT! And yet another new one to me.
Joining others urging you to take a healing break when spending time with your daughter. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like chaos will go anywhere. It'll be here.
Enjoy the time you have with Katie
It's hard to cover a drooling maniac. So much gibberish. It's no wonder that caregivers for the demented die first.
Kinda glad you didn’t have to note Kegstand’s bonkers Dominionist presser this morning. It nearly made fatfuck seem coherent. It is all so very shameful. The hell we and the Netanyahu regime have unleashed upon the Iranian people… I am so deeply saddened. It’s hard to accept the wreckage we are strewing in this world.
I guess that's what I'll be writing about tomorrow
Depends on what type of fucked up shit happens today. It is still early. Have a great visit with your daughter!
You should write 5 words tomorrow "My daughter's home, fuckity bye."
Don't feel obligated. Enjoy your time, this shit will be waiting no matter how much time you want to take off.
I suspect Jeff feels obligated to those signed up for 'paid' subscriptions. Fwiw, I don't give a flying fuck HOW much time he needs to take off to mourn his Claudia who inspired him so much. The heart and soul need what they need to begin to heal and I believe everyone who's here cares so deeply for him that we're going to hang in for the duration, no matter what. I know I am.
I reckon. Gonna be hard to beat.
Whatever you choose to write about, I hope that you are not singled out and persecuted by the Mad Hatter.
I've noticed the orange fuckwit hasn't singled out Lawrence O'Donnell who is free with HIS insults and truth-telling every night, openly and on the air. I think he's terrified of someone like Lawrence who has the receipts.
Can’t wait. Enjoy your family time.
Redux from last week:
Pissdrunk Pete
Head full o'meat
Gets a thrill
From every kill
and illegal feat
Spot on and eternally shocking and sad .
We must guard against becoming benumbed by the scale of immoral, unethical, corrupt, murderous shit that these evil assholes are committing.
Normal humans feel the emotional load of all of this ; Trump and his cronies feel nothing .
An entire coterie of sociopathic, greedy, corrupt, racist, misogynist, power-mad dumbshits who want dominion
Bill Barr, Turd's first AG, was an admitted Dominionist. I wonder how many among the six Supreme Court justices share this bent.
He needs 100 more skateboards slammed into all parts of his anatomy.
Just saw a video of the orange 💩 saying that girls have to be of age. Around 6 years old according to the child rapist. I haven’t found context but it doesn’t look like AI.
It’s about getting special voter ID if in the dystopian future one might be required, and using a six-yr-old to navigate the complexities is supposed to be a selling feature.
You’re right Neal. I’m so embarrassed for our country. And sad and infuriated
And a whole lot of other things
This war is an “excursion” in the same way that J6 was a “tour of the Capitol.” Enjoy the time with your daughter. I’m sure her visit will be therapeutic for both of you! 🥰
"short term excursion." is that the same as a 3 hour tour?
Only us old farts are gonna get this. 🤣
Except with less luggage than the Howells had
I think Trump’s excursion has lots of baggage, it not luggage.
Nice twist Mr Mild
Spot on.
I would have to say “baggage is not enough it’s an entire row of dumpsters on fire and spreading in all directions” Trump ran into a rat trap and is getting the eating of his life in the Middle East. He better leave fast, it may be too late to save the country and I mean the USA.
Leu, are you throwing some Giligan’s Island shade his way?
I like it!
Yesterday he said those bombs in Iran were killing people, they were walking around with no arms and legs….
25Amendment time… His mind has left the station and it’s never coming back.
I laughed so hard about walking around with no legs that I peed a little. You just can’t make this shit up. Why in the hell are the legislators sanewashing his lunacy?
My older brother lost both legs up to the hips back in mid 80s from Agent Orange
complications and he didn't walk around too well!! Passed away in 1988.
Sorry for your loss, John. My dad had a rare form of leukemia, lost his eye, and eventually his life, to melanoma caused by Agent Orange exposure as a SeaBee in Vietnam. Just goes to show the 🍊💩🤡 doesn’t have any humanity that he says such things.
So sorry, for your brother, John. Husband is a Vietnam Vet also.
Oh yes Agent Orange, voluminous quantities not in the country we were at war with, war crime, it was the Ho Che Minh trail where ‘millions’ of Chinese soldiers followed it hidden by jungle, but were then in the open, it didn’t work, it was Laos. The subject came up yesterday on a Substack and I said nothing, today I say it was just one of the burn piles of the military that people died from and still do . Officially and originally said to be safe for our troops. Just a few examples of a military that doesn’t give a shit.
yeah- 'supposed' to remove the thick foliage so 'OUR' troops could see 'THEIR' troops hiding in the Jungle. What it DID was kill off ALL the foliage AND heavily damage ALL people, animals BEINGS it came into contact with (along with that foliage which it poisoned). MY husband is still, now - fighting against the effects of HIS exposure in Combat there. Every year they up his 'designation' a bit more. After coming home and working a REAL job at a Major Corporation (Middle level Project Manager) for close to30 years, he's now being designated 100% disabled from that vile stuff, originally due to the chlorachne he developed in Country but now has multiple other pain and issues (and just had one toe amputated with circulation problems and osteomyelitis) which is upping his designation yet again. Where do you go from 100%? Oh I know, it's donnymath: the sky's the limit. Burn pits only give you 'liddle headaches' in donnyspeak (while the sufferers are screaming in pain from horrific head pain) JUST so he can insult Joe Biden's dead from brain cancer son Beau. Orange fuckwit is not only repulsive, he's monstrous -along with every single one of those around him and who prop up HIS rotted and nasty brain.
Thank you for sharing your story it is very touching and it’s closer to what I wanted to say. War is Hell made by real people.
So sorry…
That is so sad about your brother John. The government and military spent so much time gaslighting soldiers who were exposed to agent orange it was absolutely disgusting
I hate to say it but, as a HVAC technician I repaired a system at the home of the guy that invented/created the deployment system for agent orange. He had passed away but his wife was still here and was very proud of his work. I only knew he was the one because she told me. It was a badge of honor for her. I did not disparage her husband or agent orange. She was in her 80’s I think. I always wondered if agent orange shortened his life. If it did she wasn’t about to admit it.
When I think of agent orange I can’t get out of my head the photo of the little Vietnamese girl running down the street screaming with her clothes hair and lips burned off. If you don’t hate war and agent orange after looking at that something is wrong with you.
that was NAPALM which burned that little girl. I will NEVER forget (or forgive) US for using that horrific stuff on the people of that Country - along with Agent Orange - which I believe is why that woman felt 'proud'. Wasn't Agent Orange supposed to defoliate the jungle just so they wouldn't continue to use napalm? I don't think any of them had a single clue about what it would do to people and their food/crops for generations, poison-wise, but did they do tests to see? No. The optics were far better than that photo which went Global. donny would LOVE using something as vicious as napalm. pretty pink; sticks to everything, continues burning right through clothing, skin, bone...ugh, ugh, ugh
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malevolence
Because the alternative is too scary, they're paralyzed with fear. They desperately want somebody to take it out of their hands so they don't have to do the dirty work.
Everything is a tradeoff. They know that every minute of this travesty that goes by digs (whatever is left of) the Republican Party deeper into their hole. When the backlash gains momentum and washes back over them no one will have the slightest regard for their credibility. Some will go to jail.
Yes George. You’re right. I remember after Nixon and the Vietnam war that the Republican Party was really in the crapper. They crawled back out like gollum and resurrected themselves with Ronald Raygun. That’s how he was referred to in California; and, it was a well deserved nickname. He almost single handily eliminated the middle class. I’m embarrassed to say I voted for him the second time.
I don’t know if they can come back from this and they know it and you know it and everybody knows it (as poopy pants would say) and that’s why they are dead set on trying everything to steal this election. They’ve spent 20 years shitting all over everything that they said they held dear to their heart
They can’t erase this from history or their consciousness
But they’re going to try
they're not only trying, they're DOING! They're rewriting history books (which I'm sure will be full of typos such as the 'reigning down' the malevolent fuckwit posted the other day - instead of 'raining down' (talking about our bombs on Iran). The ADOLESCENCE involved in their incredibly stupid 'epic' ads to try to sell this 'war' to the rubes is beyond anything I'VE ever seen. Part commercial, part video game, part gameboy, part scenes stolen from movies, ALL dumb as dirt. You KNOW one of these 10 yr olds game up with the 'epic fury' stupidity of a name. donny had forgotten to name their midnight attack on Iran so came up with that after the fact: equally dumb. They're CHILDREN playing at 'War' (I swear every time I write 'war' I hear it in my head the way SouthPark does kegsbreath's voice...TOO funny). Him with his 'no one's going to be allowed to take BAD photos of me'. WTF? I swear, this is a clear case of the lunatic CHILDREN running the asylum.
For some reason that reminds me of that classic Monty Python sketch — "tis but a scratch!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apt9HIg2wEU
That’s the 50,000 dollar question Cheri.
You know what it’s like? It’s like the republicans are watching this really bad movie (maybe Melanoma is staring). And instead of walking out they’re whistling past the graveyard thinking “this is going to get better…this has to get better right?…it will won’t it?
You just keep whistling republicans. Because that’s about all you might be good at…
And even that’s a stretch.
Please READ the 25th amendment. It requires the support of Vance and most of the sycophants in the Cabinet. Not going to happen.
The best option (though it won’t happen until Holy Mike Johnson is shipped back to Louisiana) is impeachment, trail, and conviction. Clear all the bastards out.
It will need a massive blue wave -- a tsunami -- to succeed as it will need at least 67 votes to convict. If the gutless MAGAts couldn't convict after Jan. 6, how many will change their minds?
I can dream.
Felon47's 1st order of business in this 2nd round of hell was smashing all previous guardrails. He hasn't eliminated all of US, yet, though, even though he sure seems to be trying.
That's the goal. They want the population here down to 100 million.
The sooner we face that the better. God knows none of us wanted to believe the sheer insanity of that, but I spent my whole life making it work, not understanding what I lived & making the best. My dying wish is to see all us all...not to understand evil, but know it for what it is & stand together against it. It may be hard to get a handle on a moving target, but there is no not knowing what we know.
True! They would be axing themselves if they went for the 25th Ammendment.
Stupidity on display . There are innocent Iranians , including school children , who hate their dictator as much as the Western world does ; some are dead , some horribly maimed . It's all a joke to Trump .
I think the idiot discombobulated another idiotic comment by Markwayne Mullen to Kaitlin Collins explaining that even though we had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capability, they could reconstruct it the way people who lose their legs can just insert steel rods and continue walking as usual.
His speeches are like a crazed combination of Norm Crosby and Foster Brooks, for those of us old enough to remember. But they were comedians, doing exaggerations as their schtick.
AND Foster Brooks played a drunk, which bears out the 'he has an alcoholic's personality'.
Yep!
Toot toot Fredo! All aboard the crazy train!
What an inspiring show of bravery and patriotism it would be if Cankles himself took a little "excursion" on an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. He claimed he would have run into a school to confront an active shooter, so I'm sure he "has the guts" for it.
Or Barron Trump
“Influencer” Kai Trump is 18. She could enlist, and stop at Erewhon to stock up on “essentials”.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/kai-trump-facing-calls-apologize-210019948.html
Entitled little bitch
She's too busy playing golf and selling merch from the White House lawn. Priorities! Does that sound familiar?
Brian Kilmeade can be his Little Buddy.
Take Kegsbreath too.
keyboard warriors .
Mark, can somebody lash him to an oil tanker mast along with Brian Kilmeade ala Kate Winslet style in Titanic. We'll see how brave and patriotic they really are.
Excellent idea. But Kilmeade is small potatoes. I'd rather trump be lashed together with Lindsay or Kegbreath.
A group lashing. I like that too.
See, now THIS is an idea we could ALL get behind. Banners made up - millions of people in the streets ALL calling for 'el presidente' to SHOW his 'strong and manly' presence at this stage of his life doing what he's challenging our troops to do - (and what Zelenskyy routinely does) go to the 'front lines' and BE BRAVE, show the world just how 'manly' he is. (lolol) First, he'd shit his pants. 2) they'd call it an 'emergency medical condition' which prevented him from going at the last second. 3) so we could make the switch to his ELIGIBLE SON at the last second: SEND BARRON, SEND BARRON, SEND BARRON< and so on. Works for me.
Sounds like Donny’s got the Hormuz Blues.
Great name for a Blues tune - OR a new Randy Rainbow song. ;)
Enjoy your visit with your daughter, and as always, please know how much we sane folks appreciate you.
Miz Lindsey on the proposed Cuban attack: “Stay tuned!” It’s all just a tv show, isn’t it, Ladybugs
He’s become rabid. Probably because he’s never been this adjacent to power before.
After his Sunday performance, here’s hoping that when he sobers up and gets off the coke, he goes back in the closet
I want to watch him completely flame out. It would be glorious.
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Now that's just nasty. I'm not gay myself, but they certainly deserve more respect than have Little Miss Priss as one of their most visible representatives. RuPaul would like a word with her. Out back.
South Carolina is the first state to have TWO closeted gay senators. And that's sad. If they were Democrats they'd be the first state to have two OUT gay senators, because at least Democrats don't have to hide who they are.
Thank you for the call out and sorry for the insensitivity. I removed the comment.
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I posted yesterday afternoon that he would say he won, well sort of because the gas prices were blowing a hole in the roof and the stock market was tanking and I was right. He stood up barely to make a speech that he won. That they took out the capabilities for a nuclear weapon and their Navy ships are sunk and everything was great. He forgot to mention the new leader in Iran is the son of the man he murdered. He also murdered his sons wife and their and their kids....so think again you useless pile of shit....there is Gigantic Mark on you and your family. We are all still waiting for the Epstien files
the Trump administration has implemented significant, systematic, and, in some cases, final restructurings of major U.S. national security, foreign aid, and intelligence-related agencies. The Intelligence Community (CIA/NSA): Reports indicate "arbitrary firings" and leadership turnover, including the removal of the director and deputy director of the NSA.
So if an Iranian "sleeper" DOES manage to get trump - it will be all down to trump.
Putting incompetent, corrupt, traitorous idjits like Patel, Gabbard, and new Dept. of Immigrant Brutality Markwayne (Too Many Names) Mullin in place may not work out well. Jes' sayin'
Phone caller: I think I have some important information about a terrorist sleeper cell.
Patel: Leave a message - I'm having a beer and watching the game.
From two weeks ago:
Patel is a sycophantic simp
With a metaphorical intellectual limp
He makes sure drumpf is mollified
But he's incompetent and unqualified
Just a pompous, mendacious shrimp
LOVE this!
Yep. That's becuse crazy people create their own self-fulfilling prophecies. They will never understand that blowing people up in order to prevent another 9/11, or whatever Moose-Lamb apocalyptic attack is the fear du jour, only raises the likelihood of it happening.
The derp - it kills. 🤦♀️
Just heard about an AFGHAN Special Forces Soldier who WORKED WITH OUR TROOPS while there, legally evacuated to the US with many others. NOW 41 years old, married with six kids. Was grabbed up by 'ice' thugs AS he was taking his kids to school. THEY were in the vehicle and witnessed their Dad being taken. NO reason given - he was just disappeared. Then he called his family to say he felt very ill and had been taken to Dallas Parkland Hospital. They let his family know the next day that he was DEAD! No reason given. I swear, these fuckers need to be hauled up on WAR CRIMES, even right here in the good ol' US of A. There are many others who've also conveniently died while in their 'custody'. I wonder how that works?
It works like it has in every authoritarian gov't that's come before. Until/unless bodies are piled up like logs and the rest of the world is bombing the shit out of our major cities, there is no reason for it to un-continue. People are commodities to the rich, powerful, and bigoted.
"Eye for an eye" Middle Eastern justice says we owe them 2,000 lives. It won't be a precision operation that begins and ends with Trump as a target.
I don’t know what makes anybody think that dopey fat fuck is the man to end this war. It will be Iran of course that playground has lots of blood to account for and he won’t be the one to get peace it’s far too late for that.
By now, don't the frump family (excepting Mary and her brother) now number around 2,000? jr alone had 5 or 6 kids. Not that I'm suggesting ANY of them should be targeted - but what IF that's the plan of the new Ayatollah whose entire family was murdered by frump and his goons as he sees it? An 'eye for an eye' means exactly that! And for what it's worth, having 'private security' or secret service around you does NADA against drones focused on you as an individual. His entire immediate family should immediately get as far away from HIM as they can. It's HIS war, let him bear the brunt. It would be richly deserved, the stupid dumbfuck who probably has already forgotten why he attacked Iran in the first place and THAT is on vance and every single one of those chickenshit 'aides' and republicans around him who didn't yet exercise the 25th Amendment they were supposed to by now! I just don't want any innocent civilians caught up in HIS mess.
There is nothing better than Trump fucking himself.
Does Gigantic Mark have a GoFundMe?
LOL I know...if there was only a fund to knock them all out. There sleeper cells inbeded in the US and actively being aggressive and I hope they take the hits necessary
Be careful not to run afoul of the gestapo
This entire thing is going to blow up and mean blow up, yesterday was just a band aid to calm the market and the economy. It won't last and if you live with fear, you don't live.
Of course .. with edits
Young American and Iranian people killed for no reason.
Oh, there’s always a “rea$on”
yeah - to stuff frump's pockets with 'filthy lucre'. How much does he require to take with him to his version of the hereafter?
Have a blast with your daughter Katie. So happy for you. Also, thanks for posting my fave photo of the Sec of Defense nutcrusher. 🤣🤣
I never get tired of that photo either
It cracks me up each time.
It's not just a photo. It's a full 6-second gif. I run it on loop in a window on my screen. Its the finest cinema ever made.
Oh yes, I watch it looped too. 😂😂😂😂😂
I especially find his pee-wee german too-tight suit hilarious and pathetic. What on earth did he think he looked like? Rachel Maddow with Alex Wagner on 'Crooked' this weekend did this bit about him actually using an American Flag as a handkerchief (Rachel was comparing his too-tight suit to another's) - and then specified to Alex : 'what do people use handkerchiefs FOR, whereupon they both groaned about how disgusting that idea was. Alex's comment: 'you're not supposed to let it touch the GROUND let alone blow your NOSE in it! Ugh!"
Who runs American foreign policy? The Clown Prince of the Apprentice? Little Marco? The great American Oligarchs? The court Nazi, Stephen Miller? The Xenophobic Fever Dreams of Sen. Lindsay Graham? The Criminal Overlord of the once great Nation of Israel? The Book of Revelations? Our lethality warlord?
It quite a mystery. We know who doesn't run it..The Interests of the American People.
Kick the bums out!
The entire clan of demons in the WH need to be exiled.
...at CECOT!!
I don't believe in demons. it's what they call US democrats over and over and over so makes my skin crawl. Sorry. It's a desperation ploy by their pseudo-christianists to make US the 'bad guys' while convincing their magat cultists of jebus' coming - and in the form of or alongside that disgusting orange critter. They somehow believe that their rapture is upon them (the sole reason they support Israel - useful only as a means to an end, otherwise they're purely antisemitic) and I KNOW these morons imagine they'll all rise up to the 'heavens' just as they are, makeup fully intact, hair perfect, in their best finery - with the orange fucker leading the way - where they'll be greeted by jebus himself. What comes after? Who the fuck knows - they don't think that far ahead. What happens to those left behind? Who the fuck knows OR cares - they certainly don't since they also imagine they're taking all their riches with them and if they don't have a LOT of riches, they'll get what they need on arrival.
It's a pattern we've seen all along, these sewer clowns claim authority without taking any responsibility, all their greedy fingers in the pie. It doesn't work that way. Kick the bums out!
It’s hard to believe that much stupid could live in one body, but there you go.
Enjoy your daughter’s visit.
Of the leader of the Party that Doesn’t Take Responsibility for the Shit it Does wants to say Iran blew up it’s own elementary school girls. And it did so after it started the war by bombing itself.
Never forget how we got here: Mitch McConnell, Justice Roberts ALL the Republicans and most of the oligarchs. Oh, and their mascot, AG Garland.
Much as I’m a fan of Old Handsome Joe Biden (OHJB), his two biggest mistakes, IMHO, were allowing Clarance Thomas’s nomination to proceed to the full Senate, and picking (and keeping) Merrick Garland as AG.