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nkrempa's avatar

My first four years in my seventies will be the same. Double UGH!

;)

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

Today is my birthday, born on New Year's Eve 1953, I'm now 71. As if it isn't depressing enough to examine the past year and plan for the next one, I'm reminded of how hopeful I felt when Kamala entered the race, and how confident I was that she'd be elected after all the unbelievably awful/embarrassing/shocking and disgusting stunts that tRump pulled (remember him giving a BJ to the microphone? The town hall that devolved into watching him sway and convulse to gag-worthy music? The Nazi Rally at Madison Square?). And now I'm looking ahead to 2025? I have only one resolution: Survive. And one birthday wish: That MAGA will die. Deader than the famous Dead Parrot

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Cathy 98280's avatar

I, too, keep thinking about him fellating that mic, and am just gobsmacked that people looked at that and thought, тАЬYes! I want him to be my president!тАЭ He is so completely VULGAR- itтАЩs nauseating.

On a different note, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!ЁЯОБЁЯОКЁЯОВЁЯОЙ

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nkrempa's avatar

I must have said that over a hundred times during the campaign. I mean, SRSLY?! They saw that and said "Golly, Bob, howdy! Now THAT'S a real president!"

O.o

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

IK,R? God he's so humiliating.

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

Thank you! ЁЯШК

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Dont forget the double jerk off dance move! A Classic.

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nkrempa's avatar

As I said elsewhere today, I take comfort in the fact that we're all in the same pot, but that others will be boiling faster than some. As I marinate, I will (God help my blackened soul) enjoy the cries of the MAGAts. :D

PS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! <3

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Teri's avatar

Paula, Happy Birthday! ЁЯОВЁЯОВ 2024 was a total #Fail for America. Hope 2025 brings infighting & chaos to keep these bastards occupied

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

Thank you, sweetie ЁЯШШ

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Mary Hall's avatar

Happy birthday Paula! Enjoy your day in the knowledge that Sharky McBatterypants ain't president yet.

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kdsherpa's avatar

LOL!!!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Happy Birthday Paula. I'll be 75 this year, and I'm sorry to say, it's not getting better.

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

ЁЯлгЁЯШ╡тАНЁЯТлЁЯШ╡ЁЯШнЁЯШ▒ЁЯТА=how my days have been feeling.

And thank you, Ellen.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula!ЁЯОВЁЯТЬ! Concentrate on yourself first and then come out punching ЁЯеК witb the rest of us.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

I'm with you, Paula!

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kdsherpa's avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula! Now we're the same age! I share your wish 1,000%!!! Here's to the death of MAGA. And your -- and all of our -- survival.

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Teri's avatar

Paula: "Dead Parrot", Monty Python, 5 min. ЁЯШВЁЯШВ Never watched MP, now on my list! https://youtu.be/4vuW6tQ0218?feature=shared

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

Teri - thank you so much for posting this link. I had a chance to watch it while waiting for my kiddos, and it lifted my mood when I needed it the most.....of course I also ended up watching a few other videos, that happens every time I visit YouTube and can eat up hours of my time - which is why I never go there when I'm supposed to be doing something else. No such thing as "I'll only look for/at one specific thing"....I was in the middle of a Colbert monolog when the family arrived.

(They brought me a Tiramisu cake!)

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Cathy 98280's avatar

ItтАЩs hilarious!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

May you get your wish, Happy birthday, may you have all the good things.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Happy birthday Paula ЁЯОЙЁЯОЙЁЯОЙ!!!

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Teri's avatar

Paula, "dead parrot"? ЁЯжЬ

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

From the Monty Python skit. If you haven't seen it, it's a MUST! Google it, and it should direct you to the YouTube video. I'd get the link for you, but if I don't get dressed I'll be welcoming my kids in pj's and a rat's nest for hair. MUST. STOP. NOW. ttfn!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

'E's only resting.

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Teri's avatar

ЁЯШВЁЯШВЁЯШВ. 'e's stunned". When buyer bangs dead parrot on counter. ЁЯШВЁЯШВ

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula. I just celebrated my 77th. What's disheartening to me is that I may not live long enough to see us break out of the insanity that seems to have control of our whole country. And, in all these years, I never imagined I'd live to see our precious democracy on the line as it is now.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

The first 4 in my 70s was his first term. Now IтАЩm going headlong into my 80s (holy moly!ЁЯШ│) in his second. Ah well, perhaps as I turn 80 in 2 years the house and senate will return to normalcy with massive Democratic wins. (Fingers crossed!)

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Dina's avatar

Let's hope that will be your 80th birthday present!

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nkrempa's avatar

Oh, golly, I'm so sorry!!! Keeping fingers, toes and other appendages crossed, donating what we can to Democrats, and working after work to elect said Dems. Gonna give it the ol' 'college try' once again! <3

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

I'm with you Cathy. I will turn 80 in two years; if I live that long.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Patricia, letтАЩs make a pact/ plan to turn 80 together in 2 years (mineтАЩs November 9th, so quite awhile to go тАж) and celebrate all the stupid things these eejits in the White House and Congress fail to get done. ЁЯе│ЁЯе│ЁЯе│

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John Crowe's avatar

Tell me about it. IтАЩm just into my 80тАЩs. Never thought weтАЩd be in such a pickle in my old age.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Same here. The outcome of this election continues to be a non-stop haunting shitshow. Those of us who recently turned 70 as well as everyone else can only hope that four more years won't be for the duration and age us more before our time. In the meantime, the folks who give us the bad sane wash news will be exposed to more rancid green clouds in tight spaces from the unfit convicted felon. Happy New Year everybody!

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nkrempa's avatar

Aw, GEEZ... just *thinking* about the horror of inhabiting a closed space with the incontinent fucknut makes my stomach turn. Yeah, better them than us and, in the meantime, I can only HOPE that Scott Jennings falls over unconscious from the noxious fumes and cannot appear on CNN ever again! ;

:)

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Yep, double UGH!!! IтАЩm sorry.

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