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As I am trying to get this memorial service for my mom together, I'm going through a lot of pictures of her. I just got a bunch from her sister, of when she was younger.
I've been with mom almost every day, for the last 17 years. Then, she was about 300 pounds. The last 6 years mom battled mini strokes and type 2 diabetes. She was losing weight the past 5 years or so, which we attributed to her not having her stressful job anymore (she wrongfully got fired after her first stroke).
Her nails were always bitten to the quick from the stress she was under at the brokerage firm. After she "medically" retired (no job for her to go to, anymore--plus, nobody would hire a 76 yr old woman) her nails grew. So we thought the weight loss was from her not stress eating.
She was diagnosed with a pancreatic mass 19 months ago during a hospital stay. We elected to not biopsy or treat her for it. I started her on the Joe Tippens protocol, which I did for about seven months.
However, I lost control of her meds after the final stroke that put her in rehab. She never got well enough to leave the nursing home. SInce they controlled her meds, wouldn't give her anything except from FDA approved, labeled bottles , I couldn't get them to give her the off-label fenbendazole. Mom lost too much executive reasoning to self-administer the meds, or I would have sneaked them in to her. I could get one dose in for sure, during my daily visit, but the protocol is 2x a day.
It took mom exactly one year of nursing care--where she was off the Joe Tippens protocol --to finally die. She weigned less than 130 when she passed and her official diagnosis was "protein-calorie malnutrition ". My friend who runs a hospice told me it's a bullshit diagnosis when the doctors can't be certain exactly what's causing the patient to decline, except her weight was plummeting.
It's been 12 days since mom left me. And, as I've been going through these photos of her, I've noticed
that the weight loss was profound and not like when Oprah lost weight, where she looked like a bobble- head. This looks like cancer, where mom was skeletal and her flesh melted away.
I had one final photo of my mom that I took a week before she died, for my aunt. (She tried to snap a picture during their last FaceTime but it didn't work so she asked me to take a picture.) I just looked at it and that's when I realized how bad my mom deteriorated.
My mom was not in pain when she died. I asked her, countless times, and trust me, she would have told me.
The nurses all told me that pancreatic cancer is extremely painful. My mom did not exhibit that pain at all. She cried out once, when her sheets were being changed, because she was so thin and the movement hurt her. But she was okay after a minute. She never asked for morphine.
So although everything looked like cancer, I can't say for sure.
There's no excuse for him not attending. He hasn't contributed even a penny towards her final expenses or the memorial.
I don't know how to feel about this. I want to be angry at him for not loving our mom, but I think my mom would rather have me pray for him because this is pretty indicative of his heart's condition and I know this was a source of anxiety for her. She knows I'm okay and we'll see each other again. But him... not so much. Deep inside, I think she knew his heart was hard.
Oh, friend, I'm so sorry for your loss. Even when we know it's coming, or it's time, it still hits us head on. God bless you as you plow through what needs to be done to put your mother at rest. I pray for you, for her, and for your brother.
You are loved and supported here, dear heart. ๐๐ฏโค๏ธ
Crying over here. I haven't been on here much, missed your posts and was wondering how you and your family were doing. I am so very sorry about the loss of your dear mother. ๐ช๐๐ฏ You took such terrific care of her. I'm also so sorry about your brother's behavior. Prayers of peace and comfort for you and your family. Love, Kathryn
I am so sorry that your brother has decided to skip his mother's memorial. Good for you that you have purposed to pray for him. Your mom would be proud of that (and is proud right now in Heaven I am sure).
I am sure you have your reasons for the relationship between you and your mom and I fully support you in establishing your boundaries.
It's a little different for me. My brother is not nice to either of us. He hasn't been his entire life.
I appreciate that you are HONEST about your feelings. My brother is passive- aggressive about his feelings. He would draw my mom close to bludgeon her. For instance, he came into town on a connecting flight and called her.
Just so you know, I'm just like you. I'm fine with not having a relationship with a sibling or a parent. And I respect that my daughter doesn't want one with me, even though I'm hurt by her choice.
I had to tolerate my bro for my mom. And I'm going to honor her by praying for him. But I'm not going to have him in my house. He's done and said some things to me that you wouldn't believe, including punching me in the face when we were teenagers.
He asked her to come to the airport so he and his (2nd) wife could take her to dinner while he was waiting on his connecting flight.
She eagerly jumped in her car and drove 75 miles to BWI airport. (I refused, because I'm like you, I don't like that mofo, and I won't pretend, so I wouldn't go. )
She gets there and he's waiting alone. She asks where his wife is and he tells her that she's in the lounge. Mom is bewildered and then he tells her that he has to protect her (from my mother).
Then he launched into a diatribe about his whole relationship with her and how he offended at how she's hurt his wife because she still keeping a relationship with his first wife (mother of her niece and nephew). My mom is confused, crying and really feeling trashed.
There was no dinner, of course. Mom drove the 75 miles back home from the airport, upset and with a monster headache.
My bro made his point
I've found six such emails in her Gmail from him.... all.on the same theme.
I have no issue with not caring for a person in your family. But be up front, be honest, and then be DONE. That isn't what he's doing.
I'm hurt because he's a phony and acts like he wanted to have a relationshipbut not really any of the responsibilitiesthat go with it. His offense and anger is the excuse to justify deliberately shifting all mom's medical expenses onto me when he knows I'm not in the greatest financial situation.
This memorial service is his last act of disdain for her.
I'm so sorry you have this in to of the pain of losing your mother, but this is not your burden to bear. You offered an invitation to participate and to join. Prayers are all you should give now for your own sanity. Put him out of your mind and let his own conscience rule his future. God will deal with his naughtiness since that's His domain. Who knows what will happen? Blessings and love! ๐ฅฐ๐
Amen sister. I have done right by my mom when she lived with me, and allowed that meat-ax across the threshold to see her... but, no more!
I will not suffer him in my house anymore. My duty and responsibility to care for my mom is ended. Part of caring for her was to get her closer to him because I knew she wanted to see her son more. If we hadn't moved to Texas, he wouldn't have made any effort.
I am in a way glad he won't be at the memorial. It's easier for me.
I wanted to share a few pictures of my mom with you.
I found some of them when I was going through her pictures. Some are from my aunt's stash. ( She inherited all the pictures from my grandmother.) Quite a few of these I'd never seen before.
I'm almost done with the video for my mom's service. It's a hodge podge of photos everybody sent to me and ones I found by looking in all of mom's boxes. Plus everything I could grab off my phone.
At first I was going to use the classic Commodore's song "Zoom" for the background music. But I prayed for the perfect song and a memory of a song came to me out of nowhere last night. It's going to be "I Will Remember You" by Amy Grant.
save an Excel file until I had agreed to new terms for my software account.
Guess what? AI is now bundled into all of my Microsoft software.
Even worse, Microsoft recently raised the price of its subscriptions by $3 per month to cover the additional AI benefits. I get to use my AI companion 60 times per month as part of the deal.
But I donโt want to use it. I want to kill it.
As you can see, Iโve never used this service. I still have all 60 credits ...
@Max_Imum I didn't want the height of the 2x6, so I went with 4x4. The 4x4 were inset because of the concrete perimeter around the pavers. Didn't consider that in my original design
Every time I see mention of Guam, I think it might be nice to move there. This time I took a serious though not detailed look, and I gotta say I like the idea. Kinda like Hawaii without the rampant tourism from the looks of things? Been to Hawaii, and quite liked it, everything cost more, but manageable, especially if'n you had the option of shopping in Honolulu, and avoided Oahu.
Anyone recommend some good resources, or want to answer questions? Mostly wondering how the costs stack up compared to Missouri, taxes look like they'll drop, housing will be a bit higher, not sure about the rest.
Hunger in Gaza is making us long for food that reminds us of ordinary days. A bowl of thin lentil broth might temporarily fill the stomach, but not the soul. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/a-meal-โฆ
Just a reminder that any time someone online is trying to delegitimize the violence of the oppressed publicly online, that's suspicious behavior to me. That's Fed behavior.
Two people have died with thousands warned to stay indoors as fires fuelled by extreme temperatures hit Catalonia. #climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
@Electronwarrior we have one about a mile away, and I patronize it often. It is a family friendly shopping experience, and they were the only ones during the Wuhan scare that did not require patrons of the store to mask up to shop. They are to be rewarded for that.
@Electronwarrior I think there are still a lot in the SE/Carolinas. We have a few around here (WI) but they are definitely a rare breed now. I would spend roughly $20 more per trip at The Pig compared to the other chain stores (especially the Super Walmart). So I only get select things from there, but I do enjoy the experience shopping there.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli will stand with a US flag but he won't stand with the Indigenous flag or the Torres Strait Islander flag as his predecessors have done.
I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely โoff the rails,โ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States - The System seems not designed for them. The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds! Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth running โmachine,โ that just passed the biggest Bill of its kind in the History of our Country. It is a Great Bill but, unfortunately for Elon, it eliminates the ridiculous Electric Vehicle (EV) Mandate, which would have forced everyone to buy an Electric Car in a short period of time. I have been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning. People are now allowed to buy whatever they want - Gasoline Powered, Hybrids (which are doing very well), or New Technologies as they come about - No more EV Mandate. I have campaigned on this for two years and, quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned Endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV Mandate - It was in every speech I made, and in every conversation I had. He said he had no problems with that - I was very surprised! Additionally, Elon asked that one of his close friends run NASA and, while I thought his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn that he was a blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before. Elon probably was, also. I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elonโs corporate life. My Number One charge is to protect the American Public!
While this cartoon is probably referencing a particular activist group in the UK, it tends to hold true for others, protesting different issues non violently around the world.
"Soylu bir adam kendini kendinden daha yรผksek bir fikirle karลฤฑlaลtฤฑrฤฑr ve deฤerlendirir; sฤฑradan bir adam ise kendinden daha dรผลรผk bir fikirle. Biri arzu รผretir; diฤeri ise hฤฑrs, ki bu da bayaฤฤฑ bir adamฤฑn arzuladฤฑฤฤฑ ลeydir." ~Marcus Aurelius
Totally sketched out an "Anarchist" friend of mine celebrated the Diddy verdict because and i quote "its really inspiring to see someone beat the government" and sure I'm for prison abolition but what? It's not a shock a billionaire got largely away with preying on and abusing women and surely is the opposite of something to celebrate. Like WTF!
I am glad I read the intro. We have more in common than I thought. Those idiots who are always trying directory traversal ๐ Thanks for letting me survive her this long - looking around, it seems most of the fedi is under siege by actual nazis, but they are not seen here, at least they can't get together a pile-on which is what they live for.
- I earn nothing from my social media. - I donโt do paid toots or tweets or blogs etc. - I donโt do talks, conferences etc. - I donโt accept paid private briefing offers.
On Sat 5th July 2025, Montgomery Toms was arrested for displaying a placard stating ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ flag = mental illness.
He was held at Charing Cross police station for 9 hours and released on bail on Sun 6th July 2025. This is his summary and response toโฆ
Were you both in a coma or something when Israel was aboutโ to break the ceasefire and Trump told Bibi to turn his planes around and then he actually did? Were you also in a coma when he said that they don't know what the fuck they're doing in front of the whole world?
You are the people that Morpheus is warning Neo about in this scene.
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2023 Guardian hit piece before Milei was elected: "Economists warn electing far-right Milei would spell โdevastationโ for Argentina" theguardian.com/world/2023/novโฆ
There is a controversy at Eastern Maine Community College after a professor reportedly attacked a Christian conservative student for writing an essay about gun control. Katherine Parker accused Engโฆ
For a mere pittance of $100K, you and eleven friends can rent Michael Jordan's former estate for seven days. Watch the Twitter video of the inside of the house. outkick.com/culture/rent-michaโฆ
If you've ever wanted to live โLike Mike,' here's your chance. A Chicago-area mansion, the former home of Michael Jordan, is now available for rent on Airbnb.
BREAKING: Federal agencies paid a private cloud seeding company to spray Texas skiesโjust 2 days before deadly floods killed 60+. No public comment. No oversight. No accountability.
Call it weather modification. Call it a conspiracy. But itโs happening.
for my next trick, i will be saving myself a $1500 expense in the RSX, using a $15 "O2 sensor spacer" bung that pushes the secondary O2 sensor slightly out of the exhaust stream to avoid the annoying p420 catalyst below efficiency threshold error and check engine light
the computer tries to be clever and test the cat for efficiency by monitoring the downstream sensor reading and comparing it to the upstream one. this cat is fine, it's probably something like 90% functional and the exhaust doesn't stink or anything. so i'm not about to plunk down 1500 for a new cat just cause it's not at peak efficiency for california air standards or something
feeling pretty beat now actually and i wanted to take a shower, but the chinky "uni uni" delivery service finally delivered the bung i ordrered (to the neighbor of course) so i want to try it out. waste of time to keep having to reset the error to get rid of the light
don't tell the EPA but i'm pretty sure this only would be frowned upon in places like california. some people completely remove catalytic converters to make their cars go faster which really does cause the exhaust to stink. i wouldn't go that far.
the civic does need a new cat though and the exhaust does not smell too great, but it's not throwing an error
I am really growing tired of online political discussions and debates from all sides. It really seems like nobody wants to solve the world's problems. They just want to pick whatever side they think is edgy or cool and make lolcows out of anyone they disagree with.
A new Covid "vaccine" is advancing through clinical trials in the United States, but this time itโs not a shot in the arm, it's a "breathable" mist that "vaccinates" people by entering the lungs.ย
i was doing really well on my diet then had a couple of cheat days which i'm already regreetting. have to get back on track immediately. today wasn't too bad but i did eat some pumpkin seeds and nuts and seeds are temporarily off the menu
He was in 8th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry 'Afrika Korps', and the 275th Infantry Division. He was a POW at war's end in the genocidal 'Rheinwiesenlager' (Rhine Meadow Camps) and his wife and daug
III.- Patriotic Postscript A Nightmare With Shield, Anthem and Flag (And, Of Course, Biometric CURP) โ Subcomandante Marcos
Letโs assume a fictitious scenario: the positions that the U.S. armed forces have taken on the border with Mexico and in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific, are not to threaten, pressure or monitor the cartels. Nor are they for skirmishes or in-and-out strikes against any cartel. The strategic positioning of these forces is for an invasion.
If this were so, then references to the national anthem would be more rhetorical. A call for national unity, as in the times of Luis Echevarrรญa รlvarez and Josรฉ Lรณpez Portillo.
Still with the assumption, then it would be expected that the bad governments would start preparations: the Military Draft would be activated and the civilian population would be instructed in the handling of firearms, construction of defenses, uses of shelter and cover, knowledge of the terrain, and chain of command. Of course, for this to happen, the civilian population would have to be provided with weapons, however rudimentary they may be. And the armed forces would reorient their actions to defense preparedness.
The proof that this is unthinkable for the governments is that the so-called national guard law just approved is going precisely in the opposite direction. The entire structure and strategy of the armed forces in Mexico would be, in military terms, not for internal control, but for defense against a foreign attack. And the armies would not be designing, building and administering the mega-projects of the officialist propaganda of the 4T.
Letโs suppose that Mr. Trump is not content to bend Mexico with tariffs, selective border closures, and trade and financial measures. Suppose Trump is someone eager to be noticed, to โgo down in historyโ (sound familiar?). Letโs assume that he is not interested in a quiet and discreet domination of his target, and that he needs to show off and thinks nothing better than guns to do so. Letโs suppose that Trump is a โbullyโ who not only needs to humiliate his target, he needs to be seen, that this cowardly action โserves as a lesson.โ Sure, heโs not smart, but heโs got his gun locked and loaded.
What would he count on in his favor?
An essential point of an invasion is to have a casus belli, a motive for the war.
Eduardo Ramirez Aguilar, who claims to govern the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, has already given the gringos a guideline to follow in this hypothetical situation. His local armed forces momentarily invaded neighboring Guatemala and he immediately justified the blunder by accusing that governmentโฆ of complicity and of protecting organized crime (the same thing the gringos say about Mexico). Of course, he got a slap in the face from the center, but the wrong was and is done.
With its new prerogative, the military, instead of spying on those who criticize and oppose the 4T, would gather information on the ground and on the military capabilities of the likely aggressor.
For its part, the aggressor would gather the necessary information about the target of the invasion. And, as we have seen, information on the character of the enemy, his psychology, his behavior would weigh more heavily.
Another element to consider in this supposed invasion would be whether it has local support in the invaded territory.
Because, unlike in Ukraine and Palestine, where a Juan Guaidรณ did not appear -or has not appeared yet-, as in Venezuela, in Mexico there are those who sigh and aspire to be part of the American Union.
The ultra right (also known as โoppositionโ) wants to be noticed. The fuss they make seven days a week is not aimed at the voter. The latter is already campaigning for the ruling party with the payment of the increasingly meager social support, when it comes to reaching the recipient.
The ruling party is wrong in celebrating that the hysteria of the right wing does not produce any appreciable effect on what matters to it: the votes.
The ultra-right is not throwing a tantrum and kicking its feet so that the people of Mexico will look at it. It is so that in โthe brutal and turbulent northโ they will be taken into account.
This sector, although small in numbers, is quite โloudโ in the media. However, it would have at least two problems:
One is when to expose themselves for what they are. And when they say, in their after-dinner conversations, โMexico will not be Venezuela,โ they do it knowing they will not show themselves until the flag of the stripes and murky stars flies over the old Palacio de Cortรฉs. โWe will not be Juan Guaidรณ, who stayed waiting for the Marines to land,โ they say to themselves.
But, two, the biggest problem they have would be to decide who would be the one to receive the invader as host. And in their eagerness to take the lead, they would reveal themselves: Alito? Anaya? Salinas Pliego? A triumvirate? The latter has a classic charm.
In general, the 4T currently owes a lot to the ultra-right. Its media belches give it internal cohesion, jingoistic discourse and ammunition for the mornings and the like-minded pencil pushers.
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And in this, the look into the past, the ultra-right coincides with the ruling party (National Regeneration Movement Party, the Green Ecologist Party and the Workersโ Party -the 3 with the paradox in their names-).
Again and again, in the school of cadres of these parties, that is, in the โmaรฑanerasโ (morning press conference), it is repeated that the pre-Hispanic past was splendorous (in reality, they refer to their adoration for the Aztec empire -that is what it was, an empire-). Which is why they rewrite history to suit their own agenda.
While in the ultra-right they would swoon to see the U.S. army marching on Reforma, in the ruling party some would dream of the Russian army, others of the Chinese army, and, well, the PT would long for the arrival of the army ofโฆ North Korea!
In the ultra-right and the ruling party, the dilemma would be who would be at the top of the pyramid. A change at the top of the pyramid or a change of pyramid, then.
In this hypothetical situation, can you imagine the heroes of the 4T wielding a 5.56 mm caliber FX-05 Xiuhcoatl (AK-47 Fire Serpent)? Do you imagine them facing the invaderโs bullets with their heroic chests? Or do you imagine them running for cover? Oh, oh, in this hypothetical scenario there is nowhere to go. Unless they change sidesโฆ.
Right, youโre right: good thing thatโs not going to happen! There is nothing on the horizon to suggest anything like that. Itโs just the Captainโs desire to make a nuisance of himself and ruin the meal.
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If you look at the political class, this country called Mexico is a country of many lies. Many bosses โ male and female. Too many generals, not enough troops. Each one with his or her own war to climb the pyramid. Their calls for national unity are useless because they cannot even unite their own party organization.
In addition: corruption, inefficiency and inability (for example, in the face of floods and droughts), refried demagogy, window dressing indigenism, โindependentโ voices for hire: freelancers and sicarios in the morning, the expertsโ columns, the institutionalization of cheating (because the cheat sheet is an old school trick).
Meanwhile, as a sign of change, the country goes from being a clandestine cemetery to a zone of disappearances. And it is celebrated as progress: โviolent deaths have decreasedโ, although now disappearances are increasing. The No Place like the homeland with biometric CURP(Unique Population Registry Code).
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Questions:
1.- So what was to be planted was corn and beans and not marketable saplings?1
2.- Consequently, since the government recognizes the destruction of nature with the Mayan Train (โwe are not going to cut down a single tree,โ said the Supreme Court), and in accordance with the foreign policy of demanding apologies, are they going to apologize to the people of โSรฉlvame del Trenโ for the insults, harassment and pressure, and recognize that they were right in their denunciations? And to the affected native communities? 2
3. Ah, so it was not true that they put an end to the so-called huachicol?3
4.- Does the current situation mean that the policy of โhugs and not punchesโ is pretty much over and done with?
5. So the โgoodโ Salinas (Ricardo Salinas Pliego) is not so good, and it was a mistake to finance him with the administration of the welfare programs in the first years of the last six-year term? Now the โbadโ Salinas (Carlos Salinas de Gortari) will become a respected โMr.โ Salinas? 4
6.- Why is there time, disposition and โgood willโ to receive the paradoxical Carlos Slim, the gringo Secretary of State and the big businessmen (all beautiful people, listen), but not to receive the CNTE and the searching mothers? Because they are ugly? Because they are โeat-when-there-is-and-when-there-isnโt-they donโtโ? Ah, because they are at the bottom of the pyramid?
7.- By accusing the ineffable Alfonso Romo 5 of money laundering is the gringo government demonstrating that it has learned from organized crime? Like warning Clara Brugada6 not to step out of line by murdering two of her collaborators? Or for whom is the warning?
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But itโs not all the disfigurement of the national and international political class up there.
Belowโฆ
There are those who seek and, although late, do not give up, do not sell out and do not give in.
There are those who do not look up, but look in the mirror.
There are those who, seeing themselves in others, who find themselves.
Because โrebelliousness is born and grows all over the planet, refusing to accept the limits of schemes, rules, laws and precepts. Because there are not only two genders, nor seven colors, nor are there four cardinal points, nor is the world oneโ (Semillero Comandanta Ramona, August 9, 2018).
Refers to the governmentโs Sembrando Vida program, a program that supposedly works on Reforestation and environmental restoration: planting and caring for native trees on degraded lands; and Rural poverty alleviation: providing a monthly income (~5,000 pesos) and technical assistance to farmers to promote sustainable agroforestry and agricultural practices. The Sembrando Vida program, however, in its planning as well as its execution, is not the benevolent program that it would seem.
Huachicol is a colloquial Mexican term that refers to stolen fuelโusually gasoline or dieselโtaken illegally from Pemex pipelines (Mexicoโs state-owned oil company). It also refers to the act of fuel theft itself and those involved in it (huachicoleros).
Ricardo Salinas Pliego is one of Mexicoโs richest man. He is the owner of Grupo Salinas, which includes: TV Azteca โ Mexicoโs second-largest television network, Banco Azteca โ a major bank serving low-income and working-class Mexicans, and Elektra . Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador (AMLO) developed a close and favorable relationship with Salinas Pliego during his administration (2018โ2024). Banco Azteca was chosen to help distribute funds for AMLOโs flagship social programs, like โSembrando Vidaโ and pensions for seniors.
Alfronso Romo is the owner of Vector Casa de Bolsa, the largest fund management company in Latin America. Vector is one of three banks named for sanctions by the Trump administration accused of money laundering
The Mayor of Mexico Cityโs personal secretary and close advisor were killed by gunmen in broad daylight on the streets of Mexico City on May 20th, 2025.
Ana de Ita states, in not addressing the campesino agrarian nuclei as collective owners of the land, but instead as individuals, choosing some and not others โthe end of this term will not see a single difference, neither in the reduction of poverty,โฆ
My opinion goes down a little bit of anyone that believes in climate change. My opinion goes down a lot of anyone that thinks the answer to climate change is a global carbon tax. No bueno.
we could cherry-pick out a million things trump said that ended up being stupid too.. who knows if elon still thinks carbon tax is a good idea or not, he doesn't talk about it any more.. "this one thing some person said years ago proves that they are retarded for ever"
trump fucked up majorly with coronavirus, trusting dr. fauci, and operation warp speed to rush through what ended up being the most deadly and dangerous vaccine in world history.. to combat some thing that has like a 99.8% survival rate or what ever..
but i don't think trump is just permanently retarded because of that mistake.. he is a good man that i think means well for the country and trying to do what he THINKS is best, but what if he starts doing things that don't resonate with like half of his voter-base?..
some people are camp trump, or camp elon, but they both make mistakes and aren't perfect.. so if either one of them start doing some thing really stupid i want to call them out on it, not just double-down on my favorite dude man..
trump is talking about giving amnesty to lots of illegal aliens because i guess he thinks farms and hotels etc can't be managed with legal americans?.. and he is calling any one in his voter-base that doesn't agree with that the "radical right".. so there are things trump is slipping up on if we wanted to go looking for dirt to dig up..
but whether elon's party is going to be retarded or not, if i were trump i wouldn't just dismiss it as a pipedream that will never happen..... elon has a tendency to manifest things he is envisioning in to reality, and it also can't be over-looked that he has the biggest microphone in the world..
which ever dork wins i just hope the policies are ACTUALLY good for america, including for the long-term and not just short-term..
(side note: america really needs like a condorcet-style voting system so that people can finally stop feeling like they are throwing away their vote if they don't vote for democrat or republican.. people should be able to vote for who they really actually want)
@FF777 The covid thing was a finger trap. If Trump went against Fauci, he would have been tagged as a mass murderer, blah, blah. The entire western world went all in on that shit. At least he didn't mandate the jabs and tried to re open the country. That OP worked to hurt him on many levels along with election theft. Elon might succeed in pressuring congressional reps/candidates, to pay attention to thier constituents. That could be a good thing.
@FF777 Trump of course has been wrong. He offered an option. Biden mandated it. My husband had to leave his job at Yale school of medicine because mandates, not jabs.
@Haleakalacrater @FF777 A great way to get him removed. Bobby K is not an OP. That's some stupid shit. The majority of the population still thinks the jabs are great. This incremental approach is the only option.
I would be really careful about putting too much faith in RFK Jr. I don't think he will last the whole 4 years.
RFK Jr's Vice President says he is completely under control of someone outside of the Trump administration. She has implied repeatedly that RFK Jr is being sexually blackmailed.
RFK Jr sending numerous naked videos of himself to a reporter a couple of months ago certainly makes it look like he is susceptible to blackmail.
I care about it. It was a massive lapse of judgement.
Acting like RFK Jr's weakness at "controlling his sexual demons," his words, is not a problem is naรฏve. That's how RFK Jr acts while sober. Imagine what he must have been like when he was a hardcore drug addict.
RFK Jr was a crack and heroin addict for decades. Imagine what blackmail material must exist from his junky years...
@Haleakalacrater @FF777 He is the right man for the job. Your purity tests are retarded. If you can't see what his team is trying to do then might as well give up.
No arrests for heroin possession is a pretty low purity test.
The purity test I generally use is whether or not a candidate would be allowed to enlist in the lowest level of the military.
The military will waver quite a bit including felonies.
RFK Jr fails that purity test. His criminal record, and his long history of mental illness and drug abuse, would prevent him from enlisting in the military, so I wouldn't vote for him.
@Haleakalacrater @FF777 There is no debate. You are a pure holy roller that is more concerned with things that do not matter to me. I am very happy to have RFKjr in the position. You sound gay, as in weak, not homo. Just an observation.
RFK Jr is the weakest link in the Trump administration. My guess is he will quit shortly after the midterms and announce his candidacy for some position in 2028. It will probably be Democrat for President, but I wouldn't be surprised by him running for Senator.
@Haleakalacrater @FF777 Really? I disagree. Bongino? Bondi, Patel? He is the only one doing anything. I'm not watching your vid as you obviously have not read or followed his accomplishments.
I usually work Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's, etc as part of my job. I have the privilege not to, but my position requires someone on duty at all times, so I volunteer, so other families can be together.
Also, it's Texas. They can afford barbed wire to keep out immigrants, but have been reluctant to install warning systems for this, even though it happened before (1987) and they knew it would happen again.
Just saw Ted Cruz grandstanding by the flooded river, partly blaming the camps for having children in buildings near the river. Yep - blame the victims.
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I really wanted to get one for my older brother since he grew up with the N64, but I missed the opportunity to pre-order. However, I also need to realize that he is a father now and probably shouldn't be wasting his free-time playing video games.
@cool_boy_mew Never played this game, favorite N-64 game is Turok, the one with the Dinosaurs you can ride. Got the game hooked up to my stereo so the dino stomping takes on a whole new level. Not something I can play while the neighbors are sleeping.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •Her nails were always bitten to the quick from the stress she was under at the brokerage firm. After she "medically" retired (no job for her to go to, anymore--plus, nobody would hire a 76 yr old woman) her nails grew. So we thought the weight loss was from her not stress eating.
She was diagnosed with a pancreatic mass 19 months ago during a hospital stay. We elected to not biopsy or treat her for it. I started her on the Joe Tippens protocol, which I did for about seven months.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •It took mom exactly one year of nursing care--where she was off the Joe Tippens protocol --to finally die. She weigned less than 130 when she passed and her official diagnosis was "protein-calorie malnutrition ". My friend who runs a hospice told me it's a bullshit diagnosis when the doctors can't be certain exactly what's causing the patient to decline, except her weight was plummeting.
It's been 12 days since mom left me. And, as I've been going through these photos of her, I've noticed
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •that the weight loss was profound and not like when Oprah lost weight, where she looked like a bobble- head. This looks like cancer, where mom was skeletal and her flesh melted away.
I had one final photo of my mom that I took a week before she died, for my aunt. (She tried to snap a picture during their last FaceTime but it didn't work so she asked me to take a picture.) I just looked at it and that's when I realized how bad my mom deteriorated.
There's only 1 reason I'm not sure about it.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •My mom was not in pain when she died. I asked her, countless times, and trust me, she would have told me.
The nurses all told me that pancreatic cancer is extremely painful. My mom did not exhibit that pain at all. She cried out once, when her sheets were being changed, because she was so thin and the movement hurt her. But she was okay after a minute. She never asked for morphine.
So although everything looked like cancer, I can't say for sure.
Maybe the Lord spared her that pain.
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My brother is not coming to the service.
He just RSVP'd.
I am trying to be charitable. That means that I'm not trying to judge him or be bitter about it.
It is his choice. I think that it is a poor one, and an abysmal example for his children.
This is difficult for me to accept. Your mother's memorial service is a big deal. So big, that the military would send you home from war to attend it.
As retired military, he can even fly space-A within CONUS.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •There's no excuse for him not attending. He hasn't contributed even a penny towards her final expenses or the memorial.
I don't know how to feel about this. I want to be angry at him for not loving our mom, but I think my mom would rather have me pray for him because this is pretty indicative of his heart's condition and I know this was a source of anxiety for her. She knows I'm okay and we'll see each other again. But him... not so much. Deep inside, I think she knew his heart was hard.
CeceDuBois
in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •Oh, friend, I'm so sorry for your loss. Even when we know it's coming, or it's time, it still hits us head on.
God bless you as you plow through what needs to be done to put your mother at rest. I pray for you, for her, and for your brother.
You are loved and supported here, dear heart. ๐๐ฏโค๏ธ
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Thank you sister. I receive that.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •I am so very sorry about the loss of your dear mother. ๐ช๐๐ฏ You took such terrific care of her. I'm also so sorry about your brother's behavior.
Prayers of peace and comfort for you and your family.
Love,
Kathryn
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My brother, and our mom are tight... I can't stand her. When she dies I will not attend the service.
We both have very different relationships with her. I do not try to derail my brothers relationship, but I also refuse to pretend we are cool.
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I am sure you have your reasons for the relationship between you and your mom and I fully support you in establishing your boundaries.
It's a little different for me. My brother is not nice to either of us. He hasn't been his entire life.
I appreciate that you are HONEST about your feelings. My brother is passive- aggressive about his feelings. He would draw my mom close to bludgeon her. For instance, he came into town on a connecting flight and called her.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •That is not how I play for sure..
Sorry for your pain MMA.
I like you a ton, and hope you get through this quick.
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Thank you dear.
Just so you know, I'm just like you. I'm fine with not having a relationship with a sibling or a parent. And I respect that my daughter doesn't want one with me, even though I'm hurt by her choice.
I had to tolerate my bro for my mom. And I'm going to honor her by praying for him. But I'm not going to have him in my house. He's done and said some things to me that you wouldn't believe, including punching me in the face when we were teenagers.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •Well MMA for whatever it's worth..
I am not your family, but I love you..
You are my kind of people.
Hope you get through this fast, and back to living your life.
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I will make it because y'all are praying me through. My friends have always been more of a family to me than my own.
Thank you for the encouragement and support. It's made all the difference in the world to me.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •He asked her to come to the airport so he and his (2nd) wife could take her to dinner while he was waiting on his connecting flight.
She eagerly jumped in her car and drove 75 miles to BWI airport. (I refused, because I'm like you, I don't like that mofo, and I won't pretend, so I wouldn't go. )
She gets there and he's waiting alone. She asks where his wife is and he tells her that she's in the lounge. Mom is bewildered and then he tells her that he has to protect her (from my mother).
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •Then he launched into a diatribe about his whole relationship with her and how he offended at how she's hurt his wife because she still keeping a relationship with his first wife (mother of her niece and nephew). My mom is confused, crying and really feeling trashed.
There was no dinner, of course. Mom drove the 75 miles back home from the airport, upset and with a monster headache.
My bro made his point
I've found six such emails in her Gmail from him.... all.on the same theme.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •I have no issue with not caring for a person in your family. But be up front, be honest, and then be DONE. That isn't what he's doing.
I'm hurt because he's a phony and acts like he wanted to have a relationshipbut not really any of the responsibilitiesthat go with it. His offense and anger is the excuse to justify deliberately shifting all mom's medical expenses onto me when he knows I'm not in the greatest financial situation.
This memorial service is his last act of disdain for her.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •You offered an invitation to participate and to join.
Prayers are all you should give now for your own sanity. Put him out of your mind and let his own conscience rule his future.
God will deal with his naughtiness since that's His domain. Who knows what will happen?
Blessings and love!
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Amen sister. I have done right by my mom when she lived with me, and allowed that meat-ax across the threshold to see her... but, no more!
I will not suffer him in my house anymore. My duty and responsibility to care for my mom is ended. Part of caring for her was to get her closer to him because I knew she wanted to see her son more. If we hadn't moved to Texas, he wouldn't have made any effort.
I am in a way glad he won't be at the memorial. It's easier for me.
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in reply to MMA ๐บ๐ธ๐ • • •I wanted to share a few pictures of my mom with you.
I found some of them when I was going through her pictures. Some are from my aunt's stash. ( She inherited all the pictures from my grandmother.) Quite a few of these I'd never seen before.
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Yes, love, on the 24th. I was with her. It was hard to watch but I wouldnโt have it any other way.
Lino
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My belated condolences. I hope it is getting easier to bear. I am still crying a lot, even though I knew it was coming.
Lino
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Dear friends took us to dinner the night before my mom's funeral.
I'll never forget Linda saying that it'd been 10 years since her mother passed and she STILL could not believe her own mom was gone.
Our moms always will be an integral part of us. Forever.
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I'm almost done with the video for my mom's service. It's a hodge podge of photos everybody sent to me and ones I found by looking in all of mom's boxes. Plus everything I could grab off my phone.
At first I was going to use the classic Commodore's song "Zoom" for the background music. But I prayed for the perfect song and a memory of a song came to me out of nowhere last night. It's going to be "I Will Remember You" by Amy Grant.
We all will remember our moms.
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Great choice.
After the service it would be awesome if you posted it here, if you are so inclined.
Rumblestone the Ultra Plebeian
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