Aunt Gi

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Watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony and my usual pride to be an American just isn’t there.

I don’t know why I am posting this, except perhaps, for me, in our world of turmoil, it is a happy message. 54 years ago today, I married the love of my life. Every day is a gift. Dinner out tonight will be especially sweet. 🥂

And you helped them by caving on the shutdown. All on a promise from a Republican friend hahahahahaha!

@durbin.senate.gov nice going, Dick. Your good friend Sen Thune set you up for failure and you did.

Me too, and turning 77 next week I am losing hope.

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One has to love a government that announces a 2.8% COLA for Social Security benefits next year and in the very same moment raise the cost of Medicare to the penny your COLA increase. My net increase for next year…$0.

Good.

He not only wished her well he made sure she would be.

Maybe I’m late to this realization, but it just hit me…

What are the odds that Speaker Johnson calls the House back for a CR vote with the Epstein files still hanging over his head?

Those 8 Dems might have hung themselves out to dry and risked being primaried for nothing.

The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."

They did their part.

The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.

They did their part.

8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.

They did not do their part.

This exactly ⬇️

More likely they’ll ask why did we work so hard to have a blue wave last week?

We gave Dems a massive win and an undeniable mandate to hold the line, and they squandered it. They have all betrayed us. We demand @schumer.senate.gov resign TODAY.
We will unseat every traitor who capitulated at the first available opportunity. We are inconsolably furious with them all.

Can you read this Durbin?

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".

But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

Like a cardboard box.

I’m sure you’re as not surprised at all!

See, my eyes are failing me.

Anyone else pissed off?

Ro Khanna
@rokhanna.bsky.social

I do now. Thank you. My wyes just didn’t catch the clue.

@durbin.senate.gov you’re leaving so you leave us with this? Legacy dead!

@durbin.senate.gov the disgrace this Illinoisan feels for you is immeasurable. No amount of BS spin is going to absolve you from this betrayal.

@duckworth.senate.gov please do not be one of the Senate Dems about to cave on the shutdown. No Republican promise cane ever be believed. I will never support this.

@durbin.senate.gov you best not be one of the Senate Dems who cave on the shutdown. No Republican promise should ever be trusted. I will never support this move.

This pisses me off bigly.

Oh, and I think I deserve the Nobel Peace prize.

The hillbilly is all uppity now.

I hear you but I am certain this wouldn’t come up in SCOTUS until Thomas has been replaced with a Coney Barrett type conservative (and I use that term with its new meaning.)

That was my point. They wouldn’t dare touch it because of them.