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Cake day: November 9th, 2021

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  • My cat of twelve years died on my birthday. He had been sick with Triaditis for about 6 weeks and I had to feed him through a tube 3 times a day. Each time would take about an hour and a half.

    He was getting better, too. Putting on weight, and ate his own meals for 5 days. But the E-tube got infected and so we took it out 2 days early.

    He got home. He vomited. He stopped eating for two days. He started vomiting and acted in pain and so I took him in again. They discovered fluid in his abdomen. He was too skinny from his digestion issues for a further hospitalization and he was in pain.

    He slept each night in my armpit with his head on my shoulder.

    I worked from home before the pandemic, and so I was with him almost all of the time for his life. I loved his tiny 6 lb ass.

    He was a bathroom communist. It could be 3 a.m. and I could check that he was asleep, and when I looked up from sitting on the toilet, the door would be slightly ajar and he’d be in front of me watching the door.

    I miss you, little dude.

    https://imgur.com/a/1A5PmTa




  • There was a lot of pressure for the most banal, milquetoast, form of representation ever in the form of having a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic national convention with a vetted speech that involved nothing that would have criticized Israel at all.

    Even that was too far.

    Either the progressives are powerful enough that you have to take them seriously and give them concessions, or they aren’t and you get to ignore them.

    What you don’t get to do is give them nothing and blame them when you lose. Or, I guess you do if you’d prefer to lose the general over letting a progressive win the primary.

    Huh, funny that, who knew there is a lot of levers and controls that a primary winner, even one that lost the general, gets.




  • 20% is a lot less then the amount of PUMA people that didn’t vote for Obama. (The point here is that the left rallies behind the centrist and right of the party far more then the centrists do. And yet you still blame the left.)

    Maybe if the Democratic party wasn’t addicted to feeling self righteous, and it your comment reflected reality (it doesn’t) then the DNC would recognize the left as a voting block they have to appease to, you know, win.

    You know, actually do politics rather then look down their noses at people demanding unreasonable stuff like health care.