A comment I saw from someone who's mother had been through it, she said along with the cruelty came a constant sense of "pervasive absurdity"

It just spreads it

They've gotten so much better over the years

Where do you stand on Bad Company?

I married young, first kid young. We were on a set grocery budget and I bought the same thing every week. Dinners were based on a whole chicken and 5 pounds of ground beef.
There was this pizza place down the street that sold $5 carryout, so we'd count change sometimes and get one.

The late 80's was brutal.
I grew up in a suburb of Hartford (not one of the nicer ones) and my parents couldn't afford a house in CT.
In 1988 when I was 15 we moved to AZ because you could get a house dirt cheap, but they had a crazy interest rate (might have even been adjustable?)

The boxes were yellow at my store

Charles, I have a question. Do the ACA subsidies also subsidize the small employer group plans? And do the employees covered by those plans know they are on ACA plans?

Oh good
The pajamas got me

(who else recently watched Weapons?)

Yeah... I just called again and said it was time for new senate leadership, too.

I was a blue-voting independent for most of my voting life.

I finally registered as a Dem bc I realized if I wanted a party that fought Trump harder and more closely aligned w/ me, then I had to participate in primaries.

I've actually called twice
Once each with a whole prepared message

Then I realized an hour later that I should have also squeezed in a demand for new senate leadership, so I called back.

And it's the process that third parties fail to do, which is why they hold so little sway.

I think his "no" is only to protect his leadership

Oh, Angus

It *was* working. The people were pissed and blaming republicans.