Oh Happy Day!
As is my longtime practice, I never stay post election day at the family homestead (just 9 miles west of The Pahk), so we left last night on an 8 pm flight to PDX. I just can’t be present when good things happen, like Obama being elected, or Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being elected. My poker face would have left the building. My happy dance would have gotten me banned from the house for eternity. And in 2016, I needed to be safe at my own home, overconsuming adult beverages while watching those results come in. We arrived back in the Gorge at 1:30 am PDT (4:30 EDT). I did NOT check election results during my wind down glass of wine (to counteract the effects of that coffee I had on the last beverage call so I could keep the mister awake for the hour drive home).
Imagine my complete delight to soak in today’s headlines. I hope all those negative polls keep on firing up our voters. In my old hometown, the mayor (completely disliked by my mother, I can’t say hated because hating is a sin) won her reelection. My mother did not bother to get an absentee ballot, and wasn’t going to vote for her anyway. I like that strategy. Please, don’t vote. Meanwhile, I’m going to find a nice little campaign button to sneak onto the damn Trump Bear in the living room, a gift from her caregiver. The one wearing one of her CROSSES around his neck. I am not kidding. The seven deadly sins apparently do NOT apply to him. During the 2022 election season, I stuck Penzey’s ‘I will vote 11.8.22, Remember January 6’ stickers on the back side of the long red tie and collar points, just for grins. Yes, that’s the cross under the tie. And yes, they were discovered and removed by the time I visited again. These days, Mom keeps track of ‘the trial’ (or should I say ‘trials’) via that reliable source Newsmax. Maybe I should knit up a little orange jump suit for him for my next visit.
I love my sneaky friends doing passive aggressive Revolution at their parent’s home. The 1960s taught us how to do that.
1@Fenway Fran, I think you have a winner in the orange jumpsuit for the bear! I Googled and there is a definite void of orange jumpsuits for the bear.
I have a sewing machine. Message me.
2Malarkey @ 2,
Handcuffs would make a nice accessory for Trumpy bear. Perhaps someone could sew up some FG voodoo dolls.
3Fenway Fran, you’re a lot nicer than me. [Of course, some would say that Atila was nicer than me.] I’d cut carefully along a seam, then insert some tuna or Roquefort cheese inside the stuffing of the T-bear. Quickly sew it back up and on subsequent visits point out how the thing is starting to stink really bad … sorta like the original.
But the orange jumpsuit and/or handcuffs sounds better. Especially if the cuffs can’t be removed. How about a neck-board with ” Inmate No. P01135809″ on it?
4I hope more and more republicans use their right to vote by withholding in 2024. After all, they have good reason not to vote if the only candidates running are trumper thumpers. Thinking there was a lot of that in yesterday’s results.
5So many great ideas I will share with my like minded sisters, who also like to get into ‘good trouble’. I’d suggested earlier that they pose the bear in compromising situations for a photo op while Mom was sleeping, and share amongst ourselves for sanity sake. There was one, but it got deleted somehow. We have a new mission for surviving election year insanity! Maybe we need to create a social media presence for The Bear. As for next November, dear old ma already knows what she has to do to get a ballot, and will vote for her orange man. Unless, of course, he’s in handcuffs!
6Speaking of ‘Trumpy Bears’:
Here’s a cute cartoon that has a Trumpy Bear and a terrible toddler needing a diaper change in it :
https://images.dailykos.com/images/1244941/story_image/CjonesRGB11092023.jpg
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/8/2204442/-Cartoon-Trump-temper-tantrum
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And in other news, even I am getting touched by the tentacles of these g-damned Rethuglikan criminals.
For some time I’ve been getting texts, emails, and presumably calls [never answered] on some of my phone lines from some company.
This company, World Class Holdings [unknown to me then] was wanting to buy some real estate from me [lots and land]. They were apparently just fishing, using county property records, to troll prospective marks; undoubtedly to rip us off.
I’ve just found out that the company’s CEO and owner, Nate Paul, is a Rethug crook with close ties to TX AG Ken Paxton, both in deep criminal legal trouble recently:
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/08/nate-paul-indictment-ken-paxton/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/8/2204501/-The-businessman-at-the-center-of-Ken-Paxton-s-impeachment-charged-with-new-federal-crimes
7PS: RE: my comment above–
8It’s downright scary how they got hold of not just one of my phone numbers, but several, linked to me and property. Since I try to guard stuff like that very well..
Y’all should check this website out, it’ll scare your pants off [especially if you dig into ‘smartphone’ security’…].
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org
“The leading nonprofit defending
9digital privacy, free speech,
and innovation.”
I love the rat in the Trump temper tantrum cartoon…overcome with the stench and trying desperately to escape.
10The cartoonists always portray tRump with eensy-tiny hands too, which he hates.
11[goes back to him bragging about ‘big hands, big d—…, which apparently was debunked by various of his ‘dates’ [..lil mushroom d—, said one..]].
Sandridge:
We get 2 or 3 letters a week offering to buy our farm in Arkansas. Apparently, there is some sort of get-rich-quick-by-buying-vacant land scheme being flogged like physical gold to the upwardly aspirant, although I have never seen a pitch for it.
With us, it’s obvious because the county records have the name of a dead person listed. But so far, no calls or emails.
It wouldn’t be hard to get access to your contact stuff, though depending, it might violate terms of use of credit reports.
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