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Arachne's avatar

Dang, it's been a tough go lately. Five patients died in the last two weeks of January - two really kind of unexpected, and I'm looking at another who just yesterday was given some honest prognostication - something that I could see coming months ago, but "G-d will save me." (Please, if you have advanced cancer and have to go to the hospital, do not be full code - especially with heart failure/ejection fraction of 30% and chronic kidney disease stage 3).

This is on top of having hired someone as a second me - who it turns out was a Very Bad Idea. How does one live to 69, be a health care professional, and not know how to work a computer? I had to show her how to move a window from one screen to another, how to create a file folder and save a file to it...I know that training someone is a time suck, but I went from doing the job of two to doing the job of three. Perhaps the worst part is that my patience has worn so thin, I've been not the nicest, most supportive person with this new hire, and I hate myself for being a bitch - I just don't have time for this nonsense.

I was going to retire this spring, then pushed it off to next year. I am so regretting that decision right now.

Thank you for your attention to this rant. You are now returned to your usual world in flames.

Peter MacMonagle's avatar

She is probably in the Epstein Files.

Nemo's avatar

Certainly no general -- an officer and a gentleman -- would sheath is sword in another man's scabbard. It's just not done! And since all scabbards in Wash D.C. are the personal property of Donald "The John" Trump, I'm sure this didn't happen.

Deb Vitkova's avatar

The venality of these magat vermin is unsurprising. Nixon and the Teapot Domers were pikers compared to what is going on today.I am beyond disgusted and enraged. My apologies to walleyes and blue pike, and Missouri vagrants.

Bob Nickerson's avatar

Dickie dunking at the Pentagon?

diana's avatar

If you are just seeing this pattern of behavior just now, then you have misunderstood the Trump presidency. He chooses staff on their loyalty. Who is more loyal than someone whose terrible secrets you have proof of?

"M"'s avatar

Also known as "How Putin's Russian Kompromat Works"

Abolish Tyranny's avatar

Fucking bitch looks plastic.

AL's avatar

If you’re a Mother Jones reader you’ve known about the truthful belies of Joni Ernst’s thighs for awhile. a While Now.

Maneki Neko's avatar

She is so creepy.

Rob Cantley's avatar

So, we got Drunky Hogshit over a piece of shit giving up a piece of ass?

WTAF?

Not hating Joniphoni's decision to ditch Iowa. Iowans are way better off.

Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

I have been trying to figure out if joni wears a wig .

jltympanum's avatar

No, but maybe a merkin.

Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

" magastan" !! beautiful, I am going to use it .....

jltympanum's avatar

Republicans being caught up in sleazy sexual antics? How times have changed. A long time ago some reporter said about Nixon, that the press didn't report on his sex life because it never occurred to them that he had any. Burn!

judy thompson's avatar

sigh. Government news used to be boring. Quiet, friendly, a few bulletins now and then or a video of a President shaking hands with a diplomat or another world leader person. Now it's gone full monty into headlines over everything, and most of the headlines are just the beginning. No fake news, just awful news. It feels like we are becoming a third world country with a leader who barely speaks English. It also appears that the First Lady is the Not-There Lady. hmmm

kbblaldwin's avatar

I'm just going to pull out Occam's Razor here and go with "craven shitbag who doesn’t love America or the military,

Lynn Veit's avatar

I'm with you. If all it took was a few threats of exposing her as an average mid-life slut to turn her into a uncaring ice-cold cunt who doesn't give a shit about her constituents, it's a good possibility that all her "concern" about sexual assaults and veterans' well-being was just performative.

Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

I'm a bit confused about who was going to release dirt on Joni, as this was an internal investigation by the Pentagon who as far as I can tell probably wasn't onboard with having Hicsbreath become SecDef as he are an idiot and once confirmed started his very own Night of the Long Knives in the Pentagon, which is what they most likely feared would happen.

And at this point anyone thinking any kind of sex scandal matters to the MAGAt base is locked in some kind of alternate reality.