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Mintie's avatar

So much of the Executive-Legislative branch interactions anymore really feel like some government version of parents threatening to take their kids' toys away if they don't clean their rooms, and then the kids screaming about unfairness when the parents did it.

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Vagenda and Pee-ara's avatar

I don't remember when my exact turning point was. I do remember when I started to actually LOATHE Republicans, and that was when the banks collapsed because of their dumb idea to deregulate banks.

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Querolous's avatar

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Cranky Man's avatar

When Nixon was pardoned my adolescent bullshit detector went to bright red. I was sort of looking forward to the revolution because I had just taken out a $$ loan to buy a Yamaha motorcycle, and I thought bank of america was going up in flames.

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BadKitty904's avatar

Well, I have a boyfriend, who says that I am very much not single.

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ThePuckStopsHere's avatar

Hey-oooh!

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ThePuckStopsHere's avatar

Yeah, well, what if it's ALL A DREAM and we are freezing to death instead of burning up? Heengh?

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RogationDays's avatar

Well, I tried for my friend...someday his princess will show up.

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

Isn't it adorable watching Karl Rove desperately try to appear relevant? That ship done sailed right about the time a certain helicopter took off from Washington on January 20, 2009.

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Latverian Diplomat's avatar

Umm,. then we'd be in a much better episode than the darkness one?

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BadKitty904's avatar

Aww. That's very sweet of you!

Perhaps you can console your chum by letting him know I'm actually a "prince". :0)

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RogationDays's avatar

Sometimes I'm not so sure he wouldn't prefer a sweet prince

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BadKitty904's avatar

lol Well, we are low maintenance and can lift heavy(ier) things. Mostly. ;0)

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lesterthegiantape's avatar

It admits the planet is heating up, too. Can't say we didn't know any more.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Well there you go. Don't participate in the process, just sit back and bitch about the people who actually do vote in every election. There's a reason why out of touch Olds like your Mommy and Daddy still run things. And if you do vote but still see the same jerks getting elected anyway, then maybe, just maybe, the votes that are keeping them in office aren't coming just from the Olds. (What? There are right wing Millennials??? UNPOSSIBLE!)

(Note: in my local area, which is hardly what you would call a senior community since oldsters generally don't like living where it is winter eight months out of the year, I haven't seen a single person at any of our well-attended Bernie Sanders rallies who was under 50 years old. That's the honest, and frustrating, truth.)

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