I hope Marie-Therese recoups whatever money and property she is owed (and then some for emotional distress and fucking assault apparently?!) and lives the rest of what I hope are her long, happy, healthy sunset years in the civilized, modern country that is France. She absolutely should not have been deported, obviously, ESPECIALLY not like that, but at least she doesn’t have to deal with this shithole anymore.
The per capita GDP of France and of Mississippi is around $53k per year. France is a pleasant modern nation with functioning public amenities and national health care. Mississippi is a shithole.
The per capita GDP of Alabama is about $65k per year. But per capita health care costs in the US are $10k higher than in France. And there's no way I would live in Alabama, a place where the state religion is football.
You're a sweetie. We clearly both agree that Marie-Therese is better off in France for all the obvious reasons. Truth be told, she probably would have been back home in France much earlier if here erstwhile stepsons hadn't been so hot to grab their dad's property. Their reward for shitty behavior should include several years residence in a State of Alabama hospitality suite where they can improve their farming skills during the day and hang out with men just like themselves after work.
Thanks. ☺️ I have empathy for her. And am also impressed. She uprooted her life, in her 80s (!), to pursue a lost love and share her twilight years in companionship and joy. She willingly moved to AL to do so (maybe he wasn’t well enough to move to France) and like a gender-reversed fairytale she was thrown on the ash heap by two evil stepsons. I hope she can still find her bliss being well-rid of them.
I hope aliens come down and harvest the brothers for skinsuits and then use them to infiltrate ICE to kidnap all the “agents” and take them to a concentration camp on a planet circling Tau Ceti.
(Trying really hard not to break the “Rules for Non-Commenters” here. 👽)
In fairness to ICE, 86 year old women are far easier to arrest and handcuff than some 21 year old violent iffender ir drug smuggler. Those guys fight back and might carry guns! Better to face a fresh baquette than a MAC10.
Their extensive training, which apparantly consists of watching a Dirty Harry movie, might not prepare them for these types of law enforcement encounters.
After losing her beloved, I can't believe that poor woman would really want to live in Alabama versus France. Especially with such shithead stepsons. That should be her choice, though, not ICE's.
Criminal charges for all involved in deporting a legal resident, please.
to quote Marge Gunderson "And for what?.....for a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money you know...." It's not like Mr. Ross was rolling in dough -- $173,000 ain't much in today's world. So, for what did they have an 86 year old woman thrown in ICE detention and deported? For a little bit of money. What a couple of pathetic assholes. They deserve serious jail time (and massive humiliation.)
My wife and I recently lost a $200,000 inheritance because the brother of our friend, Tom, who left us part of his estate, fought it in probate court and won, against the clear deathbed wishes of his brother. He had not visited Tom for about 20 years, the last time he saw Tom, he threw him out of his house (because liberal).
For the past 25 years we were a family that got together 2 or 3 time a week for sportsball, dinners, and skiing/mtn biking. We took vacations together; birthdays, sailing trips, and beach resorts. We were a true family of choice.
It was only $200,000, we could have used the money, but in the end it doesn’t really matter because we had a lifetime of joy with our friend Tom. His brother only got was his Judas’ share of the money.
Absolutely understand this! You have the right attitude about it, even though your friend Tom's wishes were overrode. The way you look at it shows you cared more for Tom than what he could do for you ❤️ However the chips fall, they fall. Cruelty towards others over money eventually sits on the consciences of those who committed the cruelty. They are never happy. It's never enough. And Karma has a way.
After I wrote it I felt a bit like I was “tooting my horn”, but I was glad to be able to share my feelings about it. However, my overall point was the same as you so aptly voiced. The fact that those brothers, or Tom’s brother, were so avaricious, venal, and needy about money to the point that they would effectively steal it and bring harm to others (in the widow’s case, terrible harm) shows what miserable people they really are. I hope the brothers still face consequences, though.
Yes, and we don’t have history of people doing this to their friends, relatives, and neighbors for personal reasons under authoritarian governments either.
Can’t tell you how many high level DC insiders have said to me in past two days they don’t believe anything WH says unless it is confirmed by Iran. And the smart ones want confirmation by Iranian actions not just words. Trump credibility even among GOPers is zero. Less than that.
Trump goes into a rage if they tell him anything he doesn't want to hear, so all we get from the WH is happy talk. Then the press tries to make that into something that makes sense, which just adds a veneer of credibility to the nonsense.
Yeah, I mean they treat Trump’s Big Lie about the rigged 2020 election as some sort of strategic decision, rather than the narcissistic butthurt of pathetic man with a fragile ego who cannot accept reality if it hurts his feelings.
His decisions since he started this stupid war in Iran are all about assuaging his overblown fragile ego.
I’m pretty sure he’s working in concert with people to pump and dump the stock market.
The suckers there believe what he says, the stock market goes up, people in the know dump after a rise, knowing his public statements will be disproven by facts. Then wait for the drop, buy again, wait for the market to believe him, etc.
"Great Performances at the Met" is showing Fidelio, right now. False imprisonment, and villainous abuse of authority! Sounds like America.
Someone I just met wondered if I was Mary Moriarty from Minnesota and I am HERE FOR IT.
Tony and Gary seem like such swell guys. /s
I hope Marie-Therese recoups whatever money and property she is owed (and then some for emotional distress and fucking assault apparently?!) and lives the rest of what I hope are her long, happy, healthy sunset years in the civilized, modern country that is France. She absolutely should not have been deported, obviously, ESPECIALLY not like that, but at least she doesn’t have to deal with this shithole anymore.
The per capita GDP of France and of Mississippi is around $53k per year. France is a pleasant modern nation with functioning public amenities and national health care. Mississippi is a shithole.
The per capita GDP of Alabama is about $65k per year. But per capita health care costs in the US are $10k higher than in France. And there's no way I would live in Alabama, a place where the state religion is football.
Exactly! I don’t want to sound callous about what happened to her by saying she is better off in France, but, she is SO much better off in France.
You're a sweetie. We clearly both agree that Marie-Therese is better off in France for all the obvious reasons. Truth be told, she probably would have been back home in France much earlier if here erstwhile stepsons hadn't been so hot to grab their dad's property. Their reward for shitty behavior should include several years residence in a State of Alabama hospitality suite where they can improve their farming skills during the day and hang out with men just like themselves after work.
Thanks. ☺️ I have empathy for her. And am also impressed. She uprooted her life, in her 80s (!), to pursue a lost love and share her twilight years in companionship and joy. She willingly moved to AL to do so (maybe he wasn’t well enough to move to France) and like a gender-reversed fairytale she was thrown on the ash heap by two evil stepsons. I hope she can still find her bliss being well-rid of them.
I hope aliens come down and harvest the brothers for skinsuits and then use them to infiltrate ICE to kidnap all the “agents” and take them to a concentration camp on a planet circling Tau Ceti.
(Trying really hard not to break the “Rules for Non-Commenters” here. 👽)
In fairness to ICE, 86 year old women are far easier to arrest and handcuff than some 21 year old violent iffender ir drug smuggler. Those guys fight back and might carry guns! Better to face a fresh baquette than a MAC10.
Their extensive training, which apparantly consists of watching a Dirty Harry movie, might not prepare them for these types of law enforcement encounters.
Being fair to iCE, even for grim humor, is not a goal.
the princely largesse of a house worth about $173,000, their father’s and stepmother’s vehicles, and their checking account with about $1,500
THATS all this was about! I thought it was over millions.
I hope they lose their fucking shirts.
And everything else. But what I also need to say is that you've hit on your best nym ever. Not just your best, but THE best. Stunning, WINNER!
lol lol thank you XD
After losing her beloved, I can't believe that poor woman would really want to live in Alabama versus France. Especially with such shithead stepsons. That should be her choice, though, not ICE's.
Criminal charges for all involved in deporting a legal resident, please.
Please!! Not the Widow Clicquot!!!
to quote Marge Gunderson "And for what?.....for a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money you know...." It's not like Mr. Ross was rolling in dough -- $173,000 ain't much in today's world. So, for what did they have an 86 year old woman thrown in ICE detention and deported? For a little bit of money. What a couple of pathetic assholes. They deserve serious jail time (and massive humiliation.)
My wife and I recently lost a $200,000 inheritance because the brother of our friend, Tom, who left us part of his estate, fought it in probate court and won, against the clear deathbed wishes of his brother. He had not visited Tom for about 20 years, the last time he saw Tom, he threw him out of his house (because liberal).
For the past 25 years we were a family that got together 2 or 3 time a week for sportsball, dinners, and skiing/mtn biking. We took vacations together; birthdays, sailing trips, and beach resorts. We were a true family of choice.
It was only $200,000, we could have used the money, but in the end it doesn’t really matter because we had a lifetime of joy with our friend Tom. His brother only got was his Judas’ share of the money.
Absolutely understand this! You have the right attitude about it, even though your friend Tom's wishes were overrode. The way you look at it shows you cared more for Tom than what he could do for you ❤️ However the chips fall, they fall. Cruelty towards others over money eventually sits on the consciences of those who committed the cruelty. They are never happy. It's never enough. And Karma has a way.
After I wrote it I felt a bit like I was “tooting my horn”, but I was glad to be able to share my feelings about it. However, my overall point was the same as you so aptly voiced. The fact that those brothers, or Tom’s brother, were so avaricious, venal, and needy about money to the point that they would effectively steal it and bring harm to others (in the widow’s case, terrible harm) shows what miserable people they really are. I hope the brothers still face consequences, though.
🤬🤯
I bet those two sons are Good Christians™ too.
daBest!
Yes, and we don’t have history of people doing this to their friends, relatives, and neighbors for personal reasons under authoritarian governments either.
Snitches get stitches also has a long standing history, and I feel like we should continue it. Figuratively or otherwise because these fucking people.
I hope that Lyons got himself a case of PTSD that's resistant to therapy and never going to leave him.
I need to send a gift to someone in London, England. Anyone know of a good chocolate shop in London?
Here's a good place to start.
https://www.cocoaandheart.co.uk/london-chocolate-shops/
Very helpful. Thanks!
You're welcome.
But I don't live in London.
Bummer.
This sounds about right, if the poster is credible.
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social
Can’t tell you how many high level DC insiders have said to me in past two days they don’t believe anything WH says unless it is confirmed by Iran. And the smart ones want confirmation by Iranian actions not just words. Trump credibility even among GOPers is zero. Less than that.
And yet they still blissfully print everything he says like it is truth, and also, the stock market responds like a trained seal
Thank goodness we didn't vote for the smart lady, though. Can you imagine how much worse it would be?
Well, they told me that if I voted for her that we'd be at war and gas prices would soar and, by gum, they were right,
<shakes head sadly> They had no choice after you did that.
Trump goes into a rage if they tell him anything he doesn't want to hear, so all we get from the WH is happy talk. Then the press tries to make that into something that makes sense, which just adds a veneer of credibility to the nonsense.
Collusion and complicity.
Yeah, I mean they treat Trump’s Big Lie about the rigged 2020 election as some sort of strategic decision, rather than the narcissistic butthurt of pathetic man with a fragile ego who cannot accept reality if it hurts his feelings.
His decisions since he started this stupid war in Iran are all about assuaging his overblown fragile ego.
Truly insane where we've allowed ourselves to land as a nation.
I still think the orange idiot is negotiating with the voices in his head.
Unfortunately the voices in his head are incapable of self reflection, and can only react in narcissistic rage when his fragile ego is hurt.
I’m pretty sure he’s working in concert with people to pump and dump the stock market.
The suckers there believe what he says, the stock market goes up, people in the know dump after a rise, knowing his public statements will be disproven by facts. Then wait for the drop, buy again, wait for the market to believe him, etc.
I was saying the same earlier today. How many cycles of this are we on now? I've lost count.
The plan falls apart when Iran tires of that bullshit and starts destroying occupying American hardware.
Fighting with himself, he is.
And losing.
Ta, Marcie. I. Just. Can't. Even.
Nor should you.