so, by the rules of projection: he likes to spend his government salary on drugs?
( it is fantastic the amount of respect he shows his own constituents )
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It is just chump change to him. I can see him blowing it onâŚwellâŚblow.
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â A 19-year-old from Wilmington, Del., is expected to face federal charges in the carjacking of U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, Delaware State Police said Thursday.
Josiah Brown was taken into custody along with four other teens on Wednesday night in Newark, Del., police said in a news release. State troopers and federal agents saw Scanlonâs 2017 Acura MDX â which had been stolen about six hours earlier in South Philadelphiaâs FDR Park â on the 2800 block of Fashion Center Boulevard. The car was initially unoccupied, police said, but officers watched it and eventually saw the teens getting inside. The teens tried to flee as police approached the car, officials said, but all were eventually arrested.â
â Three of the other teens â boys ages 13 and 16, as well as a 14-year-old girl â were charged in Delaware with receiving stolen property, police said. Each was released to their guardians on $1,500 unsecured bond, police said.
A 15-year-old boy was charged with receiving stolen property, resisting arrest, and two counts of criminal mischief, police said. Police said he was taken to the New Castle County Detention Center on $3,500 bond.â
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Big fight with my hard-right anti-vaxx in-laws to kick off the holiday visit. In truth, I could have walked away. But heâs been showing me these Facebook posts that he and his buds send around. They have little stories of bravery/bravado from WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. Apparently he and his buds get a little oxytocin squirt when they read them. Anyway, he started in on the vaxx thing and we got into it. And I kept saying âIâm done with this, stop talking to me.â Then I realized itâd gone too far when I said âyou spend your whole fucking day looking at Facebook reading these heroic stories of ww2 ppl and you canât be bothered to get a simple safe vaccine. Very fucking nice. And you fucking disrespect my house by coming here, knowing how I feel about this.â Him: âwell, we can leave.â Me: âHuh, yep.â
Not my finest moment of self-control, for sure.
Luckily I have several rare bourbons and a keg of homemade mead to console me. Still, fuck this.
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I feel your pain. Iâll be biting through my tongue at my in-lawsâ tomorrow morning. I wonât disrespect my wife by telling her family what I think of them in their home. But Iâll be spending the entire visit dissociating as I think of cracking open the bottle of Yellow Spot my all-too-wonderful employees bought me for Christmas. Iâll sip a little extra in your honor.
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Maybe you went too far, but frankly, I can understand why you said what you did. I think weâre all fed up with these anti-vaxxers and itâs really their fault that weâre here right now.
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That sucks. But this? This means it wasnât on you. You can only do so much to avoid a fight that someone else wants, and it sounds like you did more than your fair share. Itâs understandable to be upset, but it shouldnât be with yourself.
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And you did. This could have escalated. Itâs better they leave.
Also you donât want Covid for Christmas.
Also you are dead right to call out the pathetic hypocrisy of the WWII fetish crowd: they are the ones that didnât fight the Nazis.
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itâs hard. when people violate boundaries - id imagine he already knew your position on vaccination - weâre still expected to maintain politeness and niceness, even to the point of giving up our boundaries. weâre not well trained- culturally speaking - to handle it well
and on top of the assumed boundaries, you then did your best to state them clearly before losing your cool, and thatâs pretty impressive.
maybe there was no good outcome if that was something he was intent to push on
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And thatâs one of two core points. I need to respect my wifeâs feelings and her Xmas peace, though she thinks theyâre idiots as well. But my spiritual practice means that guests are afforded a more expansive kind of grace.
I hope so. I was in the kitchen cooking, so there was no real escape. And when he went to fetch his iPad to âlook up the latest studyâ I kind of snapped.
This is exactly it, right? Itâs especially galling coming from someone who pulled strings to avoid combat in Vietnam. âThe battle of college campusesâ as a cook in the National Guard was as far as he got.
I appreciate this, and all-a-yâall. I feel like a total shit, and this place is an incredibly safe haven. Thank you.
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She probably understands, it sounds like a pretty untenable situation. If you havenât, apologize for losing your cool, as much for your peace of mind as herâs.
Be kinder to yourself. You did your best under some difficult circumstances.
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No. You did not go too far. Wasnât very civil, but what has civility gotten us lately?
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Iâm always suspicious when vets recount war stories. My dad told us two things about his service: he was a navy tail or turret gunner in the Pacific during WWII, and he once procrastinated, which saved his life. Thatâs it.
Try to remember that youâre a better person than he is and your wife knows it. 
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Such muscles, so freedom 
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