My friend’s mom died. Some lung problem. His father – her husband – died in May very quickly of cancer discovered in stage 4. They were both 68 – had been married 46 years. I hurt for him.
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I went through this and I seem to remember there is some kind of tax waiver thing you can get the mortgage company to give you when you do the short sale. It was a while back. Anyone else know anything about this?
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Yet another lone wolf, I bet.
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I didn’t post this then, but a friend of mine died in the week between Christmas and New Year. It was totally unexpected. She was only 35. Her husband is devastated and her daughter isn’t quite 2 yet. We still don’t know what happened.
I hadn’t known her for all that long considering. We met when our babies were in the NICU together. But it hit me hard and it makes me angry. There is no fairness in life or in death.
I miss her.
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Dental abscess. Plus I’m covering a colleague’s classes while he’s away on an emergency. Lecturing on pain+codeine-induced fuzz is so much fun.
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It wasn’t a short sale- We sold it for what we still owed- $25k less than we paid. That meant the $15k realtor’s commission came out of pocket.
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I can’t keep up with the complete insanity happening in America anymore. Every day is too many new, appalling things. I’m in a constant state of low-level panic.
I thought it might take a few months to slide into fascism, not A WEEK.
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Try to think of it this way. They’re acting this quickly because they know they don’t have much time before a stop is put to them.
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Undergrad or grad? If it’s undergrad, it’s easier because they don’t want to be there and don’t care what you have to say, so that’s good, I guess?
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Learning now that an executive order can temporarily stop me from re-entering my home (I am a permanent resident) has left me disappointed I don’t have enough middle fingers to display at the 45% of eligible voters who didn’t cast ballots in November; I understand some were oppressed by GOP-controlled county election laws, but many of them couldn’t find a pure enough candidate for them. Learning 70% of US voters are fine with blocking legal immigrants from coming in is reason enough for me to clean my house and go.
Thanks for showing your true colors, America.
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Keep this up and the Democrats will lose in 2020 too.
What about Hillary trying to keep her purity? Yes, she offered some watered down socialism but she kept the full strength neo-liberalism all the way through her campaign. Her election promises looked like something a one nation Tory would use in a British election.
And I say this as someone who really wanted the Democrats to win in November, but didn’t have a vote.
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That’s part of the Stockholm Syndrome.
You and I have been taken hostage, we are being isolated from the truth and alienated from rest of the world.
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At the point when the polls opened there were two options and only two. Clinton’s policies were boilerplate Dem shifted a bit to the left vs. what we are now seeing unfolding. I understand wanting a further left candidate (I wanted Sanders), but the options were the centrist moderate, the fascist, or abdicating responsibility. Those people who abdicated from doing whatever it took to prevent the obvious fascist from taking power, even if it meant voting for someone they loathed, deserve nothing but contempt.
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All, I am saying is that if you recognise that you need the left to win then you need to do something other than continuing to blame them. Ask yourself “Why should I vote for a party who won’t offer me anything other than scraps from the table and abuses me if they lose, even if I did vote for them?” Try to come up with an answer that isn’t “they are the lesser of two evils.”
I ask that question because people may have a realistic choice between the Tories and Ukip at the next UK General Election. It feels like choosing between Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu.
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With Trump as its presumptive Republican nominee, the 2016 general election was the Democrats to lose. Most polls in early 2016 suggested that nominating Hillary Clinton would increase that risk. (Most polls in late 2016 also suggested that she would win though though, so whothefuckknows.) In Sanders, the Dems and their electorate had a chance at a clean break from their machined past.
After June, November 8th promised only one of two plausible outcomes. You voted for the one you wanted most (or disliked the least), maybe chalked it up as a battle lost, and then woke up the next day to keep fighting the good fight.
Those who preferred Clinton to win and could vote but didn’t are now realizing that the good fight just got a lot steeper thanks to their inaction.
If the Dems run another historically center-right candidate, I will be mad as fucking hell. If the Republicans run a candidate even worse, I will be madder than fucking hell.
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I agree with you. What I am saying is that Hillary needs to take some of the blame for losing instead of putting it all on the left, who may not be Democrats in the first place.
Better still, stop with the blame games and plan for 2018 with the knowledge that the Democrats need to appeal to people who may be to the left or right of the party and decide who is needed based on local views.
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At this point, if the two main political parties RUN CANDIDATES for the 2020 election, I’ll breathe a sigh of relief.
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If neither of them did, I would.
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Isn’t the more likely explanation in that case that there are no more free elections for which to run candidates?
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Clinton was a unique candidate with a history unlike anyone else in the field in so many ways that it’s not a great idea to use her for lessons for 2020. 2020 will be what it is based on who runs and how primary voters vote. I voted for Sanders, but more people voted for Clinton (election fraud conspiracy theories aside) so that’s who we got. I am not responsible for who’ll run, and I hope someone to the left runs and wins. I donated to Sanders but didn’t volunteer. Next time around I’ll volunteer as well. But I assume whoever is relatively centrist will win since in the US left wing ideas poll well, but crash and burn - usually in primaries, but if not, then in general elections.
There are a lot of lessons to learn from 2020, but they’re mostly that mass scale voter disenfranchisement is bad, Republicans really were the crypto-facists we always believed they were, drawn out primaries are bad (though we’ve always known that), and that it’s probably better to select a candidate who isn’t Hillary Clinton.
Because in some elections you have to vote against a legitimate threat to democracy, freedom, and basic human rights for all. If you are offered a choice between two options, one poor, and one unqualified evil and decide to do nothing, you are failing to take on evil and deserve nothing but scorn.
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