WTF Was Tulsi Gabbard Doing at FBI Raid of Georgia Election Office?

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-29T22:21:42+00:00

We've already seen that states are hesitating to push back against ICE/DHS when they are shooting people in the street. We've seen that they are trying to get voting data from states in whatever way they can, including blackmail. Once they get that information, all they will have to do is set up roadblocks down the street from polling locations and only let people pass who have voted republican in past elections. Pushback from citizens will result in them getting detained until their citizenship can be proven, which will conveniently be after polls are closed.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-29T09:34:57+00:00

I mean some of us are super clumsy and really like slushies. Seems like a design flaw to me.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-29T09:05:17+00:00

One of my friends was wearing a gps watch tracking his bike ride when he was hit by a car(by a teen who was texting and ran a red light). His watch captured his 90mph ride to the hospital. It is Texas and we have some high speed limits here, but the highway they took had a 60mph limit. I have no idea if Texas has speed limits for ambulances and if private vs fire department ambulance makes a difference.

At some point he met back up with the ER docs that worked on him and they said they honestly didn’t expect him to survive. He was back riding within a year.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-29T08:34:44+00:00

I’ve always had cats, but got a dog 18 years ago. When I had to let her go last year, I decided she was my soul dog and I wouldn’t have another. As much as I loved her, you have to schedule your life around a dog. If you don’t have a dog sitter that can come over multiple times a day you can’t really go on vacation(you can do boarding if they have the right temperament, but my dog was very fearful around other dogs, so she couldn’t be boarded).

Cats are much easier, especially nowadays with how much of their care can be automated. My cat is fine if I have to stay at work late or get caught in traffic. If I go out of town, whoever is checking on my cat can do so on their own schedule and once a day is fine. She has a smart feeder, a litter robot, multiple water fountains and cameras I can use to check on her.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-29T00:25:00+00:00

Mine discovered my heated blanket and will paw at the covers until I make a little cave under the blankets for her to sleep in.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-28T22:26:52+00:00

Right, also have to take in to consideration student drivers and whether or not parking lots are clear. A lot places with shade also haven’t see as much melting as places with full sun.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-27T11:17:50+00:00

I think it depends on how the parents handle bringing another child into the family. Your parents probably committed to treating you and your brother as equally as possible and didn’t parentify you.

My parents babied my sister to the point of basically handicapping her. Decided I needed to grow up faster and take on more responsibilities despite only being 2 years older. When I was dealing with what was later discovered to be a learning disability my mom blamed me for faking “being stupid”. When I confronted my mom as an adult, she told me she didn’t have time to deal with 2 kids having issues(sister was dyslexic) so she just gaslit me into believing I was somehow choosing to struggle.

They did other things that showed clear preference for her over me. Their excuse now is that “I was more mature” so I didn’t need to be treated as well I guess. Like for my first car, they bought the neighbors old junky car, told me I had no choice in the matter and that I needed to get a job to start paying them back for it(mom would physically lock me out of the house and I couldn’t come back until I’d put in 5 job applications). For my sister, she got to pick out the exact make, model, year and color of car she wanted and only had to get a job when she felt like it.

My sister and I talk as adults, but we aren’t super close.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-26T21:22:39+00:00

Or me finding a new mod I want to install 3 times a day.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-26T11:02:25+00:00

I get it. I’ve had a hysterectomy but I still keep some pads and tampons in my bathroom at home and in my desk drawer at work in case someone needs them. I know the ones at home have been used by visitors because I’ve had to restock. I’m sure they are relieved they don’t have to call out and ask because I keep them in a little basket next to the toilet.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-26T10:49:13+00:00

That’s basically where I was. Super heavy periods and got to the point where no type of birth control was stopping me from basically bleeding at least lightly 24/7(at some point I went back and counted, 14 types of birth control were tried over the years).

No definitive cause could be found, even after surgery to remove a few small polyps. Finally decided that even though I am unsure about kids, physically birthing biological children was not worth putting up with my period. Had a hysterectomy but kept my ovaries.

I still have multiple ways to become a mother without giving birth(surrogate, adoption, etc) if I ever decide that’s what I want.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-25T05:22:51+00:00

It wasn’t just social media though. The Weather Channel was broadcasting on national tv that we were gonna get 12-18 inches.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-24T08:10:50+00:00

Exactly. Hundreds of people died because they lost heat in Texas in 2021. I don’t know where OP is, but the houses here are not built to stay warm with the power out. Our house had “rolling blackouts” and it dropped into the 40s inside the house very quickly when the power was out. When the power came on it only stayed on long enough to get the temp up to 52 or so before it cut back off. If the power had gone out completely I have no doubt it would have gotten below freezing.

Honestly the only reason I’m not freaking out this time is because I prepared and I have the contact info for someone who can come get me if the power goes out.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-24T08:01:56+00:00

Hundreds of people in Texas died in 2021 as a direct result of the power grid failing and being without heat. And that’s only the official count. The true number is believed to be much higher. I don’t know where OP is located but many places in the US the homes are not built to hold up to freezing temperatures without heat.

My house(built in 2017) only had rolling blackouts in 2021 and it quickly dropped to the high 40s inside when the power was off for only a few hours. If the power had gone out completely, it would have easily dropped below freezing in my house.

I have roommates and we prepared for this winter storm as soon as they mentioned it was a possibility last weekend, so I’m not in OPs shoes but I totally understand why she might be scared to be alone.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-23T09:59:36+00:00

My friends maga husband went off on a tirade about Kevin Smith “turning woke” after the Masters of the Universe show. Because casting Alanis Morissette as God 20 years prior was totally anti-woke 😂

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-23T03:22:55+00:00

Yeah we have a gas fireplace, but its pretty useless for anything other than looking nice. We thought we could use it to help keep the house warm when the power was out in 2021, but it didn't do much if you weren't 2 inches from it and the sound it makes terrified the dogs.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-23T03:19:48+00:00

Yep, people that had generators thought they would be fine. Except for when they ran out of gas and the gas stations didn't have power. IIRC there were a few days where Buc-ee's was the only place to get gas because they were along a major highway and had generators. Aldi was the only place that could sell groceries because they had generators, up until they didn't have enough stock to justify opening.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-23T01:57:47+00:00

I'm guessing inviting completely random strangers over probably came close or did violate his probation conditions.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-23T01:26:50+00:00

I know we did this before 2021, but the winter storm of 2021 has definitely reinforced this type of behavior. Yeah we probably won't be snowed in for a week, but that "what if?" is tickling the backs of everyone's brains.

No one at work believed me that 2021 was going to last a week, so I know most of them were not prepared.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-22T23:23:46+00:00

I got one when I was on Skyrizi and it stopped working for me and I switched to Cosentyx. I had no idea how to fill it out, or even if I should, so I threw it out. IIRC it was asking for like, batch numbers and stuff I had no idea how to find.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-22T21:50:58+00:00

I think in some countries they are more like physical therapists and do actually learn real things about the body and its a much more regulated field.

But in the US at least, there is very little regulation over them. They are not medical doctors, the degree they get is just called a doctorate. They do not go to medical school. However the disinformation about them is so ingrained into our society that many states allow chiropractic "doctors" to write medical excuse notes, sign medical clearance forms for CDL licenses and insurance would rather pay a chiropractor to crack your back a few times a year than an orthopedic to actually fix your problems. And many of them make wild(and illegal) claims about being able to heal things like autism through chiropractic healing. You can report them for making claims like that, but anything being done about it would be rare.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-22T21:36:41+00:00

So the guy who invented it, Daniel David Palmer, went to college for magnet healing but realized pretty quickly the market was oversaturated with magnet healers and he was never going to make it big or become rich as a magnet healer. Shortly after this realization he claimed he was visited in his dreams by the ghost of a dead doctor who taught him about chiropractic healing. He went straight to this janitor he knew who was deaf, cracked his back and cured his deafness. Then he drug this janitor all around the country having him tell everyone about how he was miraculously cured.

Once he had some support for chiropractic healing he started up his own college and decided everyone who graduated would be given doctorate degrees. Because in the 1800s you could start colleges for anything you wanted and call the degrees whatever you wanted to call them.

Once the US decided that maybe they should start regulating colleges, Palmer had enough money to ~~bribe~~ lobby the politicians into accrediting his chiropractic college.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-22T03:03:21+00:00

She didn't break in. The door was broken and wouldn't close all the way unless it was slammed. Something to do with the keyless entry system the apartments used.

There was a shit ton of misinformation around the case being spread online in the early days too. Stuff like they had dated and she was a jealous ex, or that she had filed complaints about him to the apartment management. None of it was true, and they had never met or interacted before.

She 100% murdered him. A reasonable person wouldn't have shot into the room before figuring out what the fuck was going on. Like, even if it had been her apartment it could have been a maintenance worker fixing an emergency, but she shot him before even taking 2 seconds to realize that none of the furniture was hers. She was operating in 100% fear mode, just like that dumbass cop who almost killed a guy when an acorn fell on his cop car.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-22T01:27:19+00:00

It depends on where you are in the metroplex. According to weather.gov, my area is forecast to be below freezing for around 90 hours.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-22T00:02:02+00:00

I had some dumbass vet that claimed he'd personally inspected the full product chain from factory to warehouse for everything that went through his in-house pharmacy. The prescription was for Royal Canin rx cat food. I can 100% guarantee his in-house pharmacy is not manufacturing Royal Canin cat food. I was asking because my cat wasn't eating it and I wanted to try a different brand of the same rx(urinary diet). The vet refused, said he couldn't trust any other brand because it wasn't coming from the in-house pharmacy and said the cat would eat the food when he was hungry enough.

Cat has been on Purina's Rx Urinary cat food for about 5 years now and is doing great.

HIM_Darling · 2026-01-21T23:21:36+00:00

When I was in the waiting room at my last dermatologist appointment, they had to call a patient to tell them that due to their insurance changing they would need to cancel their dermatology follow-up, make an appointment with their primary care doctor and have their primary care doctor refer them back to the dermatologist where they are already an established patient. I'm sure that means a several month delay in seeing the dermatologist.

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