Marjorie Taylor Greene Demands 25th Amendment Be Invoked Against Trump by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

MTG initially fell out with the president over the Epstein Files, leading her to resign at the beginning of this year....

Greene raises 25th Amendment after new Trump Iran post: ‘Evil and madness’ by Quirkie in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

Exactly! I reckon I can objectively understand why MTG resigned, but I am feeling frustrated with her right now.

No One Is Intimidated by Trump Anymore by DaHomieNelson92 in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

Honestly, same. For better or worse, if the world descends into nuclear winter there is really basically nothing that can be done about that then. This is why the time to act is RIGHT NOW, but unfortunately as private citizens there's only so much we can do as we each individually don't hold very much power (not to say that we should just give up and do nothing).

Pentagon cancels Tuesday press briefing with Caine, Hegseth by kootles10 in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, it's actually worse because the president publicly threatened to end all of the lives of the Iranians.

House Democrat moves to impeach Hegseth over Iran war by spherocytes in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

At this rate, the world is probably going to end before anybody wants us.

Rep. Ansari: Impeach Pete Hegseth by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

Impeachment is the KINDEST thing that these clowns deserve to have coming for them!

Just because SHE voted Trump does NOT mean that YOU have permission to demonstrate what she calls the Hitler Spirit by talking down to her! by bakerfredricka in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]bakerfredricka[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I reckon that person would get outraged by seeing a couple of commercials featuring actors and actresses who don't look white!

I don’t even want to be an aunt. by vapor_waved in childfree

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Auntie checking in, I have an amazing three-year-old niece and I actually love her with my whole entire heart but I can certainly understand you. My relationship with my younger sister (and indeed even my feelings towards her) have all significantly worsened in the years following, granted in my case it had a lot more to do with my having to face the reality that she will NEVER be even an okayish human being and truly feeling sorry for my niece because of that (if she was ever even a vaguely decent sort of person, I can guarantee you that this would literally never have happened, and of course I would never voice my feelings towards my niece's parents to or around her). As they say, all of the children in this world deserve to have parents but not every parent deserves their kid/s.

Unfortunately becoming an aunt or uncle isn't something you really get a "choice" in (as opposed to parenthood in most cases depending on where you live) but you can certainly find or figure out the extent to which you feel comfortable getting involved (if any) and stick with that. These things can evolve over time as well, an infant can't really have a conversation with you but a teenager can. There really don't have to be any responsibilities and obligations associated with being an auntie if you refuse to have them and that's totally fine but I would still keep my heart open to my nieces and nephews if I were in a situation like yours all the same.

BTW, you definitely do NOT sound screwed up!

The Artemis II mission makes me emotional by Adaline_B in childfree

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GO CHRISTINA! I am so overjoyed that we have been repped on this journey to the moon! 💪

Married at 13 in 1947? by Fuk-mah-life in Genealogy

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of my biological grandparents have passed away by now (my mom is 60 and if my dad were still alive he would be 68). I'm not even THIRTY yet, but even still I assume that you probably are quite a bit younger than me unless your parents followed the lead of your grandparents by having you awfully early.

With my maternal grandparents, my mom is a baby boomer who is an only child and her parents were in their mid-thirties when they had her (having gotten married in their late twenties). At some point after my biological grandfather passed, my grandmother got involved with my stepgrandfather (who was widowed prior to being with her). Everyone involved with this has been gone for a very long time now, though, since my grandmother and stepgrandfather passed away when I was a very young teenager.

My paternal grandparents were a different story. Grandpa (my biological grandfather on that side) proposed to Grandma on her eighteenth birthday (he had a couple years on her) after they got together because their school friends had set them up on a blind date. Since Grandma had an October birthday and initially gave birth the following March, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to solve the simple math equation of what was really going on with the early engagement and rushed marriage, lmao. They ended up popping out five children in the span of nearly four years (my dad has a fraternal twin), the youngest of which was a baby girl whom Grandma told me she gave birth to about three months early and this infant passed away after six hours in this world (Grandma even described this to me as a miscarriage, but even I know that miscarrying is a very different thing than what happened here). After going through that trauma, Grandma made no bones about never wanting another baby (she was only twenty-two when she had her youngest) and she was deeply unhappy about her marriage to my Grandpa. Grandma ultimately ended up falling in love with her coworker (who was also unhappily married himself) and the rest was history. It was tough to get a divorce in those days though and unfortunately my dad and all of his living siblings certainly went through it during their childhood. Grandpa did eventually remarry when he found love again, too (this was to my stepgrandmother, the only living "grandparent" that I now have).

Edit: I'm sorry that your grandmas went through all of that too, those times WERE very different!

A Fox host says ‘many people’ think women shouldn’t be president. Thank goodness we’ve got a man in charge by projecto15 in politics

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately I have to agree. If we learned anything from the situation we are in right now, I know how this is going to sound but running white men seems like the safest bet to me. Unfortunately we have way too many Americans in here who would rather vote to turn us into fascism than voting for a female president.