Before Trump began rage posting his way into genocide charges the Strait was open & gas was 40% less.
Jamelle Bouie: “Forcing others to submit through the indiscriminate use of force does not really sound like war... It sounds like rape.” Trump & Hegseth MO is “the ideology of the rapist.”
Resist MAGA gangster grifter authoritarianism! Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!
Xplisset--waaay back about 90 years ago, my mother and her siblings were abandoned by their father after their mother died. My mom only saw her father once, when she was 23 and ran into him in downtown Chicago. She invited him to come visit and meet his grandchild. He never did.
My mom lived in a horrible orphanage until at about age 12, she was taken as a foster child. She didn't talk much about either situation--both were bad--but she said how she was basically a slave in the foster home. She did attend school, but then also was expected to care for the two small children AND do all the housework. The family moved from Chicago to Philadelphia.
As she became a teenager, she was apparently sexually abused. by the father. She'd never tell the entire story, but by mutual agreement between she and the mother, she left as soon as she graduated hs and lived in the local YWCA. She was in poverty, told me that she'd purchase a bag of peanuts from a street vendor as that was all she could afford.
She had older siblings and one younger. The older ones didn't all go to the orphanage because of age. One sibling ran away from the orphanage and married at 15. Her younger sibling never got "picked" and probably had a better go of it because of that. Eventually, the older sisters pitched in to give her bus fare to return to Chicago, where all four lived in a small apartment together.
Things were awful back in the 1920-30s, but you'd sure think things would have improved by now. There is really something sick and wrong with a society that does not care for the young, the elderly, the disabled....or anyone not able to care for themselves.
My mom had 5 sisters and 1 brother - brought up in a small town - good life. She left home and went to Philadelphia Nursing School - after she finished there, she moved to NYC and worked as a public health nurse in what they then called tenements - public housing. She never said much about it other than how bad those tenements were & how hard the people had it - this would have been probably 1920s. I'm guessing she saw some bad stuff - and it sure sounds like your mom "lived" the bad stuff. Does seem as tho our society would care for the ones who cant care for themselves, doesnt it?
And Miselle - we live in American the "exceptional" country!
Quick! Xavier! Toss me the remote. I'm, gonna fast-forward to the good parts!
Got to find a way to laugh at it all. Just to get a breath of fresh air dammit! Avarice is indeed the root of all evil and these are evil times populated by some evil people who're playing a demented game of chicken with other peoples' lives, while profiteering, grifting and laughing on the way to the bank, all the live-long-day!
It's the American way and it's all the way off the chain! Everyone around the world is dancing to our crazy beat!
Before Trump began rage posting his way into genocide charges the Strait was open & gas was 40% less.
Jamelle Bouie: “Forcing others to submit through the indiscriminate use of force does not really sound like war... It sounds like rape.” Trump & Hegseth MO is “the ideology of the rapist.”
Resist MAGA gangster grifter authoritarianism! Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!
But we can try to avoid the AIPAC affiliates can't we?
Xplisset--waaay back about 90 years ago, my mother and her siblings were abandoned by their father after their mother died. My mom only saw her father once, when she was 23 and ran into him in downtown Chicago. She invited him to come visit and meet his grandchild. He never did.
My mom lived in a horrible orphanage until at about age 12, she was taken as a foster child. She didn't talk much about either situation--both were bad--but she said how she was basically a slave in the foster home. She did attend school, but then also was expected to care for the two small children AND do all the housework. The family moved from Chicago to Philadelphia.
As she became a teenager, she was apparently sexually abused. by the father. She'd never tell the entire story, but by mutual agreement between she and the mother, she left as soon as she graduated hs and lived in the local YWCA. She was in poverty, told me that she'd purchase a bag of peanuts from a street vendor as that was all she could afford.
She had older siblings and one younger. The older ones didn't all go to the orphanage because of age. One sibling ran away from the orphanage and married at 15. Her younger sibling never got "picked" and probably had a better go of it because of that. Eventually, the older sisters pitched in to give her bus fare to return to Chicago, where all four lived in a small apartment together.
Things were awful back in the 1920-30s, but you'd sure think things would have improved by now. There is really something sick and wrong with a society that does not care for the young, the elderly, the disabled....or anyone not able to care for themselves.
My mom had 5 sisters and 1 brother - brought up in a small town - good life. She left home and went to Philadelphia Nursing School - after she finished there, she moved to NYC and worked as a public health nurse in what they then called tenements - public housing. She never said much about it other than how bad those tenements were & how hard the people had it - this would have been probably 1920s. I'm guessing she saw some bad stuff - and it sure sounds like your mom "lived" the bad stuff. Does seem as tho our society would care for the ones who cant care for themselves, doesnt it?
And Miselle - we live in American the "exceptional" country!
Quick! Xavier! Toss me the remote. I'm, gonna fast-forward to the good parts!
Got to find a way to laugh at it all. Just to get a breath of fresh air dammit! Avarice is indeed the root of all evil and these are evil times populated by some evil people who're playing a demented game of chicken with other peoples' lives, while profiteering, grifting and laughing on the way to the bank, all the live-long-day!
It's the American way and it's all the way off the chain! Everyone around the world is dancing to our crazy beat!