This illustrates why so many working poor vote with the ultra-rich, against their own interests. They look down the chain for the source of their financial difficulties. Not up, at the system.
My sister in Austin saw a transformer go down and light their tree on fire. She called fire department. They told her “you’re your own police and fire department now.”
Today is my birthday! I’m 74. I’ve lived through some bad presidents but until now, none who gleefully sought to extinguish our Democracy. Thanks to all my resister Twitter friends for your energy, perspective, and humor. ❤️
Can a 78 year old man with a recent heart attack who will not release his medical records beat a 78 year old obese man with a poor diet, whose exercise is hopping on and off a golf cart while a caddy hands him a golf club to swing? Who also hides med records
Ok, I’m 77 today. 🤦♀️ At least Elon didn’t make me pay for the floating balloons on my profile page 😂 AND I’m in France…. so that’s nice. I hear that 77 is the new 72. I’m good with that.
My Dem sister in Texas reminds me that when Trump announced his candidacy in 2016 he said he was not going to need fundraisers as he was a multi-billionaire and had SO much money to spend on his own campaign. He’s in TX for a fundraising today.
@lovseniors
Wish women would stop with the “am I too old for….?” societal oppression BS. No. You are NOT too old for whatever jewelry you like. You are also not too old to tell hubby what he can do with his fashion policing.
@jesflres
4x vaxed here: No covid. I know MANY 3x vaxed who never got it. We have in common: masking, avoiding crowds. Avoiding even in-home gatherings w/o home-testing first. Most of us still avoid travel. We have no kids at home. Retired or work from home.
Today is my birthday! I turned 73. (I like the Twitter balloon drop!) My motto is “I am senior, hear me roar, I’m no fuc**ng dinosaur” 🦖 I hope to meet more
#resisters
out there this year and to keep resisting with my Twitter family 🥰💙🎉.
@SteffieEffie1
I am sorry. But you are right that if he blames his drinking and gambling on your weight, he will never come to terms with either, and it will get nastier. Protect/shield your assets NOW before he gambles them away. Lawyer up.
I don’t get prayer. People pray and ask others to pray for an outcome. Is the idea that God is not paying attention till enough people tug at His robes? Or that He needs to see how many people support a particular position before getting on board?
@JesusBicycle
I had them! Red-tipped. The boxes were very realistic, but only held maybe 4 cigarettes. Bubblegum and chocolate cigars, too — some with real cigar bands.
My response to any Q about Tulsi is ASK A HAWAIIAN. I just did. She was a Hawaiian homophobe and loudly anti-choice until she re-tooled to crash our party. Why? ASK A RUSSIAN.
You know that nice feeling whe you get a notice that you have a new follower? But then their profile shows they have 4 followers, never sent a tweet or RT and their profile doesn’t give a clue as to political views? Do you block?
So Melanie won’t greet Dr. Jill Biden. No problem. Dr. Biden spent 8 years visiting the Obamas there, and knows her way around the WH better than the mean-lady nudie model, who was only around for 4 years.
Our mom was born 1922 on Valentine’s Day. She died in 2012. She was a successful antiquarian book dealer. Here we are together in 1950. (I am not a natural blonde 😂)
Besides Musk, a founder of PayPal was Peter Thiel, who explained in a 2009 essay that he had come to "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” due in large part to welfare beneficiaries and women in general…
@DashDobrofsky
I was an adjunct law professor at UCLA many years ago. What your prof said makes me sick. Applause for everything you said back to that professor.
@AndrewSolender
Repulsive. She has every right to call herself Dr. Biden. Does Epstein also think the University of Delaware was “fraudulent” and “comic” for awarding her a PhD in education?
@VKasley
I hate that women are still uncomfortable about doing whatever the heck we want with our hair, clothes, whatever, based on AGE. I am 75 and do my hair whatever color….. You go get your purple color, honey! Send us selfies!
@RRalstonAgile
GOP hopes for a GOP Governor. A Governor can pardon state crimes. It is likely that Donald, Jr. and Ivanka will be charged with NY state crimes. Cuomo wouldn’t pardon them. A hand-picked GOP governor will.
Fox and CNN spun this as if the judge rescinded his prior ok for Trump to speak. Actually, judge had set conditions “no campaigning, no irrelevancies,” and Trump attys refused.
We boomers still have marching boots. Protesting is in our roots. Let us organize by tweets. And take resistance to our streets. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, RIGHT ON! 🌊 🌊
@Steph56Renee
I’m a white person and I care to comment. You are confusing a real person, in an actual human body of a certain appearance, with a cartoon. Ariel is a made-up character: There aren’t actually mermaids. This should help you understand better, dear.
@MysterySolvent
This looks like a medical teaching video showing a kind of mental illness. Trump is told the child’s parents are deceased. He repeats that, so yes, he heard it. Then resumes cheerfully telling about the child having been carried by the tornado.
Age 75.Semi-retired lawyer (my joy). I think about DOING STUFF like my current“hobbies,” but MORE. Painting,for example. (Pictures, murals, public spaces). Whenever a same-age ❤️ friend dies, I grieve and think: We have only NOW. Anyone else feel that way?
@Pendejss25
@Stephie1945
If you read the article you’ll see she did more than support her candidate. She published a screed and violated clear competition rules. She’s dining out on her fake story though. Trump will probably give her an ambassadorship.🤣
Pre-pandemic I loved clothes, accessories. Now I sleep in whatever elastic-waist pants and loose shirt I put on in the morning and wore all day. I haven’t worn earrings in 2 years. For zoom biz calls, I throw a necklace over a plain sweatshirt. 🤷♀️ You?
@elreeths
Very sorry for your loss. 💔💔💔I have little doubt the judge will give opposing counsel the chastising he or she deserves. It’s inhumane, ridiculously uncivil to you, and a waste of the court’s time.
Is this a new thing, where attractive women post pictures of their faces and tweet that they’re not pretty, or that they feel pretty, etc. and ask for Twitter opinions on their looks? Many of these today. (Some with obvious filters) 😂😂😂
I just reminded my husband of something he’d said 12 years ago, when we were first dating, that annoyed me. He said “ Seriously? Jeez. How long can you hold a grudge?” Question: How long can YOU hold a grudge, my friends?
@kilday_morgan
I have never forgiven Susan Sarandon condemning Hillary as “very dangerous.” I try to separate the artist from the art but I cannot watch Sarandon any more.
@travisakers
My personal twitter experience is: “get enraged by Trump and the lack of human decency for quite awhile. Look at a cute baby animal photo to calm down. Repeat a lot, daily.”
@TheRealThelmaJ1
Don’t tell these losers that they’re investing in meme stocks 😂 Many of them are still scratching their heads over their losses in the NFT market 😂
My mom, Florence, died 10 years ago — 8/22/12 — at 89. Here she is in front of her antiquarian book shop. She was unique and I miss her a lot today. You know how it is. 🥲
@motherFer2
Lawyer here. He can’t change the Constitution. It is almost impossible to change the Constitution. But he is a rising dictator doing his best to interfere with the election and suppress the media. He wants Ivanka to be POTUS 2024....
@PullPieces
Serious question? Serious answer: These professions are considered “women’s work.”As these professionals thus aren’t highly compensated, they are looked down on. The terrible sexist, classist cycle continues.
My husband asked me how I knew there actually were real people on Twitter — like what if I am in a contemporary Twilight Zone episode, feeling all this community and pouring my heart and soul out hour after hour to one isolated computer somewhere.
@MichaelCoudrey
@BetoORourke
You are deliberately misrepresenting the Beto context. Beto isn’t the guy posing in the hospital with smiling medical staff and a shooting victim, making a campaign commercial. That was Trump.
@WithBiden1
Yes, and I remember all the parents and teachers with us in the school gymnasium for the Salk vaccine (a shot — Sabine oral was later years). A lot of parents were overcome, misty-eyed, with relief that this day had come to keep us kids safe. From this:
@SenTedCruz
No, we hated ClarenceThomas during his Senate hearings because we believed Anita Hill. We hate him because he’s been accepting breathtaking graft/gifts from those seeking to influence him. Many hate him, too, for his anti-Black right-wing SCOTUS decisions.
When men (never women) follow me, and use a real-sounding name and put “orthopedic surgeon” in their profiles, and mention their city, I am suspicious and google them. I have never found evidence they exist. Bots?
@celiacole18
Thank you. You’re right. There have apparently been many transformer fires all day and not enough personnel/equipment. It’s not like the first responders are deliberately unable to help. A little compassion from them would have been nice ...
@BruceCargin
Agree. Lauren Boebert, MTG, Amy Coney Barrett, Gov. Kay Ivey, and so many more should give people a clue that there are plenty of despicable women in power too.
@RossKneeDeep
Yes. While it seems FINANCIALLY unnecessary to provide meals for the better-off kids, there’s a stigma to being a “charity” case. The extra price to avoid having the poorer children feel stigmatized is worth it to me, as a taxpayer.
Big birthday today! My husband had this Mark My Word ®️ sweater made for me (I’m a trademark lawyer, so 😘). Twitter has a cascade of balloons on my profile page. So thoughtful 😂)
@DaniellaCarlisi
I would not regard the question as a good faith inquiry. I would view it as a micro-aggression. I would not engage. I would treat the person as if they were asking me for spare change on the street. (I don’t engage there, either)
@Anthro_Gurl
Please go. It is not uncommon to feel embarrassed because of how society unfairly judges but please go and get what you need. Those who donated time and resources WANT to help you and others. THEY will be glad to help.
@azeriadalmatia
One of the great things about America is the concept that just about anyone can run — and an informed electorate will evaluate and vote accordingly. But we’re running out of INFORMED voters.
Someone just complained that her followers hadn’t tweeted support in response to her tweet of going into rehab. She accused her followers of only being there for the follow-backs. I blocked. (Maybe she should work on that blaming and manipulation?)
Why are people stocking up on bottled water re coronavirus? If the tap water is drinkable now, why would that change? It’s not like preparing for an earthquake, where the waterlines could go, reservoirs destroyed.... I am not arguing. I just don’t get it.
@ThatEricAlper
A bride. I thought wearing the poofy dress and veil was a big thing. My mom said but being a bride is only for about 5 or 6 hours. Did I mean a WIFE? I said NO. A BRIDE. I figured as a grownup, I could just be a bride all the time.
Trump likely fired Kellyanne because she “can’t control” her anti-trump family. But now George and their daughter are BOTH announcing twitter breaks. George is off the Lincoln Project. Thoughts?
@MuellerSheWrote
TFG must be going bonkers that many of his for-life Federal Judge appointees are actually and following Constitutional law are properly refusing to dismiss solid prosecutions against proud boy lawbreakers.
@AnneofBrooklyn
@vicky_dollysmom
🥲 but similar — my mom died 2012 at 89 and left instructions “in lieu of flowers, please donate to Planned Parenthood for a woman’s right to choose.”
@NYConmymind1
Our culture’s discomfort with long hair on older women is from an ageist desire to erase any symbol of sexuality in elders. Not that short hair can’t be sexy, but long hair is associated with a vibrancy inconsistent with androgyny we prefer in seniors.
@stkirsch
They probably didn’t think you had even $5 by the looks of you. Plus it doesn’t look like you were in 1st Class so why would anyone think you could afford $20K?
@PaulRudnickNY
I lived in NYC in the 80’s. Trump was a laughingstock. I was at a few big-ticket charity dinner/auction fundraisers that he literally CRASHED. Made no donations. Tried to rub shoulders with “important” people, who laughed behind his back.
@innercitypress
I have practiced law for over 40 years and have NEVER heard a lawyer tell a judge “I don’t like to be spoken to that way.” Does she even notice that she’s in a courtroom?
@CathyGinter
@SethAbramson
MANY governors ROCK. A shout-out to our governor here in California,
@GavinNewsom
, who says we will negotiate for PPE and ventilators as an independent nation state rather than let Trump (who hates California and it is mostly mutual) kill us off on purpose.