TGIF

September 15, 2017 Batch It Takes a Village, Uncategorized 15

Morning meese…

What a week…Irma royally fucked up this week. From worrying I was going to end up like Dorothy spinning around in the air and see Fuckin Bernie on his bicycle to having to deal with the aftermath…All is well though, well except that the Donald and Bernie show is still playing to hoards of assholes.

Hillary has brightened up the week by going into her IDGAF mode and it’s glorious…

Looks like Bernie is getting flack from various sources…YAY!

https://twitter.com/Margerine2000/status/908547153932410886

 

 

 

This is your Friday open thread….Fire away!

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64, Life long Democrat...Kossack ex-pat...fed up with the puritanical leftists wanting to destroy our Party.

15 Comments

  1. Batch, how good to see you! Glad you’re okay, but how’s your situation? Do you have a safe place to eat, sleep, and so forth?

    My husband recorded the Maddow interview for me because last night I was finishing writing my novella. Going to read the rest of What Happened this weekend. Like Melaka, I can only read a chapter at a time. I keep getting choked up, thinking of what’s been done to her and what we could have had.

    Meanwhile, I’ve been keeping up on Twitter. Glad September is here because now I can participate in the community a bit more. See you all a bit later!

    • Hey, Diana. Nice to see you at the Moose Pond. What’s your novella about and is it going to be published? How exciting to finish up when another strong female is promoting her book.

      • Hi, WYgal! It’s called Saving the World Through Sex: the Story of the International Tarts Society.

        The preliminary blurb is this: “The mission of the International Tarts Society is to distract world leaders from declaring war by giving them something else to think about—namely, the delights offered by sweet, juicy Tarts. Although disguised as personal assistants or administrative aides during the work week, at night the Tarts’ assistance becomes quite personal.

        Twenty-three-year-old Carmela Sandoval is tasked with distracting the most important world leader of all: the president of the DDSR, the Deeply Divided States of Reagania. Will she succeed in her mission?”

        • That sounds like a good read. My first though was tart as in pie. Then I had it set in an Alice in Wonderland type setting with everyone wearing a pie costume. It’s been a long week.

    • Good seeing you too Diana…Everything’s fine…Thought we were getting 130mph winds that would have ruined everything and ended up with less than 90mph. Damage around me was light so all is well.

      Glad you’ll be around more and I want to hear about this novella…Haven’t gotten my copy of “What Happened” yet though it will be soon. Can’t wait to read it.

      • Hi, Batch, glad to hear your update! Please see my reply to WYgal above.

        It’s in beta reading by Darling Niece, but I have to contact the publisher after I read through it myself for editing. It’ll be an ebook, so I hope you have Kindle, Nook, or iBook!

        I’m hoping for October, some time.

        • Answered my question about publishing. How cool. I don’t have iBook set up but I can get it out on my iPad. Looking forward to it.

  2. Good morning, Meese, and TGIF for sure. Hey, Batch, thanks for the post. I’m glad you survived your mega twister experience. I got up early to get through my itinerary so I am free for my hearing exam/visit today.

    It’s so good to see Hillary in “no f*cks to give mode”. Now that she is a private citizen, just promoting her book, maybe folks will listen to what she has to say. I find that I am getting quite close to that myself. Goddess help the person who tries to tell me what to do or say or feel. I don’t have a damn thing to lose anymore.

    56 this morning in sunny Sacramento and a high of 86. Time to crawl out from under the covers and get coffee.

  4. {{{Batch}}} – so glad you are safe and sound. Clean up is not good, but at least you have something to clean up. Barbuda has had to be evacuated entirely – 95% of the structures on it are damaged if not out-right destroyed and none of the infrastructure is in place at all. Strength to your arm (and help from whatever sources) in getting the job done.

    Everything Hillary is so bittersweet. It’s wonderful that she’s out and speaking, that she wrote the book. It’s wonderful to hear her sane and thoughtful voice speaking on the current insanity and giving us information on what needs to be done to get out of the current insanity. It’s great to hear her laugh again. But…

    We’ve got the 2-fold fight to block the evils coming out of the Evil administration & Congress (like the Graham-Cassidy ACA Repeal bill just escalated to a 9/22 score – 9/25 vote) AND reach enough of that 29% who did not vote to take back Congress and the White House so we can get out of this current insanity and start cleaning up a mess that’s worse than Harvey and Irma combined. Thank goddess for Hillary leading the way through her experience and knowledge even though she isn’t going to be the Leader by title.

    Gotta get back to work. moar {{{HUGS}}}

  5. Hi Batch! So glad to hear you are ok and weathered Irma! Irma and Harvey, sittin in a tree… oh wait, that’s us… or our neighbors… or our cars/roofs/lawn furniture… haha! :)

    Thanks for the TGIF. Madame Hillary is so awesome. I don’t care, I’m just loving it. <3

  6. I guess I can’t say good morning at this point; someone my anticipated slow day has morphed into something resembling work. I guess this is why they pay me the big bucks…/s

    I didn’t watch the Maddow interview last night, but I hope to catch it sometime this weekend. From reading the tweets about it, it looks like she totally brought it (not that any of us would expect anything less). Of course, I also read a fair number of tweets asking, “Why didn’t she show this same warmth during the campaign?” smh Uh, she did, but some people just had their heads so far up Bernie’s *ss that they couldn’t/wouldn’t see it.

    I’m REALLY worried about Graham-Cassidy; it’s the worst R bill yet, and I’m not getting the same sense that the Resistance is all-in on pressuring our senators. I’m hoping that’s just because it takes a day or two to get the gears engaged, or better yet, that I’m being entirely too pessimistic. I agree with JanF, Charles Gaba, and a whole host of others…when Bernie started bringing up M4A before this reconciliation period ended, he a) gave the Rs another reason to be doodieheads (h/t JanF) and b) it encouraged some activists to take their eyes off the ball that was still potentially in play. In the meantime, all the background chatter about bipartisan efforts to improve the ACA has practically ceased. Thanks, Bernie!

    • I’m still seeing signs of resistance to it (although I haven’t been on Twitter today). Rand Paul says he’s a no because it’s ACA 2.0. Reese says they will probably pass it and then we will have to make bipartisan fixes to it and, in the end, will be very much like the ACA. I hope they don’t pass it so we can get a reprieve for a while.

      • Yeah, I hope I’m being a bit of a Chicken Little, but this bill is so bad in so many ways. No individual mandate. No exchange subsidies (unless one is willing to believe that the smaller block grants will actually be used for subsidizing healthcare). No protections for pre-existing conditions. No ESB protections. Lifetime cap protections removed (although states can still enact the protections; so maybe 50% of the states will?) Medicaid expansion gone. Robs Peter (mostly blue states) to pay Paul (mostly red states).

        So when Paul says it’s still 90% Obamacare, he’s blowing smoke. And I think the only reason for blowing smoke is in the hope people will believe him and back off from calling…thus opening the door for him to vote “yes” because “my constituents didn’t object to the new bill.” He’s like McCain in one regard; he expresses reservations and then votes the party line more often than not.

        So yes, I’m screaming about this. This bill scares me more than any of the previous R “plans,” and it, not SP, needs to be our focus. And yet, my inbox is full of emails about “SP is the path forward!!!” exhortations. Indivisible seems to be the only group not [yet] jumping on that bandwagon. I hope that will change…and fast.

        • Indivisible people tend to support HRC. I doubt they will jump on SP. I put a tweet in 🍊if you haven’t seen it. We will fight this. We will win.

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