Well she’s cold enough to keep wearing her down jacket and have her non-typing hand tucked in. She’s straight upright, scooting her chair to reach along the row. No lolling back with thigh-highs on the desk for her.

Probably already are

As a person who abandoned prayer along with belief a long time ago it’s hypocritical of me to say this, but “from your mouth to God’s ears!”

(quotes because it’s an old expression but perhaps not universally known, expressing a desire that God will not only hear but do something to make it happen. )

Don’t worry, it will probably get people to take a second glance in case there’s something to leer at, but it’s not going to harm anyone.

There’s established precedent of few or no consequences for such chatter, and the original perpetrator has already been punished. If it bothers you, refuse to date anyone who participates in Trump-blowing-Bubba laughter and memes.

Yeah that’s what I thought… In the 1970s.

I’m sorry to say it’s not going as well as I’d hoped.

I’d say it’s pretty hard for a woman to both have enough experience to be taken seriously as a candidate and simultaneously have no past baggage or party agenda.

And I don’t think most male candidates are held to that standard, either.

The misogyny is palpable. In the country as a whole.

Trump is directly responsible for Kavanaugh, Barret, and Gorsuch. That alone has been destructive already and will reap us tragic consequences for decades to come. Would Hillary have signed the ERA and gotten the right to bodily autonomy written into the law so it couldn’t be “reinterpreted” away? Maybe. But she wouldn’t have set attack dogs after it, and after trans people and immigrants.

Well of course it’s not, there’s no excuse. Gaetz is a predator who exploited and raped her, full stop.

Like I said I’m not excusing either Gaetz or the US. I also wonder whether she would have been more comfortable leaving her teeth crooked if she weren’t in the US, unless it caused health or eating issues.

But it’s here on Lemmy, and in years past on the other place, where I have heard people’s frustration about teeth being separated as “luxury bones” under even the best healthcare systems. It goes back through history, separate schools, but the more we learn the more obvious it seems that dental care is healthcare.

From what I’ve read and heard, many poor people just don’t get any dental care, whatever country they’re in.

I wish for her sake she’d been able to find an orthodontia school where she could have gotten her braces from a student under the supervision of a professor.

Yes US healthcare sucks. And this particular story sucks. And Matt Gaetz sucks. But I just want to mention that many other countries with superior healthcare systems also suck when it comes to dental care. Despite the fact that a bad dental situation can have devastating health consequences for the whole body.

You forget he owns the majority of the SCOTUS.

The nation let’s

is what my phone “corrected”

The nation lets

to.

Probably theirs did also.

Not all religions or sects think anyone who worships differently (or not at all) is doomed to damnation. Neither mine nor my spouse’s for instance. I’m pretty sure Republicans are going to hell, though. Handbasket of deplorables.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-congresswoman-trolls-speaker-covering-up-epstein-files-40618880/

Yes, thank you!

You’re correct.

Moving as in home prices?

Joke’s on him, NYC folks are already so used to outrageous home prices they wouldn’t notice.

Because that question has 4 numbers in it, which is too confusing for the average viewer. But yes, the $40 billion dollars Trump g®ifted to Argentina would have kept SNAP completely funded for 5 months.

We really need the Undertaker to throw Trumpkind off Hell In A Cell.