Joe Nation
Joe Nation's JournalThe week from hell
What a week it has been. My spouse and I are retired. We have had my spouse's mother in our lives and our kids lives for 30 years. We lived near her, she has lived with us during COVID, and after we retired begged her to move out west with us. She was stubborn and independent and stayed. We got her into assisted living and called and visited every 3 months. My spouse took care of all of her appointments and helped her with everything she needed for the entire 30 years we had her in out lives. She lived alone and we figured we were all she had. There are however, two other siblings. To call them useless and entitled is an understatement.
Over the past few months, our mother's health has rapidly deteriorated and was in need of a much higher level of care than the assisted living could provide. We spent 10K moving her out near us and covered the cost of the higher-level care from our retirement income. Both siblings initially said that they refused to contribute a dime towards the care needed. One sibling eventually contributed a small portion of money to help us cover the monthly cost. The other one said absolutely not. She is the one that came for a visit this past week. She is a card-carrying narcissist and as delusional as they come. She has raised hell the entire week until we simply stopped allowing her to communicate with us.
My spouse has power of attorney for health care. The other sibling has power of attorney for finances. The one visiting has no power of anything, is hated by her mother, and deludes herself into believing that only she knows what their mother would want. The mother has spent the 30 years telling us that she didn't want any kind of extraordinary medical procedures of any kind and signed a DNR 12 years ago. We know everything about her final wishes and to the burial details. The case worker was amazed that we had every single document signed and ready to go at the first care conference. The hated daughter had no idea any of these documents even existed. Why would she? She hasn't seen her mother in years because we always had to pay her way.
I know this long and probably a pretty typical storyline but the hell we just went through with this holy terror is unimaginable. There is no inheritance, no property, nothing of value. The insanity is strictly due to one sick individual and her delusions.
Media criticizing both campaigns for lack of policy discussion
How ironic! Imagine just how much time CNN or Huff Post would spend covering either campaign if they actually talked about policies. But they will inevitably complain when they don’t. How typical.
The reality of who we're dealing with in this election
My wife sat next to a wonderful person on a plane ride recently and they talked the entire flight. The other passenger told my wife that he/she had a job mitigating risks for some school district. It turns out that the bus drivers for the school district were divided into two distinct factions and the district was having a problem with the Right-wing faction basically proselytizing their political beliefs to the kids on the bus rides. I imagine some parents took issue with this and it had to be addressed further exposing which drivers were Right-wing and which were Left-wing. It got to the point where the Right-wingers would sabotage the buses of the divers they knew to be liberal. Things like knocking all the mirrors out of alignment, smearing the windshields with feces and hiding dog poop in compartments on the bus.
I don't know the school district or the state but it really puts into perspective the kind of people that support this orange POS they worship. Playing with kids lives isn't a game. This is sick as hell stuff.
Should I be angry by the lack of support my wife's family is willing to contribute?
I certainly know that anger only hurts those that harbor it. I feel that being angry doesn't help any situation. However, my spouse has two siblings, both professionals, that are completely unwilling to contribute to the longterm care their elderly mother desperately needs. As retirees, we are on a fixed income and paying the entire cost of the care while we watch the siblings buy new cars, take expensive family vacations, and claim to not be able to contribute a dime to their parents healthcare. This will impact the money we have set aside for our longterm care and thus affect our kids futures. Resentful? I'm thinking I'm resentful.
My brother drove a bus for the RNC in Milwaukee
His company was hired to work the event shuttling delegates from their hotels to the convention center. He generally works shuttling professional teams, high school teams, elderly people on tours, and just about any group that needs large scale transportation. One aspect of his job is receiving tips from the group organizers after each job is completed. Guess how much he made in tips after working the entire week at the RNC?
$0.
Trump Administration Felons
Here is the short list from the Huffington Post article at:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-espn-host-tears-into-trump-for-trying-to-sell-me-an-america-that-doesnt-exist_n_665b6628e4b0ba2cffe6e78f
Top Sports Talk Host Tears Into Trump For 'Trying To Sell Me An America That Doesn't Exist'
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The list of Trump’s former team members who’ve been convicted of a crime is expansive. Among them: Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and former campaign vice chairman, Rick Gates; his former fixer, Michael Cohen; his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon; his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn; his former trade advisor, Peter Navarro; and his former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.
Does it seem that the national nightmare that is Trump has been going on forever?
I don't know. Nixon was pardoned and an end to our "long national nightmare" seemed over almost as soon as it began. Trump just keeps popping up like an incurable venereal disease. I look forward to the day when I never have to hear his name again. Any speculation when that might be?
So tired of CNN and other media trying to suggest Biden is on the brink of defeat
Every single time Biden has some sort of success or positive poll, CNN and other media outlets start espousing doom and gloom for his chances at a second term.
Their only interest is getting us to pay attention to them, not the reality of the situation. I'm glad when people are fired up about any election but I feel nothing but manipulated by these self-serving media ghouls.
It's sad that the freepress in this country has to resort to this type of cynical manipulation. I feel that we are all dumber as a result. I'm done watching these hacks.
I am not sure who will win in November but I do know CNN doesn't have a clue while still pretending to be the arbiter of the truth.
Just vote in November and all will be fine.
Hey MAGAs, don't be shocked when
...your unelectable candidate loses again triggering you to cry "Stolen, rigged election".
He wasn't electable in the first place. YOUR inability to see what the rest of see so clearly doesn't justify your fever dreams of injustice for the loser you keep supporting. Try losing with dignity for a change.
Trump will go down in history as a tragic figure
As he so richly deserves. No matter the twists and turns that have yet to play out, he is destined to be remembered as the loser he always was and always will be. Thoughts and prayers. Not really.
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