Mitch McConnell was missing for three months, and MAGA barely made a peep. James Talarico gets the flu and stays home, and MAGA is losing their fucking minds.
Ooh this is a fun game. Let's not forget Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina who went missing for a week while secretly with his mistress in Argentina. Even his own staff and security team didn't know where he was.
I'm still amazed at what used to pass as a political gaffe - Dan Quale misspelling potatoes, Obama's tan suit, or Rick Scott's "oops" on the debate stage.
And also what didn't count as a gaffe- like Rick Scott running the largest scheme to defraud the American people that had ever occurred up to that time.
He misspelled Potato; a kid spelled it correctly, and Dan took the chalk and added an "e". I'm only saying this because you actually correctly spelled "potatoeS" with an "e", which wasn't what Quayle got wrong . š
Just posted this is another sub but we all owe Dan Quayle thanks, because on Jan 6 secret service were trying to convince Pence to leave the Capitol before certifying the election.
Pence spoke to Quayle on the phone and he convinced him to stay. Otherwise Trump may have stolen the 2020 election.
The tan suit wasn't a "gaffe", Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr., etc. also wore tan suits occasionally without issue. Like his choices of lettuce, mustard and so on, the suit colour was only an issue because they couldn't yet come out and say the real reason they disliked him. Dukakis looking like an idiot in a tank was a gaffe, Obama was just doing normal things that idiots latched on to for no reason.
His campaign ads are literally featuring Trust and Voting against Congressional stock trading
Ā For those OOTL, besides being completely MIA and opaque about his lengthy Congressional absence itself, him continuing to trade stocks while incomunicado was basically the second biggest complaint raised about him.Ā
And he has the gall to push those as his two merits on hisĀ television campaign ads. Its insane to see.
A lot of people don't realize that diabetic doesn't just mean low sugar or high sugar. It lowers your immune system. Also makes you more susceptible to nerve damage in your feet and sometimes hands. Carpal tunnel syndrome comes up more likely. These are things that have to be monitored.
I wish we had a more comprehensive education system for understanding the full experience of what people with different disabilities and diseases go through. Have a local adult with diabetes come in, share their experiences, help everyone become a little more understanding. Would be great for elementary school I think.
Thank you, I wish so too. I have epilepsy. Sometimes my words get mixed up while writing. It messes with my grammar. I try to fix it but I don't always catch it.
"Invisible" disabilities are hard. Be kind to yourself and share your experiences when possible. I'm very open about my AuDHD partially to raise awareness, but also because people just have no idea what it entails, and it helps them help you when they better understand.
Even doctors don't bother telling you about what they diagnose you with most of the time, you have to go looking for the information yourself and hope what you find is accurate. My current doctor is better than most, he straight up doesn't have time to do in depth explanations so he tells me where to find more info. I've been to see multiple diabetic specialists through the years and none of them explained much about it, and those appointments were literally about telling me the nitty gritty about diabetes, what I've learned has been small bits and pieces from small comments from multiple doctors, most of them not even the endocrinologists, through the years.
One of my clients at work had diabetes, developed gangrene in her foot. They had to amputate it, then she got sepsis and unfortunately they couldnāt save her. Diabetes is a motherfucker.
Talarico has type 1 diabetes. It used to be called 'juvenile diabetes.' It's not type 2, which can be prevented with diet and exercise and usually only shows up in older people. Type 1 isn't really preventable.
You are correct. Thereās a lot of reasons that someone can develop Type 2 diabetes. For me, itās because I have PMOS (formally called PCOS), which is a hormonal/endocrine condition which impacts 1 in 8 women, or more than 170 million women worldwide.
Maybe? This is where I got the numbers (because I had to yet again look up the new acronym and a better descriptionā¦ Iāve only lived with it for 40 yearsā¦ yeesh)
The exact cause of type 2 diabetes in athletes (without infection, diagnosed hormonal conditions, or any other issue) is apparently somewhat of a mystery still and an active area of research. You've led me down a very interesting rabbit hole!
My husband has that. Not sure what really can help. All we can do is keep track of symptoms and talk about them. Make people aware that they are there.
Nothing can really "help" with trigger finger except surgery to fix it. They tried a cortisone shot the first time it happened with my right middle finger. That did nothing and actually made it hurt worse. It won't heal itself on its own either.
The surgery was pretty painless. It was the healing period that annoyed me because it was a lot slower than what the doctor had told me. Maybe that's because I am diabetic and heal slower but he knows I am diabetic so should have taken that into account when he told me the healing process.
It took about a year each time to regain full motion of the finger again. But since then, I've had no issues with either of those fingers. But being diabetic, I will most likely experience trigger finger in other fingers as I get older. The surgery though is a permanent fix. They say it's extremely rare to have trigger finger again in the same finger.
Ah!! TIL. I always thought Duouytrens was an issue with tendons due to people growing ācordsā. After 6-7 surgeries I developed a fibroma along the tendon that runs throughout the foot. š¤·š»āāļø
Hi, my wife is diabetic and when she gets really sick its bad.
We all know about diabetics and sugars, but not like the in depth thing. When your really sick, with vomiting, diarrhea etc it also means that your body isn't properly regulating its nutritional intake, which gets really fucked up when your also trying to manage your insulin. So it can quickly compound with the illness symptoms and make things much much worse.
I had type A waaaaay back in my early 20s. I was down for a month. I'd wake up read a chapter of The Dark Elf trilogy, yank the dried mucus out of my eyes and throat and then pass out again for another 8 hours. Never again.
Had influenza last year. Ran a fever up to 40 degree C (104 F), was weak af. Visited my GP after I was free of fever because I felt short of breath and dizzy (was afraid there was something wrong with my lungs). She told me that real recovery will take 2-4 weeks and that my BP was still really, really low (58 / 104). She was right. And I'm middle aged and healthy.
This right here. People call bad colds the flu, but actual real-deal influenza is brutal and will knock you down for weeks potentially. You donāt even need any preexisting conditions, health nuts with tiger blood still get their ass kicked.
Real flu will have you basically unconscious in bed for a couple of weeks at least. Youāre lucky if you get through it without fever hallucinations and vomiting.
Jfc, you dimwits have all the world's knowledge on a device in your pocket, and you still can't be bothered to do basic fact-checking or research.
There are 3 types of flu that affect humans. Influenza C is mild, with symptoms lasting 3-7 days. Influenza B is more serious, with symptoms lasting up to 10 days and fatigue for a week afterwards.
Influenza A will knock you on your ass. Peak at 4 days, symptoms for 7 more days after that, then post-inflammatory fatigue and a dry cough for 1 to 2 weeks. Or longer. This is in healthy individuals.
Real flu would make you sick longer than that and 4 days of isolation only means that you're then super spreading it to everyone around you right as you are most contagious
After Covid it seems that everything got worse. Colds last for months, flu takes way too long to get rid of, long covid symptoms are now reappearing for years.
I am 100% convinced that Disney was sure Hillary was going to win 2016 and made an animatronic of her, then had to rush and convert it to look like Trump when he ended up being elected.
In those 4 days the local TV station here in my city in Texas ran a "Where are the debates" piece that suggested Talarico was just as much if not more to blame as Paxton for not having debates due to his unavailability.
It's the same total conservative nutjob spin that they put on everything, it really does suck here.
Looks like Tegna (Nexstar) which is conservative but I guess not quite as much as Sinclair. In some ways worse though because the slant is still present just a little more subtle so people might think they're watching a more neutral source when their coverage is far from neutral.
I just saw recently that Talarico is a t1 diabetic like me. I like him even more now! Nice to know he's a human being that understands what it's like to live with diabetes and to be dependent on insulin. Even more reason to vote for him.
Not only did people know where he was at, it was communicated.
Mitch comes out after months non verbal and barely gets a āš» up, grasping at straws
Yeah, the communication is the bigger point. People get sick, that's not the issue. The issue is hiding their condition when it affects important government business.
Jack Prissybitch is stupid. So damn stupid he thinks Hillary Clinton was diddling younglings in the basement of a DC pizzeria that had no fcking basement.
He knew. Conservatives lie. Everything they say is filled with deception and misdirection. Many conservatives are stupid, but all of them are devout followers of The Prince of Lies. The acts of dumb cover for the evil.
Republican Tom Kean, congressman from NJ, disappeared for 142 days without informing anyone about where he was and why. He missed four months of voting.
Thereās all the times Kimberly gargoyle was on air saying how people need to pay their own bills and now sheās caught trying to get a donor to pay her Amex bill
AI dad says these are the republicans over the last decade with 2 week plus absences, I wonder if their absences bother them as muchāsurely they wouldnāt be supporting a double standard now would they??:
ā¢ Mitch McConnell: about 6 weeks, March to April 2023
ā¢ Kay Granger: about 6 months, from her last vote in July 2024 to the end of her term in January 2025
ā¢ John McCain: about 8 months, December 2017 until August 2018,
ā¢ Walter Jones: about 5 months, September 2018 until February 2019
ā¢ Steve Scalise: about 3.5 months in 2017; over a month in early 2024 for
ā¢ Thad Cochran: about a month in fall 2017
ā¢ Johnny Isakson: several weeks in early 2017
ā¢ Dan Crenshaw: about a month in April 2021
ā¢ Greg Steube: several weeks in early 2023
ā¢ Hal Rogers: several weeks in early 2024
ā¢ Anna Paulina Luna: several weeks in fall 2023
I mean... This year Mitch was MIA for so long people assumed he was actually dead. He made a single appearance, barely functional, and has been MIA again since
I donāt think the Republicans whining about Talarico deserve to be treated in good faith, but I do think there is a difference between ādisappearedā with a vague medical explanation if any at all (a la McConnell this year) and something like recovering from being shot like Scalise in 2017.
Don't forget Jack Posobeic is the author of unhumans
a book which calls for the effective extermination of "leftists," a group which is vaguely defined to include virtually all liberal positions.
It explicitly dehumanizes "leftists," (see: the books literal title) praises dictators like Pinochet, including directly referencing his throwing political opponents out of helicopters.
Dehumanizing targeted demographics is widely regarded by experts as one of the most important precursors to accepting political violence and genocide against that demographic.
Shead has cracked the code, folks. The American Dream used to be āwork hard and invent something.ā Thatās adorable. Very 1950s. Today itās āsurgically remove your conscience and find a fresh batch of MAGA marks to fleece.ā
The startup ideas practically write themselves. Bubblegum-flavored beef tallow, because nothing says āfreedomā like a lard lollipop. Raw ferret milk, unpasteurized, unregulated, and shipped straight from the ferretās own hardened bunker. And for the true believers, giant Depends-style diapers worn proudly in solidarity with their leaderās (and their own) incontinence. Call it Adult Undergarments for a Stronger America. Comes in red. Holds in more than the border.
Is it ethical? No. Is it profitable? Wildly. Iād guess Stanford already has a major in Screwing Over the Poors. Note that tuition is ~$90k per year, which turns out to be the first lesson.
Republicans donāt care about hypocrisy or lying or disseminating completely fabricated disinformation. Itās the part of the absolute worst, bottom of the barrel cockroaches the human species has ever produced.
Why do we keep promoting these absolute human haters? Why do we love to make psychopaths and sociopaths our leaders? Because they make promises they will never keep, only to destroy and cheat the rest of us? Elon Musk has now proved heās a soulless murderer by dismantling USAID. Why do people keep championing him?
Humanity needs to grow up or we will end ourselves. In Star Trek it took WWIII to get to that future. It looks like we are headed in that direction, though ending up with a future that hopeful and mature to have global cooperation seems a bridge too far for humanity to envision.
Missing two weeks with a doctors note before the election is unacceptable, but if youāre already elected you can disappear into a hospital for months at a time with no explanation at all and still keep your seat
how are there still people that think pointing out GOP stupidity, hypocrisy, lies means anything beyond reinforcing they can do it over and over and over with no consequences
Scott walker in Wisconsin had taken literal months off back in 2018 after f#$king up the states budget and passed some messed up laws that I cant remember specifically atm
Remember, jack posobiec will NEVER be logical or fair. He is a Christian nationalist white supremacist propagandist. ALL of the "buzzwords" are applicable to him. He's a villain, straight up.Ā
I mean he's not missing. He hasn't fucking vanished entirely like the Turtle and the lady that went into memory care for most of a year. People still see him.
Posobiec is some sort of foreign agent almost certainly. At first I thought he was just a shameless troll doing anything for internet fame and fortune, but I'm pretty sure he's actually getting paid by shady people to be such a propaganda blowhard.
The greatest troll ever would be for Talarico to pull a Druski and get pushed around in a wheelchair with the most blank look on his face and wearing hiking shoes with his suit.
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u/sprinklesaurus13 4d ago
Ooh this is a fun game. Let's not forget Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina who went missing for a week while secretly with his mistress in Argentina. Even his own staff and security team didn't know where he was.