Okay, fair. But we need to be allies in this. I don’t know where to start either but I want us to pull put of it somehow.

Help build us up, please, and not tear us down. I apologize for discounting you. We can only move forward if we unify, and the left is goddamned bad at that.

There’s no useful discussion to be had from you. You’re just looking for a fight.

I’m tired of reddit refugees coming here and bringing that attitude.

I’m an American who has never had that bravado, has always voted against this bullshit, and even online we get spat upon when we are the ones who will somehow have to overcome the largest military on the planet.

Fucking hell, try being, I dunno, useful or supportive. If we fail here, you’ll face the consequences. That’s the sad reality.

And this is why the Left can’t win.

It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.

The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!

I should’ve put a /s at the end. The joke was too good.

The gish gallop has gone mainstream.

What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.

I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.

Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.

…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.

My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”

For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.

Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.

Shit like this fuels the deep state nonsense.

This isn’t a secret Supreme Court, it’s just something public that you didn’t know about before.

They’re just public administrators. It’s how government works.

I’m glad you’ve had good experiences in waiting rooms! Mine were mixed and now I honestly never have to deal with any of it because she does.

And I completely agree on the latter. We have that done and it’s so much … better? To have that closure, with all the other pets able to be present and see/smell them and say goodbye.

Just replying again since my wife got home.

She said what actually happens is that when the pet is in the exam room, the customer is brought to the room. I just didn’t know the whole process post-covid. You were right!

That may be a Fear Free clinic. If it isn’t, that certification may be worth them looking into.

My wife works at a certified Fear Free clinic. Customers are only allowed in the building when their animals are being put down. (A greeter goes out to retrieve animals from the cars and return them after the appointment.)

Animals are happy to be there, because it doesn’t smell like fear any longer. There’s no waiting room with other animals. Just the staff who are happy to see them.

It is a real game changer.

Thank you.

Like “choose to be happy” isn’t a magical mantra but something you need to work on in order to change the way you reflexively think.

“Be yourself” is essential advice for people trying to have a mask on 24/7.

And I’ve mostly given up replying to such threads because they’re usually an excuse to wallow and complain that they’ve tried everything.

I don’t have a magic potion that makes things better overnight, but I do have techniques that I have found valuable in improving my own mental health, but by bit, over several years.

So I think I have a good one, actually.

That’s what they said.

That’s it, really, an inclusive update on an old stupid joke.

I suspect I’m still the only one to find it funny.

First there were truck nuts…

One of my favorite singer-songwriters, Dan Bern, wrote many of the songs for that movie. Just an extra reason for me to love it.

The Heritage Foundation wants control of the government. They will wait out Trump, letting him take the blame for most of Project 2025.

And they’ve infiltrated the Democratic Party too. They’re our very own HYDRA, and every one of their operatives will have to go.