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slightlv

(7,911 posts)
10. Seconded here, orangecrush!
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:34 PM
Apr 29

We're barely keeping our heads above water here... food is quickly becoming a luxury. Even the cats have had a cutback on their menus... tho I keep a close on the labels of what I'm serving them.

We got hit with like three crises this month... each one of them would have been a major hit to the pocketbook. These came 1-2-3 with days of each other. Medical bill not wanting to give anymore time; a broken water heater; a busted sewer pipe. And then hubby's truck needs new bearings and I won't let him take it out of the driveway until we can afford to get it done... this just *after* I put insurance back on the truck, since it'd sat there with a broken rim and shredded tire. I'm also pretty certain judge is gonna take his DL away since he had the dumb notion to ride around with an open bottle of Black Jack Cola... even tho he'd not even take a sip from it. It was just such a senior thing for him to do... but I hope the taking away the DL is the worst that will happen.

I can't remember the last time I had 8 hours of decent sleep. I wake up every 2 hours or so, and it's all worry and nerves and trying to figure out which Peter to pay Paul from. It's demeaning, depressing, and not at all what I thought my senior years were going to be like. And I blame trump more than anything, except for this corporate and billionaire buddies!

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I'm white, 68 and living on SS orangecrush Apr 29 #1
Seconded here, orangecrush! slightlv Apr 29 #10
Similar situation here orangecrush Apr 29 #13
Me too. Us seniors are lucky that we had it good for many years. kerry-is-my-prez May 1 #23
Sums it up nicely. orangecrush May 1 #26
Sums it up nicely. orangecrush May 1 #27
I'm the same as you -misanthroptimist May 1 #28
The KKKourt "ruling" pissed me off orangecrush May 1 #29
The only white people he truly accommodates are the likes of Musk and Bezos fujiyamasan Saturday #46
And so, Just Jerome Apr 29 #2
Excellent from Wendell Phillips: "Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities..." erronis Apr 29 #3
Fast forwarding to the present time ... oldsoldierfadingfast Apr 29 #6
this one exists to protect itself bigtree Apr 30 #18
Unfortunately a lotta truth there! electric_blue68 May 1 #19
A professor I had for a class in American Law and Racism SidneyR Apr 29 #4
What a wise observation. I wonder if that is widely held amongst the legal academics. erronis Apr 29 #7
Not just white supremacy, rich white supremacy. kerry-is-my-prez May 1 #22
Up next, they will try to make segregation in education, housing, and work legal again. ShazamIam Apr 29 #5
Oh, yes - of course. And then remove that pesky amendment about women's rights. erronis Apr 29 #8
I agree it is likely, they can claim the original documents don't include women and the amendments that recognize women ShazamIam Apr 29 #9
I was pleased to see your reply in the Justice Elena Kagan thread. erronis Apr 29 #11
I am loving that there are 4 women on the U.S. Supreme Court even if one of them is a conservative. ShazamIam Apr 30 #16
Circumvention of Brown v. Board already began misanthrope May 1 #40
Kick dalton99a Apr 29 #12
John Roberts' wet dream mcar Apr 29 #14
Missed the SC ruling that prohibits Civil Rights group suing in regards to VRA sec 2 said discriminations back then... electric_blue68 Apr 29 #15
Supreme Court reform and accountability needed in the next Dem Congress bigtree Apr 30 #17
More twisted than a pretzel! This is really bad sh!t ! electric_blue68 May 1 #20
The problem with that PCB66 May 1 #25
Hmm, welp, you have a point electric_blue68 May 1 #35
Make it a hundred dpibel May 1 #38
The problem is PCB66 May 1 #41
All the more reason to have a massive Supreme Court dpibel May 1 #43
My point is that PCB66 Saturday #45
You'd apparently be surprised by reality dpibel Saturday #47
Ten years ago we never thought that the SC PCB66 Sunday #48
I cannot believe the evil that these people (Republicans) are doing. kerry-is-my-prez May 1 #21
I live in an area with large Hispanic populations Melon May 1 #24
DURec leftstreet May 1 #30
It's one thing to reverse precedent. But it's another thing to strike down established legislation Buckeyeblue May 1 #31
The Constitution is more fragile than most of us realize PCB66 May 1 #39
The MAGAts aren't real crazy about women of any color either. F*ck all of them. Greybnk48 May 1 #32
That's their goal. I don't think they've won yet, in spite of the setbacks. Martin68 May 1 #33
"Colorblind" has a whole new meaning when used by this court. Buddyzbuddy May 1 #34
White male...... Hope22 May 1 #36
The nation is back to accommodating the morbidly wealthy, white, male robber barons. debsy May 1 #37
One of the worst set backs in American history. Passages May 1 #42
Ok to revolt now...? Six117 May 1 #44
That's been a long time goal by much of the right themaguffin Sunday #49
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