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Okanogen

@Okanogen@mastodon.social

You don't want to follow me
No, not THAT Dr. Mastodonocologist
Me, #geologist, #sysadmin, #sailor, #CubanAmerican, old, drunk, also stabby.
https://mastodon.social/@Okanogen
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StillIRise1963, to random
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R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

Hmmmm.๐Ÿค”

Gift Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.ePrS.vkY8gTh-Vdvs&smid=url-share

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
This timeline is fucking bonkers.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
Vote for RFK, and 20% less brain.

StillIRise1963, to random
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People who wonโ€™t vote are not just committing suicide, theyโ€™re committing murder.

Okanogen,
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@nathaliaassaad @StillIRise1963
Tell those people they are ignorant and this is our future if they don't vote for Biden.
Why don't you educate yourself on what Trump plans? Because he plans to deport 11 million citizens.
https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-repatriation-drives-mexico-deportation

Okanogen, to random
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When Trump announces the concentration camps and forced deportations of Brown people, even citizens, this is the precedent his lawyers will use to convince the SCOTUS that it's all completely legal.
But sure "send a message" about Gaza. Not like YOUR ass is in any danger.
https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-repatriation-drives-mexico-deportation

Okanogen, to random
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I've been drunk, but I've never been so drunk I imagined a whole story where I met Kim Jung Un.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Feel free to watch movies of the ACTUAL DYSTOPIAN PAST about WWII to see your future.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
One night, long ago, I accidentally stumbled on a channel playing footage of liberating the concentration camps. No music. No narration. Just silence and black and white footage of locals and camp guards being forced to unload truckloads of bodies, which were more like skin sacks of bones, into mass graves. Hours of it. Relentless.
Changed me.
It's the future Trumpers want, and those bodies are people like you and me and my son.

StillIRise1963, to random
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STOP giving pretty people a pass. Pretty fascists are just as fucked up as ugly fascists.

Okanogen,
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@MaryAustinBooks @StillIRise1963
No lie.
Stormy Daniels is a more ethical person than Hope Hicks.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I donโ€™t care if fascist Hope Hicks cries.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
Are these White Girl Tears?
Certainly, but I also think it's her realizing and angry that her life has always been fucked because she trusted that disgusting pile of orange refuse.
Raise your hand if you understand what it's like to be duped by someone you trusted like a parent.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
Absolutely and totally. She's Michael Cohen, except "pretty". Another scumbag.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
Did she have dead eyes like a doll's eyes?

jackhutton, to random
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Let's remember, Hope Hicks is a bad person. Period.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963 @jackhutton
I like to think that she broke down on the stand crying because she realized her daddy figure was a criminal, lying douchefuck who used her and played her like a fool and wrecked her entire life.
Basically Michael Cohen, but pretty.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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In 1968, massive campus protests against the Vietnam war spread to the Democratic national convention in Chicago that year, which became a violent confrontation between protesters and police. The result was the election of Republican Richard Nixon, who enormously escalated the war, including the invasion and mass bombing of Cambodia.

Okanogen,
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@meltedcheese @lauren
Humphrey was kneecapped by "The Left" (the convention violence was the final nail)
Just like the party was kneecapped by the Left in 1972
Just like Carter was kneecapped by the Left in 1980
Just like Gore was kneecapped by the Left in 2000 (and a 100,000 dead Iraqi and Afghan children stare up from there graves to thank them)
Just like Hillary was kneecapped by the Left in 2016
And just like Biden is getting kneecapped by the Left right now.

Okanogen,
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@futurebird @lauren
The only solution for Democrats is for Palestinian and Israeli supporting partisans within the party to come out of their fighting stance, get together and agree on a reconciled proposal to end the conflict and a unified US position. If it can't be done here, how can it be done there?
The future of our country and even the world, is at stake, because if Trump is elected again, we can just kiss all this goodbye.

Okanogen, to random
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"I didn't think it would apply to US!", whimpered 28 year old Cole Jacobsen of Idaho Falls, ID after his wife (the mother of his three other children) died from an ectopic pregnancy the doctor (being the closest at the time ) believed would be fine and she just needed to tough it out.

RickiTarr, to random
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What in the Conservative Hell?

Okanogen,
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@RickiTarr
Scratch cat stew

GottaLaff, to legal
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๐Ÿงตstarts HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: I likely canโ€™t reply while live-posting. Adding NFL (Not For Laffy) helps! Thx.

1/โ€ฆ

Via Andrew Weissmann:

Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.

Okanogen,
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@GottaLaff
Would an ankle bracelet and home detention disrupt the trial?
I want that SOB drug tested as part of his bail, he can barely control himself.
He fears that more than any other action, because he will fail for Adderall and being a drug addict is the only thing his supporters may not overlook.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Iโ€™m really tired and I canโ€™t figure out if itโ€™s physical or mental.

Okanogen,
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@StillIRise1963
And that's why I drink.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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โ€˜Left With No Choiceโ€™: Columbia Releases Statement Claiming Protesters Were โ€˜Led by Individuals Who Are Not Affiliated With the Universityโ€™ https://www.mediaite.com/news/left-with-no-choice-columbia-releases-statement-claiming-protesters-were-led-by-individuals-who-are-not-affiliated-with-the-university/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Okanogen,
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@realTuckFrumper
A close family friend is a professor at Columbia. It sounds like the situation is a lot more complicated and there are outside agitators (on both sides) enflaming the situation. She had previously taught in Paris in the pre-Covid time and noted it was becoming almost identical to the trajectory of the Yellow Vest protests, with much of the same violent rhetoric being introduced, at least off campus.

Okanogen, to random
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I never liked Phil Collins voice.

RickiTarr, to random
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The Two Types of Vacationers:

Me: Hey Honey, what do you want to do on vacation? I want to walk somewhere lovely and try something new every day.

Hubs: Sleep as long as I want.

Okanogen,
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@RickiTarr
Lol. I'm the "Do stuff!", my wife is the "Sleeeeeepppp!"

Alice, to random
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Welcome to 2006 Myspace, Bluesky!

Okanogen,
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@Alice
This would be funnier if Mastodon worked better with gifs....

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

Okanogen,
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@RickiTarr @CatDragon
I hear that, but people do change their mind sometimes.
My brother's 1st wife said she didn't want any more kids and demanded he have a vasectomy. 2 months later she sued for divorce, got married a year later and had.two more kids. My brother's 2nd wife wanted children and they spent well over $100K on a vasectomy reversal and in vitro fertilization procedures.

heidilifeldman, (edited ) to random
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Am lamenting anew the refusal by Biden to support Supreme Court reform when Democrats controlled the House and Senate and could have expanded the Court, neutralizing the power of demonstrably corrupt Justice Thomas and the justices appointed after Mitch McConnell illegitimately refused to advance Obamaโ€™s nominee to the seat that went eventually to Gorsuch. Elected Democrats must take foundational measures if we are to preserve any sort of meaningful democracy in America. 1/

Okanogen,
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@heidilifeldman
Biden couldn't force this.
He could barely get his signature legislation passed.

TonyStark, to random
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The right kept their eye on the Supreme Court prize for 50 years. They waited that long to get a majority that would do whatever they wanted. Unfortunately, it paid off.

At least some of the left doesnโ€™t seem to be nearly as focused on the Supreme Court as the right was. These are lifetime appointments and there is no quick fix. We have to wait it out and keep our eye on the prize, like the right did.

Alito reignites fetal rights debate in Idaho abortion case |
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4622500-alito-fetal-rights-idaho-abortion-case/

Okanogen,
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@fjwheeler @MisterMoo @TonyStark
Not to mention the Iraq War and the climate change thing, and I swear I'm not rubbing salt in.
Our choices matter. They really do, and voting for Harambe won't fix this world.

Okanogen,
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@fjwheeler @TonyStark @MisterMoo
I get it. Totally do. How do we convince today's youth their choices are important, they may be imperfect, but they matter?

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