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I can so relate to the saga of Lil Bertha right now.
We have to move.
By the first.
Briana has a pinched nerve and can barely walk, but as of day before yesterday she was driving again.
I am disabled from a stroke and of very limited utility during a move, but I do what I can.
There are no places to live in the East Bay, where I have called my home for 35 years, that we can afford, and a six month search for any kind of subsidized housing at all yielded zero results, although we technically qualify.
Two weeks ago a friend who has been staying in a small city an hour North of here said we could rent a room in the house where he is staying, but stipulated that we needed to make sure our cat's vaccinations were up to date.
So this morning found us at the Pet Vet clinic getting shots for the cat I still haven't sent you any pictures of yet. It all went smoothly, we had to wait an hour, but afterward, us and the cat carrier with the newly vaccinated cat piled into our 27 year old car to go get some moving done, and... nothing.
This car is what we got with the seven thousand dollars I got from my dad's estate when he died in 2015. My friend Rob got it for us for $500, and we put a radiator and head gasket in it and were good to go. 60,000 miles on it, and it's a Mercedes 190e.
My mechanic housemate came down and got it started it for us and we and the cat made it home, where we are now stranded and burning daylight until Rob can come up with a fuel pump and relay to make it run well enough to get in and leave town.
I've been getting emails from Indivisible that seem sane about supporting the nominee whoever they turn out to be, and trying not to grind my teeth over public complaints about various candidates who seem to have a shot at it but fail at various litmus tests and so help me gawd if we fuck this up the same goddamn way we fucked up the last one... OK. I'll stop.
Thank you again for the podcast, I didn't think I'd have any time to listen to it today, but as I already said, I did.
-Doug in Oakland
I know polling is snapshots of a moment, Samples of people questioned and so on. I realize polling can be biased and slanted. Just by who they sample and how the questions are asked.
Realizing who pays for them and what results they purchase along with their intention of how they plan to use these results.
Yes, polling has proved wrong and fairly accurate. Promoting trends even.
The polling sample tossed out without question. confounds me is;
" slight majority against any impeachment of Trump ".
Not that this is the barometer of what Justice dictates. The same electorate that blue waved the House of Representative against the mighty voter suppression and gerrymander. The same electorate is now answering polling questionnaires against holding true to constitutional obligations like Article 1 for Congress?
This is the same electorate we have to look forward to rely on voting in the 2020 election?
As in the movie comedy Airplane. In a scene with the senor Bridges under stress over the airplanes threatening disaster. Bridges says,
" I pick the wrong day to stop sniffing glue"
is it the wrong day to stop investigating and following such offenses by the president even if it leads to impeaching him ???
The only legal drug in the state is Alcohol. Which really doesn't lift you high enough off the ground to provide the euphoric feeling you can only get from looking down from high above it all.
The same electorate polled that says "NO" on impeach no matter what. Is the same electorate I will participate with in the 2020 election?
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