This video explains what everyone on the real left already knew instead of forgetting the trans / woke culture wars and moving right, the center left keeps demanding which is simply code speak for leaning right. While all the same democratic strategists since the Bill Clinton days demand candidates move to the right to “triangulate” to capture republican voters these polls show what we already knew. The culture wars are losing for the republicans. After republicans spent nearly 3 million dollars in ads against trans people the polls showed almost no one felt those adverts influenced their vote. Even as red states rail against higher education, acceptance, and tolerance of people who are different it is losing them votes. Some thing the Christian nationalists who are in the height of their influence now in political circles don’t understand is that people who grew up with LGBTQ+ classmates, friends, and even dated some do not find them the evil that these hate religions preach they are.
*** Personal note. I explained to Ali in an email that I am not functioning. For what ever reason wheither it be anemia or something worse I am desperately tired from the time I manage to get up. I often get up only to a few hours later go back to bed for four or more hours. I have started taking vitamin B-12 and a woman’s one-a-day vitamin. That with more red meat which was recommended to me in the past every time I go into anemia. How ever I get up, I have coffee and stuff with Ron then I need to go back to bed for normally 4 hours, get up and do dishes while watching The Majority Report. How ever some days like yesterday I did not even get that far, going to back to bed by 2 pm only to have Ron wake me and beg me to eat.
I have done better today only going back to bed for 3 hours later in the morning. I wanted to go to bed two hours ago, but Ron was all upset he couldn’t sleep due to the neighbors having new skirting put around their home outside our bedroom. So I got him in his recliner and moved his CPAP out to his chair. Still he was not tracking. Good news as I was falling asleep at my desk he woke up and is fixing supper. At this point I am so tired I don’t really care whether I eat or not.
I tried to reply to comments, but I couldn’t. I even started to move old saved open tabs out by making a new cartoon / memes post but I simply couldn’t do it. Right now the best I can do to function is make doctors appointments and watch videos that don’t take too much thought to understand. That means most political videos are outside my ability. I am sorry but right now I am functioning at the level of a confused grandpa. Sorry. I hope to get better soon. Ron says if I don’t clear up by next week we will demand the primary care see me and deal with it. I’m not sure if I want that as my last visit he was insisting I think about getting a colonoscopy. Anyway. This is a good video and one I watched several hours ago when I was much sharper than I feel now. *** Hugs
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So sorry to hear this report, Scottie. Don’t worry about what you can’t do here. All the best, Annie
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Hi Annie. Thank you. But for years before this blog I put all my energy into my first one, Scottiestoybox, which was shut down for reasons I still don’t understand. Now even more limited in mobility and ability to function my pride and what I considered to be my “job” is Scotties Play Time.
Annie I have always tried to give a voice and fight for those that have none or whose voice was limited. It is very important to me as when I was an abused kid I wished someone had given me a voice.
That is why I struggle to keep doing the blog which clearly I am unable to do right now. Ali is grand at keeping everything going. I did not eat yesterday. Before I went to my allergist appointment today at 8:30 am to be given allergy shots I had a ham and balloney sandwhich. It is nearly 5 pm and I still have no hunger.
Ron was out with his sister and had to nap but he says when he gets up he will make supper or get me anything I want. Instaed when he gets up I think I will just go to bed. I am more tired than anything. When he gets up I will just go to bed. Thank you for being concerned but this like every other adversity in my life will pass. I will get better and recover enough to bother everyone soon. Thank you. Hugs
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What Annie says, Scottie. Please, you guys, think about getting some home health care in, even if simply for housekeeping.
You don’t have to have a colonoscopy to get yourself checked out. If your boundaries end at that line, just hold that line and get the care that you need now. Besides, you can get that Shield blood test, which ought to satisfy them. But you should get this checked out now, because it isn’t right. I really worry about things when people don’t eat; they end up like Karen Carpenter. I don’t mean that unkindly toward anyone, but you know that not enough fuel damages the heart, causing failure. Please get checked!
Meanwhile, take good care! We miss you here.
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Hi Ali. Thank you. Ron is home now and his heart issues have been cleared, so he can do most of the house work. He tries to do the dishes or most of them at night while I am in bed so I have nothing or very few ot do the next day. He thinks I don’t notice. But also we are not creating dishes as I am not eating and he has stuff he can make and eat off paper plates and then he washes everything up. He is really worried. I wish I was, but in truth I am too tired to care. I just want to sleep. I know that sounds bad but if I just get some more rest, some more sleep I might be able to heal.
If it comes down to the colonoscopy, I will have it. You mention boundaries. It is difficult to describe. I am adult enough to know that being nude and having strangers insert something inside my butt is not the same as what I endured for 23 years of being raped. But emotionally, just the thought of it all is very upsetting and will require a lot of willpower on my part. I did it once before but I was stronger and more centered then. Plus as you say I may not need that. But Ron is so upset over everything he is pushing me to do it.
You mention the Shield blood test. When I asked my primary care doctor if there as a blood test he said no, the choice was to give a stool sample which often gave false positives, which would mean I do the colonoscopy anyway. Franky Ali, I feel trapped. I am exhausted. Maybe I should just try to do it? My doctor understands my past and said if I refused he wouldn’t mention it again … but he said if I do have cancer of the colon he couldn’t help me. That part freaked Ron out.
I remember Karen Carpenter and I loved her music. At that age I never understood not wanting to eat. I pormis you this is not a vanity thing, not trying to look thinner. Ali I try to put food in my mouth and I choke when I try to swallow if I get that far. I simply am not hungry. I have no desire for food. Just sleep, or if not sleep just to lay down. I am not sure what is going on with me. Is it anemia, which I had before, but this seems very different? Last first I had anemia so bad I was hospitalized I had no loss of appetite at all. I just was not getting enough of what my body needed to make proper red blood cells plus my bone damage was so bad my marrow was not producing what I needed.
This time seems very different. In the past we could tell due to blood tests or my feelings and increase medication or my iron rich foods (I still refuse to eat liver, no way). This time we tried to increase my eating only to me not to be able to eat. Ron is going to look into iron rich foods but if I will not eat them it is self-defeating. Anyway this may all resolve itself soon. I was waiting until Ron got up but I think I need to go to bed anyway. Thanks. Hugs
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No, Scottie, I wasn’t saying you were not eating to be slim. I said end up like Karen Carpenter, whose not eating gave her heart failure and she died. I’m sorry I thought I was clear, but I try to be brief and maybe didn’t finish the point. Anyway, I wrote to you on the one you posted today, which makes your health seem even worse. I don’t want to be redundant, though. I do that enough already! 😀 (blahblahblah)
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