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"In this firehouse it's Captain Nash." 🔥🔥🔥

Quoting myself to correct myself: There's a reason that we in NYC are happy to wish we could see the back of him.

He's been this person since his days of not paying suppliers to his many construction jobs in NYC. He's been this person since his days of running casinos into the ground. (Casinos!!! Where the house always wins!) He's been this person since his (& his family company's) days of working under a consent decree from 1973 for not renting to Black people. There's a reason that we in NYC are happy to see the back of him.

From the Guardian article linked above: One guess as to ethnicity & gender. (Not eligible to answer if you've already read the piece/)

Seriously. I wonder who's more despised: Gaetz or Cruz.

@Anela - please accept long distance hugs from someone you don't know. I too have suffered from paralysing anxiety (social, general, whatever) since my husband died in 2013. It took years to right itself & I was able to get out (was even able to get over to Ireland to see some friends/family in both '15 & '18). It improved more and more and then BAM!!! - 45 & C19 in '19 & '20 brought it back. And again, improvement (more trips to Ireland to see family/friends in '22 & '23 & '24) until the election earlier this month (and a bit from some still-undiagnosed health issues earlier this year) has it rearing its ugly head. I've had to force myself to get out*. I've a couple friends who're going thru similar stuff. We all force ourselves to get out. And we forgive ourselves when we just can't. Those undiagnosed health issues sent me to a gym & working w/ a personal trainer. She helps keep me accountable to myself, so that's a help. I hope you (& all of us really) are able to put any/all anxiety squarely where it belongs: your rear-view mirror. *And sometimes, when it's just too much, I'm reminded of the opening lines of the song Sister Golden Hair:

Gonna veer into grammar-talk: I'm the same way with 'buttonhole' or 'buttonholing' as a verb. And (not mentioned by @EtheltoTillie) the word 'ask' as a noun: "what's your ask here?"

=&= "You may not be a racist, sexist, misogynistic, adjudicated sexual assaulter, convicted fraudster, but you voted for one."

BETTY!!! 💛💛💛

=&= And racism. Same with the military.

Excellent point, well made. So, I assume Nancy Mace will be okay with say, Elliot Page, or Chaz Bono, or Brian Michael Smith using the same restroom that she does. Right? I mean that's the logical conclusion.

And they'll be astonished by just how expensive a plate of salad becomes.

These cabinet announcements are making me feel like we well & truly are heading towards Idiocracy being more documentary than fiction.

It's like they watched the movie Dave where the stand-in POTUS had his accountant come over to the WH and find a ton of $$$ from the US budget. Except then it was a frelling accountant and not a bunch of first responders. Didn't dying CI say the partner's name as he died? Though it could be the both of them I suppose. Last week Wyatt and this week Owen: once again, Vega has her medical details shared. Like was there even a mention of "Capt. Vega has said I can discuss this with you Mr. Mayor and the ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL"? And if not, couldn't there have been?

@Avaleigh - of course you're right.