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Candace Lynn Talmadge's avatar

I confess. I am a childless cat lady. Or I would be, if I had a cat. All of my kitties have gone to feline heaven. I am childless by choice, because I was so screwed up I could barely handle my own life, let alone someone else's. I blame no one for that and have come out the other side far more healthy emotionally and spiritually. But now I am a little long in the tooth to have kids. I figure next around I will be a much better parent because I took this life out to heal me. As a nation, if we are resorting to bribing women to reproduce, we have problems that $5,000 a pop isn't going to fix.

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Summer Koester's avatar

<3 <3 <3

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Patris's avatar

They’re ‘flooding the zone’ (I believe that’s the steve Bannon strategy of throwing so much shit at people they can’t think because they’re ducking too fast).

Choosing not to have children is a choice. A word they hate without a “no” in front of it.

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Summer Koester's avatar

Haha good point about their hate for the word choice

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Patris's avatar

They like to hate. I’m so tired of their wanting to judge everyone else’s decisions

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Summer Koester's avatar

Flooding the zone is right!

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Bill Lundeen's avatar

Thank you, Summer! Humor is super helpful at stressed times. Like watching the news on SNL and laughing so hard you cry. Two for one there; such a good release.

Happy Beautiful Mother’s Day to ALL moms ❤️! I miss mine more than I can say 😢.

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Summer Koester's avatar

Thank you, Bill! I'm sorry you miss your mom. They never stop being our moms. Sending love.

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Annie Blackwell's avatar

It's something to roll out for distraction. 'Look at this, not at all these terrible things I'm doing because I want to be Tzar.' Also - out of interest - who will get the $5000? The husband or the wife who does the hard labour?! [Just as good the second time around, Summer x]

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Summer Koester's avatar

So true! Thank you, Annie :)

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Victoria K.'s avatar

It is so incredible to me that people like J. D. Vance can make such outrageous plans and statements and he isn't immediately excluded from any political position in our government. He displays such a lack of intelligence (despite going to Yale Law School), intuition and understanding about what women think.

His whole plan sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit.

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Summer Koester's avatar

Seriously. I read somewhere it's like turning over a log and watching all the maggots crawl out. And enough people are somehow okay with that...

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