Almost Smart posted:

No one loving carries an infant to term and then gets an abortion for shits and giggles. They wanted that child at that point, probably more than anything else in the world, and something catastrophic happened. We see this story play out over and over and over again, but not once have I ever seen any person put forward by the GOP come and say “oh yeah, I decided that whole baby thing wasn’t for me at nine months so pbbbt.”

Ars Arcanum posted:

When my paternal grandma died about eight years back, she left me a modest inheritance. Since I had been single for nearly a decade and had kinda lost interest in romantic relationships, I decided to use it to fund having a baby, because I like kids and had always wanted to be a mom. But “fertility treatments” are super expensive, and the inheritance gave me the means to pursue parenthood.

So I went to a fertility endocrinologist, bought enough donor sperm for three rounds, and was pretty confident I would get pregnant and have a child. The experience was kinda nightmarish because they constantly wanted blood tests and supplements and poo poo, even though I was pretty healthy and while slightly out of the range of maximum fertility, there was no reason to think I wouldn’t have a successful pregnancy. They didn’t listen to me on my first round of IUI (counted my cycle as the “average” 28 days even though I told them that I’d been more of a 26-day person for years). But on my second attempt I immediately got pregnant.

Two days later, my blood tests showed something was wrong. They concluded I had an ectopic pregnancy. Within the week, I had to go to a hospital I’d never been to before to pick up an abortifacient, drive back to my fertility endocrinologist, and get injected with it to abort the potential baby.

If I’d tried carrying on with the pregnancy, the best case scenario was I’d burst my tube and lose half my fertility. Worst case? I’d still burst my tube, lose half my fertility, and then die of internal bleeding and/or infection like sepsis.

It was horrifically traumatic, and I ended up scream-sobbing on my kitchen floor more than once. Worse still, my cycle went haywire after the abortion, so I had no hope of using my last sperm shot effectively.

Eventually, the clinic threatened to charge me a sperm storage fee of nearly $1000 if I didn’t try again despite my unstable cycle. I couldn’t afford it, so I went in for my last try and it failed.

So all I got from my grandma’s inheritance was a boatload of trauma and grief and the knowledge that some people were fine with seeing me end up dead because “abortion is murdering babies by sadistic harlots and sluts.”

Knowing that there are people going through what I did and worse, and are being denied the quick but traumatizing treatment I was able to receive, is infuriating.

I will never, ever forgive the fat orange pissbaby and his slavering fans for what they’ve done.

Edit: What a dreadful snype for a LOL thread. Sorry, everyone.

kazil posted:

Trump doing that thing again where he narrates his angry tweets

Froghammer posted:

I'M NOT TRYING TO REPEAL THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT*


*please ignore the time I tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a 600 page book of blank pages

Ars Arcanum posted:

When my paternal grandma died about eight years back, she left me a modest inheritance. Since I had been single for nearly a decade and had kinda lost interest in romantic relationships, I decided to use it to fund having a baby, because I like kids and had always wanted to be a mom. But “fertility treatments” are super expensive, and the inheritance gave me the means to pursue parenthood.

So I went to a fertility endocrinologist, bought enough donor sperm for three rounds, and was pretty confident I would get pregnant and have a child. The experience was kinda nightmarish because they constantly wanted blood tests and supplements and poo poo, even though I was pretty healthy and while slightly out of the range of maximum fertility, there was no reason to think I wouldn’t have a successful pregnancy. They didn’t listen to me on my first round of IUI (counted my cycle as the “average” 28 days even though I told them that I’d been more of a 26-day person for years). But on my second attempt I immediately got pregnant.

Two days later, my blood tests showed something was wrong. They concluded I had an ectopic pregnancy. Within the week, I had to go to a hospital I’d never been to before to pick up an abortifacient, drive back to my fertility endocrinologist, and get injected with it to abort the potential baby.

If I’d tried carrying on with the pregnancy, the best case scenario was I’d burst my tube and lose half my fertility. Worst case? I’d still burst my tube, lose half my fertility, and then die of internal bleeding and/or infection like sepsis.

It was horrifically traumatic, and I ended up scream-sobbing on my kitchen floor more than once. Worse still, my cycle went haywire after the abortion, so I had no hope of using my last sperm shot effectively.

Eventually, the clinic threatened to charge me a sperm storage fee of nearly $1000 if I didn’t try again despite my unstable cycle. I couldn’t afford it, so I went in for my last try and it failed.

So all I got from my grandma’s inheritance was a boatload of trauma and grief and the knowledge that some people were fine with seeing me end up dead because “abortion is murdering babies by sadistic harlots and sluts.”

Knowing that there are people going through what I did and worse, and are being denied the quick but traumatizing treatment I was able to receive, is infuriating.

I will never, ever forgive the fat orange pissbaby and his slavering fans for what they’ve done.

Edit: What a dreadful snype for a LOL thread. Sorry, everyone.

kazil posted:

Speedboat Jones posted:

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

$4 MILLION in fuckin loans? Wtf man.

Almost Smart posted:

No one loving carries an infant to term and then gets an abortion for shits and giggles. They wanted that child at that point, probably more than anything else in the world, and something catastrophic happened. We see this story play out over and over and over again, but not once have I ever seen any person put forward by the GOP come and say “oh yeah, I decided that whole baby thing wasn’t for me at nine months so pbbbt.”

ImpAtom posted:

They believe that if they gently caress that chicken then people will blame Biden for failing rather than the people who caused the failure. Which is a pretty workable tactics for pissing off potential Democrat voters TBF.

Waltzing Along posted:

To take this a step further. No one "wants" an abortion. They get them because they don't want to live in poverty, or have a rape/incest baby, or have to explain to daddy how they got pregnant at 15 or have to drop out of college or any number of reasons.

Nessus posted:

Right, they’re avoiding punishment and control, which is the worst thing in the world to a Republican

Lucky Guy posted:

#TurboCancer

Droogie posted:

Hollismason posted:

Their whole legal argument is about forgiveness not the lowered payment amounts.

Ars Arcanum posted:

Edit: What a dreadful snype for a LOL thread. Sorry, everyone.

Droogie posted:

Nessus posted:

Yeah, established track record to play into

Scags McDouglas posted:

Lady can we get more on the health side and less on the nut?

Speedboat Jones posted:

Docjowles posted:

I’m sure you’re right. My cynicism levels have just reached infinity as to whether a judge in a politically significant case will weigh things like “arguments” and “legal precedent” or anything besides their own self interest in 2024

Lucky Guy posted:

#TurboCancer

Speedboat Jones posted:

Fishmasher posted:

hundreds of millions of americans and every time any 76 year old dies, this person is like "i knew it"

shame doesn't work on these people, so ideally i think everybody would say "some dumbass wrote x" and exclude their face and name so they can't get any more hate-dollars or whatever

ImpAtom posted:

Oh yeah, absolutely. Just saying that there's a reason "Do nothing, fix nothing, obstruct 24/7, let the other side take the blame" is the de-facto playbook for them now.

kazil posted:

Serious_Cyclone posted:

CNN's page for watching $DJT nosedive includes a box from some outfit called TipRanks that provides a 0-10 score on whether the stock is expected to underperform or overperform the market average in the future. This thing is perpetually frozen in the range of 4-6 for this stock, "expected in line with market average", and lists pros and cons of the stock. There are 2 pros: (1) blogger sentiment, and (2) technical indicators. I have no idea what technical indicators for an objectively overvalued stock with abysmal revenue figures could exist to boost expectations for its future, so I guess this stock floats entirely on the fact that there are substack nazis who talk about how much they love it.

Beastie posted:

It's actually infuriating. You see $180k and think "what a grift" and then you see the 7 figure amounts and my blood loving boils.

Data Graham posted:

Lol @ some loving idiot