2-3+ times a week I clean bodily fluid *disasters* for my disabled son—the type most parents experience once or twice EVER & then tell the story to embarrass grown kids. I’m sitting here filing the nail I broke scrubbing w/nostrils burning from Lysol thinking about she wanted to help caregivers.
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I've been a caretaker for a long long time. I hear you and I join your anger.
Lots of love to you & yours.
Back at ya.
Tell everyone you know your story...tell them how we can get there. The more people understand, the more likely we will have voting outcomes that will support what we know is the right direction for our country.
Oh, I do! For strangers I tend to do the “OMG TARIFFS I can’t afford my groceries” & have not encountered a single person who wasn’t enthusiastic about commiserating over it. Thanks for educating ppl on spreading the word & teaching ppl to vote for change.
Depleting the savings to qualify for #healthcare also leaves the surviving spouse DESTITUTE. Let that sink in. Penny wise, pound foolish. 💔😶 -E
It's just fuckin sad.
It is! Humans are exasperating.
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Yes ma’am. Her plan would have saved me when I was my mom’s sole caregiver.
I know that was hard. 💕💕💕
And misogyny racism got in the way!!
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I’m planning to go to one already, thanks for spreading the word.
You're welcome 😊
Bless you!
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She had such wonderful ideas and too many idiots voted for hate.
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Unconditional love 😘
He’s EASY to love unconditionally. 🥰 Worth every bit of the hard parts. A beautiful, brilliant, affectionate, fascinating person I learn new things from daily. Republicans who believe the disabled are expendable are insane & evil.
And yet they are the ones who claim to be "pro-life"... Anyway, much respect to you. 🥰
they are so full of shit - I'm very suspicious of any do-gooders it's virtue signaling - elevating the reputation - it's a show behind the mask is ugly
It’s so galling that people voted against this kind of help and for their own destruction. I’m so sorry 😞
It is! 💕 It’s amazing we not only had the choice between fascism & NOT but the “not” was all the stuff they claim they want.
My heart truly goes out to you. I'm so sorry you were denied the help you need. 💙
Thank you. 💕 We all needed it. 💙
It's infuriating this type of life-changing proposal is still routinely handwaved by leftists as not offering anything & that's why she lost. (We have to fight to include it in 2028 and ensure it supports people in your situation.)
They really do seem to miss how important policies that don’t affect them personally (yet) are.
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Yep. I feel you
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This should not be a party issue, but rather a human, common sense issue.
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This is the one policy of hers that stuck with me so much It would have helped so many people
She is good. He is evil. we who voted for her don't deserve this.
It’s infuriating they cut off THEIR noses & managed to spite all our faces.
You help those who need it Billionaires don't need any help, if they did they would buy it
I’m tempted to start compiling and reposting video from Vice-President Harris. Hell, I might just go start finding all the relevant and important stuff from President Biden, too! An alternate history of who they are and what they’ve done has taken root, and we shouldn’t stand for it.
I fantasize about making collages of her (& him) saying exactly what people complain they didn’t & I’ve even made some small attempts to research clipping software but realistically my son keeps me too distracted. If you build it I’ll repost the heck out of it!
Both full-throated proponents, armourers and propagandists for genocide. That's all they should be remembered for.
Same in reverse, for an elderly family member. I feel your pain, and I'm so sorry we are where we are, because it's dumb, and cruel for everyone.
I’m sure when people used to live in communities & share tasks this was manageable—it’s not with a socially this large unless we choose to lift each other up. Solidarity. 💕 Maybe someday we’ll get out of this & change the system.
I wanted this so fervently!
Yup. The pro-Hamas progressives screwed America as much as the delusional MAGA.
They definitely *did* especially given the margin of error in some areas but also it’s just the demographic of *white people* in general. The # of Hamas-lovers online is artificially inflated by 🤖👹 farms to demoralize/divide us but polling shows MOST Americans aren’t even paying attention to Gaza.
In this country, the vast majority live precariously never knowing when we or a family member will need a care giver or how in the world we could ever do it ourselves or pay for it. It's an absolutely cavernous hole in our healthcare system.
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This is the loss we can never really quantify. The most enormous cavity in our “healthcare” system, that she sought to close. I will never forgive.
I’m not sure if the proposal would have included me but caring for elderly family is just as important & potentially draining. No one knows if they’re going to be who needs that safety net. It would have made the kind of difference in quality of life that is hard to even describe.
Even if individuals like yourself wouldn't have benefited from her policy proposals directly, just the fact that she SEES caregivers, that she VALUES the care they provide, that SHE cares...OMG the loss this country suffered with her loss. It's immense.
EXACTLY!!! It was astonishing to see that so thoughtfully included. Imagine what would happen if we’d elected her & given her a congressional majority. I hate that the majority of people in this country don’t even know what they lost.
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That’s really well said. I think about it all the time..
My entire career is primarily in post acute care. Her proposal was a huge step in the right direction. I cry for what could have been.
People who have never done this work cannot begin to comprehend how it changes everything. Everything. A civilized, wealthy society shouldn’t let this happen.
Telling our most vulnerable members to pull themselves up by their boostraps is the part I won’t forgive—that was heinous
The purity test crowd has no idea what they did.
They really don’t! It’s the most exhausting part that so many of them aren’t even aware of how much suffering they perpetuated & worsened. Idealism without enough life experience can be pure cruelty & even lethal.
Most of the "purity test crowd" didn't want to vote for a candidate who put no air between herself and Biden because their families were being bombed with US made bombs that Biden/Harris paid for*. That's not really a purity test. More a "recoiling in horror" situation.
*The Biden administration didn't think congress was giving Israel enough so they used the state dept. to run around congress for 150 million several times. What do you imagine Harris should have said to those people to get their votes?
So, instead we have boots on US soil, family separation, people losing their healthcare, tariffs, RFK, Jr, CECOT, Alligator Auschwitz and more bombs than ever. Great job.
Yes, but you can't blame the "purity test crowd" (as you call them) as their numbers were not enough to sway the election (or even a state). Harris fell into the same trap that all Dem candidates have fallen into since 2016: they think "the other guy is worse" is a campaign strategy.
Presidential campaigns are won by giving the voters something to vote for. In 2024 that something was the high cost of living. Yes, Harris had lots of plans, but didn't really talk about it, instead telling voters to DL her 92 page PDF on her economic plan. Trump yelled "Eggs!".
Harris relied on voters being afraid of Trump (it almost worked - she lost by less than 3 mil votes), but ignored people who were fed up with the Biden economic recovery that wasn't. She ignored the people who were just sick of the merry-go-round of one (comparably) rich candidate after another.
If you want to see the type of campaign she needed to run, have a look at Mamdani's mayoral campaign in NYC. Hell, the Dems need to be paying attention to Mamdani. Right now the Dems are at a -32 approval rating among Dem voters, and that's with the fascists in control of the country.
I would also remind you that the Dems spent 2 billion on 2024 and lost the trifecta. If they want to win, maybe they should start listening to voters instead of their AIPAC handlers.
The best economic recovery in the world? That recovery plan? People knew who Trump was. I hope they are enjoying the shit show they caused.
Please. It was a recovery if you already had money. People working 2 and 3 jobs weren't afforded the option to quit one of those jobs. That why Harris fell flat. The two biggest econ take aways from her rallies were "tax breaks for starting a business" and "go read my 92 page PDF on my econ plan".
I think you can go take a seat in the maga bleachers now. The view of the damage y'all did should be clear from there. Those people working 2 or 3 jobs- you made things worse for them, not better. You made things worse for everyone. Now you get to live with the consequences you caused.
She talked about her plans at every rally. She had a website full of her plans.
Trump yelled "Eggs!" so clearly what Harris was doing didn't work. And the last time people talked about a pres candidate having plans on their website is when centrist Dems gave Bernie Sanders shit for having his plans detailed on his website. The Dems took the wrong lesson from Bernie.
I can and I do blame them. They are the ones who fell into the trap, not Harris. They fell into the maga trap. Only one person wins an election. You vote for the best one and do the work of bending that person in the direction you want to go. You do not let a fascist take your country over. Ever.
Their families were being bombed. How would you vote if you knew both sides were voting to fund the country murdering your family? In their perspective they had one option that wouldn't reward the people aiding their families killers.
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I think that account replying to you is a division/voter suppression 🤖 or a useful idiot who bought into that propaganda.
It is all so frustrating. We could have spent these years trying to make things better. Now we get to try to save democracy and hope in a few years we get a democrat to put this all back together again. And of course they won't do it fast enough for some people.💙
I’m so sorry.
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The assholes who voted for cruelty instead of empathy will surely have to face the music, some way. Not that the rest of us will get to witness it. We can only trust that their ignorance, arrogance, and callousness will come back to them somehow. I'm so sorry for your struggles and hope for relief.
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I so wish this had come true for you.
I feel you.
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I thought it was a GREAT idea! Think of where we could have been right now if she had won. Instead we’re terrified everyday by an abusive incompetent, demented, vengeful old fascist . One that she warned us all about who he is… AND she was right!
I’m with you 1500%
Respect 🫂 and I hope, self care too, it's not selfish, it's truly necessary 💜
Thank you so much.l! One of the hardest things about being a caregiver is there often aren’t enough resources for true self care but I do what I can. I think Kamala really got that—you can tell by the way she talked about it.
That one was my favorite too, the odds of me being a caregiver in the future is very high, and I’m going to need help. Sigh.
My favorite was “not a dictatorship” 😝 & the caretaker legislation was going to be a sweet, sweet bonus. I loved all her policy proposals & appreciated that she had carefully analyzed what odds she had to get enough congressional votes before she promised it to us. Ppl ought to LIKE that. 😔
you will have the same experience everyone else does most everyone will turn their back on you and walk hahaha you'll laugh about it someday after you're done raging and crying hahahahaha
Bro. You’re being a real downer right now. And yes, I’m aware.
