Jump to content

GenXer

Full Members
  • Posts

    899
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by GenXer

  1. 1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Damn, sorry to hear that. Could you travel to Canada and pick it up cheaper there?

    I'm supposed to restart an immunotherapy course that insurance is being wobbly about. Might ask my doc if I can get it cheaper out of pocket at a clinic in the Bahamas, or maybe the Yucatan. Who knows what would actually be going in my arm, but I'd be on vacation.

    I live in dallas and need a new vial every month. That kind of travel just isn’t sustainable.

    There’s lots of variations of insulin. Some long lasting (24 hrs); some short acting (a couple hours). Some have been around for decades; others a handful of years. When the dems said “we lowered insulin costs”, it’s not that simple. Maybe for one type of insulin for old people only. There’s work to be done but I’m not hearing about it much these days.

    The shit I’m prescribed is expensive. I just want to be able to shop around. Everywhere.

    • Drool 1
  2. 10 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Yes. I’m well aware of what Colorado is doing. They care about their constituents.

    I’ve had several text conversations with my texas rep, Mihaela Plesa, about what colorado is doing. She disregards my input as it’s not something that is at the top of her list.  It’s frustrating but also understandable as she is likely focusing on women’s reproductive rights. Picking her battles.

    In the primaries a few weeks ago, I had two lengthy discussions with the republican primary candidate, Steve Kinard, about what Colorado is doing. He was not aware of it but was pretty enthusiastic about the idea. I sold him on the idea. I wouldn’t be surprised if he included it in his platform.

  3. 13 hours ago, Pancho said:

     

    Meanwhile the bill introduced 3 years ago that would allow people to purchase prescription drugs online from Canada gathers dust. GQP should embrace this bill because competition.

    I was quoted $5000 to fill one of my two insulin prescriptions a couple weeks ago because my insurance company wouldn’t cover it. But why would they? For profit healthcare is best.

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2181

    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Like 1
    • Rage+1 7
  4. 10 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Tha fuck did Elvis do? Cause he stole music styles from Black folks?

    I saw this and my first reaction was elvis and hawking but no hitler? Weird meme.

    • Hook 'Em 1
  5. 27 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.

    Naw. You’d be the god half the world worships. Books would be written about you. And grifters would profit in your name. 

  6. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

    It’s been out a bit but Kim Gordon’s new album is amazing. No 70 year old should be releasing shit like this.
     

    I haven’t listened to this album or anything, but my first impression of this song and video is that it’s one piece of a story told within the album. I listened to the song and thought “are these lyrics her shopping list?”

    As the song progressed and given the title “bye bye”, I wondered what is she fleeing from? What is her destination?

    This is art.

  7. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I prefer to ask election deniers if they also deny all their down-ballot victories.

    I also say something to the effect of “shit, I wish they were a lot better at rigging the election and weren’t so incompetent. If they could do that then the turtle and lindsay wouldn’t have gotten re-elected in 2020.”

    This is a subtle way of suggesting they’re full of shit while playing to their belief that Dems are incompetent.

    Without fail, I always get a nod and a grin.

     

    • Hook 'Em 1
  8. 2 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

    Interior design is not the same thing as interior decorating. Source: interior designer girlfriend. 

    One of the things that triggered my ex was when someone, generally on tv, would pronounce “decor” as “daycor”

    #interiordesignerproblems

    • Hook 'Em 1
    • Rage+1 1
  9. 11 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    I have it on good authority that all Surlsters have come to the idea that moving to Colorado will solve all woes. Who are you and what did you do to GenXer?

     

     

    • Haha 3
    • Drool 1
  10. I happened to get on instagram about an hour ago, and John Moreland was live streaming. He played a new song from his new album; the album dropped during his live stream.

    The song he played was the title track, visitor, on the new album.

    I downloaded the album, and it’s damn good.

    It’s all really good but a few standouts are

    The more you say, the less it means

    Will the heavens catch us

    Blue dream carolina
     

     

    • Hook 'Em 2
  11. 3 minutes ago, Jhawkmvp said:

    There have been a lot of studies about what liberals and conservatives respond to. Basically conservatives respond to fear. Immigrants are coming to rape and kill your family, teachers are turning your kids LGBTQ, democrats want to take your guns, etc. Liberals are more motivated by inclusion/bringing people together.  Probably when we were tribal they both served a purpose. More liberal members of the tribe want to bring in new people and ideas, while conservative tribal members were like be careful, maybe this guy is not going to help us. so the tribe was selective in what they brought in rather than accepting all and maybe destabilizing on risking the tribe by bring in the wrong people/ideas.

    I saw a survey a couple of weeks ago that showed Biden/Trump and who people would vote for based on the issues and what they had said about them. Most were pretty dead even, but where Biden crushed Trump is when they told the voters what Trump and Republicans have said about Social Security vs. what Biden wants to do with it. Biden jumped out to like a 15 point lead. Abortion is the same, they need to hammer that and play up the coming for birth control stuff, no exceptions for rape/incest/life of the mother - what if that is your wife or daughter?  If you can make more conservative people fear something more than the fears the GQP is spreading you have a chance to bring in some votes. Trying to message conservatives or conservative leaning voters with messages of hope or positivity will not resonate with them like it does more liberal voters. You have to make them fear something.  Probably how you can reach some family members/friends in the Trump cult if you know the fear buttons that might motivate them to turn against him.

     

    This is great information.

  12. 3 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Well, I'm in the restroom about to get dressed and head to my daughter's open house at school where I looked forward to her project on women in politics.  Super proud of her project.  And I see this shit, so I call while I'm getting dressed.  I actually get Rep. Libby (funny to me because there's a Ms. Lippy at her school as in Billy Madison.  But I ask her that while they certainly had freedom to assemble and even carry weapons...how can she say they didn't do anything illegal.  She defends and repeats her position and commentary as posted in this video.  So I ask, even if you ignore their crimes in the macro sense, "You do realize they were actually found guilty on hundreds of counts for committing illegal activities, war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc. at Nuremberg."  The fucking cunt's reply was, "I don't know what Nuremberg Court means.  Sounds made up by you to try to embarrass me and yourself."  

    This happened today.  By an elected official.  In a swing state.  Today.  I'm not saying everybody should have an intricate knowledge of the Nurburging.  But when you're a state-elected official talking about Nazis, maybe do 30 seconds of homework you fucking shitheap.  There were literally dozens of them found guilty or pleaded to crimes and illegalities.  which is a polite way of saying found guilty pf crimes against humanity.  So maybe start there bitch and then lecture us on the right to peacefully assemble to worship fascists.  

    Jesus, dude. She studied theory of color and lighting in her heavy interior design coursework. You think that curriculum has any time for trivial subjects like the trials of the largest assortment of genocidal conspirators of the 20th century?

    I can’t imagine how this assortment of great GQP thinkers has no issue with right wing authoritarianism.

    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...