I had a crush on Fran Drescher growing up and I never turned down an opportunity to watch 'The Beautician and the Beast' when my sisters wanted to take over the vcr.
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US PoliERA 2018 |OT9| Next week has been EXHAUSTING
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Every good southern gay boy grew up on two things:
Golden Girls
Designing Women
Funny enough, my favorite uncle, who is incidentally gay, loves both shows, along with Seinfeld.
Of course, he's also a Republican who voted for Gary Johnson, thinks MLK was racist, and doesn't think gays deserve marriage rights.
So, you know....
Oh, hellllll no. The Nanny was the most annoying sitcom of the 90s, and by God I saw Wings...and Veronica's Closet....and Caroline in the City....and The Naked Truth.
I'm another 20-year-old reporting in.
I was born in December of 1997. So I'm gonna turn 21 this year.All of us born in 1998 the same year as ocarina of time
Princessv Ruto blesses us
My daughter is 21, haha. Seriously happy to see so many 20 somethings here. Stay engaged, vote every election, even the "boring" ones that will inevitably follow, and particularly the state and local ones. Get your friends engaged and, when you have adult children, engage them. We get together on vote mornings and go as a family, my 18 year old son's first time is coming up.
10 year old me supported Obama
5year old me supported John kerry
I don't know why i hated goerge bush so much as a kid, my life didn't go to shit until the end of his term, and besides the abusive dad going pretty well in 04
Middle class(at the time) white kid in a new Jersey suburb, none of the relatives I knew were in the war
I just really hated bush
I mean I was 100 percent right in retrospect though
I was born January 2nd so I could have easily been born the same year as star fox 64 like you
You must be some sort of savant. 5 year old me has no recollection of Bush vs Clinton.
Goddamnit, 14-year-old me followed Bush v. Gore results on dial-up.
If you were born a month earlier we could've had the same birthday.
If born in 1997 as you imply you are the unnamed generation after Millennials.
Oooh I can now pretend I'm part of the Z squad from DBZ
Fuck these assholes.
Press should just shout insults at them and call out their lying asses in the moment from now on.
They won't though...
My first election was 2016. I was so depressed when Trump won. Didn't eat for days, just burst out crying when talking to my school therapist.
Remember, Trump said what you are seeing/reading isn't what's actually happening.
1990 is the first time I remember anything about politics.
It was my mom talking with one of her friends "Now don't get me wrong, Bush isn't the worst Republican president I've seen. Nixon was a corrupt bastard, and Reagan's education cuts ended my college education less than a year before I finished, but he's still a Republican. They only care about big business and moneyed interests."
The next time I remember anything was during the 1992 election with my mom and conspiracy theory believing Aunt Patty (RIP) arguing about Clinton and Perot. My aunt loved Perot because we needed a businessman in the White House. She lived to see Trump and had vastly different views about businessmen in elected office because of him.
It was my mom talking with one of her friends "Now don't get me wrong, Bush isn't the worst Republican president I've seen. Nixon was a corrupt bastard, and Reagan's education cuts ended my college education less than a year before I finished, but he's still a Republican. They only care about big business and moneyed interests."
The next time I remember anything was during the 1992 election with my mom and conspiracy theory believing Aunt Patty (RIP) arguing about Clinton and Perot. My aunt loved Perot because we needed a businessman in the White House. She lived to see Trump and had vastly different views about businessmen in elected office because of him.
My husband and I just had our 5th kid, and the fact that for the oldest two Trump is a president they will remember makes me ill.
First election memory I have is in 1992 my dad taking me to see Bill Clinton when he was in Florida. (I was 5). I remember my dad forcing me to go door to door canvassing for Clinton in 96, also the first time I saw my Queen speak live. (Queen Hillary). In 2004, I was too young to vote, but I volunteered and live blogged the results. 2008 I worked for Hillary's campaign until the bitter end, then volunteered on Obama's.
I'm old adjacent.
First election memory I have is in 1992 my dad taking me to see Bill Clinton when he was in Florida. (I was 5). I remember my dad forcing me to go door to door canvassing for Clinton in 96, also the first time I saw my Queen speak live. (Queen Hillary). In 2004, I was too young to vote, but I volunteered and live blogged the results. 2008 I worked for Hillary's campaign until the bitter end, then volunteered on Obama's.
I'm old adjacent.
I was pretty much the only pro-Bush kid in my class in 2004 and I gloated a lot when he won. I also was super happy to be assigned Calvin Coolidge as a president I had to portray in a mock debate because of his excellent laissez faire economic policies.
Later on, midway through my transformation, I hung a picture of TR above my bed next to Jesus.
Later on, midway through my transformation, I hung a picture of TR above my bed next to Jesus.
Maybe is right!
I'm 35 and still live with my mother.
She's 75, nearly paralyzed, with about a half dozen different ailments. Most recent was finding out she not only has gout, and arthritis, but type 2 diabetes as well. Along with a heart murmur, high blood pressure, and a thyroid growth, so far benign. She also has damaged stomach staples that caused her to hemorrhage early last year.
I don't think my mom reaches 85 guys. But I'll be here as long as I can help.
I think I needed to get that out there so I'm not the only one with the thoughts in their head. My brother is kind of self-involved so I kind of figured I'd be the one taking care of her.
Mine's all pop punk, redneck anthems, and a lot of anti-women videos because I subscribe to only one channel and it's Feminist Frequency, which YT apparently really doesn't like.
I have a vague whisper of a memory of my dad bringing me to a Ross Perot(?) rally when I was a child, but the last thing I want to do these days is broach the subject of politics with my parents, so I'll probably never figure out if that was actually a thing that happened.
Also in other news, here's Stephen Miller being very on-brand arguing for a complete and total shutdown of student visas for Chinese nationals:
Also in other news, here's Stephen Miller being very on-brand arguing for a complete and total shutdown of student visas for Chinese nationals:
It gets better, and by better I mean what the fuck.
Please note the date from the previous tweet.
1992 is the first election I can remember, though I have a memory I cannot exactly place of asking my mom why Bush had beaten Dukakis and her trying to explain the tank photo-op to me. I voted Republican in every mock election in school though I was pretty conflicted about Bush over Gore. By the time I could vote for real I had wised up though.
Nope, we're trapped in Hell.
A loop of our worst liberal fears is playing out.
my sangrias were laced with lsd this whole time?
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
You're a good son. Taking care of your mom like that has gotta be tough, be sure to look out for your own well-being also.
2000 is the first election I can remember watching on TV. Since I was not super invested in the outcome at the time I was more fascinated by the twists and turns of that night than anything. For 1992 I can just remember seeing the Electoral College map in the paper the next day, but I doubt I really watched any of the coverage.
You're a good son. My mom lives with my husband and I and our kids. She's close to your mom's age, but my mom is pretty lucky to be blessed with good health. No one thinks she's in her 70s, and she'll kill you if you mention it.
Being there as our parents age is hard but it's important. I went through ti with my dad. He passed away almost 10 years ago, but had a lot of health issues. It's hard in the moment, but looking back I wouldn't have had it any other way. He instilled in me my love of politics. Wish he coulda met my kids and husband though. That would have been cool.
Best of luck with everything.
My last few years have been crazy.
Got accepted to grad school, then my granduncle, like a father to me, died at 83 after a very protracted period of disease. Then, in my first semester, my dad died at 54 to completely unknown circumstances alone in Florida; while working on an impromptu assignment I got a call from a Florida detective about his death, weeks afterward. He decomposed alone for weeks unfound, only discovered by his partner.
Then, on New Year;s Eve 2017, my grandfather died of Alzheimer's. My other grandfather had a stroke in October 2017, then shot himself in the head this February 10th, and a cousin we called Aunt Linda died one month later to the day of a sudden heart attack.
It's been a trying few years. A 4.0 in grad school with a year-late thesis, plus those deaths, plus my cat of 14 years getting sick, and a girlfriend of 6 years pushing marriage, and more. It's exhausting.
Thanks for the kind words everyone.
It can be difficult, but I can't see it going any other way.
I'm just enough on the spectrum that I've never been able to create many connections outside of family. My mom literally has no one else to see her through the last of her life. My brother and her have lasted a total sum of a week together in one house with out both of them devolving into barely functioning apes.
It can be difficult, but I can't see it going any other way.
I'm just enough on the spectrum that I've never been able to create many connections outside of family. My mom literally has no one else to see her through the last of her life. My brother and her have lasted a total sum of a week together in one house with out both of them devolving into barely functioning apes.
My first political memories were probably watching the West Wing as a young teen with my family. It'd take us 2 hours to get through an episode because me and my sister had questions about how X thing worked in real life or debated some policy or principle from the show. We transferred over to the Daily Show later in Bush's term.
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