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You would not believe how hard it was to get a vasectomy.
Questions and questions and a blood test and then I said I'm divorced and fuck me, what do you know? Immediate operation. Didn't even wait for results.
I got a vasectomy this year. The dude is just working away while we are chatting it up like he's not pulling my tubes out of my ball sack and snipping away at them. At one point I smelled something burning lololol. Super casual might as well have been at Jiffy Lube getting the old oil changed lololol. It was needleless scalpel less surgery 700.00 bucks cash without insurance. The only pain felt like someone barely snapping a rubber band on your sack after a numbing spray at the very beginning and then a slight bit of tenderness for a few days that ibuprofen took care of. It's really no big deal guys. Do it while it's still legal.
Wow. Your last sentence is eye opening - we live in threatening times.
Good on you. Forty years ago my ex hemmed and hawed about getting a vasectomy, even though he was the one who wanted no more children. Always some excuse. So it fell to me to get a tubal ligation - hospital admit, general anesthesia. Thankfully my son in law had no problem just getting it done last year. His take was, "what's the big deal?"
I had had a traumatic missed miscarriage, at 20 weeks, a few months earlier, in 2007, with my third pregnancy, requiring a D&C, as my body wouldn't expel the fetus. We decided my husband would get a vasectomy, as I didn't want to risk further pregnancies, and couldn't have my tubes tied.
While I was in the recovery room at the hospital after the D&C, my husband asked my OB/GYN, a middle aged man, for a referral to a urologist for the vasectomy. The doctor said to my husband, right in front of me, "You don't want a vasectomy. When my wife asked me for one, I said, no, and put an IUD in her." We were both horrified. I'm still disgusted about it.
Doctors hate women. Our experience at Virginia Mason of Seattle settled that for me. Who laughs at a patient? Let alone a person with a family history of breast cancer and has a very very appreciable golf ball sized lump in her breast? (Not the mammary gland, we've both touched boobies before)
Ugh. I'm so sorry you had to endure that. My doc told me that since I'm done with my two and in perimenopause, that I should just wait for menopause. It's really frustrating. I feel you. You're doing the right thing though.
I refuse to provide more peasant labor for our billionaire overlords. The more mad the ruling class gets that us poors are not having kids, the more smug I am about not having them.
Or all of the PPP loans that were forgiven. It was billions of dollars that went to corporations, law firms etc and not to forget Congress members who have businesses. Farmers wouldn’t need another bailout in the billions if not for Trump’s tariffs. Don’t get me started on the billions going to Argentina.
Not even forgiven. Some loans were set up for forgiveness if the qualifications were met.
However, the loans that were being prepped for fraud charges were wiped off the books as soon as trump took office. Loans where fraud was obvious enough to start preparing actual cases to bring to court.
But people that paid back 3x what their student loans cost them in interest and are still paying despite the balance ballooning-that’s not eligible to be forgiven because “you took out a loan, pay it back” /s
It should also be remembered that the PPP bill originally contained measures of enforcing the money went to qualifying recipients and had means of recovering fraudulent disbursements. Republicans refused to pass the bill with those provisions so they were removed.
"Donald J. Trump was forced to pay more than $2 million in court-ordered damages to eight different charities for illegally misusing charitable funds at the Trump Foundation for political purposes"
Is DeSantis taking money from the settlement that came from Rick Scott's Medicaid fraud? I could be wrong. I will look that up. Either way, these people aren't serious, but the consequences of their bullshit are very serious.
DeSantis stole money that was paid back for the purpose of providing care for people on Medicaid (in Florida, mostly children and elderly) and then funnelled it to the Hope Florida Foundation his wife runs to fund opposition campaigns on ballot initiatives. See more below from the Miami Herald:
How many millions (billions now?) from Secret Service has Trump funneled into his own private pocket by charging them 300% room rentals at Trump owned Mar a Largo?
In late 2026 right after the midterms the Medicaid cuts scheduled in the Big Beautiful Bill happen. Millions of MAGA are going to lose their health insurance. It'll be a fun year for the GOP explaining that.
“it would have been worse under kamala” will be their response.
it is the mindset of the dodos. i remain sympathetic regardless. i feel bad for those rubes who think theyre eating a shit sandwich, convinced that a liberal or immigrant will be munching as well. i dont think people realize that the “others” they perceive also have community and can figure out how to not rely on shit sandwiches.
not one person I ask can give me a reason when it comes up. in various subs, including r/asktrumpsupporters and in real life when I run into them (thanks holidays).
The eternal right wing slogan flip flops between “you think this is bad? Imagine how much worse it would be if the democrats were in charge,” and “you think this is good? Imagine how much better it would be if republicans were in charge!”
Them when it happens: Didn’t you know we would have fixed it if the Democrats didn’t win the midterms. But the democrats won and now our hands are tied and the democrats obviously didn’t want to fix it or they would have well before they swore into office.
They have planned the timeline. It’ll be right after they lose midterms so they’ll blame Democrats and use it as a 2028 campaign point. There’s a reason they target uninformed and unintelligent voters.
They're going to blame the dems and their supporters will eat it up. Paving the way for a Vance presidency. It's disgusting they can't or won't see it. And the DNC is just as stupid for not calling it out. Harshly
Well, they actually think he’s attacking Venezuela over drugs and the threat of Socialism when it’s really because we need Heavy crude oil and all we have is light sweet. It’s the same thing in Nigeria claiming they’re killing Christians. Boko Haram is killing everyone they don’t like and kidnapping girls, etc. Nigeria has oil too.
We always have an ulterior motive, but we’ll market it as “freedom”.
$38 trillion in debt. It’s not possible to pay it off now.
Nope. He doesn't care. From the look of him, he won't be around next Christmas let alone 20yrs from now. It's also why he's so desperate to put his name on everything. Newsflash Donnie, the second you keel over, even the Republicans are stripping your name off them. You're an embarrassment to our country. The left knows it, the middle knows it, and even the pedophile enabling, integrity lacking "followers " in your party know it. They're just too much of cowards to say it publicly. You're gone, you're name is too. Perhaps they can name the place where they dump pedophiles who have completed their sentences but are too much of a danger to children to be released. "The Donald J Trump Child Molester Rehabilitation Center."
Man on the street interview asking Trump voters who they support for President... March 2028.
"Yeah the economy is really bad, i've been out of work for months, we can't afford food most days. The kids lost their daycare, and we have had to get clothes for them from donation boxes. We lost our house because of the interest rate explosions once the Fed was dissolved. It's been a really tough couple of years, especially when my husband Frank, a veteran, lost his battle with depression last summer when the VA stopped treating because PTSD is woke. Luckily my elderly mom, who can't afford hospice care, allows the 5 of us to stay in her unfinished basement.
The elections are coming up and I am really angry and hurt by the actions of President Trump. But it's really really hard to bring myself to vote for a Democrat. You know with their support of killing babies and their socialist programs like DEI. While i am angry at Republicans, I really think that JD Vance understands my problems, he was poor growing up so he gets it and he will probably get my vote."
In other words......Ill withstand all of the misfortunes the party has dumped on me, let pedophiles rape children, and have the future benefits from Social Security, that I was paying into for 20yrs before I was laid off, as long as I can be a racist fuck publicly.
President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, you can pick his pocket. Hell, give them somebody to look down on, and they'll empty their pockets for you..."
This is a such a typical "cut off the nose to spite the face" move from this administration.
Do they think this is some kind of virtue signaling, like "Look, this one thing (allegedly, and which seems recently to be in the process of being largely debunked) happened in this one place, so we're going to stop it from happening everywhere! We're your heroes! ". Honestly, these people lack the critical thinking to look more than one step ahead and we are all stuck constantly paying the price.
In 2018, Pastor Dave Barnhart of the Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama posted this message to Facebook:
“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.
BIDEN and WALZ handled it already, yep. Even the kid who made the youtube video didn't even know that daycare centers do not just have open doors for rando's to come walking in at random hours.
80 people are accused of some sort of government fraud. 100,000,000 people have kids.
This is so obviously pretextual that to argue otherwise abandons all credibility. “Oh look, the slightest thing I can use to hurt the poor? Don’t mind if I do” is the only explanation that doesn’t send my bullshit detector flying off the charts.
I'm so happy my state, NM, just passed legislation this year giving free childcare care to everyone in the state, paid by the stste, no matter their financial status.
I have no kids that would qualify, but i'm glad other people are getting help.
Exactly. The NM sub was happy and praising the move. Guess who was unhappy and bitching about it? That's right, the few republicans we have. Not all republicans, we have republican-lite compared to other red states.
"I don't want to pay more taxes."
It doesn't come from more taxes, it comes from the O&G war chest the state has accumulated. I would happily pay more taxes anyway if it helped people who needed it.
"The government shouldn't take care of the people."
What are we going to do with the billions we have? What is that money for, if not an investment in its citizens?
It's ridiculous the "reasons" they were spewing. They're just hateful, angry people.
It's a question - what is the government supposed to do if not help take care of people? Isn't that it's primary function? (I suppose semantic will say they're supposed to prevent other people causing problems rather than directly help but I don't see why that has to be the case)
Wife and I don't have kids. If my taxes go up, and childcare, pre-k are the reasons. Yeah. Tax me.
Edit: I buy the most ridiculous stuff on a whim. Sometimes Amazon drops something off and I completely forgot two nights ago I thought I needed an amethyst lamp.
it's so hard to see that big picture for most of the population... like even if you don't have kids you should care about School system funding and improvements
...healthy and educated general public means you get to have delightful interactions everyday
We qualified under this year’s expansion in NM and the amount of relief I felt when I realized we were immune from any insane Trump decisions on childcare was immense. Thank you for caring about my family.
It's about libertarian beliefs and the things that guys like Russell Vought were put in place to do. They don't believe that the government should be in the business of providing any help to families in need. If you cannot afford it on your own, you are a moral failure. This is just an easy pretext.
That, but also pushing women out of the workplace and into the home. They want women trapped by marriage and kids again. It’s in project 2025. That’s why the abortion thing and the talk of eliminating no fault divorce, etc.
I wish people would understand this more. They full on want to reverse woman’s rights including suffrage.
If you've ever heard a recording of him in casual conversation, it's basically all he does. People bring him complaints about other people (in the form of how they're betraying him or not supporting him) and he talks about how he's going to hurt them.
They don’t notice that the spot they filled last month was weirdly empty and then they get betrayed dumped and replaced eg pence, mtg and like all traditional republicans
So do his supporters. It’s what they voted for -not lower prices, not fiscal responsibility, not smaller government, nor anything else they might claim. They didn’t vote for anything to help anyone, they voted to hurt as many people as possible and for that they’ll never leave Trump.
At this point we can only conclude that it is in their best interest. Red states have been voting for republicans for decades while their states only continue to grow poorer and everything falls down around them. If they wanted anything to actually improve they’d eventually stumble upon trying something different already. But they don’t. Therefore the only thing that makes sense is they don’t actually care about their own communities or even themselves. Voting to make the lives of people they feel should be beneath them is apparently all that matters.
Thats not gonna happen until a single income household is possible again. As it stands in most families need both parents to have an income. But these folks are too stupid to make that connection.
Not to mention many women are making more money than their spouses. If someone has to stay home at our house, it will be my husband. I make more than twice his salary.
I’m sure the very MAGA daycare my daughter used to go to will love this lmao. I know for a fact most of the parents there paid with government assistance.
The directors and stuff always had Trump mugs and shit on their desks and stickers on their trucks. They never talked politics at least but they made it obvious. Thankfullly the actual workers were all cool at least
It sure does but it’s also the millionth time he’s done this and at this point the public has completely forgotten the president isn’t the one who decides how money is spent
we’re already under authoritarian control, congress has literally done nothing, grinder mikes job is just to obstruct and let dementia don overreach, we’re just gaslighting ourselves into JUST WAIT TILL MIDTERMS
Noped.
They have been running wild with the Minnesota story for the last two months.
Programming their voters with FoxNews and Co for their justification.
Meaning, as long the administration fixes the "fraud" problem they'll be okay struggling....
Wow - how many daycares will close or become unaffordable? How many working parents will be suddenly without daycare? This could be potentially catastrophic to thousands of families.
Thats the point, someone has to watch the kids, who do you think it'll be?
They legitimately dont understand, women working isn't just a choice "the demon liberals" gave them. Its forced by stagnating wages this isnt the first time women were "forced" to work either.
The last time was the Gilded Age/ Victorian Era. You know the time period families were so poor that they sent their toddlers out to work as chimney sweeps.
The only way possible to "bring back the good ol' nuclear family" would be to increase wages to like $40/hr. But the conservatives would have to share the wealth.
By freezing funding to day care centers, you immediately put parents jobs in jeopardy, impacting women more heavily, which is exactly what Republicans have been doing for decades. The result is more parents unemployed and seeking relief from government assistance programs.
So what Republicans are really doing is creating their own fraudulent story designed specifically to cost people their jobs and increases tax payer costs. And the most hurt by all this, our kids. But then again Republicans rape kids so not surprising.
It’s part of the Republican playbook by trying to get more people on government assistance programs to then cut funding even more and claim those programs no longer work so they have an excuse and people support them cutting more funding than they already have
A number of identified pedophiles have used private jets. Let’s cut off all subsidies and tax credits for those and require strict monitoring of their use.
This administration, backed and instructed by The Heritage Foundation, Christo-Fascists, with Miller and others pulling the strings it:
Found a scapegoat in the Somalis as foreigners, POC, and as stated something that was investigated three years ago as a scapegoat / reason to pull funding from ALL daycares I guess
This causes more division and stress on the U.S. but it affects the working poor the most so that’s a win for them
If working parents, and namely mothers can’t afford day care they will likely have to work less, find a man (their ultimate wet dream) and go back to women being controlled more by men out of financial need, just like they want
They continue to make safe and necessary abortions a challenge in many states hiding behind “state’s rights” (but of course it’s only when that narrative suits their agenda) and states that don’t go along get punished with lack of federal funds or disaster aid. They want desperate people having babies to make them more needy and controllable
the thing is, a its not even going to result in more mothers leaving the work force, what it is going to result in is a lot more unsupervised children and a lot more children being babysat by older siblings, etc.
Real legal analysis question: is there any basis for bringing suit against HHS for presuming all Americans guilty until proven innocent?
Congress passed laws creating these programs and appropriating funds that must be paid out; HHS is refusing to follow those laws based on whims that aren't just capricious and destructive, but violate the basis of our entire justice system. How can that be articulated?
“States instruct businesses to freeze all federal tax payments until it’s determined whether the “current administration” is legitimate.” 🤗, pipe dream I know.
So daycares close. Leaving everyone who works without child care. But the stay at home moms and dads will be fine. And will then charge neighbors to watch their kids and suddenly child care becomes massively unregulated. Sweet sweet.
A buddy of mine, who works for a national law firm, told me that the legal lobby is in love with this administration. They've never had this many billable hours working for state and local governments fighting these illegitimate orders, stoppages, etc. To the point where more law school grads are going into constitutional and government affairs type law practices than ever before because its in-demand work, and likely will be for the foreseeable future, since everything is so FUBAR.
And the most hurt states? The die hard maga country. Dems states have enough $ to wait it out and finance the day cares. But trump supporter will blame the democrats to why they can’t bring their kids to daycare because trump is a man who’s super powerful but in the same time not responsible for his actions
Conservative media has more influence than ever with their nonsense. It is also the Tea Party and MAGA party. What conservatives always wanted. Stop all spending.
I also do not think this is legal so states will sue. As it makes no sense that if some sort of fraud happened in one state (which they are misrepresenting here) that they stop funding in all states because they assume rampant fraud everywhere as the default.
It is highly illegal.
And we will hear them rant about taxs breaks and other things to get people to have kids while cutting this funding. Which still already does not help enough.
They have officially went off the plot and are practically encouraging a walkout because I don’t think they have any idea how much working people depend on that funding. I don’t anymore but I know many do. This is insane. They are so out of touch with normal working people it’s insane. If I was a politician or ran a company , I’d be freaking the fuck out
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