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You are here: Home / Economics / Free Markets Solve Everything / “Superior Genetic Material” Open Thread: Eric Takes Back the ‘Dumbest Trump Offspring’ Title

“Superior Genetic Material” Open Thread: Eric Takes Back the ‘Dumbest Trump Offspring’ Title

by Anne Laurie|  September 6, 20196:09 pm| 84 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel, All Too Normal, Assholes, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot

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In which @erictrump inadvertently helps @Fahrenthold recruit new sources.

— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) September 6, 2019

I’m absolutely sure Eric sent this *EXCORIATING* tweet on blast to every single Trump employee, because that Fahrenthold guy made him so BIGLY MAD.

Hopefully somebody (many somebodies) will screenshot Eric’s message, before he reads (has somebody read to him) the replies:

Anyway, if anyone wants to leave a tip about the Trump Org for the Washington Post, Eric was kind enough to broadcast to the entire internet exactly how to do so.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 6, 2019

*documenting why Fahrenthold wins Pulitzers to own the libs*

— [email protected] (@TheGlare_TM) September 6, 2019

Eric, what would an unprofessional letter that contains an attachment with your father's tax returns look like? You are very smart. Show us.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) September 6, 2019

Only pro-Eric response I’ve seen, so far, with response:

Actually no, he'd use what he obtained as leads to determine if there's a story. Then if he thought there was a story, he'd investigate, look for people to corroborate it, on record plus other concrete evidence, hence the secure drop off options. That's why he's a Pulitzer winner

— ?? (@HildaBiggins) September 6, 2019

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    September 6, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    I confess that I’m impressed with the myriad ways his sons manage to prove that they’re dumber than Dad.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    September 6, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    I listened to his Fresh Air interview yesterday (highly recommended). I don’t think he’ll ever run out of leads.

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 6, 2019 at 6:22 pm

    Why is ‘Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot’ in the sarcasm category? ?

    It’s more like a village is missing a family of idiots.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 6, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    @debbie: David Fahrenthold interviewed Will Smith? That’s ummm unexpected.

  5. 5.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    September 6, 2019 at 6:29 pm

    Stuff like this is why I am skeptical that there was an active conspiracy between the Trumplings and the Russians. The Russians have enough sense to know the Trumps can’t keep their mouths shut, and anyway, it would be easy enough to get a Trump to do what one wants by spaming them with anonymous e-mails.

    And you know Eric is waiting for that Nigerian prince to get back to him.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 6, 2019 at 6:32 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Anyone have Tweedle Dumbfucker”s email? I can play a Nigerian prince in email land.

  7. 7.

    debbie

    September 6, 2019 at 6:34 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Umm, no. Fresh Air is an NPR interview show. You can either listen to the interview or read a transcript of the interview here.

  8. 8.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    September 6, 2019 at 6:40 pm

    Hopefully somebody (many somebodies) will screenshot Eric’s message, before he reads (has somebody read to him) the replies:

    Done.
    It’s on my Facebook wall along with some mocking commentary of my own.

    Though I can’t beat Laura Bassett’s comment for snark.

    Outrageous! Next you’re gonna tell us postal workers sort and deliver mail

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    September 6, 2019 at 6:42 pm

    A stable of stable genii. Geniuses. Gargoyles.

    These fookin’ guys.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    September 6, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    @Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): TPM had a nice collection of responses. I liked this one:

    Erin Sharpie Meteorologist Ryan
    @morninggloria
    Damn, Eric back on top of the Who Is The Dumb One Trump family power rankings. YOUR MOVE, DON JUNIOR

  11. 11.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 6:46 pm

    It’s an OT, and so I figured it would be OK if I urged anybody who’s in CA, to call their state assembly{wo,}man to urge them to vote for SB206, the “decently compensate these young people who bash their brains out for our amusement” act (aka “Fair Pay To Play” act).

    I just called my assemblyman’s office (David Chiu) and his staffer was very nice and thanked me for expressing my opinion, told me that they’re avidly tracking comments on this. And then I called my Senator to thank him for getting it thru the Senate already.

    King “Lebron” James is for it!

  12. 12.

    MattF

    September 6, 2019 at 6:46 pm

    So,… the story is that the sum of the IQs of the Trump familly is…

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    September 6, 2019 at 6:49 pm

    @MattF: …an imaginary number.

  14. 14.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    September 6, 2019 at 6:49 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:
    LeBron James was apparently quite the asshole when he was a teen in Akron and signed onto the Cavaliers. However, recently (the last 10 years) he seems like a really nice guy. Good for him!

  15. 15.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    This Robert Smith character isn’t exactly the brightest bulb in the drawer either now, is he? *grin*

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 6, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    @MattF: 42. Oops, -42.

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    September 6, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    Eric Takes Back the ‘Dumbest Trump Offspring’ Title

    WTF? When did he lose it? And to whom? And why wasn’t I told about it???

    Of course, if you want to “revise and extend” the title to something like “EricWidens His Lead for ‘Dumbest Trump Offspring’ Title.” that would also work.

  18. 18.

    SFAW

    September 6, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    @dmsilev:

    …an imaginary number.

    That’s because everything about them is “i … i … i”

  19. 19.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:

    LeBron James was apparently quite the asshole when he was a teen

    Honest-to-FSM’s-Noodle, I don’t follow any of these hand-egg/ball/saucer/disc sports, except when somebody who is reckoned the best player of their generation is doin’ their thing. And not even so much then. He seems to be one of those players, and unlike the previous one in hand-big-ball-ring [MJ] he seems to have a decent conscience [as in “decency”]. So that’s all good.

  20. 20.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Stuff like this is why I am skeptical that there was an active conspiracy between the Trumplings and the Russians. The Russians have enough sense…..

    One day we’ll know how much dosh he owes them, and on that day, it’ll all be clear. Indeed, the Drumpf-lings are imbeciles to a {wo,}man; I don’t doubt that they’re sieves. But (a) they’ve done an excellent job of keeping their business affairs with the Russkies secret [to the extent of being legally actionable; who cares about what’s said in the press, right?] and (b) it doesn’t take two to have an active plan of interference: it takes one, and another to just go along with it all based on hints and nudges.

  21. 21.

    Chyron HR

    September 6, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    Don Jr. is the dumb one, Eric. You are the ugly one. Stay in your lane.

  22. 22.

    Brachiator

    September 6, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I confess that I’m impressed with the myriad ways his sons manage to prove that they’re dumber than Dad.

    I confess that I’m impressed with the myriad ways his sons manage to prove that they’re dumber than a sack of rocks.

  23. 23.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 7:07 pm

    @dmsilev:

    they’re dumber than Dad.

    Why work for a D-, when you can relax and get an F (and still get paid) ?

    The way I heard it, all his adult kids (probably with the exception of Tiffany) very well know they’re entering into a transactional relationship with El Pere, and they know it’s in order to get fuckin’ PAID. When you start off like that, start off like that, is it any wonder that they don’t cultivate any/any/any of the skills required to make it in the real world?

    Why would a remora learn to hunt and swim and evade all? It just sits there and eats scraps from its host animal’s dinner plate. Just gotta make sure to keep the host animal sweet.

  24. 24.

    tokyokie

    September 6, 2019 at 7:10 pm

    @Chyron HR:

    Don Jr. is the dumb one, Eric. You are the ugly one. Stay in your lane.

    Which isn’t to say Junior isn’t also ugly and Eric isn’t also dumb.

  25. 25.

    TaMara (HFG)

    September 6, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    I really hate this timeline.

    NOAA releases a Friday evening, unattributed statement disavowing the NWS Birmingham tweet from Sunday saying Dorian wasn’t going to impact Alabama. pic.twitter.com/4OfuM6iESo

    — Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) September 6, 2019

  26. 26.

    patrick II

    September 6, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    There are many very rich people that don’t like being told they are wrong about anything. The Trumps are a particularly egregious example. They don’t evolve and always expect to get their way because people in their circle of power always accede. Yet another reason to limit the size of fortunes and amount of power an individual may have.

  27. 27.

    Chyron HR

    September 6, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    @tokyokie:

    They can’t help being ugly, the President didn’t want to pay to make them more fuckable.

  28. 28.

    JPL

    September 6, 2019 at 7:29 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): President trump you said that there was a 95% chance. can you show me that map sir.

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    September 6, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I confess that I’m impressed with the myriad ways his sons manage to prove that they’re dumber than Dad.

    I’m not. Don Sr. would never allow someone around him who he believed would be able to upstage him in any way, even his offspring. If they want to remain in his good graces, they have to prove they’re no threat by occasionally doing something really stupid.

  30. 30.

    bbleh

    September 6, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    So they say “genius skips a generation.” Fred was, in a ruthless and @ssholic way, something of a genius. I mean, he made enough money that Donnie could skate through life burning it like gas and last until the Russians decided to use him as a laundry. So my question, is, what is UP with Junior and Eric? I mean, the generational trend-line here is straight as an arrow! And ok, Ivanka isn’t as dumb as they are, but genius she ain’t.

    Although perhaps it’s best that, in this case, the rule has failed.

  31. 31.

    EthylEster

    September 6, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    Please translate this into language an old white woman can understand:
    *documenting why Fahrenthold wins Pulitzers to own the libs*

    I thought owning someone/something was bad.

  32. 32.

    Roger Moore

    September 6, 2019 at 7:38 pm

    @bbleh:

    So they say “genius skips a generation.”

    But stupidity plods on forever.

  33. 33.

    MJS

    September 6, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Notice the weasel words – “tropical storm force winds from Hurricane Dorian.” Trump didn’t say lesser winds,which are what tropical storm force winds are as compared to hurricane force winds, were going to impact Alabama. He said the fucking HURRICANE was going to hit Alabama. Fucking liars, all the fucking way down.

  34. 34.

    Gelfling 545

    September 6, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Ha! That’s where you’re wrong! Nobody misses them.

  35. 35.

    TenguPhule

    September 6, 2019 at 7:42 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): There goes the neighborhood.

    Or as Trump now refers to it, “Alabama.”

  36. 36.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    September 6, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    Eric Trump ✔@EricTrump

    I can handle things I’m smart — not like everyone says — dumb. I’m smart and I want respect!

    4:38 PM – Sep 6, 2019

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    September 6, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    @EthylEster:
    “Owning” someone means beating them at some activity. Conservatives are obsessed with “owning the libs” by doing something liberals supposedly don’t like and then bragging about it. Liberals have turned this around and started mocking conservatives whenever they do something to “own the libs” that is stupid and counterproductive by describing it as “doing [stupid thing] to own the libs”.

  38. 38.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    An Arizona man who told police he’d lost all $75k he’d invested through Wohl’s company died from suicide. https://t.co/idJ9Tk8Gxw— John Upton (@johnupton) September 5, 2019

  39. 39.

    Sab

    September 6, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    @bbleh: Is Ivana an idiot? I thought Trump dumped her because she was better at business than he was.

  40. 40.

    RSA

    September 6, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    @JPL:

    President trump you said that there was a 95% chance. can you show me that map sir.

    Also: Mr. President, sir, when you mentioned Alabama on Sunday your information was already two days out of date. Sir, wouldn’t a real President be to keep up with daily events?

  41. 41.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    @bbleh:

    So they say “genius skips a generation.” Fred was, in a ruthless and @ssholic way, something of a genius.

    I would dispute both sentences. Maybe “genius skips (at least) a generation”. Not as catchy, but more reality-based. And as for Fred: this is survivorship bias. I remember reading an article about the expected earnings of drug dealers: they were lower than working at McDonalds. The thing is, the variance was enormous. So even while most drug dealers would be better-served by going to work at McDo’s, there were a few who made out like bandits. Fred Drumpf is one of those who survived, is all. Lots didn’t, and we don’t know their names.

    Remember Warren Buffett’s famous story? “take 1024 fund managers; every year, kill half. At the end of 10 years, you’re down to one: imagine how invincible that guy feels!” There was even a movie about this (as IIRC): _Intacto_.

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    September 6, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    POLITICO (@politico) Tweeted:
    Exclusive: President Trump is moving closer to unveiling a dramatic overhaul of how America should distribute foreign aid. And it would channel money to “friends and allies.” https://t.co/5ViJWrAOaX https://twitter.com/politico/status/1170067757603467265?s=17

  43. 43.

    TenguPhule

    September 6, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    @rikyrah: I assume this is Trump’s shorthand for “I’m so gonna start stealing all this fucking money”

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    September 6, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    NOAA backs Trump on Ala. forecast, rebukes office that accurately contradicted him

    Country is so fucked.

  45. 45.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    Dan Crenshaw ran a white nationalist Facebook group with his friends. This is who Dan wants to “lend” guns to for “self-defense” and “hunting” pic.twitter.com/HovIBsVCir— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) September 4, 2019

  46. 46.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 6, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    At the end of 10 years, you’re down to one: imagine how invincible that guy feels!” There was even a movie about this (as IIRC): _Intacto_.

    I think you mean “highlander”

  47. 47.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 8:09 pm

    There is a genre of videos where GOP House members – who clearly didn’t read sworn testimony that detention sinks were broken- filming themselves drinking out of toilet sinks.They’re so anti-immigrant they risk pink eye to show off that they didn’t do the reading #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/uYLxQqxSej— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 5, 2019

    There’s worse things in Amerikkka’s Concentration Camps than pink eye.

  48. 48.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I think you mean “highlander”

    Heh, indeed.

    But OTOH, the thing about Intacto was that the contests were contests of sheer luck. So (just as with our fund manager) after enough such contests, you feel like one lucky sonofabitch, right? Whereas in _Highlander_, at some level it’s about who’s the better swordsman, neh?

  49. 49.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    @Jay:

    There’s worse things in Amerikkka’s Concentration Camps than pink eye.

    These dingleberries have no idea what the point of public health is.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    September 6, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Remember Warren Buffett’s famous story? “take 1024 fund managers; every year, kill half. At the end of 10 years, you’re down to one: imagine how invincible that guy feels!”

    To think about it another way, imagine 1024 people gambling on coin flips. They play an elimination tournament, where one of them gets heads, the other gets tails, and whoever wins gets both of their money. At the end of the tournament, one guy has won 10 times in a row, has all the money, and thinks he’s a genius at calling coin flips.

  51. 51.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 6, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    @EthylEster:

    Please translate this into language an old white woman can understand:
    *documenting why Fahrenthold wins Pulitzers to own the libs*

    I thought owning someone/something was bad.

    It’s a bit of an awkward construction. Read it as a sarcastic “owning the libs by documenting why Fahrenthold wins Pulitzers“

  52. 52.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 6, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    It’s a bit of an awkward construction.

    English needs parentheses, don’t it?

  53. 53.

    Amir Khalid

    September 6, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
    LeBron is a minority owner of Liverpool FC and a big supporter(certainly one of the tallest), so he’s cool in my book.

  54. 54.

    Sab

    September 6, 2019 at 8:31 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That’s [email protected]??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Where did you hear that LeBron was an asshole as a teen in Akron? I lived in Akron at the time, had kids his age with friends at St. V and I never heard that.

  55. 55.

    Sab

    September 6, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    @Sab: Goku, I stand corrected. My husband agrees with your reports about LeBron as a teenager, but he cleaned up his act pretty quickly once he turned pro.

    He has had his issues with Cleveland but he’s been great to Akron from the beginning.

  56. 56.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    Randy Halprin is a Jewish death row inmate. His trial judge called him a "fuckin' Jew" and a "goddamn kike" and said Jews must "be shut down because they controlled all the money and all the power.”Texas will execute Halprin on Oct 10. https://t.co/pPtCUwX4H1— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) September 5, 2019

  57. 57.

    Skepticat

    September 6, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    Not that I wish ill on anyone else (with a few exceptions, mostly Rethuglicans), but I do wish damned Dorian had indeed gone to Alabama and left the Abacos alone. It’s apocalypse now, and I doubt the Abaco will ever recover. My house is a pile of splinters, and not a house on the island escaped some damage; more than three-quarters were, like mine, absolutely leveled. Marsh Harbour is seeing death, looting, and violence, and although there are mandatory evacuations of women and children, there are few ways for them to get out and few places to go. Some of my friends have only Haitian passports, so you know they can’t go to the States. They say we’ll be without electricity for a year, and I doubt I can afford to rebuild. And I’m so busy dealing with handling all the communications for the island that I can’t get to the vet my precious cat going into renal failure.

  58. 58.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 8:52 pm

    This strikes me as a bombshell. Such a deep tell. That judge who won't let Boston DA Rachael Rollins use her prosecutorial discretion to dismiss disorderly conduct charges isn't "tough on crime," he's "tough on reform DAs." https://t.co/pohAFPYLVT pic.twitter.com/vmkaPwLrGm— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) September 6, 2019

  59. 59.

    Brachiator

    September 6, 2019 at 8:53 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:

    LeBron James was apparently quite the asshole when he was a teen in Akron

    If you’re not an asshole as a teen, you might be doing it wrong.

  60. 60.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 6, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    @Sab: in was in Akron a couple of weeks ago and it still looked like a shithole to me!

  61. 61.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 8:55 pm

    @Skepticat:

    I’m so sorry for what you and your neighbors are going through.

  62. 62.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    A St. Louis police officer admitted to lying in an attempt to cover up for three colleagues (including her boyfriend) after they beat up a black undercover colleague they thought was a protester. https://t.co/4swN6GIXNd— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 6, 2019

  63. 63.

    Jay

    September 6, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    Wait what?!?!? The judge who refused to let Boston DA Rachel Rollins use her prosecutorial discretion to dismiss disorderly conduct charges against protestors ONCE SHOT A MAN and had those charges dismissed through a prior DA’s use of prosecutorial discretion. https://t.co/zKjJa3gzue— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) September 6, 2019

  64. 64.

    Gravenstone

    September 6, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Once we’ve solved all the other problems, I’d love to see a congressional investigation of how many people were threatened with job loss or other retribution if they didn’t cover Trump’s ample ass on Sharpiegate.

  65. 65.

    Gravenstone

    September 6, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    @TenguPhule: Yep, the word “his” is conspicuously absent from that description of recipients.

  66. 66.

    Sab

    September 6, 2019 at 9:09 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: LOL. You think everywhere looks like that.

  67. 67.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 6, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    @Sab: Edinburgh and Columbus, Indiana were nice! J/k—they are both shitholes.

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack

    September 6, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    Rachel Maddow is just starting to talk about this:

    BREAKING: House Oversight is investigating whether US military expenditures have been propping up Trump Turnberry. A peculiar refueling stop in Glasgow by a US Air Force crew, who stayed overnight at the resort—there & back—tipped them off. Our exclusive: https://t.co/oRkatAAnFs

    — Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 7, 2019

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    September 6, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    @Skepticat:

    Sorry to hear that. My condolences to you. I have had the experience of losing almost everything all at once; it’s quite surreal, in many ways.

  70. 70.

    Kattails

    September 6, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    @Skepticat: Oh no. I am so sorry for you and have no idea whatsoever what to do to help. Except to talk to people and get more active and vocal in regards to climate change. My own tiny town got hit with a deluge over 10 years ago. Not as massive as yours by any means, but 10″ of water in a day in New England with steep hillsides– they could not find property lines, houses washed down the valley as splinters, trucks torn apart. So I’ve seen a bit of awfulness firsthand.
    To have a sick kitty on top of everything else… Please stay in touch, let us know perhaps what the best/most helpful places to donate are. And how you are holding up.

  71. 71.

    EthylEster

    September 6, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Thanks. As you say, it’s an awkward construction. Silly me, thinking writers actually want to be (or know how to be) clear.

  72. 72.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    September 6, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    I’ve got a feeling Eric really believes it when his dad says “fake news”.

  73. 73.

    Miss Bianca

    September 6, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    @trollhattan:

    A stable of stable genii.

    For a second there, I thought you had said “stable gerbils”.

  74. 74.

    satby

    September 6, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    @Skepticat: I’m so sorry. Is there anything we can do? A lot of us have been donating to World Central Kitchen for immediate food relief, and want to do more.

  75. 75.

    Ruckus

    September 6, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    @dmsilev:
    Wouldn’t that be …an imaginary negative number.

    I do believe that the entire family lowers the overall intelligence of the planet.
    Noticeably.
    Probably sold what little they had because they weren’t using it.
    What can one purchase for $1.95 these days?

  76. 76.

    Miss Bianca

    September 6, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): “The persons responsible for sacking the persons who were supposed to have been sacked, have been sacked.”

  77. 77.

    Miss Bianca

    September 6, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @Skepticat: Oh, that is terrible. So, so sorry to hear it. I too, would be happy for Dorian to have veered off and hit Alabama, if it could have spared you the devastation you describe.

  78. 78.

    Ruckus

    September 6, 2019 at 10:47 pm

    @Skepticat:
    There really are no words.
    @Steeplejack:
    I have as well, lost pretty much everything once because of nature. And once republicans. I have no idea what to do at my age if it happens again, which it looks like it is quite possibly going to do, once again because of republicans.
    You may notice my disgust and distaste for one of our political parties.

  79. 79.

    Ruckus

    September 6, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    @Miss Bianca:
    The dumbest gerbil I’ve ever seen is smarter than all the last family combined.

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 6, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    @Gelfling 545: Haha! I see what you did there.

  81. 81.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 6, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    @Skepticat: Sorry to hear that. What can we do to help?

  82. 82.

    Sure Lurkalot

    September 6, 2019 at 11:46 pm

    @Skepticat: This post breaks my heart. I’m so sorry for your pain. Like others, would like to help .

  83. 83.

    MoxieM

    September 7, 2019 at 12:03 am

    @satby: so much so. Lots of us want to help, don’t have a lot of cash. Feel helpless, but it’s not our feelings that matter–it’s getting help to the folks who need it. sending supporting and warm thoughts to Skepticat and all who are suffering.

  84. 84.

    Gretchen

    September 7, 2019 at 1:38 am

    That’s awful, Skepticat! I’m so sorry.

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