I’m old enough to remember many believing that Nelson Rockefeller lost the Republican nomination for President in 1964 because he divorced his first wife and married again shortly thereafter.
EXACTLY. His father taught him that the WORST thing in the world was to be a loser. He cannot handle the fact that he actually lost the last election, and he will never, ever let that go.
I hear you – I was raised by a mother who was always a sale shopper. To this day, even at the grocery store, the only things I pay full price for are basic perishables like milk and veggies. Anything else, even meat, is bought on sale and I stock up – same thing with clothing, etc. It may sound small, but it’s one reason we are well-prepared financially in our retirement.
I still have the boxes that their cremains came in and their collars. We scattered the ashes in our planting beds and also a bit at a local nature center, where we visit out late kitties periodically.
And thankfully, this arc is pretty much over, and hopefully the trolls who enjoyed stirring up crap over a sad but sweet 30 year old story and/or using it for a political platform will crawl back under their bridges and disappear. Geez, there are other things to get off on here, people, including an ENTIRE political comic section.
OK, so let’s withdraw and allow Putin to take over Ukraine – and then move on to Poland, Finland, as many countries as he can get while we sit on our hands. And then when he takes over as much of Europe as he can and decides to escalate and it hits us (and it likely will in this type of scenario), we can all start screaming about how it should have been stopped before it got to us.
I’m old enough to remember many believing that Nelson Rockefeller lost the Republican nomination for President in 1964 because he divorced his first wife and married again shortly thereafter.
Times change, but often not for the better.