Best Wishes for Dianne Feinstein — Page 2

"Welp. Stable Mabel is out of commission again. Fell and now is unable to fulfill her duties as senator. Not like she makes any of her own decisions at this point anyway. Appointment of judges is halted and if God forbid she is replaced the GOP won't allow Democrats to fill her seat on the judiciary panel. Another great job brought to you by the US gerontocracy. "

Does not look like McConnell is doing much better with his own health issues. Feinstein, McConnell and Fetterman need to step down and give their states somebody who can do the job.

Rest in Peace, dear Senator. You served us well.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "RIP, Senator Feinstein.

I find it desperately sad to realize that the Senator was just four years younger than Anne Frank. To think what could have been."

Ahhh… Fer ****s sake!

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Excuse me?

I think you have missed my point. Dianne Feinstein and Anne Frank were both Jews of the same generation. The Frank family applied for asylum in America during Hitler's reign of terror. Unfortunately, because of FDR's anti-semitism, they were refused. Along with many other Jewish families. Senator Feinstein was simply lucky that her family got to the USA a little earlier. As we all know, their fates were very very different.



I think it serves us well to remember this, especially now. That's all."

I said that comment out of anger/annoyance and I stand by it, I apologize for nothing. The fact of the matter is that the comment you made refers back to yet another thread where you attempt to make relevant issues that very few of us (if any, actually) care about and yet it seems that you do not understand why that is. And yet, you keep doing it. To quote Albert Einstein “ the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.” To me, that is exactly what you’re doing.

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Yes, and I will continue to do so... because why should I be intimidated by uncaring ignorance?

Also, I'm sorry to tell you this, but Albert Einstein never said that."

Couple of things. One, after doing some google searching Einstein never said that. However, it is very often attributed to him to the point where people think it was he who said that mainly because it wouldn’t have been an out of character thing to say. Thank you google for helping me out. Regardless of who said it the point I was trying to make with that quote still stands.

Second and more important, is it at all possible that the things you think are major atrocities to the world are really not? That, if they really were more people here would rally behind you rather than ignoring your threads? I know you said that you’re not neurotypical hence me asking that question. You need to understand that just because someone doesn’t think it’s worth it to get upset over something that you do, doesn’t mean they don’t care one iota, it just means that they don’t agree and it comes off as you looking obsessed over things that aren’t worth really getting that upset about thereby making other posters frustrated.

Islander, this is after all a discussion forum... it would be pretty boring if we all agreed on everything all of the time. Personally, I would say my concerns center around climate change, gay rights, lessons we can learn from history, trans oppression etc. I struggle to comprehend how anyone could find these things unimportant.

"Thank you, Senator Schumer, for your beautiful tribute to Senator Feinstein."

RIP Senator Feinstein and very nice tribute by Senator Schumer. Sadly, some of the best speeches I have ever heard were about people who have died. Ted Kennedy's eulogy to his brother RFK was one of the most touching speeches' I have ever heard. My favorite part below.


"This is the way he lived. My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world.
As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:
"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not."

Updated On: 9/30/23 at 11:44 AM

P.S. If I was snide in Highland Guy's Beyoncé thread, it was only because my own Beyoncé thread, "How much money does Beyoncé need?", had been unfairly deleted by a moderator for no discernable reason. As he often does, Highland Guy had started an "opposite" thread in a passive aggressive manner. I was feeling a little raw from the sheer spite of it.

Welcome home to our much-loved Senator Dianne Feinstein.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/30/politics/dianne-feinstein-nancy-pelosi/index.html

Remembering Dianne Feinstein. An exceptional woman, public servant, Californian, American. And friend.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/gallery/dianne-feinstein/index.html

Sally Durant Plummer said: "Devastated and heartbroken.


I am at a loss."



Thank you.

There is actually talk of Meghan Markle filling the empty Senate seat. For real?

Highland Guy, I know you are a devout royalist, but I have no idea if this means you love or hate her.

She would be known as Senator Sussex.