Exposure therapy.

Keep doing it, and telling the dog it’s ok when you get back and give them a treat. But don’t make a big deal about it. Just a quick good boy and a treat while acting calm.

Have one person take him on a “walk” for like two minutes and do the same. Reward the dog and show him that brief separation isn’t a big deal, then work up the time apart.

It helps if you make two “goodbye phrases”. One used for brief separation, one for long. A big thing is they have no clue when you’ll be back. And if you stick to basic phrase for short/long, the dog will quickly put it together.

If he knows someone is leaving but said the “long” goodbye, hell be less likely to freak out they’re not immediately back

I’ll never understand why people think a party controlling politicians is ideal…

Voters should control politicians, and especially for Senators recall votes should be a thing

I heard the poles and housing are made of super copper a new material that can imitate steal or plastic and worth 10x normal copper in scrap

When people say an act is of desperation, they mean someone willing to throw away anything besides their most important thing.

This isn’t an act of desperation, because even if he “pays up” it doesn’t negatively effect them.

It’s like if you were robbing me, so I said “wait, if you don’t take my stuff, you can rob the neighbor!”

An act of desperation is if a home invader had a gun to your head and you said “take all my stuff just don’t kill me”

I know I can be pedantic, but this clearly isn’t an act of desperation because trump isn’t offering anything he owns.

If you are more resilient than me, how?

It is what it is…

Doesn’t mean it’s right, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to fix shit.

Just an acknowledgement that right now, in this moment, it just is what it is and you have to deal.

It honestly sounds stupid and dismissive, but if you sit and think about it, it’s a valid coping strategy and reminder that sometimes people are just in a shitty situation and they have to deal with it.

Right now that person is you, and it sucks.

Later the situation might not be fucked, or you might not be the one in that situation at least.

But right now it sucks, and you have to deal. People have gotten thru a lot worse and you’ll get thru this too, there’s not really another option besides crashing out, and that doesn’t solve much

It is what it is.

Nah, UBI is a steady monthly payment you can count on.

This is just a straight up one time promise of a bribe that likely won’t happen and burn Republicans even harder.

trump should have lost trust decades ago, but he’s actually lost a lot in the last two years

It’s not desperation, its not his money and if it actually happened, it would hamstring the incoming Dem president in 2028:

“Only I can make this promise to you,” he said, adding that the Republicans would have to win both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the money to be paid out.

And not only wouldn’t it be his money, it wouldn’t even be “real” money. There’s not a trillion dollars laying around for this (literally what it would cost).

Since Trump’s first term in 2016, the debt has doubled from 19 trillion to 40 trillion. This will get tacked on and the debt will be used as an excuse not to fund social programs.

It doesn’t matter this congress…

Next congress which starts in January it might…

I’m saying if Fetterman alone is what gets a D majority. That is the only time he would switch to R.

And if he does, he would immediately regret it because Republicans would treat him differently as a Republican.

I understand I basically just repeated myself, but does it make sense now?

Many such Republicans skipped the convention, including Representative Tom Barrett of Michigan, Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Senator Susan Collins of Maine, all facing strong Democratic challengers this fall.

In every debate, in every ad, they need to say:

“My Republican opponent doesn’t even like trump, but would enable him simply by contributing to majority”.

Don’t let them just pretend they’re different than trump, the most important thing is majorities and everyone running with an R by their name will caucus with Republicans and do whatever trump wants.

Don’t let them have it both ways

Literally none of them end up any different…

It’s a game of chicken, people buy in while the price is going up, knowing eventually it will be worthless but betting they’ll exit before anyone else.

And every single time the vast majority are wrong and lose money.

Everyone that buys it is both an idiot and knows what they’re doing, but everyone who launches a coin is still a jackass ripping people off.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/why-was-ground-repaved-2-days-after-charlie-kirk-death-c6d61e

Always happy to help someone who can’t use a search engine.

Once

And I gave you the actual audio of what he said…

If you legitimately don’t understand why that’s what you were asking for, I understand why you have difficulty googling things in 2026

Took 3 minutes …

It was an amazing phone call. 40 Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan and it was, actually before the World Trade Center, the tallest. And when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second tallest and now it’s the tallest," the future president told WWOR at the time.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-trump-saying-he-now-had-tallest-manhattan-building-9-11-goes-viral-anniversary-1628184

Even has the audio, he was calling in to Howard Stern

The second he’s one of them he becomes the left most Republican instead of the furthest right dem…

That’s a huge difference and if it wasn’t for his brain damage he could see that coming.

The danger is if the Senate is 51/49 blue, Fetterman switching would make it 50/50 and defacto R with Vance as tiebreaker. And if Fettermen isn’t 100% with them on votes, he’ll get accused of being a double secret antifa.

He won’t handle that rationally either, and Id fully expect him to resign

It 100% is dangerous.

But…

By next year there will be cities in which drones are dispatched to disperse any crowd of 5 or more people, anywhere the AI sees them.

Acceptable levels of danger depends on the situation.

Statistically speaking you’re more likely to be shot if you own a gun. I’d still recommend Americans have at least a gun these days.

That’s not the same as saying go drive around busting caps like it’s 2016 again. Just like pointing out the cheapness of those lasers and what they do to surveillance and drones isn’t telling people to buy one today and a month later when it shows up use it like a searchlight on premier night.

Things happen fast these days, if people are legitimately concerned about widespread use of government surveillance drones…

$50 can buy some peace of mind.

Completely unrelated:

You can buy lasers on Temu that you should absolutely not point at a camera because it will burn it out almost immediately.

Some are especially dangerous, because they include “spread caps” that make it a bunch of dots or a design meaning you could easily accidentally put out the cameras in Flock towers or drones with a passing flash.

Because even if it’s AI, it needs to see where it’s flying.

Watergate made Richard Nixon resign…

From that (there’s literally a memo about it in Nixons library) came Faux News.

Bill Clinton was the rise of neoliberalism. And a 35 year detour it took the democratic party down the same road Republicans took.

Before Slick Willy, Dems tried to hold politicians responsible.

So:

Every since Bill lied about sexually abusing his interns, there’s been this push to never hold any president accountable for anything, in office or after.

I stand by it, even the autocorrect typos.

I don’t think it’s a unique view that neoliberals act like Republicans and had a death grip on the party from 91-25.

We can’t waste this opportunity now that they don’t

I really want to see a new federal oversight agency for this shit.

Every since Bill lied about sexually abusing his interns, there’s been this push to never hold any president accountable for anything, in office or after.

Obviously the Republicans are going to have terrible shit, but so will Obama and Biden.

We need to hold all of them accountable regardless of letter by name, normalize auditing what prior administrations were up to, and charging people when they find shit like this.

Like “we should hold presidential admins accountable” should be something we all agree on at this point.

Despite a longer-term decline, the report said both accounts of knife crime and related hospital admissions had risen in the past year.

Pretty sure he’s just become openly right wing in the last couple years, you might have heard of something he said recently and written him off as “dead to me” and a year or so later just legitimately thought he was dead