Struggling today
It’s Election Day 2024. About 5 pm Eastern as I write this.
We lost our potential for respite care a couple of weeks ago, so I’m the full time staff again.
Mom’s got Faux News on as much as she can because she has to watch the election (idk why. Literally nothing will change based on her watching or not and all it does is raise the blood pressure or anxiety level of the people in the house - diff depending on who).
Her friend told her she should watch to see how good the actors on SNL were at doing impressions of the key politicians (Biden, the Orange Menace, and Kamala Harris). Friend mentioned that there was a kerfuffle about equal time because a candidate was on & I explained that they’d clocked the less than 2 minute appearance and offered the same into her opponent, but he seemed to be interested only in decrying the inequity (funny he suddenly cares about equity & inclusion).
Friend apparently hadn’t seen the appearance, so I messaged it to her on FB (she’s 80). I got pages of rants about how she grew up in a Democrat household “until she had to deal with unions” (from the management side, presumably she enjoyed their protections when she was labor) and her husband apparently knew all kinds of bad stuff about Joe (so much, but not a word of what it was) and something about mom being a Republican the whole time she’s known her (mom voted the way she thought dad was voting their whole marriage. Never heard a political sentiment from her till dad had gotten trapped in the Limbaugh crap and Tea Party) and that as a nurse she knew there were better options than abortion (as a healthcare provider she should know sometimes it’s the ONLY OPTION and restrictions mean women and girls die).
I can’t even cut her off because she’s literally my only in person support with mom.