I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

exbrnxgrl

Agreed, Ruth! I am currently undergoing a self imposed moratorium on news. I allow myself only about 30 minutes daily because that's all I can stomach. As for this site, I was just denied access on my iPad but not on my phone 🤦🏻♀️. I also keep getting logged out. Where the heck is the log in button? It used to be easily found along with the other stuff on the left side toolbar. I miss that easy to find and navigate toolbar! Don't even get me started on the stark design

PS: When I hit “submit”, I got the access denied message. Yet lo and behold when I left the thread and came back, my post was there. I wonder if this edit will show?

DivineMrsM

A GOP guide to watching Biden's State of the Union: Clapping prohibited, deny all facts

My advice draws on four years of watching President Trump deliver his State of the Union addresses, experiences when I yelled so loudly I broke things and slapped myself unconscious.

If you're a Republican preparing to watch President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday night, you're probably asking yourself questions like, "When can I start booing?", "What's the minimum number of times I should shout, 'Let's Go Brandon'?" and "Can I die from rolling my eyes too many times?"

Those are all terrible questions, but because I'm a generous soul, I've put together advice that should help my conservative friends navigate Biden's speech. It draws on four years of experience watching President Donald Trump's State of the Union addresses, during which I yelled so loudly a nearby water main broke and I forehead-slapped myself unconscious 27 times.

A seven-step guide for Republicans

So here are my Seven Scintillating Steps for Maximizing Your Hatred of Joe Biden's First State of the Union Address:

1. Make sure you boo when Biden is introduced. That is your First Amendment right, and anyone saying you shouldn't boo is trying to cancel you. If a family member says you shouldn't boo the president, that family member is likely a socialist and you should run out of the house as quickly as possible so you don't catch empathy.

2. You should also boo when Biden gets behind the podium, when he opens his mouth and any time air moves past his vocal cords making vibrations that produce sound. The only time you should not boo is if he falls down or announces he is immediately resigning and handing the presidency back to Trump.

3. Clapping is strictly prohibited, except in the instance of the aforementioned falling or resigning. Any Republican lawmaker caught clapping will face a primary challenger in the next election, likely from highly qualified local school board member who routinely compares vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.

Don't look at Pelosi!

4. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be seated behind Biden during the address. It is crucial you avoid looking at her, as there have been reliable reports on the internet that she will be blinking subliminal lessons on critical race theory throughout the president's speech. To be safe, keep your children away throughout the evening, lest they start thinking racism still exists.

5. Forget all the specifics of events that occurred between Jan. 20, 2017, and Jan. 20, 2021, and assume everything in that span of time was perfect and magical. Next, remind yourself that all events from Jan. 21, 2021, to the present day have been earth-scorchingly horrible, your kids are now educated by communists, freedom of speech has been outlawed, librarians are the enemy and you can no longer go to church because Vice President Kamala Harris killed God by existing.

6. DON'T BE FOOLED BY POSITIVE FACTS. Biden will tell you things his administration has accomplished in its first year and you must knock those accomplishments down swiftly and forcefully. If you acknowledge even one positive thing, former President Trump will know you did it and he'll send either Eric Trump or Jared Kushner to your house to confiscate your "Make America Great Again" hat (unless you pay a fine of $50 and, if it's Eric, a lollipop).

So let's practice fending off facts.

If Biden says: "Under my administration, we have created more than 6 million jobs."

You say: "Why wasn't it eleventy billion, which is the number created by Donald Trump, you loser?!?"

If Biden says: "We passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill that's going to fix 65,000 miles of roads and 1,500 bridges, creating jobs in the process."

You say: "Whatever, BRANDON, I don't believe in bridges. And besides, every week was Infrastructure Week under Trump, AND he built a big, beautiful wall that was totally finished and paid for by Mexico. I know because I donated money to Steve Bannon's 'We Build The Wall' campaign, and I've never known that guy to be anything but honest."

If Biden says: "We admittedly did a terrible job with the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan."

You say: "THAT'S A LIE, YOU DID A … oh, wait. Yeah, that's right." (This would be another exception to the no-clapping rule.)

White noise can fend off 'wokeness'

7. Prior to the broadcast, make sure you have an anti-wokeness white-noise player near your television to filter out inclusive language you might find offensive. Acceptable forms of white noise include: a looped recording of Trump saying, "WRONG!"; any podcast featuring Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz or Jim Jordan; a recording of you explaining how Big Tech is censoring conservative views to your liberal son who is a junior at Vassar College; or your children reading Facebook comments relating to your city council's most recent meeting on mask mandates.

Enjoy the evening, and let me know if you need to borrow my "Liberal Tears" mug.

Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on Twitter @RexHuppke and Facebook: facebook.com/RexIsAJerk/

ruthbru

Good post, Divine. I am afraid to write a long one because I get 'access denied' when I submit (although what I posted appears when I come back). Argh!!

Miriandra

If anyone wants to offer feedback on the new format, I've opened a new topic just for that purpose. Please reply with your own critique and suggestions for improving the forums. The administrators here seem very sensitive to user needs, so our thoughts are likely to make a good difference.

New Topic: Feedback on New Format

Betrayal

Thanks, Miriandra. I have reported inability to return to previous pages/access denied, etc. to moderators but problems still persist. Loading is soooooooooooooooooooo slow. I find this white background and the small print creating reading difficulties. Not much has changed though they have responded they are working on it. You made some excellent points about page formatting and does anyone else see upload info instead of the avatar for some members? I see it for DIvine MrsM on this page. Hopefully the kinks will disappear soon.

Trill1943

If you go to his Twitter page there is more on this....

DivineMrsM

Miriandra, thanks for starting that thread, I will visit the link. All I see for my avatar is a blank circle, even tho I haven’t done a thing to it in months. I feel badly for complaining about the new format as I'm sure the mods were probably excited about it, but many members seem unhappy with it, me included. In addition to my avatar, I find the use of the Arial font for everything, small print and lack of color to be boring, slow loading pages is frustrating, and no way to stay signed in but needing to log in every time I visit the forum. I realize change can be hard for some but is this truly an improvement?

Betrayal

What a PIA to sign in to post a reply when you are already on a forum! I just got kicked out and had to scroll through to get back here to post. Arial is an ADA mandate for font style but it is the font size that is the issue. Plus the incredibly large margin on the left which I think contributes to the font size being so small. When I sign in I still see your upload info for your avatar DivineMrsM. This white background is a killer on the eyes and again the slow loading continues to be an issue. Yes, I do feel for the moderators but the issues we raise have an impact on us as well and I don't remember being informed this change was coming. Kind of feel blindsided by something that maybe wasn't necessary?

Spookiesmom

I haven’t been able to stay logged in for months. So each time, I had to do it all over. They did have announcements about changes coming there.

Count me in for being very unhappy with this improvement “ I shot off a pm to mods yesterday am, they did reply they’re working on issues. If it wasn’t broke, why mess with it.

HomeMom

If they were going to make a change, they should have put in a way for you to reply to someone's post where you quote them and they are alerted that you did that. This is just slow moving and has a different look

Moderators

Dear Members,

We hear and understand the frustrations with your experiences thus far with the site and community redesign. We are in constant communication and working closely with our tech and developer teams to resolve issues and bugs. We are taking all feedback to our team.

In an effort to streamline that process and make sure nothing is missed, please continue to post any and all glitch/bug or overall site feedback on the established thread: https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/93/topics...

Thanks again, we are so appreciative of you all!

The Mods

kathindc

Mods, I have to laugh. Did you not tell us on the "glitches" thread that you preferred us DMing you our complaints? Yes, we still posted them on the thread. You've changed your tune here. Now you say to post to that thread. Continuity is not in BCO's vocabulary on some things it seems.

ruthbru

Moderators

Dear Kathindc,

Yes you are right that we would prefer receiving a pm in regards to your complaints, glitches, feedback, etc with respect to the new design, however, we have also heard that many prefer or choose to post in the Glitches thread so that option remains.

The Mods

ruthbru

Betrayal

Powerful and sad message that parents would have to do this, while we have parents who are pushing for banning masks without any concern for immunocompromised children or those too young for immunizations. You can bet that if it were their child, their tune would be different but what I am seeing is pure selfishness and ignorance on the part of the majority. Our society has developed moral and ethical rot for the most part and it makes me sick.

When I saw dumbo of FL chastise children for wearing a mask, I wanted to go for his jugular as did the mother's of those children who were intimidated into removing their masks. Bully behavior on display and tolerated by the surrounding adults which makes it even worse to view.

Miriandra

"We've got to stop with this COVID theater"? Well, they have some pretty good special effects in ERs then.

Veeder14

I know this is off topic but I can’t get into the glitches thread. I don’t know if this is just due to my device or not but the new look has a tiny size font. Too small. Also, getting into threads is taking a long time.

ruthbru

This 'update' is driving me crazy!! I don't feel like I can drop by with a few thoughts because I know it is going to be a slow, annoying process......

exbrnxgrl

Ruth,

Agreed! I tried to access this thread 4X only to receive an access denied message. Finally got in but hoping this message posts. I readily admit that my knowledge of website construction and functioning is almost non-existent but I have been surprised by how glitch laden this re-design has been. Did they skip the beta test?

magiclight

My first attempt today to get to this thread ended with a message indicating the site was down. Next try got here. Note that the only easily readable words are the Topic and Donate. HMMMM!

Spookiesmom

How many thousands of dollwere WASTED on this “upgrade “?

ruthbru

It's so hard to get in & the font is so little and light, that I'm exhausted before I even write anything!

ruthbru

Betrayal

The moderators have switched where we can post our annoyance with the multiple problems with this "soft" rollout that quite frankly is a failure. I have been denied access to multiple forums that I normally visit and sometimes post on, been disconnected and then today told multiple times that the site was down when I could see that others had just posted! I have complained to the moderators and now find that they really do not want feedback since they are turfing it to a site that also doesn't work! Frustrating to say the least and difficult to accept that this is an "upgrade" when it appears to be a step back in time. Glad I am not the only one having issues with access, misery does love company.

Chevyboy

See, when you get as old as I am, you don't like change.... So all you have to do is try & log in to this site, go take a shower while you are waiting.... come back to see if it is logging you in, and if not, run to the store to pick up some bisquits & gravy.... check again.... & go do your nails.

By then you should be logged in! No problem!

I forgot what else I was going to say............

Chevyboy

And it's like "where are my friends?" 1/2 of them CAN'T post and have just plain given up! It's much easier to communicate by email than it is on here!

Moderators

We know, and are passing all feedback to the designers and tech team. Really sorry for all this frustration. We're hearing you!

magiclight

Poem by Mekhala Saran

As Ukraine combats the Russian invasion, and civilians in the country fear for their lives, the devastating impact of war becomes evident. 'Ballad of Bawling Babies' is a poem on war and what war does to us.

Valour is mute

So if war comes

It will not be the sound of honour,

Of sturdy men in sturdy boots

That you will hear

What you will hear,

However,

Will be a ballad of bawling babies

Broken, Ailing, Hungry...

Betrayal

Great poem, magiclight.

I hear you chevyboy. You are most likely correct about some just up and quitting rather than wait or hope it doesn't delete what you have tried to post. Glad to see moderators are reading posts about our frustrations. It should not have been this difficult to transition to a new provider. Hope after enduring all this that it will be better.