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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are entering the "falling out of windows" phase.
We are entering the âfalling out of windowsâ phase.
— Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) 2026-02-14T00:29:52.498Z
I hope Massie has some good security.
surfered
(12,458 posts)WWPD, what would Putin do?
JoseBalow
(9,341 posts)He'd stick to the tried-and-true playbook if he could...
Send thugs to bang on his door at 3AM. Frog walk him into the back of a Black Maria with a sack over his head, and take him on a joy ride ending on the wrong side of the gates to the Lubyanka. Keep him awake for a couple of weeks straight while subjecting him to constant interrogation, until he signs a confession to trumped-up charges (bonus points if he can be forced to implicate some acquaintance-subversives.) Then it's off to the frozen gulag for a double-nickel of starvation and hard labor.
Ah, The Good Old Days
eppur_se_muova
(41,411 posts)Enter stage left
(4,423 posts)It's not quite as fatal when you fall out the window.
Damn, I shouldn't have warned him.
cbabe
(6,446 posts)Trump admin horrifies with training on suicidal callers: 'That's not the thing you say'
By Matthew Chapman
Published February 13, 2026 8:13 PM ET
Mental health experts are aghast at the training Social Security Administration workers are receiving from the Trump administration on how to handle suicidal callers.
According to Government Executive, "SSA recently began shifting new swaths of its workforce to phone answering duty, including those who normally receive and process retirement and disability claims, manage the agencys technology and work in the agency's finances unit. Those employees received brief, three-hour training before they began answering calls. As part of that training, they were warned some callers may express suicidal ideation and presented with examples using a theoretical employee named Fiona."
In a video obtained from the training, an animated instructor tells the employees, It's important for Fiona to keep the caller engaged and to remind her that suicide is only one option, and that there is no urgency to make any decisions.
https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-2675268818/
TygrBright
(21,333 posts)OGBuzz
(113 posts)It sounds preemptive, like 'if anything were to happen to me..........'
Smart move actually.
sheshe2
(96,716 posts)Preemptive.
leftstreet
(39,628 posts)mitch96
(15,722 posts)Figarosmom
(10,685 posts)And can he fly? This does seem logical for Massie to say since trump is getting his play book from putin.
AllyCat
(18,673 posts)This makes me sick.
gopiscrap
(24,638 posts)Massive specifically referring to
sheshe2
(96,716 posts)cause of death, disagreeing with dear leader.
Accidents happen don't ya know.
gopiscrap
(24,638 posts)what a fucked up administration....last year when I was traveling around the world, people would come up to me and what the hell is wrong with the US. I made sure they knew I didn't vote for the orange child rapist!
sheshe2
(96,716 posts)BTW, Virginia Giuffre said much the same.
Hmmm...
— sonj1 (@sg99.bsky.social) 2026-02-14T00:57:59.529Z
Good on you for setting the record straight in your travels.
niyad
(130,725 posts)sheshe2
(96,716 posts)I am heartbroken that this is where we are now.
Pototan
(3,040 posts)Gravity
