She did what she had to do. It sounds like they were putting an old dog down.She seems to admit it, honestly.Period.Sometimes, it's too expensive to fix and it's just time to get something brand new.…

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Sorry, Kamala. Hope you enjoyed your time in the spotlight. Because, now, the lights broadcast by the MSM and AI-generated crowds over at Kamala’s campaign appear to be dimming… Recent election forecasts…

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Hillary Clinton walked onto the stage Monday at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to loud cheers that delayed the beginning of her speech by more than a full minute. Before launching into her remarks on the nomination, she took the time to thank Joe Biden for his work as president and lauded him for showing “what it means to be a true patriot,” referring to his rather reluctant decision to step down from the candidacy and turn it over to his subordinate-successor. Clinton proceeded to speak about the historic potential of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidency. American women, she argued, have fought for a long time to secure equality and progress, recounting her experience with various female politicians who were firsts in their field, leading up to her own nomination as the first female presidential candidate from a major American political party.  “The future,” she proclaimed, “is now!”  With a closing reference to her famous statement that “it takes a village,” she promised that Harris would unify the nation, defend abortion rights and freedom, and prove to Americans that the only limit to a person’s progress is their own talent and work ethic. The post Hillary Clinton Wants Kamala to Complete Her Legacy appeared first on The American Conservative.

Few of us want to think about our pets dying, but I imagine even fewer of us want to think about how our pets would handle us dying.Many pets form bonds with their humans, some to an extreme degree. When an animal's human dies, it's a major life event, but it's not like someone can logically explain why their person just isn't around anymore. From the animal's perspective, their person just disappeared. A quote that's sometimes been attributed to David Attenborough (though its actual origin is unclear) offers an intriguing idea that might help a pet deal with an owner's death:"If I die while I have a pet, let my animal see my dead body, please. They understand death and seeing me dead will allow them to mourn, but if I just never show up one day they’ll think I abandoned them. I know what it feels like to be abandoned and I never want anyone to feel that way, especially my dog." — (@) Many people who have witnessed a pet losing their human have noted their grieving behaviors. President George H.W. Bush's service dog, Sully, famously spent the night lying by his casket two days after he died. A Canadian police officer's service dog, Danny, whimpered next to his owner's casket throughout his funeral, according to the American Kennel Club. There are countless stories of people's pets exhibiting mourning-type behaviors after a human passes away that make it clear that they are affected by their human's death.But is it true that seeing the body can help them process it better? a woman sitting in a courtroom with a dog on her lap Photo by The Good Funeral Guide on Unsplash VCA Animal Hospitals says that exposing the pet to a companion's dead body might help provide closure: "Pets have a limited understanding of death as finality. Some behaviorists think that a dog’s grief response may be reduced by having an opportunity to investigate the deceased. It could be helpful to let your pet see the body of his deceased friend. He may not totally grasp the situation, but one last visit may help him understand that his pal is gone."Greenlin Pet Resorts also includes in a list of helping pets through the loss of their owners, "Let them see the body of their deceased owner: This may not be practical in all situations, subt by allowing a mourning pet to see the body of their deceased companion you are providing the only real kind of communicable closure a human can give a pet in this situation."People on Reddit have shared their own personal anecdotes of animals seeming to process the death of an owner or a fellow pet companion better after being near their body. "We did this with my grandpa when he died. His dog knew but also went into a deep depression. He would just lay down and cry. He didn’t want to eat but then they remembered my grandpa would give him some McDonald’s cheeseburger as a treat. They went and got him one and he ate some! It took a few months of him being depressed but he would still sleep in my grandpas room and bed until he finally started to feel less sad.""I can confirm this. My mom died at my home and I asked the nurse if I could get my dog so he could see and sniff her. He came in, gave her a momentary sniff and then went to his normal 'gotta say hi to the nurse.' Until that day if I said 'grammy' he’d go looking for her, now he doesn’t react at all when I say it. He definitely knows." a dog sitting on a chair in front of a woman Photo by DEAD GOOD LEGACIES on Unsplash "Years ago a friend’s dad died at work. His dog spent the next couple of days pacing & looking for him, so they took him to the funeral home. Once he sniffed the body he understood & stopped searching for him.""Same with pets in a multi-pet family. When one of our two cats was put down due to age we showed the body to the other. She had a slightly shocked reaction so I think she understood he had died.""100% agree with this. My family had two little dogs, boy and girl. The boy passed in a boating accident and was not found for a few weeks, every single night the girl dog would howl and cry for the boy dog. When the body of the boy dog was finally found, we brought him home to be buried and she got to see his body, from then on she never cried but she is routinely found sitting under the tree next to his grave. She totally knows that he is there, it’s heartbreaking."Of course, we can't know what actually goes on in the minds of our pets, so we rely instead on observing their behaviors. We do know that animals often behave differently when owners die, and if seeing and smelling the deceased might help them process the loss, it certainly doesn't hurt to give it a try.

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Ya gotta love it. Here is this headline from that bastion of Establishment liberalism in the nation’s capital — the Washington Post. With false ‘coup’ claims, Trump primes supporters to challenge a Harris win Amid a tight presidential race, Donald Trump has tried to delegitimize Kamala Harris’s nomination and undermine confidence in this year’s election. In this gem, Post reporters Colby Itkowitz and Hannah Allam write: From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the surprise Democratic presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump began arguing that she was anointed through a “coup” rather than chosen by primary voters. After barely mentioning election integrity at the Republican convention in July, Trump is now casting the upcoming election as “rigged” against him and baselessly labeling any hurdle in his path as election interference. “This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed a president. It was a coup of a president. This was a coup. Well now. Reporters Itkowitz and Allam write: Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in this year’s election are reminiscent of the tactics he used in the 2020 campaign and indicate how he could again seek to delegitimize the results if he loses, setting the stage for another combustible fight over the presidency, election, and national security experts said. “They forced him out. It was a coup. We had a coup,” Trump said of Biden at an Aug. 9 rally in Bozeman, Mont. “That was the first coup of the history of our country, and it was very successful.” Got all that? According to the Post there was no coup from Democrat elites that forced Joe Biden out of his run for re-election. For Trump to say so is “baseless,” an attempt to “undermine confidence in this year’s election” and “delegitimize the results if he loses.” But wait! Here’s what the New York Times’ venerable liberal, Trump-hating columnist Maureen Dowd headlines over there of the Biden withdrawal: The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup. Ms. Dowd writes: Top Democrats are bristling with resentments even as they are about to try to put on a united front at the United Center in the Windy City. A coterie of powerful Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race. It wasn’t exactly “Julius Caesar” in Rehoboth Beach. But it was a tectonic shift and, of course, there were going to be serious reverberations. Even though it was the right thing to do, because Joe Biden was not going to be able to campaign, much less serve as president for another four years, in a fully vital way, it was a jaw-dropping putsch…. Biden went from looking “forward to getting back on the campaign trail” to gone in one weekend, with the handprints of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on the president’s back…. Party leaders whitewashed the coup by ornately extolling Biden…. Despite the grandiose flattery, Joe, Jill and Hunter were not fooled or appeased…. Those who pushed out Biden should be proud. They saved him and their party from a likely crushing defeat, letting Trump snake back in and soil democracy.” So. According to the Washington Post, Trump’s charges are “false ‘coup’ claims.” There was no coup, says the Post. None. It’s all Trump election interference lies. But over in the New York Times, there is liberal Maureen Dowd making it crystal clear, headlining: The Dems Are Delighted. But a Coup Is Still a Coup. And saying: A coterie of powerful Democrats maneuvered behind the scenes to push an incumbent president out of the race. It is rare that I would agree with the the New York Times in this space. But in this case, Times columnist Dowd has nailed it exactly — and the Washington Post’s reporters are trying — with no success —  to hide the obvious: Yes, this was a coup executed by Democrat elites to get rid of an aging, weak president they were convinced was going to lose to Trump. So they maneuvered to get him out. Joe knows it. The Biden family knows it. And the coup plotters know it. Alas for Kamala Harris and company, the rest of America knows it as well. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Remembering Reagan’s Warning David French: A Fallen Conserative’s Fairytale The post On the Biden Coup, the <i>Post</i> and the <i>Times</i> Disagree appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.