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bradleyr00sterbradshaw · 2 years

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I Wanna Dance With Somebody | Rooster x Reader

A/N: Okay, before we get started, I'd like to specify something about the timeline in this fic. Top Gun: Maverick's timeline is really fuzzy. Although the movie came out in 2022, it was filmed in 2018/2019. However, during the movie, it's mentioned that it's been "nearly thirty years" since the events of the first Top Gun. Therefore, I've made the executive decision that this fic was set in 2016/2017, making Rooster around 34 in the present timeline. Reader is 26. Hope this clears up any confusion!

Warnings: Argument, breakup

November, 2011

A grin broke out on Rooster's face as he spun you around your kitchen, swaying to Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", your new engagement ring sparkling in the dimmed lights.

Laughing as the two of you did the pretzel, he began singing along, "Oh, I wanna dance with somebody! I wanna feel the heat—" He spun you around again, "With somebody. Yeah I wanna dance with somebody!"

Rooster twirled you into a dip, one hand on the the small of your back and the other on your waist, "With somebody who loves me..."

Straightening back up, your eyes met his and you leaned in, pressing a long kiss to his lips.

For the first time since his mother passed, he was at peace. He was happy. And he was in love.

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January, 2012

You were sitting on your hand-me-down couch, your feet propped up on the coffee table, laptop on your stomach as you scrolled through countless wedding venues.

Rooster came in not long after, kicking the door shut behind him. Thinking nothing of it, you smiled, calling out to him, "Hey, honey, when you get the chance, we really got to get cracking on these venues. We only a few more months away and if you want that summer wedding like you said you did, we're running out of time."

When you didn't get a response, you craned your head, trying to get a good view of the hallway. It's then that you saw your fiancé bracing himself on the wall by the entry table, his head bowed.

Placing your laptop to the side, you got up off the couch, walking over to him, "Hey... Everything alright, Roos?"

He exhaled, shaking his head.

Your hand settled on his back, rubbing the fabric of his shirt in small circles, "Let's sit down, okay? You can tell me about it then. You need something to drink? Some water? I think we've still got some orange juice left over from breakfast if you want it—"

"I don't want fucking orange juice, Y/N." He said, his voice low.

Shrinking back, you nodded, "Well what do you want?"

"Beer."

"I think we're out... I can check the fridge. Give me one second—"

He shook his head, "Forget it, Y/N. Just forget it."

"Bradley..." You trailed off, your hand moving to his shoulder to try and turn him towards you, "Talk to me, baby."

Rooster turned towards you, jerking your hand off of him, "Maverick pulled my fucking papers from the naval academy."

Shock crossed your face, "He what?"

"He just set my career back at least four years, maybe five," He hissed, "Jackass..."

"Did he say why?"

He let out a breathy laugh, "Get this: he said that I'm not ready."

You fell silent. As much as you loved Bradley Bradshaw, there was one thing that always bothered you about him: he was a bad mix of reckless and cocky. Not quite on the level of Maverick, at least from what you heard, but a different kind. He wanted to be the best. He wanted to be like his father. But in trying so hard, he wasn't. When he tried to be, at least.

From what you had heard, Goose was laid back and carefree. He was there to have a good time. Rooster had picked that up from him. That and the mustache, sunglasses, and affinity for Hawaiian shirts. But when it came to flying, they were polar opposites. Goose let Maverick take control, meanwhile Rooster waited for the right moment. Every. Damn. Time.

You had seen it yourself, sitting next to one of his old colleagues who explained to you everything he was doing. You then explained why he did it. Because of his father. Because of his need for Maverick's approval. Because, because, because.

It killed you to see him hurt then, and it killed you even more to see him hurt now.

"What?" Rooster asked, studying the look on your face, "Why are you looking at me like that? What, you don't think I'm ready either? Typical. Fucking typical..."

"Bradley," You frowned, smelling the alcohol on his breath, "How much have you had to drink?"

He scoffed, "Does it matter? My whole career is being set back and you're worried about the amount of alcohol I've had?"

"I'm worried about you." You said, growing frustrated, "I'm trying to be here for you, but I really need you to meet me half way."

"I need you to stop being down my damn throat!" He exclaimed, waving his hands frantically in the air.

Your lips quivered, trying to keep yourself together, "Is that really how you feel?"

"All the time!" He said, "You have no idea, no idea how hard my life has been."

"But I can try to help you through it," You bowed your head, "When I lost the internship in New York—"

"This isn't some random job in New York, Y/N!" Rooster hissed, "This is my whole future!"

You took a step back, "Rooster, that internship would've been huge for me. I was devastated. Trust me, I know how you feel. And I'm sorry. It sucks. And you're going to have to get through it. But I'll be right by your side, every step of the way."

"Maybe I don't want you by my side..." He said, refusing to meet your eyes.

"You don't mean that," You said, "It's the booze talking."

"No, no it's not," He said, "If you can't see what a big deal this is to me, then maybe you just don't know what I want in life."

Tears began falling down your face, "I thought you wanted me, Bradley."

"I thought I did, too."

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June, 2012

When Rooster had left you, mere months before your wedding day, you had been heartbroken. Devastated. You felt like your whole life had come crumbling down right before your eyes.

You thought of every possibility as to why. Why he left you. Was it really because you weren't "supportive enough"? Was it the age gap between the two of you? The two of you were a good nine, almost ten years apart. You were nineteen when you met, he was twenty seven. But that had never been a problem for him before, so why would it now? Maybe it was something deeper. But you'd never know.

So you sat on your front porch, tears streaming down your face with a bottle of champagne in your hand, watching the sunset, your heart setting with it.

Today was supposed to be your wedding day.

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2017

Walking into The High Dive, you didn't know what to expect. One of your friends from college had begged you to check it out, telling you it had the best drinks in town.

But when you walked in, you immediately regretted coming. Everywhere you turned, you saw pilots. Pilots that you knew all too well. Or, at least, you thought you did. They were just like him. Or you thought they were. The truth was, nobody was like Rooster. Nobody.

That's when you saw him. Rooster. Blending in with the his copilots in the sense that there was a familial bond between them, but standing out in so many ways. His hair was shorter, he had grown a mustache, but he wore the same sunglasses and tacky Hawaiian shirts.

You gazed at him for what felt like forever, taking him all in. Then you turned on your heel, fighting back the urge to break down into a sob.

Walking up to the bar, you slipped into one of the black leather barstools, ordering an amaretto sour.

The bartender looked you up and down, a hand on her hip, "Do I know you from somewhere...?"

You were about to respond when you heard the start of a piano. The start of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". Your whole body stiffened and you gripped your drink tightly in your hand, slowly turning on your stool to look behind you as the song started.

"Clock strikes upon the hour, and the sun begins to fade..."

He looked up at you from under his sunglasses, his fingers gliding effortlessly over the keys.

"Still enough time to figure out, how to chase my blues away."

You inhaled sharply, tears beginning to form in your eyes.

"I've done alright up to now," His voice cracked, and he sniffled, "It's the light of day that shows me how."

A tear fell down your cheek, and you were quick to wipe it away, hoping no one saw it. But someone did. He did.

"And when the night falls, loneliness calls..."

That's when the whole bar started, jumping up and down and singing along. It drowned out the piano, drowned out his voice. He rose from his bench, walking over to you.

Setting your drink down on the counter, you met him halfway.

Rooster took your hands in his, giving them a light squeeze, his thumb brushing over your knuckles as the bar continued to sing, "I fucked up, Y/N. The biggest mistake I ever made was letting you go."

"You hurt me, Roos, more than you know."

"I'm sorry. For everything. There's a lot of things I'm still figuring out. But I'd like to think that I've been doing better." He bowed his head, momentarily taking a hand back to remove his sunglasses, "But I do know one thing: that I'm in love with you. And that hasn't changed. It won't change."

You nodded, "If we give this—us—another chance, you have to promise to talk to me."

"I promise. I'd promise you the world if I could."

"You are my world."

He pressed his forehead to yours, "And you're my sun, moon, and stars."

The two of you stayed like that for a long time. And while you eventually let go of each others hands, you kept each others hearts.

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www-ldyjulanna · 2 years

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The oubliette of life

By Ldyjulanna

(Betty Hayes)

June 29, 2022

oubliette French for a place of forgetting

authors note:

{{I’m not sure exactly when I first heard the word oubliette, but I remember being intrigued by the whole concept an oubliette is usually a very deep hole. Most the time either natural or man-made going down deep enough that it would be dangerous to Nigh impossible to get back out. That is why it’s called the place of forgetting in medieval times, it said that castles had oubliette as forms of punishment most often near and/or below banquet halls so that once someone either fell or was placed in the oubliette they had nothing, save the smells and sounds of parties and banquets. As in sound would travel and the smells of food they would be left forgotten at the bottom of this great black pit. Smelling and hearing everything that was going on but left to their own hell of sensory deprivation, solitude and starvation. I feel I should also mention it was around this time that I was asked to write some medieval poetry around the concept of the oubliette. I don’t remember what happened to the former exactly what it was about or what it said. I do however remember that the teacher in question. The board was for thought it was good enough to show the principal to try and enter some sort of poetry contest. He agreed with her, but he also ended up sending me to school, shrink LOL needless to say I never turned to any more poetry into the school after that. :-) Also don’t ask me what prompted this little squirrel moment I was currently trying to write a fanfiction and lost my train of thought and couldn’t pick it back up. I recently read that if you were working on one thing and couldn’t continue start something small and it might help new get back to where you are going so will see! I’m kinda disappointed. I don’t have a copy of the original to see how they differ. With the passage of time.}}}

I for one have always thought that an oubliette and life had a few things in common. An oubliette is usually dark and deep, so you don’t know what you’re going to find at the bottom. Much like you don’t know what’s going to happen in life. When were born as infants we are brought into a foreign, world.

The unknown oubliette of life. If we’re lucky were born to a good family who helps us and supports us and holds us up during our slow exploration into the oubliette of life until their arms get tired or with age. We become too heavy for them to be our safety net. As with the exuberance of youth.

We rush headlong into the dark unknown trying to find the answers at the bottom of this very big deep unending hole known as the oubliette of life. As we age while hanging out over the edge. Those lucky to have been born to caring and loving parents provide us with proper grounding and/or education which could also be known as tools such as, safety harnesses and rope, pickaxes and pitons to slow our descent into our journey of life to a safer, slower, more controlled descent.

Where those of us not so lucky have to be content with scraping and bouncing along the sides, dragging scraping our fingernails bloody along the oubliette’s unforgiving walls scrabbling for whatever cracks, crevices, footholds and left-over purchases made by those before us. That we can hope to find. Leaving pieces of ourselves along the way.

So, that we can survive hitting bottom at a faster rate with enough energy to fight our way back to the top. Without the luxury of repelling gear in the form of caring friends, family and lovers to be our anchor to give us respite when we lose foothold on the flimsy purchases, we’ve carved out in our haste to see what’s at the bottom of life’s oubliette.

Some can set and wait to be pulled into the light. Those that are lucky… They didn’t get scraped and bloodied on their way down so they can handle a few scrapes as they lazily twirl and bounce off the walls while being hauled up.

The not so lucky ones whose fingertips are bloody by the time they hit bottom from trying to find footholds purchases and respite for just a few minutes here and there, all on their own. When they finally find the bottom of the so-called oubliette of life. This, pit of existence. At first, there is enjoyment and excitement at having finally accomplished this task, no matter the pain and fear suffered to reach the bottom. This is the place everyone wants to go right?

The place everyone strives to find? and they found it. So there has to be something here, right?

It’s a few minutes later, though, looking around cold, hungry, blind from the complete darkness they feel around the walls even feel the marks and indentations of so many before them.

Where they have scrabbled probably most likely in a panic. After discovering the same thing, they did that this entire activity. This journey all the pain. Everything is meaningless.

There’s nothing here just more endless blackness. And they, being, who they are;

don’t even have the luxury of the safety rope or harness to see dangling in the darkness.

When they look above them at the place they’ve been, it’s just more endless, pointless, cold darkness.

Maybe if they are one of the lucky ones who had footholds, handholds; also known as friends and lovers by who they would truly be missed. And remember that they want to hear about their journey. Maybe then they would have a reason to claw their way back; and to remember light that they want to believe is still up there where they left it. But as they look around and they see nothing but blackness around them

they begin to lose sense of their surroundings, the sense of their feet on the firm ground; that they’ve fought so hard to get to. They think to themselves,

why?

Why?

Why should they try?

Why, should they claw why should they risk falling back down?

Again and again into the darkness and shame and disappointment for not having accomplished yet another goal?

This time?

Why try getting out?

When there’s really not anything up there in the so-called light they can barely remember to begin with?

That was the whole point, wasn’t it? The whole point in this journey down the oubliette of life, wasn’t it?

To accomplish something to have something to show for it?

Once they got to the bottom have something to bring back to the top so that they could say yeah, they did that!

But there’s nothing here at the bottom of this endless darkness.

There’s nothing to take back nothing worth fighting for. Now that they’ve got to where they thought they wanted to be. Especially since they don’t have an anchor at the top, waiting to help to pull themselves up so they can show them what this was all for. That they’ve journeyed into the oubliette of life and have something to show for it.

So, they square their shoulders, pick up a pebble and put it in their pocket for later, for remembrance.

Placing their Fingers against the unforgiving walls when the pressure against their battered and used fingertips, sends fire up their arm and into their already abused overworked shoulder muscles.

They take a deep breath and push the pain down. Because if they concentrate hard enough, they can hear faint sounds of others and they tell themselves that maybe, just maybe on their way up,

They might meet someone, and if they do, they’ll wait for them, to find what they’re looking for at the bottom.

If they are lucky, maybe they have an anchor that can help both of them up. So, time to start ignoring the pain. Trying with all their might to find purchase almost slipping back into the darkness. When their feet skid.

Lucky for them though they are there not that far off the ground. So, when they land again. They sense movement around they decide to wait. Suddenly a hand comes out of the darkness and grips. There’s pulling them closer. They noticed that the person belonging to the hand does indeed have a rope.

So, they graciously accept their saviours offer of help, and they are cautiously pulled up after waiting for their Saviour to come to terms with what they to discovered, at the bottom. Of this all-encompassing darkened oubliette of life, they become too comfortable allowing their offered lifeline out of the darkness to take most of their weight when suddenly it snaps. And this time they are falling harder and faster.

Then They ever did when they lost their hold on their first journey down. They find themselves scrabbling even more desperately than before to slow their rapidly increasing dissent.

Fear overtaking them in the total blackness that was starting to grey before their lifeline snapped. Once again, they feel the fire in their fingertips. Even worse, before as they are not yet healed from their first journey slow as it was into the pit of life. Their only half muffled scream of protest at the persistent pain is echoed back at them off the walls.

However, is cut off quickly when there back slams into the unforgivable ground, that they were standing on. Before deciding on trying to claw their way to the top. They are disoriented because in the darkness. They can see nothing; and know nothing of what’s coming to them or what may not be. They know, their eyes are open but in the absolute blackness. It makes no difference. Knowing they are staring in the direction that they know the light has to come from, but all they can see is absolute darkness. They wait a few minutes to see if their lifeline and anchor also joined there fall? They try to breathe in and feel pain in their chest, their mouth fills with coppery liquid. They know is blood.

They weigh their options trying to get up and climb their way out with their obvious injuries.

But really what is the point now? They are and have been repeatedly bruised, battered and scarred and have nothing to show for everything that they wanted to do. Hope they’d find at the bottom of this forgetting place. With no answers to be found.

No treasures to take with them and show off.

What’s the point, why even try?

Why, why, cause themselves even more pain with absolutely nothing to show for it?

What’s the point?

Especially for something that from down here at the bottom of this oubliette of darkness. Of this place of forgetting. They can’t even see the faintest hint of light, that was never very bright to start with.

no, why not stay? save themselves the pain? Fadeaway as those who are meant to fade into the oblivion of life’s oubliette.

Even if they are a lucky one. How long will others stand at the edge of life’s oubliette waiting for them, really?

Or could they really truly look beyond the darkness and work together to bring each other back to the edge of light? How far and how long will another allow their weight to drag them down?

They have already made many missteps in haste, and suffer many failures, resulting in more permanent damages and despair. Each time. Is it fair to make another pay for their hastily made mistakes and multiple failures?

If you fail alone in the dark, yourself. That’s one thing. However, at some point you have to make a decision.

-The oubliette of life

Ldyjulanna 6-29-2022

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atzbabyy · 5 years

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Struggles of a Blessing | KYS ~ Nari

genre: fluff, angst

summary: in which, after nari’s birth, you and yeosang take time to reflect on the whole process

age: Nari = 4 months

warnings: conceivement struggles, vomit, labour, long ass story

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14th September, 2023

“She’s down,” Yeosang whispered, coming next to you and kissing your head.

You smiled, laying on the sofa and allowing Yeosang to lay beside you, arm over your stomach, drawing shapes on your waist lazily with his finger.

Yeosang sighed, kissing your head, “it’s been so long since we were just like this.”

“Hmm?” you hummed, slightly confused, “what do you mean?”

“Since it was just us, together, quietly, completely content,” Yeosang said, content sigh escaping his lips along with his sentence.

You nodded, thinking back, “I guess it has.”

9th May, 2020

“Come on, come on,” you held your breath, looking up to the sky as you sat on the bathroom floor, “please?”

Your timer went off and you smiled, getting up quickly to turn it off before looking to the small white stick; negative.

You sighed, rolling your eyes as you walked out to see your husband stood there with hopeful eyes.

You shook your head, “nope, not yet.”

Yeosang nodded, pulling you into a hug and kissing your head, “it’s alright, we can keep trying, right?”

“Yeah,” you nodded, squeezing his hand, “we just have to stay positive.”

15th December, 2020

“What does it say?” Yeosang asked, “Y/N? Wait! If it’s good save it for a Christmas present!”

You sighed, opening the bathroom door and shaking your head, “no, Sangie. It’s negative.”

Yeosang’s shoulders deflated, his whole demeanour shrinking slightly, “you’re not joking, are you?”

You shook your head, walking into your husbands arms, “it’s okay, it’s okay. We’ll keep trying.”

“Y/N we’ve tried everything,” Yeosang said, his voice hitching in his throat as he buried his face in your hair.

“I know,” you said, rubbing his back as tears formed in your own eyes, “I know we have. But we have time.”

15th November, 2021

“So our results show that Miss Y/N isn’t producing eggs at the rate that most women do,” the doctor said, “which would explain the lack of conception.”

You nodded, “is there anything we can do?”

“If you desire, we can put you on medication, such as clorifene, to speed up your egg release. Otherwise, there are obvious routes such as IVF, or even adoption,” the doctor explained, “I’m sorry.”

You smiled, squeezing Yeosang’s hand, “thank you, Doctor.”

The walk out the hospital was silent, both you and Yeosang too scared to say anything. The ride back to your house was silent as well, only the radio playing quietly in the background.

It was silent until the moment you walked into the house, Yeosang putting the keys on the side gently as the two of you took off your shoes.

Suddenly, Yeosang grabbed your arm and pulled you into a hug.

“I’m sorry,” you whispered, tears beginning to fall from your eyes and onto Yeosang’s shirt.

Your husband sighed, clutching you tighter, “it’s okay. We’ll keep trying, okay? We could even take the medication if nothing happens. Come on, shh.”

18th February, 2022

“No, Yeosang, I’m so tired,” you sighed as Yeosang grabbed your waist and you felt his hard-on against your thigh.

“Seriously?” Yeosang asked, “Y/N we said we’d keep trying.”

“Yeah, and we’ve tried every single day for the past two weeks, Yeosang!” you exclaimed, “I’m tired! I’m just so, so tired! Not just of this, of everything! I’m physically, mentally and emotionally just exhausted, Yeosang.”

Yeosang sighed, watching as you sat up, practically tearing your hair out, “I’m sorry.”

You looked back to your husband as he laid in bed, rubbing your back soothingly. The red birth mark on the side of his face was evident in the morning sun and you smiled slightly, leaning over and kissing it.

“I love you,” you whispered, kissing his cheek.

Yeosang smiled, tucking your hair behind your ear, “I love you too. And this will work. We’ll have a child.”

21st August, 2022

“So?” Yeosang called, a slight sigh in his voice, “Y/N? It’s okay if it’s not, look we’ve already called the doctor to ask about the medication, please just come out—”

“Yeosang,” you said, appearing out the bathroom, tears already streaming down your face.

“I know,” Yeosang sighed, “I know, it was the seafood, wasn’t it?”

You shook your head, laughing slightly, “Yeosang, I—I’m pregnant.”

“What?!”

“It says positive,” you sobbed, as Yeosang fell to his knees.

“Quick! Quick, take another one!” Yeosang exclaimed, “I can’t take it if it gives us false hope.”

“Look,” you sobbed, showing him the three pregnancy tests you’d done, all displaying the word ‘positive’.

“Oh my god,” Yeosang said, beginning to sob, “oh my god.”

You smiled, wiping away your tears as he wrapped his arms around your waist, pressing kisses to your stomach.

“Our baby,” he mumbled, “finally, we have our baby.”

18th November, 2022

“You alright, Y/N?” Hongjoong asked.

You shook your head, putting your plate down quickly and running to the toilet, throwing up everything you’d eaten, probably for the last two days.

Yeosang sighed, “do you want me to—”

“Nope!”

Yunho chuckled, “she’s very headstrong.”

Yeosang sighed, getting another slice of pizza, “this has been happening every day, I just think she’s used to it.”

“Like this though? Everytime she eats?” Seonghwa asked.

Yeosang nodded, “but the baby’s always hungry, so it’s kind of a vicious cycle.”

The boys all looked a bit sad as their wives just all grimaced.

“But they’re healthy right?” Mingi asked, “the baby, I mean.”

Yeosang nodded, sighing slightly, “yeah. Everything’s just... not as easy as we thought it would be.”

Hongjoong’s wife snorted, “wait till they’re actually here.”

26th February, 2023

“Yo!” Wooyoung shouted, walking into the house, “yo, where’s my best friend?”

Yeosang chuckled, taking off his shoes, “she’s on bed rest.”

“Bed rest?” Wooyoung repeated, eyes wide.

Yeosang nodded, sighing slightly as he went to the bottom of the stairs.

“I’m home! With Wooyoung!” he called.

“Shit,” you said quickly (and what you thought was quietly) before footsteps could be heard across the upstairs.

“Kang Y/N!” Wooyoung shouted, “have you been up while you’re supposed to be on bed rest?!”

Yeosang rolled his eyes, nodding for Wooyoung to follow him as he ran up the stairs, seeing you get back into bed.

“It’s so boring!” you exclaimed, making Wooyoung laugh as he jumped into the bed beside you.

“Is baby not well then?” he asked.

You shrugged, “they’re just taking precautions.”

Wooyoung nodded, “your child is being very stubborn about coming into this world.”

“You’re telling me,” Yeosang sighed, sitting at the end of the bed.

You sat up slightly, rubbing your back, “but they’re coming whether they like it or not.”

“Good to know Y/N hasn’t changed a bit,” Wooyoung laughed, cuddling up to you.

You hit his arm, “ya, what’s that supposed to mean?”

Yeosang laughed, rolling his eyes as he watched you two play fight. His two best friends (though one may have a tiny bit more bias).

4th May, 2023

“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Two, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,” Hongjoong counted, “Mingi, too wide, you need to stay more in the middle.”

Mingi nodded, shuffling in a bit.

Hongjoong sighed, seeing all the member’s exhausted faces, sweat dripping down their faces.

“Alright, let’s take a short break,” Hongjoong said, getting a towel to wipe his own sweat, chucking a few others at the boys.

“Yeosang, your phone’s blowing up,” Jongho said, looking at the notifications on his hyung’s phone, “you might wanna get this, they’re all from Y/N.”

Yeosang’s eyes widened slightly as he jogged across the room, checking his messages first.

Y/N🤮🧡 - can we get take-out tonight ??? i want chinese (delivered 17:44)

Y/N🤮🧡 - just to let you know (bc i know you love me loads and want to know whats going on with me every second of the day) i have some pretty serious cramps (delivered 17:45)

Y/N🤮🧡 - yeah ngl these are serious (delivered 17:59)

Y/N🤮🧡 - hi just occured to me that i might be in labour (delivered 18:07)

Y/N🤮🧡 - just came off the phone with the doctor, i am in labour (delivered 18:09)

Y/N🤮🧡 - kang yeosang pick up your phone right now (delivered 18:12)

“Everything alright?” Wooyoung asked.

“No, my wife’s a fucking idiot,” Yeosang said, eyebrows furrowed as he called you back, “hello? Yeah, what the fuck?”

“Yeosang I need none of that I am in a lot of pain,” you said, taking deep breaths.

“Wha-What’s going on? Are we gonna go to the hospital?” Yeosang asked.

You sighed, “no, the doctor said I should wait until my contractions are every 5 minutes.”

“Oh,” Yeosang said, “and what are they now?”

“Like, 10?” you guessed, “I don’t know, I haven’t timed it.”

“Well time it please!” Yeosang exclaimed, “do you want me to come home?”

“Yeah, can we get chinese?” you asked.

“Y/N, you’re in labour,” Yeosang said.

“Yeah and I am very hungry,” you said.

“Order the food now, I ate with the boys,” Yeosang said, “call me if anything else happens, okay?”

“Okay, love you,” you said, hanging up quickly.

“What’s going on?” Hongjoong asked.

“Y/N’s in labour,” Yeosang said, “she said she doesn’t want me home but...”

“Go home, Yeosang,” Seonghwa said.

“Should I?”

The boys all nodded and Yeosang smiled.

“I’ll call you when we go to the hospital!” Yeosang called, quickly gathering up all his stuff, “oh my god. Oh my god it’s happening.”

4th May, 2023 (still) (now 22:54)

“Y/N please,” Yeosang sighed.

“No,” you said, shaking your head, “nope. Not happening.”

“Y/N, they’re like, 5 minute 45 seconds we can go! We, actually, need to go!” your husband exclaimed.

“Yeosang, I can’t,” you said, shaking your head.

“What do you mean you can’t?” Yeosang asked, “Y/N. You’ve taken a bath, you’ve eaten, you’ve cleaned the nursery, you’re water has broken and your contractions are 5 minutes apart. You can and you need to.”

“Right now?” you asked.

“Right now,” he said, nodding, “and we’ll get to the hospital and they’ll deliver our baby and we’ll have our baby!”

“We need to go,” you said.

“Thank you,” Yeosang said, sighing slightly as he picked up your hospital bag and the keys, holding your waist and slowly guiding you out the house.

5th May, 2023

“Yeosang?” you asked, gasping in pain, “can I have your hand?”

Yeosang nodded as you took his hand in yours, squeezing tightly as the other hand squeezed the bed sheets.

“Just breath, Y/N,” the nurse said, “keep breathing.”

“Can we go yet?!” you exclaimed, panting as the contraction got more intense.

“Do you want us to measure again?” the nurse asked.

“Please!”

The nurse nodded, walking over and measuring your dialation as you squeezed tighter and tighter onto Yeosang’s hand.

“I’m sorry,” you said quietly, quite aware of how tight your grip was.

Yeosang shook his head, a polite smile on his face.

“Nearly there! 6cm,” the nurse said.

“6?!” you exclaimed, “I’ve been in labour for 10 hours and I am 6cm?!”

“It’s quite normal,” the nurse said, “don’t worry.”

You sighed as your contraction passed and you collapsed against the bed.

Yeosang smiled, brushing some of the sweat off your head, “you okay?”

“What do you think?” you asked, making Yeosang laugh slightly, “obviously not.”

“I’m sorry,” he said, kissing you gently.

You shook your head, entertwining your fingers with his, “don’t be. This’ll be worth it.”

Yeosang nodded, “of course it will. All to have our baby.”

5th of May, 2023 (still) (now 13:19)

“Okay, Y/N, 10cm,” the nurse said, “you can start pushing now.”

“I can?!” you exclaimed, “oh my god, oh my god, Yeosang, where’s Yeosang?!”

“I’m here, I’m here,” he said, arriving at your side, “it’s alright. I’m right here.”

“Okay, do you want to start pushing, Y/N?” the midwife asked, the nurses all walking around busily.

“Come on,” Yeosang smiled, “it’s alright. Want to hold my hand?”

You nodded, taking his hand tightly into yours.

“In the count of 3, yeah?” the doctor said, “1, 2, 3.”

You began pushing, your body already feeling tired from all the pain you’d been feeling for the last 20 hours.

“Come on, if you keep pushing soon you’ll meet your baby,” the midwife said.

“Do we know what the gender is?” the nurse asked as you began pushing again.

Yeosang shook his head, stroking your head comfortingly, “no. It’s going to be a surprise.”

“I don’t feel well,” you sobbed as Yeosang wiped away your tears.

“Do you want some gas? Or are you gonna be sick, honey?” the nurse asked.

“I think I’m gonna be sick,” you said, panting.

The nurse got a sick bucket and held it by your head as Yeosang stroked your hair back away from your face.

“It’s alright, completely normal,” the nurse said.

“We ready to start pushing again?” the midwife asked.

You shook your head.

“Come on, then you can hold your baby!” the midwife encouraged.

“Once more?” Yeosang offered, “you can do it.”

You took a deep breath, beginning to push once again. After a few minutes of pushing they called more doctors into the room.

“Yeosang, what– what’s going on?” you asked sleepily.

Yeosang shook his head, “I don’t know. But it’ll be okay.”

“Okay, Y/N, we’re going to have to take you to the surgery room to do an emergency c-section, okay?” the nurse said, “we’re gonna have to do two more injections, okay?”

You nodded slightly as Yeosang helped you sit up, the nurses lifting up your hospital gown and injecting two needles into your back, Yeosang helping you to lay back down.

“I want Yeosang there,” you said, not letting go of your husband’s arm.

“I’ll be there,” he nodded, “it’s okay. I will.”

6th May, 2023

“Oh my god,” Yeosang breathed, the midwife holding the small baby in his arms.

“Would you like to do skinship while we finish off the surgery?” the nurse asked.

Yeosang looked to you and you nodded, “go, do it.”

Yeosang smiled, nodding eagerly as he and the nurse left the room, Yeosang taking off his shirt and letting the nurse lay his daughter on his chest.

“So by hearing your heart beat, it will help your baby to feel closer to both parents as she is obviously already aware of how her mum feels,” the nurse explained, “having your shirt off allows for her to her your heartbeat clearly.”

Yeosang nodded, looking in awe at the tiny baby on his chest.

“Any ideas of names?” the nurse asked.

“Um, we like flowery names,” Yeosang nodded, “like Changmi or Nari.”

The nurse nodded, “river lily.”

“Oh yeah,” Yeosang nodded, smiling, “Kang Nari. Our river lily.”

“You might wanna check with the Mrs first,” the nurse chuckled.

Yeosang smiled, running a finger down Nari’s back, “I’m sure she’ll like it.”

14th September, 2023

“I love you,” Yeosang hummed, pressing a kiss to your forehead, “you’ve been through a lot.”

You smiled, looking back and kissing his lips, “we both have.”

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I am terrified of the results of the 2022 midterms because there’s no way in hell Democrats will be able to pass a federal gerrymandering ban, whether they wanted to or not (and chances are enough of them don’t want to that it would be moot anyway). Republicans took back the House in 2010 in a coordinated effort literally called REDMAP, they weren’t even trying to hide it, it’s insidious and it’ll happen again only worse. The only consolation I can find is that a lot of states have already been gerrymandered so much that there’s not much more they can do to make it worse; believe me, they WILL make it worse, just not unchangingly so. It can be undone, slowly, as demographics change, cities grow or shrink, suburbs swing one way or the other, but Republicans will pick up DOZENS of seats; I predict they will lose the nationwide popular vote but win in a landslide anyway. The Blue Wave wasn’t nearly as big as we had hoped, but the Red Tide will decimate us.

The House is as good as gone, but it is imperative beyond everything else that we keep hold of the Senate. If we lose the Senate, it’s game over. Bitch McConnell isn’t gonna let Biden appoint any judges, he’s not suddenly gonna play fair after fucking over Obama for two years and kissing Trump’s ass for four. If Republicans take back the Senate, the judiciary will swing so far to the right, I don’t even want to speculate because nothing I can imagine will be as bad as it would be. If we thought concentration camps for migrants were bad, picture what’ll happen if the 6-3 or 7-2 conservative court decides that Obergefell v Hodges was wrong and they get rid of gay marriage, or that trans people are not protected by the 14th amendment, or that the right to vote can be abridged based on where you live (because that’s technically not based on race, gender, or age, and the constitution only specifies those three).

Democrats need to get rid of the filibuster or reform it so it’s as harsh as it used to be; if you want to filibuster a piece of legislation, you should have to actually hold the floor for as long as possible. The record is 24 hours, so it would be a war of attrition to see who broke first, Democrats or Republicans. Say that all 50 Republicans filibustered, there’s no way all 50 could make it a full day each, so the absolute most they could push it is 7 weeks MAX, I figure they’d lose steam and public support in 1. If moderates like Joe Manchin and Kysten Sinema won’t get rid of the filibuster, it needs to be completely overhauled so the majority can actually GET SHIT DONE.

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I don’t really want you to see me, but I still want to show you. (2021/2022)

Mixed media installation, variable dimensions by Chloe Yap Mun Ee

Tiny screen, it translates my guilt, my shyness, my inhibitions. I deserve to be in a tiny screen. So small you can hardly see my face, my gestures. So small you can hardly see my true feelings and intentions. Even when I am cautious of showing you (reserved), I still want you to see it.

Video documentation:

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Statement:

An absurd feeling of guilt.

The tiny screen form originates from a strange desire to shrink the intimidating size of cinema to an *almost* impossible tiny size.

The large cinematic image scares me. Because of a guilt I have harboured in myself for my relationship with it and how I use the giant screen and the widely beloved format. I don’t trust myself with it - believing that I can no longer be honest with myself about whether I am truly careful with the people I capture in film.

The fear and guilt is paralysing. Maybe it will all go back to normal after I truly distort this form like this...

The fear is seemingly unfounded, yet I am curious to see what happens if I truly embrace this odd relationship I have with the cinema image - or rather the ‘shy’ image.

I am still aware of the tiny screen’s potential outside of my personal intention and impetus, but it felt right to start here by isolating this incomprehensible experience and emotion, to interrogate why there is an existence of this fear of form.

Could I be forgiven for fearing form itself? But the bigger question is, will I successfully incriminate myself like this? Or am I putting myself to display in an absurd way for nothing? Am I still in the middle of a contradicting power dynamic between author, subject, and audience? Or am I distracting you from seeing who I really am?

Experience and role of an audience

I hope the audience will enter the room and find chairs all lined up facing a seemingly empty wall as if the show hasn’t started yet. But there are sounds playing on the speakers hidden in the ceiling and as you look closely, you see a small light flickering in the middle of the wall, as if from a small hole. A lone chair is placed just in front of this tiny flickering light.

You go close. You see it’s a screen, now shrunken, different from what they would expect in a setting like this. And so you sit on the chair and hopefully enjoy the micro show that is playing inside the tiny rectangle… You find it uncomfortable and maybe you will leave before you finish the whole thing. Maybe you won’t even watch at all; or you’d just sit in the lined chairs instead of the single one in front; or you’d be lost or confused.

Outside on the walls, the ‘story so far’ text offered by the author doesn’t seem to help much. Who were these characters the authors are mentioning? Have they seen this work yet that is intended especially for them?

I don’t mind. I’m open to and hope for everything from the individual audience. I’m curious to see what would happen. Maybe you would feel bored and rearrange the chairs. Maybe you will relate to the power possessed by the robotic voice instructing the author-subject in the film and feel satisfied.

Before, I intended to create this feeling of isolation in the audience. Perhaps to display what you look like - all alone, stripped of this communal experience, while the many chairs behind beckon at you. Maybe you’d still feel this way but I’m just trying to pull you away from the ‘crowd’ and the pressure that is associated with the many chairs behind you. So I can have you one at a time all to myself...

As the audience is watching the tiny film, they will find at one point that they are being recorded too and will see themselves inside the tiny film. So maybe you will feel betrayed and frustrated that the author-subject tricked you and was watching you ‘perform’ all along.

In the end, which role are you playing?

Inviting judgment on the author

I place myself in this project - as an author playing the character of the author, to be judged; albeit with hesitation.

I see many problems with myself carving and writing stories and manipulating events, which causes guilt in me and offers me a drive to do better.

I want to question myself, and scrutinize my role as the author; and allow the characters in my text to do the same where I could not. Perhaps even inviting the audience to do the same where the characters themselves could not.

Because I am scrutinizing myself, I would not only feel guilt, but I will also feel shame. Therefore, the ‘shyness’ is a facade that allows me to expose my own depravity.

Initial Proposal for Bakat Muda Sezaman 2021

… I created this for that purpose. I promised I would build this place. This gesture of showing, and you watching me in this absurd, distorted form. I’m afraid of showing too much, but I still want you to see… ... see how I am incriminating myself.

“The story so far”

One day, there were two actors named F---- and M--. They met during an acting exercise for a project by an experimental film director named C----. This was an ambitious project, C---- wanted them to exist in a world where they act like animals. The project’s working title was “Zoophiles”.

C---- was known to manipulate actors to their whim and would even steal parts of actors’ personal lives to enrich the fictional film worlds - sometimes forcing and changing them to fit a rigid design even when the actors weren’t fully comfortable; because that would entail in them foregoing personal principles or desires as they walk the line between fiction and reality. Actors usually fight back; for some amount of perceived control? What normal person wouldn’t? And yet the camera and screen would always win. We would see the actors slowly giving up their humanity for the screen - their eyes, their thoughts, minute mannerisms, habits, their soul. After all, they’re reborn on screen; when the cameras stop recording, they no longer exist as their original form. They embody an imagined character, but are animated to life by their innate realness.

In the process of developing the project, the three of them became close but of course, F---- and M-- were closer. As C---- could understand it, they fell in love. C---- became a mere spectator in their growing relationship; sometimes an uninvited one. But the project had to go on. They still had to finish the task of mimicking animals. They grew weary but continued giving C---- what they needed for the camera. As F---- and M-- slowly sacrifice their humanity for the project, they find solace in each other. They soon decide to rebel and leave C----, to protect what is left of their slippery individuality. Totally understandable. But who are you without your image? How do you exist outside of your recorded version? Your eyes, don’t they hold more meaning gazing out of the giant screen? Your hands, don’t they possess more purpose when their movements are watched? In the end, the subject holds little power. The true power lies outside of your image, and you sit neatly in the space between the audience and the screen.

C---- lost their two subjects. At the same time, they lost their own power too. In order to obtain the power back, C---- figured they had to put themself in the shoes of their subjects. C---- found an animal they could mimic. It was a stray dog named Kannon. C---- thought it was the reincarnation of a beautiful yet familiar goddess; the one from their childhood, the godmother who watches over all the children who bears part of her name. C---- received advice and guidance from Kannon, although they thought Kannon secretly hated them. And the sound, the annoying trumpet-like sound would ring endlessly from the sky during this time. C---- didn’t know Kannon could play instruments but always thought the sound came from her. Nevertheless, the new relationship was a fruitful one. C---- was now the subject with Kannon to answer to. It was divine and pure, C---- found new purpose and managed to find themself again from all the back and forth poems they sent each other.

Note to two special people: If you are F---- or M--, please enter the room and watch what I have prepared for you. Know that I am sorry and I have attempted to incriminate myself in this distorted form. Although I am deeply embarrassed and uncomfortable, enjoy the power you now have over me and join the audience. You should be free now, I am returning your humanity to you by giving away mine. Kannon, I think you are now able to travel freely on two feet too? I hope you are proud of what I did for these two humans!

Although I’m not sure if it’s necessary for you to constantly play that instrument in here.

“Zoophiles” (or Too Shy to Pet the Doggie) Concept Trailer:

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concept trailer for film - footage comprised of character test and screen test sessions.

Incomplete writings:

The following are selected ongoing ‘exchanges’ I had with Kannon or “K” which began in year 2019 until present.

My body is an animal

She looks a little different on earth

Untitled poem about guilt

The place

To K #1

To K #6

K says #1

K says #2

For you, I’d like to see what it looks like

Musical Explorations:

“slippery”

“life is boring”

“sounds i fear”

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Who Won The House Republicans Or Democrats

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Who Won The House Republicans Or Democrats

Only Two Republicans Liz Cheney And Adam Kinzinger Vote For Select Committee To Investigate Riot And Aftermath Following Gop Blockade Against Bipartisan Probe

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After congressional Republicans widely rejected a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol riot, US Rep Michelle Fischbach claimed that “Democrats refuse to put together a truly bipartisan commission” – after she voted against the bipartisan attempt from both Democrats and Republicans.

“Give me a break,” Democratic US Rep Jim McGovern told the House of Representatives on 30 June.

House Democrats are moving forward with a select committee after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan probe into the events surrounding the 6 January riot and its aftermath, after a mob fuelled by Donald Trump’s baseless narrative that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him stormed the halls of Congress to overturn the votes of millions of Americans.

“I noticed there’s a lack of Republicans who have the backbone to come down here and explain … why they won’t support the bipartisan commission or the select committee,” Mr McGovern said. “They don’t want to be on the record defending a position aimed at not getting the truth.”

Only two Republicans – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both prominent GOP critics of the former president – voted to support the select committee on Wednesday.

Here Are The 17 Senate Republicans Who Sided With Democrats Voted To Advance Massive Infrastructure Bill

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Even as some Republican senators wanted to see the text of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that is being considered by the Senate, 17 GOP senators voted Wednesday to move forward with the bill, which is one of President Joe Biden’s top legislative priorities.

The procedural vote is not the final vote on the bill, but it clears one major hurdle as Democrats move forward with a one-two punch that also includes a $3.5 trillion catch-all bill to fund liberal priorities not included in the infrastructure legislation.

The 17 GOP senators who voted to move the bill forward without having read it were Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Jim Risch of Idaho, Mitt Romney of Utah, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Todd Young of Indiana, according to CNN.

Others pushed back.

“I voted no on #infrastructure a week ago because there was no legislative text,” Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina tweeted. “My mind hasn’t changed. There’s still no legislative text or explanation on how to pay for a $1T infrastructure plan.”

— Tim Scott July 28, 2021

Portman noted that the bill is not final and there is time for debate.

Democrats Air Complaints About Overly Optimistic Predictions That Party Would Add To Its Majority

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WASHINGTON—Democratic lawmakers expressed frustration with party leaders over the loss of several congressional seats, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others oversold their prospects and didn’t adequately protect members from being attacked as socialists.

Party leaders had predicted gains in the House, but instead are taking losses. House Republicans had picked up a net gain of five seats by late Thursday, flipping seven districts held by Democrats and shrinking the Democrats’ majority. Two of those were in the Miami area where Democrats overall had a poorer-than-expected showing.

Far from their ambitions of venturing deep into Trump territory, Democrats had only picked up two seats in North Carolina, in large part because of redistricting, a much lower number than the double-digits prognosticators expected them to pick up.

The results of the races called as of late Thursday stood at 208 Democrats to 193 Republicans, with dozens of seats yet to be determined. The split headed into the election was 232-197 and one Libertarian and five vacancies, and Democrats had invested heavily in winning seats, in part in suburbs that Republicans had held on to in the Democrats’ strong 2018 showing.

Us Midterms 2018: Democrats Won The House Republicans Kept The Senate Sessions Is Out What Now

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At New York’s La Boom nightclub, Mazeda Uddin and Marta Cualotuna celebratre the victory of Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She was one of several female Democrats to make gains in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night.

The new balance of power • Winners, losers and toss-ups • Trouble at the polls • Trump’s reaction • What happens now? •

‘the Beast Is Growing’: Republicans Follow A Winning At All Costs Strategy Into The Midterms

Much remains uncertain about the midterm elections more than a year away — including the congressional districts themselves, thanks to the delayed redistricting process. The Senate, meanwhile, looks like more of a toss-up.

House Democrats think voters will reward them for advancing President Joe Biden’s generally popular agenda, which involves showering infrastructure money on virtually every district in the country and sending checks directly to millions of parents. And they think voters will punish Republicans for their rhetoric about the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 election.

“Democrats are delivering results, bringing back the economy, getting people back to work, passing the largest middle-class tax cut in history, while Republicans are engaged in frankly violent conspiracy theory rhetoric around lies in service of Donald Trump,” said Tim Persico, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

But the challenges Democrats face are real and numerous.

They knew they would face a tough 2022 immediately after 2020, when massive, unexpected GOP gains whittled the Democratic majority to just a handful of seats.

“House Republicans are in a great position to retake the majority,” said Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, “but we are taking nothing for granted.”

His rural district had been trending Republican for years. Kind won re-election last year by just about 10,000 votes.

Who Won The Us Senate And House Of Representatives Did The Democrats Or Republicans Win

Given all the headlines you’d be forgiven for thinking that the US Presidency was the only game in town for American voters.

However, elections were also being held in 34 states for Senate seats, as well as all 435 seats in the House of Representatives being up for grabs.

Although not all the results have been announced yet, the Republicans are on course to hold onto both of these chambers in addition to winning the presidency.

Incoming Biden Administration And Democratic House Wont Have To Deal With A Republican

Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff wave to supporters during a joint rally on Nov. 15 in Marietta, Ga.

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Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have defeated Georgia’s two incumbent Republican U.S. senators in the state’s runoff elections, the Associated Press said Wednesday, in a development that gives their party effective control of the Senate.

Ossoff and Warnock were projected the winners over Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler by the AP following campaigns that drew massive spending and worldwide attention because the runoffs were set to determine the balance of power in Washington. The AP , at about 2 a.m. Eastern, then followed with the call for Ossoff over Perdue on Wednesday afternoon.

President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration and the Democratic-run House of Representatives now won’t face the same checks on their policy priorities that they would have faced with a Republican-controlled Senate, though analysts have said the slim Democratic majority in the chamber could mean more power for moderate senators from either party.

See:With sweep expected in Georgia Senate races, Democrats have high hopes for what Biden can do

“It is looking like the Democratic campaign machine was more effective at driving turnout than the Republican one,” said Eurasia Group analyst Jon Lieber in a note late Tuesday.

Warnock then made just before 8 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday.

Gop Lawmaker Tries To Shame Democrats On Vaccinations Except Theyre All Vaccinated

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Rep. Ronny Jackson on Thursday tried to shame Democrats for not saying whether they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 ? except every Democratic lawmaker is vaccinated and has confirmed as much, unlike a huge portion of Republicans who either aren’t vaccinated or won’t say.

Jackson, a former White House physician, was trying to deflect a question from a reporter about whether it hurts Republicans’ efforts to urge the public to get vaccinated when so many of them won’t disclose their own status.

“I think you as a press have a responsibility to ask questions of the Democrats as well,” Jackson said. ”How many of the Democrats are willing to say whether or not they’ve been vaccinated?”

In fact, as of mid-May, House and Senate Democratic lawmakers have had a 100% vaccination rate, according to a CNN survey of all lawmakers.

That same survey found that at least 44.8% of House Republicans and 92% of Senate Republicans are vaccinated. But 112 GOP offices did not respond to multiple CNN inquiries on their vaccination status.

Ronny Jackson: I think you as a press have a responsibility to ask questions of the Democrats as well. How many of the Democrats are willing to say whether or not they’ve been vaccinated? pic.twitter.com/gkKzfmCgs8

— Acyn July 22, 2021

“What about the Texas delegation?” asked Jackson. When a reporter pointed out they are all vaccinated, he suggested some may be lying.

“Yep!” said Talarico. “So are all our staff members.”

Texas House Republicans Vote To Track Down Absent Democrats And Arrest Them

Texas House Republicans vote to arrest absent Democrats

MORE: TX Democrats aim to ‘do what’s best for constituents’ during special sessionRELATED: WATCH: Remaining House Dems locked in at Texas Capitol, lawmaker says

As 57 Texas House Democrats fled to Washington amid a showdown over controversial voting reforms, one of the few remaining lawmakers on the left who stayed in Austin explains what’s being down at the statehouse.

WATCH: Mayor Sylvester Turner vows to protect absent lawmakers from authorities

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who became a target of GOP lawmakers over voting methods used in Harris County, made a vow to protect Democratic lawmakers amid a GOP call to arrest the absent public servants.

For updates on this story, follow Nick Natario on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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The House Democrat in charge of making sure the party retains control of the chamber after next year’s midterm elections is warning that a course correction is needed or they could find themselves the minority again — with current polling showing the Democrats would lose the majority if elections were held now.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told a closed-door lunch last week that if the midterms were held now, Republicans would win control of the House, Politico reported Tuesday.

Maloney advised the gathering that Democrats have to embrace and promote President Biden’s agenda because it registers with swing voters.

“We are not afraid of this data … We’re not trying to hide this,” Tim Persico, executive director of the Maloney-chaired DCC, ?told Politico in an interview.

“If use it, we’re going to hold the House. That’s what this data tells us, but we gotta get in action,” ?Persico said.

M?aloney, in an interview with NPR, said ?issues like climate change, infrastructure, the expanded child tax credits, immigration policies and election reforms will attract voters next fall.

“We’re making a bet on substance,” Maloney said. “What’s the old saying — any jackass can kick down a barn, it takes a carpenter to build one. It’s harder to build it than to kick it down. And so we’re the party that’s going to build the future.”

M?aloney’s dire warning failed to surprise some Democrats who have been sounding similar alarms. ?

Democrats Got Millions More Votes So How Did Republicans Win The Senate

Senate electoral process means although Democrats received more overall votes for the Senate than Republicans, that does not translate to more seats

The 2018 midterm elections brought , who retook the House of Representatives and snatched several governorships from the grip of Republicans.

But some were left questioning why Democrats suffered a series of setbacks that prevented the party from picking up even more seats and, perhaps most consequentially, left the US Senate in Republican hands.

Among the most eye-catching was a statistic showing Democrats led Republicans by more than 12 million votes in Senate races, and yet still suffered losses on the night and failed to win a majority of seats in the chamber.

Constitutional experts said the discrepancy between votes cast and seats won was the result of misplaced ire that ignored the Senate electoral process.

Because each state gets two senators, irrespective of population, states such as Wyoming have as many seats as California, despite the latter having more than 60 times the population. The smaller states also tend to be the more rural, and rural areas traditionally favor Republicans.

This year, because Democrats were defending more seats, including California, they received more overall votes for the Senate than Republicans, but that does not translate to more seats.

However, some expressed frustration with a system they suggest gives an advantage to conservative-leaning states.

Democrat Jon Ossoff Claims Victory Over David Perdue In Georgia Runoff

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is expected to replace GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell as majority leader and will determine which bills come to the floor for votes.

The ambitious proposals addressing climate change and health care and other domestic priorities touted by Biden and Harris will be difficult, if impossible, to advance with more moderate Democrats — especially those facing competitive 2022 midterm reelection campaigns — reluctant to sign onto partisan proposals. The much smaller-than-anticipated House Democratic majority compounds the challenge for the party.

Instead, Biden will need to consider which domestic priorities can get bipartisan support since Senate rules now require anything to get 60 votes to advance. The president-elect has already indicated that additional coronavirus relief will be his first priority, but he has also said he plans to unveil an infrastructure plan that could get support from Republicans.

In a statement Wednesday, Biden said that “Georgia’s voters delivered a resounding message yesterday: they want action on the crises we face and they want it right now. On COVID-19, on economic relief, on climate, on racial justice, on voting rights and so much more. They want us to move, but move together.”

The president-elect also spoke to Democrats’ potential total control of Washington.

Pollster: Republicans Are Early Favorites To Take Back House In 2022

NBC News is reporting that “early indicators” have revealed the possibility of House Democrats losing their narrow majority in 2022.

“Based on all factors, you’d have to consider Republicans the early favorites for the House majority in 2022,” poll tracker David Wasserman told NBC. “Democrats’ best hope is that Biden’s approval rating stays above 50 percent and that Republicans have a tougher time turning out their voters without Trump on the ballot.”

The NBC report cites the all-too-predictable trend of the president’s party losing House seats in midterm elections, Democrats choosing not to run for reelection in some cases, and Republicans reaping the benefits of increased online donations, which are now on par with those of Democrats.

Three Michigan RINOs Censured After Election Report

As for the Senate, it’s anyone’s guess as to what will happen. The chamber is currently deadlocked at 50-50, and at least five GOP senators have announced that they will retire after next year’s midterms.

2022 will be an interesting and impactful year.

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Even if voting patterns remain the same, Republicans could still win more seats in Congress through redistricting

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In Washington, the real insiders know that the true outrages are what’s perfectly legal and that it’s simply a gaffe when someone accidentally blurts out something honest.

And so it barely made a ripple last week when a Texas congressman said aloud what’s supposed to be kept to a backroom whisper: Republicans intend to retake the US House of Representatives in 2022 through gerrymandering.

“We have redistricting coming up and the Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country,” Representative Ronny Jackson told a conference of religious conservatives. “That alone should get us the majority back.”

He’s right. Republicans won’t have to win more votes next year to claim the US House.

In fact, everyone could vote the exact same way for Congress next year as they did in 2020 – when Democratic candidates nationwide won more than 4.7m votes than Republicans and narrowly held the chamber – but under the new maps that will be in place, the Republican party would take control.

It’s one of the many time bombs that threatens representative democracy and American traditions of majority rule. It’s a sign of how much power they have – and how aggressively they intend to wield it – that Republicans aren’t even bothering to deny that they intend to implode it.

Democrats Keep House Majority But ‘republicans Defied The Odds’

The Democrats could wind up with the slimmest House majority in 20 years.

Nancy Pelosi praises Democrats for retaining the House majority

The Democrats will keep their majority in the House of Representatives, but after all the votes are counted, they could wind up with the slimmest House majority in 20 years.

The Democrats gained a majority in the House following the 2018 election in which they won 41 seats. This was the largest gain for the political party since the 1974 election, in which they gained 49.

Some of the popular freshman Democrats who came into office in 2018, including New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar, have been elected for a second term.

But Republicans appear set to make some gains, winning nearly every tossup and picking up at least six seats based on calls of races by The Associated Press.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted Wednesday morning, “Republicans defied the odds and grew our party last night.”

He also tweeted to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “You’ve been put on notice.”

Among the Republican victories is Marjorie Taylor Greene, who won Georgia’s conservative 14th Congressional District after publicly supporting the fringe conspiracy theory known as QAnon.

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In videos unearthed by POLITICO, Greene is also heard spouting racist, Islamophobic and sexist views.

ABC News’ Quinn Scanlan and Mariam Khan contributed to this report.

Us Election 2020: Battle For Us Senate To Be Decided In January

The balance of power in the US Senate will be decided in January, when Georgia will hold run-off elections for both its seats.

No candidate in either race has polled 50%, as required by state election law.

The run-off elections will take place on 5 January, two days after the new Senate is due to convene.

The Republicans currently have a 53 to 47 majority in the Senate. So far, the Democrats have managed a net gain of one seat.

The Democrats had high hopes of gaining the four seats they needed to take control, but many Republican incumbents held their seats.

If however the Democrats can gain both seats in Georgia, a traditionally Republican state, this would lead to a 50-50 tie in the Senate.

The result will effectively put them in control of the chamber if Joe Biden wins the White House, given the vice-president’s power to cast tie-breaking votes.

In one of Georgia’s Senate races, incumbent Republican David Perdue had 49.8% of the vote and Democrat Jon Ossoff had 47.9%, according to the BBC’s results system.

“If overtime is required when all of the votes have been counted, we’re ready, and we will win,” Mr Perdue campaign manager Ben Fry said on Thursday.

But the Ossoff campaign predicted that “when a run-off is called and held in January, Georgians are going to send Jon to the Senate”.

In Georgia’s other Senate race, Democrat Raphael Warnock won 32.9% and will go into a run-off against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, who trailed him with 26%.

Republicans Draft Veteran Candidates To Reclaim House Majority

The GOP is borrowing a page from Democrats’ 2018 playbook.

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Republicans blew a chance at winning the House majority in 2020, with a number of weak recruits unable to take advantage of a better-than-expected national environment on Election Day.

To avoid a similar fate in the 2022 midterms, the GOP is taking a page out of Democrats’ 2018 playbook: finding veterans to run for office.

In the first three months of the off-year, party recruiters are reporting a surge of enthusiasm from a diverse crop of prospective candidates, including women and people of color. National Republican Congressional Committee leaders have so far talked to 112 recruits in their 47 target districts. Butthey say theyare particularly excited about an uptick in interest from those who served in the military — a trend they think will serve them well in competitive districts.

“We’ve got a built-in advantage. I think, if you look at polling, about two thirds of our veterans tend to be Republican,” said Rep. Don Bacon , a retired Air Force general who is working to recruit more candidates from the military. “The Democrats were smart, too, in trying to emphasize that area. Fact is: It’s the most trusted institution in America.”

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Republicans Are Not Unilaterally Voting Against Bidens Agenda

After Biden was elected last year, story after story predicted that Republicans would thwart his agenda as control of the Senate remained in limbo and that Trump retained an ironclad grip on the party. And while the latter is still at least partially true, it’s also not yet entirely clear the extent to which they’re impacting the GOP’s ability to compromise. Republicans, for instance, haven’t entirely stymied Biden’s agenda.

Sure, no Republican in the House or Senate voted in favor of Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill. But in the Senate, many have backed his Cabinet picks, and in the House, Republicans and Democrats have found common ground on bills like reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act and allowing farmworkers a pathway to legal immigration status.

Now, it doesn’t mean these bills featured overwhelming bipartisan majorities, but 140 different House Republicans have voted at least once for something Biden supported. And for some members who fall in this category, the choice appears to be a matter of political caution. Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith and Michigan Rep. Fred Upton — two of whom represent districts Biden either won in 2020 or was competitive in — are so far the GOP members backing Biden’s agenda most frequently.

House Republicans who back Biden the most

The 11 Republican House members who vote with Biden’s positions most often, and how often we anticipated they’d vote with Biden based on their district’s 2020 vote margin

The Republicans Also Hold On In The House Of Representatives

The House of Representatives was a far harder nut to crack for the Democrats and the Republicans have also held on here.

The Republicans had a fairly large majority in the House and it would have taken a very strong performance from the Democrats to win the 30 extra seats needed to flip the chamber.

With a few seats still to declare it looks as though this majority will be cut from 30 to 24.

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Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House, has swayed back and forth on whether to endorse Donald Trump with many in the party feeling that denouncing their controversial nominee will give them a better chance of holding onto the House.

Last week Trump was trailing Clinton in the polls by double-digit margins but the seem to have significantly narrowed that lead.

Prior to this latest scandal there was a realistic, if unlikely, chance that the Democrats could have wrestled the House from the grasp of the Republicans and hold both chambers in Congress.

Democrats Take Control Of Senate With Twin Georgia Victories

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Democrats will have a narrow control of the U.S. Senate. The chamber will be split 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris having a tiebreaking vote. Patrick Semansky/APhide caption

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Democrats will have a narrow control of the U.S. Senate. The chamber will be split 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris having a tiebreaking vote.

Democrats took exceedingly narrow control of the Senate on Wednesday after winning both runoff elections in Georgia, granting them control of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2011.

Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican David Perdue, according to The Associated Press, making him the youngest member of the U.S. Senate and the first Jewish senator from Georgia. Earlier Raphael Warnock, a pastor from Atlanta, defeated GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler after a bitter campaign. Warnock becomes the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from a Southern state.

The Senate will now be split 50-50 between the two parties, giving Vice President-elect Kamala Harris the tiebreaking vote.

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Ossoff had a narrow lead Wednesday morning when he declared victory.

“It is with humility that I thank the people of Georgia for electing me to serve you in the United States Senate,” he said.

Perdue has not conceded.

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Republicans Sound Alarm As Democrats Claim Pennsylvania Win

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CANONSBURG, Pa./WASHINGTON – Republicans sounded the alarm on Wednesday after Democrats claimed victory in a Pennsylvania congressional election seen as a referendum on U.S. President Donald Trump’s performance, although the vote tally remained officially too close to call.

In an ominous sign for Trump’s Republicans eight months before national midterm elections, moderate Democrat Conor Lamb led conservative Republican Rick Saccone on Wednesday by a fraction of a percentage point for the House of Representatives seat.

The earliest the election result could be certified is March 26, according to a state official, but the final tally could be unknown for weeks.

County officials are expected to begin counting provisional paper ballots late this week, and military ballots next week, officials said.

The election should have been a shoo-in for Republicans in a district that Trump won by almost 20 points in the 2016 presidential election. He campaigned for Saccone, who started the race well ahead of Lamb.

Republican Speaker Paul Ryan called the election a “wakeup call” in a meeting with Republican House members and pushed them to raise more campaign funds. He also urged them to do more to highlight tax cuts approved by the Republican-dominated Congress and signed by Trump.

Lamb led Saccone by 627 votes on Wednesday, the state’s unofficial returns showed; Lamb had 49.8 percent of the vote and Saccone 49.6 percent.

‘TRUMP BEFORE TRUMP WAS TRUMP’

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Why Did House Democrats Underperform Compared To Joe Biden

The results of the 2020 elections pose several puzzles, one of which is the gap between Joe Biden’s handsome victory in the presidential race and the Democrats’ disappointing performance in the House of Representatives. Biden enjoyed an edge of 7.1 million votes over President Trump, while the Democrats suffered a loss of 13 seats in the House, reducing their margin from 36 to just 10.

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Turnout in the 2018 mid-term election reached its highest level in more than a century. Democrats were fervently opposed to the Trump administration and turned out in droves. Compared to its performance in 2016, the party’s total House vote fell by only 2%. Without Donald Trump at the head of the ticket, Republican voters were much less enthusiastic, and the total House vote for Republican candidates fell by nearly 20% from 2016. Democratic candidates received almost 10 million more votes than Republican candidates, a margin of 8.6%, the highest ever for a party that was previously in the minority. It was, in short, a spectacular year for House Democrats.

To understand the difference this Democratic disadvantage can make, compare the 2020 presidential and House results in five critical swing states.

Table 1: Presidential versus House results

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Senate And House Elections 2020: Full Results For Congress

As well as electing the US president, the country has been voting for senators and members of the House of Representatives. Here are full results from all 50 states

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The US legislature, Congress, has two chambers. The lower chamber, the House of Representatives, has 435 voting seats, each representing a district of roughly similar size. There are elections in each of these seats every two years.

The upper chamber, the Senate, has 100 members, who sit for six-year terms. One-third of the seats come up for election in each two-year cycle. Each state has two senators, regardless of its population; this means that Wyoming, with a population of less than 600,000, carries the same weight as California, with almost 40 million.

Most legislation needs to pass both chambers to become law, but the Senate has some important other functions, notably approving senior presidential appointments, for instance to the supreme court.

In most states, the candidate with the most votes on election day wins the seat. However, Georgia and Louisiana require the winning candidate to garner 50% of votes cast; if no one does, they hold a run-off election between the top two candidates.

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Fauci Flip-Flops on Covid-19

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Aug. 24, 2021.--Octogenarian Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health [NIH], walked back another prediction when he thinks the country can return to “normal.” “Anderson, I have to apologize. When I listened to the tape, I meant to say spring of 2022, so I did misspeak,” Fauci told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Fauci’s been a regular on CNN since the 2020 presidential campaign, advancing the Democrat narrative that 75-year-old former President Donald Trump mismanaged the Covid-19 crisis, a key Democrat talking point in the 2020 campaign. So when Fauci appears on CNN, it’s friendly territory, working feverishly with the pro-Democrat networks to get Trump out of office. Fauci told NPR Monday, that he thought the country could “really get some good control over this” by the fall or winter next year, assuming more vaccines.

Whatever discrepancies in Fauci’s predictions, the most egregious inconsistency stems from his insistence for last 20 months that the virus likely occurred naturally in Wuhan, China, probably from a seafood or wet market. Fauci, and his 56-year-old friend New York-based EcoHealth Allicance CEO Peter Daszak have worked feverishly pushing Chinese Communist Party [CCP] propaganda that the virus occurred naturally, not leaked from a Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV] laboratory. Fauci agreed with his friends that the World Health Organization [WHO] that insisted from the beginning that virus did not lead from WIV’s chief virologist Shi Zhengli’s lab. Fauci’s guilty as sin for indirectly, through Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, funding Zhengli’s bat-coronavirus gain-of-function reseach that created the deadly novel coronavirus. Fauci’s no shrinking violet when it comes to Senate hearings.

Confronted by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee July 20, 20201 about funding Zhengli’s gain-of-function reseach, Fauci went ballistic, telling Paul he’s a liar. “You don’t know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, Sen. Paul,” Fauci said. Paul, of course, knew exactly what he’s talking about because Fauci is guilty as charged with indirectly funding gain-of-function research in Zhengli’s lab. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, microbiologist, Dr. Ralph Baric, openly admitted to injecting bat coronaviruses with Angiotensin II [ACE2] to change the harmless bat coronaviruses spike protein to easily infect humans. Fauci pretended for too long that he’s oblivious to the gain-of-function research going in with bat coronaviruses. When it comes to the animal-to-human transfer theory, Fauci and his WHO colleagues provide zero evidence.

Fauci now says that the delay in returning to “normalcy” is related to vaccine resistance by some 90 million Americans, reluctant to take any of the vaccines, including recently FDA-approved Pfizer-BioNTech. So, when it comes to making predictions about the course of the current pandemic, Fauci says it’s all about getting those 90 million folks vaccinated and also getting booster shots for those already vaccinated. “The overwhelming majority of the 90 million people who have not been vaccinated” now get the shot. “I hope we can get some good control by fall or winter 2022,” Fauci said but only if a big chunk of the 90 million get vaccinated. “So we hope we’ll be there at the time I mentioned, correctly being the spring of 2022, but there’s also no guarantee because it’s up to us,” Fauci said. Fauci’s a familiar face on CNN, trusting his advice because he opposed Trump’s reelection,

Fauci has never leveled with the public about China’s rejection of the lab-leak theory. When Chinese Foreign Minister Spokesman Zhao Lijian said March 13, 2020, only two days after WHO declared a global pandemic, that the deadly coronavirus was made in America and exported to China, Fauci said nothing. Then Lijian spoke against May 26, getting more specific, insisting the deadly novel corona virus was made in a Fort Detrick, Maryland bioweapons lab, then planted in Wuhan by the U.S. military. Fauci completely ignored Lijian’s remarks because they undermine the CCP’s previous coronavirus origin theory that the virus occurred naturally in Wuhan. Fauci’s reluctance to denounce Lijian’s preposterous statements indicates that he’s part of the CCP cover-up to deny the virus leaked from Zhengli’s lab. As Paul noted, Fauci’s statements about the deadly novel coronavirus can’t be trusted.

President Joe Biden, 78, tasked 52-year-old Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines with the job of getting to the bottom of the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus. Haines certainly can’t ask Fauci his opinion since he’s been part of a CCP and WHO cover-up, trying to discredit the lab-leak hypothesis as a spurious conspiracy theory. Whether it’s predicting the course of the pandemic or the origin of the virus, Fauci has shown he’s not reliable, doing the bidding of the CCP and WHO. Only recently has WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyessus admitted that the lab-leak theory is a very real possibility. Once lab-leak skeptic scientist Alina Chan published a letter in the Journal Science with 18 other scientists asking that the lab leak theory be fully investigated. Chan said while Trump was president she feared branding as a racist for supporting the lab-leak theory.

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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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How Paul George could earn an extra $70 million by making the 2017 All-NBA team

If George is voted to the All-NBA team, he’ll be eligible for a huge extension due to new rules in the CBA. That fate will be determined by 100 media members.

Paul George’s bank account -- and by proxy his future in Indiana — may come down to 100 media voters deciding whether he has been the sixth-best forward in the league this season. It’s a tricky situation for everyone involved and it’s not George’s fault that he’s caught in the middle of it.

With the new collective bargaining agreement, which was agreed to last December, the NBA has added a “designated veteran” clause that applies to superstars on their second contract with the team that drafted them. The 26-year-old George would qualify if he’s named to an all-NBA team Thursday. That would allow the Pacers to offer him an extension next season that starts at 35 percent of the cap rather than 30 percent and goes through the 2022-23 season.

In actual dollars, that’d allow George to earn about $70 million more over the course of the next six years by committing to the Pacers this summer instead of signing elsewhere in 2018. Without making all-NBA, the difference would shrink to half of that over five years. Having that extra money on the line could determine whether he stays in Indiana or pushes to leave.

However, those requirements aren’t simple.

They are: being named to the All-NBA team the year before free agency, or being named to it twice in the previous three years. (Winning MVP or Defensive Player of the Year would also qualify, but George won’t win either of those this season.)

George has been named All-NBA three times, but only once in the past three seasons (counting this one). Whether he makes it this year will determine his eligibility for the designated player extension that could pocket him $70 million more if he stayed in Indiana instead of signing elsewhere.

This year, voting consists of 100 media members — none who are team broadcasters. Six forwards will be selected, but the crop is tough: LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, and Giannis Antetokounmpo are all locks for the team. Anthony Davis and Draymond Green aren’t trailing far behind, and Kevin Durant’s candidacy would be guaranteed if not for his injury. Even Jimmy Butler’s in the mix.

This is a tough spot for George.

George feels he deserves one of the All-NBA spots, and it’s hard to blame him.

“For contract reasons (All-NBA) is important. But I'm not thinking about contracts,” George told ESPN’s Brian Windhorst. “If my performance down the stretch lands me on the All-NBA, which I think I'm deserving of, then so be it. I'll be happy.”

George is averaging 23.3 points on 46 percent shooting with 6.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists. He is an All-NBA caliber forward in a league full of them, and while his surge over the past weeks ofthe season will help, it’s still possible he misses it.

This is a tough spot for the Pacers.

Indiana reportedly shopped George at the trade deadline and didn’t pull the trigger on any deals. The Pacers were swept in the first round by the Cavaliers, but Myles Turner’s bright future could make it feel like George is more expendable.

Indiana’s reason for that is largely because they aren’t sure if George won’t just opt out of his contract (he has a player option for the 2018-19 season) and leave Indiana in free agency next summer. Without significant improvement from the team next year, there’s a good chance they may need to deal him, and probably for a lower price than was offered at this trade deadline.

If the Pacers knew they could offer him an extension worth $70 million more over six years than George could get if he signed with, say, the Lakers, they would feel a lot better about their chances to bring him back. But without that extra change, it gets a lot trickier.

This is a tough spot for the media.

As journalists, we’re supposed to cover the league from an informed perspective, but the way that this vote goes could change the outcome of the league. That’s not a situation that journalists desire, especially those voting on the award.

Situations like this are rare, although it did happen with Anthony Davis last year and could happen with Gordon Hayward and Jimmy Butler this season. Polling media for these awards probably make more sense than asking coaches or players.

Still, imagine George not being named to an All-NBA team, which causes him to leave Indiana, which causes the entire landscape of the league to change. That provides massive weight to decisions that were only originally designed to celebrate the top performers in the league.

Indiana did at least make the playoffs, though its visit was short. After all the dust settled, they can now worry about how much money they can potentially throw at George.

Even if George isn’t named to the All-NBA team, it doesn’t mean that the Pacers couldn’t re-sign him in the 2018 offseason. That timeline hasn’t been snuffed out, especially if Indiana can keep improving. (Hi, Myles Turner!) Indiana could also resist trade offers for George this summer, hope he makes next year’s all-NBA team and offer him the same mega-extension then. But that’s a huge risk, because if he fails to earn that honor again, he’s that much more likely to bolt with Indiana getting nothing in return.

That’s why that extra $70 million would make the Pacers feel that much better about their chances headed into 2018, and would probably make them less inclined to deal an All-NBA caliber 26-year-old anytime in the next 12 months.

Thus, the upcoming decision — one way or another — will be an enormous one.

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“Give me a break,” Democratic US Rep Jim McGovern told the House of Representatives on 30 June.

Only two Republicans – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both prominent GOP critics of the former president – voted to support the select committee on Wednesday.

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Others pushed back.

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Portman noted that the bill is not final and there is time for debate.

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