As a disabled dyke, though safely retired, I worry about my insurances, etc. I am a retired state employee with endless health conditions thanks to my jacked-up immune system. I am sure Trump and his minions would just prefer that I die. But Trump is also disabled. Watch him walk--he has gait abnormalities. It could be a bad back, it could be neurological. But he's not getting off this earth without at least one disability at age 78.
In a two party system we have A.) the Dems who want to throw money at everyone (which the Repubs & mainstream media define as misfits: disabled, trans, LBGTQ, immigrants, POC, childless cat ladies…) B.) Repubs who are all round haters, ie something for everyone who hates one of the above categories, but in particular doesn’t want to pay taxes towards helping anyone.
So glad I’m old, childless & living in France where I can watch the U.S. disintegrate from afar. I still have family in the US & the pain of watching my country die is real, but the heartbreak is easier from a distance (from which I can still vote in the US)
Can’t sleep because of the utter shit-show we are experiencing. Trump and his sycophants strive for a utopian world where they are kings and queens and not just for one day. One can only pray to some deity that doesn’t exist, that sane people rise up and fight back against this regime. I want to be counted as one of the sane and disabled that does so.
Tulsi Gabbard. We are so f..d. According to the Orange Administration, red state National Guard will invade blue states to round up "illegals." What will they do between raids? Ransack Yankee property? Rape, plunder, pillage. Fashon 2025 will feature clothing constructed from draperies, rods attached. If that's what's coming, why not secede for protection before vaccine-not-allowed plague decimates and Russia owns us? We can reunite if/when its safe. Fear of action and change will do us in.
We will be an occupied nation on January 20, 2025. Our occupier is armed with an overwhelming arsenal of misinformation and is not going to be defeated with a conventional army of truth. Remember, we are up against twitter, Meta, and the massive evil empire of right wing fake media.
We won't be able build an army to take them down.
This is going to take an information insurgency and guerilla information warfare to rescue half of the country from the political alternate reality that they're living in. So, we got work to do.
Had a stroke in 2014, right side impairments. I expect soon someone will tattoo a number on my arm then.... This is why we are working hard to get out of dodge before the number is tattooed.
I am concerned as well that seemingly the electorate is as self-serving as the person they voted for......a great deal of "what about my grocery bill and other self-interest issues, not the benefit of all of us nor the international community.... it was once said that we get the government that we deserve and although deserving is a manmade concept, not evident in Nature, it fits. Chaos and unintended consequences have no meaning to character disordered people. The holding grudges Trumpian allies have all either been mistreated in their past, or have been rewarded for being bullying arrogant scapegoaters. Laws are an attempt to protect the less able and less fortunate, but laws are simply obstacles for the economically advantaged and arrogant....rule of law only serves as a hinderance for them and they simply use the complexities of enforcement to serve them. Keep up your Spirit and don't allow discouragements influence your optimism.
I can’t add anything to your excellent recap of the impending horror show. Nor do I want to. I’ve gone into my usual self-preservation mode, where I believe everything is going to be okay. It matters not whether my beliefs are true. I’m happier—and probably having more laughs at the ludicrousness—than those living in fear and dread.
Glad you wrote this. Because it’s going to be damn hard to stay in the present as Ruth Ben-Ghiat suggests we do; dissociation is so intrinsic to fear and pain like this. Now I know why she’s recommending that tho….our survival depends on continuing to know what the fuck we are doing moment to moment. One aware step at a time. I think the brave part now is the awareness. Just staying aware. Seeing what is.
As a disabled dyke, though safely retired, I worry about my insurances, etc. I am a retired state employee with endless health conditions thanks to my jacked-up immune system. I am sure Trump and his minions would just prefer that I die. But Trump is also disabled. Watch him walk--he has gait abnormalities. It could be a bad back, it could be neurological. But he's not getting off this earth without at least one disability at age 78.
I think it likely he has neurological problems as well as dementia.
His disability is his very existence.
In a two party system we have A.) the Dems who want to throw money at everyone (which the Repubs & mainstream media define as misfits: disabled, trans, LBGTQ, immigrants, POC, childless cat ladies…) B.) Repubs who are all round haters, ie something for everyone who hates one of the above categories, but in particular doesn’t want to pay taxes towards helping anyone.
So glad I’m old, childless & living in France where I can watch the U.S. disintegrate from afar. I still have family in the US & the pain of watching my country die is real, but the heartbreak is easier from a distance (from which I can still vote in the US)
Right now you can still vote from where you are but don’t count on it being a forever privilege.
Can’t sleep because of the utter shit-show we are experiencing. Trump and his sycophants strive for a utopian world where they are kings and queens and not just for one day. One can only pray to some deity that doesn’t exist, that sane people rise up and fight back against this regime. I want to be counted as one of the sane and disabled that does so.
Thank. Gawd. It’s. FRIDAY🎉🎉🎉
Tulsi Gabbard. We are so f..d. According to the Orange Administration, red state National Guard will invade blue states to round up "illegals." What will they do between raids? Ransack Yankee property? Rape, plunder, pillage. Fashon 2025 will feature clothing constructed from draperies, rods attached. If that's what's coming, why not secede for protection before vaccine-not-allowed plague decimates and Russia owns us? We can reunite if/when its safe. Fear of action and change will do us in.
We will be an occupied nation on January 20, 2025. Our occupier is armed with an overwhelming arsenal of misinformation and is not going to be defeated with a conventional army of truth. Remember, we are up against twitter, Meta, and the massive evil empire of right wing fake media.
We won't be able build an army to take them down.
This is going to take an information insurgency and guerilla information warfare to rescue half of the country from the political alternate reality that they're living in. So, we got work to do.
I'm so tired. I don't know if I can read this.
Had a stroke in 2014, right side impairments. I expect soon someone will tattoo a number on my arm then.... This is why we are working hard to get out of dodge before the number is tattooed.
Thank you Greg
I am concerned as well that seemingly the electorate is as self-serving as the person they voted for......a great deal of "what about my grocery bill and other self-interest issues, not the benefit of all of us nor the international community.... it was once said that we get the government that we deserve and although deserving is a manmade concept, not evident in Nature, it fits. Chaos and unintended consequences have no meaning to character disordered people. The holding grudges Trumpian allies have all either been mistreated in their past, or have been rewarded for being bullying arrogant scapegoaters. Laws are an attempt to protect the less able and less fortunate, but laws are simply obstacles for the economically advantaged and arrogant....rule of law only serves as a hinderance for them and they simply use the complexities of enforcement to serve them. Keep up your Spirit and don't allow discouragements influence your optimism.
I can’t add anything to your excellent recap of the impending horror show. Nor do I want to. I’ve gone into my usual self-preservation mode, where I believe everything is going to be okay. It matters not whether my beliefs are true. I’m happier—and probably having more laughs at the ludicrousness—than those living in fear and dread.
The End of The Empire.
Richard Wolff
Glad you wrote this. Because it’s going to be damn hard to stay in the present as Ruth Ben-Ghiat suggests we do; dissociation is so intrinsic to fear and pain like this. Now I know why she’s recommending that tho….our survival depends on continuing to know what the fuck we are doing moment to moment. One aware step at a time. I think the brave part now is the awareness. Just staying aware. Seeing what is.