Exhausted by gun violence, war, corruption, and political theater? Here's how we stay angry, stay focused, and save democracy—one worn-out American at a time.
I'm hoping I can step back for one day tomorrow, when the temps will be cooler than they have been in some time. The thermostat in my car on Tuesday told me that the outdoor air temp was 106° F (41° C), but I think that may have been a little high. It was definitely well into the 90s/30s, and the humidity was horrible. Not sure if I can block out everything for that long, but I'll give it a shot.
Just block out all that fake news on public media about climate change and global warming. It's just not happening, just a money-making hoax (and who should know better but King Grifter). At least not in air-conditioned trumpworld, or the executive suites of Big Oil.
What does that mean to me- what does that mean to you? Our constitution- was written by many God fearing people! I too appreciate the constitution, it’s not that complicated, but there’s great conflict and disagreement anyway! They read the Bible in all classes in the morning first period in public schools when I was there through grade twelve. What happened?-!! Lucifer’s work, NO DOUBT!
I know we are all exhausted when a night of relaxation consists of watching true crime shows, because in most instances as gasp inducing as they are we know there is a conclusion
There is a conclusion here as well... but we are in the "middle" of the story. When the conclusion finally arrives, it will be just as awesome as reading the notes at the end of "Snapped" where it shows how many years someone got and if and when the perpetrator will get out of prison, if at all.
Me too... Snapped is one of my favorites... but I also watch People Investigates, and a few others. I have been watching true crime since American Justice and Bill Curtis. I also liked Unsolved Mysteries and separate individual documentaries - the latest thing I watched hours and hours of was the Lori Vallow Daybell sentencing in Arizona.
I find this a fascinating thread (is that what it's called???). I have not even heard of most of the shows mentioned! And because I'm among friends I can admit that I mostly watch Leave It To Beaver, Mash, Emergency and Adam12 and Colbert and Barney Miller. I spent all my adult career in the field of criminal justice, from working in probation and parole, to investigating child abuse, including child sexual abuse and maybe because I had to live this stuff I still need to escape from it, from the reality of so many perpetrators getting off scot free. But then I do love Murder She Wrote...go figure!
When you are an "Analyst" like I have been all of my life, it's interesting to watch the investigation play out and, at least the stupid criminals, watch the criminals get caught. I like court dramas as well and always loved Perry Mason and especially the Perry Mason movies, which I finally bought on DVD because streaming services won't show them.
I read books on these same types of things - mystery, intrigue, something that has to be analyzed based on the clues. John Grisham is one of my favored authors, as is Nora Roberts on her books that provide a mystery, some type of dramatic undertones - like "Mind Games" or "Identity" or "Northern Lights" - Interesting to walk through all the clues and try to figure out whodunit, as well as how they figured it out and what was the ultimate ending.
I watch Murder She Wrote, too - love Angela Lansbury!
I forgot to mention Perry Mason, another daily staple for me!!! And it's so interesting to watch when there was a time that there was such a thing as scandal and rule of law! Oh how far we've fallen!
I don’t like Unsolved Mysteries; they’re never solved and I need to know. Bloodline is a good one. They solve very old crimes through genealogy. I’m the family ghoul!
Me, too. I learn a lot from all those shows. A lot of safety measures from sensing people, etc. My so. Was hooked on the Karen Read trial. YouTube has some good stuff
Profiling Evil is a YouTube true crime podcast. I just recently added that. If you know the victim or the accused, you can do an Internet Search - the Lori Vallow Daybell stuff is all on YouTube. I think so is the guy that they just sentence in Northern Idaho for those college kids' murders. A bunch of the documentaries are on MAX and Netflix.
Bloodline is. There’s one I don’t know the name of. The host is Irish I believe but covers old crimes from all over. There’s some about his face and voice. At the end he says, Stay sane
I am old (72) and tired. I don’t have enough money to donate to anyone to make a difference. All I have is my vote, although since I live in Texas that may be a fleeting thing. I call my senators and I’m sure they’re laughing. I see the news and these masked up people kidnapping people who aren’t “the worst of the worst”, but gardeners, maids, farm workers. Who are these masked people and by what authority are they kidnapping these people? I’m tired and sick. What has happened to my country?
Your welcome... I'm going out now to hang a big sign on a pole near the wall mart that says INDEPENDENCE NO KING
I had one that just said NO KING there for a month before someone took it down. Busy there. Hoping for no trouble. Any little thing people can do to fight the madness. This one's for you!
The Substack business model is tricky. If you sign on with one popular channel, say Lev Parnas, pretty soon he has other people coming on there asking for money for their channels. But maybe they are not as good as Lev, or not to your taste. But there is a guilt-trip aspect to it, where they are all complimenting each other, and calling each other "brother" and such, and implying if you don't support them all, you're not doing your best to help the cause. And then you sign on to their channels, and they all have even more people coming on doing the same thing. More people praising each other and all that, and saying you need to sign up with all of them to help the cause. And it's never ending. There's always more people telling you to sign up and pay for the membership. If one is not careful, he or she can end up being signed up with 20 Substacks or even more. They may not even notice at first. Then the bills come in and it is a bit shocking. And if something tangible was being accomplished, fine. But most of it is pep talks, and vague guilt trips for people not paying for memberships. All these people asking for money. But after awhile, one has to question exactly what is being accomplished. What are the specific, as opposed to vague, goals of this "resistance?" At least Lev is out there, and trying to get more involved IRL as opposed to just being online. That I can support. But people just dropping in to give pep talks and ask for more money, those I am cutting out. Michael Cohen was even name-calling people who he felt weren't giving him enough money on one of Lev's broadcasts, and Parnas later had to apologize for him. I don't need that kind of thing in my life. That Cohen episode woke me up though. I started cancelling a lot of these channels after he did that. I'm going to get it down to one or two trusted channels, and that's it. Otherwise it starts to feel like a Ponzi Scheme, where you are investing in something with no pay-off at the end.
I have to say that i indulge in some free content and pay for i think 4 or 5 others like Parnas, Acosta, Meidas. I have only got that feeling you are portraying, meaning a money grab feeling, from Cohen also... sometimes I think he just wants more people subscribing to get the message to more people and sometimes it feels he just wants the bigger cash in. Im still not clear on that but can see how you can go there. Im not going to let that bother me though. I feel there is a lot of sincerity here at substack too.
I hear you Claire. I'm going broke from Substack subs. Every person on Substack says they are the one you must sign up with or the world will end. But I'm not seeing any progress in stopping the world from ending. Meanwhile I'm still going broke from all my Substack subs. That's it for me. I need a break. And groceries are increasingly expensive.
Agreed Claire. One more Substack sub is not going to change anything anyway. All of these people are trying to get into one's wallet or purse, and after awhile it adds up. I'm also done, beyond what I can read for free.
MSM(mainstream media) Missing the Nazi(Authoritarian) Playbook
It’s business as usual at MSM Just regurgitate to its audience what Cheeto said, what federal legislators said, recount the Gaza genocide and call it good The network getting close to calling the Nazi regime out for what it’s doing is MSNBC but even that network misses the point
Bernie Sanders and AOC called it the Oligarchy Protest Tour but the undercurrent of that tour is that the authoritarian takeover of the government is led by Cheeto BUT CHEETO IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE AUTHORITARIAN ICEBERG THE AMERICAN OLIGARCHY IS THE ICEBERG ITSELF And MSM and nonMSM eg Substack needs to use this in the context of news coverage
This is why there is such catering by the Nazis to give enormous financial favors to the top 5% of the electorate The Nazis have decided that the American people in this democracy don’t count and that the wealthy need to control the country Cheeto in his narcissistic way sees that he is the WAY and that his supporting oligarchy will
We see what has happened in the Authoritarian Deep South and how the voters have been disenfranchised so that the wealthy and well placed White Southerners have controlled the political narrative It seems like the Nazis are taking this Southern model nationwide by disenfranchising voters nationally
The key then is how do we the electorate respond to this oligarchic authoritarian takeover That’s for another time but it seems like Indivisible has its finger on the authoritarian pulse One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism is worthwhile looking at
"Never give up. Never, never!" Winston Churchill. These people are UN-American. The likes of Stephen Miller, Howard Lutnick, Pam Bondi. Time to start calling them that. Not patriots. And should not be wearing the American flag lapel pin. Time to start calling Trump Un-American. You say you "don't know" if you'll support the Constitution. You're UN-AMERICAN.
I have tried to not give up but it is more difficult every day. Today I am at a low point. I just don't think I can last for 3.5 years. Canada and Mexico are looking pretty good.
As hard as it is to not give up, that is exactly what trump and the GOP Congress want us to do. That in itself keeps me motivated. I urge you to maybe take a break but don't give up. And unless you are already a citizen of either Mexico or Canada it's not that easy to just up and move there (at least Canada, not sure about Mexico). Maybe you can stay engaged by calling Democratic members of Congress like AOC and Crockett and thanking them for what they are doing. I try to make a positive call at least as a few times a week and for me that helps, and based on responses I get from the folks that answer the phones when I get a real person, they sure appreciate it too. Yesterday I bought some strawberries from California (I'll only buy fresh produce from California or Canada) and they were delicious and I sent a note to the farm/packer about how good they were and that I hoped trump's policies were not hurting their work force and I got back a very nice note about how much they appreciated my note. I've sent letters to churches that are helping immigrants, and when I can I send a few dollars to United 24, the official Ukranian donation web page. Maybe if you can do things like this and avoid all the crappy news, maybe it can help you not give up and eventually return to watching the news...it will pretty much be the same probably.
Even though I have only been an American citizen since 2017 I am not backing down. I am not giving up. I am too pissed off to ever stop. I would love to see more and more billboards going up. How about Missing - Honesty, Integrity, Clarity. How about the pictures of missing immigrants? How about putting up the same posters in Washington that the Brits put up in Britain of Epstein and Trump?
I was also wondering if Canada would want New York state as the 11th province or the 4th Territory. Hey, government healthcare, gun control - I mean have to have gun control because marijuana is legal and who wants someone who is stoned holding a gun? We would have poutine - man I miss poutine and schwarma and ice wine and Canadian bacon IS NOT HAM. It's just regular bacon.
I love your messages for billboards. Keep spreading your ideas. Many people won’t listen to long podcasts. They need visuals. Missing: honesty, integrity, clarity. Kidnapped visuals would stick in people’s minds
I'm tired of the orange buffoon slowly killing our country as we know it!!! Going to the gym helps relieve my anger but then I hear what new stupid, ignorant shit the fat fuck has done and the anger comes back.
Take a down day. Where you are “weak” others are strong. Where they are weak, you are strong. We help carry one another’s load. Then isn’t so heavy. Take 3 down days. When you come back you can help carry others load.
If 6 months of chaos and lies and corruption and fear mongering has caused exhaustion and you need some time away from all this, then you should take it. 1, 2, 5, 7 days, whatever, is not going to change anything at this point and as this horror show has shown, you can pick up wherever things are when you come back and not missed anything.
We have a big fight ahead of us and we all need to be ready to go when it happens and not let the daily chaos and drama wear us out before the big fight happens. Stay engaged, but don't let the distractions or the nonsense interfere with what is most important -
There are elections going on in States all the time, and special elections taking place as well. Contact your County Elections Board or State Elections Board or Secretary of State, whoever is in charge of elections in our state and find out when the next elections are... find out who is running and for what positions.
We have to replace the people at the local, county, State and then Federal level in order to stack all of our local governments with pro-democracy people. For more information on a way out of this mess, read this: Now What Do We Do? The Way Out Of This Mess!!! - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/now-what-do-we-do-the-way-out-of
I get it! I’ve participated in all the national protests, donated to numerous causes, wrote to my congressional reps, etc. But feeling like I’m screaming into a pillow. Ready to back that one person that has the best plan on stopping this madness. Who though? Someone needs to step up now and take the bull by the horns. Talk is cheap. Where’s the action??
Agreed -- Newsom is showing the kind of aggressiveness that is needed to take these people on. I'm not seeing that from enough other Dems. Newsom is not letting any slight aimed at him go unanswered. That is what it's going to take. Dems who are afraid of the fight need to step aside.
I think I'll send (another) note to the DNC saying that. And I will continue to call the Dems that are standing up like Raskin, AOC, Crockett and thank them.
I understand that you got a conscience but you still seem to be angrier about where you are. I would be very angry if I had been treated that way as well. My issue is that some of that anger seems to be a bigger issue than what the tangerine man is doing to ruin our country. I am so frustrated that he just keeps making the outrageous claims and huge lies that no one seems to be able to stop . You talk about the lies and basic illegal activities that no one stops. No one seems to care- he is running rampant over rights and the constitution and no one can stop him. I am so scared that my children will be forced to leave this country or be treated as criminals. No one can stop him. Why do we need a $200 million ballroom while children starve? This is not the country I grew up in. It was not perfect but people cared about each other. They supported efforts to take care of our poor and our veterans that put their lives on the line for us. I feel so frustrated. I try to make my voice count, I participate in protests and send my representatives my support but he still is the teflon idiot. I am not afraid of him but others are. When does this change? When does all this "evidence" that people have begin to make a difference?
You step back and take a breath…and then carry on…❤️
I'm hoping I can step back for one day tomorrow, when the temps will be cooler than they have been in some time. The thermostat in my car on Tuesday told me that the outdoor air temp was 106° F (41° C), but I think that may have been a little high. It was definitely well into the 90s/30s, and the humidity was horrible. Not sure if I can block out everything for that long, but I'll give it a shot.
Just block out all that fake news on public media about climate change and global warming. It's just not happening, just a money-making hoax (and who should know better but King Grifter). At least not in air-conditioned trumpworld, or the executive suites of Big Oil.
I am not backing down as this country is a democracy, we will defend our constitution!
What does that mean to me- what does that mean to you? Our constitution- was written by many God fearing people! I too appreciate the constitution, it’s not that complicated, but there’s great conflict and disagreement anyway! They read the Bible in all classes in the morning first period in public schools when I was there through grade twelve. What happened?-!! Lucifer’s work, NO DOUBT!
Michael I’ve been reading your
Excellent written content…. You have a gift with the written word and are spot on in your pov!
Causing hopelessness is a tool of the autocrat. This has gone too far already. Everyone has to treat the Maga Movement with gloves off from now on...
I know we are all exhausted when a night of relaxation consists of watching true crime shows, because in most instances as gasp inducing as they are we know there is a conclusion
There is a conclusion here as well... but we are in the "middle" of the story. When the conclusion finally arrives, it will be just as awesome as reading the notes at the end of "Snapped" where it shows how many years someone got and if and when the perpetrator will get out of prison, if at all.
💯
My adult daughter and I laugh about this-weird times - when we’d rather watch true crime than politics…
I watch, ‘Cops’! And true crime. And, Colbert’!
But the true crime is in this country!
Yes--and the true criminals committing ALL of them are The Dictator Criminal Dingbat Deranged Buffoon in the Oval Office and his republiCRAP army.
Me too... Snapped is one of my favorites... but I also watch People Investigates, and a few others. I have been watching true crime since American Justice and Bill Curtis. I also liked Unsolved Mysteries and separate individual documentaries - the latest thing I watched hours and hours of was the Lori Vallow Daybell sentencing in Arizona.
I find this a fascinating thread (is that what it's called???). I have not even heard of most of the shows mentioned! And because I'm among friends I can admit that I mostly watch Leave It To Beaver, Mash, Emergency and Adam12 and Colbert and Barney Miller. I spent all my adult career in the field of criminal justice, from working in probation and parole, to investigating child abuse, including child sexual abuse and maybe because I had to live this stuff I still need to escape from it, from the reality of so many perpetrators getting off scot free. But then I do love Murder She Wrote...go figure!
When you are an "Analyst" like I have been all of my life, it's interesting to watch the investigation play out and, at least the stupid criminals, watch the criminals get caught. I like court dramas as well and always loved Perry Mason and especially the Perry Mason movies, which I finally bought on DVD because streaming services won't show them.
I read books on these same types of things - mystery, intrigue, something that has to be analyzed based on the clues. John Grisham is one of my favored authors, as is Nora Roberts on her books that provide a mystery, some type of dramatic undertones - like "Mind Games" or "Identity" or "Northern Lights" - Interesting to walk through all the clues and try to figure out whodunit, as well as how they figured it out and what was the ultimate ending.
I watch Murder She Wrote, too - love Angela Lansbury!
I forgot to mention Perry Mason, another daily staple for me!!! And it's so interesting to watch when there was a time that there was such a thing as scandal and rule of law! Oh how far we've fallen!
I don’t like Unsolved Mysteries; they’re never solved and I need to know. Bloodline is a good one. They solve very old crimes through genealogy. I’m the family ghoul!
Are any of those on u-tube because I'm addicted.
Me, too. I learn a lot from all those shows. A lot of safety measures from sensing people, etc. My so. Was hooked on the Karen Read trial. YouTube has some good stuff
Profiling Evil is a YouTube true crime podcast. I just recently added that. If you know the victim or the accused, you can do an Internet Search - the Lori Vallow Daybell stuff is all on YouTube. I think so is the guy that they just sentence in Northern Idaho for those college kids' murders. A bunch of the documentaries are on MAX and Netflix.
I used to watch ‘Fear Thy Neighbor’ but after the neighbor let his poor neighbor intentionally set her up to be shredded by his 3 pit bulls, no more!
I know every serial killer’s face they flash by on the screen. Sick people. Back in the day, poison was in style!
Bloodline is. There’s one I don’t know the name of. The host is Irish I believe but covers old crimes from all over. There’s some about his face and voice. At the end he says, Stay sane
I am old (72) and tired. I don’t have enough money to donate to anyone to make a difference. All I have is my vote, although since I live in Texas that may be a fleeting thing. I call my senators and I’m sure they’re laughing. I see the news and these masked up people kidnapping people who aren’t “the worst of the worst”, but gardeners, maids, farm workers. Who are these masked people and by what authority are they kidnapping these people? I’m tired and sick. What has happened to my country?
You do what you can do and what makes you feel good about yourself. Any little thing is better than No-thing. Keep the faith!
Thank you. I BELIEVE in this country. I can’t believe it’s going to cease to exist because of Project 2025 and a functionally illiterate toddler
Your welcome... I'm going out now to hang a big sign on a pole near the wall mart that says INDEPENDENCE NO KING
I had one that just said NO KING there for a month before someone took it down. Busy there. Hoping for no trouble. Any little thing people can do to fight the madness. This one's for you!
The Substack business model is tricky. If you sign on with one popular channel, say Lev Parnas, pretty soon he has other people coming on there asking for money for their channels. But maybe they are not as good as Lev, or not to your taste. But there is a guilt-trip aspect to it, where they are all complimenting each other, and calling each other "brother" and such, and implying if you don't support them all, you're not doing your best to help the cause. And then you sign on to their channels, and they all have even more people coming on doing the same thing. More people praising each other and all that, and saying you need to sign up with all of them to help the cause. And it's never ending. There's always more people telling you to sign up and pay for the membership. If one is not careful, he or she can end up being signed up with 20 Substacks or even more. They may not even notice at first. Then the bills come in and it is a bit shocking. And if something tangible was being accomplished, fine. But most of it is pep talks, and vague guilt trips for people not paying for memberships. All these people asking for money. But after awhile, one has to question exactly what is being accomplished. What are the specific, as opposed to vague, goals of this "resistance?" At least Lev is out there, and trying to get more involved IRL as opposed to just being online. That I can support. But people just dropping in to give pep talks and ask for more money, those I am cutting out. Michael Cohen was even name-calling people who he felt weren't giving him enough money on one of Lev's broadcasts, and Parnas later had to apologize for him. I don't need that kind of thing in my life. That Cohen episode woke me up though. I started cancelling a lot of these channels after he did that. I'm going to get it down to one or two trusted channels, and that's it. Otherwise it starts to feel like a Ponzi Scheme, where you are investing in something with no pay-off at the end.
I have to say that i indulge in some free content and pay for i think 4 or 5 others like Parnas, Acosta, Meidas. I have only got that feeling you are portraying, meaning a money grab feeling, from Cohen also... sometimes I think he just wants more people subscribing to get the message to more people and sometimes it feels he just wants the bigger cash in. Im still not clear on that but can see how you can go there. Im not going to let that bother me though. I feel there is a lot of sincerity here at substack too.
I hear you Claire. I'm going broke from Substack subs. Every person on Substack says they are the one you must sign up with or the world will end. But I'm not seeing any progress in stopping the world from ending. Meanwhile I'm still going broke from all my Substack subs. That's it for me. I need a break. And groceries are increasingly expensive.
All of the subscriptions are just too expensive for me. I can’t pay $70 a year for each one so I read what I can for free. It’s frustrating.
Agreed Claire. One more Substack sub is not going to change anything anyway. All of these people are trying to get into one's wallet or purse, and after awhile it adds up. I'm also done, beyond what I can read for free.
MSM(mainstream media) Missing the Nazi(Authoritarian) Playbook
It’s business as usual at MSM Just regurgitate to its audience what Cheeto said, what federal legislators said, recount the Gaza genocide and call it good The network getting close to calling the Nazi regime out for what it’s doing is MSNBC but even that network misses the point
Bernie Sanders and AOC called it the Oligarchy Protest Tour but the undercurrent of that tour is that the authoritarian takeover of the government is led by Cheeto BUT CHEETO IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE AUTHORITARIAN ICEBERG THE AMERICAN OLIGARCHY IS THE ICEBERG ITSELF And MSM and nonMSM eg Substack needs to use this in the context of news coverage
This is why there is such catering by the Nazis to give enormous financial favors to the top 5% of the electorate The Nazis have decided that the American people in this democracy don’t count and that the wealthy need to control the country Cheeto in his narcissistic way sees that he is the WAY and that his supporting oligarchy will
We see what has happened in the Authoritarian Deep South and how the voters have been disenfranchised so that the wealthy and well placed White Southerners have controlled the political narrative It seems like the Nazis are taking this Southern model nationwide by disenfranchising voters nationally
The key then is how do we the electorate respond to this oligarchic authoritarian takeover That’s for another time but it seems like Indivisible has its finger on the authoritarian pulse One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism is worthwhile looking at
"Never give up. Never, never!" Winston Churchill. These people are UN-American. The likes of Stephen Miller, Howard Lutnick, Pam Bondi. Time to start calling them that. Not patriots. And should not be wearing the American flag lapel pin. Time to start calling Trump Un-American. You say you "don't know" if you'll support the Constitution. You're UN-AMERICAN.
I have tried to not give up but it is more difficult every day. Today I am at a low point. I just don't think I can last for 3.5 years. Canada and Mexico are looking pretty good.
As hard as it is to not give up, that is exactly what trump and the GOP Congress want us to do. That in itself keeps me motivated. I urge you to maybe take a break but don't give up. And unless you are already a citizen of either Mexico or Canada it's not that easy to just up and move there (at least Canada, not sure about Mexico). Maybe you can stay engaged by calling Democratic members of Congress like AOC and Crockett and thanking them for what they are doing. I try to make a positive call at least as a few times a week and for me that helps, and based on responses I get from the folks that answer the phones when I get a real person, they sure appreciate it too. Yesterday I bought some strawberries from California (I'll only buy fresh produce from California or Canada) and they were delicious and I sent a note to the farm/packer about how good they were and that I hoped trump's policies were not hurting their work force and I got back a very nice note about how much they appreciated my note. I've sent letters to churches that are helping immigrants, and when I can I send a few dollars to United 24, the official Ukranian donation web page. Maybe if you can do things like this and avoid all the crappy news, maybe it can help you not give up and eventually return to watching the news...it will pretty much be the same probably.
Even though I have only been an American citizen since 2017 I am not backing down. I am not giving up. I am too pissed off to ever stop. I would love to see more and more billboards going up. How about Missing - Honesty, Integrity, Clarity. How about the pictures of missing immigrants? How about putting up the same posters in Washington that the Brits put up in Britain of Epstein and Trump?
I was also wondering if Canada would want New York state as the 11th province or the 4th Territory. Hey, government healthcare, gun control - I mean have to have gun control because marijuana is legal and who wants someone who is stoned holding a gun? We would have poutine - man I miss poutine and schwarma and ice wine and Canadian bacon IS NOT HAM. It's just regular bacon.
I love your messages for billboards. Keep spreading your ideas. Many people won’t listen to long podcasts. They need visuals. Missing: honesty, integrity, clarity. Kidnapped visuals would stick in people’s minds
I agree. I think pictures of missing immigrants or of the concentration camps would really hit people. A picture is worth a thousand words.
I'm tired of the orange buffoon slowly killing our country as we know it!!! Going to the gym helps relieve my anger but then I hear what new stupid, ignorant shit the fat fuck has done and the anger comes back.
Thank you for all you do we appreciate you get some rest and stay safe 💯💪💙💪💯
Take a down day. Where you are “weak” others are strong. Where they are weak, you are strong. We help carry one another’s load. Then isn’t so heavy. Take 3 down days. When you come back you can help carry others load.
If 6 months of chaos and lies and corruption and fear mongering has caused exhaustion and you need some time away from all this, then you should take it. 1, 2, 5, 7 days, whatever, is not going to change anything at this point and as this horror show has shown, you can pick up wherever things are when you come back and not missed anything.
We have a big fight ahead of us and we all need to be ready to go when it happens and not let the daily chaos and drama wear us out before the big fight happens. Stay engaged, but don't let the distractions or the nonsense interfere with what is most important -
There are elections going on in States all the time, and special elections taking place as well. Contact your County Elections Board or State Elections Board or Secretary of State, whoever is in charge of elections in our state and find out when the next elections are... find out who is running and for what positions.
We have to replace the people at the local, county, State and then Federal level in order to stack all of our local governments with pro-democracy people. For more information on a way out of this mess, read this: Now What Do We Do? The Way Out Of This Mess!!! - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/now-what-do-we-do-the-way-out-of
I get it! I’ve participated in all the national protests, donated to numerous causes, wrote to my congressional reps, etc. But feeling like I’m screaming into a pillow. Ready to back that one person that has the best plan on stopping this madness. Who though? Someone needs to step up now and take the bull by the horns. Talk is cheap. Where’s the action??
Newsom seems to be stepping up. We need more Dems like him who will call out the bullies among other things.
Agreed -- Newsom is showing the kind of aggressiveness that is needed to take these people on. I'm not seeing that from enough other Dems. Newsom is not letting any slight aimed at him go unanswered. That is what it's going to take. Dems who are afraid of the fight need to step aside.
I think I'll send (another) note to the DNC saying that. And I will continue to call the Dems that are standing up like Raskin, AOC, Crockett and thank them.
Yep, sounds like a good plan.
I understand that you got a conscience but you still seem to be angrier about where you are. I would be very angry if I had been treated that way as well. My issue is that some of that anger seems to be a bigger issue than what the tangerine man is doing to ruin our country. I am so frustrated that he just keeps making the outrageous claims and huge lies that no one seems to be able to stop . You talk about the lies and basic illegal activities that no one stops. No one seems to care- he is running rampant over rights and the constitution and no one can stop him. I am so scared that my children will be forced to leave this country or be treated as criminals. No one can stop him. Why do we need a $200 million ballroom while children starve? This is not the country I grew up in. It was not perfect but people cared about each other. They supported efforts to take care of our poor and our veterans that put their lives on the line for us. I feel so frustrated. I try to make my voice count, I participate in protests and send my representatives my support but he still is the teflon idiot. I am not afraid of him but others are. When does this change? When does all this "evidence" that people have begin to make a difference?
Good thing they're not in AZ it's 110°. Probably going to get to 114° in the next 2 days! Keep up the great work 👍