Reading history and historical quotes about what we are experiencing. It may take time and toil, but we eventually overcome.
“There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.” - Martin Van Buren
Up to 50% of depressed people are cured by placebo.
Up to 60% of anxious people are cured by placebo.
an innocuous placebo can become insidious instantly... such as when baby's pacifier is lost and the baby's filthy thumb that the sterile pacifier was preventing... goes right back in the baby's mouth!😝
~No American takes the White House recommended inoculation ...the inoculation recommended by scientists and by Ms.FDR:
"Do one thing every day that scares you " ...thus preventing anxiety that leads to depression that leads to suicidality that leads to suicide/murder.
When Ellison or Zuck or Bezos or Musk or Trump or Disney or AI or an algorithm, etc turns the innocuous placebos of 60% of the US to MURDEROUS RAGEFUL TERRORIST FASCISM...
...***GAME OVER***
Uptrends: In 10 years most Americans will want to die?
Osama Bin Laden copycats have a name for those Americans: "AMMO!"
Waiting for that power of public opinion in TODAY’S world to be reinforced by millions of marchers with pitchforks . We are not moving fast enough nor loud enough to even slow down the daily assaults on our freedoms …by Mr. Trump!
Yes, we are not moving as quickly as we need to. The times are indeed different from Marty’s day. However, modern technology can also compress time to our advantage.
This is just SMOKE SCREEN TO KEEP JEFFREY EPSTEIN/MAXWELL TRUMP’S BEST BUDDIES AND CONVICTED PEDOPHILES OUT OF THE NEWS.
Keep your eye on the prize all of the Epstein files all of the pictures all of the Financial transactions to pay off their victims the underage girls no one wants that to come out not Bill Gates not Donald Trump not a lot of other rich people.
What’s the sense of being rich if you can’t be a pedophile?
I read books. All kinds of books. My local library issues me a receipt every time I check out a book. This year, so far I’ve saved $3500 on books. I occasionally buy a book, but look at that $avings!
I read trusted journalists and writers here on Substack. I do not mindlessly scroll social media sites - I’ve deleted them all.
I’m doing the same. I have read every day since before Trump took office. Lately I’m up to about one 300+ page book evert 2-3 days. Mostly checked out online through my local library.
My two tween grandsons are theater geeks. They act, they sing, they play guitar, and they’re now starting to read. Stepping into a character changes you. It teaches you empathy for other people. It’s just like reading.
I spend time in the mountains, breathing and viewing, with my husband. We also will now have more time in “late night” for stargazing and taking photographs of the cosmos!
I'm an author. I just focus on my art and keep writing stories that show good eventually wins over evil and everyone can love whomever they want to love.
I also keep my focus on my community - in person and online - because that's what's going to help us survive all of this. Supporting each other, speaking up/speaking out, and making sure we're able to survive this.
It’s a challenge to close out the chaos but thinking and writing fantasy scenarios lifts me above the deepening sense of peril for awhile. Music yes, too. Viewing works of art. Communing with friends. Walks through Botanical Garden. Working to find humor and hope.
When my mother died in 2022 she lamented what world she was leaving us. I assured her that she had raised the next two generations with her democratic values and a feeling of responsibility to fix things. It helped.
There’s a fella (not Ukrainian) who demonstrates on behalf of Ukraine in DC every day. Every. Day. Since the full-scale invasion. My friends and I join him as and when we can. When the funding bill was going through a year and a half ago I had a sign that read, “Cheaper to stop him in Ukraine”, which several members of Congress and staffers quietly told me was a very impactful message. We also go to festivals, memorials, and anniversaries with NAFO and US/Ukrainian Activists. I’m not Ukrainian at all. Just a democrat.
I’m also a Democrat, and have attended all the rallies and marches and protests I can get to, from that first pussy-hat march in 2017. I did the first No Kings on the Mall, but since have been in Olney and Westminster, Maryland, to pump up their numbers more effectively. My most popular signs read, “Make Good Ruckus” and “Stephen Miller hangs upside down to sleep.”
I also do RenFests, beer dinners, embroidery, and jigsaw puzzles. I’m a Stephanie Miller Show fan, listening to all the scion podcasts and shows like Bob Cesca and Hal Sparks. I tune in most of the time and take breaks when I need to. I donate to NAFO fundraisers for CasEvac trucks, night vision goggles, thermal scopes, tourniquets, and drones for the Ukrainian battlefield. I do what I can and rest when I must.
It was pure serendipity that I decided to apply to law school at age 70, in winter 2023. I'm now in my second year. Not only am I in a setting where I am compelled to read about, write about, and discuss the atrocities taking place in real time; I am also learning a legal history and vocabulary that helps me to be a more precise thinker. There are many moments when I still feel paralyzed by outrage. But then I resume work on a paper on the terrorist tactics of the Trump regime, and feel sane again. In two years, I will be looking for opportunities to contribute to the prosecution of these malignant actors.
And, I will continue to finish my days with late-night comedy for as long as it exists. Laughter keeps us sane.
Oh my gosh! Humor! I can't tell you how many old videos of George Carlin, Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy I've watched lately. I find the belly laughs help
Here’s the bottom line. Trump is not a politician. Trump is an opportunistic real estate business man with a dubious reputation in NYC before politics. When banned by the banks in the 2000’s because he went bankrupt 6 times using their money, his son Don Jr famously said when asked about it” It’s not an issue. We get most of our money from the Russians.” That relationship has been in place now for over 20 years. Trump IS a convicted criminal for fraud ,which is lying , by his peers. Trump was adjudicated as a sexual offender. Trump was indicted for Espionage ( treason). Trump was indicted for insurrection obstruction for his actions over the 2020 elections. Jack Smiths report lays it out as well as Smiths belief that Trump would have been convicted.
If people would focus on WHO Trump is rather than what he does then the facts begin to resonate. Everyone can have an option on what he does but factually, he is what he is.
This is what Trump does to his opponents. Makes it about them personally. Well, the facts are on Trumps critics side about WHO he is and therefore why he does what he does. Criminals do crimes, avoid the rule of law, seek to circumvent in any way, legal or otherwise, Constitutional rights, societal norms. All for their own benefit. Trump is as transparent as any criminal. Focus on WHO he is and not stop. People on both sides will begin to come around as they see the connection between WHO are is and What and WHY he does what he does to hurt them, friend or foe.
I have a small notebook in which I write thoughts which wander through my 80 year old mind, things which will never be read even by me. It is the writing that clears my heart. Funny stuff, sad stuff, all there for some reason.
Reading history and historical quotes about what we are experiencing. It may take time and toil, but we eventually overcome.
“There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.” - Martin Van Buren
I appreciate these, Al. Thank you.
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Just a "tad of emotional maturity:"
Up to 50% of depressed people are cured by placebo.
Up to 60% of anxious people are cured by placebo.
an innocuous placebo can become insidious instantly... such as when baby's pacifier is lost and the baby's filthy thumb that the sterile pacifier was preventing... goes right back in the baby's mouth!😝
~No American takes the White House recommended inoculation ...the inoculation recommended by scientists and by Ms.FDR:
"Do one thing every day that scares you " ...thus preventing anxiety that leads to depression that leads to suicidality that leads to suicide/murder.
When Ellison or Zuck or Bezos or Musk or Trump or Disney or AI or an algorithm, etc turns the innocuous placebos of 60% of the US to MURDEROUS RAGEFUL TERRORIST FASCISM...
...***GAME OVER***
Uptrends: In 10 years most Americans will want to die?
Osama Bin Laden copycats have a name for those Americans: "AMMO!"
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Waiting for that power of public opinion in TODAY’S world to be reinforced by millions of marchers with pitchforks . We are not moving fast enough nor loud enough to even slow down the daily assaults on our freedoms …by Mr. Trump!
Yes, we are not moving as quickly as we need to. The times are indeed different from Marty’s day. However, modern technology can also compress time to our advantage.
Fortunately ,Trump has been known to “cave” when pushed. We, the People, are not pushing fast or hard enough to stop the carnage of this egomaniac.
Democratic leadership needs to step aside. They have habitually failed us all. They have become part of the problem.
Not sure I’ve been successful, but I try to focus on what I can control. For the next few months, I will put my energy towards the Virginia elections.
I am writing postcards to California’s “irregular” voters about Prop 50 and then to Virginia, too!
Good for you. Every action helps.
This is just SMOKE SCREEN TO KEEP JEFFREY EPSTEIN/MAXWELL TRUMP’S BEST BUDDIES AND CONVICTED PEDOPHILES OUT OF THE NEWS.
Keep your eye on the prize all of the Epstein files all of the pictures all of the Financial transactions to pay off their victims the underage girls no one wants that to come out not Bill Gates not Donald Trump not a lot of other rich people.
What’s the sense of being rich if you can’t be a pedophile?
If 97% of stories are anti-Trump … perhaps it is because MORE THAN 97% of his actions are 100% horrendous? #TrumpCrimeSyndicate MUST go!
I read books. All kinds of books. My local library issues me a receipt every time I check out a book. This year, so far I’ve saved $3500 on books. I occasionally buy a book, but look at that $avings!
I read trusted journalists and writers here on Substack. I do not mindlessly scroll social media sites - I’ve deleted them all.
Wow. A model reader!
I’m doing the same. I have read every day since before Trump took office. Lately I’m up to about one 300+ page book evert 2-3 days. Mostly checked out online through my local library.
My two tween grandsons are theater geeks. They act, they sing, they play guitar, and they’re now starting to read. Stepping into a character changes you. It teaches you empathy for other people. It’s just like reading.
It keeps me sane.
I spend time in the mountains, breathing and viewing, with my husband. We also will now have more time in “late night” for stargazing and taking photographs of the cosmos!
Let's make the October 14 event a national day of remembrance for ALL victims of gun violence.
Too bad we no longer have an actual MSM to mention this
I'm an author. I just focus on my art and keep writing stories that show good eventually wins over evil and everyone can love whomever they want to love.
I also keep my focus on my community - in person and online - because that's what's going to help us survive all of this. Supporting each other, speaking up/speaking out, and making sure we're able to survive this.
1. Joining forces with my local progressive group to help plan demonstrations
2. Volunteering with foster kids as a CASA and leading a music class for a nearby residential ranch
3. My Church Choir Lady Rebels (🤣)
4. My dog and my cat
5. My like-minded spouse
It’s a challenge to close out the chaos but thinking and writing fantasy scenarios lifts me above the deepening sense of peril for awhile. Music yes, too. Viewing works of art. Communing with friends. Walks through Botanical Garden. Working to find humor and hope.
And…. Appreciation I am healthy. Meditation.
💙🎶💙
When my mother died in 2022 she lamented what world she was leaving us. I assured her that she had raised the next two generations with her democratic values and a feeling of responsibility to fix things. It helped.
There’s a fella (not Ukrainian) who demonstrates on behalf of Ukraine in DC every day. Every. Day. Since the full-scale invasion. My friends and I join him as and when we can. When the funding bill was going through a year and a half ago I had a sign that read, “Cheaper to stop him in Ukraine”, which several members of Congress and staffers quietly told me was a very impactful message. We also go to festivals, memorials, and anniversaries with NAFO and US/Ukrainian Activists. I’m not Ukrainian at all. Just a democrat.
I’m also a Democrat, and have attended all the rallies and marches and protests I can get to, from that first pussy-hat march in 2017. I did the first No Kings on the Mall, but since have been in Olney and Westminster, Maryland, to pump up their numbers more effectively. My most popular signs read, “Make Good Ruckus” and “Stephen Miller hangs upside down to sleep.”
I also do RenFests, beer dinners, embroidery, and jigsaw puzzles. I’m a Stephanie Miller Show fan, listening to all the scion podcasts and shows like Bob Cesca and Hal Sparks. I tune in most of the time and take breaks when I need to. I donate to NAFO fundraisers for CasEvac trucks, night vision goggles, thermal scopes, tourniquets, and drones for the Ukrainian battlefield. I do what I can and rest when I must.
It was pure serendipity that I decided to apply to law school at age 70, in winter 2023. I'm now in my second year. Not only am I in a setting where I am compelled to read about, write about, and discuss the atrocities taking place in real time; I am also learning a legal history and vocabulary that helps me to be a more precise thinker. There are many moments when I still feel paralyzed by outrage. But then I resume work on a paper on the terrorist tactics of the Trump regime, and feel sane again. In two years, I will be looking for opportunities to contribute to the prosecution of these malignant actors.
And, I will continue to finish my days with late-night comedy for as long as it exists. Laughter keeps us sane.
This is inspirational! You go, girl!
Following Mr. B’s takes on the day is one way I “keep my sanity”. Here is a book I’m planning to read. Looks like it may be helpful. … https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcovers3.booksamillion.com%2Fcovers%2Fbam%2F1%2F53%2F958%2F807%2F1539588076.jpg&tbnid=orE5MuOS4n2bbM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booksamillion.com%2Fp%2FTrumpism%2FPaschal-Baute-Ed-D%2F9781539588078&docid=jB2uQdOr2REp5M&w=267&h=400&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=da5a218800ad73bd&shem=isst
Oh my gosh! Humor! I can't tell you how many old videos of George Carlin, Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy I've watched lately. I find the belly laughs help
Here’s the bottom line. Trump is not a politician. Trump is an opportunistic real estate business man with a dubious reputation in NYC before politics. When banned by the banks in the 2000’s because he went bankrupt 6 times using their money, his son Don Jr famously said when asked about it” It’s not an issue. We get most of our money from the Russians.” That relationship has been in place now for over 20 years. Trump IS a convicted criminal for fraud ,which is lying , by his peers. Trump was adjudicated as a sexual offender. Trump was indicted for Espionage ( treason). Trump was indicted for insurrection obstruction for his actions over the 2020 elections. Jack Smiths report lays it out as well as Smiths belief that Trump would have been convicted.
If people would focus on WHO Trump is rather than what he does then the facts begin to resonate. Everyone can have an option on what he does but factually, he is what he is.
This is what Trump does to his opponents. Makes it about them personally. Well, the facts are on Trumps critics side about WHO he is and therefore why he does what he does. Criminals do crimes, avoid the rule of law, seek to circumvent in any way, legal or otherwise, Constitutional rights, societal norms. All for their own benefit. Trump is as transparent as any criminal. Focus on WHO he is and not stop. People on both sides will begin to come around as they see the connection between WHO are is and What and WHY he does what he does to hurt them, friend or foe.
I have a small notebook in which I write thoughts which wander through my 80 year old mind, things which will never be read even by me. It is the writing that clears my heart. Funny stuff, sad stuff, all there for some reason.
Maybe we shouldn’t keep our sanity.