@LnzyHou I never dreamed that the generation represented in this photo, and many people actually in this photo, would age out to be the complete antithesis of who they were.
Dumbfounded
@LnzyHou A human life is so difficult just as it is out of the box. I just can’t understand why factions within this country do things to make it even more brutal, more eviscerating.
I’m in unbearable pain
@LnzyHou physical or mental? I was just reading about 2025 SSI and I don’t know what to believe or think it didn’t sound good. Anyhow, if you are in physical pain to that level, can’t they give you something?
@LnzyHou @MidnightRider I'm so sorry. I wish I could make it better.
I find myself choking up, tearing up. Several times a day.
This pain in my upper chest makes itself known. It's like when the neighbor in WV was terrorizing us, so I figure it's an anxiety thing. So I try and distract myself.
I'll send a virtual hug.
@MidnightRider @GeezerWench @LnzyHou I'm right with all of you. Sleepless. Chest pains. I can't believe this is America.
@Sheree @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
Tachycardia is a new word in my vocabulary. Ended up in ER by ambulance week ago yesterday. Symptoms have started up again twice since. Have to control my emotions lest I go to ER again.
One day at a time. Paying almost zero attention to the shit show in DC.
Remind myself daily:
We get the government we deserve.
@LnzyHou I hate that phrase, we don’t get the government we deserve. The system is so jack rigged it’s ridiculous. How do we deserve to have a man who is a treasonous insurrectionist? We get the government we get because the United States is bent.
@LnzyHou @Sheree @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
“We get the government we deserve.” I don’t accept that. That blames the citizens without laying blame at our “representatives”. There’s more at play than the racism and ignorance of our fellow citizens.
@CanisPundit @LnzyHou @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
There are resistance efforts underway. I'm looking for the best fit for me. Some options here:
https://www.mobilize.us/electionresponsecenter/
We need to be organized & Do Something.
@Sheree Not only did this country screw us with Trump, they gave him all the power with the other branches. I know a lot of Christians are on this site and I don’t mean to insult them, but my rage toward organized religion is at an all time high. Resistance should have been Merrick Garland doing his job, there is no resistance now only acceptance.
@MidnightRider I'm furious too. But NO ACCEPTANCE from we the people. Do not give an inch. Make every move they try to make slow & painful.
@Sheree For me, the acceptance I have is the knowledge that I simply am not powerful enough to change anything about this machinery. Just like Alec Guinness, I am turning off my light saber.
@MidnightRider Do what you need to do for your soul. I was ready relocate off the grid & live out what time I have left in peace, & I still may do so. I marched for our rights in the 60's & 70's & now I gotta do this stuff again? Today I'm thinking I'll actively resist as best as I can. I've got both futures competing in my head. Should I Stay or Should I Go?
@Sheree I stopped watching all news shows. I think the major networks are complicit profiteers. I’ve been walking around 6 to 10 miles a week, that helps. For now like many I will try to blunt it out. I could barely read that posted document because he called Vivek a great patriot. The USA is now run by a felonious insurrectionist traitor who walks in and dressing teens, rapes and suggests pussy grabbing, felates microphones and talks about cocks. But the Christians aren’t embarrassed.
@MidnightRider I couldn't agree more about the news. It is just dreck. I fact-check everything from source, which takes forever & is exhausting. I'm a retired gal, so I can do this, but I never could have when I was working full time & raising a family. I can see how people have been duped by the BS they are fed. Keep doing what you can for your mental & physical well-being. Enjoy those walks, I find my time outdoors so healing. Sending you hugs 🫂.
@Sheree Thanks Sheree, back at you. They might be able to put us all in draconian circumstances but look how great we are all being to each other. They haven’t figured out a way to dismantle that just yet. ☮️
@CanisPundit @Sheree @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
You don’t have to accept it.
It just is.
Thanks to 100M who didn’t vote.
@LnzyHou I’m sure that was a contributing factor, but I believe the issue is far more dense and complex than that.
Actually it’s that simple.
If 100M voters don’t give a shit, it’s gonna have a big impact.
@LnzyHou I respect that you feel that way. I think the Democrats did a lot of stupid shit starting with selecting a candidate without allowing the electorate to choose from several.
@LnzyHou @Sheree @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
I get a little tachycardia here and there. It doesn't always come when I feel particularly would up. I don't have particular advice besides finding a systematic way to release tension.
@Helical_Code @LnzyHou @Sheree @GeezerWench The only systematic way I know of is illegal in my state and most other ones too. Not only do they have to keep shocking us they want to make sure we don’t have any way to ground the jolt.
@Helical_Code @Sheree @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
I’m not aware I’m wound up when it happens. That’s the scary part.
@LnzyHou Something inside of me is not right, there is a disturbance in the force Luke. I feel like this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv0ITAfdxg&pp=ygUSc2FnYSB0aGUgaW50ZXJ2aWV3
It’s a wound we all share.
@LnzyHou In so many ways it already felt like most of us out here were treading water. Our fellow countrymen decided to throw us an anchor in response.
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou
Good song for the moment.
@LnzyHou
Please be well, Lindsay. That is so scary. We all need to learn how to get calmer for the long term, or we'll be stroking out. I wake up with the tachycardia At 3 am & have had bouts of bradycardia as well. Heart's not sure if it wants to gallop away or stop altogether. Hugs all around, CoSoFamily.
@Sheree It’s not just your heart rhythm, high blood pressure events have ushered many a person out of this world.
@MidnightRider Yeah, so that's my newest thing - after a lifetime of lower than average BP, now it's high. I swim for an hour a day, walk the dog twice a day, & hike & still my BP is suddenly nuts & I may have to start meds. It's like I've aged a decade in the last year. Many of my friends are having similar experiences with new unexpected health problems. Maybe RFK Jr's brainworm can save us. 🧠 🪱 🙄
@LnzyHou @Sheree @MidnightRider @GeezerWench
I'm sorry it's hit so hard - it came like a bolt of lightning, I didn't expect this outcome at all. I have the benefit of distance and I still am shocked and sickened and afraid. Take care of yourself, right now it's hard because you have to see it everywhere.
@GeezerWench @LnzyHou How did the United States go from “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony with a Coca-Cola” to “ not only do I never want to speak to you again. I don’t care if horrible things befall you”?
@MidnightRider @GeezerWench @LnzyHou
2 words: The Internet. 😑
Spiteful, fearful men.
@GeezerWench @LnzyHou @MidnightRider Huh. I mussa got blocked. 😐
@POOetryma @LnzyHou @MidnightRider
Blocked by who?
@GeezerWench @LnzyHou @MidnightRider By Lnzy. I couldn't see her profile. Apparently, something is bothering her and it wasn't showing up in the feed, so I went to her account to see if I could see the relevant post, but nothing. Did I get blocked at some point? I'm not bothered, just curious. I try to get along, but I'm not for everyone. 🫤
@POOetryma
Maybe just a momentary thing.
Everyone is a little out of sorts, let's say.
@GeezerWench I'm not worried about it. It's social media, after all.
@GeezerWench @LnzyHou Thanks I wish I could take away everybody’s pain and anxiety too.