It really shouldn't be close at all, there is no choice for reasonable people. An articulate, intelligent, conscientious, energetic, successful person with a vision for moving America forward in excellent ways vs. a convicted felon who instigated a lethal insurrection against the country/Constitution he took an oath to protect as well as defying the espionage act with the theft of top secret documents and who has nothing to offer America except cozying up to dictators, advancement of white supremacy, division and tax cuts for the very wealthy.
During Democrats, lower & middle class increase standard of living. During Republicans, billionaires become richer & lower & middle class Americans needs are ignored. That's a fact.
10 of the last 11 recessions have been under Republican presidents, including the Great Depression & Great Recession. 50 million of the last 51 million jobs have come under Democratic presidents.
In normal times, it would be a blowout for Kamala Harris Sadly, escaping
this textbook case narcissist and the millions of souless followerss is not essy.
An landslide of tidal wave proportions is looking like a possibility. Let us hope and pray that the universe will give us the deliverance we all crave.
It shouldn't be close as you have said, but the sycophants are so busy at work: going to Nebraska to influence the electoral vote, campaigning and trying to pass legislation to increase fears about election integrity as well as prime the electorate of "anticipated election fraud", creating an avenue of chaos post election so that that results have to be decided by the House (which would not necessarily be accurate). With all these wheels in motion, Trump is quite confident he will be declared president by hook or crook.
Your post here woke me up YES! My whole life is different since 2016. It resurrected all the bad feelings of my upbringing.
However, due to publication dates, I do feel you did not give yourself time to heal from Covid. I finally got covid around Jan 30 this year, and it became long covid.
The fatigue from covid is real. Even though you manage very productive days (as do I), there is a bone weariness that refuses to go away. Perhaps when the book tour stops, you can address your health (mentally and physically) in a meaningful way.
I can’t even plan for the morning after the election if Harris doesn’t win.
I don’t think I can watch election night with all the smarmy pundits issuing opinions.
This is very frightening to me, and I’m sure to others of your readership.
WJB isn't being negative. They're expressing why this race is 'close'. Yes, the devil is a liar and DJT is the anti-Christ. But truth is truth and there's nothing wrong with telling it.
Thank you, Heather. If I can second your resolution? The country has always been divided, but ever since the diabolical one has come onto the scene, he has thrown nothing but gasoline on the fire. He wants to take us back into the dark ages with nothing but ridiculous (stupid) nonsense. I am one of many independent Republicans who is proud to endorse the vice-president, and look for a good old-fashioned butt kicking on November 5. But we will need to watch what happens on November 6th and beyond. He will undoubtedly attempt to pull off another coup because that is WHO he is. And a huge thanks to Dr. Mary for providing this forum.
MAGA is more than 50 years old. It has roots in the relationship between DJT and Roy Cohn AND John Edgar Hoover: those three clowns were the original Axass of Evil. They were and remain three stooges - three unlikely friends and co-conspirators. I was in my early twenties in 1971 when I stumbled into JEd at the Rib Room in the Mayflower Hotel in DC. Hoover and his long-time companion had lunch there every day for decades. There was no special security back in the day, I just went to the next table and had lunch. I was curious, they checked out the California blonde. We became nodding acquaintences and then "friends". At first, I was too naive to understand why they were SO friendly. Eventually, over long, boozy lunches with Hoover in 1971, I heard then what MAGA spews now: hate. MAGA is Dem hate, them hate, fem hate, Black hate, foreign hate: hate, hate, hate. MAGA hates anyone but MAGA!!! Paradoxically, their hate hate is rooted in the self hate of the fondling founding fathers. Hoover was paranoid that someone would question his Black and gay side so he attacked Blacks and gays. Cohn had a love-hate relationship with his Jewish, gay side, so he attacked anyone who was different 24/7. Cohn was DJT's mentor and personal attorney for more than 15 years; the two were on the phone every day for hours. Cohn and Hoover would be wearing MAGA hats with gold leaf today.
The saddest part about the stooges is that they have negatively influenced the course of American history and caused a great deal of pain to millions. After many years of personal denial, science finally proved that Hoover was part Black. I know from personal experience that he was gay and in a long-term, loving relationship. Hoover threw himself under the bus. Two of the many passengers were Cohn and McCarthy. Trump, Graham, DeSantis, Gaetz and Green are still on board with the madness.
If Hoover was part Black, he hated that about himself, because he's the one who set up all our leaders of the 60's. I've seen too many documentaries and conversations from various family of those leaders, and it's clear it was an inside government job.
Often times people hate that which is closest to them. "Straight" men going after gay men are typically on the down-lo. Anti-blackness among white people AND Blacks are that way for a reason.
Doesn't change the fact that he effected millions of people the most. No doubt he had something to do with the Kennedy assassinations as well. Convenient that they killed the so-called gunmen before they could talk and tell everybody who gave the orders. Yup!
Fast-forward to that kid who so-called tried to kill 45. They killed him before he could talk too. I don't trust this government as far as I can throw it. Too much bullshit, racism, and corruption. These recent guys are like a white non-Italian Mafia to me.
Yes, I agree that we all been been through much turmoil these 8 or 9 years. The insurrection was so bad for me. I am still not over that day-Jan 6th. Still cannot believe that an American did that, planned that and told followers to carry that sword. That was commited by AMERICANS, not by other countrys citizens. I DID NOT think we had such mean and hateful people in this wonderful country.. I am 86 and had to wake up. I have followed politics all my life and that was just something new. Never happened in our 250 year history.. I have loved History but that day and those awful criminals shocked me to the bone. Bonnie
Well, we did have the Civil War, Bonnie. Like you, I never considered the virulent level of hate and racism still present in 21st-century America.
As a child growing up in Harlem, NYC, I was surrounded by many different ethnicities and life was life; having to go into mid-Manhattan was STRESSFUL because the subtle prejudices could be felt.
I felt that the integration of Society, especially of Schools, would gradually (30 years) bring an end to Racism.
BOY, WAS I WRONG, IT IS FAR WORST.
I WON'T SEE A CHANGE IN THIS LIFETIME [11/5=81], HOPEFULLY, NEXT TIME AROUND THE WHEEL WILL BE BETTER; I DO NOT WANT TO BE A SAGITTARIUS, THO' !!!🤔😒😏😎♏️
I, too, am shocked to my core at how 9 years can change everything I thought was true.
I was an RN who went to work every day helping people through the worst days of their lives. In our work, my colleagues and I recognized the humanity of all people. All ages, sexes, sexual orientation, religions; political beliefs; patients handcuffed to their beds with a Sheriff in attendance; sex workers, drug addicts, homeless people and wealthy community elites. We never knew who had insurance and who didn’t. Didn’t care. All got the same best care we were capable of.
I believed people were basically good. Went to work, followed the rules, volunteered, voted regularly. Supported school and library levies as well as those for police, fire, and road improvements. Welcomed immigrants into our communities. Funded homeless shelters and drug recovery centers. This was the America I lived in.
I was naive.
Read Molly Ivan’s “Bushwhacked.” It opened my eyes but didn’t prepare me for the depth of depravity to come. Genuinely shocked at all the hate and violence of J6. The lies and treachery behind it. The ongoing vitriol and division. The long-range destruction of Project 2025, with roots going back decades. How many of us saw it coming?
Feel like we are stumbling through the ruins of a horrific earthquake. Trying to find a way forward through nearly impassable rubble. The majority of Americans are good and decent people. We will fix this. But like repaired fine porcelain, the cracks will always be visible.
Although the audience is not your friend, there is a connection. They feel as if you’re speaking directly to them. And though they don’t remember to say thank you, they appreciate your words.
This may not help your feelings of isolation, but a lot of your fans value the time you put in to your posts and “the Good in YOU!”
Wouldn't that be wonderful. It's really just now, reading this and these comments that I understand that we have indeed been living with abuse because of Donald Trump. These last 9 years have been like living balancing on the edge of a knife wondering what fresh horror he will be unleashing on us next. Hopefully this November will finally be the end.
And just imagine being Mary, in a family where her father was mostly normal, then thrown into the wake of the Donald Trump ship that ran over anyone not deemed to be important nor grovels beneath the new family leader.
Liberated, your nine words echo into the world of hearts and souls who are reaching out to Mary. This is the way she’ll at least know that she’s got another family even if it’s not there there. I’m wondering if we’ve all been thrown into a depression by the orange melting jello. Not only economic& political but emotional.
I think Kamala quite literally broke through the veil for us that Mary mentions between herself and others.
I have been trying to work through the trauma of being raised by two malignant narcissists most of my life. When Donald Trump became president, the trauma intensified. I understand the loneliness and the struggle. To be related to him and a victim of such tremendous generational trauma must be horrific. You are doing the survivor work and a lot of us are doing it with you. Thanks Mary for being so brave
Thank you for taking a chance, and being an authentic person. You bring out what too many are too scared to admit like isolation, family trauma, and not having a voice.
Agree!! Mary, ty for your bravery and courage to bare your soul. Pls know how deeply many of us relate with highly dysfunctional families. Thru tour your words & stories, parts of our own hidden truths can safely emerge. 💖
Countdown 6 weeks til he’s gone, hopefully back to court where Jack Smith will have figured enough loopholes to put him in prison for an extended time, diapers and all, hopefully with no tweeting priveleges.
I don’t understand why there has been no discussion and analysis of DJT’s self hate. In my mind, and during 40 years of observation of the man, I see in Trump what I saw in Roy Cohn and J Edgar Hoover.
The entire country has been in an abusive relationship with DJT and MAGA for the last 9 years. The dynamics are the same. It is abuse writ large.
It really shouldn't be close at all, there is no choice for reasonable people. An articulate, intelligent, conscientious, energetic, successful person with a vision for moving America forward in excellent ways vs. a convicted felon who instigated a lethal insurrection against the country/Constitution he took an oath to protect as well as defying the espionage act with the theft of top secret documents and who has nothing to offer America except cozying up to dictators, advancement of white supremacy, division and tax cuts for the very wealthy.
During Democrats, lower & middle class increase standard of living. During Republicans, billionaires become richer & lower & middle class Americans needs are ignored. That's a fact.
Imagine wearing these t-shirts in a red state 👇 🤣
libtees-2.creator-spring.com
Kamala: The only choice. She will preserve our Democracy.
Can't wait to vote for our FIRST woman president!
10 of the last 11 recessions have been under Republican presidents, including the Great Depression & Great Recession. 50 million of the last 51 million jobs have come under Democratic presidents.
That's a fact! 😉
In normal times, it would be a blowout for Kamala Harris Sadly, escaping
this textbook case narcissist and the millions of souless followerss is not essy.
An landslide of tidal wave proportions is looking like a possibility. Let us hope and pray that the universe will give us the deliverance we all crave.
Thank you James. Facts like these clear away the fog that djt blows our way.
Amen!
We have had enough of Republicans taking away rights, giving tax breaks to Millionaires/Billionaires and Corporations.
They want to take away programs that help the citizens and Social security.
It shouldn't be close as you have said, but the sycophants are so busy at work: going to Nebraska to influence the electoral vote, campaigning and trying to pass legislation to increase fears about election integrity as well as prime the electorate of "anticipated election fraud", creating an avenue of chaos post election so that that results have to be decided by the House (which would not necessarily be accurate). With all these wheels in motion, Trump is quite confident he will be declared president by hook or crook.
Your post here woke me up YES! My whole life is different since 2016. It resurrected all the bad feelings of my upbringing.
However, due to publication dates, I do feel you did not give yourself time to heal from Covid. I finally got covid around Jan 30 this year, and it became long covid.
The fatigue from covid is real. Even though you manage very productive days (as do I), there is a bone weariness that refuses to go away. Perhaps when the book tour stops, you can address your health (mentally and physically) in a meaningful way.
I can’t even plan for the morning after the election if Harris doesn’t win.
I don’t think I can watch election night with all the smarmy pundits issuing opinions.
This is very frightening to me, and I’m sure to others of your readership.
By Crook!
I don't get why it's close either. People who don't think like us.
I think it's because of the faux news that other people watch and believe. It's sad 😢
it is late in the game now.......the many voices giving warnings have been drowned out by the rantings and ravings of the Orange Cult.
No, they haven't been drowned out. Why must you attempt to spread your Negativity here?
Go back to Rumble, they'd roll out the red carpet for you.
THE DEVIL IS A LIAR. 🤬👺💩🧹🗑
HaremsCRAP......You are the negative cloud here!!! Not going there...thats what we do with closet trumptards.
WJB isn't being negative. They're expressing why this race is 'close'. Yes, the devil is a liar and DJT is the anti-Christ. But truth is truth and there's nothing wrong with telling it.
Bottom feeders lkie HarmesCrap are not worth wasting a single depends diaper.......thanks for the back up.
Thank you, Heather. If I can second your resolution? The country has always been divided, but ever since the diabolical one has come onto the scene, he has thrown nothing but gasoline on the fire. He wants to take us back into the dark ages with nothing but ridiculous (stupid) nonsense. I am one of many independent Republicans who is proud to endorse the vice-president, and look for a good old-fashioned butt kicking on November 5. But we will need to watch what happens on November 6th and beyond. He will undoubtedly attempt to pull off another coup because that is WHO he is. And a huge thanks to Dr. Mary for providing this forum.
MAGA is more than 50 years old. It has roots in the relationship between DJT and Roy Cohn AND John Edgar Hoover: those three clowns were the original Axass of Evil. They were and remain three stooges - three unlikely friends and co-conspirators. I was in my early twenties in 1971 when I stumbled into JEd at the Rib Room in the Mayflower Hotel in DC. Hoover and his long-time companion had lunch there every day for decades. There was no special security back in the day, I just went to the next table and had lunch. I was curious, they checked out the California blonde. We became nodding acquaintences and then "friends". At first, I was too naive to understand why they were SO friendly. Eventually, over long, boozy lunches with Hoover in 1971, I heard then what MAGA spews now: hate. MAGA is Dem hate, them hate, fem hate, Black hate, foreign hate: hate, hate, hate. MAGA hates anyone but MAGA!!! Paradoxically, their hate hate is rooted in the self hate of the fondling founding fathers. Hoover was paranoid that someone would question his Black and gay side so he attacked Blacks and gays. Cohn had a love-hate relationship with his Jewish, gay side, so he attacked anyone who was different 24/7. Cohn was DJT's mentor and personal attorney for more than 15 years; the two were on the phone every day for hours. Cohn and Hoover would be wearing MAGA hats with gold leaf today.
3 very dangerous stooges. They killed all our Black leaders, and there's nothing anyone can say to convince me otherwise.
The saddest part about the stooges is that they have negatively influenced the course of American history and caused a great deal of pain to millions. After many years of personal denial, science finally proved that Hoover was part Black. I know from personal experience that he was gay and in a long-term, loving relationship. Hoover threw himself under the bus. Two of the many passengers were Cohn and McCarthy. Trump, Graham, DeSantis, Gaetz and Green are still on board with the madness.
If Hoover was part Black, he hated that about himself, because he's the one who set up all our leaders of the 60's. I've seen too many documentaries and conversations from various family of those leaders, and it's clear it was an inside government job.
Often times people hate that which is closest to them. "Straight" men going after gay men are typically on the down-lo. Anti-blackness among white people AND Blacks are that way for a reason.
Doesn't change the fact that he effected millions of people the most. No doubt he had something to do with the Kennedy assassinations as well. Convenient that they killed the so-called gunmen before they could talk and tell everybody who gave the orders. Yup!
Fast-forward to that kid who so-called tried to kill 45. They killed him before he could talk too. I don't trust this government as far as I can throw it. Too much bullshit, racism, and corruption. These recent guys are like a white non-Italian Mafia to me.
Yes, I agree that we all been been through much turmoil these 8 or 9 years. The insurrection was so bad for me. I am still not over that day-Jan 6th. Still cannot believe that an American did that, planned that and told followers to carry that sword. That was commited by AMERICANS, not by other countrys citizens. I DID NOT think we had such mean and hateful people in this wonderful country.. I am 86 and had to wake up. I have followed politics all my life and that was just something new. Never happened in our 250 year history.. I have loved History but that day and those awful criminals shocked me to the bone. Bonnie
Well, we did have the Civil War, Bonnie. Like you, I never considered the virulent level of hate and racism still present in 21st-century America.
As a child growing up in Harlem, NYC, I was surrounded by many different ethnicities and life was life; having to go into mid-Manhattan was STRESSFUL because the subtle prejudices could be felt.
I felt that the integration of Society, especially of Schools, would gradually (30 years) bring an end to Racism.
BOY, WAS I WRONG, IT IS FAR WORST.
I WON'T SEE A CHANGE IN THIS LIFETIME [11/5=81], HOPEFULLY, NEXT TIME AROUND THE WHEEL WILL BE BETTER; I DO NOT WANT TO BE A SAGITTARIUS, THO' !!!🤔😒😏😎♏️
🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Bonnie
I, too, am shocked to my core at how 9 years can change everything I thought was true.
I was an RN who went to work every day helping people through the worst days of their lives. In our work, my colleagues and I recognized the humanity of all people. All ages, sexes, sexual orientation, religions; political beliefs; patients handcuffed to their beds with a Sheriff in attendance; sex workers, drug addicts, homeless people and wealthy community elites. We never knew who had insurance and who didn’t. Didn’t care. All got the same best care we were capable of.
I believed people were basically good. Went to work, followed the rules, volunteered, voted regularly. Supported school and library levies as well as those for police, fire, and road improvements. Welcomed immigrants into our communities. Funded homeless shelters and drug recovery centers. This was the America I lived in.
I was naive.
Read Molly Ivan’s “Bushwhacked.” It opened my eyes but didn’t prepare me for the depth of depravity to come. Genuinely shocked at all the hate and violence of J6. The lies and treachery behind it. The ongoing vitriol and division. The long-range destruction of Project 2025, with roots going back decades. How many of us saw it coming?
Feel like we are stumbling through the ruins of a horrific earthquake. Trying to find a way forward through nearly impassable rubble. The majority of Americans are good and decent people. We will fix this. But like repaired fine porcelain, the cracks will always be visible.
You sum it up so well and succinctly.
Although the audience is not your friend, there is a connection. They feel as if you’re speaking directly to them. And though they don’t remember to say thank you, they appreciate your words.
This may not help your feelings of isolation, but a lot of your fans value the time you put in to your posts and “the Good in YOU!”
With gratitude…💙
So eloquently spoken, MS Weisgal...you speak from the heart!
Thank you.
Yes, thank you Dr. Mary, for everything.
Thank you for being a ray of sunshine during a very overcast and cloudy time in America. In 2024, let's show MAGA the door.
Wouldn't that be wonderful. It's really just now, reading this and these comments that I understand that we have indeed been living with abuse because of Donald Trump. These last 9 years have been like living balancing on the edge of a knife wondering what fresh horror he will be unleashing on us next. Hopefully this November will finally be the end.
And just imagine being Mary, in a family where her father was mostly normal, then thrown into the wake of the Donald Trump ship that ran over anyone not deemed to be important nor grovels beneath the new family leader.
To thine own self be true.
Thank you for your honesty.
You are not alone.
Ever.
“Think” with your heart.
Both good news, and not so good news.
It’s all begins in one’s head.
Blessings.
One day at a time.
❤️🙏☮️
ps: you are a “Trump” that has a heart ❤️, as well as a morally healthy conscience.
Right on.
Thank you for your courage and for the example you’ve set. Will try to follow for myself.
I understand you more than you will ever know.
Liberated, your nine words echo into the world of hearts and souls who are reaching out to Mary. This is the way she’ll at least know that she’s got another family even if it’s not there there. I’m wondering if we’ve all been thrown into a depression by the orange melting jello. Not only economic& political but emotional.
I think Kamala quite literally broke through the veil for us that Mary mentions between herself and others.
Your book is in my cart ready to go, thank you for the reminder!
I hope the tour has been going well! You're doing amazing things 💜
Wow, Mary, beautifully spoken and from the heart. And like Liberated and Kevin, I too, understand.
Thank you for your transparency and honesty. In a different time, place, whatever, I would have loved to be your friend.
I have been trying to work through the trauma of being raised by two malignant narcissists most of my life. When Donald Trump became president, the trauma intensified. I understand the loneliness and the struggle. To be related to him and a victim of such tremendous generational trauma must be horrific. You are doing the survivor work and a lot of us are doing it with you. Thanks Mary for being so brave
Panther Moon, it sounds like you are brave, too. I know how hard it is to recover from childhood trauma. You are not alone.
I’m so sorry. No child should have to live that way
Thank you for taking a chance, and being an authentic person. You bring out what too many are too scared to admit like isolation, family trauma, and not having a voice.
Agree!! Mary, ty for your bravery and courage to bare your soul. Pls know how deeply many of us relate with highly dysfunctional families. Thru tour your words & stories, parts of our own hidden truths can safely emerge. 💖
It HAS been traumatic and distracting and you know what I mean by “it”! We must put an end to the chaos with our VOTES, and I have faith we will!
We the people will send DJT Packingin Nov🗳️
Countdown 6 weeks til he’s gone, hopefully back to court where Jack Smith will have figured enough loopholes to put him in prison for an extended time, diapers and all, hopefully with no tweeting priveleges.
From your mouth to G-d's ear.
I feel what your going through...
I wish we lived close to each other. We would be great friends.
I don’t understand why there has been no discussion and analysis of DJT’s self hate. In my mind, and during 40 years of observation of the man, I see in Trump what I saw in Roy Cohn and J Edgar Hoover.
Good eye, Grandpa Pete! They were real rotters!
I listened to your book on Audible but will also get a copy for my library!
You shine a hopeful light on our personal and national trauma in contrast to the stark darkness 45 generates.