I no longer read or watch the news any more. There's no point. I've done everything that I'm physically and financially capable of doing, and the anxiety had become overwhelming. The only news source I use now are the multiple excellent substacks to which I subscribe. (Like you, Angela, I figured out a few weeks ago that I have PTSD from what happened in the 2016 election which is inflaming the current situation. At major bonfire level now.)
I am reading a wonderful book by James Middleton called “Ella, the Dog Who Saved My Life”. James, apart from being the brother in law of the future King of England, has struggled most of his life with dyslexia, ADD and depression. But he writes a wonderfully uplifting book on how he worked through those challenges. Very, very uplifting.
Thanks for the book review! You Just reminded me that I read Henry Winkler's book 'Being Henry' earlier this year and it was uplifting and I have a better understanding of what it is like to have dyslexia.
Agreed on dogs. My cat allergy, much to the dismay of my kids, prevents cat ownership. But I have a plethora of dogs. And books. Right now I’m sitting in my living room reading Substack while mending my kids stuffed animals that were mauled by one of the dogs this week. Tonight’s project is making the mama/baby turtle combo stuffie whole again and creating a pirate patch for the missing eye on the mama. Hand mending is cathartic in times of high stress, especially when reading doesn’t quite cut it.
I just read something that said "The Dogs Who Love Us". It took me aback. I (most of us?) always think in terms of how much we love our dogs. But do we turn it around and think how much THEY love US? I got thinking about it, and decided: probably more. Who becomes very sad when their person leaves? Do we get very sad when they leave to go play? No we do not. I found myself feeling ENORMOUS gratitude to Jhapa and Lady -- and all of the precious dogs in my life who have loved me so. Bella, Turbo, Tyler, Ki, Quinta, Saba, Tippy. I have been so beyond richly blessed by their love.
My sweet dogs are the best! I've been really surprised that reading (which I have done prolifically my entire life), is not helping. I think it must be feeling kind of irrelevant in the light of the here and now. Cooking (which I'd never done much of, or very well) is proving to be a good release.
And that's saying something!! (Have you thought about trying something different? Perhaps the cheeseburgers are unconsciously reminding you of the orange sadist-traitor's favorite food?)
I did think of that -that’s his favorite food. But then I quickly distanced myself mentally from him because I only drink real Coke, never Diet Coke which he drinks. I always need the complimentary french fries with that cheeseburger too. I can do Cane’s chicken too. I’ve never seen him eat that. I doubt they have those restaurants in Florida. But orange sadist and I do have food likes in common. Am I a bad person now?
My only experience with dogs + cats was 10 years ago. I had a beautiful dog (who'd been terribly abused when I adopted her) and a precious silver kitty (adopted as a kitten). Minnow (the kitty) went to sleep every night with Bella (who was terrified of people b/o how she'd been treated, and wouldn't leave the bathroom where she holed up for the first few months). Minnow's love played an enormous role Bella's psychological healing. When Bella felt safe enough to come to bed with us, Minnow always followed and they cuddled up together. So I think I'm prejudiced! LOL! (or maybe just inexperienced. It's always been dogs in the decades before that.)
I am 100% a dog person. They are little people as far as I'm concerned. Heartbreaking how some people have treated animals. But they mistreat humans, why should we expect them to be kind to an animal.
I've never tried that. (I kid you not: I always thought I was "too stupid" to be able to bake bread.) The time has come. Thank you so much. (The way you describe it makes me remember how soothing it was to lie in a hammock and just rock...)
It takes a little patience - a good yeast. But if you find a good, basic, tried and true recipe to start out with, it's great. The kneading is a good workout and the house smells wonderful while it's baking. You can start by looking at the King Arthur baking website....lots of good information and help.
Is there a way to private msg me? I have some incredibly good and easy bread recipes I’d love to share. I am not a cook, nothing special in the kitchen at all, but I do give my bread to people as gifts and they always ask for more!
And dogs! I'm in British Columbia taking care of my friend's Border Collie, trying not to worry about the United States election. We saw a bear yesterday. That's a distraction!
Yes to books and cats! And music! Whatever style you prefer. I discovered light classical music on Xfinity this past year and I am a better person for it! Totally okay to step away and not feel obligated to sending money you do not have. I live in a county full of so called Proud Boys. UGH It is not safe to go door knocking, much less display yard signs. I am only glad that we have mail-in voting and my ballot has been received!
I think so many of us, not just women, identify with the recent Harris ad about “what happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth.” Masterful ad.
Must say I got a good laugh at the Fox guy who got so incensed by that ad. I kept thinking someone should have asked him if he would feel the same way if Melania chose not to vote for her philandering husband?
Wish there was a dislike button for the environment in which you live, although I worry that if things go south with this election, the whole country might be like that.
Sorry about your neighbors. I'm glad that your ballot has been received -- given the ballot boxes blown up in Washington state and Oregon + mail-in ballots being stolen from people's mailboxes and from polling stations. (And they DARE to say that WE cheat!) My coffers are empty now, so don't need to worry about "should I donate more". Of course, it's too late for that, I imagine.
I am lucky that I work at home and could hand my ballot to my mail carrier, with pics on the door cam! And I love that we can check to see if it has been received online. I'm thinking we need a few web cams on our drop boxes!
I love my cat but cannot stand DJT OR VANCE. Both are nut bars & very, very weird. They should not be allowed anywhere near the WH. You will see many of the RNC voting for VP HARRIIS undercover. Some of them are normal, intelligent humans who have not been brainwashed by the MEGA Crazies.
Thinking any government representative of us, the American people, voting under cover, is a coward and not worthy to represent any of us. I want to see representation that is willing to stand tall, not hide.
I like to steam all the Star Trek series. It shows a positive future even after the apocalyptic war. Especially Star Trek Voyager. My cats love it too!
I'm reading Killers of the August Moon about the Osage Indians. It's about some really awful things happening kind of like now but it's another time, another world, and I forget about this election that is so nail biting. Thanks, Mary, for paying close attention to what's going on today so I don't have to. I already voted for Harris/Walz so there's nothing more I can do but wait on the results. Fingers crossed.
I agree that books help us deal with this anxiety. I recommend you read my book, A Graver Danger, about how corruption in our schools brought us to this PTSD place. It’s infuriating to know what they’re doing but when you know you can do something about it. It’s our helplessness against Trump that’s giving us PTSD.
If you want to learn a way disinformation penetrated our culture you’ll find out. I include a true story about how I was teaching proper note taking from legitimate library sources in 1997 to my fourth grade class and a parent, whose son earned a D having not done his work, submitted a page of notes from the internet insisting my lesson was worthless now that everything is on the internet. She demanded those notes change his grade. The principal ordered me to indulge her as if facts didn’t matter. I hardly knew of the internet at that time but common sense told me how do I know these are facts?
If you knew what’s been really going on in our schools - what my book is about - the death of facts would make total sense to you. Check out WhiteChalkCrime.com where I’ve been trying to expose our schools since 1995. You’ll find my book. Our nation’s biggest problem is we stopped respecting teachers who were society’s glue until they weren’t and we fell apart. Trust me it’s not the teachers’ fault. It’s the administrators that set them up so you’d stopped listening to them, using ruthless teacher abuse if they dare speak out. That’s why you don’t know about this.
I wrote a book with a plan to get great teachers back in power. Please read it. Not only can we do that but you will find some peace of mind understanding how we got to a place where so many would think Trump was a reasonable choice for president.
If you lined up people and asked them do you want to fly in plane one with a trained pilot or plane two with famous Stevie’s Wonder flying the plane, the trained pilot would win. But when it comes to choosing a president you need a decent education that sorts out facts to pick a president. Trump’s power proves how indecent our schools are. However, if you will listen to me, a teacher, it doesn’t have to be this way.
My 11 year old cat, Diego, was "gifted" to my front door here in Merida, Mexico. he is the smartest little gentleman: my best friend. At 85, all my human best friends are dead; most were younger than me!
I have tried to stop paying attention to US politics except for the corruption associated with the Israeli Holocaust. The best way to get a modicum of truth is Youtube, books and Substacks. The USA does not have a Congress or a Senate that represents the "people"; it serves Israel. Our 2 candidates for President promise to serve Israel and the winner will do just that.
Same here. It's gotten to the point where the stress is literally taking a toll on my heart so i've loaded up on books, pulled out the old DVD player and movies and joined two streaming services (which i hated to do). I'm going to turn into my mother in law and basically ignore the world, take care of my family, and pray we survive all of this.
Yeah, she ignored almost everything unpleasant (including me :)) for years but as she got older she completely zoned out which i thought was so weird because she had a very easy life. I'm starting to understand it now and am constantly reminding myself i can do what i can do and that's all. I'm not in charge of fixing this insanity.
I certainly agree. My own PTSD began in 1965 thanks to a pedophile father very like DJT. I never watch videos of him now or more than glance at his ugly photos before moving on FAST to other topics.
I especially enjoy Facebook reels about a hilarious old lady ("Mother of heathens") and a doctor who tests the reflexes of newborns in a hospital far away... though I must try to stop providing facts to a host of Karens there who incessantly comment that testing reflexes is somehow cruel and unnecessary!
People determined to ignore facts are everywhere, sadly.
I am so very, very sorry about the nightmare the man who was supposed to be your father forced you to endure. Images of the orange sadist sicken me to the point of being unable to see his face without wanting to vomit. Re anyone being so stupid as to think that "testing reflexes is somehow cruel and unnecessary"? WTF?!! Please tell me more! That's got to be one of the more insane things I've heard about. And, given our current insane environment, that's saying a LOT! (I'm a doctor and did a year of Neurology residency, and can't comprehend what these women can be complaining about. Gotta find out! Thanks.)
I totally understand and agree. On one hand I can't wait for this to be over, and on the other hand I dread it being over in case it's the wrong result. I have a dog, that helps. And Atavan.
I have a date with myself to get very drunk once we hear the results, no matter how it turns out. I feel like Armageddon is approaching. Am I being overly dramatic?
No, I feel the same way. If she wins, I will actually drink. But not get horribly drunk because I throw up and have a nasty hangover later. I live in Vegas, so I will treat myself to a nice dinner with drinks and actually gamble a little. I never gamble because I've seen what that addiction has done to some friends here. That's as wild as this Boomer will get. If she loses, I will be beside myself. I took 4 days off work next week just to be ready for that possibility and also to watch TV and know what's going on rather than trying to look at the news on my phone all the time at work.
I suffer from PTSD also childhood mental & physical abuse with the ADHD & severe learning disabilities and I swear it was from the forceps delivery & the oxygen deprecation & I've been in almost every natural disaster including a house fire we only had 1min & 30sec. & a coworker stabbing her boyfriend with a corregated bucher knife & 4 abusive marriages & being tossed out by almost # 5 BTW he was Russian & boasted that his grandfather was at the murder camps running one of the gas chambers when I freaked out he said he was only kidding and I said no you weren't no one would joke about something like that & since he didn't allow me too get my things & the cop's didn't do sqaut after he grabbed me by the throat saying they didn't see any bruise's seriously Cop's always side with the male so I went as soon as I found a pet friendly apartment to get my stuff and he had me locked up for4 days! If I was breaking and stealing stuff how would I know the abt code to shut off the alarm 🤷♀️ don't know if you guys kinda go into shock when something happens? I wasn't even allowed to speak for myself to explain to a female judge! I live in a blue state but all the small township's around here are a red zone so you can't even talk too someone at the dollar store🤭
No Emily B, I have a bottle of Knob Creek bourbon that I haven't touched in a year and a half and it's coming out on Tuesday night. You may need a like-minded drinking partner though. I will be with you in the spirits!
I drink maybe 1-2 times a year if that, but based on the recommendation of a highly reputable friend who owns a restaurant and wine shop I recently bought a bottle of wine entitled “Grief” and another bottle “Train Wreck” (that was my own choosing) so now I need to pay him and his wife another visit to pick a more celebratory named bottle for the occasion! (Here’s to being hopeful!)
Maybe. I'm not going to participate in these convos much because negativity causes stress & my anxiety is getting almost crazy dangerous. NOT GOOD. & the maintenance people are hellbent on doing renovations meaning that I need to get into the wind so that they can do their thing without me being underfoot.
Trumpski's approval is so low that Parkinson's, cancer & brain - dissolving SYPHILIS would be more popular. A lot of Republithugs see that this BIG BAG O' BLIGHT is wreaking HAVOC with their image, hence they want to toss him like a multiply - befouled adult diaper.
A LOT of people feel the same way. There's a tiny homunculus inside me that wants to get drunk & / or high. As I said earlier, Dumbsterfire is coming across as less popular than Parkinson's or cancer. A lot of Republicans have even ditched him.
Not at all. Everyone should listen to the recent podcast of Freakonomics Radio (NPR), Season 14, Episode 8. Doom chasers can skip straight to the last 10 or 15 minutes to hear one highly evaluated prediction of the election. We'll see you at the bar.
kd, same thing with women's health, you need to cross state lines to get it.
Like with weed, I have to go to Illinois from Wis. to get it. drumpfster and his minions lost whatever minds they had long ago. They have nothing. Always thank Mary for telling it straight.
I don't like it either and when I see the alcoholics in the hospital, glad I don't like it or cigarettes either. Ugly deaths. Now if I could just relate that way to a cheeseburger........
Right there with you. I’ve listened to the audiobook of “Reckoning” twice now, wishing I had read it sooner and shared with some of the saner repubs in my family and friends.
I looked for "Reckoning" on Amazon, but only finding one book about African-American art which was just published, and several "romance" novels with that word in their title. Please tell me more about the "Reckoning" to which you are referring. Thanks.
Correct me please.....I thought that traitors, enemys of the state, aiding and abbetting the enemy..passing classified documents to the enemy putting the nations population in peril..mass murder(covid)....serial rapist..........would this not require the death penalty with the possiblity of using a trained miltary firing squad???
We reached a state of "fatigue" listening to this Trumpf felon, a narcissist, a deranged man, sowing hatred, encouraging violence, life threating people. It is called "Trumpf-fatigue"
My prediction is that he will lose. Americans have a collective common sense to walk from the abyss.
Absolutely, and I don't understand at all how the Justice Department, or any arm of the law in the town(s) where he says these dangerous threats, don't act immediately to take him into custody to face the full thrust of the law. He should be incarcerated and denied air time on any news media.
There are these dark money and crazy organizations like Opus Die, Bradleyy and Scaffe foundations leading the fight against liberalism,democracy and freedom of choice.. Alot of what they push are now in the Heritage Foundation 900 page Project 2025. They use all kinds of bully tactics, payoffs, intimidation etc. The more I study this subteranian world, the insanity fog starts to lift a bit at a time.
It would seem that there would be. I don’t care that he is committing crime after crime & he is walking free.
He should have been arrested & charges for the January 6 insurrection. Also for being a criminal, traitor, rapist, violent, threatening people, cheater & possibly more
I know (unfortunately, from experience) that a person can literally come up to you in a police station, with witnesses in blue, and say, “I am going to kill you.” and the police won’t be able to do anything unless the person demonstrates their threat. Which is screwed up in a lot of ways, but is in line with our (current) right to free speech.
Special baby.....Bone spurs gets to give a simulated blow job to his bum fuck buddy Putin on stage.....and spit out the Russian load all over his mike!!! Donable Lector is so friggin gross.....he just cannot stop with the gun violence and Liz Cheney.
Nine barrels pointing at her. 😨😩🤬 Nine is the number in a firing squad and it was a message to his cult to execute her. Our traditional media is horrible. Thank you for reporting on this and being there for us. ❤️
Remember, Fred taught Donald not to say 'Hitler' or 'Nazi'. Instead just say 'judge, jury and executioner'. He expects to get away with more mass murder.
Only four more days to a failed state - or not. It's up to you, America, while we in the rest of the world (including here in Canada) wait with bated breath. Please don't fuck it up this time. 🤞🏼
I can only imagine what our allies are going through. We at least have some control of the election with our vote and getting involved in the campaigns. The other countries just have to sit hopelessly by and wonder WTH happened to our country.
I'm in Canada. I'm losing sleep AND hair. I have a constant, full headache & my blood pressure is up. I was off my meds for 2 months after losing weight. I may have to go back on for fear of stroking out.
When the country has people burning ballot boxes, shooting or punching poll workers, continuing to lie & then you have trump.
We the Americans people are doing all We can to make certain that Kamala/Walz win the election. We want to save Democracy & Our country from falling into the hands of a wannabe dictator/hitler.
As our late, great Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, as Kelly's Heroes' indelible character "Oddball" would say, we're sending 'positive waves' - anything that might help at this point.
I heard a pundit say (yesterday or today) that, according to Winston Churchill back in the day, the US eventually does the right thing - but - only after trying everything else! God help us that’s the case this time, too.
As a Brit watching this from the UK it’s almost impossible to believe that it has come to this : that a candidate for the highest office in the U.S. can effectively call for someone to be put before firing squad without his whole party condemning him in the strongest possible terms let alone the press and his opponents.
But of course he didn’t start here. He started by mocking a disabled journalist nearly 10 years ago (or possibly even earlier) and every subsequent affront to decency has been a calculated step to get him to where he is now, less than a week from possibly becoming the dictator of the world’s biggest ex democracy. I hope that Mitch McConnell and those other supine republican politicians who stood by and said nothing are proud of what they have done so much to create.
I have always said McConnell is one EVIL BASTARD he had two chances to stop trump and he chose money and power over democracy. There is a special place in hell for him.
trump started when he was a kid throwing rocks at his next door neighbor’s toddler who was in a playpen in their own yard. trump started when he was a grade school student bragging that he had punched a teacher in the face. I don’t care how Queens-Rich his father was, he should have been tried and put in juvenile detention as a public menace then.
Ann, yes, Donald mocks decency to its core in every aspect, and pulls up the prehistoric instinct of blood lust in his outraged millions. No drug exists which can cure this ill.
Thank you for your continued efforts to keep our country safe from a dictatorship. Halloween was fun. Now comes the scary stuff. I admire your courage.
I wish but zi don't see it. Too many fascists in the GQP willing to pick up things after Trump Plus you have the whole Faux news echo chamber and far right losers like Musk
I made a comment on your post last night that said, basically, that Donald is really pissed off at his mother and is taking it out on all women, especially on women in power. This fixation of his that women must be punished - whether it's for abortions or for going against him or for just being women - is so very dangerous.
I don't think Vance actually hates women, I think, being bought and paid for by a billionaire he knows what he has to do and say, and his greed for power and wealth overwhelms whatever morality he previously held. I think he is simply indifferent and thus willing to trample anyone to achieve his goals. At least Trump probably has a serious personality disorder
Mary would have to confirm that by discussing that particular relationship. He’s a serial philanderer. And that’s because he doesn’t respect anyone, much less women. To him, women have always been something to play with. Perhaps he emulates his father in that way too, I don’t know. But aside from the reasons Mary has discussed (his mother’s illnesses and hospitalizations at the formative age) there have also been women who rebuffed him and he just either thrusted himself on them, or it became hatred because of denial. Psychologically, that can cause a lot of his behavior. A dude never wants women to think he’s disgusting.
The NYT has made itself into the American version of "PRAVDA". This is THE most important story of the MONTH -- and the effing editors of the NYT can't even bother making it headline material?!!! That phrase I read so often that "I can't wrap my head around it" is something I've never used before.
But today: "I CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS!!!" Is this just the NYT preparing to be the orange sadist-traitor's mouthpiece?? This is incomprehensible -- and equally horrifying!!
What the billionaire owner of the WaPo has done to the writers at that once great newspaper is despicable. And his hire of one of Rupert Murdoch's acolyte as Editor is shameful. I think that the real degeneracy starts at the top. And I believe that there are still many journalists who are trying to fight against it.
Jen...envision for a moment that trump was invited to tea at Windsor by the late ( but great) Queen Elizabeth. ...and the air turned blue with his rendition of the English language...
Bet she'd send in a kennel of corgis to show him the door🤗
I don't know anything about the Drudge Report, but I'm glad they had the right headline. I was totally shocked to read what trump said about executing Liz Cheney. I didn't think he could really shock me any more, but this time he did. I guess what we're looking at here is what it means to be transactional (something I've never understood and hope I never will).
Yes, his comments are vile and disgusting, and exhibits character beneath that of any person seeking the Presidency. But it's typical for him and sadly an accepted behavior from many in the cult that is Trump. When will GOP leaders like Romney, Bush or even Mike Johnson (as the proud Christian he pretends to be) step up and do what is right? They won't and America as we knew it is gone.
VILE & DISGUSTING are the new norm, it seems. Joking about hanging Pence or beating someone to death. Hogtying Biden & tossing into a pickup truck..... Disgusting. Even NEANDERTHALS would be more civilized than this bunch of sewer - dwelling sewage - eating CHUDS.
Harbingers for this nightmare, like Malcome Nance, Sarah Posner, Ruth Ben-Ghiant, Jane Meyer, Ann Applebaum and others have been yelling from the hilltops with warnings for a long time.
All the information to "know your enemy" are there. No counter attack has been made until now.
Kamala Harris is heroically leading us with a final "last stand?!?"
Kamala has handled the protesters at the packed rallies with class, distinction and a steadfast belief in her vision of democracy. Winston Churchill formed a wartime coallition that worked together to defeat a tyranical dictator. Kamala Harris will form a "wartime" coalition to crush and defeat a tyranical "wanna be" dictator.
I hope, hope, hope that the courts fire back up quickly with his pending cases, so there is resolution. In cases like 45's, there should be NO APPEALS!!
His white privilege has allowed him to threaten people, promote and incite violence and even commits violence and yet he walks free. Where is justice cowering, in a back room? Or is he being given him enough rope to lasso him for good? He is the laughing stock of the world and a dangerous threat to national security and the well being of America. A former president that allowed thousands to die in the pandemic and the worst president in history of the country.
There have been other white a-holes that have not gotten away with the stuff he has. What is different about him that he has been allowed to for decades? It's not like he's the handsomest, the smartest, the funniest, the richest. He's has no redeeming qualities. That's the part I don't understand. But think of other Cult leaders. Manson, Jim Jones to name a couple of them. They didn't have anything of value that any of us saw to follow them either. Maybe it's not so much what Trump has, but what his supporters don't have. Plenty of articles out there about the mentality of a Cult follower.
What is his appeal? Just look at ChistoFascist who appear to want him to help facilitate war in Israel to fulfill some stupid mis-interpreted prophesy so that their mythical Jesus can come, take them to heaven and then start slaughtering the rest of us.
There are a lot of people like this in USA and their leaders promote this. Why? ???????
I’m not religious at all so I can’t explain the mindset. Many, not all religious people, are also cult people. I think that the human mind can be fearful. That’s what has protected us as a species since we evolved. There are many things that we can’t explain such as what happens when you clinically die. Throughout history, man has worshipped multiple Gods, made sacrifices to Gods and now we seem to be down to one God per religion. I think religion for some is a comfort. When someone dies, you hear comments “oh he’s in a better place”. “I’ll be able to be with him someday after I die”. Religion also keeps it’s worshippers in line. You’re threatened with hell if you step out of line on earth. I think if a person can find comfort in the good and bad of life by believing in religion, then good for them. The problem is, that many are not content to just use it in their personal lives. They want to cram it down our throats and have laws passed according to their beliefs. There lies the problem. They are stepping all over our boundaries with their beliefs. I see how the Evangelical fringe has taken over Christianity in this country since I grew up. Rather than leaning more towards a progressive attitude towards religion as some other countries in the world have done, we are going backwards almost to Pilgrim times. So much of it is utterly hypocritical. Do what I say, don’t do what I do. That’s the part that I can’t stand the most.
Shocking News Report: Parade Float Condemned for depiction of a simulated lynching in a children’s parade
A horrifying depiction of a parade float featuring Donald Trump as a fascist figure, dragging Kamala Harris in chains behind the float, has sparked outrage,Fox News Carolina reported.
It’s hard to read and watch the news these days. My PTSD is off the charts right now. Thank you for all you do.
I no longer read or watch the news any more. There's no point. I've done everything that I'm physically and financially capable of doing, and the anxiety had become overwhelming. The only news source I use now are the multiple excellent substacks to which I subscribe. (Like you, Angela, I figured out a few weeks ago that I have PTSD from what happened in the 2016 election which is inflaming the current situation. At major bonfire level now.)
Reading books helps. And cats!
Hey Angela, go cats! They make good friends when people fail you. Books are great, and country hikes!
And DOGS! DOGS DOGS DOGS (too)!
I am reading a wonderful book by James Middleton called “Ella, the Dog Who Saved My Life”. James, apart from being the brother in law of the future King of England, has struggled most of his life with dyslexia, ADD and depression. But he writes a wonderfully uplifting book on how he worked through those challenges. Very, very uplifting.
Thanks for the book review! You Just reminded me that I read Henry Winkler's book 'Being Henry' earlier this year and it was uplifting and I have a better understanding of what it is like to have dyslexia.
Being (sadly) allergic to cats, my prescription would be a dog. But I now live in an apartment so my husband will continue to be my therapy "animal."
That sounds like a perfect read for these next 4 days! Thank you!
I will look for it because I love books about dogs or cats but I always get choked up.
Thanks for the book recommendation!
Yes, dogs are angels too!
Agreed on dogs. My cat allergy, much to the dismay of my kids, prevents cat ownership. But I have a plethora of dogs. And books. Right now I’m sitting in my living room reading Substack while mending my kids stuffed animals that were mauled by one of the dogs this week. Tonight’s project is making the mama/baby turtle combo stuffie whole again and creating a pirate patch for the missing eye on the mama. Hand mending is cathartic in times of high stress, especially when reading doesn’t quite cut it.
Given the thousands of years during which we coevolved with dogs, it's not surprising we love them so much!
I just read something that said "The Dogs Who Love Us". It took me aback. I (most of us?) always think in terms of how much we love our dogs. But do we turn it around and think how much THEY love US? I got thinking about it, and decided: probably more. Who becomes very sad when their person leaves? Do we get very sad when they leave to go play? No we do not. I found myself feeling ENORMOUS gratitude to Jhapa and Lady -- and all of the precious dogs in my life who have loved me so. Bella, Turbo, Tyler, Ki, Quinta, Saba, Tippy. I have been so beyond richly blessed by their love.
Yes! see my comment to kd below.
Wish I could find Luvoss! So far, not able to do so.
My sweet dogs are the best! I've been really surprised that reading (which I have done prolifically my entire life), is not helping. I think it must be feeling kind of irrelevant in the light of the here and now. Cooking (which I'd never done much of, or very well) is proving to be a good release.
My release is overeating. Even a good cheeseburger doesn't get rid of Trump anxiety at this point.
And that's saying something!! (Have you thought about trying something different? Perhaps the cheeseburgers are unconsciously reminding you of the orange sadist-traitor's favorite food?)
I did think of that -that’s his favorite food. But then I quickly distanced myself mentally from him because I only drink real Coke, never Diet Coke which he drinks. I always need the complimentary french fries with that cheeseburger too. I can do Cane’s chicken too. I’ve never seen him eat that. I doubt they have those restaurants in Florida. But orange sadist and I do have food likes in common. Am I a bad person now?
Hey kd, doggies are great except for when they go to terrorize the cats. They are good little souls, though, only demanding love!
My only experience with dogs + cats was 10 years ago. I had a beautiful dog (who'd been terribly abused when I adopted her) and a precious silver kitty (adopted as a kitten). Minnow (the kitty) went to sleep every night with Bella (who was terrified of people b/o how she'd been treated, and wouldn't leave the bathroom where she holed up for the first few months). Minnow's love played an enormous role Bella's psychological healing. When Bella felt safe enough to come to bed with us, Minnow always followed and they cuddled up together. So I think I'm prejudiced! LOL! (or maybe just inexperienced. It's always been dogs in the decades before that.)
That's a lovely account!
I am 100% a dog person. They are little people as far as I'm concerned. Heartbreaking how some people have treated animals. But they mistreat humans, why should we expect them to be kind to an animal.
Making bread is helpful too. There's something about getting into the rhythm of kneading it which is very relaxing.
I've never tried that. (I kid you not: I always thought I was "too stupid" to be able to bake bread.) The time has come. Thank you so much. (The way you describe it makes me remember how soothing it was to lie in a hammock and just rock...)
It takes a little patience - a good yeast. But if you find a good, basic, tried and true recipe to start out with, it's great. The kneading is a good workout and the house smells wonderful while it's baking. You can start by looking at the King Arthur baking website....lots of good information and help.
Is there a way to private msg me? I have some incredibly good and easy bread recipes I’d love to share. I am not a cook, nothing special in the kitchen at all, but I do give my bread to people as gifts and they always ask for more!
And dogs! I'm in British Columbia taking care of my friend's Border Collie, trying not to worry about the United States election. We saw a bear yesterday. That's a distraction!
I'm just amazed at how Trump can talk about executing Liz Chaney. I'm glad the news is covering his violent and ignorant retheroic
Yes to books and cats! And music! Whatever style you prefer. I discovered light classical music on Xfinity this past year and I am a better person for it! Totally okay to step away and not feel obligated to sending money you do not have. I live in a county full of so called Proud Boys. UGH It is not safe to go door knocking, much less display yard signs. I am only glad that we have mail-in voting and my ballot has been received!
I think so many of us, not just women, identify with the recent Harris ad about “what happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth.” Masterful ad.
Must say I got a good laugh at the Fox guy who got so incensed by that ad. I kept thinking someone should have asked him if he would feel the same way if Melania chose not to vote for her philandering husband?
I read that the Fox guy was divorced because of an affair...after he said his wife voting Democrat would be the same as cheating on him. What a guy!
I have been lucky that I have never been under a man's thumb like these stories that I hear about some women's lives. Sad and scary.
Yes, from the Lincoln Project. Masterful!
It's terrible that some ppl cannot display yard signs for the candidate they prefer for fear of being God knows what happening to them.
You hit my trifecta, cats, books and music !! 🤣
I agree! My 4th is coffee (but not toooo much, ramps up the anxiety!)!!
Wish there was a dislike button for the environment in which you live, although I worry that if things go south with this election, the whole country might be like that.
Sorry about your neighbors. I'm glad that your ballot has been received -- given the ballot boxes blown up in Washington state and Oregon + mail-in ballots being stolen from people's mailboxes and from polling stations. (And they DARE to say that WE cheat!) My coffers are empty now, so don't need to worry about "should I donate more". Of course, it's too late for that, I imagine.
I am lucky that I work at home and could hand my ballot to my mail carrier, with pics on the door cam! And I love that we can check to see if it has been received online. I'm thinking we need a few web cams on our drop boxes!
What an insane time we are living in...
I love my cat but cannot stand DJT OR VANCE. Both are nut bars & very, very weird. They should not be allowed anywhere near the WH. You will see many of the RNC voting for VP HARRIIS undercover. Some of them are normal, intelligent humans who have not been brainwashed by the MEGA Crazies.
From your mouth to G-d's ear (re Republicans voting for Harris). May they be many.
Thinking any government representative of us, the American people, voting under cover, is a coward and not worthy to represent any of us. I want to see representation that is willing to stand tall, not hide.
And there is a book for that too! "We'll prescribe you a cat" by Syou Ishida https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/well-prescribe-you-a-cat_syou-ishida/52519775/#edition=71135156&idiq=63789239
I like to steam all the Star Trek series. It shows a positive future even after the apocalyptic war. Especially Star Trek Voyager. My cats love it too!
and swimming.
That's a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm reading Killers of the August Moon about the Osage Indians. It's about some really awful things happening kind of like now but it's another time, another world, and I forget about this election that is so nail biting. Thanks, Mary, for paying close attention to what's going on today so I don't have to. I already voted for Harris/Walz so there's nothing more I can do but wait on the results. Fingers crossed.
Cat-ladies for Kamala!
Lots of cats
I agree that books help us deal with this anxiety. I recommend you read my book, A Graver Danger, about how corruption in our schools brought us to this PTSD place. It’s infuriating to know what they’re doing but when you know you can do something about it. It’s our helplessness against Trump that’s giving us PTSD.
If you want to learn a way disinformation penetrated our culture you’ll find out. I include a true story about how I was teaching proper note taking from legitimate library sources in 1997 to my fourth grade class and a parent, whose son earned a D having not done his work, submitted a page of notes from the internet insisting my lesson was worthless now that everything is on the internet. She demanded those notes change his grade. The principal ordered me to indulge her as if facts didn’t matter. I hardly knew of the internet at that time but common sense told me how do I know these are facts?
If you knew what’s been really going on in our schools - what my book is about - the death of facts would make total sense to you. Check out WhiteChalkCrime.com where I’ve been trying to expose our schools since 1995. You’ll find my book. Our nation’s biggest problem is we stopped respecting teachers who were society’s glue until they weren’t and we fell apart. Trust me it’s not the teachers’ fault. It’s the administrators that set them up so you’d stopped listening to them, using ruthless teacher abuse if they dare speak out. That’s why you don’t know about this.
I wrote a book with a plan to get great teachers back in power. Please read it. Not only can we do that but you will find some peace of mind understanding how we got to a place where so many would think Trump was a reasonable choice for president.
If you lined up people and asked them do you want to fly in plane one with a trained pilot or plane two with famous Stevie’s Wonder flying the plane, the trained pilot would win. But when it comes to choosing a president you need a decent education that sorts out facts to pick a president. Trump’s power proves how indecent our schools are. However, if you will listen to me, a teacher, it doesn’t have to be this way.
I have both books and a cat and I can vouch for how wonderful they are.
Yarn 🧶 helps 🤗🤗🤗
I’m a knitter and it has helped me through innumerable situations-most especially the pandemic 😷
My 11 year old cat, Diego, was "gifted" to my front door here in Merida, Mexico. he is the smartest little gentleman: my best friend. At 85, all my human best friends are dead; most were younger than me!
I have tried to stop paying attention to US politics except for the corruption associated with the Israeli Holocaust. The best way to get a modicum of truth is Youtube, books and Substacks. The USA does not have a Congress or a Senate that represents the "people"; it serves Israel. Our 2 candidates for President promise to serve Israel and the winner will do just that.
Diego sounds wonderful! (I had no idea that you are 85 years old. Your comments are always "youthful".)
Same here. It's gotten to the point where the stress is literally taking a toll on my heart so i've loaded up on books, pulled out the old DVD player and movies and joined two streaming services (which i hated to do). I'm going to turn into my mother in law and basically ignore the world, take care of my family, and pray we survive all of this.
(I did join Netflix! Swore I'd never do it! ) Love your MIL comment. :-)
Yeah, she ignored almost everything unpleasant (including me :)) for years but as she got older she completely zoned out which i thought was so weird because she had a very easy life. I'm starting to understand it now and am constantly reminding myself i can do what i can do and that's all. I'm not in charge of fixing this insanity.
That’s what I need to learn to be better at - understanding I can’t fix the problem.
Yeah, i signed up for Netflix also. I hibernate as well.
Watched “Some Like It Hot” last Friday night and had a pizza party. Maybe some Fred and Ginger this evening…
Lovely!
I plan on watching many of my DVD’s and no news. I remember 2016 all too well. Not going there.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your attempts at self care.
I certainly agree. My own PTSD began in 1965 thanks to a pedophile father very like DJT. I never watch videos of him now or more than glance at his ugly photos before moving on FAST to other topics.
I especially enjoy Facebook reels about a hilarious old lady ("Mother of heathens") and a doctor who tests the reflexes of newborns in a hospital far away... though I must try to stop providing facts to a host of Karens there who incessantly comment that testing reflexes is somehow cruel and unnecessary!
People determined to ignore facts are everywhere, sadly.
I am so very, very sorry about the nightmare the man who was supposed to be your father forced you to endure. Images of the orange sadist sicken me to the point of being unable to see his face without wanting to vomit. Re anyone being so stupid as to think that "testing reflexes is somehow cruel and unnecessary"? WTF?!! Please tell me more! That's got to be one of the more insane things I've heard about. And, given our current insane environment, that's saying a LOT! (I'm a doctor and did a year of Neurology residency, and can't comprehend what these women can be complaining about. Gotta find out! Thanks.)
I totally understand and agree. On one hand I can't wait for this to be over, and on the other hand I dread it being over in case it's the wrong result. I have a dog, that helps. And Atavan.
So many of us manifesting POST-traumatic stress syndrome symptoms while still trapped in the midst of the ongoing, never-ending nightmare.
I feel like I'm mourning in advance.
We need to take care of each other is the coming days, more than ever.
US: ((((((((((((((( )))))))))))))))
Good mission statement Emily. What if we did concentrate on taking care of each other. I can see wisdom growing.
I've been day - drinking like the world was ending tomorrow.
I have a date with myself to get very drunk once we hear the results, no matter how it turns out. I feel like Armageddon is approaching. Am I being overly dramatic?
No, I feel the same way. If she wins, I will actually drink. But not get horribly drunk because I throw up and have a nasty hangover later. I live in Vegas, so I will treat myself to a nice dinner with drinks and actually gamble a little. I never gamble because I've seen what that addiction has done to some friends here. That's as wild as this Boomer will get. If she loses, I will be beside myself. I took 4 days off work next week just to be ready for that possibility and also to watch TV and know what's going on rather than trying to look at the news on my phone all the time at work.
I suffer from PTSD also childhood mental & physical abuse with the ADHD & severe learning disabilities and I swear it was from the forceps delivery & the oxygen deprecation & I've been in almost every natural disaster including a house fire we only had 1min & 30sec. & a coworker stabbing her boyfriend with a corregated bucher knife & 4 abusive marriages & being tossed out by almost # 5 BTW he was Russian & boasted that his grandfather was at the murder camps running one of the gas chambers when I freaked out he said he was only kidding and I said no you weren't no one would joke about something like that & since he didn't allow me too get my things & the cop's didn't do sqaut after he grabbed me by the throat saying they didn't see any bruise's seriously Cop's always side with the male so I went as soon as I found a pet friendly apartment to get my stuff and he had me locked up for4 days! If I was breaking and stealing stuff how would I know the abt code to shut off the alarm 🤷♀️ don't know if you guys kinda go into shock when something happens? I wasn't even allowed to speak for myself to explain to a female judge! I live in a blue state but all the small township's around here are a red zone so you can't even talk too someone at the dollar store🤭
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No Emily B, I have a bottle of Knob Creek bourbon that I haven't touched in a year and a half and it's coming out on Tuesday night. You may need a like-minded drinking partner though. I will be with you in the spirits!
I drink maybe 1-2 times a year if that, but based on the recommendation of a highly reputable friend who owns a restaurant and wine shop I recently bought a bottle of wine entitled “Grief” and another bottle “Train Wreck” (that was my own choosing) so now I need to pay him and his wife another visit to pick a more celebratory named bottle for the occasion! (Here’s to being hopeful!)
Maybe. I'm not going to participate in these convos much because negativity causes stress & my anxiety is getting almost crazy dangerous. NOT GOOD. & the maintenance people are hellbent on doing renovations meaning that I need to get into the wind so that they can do their thing without me being underfoot.
Apologies, there actually IS hope.
Trumpski's approval is so low that Parkinson's, cancer & brain - dissolving SYPHILIS would be more popular. A lot of Republithugs see that this BIG BAG O' BLIGHT is wreaking HAVOC with their image, hence they want to toss him like a multiply - befouled adult diaper.
Why the HELL is this even so close? I know, everyone is asking that.
I'm🙏🙏🙏 your right
Sorry, I use these conversations as a safe space to freak out. If I let myself, I would obsess over it constantly.
A LOT of people feel the same way. There's a tiny homunculus inside me that wants to get drunk & / or high. As I said earlier, Dumbsterfire is coming across as less popular than Parkinson's or cancer. A lot of Republicans have even ditched him.
No, unfortunately you're not.
Not at all. Everyone should listen to the recent podcast of Freakonomics Radio (NPR), Season 14, Episode 8. Doom chasers can skip straight to the last 10 or 15 minutes to hear one highly evaluated prediction of the election. We'll see you at the bar.
Stay well!
((( ))) [For better or for worse, I, unfortunately, do not like alcohol. Perhaps binging on chocolate could help.]
I'm definitely not doing too well on controlling the emotional eating these days.
Same. 😣
WHATEVER Works. I take THC, too, although it can cost a fortune.
THC sounds great. But since I live in (red) SC, it's not an option. Sigh...
kd, same thing with women's health, you need to cross state lines to get it.
Like with weed, I have to go to Illinois from Wis. to get it. drumpfster and his minions lost whatever minds they had long ago. They have nothing. Always thank Mary for telling it straight.
Agree with everything you said!
SC is one of the REDDER states. It makes TN look like Los Angeles through the Bay area.
Thankfully, I live in Charleston which is pretty much blue. I couldn't handle living in most of the other areas.
Ooh, chocolate.. my favorite!!
Now. that's a plan I can live with!.
Death by Snickers .🤗
I second the death by snickers! Halloween candy is half price- binge away!
FOTF!!
I don't like it either and when I see the alcoholics in the hospital, glad I don't like it or cigarettes either. Ugly deaths. Now if I could just relate that way to a cheeseburger........
I work so if I do that, I'll have another problem - unemployment.
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Right there with you. I’ve listened to the audiobook of “Reckoning” twice now, wishing I had read it sooner and shared with some of the saner repubs in my family and friends.
I looked for "Reckoning" on Amazon, but only finding one book about African-American art which was just published, and several "romance" novels with that word in their title. Please tell me more about the "Reckoning" to which you are referring. Thanks.
Now I’m curious about why a romance novel would have such a title… 😁
LOL!!!
Oooh it’s one of Mary’s books, whole title is “The Reckoning”. It’s a powerful book!
I guess I have to type in the word "The". Weird. Never had to do that before. Will do. Thanks!
Wow, really? That is weird! And, you're welcome ☺️
Preach sista! I find myself crying and having to breathe deep to relax again.
For a while, I was constantly on the brink of tears. Now, I wake up in the middle of the night trying to get my body to relax.
Isn't that a threat? Isn't it cause for arrest? How frightening and dangerous added to evil and twisted. Trump should be behind bars.
Correct me please.....I thought that traitors, enemys of the state, aiding and abbetting the enemy..passing classified documents to the enemy putting the nations population in peril..mass murder(covid)....serial rapist..........would this not require the death penalty with the possiblity of using a trained miltary firing squad???
Well it might but apparently parents the Times and post don't consider it news worthy. More cases of obedience in advance
I'm wondering why a few don't get prosecuted for treason.
We live in upside-down land now.
It's just Trump projecting again.
We reached a state of "fatigue" listening to this Trumpf felon, a narcissist, a deranged man, sowing hatred, encouraging violence, life threating people. It is called "Trumpf-fatigue"
My prediction is that he will lose. Americans have a collective common sense to walk from the abyss.
Absolutely, and I don't understand at all how the Justice Department, or any arm of the law in the town(s) where he says these dangerous threats, don't act immediately to take him into custody to face the full thrust of the law. He should be incarcerated and denied air time on any news media.
There are these dark money and crazy organizations like Opus Die, Bradleyy and Scaffe foundations leading the fight against liberalism,democracy and freedom of choice.. Alot of what they push are now in the Heritage Foundation 900 page Project 2025. They use all kinds of bully tactics, payoffs, intimidation etc. The more I study this subteranian world, the insanity fog starts to lift a bit at a time.
If only *sigh*
It would seem that there would be. I don’t care that he is committing crime after crime & he is walking free.
He should have been arrested & charges for the January 6 insurrection. Also for being a criminal, traitor, rapist, violent, threatening people, cheater & possibly more
He will be soon
I know (unfortunately, from experience) that a person can literally come up to you in a police station, with witnesses in blue, and say, “I am going to kill you.” and the police won’t be able to do anything unless the person demonstrates their threat. Which is screwed up in a lot of ways, but is in line with our (current) right to free speech.
Absolutely.
Totally agree
Special baby.....Bone spurs gets to give a simulated blow job to his bum fuck buddy Putin on stage.....and spit out the Russian load all over his mike!!! Donable Lector is so friggin gross.....he just cannot stop with the gun violence and Liz Cheney.
Nine barrels pointing at her. 😨😩🤬 Nine is the number in a firing squad and it was a message to his cult to execute her. Our traditional media is horrible. Thank you for reporting on this and being there for us. ❤️
Remember, Fred taught Donald not to say 'Hitler' or 'Nazi'. Instead just say 'judge, jury and executioner'. He expects to get away with more mass murder.
Again, I wish there was a dislike button. I hate that they are doing this (not that you commented on it).
I keep thinking your uncle can't do anything else to make my jaw drop. And he keeps proving me wrong.
Only four more days to a failed state - or not. It's up to you, America, while we in the rest of the world (including here in Canada) wait with bated breath. Please don't fuck it up this time. 🤞🏼
I can only imagine what our allies are going through. We at least have some control of the election with our vote and getting involved in the campaigns. The other countries just have to sit hopelessly by and wonder WTH happened to our country.
Australia has already said they would stop communicating sensitive info if Trump is elected. Five Eyes would all probably do the same.
Already got it from Scomo, Dutton believes same as Trump.
I'm in Canada. I'm losing sleep AND hair. I have a constant, full headache & my blood pressure is up. I was off my meds for 2 months after losing weight. I may have to go back on for fear of stroking out.
Jesus Horacio Christ.
STOP THIS FUCKING INSANITY!🤬
*dull, not 'full'
When the country has people burning ballot boxes, shooting or punching poll workers, continuing to lie & then you have trump.
We the Americans people are doing all We can to make certain that Kamala/Walz win the election. We want to save Democracy & Our country from falling into the hands of a wannabe dictator/hitler.
Thank you for the support. Hopefully, we dems prevail.
As our late, great Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, as Kelly's Heroes' indelible character "Oddball" would say, we're sending 'positive waves' - anything that might help at this point.
I heard a pundit say (yesterday or today) that, according to Winston Churchill back in the day, the US eventually does the right thing - but - only after trying everything else! God help us that’s the case this time, too.
As a Brit watching this from the UK it’s almost impossible to believe that it has come to this : that a candidate for the highest office in the U.S. can effectively call for someone to be put before firing squad without his whole party condemning him in the strongest possible terms let alone the press and his opponents.
But of course he didn’t start here. He started by mocking a disabled journalist nearly 10 years ago (or possibly even earlier) and every subsequent affront to decency has been a calculated step to get him to where he is now, less than a week from possibly becoming the dictator of the world’s biggest ex democracy. I hope that Mitch McConnell and those other supine republican politicians who stood by and said nothing are proud of what they have done so much to create.
I have always said McConnell is one EVIL BASTARD he had two chances to stop trump and he chose money and power over democracy. There is a special place in hell for him.
trump started when he was a kid throwing rocks at his next door neighbor’s toddler who was in a playpen in their own yard. trump started when he was a grade school student bragging that he had punched a teacher in the face. I don’t care how Queens-Rich his father was, he should have been tried and put in juvenile detention as a public menace then.
Ann, yes, Donald mocks decency to its core in every aspect, and pulls up the prehistoric instinct of blood lust in his outraged millions. No drug exists which can cure this ill.
I loathe McConnell as much as Trump.
He ENABLED this.
The son of a bitch. 🤬
SO TRUE
With curmudgeonly Fred as with dreadful Donnie, money talks and decency walks.
Sad....but so blatantly true !
Thank you for your continued efforts to keep our country safe from a dictatorship. Halloween was fun. Now comes the scary stuff. I admire your courage.
Yep, only going to get worse. I think there will definitely be an uptick in violence after Nov 5th, due to the election.
My hope, is after this election, is that the elections can return to normal, without fear of who we vote for and watching over our shoulders.
Everyone stay aware and stay safe. I know, nothing we don't already do daily.
I wish but zi don't see it. Too many fascists in the GQP willing to pick up things after Trump Plus you have the whole Faux news echo chamber and far right losers like Musk
True.
I made a comment on your post last night that said, basically, that Donald is really pissed off at his mother and is taking it out on all women, especially on women in power. This fixation of his that women must be punished - whether it's for abortions or for going against him or for just being women - is so very dangerous.
Trump is no friend of women, but I think the real women hater is Vance.
I don't think Vance actually hates women, I think, being bought and paid for by a billionaire he knows what he has to do and say, and his greed for power and wealth overwhelms whatever morality he previously held. I think he is simply indifferent and thus willing to trample anyone to achieve his goals. At least Trump probably has a serious personality disorder
Birds of a feather.
Mary would have to confirm that by discussing that particular relationship. He’s a serial philanderer. And that’s because he doesn’t respect anyone, much less women. To him, women have always been something to play with. Perhaps he emulates his father in that way too, I don’t know. But aside from the reasons Mary has discussed (his mother’s illnesses and hospitalizations at the formative age) there have also been women who rebuffed him and he just either thrusted himself on them, or it became hatred because of denial. Psychologically, that can cause a lot of his behavior. A dude never wants women to think he’s disgusting.
The NYT has made itself into the American version of "PRAVDA". This is THE most important story of the MONTH -- and the effing editors of the NYT can't even bother making it headline material?!!! That phrase I read so often that "I can't wrap my head around it" is something I've never used before.
But today: "I CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS!!!" Is this just the NYT preparing to be the orange sadist-traitor's mouthpiece?? This is incomprehensible -- and equally horrifying!!
Did you mean Pravda?
YES! I'll fix that. Funny slip. Спасибо!
NYT and WaPo are degenerates at keyboards. Neither deserves our attention. I’m a happy ‘unsubscriber’
What the billionaire owner of the WaPo has done to the writers at that once great newspaper is despicable. And his hire of one of Rupert Murdoch's acolyte as Editor is shameful. I think that the real degeneracy starts at the top. And I believe that there are still many journalists who are trying to fight against it.
I'm in Canada. I pray that VP Harris wins by a landslide. VOTE BLUE TO SAVE YOUR COUNTRY!!!
Jen...envision for a moment that trump was invited to tea at Windsor by the late ( but great) Queen Elizabeth. ...and the air turned blue with his rendition of the English language...
Bet she'd send in a kennel of corgis to show him the door🤗
Let that picture stay in your mind...
Then tell all your American chums to Vote Blue.!
I don't know anything about the Drudge Report, but I'm glad they had the right headline. I was totally shocked to read what trump said about executing Liz Cheney. I didn't think he could really shock me any more, but this time he did. I guess what we're looking at here is what it means to be transactional (something I've never understood and hope I never will).
Yes, his comments are vile and disgusting, and exhibits character beneath that of any person seeking the Presidency. But it's typical for him and sadly an accepted behavior from many in the cult that is Trump. When will GOP leaders like Romney, Bush or even Mike Johnson (as the proud Christian he pretends to be) step up and do what is right? They won't and America as we knew it is gone.
VILE & DISGUSTING are the new norm, it seems. Joking about hanging Pence or beating someone to death. Hogtying Biden & tossing into a pickup truck..... Disgusting. Even NEANDERTHALS would be more civilized than this bunch of sewer - dwelling sewage - eating CHUDS.
How in Sam hell do we let him get away with it??????
Harbingers for this nightmare, like Malcome Nance, Sarah Posner, Ruth Ben-Ghiant, Jane Meyer, Ann Applebaum and others have been yelling from the hilltops with warnings for a long time.
All the information to "know your enemy" are there. No counter attack has been made until now.
Kamala Harris is heroically leading us with a final "last stand?!?"
Kamala Harris also welcomes her enemies to the table. Keep your enemies close is wise.
Kamala has handled the protesters at the packed rallies with class, distinction and a steadfast belief in her vision of democracy. Winston Churchill formed a wartime coallition that worked together to defeat a tyranical dictator. Kamala Harris will form a "wartime" coalition to crush and defeat a tyranical "wanna be" dictator.
I hope, hope, hope that the courts fire back up quickly with his pending cases, so there is resolution. In cases like 45's, there should be NO APPEALS!!
His white privilege has allowed him to threaten people, promote and incite violence and even commits violence and yet he walks free. Where is justice cowering, in a back room? Or is he being given him enough rope to lasso him for good? He is the laughing stock of the world and a dangerous threat to national security and the well being of America. A former president that allowed thousands to die in the pandemic and the worst president in history of the country.
There have been other white a-holes that have not gotten away with the stuff he has. What is different about him that he has been allowed to for decades? It's not like he's the handsomest, the smartest, the funniest, the richest. He's has no redeeming qualities. That's the part I don't understand. But think of other Cult leaders. Manson, Jim Jones to name a couple of them. They didn't have anything of value that any of us saw to follow them either. Maybe it's not so much what Trump has, but what his supporters don't have. Plenty of articles out there about the mentality of a Cult follower.
What is his appeal? Just look at ChistoFascist who appear to want him to help facilitate war in Israel to fulfill some stupid mis-interpreted prophesy so that their mythical Jesus can come, take them to heaven and then start slaughtering the rest of us.
There are a lot of people like this in USA and their leaders promote this. Why? ???????
I’m not religious at all so I can’t explain the mindset. Many, not all religious people, are also cult people. I think that the human mind can be fearful. That’s what has protected us as a species since we evolved. There are many things that we can’t explain such as what happens when you clinically die. Throughout history, man has worshipped multiple Gods, made sacrifices to Gods and now we seem to be down to one God per religion. I think religion for some is a comfort. When someone dies, you hear comments “oh he’s in a better place”. “I’ll be able to be with him someday after I die”. Religion also keeps it’s worshippers in line. You’re threatened with hell if you step out of line on earth. I think if a person can find comfort in the good and bad of life by believing in religion, then good for them. The problem is, that many are not content to just use it in their personal lives. They want to cram it down our throats and have laws passed according to their beliefs. There lies the problem. They are stepping all over our boundaries with their beliefs. I see how the Evangelical fringe has taken over Christianity in this country since I grew up. Rather than leaning more towards a progressive attitude towards religion as some other countries in the world have done, we are going backwards almost to Pilgrim times. So much of it is utterly hypocritical. Do what I say, don’t do what I do. That’s the part that I can’t stand the most.
Shocking News Report: Parade Float Condemned for depiction of a simulated lynching in a children’s parade
A horrifying depiction of a parade float featuring Donald Trump as a fascist figure, dragging Kamala Harris in chains behind the float, has sparked outrage,Fox News Carolina reported.
The display is unacceptable and normalizes violence. Such portrayals have no place in our society. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wdbj7.com%2Fvideo%2F2024%2F11%2F01%2Fparade-float-depicts-harris-chains%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR32sMqllqFl3Cdu38yMYlAPpbYp1LGN4rOD87kMi9Toh5qi2jHcFnQtJdI_aem_Pd7TECuBysrm4VaRiI7N6w&h=AT0ReDn3wy-sYij1SsbsGpz1PvtAufLgnCZuXI19JgDgdy2dDQyTaLdO88y2VEZyvEFhybQRN8Q5_JCFkg6ZO9Ssx5yP9k6lNG5-QpvxJP69gBSSfTroyBNjmhycR8WQXYxS-Uo&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT1X7Gw0EV8VmLCnby1nF-A03kaMXuZClyPRDNLQ7VfO6uU1_LF4w6tQnRFX5S1Ng2t3x_6YzCYZuL_SHFCueIPrPa5_8LZN_uZrqi1fWaCVWbqK9-Hg0-uAgF4SnmuxytUL03VzQof-TcuAOPaMR0KLsH7_lj0P8GLV0jrtE7_u39JrpEbSh16kBtUoNbd9D-KaTvis-UR76TyHNWVwBMk.
It's gone. Likely taken off, thankfully!
It’s really scary that Drudge has been accurately reporting the news lately!
Well said Mary 💙💙💙💚🇮🇪💙🇮🇪🌹🌹