You are so right about old white men. They are used to being catered to and petted and put on pedestals and now that women aren't doing that any more or people in general aren't bowing to them, they're very, VERY upset. I go to a meeting once a month that has refreshments after the presentations, there is one older woman who always scurries around the place making a plate for an old white guy. The white guy is in good health - my thought is he should make his own damned plate. I don't get why she does that and if she thought about it, she probably wouldn't do it anymore.
Susan, I couldn't agree more enthusiastically with everything you've said here. If it were me alone, I'd be planning a move to somewhere that felt safer, because even if liberals prevail politically, our society is badly infected with maga hatefulness. But we have beloved family and friends to consider, so we'll stay and try to make things better.
You're right...we ARE infected. What a shame to see America devolve into this. I have no family to speak of and while I do have some very good friends, if it comes to a matter of survival, I would absolutely consider becoming an expat. Seems like a lot of folks are doing that. We'll see! Sure am happy to meet you here and glad you you're stopped by! 💙✌️
I hope so.... hope there are enough intelligent people who understand what's at stake to vote and restore some sanity. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. 😳 Appreciate you being here, Michael. As Scott Dworkin says, "ONWARD"! ✌️
Right on sister. I sat with my ear doctor yesterday discussing this same issues at my appointment. We talked for 20 minutes. I hope he doesn't charge me extra. I have been completely fucking disgusted by the goddamn misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic mother fuckers in this country. Fucking stupid people. Over 54% of this country's population is functionally illiterate. Over 40% if the working poor do not vote. Meaning the wealthy got him elected. This election is about racism/sexism and protecting white privilege. I used to try to listen to them. Now, I just want to throat punch them. I can't even read about this shit or even listen to it anymore. I mean his rum dumb followers love Putin. Holy fuckwads!! Well, we have Republican Russian assets working against this country. And they don't fucking hide it. I better stop now. Fuck them up their asses at the voting booth.
How did these people begin to love our enemies? It's absolutely insane and I agree with you. Sometimes, I just want to find a cave and never leave. Although, maybe my trip to Alaska will give me some peace. I love the cold, and my friend has a big house and room waiting for me... hell I might never come back. 😂 I voted early in Missouri...for the love of all that is holy, we simply MUST win this damned thing. LOVE YOU, LADY!!
I'm right with you on the cave thing. I hate hot weather. I watched a documentary called Mafia and Banks on Prime. OMG! I can't stop thinking about. I have to stop watching this stuff. 😵💫🥺😳😱 It's amazing how we have survived as a species. Enjoy beautiful Alaska. Take a deep breath and suck in the peace. And just be. Enjoy, eat, drink and laugh. You deserve it. I love ya back. 💗
I won’t waste another breath on things I can’t control, on people who refuse to change, or on chaos that will never quiet down. I spent too much time fretting and fuming, caught up in the turmoil of the country, while the softer moments around me slipped away.
Now, I see things differently. I’m shifting my priorities, moving my focus from battles I can’t win to the parts of my life I can hold close. I’ll cast my vote, of course, but I’ll also pay attention to the quiet moments—the ones that matter, the ones that pass too quickly. I won’t let them slip away again.
Excellent essay, Susan! You gave voice to the knots in my stomach. I don’t care if people are racist.. I just want them to be WAY more reticent about letting others know it. Misogynist? Have fun with your lonely, bitter life, but you best leave the women around you alone and unharrassed (is that a word? I don’t know, especially with my “truncated Esperanto English”). You think authoritarians are awesome? Ok, well, we fought two wars to figure out that we, as a nation, don’t truck with dictators.
It would be nice if MAGAts just snapped out of it and joined the rest of us here in reality, but all evidence points to that never happening. So we can’t rest yet. This election is just the beginning. Again, excellent essay. You’re not alone. Not even a little bit.
Oh.. and “Andersen” can take a flying leap with their pseudo-intellectual, Russian propagandist gobbledygook.
I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I just blocked poor "Andersen". A very odd "person". 😂 Thanks for the kind words, G May.
I know the Civil War was a bad time in our history, but I have no context of it, so all I know is what I'm seeing and feeling now. People are so fragile and easy to manipulate. I appreciate the online friends I have here-it really helps to not feel so isolated among the wing nuts...Missouri is full of them. 😂 You're the best! ✌️💙
And also to all historians from America: Ukraine and Belarus have always been lands of Russia. No one will divide these lands, but there was Ulyanov Blank Volodya, who lies in the ziggurat as a teraphim. And teraphim is a khrafstra or haram. So the Jews still have to answer to all of humanity.
I’m so weary too. I’ve not responded to most of my fav Substack writers like I usually do bc I can’t think positive when my responses are negative. About all I can think is, yeah I agree. Not exactly contributing or elevating to the excellent facts written of in the articles. But I also recognize that this weariness is exactly what the crazy weirdo’s want. So I take a small break to rebuild my energy to fight for greater goodness. Your essay is spot on and it touched me. Love your humanitarian attitude my friend 💙
Man, thats the truth....there are only so many ways you can respond to all the negative crap. I join you as we fight for greater goodness. Some of our fellow citizens are not doing their best right now. I reached my limit and had to write ... and I'm thrilled it touched you. Appreciate my online pals who are like minded. We'll make it!! 💙
Why don't you take up our petraglyphs on the breakwater rocks, all along the American coast from east to south?? A lot of truth will be revealed - and more questions will arise about who is the main boss here.
The state is cursed by the indigenous peoples of America. And you have the audacity to talk about the Elephant disease? It's funny, there is not enough gas for you - in the gas chambers, so Nature - acts at its own discretion.
Aren’t we all.
I am so with you Susan ❤
Thank you for sharing what I have been feeling.
Me too. But we can’t let it slide. Vote. Get others to vote. Hang in there.
Yup, U & 50 gazillion others on Earth😌
The rest of the world has got to be laughing at us...I think we've lost so much respect because our government is such a soap opera. 🙄
You are so right about old white men. They are used to being catered to and petted and put on pedestals and now that women aren't doing that any more or people in general aren't bowing to them, they're very, VERY upset. I go to a meeting once a month that has refreshments after the presentations, there is one older woman who always scurries around the place making a plate for an old white guy. The white guy is in good health - my thought is he should make his own damned plate. I don't get why she does that and if she thought about it, she probably wouldn't do it anymore.
Totally agree. Some of these guys want waitresses-I’m not one!
Susan, I couldn't agree more enthusiastically with everything you've said here. If it were me alone, I'd be planning a move to somewhere that felt safer, because even if liberals prevail politically, our society is badly infected with maga hatefulness. But we have beloved family and friends to consider, so we'll stay and try to make things better.
You're right...we ARE infected. What a shame to see America devolve into this. I have no family to speak of and while I do have some very good friends, if it comes to a matter of survival, I would absolutely consider becoming an expat. Seems like a lot of folks are doing that. We'll see! Sure am happy to meet you here and glad you you're stopped by! 💙✌️
Agree totally with you. Our priority must be turnout in overwhelming numbers on 11/5. A Blue Wave to wash away the scum.
I hope so.... hope there are enough intelligent people who understand what's at stake to vote and restore some sanity. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. 😳 Appreciate you being here, Michael. As Scott Dworkin says, "ONWARD"! ✌️
Right on sister. I sat with my ear doctor yesterday discussing this same issues at my appointment. We talked for 20 minutes. I hope he doesn't charge me extra. I have been completely fucking disgusted by the goddamn misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic mother fuckers in this country. Fucking stupid people. Over 54% of this country's population is functionally illiterate. Over 40% if the working poor do not vote. Meaning the wealthy got him elected. This election is about racism/sexism and protecting white privilege. I used to try to listen to them. Now, I just want to throat punch them. I can't even read about this shit or even listen to it anymore. I mean his rum dumb followers love Putin. Holy fuckwads!! Well, we have Republican Russian assets working against this country. And they don't fucking hide it. I better stop now. Fuck them up their asses at the voting booth.
How did these people begin to love our enemies? It's absolutely insane and I agree with you. Sometimes, I just want to find a cave and never leave. Although, maybe my trip to Alaska will give me some peace. I love the cold, and my friend has a big house and room waiting for me... hell I might never come back. 😂 I voted early in Missouri...for the love of all that is holy, we simply MUST win this damned thing. LOVE YOU, LADY!!
I'm right with you on the cave thing. I hate hot weather. I watched a documentary called Mafia and Banks on Prime. OMG! I can't stop thinking about. I have to stop watching this stuff. 😵💫🥺😳😱 It's amazing how we have survived as a species. Enjoy beautiful Alaska. Take a deep breath and suck in the peace. And just be. Enjoy, eat, drink and laugh. You deserve it. I love ya back. 💗
.. Outstanding ‘Vibe ! 🦎🏴☠️
I won’t waste another breath on things I can’t control, on people who refuse to change, or on chaos that will never quiet down. I spent too much time fretting and fuming, caught up in the turmoil of the country, while the softer moments around me slipped away.
Now, I see things differently. I’m shifting my priorities, moving my focus from battles I can’t win to the parts of my life I can hold close. I’ll cast my vote, of course, but I’ll also pay attention to the quiet moments—the ones that matter, the ones that pass too quickly. I won’t let them slip away again.
Good advice that we all need to hear. ❤️❤️❤️
Excellent essay, Susan! You gave voice to the knots in my stomach. I don’t care if people are racist.. I just want them to be WAY more reticent about letting others know it. Misogynist? Have fun with your lonely, bitter life, but you best leave the women around you alone and unharrassed (is that a word? I don’t know, especially with my “truncated Esperanto English”). You think authoritarians are awesome? Ok, well, we fought two wars to figure out that we, as a nation, don’t truck with dictators.
It would be nice if MAGAts just snapped out of it and joined the rest of us here in reality, but all evidence points to that never happening. So we can’t rest yet. This election is just the beginning. Again, excellent essay. You’re not alone. Not even a little bit.
Oh.. and “Andersen” can take a flying leap with their pseudo-intellectual, Russian propagandist gobbledygook.
Peace❤️
I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I just blocked poor "Andersen". A very odd "person". 😂 Thanks for the kind words, G May.
I know the Civil War was a bad time in our history, but I have no context of it, so all I know is what I'm seeing and feeling now. People are so fragile and easy to manipulate. I appreciate the online friends I have here-it really helps to not feel so isolated among the wing nuts...Missouri is full of them. 😂 You're the best! ✌️💙
Anderson is a kook.
Very odd…so bye, Andersen! 🙄
And also to all historians from America: Ukraine and Belarus have always been lands of Russia. No one will divide these lands, but there was Ulyanov Blank Volodya, who lies in the ziggurat as a teraphim. And teraphim is a khrafstra or haram. So the Jews still have to answer to all of humanity.
Scott Ritter: Ukraine Will Cease to Exist, and the US Knows It
The question is who has enough health and resources. Maybe the US will collapse this year - after the election of its next moron.
I’m so weary too. I’ve not responded to most of my fav Substack writers like I usually do bc I can’t think positive when my responses are negative. About all I can think is, yeah I agree. Not exactly contributing or elevating to the excellent facts written of in the articles. But I also recognize that this weariness is exactly what the crazy weirdo’s want. So I take a small break to rebuild my energy to fight for greater goodness. Your essay is spot on and it touched me. Love your humanitarian attitude my friend 💙
Man, thats the truth....there are only so many ways you can respond to all the negative crap. I join you as we fight for greater goodness. Some of our fellow citizens are not doing their best right now. I reached my limit and had to write ... and I'm thrilled it touched you. Appreciate my online pals who are like minded. We'll make it!! 💙
Why don't you take up our petraglyphs on the breakwater rocks, all along the American coast from east to south?? A lot of truth will be revealed - and more questions will arise about who is the main boss here.
The state is cursed by the indigenous peoples of America. And you have the audacity to talk about the Elephant disease? It's funny, there is not enough gas for you - in the gas chambers, so Nature - acts at its own discretion.
You are the one who spoke of an elephant… I’m a little lost in what you’re trying to say.
Over the years, a person either turns into a wreck or becomes a sage.
About the blue elephant, said at the congress - artist Adolf Aloisovich Hitler