You know how sometimes you get down on yourself? You feel embarrassed?

[LuckyCharms]

You may feel that you're not a good person?

You may feel like you do not deserve good things in life?

You cringe at some small embarrassing thing that you did years ago?

You may feel like you're an "impostor" at your job?

When you start feeling like that...think about what these high powered, highly paid, complicit motherfuckers did to this country. Think about how weak they are. Think about how they allowed themselves to be manipulated.

There's a lot of people who are going to be in for a world of hurt because of the coup.

They won't be hot shit anymore.

Justice is going to smack them down to size, and you're a fucking rock star.

[piddyprints]

1. That's my normal state of being.

And I’ve never done any real harm to anyone. So, yeah, it would be very satisfying if “these high powered, highly paid, complicit motherfuckers” can suffer a fraction of what normal people suffer. I’d be happier if they all got to spend the rest of their lives locked up, but I’ll go out on a limb and say it ain’t gonna happen.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you for this great validation, my dear LuckyCharms! This is me.

People really close to me know about my insecurities. They date from childhood and they're hard to stop.

I really like how you think!

[MerryBlooms]

6. So happy to have you back posting, dear Peggy!

Hope all is well now. 🥰

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Thank you so much, my dear MerryBlooms! I'm doing OK, taking care of myself. ♥

[LuckyCharms]

12. Nice to see you here, CP!

I hope you are feeling good!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Thank you, my dear LuckyCharms! Still a bit tired but coping with it. ♥

[nolabear]

15. Welcome back, Peggy. People are so complicated, aren't we?

We’re so deeply affected by things, internal and external. I’ve always thought we’re like bonsai. A snip here and we grow this way, another snip and we grow that way, and we’re so often the ones who can’t tell we grew into something beautiful. (I really ought to do that as a poem sometime, eh? 😄

[ShazzieB]

16. Ooh, I love that analogy!

It reminds me of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:

SCRUB

If I grow bitterly,
Like a gnarled and stunted tree,
Bearing harshly of my youth
Puckered fruit that sears the mouth;
If I make of my drawn boughs
An Inshospitable House,
Out of which I nevery pry
Towards the water and the sky,
Under which I stand and hide
And hear the day go by outside;
It is that a wind too strong
Bent my back when I was young,
It is that I fear the rain
Lest it blister me again.

[KPN]

20. Great poem!

[nolabear]

29. What a marvelous poem! Thank you!

I knew I couldn’t have been the first to think of it.

[BlueSky3]

19. That's both beautiful

and true. Thanks, nolabear.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. Ah, my dear nolabear--we ARE so very complicated! The bonsai is an excellent metaphor for us.

Yes, you would be able to write a great poem from that metaphor! I might do something like that too.

If I do, I'll share it privately with you.

Thank you for supplying inspiration to me.

[nolabear]

30. And to you. ❤️

[LoisB]

3. Yes. I periodically send apologies out to The Universe for any hurt I have ever caused anyone

even if unintentional.

[SheilaAnn]

4. Oh, I do have days like that, thank you for improving my mood. n/t

[Brainfodder]

5. When my inferiority complex hits me hard, I think of super assholes like Mitch, Ted, and Gym.

...and how much even a video of them being beaten up not dead would add joy even if just for a moment.

Pretty surprised those 3 haven't been beaten in public, seriously, what is wrong with people?

[MerryBlooms]

7. r&k ❤ Thank you.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Is there a name for this syndrome?

I've had a case of it.

[Marcuse]

9. Someone's well deserved misfortune. Chickens coming home to roost, etc.

[ret5hd]

10. Bring a human with a conceince

[LuckyCharms]

11. Well, there's a syndrome called

"imposter syndrome". I think this is where you are performing a job or task in which people are praising you for the amazing job that you are doing, and the amazing skills that you have, but you yourself feel that you are not worthy of that praise. In other words, you feel like you are an imposter.

As for the other stuff. I think people in general tend not to fully recognize their own self-worth, and tend not to really understand just how important they actually are..

[Mr.Bill]

13. So far many of them have gotten

very, very rich. I hope that changes.

[raccoon]

14. Great post, Lucky. Nt

[Stuart G]

17. Thank You LuckyCharms for this post..K and R

[Skittles]

18. I dunno

I watched them start a war based on lies, and there was no justice

I watched them collude with Russia and steal the presidency from Hillary, and there was no justice.

I watched them allow Covid to run rampant in America, killing a million, and there has been no justice

I watched them pack the Supreme Court with rightwing hacks, and there has been no justice.


WHEN ARE THESE FASCIST FUCKS EVER TRULY HELD ACCOUNTABLE?

[Elessar Zappa]

23. There's a first time for everything.

I’ve gotta keep hoping.

[FuzzyRabbit]

21. LuckyCharms, thanks for validating that I am not a bad person.

You probably don't know how many people whose day you made happier. Hundreds, I'll bet. Maybe even thousands. Thanks for posting this.

[LuckyCharms]

24. FuzzyRabbit,

Thank you for your kind words.

I've been suicidal before. I know what it feels like.

I had a friend who attempted, but failed. Months later, he told me that he was going to attempt again, but he didn't because of something I said to him. He said I saved his life. I had no idea. I was just talking on the phone with him for a couple of hours.

I asked him what I said that made him change his mind.

He replied "everything". This was the best thing that my ears have ever heard.

No matter your circumstances, no matter how bad you are feeling, FuzzyRabbit, I can pretty much guarantee you that you have touched someone's life in positive ways that you will most likely never know.

[meadowlander]

22. Presumably if they were capable of shame they wouldn't have been working for Trump

in the first place.

[LuckyCharms]

25. They won't feel shame.

What they will feel however, is the unpleasant result of having no shame.

[GenThePerservering]

31. Best of all...

WE have a moral compass. They do not.

[eppur_se_muova]

32. I frequently think about the fact that these people toss around million$$$ like candy.

If my fiance could get $60,000 for a shrill harangue, I'd say that alone was worth proposing.

And just imagine piling up $250 MILLION just by begging for donations to your unworthy, selfish cause.

Meanwhile, the rest of us struggle to make ends meet, afraid that any serious medical issues will bankrupt us and leave us homeless. Afraid that we could lose our jobs and go months without income -- or are already doing so. Knowing we lose our health insurance with our jobs. Knowing that even semi-comfortable retirement is a pipe dream.

And LMcL goes and blows over $100 MILLION of OUR taxes just on his golf outings after complaining about how often his predecessor played golf -- which was much, much less than him.

Worst of all, he's only the most flagrant case of an Uglican living as a parasite on the public -- for the rest of them, it's more carefully and quietly carried out.