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angrychair

(12,519 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 07:44 PM Apr 2025

This Is All The Bad

I know I've been accused of being doom and gloom but this seriously fucked.
They are arresting judges and are talking about arresting journalists and are currently sending innocent people to foreign torture prisons.

Not going to lie I'm genuinely becoming very scared and just as equally frozen with uncertainty. I'm all out of answers. I don't know what this could mean but I am absolutely positive our country is in serious trouble.

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This Is All The Bad (Original Post) angrychair Apr 2025 OP
Yep kinda hard to twist Trump arresting judges into rainbows and unicorns. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #1
Gloom and Doom? JustAnotherGen Apr 2025 #2
I'm suddenly a Second Amendment supporter. CaptainTruth Apr 2025 #3
Doom and gloom are understated. yellow dahlia Apr 2025 #4
THere are two things I have found to help: Community and action. I have become involved with Indivisible and have Amaryllis Apr 2025 #5
Second Amendment CitizenZero Apr 2025 #6

Irish_Dem

(82,378 posts)
1. Yep kinda hard to twist Trump arresting judges into rainbows and unicorns.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 08:01 PM
Apr 2025

My jaw dropped when I read the breaking news about the judge being arrested.
And I am a cynic and keep thinking there is nothing the psychopaths in charge can
do to surprise me. Then they surprise me.

Yes we are in serious trouble, and it is going to get worse before it gets better.
If it gets better.

yellow dahlia

(6,488 posts)
4. Doom and gloom are understated.
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 10:17 PM
Apr 2025

I keep finding myself searching for the words that are strong enough and descriptive enough for the situation we are in.

Often, the words in our current dictionary, don't meet the moment.

Amaryllis

(11,430 posts)
5. THere are two things I have found to help: Community and action. I have become involved with Indivisible and have
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 10:22 PM
Apr 2025

found it very helpful and hopeful. Highly recommend. https://indivisible.org/

 

CitizenZero

(920 posts)
6. Second Amendment
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 10:34 PM
Apr 2025

I am pretty dedicated to nonviolent resistance but people should exercise their second amendment rights and defend themselves. If people are being disappeared without due process and the so called authorities are acting in violation of the law, people have a right to self defense. There is also a concept in political philosophy called the right of revolution. It was the basis of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. The first one. The Project 2025 people have called it the Second American Revolution. If that is true, they are the Red Coats and Trump is the Tyrant King George. We are the Blue Coat Patriots, protecting Democracy and the real America.

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