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edisdead's Journalthere was no path to ACA extension by way of shutdown
So why are we upset that the shutdown has been shelved? It no longer served a purpose. I don’t get the handwringing here.
I really really needed this.
My Last post: Wed Nov 6, 2024, 06:28 AM
In it, I declared my state, which was that I was not ok. I was utterly broken, and I made the decision that, for my health and for my family, I needed to step WAY back away from politics. In that time, I remained aware of everything happening, kept up with the current state, attended the marches and protests, but I couldn't bring myself to feel right about my country until I saw the shred of hope that we saw tonight. Yes, the No Kings protests parts one and two were uplifting, and the hands-off protest and all the other stuff was amazing, but I needed to know that something other than a protest, where I knew 99% of the people who would be there probably aligned with me already.
Nope. I needed tonight to tell me that the change in the air is bigger and includes people than the usual crowd. That people just might be changing their thinking.
I feel like I am still fractured, that things will never be the same, but I also feel like I can move forward, and hopefully, the country can as well.
I have embarked on a long journey over the last year. I took up hobbies that I never thought I would, as some were counter to my previous stances. I have aligned with groups that I was previously closed off to or ignorant of. I have grown even in my older age and realized that if we are going to move forward, there are a lot of commonalities to explore and build bonds on. But there are people in this world who cannot be helped. They cannot be reasoned with and most importantly they cannot be allowed to steal my joy and to derail the only important thing I have found in the world which is making the days batter one day at a time, one interaction at a time and letting the haters and the ugliness fall by the wayside with as much significance as a breath in the wind.
We have to build the good. Tonight we have something to build on.
I'm out
I am not ok. I am completely broken. I am off of devices for the foreseeable future. Good luck world. I am not ok. I am not well.
Gimme good news about PA
I got a text telling me we are in really bad trouble in PA. Can this be?
I want my life back
I changed in 2016.
I have always been politically motivated and active. I have always been enthusiastic about politics and have been involved. I mean the Bush W years were hell. But these last 9 years or so I have not been the happy person I should have been. My daughter is 17, my son is 12 and the last 8-9 years has made me a person that I should not have been. I should have been less stressed. Less grumpy. I should have been less terrified for the future of my kids. And in turn they should not have had to witnessed me like this.
This has to end. It has to end this cycle. I need to heal and revert back to something close to what I was before the orange turd took over.
We are giving up the narrative
In many speeches I hear people talking about what trump is going to do if he wins. This is a mistake. We need to talk about what we are going to do and stop putting the idea of trump in the white house in peoples minds at all.
Ya know whats weird?
Well and kinda fucked up?
I can remember going into auto shops, biker shops, and recently the guy that worked on my fishing boats shop and seeing posters and portraits of women in skimpy outfits (and sometimes not even skimpy outfits) but lately I see much less of that and i their place I see pictures of Donny Dipshit, or his flag and all of his other paraphernalia.
That’s fuckin weird!
Don't forget to check on your pets tonight
Never know when someone will eat them!
what the absolute fuck?
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