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In reply to the discussion: Does it ever just hit you like a ton of bricks? [View all]barbtries
(30,653 posts)58. thank you LuckyCharms.
After nearly 24 years (! how is that possible), it will still hit from time to time. Nowadays, I can be rolling along and all of a sudden it's like I just woke up on 06Nov2024 and realized I lost my country.
I think the disease brought on by the krasnov cult of magats is Mass Sociopathy. It infects millions, but not the majority, of Americans.
I believe a General Strike is in order, like a couple months ago. This particular body CAN be brought back from the dead, if enough of We the People demand it.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
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On rare occasions when I leave my house, you know, protests, planning meetings, grocery run,
Attilatheblond
May 2025
#30
You're so right about this and it proves that we've been in a bubble for way too long
FakeNoose
May 2025
#69
High school classes? What's that thing you mention, comrade. Get back to the fields, now!
erronis
May 2025
#21
It's just a matter of time before he blows up his own life boat. ...
littlemissmartypants
May 2025
#65
It does appear that some dems may be "in on it." Or have received threats or somesuch.
erronis
May 2025
#24
Well said. We've been kicking the can down the road for decades. Now we're at the end of the road.
erronis
May 2025
#25
German exceptionalism, followed by US (American) exceptionalism. Lessons not learned.
erronis
May 2025
#26
I had a frightening precognitive dream about this around the time raygun took his first oath.
Clouds Passing
May 2025
#10
Thanks. I connect dots. Let's keep it kicked, and people are welcome/urged to copy it and repost.
usonian
May 2025
#43
Interesting. Perhaps hard to apply DSM to a whole country, but there are parallels.
erronis
May 2025
#31
I am 77 and as a science geek, I knew everything I had hoped for and wished for was over when Reagan did the
LiberalArkie
May 2025
#18
What did your doc say? I'm also 85 and I feel exhausted from the daily onslaught of this guy and his administration.
CTyankee
May 2025
#59
I substitute teach elementary school and now I think what about these kids future?
kimbutgar
May 2025
#38
At this rate, we'll be spending our golden years in a post-apocalyptic hellscape.
Borogove
May 2025
#42
Ton of bricks? All the damn time. Even tho we lived thru the agony of his first term, every time...
3catwoman3
May 2025
#61
It's concussed me with a heavy bag of wet sand that so many Americans can be this damned stupid.
Montauk6
May 2025
#81
Instead of writing/emailing/calling my Sens and Rep, who are all Dems,
Dyedinthewoolliberal
May 2025
#85