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In reply to the discussion: Cheney: 'Guardrails of democracy' must keep Trump in check [View all]Intractable
(903 posts)37. "I commend your ability to block out the reality." -- You sell it short.
This is me facing reality and realizing that my life is not over, and that it is up to me to make my life good.
You are the one blocking reality by putting your head in the sand.
The trauma is fresh. It burns me. It depresses me. But life is not over.
>> I plan to focus my energies on my own survival.
As you should. As the flight attendants say, you must put the mask on your own face before trying to save others.
In a few weeks, I think you will feel differently about being in the fight.
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Fuck Liz Cheney... She Put Trump In Office... She Put Fascist SCOTUS Members In Place
MayReasonRule
Nov 2024
#1
Cheny is a fucking liar, there are no more guardrails and she knows it. She's just painting a cheery lying picture.
lark
Nov 2024
#15
"Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and ...
sarisataka
Nov 2024
#23
I do not share your defeatist attitude. We can have a period of mourning for our failed expectations, but then
Intractable
Nov 2024
#33
Of what are you trying to convince me? To give up? To be so jaded that I just withdraw into my own self?
Intractable
Nov 2024
#36
On second thought maybe it is secret code language for the resistance. Maybe. Dunno. I'm new at this.
SupportSanity
Nov 2024
#31
The "guardrails" that Trump (with the GOP's help) are removing? Those guardrails? --- Humpf.
Oopsie Daisy
Nov 2024
#44
Her father can go fuck himself as he's just as much at fault as the most diehard MAGA morons.
cstanleytech
Nov 2024
#48