I was talking to a friend who had just watched Nicolle and she told me all about it.
Nicole was crying on air. And the story about the student wanting to be a brain surgeon.

Trump is destroying the social fabric that holds us all together.

It is like living with an abuser who breaks your heart everyday.
After a while the heart is damaged.

We are going to have to get mad and take our hearts and souls back.
The bastard cannot take them and wipe us out.

He has broken so many aspects of our world.

I believe if anyone else had been president...anyone!...Covid could have been stopped in its tracks. Remember how he pulled the CDC experts from China in the two years before Covid?

He has broken so many agencies! He destroyed USAID. Millions of people are dying.

He hasn't just broken the country, he has broken the world.

He is trying to annihilate ANY world order, other than his world (dis)order.

We need to continue to hold the fabric of Democracy and Justice together. We the People!

The lab protocol experts in Wuhan sent by Obama to help with faulty lab procedures.
Trump fired them. Then we get Covid due to faulty lab procedures.

Then of course Trump let 1 million Americans die from covid.

Yes Trump is ruining and destroying as much as possible on order from his minders.
And because he loves to destroy things.

Yes we are like an abused wife living with a monster.

We have to get free.

WE THE PEOPLE.
STRONGER TOGETHER.

My dream is that woman of the world band together and start kicking major ass everywhere.

Stronger Together!

Kicking ass, as much as I can...aging hippie that I am.

For the right to be free.

To be safe, provide food and shelter to their families, etc.
Men with guns can no longer terrorize the world.
Men cannot stalk, harass, rape, kill women and children.

Time to take our power and use it.

I've heard this before. Genuinely interested, not trying to test you.

Like in WWII.

that Trump's presidency is a trauma to the American people, that it is abuse.
She is the author/editor of the Dangerous Case of Donald Trump which includes many psychiatrists who have come forward.
This is a well-informed professional analysis by people at the top of their field.

And we are trapped and cannot escape the insanity and abuse.
It is very damaging.

Yes the mental health experts have been warning and warning the American people
who refused to listen.

For many years, I have been posting on DU information about Trump's severe mental illnesses and
that he is quite dangerous. I keep getting poo-pooed that he is too stupid to be dangerous.
People did not want to listen.

Now there is a steep learning curve.

but we cannot let him take our souls or our happiness, I remind myself of his failing health to balance his evil shit

And when he is gone we need to figure out how to disempower the Thiels and the Musks and the Voughts, and the others.

These conservative think tank/tech bro sociopaths are the worst things ever to happen to our democratic republic.
They know price/cost of everything but the value of nothing.

Last spring when Musk and RFK, Jr. destroyed medical research I cried every day. Then I got a little bit numb to it all. Today was really sad.

I was profoundly affected by the events of the weekend, because it hit so close to home.

And I am so fucking sick of the guns! Two young people at Brown have survived previous school shootings.

...but since they've proven to be averse to having hosts who are women of color I only watch Nicolle, Rachel, and Lawrence.

Nicolle and Glaude have shed tears before for what's essentially the same news story: a mass shooting at a school. I appreciate they don't seem to be able to get used to it, but after we didn't do anything of substance after 20 6-year-olds got massacred, I knew I'd better make an adjustment to my reactions.

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one possibly of a different Black woman host, the right side image.

It was quick, I could be wrong!

or just too cowardly to do anything about it?

Under someone's thumb due to threats and kompromat?

Back in the day I used to write “fugg” here.
Mad as hell is right.
That is all😀

and grief.

I heard Ari's voice break talking about Rob Reiner and it started the tears flowing. I rarely ever watch his show these days, but I decided to check him out today. A truly emotional day for anyone who is decent and sane.

I was moved by the tribute 😔

It has been so easy to set me off today.

It is hard enough losing so many people as they get older, but most of the deaths were because of predictable, natural causes, rarely ever murder.

I never would've predicted this in a million years. I'm just glad his parents weren't alive to see it.

Though unfortunately their two other children have to live with this tragic, senseless loss. I can't begin to imagine what they are going through.

... just finishing reading through the script while maintaining a "stiff upper lip", or however you want to put it.

Apparently Rob Reiner is someone who has had a profound effect on many people. The world was a better place because he was in it, which makes this a great loss for us all.

on her show today. She was crying the whole time. I guess I'm not alone. I need to get more tissues.

to find your parents murdered, and to know it was her own brother who killed them - it's hard to fathom

Will watch later - after Lawrence.

Thanks for sharing.

Now I'm crying again.

Rob Reiner was one of us. This one is hard to take.

there WILL be BLOOD.

(unless the troops do the right thing, and get the hell out of there!)

I'm done. Done with these fucking billionaires, ALL OF THEM, and Mango Mussolini and his toe sucking band of sycophants and I'm done with anyone that is not laser focused on voting all these truly horrible people out of office and grinding the billionaire class into dust.

I heard an interesting observation on a video earlier today. At some point companies changed from referring to people as "customers" to "consumers" and that distinction is more important than some realize.

When we are just "consumers" we are just cattle. Just keep feeding us cheap, shitty products that have to be replaced all the time, very expensive things, shiny things, that must be replaced every year or two (smartphones come to mind).
I mean Apple is the worst or the best, depending on your perspective. Each new "version" of the iPhone is only marginally different than the one before. But they convinced you that you must have it, so much so that people will stand in line for hours to spend a thousand dollars to replace a perfectly functional phone for another device that will, in turn, be replaced by a "new" device in another two years.

Companies look at us as walking bags of cash to be marketed and ridiculed and made to feel insecure and worthless without their cool new thing that everyone has and wants but you. Without their new gizmo everyone will hate you and think you ugly and stupid.
That is capitalism in the modern era.

Yes - the obvious big stores.

But how about all the apps and ways they "own" you?

We, as a society, should have higher expectations of ourselves and the products and services we use.
Despite what billionaires and corporations think, we were not put on this Earth to make them rich while we all, collectively, become poorer.

I almost held back, because two emotional OP's in one day seemed extreme. But! They have to be called out.

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She held it together but you could tell she was having a hard time with it. Same for Ana Navarro.

I look at the corporate fascist takeover of America, and the immense influence corporations have on U.S. politics and society.

They need to know what is going on with the Thiels and Palantir and the Ellisons and private equity and so on.

From those of us with thought and care.

Thanks for linking it to me.

We are entitled to be furious, regarding the daily shitshow that trump is forcing upon us. I think his ugly comments about the Reiner murders may have been a last straw, for lots of people.

It is outside my comfort zone. And yet it is important to hold onto it, rather than fall into complacency.

Honestly, we've been too anodyne about this. We've wanted to avoid hyperbole and catastrophizing. There have been people on the fringes with the proper emotional orientation, but too many have treated this as if it's an aberration. But it's not. It's a shift. The shitgibbons on the other side are changing the game and if we don;t understand that, they will just roll over us. They are relying upon our basic decency to allow them to take over completely before we can even respond.

like having a job right now where you have to report on the news or worse report on political news or a WH correspondence. It has to be traumatic. I really only seek headlines on BBC, threads, sites like DU for my news. Since last year, to sit and watch 24hr cable news almost seems like punishment. I don't know how some people do it.

It is taking a toll on all of us.

as always

As always - the gracious Scrivener.