That's the hell I am living, too. I cried for a week after the "election". I knew it would be bad, but I didn't know it would be this bad. Stupid me, I thought there would be checks and balances, that people would stand up and demand he be removed from office if he eviscerated the rule of law. Every damn day is a new horror. As a senior citizen, I thought these would indeed be "the golden years", instead they are a living hell. He is the personification of evil.

His approval ratings are in the toilet, yet no one stops him. He has destroyed so many, many lives and eviscerated the Constitution. It's hard to face another day of the hell he's created.

I wish we were a little more like France.

that the media mostly spits out the narrative that , oh well he'll be gone in 3 years, so we just need to wait and persevere a few years.

He has no intention of leaving office, unless it's by force. And that certainly looks bleak right now.

One of the daily agenda items is to seize the headlines with whatever annoying scary thing they can cook up. Destroy this or that, build weird Cinderella ballrooms and arches etc. all to cover for seizing money, power, keeping the Epstein files under control

Dead on accurate.

Today's letters are Pb. Because nothing spells low IQ, like lead in aerosol form. Be sure to start your children early, like you and your parents were.

Jeff Bozos wants all of his employees to be deathly scared everyday they go to work for him. Elon Musk is pure evil. So many are foul mother fuckers. Kevin O'Leary?

I'm so stressed now that I only go on DU once or twice a week. All this stress reactivates my nasty case of Shingles!

I start my day with Jeff Tiedrich's Substack column followed by DU and then I watch Thom Hartmann on YouTube to stay informed.

Tsf's personality traits appeal to a lot of people because it reflects and enhances their own. Tsf provides a validation of their own racism, misogyny, greed, and cruelty. Tsf provides a permission structure that validates the worst aspects of their own personalities and so they feel free to give voice to their own inner ugliness. I think this is why they will never abandon him no matter how badly their lives are impacted by tsf's policies.

They're psychopaths.

Psychopathy affects all
ethnic, cultural, racial,
and socioeconomic groups.

...psychopathy
is a spectrum disorder,

Prevalence in the United States
Approximately 70% of the
population is estimated to
have no psychopathic traits
whatsoever.

Key Point
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The remaining
30% have low, medium, or
high levels of psychopathy.

Source:
https://psychopathyis.org/stats/

This is it.

Boy, I can agree with every word. I'm about a year into retirement myself and every single day it's like waking up to the Ground Hog Day movie with the same shit happening and nobody doing anything about it. The stress is certainly NOT what I was hoping for in my golden years, and you know what - it's not what I deserve either. It's not what ANY of us deserve.

I am sick of the minority - yes they ARE the minority - running this country. I'm sick of the bubba rednecks in my areas that don't understand ANYTHING and merely regurgitate what they've been told or have heard because it looks tough in these parts to support Trump. Ahuck...ahuck...ahuck.

DU is definitely my sanity place, and I appreciate knowing I'm not alone.

:::applause-applause:::

Sometimes, you need to vent amongst friends.

Growing up when I questioned capitalism I was called a Communist; and going to hell and all that.To find out who rules you just find who you are not allowed to critisize.

to write a check for $1.00 for each of my quarterly estimated tax payments to the IRS the rest of the year.

I couldn't have said it any better! Thank you

to what happens in the TV series, "The Walking Dead".....

Today, the virus / zombies are the ignorant MAGAS....

We Democrats and those who live by the Constitution, and Democracy , we are the survivors who want to live and return to some formal lifestyle.... like Alexandria and Hilltop...

tRump and the evil corporate dictator types are represented by the Wolverines, Negan, the Governor, Alpha....etc....

Both stories, the USA and The Walking Dead remain to be concluded....

I have a constant brain itch. It's unscratchable, always present, never relieved or diminished. On occasion when I think it has disappeared, there it is again. It's relentless and persistent. At 83, my main goal is to outlive the itch, the source, and revel in itch-free freedom.

I used to use the thumbs up hand sign.

Retired it.

Fucker.

Not anymore.

Child raping Fucker!

When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do every day is check the weather. I need to know what projects can be done today and what has to be put off until it stops raining or snowing. Then I have to decide if I am brave enough to check DU and/or Huffington Post. Some days I just can't do either. On weekends, my rule is NOT to do either and not to listen to the radio. It's just too hard.

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on my front lawn.

Most Americans feel the same way and so do the rest of the world.

I’ve second-guessed retiring long enough and have announced to my boss and notified HR.

I didn’t think it would be this difficult a decision to make, but with all the risk to the market that the dumbest Administration ever to run this country is causing and the speculation around the future of Social Security - I am uncertain about the coming few years and decade! We need a new New Deal!

It's Trmps excuse to procure money for his

not for myself (I've aged out and am a DNR); but, for my mid-aged son and friends who have children just starting their college and/or working years and their grandkids. They will not inherit the life we had planned and worked so hard to give them!
Our children and the coming generations are amongst my greatest worries.

Thanks Donnie dumpster fire and all your minions for Your assistance in making that a reality!

Last decade or so of my life spent fighting fascists any way I can.

T-riffic 😡

A start: One time graduated levy on assets with these targets

20% on assets in excess of 500 million.

From 15% to 20% on assets from 200 - 500 million

From 10% and 15% on assets from 50 million to 200 million

From 5% to 10% on assets from 10 million to 50 million

I've pulled these numbers out of my ass, but I have no doubt such a one time levy would make a decent start.

Since 1981 the corrupt Republican project has transferred more than 50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1 %.

Time to for the beneficiaries to start contributing their fair share. Without a strong public sector they would never have earned what they have earned. They have hoarded a lion's share of our collective resources long enough.

Not even running through what the lower rates would generate,

A one-time 20% levy on net assets exceeding $500 million would generate an estimated $500 billion to $1 trillion in federal revenue.

A one-time levy of 15% on the assets of individuals in the $200 million to $500 million range is estimated to raise roughly $150 billion to $200 billion nationally, depending on the exact number of households and assuming a 15% tax avoidance rate.

WE NEED DU NOW MORE THAN EVER

I know how you feel. Each day seems to bring a new WTF. To help offset my frustrations, I meet with a group of like minded people who demonstrate weekly. In addition, most of these people are active in voter recruitment. I feel like we’re moving ahead slowly….but surely. The unwavering energy of this group keeps me going.

Peace ☮️

You sure do speak for me! Especially that fourth paragraph you wrote.

And if I may humbly offer a slight correction… he HAS NOT ruined ANY of your favorite expressions (or mine)! And every time you assert your right to utter them, just think of your action(s) as THWARTING his “authority”! EVERY time!!!

EVERY DAMN TIME!!!!!!

I would just keep going, whatever happens. Expectations are a trap - try to stick to being true to yourself and don't let the Circus rob you of your essence. YOU are the same, no matter what craziness is happening in the world.

to pad the pension and keep me engaged with a broad spectrum of folks. Keeps me sane.

I want to live long enough to see better times, and karma all the way around.

Kudos to you!

Couldn't agree more.
Good rant!

Really glad you brought up the scope of the grift. Its one thing to run on undoing all of the carnage - but we all know the reality is that once the money is gone, we won't have the funds to cover a fraction of the damage. And what will be the priorities?

I share your concerns. Thank you for sharing this.

Of course, my embarrassment and disgust are more for the fact that this regime is still here.

(250 years didn't seem like that much before our current situation. Now, it seems like a long ago fantasy.)

I had no idea what it would be like, but it certainly wasn't what we are going through now. Will we live to see it changed for the better?

I’m retired on a fixed income like a lot of people. If this were a normal world I would have enough to live on without renting a room or taking a part time job. But, here’s what really sux: I had to pay taxes on the marginal income I had! AND THEN, to see how much asshole tRump is stealing and lining his pockets and those of his children- it just makes me want to never pay taxes. If I weren’t collecting SS that’s what I would do as protest for my taxes being illegally used to jail innocent people and build frivolous monuments to king Donald.

It demands and expects endless growth on a finite planet. Then our currency is created "at interest" without the interest being created. This all started with modern banking in the 15th & 16th centuries. First came colonialism then overusing environmental resources along with using war to export the crisis of capital accumulation.

feeling to an ever increasing extent daily for longer than I can even put my finger on. And you expressed it all so perfectly, especially the “stenographers taking dictation as he spouts the most stupid gibberish”.

So … thank you for your attention to this matter. You nailed it!