I am totally worn out.
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Every single day since November 2016 has been a new nightmare. There has not been one day that hasn't had some kind of new drama that challenges democracy and any sense of decency. Good people are challenged by racists and others who hate anyone who is not white, straight, male and christian, at work, at home by extended family it is debilitating to our spirit as humans and our country.
I honestly think this crazy man in the white house enjoys chaos, he can't function without drama. He has used it his entire life to divert attention from the horrible things he does every single day.
I have begun to take 2 days of "news vacation" every week in order to keep my health in check. The sooner this menace is out of the white house the better. I swear they will have to fumigate it and bring in a person to evict the evil from the place before the next occupant comes in.
The sad thing is, after he is gone, he will continue to crave attention and will use the MSM to get that just like he does now. He will never leave the news cycle until he has moved on to wherever he will go when he passes or is in jail.
Doctors have told me that they have people every day in their offices looking for anxiety meds and when they ask questions to get down to the cause it is almost always 45 and the current climate in this country. I don't really believe it will improve when he is gone. The racists have crawled out from under their rocks and feel emboldened to do lots of terrible things to our country. Pushing them back under there will be a challenge.
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we need to find ways to decompress and wind down, so we can get back into the fight.
And if it is...why?
-That's- the good thing.
and I find myself doing what you have done: break days.
Old movies.
Old LPs and music to take me away.
A favorite book.
And a concerted effort many days to focus on the many decent men among us who champion character, humanity and compassion, animals and the earth.
The struggles are very real but a very stubborn part of my female psyche refuses to give in!
Never in my life have I not been all in on activism. Maybe it is my age, but I just can't keep up with the evil acts of this administration. I have not lost the will to get tRump out of office, but the day to day skirmishes are beyond my capabilities. I can only concentrate on winning the war now.
...I try to focus on a new strong leader (like Bernie) who will flip this trump shit back on to the pukes...we can't engage every trump tweet yet we can't let his indecency go unchecked...
...every indecency attributed to trump, now or in the future, must be answered and tied to the republicans as a whole...
...when I feel like I'm fighting republican scum daily, I don't feel so hopeless...
...hang in there...
LONDON — Deej Malik-Johnson, an elected representative at the University of Manchester’s students’ union, came into his office on Friday to find a poem painted on a wall opposite it. The poem, Rudyard Kipling’s “If,” is well-loved in Britain — it has been repeatedly voted the nation’s favorite — and is almost a pioneer of self-help writing. (“Keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” it advises.) It had been painted there by staff who manage the union’s building as part of a refurbishment.
Mr. Malik-Johnson and his fellow student representatives were not happy. In a telephone interview, he said that Kipling, an English journalist, author and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and wrote “The Jungle Book,” supported “colonialism and had racist attitudes.” Mr. Malik-Johnson pointed to works like Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden.”
Around 40 percent of the university’s students comes from outside Britain, Mr. Malik-Johnson pointed out. He said that views such as Kipling’s did not fit in with a diverse body.
So Mr. Malik-Johnson and his colleagues painted over it with another poem by the African-American poet Maya Angelou instead. “We weren’t trying to erase Kipling — we did it deliberately so you could still see his words,” Mr. Malik-Johnson said. “It was to start a conversation.”
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I really do. It is exhausting, discouraging and depressing. For my own sanity, I find that I sometimes need to take some time out to read or watch movies or go on You Tube and watch funny videos or listen to music. Something that is life affirming and that takes my mind out of the gutter that Trump always drags it down to.
He is poison. He poisons our nation, our minds, our spirit, our souls and everything that is good in this world. I know that we need to continue to fight against him, but we need to remember to keep ourselves strong and if taking a break every now and then makes it easier to cope, then that is what has to be done.
Take care of yourself! 
He's doing this to the country. He wants us exhausted and disoriented - and hopefully at each others throats, and blaming our leaders.
Hopefully, the criminal justice system will be intact enough, post Barr, to make him pay at least in part.
Self care is vital right now.
Think I will smoke a doobie.
We can begin to end this nightmare and get rid of the tension that everyone is feeling. I was worn out on Election Night 2016 seeing those results roll in one after the other. Knowing that all of us Democrats are suffering this kind of a loss. Even if 45 loses the Election the damage that he has done to us will take time to work its way out of our Political System. And when he dies no big funeral. Just get the military to dump him in the same place where they put bin Laden.
If that last statement gets me to be judged by a jury, well that is the way it is. I can not help it.
