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barbtries's JournalJust finished binging Into the Fire
it is really good. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but this is a true story that is actually stranger than fiction.
https://www.netflix.com/watch/81769169?trackId=155573560
possible outcomes of TCFSF winning
i was born with a worry curse, and this thought came upon me today without me even trying.
If the convicted felon sick fuck becomes president and fulfills his pledge to mass deport immigrants, what would happen? I think most people understand that the financial repercussions would be severe. What about the food repercussions?
could it result in famine? and if so, should this be discussed more widely?
there have already been episodes of food rotting in the fields because of migrants fleeing ahead of one asinine law or other made up by feckless republicans with power. i don't know.
talk me down. thank you
#VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
A trip down the memory hole.
I just felt like seeing this again. Palin set a ridiculously low bar for VP candidates. Fortunately it sank McCain's campaign and we got an Obama presidency. I still remember fondly my joy the night he was elected. This feels...a lot like those days, doesn't it? The threat is much darker but the impetus, energy, and enthusiasm is in the right place. May it carry through to November with minimal violence, amen.
Even 16 years ago, that would not have been a consideration. TCFSF and the feckless republicans have sure fucked this country up. anyhow.
Is there a debate scheduled between Walz and Vance? SNL will certainly have a great time with that.
how accurate and non partisan is the Quinnipac poll?
I just completed a poll with them.
Thanks for the replies. I had heard of Quinnipac but I usually discount all the polling news. I did it because I wanted to add a strong democratic voice to their sampling. Plus their name was on the caller ID. I get other calls that say they're polling and won't answer. I know at least once a long time ago I answered the phone and it was indeed a kind of bullshit poll that framed reality in a right wing propagandist manner. don't ask for the specifics though it was a long time ago.
So, glad I did respond.
The media in particular seems to obsessively live and die on polling, and I think campaigns do as well. then we go to the polls and see how wrong the polls can be.
Does anyone else remember Karl Rove the night Mitt Romney lost to President Obama? Did anyone else think he really believed the fix was in and was absolutely shocked when Obama won. For him, I think it could have gone deeper than simply polling, but certainly he had some information that gave him a false sense of security that day.
Duty to Win: May I Tell You What the Democratic Party Really Is?
Frank Schaeffer - a great discussion about our party. "It's a party, not a cult."
was in Raleigh driving behind an SUV today and the back window made me verklumpt.
on the right it said, "Thank you Pop Joe! An American Hero" and in the middle simply "Kamala"
I wanted to get a picture so much, but we were driving.
i get tearful at this stuff. it's so fucking important.
My kids wonder why I get so emotional over all this shit.
They want me to be serene at this moment in history, and I cannot manage that.
But as I always tell them, you need to know it's not about me. It's about you, and your children and your grandchildren and their grandchildren. I'm already old, I'll be 69 next month. I'll be dead and gone and you will be the ones trying to have a decent life in a fascist dictatorship.
Unless we win. I've been crying on and off since yesterday. The day before yesterday I cycled through all of the stages of grief it seemed in about 6 hours' time. Since then, there is renewed hope. I don't even know if serenity is attainable for me before or after the election but I believe we will win it.
Republicans have no bottom, so it's predictable that when they lose a lot of hell will break out. I knew when TCFSF won in 2016 that it would be a shit show but it turned out to be much worse than I anticipated. Nothing held. So I have hope. I'm not whistling. And it is not about me.
23 years ago today
Bekah was killed, walking across the street at the same time an angry drunk was speeding down the road. the driver swerved into the wrong side of the road to pick her up, drag her about the length of a football field away from her shoes that flew off her feet, and drop her mortally wounded in the middle of the street, where she bled out. Then her killer drove on home. No skid marks.
i thought i was doing better this year than at others, and to be honest, I think much of my frustration and angst on this particular day is not about Bekah. It's more about the dark conspiracies about money and governance and what matters. it's about the plumber not making it for the 2nd day in a row and that water came into my house yesterday and we're in the middle of another severe thunderstorm. Mostly, it's about republicans and how they are destroying the country and democracy. even today, a day I traditionally give over to Bekah's memory.
"I'm mad at my country, now I've been treated bad." Laura Nyro
https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/hit-and-run-suspect-captured/
Is this just human nature?
is the path to ruin inexorable and etched into our DNA?
Why is this happening?! Why suddenly are all these Democrats, people I believed in, seemingly willing to ignore the will of the people and throw the election to the fascists?
I can only spend a few moments a day pondering this shit. It's playing havoc with my peace of mind. I have a life I'm trying to improve but this is not the way!
It's gets harder daily to imagine this ending well. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it; those who learn history are doomed to fret.
Just wanted to share my frustration. I may take a klonopin today. There are other stressors working on me, including the 23rd anniversary of Bekah's death in 2 days. Plumber tomorrow; it either goes well and the problem is fixed and covered by my HomeServe plan, or it's under the house and I could be looking at a bill in the thousands of dollars that I essentially do not have (I have the credit, and I have a son who is a plumber, so it will get done either way. Just saying it's just another little bump in the road of Anxiety).
One thing I have known and relied on all along is the certain knowledge that there are more of US than there are of THEM. These fucking turncoat Democrats are shredding any certainty I may have felt, and threatening my hope for success in November.
fuck those motherfuckers
Is Donald Trump Just a Wannabe Mob Boss?
My great nephew Josh is my political soul mate among members of my family, many of whom are right wing racist republicans. I'm proud of this guy.
if you check it out he's just starting his channel so a subscribe, like and comment would be so good. thank y'all
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