If you look at the polls, about half of us like what we see.
I'm disgusted.
March 15, shut the fucking place down. Not a nickel gets spent on March 15. No gas, no food, no bills get paid, no nothing.
Head to the street.
March 15, remember the date.
Sad and nervous Minnesotan here, Canada is our favorite neighbor and we don’t want to piss them off. Otherwise we’re left with Wisconsin, a frenemy at best.
As a federal employee and coworker in a very diverse and climate-adjacent industry: insulted, angry, anxious, annoyed, prepared, let down, and uncertain. Not in that order.
What could go wrong Elon and a bunch of techbros are fucking around with our computer systems and databases, which is illegal. Democrats are MIA and Republicans are just shrugging abdicating their constitutional responsibility & Elon wants to get rid of the FDIC. Yeah we’re not gonging to be fine.
I became a Red Cross volunteer because of the election results. I had no idea how many house fires there are this time of year. It's great that the major disasters get support but there are regular people losing everything all the time. I know it sucks but there is always someone worse off than you.
You know that dream you have even 20 years after not being in school where you show up to school and realize you haven’t studied for a test or gone to class the whole year and you’re just clueless and lost…that but then you don’t wake up and you have no idea what to do.
Hiked to the Maryland Heights in 20-degree weather this morning. Didn't think about America's problems for a while. Best as we can, getting offline every once in a while is going to absolutely critical for saving ourselves, individually and communally.
Was prepping my lunches for work and just broke down.
Hugged roommate as I cried, telling them I was scared, I'm afraid.
Then pulled my shit together for 2 reasons:
1. I am a strong independent beach n will find a way.
2. Crying like that gives me a migraine.
Canadian here. Scared about the future. Confused about what exactly could have been done to stop this. Encouraged to watch my entire country unify to make lists of Canadian and Mexican companies to buy instead, while also refusing to spend any more of our tourism dollars in the US until this ends.
I feel completely abandoned, confused, panicked, and I trust not one NOT ONE American news source. There will be no more real elections and no one can convince me that violence is not on our near horizon.
Annoyed because my still living in this country means my schadenfreude for what will befall Trump’s supporters is blunted by the knowledge that I’m in for it too.
I should’ve built my mini-escape-Earth when I had the chance.
Frozen in fight of flight, no matter how many interventions I try.
It’s one thing to have a trauma response to “imaginary sabertooths” - it’s entirely another to watch a monster devour your country while half of it cheers him on. They feel the same, but they are not. One is real.
I saw a tweet from (I think) Bruce Arthur, back before the first time we did this bullshit, that said something to the effect of ‘America, we’re about to find out how dumb and racist you really are.’
I don’t live there anymore but apparently at my family’s LNY dinner my aunt was telling everyone to carry their passports around in case they get profiled. Ma’am, if it isn’t the consequences of your own vote.🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
A new nightmare seemingly gets announced every day, our elected officials aren't fighting for their people, and I'm finding myself wanting to unplug from everything just to preserve my sanity....which I fear is exactly what they want.
I don't understand how I'm expected to work tomorrow and just carry on like normal. We are literally losing our country and I'm supposed to worry about meeting deadlines?
That's a very kind thing to say. I just followed you for it. For me, I just post pics of my 8 month old monster on 4 short legs. (She's a mini Dachshund named Saoirse :)) But I read a lot of what other smart people have to say on her and can't wait for Darth to get out of hibernation.
Disgusted. Angry and disappointed. Disappointed that people only looked at grocery bills instead of trying to look at the whole picture.
I've been thinking of donating monthly to the ACLUA.
Me too.
And embarrassed and ashamed to be an amerikan.
Fuck you to every trump voter
Double Fuck you to ever voter that stayed home
Fuck you to every republican everywhere.
Pure speculation on my part, but once the billionaires pulling Trump's strings realize how hard this is going to hurt their own bottom lines, they will reverse course. It should be easy since there was never any practical goal of these tariffs in the first place.
I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and it's -23 Celsuis (-10 F) with a low tonight of -30 Celsius.
Also, I have existential dread about my country's future and feel little hype for the Super Bowl even though I bought a new Mahomes jersey on Temu.
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I'm disgusted.
March 15, shut the fucking place down. Not a nickel gets spent on March 15. No gas, no food, no bills get paid, no nothing.
Head to the street.
March 15, remember the date.
Mad that we elected a felon to be our president, and now everyone's surprised that he's doing felon things.
Hugged roommate as I cried, telling them I was scared, I'm afraid.
Then pulled my shit together for 2 reasons:
1. I am a strong independent beach n will find a way.
2. Crying like that gives me a migraine.
I fear the future for us.
I should’ve built my mini-escape-Earth when I had the chance.
Dead tired
This is exponentially worse
It’s one thing to have a trauma response to “imaginary sabertooths” - it’s entirely another to watch a monster devour your country while half of it cheers him on. They feel the same, but they are not. One is real.
OTOH, the anvil being dropped on the economy is going to make it hurt for everyone and fast.
Terrible to see Republicans like Johnson and Thune do nothing while they lose their power of the third branch of Congress....
That whole thing with Elon is enraging.
It's been two weeks of cult part 2, man. This is stupid.
And then we did it again 8 years later.
I’m just fucking embarrassed, honestly.
There is no joy today.
... We're a family of Vietnamese immigrants.
This American also has been living in Ireland since 2020.
Get out while you can.
But it’s going to be a long, hard road to get there.
I've been thinking of donating monthly to the ACLUA.
Have started carrying again.
And embarrassed and ashamed to be an amerikan.
Fuck you to every trump voter
Double Fuck you to ever voter that stayed home
Fuck you to every republican everywhere.
March 15 - Hit the streets and shut it down
Also, I have existential dread about my country's future and feel little hype for the Super Bowl even though I bought a new Mahomes jersey on Temu.