Getting a little tired of people telling me to not freak out, mostly because none of those people seem ready to tell me when it is okay to freak out and, certainly, we have reached a freak out phase by this point.
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It's OK to freak out. It's OK to spend a whole week in a freak-out. And whenever you're ready, try to collect yourself, recompose, and prepare for a rough ride.
Those people telling you not to freak out... they are still in the denial stage of grief.
This is a subtweet of Jon Stewart, who has insisted that everything that’s happened so far has happened in rubric of our constitution. “We elected him,” he says. “He’s democratically grabbing our pussy,” he says. “He has the consent of the people.”
It’s not clear to me why anyone is listening to Jon Stewart about anything at this point. He’s approaching this situation with a wholly outdated view of how we got here. This isn’t 2002 and it isn’t Karl Rove on the other side of the ball.
Stop watching political shows. Limit news and social media time. Seeing the same horrifying story over and over is to lose your perspective. I find that weakens me emotionally. Keep your wits, give regular hugs to people you actually care about. Take some action daily. Breathe
It was hilariously depressing to see him say that, literally 12 hours later the president would unilaterally freeze the budget and within a week explicitly call for ethnic cleansing.
Also he had already legally unpersoned me and most of the people I care about but jon doesnt care about trannies.
He is not "democratically" doing anything and does not have "consent." The R party and SCOTUS might let him get away with breaking the law and violating the Constitution, but there's nothing democratic about the Executive usurping power. And he disavowed Project 2025. No one voted for that.
Stewart is rich enough to survive if he's in his 50's/early 60's and they take away social security and medicare. He might get concerned, but he doesn't have to panic.
Ignore Stewart. He is irrelevant and obviously uneducated on constitutional matters. He's been working the "Republicans are better ratings" grift for a long time.
“On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.” — Milton Mayer
I’ve been privately freaking out for some time. Thank goodness for this space where I can express it. At home we have a news blackout for the last six months, my SO opted out due to stress so I don’t say anything at home. I don’t know what will happen when they eventually find out what is going on.
I am also sick of (white) people telling me not to freak out. They 'trust their government'. There is 'nothing we can do'. 'Just don't think about it.'
I admit, I am freaking out. Leon and the Tech Babies are being given full access to the nations personal information while legislators are being kept outside by police. WTF No wonder I am feeling hopeless.
I almost told a friend to F off when she told me to stop paying attention to what’s happening if it’s upsetting me. Holy shit people are simply ignorant.
It’s weird to have people tell you that this barrage of chaos is part of the strategy and not to freak out about everything like we can’t be concerned about more than one evil act at a time.
You should freak out as long as you can avoid the depression that usually accompanies it. Also, if it inspires you to get up and fight. Everyone is different. Just save your sanity and adjust accordingly.
Same. Really tired of the whole "It's just a distraction!" arguments I keep seeing. Like, no... these aren't distractions, people. These are all real things they want to do!
I explained to a family member why I'm troubled about the situation, which includes among other things probably losing about $200,000 that the federal government presently owes me. His response was "I really don't care about your politics."
"not caring" is the dominant American political stance.
Also, it is certainly a privilege to not to freak out. Straight, cis white men with lots of money probably *don’t* need to freak out. Trans folks, people who can get pregnant, green card holders, undocumented immigrants, everyone who cares about those groups…. freaking out is a reasonable response
My problem is I've read A LOT about pre, during, and post WWII and I know how very very wrong it can all go from the point we're at now. It's not really freaking out as much as it is playing through potential scenarios. We don't have to guess. We KNOW how this ends. Be prepared.
When you're through, see you your pantry. Make sure your home is well equipped with basic first aid items. Go hang out with other people who have freaked out. Freak out in public.
Will I get in trouble for calling it a big 'Freak Off!' for Trusk and the GOP?
you're letting "them" get you whipped up into a frenzy for no reason other to get you you whipped up into a frenzy. if you thought logically you'd see they're manipulating you.
The Lemkin Institute has put out a red alert for genocide in the US and wrote a statement on the genocidal nature of the gender critical movement in 2022.
Trans healthcare is under assault. Trans people's passports are being confiscated. An EO erasing our identities has been signed.
The nazis in the white house are using increasingly dehumanizing rhetoric towards trans people. They have called us dishonest, fraudulent, pedophiles, and a contagion.
They have promised to "eradicate [trans people] from the entire world". They promised to eradicate us at CPAC 2022.
They are building a police state to monitor our healthcare and to criminalize our existence. One of the express goals of Project 2025 is labeling us as obscene and unassimilable such that the death penalty can be applied to us for even setting foot outside our homes.
Someone told me “I’ll listen to someone’s argument till they start making a scene and throwing chairs”. Like ya at least gotta be ready for the possibility of throwing some chairs right?
My favorite lines from my family of Trump supporters: "Give him some time, he has only been in office a couple weeks. Next year this time you'll think differently."
I can imagine what a difference a year will make at the pace we are going in two weeks.
Hard agree. Our institutions are crumbling. The only thing I believe will stop this are massive and ongoing public protests. It will, I fear, be violent, and the damage already done feels catastrophic and irreversible to me.
As I believe they will. What I’d really like to see is Republican voters giving their congresspeople hell at local meetings. I’ve no idea if that’s happening yet.
I need a positive direction before i surrender to full on freak out. In my city, we have a mayoral primary coming up, maybe I start there? Vote every election, citizens!
I mean, I guess the definition of “freak out” is the problem? I think we should all be GREATLY ALARMED? We should be executing some extreme measures? The “pull in case of fire” levers should be pulled?
He's not a legal scholar, that's for sure, but he's been pushing a kind of airy centrist can't-we-all-get-along bullshit for years. Remember this cringe nonsense?
Freaking out wont help. Waving signs around wont help. We must take control of the flow of information. Right wing billionaires own the mainstream media. Now is the time for keyboard warriors. We need to get info out there
Here's the deal, as far as I can see. The people who 'freak out' are the ones who die in a disaster; plane,sinking ship, earthquake, whatever. It's time to take it seriously. Look at it with focus, resolve & your senses in place. Resolute intensity, calculated, not chickens with our heads cut off.
I didn't mean to make it look like I've got my shit together. I don't. I fell asleep at 1, I woke up at 5, unable to go back to sleep. I lie there trying to figure out ways to save my house & get my husband his meds. Think of ways to save the country. I just have a goal to try & be level headed.
Maybe. I guess it's different for everyone. But as the shit hits the fan, I want both my oars in the water. I don't want to be emotionally compromised. Got to rise to the occasion.
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if you do, you're toast.
if you are normal, you won't overreact to people who would bitch and moan if he cured cancer.
Coping with this stress does not mean ignoring it or pretending it isn't so bad.
I seem to be settling into a regular daily panic attack between 3 and 5 a.m.
I’ve always liked keeping to a schedule.
Those people telling you not to freak out... they are still in the denial stage of grief.
The outlook is grim, but we'll survive this.
Also he had already legally unpersoned me and most of the people I care about but jon doesnt care about trannies.
I was done with him during the election when he was sanewashing Trump to attack Biden. But now he refuses to call a Nazi salute just that? Nope.
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Go ahead, freak out.
https://youtu.be/TjqSeb9GyeI?si=N3jJ4JfvH6iibTUa
I’m more angry with my apathetic and disengaged friends than the maga voters.
Trying to say we were being hysterical women when we are assessing it smartly and being alarmed proportionately.
"not caring" is the dominant American political stance.
I have two children I will be leaving in this world,
I. am. not. going. to. stop.
"The terminal freakout point!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFdwfNh5vs
If it doesn't affect them, they conclude it doesn't affect others and thus not a big deal.
When you're through, see you your pantry. Make sure your home is well equipped with basic first aid items. Go hang out with other people who have freaked out. Freak out in public.
Will I get in trouble for calling it a big 'Freak Off!' for Trusk and the GOP?
After the infrastructure to mass murder trans people is built, they'll turn it on you. An attack on one is an attack on all.
can you please explain who "they" are, why they want to murder us, and what the infrastructure to murder trans people is?!?!
Trans healthcare is under assault. Trans people's passports are being confiscated. An EO erasing our identities has been signed.
They have promised to "eradicate [trans people] from the entire world". They promised to eradicate us at CPAC 2022.
Just
Don’t
think about it. Fuck off
I can imagine what a difference a year will make at the pace we are going in two weeks.
And Im the odd duck cheering them on‼️