Wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth, and yet we have more poor, more incarcerated, more folks in medical and education debt.

Everything in the system is geared toward the 1% having everything and the majority of us having little to nothing.

So, a water bottle sling?

Good god, this thing walks like I do on a bad day, complete with falling over. Is it programmed as a 65 year old lady with ankylosing spondylitis and inner ear issues? LOL

I try remind myself that the reason so many assholes on the right are *perpetually* angry is that they never bring themselves to face the shit in their lives that would require hard emotional work. Easier to be angry all the time and blame other people.

It would be gorgeous! Wish I knew a personal fabric and dress maker. 😉

Thank you! And you, too!

So yes. I am angry. I’m also a lot of other things

And maybe this is where I’ll sign off ❤️

It’s a shitty deal. I don’t think it’s as shitty as many think it is. I think we aren’t DOOMED. It’s *possible* that the Dems aren’t feckless cowards.

The GOP is the problem.

Let’s fucking go.

That's a beautiful and necessary way to view life now. And those small acts and small joys really do make more of a difference than we realize, so often.

Thank you so much for speaking with me in the thread. It's moved me, and inspired me. I appreciate it greatly!❤️

Yeah. I grieve for my 89 year old mom & my 90 year old FIL, who have to see the country they love fall into this at the end of their lives. And grieve for my son, whose second half of life will be far harder and worse than the first half. And I fear for us all. But all we can do is hold on, hold on.

It absolutely does! And I think recognizing that sometimes the emotion that *seems* like it should be energizing, rage, can be what is actually damaging and diverting energy toward self-destruction instead of constructive, purposeful action.

Yes! Yes yes yes, all of those emotions swirl through this. Looking inward and recognizing what's going on in there helps a lot, even when it hurts. God damn, emotional growth is a pain in the ass, isn't it? But I don't want to become petrified and stagnant, fossilized. So I keep trying.

I alternately cuss at and cuddle my cats. Heh. And when I have the strength, I bake. I read, and I submerge myself in places like the Discworld, or Midsomer (good old English murder being wonderfully comforting.😆)

Ha! Yes. Although with health and mobility issues, most of my interactions with the world come via the computer, and it's easy to forget that most people actually live outside their own walls. 😆

Different people w/ different strengths. Fighters, & also strategists who see a way to use those fighters. But where the Dems seem weakest to me is messengers, people who communicate the ways the party can direct the fighters to best advantage against the Repubs, & how the Repubs are harming us.