Tonite i was talking with a woman, a woman who i thought was an ally. Stupidly, i assumed that any thinking woman, esp. an out lesbian one, was safe to talk to about stuff. But she surprised my special little snowflake ass, when she told me that she actually supports the Turnip(!). At first, i laughed. Like, yeah, sure! haha!
But she wasn't joking. She said she liked him because "he is down to earth, and isn't afraid to curse". I said that i cuss sometimes too, but i don't think i should handed the presidency for it, but i can try:
absconding,assbackwards, and backassward, bone-spurring, chicken-chitted, child-caging, death-culturing dotard, elephant-extictioning, finger-fornicating, goon of a human being,intractably imbecilic -jack off, jerk off, jizz-whiz for the KKK, know knothing , lazy, , lingering, lumbering malignancy of narcissism to the nth degree.
Oh, Oprah, help us now!
please
QRSTU
Velveeta-faced,voodoo economizing, , war-mongering womanizer,wigheaded, Xi xucking, yammering, yawning ZIT!
feel free to express your own anger here
You go, girl! We love you, all of you!
Yesterday I got angry at one of the democratic candidates who I feel is a sell-out. I won't say who. But after writing a scathing post and then deleting it because I was feeling bad at the thought of those who love this person, I found a better solution. I gave a good donation to the candidate I love. And decided I'd volunteer to canvas for this person, the one I believe in. Again, don't want to say who because I don't want to get everyone all fired up. It's a personal preference.
Anger is an act of pushing away. You are clearing a safe space around yourself with your anger and pushing that other person out beyond that space. So go for it.
So glad you started a whole thread on it. We can work with this!
Love, love, love to you both.
Anger and other negative emotions are just tools that tell us that something is wrong. The problem is if we try to hold onto those negative emotions rather than processing them and learning from them.
My belief is that as spiritual beings we willfully choose to come to this plane of existence and completely forget everything prior, in order to have the learning experience of trying to find our way back to the unconditional love from whence we came. In this case, I feel your anger is telling you about an opportunity for growth. It's easy to see a Trump supporter as just another monolithic "deplorable." The growth opportunity is to look deeper and try to understand and find compassion for this person's pain, anger and fear that draw them towards Trump.
As for Trump, while many (most?) of his actions infuriate me, I only feel compassion and sadness towards him personally. The fact that he is so damaged and in pain that his every action is guided by fear and anger is really heartbreaking.
Thank you for posting and welcome to the forum! Your post is a good reminder. When we can take care of ourselves and feel loved, then we can have compassion for Donald Trump. It is difficult for people to feel that compassion when they are in so much pain that they just need to push him away. When I have felt well cared for and done a Loving Kindness meditation where I focus my attention on him, then I see him and his enablers as little guys running around like frantic cartoon characters. They are about two feet tall. And they are so young and ill formed and so afraid.
I'll leave the compassion to you for now. I just can't evolve that far right now. Trumplethinskin, Papa Putin have ruined that for me for now. So I'll just keep channeling my anger towards them and all their associates towards actions meant to bring them down and to prop up those who suffer at their hands.
BTW, "Putin" means WHORE in several romance languages. Just sayin'.
I had to sit at a beautiful meditation retreat center for a week with the queen of loving kindness, Sharon Saltzberg, leading me, along with a hundred yogis whose hearts are wide open, for me to feel those feelings for that man. I did not feel love, just saw him as a little crazy hyperactive tot racing around. It was two years ago. I'm going back this spring for another dose. I do it for my health, not for his.
I'm not evolving. I don't feel sorry for him or his icky children.
I don't think it matters though. The last two days have convinced me the only people who care about world peace, the environment, children in cages, lying presidents, etc., are people on this forum and maybe a few people in New York and California.
Yesterday against my will I went to see Bombshell. Not because I have anything against it, there were other things I wanted to see but I had to compromise. I came home and look at the reviews and I couldn't believe it. All anyone did was talk about how the liberals hate Fox News and how it was a typical left wing Hollywood movie. Okay.
Tonight I watched Ricky Gervais on the Golden Globes. Now, I love Ricky Gervais and I know his commitment to animals. He really went after Hollywood. I thought it was funny. I went on line to look at the gowns later and read the comments. Yay, Ricky, telling off all those horrible Hollywood people, aren't they all jerks, a bunch of left-wing dingbats, no straight people, did Mayor Pete attend with his husband? And that stupid Greta Thunberg. Clint Eastwood would never attend one of those shows. EVERY SINGLE COMMENT. I have completely had it. Obviously there are NO liberals or they're hiding under a rock. I really just threw up my hands. And none of what I've quoted was on Facebook - it was all over the Internet. I take that back - not every single comment. The only intelligent one I read was in response to someone saying Hollywood knows nothing about the real world, they're all isolated jerks. The response was, try spending a week in Washington D.C. with your Senators and Congresspeople sometime. I have, and it's much more isolated and out of touch. Or words to that effect. I am so disgusted.