[Closed] Random predictions

@lynnventura. Going along with the earlier predictions that the Democrats are going to be okay and Lynn's sense that a turnaround may already be starting, I call your attention to Michael Steele, Jennifer Rubin and someone else (Forgot the name) on Velshi this morning.  They say that a new party is forming to challenge Trump's Party (also known as the current GOP).  According to their reports, they've been in talks about this since 2016.  They said more will be coming out very soon.  I will not hold my breath until I actually see it, but they want it to be based on conservative values (Whatever that means today.), bipartisanship work in Congress, etc.    

@lynnventura

@unk-p

@coyote

You guys were so thoughtful in how you responded to me. 

Thank you!  

I absolutely agree that the bar has been set very low.  

I want to clarify something.  When I said I admire her stance in the party, I meant I admire how she is standing up for reality and truth which is lacking (nearly non-existent ) in her party.  She is not following the Trump cult edict.  She is a lone voice telling anyone in her party who will listen that not only is the emperor NOT wearing any clothes, he knows he is naked and so does the party and and she will not be  complicit in this deception.  

Do I like her political viewpoints?  Absolutely not. 

I believe  there could be an entire semester devoted to the topic at a university. 

The bar for the Republican Party has been set low because that is where their members have decided to dwell now, they are in the bowels  of a foul and rancid darkness.  I will give anyone credit for removing that stench from their person in an attempt to rediscover the good of their own humanity. 

I recognize there are times when even the class bully needs to be praised for doing the right thing.  Especially the class bully.  We need them to find that light and let it i,  feel the good so there is a chance it becomes part of them, 

She is doing the right thing at this moment in time .  For all the shade I have thrown at republicans over the years for their unethical or uncaring choices, I feel it is important to cheer them on when they do something I view as positive.  So I cheer Liz Cheney on today.  I hope there will be more occasions to do so in the future.

Hope is important. 

I don't know if she will deserve a Profile in Courage Award.  I don't know if I would nominate her for one if could.  But it should be a debated topic of conversation at some point for the powers that be and like we are doing now in the forum .  It shouldn't be a brave thing to do, to speak the truth and call out the darkness.  But it is.

I am grateful we can discuss things like this in a sane and measured way, with care and respect here, in this beautiful place of light.  

Posted by: @lynnventura

've said this before: the predictions on this site give me hope that not only is a turnaround coming, we may actually be in it already and just not able to see the forrest for the trees. However, I do feel a sense of, if not outright doom, then extremely serious concern. There is window to right the ship. Let's all recognize that. Vote, send healing energy, educate yourselves, try to do the same with others. 

Love this!

Posted by: @bluebelle

political experts are now predicting that the GOP will take the House because of Census changes,

Nope. The experts are playing pretend oracle. They're trying to read the terrain with old maps.

Back in the winter, when everyone was still talking about the White House transition, I had a strong impression that the Dems would increase their margins in both chambers of Congress in 2022, and I stand by that appraisal. I also gathered that the Midterm outcomes would fly in the face of conventional wisdom, which is already pontificating about how the opposition should surge in midterm elections. These talking head "experts" obviously haven't learned the lessons of 2016; conventional wisdom in politics doesn't mean anything anymore.

Those of us who are energy sensitive can already tell how the animating energy behind the GOP is in terminal decline. Just the fact that they've become the fan club of a one-term 75-year-old former president who was impeached twice is pretty damn metaphorical. I sense that an additional wrench will be thrown in the GOP machine. This could be further disclosure of illegal behavior, the formation of that 3rd party @seeker4 mentioned, or both. In the interim, our job is to not get distracted by the chatter and hold fast to patience and our observations as intuitives. @tgraf66 has an interesting astrological perspective on this. And as @lynnventura said, vote, send healing energy, and educate yourself.

I also still feel that the Dems will retain a small majority after the midterms. This will have to do with many different factors. I sense the the Republican Party is going to have some troubles due to things coming out about their past dealings. It may even go back to things that come out about the NRA. Added to that, I do not see a quick ending to their internal arguments about the direction of their party. The Dem. majority may be small due to gerrymandering, but I think it will hold.

Reading this Billy Joel's "We Didn't start The Fire" started playing in my head .

@baba, @coyote, @bluebelle, Thank you for your beautiful visions.  I also feel the dems will keep their majority in the House and Senate in 2022. During a Circle of Light meditation when we were opening our hearts to the people of American and the world, I received an unexpected assurance from spirit that we would be okay and that we would prevail. I trust the unexpected and unsolicited visions the most.  :-)

@ghandigirl. I love your vision. Who knew during that meditation that someone in the group was seeing Howdy Doody?!   

@jeanne-mayell

I trust the unexpected and unsolicited visions the most. :-)

I have had, of all things, the name Pat Robertson popping up for some reason.  As you may know, Pat Robertson is the head of the ironically named Christian Broadcasting Network.  I feel like he is going to be in the news again, shortly.  And not for predicting the end of the world, again, as he did for 1982, and April 29, 2007, and once more, five years after the 2020 election.  The 2020 election that the "Lord" told him would be won by TFG(!).

 Robertson has never met a demagogue that he didn't, um, idolize, so of course he endorsed T, both times.  He did make news, though, when he rebuked him for betraying the Kurds in Syria.  Robertson also came down hard on former Officer Chauvin(ist pig), for some reason.  I have to wonder if it is because he does sense the end of something- maybe not *The World*, but the end of *his* world?  I am not predicting it- just questioning the abrupt change of a well-known authoritarian.

 I first became aware of Mr. Robertson in the early eighties.  Flipping channels while skipping school, i landed on a talk show.  It was the 700 Club. There was Pat, going on and on, about this emerging musician who was going to ruin the world and destroy the youth with his profane immorality and licentiousness.  I hadn't yet heard of this artist.  His name was Prince.  Why was this old white guy so upset about a young black man expressing his sexuality?  I be-bopped my way down to the record store, to find out!

 The single i bought that day was called "Controversy":

@unk-p I loved Prince! He could Rock & Roll for sure!

Oh man, Robertson. Among the worst of the fake-Christian, grifting, lying evangelical slimeballs. He has been involved in so many corrupt enterprises and schemes.

The Bible verse that instantly pops into my head whenever I hear his name is Matthew 7:22.

"Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name"

"Depart from me; I never knew you."

He's the perfect example of that.

Loved Prince. Immense talent gone too soon.

@unk-p   Prince was awesome.  Not only did he talk about transcending boundaries in that song, he lived it. 

It feels like nothing is happening but behind the scenes smaller fish are being used to ensnare big ones.

This is more a hunch and observation than a prediction. I’ve been thinking that the rise to a higher or $15 minimum wage may not initially come through Congress but through the grassroots. Employers are begging for new hires right now. Locally, the fast food places are advertising in front of their stores the starting hourly wage; here, counter workers at McDonald’s, $11 an hour and Wendy’s, $10. 

If companies don’t provide a decent wage, people aren’t going to apply for jobs, and this may force a raise in wages. The American people hold some leverage here.

@seeker4

It might actually happen. It'll be fascinating to watch.

All these rethugs who have firmly attached themselves to Twitler's wagon will be going down. They will nail him on financial crimes. Then, hopefully, the full and unvarnished truth about all the dirty dealings, sex trafficking, Russian money, and everything else that has all the people like Graham who are lap-dogging him will come out, once and for all.

It's crazy to watch just these republican senators hold ever so tightly to the ideals that benefit the interests of their corporate sponsors. It's wild to watch them try to demonize people who don't want to work for a wage that is not liveable. Y'all are right, the workers hold power now and these corporations are scrambling to find good (chipotle raising minimum wage to $15) ways or bad ( offering a one time sign up fee) ways to incentivize the workforce.

I'm glad that Biden did not buckle under republican pressure on Monday and did not revoke the extra $300 unemployment benefits. The republican party has always branded itself as the party of business and competition, well the wages have become competitive and it's time that businesses  step up and pay workers a fair wage. It shouldn't be this hard. 

Another thing I got beef with is how many times I hear negative connotation about fast food workers and how they "flip burgers". Frankly, I work but I don't work in the service industry because of how hard it is and how low it pays; it's not rewarding in any way.  I understand that it's monotonous work but so was the work of factory workers and they were paid a livable wage. I think in the last few decades there's been this determined effort to the devaluation of the worker that's been used to justify their means of pay, specially with the fast food worker. 

This thing we all talk about here, this shift, I think it needs to start here with the same determined effort to bring value and humanity back to a worker and see them as they are rather than a means to exploit in order to bring profit. Don't even get me started on Amazon. 

@blackandwhite  I concur with a lot of that! For instance... child care workers? elder care workers such as CNA's, restaurant workers etc etc.... hard work.... long hours...low pay...little or no benefits... are not paid nearly enough for what they do.  People need living wages, healthcare, family leave and 401 k's .  They cry it's unskilled labor.. they do not deserve any more... I think this Pandemic illustrated clearly just how "essential" all of these jobs are... yet... no one thinks they deserve better pay? Spit that Kool-Aid out and start thinking about it.. really... really.. thinking about it.

Funny how "unskilled" labor is really nothing more (or less) than really hard work usually performed by women, or employing skills that have historically been within the realm of the household -- cooking, cleaning, caretaking. The low compensation is directly attributable to sexism and misogyny and extends to men doing the same work. What's the big deal? Anyone can do it, right? Well anyone who's tried doing these types of jobs know it's often backbreaking work that involves real skills to boot. Hopefully with more women entering politics, and more enlightened men too, all work will be recognized as having value.

@journeywithme2

So much of our culture needs to change. 

I recently became a citizen, I'm not sure if I wrote it here or not but I've on this reading binge of this country's history( I recommend reading "the people's history of the united States" by Howard Zinn) and I've been learning so much. Alot of it I already knew peripherally but I'm getting more informed on particulars. I'm also in the process of becoming a history teacher and I'm looking for ways to teach truth in conservative Texas. Wish me luck. 

From the dawn of this country there's been a class warfare. I feel like we are in the cusp of ending these inequality problems because they are just not avoidable anymore, but it's going to take time. 

I only got one thing during my meditation today:

I asked when T will be indicted. The reply: “July. Happy birthday! Haha”

My spirit guides must be in a funny mood today!