In case some people may be wondering why some seemingly decent and moderate politicians have gone to the side of Trump, conservative political commentator David Frum made an interesting observation to MSNBC'S Lawrence O'Donnell yesterday: "You're often very skeptical about the abilities of Donald Trump, and rightly so. But the president does have this one preternatural ability, which is if there's any crack, any moral weakness in you, he's got this ability to find and work on it and pry it open and make you a lesser person than you would otherwise be. And again and again, he meets people who you think are too big, too honorable to need any of this and yet he changes them and grinds them into dust. It's a heart-rending sight."
Although Trump appears to have this Svengali-type control over some people, these politicians are 100% responsible for the choices they have made. They have chosen to turn over their power to him, either for personal gain and/or to increase the power and control of the insurgent group. But it’s all an illusion. There will come a time when they will ALL be but a shadow of their former selves. As David Frum stated, “dust.”
This too shall pass. Keep the faith, my friends. And let's keep our lights burning brightly.
In case you haven't noticed an increase in abbreviations, aliases, and nicknames for the creep-a-zoid in chief, the Rethugs and that DC house that the creepazoid lives in -- yes, some of us are using the nicknames.
Here's the thing, I want this forum to stay under the radar of the dark bots. They search for a preponderance of words. You can imagine what the most quoted word is on this forum!
This site isn't that big (although it rivals the number one google ranking for psychic predictions), so probably not an issue. But just in case McCarthyism sets in under this administration, as they would like it to do, I think it wise to use nick names, and asterisks to refer to the thump-in-chief and the swamp-infested party in power. Besides it lightens things up a bit. :-)
BTW, I receive emails from swampsters telling me I'm biased and that psychics should be totally objective. I do not dignify them with a reply. But it's true that I have a bias. I'm biased towards the truth.
Perhaps we could use a list of alternative titles for the Drumk in the white colored House and the Rethugs. Entertain us with your ideas.
Jeanne do you like the nickname I use? Dictator Don!
Here are my main ones:
Cheetolini
Twitler
Trumpledumpskin
Mango Mussolini
Voldemort/He Who Shall Not Be Named
Drumpf (because that's their real name)
45/TRE45ON
Then the ones New Yorkers like me always called him (scroll down if you don't like crude): Douchebag from Queens, Fuckwad, Asshat, Moron, Trustafarian Asshole, STD Carrier, Idiot Progeny, Donald Condombroke III.
Then for Mitch M.: Turtleman, Turd-man, Human Thumb (also Dismayed and Surprised Thumb), Evil Bastard.
Who else?
Paul Ryan - always Eddie Muster Looking Motherfucker
Don Jr - Donald Condombroke IV, Greaser Douchebag
Jared - Miss Thing, Ma'am, Lady (in Jerry Lewis voice only)
Ivanka - Princess Bitch, Elsa
Jarvanka (self-referencing)
Eric - Bart Simpson
Jeff Sessions - Keebler Elf
Barr - Poor Man's John Goodman
Stephen Miller - C-Grade Fascist from Santa Monica, Satan Miller
Lindsey Graham - Lady Graham, Hands to Pearls, Closet Skeleton
Mitt Romney - Mittens
Rick Perry - Mrs. Krebopple
Betsy deVos - Cruella deVos
I'll edit if I think of any others...
(((Jeanne)))... The thing I loathe the most about that ol' Divil taking over our lives and practically our every waking thought is that the sanctity of our peace of mind and spirit is so violated. I have to very conciously permeate everything around myself (including the physical body) with effusive light, and even though I light and breathe alot of white sage I find my energy is still diminished and that toxic interface is so prevalent in our everyday lives. Sometimes I am reminded of those words regarding extreme darkness... "It doesn't just want to bring you to your knees, it wants destroy you."
These past months have been a real challenge for so many of us, and I'm so grateful for your forum, and all the beautiful and compassionate people here that infuse this place with love and empathy... it gives me strength to go on.
Hi all, I wanted to post a suggestion re Mueller, the report, DT, etc. Today I watched a video about how to push back against the darkness using traditional manifestation techniques. Instead of just sending generic light and love, picture Mueller being protected, speaking up, picture the House leaders reading the unredacted Mueller report, picture people in the US all being treated fairly (and around the world for that matter), picture your own images of what justice and truth would be. His words in the video were picture the world you want to see, put that specific energy out there to push back against the darkness.
His idea was basically not to let ourselves fall into despair and anger and wallow in it but be proactive in visualizing exactly what we want. My list is RBG healthy, Mueller relaxed and testifying both in public and behind closed doors to at least Congressional leaders on ALL details of the report, the Mueller report being released with only truly classified materials withheld, T leaving soon, the govt being cleaned up and corruption prosecuted both in govt and in business, people prospering and peace spreading, former enemies shaking hands, moving forward together.
I don't know if any of you will find that idea as helpful as I did, but thought I'd at least mention it.
That detail is excellent, mb
Please let it all be so... and to include the rehoming of most of the GOP and Mike Pence and the sinister Stephen Miller, and Bernhardt the wildlife killer, et al, to a remote desert island with a 'wall' of razor wire surrounding and no Coke machine.
(Ooops, sorry. Got a little carried away there ? )
But seriously, wonderful suggestions and very sensible...
And I visualize T and his gang of thieves seeing light at the end of their tunnel ... a blue flashing light on top of a police cruiser ...
mb, forgot to add to my post that I love your suggestions!
I love all of your ideas. I forgot my most important one (lol), the climate damage being reversed, the oceans being cleaned up, the polar ice reforming, the air becoming cleaner, clean energy taking over and coal plants being shuttered.
mb... If we go back along the timeline to the pre-T***p Twilight Zone era, all of the things that you mentioned would have seemed 'normal' and possible and even "Oh sure, we can do that with some dedication and our wonderful Democracy."
How naive it seems in retrospect that our sense of well being was so insular, and we never imagined the absolute horrors that lay ahead. But it is all subject to change, even though it is always 'darkest before the dawn', that sun is going to rise again. We have come too far to let our freedoms and our humanity be eclipsed........